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Music is easily one of the most universal experiences that humans share. All cultures through all of history have been involved in music, from creating to listening and composing to analysing. We have made use of all sorts of materials in the creation of instruments and come up with an array of sounds. In modern history, the guitar has risen to be one of the most widely used and played instruments overall. Of course, it's awesome!
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Ricketts of Llanwddyn
The earliest traced Rickett of Llanwddyn was John Ricket born circa 1655.
The Rickett surname came into prominence in the British Isles in the 16th century coinciding with the first migration of the Huguenots from France. The Huguenots were French Protestants who followed the teachings of John Calvin (1509-64). The growth of Calvinism in France during the sixteenth century led to a long period of persecution with 40,000 - 50,000 Huguenots escaping to the British Isles. Tradition has it that many Huguenots having surnames such as Rickett, Bebb and Wigley came to mid Wales. Many Huguenots were skilled craftsmen and noted for their skills in weaving. Huguenot families contributed to the development of the flannel industry in mid Wales; the word flannel is said to be derived from the Welsh word 'gwlanen'. Maybe our John Ricket was of Huguenot origin. However, the late 17th century also coincided with the period of fixing of Welsh surnames.
The Rickett surname could have a Welsh patronymic based origin; therefore, John Ricket could have been known as John ap Ricket (i.e. John son of Ricket). The name is ultimately derived from the personal name "Richard". The Ricket surname has changed within the various branches of the family tree, the derivatives being Rickets, Rickett and Ricketts.
Little is known of the family's circumstances in the 18th century except from that we can deduce from the recording of baptisms, marriages and deaths in the parish of Llanwddyn. We know that Jane Rickett born in Llanwddyn in 1752 was the mother in law of Edward Thomas the brother of Ann Griffiths (nee Thomas) (1776 - 1805) the famous Welsh hymn writer. Edward Thomas obtained notoriety in 1801 for the murder of a neighbouring farmer.
Some of the family migrated to the USA. David Rickett of Llanwddyn (1821 - 1898) was well known in the Welsh community in Minnesota and was associated with the Welsh chapel on Franklin Avenue, Minneapolis; other members of the Rickett family emigrated to the same area of the USA.
The 1841 census shows two Rickett families living in Llanwddyn, being Thomas Rickett (1791 - 1873) and family living at Glanrafon and Thomas Rickett (b. 1818) and family living at Tyisaf, Llanwddyn. The only Rickett family residing at Llanwddwn during the 1881 census was that of Thomas Rickett (b. 1818) living at 4 Fishing Street, Llanwddyn.
Fishing Street, Llanwddyn (1880s)
The Liverpool Corporation Waterworks Act was passed by parliament in 1880 to create the reservoir in the Vyrnwy Valley at Llanwddyn to supply water to Liverpool. The work began in 1881. The dam was completed in 1888; as Lake Vyrnwy started to form, the last few residents moved out. The old - now submerged - Llanwddyn village consisted of St John's Church, two chapels, three pubs, at least two shops, one of which contained a post office, and about 37 houses. No formal consultation was carried out among the people of Llanwddyn; families were forced out including Thomas Rickett (b. 1818) and his wife Mary.
There was much deliberation on whether to leave the remains of dead in the old graveyard under water; however, it was decided that re-interment would take place. The new graveyard was opened next to the new church of St Wddyn, not far from the eastern end of the dam. The human remains were gathered and transferred to the new cemetery in a process that took over three years. The Rickett graves can be seen in the new cemetery.
Thomas Rickett's son Ellis moved to live in Llanfyllin but came back to live in the valley and bring up a family at Bryndu and Glyndu, both situated near the dam. Ellis Rickett was one of the last descendants bearing the Rickett name to live in Llanwddyn.

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A single-vehicle crash over the weekend took the life of one woman in Frederick County.
The incident took place at 12:30 p.m. Sunday (4/14/2019) on Route 522, around half a mile south of Burnt Church Road. 63-year-old Johnnica J. Mason of Cross Junction was driving a Jeep Grand Cherokee north on the road when she lost control of the vehicle; the Jeep struck an embankment and concrete pedestal before overturning. Mason was not wearing a seat belt, and succumbed to her injuries at Winchester Medical Center. Virginia State Police are currently investigating the cause of the crash.


