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Q: While loop takes input of first and second cin My intention for these lines of code was to create a program which would display how many characters a phrase the user typed had. I completed my lines of code with one more task, to create a prompt for the user to either end the program or loop it. To do so, I created a while loop. Everything went well until I was prompted to "Go again?". No matter what input I typed, it would automatically give me my output for the first input, meaning it was also taking in input for my first cin. For reference this is my code:
#include <iostream>
#include <string.h>
#include <stdlib.h>

using namespace std;

int main()
{
char again = 'y';
string phrase;
while (again == 'y' || again == 'Y')
{

cout << "Enter your phrase to find out how many characters it is: ";
getline(cin,phrase);
cout << phrase.length() << endl;
cout << "Go again? (y/n) " ;

cin >> again;

}
cout << "The end." << endl;

system ("pause");
}

Sorry if my question is vague or I have used false terms, I have just started leaning c++.
Thanks.

A: You should add std::cin.ignore() after cin>>again.
#include <iostream>
#include <string.h>
#include <stdlib.h>

using namespace std;

int main()
{
char again = 'y';
string phrase;
while (again == 'y' || again == 'Y')
{

cout << "Enter your phrase to find out how many characters it is: ";
getline(cin,phrase);
cout << phrase.length() << endl;
cout << "Go again? (y/n) " ;

cin >> again;
cin.ignore();
}
cout << "The end." << endl;

system ("pause");
}

The problem is that after std::cin the new line will still stay in the input buffer and getline() will read that newline. std::ignore() will simply grab a character from input buffer and discards it.
For further information refer http://www.augustcouncil.com/~tgibson/tutorial/iotips.html#problems

A: There are a few problems with std::cin << varname.
When a user types an 'enter' after the input variable, cin will only read the variable, and will leave the 'enter' for the next read.
As you have mixed the cin with getline(), you sometimes eat the 'enter' and sometimes do not.
One solution is to add an ignore call after the cin call to eat the 'enter'
cin >> again;
std::cin.ignore();

A second solution is to use std::getline().  It is often a good practice to combine getline() with std::istringstream.  This is an alternative way to solve this problem using getline() and istringstream.  See comments in the code for explanations.
#include <iostream>
#include <string.h>
#include <sstream>

int main()
{
  std::string line;
  std::string input;
  std::istringstream instream;

  do {
    instream.clear(); // clear out old errors

    std::cout << "Enter your phrase to find out how many characters it is: "
              << std::endl;

    std::getline(std::cin, line);
    instream.str(line); // Use line as the source for istringstream object

    instream >> input;  // Note, if more than one word was entered, this will
                        // only get the first word

    if(instream.eof()) {
      std::cout << "Length of input word:  " << input.length() << std::endl;

    } else {
      std::cout << "Length of first inputted word:  " << input.length() << std::endl;

    }
    std::cout << "Go again? (y/n) " << std::endl;
  // The getline(std::cin, line) casts to bool when used in an `if` or `while` statement.
  // Here, getline() will return true for valid inputs.
  // Then, using '&&', we can check
  // what was read to see if it was a "y" or "Y".
  // Note, that line is a string, so we use double quotes around the "y"
  }  while (getline(std::cin, line) && (line == "y" || line == "Y"));

  std::cout << "The end." << std::endl;

  std::cin >> input; // pause program until last input.
}


The function suite of the Hotel Sheraton seemed to be filled with nothing but coffee. Its smell filled the air and it was the subject of every conversation among each of the groups of people, who were holding samples named like "crèma passion" in cardboard, "to-go" cups.
This was the first "Coffee Fest" in Bratislava, where organisers had expected a small turnout of coffee afficionados but were instead inundated by hundreds of coffee fans, who came in their droves to enjoy professionally-prepared espresso, cappuccino or latte, and to prove that the global passion for the black stuff has made it to Slovakia.
"Slovaks have cared for the coffee quality much more since they started to travel all around the world," said Slovakia's leading coffee expert, Michal Šturc.
They also enjoy it in great quantity, at least if Coffee Fest was anything to go by.
The coffee phenomenon in Bratislava is best represented by the increasing number of coffee shops opening up across the city. But it is not only a modern thing as the city has a long, coffee-centred tradition. By 1918, Bratislava was considered by many to resemble a suburb of Vienna, from where it had acquired a trend for cosy coffee-houses. According to Imrich Sečanský's book Memories and Professions of a Doctor, after the First World War, coffee houses became the kind of place where business contracts were signed, chess was played, artists and journalists met to gossip and exchange ideas. They moulded the soul of the city.
Only the communists could end the thriving sub-culture, and their fears of the intellectual classes resulted in the forced closure of all the famous coffee houses. Sečanský feared that the tradition would never return, but thanks to the opening of Europe's borders, coffee started making a comeback in Bratislava.
These days, the city's coffee shops offer significantly more than just the core product: they sell cakes, confectionery and alcoholic drinks, and are meeting places for students, tourists and office workers.
"Our cakes are some of the highlights of our menu," said Ján Krekáň, the co-owner of Shtoor, a chain of four coffee shops in Bratislava, which are among the most popular establishments in the city. Inspired by the American coffee shops, Shtoor specialises in homemade cakes, lemonades and sandwiches.
The name "Shtoor" comes from the English pronunciation of Ľudovít Štúr, the leader of the Slovak national revival, and the man who codified the Slovak language. The first branch was located on Štúrova Street and then, owing to its popularity, further outlets opened on Panská Street, Obchodná Street and in Mlynská Dolina. Appropriately given the links to Štúr, the latter two branches are in bookshops owned by the Martinus chain.
La Putika is a similar chain of coffee shops, but with a slightly different character, drawing inspiration from French-style bistros. Two years after opening the first branch in Račianske Square, two more opened in Klobučnícka Street and Panská Street, with customers appreciating that the coffee shop "has soul", according to the supervisor Gabika Horná.
The owners Patrik Holek and Dušan Novota filled their shops with stylish vintage furniture and decorations connected with coffee from the whole world.
Indeed, La Putika is renowned for its selection of Belgian beers and wines from Slovakia and Chile. Its chic interior also appeals to students.
For some, the coffee itself is of secondary importance, but for the real connoisseurs, it is all that matters.
Slovak taste-buds are gradually being refined after years of enforced abstinence from the highest quality flavours. During the communist period, Slovak people had no idea of the differences between types of coffee and got used to drinking a strong, dark Turkish-style coffee because it was the only one available in the Eastern Bloc.
According to Coffee Culture Academy, there are two main species of coffee beans: Robusta and Arabica. But most of Bratislava's coffee shops offer blend coffee, which is a mixture of both. Shtoor also offers their own fair-trade coffee called "1843", after the year in which Štúr first codified the language. Meanwhile La Putika serves Mauro coffee in two of its branches, and Bristot in another.


