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Should we keep DS in Kindergarten?
AngelBearsMom
The title says it all but here is a bit more BG on the situation.
Obviously, due to Covid we are having to juggle the children's school schedules. Our younger two (Grades K & 6) are in a private school that moves kids between in-school learning and virtual depending upon potential Covid cases/exposure risk. They have done a poor job of managing the Kindergarten classes virtual experience and it has been a mess all year. Not to mention we purposely have the boys in this school and pay good money ($4500/year) because the quality of the education is not something they would get in the public school setting. As of right now I had no issues with how the middle school is handling virtual and in-school.
DS (dear son) (K) has been in and out of school so much this year that he is having an extremely difficult time emotionally. Since November he has has only been in school 2 weeks. They just announced last night that they are pulling the Kinder class out for a potential positive case and they will not return to in-school learning until January. This case does not effect DS (dear son) (6) and he is off to school this morning.
My biggest concern is the lack of consistency in his education this year. He was already at a disadvantage going into K because his preschool closed in March and never reopened. We had no set curriculum and I did the best I could to manage some sort of curriculum with him while working through everything else that was going on. He clearly did not get everything he needed to be prepared for Kinder and was at a deficit going in. That deficit has not changed and he is struggling. The school runs virtual class for Kindergarten in the mornings from 9:15 - 11:30 and believe me I know that this is not an easy task for the teacher but there is so much disorganization and he gets quickly frustrated, usually ending up in tears. It is way too much stimulation with the teacher not muting children and also not having a set plan for the time. She often says, oh I forgot this or I forgot that.
All of this to say that DH (dear husband) and I are thinking about not having DS (dear son) return to school in January and continuing to home school him for the rest of the year. We are toying with the idea of him repeating Kindergarten next fall or testing him into first grade. (For reference he turned 5 in July and therefore will be 6 going into the next school year.)
We wanted to reach out and gets people's opinions and perspective on this proposed change for him.
Edited to correct cost per student is $4500/year, it is $9000 total for the 2 boys.
Vashtanerada
With summer birthday like that where he's already the youngest, yes. I held my son who turned 5 two days before kindergarten started for another year of kinder two years ago. He's 7 in first grade now and will graduate at 18 like most kids instead of 17.
He needed the extra time and it was wonderful for his social/emotional development.
megmul
There is no way in hell I'd be paying $9k for a kindergartner to do a half assed remote school program. Nope. No way.
I know this has been a huge strain on teachers and they are doing their best. If this were public school I'd probably be more inclined to stick it out. But I'm not paying for subpar education.
Pull him, home school him, and over the summer you can discuss his progress and next year's placement with the school.
MouskaMom2016
I think it's really important at that young age to have consistency so I would opt for homeschooling, virtual school, or transfer him to an online school. My school age kids are in middle school and do 100% virtual school from home. But even at this age, many moms in the group said that their kids (who opted for the in person learning) are struggling with the hybrid schedule of in person and virtual schooling.
GermanChocolateCake
You said he was unprepared for K, at a deficit going in, and the deficit hasn't changed. If you pull him now, he will be 1.5 years without "formal" schooling so I would take testing for 1st off the table. Under your particular circumstances, if you have the means I'd probably pull him and redo K. But I'd also re-examine your conclusion that the education he is getting is so superior to that of public school.
robybird
GermanChocolateCake said:
You said he was unprepared for K, at a deficit going in, and the deficit hasn...
I agree with all of this.
AngelBearsMom · Original Poster
Both our older children have gone through education at this school or are currently in classes there. I can't make a case that the education is worse than the public school. ODD went through middle school there and just graduated this year. She tested as one of the highest prospects for the cities advanced placement HS programs. (The HS counselor told me that kids coming from this school are always the most prepared for this AP (attachment parenting) program and high school in general. I can't argue with that). ODS has been in the school for 2 years and is doing very well. He is also older as well so we have not been a part of the lower school until we enrolled YDS.
Quite frankly, it is our ONLY option for education. Public schools are a no-go and there is only one other private school in the area.
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Both our older children have gone through education at this school or are cu...
Both our older children have gone through education at this school or are currently in classes there. I can't make a case that the education is worse than the public school. ODD went through middle school there and just graduated this year. She tested as one of the highest prospects for the cities advanced placement HS programs. (The HS counselor told me that kids coming from this school are always the most prepared for this AP program and high school in general. I can't argue with that). ODS has been in the school for 2 years and is doing very well. He is also older as well so we have not been a part of the lower school until we enrolled YDS.
Where are you? (In the US?). You don't have to answer I'm just curious. I've lived in an area where I homeschooled because I refused to put my kids in the public school.
GeorgiaMama26
Why is public school a no-go?
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The only place I know like that is New Orleans and I learned that here, but have no personal knowledge of it. According to people here nearly everyone, even if they're struggling try to get their kids into private, magnet, or charter schools.
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The 2014 South African Defense Review Rebuilding After Years of Abuse, Neglect and Decay
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Cabinet approved the Defence Review in March 2014. The previous review with it's 15 chapters include considerable unnecessary background material. However this is as much a manual to fix the SANDF as it is a path towards the future. The result is a mixture of matters related to internal administration, policy, strategy, military doctrine, discipline and human resources. , The review does present the costs of its preferred option but does not set out alternative force design options. This policy brief interprets a number of the review's key conclusions and presents associated policy considerations, with a focus on the financial affordability of the expenditure targets.

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Question: What is a Personal Relationship with God?
Answer: Two answers from me.
First answer (and most important): What other kind of relationship can anyone have with GOD? (rhetorical question, answer not needed).
Second answer: For many folks that I have counseled, it is a cop-out. As I teach people about their responsibility and obligation to God, they not wanting to do what God has spoken, will say something to this effect: "I have a personal relationship with God....we have an understanding"
For most people that I have discussed the Bible with, this is all the comfort they need to live their life anyway that they want and not feel guilty about it. Our relationship with God MUST be on God's terms, not ours.


A dba of Lance Como, BRAM was started 17+ years ago based on the questions received from Yahoo and Facebook Boating Group members. They saw how my boats were restored and when problems came up well... I started building a website for them to find tips on how a repair gets done. Now I am looking for people who want me to "get-it-done" for them.
I need Graphic Design help... what happened to ComoLtd?
No problem, Lance is still taking care of his graphic design clients. If you need anything from a brochure, website, a logo, boat lettering... let Lance know - he can do that from anywhere along the Great Loop.
Why should I call BRAM to help maintain my boat?
Since 1980 I've been working on restoring classic boats - now I have a team. We know any boat needs constant attention; there are those unsure on how to check their oil much less what maintenance is required (or how to fix something). We understand what needs to be done, when, and how. We want to help show you how easy it can be if you do it right the first time.
If COMO-BRAM is on The Loop, then what?
Well we'll be able to be tracked by checking here - Lucky Maru position. If we're in the area great - we can link up. The goal is to find a place to settle for a while during Minnesota winters, meet some new people with similar interests, and be able to secure some paying projects along the way. Then return for more boat restoration(s) while based out of Duluth.


Thank you to all parents and students who supported the Book Fair in November. We raised just over £1000 which gave us the highest amount of rewards to spend as a school! Students have been voting for books they would like to see in the Library, please see the titles selected in the image below.