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Rep. Dan Boren to work for Chickasaw Nation when term in Congress ends in January
by Chris Casteel
Published: Tue, June 19, 2012 12:00 AM Updated: Tue, June 19, 2012 7:50 PM
Rep. Dan Boren
WASHINGTON — Rep. Dan Boren plans to work for the Chickasaw Nation when his term ends in January, pursuing new investments for the Ada-based tribe.
Boren, a Muskogee Democrat who has been in the U.S. House since 2005, said he will be working for the tribe's commerce division, which oversees casinos, travel plazas, a chocolate company and a small business center.
"I'll be looking for any and all opportunities for the Chickasaw Nation to invest in," Boren said Tuesday. "This will be looking for new opportunities."
Boren, 38, will hold a new position, president of corporate development, and he will be based in the Oklahoma City area. The position is not related to Chickasaw Nation Industries, a separate entity that is based in Norman.
Boren said he had talked to more than a dozen people about his post-Congress plans and that the offer from Chickasaw Nation Gov. Bill Anoatubby interested him most.
"This is really perfect for me because I've done a lot of work on tribal issues," Boren said. "Tribes are very involved in economic development — health care, energy, real estate — and they employ literally thousands of Oklahomans. It's a real opportunity for me to be involved in something that will work with the business community. That's my passion.
"The Chickasaw Nation is growing, as far as their business development. They're really on the cutting edge."
In a prepared statement, Anoatubby said, "As a champion for small business during his tenure in Congress, Dan established a wide range of relationships in the public and private sectors in Oklahoma and all over the world.
"This, plus his diligence, sincerity and work ethic will be a great advantage to us as we continue to expand and diversify our portfolio of commercial ventures within Oklahoma and beyond our state's borders."
Boren said he would no longer vote on legislation that affects the Chickasaw Nation, and that he has resigned his position as the top Democrat on the Subcommittee on Indian and Alaska Native Affairs. His fourth term will end in early January when his successor in the 2nd District takes office.
Boren and his wife, Andrea, have two children.
In a speech in Tulsa on Monday, Boren did not rule out a run for governor in the future, though he said he wouldn't challenge Gov. Mary Fallin, a Republican, should she run for re-election in two years, the Tulsa World reported.
Chris Casteel
Chris Casteel began working for The Oklahoman's Norman bureau in 1982 while a student at the University of Oklahoma. Casteel covered the police beat, federal courts and the state Legislature in Oklahoma City. From 1990 through 2016, he was the... Read more ›
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Recently released Thunder and Rain, featuring legendary cellist, Dave Eggar, is on Spotify, Pandora and Itunes. Look for performances on 89.9 WJCT, Jacksonville, Florida and 93.1 WLNR, Miami-Ft. Lauderdale as well rotations on CMR Europe and WWOZ.
Ample Angst is the most recent musical project of songwriter, Mike Bernos, who after the successful creation of the blues-rock driven, Spice and the Po Boys, reconnects with his introspective folk roots. To best express his lyrically influenced songs, he brought together vocalist, Olivia Chernyshev, the velvet-voiced veteran of Jacksonville's musical theater scene, young violinist Joseph Henderson, and multi-instrumentalist and co-collaborator of several years, Cyrus Quaranta. The chemistry has produced rich musical textures and compelling harmonies between the crystal-clear mezzo-soprano of Chernyshev and the John-legend tinged voice of Quaranta.Bernos displays a broad musical range and a lithe lyrical touch with the four songs he penned for the EP, Thunder and Rain. Between the elegiac ballad, "Let Her Go" and bluesy shuffle, "Neon Love," there is some New Orleans honky-tonk and folk-gospel, which, go straight to Bernos's Catholic and indulgent roots curated in that great musical city. The band caught the attention of legendary studio and performing cellist, Dave Eggar, who is featured on the EP.


From www.calatrava.com: The "pavilion-like construction features a spectacular kinetic structure: a bris-soleil with louvers that open and close like the wings of a great bird."
On a bitterly cold day in late December 2005, I photographed the recently completed new annex to the Milwaukee Art Museum, an incredible work by the renowned architect Santiago Calatrava. I'm not the only one to have photographed this beautiful addition to the much more conservative Art Museum, nor have I captured any better than other photographers its sweeping white lines, the grace of the open sun-shade as it appears to take flight into the metallic blue sky over Lake Michigan, or indeed its internal lattice-work of ribs framing the windows that bring warming natural light into its brilliant white cathedral-like grand hall. No, I'm not the only one, but I'd like to share these photos because standing either inside or outside the Calatrava is so inspirational and awe-inspiring. Seeing the great wings opening and allowing the sun's rays to touch the white structure can't adequately be described. I hope this series of pictures does justice both to the building itself, and to its location on the brink of the frozen lake in the early deep winter.


