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Author: David Elliott
July 17, 2011 July 17, 2011 ~ David Elliott	~ Leave a comment
It's the final of The Apprentice tonight. For no reason other than I'm at home, it's raining and it's on, I'm going to attempt one of those fashionable and modern 'live blog' things during the show. Also, they reckon nine million people are going to be hitting BBC One for tonight's episode, so if even one per cent of those people also read this blog (which I'm sure will definitely happen), I'll triple my all-time hits in one fell swoop. I never said I was an altruist, did I?
It's always funny when a series of The Apprentice comes to an end because you realise that a) each run of the show lasts forever and b) television reality shows do really provide the most fleeting kind of fame. For example, who the fuck are any of these people?
Anyway, until we get underway at 9pm I'm going to catch up on last week's fast-food episode and everyone else can watch this amusing Apprentice auto-tuned clip mash-up.
Hit refresh for the updates from nine!
9.00pm Go! First up, it's the LAST WEEK ON THE APPRENTICE round-up. Natasha gets the boot about 200 weeks after she should have done. Aah, so we get to find out the business plans, and hear Jim say confusing things like "now we're just four people standing on our own two feet". More on Jim's astonishingly hackneyed garbling later.
9.10pm Here come the interviews, which have always been the best bit of The Apprentice. Tom's up first.
'Boffin' Tom, who's now presumably doomed to lug around that prefix, applied to him in editorials across the media due purely to the facts he wears glasses and has previously been employed in jobs that require the incumbent to think, forever more. Or at least until we all forget about him at eleven tonight.
Here's an artist's impression of what Tom winning would look like. I think we're all looking forward to that.
9.15pm Jim's getting nailed for his cliches. "It was really good," he says. It really wasn't mate. You definitely didn't have "the minerals".
I did some digging on psycho-eyed Jim's cliches earlier…
A sales professional, public speaker and more. These aren't my words, they're Jim's, from his own website, www.jimeastwood.co.uk (to the best of my knowledge it's actually his – either that or a seriously elaborate parody). Presumably that enigmatic "and more" is referring to serious aggression issues, a talent for sledgehammer-style manipulation and generally coming across like he wants to fight you to the death even when he's being nice.
His stunning website is like a microcosm of The Apprentice itself: toe-curlingly excruciating, plank-headedly stupid and bloody hilarious. Take a look at this actual picture grabbed from the site.
I didn't make this. It's actually on there – and he continues with the whole Jordan-esque person-as-a-brand thing throughout. You couldn't make this kind of gold up, actually – jimeastwood.co.uk is packed with idiocy, cliche, horrible typography and platitudes. Like this one:
Or this one, where he spectacularly manages to trip himself up over his use of the third person, which he employs throughout the site when referring to himself:
And if all that isn't enough for you, Jim has plenty more solid business tips to impart over at his buzzing Twitter feed:
Sound advice. Anyway, enough of all that. Onwards…
9.20pm Next up, there's The Winner of This Year's Apprentice Helen, who's pretty much a buttoned-up shoo-in simply because she's not a staggering idiot and on the whole manages to speak without garbling out a load of cliches and xenophobia. Before she was on the show, Helen worked in a senior role at one of the biggest firms in the north, she says. It turns out she's actually secretary to a sausage roll salesman.
Yep, this kind of sausage roll. On a slight tangent, they're actually doing four for £2.30 at the moment, which seems both amazing and frighteningly unnecessary. I mean, I like a nice hot sausage roll in me as much as any other normal human, but four in a row?
9.27pm Fish joke. That was kind of brave – respect.
9.31pm And Susan now, a pretty dimwit who surely can't seriously ever be employed again after asking the now fabled question, "Do French people drive?" (or something to that effect).
Yes Susan, yes they do: a quick look on the internet would have tied that one up for you, as this snippet from WikiAnswers proves:
And if any further proof were needed that people who live in France do indeed drive, here is some actual video footage of Frenchmen operating not just cars, but a series of different, increasingly more tricky to handle vehicles.
I think that puts that one to bed.
9.36pm They're all in the board room, backed by some sort of Inception-style soundtrack. Margaret's there. In the world's brightest clothes. The dude who used to edit FHM cuts everyone down to size, then everyone tears into Jim, they all have a laugh, and then uncover the Irishman's creepy Alan Sugar obsession. Not so much laughter there – presumably they've realised he actually looks like he could have a murder or two in him. Could have.
9.42pm Call them in.
9.50pm Karren Brady has apparently come dressed as some sort of Edwardian schoolgirl. Jim tries to justify stealing Alan Sugar's rubbish branding for his own business plan. Alan goes all Jerry Maguire, "show me the money" on him. It's coming…
9.55pm Susan gone. I think she'll go on somewhere, do something, Alan says. Maybe introduce the automobile to the continent, something like that.
Two left, then, The Winner of The Apprentice Helen and the smart one off Thunderbirds, Tom, who still looks like he's trying to work out how all this happened to him. He's not the Curvy Nail File Guy, though, he knows that much.
Helen talks a good game. You can see why she's good at helping a man sell fattening pastry goods.
9.59pm Big revealing close-ups of faces, and, fuck – The Winner of the Apprentice Helen loses The Apprentice, leaving Tom to step up and do a big cheesy click of the heels and high-five to himself – weirdly almost exactly like that Spongebob picture from earlier. In the real world, probably the smartest choice in every sense, actually. Hello Dara, goodbye live blogging. That was hard work and, I think we can all agree, not entirely successful.
I'll leave this kind of thing to the Guardian in future…
Barcelona, it turns out, is pretty ace. I could write a lengthy paean about the city, but it's probably best to just let some pictures do the talking.
July 8, 2011 ~ David Elliott	~ Leave a comment
Last week I learned that Spider-Man is going to die. Going to. Before it's happened. I have no feelings about this but, by god, some people do. I learned that people in Greece were braced for another day of demonstrations in downtown Athens, and discovered, before it had been reported by a 'proper' news provider, that the smell of tear gas could be detected lingering in the air. I learned that some of us have the bizarre capacity to unleash hitherto unexpected levels of anger on to their keyboards when two dogs tragically die in a hot car, and yet barely blink an eye at reports of unimaginable pain and terror and suffering being experienced by and inflicted on fellow humans in not so far off lands. I learned that people don't like Gordon Ramsay very much. Last week, I looked at the Internet.
Amazing to consider that even 10 years ago many of us were still unfamiliar with this wonderful and weird and informative and scary and shocking and contradictory place. It is an amazing evolving tool with the capacity to change the world, a charge that it has in recent months began to fulfil in ways that could never have been expected. It's also tits and arse. And cats. Its great entertainment and funny videos and recipes and reviews and essays and boobs are all vital threads running through its rich fabric. It is an encyclopaedia and museum and lecture and dumping ground. It is absolutely impossible to live without and yet something I often question how I can continue to function with.
Why? Because the internet is also a think first, worry later world that often indulges a reactionary culture of sneering and one-upmanship. It's a world where mob justice can rule and where numbers that would be terrifying in the real world can be rallied into a fervent rage, baying for blood, sometimes metaphorical, sometimes actual, over things like a journalist not properly attributing quotes or a man who's good at football having an affair or a columnist writing something unpalatable, despicable even, but probably not deserving of death threats or having their address posted for all to see and do with as they please. It's a world where a magazine with 380,000 social networking followers can post that 'research' says that having a cup of green tea in the morning will help you feel better, without linking to or even citing the source of said research, which some people might consider an abuse of a tacit position of responsibility. It's a world where enough people read the Daily Mail with the intention of being outraged to actually boost the paper's traffic. And one that can lead to a man being hauled in front of a court for making a joke that other people don't get.
"Are you seriously? Are you going as Disney princesses? You wanker, we're not five. I've got to put this on Facebook," shouted a woman at her astonished friend on a train I was on the other day, out of the blue and many decibels higher than their until-then muted conversation. "I mean, it's just not very expansive, is it? You can't really go off list with it. I like going off list." Aside from asking the obvious question of what the hell this even means, the point is that she did put it on social networking. There and then, on the train, forcing her devastatingly embarrassed friend to slide sheepishly down her chair, shell-shocked at what had just happened, at how in a single moment she had been so ruthlessly and comprehensively humiliated in both her real and virtual worlds.
This kind of blurring of the virtual and reality is the crux of my problem with how many people use and see the internet today. The often quietly held but nevertheless palpable smugness contained in the notion that more friends or followers on a social network somehow translates to, if not necessarily being more popular, being somehow better in the real world. Taking pictures of anything and everything without discretion with the sole purpose of posting them online to have moment after moment validated by an online entity virtually anonymous to that person in their actual life, as if somehow those moments don't hold any value otherwise.