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Ellie Mae Launches Encompass Lending Platform
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Ellie Mae, a provider of software solutions for the residential mortgage industry, has announced the launch of its Ellie Mae's Encompass Lending Platform and a suite of applications with the goal of allowing users to make greater use of existing Ellie Mae technology to grow their business.
The Encompass Lending Platform provides users with a secure, scalable platform and a suite of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) and developer resources which will enable users to use Ellie Mae's existing Encompass technology with new functionality. The Encompass Lending Platform also allows users to easily integrate Encompass with external systems and data and to build custom applications in the cloud, according to the company's announcement.
"With the Encompass Lending Platform, what we're really doing is taking the all-in-one solution that we've been bringing to the marketplace and we're creating even more access, not only to data, but also leveraging a full suite of application program interfaces to allow essentially any of our lenders or third parties to now be able to build on top of our platform," said Joe Tyrell, EVP Corporate Strategy, Ellie Mae. "So it's really unlocking innovation. Anything that a lender or third party could even come up with, we now can enable them to actually build and realize, based upon this open architecture and this API gateway that we're providing to the industry."
Ellie Mae has built a suite of applications branded as the Encompass Connect Solutions by leveraging the Encompass Lending Platform APIs in order to improve visibility and collaboration between loan officers, third-party originators, developers, and homebuyers.
"With the platform approach, what we now allow is lenders and third parties to take our APIs and completely innovate in ways they think will give them an advantage but at the same time, allow them to leverage a single calculation engine, a single forms engine, a single compliance engine, to make sure that whatever they're building is still within the requirements that they need to adhere to in order to stay compliant and have good quality loans that ultimately get sold off into the secondary market," Tyrell said.
The Encompass Connect Solutions, which will launch throughout the fourth quarter of 2016, include:
Encompass TPO (Third Party Originator) Connect—Offers wholesale and correspondent lenders a modern and collaborative web experience for TPO partners, promoting compliance, data integrity, and the easy sharing of data and documents and bi-directional communication throughout the loan process.
Encompass Loan Officer Connect—Provides a fast and easy way for loan officers to originate and track the progress of loans securely and instantly from any device.
Encompass Consumer Connect—Enables lenders to deliver a state-of-the-art engaging and self-service online loan origination experience for homebuyers that lenders can create easily and completely control.
Encompass Developer Connect—Provides developers with APIs, tools, and a comprehensive developer portal they can use to create new features for Encompass. The Developer Connect app allows developers to easily integrate Encompass with external systems and data, and build and deploy custom applications in the cloud. Encompass Developer Connect will be available in the first quarter of 2017.
"To put it simply: with a platform approach to lending, the opportunities and ideas are endless. Today's launch of the Ellie Mae Encompass Lending Platform puts more power into the hands of our customers, partners and developers, enabling them to rapidly extend, integrate, and build new capabilities with Encompass that serve to differentiate and grow their businesses," said Jonathan Corr, President and CEO, Ellie Mae. "The Encompass Lending Platform helps us deliver on our mission of automating everything automatable in residential mortgages. It's a giant step forward for the mortgage industry."
"Ellie Mae's Encompass Lending Platform is poised to revolutionize lending," said Bill Cosgrove, President and CEO, Union Home Mortgage. "We'll be able to build and launch new solutions more rapidly and with no added technology investment. The platform arms us with the capabilities we need to transform how we interact with and serve homebuyers while staying ahead of the competition."
Click here for more on Ellie Mae's Encompass Lending Platform.
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Das Pop es una banda belga de música pop fundada en 1994 por Reinhard Vanbergen, Niek Meul, Lieven Moors y Bent Van Looy. Inicialmente se llamaba Things to come, pero cambiaron su nombre a Das Pop al unirse Tom Keskens. Su música es una mezcla de pop rock y música electrónica.

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Se dio a conocer internacionalmente con su álbum de 2000 I Love (I♥). Tom Keskens y Lieven Moors dejaron la banda. Cuando tocan en directo, se les une un baterista para que Bent pueda tocar los teclados y cantar. Su segundo álbum es The Human Thing.

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Red Belly Gourmet is a catering business established in 2003 by me, Craig Kingston and my wife Ann Smith. I am a qualified chef spending many years working in a variety of Sydney restaurants. Together we strive to create quality cuisine for our customers to enjoy.
Red Belly Gourmet uses local produce where possible, some of the produce is grown in our very own kitchen garden.
You can find us in our food truck at local markets and events. We also cater private parties, or you can join us monthly at our home for Supper Club.


After the conclusion of the restructuring, the management creates a road map for quick integration for higher rewards.
Many companies often recognize the need to restructure too late, when fewer options remain and saving the company may become difficult. However, after having done the restructuring, one must work out the integration process. In most cases, it is seen that a restructuring is successful when managers first understand the strategic problem or opportunity that their company faces.
Before doing any restructuring of the company, the management must look at (a) what type of restructuring is appropriate for dealing with the specific challenge? (b) How should the restructuring process be managed? And (c) what value will it create? The decisions and final steps that the management will take as a part of implementing a restructuring plan are often critical to whether the restructuring succeeds or fails. Many times disputes can take an ugly turn and the key challenge for the management is to find ways to bridge or resolve such conflicts. Failure to do so will make the restructuring may be delayed, or may not happen, to the detriment of all parties.
For publicly traded companies, the success of any restructuring will in all likelihood depend on how much it contributes to the company's market value. The management cannot take for granted that investors will fully credit the company for all of the value that has been created inside. There are many reasons why investors may undervalue or overvalue a restructuring. Many companies have no prior experience with restructuring, so there is no precedent to guide investors. In most cases of restructuring, the management has to market the restructuring process to the capital market by disclosing information to investors and analysts that they can use to value the restructuring more accurately. In most cases, a restructuring can improve the company's profitability by reducing costs and raising revenues. However, investors prefer cost reductions as compared to revenue growth as a reduction in cost will improve the margins and fetch higher returns in the long run.
Once the deal is closed, the challenges come to the fore. In the post-merger integration process, buyers are forced to unlock the announced value while integrating different functions, processes, systems and cultures. After the purchase process is complete, the focus of the management must shift to stabilizing the newly acquired company. Quite often the management realises they lack the necessary expertise or time to focus on restructuring efforts while also running the day-to-day operations of the company. In such a case, it is always better to take help from a professional team to help in the integration process.
The acquiring company often takes a long time to realise the expected synergies in the integration process. During the integration phase, any changes made should be closely linked to daily business activities and the company's top management team must demonstrate strong leadership skills to keep everyone together. Given this confluence of events—a growing number of mergers and acquisitions combined with high failure rates—it is increasingly important that the management takes lessons on the ways and means to manage the integration process. One company to learn from is GE Capital Services—an organisation that has made more than 100 acquisitions, resulting in a 30% increase in its workforce, the rapid globalization of its businesses, and a doubling of its net income. In fact, many experts have underlined the fact that GE Capital has been working to make acquisition integration a core capability and a competitive advantage that will enable it to continue its growth in the future and benchmarks for other companies globally.
So, the buying company must realise that the process of integration begins with due diligence and runs through the ongoing management of the new enterprise.
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New Best Innovation and Entrepreneurship Paper Awards from the Kauffman Foundation!
The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation is pleased to announce a new annual award program for promising research by scholars and emerging scholars studying Information Systems, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship. The purpose of the award program is to identify innovative research about information systems that are relevant to the context of entrepreneurship. Visit https://icis2019.aisconferences.org/submissions/call-for-papers/ to learn more.
Welcome to the International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS) 2019 Conference. We are excited to announce that ICIS 2019 will be held in Munich, Germany, December 15-18, 2019. The conference brings together information systems researchers from around the world to discuss cutting-edge research.


