In this component, we have some logic that controls the core search behavior, but we also specify how the input and search results will be rendered. In this instance, we render a div that serves as a dropdown container and an unordered list containing a list item for each result within it.
Think about how you would reuse this component. Sure, you could use this very same component if you want to reproduce exactly the same behavioral and visual result. But what if you want to reuse the same behavior, but visualize the component slightly differently? What if you want to reuse the core search behavior but add a few modifications for a slightly different use case?
At their core, the functionality of these two components is very similar: type into an input to filter a list.
First, let's look at how we would restructure our autocomplete component using render props in React. We will now have two components — one for our Autocomplete component and one for a core SearchSelect component.
This is a renderless component (one that doesn't render any markup of its own). Rather, it returns the result of a special prop called a render prop. This render prop accepts an object, into which you can pass any data that you would like the parent component to have access to.
Think of this as the opposite of normal props. Usually, props are passed down from parent to child. In the case of render props, these are returned from the child so the parent can access them.
Our SearchSelect component is handling the lowest level functionality — filtering a list of options based on a query string. It is then using the special render prop to render an element.
In the parent, we pass a function to the render prop of the SearchSelect component. This function returns a React element, which we can hydrate with state and behavior from the SearchSelect component itself. Basically, this means we are able to access data from the child component in the parent.
The key to making this work is the arguments we pass to the render prop function. See how we are destructuring a single object and using those destructured properties inside our markup? This object should be passed as an argument when you call this.props.render() in the child component.
All this means that we can write whatever markup we want, as long as we properly hydrate it with the data and behavior exposed by the SearchSelect component.
Also, note how we are passing the method for filtering our list in as a prop. This will allow us to change the way our list of options is filtered, while still using the SearchSelect component.
As you can see, this looks very similar to the render prop in our React component. Here, we are returning a default scoped slot, which passes along an object with whatever we want. Here, we give it the results and our search method.
Creating reusable interface components isn't the only use for render props and scoped slots. Here are some other ideas for how you can use them to encapsulate reusable behavior in a component that can then be exposed to its parent.
You can use render props/scoped slots to create a component that handles asynchronously fetching data and exposing that data to its parent. This allows you to hide the logic for hitting an endpoint, getting the result and handling possible errors, as well as displaying a loading state to users while the data fetch is in progress.
You can also use render props/scoped slots to create a component that acts as a wrapper around resize or intersection observers. This component can simply expose the current size or intersection point of an element to a parent component. You can then perform whatever logic you need based on that data in the parent, preserving a nice separation of concerns.
We are using the Element Resize Detector library to listen to changes in our element size, and a React ref to get a reference to the actual DOM node.
Having a core set of renderless components that use render props or scoped slots can help you cut down on code duplication in your app and think more carefully about your core interface behaviors.