I am both astounded by the Internet and totally overwhelmed by its weight and that of the information we're expected to absorb. I'm curious to know where it will lead. We've evolved into a species that is able to both shop and shit at the same time and that should be, I think, a source of both amazement and concern. Which way will the internet take us. How far will it go? Is this evolution at all, or are we regressing, learning to not need to know or do anything for ourselves at all?
Where are you meeting her?
Dunno, but I'll find out from my phone when I get there.
You still use a phone? Luddite. I've got had of those communication chips sewn into my brain.
Oh great, can you search-engine how to tie a shoelace for me?
Why would you need to do that? You've got electronic shoes.
Is this how it's going to be?
Thank you for reading. I obviously don't have the answers but I would like to make a few suggestions about how it might be possible to survive this brave new world with at least your dignity, respect for others and humanity in tact. A kind of internet manifesto, I guess.
Keep your head out the clouds even if everything you own will soon be suspended in one. Don't let 'like' become shorthand for 'I can't be arsed to think'. Consider not commenting unless you truly understand and have an argument propped up with some solid facts to bring to the debate. Take a step back, read that article to the end before reacting – maybe even get a bit objective and read a couple of different views on the subject. Ask yourself if what you're doing is constructive, if will add anything to this incredible resource. If you have to shop and shit at the same time, be mindful of the fact that it's only acceptable on the toilet with an internet-connected phone – Sainsbury's will take a dim view of anyone who attempts this in one of its stores. Remember it's always OK to slag off Gordon Ramsay. And please think twice before sharing pictures of what you've put on your fucking toast.
March 21, 2011 March 22, 2011 ~ David Elliott	~ Leave a comment
I arrive at the gym all set to hit the treadmill, lift some weights and just generally wheeze and splutter my way through all of the other gym things. I'm inherently lazy, though, so I'm mainly looking forward to kicking back in the sauna and steam room afterwards.
But as I'm getting changed this sentence is read out over the tannoy: "ladies and gentlemen this is an announcement for all staff – there is a Code 99 in the male steam. There is a Code 99 in the male steam. Thank you".
No sir, thank you. I was planning to go into, as you call it, the 'male steam'. But now I'm not so sure. I mean what's a Code 99? It could be anything.
I ponder this for a while. It can't be anything too serious. I mean, if it was a heart attack or some sort of terrifying men's-showers-in-prison-style rape or something, it would surely be a Code 1 and there would definitely be a more palpable panic in the air. Also there was a slight hint of amusement in the announcer's voice, so it's definitely not that level of bad.
But Code 99. Quite feasibly that could mean there are at least 99 problems that this gym imagines are within the realms of possibility in 'the steam'. Presumably a bitch ain't one, given that this is the male steam. So what could it be? What kind of incident could be bad enough to have its own code but still amusing for staff?
Then it hits me: could it be a shit? Has a man actually done a shit in the male steam?
It doesn't really matter what it's code for anymore because that's in my brain now. I head upstairs for a bit, do some treadmill, listen to Negative Creep by Nirvana – which, by the way, with all the running and sweat and noise and Code 99s in the male steam is just a little too much on the wrong side of hectic for a gym environment. But all I can think about is the incident. I take a sip from the water fountain and as I'm doing so detect a slight whiff of poo. It's found its way into the water supply, I think.
And with that I go home. I probably won't be going in the male steam for a while.
Let's just get on with it: an addendum
A little under a year ago, I wrote a post for this blog called He's In There Now, So Let's Just Get On With It. David Cameron had just wangled his way into power and, despite some quite serious misgivings about him and his cronies and the Conservative ideology in general, I was sick of the endless, empty tweets and blogs full of vitriol and insults and hate but without any sense of balance or the requisite facts to back them up. Much of the 'opinion' being bandied about was focused more on what the new PM's, admittedly quite funny, face looked like than an actual desire to debate the facts.
I wrote that I hadn't wanted Dave to get the keys to Number 10 but that this wasn't anything to do with his, admittedly quite funny, face. I wrote: "It's not because Big Dave has a slimy face, although he quite patently does – in fact he looks like a porcelain man who has been slathered in Vaseline before having his eyes smashed out, his soul hooked out through the holes and a creeping mass of deep, dark contempt for the human race piped back in its place."
Fast-forward to today. Now I can't really substantiate the Vaseline comment but I feel pretty damn happy about backing the "creeping mass of deep, dark contempt for the human race" bit. I had tried to write a balanced piece, holding the Conservatives to account for some questionable stuff from the past but giving them the benefit of the doubt. Maybe it was a streak of naive optimism; maybe I was just playing Devil's advocate. What I was really trying to get at was that as none of us really knew what was going to happen we should just wait and see. Except we did really know what was going to happen, didn't we?
"So let's just get on with it, eh?" I wrote. "Perhaps it won't be that bad."
It is quite bad, it turns out. I'm not going to write about the fact that the City bankrolled the Tory election campaign; that Michael Gove is playing with our education system as if he's just found a big, school-shaped dolls' house but doesn't understand what all the bits do; or the box of savage cuts that has been opened and unleashed on the public sector, on care, on provision for the elderly; because we all know about all that and it's already been documented much more eruditely by many people better placed than myself to comment. This excellent blog is one example.
But what I will comment on is the arrogance and ignorance of Cameron himself. It makes me a little bit sad, for example, that a country as culturally varied and exciting as ours can have a prime minister who will stand up, on our behalf, and state that multiculturalism has failed. The context doesn't really matter; whether he made some sensible points doesn't really matter. He surely must have known that there was only one sentiment that would stick from that speech but he went ahead and said it anyway. And that gives massive tumescent pricks like the English Defence League something to grasp on to, as they did. And the problem is that for all the balanced, sensible people out there, there are a scarily large number who will just read that headline and think, "that's what I've thought all along and now even the prime minister agrees".
Anyway, that's just the one thing. There are obviously many more but as I've said you can read much more informed stuff elsewhere. I just wanted to get this off my chest. Can we have an election now, please?
The pod shoot
January 17, 2011 January 17, 2011 ~ David Elliott	~ 2 Comments
Queueing in Tesco, I notice this sign above an innocuous-looking white box behind the till:
Under no circumstances must anything other than the pod be inserted into the pod shoot.
Hmmm. I look around. Nope, I'm not in Star Wars. Definitely still in Tesco. But I do have a question. The obvious question that any right-thinking human would be asking:
What, the fuck, happens when you put something that's not the pod in the pod shoot?
I have no idea what the pod is or does. I also have no idea what the pod shoot is or does. But I am overcome by an unshakeable urge to insert something that's not the former into the latter anyway.
Of course, there will be people who work in that Tesco who do know what the pod is for. Consequently, they'll also no doubt know what the pod shoot is for. Which raises another pertinent question:
Why is anyone who does know what happens when you put something that's not the pod in the pod shoot doing it in the first place? Why is it happening so much they need a sign to warn people off doing it? And, again, what the hell happens when you insert something that's not the pod into the pod shoot?
It must be AMAZING.
The following, while entirely made up, is a conversation I imagine must happen on a daily basis on the shop floors of Tescos around the country:
"What's wrong with the pod shoot?"
"Dunno. It started making funny noises after I inserted something into it."
"What did you insert? Was it the pod?"
"A Twix."
September 30, 2010 June 30, 2011 ~ David Elliott	~ Leave a comment
I'm on a packed but characteristically silent train from Croydon to Clapham Junction, standing in the vestibule with a few other people unable to find a seat. One of them, a straggly looking woman, wearing a baggy tracksuit and glasses with lenses that look like they've been cut off the bottom of wine bottles and magnify her pupils to the size of conkers, talks at an unnecessarily loud volume into her phone.
Hi Mum, it's only me. I'm just on a train to Victoria because I've arranged to meet Roland. He says he's really sorry about Monday but he can't go. Because they're burying his friend. Hello, Mum, can you hear me? HIS FRIEND. THEY'RE BURYING HIM ON MONDAY.
The conversation, understandably, piques the interest of some of the other passengers. People strain and crane their necks, looking down the aisle to catch a glimpse of the woman, who continues to yell into her phone.
Eh? You know, Roland's mate, Jim. The one that got killed. I'm just going to meet him at Victoria now. No, Roland! Anyway, I'm just calling to say he can't go on Monday, Mum, because he's going to a funeral.
OK, bye.
She hangs up the phone. I look out the window, secretly wishing she was still talking. Then:
Hi Sweetie, I just phoned mum. I told her that you're sorry about Monday but you can't go because you've got a funeral to attend to. She says don't worry about it at all, it's fine. No, no, no, NO Roland, I won't. We've just got engaged, everything's all right now. Of course I won't. I'm definitely not going to leave you now, not in this state. I'm here for you thick and thin. Roland… just… wait there. I'm coming to Victoria right now.
The woman hangs up the phone and nonchalantly looks out the window, as if she's just had the most normal conversation in the world. Then, suddenly, she runs past me, up the aisle and into the next carriage.
I get off at Clapham, traumatised.