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Batu Caves, is a limestone hill, which has a series of caves and cave temples, located in Gombak district, 13 kilometres (8 miles) north of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. It takes its name from the Sungai Batu or Batu River, which flows past the hill. Batu Caves is also the name of the nearby village.
The Batu Caves is one of the most popular Hindu shrines outside India, dedicated to Lord Murugan. It is the focal point of Hindu festival of Thaipusam in Malaysia.
Interior of Batu Caves
The limestone forming Batu Caves is said to be around 400 million years old. Some of the cave entrances were used as shelters by the indigenous Temuan / Besisi people (a tribe of Orang Asli). As early as 1860, Chinese settlers began excavating guano for fertilising their vegetable patches. However, they became famous only after the limestone hills were recorded by colonial authorities including Daly and Syers as well as American Naturalist, William Hornaday in 1878.
Batu Caves was promoted as a place of worship by K. Thamboosamy Pillai, an Indian trader. He was inspired by the 'vel'-shaped entrance of the main cave and was inspired to dedicate a temple to Lord Muruga within the caves.
The history of Batu Caves started in 1891 when Mr. K. Thamboosamy Pillai, who also founded the Sri Maha Mariamman Temple Dhevasthanam, Kuala Lumpur, send his very close associates, Sri Thiruvengadam Pillai and Sri Kanthapa Thevar to survey for an ideal ad suitable place of worship for Lord Sri Murugan. It was in that year, that the influential descendant of Indian immigrants from Tamil Nadu, India, Mr. K. Thamboosamy Pillai installed the 'murti' or consecrated idol of Sri Subramaniar Swamy (Lord Murugan) in the 400 ft high Temple Cave.
The following year, the Thaipusam festival in the Tamil month of Thai (which falls in late January/early February) has been celebrated there as the annual festival of Batu Caves. Wooden steps up to the Temple Cave were built in 1920 and have since been replaced by 272 concrete steps.
In 1890, Pillai, who also founded the Sri Mahamariamman Temple, Kuala Lumpur, installed the murti (consecrated statue) of Sri Subramania Swamy in what is today known as the Temple Cave. Since 1892, the Thaipusam festival in the Tamil month of Thai (which falls in late January / early February) has been celebrated there.
Religious Site
Standing at 42.7 m (140 ft) high, the world's tallest statue of Murugan, a Hindu deity, is located outside Batu Caves, near the city of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The statue, which cost approximately 24 million rupees, is made of 1550 cubic metres of concrete, 250 tonnes of steel bars and 300 litres of gold paint brought in from neighboring Thailand.
Rising almost 100 m above the ground, the Batu Caves temple complex consists of three main caves and a few smaller ones. The biggest, referred to as Cathedral Cave or Temple Cave, has a 100 m-high ceiling and features ornate Hindu shrines. To reach it, visitors must climb a steep flight of 272 steps.
At the base of the hill are two more cave temples, Art Gallery Cave and Museum Cave, both of which are full of Hindu statues and paintings. This complex was renovated and opened as the Cave Villa in 2008. Many of the shrines relate the story of Lord Murugan's victory over the demon Soorapadam. An audio tour is available to visitors.
The Ramayana Cave is situated to the extreme left as one faces the sheer wall of the hill. On the way to the Ramayana Cave, there is a 50-foot (15 m) tall statue of Hanuman and a temple dedicated to Hanuman, the noble monkey devotee and aide of Lord Rama. The consecration ceremony of the temple was held in November 2001.
The Ramayana Cave depicts the story of Rama in a chronicle manner along the irregular walls of the cave.
A 42.7-metre (140 ft) high statue of Lord Muruga was unveiled in January 2006, having taken 3 years to construct. It is the tallest Lord Muruga statue in the world
The Sri Maha Mariamman Temple Dhevasthanam has an interesting history. It was founded by the late Kayarohanam Pillai Thamboosamy Pillai in 1873, one of the pioneer leaders of the Indian community in colonial Malaya.
Born in 1850 in Singapore and educated at the Raffles Institution, Mr. K. Thamboosamy Pillai gained popularity and prominence through the course of his work as an interpreter and Assistant with the then senior lawyer, JG Davidson. His work took him to Kuala Lumpur, Malaya and during this course he discovered that a large number of Indians from South India had settled in a neighboring state called Selangor. Being a Hindu devotee, he decided to build a small worship house for the Hindu deity of protection known as Mariamman. He built this worship house at river bank in Selangor (where the present Bangunan Pertanian is located).
In 1875, the Kuala Lumpur railway authorities offered an alternative site for Mr. K. Thamboosamy's worship house as they wanted an extension to their goods yard. With the permission of then Sultan Selangor, a small 'attap' temple was built in Jalan Bandar, Kuala Lumpur (presently known as Jalan Tun HS Lee). The Sultan of Selangor demarcated the temple land as 'Land for the Indian Community'.
Mr. K. Thamboosamy Pillai was a visionary man. In 1888, he transformed the 'attap' temple into a brick building with the support from the local community. People from all walks of life donated generously towards the temple building project. Mr. K. Thamboosamy Pillai became the first "Stanigar" (founder) of the Sri Maha Mariamman Temple Dhevasthanam in Malaysia.
The Sri Maha Mariamman Temple Dhevasthanam is administered by a group of learned and prominent Hindu devotees after the demise of the founder Sri K. Thamboosamy Pillai in 1902. On 5th September 1928, a religious body was established to bring all the charitable organizations and the Mariamman Temple under this fold for a proper management and control. This case was submitted to the Supreme Court through civil action in 1928. After a long deliberation, the Selangor Supreme Court established the Religious Charity known as the Sri Maha Mariamman Temple Kuala Lumpur. Based on the Court order dated 28th November 1930, the Sri Maha Mariamman Temple, Kuala Lumpur, the Sri Ganesar Temple, Old Pudu Road and Sri Subramaniaswamy Temple Batu Caves came under the administration of the Board of Management of the Sri Maha Mariamman Temple Dhevasthanam.
It was in this temple premises that the Malaysian Indian Congress Party (MIC) was first founded by the late Sri Sir John A. Theviry, a prominent lawyer from Ipoh, Perak along with his close associates.
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Paul Klee Biography | Oil Paintings
12-18-1879 Bern, SUI - 6-29-1940 Muralto, SUI
Paul Klee is the most surprising case of precociousness in the field of painting, the drawings and watercolors he made as a child already reveal his powerful and original style. After studying art in Bern and Munich, and worked there as an etcher. Klee spent most of the first decade of the twentieth century traveling to see the paintings of the old masters and learning more about the artistic currents of the time.
In 1911 Paul Klee joined with Feininger, Kandinsky, and Jawlensky in Der Blaue Reiter (the blue rider) group founded by August Macke; up to that time, he had worked in watercolors, painting in an expressionist manner with overtones of Blake and Beardsley.
He traveled with August Macke and Louis Moilliet to Tunisia in 1914, which provided him with new experiences of light and color. His stay in North Africa was a chance to discover light, which he immediately captured and reproduced in subtle paintings. A patient, invaluable study of the gradation of tones of light, that was a cross between poetic intuition and scientific method, characterized Klee's middle period. He veered towards Cubism under the influence of Robert Delaunay and from 1919 onward painted on oils. Immediately after the war, Klee began his own personal study of the order and rationalization of the image. Here with Colored Composition With Black Graphic Elements, we are still in a chaotic phase in which the painter introduces diverse elements, including letters and irregular outlines, into his compositions in an attempt to test their impact on a style that is still being formulated.
Klee "Color and I are One and the Same, I am a Painter!"
In 1920, he joined the Bauhaus, and in 1924, he co-founded the Blue Four with Kandinsky, Jawlensky, and Feininger. His paintings from the 1920's are small, delicate idylls, whose colors are applied in smooth geometric patterns, while their graphic features vaguely evoke real objects and figures. Separation In The Evening is emblematic of Klee's art. The two arrows introduced into the regular, applied, overlapping bands of color communicate an emotion and convey the sense of subdued evening light. The ensuing period mingled the figural with the abstract as he explored subtle combinations of colors and shapes, often deriving elements from folk art and even children's drawings. This work Light and Other Things is a classic example of Klee's patient analysis of every element of the composition, following a secret path of lines, points, lights, and colors. Although it may appear to be a kind of mathematical exercise, upon closer observation, the sweetness, lyricism, and hidden beauty of Klee's world is revealed.
He severed his connections with the Bauhaus and returned to Switzerland when the Nazis came to power in 1933 and condemned his works as degenerate art. In Germany in 1937, seventeen of Paul Klee's paintings were included in an exhibition of "Degenerate Art" and 102 of his works in public collections were seized by the Nazis.
The last years of his life were plagued with serious illness, a suffering that is clear in the heavy, dark lines of his last, bitter canvases.
Klee has been associated with Expressionism, Cubism, Futurism, Surrealism, and Abstraction, but his paintings are difficult to classify. He generally worked in isolation from his peers and interpreted new art trends in his own way. He was inventive in his methods and technique. Paul Klee painting Tänzerin (Dancer) 1932, was sold at auction in 2011 for US$7,000,000.
Art Movement History: Expressionism, Cubism.
Artists Influencing Paul Klee: August Macke, Robert Delaunay.
He Traveled To Germany, Italy, Tunisia, Egypt, France.
Artist's Biography compiled by Albert L. Mansour at The World's Artist.
Paul Klee Hand-Painted Oil Painting Reproductions.
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Paul Klee Museum Art Replicas on Canvas.
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Individualized Altimetry Of Stripes
Untitled Still Life