Over the past couple of years, Arts Council of Tamworth (ACT) has partnered with ArtWorks Gallery, helping to incubate it as it has grown from Tamworth Artisans, an informal artists' collective, to a beautiful cooperative gallery on Rt. 16 in Chocorua Village. Now, with the pride of a parent watching a child head off to college, ACT is pleased to announce that ArtWorks is ready to fly solo. Their new name says it all: ArtWorks Chocorua Creative Arts Center. Upcoming projects include demonstrations and training workshops in several onsite fully equipped studios for glassblowing, woodworking and pottery. In the future, ArtWorks will offer workshops in these disciplines, as well as offering studio time to artists already working in these media.
ArtWorks will be open full time through the summer and will be starting up its ever-popular gallery without walls at the Tamworth Farmers' Market in July. Featuring the work of artists from the immediate area, the gallery is a lovely new addition to the blossoming Tamworth area art corridor from ArtWorks to Page Hill's beautiful Gatehouse Gallery to a great grouping of galleries in Sandwich. Come see the work of many talented local artists artfully displayed in a lovely bright gallery space on Route 16, just south of the village of Chocorua. For more information, contact the gallery at 603-323-8041 or e-mail them at Artworks1@earthlink.net.
Art Works Gallery will be holding an Open House on Thanksgiving weekend, Friday, Saturday, Sunday & Monday from noon until 5:00 PM every day. Light refreshments will be offered, as well as a large array of gift-giving ideas and products to fit every budget (sneak peek here). Come join us!
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Every Major Orlando Water Park, Ranked
Saturday, May 25, 2019 - 03:56
When you're visiting central Florida, it's easy to focus in on the theme parks. There's a bunch! And, importantly, they're all world-class.
There are the four parks that comprise Walt Disney World's major offerings. There's Universal Studios Florida and Islands of Adventure. There's SeaWorld, Legoland, and even Funspot USA.
But while they probably aren't what makes you want to plan a trip down to the Sunshine State, Orlando's water parks are among the finest anywhere in the world. Plus, the variety and amount of water parks on offer really makes Orlando one of the key destinations for anyone who enjoys water slides, wave pools, and other water park fun.
Each of these parks would be, arguably, the best water park in the region if it were located anywhere else. But, they all call the same part of the country home — and, for that reason, we decided to rank them.
Here they are: the five major Orlando water parks, ranked:
5. Legoland Florida Waterpark
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LEGO is, arguably, one of the most successful and iconic toy companies in human history. They've managed not only to remain relevant for decades, but also to grow and rebrand such that they are arguably more popular today than they were when they first launched.
The company made great strides in expanding beyond its simple brick toys by launching the first of its US-based amusement parks in California in 1999 through a licensing deal with Merlin Entertainment. In 2011, Legoland overtook the former Cypress Gardens property in Florida, giving the company a foothold right in Walt Disney World's backyard.
Pitched as a cheaper alternative to the Mouse, but still focused on younger children, Legoland Florida has been a great success — one punctuated by the debut of its water park in 2012. The park is modest to say the least, featuring only a handful of slides and splash zones. But, what it lacks in variety and dynamism it more than makes up for in charm and child-friendly entertainment.
It's not the best water park in central Florida, but it fills its niche quite well.
4. Blizzard Beach
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When it opened in 1995, Disney's Blizzard Beach was the company's third foray into water parks, after the now-defunct River Country and the No. 3 water park on this list. If you'd have said at the time that, eventually, it'd be ranked fourth on this list, you would have likely seemed crazy.
Thematically, Blizzard Beach is arguably Florida's best park. The story goes like this: When a freak snow storm hit the state, an enterprising gator built a ski resort for locals to enjoy. But, when the sun came out and the snow started to melt, he turned those ski runs into water slides.
The park is still one of the best in the world due to its fantastic assortment of slides, iconic lazy river, and behemoth thrill machine: Summit Plummet. However, a lack of deep investment and reimagining within the park have caused it to fall slightly out of favor in recent years. Its teen area is spectacular, and the thrills are nearly unmatched — but, recent innovations in water park tech have caused it to slip.
Still, Blizzard Beach is one of the best water parks in the world. That's just how competitive the market in Florida is.
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Dakota has been visiting Walt Disney World since before he can even remember. His favorite things are Space Mountain, Disney's BoardWalk Resort, and those massive Mickey-shaped cookies dipped in chocolate. When he's not waiting in line at Ample Hills Creamery, he lives in New York where he works professionally as an editor for a sports website.
The 7 Best Destinations in Florida for the Second Half of Your Disney Trip
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The European Union Trade Mark enables the protection of a mark to be obtained simultaneously for the 28 countries of the European Union, by means of a single application, procedure, grant and maintenance before the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO).
* These three countries have a joint Trade Mark law under Benelux Trade Marks.
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The European Union Trade Mark has its origin in a single application, which implies a lower cost regarding the application itself, as well as the processing, management, maintenance and renewal of the registration.
Proceedings before EUIPO are carried out in only one of the five official languages of the Office, which are Spanish, English, French, German and Italian.
Possibility of claiming seniority of nationally registered trade marks in the European Union that are identical to the European Union Trade Mark, in order to consolidate in the European Union Trade Mark all earlier rights purporting to the same mark.
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In most cases, it takes 4-5 years to complete the Ph.D. program. The coursework requirement is 42 credit hours, plus examinations and a dissertation.
During the first year, the students usually focus on coursework and start to participate in research, and of course, adjust to life as a Ph.D. student. The qualifying examinations are held during the summer of the first year.
Although coursework continues into the second year, the focus starts to shift towards deeper involvement in research. The second year requirement includes a research paper under the supervision of a faculty advisor(s), and a presentation of the paper during the summer of the second year. That research project and its presentation constitute the comprehensive examination required by the Bauer College of Business.
Third Year and Beyond
Starting from the third year, each student is expected to conduct dissertation research and may undertake additional research projects when opportunities arise.
Each student must file a Ph.D. degree plan that outlines the schedule and timing of coursework in the doctoral program. It should be constructed in light of the Ph.D. policies of the Marketing Department. Overall, the 42 credits hours of coursework is divided as follows:
Marketing major field — 21 credit hours
Research requirement — 12 credit hours
Supporting field — 9 credit hours
Current college rules require students to register for nine hours (usually three courses) per Fall or Spring semester and six hours per Summer — if on campus. After passing the comprehensive exam, students register for nine hours of dissertation credit.
Marketing Doctoral Courses
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Current Instructor
MARK 8335R Marketing Models Sam Hui
MARK 8336 Marketing Research Methods Ed Blair
MARK 8337R Behavioral Constructs in Marketing Vanessa Patrick
MARK 8338R Marketing Management and Strategy Michael Ahearne
MARK 8349 Multivariate Methods in Marketing James Hess
MARK 8379 Modern Choice Modeling James Hess
MARK 8397 Academic Writing and Presenting Betsy Gelb
MARK 8397 Psychology of Decision Making Partha Krishnamurthy
R: Required for all marketing Ph.D. students
Grading and Evaluation
Each doctoral student is formally evaluated at least once per year, in summer (evaluations also may be made at other times). Please see the college policies for a description of the basis for evaluation and evaluation categories. The most important consideration in the evaluation is your ability to do research, now and in the future. An evaluation of less than fully satisfactory progress (including dismissal) can result from various causes, such as poor grades or inadequate effort, but we most strongly emphasize ability to formulate, design, and conduct research.
Other issues pertaining to the doctoral program are specified in Bauer College Ph.D. Policies and Marketing Ph.D. Policies.
Expectations and Duties
The doctoral program is more than a series of courses. The overall goal is for you to develop as rapidly as possible into someone who can succeed in a research-oriented academic environment; someone who can conduct and present publishable research and who can teach competently. The following points are associated with this overall goal.
You should begin reading papers in journals such as the Journal of Marketing, Journal of Marketing Research, Journal of Consumer Research, and Marketing Science, to the best of your ability, and discuss material that puzzles or intrigues you with faculty members and fellow students.
You are expected to attend departmental programs: research seminars and symposia.
You are welcome to sit in any class, including those you are not taking for credit. If you wish to get a different professor's point of view on a doctoral course you already have taken, or if you wish to see how some faculty member covers some topic in an undergraduate or master's level course, just inform the faculty member that you would like to visit.
You are expected to show initiative in your coursework and in your duties as a research assistant. Your future career will require you to set your own goals, learn how to solve problems on your own without detailed instructions, and get work done without constant supervision or a syllabus. There is no time like the present to begin practicing these skills.
The research assistantship is an important part of your program because it should provide "on the job training," a research apprenticeship. As mentioned above, you are expected to show initiative in research assistant duties.
A research assistantship involves ten (quarter assistantship) to twenty hours (half assistantship) of effort per week during the semester. The workload usually varies across the semester, though, so that some weeks require more time and some less. In general, the idea would be that a research assistant is less concerned with counting hours than with getting the job done, but also does not hesitate to inform the supervising faculty member about time constraints resulting from other obligations.
Teaching assistantships take two forms; grading assignments in which you help a faculty member grade a large class, and independent teaching assignments in which you teach the class. Most students will receive a grading assignment before receiving an independent teaching assignment.
As a grader, you are expected to attend classes, talk with the supervising instructor about his/her method and objectives of instruction, and generally prepare yourself for an independent assignment. Your work is unlikely to take more than 5 hours in most weeks, including time spent in class, but you must be prepared to work hard immediately after assignments are collected so they can be graded and returned quickly.
If you are given the opportunity to teach independently, our expectations are that you will strive to be a good teacher—and we will try to help you improve—and that you will be professional in your behavior. We expect you to prepare instructional notes for classes, not to miss classes, and to treat students courteously and with appropriate professional distance.
Bauer Ph.D. Policies
Doctoral Accomplishments
Doctoral Program Newsletter
Ph.D. Accomplishments
Ph.D. Student Directory
First-Year Summer Project
Empirical Paper
Degree Plan
UH Ph.D. Symposium
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What are the other features?
It also has been certified with a UL1081 standards for safety, it has also been NSF approved and could measure at 7-inch length by 17-inch width.
Product also comes with easy to adjust buttons as well as all performance data including that of production setting, hours of operation as well as chlorine output, salt and cell cleaning cycles.
It also has a cell use tracking future and can communicate the remaining hours of the cell life in real time making it a really handy product to have.
The IntelliChlor Salt Chlorinator makes use of common table salt in order to product a chlorine pool, it is able to provide efficient sanitation performance like that of a manual chlorine addition and with just minor drawbacks.
The product was created in such a way that there is no need to purchase and transport store chlorine compounds making it a real time saver.
can communicate the remaining hours in real time, it also has production settings, hours of operation and provides information about the chlorine output as well as the cleaning cycles, salt readings as well as water temperature averages.
It also comes with automatic shut-off features that was designed to protect the unit and could prolong the cell life under the low water temperature conditions.
Product will also be able to prevent the building up of scale and could also maximize the cell life.
However, there are also certain observations, the cell will not work in cold water, and it is also possible to get a red salt level light during the winter months, but this is just fine because there are no cell works in production that can withstand the cold water.
It is possible to get an inaccurate salt level reading, if the cell is dirty, not only that the cell could become dirty even when the light isn't flashing.People often ask where to buy pentair intellichlor ic40 or where we can get the pentair intellichlor ic40 best price.
In order to make the unit last for a much longer time, there is a need to make sure that there is not too much acid in it. When there is rapid bubbling and foaming, this is usually an indication that the acid to water mix is already too high. Make sure that the cell is being cleaned and not only that there is a need to add a bit more acid to it.
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- The operation buttons and simple viewers let you quickly check salt levels, the cleaning of the cell, the production of the sanitizer and water flow.
- The automatic shutoff feature protects the unit and prolongs the life of the cell under conditions of low water temperature.
Certification of compliance for safety UL 1081.
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- Easy and simple installation, horizontal or vertical.
- Couplings threaded 2 ".
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Fun action arcade smartphone game inspired by classic ball-shooting titles like Pang or Buster Bros.
A true retro & oldschool gaming experience for windows Mobile/Windows Phone, Windows, Mac OS X, Android, Bada, iOS, BlackBerry Playbook, Nook and intel AppUp (well, almost everywhere! 🙂 ).
Also available for French operators Orange, SFR and Bouygues Telecom.
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Congratulations to Sam Siggs, Andre Griffin and Dominic Griffin for successfully passing their shodan (black belt) grading in Miyazaki, Japan under an international grading panel. The pass is reflective of many years of dedicated training.
Joining our Nidan ranks are Julia Tanner, Brad Stevens and Peter Munn who also successfully passed their Japan gradings. Progressing through to Nidan (and above) shows true commitment to karate! Congratulations.