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On the waters edge of the lower Zambezi River, sits the tranquil and exquisite Anabezi Camp. Our exclusive tented camp is more than an escape from reality, but a window into Africa – the animals, birds and plant life.
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From fresh water fishing, where you might be lucky enough to catch a Tigerfish, to night drives, canoeing safari's, bird watching and sunset boat trips, there are plenty of activities to help you explore the lower Zambezi River.
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Built on the foundations of the renowned site of Ana Tree Lodge, Anabezi Camp is made up of twelve spacious, secluded tents, raised on timber platforms to give you a magnificent view of the Lower Zambezi National Park.
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Tucked away in the Lower Zambezi National Park is Anabezi Camp. With viewing decks, a swimming pool overlooking the river and central fire-pit to keep you warm as the day turns to night, you're promised nothing less than stylish luxury.
On the banks of the Zambezi's Ngwenya channel is the rustic and peaceful Amanzi camp. Four tents raised on a teak deck, each one has a private sitting area, overlooking the beauty and wonder of the river.
With over 500 species of birds gracing the Zambezi National Park skies, don't be surprised if you spot a Ground Hornbill or the tiny Redbilled Firefinch. With such a variety, there's bound to be some species you've never seen before.
It is no wonder Anabezi is known for its spectacular game viewing. Equipped with new, four person game drive vehicles specifically designed to keep you comfortable and safe, let our guides mesmerize you with the wonders of Africa, and all the wildlife that roams its glorious plains.
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Designing and Building Institutional Anti-Racist Spaces (Coursera)
Designing and Building Institutional Antiracist Spaces (D-BIAS) is a course whose mission is to teach and apply tenets of equity, anti-racism, and cultural justice to students from Institutions to achieve social change. The course is aimed at educators and administrators in educational spaces, lawyers and advocates in spaces that touch civil rights, equity, and whose Institutional mission it is to achieve greater cultural equity.
The course involves creative approaches to social justice, racial justice, and advocacy while remaining open to anyone from any background who shares the same vision of the world, as social change entrepreneurs.
- The course final assignment will allow students to become designers of cultural equity, and build their own workshops at their own institutions.
Prelude: Getting on the same page
Welcome to Wesleyan University and Justiceology's Designing & Building Institutional Antiracist Spaces (D-BIAS)! You are here because you are interested in more than the usual one-and-done diversity workshops. You understand, or at least suspect, that to make real change in society, we must look at the deeper roots of inequity. By taking this course, you will learn a set of tools and a framework that you can adapt to your own institution and set change in motion. You will need a notebook (online or paper and pencil) so that you can record your thoughts, as you work through the course. At the end you will be ready to train others to use this methodology either on your own or in further partnership with JBD. The work we are about to undertake is hard work, but ultimately, it is the most rewarding work. The world will be a better place for your contribution.
Chapter 1, Justiceology By Design - Tough On Crime
You've learned crucial tools in the Prelude. In this chapter, Chapter 1, you'll practice applying those skills.
Chapter 2, Looting vs. Rioting
You're on to your second workshop. This week you'll be honing and building on those skills from last week.
Chapter 3, Final -- Creating Your Own Justice Workshop
You've learned facts, concepts, vocabulary and tools that will allow you to look at your own institution an analyze both what needs to change, and how to change it. We'll walk you through it here.
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Have we reached the boundaries of what can be achieved in sports and building design? The answer is definitely "NO". This course explains basic aspects of bluff body aerodynamics, wind tunnel testing and Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) simulations with application to sports and building aerodynamics. It is intended for [...]
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Federal Reserve Releases Additional Terms and Conditions...
Ropes & Gray's Investment Management Update October – November 2022
Since our prior Investment Management Update, we have covered two SEC adopting releases and two SEC proposing releases affecting the mutual fund/investment management industry, each of which we discussed in a separate Alert. These four Alerts are summarized below with a hyperlink to the full text of each Alert.
Federal Reserve Releases Additional Terms and Conditions and FAQs on the Term Asset-Backed Securities Loan Facility (TALF)
Time to Read: 7 minutes Practices: Asset Management, Credit Funds, Private Funds, Investment Management, Hedge Funds
In the wake of the current global financial crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, the Federal Reserve, in conjunction with the Department of the Treasury, has established several fiscal and monetary stimulus programs to seek to address and mitigate market disruptions, including the Term Asset-Backed Securities Loan Facility ("TALF").1 The TALF is a $100 billion credit facility under which the Federal Reserve Bank of New York ("FRBNY") (through a special purpose vehicle) will make non-recourse loans to eligible borrowers. Using funds appropriated under the CARES Act, the U.S. Department of Treasury will make an equity investment of $10 billion in such special purpose vehicle. The purpose of the TALF is to ensure that U.S. businesses can continue to access credit at affordable terms despite current market turmoil. Loans under the TALF will have three-year terms and will be non-recourse to the borrower unless the requirements of the TALF are not met or are breached. The current termination date of the TALF is specified as September 30, 2020, after which no new loans will be made unless the program is extended by the Federal Reserve. See the Ropes & Gray Podcast here on COVID-19: TALF 2.0: Anticipating the 2020 Term Asset-Backed Securities Loan Facility Program.
On May 12, 2020 the Federal Reserve published an updated Term Sheet for the TALF, which is maintained on its website, and the FRBNY published frequently asked questions ("FAQs") relating to the TALF on its website.
This client alert summarizes key terms and conditions of the TALF, in particular, those that are relevant to investment funds that wish to participate in the program.
Eligible Borrower
Participation in the TALF is limited to "eligible borrowers."
Eligible borrowers include businesses that (a) are created or organized in the United States or under the laws of the United States, (b) have significant operations in and a majority of their employees based in the United States, and (c) maintain an account relationship with a primary dealer.
The guidance provided in the frequently asked questions issued by the FRBNY specifically contemplates that investment funds may participate provided they meet the relevant eligibility criteria. The types of investment funds that may participate include, without limitation, hedge funds, private equity funds, mutual funds, and funds of one.
In the context of an investment fund, the "significant operations" requirement must be met by the fund's investment manager. Although not an exclusive definition, the FRBNY provided the following example of what would constitute "significant operations":
"A borrower (or an investment manager in the case of an investment fund) with greater than 50 percent of its consolidated assets in, annual consolidated net income generated in, annual consolidated net operating revenues generated in, or annual consolidated operating expenses (excluding interest expense and any other expenses associated with debt service) generated in the United States as reflected in its most recent audited financial statements."
Foreign Government Investors
An entity will not be eligible to participate in the TALF if a foreign government is a "Material Investor" in the entity. In addition, in the case of an investment fund that borrows under the TALF, the investment manager of such an investment fund must not have any Material Investors that are foreign governments. A "Material Investor" is defined as a person who owns, directly or indirectly, 10% or more of any outstanding class of securities of an entity.
In connection with the original TALF program introduced in 2009, the staff of the Securities Exchange Commission (the "SEC") issued a key no-action letter that addressed some specific considerations relating to registered funds participating in the program, specifically in relation to limits on borrowings applicable to registered funds and requirements around how registered funds custody their assets.2
The SEC staff has not yet issued similar no-action relief with respect to the TALF; however, to the extent that the primary terms and operational matters of the TALF are similar to the 2009 program, we think it is likely the SEC staff will extend the no-action relief issued on these points in 2009 to the TALF.3
Borrower Representations and Certifications
In connection with participating in the TALF, borrowers will be required to make various representations and certifications to its primary dealer(s), including the following:
Each borrower will be required to represent, on a continuous basis, that the borrower is an "eligible borrower." A borrower must meet the "eligible borrower" conditions at all times during which its loans under the TALF are outstanding, including with respect to the restrictions on ownership by a foreign government. The FAQ relating to this requirement provides that a TALF borrower is expected to have a mechanism for continuously monitoring its direct and indirect investors as long as the TALF loan is outstanding. This means, for example, that funds, such as hedge funds, that are continuously offered or which permit redemptions, will need to monitor participation by its foreign government investors to ensure that they do not breach the restriction on foreign government ownership discussed above.
Each borrower will be required to certify that it is "unable to secure adequate credit accommodations" from other banking institutions and that it is not insolvent. According to the FAQs, this certification does not require that the borrower not have access to any credit, but rather that the borrower is unable to secure credit on prices or terms that are consistent with a "normal, well-functioning market."
Each borrower will be required to certify that it meets the conflict of interest requirements of Section 4019 of the CARES Act, relating to the Executive Branch of the government.4
It is expected that the Customer Agreement that a borrower will enter into with each primary dealer will include additional representations and certifications that the borrower will need to make, as well as require each borrower to provide various know-your-customer and anti-money laundering documentation and a legal opinion addressing certain matters.
Information that Will Be Publicly Disclosed
The Federal Reserve will disclose on its public website the name of each borrower and all Material Investors of each borrower. Additionally, the Federal Reserve will publish information regarding the amount of the loans, the interest rates paid, the types and amounts of collateral posted by each borrower and the overall costs, revenues, and other fees for the TALF.
Eligible Collateral
Loans made to eligible borrowers under the TALF are secured by certain asset-backed securities ("ABS") that meet specified criteria.
ABS must have the following characteristics to be eligible collateral:
Non-synthetic and rated in the highest long-term rating category (or short-term investment grade category if no long-term rating is available) by two eligible nationally recognized statistical rating organizations and not rated below the highest investment-grade rating category by any eligible NRSRO. The FAQs specify which NRSROs are eligible rating agencies under the TALF.
Most types of ABS must be issued on or after March 23, 2020, except SBA Pool Certificates and Development Company Participation Certificates must be issued on or after January 1, 2019. By contrast, CMBS must have been issued prior to March 23, 2020. Eligible collateral must have underlying exposure to newly issued auto-related loans, student loans, credit card receivables, dealer floorplan loans, equipment loans and leases, small business loans fully guaranteed as to principal and interest by the U.S. Small Business Administration, leveraged loans, premium finance loans for property and casualty insurance or commercial mortgages.
Eligible collateral must have been acquired at original issuance or in an arms-length secondary market transaction within 30 days prior to the loan subscription date. Practically, this requires borrowers to acquire ABS on the day they borrow from the TALF, or within 30 days prior to the borrowing. Collateral acquired outside that window is not eligible.
All or substantially all of the credit exposures underlying the eligible collateral must be originated by U.S.-organized entities (ABS) or have a lead or co-lead arranger that is a U.S.-organized entity (CLOs), and be made to U.S.-domiciled obligors or in respect of real property located in the U.S. or one of its territories.
As of the date hereof TALF is not yet operational. It is expected that the FRBNY will publish a form of Master Loan and Security Agreement ("MLSA") that will be used to apply for loans. The terms and conditions published on the Federal Reserve's website (which may be updated from time to time), the terms and conditions specified in the MLSA and the guidance provided in the FAQs will constitute the terms and conditions for loans under the TALF.
Investment managers who wish to discuss opportunities related to TALF are encouraged to contact their Ropes & Gray attorney.
The current TALF is similar to the TALF introduced following the 2008-2009 financial crisis; however, there are some differences in the terms and conditions and the types of eligible collateral.
See Franklin Templeton Investments, SEC No-Action Letter (pub. avail. June 19, 2009), available at https://www.sec.gov/divisions/investment/noaction/2009/franklintempleton061909.htm.
The SEC Staff also issued a No-Action Letter to T. Rowe Price in relation to the 2009 TALF with respect to the ability of certain registered funds advised by T. Rowe Price to participate in TALF by investing in one or more private funds managed by T. Rowe Price that would participate in TALF. However, the T. Rowe Price No-Action letter specifically stated that it applied to the applicable T. Rowe Price entities only and could not be relied on by other third parties for interpretive guidance. See T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc., SEC No-Action Letter (pub. avail. October 8, 2009), available at https://www.sec.gov/divisions/investment/noaction/2009/troweprice100809.htm.
Section 4019 of the CARES Act generally prohibits any business directly or indirectly owned by the President, senior executive branch officials or members of Congress (and families of each) from receiving emergency economic relief funds.
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摘要: This work presents an image displacement measurement by using a box pattern and the edge spread function analysis in the polarized based stereoscopic displays. The measurement determines to identify three factors (i.e., box size, image displacement, and spatial frequency response (SFR)) from the box patterns. The polarized based stereoscopic displays might sacrifice pixels for producing 3D images, which might produce errors in the image displacement and then affect the depth perception indirectly. Based on the measurement, the errors can be quantified by using the three factors. Owing to the light leakage distorting the edge spread function to obtain an inferior SFR, exactly how light leakage affects the edge spread function can be resolved on the basis of the SFR results, especially at a frequency (1/display pixel) of 1.9 in the case of the horizontal displacement. Light leakage also induces the error of the box height in even and odd intervals of the vertical displacements more than 2pixels and 0.5pixels, respectively. The image displacement measurement provides a simple and comprehensive means of evaluating the optical characteristics, disparity, and sharpness of the stereoscopic displays, via the three factors.
國立臺灣科技大學 - Performance of estimating depth in projection based stereoscopic virtual display / Lin, C.J.;Cheng, L.-Y.;Wang, M.-C.
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"I came here with Lucius Walker, in the first trailer for the peace, when only we came with three carts. At that time, not even the press took us seriously, when the movement was already becoming big, then they realized that it was something big, powerful.
"Not all of us that came with Lucius we were religious, but the ideas that were promoted inside the movement were just, human, the religious principles of defense of the poorest, of the justice.
"Today we continue the struggle for eliminating the blockade. This is an inhuman, aggressive politics. Whenever I see someone and I tell to him that the damage that it does to the Cuban people at once he repudiates it.
"Cuba does not deserve this evil. Here there are only hard-working, kind, united, happy, and sensitive persons; you are truly rich for what you have, for how you have fought to have it.
"The movement of which I am part in the United States, from which we support the Cuban and your cause to eliminate the blockade, it´s called Cuba is hope, and it is like that, you are a hope, you are hope".