Well this is indeed a Throw Back Thursday... all the way to 1865! The same year that President Lincoln was assassinated.
My good friend Liz, from History on Tap, who is a Chicago Historian wanted to do an event to commemorate his life and work. Check out her documentary road trip following the birth, childhood, and up-bringing of a legendary man at For the Love of Lincoln. As Liz was telling me about her plans for the road trip, I got excited and wanted to contribute something to the event, so I proposed we also make a vintage beer that was popular 150 years ago. In the past we had discussed brewing vintage beers and this seemed like the perfect opportunity to link it to one of her events.
When I first started researching beers that were brewed in America 150 years ago, I found some really wacky recipes like "Spruce beer" which was boiled water and molasses, mixed with cold water and some spruce branches thrown in for some "earthy/bittering" flavor. I wasn't too keen on the idea of what this might taste like... Although part of me still wants to brew this beer, but maybe just a gallon, in case it's awful. After my internet searching went bust on recipes that I felt could be palatable, I turned to my home-brewing book, The Home Brewer's Guide to Vintage Beer, that provided previously commercially produced beers but in 5 gallon batch recipe proportions. The beer that I selected was a popular beer from 1865, an English Mild, made by an English brewery called Lovibond that closed in 1909. The beer was sold primarily to households and hospitals, but not to pubs. Today, Milds are almost an extinct beer, although more recently I have seen a few craft breweries starting to produce it, and because of it's rarity I was really looking froward to brewing this style.
I plugged in the recipe provided in the book into my Beersmith software to see if the recipe was balanced. The stats showed it would be more like a dirty blonde, rather than a brown beer, which is what the color should be by standards today. This gets tricky, cause even if you brew a beer or cook a dish from a recipe that is decades or hundreds of years old. Try as you might, this still will not be the same outcome. Our food sources are evolving, chemicals, and government restrictions are monitoring our food production, so it would be an impossible feat to identically have the exact same grains, hops, and yeast they had access too. Even our water is most likely (I'd hope) better purified now. So this beer is in fact mimicking what it might have tasted like, but it's not an exact match. The ABV is also effected because the ingredients varied. This beer back then would have been under 5%, but mine was closer to 6% because the conditions and ingredients I was brewing with provided a higher OG to produce a higher alcoholic beverage. I also ended up decided to add 1/8 of chocolate malt to the grain bill to get the color of the beer to at least on the low end of the acceptable browns so that a drinker would not be visually thrown off by it's appearance. I'm sure that this same recipe brewed back in 1865 was brown, or a murky muddy color, but with today's ingredients and fresh/purified water it would be at best a dirty blonde.
Honestly Mild, named after an honest man, who didn't really even drink, but I think if he did he would have liked this beer. I was really pleasantly surprised with how enjoyable it was. It was by it's own definition very mild. The hops and grain were really balanced, it was an easy beer to drink for everyday consumption and no fancy frills. I would brew this beer again.
Have you brewed any vintage beers? If so what were they and were did you locate the sources for the recipes?


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What's on TV Saturday: 'S.N.L.' and 'Fleabag'
in: Art & Culture, Arts
"Saturday Night Live" Season 44 comes to an end. And "Fleabag" is back on Amazon Prime Video.
What's on TV
SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE 11:30 p.m. on NBC. Paul Rudd closes out the season as host with DJ Khaled as the musical guest. Rudd has hosted three times before; his most memorable character is Austin Vogelcheck, whose "kissing family" takes awkward to a whole new level.
SMALLFOOT (2018) 8 p.m. on HBO; stream on HBO platforms. This animated adventure stars Channing Tatum as Migo, a yeti from a village that defiantly believes humans — that is, smallfoots — don't exist. When Migo meets a nature-show host, Percy (voiced by James Corden), he brings word to his fellow bigfoots and is banished from the community for standing by his story. Percy, down on his luck, hopes to win fame for his discovery, even if the 18-foot-tall Migo seems terrifying from his point of view (the two can't understand each other, which makes for a cute running joke.) If you gloss over the forgettable musical numbers, there's much to enjoy here. LeBron James, Danny DeVito and Common round out the cast.
FLEABAG Stream on Amazon. It's been nearly three years since this dark comedy series debuted in the United States, but it's hard to forget the protagonist. The writer, creator and star, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, plays a grieving, self-destructive owner of a failing guinea pig-themed cafe in London. She has sex to numb the pain of her best friend's death, loves aggravating her cruel godmother (a glorious Olivia Colman) and struggles to connect with her perfectionist sister (Sian Clifford). In the second and final season, set a year after the first, Fleabag (we never learn her real name) starts seeing a counselor (Fiona Shaw, who appears in Waller-Bridge's other wildly popular show, "Killing Eve") and falls for a "hot priest" (Andrew Scott). James Poniewozik named the return a Critic's Pick in his review for The New York Times, writing that Waller-Bridge puts on a "spellbinding performance." If you've yet to give this a try, know that it demands very little commitment: Each season comprises only six half-hour episodes.
THE KID WITH A BIKE (2012) Stream on Hulu or Mubi; Rent on Amazon, Google Play, iTunes or YouTube. While Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne unveil new work at the Cannes Film Festival this month, this earlier heart-wrenching drama from the brothers, which was a hit at the festival in 2011, is resurfacing on Mubi. The kid in question is Cyril (Thomas Doret), an 11-year-old boy in Belgium who is abandoned by his father and left to live in a children's home. He runs away and ends up in the hands of a caring hairdresser, Samantha (Cécile de France). She shows him what unconditional love looks like, yet it's not always enough to heal the wounds left by his father. In her review for The Times, Manohla Dargis called the movie "a quietly rapturous film about love and redemption."
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Onthophagus coracinoides é uma espécie de inseto do género Onthophagus da família Scarabaeidae da ordem Coleoptera.

História
Foi descrita cientificamente pela primeira vez no ano de 1983 por Kabakov.

Referências

Ligações externas

coracinoides
Coleópteros descritos em 1983

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Looking to Buy a boxster, probably an 03 or 04 manual, I've read lots of threads on IMS on other issues(BTW, great bunch of guys/gals here, very helpful and informative). As I look for a car I find a lot of higher mileage cars, relatively(60-100k) that the owners(even PCA ads) have remarked new clutch, but no mention of IMS. To me it would seem prudent to have the IMS done if your in there for the clutch. Maybe I read too much and am now a nervous-nelly!
Im also cross-shopping Z4, since I've been driving and working on BMWs for that last ~25 years. But I'd really like to buy a boxster, mostly based on the positive driving experiences expressed in this forum. Any thoughts/insight is most appreciated!
If you've read lots of threads on IMS you've probably gotten a feel for the issue and the vastness of the range of opinions about it, ie to do, or not do, the IMS. It all depends on how risk averse you inherently are. Me? I've got an '01 S that I picked up with 19k miles (in 2006) and finally decided to put a clutch in (even though I was experiencing no slippage--turns out it was in fact getting VERY close to due) last September with 81k miles. "While they were there" I had them do the IMS.
There are probably some owners out there who do not participate in internet forums and take their car to the dealership for maintenance. I can imagine that such people can just drive their cars happily with no worry, or even knowledge of what an IMS bearing is. I don't think that Porsche officially recommends any replacement of the IMS bearing.
IMHO, buying an '03 or '04, have a good 986 knowledgeable mechanic do your PPI to check for signs of a problem. After you buy a car, have the IMS bearing replaced at your convenience if it has not been done. If you find that driving on an original or unknown IMS detracts from your enjoyment, get it done immediately upon purchase.
I'd love to get my hands on that equipment.
No doubt, that would certainly make the car buying process a hell of a lot easier. I'm at the point of factoring 3k in Ims, rms, clutch. So I'm targeting cars with 60k-100k, otherwise I ( and others) could target lower miles examples without concern.
71 240z; 76 280z; 84 300zx; 88 300zx; 94 325is coupe; 94 530i; 2006 325i sedan(auto); 2012 328i; 2015 428gc(current); 20xx Boxster (TBD)!
My advise isn't going to be popular on the forum. I love my Boxster and wouldn't trade it for a BMW. But if I were in your shoes I would go with what I know and get a BMW. And… If you purchase a Boxster I say blow the guts out of it and put the IMS at the back of your mind. Just saying what I would do.
To be very honest, I shopped the Z4 before purchasing the Boxster and the handling and performance were nowhere near the Boxster. The Z4 felt heavy and long and because the engine is in the front, that hood is looong and definitely gave a harsh ride.
The next day I test drove my current Box and the ride was just smooth, not bouncy nor harsh, nimble, responsive, and I just felt the box hugged the road. I also felt the interior cradled me in more comfortably.
I had a PPI done on my car and the only thing they found were some paint defects, oil leak by the bell housing, a non functional cigarette lighter, and that was it.
As my 2004 only had 52k miles on it, I really didn't HAVE to replace the IMS, but for peace of mind I went ahead and did preventative maintenance and replaced the RMS, IMS, and AOS.
My car is now rock solid and I have much better peace of mind driving it. Some folks on this forum feel the IMS issue is WAAAAY overblown and drive their cars over 100k without IMS issues. I'm very cautious by nature, so if I perceive a risk, I mitigate it right away. One other note, the statistics show the 2003-2004 model years with the single row IMS have a greater failure rate. That also played into my decision.
Best of luck with your search; The Box is definitely worth getting and maintaining.