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Athletics celebrates 20th anniversary
Travis Dickerson
Mercury Staff
Since the athletics department first opened its doors in 1998, the number of teams fielded has grown from just three to 14, including a new coed esports team.
When UTD was accepted into the National Collegiate Athletic Association Division III and American Southwest Conference in 1998, the basketball and soccer teams had already been playing for years as part of the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics. The head coach for soccer at the time, Jack Peel, said recruiting players and getting the word out about athletics at UTD was difficult.
"There were players left from the previous teams (in the NAIA) before us, so we didn't have to start from the bottom up," Peel said. "The biggest issue was nobody even knew we had athletics."
To qualify for full membership in the NCAA's Division III, the university had to play through a four-year trial period to ensure there was enough interest and support for the teams. The trial period ended in 2002, when UTD began participating in DIII the fall semester of that year. Benefits included the ability to participate in local and national tournaments such as the ASC Tournament and the NCAA DIII national championships. That year also marked the addition of baseball and softball into the program. Additionally, the year brought the first ASC championship victory, with women's soccer securing the title and moving on to the second round of the NCAA DIII national tournament. Men's soccer and basketball followed suit with their first ASC championship victory in 2004. Director of Athletics Bill Petitt said success was a continuing trend with the athletics teams, as multiple teams entered the ASC championship every season.
"That's the evolution of the department. We just continue to grow and do things and get a little better and it shows out on the field with the results," Petitt said. "Every year we get a chance to do things. It's a maturing of the department."
UTD added volleyball in the fall of 2004 and hired Marci Allison to serve as the team's head coach. Allison has been with the team since, leading them to the ASC tournament every year since the team's establishment. Allison said one of the reasons for staying for so long at the school was watching the team, department and campus grow alongside each other.
"I get asked all the time why I stayed here, and it's because the university supports athletics and really helps us to grow, which I think leads to more and more success," Allison said. "It's been fun watching not only our department grow but the university build along with us."
Since 2004, the newest additions to the department include the Hall of Honors in 2007, which celebrates the best athletes in campus history. The following year saw more facilities constructed. In 2012, a dedicated facility for strength and conditioning was added. This year, esports joined the department as its first coed sport and is currently housed in a renovated gaming room in the Student Union.
Future projects for the athletics department include the relocation of the softball field and the construction of a new headquarters. The university is also considering a proposal to upgrade its membership into the NCAA from DIII to DII, a move that would require an expansion of programming and facilities for athletes.
For its 20th anniversary, the department is celebrating by producing a video series on the Comets Athletics homepage that features former coaches, directors and student athletes sharing their experiences about working in the department or playing for the teams. Individual teams will host banquets for alumni, current players and coaches to celebrate the occasion. The festivities will last through the end of the spring 2019 semester.
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Golf team hopeful for spring semester
Former men's soccer coach inducted into Hall of Honors
Email us at editor@utdmercury.com with your name, major, year, and area of interest.
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1930 -The new congregation is founded by five families from St. Peter's Lutheran Church in Brooklyn who have moved to Malverne. First services are held in the Malverne Firehouse and then in the Rider Apartment Building.
1933 -Arthur Block of Wisconsin accepts call as first resident pastor, living in a room over the old church on Stuart Avenue and Oxford Street.
1936 -Building at the corner of Stuart Avenue and Oxford Street is purchased from the Presbyterians.
1945 -Mortgage on the church building is burned. Pastor Block accepts a call to Newton, Massachusetts. Henry Ressmeyer accepts a call to Grace. First parsonage is purchased on Tilrose Avenue in Lynbrook for $5900.
1947 -There are 285 communicant members.
1948 -Hempstead Avenue property is purchased as site for a new church building for $12,000. A small parcel is purchased later from the Grossmann family. There are 375 communicant members.
1951 - Ground is broken for construction of a new church building at an estimated cost of $200,000.
1952 -The new church building is dedicated on June 8th. Final cost $250,000.
1954 -A new parsonage is purchased on Wright Avenue in Malverne for $21,500.
1955 -Deaconess Irma Pflueger is installed.
1957 -Decision is made to construct gymnasium and classrooms.
1959 -Cornerstone is laid for classroom building complex.
1960 -New educational building consisting of 10 classrooms, offices and the gymnasium is dedicated.
1961 -Christian Day School is begun with 2 teachers and grades K-2. There are 34 students. Richard Rath is first principal.
1962 -Grades 3 and 4 added with the arrival of Janet Baumgartner, teacher.
1963 -Grades 5 and 6 are added to the Day School. Ordination and Installation of Edward F. Visscher as Assistant Pastor. The Grace Play School, a cooperative nursery, was opened under the direction of Mildred Schneider.
1964 -Purchase of teacherage on Wolf Avenue in Malverne.
1966 -John Carajanes accepts call to be assistant pastor.
1968 -Grades 7 and 8 are added to the Day School. Henry Ressmeyer accepts call to head Religion Department at Long Island Lutheran High School. The pastoral post is offered to Pastor Carajanes, but he respectfully declines and offers a counter suggestion that a co-pastorate be established in the church. Thomas Eifert, a pastor of a church in Canton, Massachusetts accepts call to Grace to be co-pastor with John Carajanes.
1969 -Pastor Eifert is installed as co-pastor in September.
1970 -Second addition to classroom complex is constructed and dedicated. This addition includes 4 classrooms, a library, and a music room.
1971 -Richard Rausch becomes the second principal of the school after Richard Rath accepts a call to Lutheran High School.
1973 -The Grace Quarterly, the congregation's own newspaper, is published for the first time.
1974 -Janet Baumgartner becomes the third principal of the Day School.
1977 -Congregation leaves the Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod and joins the Association of Evangelical Lutheran Churches.
1980 -Co-pastorate ends with Pastor Carajanes accepting a call to serve as pastor in Falmouth, Massachusetts. New call is issued to Pastor Eifert, and he is installed as pastor in March.
1981 -Pastor Ron Wickey becomes the fourth principal of the Day School and Minister of Music.
1983 - Pastor Wickey accepts a call to Trinity, Hicksville. Ausma Mursch becomes acting principal.
1984 - Carol Lundquist becomes the fifth principal of the Day School. $100,000 Free and Clear Campaign is begun to eradicate the church debt.
1986 -The Free and Clear Campaign concludes successfully. the last bonds are redeemed and the mortgage note is burned.
1987 -Jean Severino is consecrated Deacon. Harvey von Harten installed as assistant to the pastor.
1988 - Congregation becomes a member of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America as the A.E.L.C. is disbanded.
1989 -First Grace Gifts Campaign is initiated.
1990 -The Grace Memorial Chapel becomes a reality from the memorial to Paul and Karolina Bauer.
1992 -Eileen Colton becomes the sixth principal of the Day School.
1997 -Pastor Eifert resigns to accept a call to Wartburg Lutheran Services in Brooklyn. Daphne Heslop is consecrated as Deacon on November 30th. On December 5th, James A.Y. Klockau, serving a church in Astoria, Queens, is installed as pastor of Grace.
1998 -The parsonage on Woodlawn Avenue in Valley Stream is purchased for $175,000.
1999 -The Endowment Fund is established with bequests totaling $325,000 from the estates of Lillian Mattlage and Marion Lawhead. Mary-Elaine Leake, Associate in Ministry, becomes interim principal of the Day School with the departure of Eileen Colton. Maria Radzik, Lead Teacher of the Play School, is appointed Early Childhood Education Director of the renamed Grace Lutheran Preschool.
2000 -Wanda N. Walters, 6th Grade teacher, is installed as the seventh principal of the Day School. Mary Leake is called by the congregation to be Director of Educational Ministry.
2001 -The 40th Anniversary of the Day School is celebrated.
2002 - On April 7th the Metropolitan New York Synod observes a day of remembrance for the victims of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. Bishop Marcus Miller of Ohio leads a delegation to Grace, Malverne, where he preaches and presides at the Rite of Confirmation. Later that year, Pastor Ressmeyer preaches at the celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the present church building. the present parsonage on West Avenue in Malverne is purchased at the cost of $355,000.
2005-06 -Deaconess Rebecca Elfman joins the ministerial staff as Cantor and Music Director of church and school. On October 16th the 75th Anniversary of the congragation's founding is celebrated with a Solemn Vespers at which Bishop Stephen Bouman preaches. A champagne reception follows. The year-long celebration includes the restoration of the pews, new carpeting, painting, and air conditioning in the church. Special musical events include a Carribean Steel Drum band concert, the College of Southern Maryland Chamber Singers, and the Astoria Jazz Quartet. An Ascension Day vespers features a lecture on the future of the Lutheran Church by Bishop Bouman. A banquet at the Coral House in Baldwin on October 1, 2006 concludes the anniversary celebration.
2010 -The Rev. Patrick W. Poole is called as pastor of Grace Church and School.