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According to comment below if you want one code should solve both the problem then use it like below. In the above code i tried to apply only for the direct children list items. In your bottom page case it is not direct children. So change your code like below.
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Colton Hills Community School is an inner-city school with a diverse cohort that draws from a wide range of cultures, nationalities and identities. Our curriculum seeks to address the disadvantage that may exist within these different communities by giving our students access to everything that the world can offer.
Our school proudly holds the status of a School of Sanctuary, where students from across the local area – and across the globe, too – can come together to learn harmoniously regardless of their background.
Therefore, the intention of our curriculum is that we will offer our students the access to a broad and varied curriculum that seeks to equip them for modern life. We have designed our curriculum to ensure that students have every opportunity to gain worthwhile employment, attend a top university and have access to the social mobility that can change lives for themselves and their families.
One of the most pivotal aspects is making our students highly literate and numerate, ensuring that they have the fundamental skills necessary to take their place in society. Our skill makes literacy a central aspect of life at Colton Hills and addressing deficiencies in reading – whether due to prior achievement or being new to the language – is something that we attack with all of our energies.
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We recognised the importance of grounding our curriculum in its wider contexts to enable us to fill gaps in our students' knowledge. We are unapologetic in ensuring that our students have every opportunity to engage with as much powerful knowledge as anyone else in the country.
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I just thought I'd pop in here to say hi. I just joined last night. I'm from Portland, Oregon USA. I'm actually a spiritist but look forward to learning more about spiritualism and more on our commonalities than our differences.
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ACT 345 of 1990 established the State Survey and Remonumentation Act. Since 1993, Benzie County has had a County Remonumentation Plan in effect. The County Surveyor has been in charge of activities as designated by Act 345 and the Benzie County Plan. This plan has mainly been involved with the relocation, history, preservation, and placement of standardized monuments at all original Government Land Office corners (GLO) in the County. Since the inception of the plan in 1993, approximately 642 GLO corners have been preserved in Benzie County. Also 25 of these corners have had State Plane coordinates determined for their positions. This effort is ongoing in Benzie County and the State of Michigan.