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Mohammed Awad (born 5 February 1949 in Alexandria) is a former Egyptian professional squash player.

He finished runner-up in the Egyptian championships in 1972 & 1975 and represented Egypt in the 1976 & 1977 World Team Squash Championships. He is the older brother of Gamal Awad, another notable squash player.

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Egyptian male squash players
1949 births
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Aram MP3 to sing "Not Alone" for Armenia
Today, AMPTV premiered it's song for the 2014 Eurovision Song Contest: its a unique ballad called Not Alone. It will be sung by Aram MP3, who was internally chosen to represent Armenia. You can watch the video on Youtube:
The music video was directed by Grigor Gasparyan, the actors being Diana Malenko and Vahag Martirosyan. The music of Not Alone was written by Aram himself, while the author of the lyrics is Aram's best friend Garik Papoyan.
The message of the song is: "You should never give up and always fight for love. One kiss can change everything." In our interview, Aram MP3 stated that the message of his song is very complex, almost like a movie. You can watch the feature again right here:
The lyrics
Music: Aram Mp3
Lyrics: Garik Papoyan
You're all alone, you're all alone,
No shoulder wants you to lean on,
You thought this world was too cold
And you've made up
Don't cry, don't cry little bird
Though you are scared and you're hurt
You're gonna wake up
It's only a dream
And why do dreams make people scream
You're not alone...
What if it's all in one kiss
That turns all seeds into trees
The strongest wind into breeze
Enter all doors without keys
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There are 14 colleges and universities with teacher degree programs in North Dakota.1
6 colleges and universities offer an associate's degree in education.*1
12 colleges and universities offer a bachelor's degree in education.*1
8 colleges and universities offer a master's or advanced degree in education.*1
No schools ranked in Kiplinger's Best College Values in 2019.2
2 school ranked in US News Best Graduate Education Programs in 2019.3
2 school ranked in US News Best Online Graduate Education Programs in 2019.4
6 not-for-profit teacher programs are accredited by the NCATE, TEAC, or CAEP.
*For not-for-profit colleges and universities with teacher degree programs.
Top-Ranked Schools with Education Programs in North Dakota
US News Best Graduate Education Programs 2019
University of North Dakota (#163 tie)
North Dakota State University (#170 tie)
US News Best Online Graduate Education Programs 2019
University of North Dakota (#61 tie)
Valley City State University (#115 tie)
Teacher Preparation Programs Accredited by the NCATE, TEAC, or CAEP
Dickinson State University
Mayville State University
Valley City State University
Read more about the CAEP, NCATE, and TEAC accrediting bodies.
Comparison of Teacher Preparation Programs
We have designed the following table to help you compare teacher preparation programs in North Dakota according to various factors. All of the schools included are not-for-profit institutions approved by the North Dakota Department of Public Instruction for the preparation of teachers. Completing a state-approved teacher preparation program is an important step towards earning licensure.
While accreditation from the Council for the Accreditation of Educator Preparation (CAEP) is not a requirement for licensure, it is included in the following table as CAEP provides a highly-regarded accreditation that is accepted in many states. We have also included rankings from the National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ), a research and policy group that scores teacher preparation programs at the national level using key standards chosen to measure students' preparation for success in teaching. For further information on the NCTQ's program rankings, please see the notes below the table.
You will also find data on teacher preparation program enrollment, completion, and licensing exam pass rates by institution for the 2017-2018 academic year in this table. These data points are collected from annual US Department of Education records under Title II (Teacher Quality) of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), which provides for reporting that holds institutions and state departments of education accountable for increasing academic achievement through improvements in teacher quality.
Programs that are not ranked, or for which data is not available, in a given category are denoted as "-".
State-Approved School
CAEP Accred.?5
NCTQ Undergrad Elementary Prog. % (2016)**6
NCTQ Undergrad Secondary Prog. % (2017)**6
Teacher Prep Prog. Enrollment7
Teacher Prep Prog. Completers7
Licensing Exams Pass Rate7
Net Price***1
Dickinson State University Yes — 74% 93 19 74% $11,390
Mayville State University Yes — 23% 101 41 72% $12,105
Minot State University Yes 32% 57% 103 121 67% $10,252
North Dakota State University Yes — 86% 231 90 84% $14,848
Nueta Hidstsa Sahnish College No — — 2 1 — $11,071
Sitting Bull College No 9% — 3 2 — $2,674
University of Jamestown No 25% 61% 122 27 75% $18,471
University of Mary No 45% 71% 174 79 84% $16,929
University of North Dakota Yes — 79% 249 137 87% $14,478
Valley City State University Yes — 12% 266 118 65% $12,715
*The NCTQ rated undergraduate elementary teaching programs in 2016 and undergraduate secondary teaching programs in 2017 by national percentile based on their overall scores on the NCTQ's standards for teacher education. Schools that do not provide data on all key standards or that fall below the top 50% of schools nationally are not included by the NCTQ in their ratings. Visit the NCTQ website for more information on its standards and methodologies.
**Net price is per year for undergraduate tuition as calculated by the National Center for Education Statistics based on the cost of attendance (tuition, books, room and board, and related expenses) for students who qualify for in-state tuition and fees, less the average financial aid award (including grants and scholarships).
Profiles of Well-Known Schools
North Dakota State University: North Dakota State University is home to the School of Education that is responsible for educating future educational leaders within the state and country. North Dakota State's School of Education is thoroughly committed to diversity in its practices and believes that inclusion within the landscape of education is critical to its success in the future. The School offers several degrees in areas such as teacher education, counselor education, educational leadership, agricultural education, biological sciences education, English education, family and consumer science education, and physical education within the K-12 system and beyond. One of the school's most popular graduate programs is the STEM Education PhD program that focuses on educating educators in the areas of science, engineering, and mathematics.
University of North Dakota: Located in the city of Grand Forks, University of North Dakota is home of the College of Education and Human Development. The College offers students excellent programs that develop them to be future leaders in the educational areas of counseling, teaching, administration, public health and much more. Teaching programs are accredited by the National Council for the Accreditation of Teacher Education – a leading accrediting agency in the field of postsecondary educational standards. The largest contingent of students' majors is in elementary education. The College confers undergraduate Bachelor of Science in Education degrees in early childhood education, elementary education, middle-level education, science education, and social studies education.
School Programs for Becoming a Teacher in North Dakota
Request free information from the following schools to learn more about your options for choosing a teacher degree program. We recommend you: Request information from one or more of these schools
Schools with Teaching Degree Programs in North Dakota
Note: Student Reviews are based on the experiences of a few individuals and it is unlikely that you will have similar results. Please review the "Data, Student Reviews and Other Information" section in our Terms of Use and Disclaimers.
Bismarck State College
1500 Edwards Ave
Bismarck, ND 58506-5587
www.bismarckstate.edu
291 Campus Dr
Dickinson, ND 58601-4896
www.dickinsonstate.com
Jamestown College
608 6th St NE
Lake Region State College*
1801 College Dr N
Devils Lake, ND 58301-1598
www.lrsc.edu
330 Third Street NE
Mayville, ND 58257-1299
www.mayvillestate.edu
500 University Ave W
Minot, ND 58707
Minot State University-Bottineau Campus
105 Simrall Blvd
Bottineau, ND 58318-1159
North Dakota State College of Science*
Wahpeton, ND 58076
North Dakota State University-Main Campus
1301 12th Ave N
Fargo, ND 58108-6050
www.ndsu.edu
Sitting Bull College
1341 92nd St
Fort Yates, ND 58538-9721
Turtle Mountain Community College*
BIA #7 North
Belcourt, ND 58316
7500 University Dr
www.umary.edu
University Station
Grand Forks, ND 58202-8193
www.und.edu
Student Review: "Studying at the University of North Dakota was a very pleasant experience for me overall. I enjoyed meeting new people and felt as though I was very well prepared for my profession. The campus is absolutely beautiful. I did not even realize it when I toured, but the lawns are all well kept and the buildings are beautiful. I was very well received and whenever I had questions about my academic standing or what I should be doing, the college was always ready and willing to help. I felt as though I paid a very reasonable price for my education as it was even cheaper for me to study at the University of North Dakota than it would have been to go to a school in my home state of Minnesota. Overall, I am very happy with my decision to attend the University of North Dakota." -Andrew B., student at University of North Dakota
101 College St SW
www.vcsu.edu
Williston State College*
Williston, ND 58801-1326
www.wsc.nodak.edu
An asterisk (*) denotes a two-year or certificate program in education. While a two-year degree will not qualify graduates for teacher certification, it can be a good starting point for a teaching career. To learn more about what you can do with this degree, see our guide to associate's degrees in education.
1. National Center for Education Statistics College Navigator: https://nces.ed.gov/collegenavigator/
2. Kiplinger's Best College Values: https://www.kiplinger.com/tool/college/T014-S001-kiplinger-s-best-values-in-public-colleges/
3. 2019 US News Best Graduate Education Schools: https://www.usnews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-education-schools/edu-rankings
4. 2019 US News Best Online Graduate Education Schools: https://www.usnews.com/education/online-education/education/rankings
5. Council for the Accreditation of Educator Preparation (CAEP): http://caepnet.org/provider-search
6. National Council on Teacher Quality 2014-2016 Teacher Preparation Program Review: https://www.nctq.org/review/home
7. US Department of Education 2018 Title II Reports: https://title2.ed.gov/Public/Home.aspx