Download the app onto a mobile phone (if you are not sure what sort of phone you have see our advice page on mobile phones). If you are not sure how to download the app onto your phone see our explanation.
Access the app using your laptop or desktop computer.
If you are experiencing any difficulties with accessing the questionnaire, please contact Carol Fawkes either by email (c.fawkes@qmul.ac.uk) or by telephone (07494059509).
Your information will not be made available to anyone else. We will not sell it or use it for any commercial purposes.
During the early months of 2014, osteopaths were asked to invite their patients to participate in either focus groups or individual interviews as we wanted to learn more about patients' views about using Patient Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs) when they visited an osteopath for treatment.
Patient-reported outcomes measures (PROMs) are reports coming directly from patients about how they feel or function in relation to a health condition and its therapy without interpretation by healthcare professionals or anyone else (Patrick et al, 2008).
Collecting PROM data directly from you and independent of your osteopath's practice will help us to identify changes in your symptoms as a result of treatment. Many more organisations e.g. the National Health Service and health insurers are collecting this type of data also.
At the end of the study, all of the anonymous data collected will be analysed by the research team. This will help us identify any problems with using the app, look at how well the PROMs have performed, and identify changes in symptoms in patients receiving osteopathic care. Further information concerning the progress of this study will be available on this site as it becomes available.
How has this system been developed?
Whether they would prefer to use the Internet or to download a mobile phone app.
We also asked patients about some specific PROMs and which ones they preferred e.g. using PROMs with words only, or using PROMs with both words and a numbered scale.
In addition we also spoke to osteopaths about their views concerning the collection of practice-based data, and examined the scientific literature about this topic.
You can read more about the progress on the study by clicking here.
What did the pilot study look at?
Test-retest reliability – do PROMs which have been developed for paper completion work the same when used electronically.
A copy of the participant information sheet for the feasibility study can be found here.
If you have any further questions about using this data collection system, please contact Carol Fawkes either by email (c.fawkes@qmul.ac.uk) or by telephone (07494059509).