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Marvin Towler, co-founder of The Socializers, identified as one of 16 people who inspire the World on Arianna Huffington's blog!!
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What inspires you? The answer to that question can be found in the timeless words of a visionary leader or literary giant, the stunning beauty of historical landmarks and modern marvels, or the fighting spirit and the responsibility to support causes that speak to the very best of what humanity has to offer. The answer is a resounding yes. All of the above.
Truly, inspiration is a brand than can never be oversold. This is why I am excited about profiling the 16 people below. They are among the most respected, motivational voices on Twitter today. They inspire hundreds of thousands with their daily dose of gratitude, use of icons, thought-provoking blogs, support for nonprofits, and a great mix of uplifting quotes and affirmations. (read more and see Marvin Towler at Huffington Post)
In the era of social business, FRIENDLY and ethical BUSINESSES will SKYROCKET
In the era of social business, FRIENDLY and ethical BUSINESSES will SKYROCKET. A charismatic leader not only TRANSFORMS THE SOCIETY but also provides a new meaning to human civilization. Martin Luther King, Mahatma Gandhi, Swami Prabhupad – the founder of ISKCON, and Jesus Christ are some of the charismatic leaders who have flown AGAINST THE WIND and have brought radical changes to society. ~ Nathaniel Hansen
Who Owns Social, Anyway?
Beats Me, but There Are a Ton of Things to
Figure Out Before We Settle on the Answer
By Pete Blackshaw
So who the heck owns social?
That's a tricky question, not only because every business stakeholder — marketing, PR, IT, research, investor relations, media, consumer relations — seems to have a piece of social baked into their new DNA and delivery road map, but also because its definition and scope keep getting pulled in new, arguably more complicated, directions.
Indeed, take a gander at all the new terms being used to describe our new world order — social CRM, social commerce, earned media, CRM 2.0, enterprise social — and you'll quickly find the social juggernaut becoming synonymous with that broader umbrella term known as "digital."
Indeed, I just dug up some notes from a consulting initiative I led at Nielsen for a major marketer. Digital, I noted, "is a new enabling framework for business and marketing grounded in four related characteristics: on-demand, interactive, sensing and connected."
Still, legitimate schizophrenia reigns around the ownership question. After all, as marketers we want leadership roles clearly defined (usually in our favor). We're restlessly — and rhetorically — impatient with silos and the "lack of organizational integration" — even though our "what's next" appetite inevitably feeds the frenetic front line of fragmentation.
The good news is that social media appears to be softening organizational silos, ostensibly laying a runway for that coveted yet elusive marketing goal of "integration."
In my pre-call for the Ad Age Digital Conference panel I'm moderating — featuring NPR CEO Vivian Schiller, Dell CMO Erin Nelson and Combe VP-Director of Interactive Communications Tom Cunniff — the vexing "integration" came up repeatedly. Much of this owes the furious pace of "social innovation," which Schiller reminded us is still in early innings. Put another way, we might need to turn over countless new rocks before we find our stride.
Nelson, who leads an impressive medley of activity from community platforms to service innovation, suggested that Dell's biggest need is "where to place bets." Digital and social media, she said, offers countless possibilities, but in the end you have to make choices. And boy, is she right. Combe's Cunniff concurrently hit the integration need hard but also suggested new centers of gravity would emerge in our socially enabled world, like consumer relations.
Personally, I have a love-hate relationship with "integration," calcified by 15 years of marketing experience, from "best practice"-heavy P&G to "start with a clean slate" web startups. Two conflicting rules reign supreme in my head: One, that which forces integration and coordination, or prematurely synthesizes, inevitably slows things down. Two, that which liberates, loosens, decentralizes and draws inspiration from external sources, or walks off the beaten path, speeds things up.
Alas, such is the dualism of social media. We want order, but we can't stand order. Jefferson-Hamilton reincarnated.
I mean, it's not that corporate stakeholder groups don't trust one another. It's just that the group typically holding the social flag most firmly thinks the other groups are too slow, have no business running the social-media show, and are putting the enterprise on the precipice of disaster through naïve embrace of social silliness like transparency and "be yourself" authenticity.
Meanwhile, agencies and supplier networks are all storming the "social media" center: PR firms see social as an extension of their birthright in influencer marketing; ad agencies see it as a new frontier of high-impact ad impressions (for example, earned media); the growing crop of word-of-mouth agencies and buzz-monitoring firms see this as birthright. It's almost as though we have the "internal" version of Bob Garfield's "Chaos Scenario."
Two recent developments really up the ante for both the ownership and integration questions: social HR and social CRM. For all our hype about the wonders of managing influencers and blogger outreach, the folks scoring the biggest wins in social outreach are the HR teams leading recruiting. Indeed, for those struggling with "social ROI" look no further than the fertile fields of open-source, "all content's a resume" web.
Then again, the HR dynamic can also muddle the marketing track, especially when the flow of a Facebook fan page quickly shifts gears from an on-equity brand message to a college recruiting pitch, or vice-versa.
The rise of "social CRM" further complicates the ownership question. Perhaps the IT or tech experts do have a legitimate claim to a space that's increasingly ornamented with enterprise software, cloud computing, scary-sophisticated databases, and scary-high consumer expectations (mostly set by the "marketing guy" freelancing "social engagement") regarding customer service. Social CRM is also introducing aspects of "business-process innovation" (cost-efficient crowd-sourcing, internal collaboration, integrated listening platform, and the like) that halos well above the marketing space.
So what's a CMO to do amid all this? We'll set some of these questions in tomorrow's panel, but in the meantime, don't naively assume you'll solve the social-media "ownership" and digital "integration" questions overnight. Your best bet right now is to manage the flow, sandbag unruly currents here and there, and do everything you can to "path the passion."
Moreover, we all need to become better internal curators and "community managers." Not unlike a devoted greenie, we need to work really hard to manage our social "ecosystem." This is probably less about command-and-control than in establishing thoughtful guide rails, tempered by experience, good judgment, and even the lessons of a few legal hard knocks.
We can also get a few things going that will cultivate more meaningful ownership or cooperation in the enterprise. In my experience, the leader who gets the best (and most inclusive) listening dashboard or radar in place quickly accrues the most organizational legitimacy. Listening pipes, after all, feed many mouths and can drive unity around a common purpose. (I see this all the time — especially in crisis situations, where everyone has a stake in the outcome.)
Related, credible ownership also accrues to those who start making sense of the madness through smarter metrics. I'm particularly fond of the "paid/earned" model (even in my dialogue with in Nielsen) because it lowers access barriers to social media and speaks a language others in the organization can easily understand versus "shiny new object" gobbledygook.
Lastly, CMOs can make a world of difference rethinking incentive models. We have silos because we're all fighting for a limited budget, often at cross purposes.
So who owns social media? Beats me, but there are a ton of things we can figure out before we settle on the "silver bullet" answer.
5 Social Media Tips for Better Corporate Social Responsibility
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Ann Charles is Founder and CEO of BRANDfog, an NYC-based company offering Social Media Branding and Corporate Social Responsibility Strategies for C-Suite Executives.
In December, I read a story about social scientists who believe that humans have evolved to become more compassionate and collaborative in our quest to survive. This was called "Survival of the Kindest." The theory states that sympathy is our strongest human instinct, and helping others is critical to the survival of the whole species. These days, corporations are starting to have the same realization.
Thanks to a social media culture that reveres transparency and demands accountability, companies today are seen through the critical lens of the Triple Bottom Line: People, planet and profit. Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) states that businesses should act as stewards of society, the environment, and the economy. The social media spotlight brings accolades and new business for companies that give back, while brands behaving badly are pilloried in online communities like Twitter and Facebook, followed by the mainstream press.
Creating a CSR strategy has become a primary challenge for CEOs. Fortunately, social media can be an invaluable resource for companies willing to commit to becoming better corporate citizens.
Here are 5 steps to develop a CSR culture using social media.
7 Takeaways From #BDI: Social Media As a Marketing, Branding & Service Platform
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by Sarah Caminker
This week, I had the pleasure of attending a seminar in New York City on Social Integration: Harmonizing Social Channels into the Marketing, Communications & Service Platform. The Business Development Institute put on this fantastic event that included case studies and roundtables for social media marketing, PR and communication professionals. Top-notch speakers included:
Michael Mendenhall: CMO, HP
Joshua Karpf: Digital Communication Manager, PepsiCo
David Patton: VP & EIC, Waggener Edstrom Worldwide
Brian Kenny: CMO & CCO, Harvard Business School
Lynn Mann: Director of External Communications, Michelin
Richard Pesce: Social Media & Digital Communications, Sprint
Michael DiLorenzo: Director of Corporate Communications, National Hockey League
They all stressed the importance of not seeing social media as a separate entity, rather viewing it as an integrated part of your marketing, branding and customer service. The list below details the top 7 takeaways that were discussed during the seminar.
*Note #BDI stands for Business Development Institute and is the event's hashtag on Twitter that you can search for real-time insight from attendees.
1. Technology is NOT Social. People Are!
Twitter, Facebook, Youtube and other social media sites are just tools. They are only *SOCIAL* if you engage and interact with people on them. Technology is great, but it is about the relationships. Note: these tools are intended for two-way communication and not as a megaphone for your next sales pitch.
2. Feeding the Beast: An Insatiable Appetite for Content
The beauty of the social mediasphere is that anyone can publish, edit or distribute content. We are going through a renaissance of how consumption of information and content is being managed and distributed. Social media has enabled a constant mobility meaning that people expect to receive information 24/7. There is a never-ending hunger for quality content, hence the expression "feeding the beast."
3. The Era of the Advocate
Mass communication is dead, rather it's about building personal connections with consumers. The more you serve and support your customers, the more likely they are to recommend your brand to their network (both offline and online). It's more credible to have an outsider toot your own horn than to have the CMO do it. Remember to thank your "advocates" and make sure they know you appreciate them taking the time to support you and your brand.
4. Digital Newsrooms Are No Longer a Resource For Just the Media
We're all content creators, and it's unrealistic to assume that journalists are the only ones seeing your content. Company and industry news needs to be integrated, aggregated and curated for a broader audience. Press releases are just the tip of the iceberg. Begin incorporating multimedia like podcasts and videos and re-purpose content (in the form of white papers, E-books, articles) to tell your story.
5. Transparency and Authenticity is the Only Way to Go
Whether you're a small business owner, entrepreneur or marketing professional you must communicate who you are, what you do and who you serve right off the bat. It's also critical that you are upfront and transparent about the content and advice you are giving. If not, people will see right through you, run screaming in the other direction and land on your competitor's virtual doorstep.
6. Social Media as a Listening Tool to Feed Innovation
Take a step back and listen. Whether that's monitoring a dialogue on Twitter, following a blogger in your industry to see what conversation they're sparking or hosting a focus group, you never know when you might get the next big break from just LISTENING to your fans/customers. The #NHLTweetUp is a perfect example. Guess how they got that idea??? By listening to their followers on Twitter! Bottom Line…. Stop, Look and Listen. Then Respond.
7. Crossover From Online to Face-to-Face
Twitter and Facebook are excellent relationship building tools, but there's something to say about in-person communication that makes that connection even stronger. Take the time to go to industry events, conferences and networking groups to put a face to the avatar. On the business end of the stick, host tweet-ups in different cities, so your can connect with your followers.
I'm interested to hear your feedback and any trends/topics you think could be added to this list. …read more