In addition, there will be a live event during which the Rifftrax gang will unleash their signature comedic chops on Tommy Wiseau's modern masterpiece, The Room.
Behind-the-curtain documentary about the daily routine of Misty Copeland, the first African-American female soloist at New York's American Ballet Theatre in two decades.
A musician enlists a tabloid reporter to help him win back the heart of his ex-wife.
A behind-the-scenes look at Mary J Blige recording her 13th studio album in London.
A sketch show on film from the makers of Life Of Brian.
King Arthur and his Knights go on a much-interrupted and humorous search for the Holy Grail. Out on re-release.
The current US education system is attempting to teach and test skills, that even when mastered, leaves graduates woefully unprepared for the 21st century. This feature-length documentary examines what sort of educational environment is most likely to prepare students for a world changing exponentially.
Daredevil silent comedy about a bold New yorker battling to save his city's last horse-drawn tram.
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Tough. Built-to-last. Durable. The Rhino, the namesake of Aquasana's whole house water filters, is named for the Rhinoceros' strength, determination, and grit that they exhibit every day, all over the world. But while our Rhino systems are long-lasting, the five main species of rhinoceroses are currently facing a widespread poaching crisis, nearing extinction.
Quick Facts About Rhinos
As some of the largest remaining megafaunas, there are five species (and 11 subspecies) of rhinos in total. The five primary rhino species are:
Greater one-horned (also called "Indian")
Sumatran
Juvan
Some species have one horn and others have two.
Both white and black rhinos are grey.
Their differentiation does not come from their color, but from their lip shape, which is determined by their diets.
Black rhinos are grazers that munch on trees and bushes. They have a pointed upper lip, and that shape helps them grab leaves and fruits.
White rhinos graze on grass, so their heads point downward, hence a square lip shape that helps them grab food. They can also weigh anywhere between 1.6 and 4 tons.
Meanwhile, Javan rhinos are one of the most endangered species in the world, having been poached to extinction in India, Nepal, Burma, and Malaysia.
Approximately 75 of them remain in total, all in Java, Indonesia.
Sumatran rhinos are the smallest and the hairiest of the rhinos.
Only about 275 of them remain due to widespread poaching.
Why are Rhinos Endangered?
There are many reasons behind the disappearance of the rhino, but the primary factor is poaching.
Rhino horns, illegally traded, go for as much as $30,000 per kilogram on the black market. Folk medicine practitioners believe that the tusk of a rhino can, among other things, cure cancer. It's because of this belief stranger than fiction that black rhinos are hunted to the point where their numbers are becoming more critically endangered every day, while other members of the species are nearly extinct.
For instance, Rhino poaching grew 9,000 percent between 2007 and 2014 with roughly 3 rhinos killed on average, every day.
Habitat Loss and Inbreeding
As certain industries like logging and agriculture continue to take over wildlife habitats, rhino populations are also affected. Loss of habitat not only affects the rhino's ability to roam and feed, but it also affects the way they breed. As rhino populations continue to lose the lands they once called home, they have become scattered, secluded from other groups of rhinos. This has caused inbreeding within certain population segments, unfortunately leading to things like deformities and birth defects.
How Many Rhinos are Left?
Javan rhinos are one of the most endangered species in the world, with only roughly 67 remaining in total. Here's the current population breakdown for the rest:
Sumatran Rhinos: <80
Greater One-Horned: ~3,500
White Rhinos: ~20,000
Black Rhinos: ~5,000
According to Rhinos.org, black rhinos have suffered the greatest loss in numbers over the last decade due to poaching. The number of wild rhinos dropped a shocking 96 percent between the years 1970 and 1992, from 65,000 to roughly 2,300 in the wild. In 2015 alone, 1,338 rhinos were poached across the entire continent of Africa.
To make matters worse, the 15-16 month gestation periods for female rhinos puts them at a severe disadvantage when trying to escape poachers and help their population rebound.
But not all is lost, not yet anyway. Thanks to some intensive anti-poaching efforts over the last two decades, the number of African rhinos is now above 5,000, but that's nowhere near their original numbers.
What is World Rhino Day?
World Rhino Day is an annual celebration and pledge drive on September 22. The holiday was started in 2010 by World Wildlife Fund South Africa to raise awareness for the plight of rhinos, educate the public that their horns have no medicinal properties, and help ensure funding for organizations dedicated to helping the rhino populations increase.
Partnering with zoos, other nonprofits like the International Rhino Foundation, the BBC and so much more, the World Rhino Day is an annual pledge drive with a goal of £2,500.00. For ways to donate to the International Rhino Foundation, check the World Rhino Day Facebook page, or check the hashtag #KeepTheFiveAlive.
Aquasana Water Filters and Rhino Conservation
Much like the rhino, our Whole House Rhino Filters are powerful, hard workers that never give up. Our 600,000 Gallon Whole House Rhino Filter is NSF certified to remove more than 97 percent of chlorine and chloramines for up to six years or 600,000 gallons. It filters at seven gallons-per-minute, so users don't feel any change in their water pressure.
They're strong, resilient, and built to last. That's why for the 2018 World Rhino Day, we partnered with the International Rhino Foundation (IRF) to see how we could give back. Here's what we came up with: for every Rhino Whole House filter or replacement tank purchased from September 18, 2018, through September 24, 2018, we donated $10 (up to a total of $5,000) to the IRF.
For 25 years, the IRF has championed the survival of the world's rhinos through conservation and research. Based in the U.S., IRF operates on-the-ground programs in all areas of the world where rhinos live in the wild. In five countries across two continents, they support viable populations of the five remaining rhino species and the communities that coexist with them. To learn more about IRF, visit rhinos.org.
Update: Meet Rosa the Rhino
With great pleasure, we're also happy to announce that thanks to your efforts, the newest member of the Aquasana family is Rosa the Rhino!
Sumatran rhinos, typically shy and secretive, tend to avoid humans and their settlements at all costs, preferring to live in thick, isolated forests and move mostly by night. Rosa somehow became used to being around humans, but unfortunately, this unique behavior put her in danger. That's why she's now located in the Sumatran Rhino Sanctuary under the protection of the IRF.
She enjoys taking long walks and loves to sing — especially while wallowing in her mud holes. This vocal rhino is one of the last remaining Sumatran rhinos, and thanks to everyone who has purchased a system during our World Rhino Day event, she is now sponsored under the Aquasana banner. This means that Rosa gets 24/7 ranger protection, plus veterinary care, locally-harvested native food plants, and more. As the youngest female living in the sanctuary, Rosa has been continually monitored for maturity, and as of 2015, is now in the breeding program with Andalas.
We'll be posting updates on Rosa here, so please check back for more updates and the latest happenings with Rosa!
What Else Can You Do to Help Protect Endangered Rhinos?
At Aquasana, we believe clean water is the most important component of healthy living. While our Whole House Rhino saves you from water contaminants, you can help save the real Rhinos and their environment by donating to the cause of your choice on World Rhino Day. There are multiple options to choose from around the world to help Rhino cause – check it out, make yourself aware!
Next, increase your awareness and consider getting involved. Here are a few non-profit organizations that support the awareness and protection of this endangered species, click below to learn more:
SaveTheRhino.org — Connecting conservation and communities
Global Conservation Force — Join the fight to save Africa's rhinos and elephants
International Rhino Foundation — For 25 years, the International Rhino Foundation has championed the survival of the world's rhinos through conservation and research.
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The biggest European Formula 3 grid of the year is set to gather at the Belgian Grand Prix circuit of Spa-Francorchamps next week (26-28 July) for the latest rounds of the Cooper Tires British Formula 3 International Series.
Twenty-nine cars have provisionally entered the event, which in addition to counting towards the British championship is a round of the FIA European F3 Championship. Top Euro teams including M�cke Motorsport and Prema Powerteam will be joining their UK counterparts Carlin, CF Racing, Double R, Fortec and T-Sport for a celebration of top-level single-seater racing in support of the prestigious Spa 24 Hours sports car race.
Britain's Jack Harvey leads the field into battle as the championship enters the final third of the 2012 season. The Lincolnshire-based Carlin driver nosed ahead of his chief title rival Jazeman Jaafar late last month and, with only four points separating them, there is everything to play for in Belgium - not least because Fortec's Puerto Rican racer Felix Serralles has accelerated into third place within 10 points of the championship lead.
Harvey and Jaafar will be joined at Carlin by regular team-mates Pietro Fantin (who scored his first win of 2012 in Germany last month), Carlos Sainz Jnr and Harry Tincknell, and also - it is hoped - by a sixth Dallara for a yet to be named driver.
Padua-based Prema Powerteam will field a four-car squad for FIA F3 points leader Raffaele Marciello, Euroseries frontrunner Daniel Juncadella, Sven Muller and Michael Lewis, while in addition to Serralles, Fortec will have Dallaras on track for Brazil's Pipo Derani and impressive young Brit Alex Lynn, as well as for Dutch driver Hannes van Asseldonk, who will be keen to build on his podium success (behind Juncadella and Marciello) in last weekend's F3 Masters at Zandvoort.
The National class battle looks like being a four-way fight for the first time this season, with T-Sport expecting to confirm later this week a class running mate for category points leader Spike Goddard. CF Racing is to return with Brands Hatch triple class winner Adderly Fong, and Double R will field its young Aussie Duvashen Padayachee.
Double R's Geoff Uhrhane and Fahmi Ilyas and T-Sport man Nick McBride complete the UK side of the field, and there will additionally be two-car teams from M�cke (Felix Rosenqvist and Pascal Wehrlein), ma-con (British drivers Emil Bernstorff and Tom Blomqvist), Jo Zeller Racing, and single-car entries for URD Rennsport and Angola Racing Team.
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Sure, it's a big box. But when that box is filled with the region's largest and arguably most diverse selection of beer and wine, so what? Clearly, Richmond doesn't mind, having chosen Total Wine, with locations in Midlothian on Robious Road and on West Broad Street in Henrico County, as the best place to buy boutique beer. Which brings us to the first runner-up, Once Upon a Vine. What the selection lacks in vastness it makes up in diversity. If Total Wine doesn't carry that rare microbrew or vintage wine that you're looking for, it's a safe bet that Once Upon a Vine does — or knows where you can get it. And who hasn't stopped by Kroger for groceries only to get a bit distracted in the beverage aisle?