Played in all 18 games, made 12 starts.
Scored 19 goals, including two hat tricks against Heidelberg (March 14) and Hope (April 4).
Fourth on the team in goals, shots (73), and shots on goal (40).
Collected 11 ground balls and caused five turnovers.
Played in all 18 games with 16 starts.
Scored a team-high 45 goals, including career-high nine against Calvin College (April 25).
Netted 100th career goal in MIAA Championship game against Albion College (May 6).
Tallied 60 points (45G + 15A), third-highest on the team.
Shot a team-high 132 shots.
Had a team-high 90 shots on goal.
Registered 27 ground balls and 10 caused turnovers.
Scored five man-up goals, including a career-high two against Calvin.
Saw action in all 18 games with 16 starts.
Scored a school-record 44 goals to tie for third among MIAA players.
Netted a school-record seven goals at Olivet (April 12) and against Calvin (April 26).
Scored a goal in all but two games and tallied nine hat tricks.
Tallied five man-up goals to tie for the team lead.
Led the team with 129 shots, third-most in the MIAA, and 77 shots on goal.
Recorded a career-high 24 groundballs, including a season-high five against Calvin (April 26).
Tallied 14 groundballs and three caused turnovers.


PIERRES ET MARBRES DE WALLONIE is backed by the Walloon Region (DGO3) and the Walloon Export Agency (AWEX).
Walloon Region – DGO3 (DGARNE) Operational Directorate-General for Agriculture, Natural Resources and the Environment.
The DGARNE is the outcome of the merger of two previous Directorates, i.e. Agriculture and Natural Resources. Its basic task is the sustainable development of the Walloon Region.
The tasks of the DGARNE concern us in very many aspects of our everyday lives: quality of the air that we breathe, the water we drink, production of the farm produce we eat, quality of our environment, waste management, pollution prevention and control, etc. It is instrumental in raising awareness of the importance of sustainable development among us, as citizens, political decision makers and professionals.


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Data Source comes in 2 methods, which is Default and API. API is applicable if you which to pull or push data from external source.
Choose your project (this step is only available for users with multiple projects).
Click on "Settings" on the dashboard.
Select "Data" on the left panel.
Click on the number indicator on the Data Category you wish to add.
Click on the "+" icon on top right to add new data source.
- For external source of data, please choose "API" for Data Source Type to run through the setup process.