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Case Studies| April 14, 2020
XPV Water Partners and KKR Form Global Nutrient Management Platform
A new impact-driven partnership will deliver end-to-end solutions for one of the world's most pressing water problems.
Pollution consistently ranks highly in the list of the world's growing water concerns. In addition to microplastics, pharmaceuticals, and many other emerging pollutants, high concentrations of nutrients, specifically nitrogen and phosphorus, are part of the rapid and expanded growth of harmful algae blooms, which pose serious risks to humans, animals, and ecosystems.
Exacerbated by a changing climate, large volumes of nutrients enter waterways through runoff from agricultural operations with an increased use of fertilizers, stormwater overflows from increasingly developed cities, and wastewater effluent from municipal and industrial plants.
"You don't have to spend a lot of time studying the water sector to understand that nutrient management is one of the industry's biggest challenges," says David Henderson, Managing Partner, XPV Water Partners. For more than a decade, the water investment fund has tracked the changing dynamics and long-term trends of the water sector, including challenges, regulations, solutions, and enforcement.
"Wastewater treatment facilities face increasing regulatory pressure to meet strict nutrient reduction targets," Henderson says. "Given the vast range of point sources, it takes different approaches to solve these challenges. There is no 'one size fits all' solution."
Building up market leaders
There is, however, a small group of market leaders that offer scalable nutrient management solutions. As part of a series of strategic investments, XPV partnered with two leading companies that offer complementary innovative water technologies: Nexom and Environmental Operating Solutions, Inc. (EOSi).
With more than 750 successful installations, Winnipeg, Canada-based Nexom enables new and existing wastewater treatment plants to meet their effluent discharge targets using a portfolio of proprietary and acquired biological and filtration-based technologies.
Based in Massachusetts, EOSi offers non-hazardous and environmentally sustainable glycerin-based chemicals and technical services for biological nutrient removal applications in wastewater systems.
As XPV Water Partners portfolio companies, Nexom and EOSi have worked closely with the water investment fund's experienced team to identify, validate, and pursue M&A, talent, and market opportunities to grow and differentiate their businesses. For instance, Nexom has acquired three technologies to expand the company beyond its core product, while EOSi has built upon talent and market strategies. Both companies have impressive teams and leading technical solutions, and investors are taking notice.
Growth for good
Globally, impact-driven investment is changing the course and language of economic growth. Many of the world's largest private equity firms are turning their attention to the Sustainable Development Goals, which provide a shared blueprint for peace and prosperity for people and the planet.
When XPV Water Partners met global investment firm KKR, both organizations learned they shared similar values. "We are determined to be active investors and achieve social and environmental impacts," says Henderson. "Together, we decided to take action and build a solutions platform to address the nutrient challenge from end to end."
The platform will include a diversified and growing portfolio of innovative water solutions for municipal and industrial wastewater treatment facilities. As market leaders and foundational members of the platform, Nexom and EOSi will play a significant role in the next stages.
"Both companies have unique, proprietary technologies that give them a strong competitive advantage. Their solutions are referenced and trusted, and they have great potential to continue growing globally," Henderson says. "They are well-positioned to lead the charge."
With more acquisitions to come, Henderson sees a clear pathway to bringing a portfolio of innovative water technologies and services to enable better nutrient management in cities and across all industries. "With this platform, we're aiming to fill the gaps, fulfill demand, and create value on a global scale," he says.
How Bayonne Coped with Sandy and Prepared for Future Storms
By Daniel Israel, Staff Writer In the wake of Hurricane Ida and ninth anniversary of Hurricane Sandy, officials describe sewer and storm upgrades. Nine years...
How Metron-Farnier's One-Minute Data Analytics Platform Helps Conserve Water and Empower Ratepayers
When water resources are limited, the world faces serious challenges. For several regions across North America, water scarcity is a harsh reality. For their utilities,...
Metasphere Brings Remote Monitoring Solutions for Monitoring Critical Water Infrastructure to Australian Market
As the driest inhabited continent, Australia faces some of the most extreme impacts of climate change, including drought, water scarcity, and in some regions, flooding....


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Fri 28th Feb 2020, 7:30pm
The Elvis Years
at Babbacombe Theatre, Torquay
babbacombe-theatre.com
boxoffice@babbacombe-theatre.com
Please note: Info provided by the Event Organiser
The Elvis Years is an outstanding musical production which brings to the stage the incredible and compelling story of the 'king of rock and roll' - Elvis Presley.
Join Mario Kombou (Jailhouse Rock, West End), our all-star band and our award-winning singers for an unforgettable journey through over 50 golden greats that span over three decades – from the early Sun Records hits to the majestic Las Vegas performances, via The Jordanaires, the army years, authentic re-creations from the Hollywood movies and the stunning 68 TV special.
With nostalgic film footage, and over twelve costume changes, this glittering two-hour production includes classic hits such as That's Alright Mama, Suspicious Minds, It's Now or Never, Heartbreak Hotel, Blue Suede Shoes, Hound Dog, Love Me Tender, If I Can Dream and many more.
Ticket prices: Adults £22, Seniors, Children & Groups £20
For more information on the show and to book your tickets visit the Babbacombe Theatre website: www.babbacombe-theatre.com/upcoming-shows/the-elvis-years
The Elvis Years is an outstanding musical production which brings to the stage the incredible and compelling story of the 'king of rock and roll' - Elvis Presley. Join Mario Kombou (Jailhouse Rock, West End), our all-star band and our award-winning singers for an unforgettable journey through over 50 golden greats that span over three decades – from the early Sun Records hits to the majestic Las Vegas performances, via The Jordanaires, the army years, authentic re-creations from the Hollywood movies and the stunning 68 TV special. With nostalgic film footage, and over twelve costume changes, this glittering two-hour production includes classic hits such as That's Alright Mama, Suspicious Minds, It's Now or Never, Heartbreak Hotel, Blue Suede Shoes, Hound Dog, Love Me Tender, If I Can Dream and many more.
See 24 tour dates featuring The Elvis Years
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> Babbacombe Theatre
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Babbacombe Downs Road
TQ1 3LU
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Matthew Clark is a graduate of economics and political science from Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. He likes working in the confluence of these two academic streams, which has led him to work for a Credit Union. Being passionate about politics and the global economy, Clark writes about foreign policy, international relations and political systems. He hopes to study these topics further as a future academic. In the past, he has written for Carleton University's student-run newspaper on Chinese expansion, US protectionism and the fate of Canada in the current global climate.
Canada Needs a New Electoral System
Considering the problems associated with a first-past-the-post system, the time has come for Canada to change its electoral model. Over the years, there has been much debate on whether Canada should keep its current system of first-past-the-post or move to another form of electoral system. Although Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's...


How Much Profit One Can Earn from a Mineral Water Plant ? This question is often asked to us by many website visitors from time to time. And it is a very important consideration indeed as far as an investor is concerned. I will say, not just Profit Margin, but also the consider the R.O.I.


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HTTP Method Spoofing
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When working with HTML forms you can only use GET or POST HTTP verbs. In most cases, this is just fine. However, to
support REST-ful routing you need to support other, more correct, verbs, like DELETE or PUT. Since the browsers
don't support this, CodeIgniter provides you with a way to spoof the method that is being used. This allows you to
make a POST request, but tell the application that it should be treated as a different request type.

To spoof the method, a hidden input is added to the form with the name of ``_method``. It's value is the HTTP verb
that you want the request to be::

    <form action="" method="post">
        <input type="hidden" name="_method" value="PUT" />
    </form>

This form is converted into a PUT request and is a true PUT request as far as the routing and the IncomingRequest
class are concerned.