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Works Over the weekend at Over Roundabout
The Over Roundabout scheme, which forms part of the council's £150 million investment in to the county's roads, continues to move forward this weekend as crews start to lay the new road surface.
The much needed £2.756m improvement scheme at Over Roundabout is nearing its completion and this weekend will see Gloucestershire County Council get one step closer.
So the resurfacing work can be carried out safely and swiftly, lane closures will be in place throughout this weekend (3rd Aug – 6th Aug) and therefore its capacity will be reduced. It is advised that commuters avoid the roundabout if possible as journeys are likely to take significantly longer.
Road closures from 7pm August 3rd until 6am August 6th:
A40 Westbound from Longford Roundabout to Over Roundabout
A417 Northbound from Over Causeway to Over Roundabout
A417 Southbound from Over Roundabout to Over Causeway
A417 Northbound from Over Roundabout to Maisemore
A417 Southbound from Maisemore to Over Roundabout
Resurfacing work is phased over two weekends. The A40 Eastbound from Highnam to Longford will be open this weekend, but options to turn off this route at Over Roundabout will not be available. The A417 Northbound Over Causeway Spur to Westbound A40 towards Highnam will also be open this weekend (3rd Aug – 6th Aug). However, advice is to avoid the roundabout if possible as the closures are likely to cause significant delays.
Full diversions will be in place and signposted, and more information can be found online: https://www.gloucestershire.gov.uk/A40-Over
Following the completion of work this weekend, crews will move on to the remaining lanes at 7pm on Friday 10th August.
Road closures from 7pm Friday 10th August until 6am August 13th:
The newly surfaced roads, including the A40 Eastbound from Highnam to Longford with access to the A417 Northbound to Maisemore, the A417 Southbound from Maisemore to Longford through Over only, and the A417 Northbound Over Causeway Spur to Westbound A40 towards Highnam will be open throughout the weekend (10th Aug - 13th August).
Cllr Vernon Smith, cabinet member for highways at Gloucestershire County Council said: "This scheme is part of our £150 million investment into the county's roads and will make a great difference to commuter's journey. I'd like to thank people for their patience whilst we carry out these improvements. The benefits will be worth it."
The project includes widening the Westbound and Southbound approaches; adding a third lane within the roundabout; building new retaining walls and putting in upgraded LED lighting.
The changes to Over will increase the capacity of the roundabout, relieve congestion and save commuters time. Once completed, it will reduce delays on the A40 east-west and the A417 north-south approaches.


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News | February 21, 2017
10 Years Strong with NASA's THEMIS Mission
By Mara Johnson-Groh
Artist's concept of ARTEMIS spacecraft at the Moon.
On Feb. 17, 2017, NASA's Time History of Events and Macroscale Interactions during Substorms, or THEMIS, mission marked its 10th anniversary in space. The spacecraft have now spent a decade discovering how mass and energy move through the near-Earth environment in order to determine the physical processes initiating auroras – and they're still making new discoveries.
"THEMIS is morphing each year into a new journey of exploration," said Vassilis Angelopoulos, principal investigator of THEMIS at the University of California, Los Angeles. "The instruments are as good as new and are still being utilized to expand NASA's exploration of our space environment."
The magical night lights of the aurora are known to be caused by a space weather phenomenon known as a substorm. But prior to THEMIS, no one understood what triggered these substorms. Thanks to the mission, scientists now understand how the constant outpouring of solar material, called the solar wind, tangles Earth's magnetic field, initiating the substorms that cause auroras. Scientists also understand the mysteries of why there are different type of auroras – like diffuse and pulsating auroras – much better now.
The instruments are as good as new and are still being utilized to expand NASA's exploration of our space environment.
- Vassilis Angelopoulos, THEMIS Principal Investigator
THEMIS was initially launched as a five-satellite team, but in 2010, after the end of THEMIS' prime mission, two of the spacecraft split off to start a new mission: Acceleration, Reconnection, Turbulence and Electrodynamics of the Moon's Interaction with the Sun, or ARTEMIS. ARTEMIS studies the moon and its space environment to help contextualize THEMIS discoveries while simultaneously trailblazing new science at the moon. Meanwhile, THEMIS continues studying substorms near Earth with three spacecraft.
Ten years on, THEMIS is no longer alone. NASA's Van Allen Probes, since 2012, and NASA's Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission, since 2014, study the near-Earth environment along with THEMIS to provide a wealth of observations on different aspects of near-Earth space and, in concert with other satellites in the Heliophysics System Observatory, provide a start-to-finish picture of physical processes in the region. THEMIS also has the ability to continue to adjust its orbit to better coordinate its measurements with the other missions and maximize its observational power.
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This afternoon, we were able to go on a walk and enjoy the 40 degree December day!
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I hope you all had a Merry Christmas with your families and celebrated the Reason for the season. Our Christmas was pretty different this year, but we enjoyed quiet Christmas making progress in our new place. It also helps we were able to Skype with our families.
Glad you are getting settled in. Excited to see your new digs in person. Love you!


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Now none of this is new stuff – as long as there has been an Internet we have had issues over our data and privacy. It has gotten somewhat better recently because of a renewed focus on the part of tech companies who have decided to change their ways. Unfortunately, those changes have come about because of an outcry from the general Internet population because the company was caught with their fingers in the privacy cookie jar and they were keeping all the crumbs without telling anyone.
You would think that those types of things, which happen all too regularly, would slowly start to stop as companies read the tealeaves in relationship to privacy and change their conduct behind the walls of their business.
Well based on the most recent issues that have come to light that is a very poor assumption on my part.
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How do school leader's perceptions about social justice and equity impact acceptance of diversity in
How do school leader's perceptions about social justice and equity impact acceptance of diversity in the school? How do parent perceptions influence parent involvement in schools?Understanding Community Interests and NeedsReadings: Dixon, B. (2012). CHAPTER 4: School Website Social Media for School Leaders: A Comprehensive Guide to Getting the Most Out of Facebook, Twitter, and Other Essential Web Tools, 51. Elbaum, B., Blatz, E. T., & Rodriguez, R. J. (2015). Parents' experiences as predictors of state accountability measures of schools' facilitation of parent involvement. Remedial and Special Education, n/a. Santamaria, L. J. (2014). Critical change for the greater good: Multicultural perceptions in educational leadership toward social justice and equity. The Journal of Leadership for Effective & Equitable Organizations, 50(3), 347-391.


(On how long he was going to go with Tony Cogan in Relief) Tony has been so key for us all year. He had gotten up there in his pitch count and I think he was getting a little tired. Tony's been fantastic for us all year. I was going to stay with him. If it had gone another inning, I maybe would have changed pitchers.
(on the momentum shifts in the game) I thought the demeanor in or dugout was good. FSU did a great job. They didn't just do it once. They had some huge swings. That's what makes it a great game.
(on the wind blowing out) It always plays a factor. It's part of the game. Every ballpark has that. There were some balls hit earlier in the week that stayed in the park earlier in the week due to the wind. It's part of the game and you just adjust.
(On Jason Young's performance) We are definitely concerned about pitch counts. But at this point in the postseason, this is the only time we're going to extend him. I asked him how he felt and he siad he was fine. I thought he had a better fastball in the eighth and ninth innings than the fifth through the seventh. We were concerned (about his pitch count) and watching him, but he said he felt strong. It was a gutsy performance by him. He was throwing a some kind of fastball in the eighth and ninth innings.
(On the swing of emotions) That seventh inning was fun, but we knew we had a job to do. Florida State is a good team. We just couldn't do it today.
(On his pitching performance early vs. late in the game) I'm not sure why I was having a hard time early. I don't think I was in my groove early. I'm not sure what got me into it. I got my groove and established my location. The seventh, eighth and ninth innings was just guts. I expected to finish the game, but couldn't. I have to tip my hat to Florida State.
(On the game) Ho hum. Just another day at the yard. That's one that I wish the whole city of Omaha could've been here to see because that's college baseball. I'm so proud of every member of our baseball team. A lot of things excite coaches, but when a freshman steps up, that's really exciting. It's a crying shame that there weren't 26,000 people here to see this one.
(On playing Miami in championship game) Miami is having a tremendous year. I'm going to sleep well tonight. We'll be on time tomorrow and fight for 27 outs.
(On playing against Miami coach Jim Morris) Willie and I go back a long way. He was my first assistant in 1980. You're not going to surprise him with anything. To take a team to the College World Series six straight times is unbelievable, and to play for national championship twice in six years is a great accomplishment.
(Pitching plans for championship) It's going to be a piecemeal situation. I'm not going to sit there and worry about our arms. We'll show up and hope the wind's blowing out.
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In der Liste der Kulturdenkmäler in Erpel sind alle Kulturdenkmäler der rheinland-pfälzischen Ortsgemeinde Erpel einschließlich des Ortsteils Orsberg aufgeführt. Grundlage ist die Denkmalliste des Landes Rheinland-Pfalz (Stand: 5. Juni 2018).