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Russian opposition leaders from the Party of Progress and RPR-Parnas have decided to run on a joint platform for the 2016 parliamentary elections. They hope to consolidate voters unhappy with Putin into one bloc.
The opposition Party of Progress, led by anti-corruption blogger Alexei Navalny, and RPR-Parnas, co-founded by Mikhail Kasyanov and by murdered Kremlin critic Boris Nemtsov, said in a joint statement on Friday that they were "ready to take responsibility for the future of the country."
"We believe that our alliance is currently the only political power capable of challenging injustice, lies and corruption that keep the current government in place," the Russian opposition parties said in a statement signed by Navalny and Kasyanov, the current leader of RPR-Parnas.
Their parties are to run together in the parliamentary elections scheduled for 2016, as well as local elections in some regions in Russia later this year.
A smaller right-wing party also announced they are joining the political alliance, with opposition leaders hoping for new partners.
Previous attempts at uniting the opposition were unsuccessful, mostly because many Kremlin adversaries come from different parts of the political spectrum.
Russian President Vladimir Putin still enjoys overwhelming public support, despite the recent economic troubles. Many of Putin's adversaries, including Navalny, have faced investigations, police raids and convictions, which they decry as political. Others have been driven out of Russia.
Former Deputy Prime Minister Boris Nemtsov, also a well-known government critic from the RPR-Parnas, was gunned down in late February in Moscow.
A close friend and political ally of Nemtsov's, Ilya Yashin, said that the murdered politician "often joked that infighting among democrats is like competing for prison time," but that things have turned out even more dramatic.
"It's a competition for who gets the bullet first," Yashin wrote on Facebook. "It's clear that if we don't start consolidating, they will kill us all, jail us one by one or, in the best case scenario, squeeze us out of the country."
About one quarter of Russians support opposition viewpoints, Lev Gudkov from Levada sociological research center said. However, "their influence would be much bigger if it were a fair game," the expert added.
"The Kremlin fully controls TV. Regular people simply don't know what the opposition is doing. Their capabilities and those of the Kremlin's propaganda are incomparable," Gudkov said.
When Russia annexed Crimea in 2014, Vladimir Putin's approval ratings shot up. Five years later, this euphoria has given way to disillusionment and presented society with a real dilemma.
The Russian-American writer has won the 2019 Leipzig Book Fair Award for European Understanding for "The Future Is History." The book is a sharply tuned look at why democracy fell short in Russia after communism ended.