The form that you are using must be a POST request. GET requests cannot be spoofed.

.. note:: Be sure to check your web server's configuration as some servers do not support all HTTP verbs
    with the default configuration, and must have additional packages enabled to work.

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This is a Teapot and lid. It was manufactured by Wedgwood. It is dated ca. 1900 and we acquired it in 1991. Its medium is porcelain. It is a part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts department.
On base of (a): in blue: a garland that crosses the entire base: "TRADE MARK; OAKLANDS. / WEDGWOOD"; inside garland, impressed: "PATENT / S.Y.P. / WEDGWOOD"; above in blue: "1"; a star, a ring with a line; below, impressed: "V"; "I"; "S"; On side of (b): "THE PATENT / TRADE S.Y.P. MARK / TEAPOT / STRAND ON THE GREEN, CHISWICK, LONDON." "r" "r"


NASA's Cassini spacecraft has detected the faint but distinct signature of dust coming from beyond our solar system. The research, led by a team of Cassini scientists primarily from Europe, is published this week in the journal Science.
Cassini has been in orbit around Saturn since 2004, studying the giant planet, its rings and its moons. The spacecraft has also sampled millions of ice-rich dust grains with its cosmic dust analyzer instrument. The vast majority of the sampled grains originate from active jets that spray from the surface of Saturn's geologically active moon Enceladus.
But among the myriad microscopic grains collected by Cassini, a special few -- just 36 grains -- stand out from the crowd. Scientists conclude these specks of material came from interstellar space -- the space between the stars.
Alien dust in the solar system is not unanticipated. In the 1990s, the ESA/NASA Ulysses mission made the first in-situ observations of this material, which were later confirmed by NASA's Galileo spacecraft. The dust was traced back to the local interstellar cloud: a nearly empty bubble of gas and dust that our solar system is traveling through with a distinct direction and speed.
"From that discovery, we always hoped we would be able to detect these interstellar interlopers at Saturn with Cassini. We knew that if we looked in the right direction, we should find them," said Nicolas Altobelli, Cassini project scientist at ESA (European Space Agency) and lead author of the study. "Indeed, on average, we have captured a few of these dust grains per year, travelling at high speed and on a specific path quite different from that of the usual icy grains we collect around Saturn."
"We're thrilled Cassini could make this detection, given that our instrument was designed primarily to measure dust from within the Saturn system, as well as all the other demands on the spacecraft," said Marcia Burton, a Cassini fields and particles scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, and a co-author of the paper.
Stardust grains are found in some types of meteorites, which have preserved them since the birth of our solar system. They are generally old, pristine and diverse in their composition. But surprisingly, the grains detected by Cassini aren't like that. They have apparently been made rather uniform through some repetitive processing in the interstellar medium, the researchers said.
"The long duration of the Cassini mission has enabled us to use it like a micrometeorite observatory, providing us privileged access to the contribution of dust from outside our solar system that could not have been obtained in any other way," said Altobelli.
The Cassini-Huygens mission is a cooperative project of NASA, ESA and the Italian Space Agency. JPL, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages the mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington. The Cosmic Dust Analyzer is supported by the German Aerospace Center (DLR); the instrument is managed by the University of Stuttgart, Germany.


One of the most wonderful statements about our Lord was that inspired word from John who wrote in John 1:14 of Christ, "He was full of grace." That wondrous fact of His being full of the attribute of grace was followed by an even more thrilling reality for us and it says in verse 16, "For of His fullness have all we received and grace upon grace." So John says He was full of grace and we have received that fullness, even grace accumulated. We accumulate grace. For every feature of life there is not a day that goes by in your Christian experience that you are not the recipient of God's grace. It is grace that upholds your salvation. It is grace that gives you victory in temptation. It is grace that makes the Word live. It is grace that draws you into communion and prayer. It is grace that makes you useful for service. It is grace that enables your gift to function in the Spirit.


From the perspective of a person on the ground, yeah, it's flat. From the perspective of a mountain climber, or airline passenger or astronaut, you can quite clearly see the curvature of the horizon. For all practical purposes, Earth is round as a cue ball.
No. If you look from outer space its around. If we drive on a long road it looks flat to us. Another thing if it was flat we wouldn't have curbe roads.
No that would not be possible, this will be covered in school, when you get to about the fourth grade.
No. God made the earth round like a sphere. Don't let anyone dupe you into believing other wise.
Only in a very localized sense, on a very small scale. The vertical change is tiny and almost impossible to measure without instrumentation until you start to get into lateral distances of many hundreds of meters at best (at minimum). And the problem with those measurements is that natural topography dominates over the gentle but persistent curvature of the earth itself so it is not easily identified (the noise to signal ratio is very high).
It is fairly unusual except at the ocean (and not actually even then because waves are tens of cm in height at minimum) to have an unobstructed and smooth ground surface to view the 5 km that you would need to identify that 1.8 m change from eye level to ground level.
The earth curves (surface "goes down") about 20 cm per km, or so (not a linear change because it curves, naturally). That is about the height of a staircase step. Can you perceive a change in elevation of one stair riser over one kilometer with the naked eye? Heck, I have that much across the length of my 20,000 square foot yard and have trouble identifying it.
Yes..the area where we stay..as a whole it's sphere..
It is until you fly all the way around it. Get a photo of the edge, it would be priceless.
Is your brain flat? Probably.


Question about Remote Access in Windows 10?
If you are running a computer with windows 10 Pro, can you use Remote Desktop to access the files on a separate computer that only has Home edition?
Best Answer: home edition doesnt have the option, but can remotely control a Pro machine.


In last week's e-letter we announced that the theme for this September's Rally Day is abundance. We also began a series of weekly at-home family activities to prepare us all for Rally Day on Sunday, September 18. If you didn't catch our e-letter last week, join in!
Count all the extra school supplies you have lying around your home, and consider donating them to children in need of school supplies through our School Supply Drive. Our collection box is next to the table at the back of the sanctuary, and we're accepting donations until August 20.
Here are some optional follow-up questions to talk about as a family: How can our extra things help other people? Are their lives still abundant, too, and if so, how?
Rally Day is Sunday, September 18. From 10-11am we're going to have a BIG celebration featuring a plethora of games, activities, and opportunities for children, youth, and adults that center on the theme of abundance. We invite you and your family to join us in worship at 9am or 11am and at the party in between to kick-off a new school year of community and ministry here at Advent.
Why's it called "Rally Day"?
The word "rally" means "to draw or call together for a common purpose" or "a renewal of energy in joint action." That's why many Lutheran congregations use the term Rally Day to describe a special Sunday when the congregation reunites after everyone's summer breaks to reengage in community and ministry. And now we are calling you! Join us for this special celebration to kick-off a new school year of Children, Youth and Family ministry here at Advent.


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Q: Member function with const modifier. I have a class with two member functions which are differ only by const modifier.
class CFoo
{
private:
    int x;
    int y;
public:
  static int a;
  void dosmth() const {
      a = 99;
  }
  void dosmth(){
      x++;
      y++;
  }
};

int CFoo::a = 100;

int main(){
    CFoo foo;
    cout << CFoo::a << endl;
    foo.dosmth();
    cout << CFoo::a << endl;
}

The following code prints 100, 100. Why is non-const dosmth being called? How can I call const version explicitly?

A:
Why is non-const dosmth being called?

That is by design. If you have a non-const object, the non-const overload is chosen over the const one.

ow can I call const version explicitly?

You need a context where your object is const. For example,
void dofoo(const Foo& f) { f.dosmth(); }
int main()
{
  CFoo foo;
  dofoo(foo);
  cout << CFoo::a << endl;

or
int main()
{
  const CFoo foo1{};
  foo1.dosmth();
  CFoo foo2;
  const_cast<const CFoo&>(foo2).dosmth();
}

A: The const version is only called when the object itself is const. This means you can call the const version with this code:
int main(){
    const CFoo foo;
    cout << CFoo::a << endl;
    foo.dosmth();
    cout << CFoo::a << endl;
}

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Mikolaj is involved in the Courage Research Project.
Between the Brown and the lied probes the trajectories of the modern nationalist movement and political continuities in Poland and East Central Europe from the inter-war period to the end of the Cold War. Tracing the evolution of the Marxist party-state into a nationalist-populist regime, it also captures the multifaceted nature of church-state relations in communist Poland, relations that oscillated between mutual confrontation, accommodation, and dialogue. Ironically, under communism the bond between religion and nation in Poland grew stronger. This happened in spite of the fact that the government deployed nationalist themes in order to portray itself as more Polish than communist. Between the Brown and the Red also introduces to the reader one of the most fascinating figures in the history of twentieth-century Poland and the communist world. © 2012 by Ohio University Press. All rights reserved.
This article complements studies on 1968 in Poland that have explained the anti-Semitic campaign by pointing to the Soviet factor, traditional Polish anti-Semitism, or factional conflict within the Polish Communist Party. The article attributes March 1968 to the communists' growing reliance on Polish nationalism. It narrows the scale of historical observation to the case of Bolesław Piasecki (1915-79), a prominent nationalist politician. A fascist in the 1930s and a proregime Catholic activist after the war, Piasecki was the leading proponent of the mutual reinforcement of nationalism and communism. Melding Piasecki's role in the 1968 drama with the ideological metamorphosis of the Polish Communist Party, the article argues that under certain conditions, not only did the communists utilize nationalism, but they also prolonged the existence of the nationalist radical right, which supplied the chauvinistic message during the anti-Semitic campaign. © 2005 by the American Council of Learned Societies. All rights reserved.