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 Heinrich Neu, Hans Weigert: Die Kunstdenkmäler des Kreises Neuwied (Die Kunstdenkmäler der Rheinprovinz Band 16 Abt. II), Düsseldorf, Schwann, 1940, Seite 129 ff.
 Generaldirektion Kulturelles Erbe Rheinland-Pfalz (Hrsg.): Nachrichtliches Verzeichnis der Kulturdenkmäler Kreis Neuwied (PDF; 6,4 MB). Mainz 2018.
 Paul-Georg Custodis: Erpel (= Rheinische Kunststätten, Heft 550). Rheinischer Verein für Denkmalpflege und Landschaftsschutz, Köln 2014, ISBN 978-3-86526-096-3.

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Catholic bishop, priest released after two months in Eritrea prison
December 29, 2022 Catholic News Agency 0
Bishop Fikremariam Hagos Tsalim of Eritrea's Segheneity Eparchy / InfoVaticana
Denver, Colo., Dec 29, 2022 / 16:00 pm (CNA).
After more than two months in detention in Eritrea, Bishop Fikremariam Hagos Tsalim and Father Mehereteab Stefanos have been released, several sources reported Thursday.
The 52-year-old bishop heads the Eritrean Catholic Eparchy of Segheneity. Father Stefanos, before his imprisonment, was a parish priest at St. Michael's Parish in the same eparchy. It is still unknown whether another priest, Capuchin Friar Abbot Abraham, has been released.
Security agents had arrested Bishop Tsalim and two priests Oct. 15 at Asmara International Airport upon the bishop's arrival from Europe. The three clergymen were detained at Adi Abeto prison, according to Agenzia Fides.
The two released prisoners were welcomed by a group that included Archbishop Menghesteab Tesfamariam of Asmara, head of the Eritrean Catholic Church, BBC News reports.
Catholics make up about 4% of Eritrea's 6 million people. The Eritrean Catholic Church is one of the 23 Eastern Catholic Churches in full communion with the Holy See. It has an estimated 168,000 members in the northwestern African country and in diaspora communities around the world.
Authorities did not state a reason for the arrests of the three clergymen, BBC News reports.
The three detained clergy were accused of criticizing human rights violations in their homilies, CNA's sister agency ACI Africa reported in October, citing a source who did not want to be named for security reasons. The objects of their criticism included the forced military enlistment of young people and evictions and confiscation of property of those who refused to go to war.
The release of the bishop and the priest comes amid agreements to end the civil war in Ethiopia, where the Eritrean government has sided with the Ethiopian government against the regional leaders of the Tigray province.
Critics of the bishop's arrest included the U.K.-based groups Christian Solidarity Worldwide and Human Rights Concern-Eritrea.
Eritrea has aligned with the Ethiopian government's war against the Tigray People's Liberation Front. This group's leaders dominated Ethiopian politics for decades but the group now controls the Ethiopian region of Tigray, on the southern border of Eritrea. Since the war began in November 2020, the conflict has killed thousands of people. Hundreds of thousands of people have been put at risk of famine and millions of people have been displaced from their homes.
On Nov. 2 the Ethiopian government and Tigrayan forces signed a peace agreement to permanently end hostilities. Both parties also signed a Nov. 12 agreement concerning disarmament, humanitarian access and the Ethiopian military's entry, Reuters reports. They are now discussing the withdrawal of Eritrean troops from Tigray.
Eritrea became independent from Ethiopia in 1991. Since then, the country has not held a national election. Its president, President Isaias Afwerki, has held office since independence.
Only four religious communities are legal in the country: the Coptic Orthodox Church of Eritrea, Sunni Islam, the Catholic Church, and the Lutheran-affiliated Evangelical Church of Eritrea.
Even legal groups face persecution. The Eritrean government has periodically targeted Catholic and other religious institutions.
In August, the Eritrean government took over the Hagaz Agro-Technical School, a Catholic institution founded and run by the Lasallian Brothers. The school trains students in farm machinery, agriculture, soil conservation, and animal husbandry.
Government officials shut down several Catholic-run schools and hospitals in 2019, saying religious bodies could not run these institutions, BBC News reports. Their legal pretext is a 1995 regulation that restricts social projects and welfare projects to the state. The regulation has been used intermittently to limit religious institutions' activities and to pursue perceived critics of the government.
Eritrea's Catholic bishops have opposed the application of the regulation, arguing that the Church's social services are not in opposition to the government.
The government has drawn international criticism, including a May letter sent to Estifanos Habtemariam Ghebreyesus, the Eritrean ambassador in the United Kingdom and Ireland.
In that letter, officials of Christian Solidarity Worldwide, Church in Chains-Ireland, Release Eritrea, Human Rights Concern-Eritrea, and the Eritrean Orthodox Church in the United Kingdom highlighted multiple instances of human rights violations. These included forced conscription of minors and "unjust, arbitrary and indefinite detention" of tens of thousands of citizens who are imprisoned in "harsh conditions." Hundreds of Christians are imprisoned "solely on account of their faith."
The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, an advisory body to the U.S. government, has said that Eritrea has "one of the worst religious freedom records in Africa."
Since 2004 the U.S. State Department has designated Eritrea as a Country of Particular Concern for its religious freedom abuses.
Pope Francis warns of the danger of 'spiritual arrogance'
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Pope Francis delivers the Angelus address on Oct. 23, 2022. / Vatican Media
Vatican City, Oct 23, 2022 / 06:05 am (CNA).
In his Sunday Angelus address, Pope Francis warned that "spiritual arrogance" can lead to adoration of one's ego instead of… […]
Ethiopian bishops call for ceasefire in Tigray crisis
July 22, 2021 Catholic News Agency 0
Ethiopia's bishops during their plenary assembly in Mojo, July 2021. Credit: Ethiopian Catholic Secretariat via Facebook.
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Jul 22, 2021 / 18:01 pm (CNA).
As the war over control of Ethiopia's Tigray region expands into neighboring regions, the country's bishops on Saturday urged an end to the violence.
"It saddens our hearts hearing about war while we all would like to hear about peace and reconciliation," read a July 17 statement from the Ethiopian bishops' conference. The conference had held its ordinary assembly July 13-16 in Mojo, about 50 miles southeast of Addis Ababa.
Fighting has been taking place in Tigray since November 2020 between the regional government of the Tigray People's Liberation Front and federal forces.
In the last week, the Tigray war has expanded into the neighboring Afar region; it had already crossed into the Amhara region.
Ethiopia's bishops commented that "as Pastors, we cannot but feel the anguish and pain that the people are going through."
The bishops "prayed for the peace of our country and the safety of our people," making special mention of Bishop Tesfasilassie Medhin of the Ethiopian Eparchy of Adigrat.
The bishops said they "kindly urge" the parties in conflict to halt the violence and strive toward peaceful co-existence, saying, "War only destroys lives and properties and nothing more and the choice to be made should not be a war but peace and reconciliation."
Violence, the bishops said, "is never a remedy for wrongs or a solution to a crisis."
"It is never too late to stop the violence, to acknowledge that the only way forward, for the good of the people, is peace and reconciliation, to satisfy the demands of truth and justice, to ask for and grant forgiveness, to do what is necessary to restore mutual trust, to recognize others as our brothers and sisters, no matter who they are and how deep our disagreements are, and to settle any differences through dialogue and negotiation," they stated.
The bishops also encouraged the people of God to put their hope in Christ, saying, "It is the only way that we can heal together as a country, as a society, and as a Church."
They further urge Ethiopians to embrace one another regardless of their differences as "there are no 'winners' and 'losers', no 'them' and 'us'; we are all brothers and sisters."
"Living in peace and social harmony may seem like a dream but it is attainable if we stretch out our hands to God, the Father of all, in prayer and allow Him to mold our hearts and minds to think thoughts of peace and fraternity and act accordingly," the Ethiopian bishops said.
It is their desire, the bishops added, to see a nation where "all Ethiopians embrace each other as brothers and sisters."
"May The Almighty God who created all of us as brothers and sisters fill our hearts with wisdom to choose brotherhood and sisterhood than hatred and revenge and make us an instrument of peace," the bishops concluded.
The TPLF dominated Ethiopia's long-ruling political coalition. That coalition was dissolved in 2018 by Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's after he took office. The coalition's ethnicity-based regional parties were merged into a single party, the Prosperity Party, which the TPLF refused to join.
Tigrayan leaders have said they were unfairly targeted by political purges and allegations of corruption. They have argued that Abiy's postponement of national elections due to coronavirus have ended his mandate as a legitimate leader.
On Nov. 4, 2020 Abiy announced a military offensive in response to an alleged attack on a military base in Mekelle, the capital of Tigray. The prime minister aims to arrest the regional government heads and to destroy its military arsenal.
Thousands of people are estimated to have been killed on both sides of the conflict, some in massacres. Each side blames the other for the conflict. The war is also exacerbating famine and a water crisis.
Catholic charity: Ethiopians in agony as water crisis deepens
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People wait outside a distribution point to receive aid rations in Oromia Region, Ethiopia, in February 2018 / Will Baxter/Catholic Relief Services
Tigray, Jun 24, 2021 / 12:41 pm (CNA).
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Hundreds reportedly dead after massacre at Oriental Orthodox church in Ethiopia
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Adigrat, Ethiopia, Jan 20, 2021 / 05:34 pm (CNA).- At least 750 people are reported dead after an attack on an Oriental Orthodox church in Ethiopia's Tigray region, according to a European watchgroup.
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Ethiopia's bishops call for peace, as deadly regional conflict worsens
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CNA Staff, Nov 11, 2020 / 05:32 pm (CNA).- A conflict between the Ethiopian government and the government of Ethiopia's Tigray region must halt immediately, or it will destroy more lives and turn the country into a "failure," Ethiopia's Catholic bishops have said.