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Smart organic crystals for gears, valves and nanocircuits
Published online 29 May 2018
Scientists create a new brand of bendable, self-healing single crystals.
Biplab Das
A joint research team from the United Arab Emirates and India created organic crystals that can bend and twist from heat or light, and then recover from both without cracking – properties that, so far, haven't been previously demonstrated in single crystals.
"With such crystals, one could think of applications that range from making devices with miniature moving parts such as gears, valves and ratchets in microfluidics to active components in soft robots, dynamic systems that do not include any metal parts," says Pance Naumov, associate professor of chemistry at New York University Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, and co-author of the study1.
The crystals, shaped like needles and blocks, can potentially be used in making nanoelectrical circuits where the key components are rapidly moving organic materials, he adds.
They're prepared by slowly evaporating two organic compounds from a solution of an organic compound. When heated, the crystals twisted and when cooled, they reverted to their original shape, without any damage. They reacted similarly to mechanical stress, and ultraviolet light.
The researchers attribute such flexibility to weak intermolecular interactions between the building blocks of the crystals, allowing them to heal heat- and light-induced structural deformities on their own.
doi:10.1038/nmiddleeast.2018.60
Gupta, P. et al. All-in-one: thermally twistable, photobendable, elastically deformable and self-healable soft crystal. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.201802785 (2018)
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In recent years, mental health has emerged at the forefront of issues facing Payton students, so Payton has recently introduced several initiatives to integrate social emotional learning into the school environment.
Quiet hours are now enforced in the library, both in the morning and during student lunch periods. Fiona O'Brien '18, a leader of Youth Wellness Team, said that the team had wanted last year to create a "mental health sanctuary." Although this idea could not be implemented immediately because of complications with staffing and space, the Youth Wellness Team continued to work with the administration to devise a plan for the next year.
O'Brien added that the Youth Wellness Team plans to bring in coloring pages, puzzles, and more stress-relieving activities for students to use.
O'Brien said that the Payton Pause is a chance for students and faculty "to really stop and be present in what we're doing because we don't do that really ever at Payton." The Pause is designated as time for students to take a break from the bustle of the school day through a minute-long guided meditation immediately before the last block period of the day.
Over the summer, Youth Wellness Team created a template for weekly Pause prompts: Mondays and Wednesdays focus on reflection; Tuesdays and Thursdays engage people's bodies in a method of physical relaxation; and on Fridays students are encouraged to reflect positively on the week as a whole. The administration uses this framework to come up with each intercom message.
The library quiet zone and the Payton Pause are both part of a larger renewed effort to ensure that Payton students are learning how to take care of themselves and how to understand their emotions as they progress through their academic career at Payton.
Beyond these recent changes, Dr. Bauer said that Payton has more to do in the future to ensure that social emotional learning is woven into an integral part of every student's school experience: the classroom.
"If one day school changes, and we no longer have enrichment, and we no longer have advisory, that cannot equate to no longer having these types of social-emotional learning resources available, so we have to get them into the classroom," Dr. Bauer said.