Theo Hutchcraft and Adam Anderson from Hurts spoke to Absolute Radio backstage at Glastonbury 2011. The Manchester, England synthpop duo talked about just getting at the festival and looking well dressed, how it's a big moment for the group to play at the prestigious festival, headlining Bulgaria's first ever music festival, looking forward to seeing The Streets, how they stacked up performing with fellow sharp dressers Interpol, and what's up the rest of the year. Watch it via YouTube below.


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Edward Witten
Edward Witten is an American theoretical physicist and professor of mathematical physics at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey.
Witten is a researcher in string theory, quantum gravity, super symmetric quantum field theories, and other areas of mathematical physics.
In addition to his contributions to physics, Witten's work has significantly impacted pure mathematics. In 1990 he became the first and so far the only physicist to be awarded a Fields Medal by the International Mathematical Union.
"Even before string theory, especially as physics developed in the 20th century, it turned out that the equations that really work in describing nature with the most generality and the greatest simplicity are very elegant and subtle."
― Edward Witten
Topic(s): Nature
"As for the forces, electromagnetism and gravity we experience in everyday life. But the weak and strong forces are beyond our ordinary experience. So in physics, lots of the basic building blocks take 20th- or perhaps 21st-century equipment to explore."
Topic(s): Experience
"One of the basic things about a string is that it can vibrate in many different shapes or forms, which gives music its beauty."
Topic(s): Beauty
"But the beauty of Einstein's equations, for example, is just as real to anyone who's experienced it as the beauty of music. We've learned in the 20th century that the equations that work have inner harmony."
"One touch of nature makes the whole world kin." ― William Shakespeare
"When you're rich and famous you are the dominant force in a relationship, even if you try hard not to be. I've talked of sacrificing everything for Fleetwood Mac, but I realize now that it is simply the only thing I've ever wanted to do." ― Stevie Nicks
"Rumors sound of galleries asking artists for upsized art and more of it. I've heard of photographers asked to print larger to increase the wall power and salability of their work. Everything winds up set to maximum in order to feed the beast." ― Jerry Saltz
"When you start falling for somebody and you can't stop thinking about when you're going to see them again, I love that. Women are beautiful. They deserve to be cherished and respected." ― Orlando Bloom
"I've never written a movie, I'm not in the movie business. I go out to L.A. and I'm like everyone else wandering around in a daze hoping I see movie stars. I write the novels that the movies are based on, and that feels like enough of a job for me." ― Justin Cronin


Tempering valves – clean out filters and check correct temperature of water supply at fixtures in bathroom.
P&TR valves – service and clean valve and discharge pipe of any debris or obstruction.
Thermocouplings and pilot assemblies – cleaning, repairing or replacing of same.


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import sys

# check Python version
if sys.version_info < (2, 6):
    sys.exit("rootpy only supports python 2.6 and above")

# check that ROOT can be imported
try:
    import ROOT
except ImportError:
    sys.exit("ROOT cannot be imported. Is ROOT installed with PyROOT enabled?")

ROOT.PyConfig.IgnoreCommandLineOptions = True

# check that we have at least the minimum required version of ROOT
if ROOT.gROOT.GetVersionInt() < 52800:
    sys.exit("rootpy requires at least ROOT 5.28/00; "
             "You have ROOT {0}.".format(ROOT.gROOT.GetVersion()))

import os
# Prevent distutils from trying to create hard links
# which are not allowed on AFS between directories.
# This is a hack to force copying.
try:
    del os.link
except AttributeError:
    pass

try:
    import setuptools
    from pkg_resources import parse_version, get_distribution
    # check that we have setuptools after the merge with distribute
    setuptools_dist = get_distribution('setuptools')
    if setuptools_dist.parsed_version < parse_version('0.7'):
        raise ImportError(
            "setuptools {0} is currently installed".format(
                setuptools_dist.version))
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    sys.exit(
        "{0}\n\n"
        "rootpy requires that at least setuptools 0.7 is installed:\n\n"
        "wget https://bootstrap.pypa.io/ez_setup.py\n"
        "python ez_setup.py --user\n\n"
        "You might need to add the --insecure option to the last command above "
        "if using an old version of wget.\n\n"
        "If you previously had distribute installed, "
        "you might need to manually uninstall the distribute-patched "
        "setuptools before upgrading your setuptools. "
        "See https://pypi.python.org/pypi/setuptools "
        "for further details.".format(ex))

from setuptools import setup, find_packages
from glob import glob
from os.path import join, abspath, dirname, isfile, isdir

local_path = dirname(abspath(__file__))
# setup.py can be called from outside the rootpy directory
os.chdir(local_path)
sys.path.insert(0, local_path)

# check for custom args
# we should instead extend distutils...
filtered_args = []
release = False
devscripts = False
for arg in sys.argv:
    if arg == '--release':
        # --release sets the version number before installing
        release = True
    elif arg == '--devscripts':
        devscripts = True
    else:
        filtered_args.append(arg)
sys.argv = filtered_args

if release:
    # remove dev from version in rootpy/info.py
    import shutil
    shutil.move('rootpy/info.py', 'info.tmp')
    dev_info = ''.join(open('info.tmp', 'r').readlines())
    open('rootpy/info.py', 'w').write(
        dev_info.replace('.dev0', ''))
    exclude = []
elif sys.version_info < (3, 0):
    exclude = ['*.byteplay3']
else:
    exclude = ['*.byteplay2']

exec(open('rootpy/info.py').read())
if 'install' in sys.argv:
    print(__doc__)

scripts = glob('scripts/*')
if __version__ == 'dev' and devscripts:
    scripts.extend(glob('devscripts/*'))

def strip_comments(l):
    return l.split('#', 1)[0].strip()

def reqs(*f):
    return list(filter(None, [strip_comments(l) for l in open(
        join(os.getcwd(), 'requirements', *f)).readlines()]))

setup(
    name='rootpy',
    version=__version__,
    description="A pythonic layer on top of the "
                "ROOT framework's PyROOT bindings.",
    long_description=''.join(open('README.rst').readlines()[7:]),
    author='the rootpy developers',
    author_email='rootpy-dev@googlegroups.com',
    maintainer='Noel Dawe',
    maintainer_email='noel@dawe.me',
    license='new BSD',
    url=__url__,
    download_url=__download_url__,
    packages=find_packages(exclude=exclude),
    extras_require={
        'tables': reqs('tables.txt'),
        'array': reqs('array.txt'),
        'matplotlib': reqs('matplotlib.txt'),
        'roosh': reqs('roosh.txt'),
        'stats': reqs('stats.txt'),
        },
    scripts=scripts,
    entry_points={
        'console_scripts': [
            'root2hdf5 = rootpy.root2hdf5:main',
            'roosh = rootpy.roosh:main',
            ]
        },
    package_data={'': [
        'etc/*',
        'testdata/*.root',
        'testdata/*.txt',
        'tests/test_compiled.cxx',
        ]},
    classifiers=[
        'Intended Audience :: Science/Research',
        'Intended Audience :: Developers',
        'Topic :: Software Development',
        'Topic :: Scientific/Engineering',
        'Topic :: Utilities',
        'Operating System :: POSIX',
        'Operating System :: Unix',
        'Operating System :: MacOS',
        'License :: OSI Approved :: BSD License',
        'Programming Language :: Python',
        'Programming Language :: Python :: 2',
        'Programming Language :: Python :: 3',
        'Development Status :: 4 - Beta',
    ])

if release:
    # revert rootpy/info.py
    shutil.move('info.tmp', 'rootpy/info.py')


hn×16n + hn-1×16n-1 + ... + h1×16 + h0.
For example the decimal representation of 0x2A9 is 2×162 + 10×161 + 9 = 681.
Question 1: Convert 35 from hexadecimal to decimal.
Question 2: Convert 1AA from hexadecimal to decimal.
Question 3: Convert 12 from hexadecimal to decimal.
Question 4: Convert 4B from hexadecimal to decimal.
Question 5: Convert 89 from hexadecimal to decimal.