"We, the Catholic Bishops of Ethiopia urge both parties to immediately stop the armed conflict and start peaceful dialogue for the benefit of the people and resolve their differences in the spirit of understanding, mutual respect and trust," Cardinal Berhaneyesus Souraphiel of Addis Ababa said in a Nov. 9 statement from the Catholic Bishops Conference of Ethiopia.
The bishops said they were saddened by the armed conflict and the resulting deaths, displacement of people, and destruction of property, Catholic News Service reported.
"Conflict between brotherly people does not help anyone. Instead, it destroys lives of innocent people and it is an act that will turn our country into a failure and (create) extreme poverty," the Ethiopian bishops said. They regretted the failure of truce negotiation efforts by religious leaders, elders and others.
In the northern Ethiopian region of Tigray, the regional government is run by the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF). The group once dominated the ruling coalition of Ethiopia but felt marginalized by Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's political changes after he took office in 2018. He dissolved the ruling coalition and merged its ethnicity-based regional parties into a single party, the Prosperity Party, which the TPLF refused to join.
Tigrayan leaders have said they were unfairly targeted by political purges and allegations of corruption. They have argued that Abiy's postponement of national elections due to coronavirus have ended his mandate as a legitimate leader, BBC News reports.
On Nov. 4 Abiy announced a military offensive in response to an alleged attack on a military base in Mekelle, the capital of Tigray. The prime minister aims to arrest the regional government heads and to destroy its military arsenal.
Several hundred people have been killed on both sides of the conflict. Each side blames the other for the conflict, and it is difficult to confirm their claims, the Associated Press has said. Tigray's communications have been almost completely cut off.
Over 200,000 Ethiopian refugees are expected to cross into Sudan, and thousands have already entered Sudan's border provinces. The United Nations and Sudanese partners are preparing to aid 20,000 refugees.
Prime Minister Abiy, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2019 for resolving a border conflict with Eritrea, rejected pleas for dialogue. The U.K. and the African Union, among others, have advocated for de-escalation.
Abiy has said there would be no negotiations until the end of the "law enforcement operation."
In September the TPLF held elections despite a nationwide ban on them. The Ethiopian government declared the elections illegal. An emergency session of the national parliament last week voted to dissolve the Tigrayan government, charging that it had "violated the constitution and endangered the constitutional system."
Tigray has had poor relations with Eritrea, which is on the region's northern border. Tigrayan leader Debretsion Gebremichael has accused Eritrea of taking military action in support of the Ethiopian government, but he gave no proof, and Eritrea's government rejected the claim, Reuters reports.
Tigray shares a western border with Sudan, which has put more than 6,000 troops on the border.
The conflict has prompted fears of regional destabilization as well as instability, and even civil war, within Ethiopia. Ethiopia has some 110 million people, the second-most populous country in Africa. It has many ethnic groups and other regions that desire more autonomy.
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The Westmont education department prepares future teachers to excel — and to weather a difficult economic climate
Education professors include Jane Wilson (left), Andrew Mullen and Michelle Hughes.
At a time when the economic crisis has forced cutbacks in spending on education, Westmont graduates continue to land teaching jobs at public and private schools worldwide. The Westmont Education Department, which has a reputation in the community for sending out well-prepared, highly professional teachers, has succeeded by preparing students for a wide range of situations. Andrew Mullen, department chair, says it's critical for students to become more versatile by equipping themselves in as many different areas as possible. For example, a student who majors in English and liberal studies can teach English to secondary or elementary students.
"We're not hiding the situation from them," Mullen says. "We're making students aware that to get a teaching job they're going to have to work 10 times harder than in the past."
Westmont graduates have an advantage in the international job market because the Lincoln School, an American international school in Costa Rica, has welcomed Westmont student teachers since 1988. "We have a high percentage of students who do an international semester," Mullen says. "Our students are more aware of the world, more adventurous, more risk-taking than students at other schools. Educators in general tend to be cautious and want to return to the area where they went to school. Our students have a wider horizon."
Teacher Laura Drake '06; photo by James Daly '04
The department encourages students to meet with international recruiters. Alana Woodin '09 teaches history at an international school in Mexico, Kelsey Hardeman '10 is at a missions school in Japan, Sage Johnson '09 is a teacher at an international school in Honduras, and Miranda Lahr '09 found a teaching job back at the Lincoln School.
But not everybody will get a job offer immediately after graduation. The department stresses the importance of patience during any difficult period. "This is a tough time, and we're realistic with students, telling them they're going to have to apply to a lot of schools," says Professor Michelle Hughes '89. "We encourage them to grab hold of opportunities like teaching summer school or substitute teaching." Such positions can lead to full-time employment; Sarah Tilton '08 and Amy Sprouse Gates '05 both taught summer school at Monroe Elementary and now teach in the READ180 program there. "We're teaching students to market themselves and capitalize on the connections they've made through the schools and their experiences," Hughes says. "Students need to be prepared because the state budgeting process can result in school districts hiring at the last minute toward the end of summer."
Professor Jane Wilson and Hughes experienced similar challenges when they became teachers and share their stories of perseverance with students. "Always do a great job and somebody's going to notice," Wilson says. "Teaching is a profession that's not going to go away. Although it happens to be a difficult time to get a teaching job, graduates who excel are going to find a way in."
After completing Westmont's credential program, Hughes stayed in Santa Barbara even though there were few teaching positions. "A principal gave me the opportunity to be an office assistant," she says. "I substituted and worked as a secretary, and by November two jobs opened up. If you have the patience and can commit yourself to getting a job, it can definitely pay off."
Mullen says until last year, the depart-ment had a high rate of placement. "Last year we had amazing students — any of us would be glad to have our children in their classes — but they didn't all get full-time teaching jobs," he says. In the meantime, graduates piece together positions such as substitute teaching, tutoring, preparing tests, working as teacher's aides and teaching at pre-elementary/early childhood schools.
Despite the economic forecast, the education department is growing in popu-larity on campus. More than 20 students will be enrolled in elementary and secondary education programs next fall, twice as many as last year.
After 33 years of preparing generations of teachers at Westmont, Gayle and Ruth Tucker retired in 2009 to travel and spend time with their five grandchildren. They joined the department in 1976, working with Professor Russell Carr, who was also the Warrior soccer coach. The two were teaching in Barranquilla, Columbia, before moving with their daughters, Kim Hardt '91 and Lori Howard '93, to California. Their experience in international education helped them launch Westmont's 22-year partnership with Lincoln School in Costa Rica, where more than 60 teacher candidates have completed their student teaching.
Hughes and Wilson came to Westmont last fall, replacing the Tuckers. "Jane and Michelle have brought wonderful energy and enthusiasm," Mullen says. "Apart from their skills in the classroom, they have both invested a great amount of time into getting to know students as individuals."
Hughes worked as a teacher and assistant principal in Santa Barbara for two decades, and Wilson earned her doctorate from UC Santa Barbara, was an adjunct professor at Westmont from 1996-2006, taught at Azusa Pacific University and served as academic dean at Providence Hall High School. The two women possess a wealth of knowledge and connections in local schools.
This semester, Wilson accumulated and organized a binder of testimonials about the teaching credential program, highlighting alumni, listing where they're teaching, what they love about teaching and how Westmont's program shaped them. There's also a roster of 120 local educators who collaborated with Westmont this year.
"Teaching will become more of a collaborative enterprise in this century than it has been," Mullen says. "As the world gets more complicated, there's more experi-ences and topics requiring expertise. Teachers need to be able to bring other people into the classroom, whether that takes the form of guest speakers, or Skyping or simply working with their colleagues more closely."
Westmont professors advise education students how to get a teaching job in this challenging economic climate.
"Our job is not only to teach our students about the classroom," Hughes says, "but also to help them to understand how to be a team player at a school, how to deal with a new level of accountability in our state and nation, how to care for kids more than just academically and how to gain access to classroom resources."
Her familiarity with local schools and friendships with educators have helped her find the most beneficial classrooms for her students to student teach in. "We also use those terrific teachers and administrators as guest speakers and to serve on panels at Westmont," she says.
That came in handy this spring when Wilson developed a new course, "Windows into Teaching," that introduces teaching as a career. The one-unit class invited teachers in the region to talk about their profession and attracted 21 students, 12 of whom said they wanted to pursue a vocation in education at the end of the semester. "It was a way to see if this might be God's calling in their life," Wilson says. "I do think Christians want to sense that it's God's call leading us into the field we choose."
That's exactly what happened last spring for Nathan Kemp '10, who enrolled in "Explorations into Teaching" to test the teaching waters. He will spend next semester student-teaching and taking courses; eventually he wants to earn an advanced degree and teach at a college or university. "I feel called to teach because I want to share my passion for learning as well as my deep interest in people," he says. "I believe there is nothing more valuable than passing on knowledge, virtues and wisdom to youth. To be formative in fostering students' ability to be successful as an entire human being is very rewarding."