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Charlie's Mum's Blog
POSTS FROM MY CORNER OF THE DIGITAL SKY
Written by graysusan
For a number of years, I had a recurring nightmare. I would be returning home, walking down the garden path leading to the back door. As I put the key in to unlock the glass door, I'd see a figure standing motionless in the kitchen near the worktop, her back to me. I'd know at once that the woman was me. Variations on this dream included walking downstairs and knowing that if I went into the living room, I'd see myself sitting there. This other me would always be perfectly still and silent and she filled me with terror.
I could never understand why seeing myself in dreams should be the stuff of nightmares until I watched Us on Sky movies. Jordan Peele gave me a horror flick that explained just why my evil doppelganger haunts my dreams, and where she comes from.
For you see, there are deep and empty tunnels in America, providing oversized warrens in which a completely hidden population of doppelgangers live – along with (appropriately for warrens) a load of rabbits in cages. Like my own nightmarish twin, these subterranean twins are silent, because they literally have no voice. Their job is to pantomime the actions of the population above ground, as those that live in the sunlight go about their lives. They do so whilst wandering around in their dismal and sparsely decorated tunnels, mimicking the movements of those up above in a strangely spasmodic and puppet-like fashion, like so many lunatics in a gigantic asylum. This is because they are actually clones, once created to control the human race by unknown scientists. The tunnel clones share a soul with their doubles above ground, excepting that they appear to have no free will.
Well, the weirdos in tunnels is what I found out towards the end of the film. Before that there was further incoherence (but not quite as incoherent as the clones in tunnels) which necessitated that I periodically shout out 'why?' and 'what?' and 'yukk!' at my telly screen, as Us descended further into madness.
Us is weird. There's no getting around that. But Peele begins by prefacing the madness to come with flashbacks to horror films of yore, enough to fill this viewer with a comforting sense of deja vue. I've been there; seen that; this will be the sort of horror flick I can handle, thought I; that is until copious amounts of bloods splattered my screen.
Peele gave me a nice Kubrickian overhead shot of the Wilson family's car, pootling along to their holiday destination at Santa Cruz, exactly as Jack Nicholson's car had once wound its way to the Overlook Hotel, back in 1980 in The Shining. As the Wilson family sat on the Santa Cruz beach boardwalk, Peele knicked gave us his version of Spielberg's beach scene in Jaws, when the mother looks wildly around for her son and you can just feel that everything's going pear shaped. At the same time a huge flock of seagulls swirl above the holidaymakers in front of Adelaide Wilson, in the exact same way they flock in The Birds. I could almost see Hitchcock walk past the camera in a ghostly cameo.
So, you're not just in any horror territory, Peele seems to be saying. I'm in classic Horror mode here.
Us features the black Wilson family. There's mom Adelaide (meaning noble), Dad Gabe (meaning God is my strength), son Jason (a healer/the cure), daughter Zora (the dawn.) When it comes to films like Us you look up everything. Not that it's of much help.
The Wilsons are kitted out with life's ordinary middle-class luxuries – iPhones, the big car, the holiday home in Santa Cruz (inherited from a dead mother) and go on vacation to that home one summer, whereupon it's almost instantly invaded by a bunch of psychotic murderers. The title for that film should be Them, or The Others (already taken I know) or Invaders from Underneath the Earth!. But the psycho mob are the uneducated, grunting, disturbing aforementioned clones of the Wilson family – 'It's us!', the son Jason whispers, when confronted with the alternate Wilson family in the living room.
Peele tells me that if a black character appears in the overwhelmingly white horror movies, then you know he's expendable, or a sort of cultural add-on. Here the Wilsons are to the fore. A likeable, normal family in control of their comfortable life. They are totally relatable. Their friends (the white Tylers) are, on the other hand, slightly unhinged, slightly menacing, mostly drunk and wholly jaded with each other and their lives, despite being wealthier than the Wilsons. They're also in possession of irritating twin daughters about to meet a gruesome death (again, hello Shining.)
The cloned Wilsons first appear in the real Wilson's holiday home driveway, at night, in a scene strongly reminiscent of the priest standing outside the possessed girl's house in The Exorcist. Not that I've seen, or ever will see The Exorcist – I just know my iconic movie scenes. I tell a lie. I've seen roughly 20 minutes of The Exorcist. Long ago and far, far away, I once tried watching it at the cinema. I knew this was a mistake from the get-go. A friend had persuaded me to go. Twenty minutes in and I walked out (having spent most of that time with my hands over my ears and my eyes shut) or, more accurately, stumbled out past several disgruntled movie goers. The friend was horrified (appropriately) at this publicly uncool behaviour.
The Wilson clones are clad in identical red overalls, like prison or chain gang uniforms. They wear leather, finger-less gloves and carry large gold scissors. These scissors are probably symbols of the fact that they're going to cut their ties to the 'real' Wilsons. Mommy clone carries one shackle and chain, reminiscent of slavery. The alternate Jason Wilson wears a white sort of cloth hangman's mask, in place of the real Jason's plastic monster/animal mask. The alternate Zora Wilson behaves like a girl possessed by demons (again a la Exorcist.) Daddy Wilson is a growling, grunting bear and Mommy Wilson looks like a curly haired black servant from a 1930s film or a sort of living golliwog doll. So, whilst Peele denies that Us is about Race, at that point it probably is about Race.
But then it can't be. The nice, normal black family are terrorised by a backwards, monstrous black family. The Wilsons then run to a white family for help. This is in direct contrast to Get Out, Peele's first horror film, in which the well off, politically liberal whites are to be avoided at all costs. In Us everybody's the same. Everyone is in danger regardless of skin colour.
I'm really late to the Us interpretation party. The internet is awash (rather like Us is awash with blood – double yukk) with explanation theories, as to what Peele, in choosing the horror genre vehicle, is really saying about society, social identity and racial tensions. Moreover, when you know the twist reveal, you're compelled to watch the film again, just to catch the clear and present clues that tell you not all is as it seems.
So, I forced myself to watch Us a second time (eyes shut for the bloody scenes) just to track the evidence that pointed towards mom Adelaide being one of the clones all along, and that her murderous clone (known as Red) is the real Adelaide. This revelation goes some way to explaining the loony-ness of the cloned red army, but not all of it.
The young child, that is the real Adelaide, wears a Thriller t-shirt as she walks into the hall of mirrors on the beach, where she will be abducted by clone Red. Now, any sane person/child would never enter a hall of mirrors alone. The first rule in avoiding all things horrific, should you be unfortunate enough to be a character in a horror film, is to avoid mirrors at all costs. Suitably for the genre, Us is teeming with mirrors: Adelaide's mirror image (or is it?) as she walks through the hall of mirrors ('find yourself' the attraction's sign literally declares.) Clone mom Adelaide's reflection in a window, as she relays her fears about being on the beach holiday to her husband. Daughter Zora staring into the bathroom mirror, inspecting her own image closely. If you've ever intentionally stared at yourself in a mirror for a long time, without moving, you'll know the uneasy feeling that grows the longer you stare into your own eyes. The feeling that the person looking back isn't you, and isn't she beginning to look slightly malicious? And isn't there a possibility that your mirror twin might just begin to move of its own accord.
Because of the Thriller t-shirt, I bothered to watch the Thriller video, to find Jackson in a red leather jacket and red trousers dancing around in zombified fashion. Jackson also famously wore one glove. This explains the red overalls and gloves and possibly the weird clone movements. The Hands across America advert, at the beginning of the film, also features basic drawings of red people linking hands (I'm old enough to remember Hands across America.) These are among the real Adelaide's last memories before she's imprisoned down below. When she later orchestrates a clone uprising as Red, these memories produce her overall'd, zombie-like red army, holding hands across the country in a decidedly creepy and not at all joyous or charitable fashion. Like my own dream clone this clone chain remains eerily silent and still. Dad Wilson, when confronted with the clone chain later in the movie, asks whether the hand holding clones could be some form of 'fucked up performance art.'
This illustrates what's so curiously enjoyable about Us – it's occasionally funny. We are repeatedly given what amounts to grotesque slapstick moments (Zora whacking a clone Tyler twin over the head with a golf club) as the violence gets going, along with comedic familial moments, even at the points of extreme terror. One such moment occurs when the Wilson family discuss who should drive the Tyler's car, when they're escaping the clones. This discussion amounts to an argument as to which family member has the highest 'kill count.' 'Well, I killed myself and Josh,' Daddy Wilson whines, in exactly the manner of a completely ordinary family argument.
But what about real Adelaide's explanation of the clones as an experiment to control the human race – previously echoed in Zora's comment that the government uses fluoride in the water to control our minds – a comment that is considered laughable by the rest of the family. How would clone control even work? Clone Adelaide managed to get out of her tunnel via an escalator – what stopped the rest of the clones getting out years ago, if it was that easy? Many more people than Adelaide must have gone into that hall of mirrors, their clones following their paths. Should we then ask, how many more people above ground are actually clones, who managed to escape a hellish life, and remain terrified of being found out?
Of course, you could say that in the West (Us is also the US) we're pretty much all clones anyway. Moulded after birth by a society that gives one style of education; access to clothes whose fashion is dictated for us; experiencing roughly the same popular culture; desiring the same goods, generated by consumerist advertising; working the daily grind like so many identical worker bees. Often feeling as lost and terrified as Peele's clones.
Peele's clones are underground. Lost and hidden. Denied the light and any meaning to their lives. They live impoverished, unequal lives and yet they look just like us. So, the deprived in any land are just like us, sharing the same human soul, but denied the same opportunities in life. There but for the grace of God go us/the US.
Despite Peele's many 'nods' to horror directors that came before him, he's an example of yet another artist who owes a TREMENDOUS debt to that shy, stammering, child-obsessed Victorian Oxford Don, aka Lewis Carroll. You can never overestimate the impact of the Alice books on popular culture. For there goes young Adelaide, wandering into a hall filled with looking glasses. And through a looking glass she goes, this time against her will, and we jump straight to a white rabbit. And you know that white rabbits live far underground in a crazy, nonsensical alternate universe. The clones are all mad there. They're mad. We're mad.
And where Alice followed her white rabbit, falling down a hole that became a long, long tunnel; the adult clone Adelaide runs back into the looking glass house, freeing a white rabbit as she does so, and then descends down and down via a maze of tunnels, stone stairs and that escalator, to finally confront her looking glass image:
'Who are you? said the caterpillar.
'I-I hardly know sir, just at present – at least I know who I was when I got up this morning, but I think I must have been changed several times since then.'
'What do you mean by that?' said the caterpillar sternly. 'Explain yourself!'
'I can't explain myself, I'm afraid Sir, said Adelaide, 'because I am not myself you see. I'm a clone.'
Fathoming Us as anything other than a curiously enjoyable shock-comic horror will no doubt keep the internet occupied for years. For the most part, I'm happy to remain clueless.
'Tut, tut, child!' said the Duchess. 'Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it.'
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4 thoughts on "Us"
chilton says:
not my cup of tea however well written
graysusan says:
not mine either really, but not as distressing to watch as hardcore horror
Film For Emotion says:
I absolutely loved this film!!! I can't wait to buy it on DVD and watch it again. I once walked out of a horror film and usually now sit with my fingers in my ears and my hands over my eyes in preparation for scary bits. Once I've watched a scary film once I'm usually fine to watch a second time. Us was just fantastically creepy.
He got just the right balance between comedy and horror so it wasn't too hard to watch. I won't watch really disturbing horror. But this was done in a classy and intelligent way, even if he did 'borrow' from other directors' styles which could be a bit of a cheat but seemed to work. I also LOVED the soundtrack. The kids eerie chanting in the style of a sort of nonsensical latin church song was brilliant, really stuck in my head.
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libgcrypt lost entropy while mixing.
Would a USB gizmo have prevented a million Linksys routers from generating similar keys? Perhaps, but only if you thought to buy one and plug it into your router. And assuming the factory firmware has support for said gizmo. Does it? And even then, that still leaves 999,999 vulnerable routers. Maybe after market entropizers aren't the best solution.
What about servers? Again, maybe but maybe not. I'll pick on FreeBSD here. In 2008, it would take up to five minutes to properly seed random. In 2015, a similar bug prevented returning random data. Your gizmo can pipe a steady stream of red hot random bits into the entropy pool, but they won't do much good if nobody reads them out.
Different OS, same bug. Android SecureRandom was not.
Oh, where was I going? It's quite likely that your crypto will explode sooner or later, and it's possible that random numbers will be implicated, but it's very unlikely that some USB gizmo promising "true random" at kilobits per second will save you. Save your money instead.