"I live alone and I'm blind, and a while ago the house was shaking, do you happen to know?" a caller asked a 911 dispatcher.
"I'm not sure. We're actually getting quite a few calls about it now. We're having someone check it out, OK?" the dispatcher said.
The 911 call was one of about a dozen calls that poured into Flagler County. An unexplained phenomenon, described as everything from a low rumble to a window shaking movement, rattled residents from St. Augustine to the Volusia County.
"The ground rumbled and the building rumbled. Definitely abnormal for here," a resident told WFTV.
WFTV found at least two people who have experienced sonic booms and earthquakes from their time spent in California.
"That's what it felt like. It definitely felt like an earthquake," one resident said. "Enough to make you look to the ocean and say, 'OK, what's next, tsunami?' Because you're going, 'Is it an earthquake or not?'"
The U.S. Geological Survey told Flagler County that sensors in Georgia and Orlando picked up no movement. The National Weather Service reported nothing odd, and the Navy and Coast Guard told WFTV they had no information regarding on or offshore bombing exercises.
"We are checking with all the agencies that monitor those kinds of things and hopefully we'll come up with an answer, but right now, we're kind of perplexed," an official told WFTV.
Everything, from a meteor burning up to a moon phase that allows ocean waves to hit hard enough to vibrate the shoreline, is being considered as a cause.


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June 15 2018 June 15 2018 By ACE expedition
ACE @ POLAR2018
The Antarctic Circumnavigation Expedition will be present at POLAR2018, the joint conference from the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research SCAR and the International Arctic Science Committee IASC taking place in Davos from 15 to 26 June. With 47 papers and posters submitted relating to ACE, the expedition will be well represented amongst the different presentations…
March 19 2018 March 19 2018 By ACE expedition
Samuel Jaccard talks about ACE during the radio broadcast CQFD
Prof. Samuel Jaccard, a specialist of the carbon cycle in the Southern Ocean, was the guest of the CQFD broadcast on 16 March on RTS – La Première. ACE was one of the hot topics of the emission, as Samuel Jaccard as well as Bastien Confino, journalist for CQFD, had boarded the Akademik Treshnikov for…
March 2 2018 March 5 2018 By ACE expedition
ACE reaches out in Catalan
Rafel Simó, PI of the ACE project Surveying Organic Reactive gases and Particles across the Surface Southern Ocean (SORPASSO), has published his diary of the expedition in Catalan in form of an ebook. This beautiful patchwork of science, personal thoughts, poetic allegories and metaphors, as well as some inputs in the history of the exploration…
February 15 2018 February 26 2018 By ACE expedition
ACE birders' blog – Leg 1, Day 1
By Peter Ryan, onboard scientist, expert in general ornithology, seabird-fishery interactions, evolutionary ecology, marine debris, solid waste management, biology of oceanic islands. Leg 1, Day 1 Day 1 was an atypical day for ACE, travelling through the tropical waters of the Agulhas Current. As a result, we saw quite a few species that are unlikely…
By Peter Ryan, onboard scientist, expert in general ornithology, seabird-fishery interactions, evolutionary ecology, marine debris, solid waste management, biology of oceanic islands. ACE birders' blog – Leg 1, Day 2 Instead of crossing into Subantarctic waters, the large swell (up to 16m according to the ship's wave meter) forced the ship to head east, thus…
By Peter Ryan, Onboard scientist, expert in general ornithology, seabird-fishery interactions, evolutionary ecology, marine debris, solid waste management, biology of oceanic islands. Leg 1, Day 3 Although we hoped to wake to Subantarctic waters, we remained in Agulhas waters, with warm-water species again predominating. But at least the ship was able to head across the…
ACE projects discuss joint data management
The ACE expedition may be over, the valorisation of the collected data is still at an early stage. The common management of numerous and huge data sets will last for many years to come. On 23 and 24 January, participants of different ACE projects gathered at EPF Lausanne in order to discuss the way forward…
September 15 2017 February 14 2018 By ACE expedition
"We urgently need to coordinate our efforts."
Konrad Steffen, a glaciologist and the new scientific director of the Swiss Polar Institute (SPI), has been involved in polar research for the past 40 years. His work has focused primarily on the Arctic, particularly the changes taking place within Greenland's ice sheet. He is also a professor at ETH Zurich and director of the…
September 15 2017 December 15 2017 By ACE expedition
Unexpected facets of Antarctica emerge from the labs
Six months after the Antarctic Circumnavigation Expedition ended, the teams that ran the 22 scientific projects are hard at work sorting through the many samples they collected. Some preliminary findings were announced during a conference in Crans Montana organized by the Swiss Polar Institute. Nearly 30,000 samples were taken during the Antarctic Circumnavigation Expedition (ACE)….
April 24 2017 By ACE expedition
The flight of the albatross (Florian Brucker, ©Parafilms/EPFL): ACE leg 2 went through a storm after leaving Hobart (Noé Sardet, ©Parafilms/EPFL): Incredible Balleny Islands, seen from the sky (Noé Sardet, ©Parafilms/EPFL): Unloading of the ROPOS in Punta Arenas, Chile (Noé Sardet, ©Parafilms/EPFL):


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The Grizzlies recently left the NAL to join the AAL, what prompted the move?
Bryan: It was more or less getting back to what our original focus was when we formed the team. The plan was to have regional rivalries with local travel and that didn't happen with the NAL. When we originally formed the team, we were going to be part of the American Indoor Football League (AIF) but before that happened, the league folded. We decided we would join the Arena Developmental League which ended up being the National Arena League. Through those transactions we went from being regional to a league which had teams all over the place like in Monterrey, Mexico, and Corpus Christi. The NAL wants to grow into a nationwide league and were talking to teams in New York and on the West Coast and that wasn't what we envisioned for ourselves. We wanted to be in a league where our fans could travel a couple of hours and attend out away away games and the other team's fans could come up here. We didn't want to travel more than six hours and unfortunately, with the Nal that was our shortest trip.
They were at least willing to say it in a public forum.
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Games by iamqqqqqqq 01/09/21 (Sat) 05:07:31 No.5887
HORESES' MUSIC-DOGS makes really cool unconventional rpgmaker 2000 games with nice music. I recommend you start with CLASSIC GAME, it's kind of like a dream you had about a roguelike. The games are quite mysterious and not well documented so this thread will be a good place to collect information and ideas. From the looks of it he's working on HOME GAME 3, are you excited? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7G32gQb1_c
>MR. KRASNOLUDEK, TEACH ME YOUR MAGIC SPELLS, CLASSIC GAME, HOME GAME, HOME GAME 2
https://iamqqqqqqq.itch.io/
>A Hikikomori's Last Stand
https://www.dropbox.com/s/t060xm4xtqr40br/A%20Hikikomori%27s%20Last%20Stand%20Installer.zip
>I'MSOMNIA demo
https://www.dropbox.com/s/sqlz2zxbm3pityr/I'MSOMNIA%20demo%20v2.zip
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Woah pretty. I wish I had a printer so I could put this on my wall.
…as I understand it though, this wouldn't be public yet right?
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Been spending a lot of time drawing new sprites in MS Paint.
55 minutes of HG3 gameplay:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1EVKrp_K5dQ
I love how in a square based medium the maps can look so wriggly and organic. Like wriggly wriggly worms.
Hexagons are better for maps
https://youtu.be/thOifuHs6eY?t=457
Squares are the best because people like to go in the cardinal directions, but what I meant was I like how it can look organic despite the squares.
Diagonal movement warps distances.
I've become totally fascinated with iamqqqqqqq as an artist. They've produced a large library of music, art, and games over more than a decade while seemingly remaining a nobody with very little people talking about their work. The lack of discussion around their games in particular is interesting because they are all excellent and incredibly unique, and have been out for years.
I've taken a liking to their music, particularly what they've released as "the scum of tone"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMmuUP6brW0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtYlVIBgws0
In Classic Game is the part with the floating islands meant to let you fly over collision objects like a ghost? It was fascinating and a lot of fun, but I can't work out if it was intentional or a bug (I was running the game in WINE)
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end of a run I finished last night, there's a whole lot of stuff I'm looking forward to trying out next run. especially interested in seeing if there are any consequences to using HERESY, which I used on PAWKY last run, at MONUMENT
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Bumping this question. Let me clarify: I'm looking for an out of bounds glitch/feature accessible from the pictured area ("Unparalleled"). "Floating islands area" doesn't seem like the best description when you're walking around it, but when flying around there a lot more of them are visible. One of those islands has a "HOW DID YOU GET HERE?" sign, which might imply the oob is intentional, though with the dev's love of the word INACCESSIBLE I wouldn't be at all surprised of there's all sorts of places you're not ever meant to see.