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More on Gears of War
When I wrote the impressions post this morning, there was something I wanted to say that I just couldn't put into words. I thought about it for a few hours, and I think I understand it now.
Here's the thing: in a game where there is very little freedom and events are highly scripted, in exchange for that lack of freedom I expect a well-defined story and emotional involvement.
Look, in the single-player version of Gears of War we're all going to have the same experience. There are choices to make, sure, but they appear to be almost entirely superficial. So there is no excuse for that experience being boom boom boom shallow.
If the playing experience is going to be a foot wide, it better be a mile deep.
In games with large, relatively open worlds (Oblivion, for example), plot isn't that important to me, because I can create my own experience. In a first or third person shooter that's essentially a really long corridor, though, the corridor has to have everything, because I can't create anything myself.
Dwarf Fortress, as another example, has thousands of possible choices, and people's experiences playing the game diverge wildly, which is another example of its brilliance. There are as many stories in Dwarf Fortress as there are players, really, and that's why having a pre-defined story really isn't that important. Dwarf Fortress is a world, not a story.
In Gears of War, though, there is one story, and we all experience that one story. That's why the story in a corridor game is so much more important. In essence, these types of games aren't first or third-person shooters--they're first or third-person movies. We participate, but it's really a movie.
That's why there's no excuse for a weak story. They didn't have to create a hundred stories, or a thousand, or even ten.
They only had to create one.
Gears of War (Single Player)
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Q: Switching Windows with Python I'll preface this by saying that I'm very inexperienced with python, and I'm hoping that means the solution to my problem will be simple.
My program will be performing simple actions in another window, so ideally I would like my script to make sure that this other window is maximized and active before it proceeds with the rest of the commands. This has proved to be much more difficult than I had expected.
I am fairly certain that I can achieve this with win32gui using find_window and setting it to the foreground. I thought I had found my solution when I came across this previous question:
Python Window Activation
Unfortunately I was unable to use the solution code or manipulate it to solve my problem for a few reasons:
-The way that user had defined find_window only allows you to choose by the classname of the window, which I don't know and haven't been able to find since it is just a game running in Java. I couldn't seem to change that line to work for the specific windowname (Which I do know) as it is not the "default argument".
-I don't want to enumerate the windows to find it as I'm not sure how that would work.
-using find_window_wildcard as it's written in that script has managed to bring the window to the foreground a few times, but only if the window was already open, and it only works intermittently.
-set_foreground() requires one input statement and no matter how I try to set it I am always given an error that I either have the wrong number of elements or an invalid handle on the window.
I know that I'm stupid; but a clear and concise solution to this problem or at least a good explanation of the find_window/getwindow syntax would be a godsend to myself and anyone else who's having this problem.