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SkyMode further bridges the gap between e-commerce and brick-and-mortar experiences through enhanced features for in-store pickup of online orders.
February 14, 2017 --- Seattle, WA --- SkyMode®, a revolutionary mobile-first e-commerce platform that empowers retailers to sell to their customers with one touch on the mobile device, announced today the release of its new multiple-location, in-store pickup cross-channel fulfillment feature. Flexible in-store pickup tools further enhance SkyMode's robust feature suite by allowing its clients to complement their online One Touch Offers® with "in-store" brick-and-mortar interactions with consumers.
Cross-channel fulfillment, an important component of which is buy online, pickup in store ("BOPIS" and its variants), has become critical part of the customer experience for multichannel purchasers. More than one in two shoppers have reported picking up an online order in-store in the last year, 73% said they did so to avoid shipping fees and 32% cited convenience as the second most common reason, according to Internet Retailer.
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Kate Evans
Kate commenced her training at the age of 2 and danced throughout her entire childhood under the training of Maria Shanks. She trained in ballet, jazz, tap, lyrical, contemporary and musical theatre. Kate completed all examinations in classical ballet with the RAD (Royal Academy of Dance) and in all genres with Comdance including Jazz, Tap, Theatrical and Ballet. Following this she trained full time at Brent Street Studios (Sydney) and completed her Certificate IV in Performing Arts.
After graduating from high school Kate was accepted into BA Medicine at University of NSW however deferred, and accepted the position at Brent Street Studios. Kate recommenced her BA Medicine however transferred her focus into a Bachelor of Psychology after 2 years, completing and attaining the BA in Psychology at the Queensland University of Technology.
Kate has had a professional career and gone on to share her love of the performing arts and acrobatics/aerial through teaching students, professionals, certifying teachers, examining and adjudicating, at a range of locations both locally and globally. Kate has always had a passion and love for teaching and commenced teaching in her early teens. Whilst completing her Bachelor of Psychology Kate also attained dance teaching qualifications including Comdance Modern Jazz Teachers Diploma, Comdance Tap Teachers Diploma, Comdance Classical Ballet Teachers Diploma and Comdance Theatrical Teachers Diploma. Kate also attained her Certificate in Ballet Teaching with the Royal Academy of Dance and is currently a registered teacher for the RAD.
Kate now runs and manages her own Performing Arts and Acro and Aerial studio in QLD, Beats Per Minute Performing Arts, and Beats Per Minute Acro and Aerial. With over 22 years teaching experience Kate has trained students from the age of 2 years to Professional in all areas of dance, acrobatics, aerial and singing with many of her former students dancing and teaching professionally around the world in musicals, movies and cruise ships.
Kate is Module 1, 2 and 3 certified with Acrobatic Arts, AcroDance Certified Competition Adjudicator, Acrobatic Arts Certified Examiner, AcroDance Pre-School Certified. Kate is currently a Course Conductor and Examiner for Acrobatic Arts, and manages the Australia, New Zealand, and Asian divisions of Acrobatic Arts Examinations faculty. Kate is also a Course Conductor for Aerial Arts. Kate also hold qualifications in Progressing Ballet Technique (Level1), Aerial Arts Hammock and Hoop certified teacher, and a Ready Set Dance and Ready Set Ballet licensee.
Kate is Alixa Flexibility Certified Module 1, 2 and 3 and was honoured to join the team as a Course Conductor with Alixa in 2020. Kate has a passion for the biomechanics of dance/acro and endorsing safe and progressive dance/acro training. Kate is thrilled to be sharing the Alixa Flexibility program with students and teachers around the world.


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Clannad is probably the most famous coming of age drama of the Key's Maeda Jun.
Learning from his past mistakes in Kanon and Air, Maeda manages to keep the fantasy elements vague and minimalistic this time, successfully giving the visual novel a magical atmosphere without cheapening its realistic drama. Pacing issues are still present, however, as sometimes it feels like it's taking forever to move from one plot point to another. It's fine to have some comedy and inconsequential slice of life banter in your work, but there is a limit to how much a reader can take before getting bored and impatient. If you are not too big on Maeda Jun's writing, like me, I recommend skipping the routes of heroines you aren't much interested in, as long as they are not Nagisa, as the novel is basically about her; her thought-provoking tear-jerking after story being the best thing about the whole work.
Characters, as per usual in Key works, come off as borderline autistic, but are also compelling for the very same reason. Though the stories of heroines other than Nagisa aren't particularly memorable, the girls themselves are interesting, so you might find a one or two other routes that you like.
Personally, I think Clannad would have been a lot better if it contained a single route of Nagisa and did away with all of the others. That would have solved most of the pacing issues at least. And really, Nagisa's route is the only one that matters anyway. Unlike the others, it is a truly dramatic ride which makes you contemplate adulthood and one's responsibilities when creating a family; and should be experienced by anyone just for its message alone.
Clannad is a mixed bag of bland slice of life and good emotionally involving dramatic moments; it really depends on how much resistance to boring slice of life you have to tell if you will enjoy this work or not. I can see why so many people treat it as a masterpiece due to Nagisa's route and after story, but the underwhelming everything else kind of drags it down in my book. Incidentally, though Maeda Jun is good at creating tear-jerking drama, his "romantic" scenes leave much to be desired.
Surreal magical atmosphere which doesn't interfere with the serious tone Extremely slow pace due to overabundance of bland slice of life moments
Borderline autistic characters are strangely compelling Routes of heroines other than Nagisa feel redundant
A couple of good emotional moments
Thought-provoking on adulthood and family
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The literal meaning of PARAGON is "A Model of Excellence." Our aim is to uphold this motto in every bicycle that we design and build.
Our story began back in 1988 when a young cyclist fresh from college chose a local cycle manufacturer as the first rung of his career ladder. For six long years he studied hard under the guidance and mentoring of traditional craftsmen. He slowly gained experience in all departments and in all facets of the manufacturing process. Possessing a rounded knowledge of cycles, production, quality and general management, he applied all of the skills he had learned and became the Production Manager at the age of 24.
Over the next 12 years, production processes and staff training had to evolve as the boom in cycling and competition from overseas saw the production rise from 80,000 bikes to over 300,000 bikes per year, with nearly 300 staff members at its height of production.
With volumes increasing and high pressures on the factory, the one area of absolute importance was maintaining the attention to detail and quality of assembly. This ethic was rewarded by winning a contract to produce two models for German car manufacturer BMW. A range of alloy folding mountain bikes were produced for North America and some limited edition carbon fibre BMW/Williams road bikes for the UK. A true testament to teamwork and dedication.
In mid-2006 the market shifted dramatically. Price competition became fierce and the factory sadly closed its doors for the last time. The new challenge was to continue the design and development in the UK but use contract manufacturing overseas to enable competitiveness in the UK market. Over the next 9 years, having travelled the world specialising in product development, design, factory controls and procurement there was a burning desire to bring production back to the UK.
Building a new British brand in the presence of established international competitors was going to be a tough challenge. The vision for the brand had to draw on the ethos of quality, first and foremost, followed by outstanding customer service and the bikes had to be "Made in Great Britain." Wishing to give something back to the local community, development commenced resulting in the Paragon Community Support Program (PCSP). Additionally, strong support was given to the global World Bicycle Relief program. It followed that the greater the success of the company, the bigger the charitable benefit.