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Bitcoin has hit a spectacular all-time high, reaching a value of US$41,962.36 ($54,390) last week, more than double the US$20,000 ($25,900) peak of the 2017-18 boom.
With the global economy still in crisis, COVID-19 continuing to rage and political chaos in the US, perhaps this is hardly surprising.
According to an article from RMIT professor of economics Jason Potts and PhD candidate Kelsie Nabben, which appeared on The Conversation last week — written when the price was sitting at a mere US$34,000 ($44,000) — the boom can be boiled down to three factors. Namely, "ideology, social sentiment and hope".
The COVID-19 pandemic has also undoubtedly fuelled the digital economy, as new technology has become more accessible to more people.
The pandemic has broadly led to increased adoption of fintech, and a public demand for more autonomy when it comes to their financial futures.
It stands to reason that interest in cryptocurrencies comes simply as an extension of this.
A Forbes article also points to Bitcoin's growing reputation as 'digital gold'.
Governments all over the world have reacted to the COVID-19 economic crisis by printing cash. In turn, that's led to investors considering Bitcoin as a relatively safe hedge against inflation.
In Australia, interest rates are sitting at an all-time low, causing people to consider investments that could make their money go further, in the long run. Again, that's led to an uptick in use of investment apps such as Spaceship and Superhero.
And, when it comes to crypto, the writing was arguably on the wall, with micro-investment business Raiz launching its first Bitcoin investment portfolio back in May.
What about ETH?
Bitcoin is the big dog of the cryptocurrency world, and where it succeeds, other cryptocurrencies seem to follow.
Ethereum (ETH) has also seen a similarly-shaped spike, hitting a much more modest high of US$1,281 ($1,660) — still shy of its January 2018 peak of US$1,448 ($1,877).
Litecoin is also seeing something of a spike, although, again, it's numbers are nowhere near stratospheric.
Back in 2017-18, the crypto boom also gave rise to a string of startups in Australia and worldwide launching blockchain-enabled businesses and selling their own tokens in so-called 'initial coin offerings', or ICOs, to fund the growth of their businesses.
Whether we'll see a repeat flurry of activity here remains to be seen, but we will certainly be keeping an eye on things.
Bitcoin was developed to be finite, and therefore to continue increasing in value over time.
"Nakamoto's audacious experiment in digital currency is working as intended," Potts and Nabben write.
"What really deserves attention now is what this means for our digital, physical and social futures."
Me neither
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) January 9, 2021
Surprise! Bitcoin is back. Three reasons why this time is different
Bitcoin is back. In recent days it has been trading above US$19,000, up from US$10,000 in October and US$5,900 in March.
Will Bitcoin go up? Artificial intelligence may have the answer
The future of forecasting for Bitcoin — and perhaps for investing in general — could be in artificial intelligence and neural networks.


Paul Dunne boosted hopes of making the cut for a first occasion this season with a round of 68 on day one of the inaugural Saudi International.
Dunne arrived in Saudi Arabia as the lone Irishman in the field having missed the cut in both the Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship and last week's Omega Dubai Desert Classic.
After starting with a birdie, the Greystones golfer dropped shots at the third and sixth holes but regrouped with birdies at seven, 10 and then at the last leaving the Greystones man just one place outside the top-30 heading into day two.
Belgium's Thomas Pieter's grabbed the distinction of setting the official tournament course record with an impressive bogey-free seven-under par 63 on the par-70 layout.
"I hit my wedges and short irons really close to the hole and I think I had maybe ten good chances for birdie and made seven of them," said the World No. 76 ranked Pieter's.
"It was a very good day on the greens as well. It's tricky because the greens are not that fast. I think I did everything pretty well and my game is pretty decent.
Six players share second place including the English duo Alfie Plant and Ross Fisher, the South African pair of Zander Lombard and Justin Harding, Italian Renato Paratore and Aussie rookie Jake McLeod.
Plant made the most of his invitation by racing to the turn in 28 thanks to seven birdies, including five in succession from his second.
But the birdies dried-up over his inward half when Plant, who turned pro after the 2017 Walker Cup star, posted two bogeys.
"I didn't realise I was on 28 until I came in," said Plant.


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Q: Event on click document in an iframe I'm trying to perform logic when the contents of an iframe are clicked, the content of the iframe is a pdf located within the same domain.
I can perform the task on the iframe, which allows selecting of the border, but not it's contents. I've tried a number of different ways, my latest:
$(function () {
            $("#iframePDF").contents().click(function (e) {
                alert("test");
            });
        });

Thanks.

A: try:
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We did an initial examination to see if anything used the API and of those we questioned we found none, so no plans were made to retain those APIs. However, since there are apparent users, altering the API slightly so that the zone events webpages can continue to work is something we can definitely investigate. If there's a someone who actively runs an API using webpage, they can feel free to PM me with what specific API calls they used so I can discuss possible solutions with them.
The only thing I have a problem with is this:This is going to nuke the zone event applications that users have made. Is there any plan to just retain those APIs so people can still utilize them in their web apps?


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Kim Jong-un arrives in Russia on armored train
Thursday, April 25, 2019 8:00:21 AM
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un arrived in Russia at the border station of Khasan Khasansky district of Primorsky Krai, Interfax reported.
"Kim Jong-un arrived to Khasan and got off the train," the agency's source said.
A video capturing the arrival shows young Russian women in folk costumes greeting the North Korean leader with a traditional loaf of bread, korovai. Kim Jong-un is wearing a long black cape with a black hat on his head. He is accompanied by the North Korean delegation, Minister for the Development of the Russian Far East Alexander Kozlov and Governor of Primorsky Krai Oleg Kozhemyako.
Kim Jong-un did not try the korovai offered him by the young women.
The house of Russian-Korean friendship, also called "the House of Kim Il Sung", is located at Khasan station. This house was built at the Khasan border station before the former North Korean leader's visit to the USSR in 1986. North Korean leaders Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-il visited the house while travelling to Russia back in the day.
Kim Jong-un's armored train will proceed to Vladivostok where, on April 25, the DPRK leader will meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
This will be Kim Jong-un's first visit to the Russian Federation. He has never been to Russia before.
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Prime Rib - 16 oz.
This is a historical place. You order in the bar and wait for them to can your names to get a table. Food starts coming right after you get seated. Good BBQ. You can see the cooks from many tables. Services is friendly.
Nothing fancy or to write home about. Goo basic barbecue at the reasonable price. Usually a wait for service, but good bar for waiting.Survives on nostalgia of long time patrons and reputation.
My partner and I always visit when on a road trip. No frills, good steaks. Take a number ask, tell them how you want it, get seated, fantastic steak. Job done.
Coming from Kansas, I know my BBQ. This is just ok. Nice location, good service, cool ambiance, casual and clean, but wouldn't go back for the BBQ.
Have been going to the Hi life for 40 years. Love their spare ribs and whatever butter concoction they put on the baked potato, and the french bread.
Henry's Hi-Life is a San Jose Classic!
We have eaten here often and it never disappoints. Food is consistently great, which isn't always the case at other places. If you are in town, you can see a piece of local history and have some great BBQ.
Get quick answers from Henry's Hi-Life staff and past visitors.
yes. There are meters that end at about 6:00 PM and parking across the street as well. The earlier you can go the better. The wait can be long around the normal dinber times but it is well worth the wait. Try some of the local brews on tap. They are excellent.
There is plenty of street parking if there ISN'T a game/event at the nearby SAP Arena, home of the San Jose Sharks hockey team. You might want to call ahead and check.


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The men's 100 metres event at the 2003 Summer Universiade was held in Daegu, South Korea on 25 and 26 August.

Medalists

Results

Heats
Wind:Heat 1: +0.2 m/s, Heat 2: +0.6 m/s, Heat 3: -0.3 m/s, Heat 4: +0.6 m/s, Heat 5: -0.1 m/s, Heat 6: -0.4 m/s, Heat 7: -0.1 m/s

Quarterfinals
Wind:Heat 1: +0.8 m/s, Heat 2: -2.0 m/s, Heat 3: -0.1 m/s, Heat 4: +1.9 m/s

Semifinals
Wind:Heat 1: -0.1 m/s, Heat 2: -2.2 m/s

Final
Wind: -1.2 m/s

References
Results

Athletics at the 2003 Summer Universiade
2003