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Q: Get HTMLFormElement object from Jquery submit() So I have this snippet which captures the submit:
$(function(){
    $('#xhr2_form').submit(function(e){
        e.preventDefault();
        sendForm();
    });
});

and this snippet to apply the XHR 2 form submission
var xhr = new XMLHttpRequest();

function sendForm() {
    var myForm = $('#xhr2_form');

    // get fields
    var values = {};
    $.each($('#xhr2_form').serializeArray(), function(i, field){
        values[field.name] = $(this).val();
    });

    // append data
    var formData = new FormData(myForm);
    formData.append('type',values['type']);

    xhr.open('POST', '/test/xhr2', true);
    xhr.onload = function(e){};

    xhr.send(formData);
}

the problem is the api for FormData accepts an HtmlFormElement as documented here:
http://dev.w3.org/2006/webapi/XMLHttpRequest-2/#the-formdata-interface
the problem is I'm trying to retrieve that HTMLFormElement from the submit event of Jquery, but I don't know how.
without JS, this is how it's done:
<form id="myform" name="myform" action="/server">
  <input type="text" name="username" value="johndoe">
  <input type="number" name="id" value="123456">
  <input type="submit" onclick="return sendForm(this.form);">
</form>

function sendForm(form) {
  var formData = new FormData(form);

  formData.append('secret_token', '1234567890'); // Append extra data before send.

  var xhr = new XMLHttpRequest();
  xhr.open('POST', form.action, true);
  xhr.onload = function(e) { ... };

  xhr.send(formData);

  return false; // Prevent page from submitting.
}

so how do I get the HTMLFormElement in Jquery?

A: I not sure to understand your problem.
To get the HTMLFormElement, simply use :
document.getElementById("myform")
alert(document.getElementById("myform")) ; // Return HTMLFormElement

Or with jQuery :
alert($("#myform")[0]);  // Return HTMLFormElement

A: Is the issue just that you're providing a jQuery object instead of a DOM node? If that's the case, you should be fine just retrieving the first element from the object, which (unless you have something invalid like another xhr2_form on the page) will give you the form element you're looking for.
function sendForm() {
  var myForm = $('#xhr2_form'); // this is a jQuery object

  // ...

  /*
   *  myForm is a jQuery object
   *  myForm[0] is the first element of the object, in this case whichever
   *    node has the ID "xhr2_form"
   */
  var formData = new FormData(myForm[0]);

  // ...
}

You could also retrieve it using .get (not to be confused with $.get) like so:
$("#xhr2_form").get(0);  // or myForm.get(0);

Also, as a side note, when you use jQuery to search for an ID, like $("#some_id"), after it's determined that some_id is a potentially valid ID, it uses getElementById to find the node anyway.

A: In the event itself, the value of this should be the form element.  Alternately, you can access the event's original element via $(e.target) or $(e.originalTarget)

A: $(function(){
    $('#xhr2_form').submit(function(e){
        e.preventDefault();
        sendForm($(this).parents('form'));
    });
});

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28. ročník hokejového turnaje European Cupu.Vítězem turnaje se stala Malmö IF.

Skupina A
(Sofija, Bulharsko)
 1. HK Saga Riga (Lotyšsko) – 4 body
 2. Ferencvárosi TC Budapest (Maďarsko) – 2 body
 3. Levski Spartak Sofija (Bulharsko) – 0 body

Skupina B
(Piešťany, Československo)
 1. HK Dukla Trenčín (Československo) – 4 body
 2. HK Acroni Jesenice (Slovinsko) – 2 body
 3. HK Zagreb (Chorvatsko) – 0 body
Utkání Trenčína
 HK Dukla Trenčín – HK Zagreb 13:1 (3:0,6:1,4:0)
 HK Acroni Jesenice – HK Dukla Trenčín 4:10 (2:3,2:3,0:4)

Skupina C
(Herning, Dánsko)
 1. Jokerit Helsinky (Finsko) – 4 body
 2. Kreenholm Narva (Estonsko) – 2 body
 3. Herning IK (Dánsko) – 0 body

Skupina D
(Villach, Rakousko)
 1. Villacher SV (Rakousko) – 4 body
 2. Meetpoint Estere Geleen (Nizozemsko) – 2 body
 3. Dynamo Minsk (Bělorusko) – 0 body

Skupina E
(Blackburn, Velká Británie)
 1. Vålerenga IF (Norsko) – 6 body
 2. Steaua Bucureşti (Rumunsko) – 4 body
 3. Durham Wasps (Velká Británie) – 2 body
 4. C.H.H.Txuri Urdin I.H.T. de Donostia (Španělsko) – 0 body

Skupina F
(Oświęcim, Polsko)
 1. KS Unia Oświęcim (Polsko) – 4 body
 2. Sokol Kyjev (Ukrajina) – 2 body
 3. Energija Elektrėnai (Litva) – 0 body

Skupina G
(Rouen, FRA)
 1. HC Rouen (Francie) – 6 body
 2. Malmö IF (Švédsko) – 4 body
 3. KS Unia Oświęcim – 2 body
 4. HK Saga Riga – 0 body

Skupina H
(Milano, Itálie)
 1. Lion Mediolanum Milano (Itálie) – 6 body
 2. Düsseldorfer EG (Německo) – 3 body
 3. HK Dukla Trenčín – 2 body
 4. Vålerenga IF – 1 body
Utkání Trenčína
 HK Dukla Trenčín – Düsseldorfer EG 1:5 (1:2,0:1,0:2)
 Lion Mediolanum Milano – HK Dukla Trenčín 4:1 (1:1,1:0,2:0)
 HK Dukla Trenčín – Vålerenga IF 4:1 (2:1,2:0,0:0)

Skupina J
(Helsinki, Finsko)
 1. Dynamo Moskva (SSSR) – 6 body
 2. SC Bern (Švýcarsko) – 4 body
 3. Jokerit Helsinky – 2 body
 4. Villacher SV – 0 body

Finálová skupina 1
(26.–29. prosince 1992)
(Duisburg, Německo)
 1. Malmö IF – 6 body
 2. Lion Mediolanum Milano – 4 body
 3. KS Unia Oświęcim – 2 body
 4. SC Bern – 0 body

Finálová skupina 2
(26.–29. prosince 1992)
(Düsseldorf, Německo)
 1. Dynamo Moskva – 6 body
 2. Jokerit Helsinky – 4 body
 3. Düsseldorfer EG – 2 body
 4. HC Rouen – 0 body

O 3. místo
(30. prosince 1992 v Düsseldorfu)
 Jokerit Helsinky – Lion Mediolanum Milano 4:2

Finále
(30. prosince 1992 v Düsseldorfu)
 Malmö IF – Dynamo Moskva 4:3 SN

Evropský hokejový pohár
Lední hokej v roce 1992
Lední hokej v roce 1993
Sport v Evropě v roce 1992
Sport v Evropě v roce 1993