You want to know where I'm from.
Can I first tell you where I've been? Not everywhere. I'm yet to crunch on fries at the Ganymed in Berlin like Bowie or wash down a No 209 Gin at the Riot House in Sunset Boulevard like all the rest, but I've been somewhere. I've toted my pack, travelled many roads, man.
I've seen the sun rise like a Monet in Paris and set with the madness of Zeus in Athens. I've beheld the moon like a ghee-kissed roti in Jaisalmer and a disco ball in Koh Samui. Looked down on the world from where no one can ever look on again in New York, looked up with the awe of an ant beneath a human at the foot of Kanchenjunga. I've drunk in a bar carved into the side of a cliff in Croatia, slid down sugar walls in Switzerland. I've breathed the mountain air, man.
I followed Allah in Dhaka, got drunk with God in Florence, and then killed them both in a fit of ecstasy in a field in Bury St Edmonds. I've had my fill of stars in the sky and hotels to match in Marrakech, Sharm-el Sheikh and Langkawi. I've compared the cathedrals of Germany and Spain to the mosques in Turkey and Spain. I've been in more Jewish Quarters than there are Jewish countries and partied in them all.
I've seen attack ships on fire off the shoulders of Orion. I haven't really, but you're not listening. You don't care where I've been, just where I come from. And not just now, but originally, you want to know where my mum and dad lived when they were little. And all this before you even know my name.
Let me assure you I don't mean to be facetious in my response, I realise you only ask so that you can place me, relate to me better, maybe take this opportunity to share the tale about the time you rode an elephant in Hyderabad, man. But before I answer, let me, if I may be so bold, first ask you where your mum and dad are from.
Pontefract, you say? My, how fascinating. I must add that to my list.


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Defense Clicker is an clicker game which will be soon F2P, with an tower defense theme and a few twists which make it very unique.
You have to build an defense line with towers and upgrade them to stay alive as long as possible. when you die the map resets but you get a few special points depending on how long you survived. With this points you can upgrade the power of your towers and many other things to stay longer alive. After a specific count of kills you can evolve to get stronger and beat more waves.
- reset your game status to get Prime Points to upgrade your baselive, towerbasdamage, gold income and several other things.
- Reset your game to get the locked Prime Points with which you can earn Prime points to increase some reset resistant skills.
- If progress starts to get to slow make an evolutuion and reset the whole game (except evo skills) and buy evo to get much stronger.


Author/Artist Blakelock, Ralph Albert, 1847-1919.
Title (Landscape with Indian Tepees).
Dimensions/Medium 14 x 19 in.
Provenance With Americana Arts, New York, 1942.
Images Publication, Americana Arts, New York, 1942 (advertisement sheet).
LC subject Blakelock, Ralph Albert, 1847-1919.
Other subject Landscapes: With water.
Frick artist name form Blakelock, Ralph Albert, 1847-1919.


The Musicians Benevolent Fund has just held the Festival of St Cecilia, part of their ongoing programme of raising funds for musicians and their dependants when illness, accident or old age bring stress or financial burdens. Founded in 1921, the Fund distributes £2 million annually to musicians in need, and £435,000 to outstanding young musicians.
MBF reminds me of the Friendly Societies, which did such a good job providing health and job insurance for most Brits in the 19th century. How interesting that it is artists who have proved so enterprising and practical.


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William of Rubruk's Manuscripts on the Route to the Mongol Khan
Irene Malfatto
Blog-post author Irene Malfatto, Società Internazionale per lo Studio del Medioevo Latino, SISMEL, Firenze.
Acre, spring 1253. The Franciscan William of Rubruk says goodbye to his friend and protector, the French king Louis IX, and starts a journey towards the Golden Horde khanate and its sovereign, Sartaq. William's task is both a missionary and a diplomatic one: the Franciscan's familiarity with the French monarch gives him a sort of protection during the trip, which consists however – in William's words – in the humble attempt to give some help to the European captives in Tartary.
The undeniable main goal of the mission, anyway, was to inquire about the attitude of the Khans towards Christianity. This issue, besides its missionary implications, was indeed a crucial factor in Louis' crusader plans: a possible alliance with the Mongols against the Turks would have meant a great help in the recovery of the Holy Land. The trip's pious purpose was then strictly connected with the French crown's interests.
Back in Palestine in 1255, William writes a long letter to king Louis, in order to report the outcomes of his travel experience. This letter is indeed a book, a travel account known with the latin title of Itinerarium, recently edited by Paolo Chiesa and translated in English by Peter Jackson.
Some passages in the Itinerarium refer to certain manuscripts William took with him on his trip to the East. Some of those books stayed with him all the time, some other were lost along the road. These information, anyway, give an insight into what could have been the "book baggage" of a missionary on the Silk Road in the 13th century.
When William gets to Sartaq, who was said to be a friend of Christians or even converted to Christianity himself, he is immediately asked for gifts to give him. William soon has the sense of the distance between his Franciscan ideal of poverty and the Khan's greedy attitude.
The meeting with Sartaq was supposed to be the mission's final purpose, but it turns out to be just its starting point. The friar's ambiguous diplomatic status concerns the Golden Horde ruler, who sends him to his powerful father Batu first, and later all the way to Karakorum, to meet the Great Khan Möngke. This is how William describes his first meeting with Sartaq and his entourage:
We met up with Sartach, then […] our guide began to ask what we were going to take for him and was highly outraged on seeing that we were not getting ready anything to take […]. I further explained, by way of apology, that I was a monk and neither owned nor accepted nor handled gold or silver or anything of value, with the sole exception of the books and the liturgical items with which we worshipped God, so that we were bringing no gifts for him or for his master: as one who had relinquished his own belongings, I could not be the bearer of what belonged to others. (Itinerarium XV, 1-2)
William does not have any gift for the king, but he carries with him some objects which are related to his religious status: liturgical tools and manuscripts. When officially summoned by Sartaq, he tries to show what he has:
I myself put on the more expensive vestments, and held against my breast a very fine cushion, the Bible you [king Louis] had given me, and a most beautiful psalter given me by my lady the Queen [Margaret of Provence], containing very fine illuminations. My colleague took the missal and the cross, while the clerk, dressed in a surplice, took the thurible. […] We were told to chant a blessing for him. (Itinerarium XV, 6)
Sartaq shows a special interest in the manuscripts, and asks questions about their contents:
He took […] the psalter, which he and the wife sitting next to him scrutinized closely; and after that, the Bible. He asked if it contained the Gospel. "Yes", I said, "and the complete Holy Scripture". (Itinerarium XV, 7)
The Mongol sovereign does not understand the religious value of those objects, nor their liturgical function. He asks William to leave the books at his court in order to "have a closer look" to them; eventually, the friars would have been able to take them back on their return journey.
Tunc necessaria fuit michi patientia, "I had to be patient then", writes William when reporting of this humiliating experience. Cleverly, the friar tries to minimize the loss by hiding some books, in order to save them from an inevitable fate:
I had one consolation, in that anticipating their greed I had removed from among the books the Bible, the Sentences, and other volumes to which I was more attached. But my lady the Queen's psalter I had not dared remove, as it had attracted too much attention by reason of the gold illuminations it contained. (Itinerarium XVI, 3)
Indeed, the Queen's illuminated psalter will never be returned. This is what William writes about his return journey in the following year:
He returned the books, with the exception of my lady the Queen's psalter: this he had my permission to keep, since I was in no position to withhold it, for he said that Sartach had been very much taken with it. (Itinerarium XXXVII, 10)
Together with the psalter, many other books "disappeared" in the process. William gives a little list:
I failed to recover the bible in verse, a book in Arabic which was worth thirty bezants, or numerous other items. (Itinerarium XXXVIII, 13)
It would be extremely interesting to know more on these books and where did they end up. Unfortunately, William does not give enough information. Anyway, it is clear that the manuscripts raised the interest of the Mongol Khan mostly as beautiful material objects. Sartaq showed even some sort of curiosity for the practical making process of parchment:
He had also asked me, should I happen to revisit those parts, to bring them someone who knew how to make parchment […]. (Itinerarium XXXVII, 11)
Even though the questions here are so much more than the answers, William's account offers an example of the circulation of manuscripts on the missionary routes to the East. Certainly, his case was not isolated and it shines light on the role of travel accounts in the attempt to reconstruct a network of book mobilities in the context of the pax mongolica.
The Mission of William of Rubruck, trans. Peter Jackson, Hakluyt Society, London 1990
Guglielmo di Rubruk, Viaggio in Mongolia, ed. Paolo Chiesa, Mondadori, Milano 2011
Author ubapin002Posted on 2017-08-11 Categories EssayTags Batu, book baggage, Franciscan, Golden Horde khanate, Great Khan Möngke, Holy Land, Irene Malfatto, Itinerarium, Khans, Louis IX, Mongols, Palestine, pax mongolica, Sartaq, Silk Road, SISMEL, Tartary, Turks, William of RubrukLeave a comment on William of Rubruk's Manuscripts on the Route to the Mongol Khan
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