A: I would strongly suggest you take a look at the pages for Swapy and for pywinauto.  They can help you do some awesome things when it comes to UI Automation.

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The way that user had defined find_window only allows you to choose by the classname of the window

The way the user defined it is to pass the two parameters class_name and window_name through, untouched, to win32gui.FindWindow (which in turn just calls the Win32 API function FindWindow). So, just do this:
windowmgr.find_window(None, 'My Window Name')

But even if that weren't true, you don't need to use his find_window function; it should be pretty obvious how to call win32gui.FindWindow yourself:
hwnd = win32gui.FindWindow(None, 'My Window Name')

And if you want a good explanation of the FindWindow/EnumWindows/etc. syntax, did you try looking at the docs for them? Is there something you didn't understand there?
Meanwhile:

… the classname of the window, which I don't know and haven't been able to find since it is just a game running in Java

What difference does it make that it's running in Java? You can enumerate the windows and print out their classnames, whether they're written in C++, Java, .NET, Python, or anything else. Or use one of the tools that comes with Visual Studio/VS Express, or any of the free improved versions you can find all over the net, like MS Spy++, which will let you point at a window and give you the caption and class name.

I don't want to enumerate the windows to find it as I'm not sure how that would work.

Just call windowmgr.find_window_wildcard(wildcard) with a regular expression, and it'll enumerate the windows and compare their titles to that regular expression.
If you want to write your own code to do it, just write a function like this:
def my_callback(hwnd, cookie):

Now, when you do this:
win32gui.EnumWindows(my_callback, some_cookie)

… it will call your my_callback function once per window, with hwnd being the window (which you can pass to win32gui functions like, e.g., GetWindowText), and cookie being the same some_cookie value you passed in. (If you don't need anything passed in, just pass None, and don't do anything with the value in your callback function. But you can see how the other answerer used it to pass the regular expression through.)
Meanwhile:

using find_window_wildcard as it's written in that script has managed to bring the window to the foreground a few times, but only if the window was already open, and it only works intermittently.

First, you can't bring a window to the foreground if it doesn't exist. How do you expect that to work?
As far as working intermittently, my guess is that there are lots of windows that match your wildcard, and the program is going to just pick one of them arbitrarily. It may not be the one you want. (It may even be a hidden window or something, so you won't see anything happen at all.)
At any rate, you don't need to use find_window_wildcard; if you know the exact name, use that. Of course it still may not be unique (whatever the game's name is, there's nothing stopping you from opening an email message or a Notepad window with the same title… which, by the way, is why you want to try class names first), but at least it's more likely to be unique than some underspecified wildcard.
So, what if the class name isn't unique (or, even worse, it's one of the special "number" classes, like #32770 for a general dialog window), and neither is the window name? You may be able to narrow things down a little better by looking at, say, the owning process or module (exe/dll), or the parent window, or whatever. You'll have to look through the win32gui and/or MSDN docs (linked above) for likely things to try, and play around through trial and error (remember the Spy tool, too) until you find some way to specify the window uniquely. Then code that up.


A three-wheeled (2 front, 1 rear) car produced by Morgan. Introduced in 2011.
The following section is an excerpt from Wikipedia's Morgan 3-Wheeler page on 14 April 2016, text available via the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
The Morgan Motor Company announced that they would launch the 3 Wheeler in 2011 at the Geneva Motor Show. The 3 Wheeler was initially said to have a Harley-Davidson Screaming Eagle V-twin engine and a Mazda 5-speed manual transmission, and was estimated to deliver 115 horsepower (86 kW) at the rear wheel. However, there was a surprise when the prototype that was shown at Geneva had an S&S engine. Production three-wheelers turned out to have S&S engines. The kerb weight was originally estimated to be less than 500 kilograms (1,102 lb), but the final weight was tested at 550 kg. The acceleration from zero to 60 miles per hour (97 km/h) was estimated by Morgan as 4.5 seconds, with an (estimated) top speed of 115 miles per hour (185 km/h). The three-wheeler is to be homologated as a motorcycle in the United States. The company states that 850 deposits have been taken since the announcement in 2011. Customer deliveries began in Europe in February 2012. USA deliveries are not expected before June 2012, when the first imported three-wheeler was displayed in New York City and at the Greenwich Concours d'Elegance. The Morgan 3 Wheeler was featured in a Series 18 episode of UK motoring show Top Gear where presenter Richard Hammond picked the Morgan 3 Wheeler in a comparison of track-day cars. The 3 Wheeler won the "Not-A-Car of the Year 2011" in Top Gear.


means it must be removed 4 times in order for it to be completely removed.
is not applied multiple times.
Where x is the number of charges a state has when it is applied.
I've noticed that the charges can't be renewed via recasting until they've run out, unlike default ace behaviour, which would make them very inconsistent with other status effects in game. Any chance you could change this behavior?In any case, thanks for making such awesome scripts.
You can't re-add a state until it runs out. That is default ace behavior.
Couldn't you have it so a skill removes the state, then adds the state, thus renewing it?