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Eclipse 2017: What you need to know about Colorado, Wyoming traffic
Traveling for the eclipse? Be prepared for terrible traffic in Colorado and Wyoming on your way to the path of totality.
Eclipse 2017: What you need to know about Colorado, Wyoming traffic Traveling for the eclipse? Be prepared for terrible traffic in Colorado and Wyoming on your way to the path of totality. Check out this story on coloradoan.com: http://noconow.co/2wdcTzg
Jacy Marmaduke, jmarmaduke@coloradoan.com Published 7:00 a.m. MT Aug. 17, 2017 | Updated 10:19 a.m. MT Aug. 19, 2017
Here's what you need to know as Northern Colorado prepares for the traffic jam of a lifetime. Jacy Marmaduke
Traffic flows on Interstate 25 near the Berthoud exit in this file photo.(Photo: V. Richard Haro/The Coloradoan, Coloradoan library)Buy Photo
A once-in-a-lifetime spectacle promises once-in-a-lifetime traffic.
As millions of Americans prepare to trek to the path of totality for Monday's solar eclipse, Colorado authorities are bracing for crazy traffic. The problem is, they don't know exactly what to expect.
"The last time this happened was 1918," Colorado Department of Transportation spokesman Jared Fiel said, referencing the last time a solar eclipse's path of totality scrawled across the nation. "This is a pretty unprecedented event."
Wyoming could see as many as 600,000 visitors for the eclipse — more than doubling the state's existing population — according to some estimates. If two-thirds of those visitors come from the south, that would mean an influx of 400,000 people on Colorado's already-clogged highways. And that's not including people making their way to Nebraska through Colorado.
"We are fully expecting that every single road going up into Wyoming or Nebraska is going to be packed," Fiel said.
Just a few of the roads in danger of becoming parking lots: Interstate 25, Interstate 76, U.S. Highway 287 and U.S. Highway 85.
Fiel said traffic will be worse on the return journey — heading south from Monday afternoon to Tuesday morning — as opposed to the days leading up to the eclipse, when the rush will be more dispersed.
Because the eclipse traffic won't be enough of a headache, Northern Colorado will also see a traffic boost from the first day of classes at Colorado State University and the kickoff of incoming student events at University of Colorado-Boulder.
Because this eclipse is unprecedented in the age of modern traffic, it's hard to say how much travel time you should allow if you're headed to the path of totality in Wyoming, Nebraska or elsewhere. But Fiel said you should definitely budget a lot more time than you need, and then a little more.
CDOT is hitting the pause button on all road construction from Friday afternoon to Tuesday morning, and oversize and overweight vehicles (think semi-trucks, not RVs) won't be allowed to travel through most of Colorado from Thursday night to Wednesday morning.
CDOT and Colorado State Patrol officers will be stationed at various locations around Northern Colorado so they can respond more quickly to crashes and other emergencies. You can help them out by driving safely to prevent crashes.
A few tips to keep in mind from CSP and CDOT:
Put your phone down and pay attention to the road.
Don't try to drive the speed limit if the flow of traffic is slower than that.
Keep a safe following distance between you and the car in front of you.
Don't pull over on the side of the road unless it's an absolute emergency
Gas up, and bring snacks and lots of water on the drive.
Text the word "ECLIPSE" to 888777 for Larimer County-specific updates on traffic, emergency and weather alerts for the eclipse. Find real-time traffic updates at www.cotrip.org for Colorado and www.wyoroad.info for Wyoming.
A total solar eclipse occurs when the moon passes between the sun and the Earth. The moon appears to completely cover the disk of the sun. By blocking the sun's light, the moon casts a shadow on Earth.
When is the next one?
After this year's eclipse, the next total solar eclipse in the U.S. will be on April 8, 2024, and will be visible from Texas to New England.
Other places to view the eclipse
Grand Teton National Park: The southern edge of this Wyoming national park is within the path of totality. Talk about scenic views, but you'll have to drive upwards of seven hours from Northern Colorado.
Elsewhere in Wyoming: Head to the small towns of Guernsey or Torrington to save yourself some driving time. You can get to either town in about two and a half hours and be in the path of totality, although neither town will see the total eclipse for as long as Casper.
Nebraska: Alliance, Scottsbluff and North Platte are all within four hours of Fort Collins and are in the path of totality. Scottsbluff is a mere two hours and some change from Fort Collins, but it's not quite as close to the center of the path as are the other two cities.
More: Eclipse 2017: What you need to know
More: Eclipse 2017: A procrastinator's guide to viewing the total eclipse
More: Headed to Wyoming for the eclipse? Don't take your weed
More: Eclipse 2017: Where you can still stay in Casper, Wyoming
Looking directly at a solar eclipse will damage your eyes, so you have to view it with special glasses or by constructing a pinhole camera. Sean Heisey, York Daily Record
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If you have experienced any problems because of a defective DePuy Pinnacle hip replacement, you may be able to file a DePuy Pinnacle hip replacement lawsuit seeking compensation for your medical expenses, pain and suffering, lost wages and more.
The Pinnacle hip replacement is a total hip replacement system manufactured by Johnson & Johnson subsidiary, DePuy Orthopaedics. Approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration ("FDA") in 2000, the DePuy Pinnacle Hip Acetabular Cup System was the predecessor to the now recalled DePuy ASR XL Acetabular System and the ASR Hip Resurfacing System. The DePuy Pinnacle hip replacement is a total hip arthroplasty intended to provide increased mobility while reducing pain in patients with damaged hip joints.
Like patients who received ASR hip replacements, it appears that those who received the DePuy Pinnacle hip replacement also face an increased risk of hip failure. This is because the two hip replacement systems have similar design defects, which can lead to severe pain, dislocation of the hip implant and hip replacement failure.
Although the DePuy Pinnacle hip replacement implants were not part of the August 2010 ASR hip recall, they are also metal-on-metal devices, and therefore carry many of the adverse side effects commonly experienced by ASR hip implant recipients. Due to the defective design associated with metal-on-metal implants, as with the ASR hip systems, many recipients of DePuy Pinnacle hip replacement implants have had to undergo painful revision surgeries. Thus, a DePuy Pinnacle recall could be issued in the future.


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Q: Prove that an algorithm that solves Basis Problem for $E[m]$ can be used to solve the ECDLP (Elliptic Curve Discrete Logarithm Problem) Q: Let $\{P_1, P_2\}$ be a basis for $E[m]$. The Basis Problem for $\{P_1, P_2\}$ is to express an arbitrary point $P \in E[m]$ as a linear combination of the basis vectors, i.e., to find $n_1$ and $n_2$ so that $P = n_1 P_1 + n_2 P_2$. Prove that an algorithm that solves the basis problem for $\{P_1,P_2\}$ can be used to solve the ECDLP for points in $E[m]$.
(First, quick question, is $E[m]$ just an elliptic curve over any finite field $m$?)
My Work:
The ECDLP problem is given points $P, Q$ where $Q \in \left<P \right>$, solve for $n$ such that $nP = Q$
If we have a solution to the Basis Problem then we can express:
$P = n_{p_1} P_1 + n_{p_2} P_2$
$Q = n_{q_1} P_1 + n_{q_2} P_2$
then we want to solve for $n$ in
\begin{align*}
  nP &= Q \\
  n \cdot \left(n_{p_1} P_1 + n_{p_2} P_2 \right) &= n_{q_1} P_1 + n_{q_2} P_2 \\
  (n \cdot n_{p_1} - n_{q_1}) P_1 + (n \cdot n_{p_2} - n_{q_2}) P_2 &= \mathcal{O} \\
\end{align*}
I'm stuck on what to do next.

A: The points $P_1,P_2$ together form a basis of $E[m]$. Hence for any $\alpha,\beta\in\mathbb{Z}/m\mathbb{Z}$ such that
$\alpha P_1+\beta P_2=\mathcal{O}$ we can conclude that $\alpha=\beta=0$.
As for the quick question, by definition
$$E[m]=\left\{P\in E\mid [m]P=\mathcal{O}\right\},$$
i.e. all the points that have order dividing $m$. It is a subgroup of the group of points on $E$. A standard theorem says that in most cases,
$$E[m]\cong \mathbb{Z}/m\mathbb{Z}\times\mathbb{Z}/m\mathbb{Z},$$
hence in that case we can choose a basis $P_1,P_2$ as you do. Then any point $P\in E[m]$ can be uniquely expressed as $P=n_{p_1}P_1+n_{p_2}P_2$ for $n_{p_1},n_{p_2}\in\mathbb{Z}/m\mathbb{Z}$.