Do you sometimes feel overwhelmed by the darkness and moral decline in society and wonder what happened to the salt and light?
Christians who do share the Gospel and speak up about sin are now called hateful, intolerant, or judgmental. There are eternal consequences when Christians silently back out of culture. How can we encourage Christians who have been pursuing selfish desires and worldly things to return to Jesus Christ and live accordingly?
The truth is – silence never saved anybody. Rather than retreat and hide the light of Christ, we must stand and fight the good fight of faith, speak the truth in love and bear fruit that will last. If Christians remain silent, fewer people will be saved, society will collapse, and we will continue to be part of the problem.
Today's church seems more comfortable blending in with the world rather than being set apart from it, and our apathy is killing us! In the last hundred years in America, we have not only invited evil in, we often justify it. Rather than resist the sin that used to repulse us and cause us deep remorse, we have warmed up to it.
Meanwhile, Jesus Christ is standing outside knocking on the door of a wayward, lukewarm church, hoping we will welcome Him back in before it's too late.
David Fiorazo is an author, writer, content contributor, public speaker, and radio show host who loves God and country. He has been involved in the broadcasting and entertainment industries for over thirty years and in Christian ministry for over twenty five years. David loves the Word of God, and strives to understand the times, defending and proclaiming the truth of Jesus Christ without apology or compromise. He believes every life has a purpose and we are here for such a time as this. Though our world, country, and culture changes continually, God never changes and our mission as Christians remains the same.
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Papua New Guinea is famous for many things. Wildlife, tropical rainforests, David Attenborough, exotic birds.
To celebrate, or rather warn future New Irelanders of this minor health and safety issue, we're "head-hunting" amateur brewers throughout old Ireland (or anywhere in the world provided they can manage the entry process) to enter a competition to brew the next New Ireland "Head Hunter"! We'll brew a batch ourselves as a benchmark beer and also, as an advertising post for others to enter, thus inviting applicants to put forward their idea for our next batch. The entries will be judged by official BJCP Judge Rossa O'Neill & accredited Beer Sommelier Dean Clarke, and the final elected beer will be the entry which best represents brewing in a New Ireland!
Your donation for this label is automatically considered your entry fee as well! If you don't donate but want to enter later, then a simple purchase of the beer bottle (if brewed) will be your application fee later on. You can of course log on and donate a vote after our State Beer batch starts brewing! We will however limit the production of Head Hunter to 1 batch a year due to the logistical constraints of running a beer judging process.
Once the first State batch (if elected) has been brewed by brother Rossa, we'll then announce details to begin choosing the next guest brewer. After that, this beer concept will be frozen until the next calendar year and we will all cast our votes again for one of the other beer concepts we have.
To kick us off, Brother Rossa intends brewing a Blood-Red IPA using blood oranges and as many new world tropical hops as we can scrounge! If you've got an idea for something terrifyingly good to be the next Head Hunter, get working on that recipe and vote for this one now.


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Kościół świętego Mateusza Ewangelisty − rzymskokatolicki kościół parafialny należący do parafii pod tym samym wezwaniem (dekanat aleksandrowski archidiecezji łódzkiej).

Jest to świątynia wybudowana w latach 1908-1913 według projektu architekta Apoloniusza Nieniewskiego z Warszawy. Budowla reprezentuje styl neogotycki, posiada trzy nawy i plan krzyża, konsekrowana została w dniu 21 sierpnia 1921 roku przez biskupa Wincentego Tymienieckiego (było to pierwsze poświęcenie kościoła w diecezji)

Do wyposażenia kościoła należą: zabytkowa ambona, ozdobiona rzeźbami czterech Ewangelistów, obraz Matki Bożej Dalikowskiej z Dzieciątkiem a także kropielnica, wykonana w XV wieku, pełniąca obecnie funkcję chrzcielnicy.

Przypisy

Świątynie pod wezwaniem św. Mateusza
Obiekty sakralne w gminie Dalików
Zabytkowe kościoły w powiecie poddębickim
Kościoły w archidiecezji łódzkiej
Kościół
Architektura neogotycka w województwie łódzkim
Budynki w Polsce oddane do użytku w 1913

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In contrast to the relatively late introduction of players of African descent that joined the city's football team, rugby league was a comparative trailblazer for promoting the talents of players with such heritage.
Whilst Clive Sullivan is arguably the most well-known of such players and one who transcended the city rivalry between Hull FC and Hull Kingston Rovers, it was Roy Francis, from an even earlier era, who initially made a huge impact on the club and the sport.
The sport itself has prided itself as being far more progressive and inclusive than many others. Back in the 1930s at a time when Black boxers were prevented from fighting for British Championships and Black sportsmen struggled to gain traction in other sports, Black rugby league players started to make an impact with Roy Francis one of the first to do so.
Roy Francis was born in Brynmawr in South Wales in 1919 and lived in the Tiger Bay area near Cardiff. Initially he played rugby union for Brynmawr RFC before becoming one of the first Black rugby league players when he joined Wigan as a seventeen-year-old on 14 November 1936.
He made his debut for Wigan on 26 March 1937 but played just twelve games for the club before he moved to Barrow in January 1939. With the outbreak of the Second World War Francis became a Sergeant in the British Army. He played rugby union for the Army but also made guest appearances playing rugby league for Dewsbury. Amongst the games that he played in was a representative game for the Northern Command XIII against a Rugby League XIII at Thrum Hall, Halifax on 21 March 1942. Throughout the war he continued to represent Dewsbury featuring in three successive Championship finals as they beat Bradford and Halifax but lost out to Wigan in 1944.
Zealand in 1947. He was then controversially overlooked for the following Ashes tour to Australia for political reasons as the organisers feared that it may cause problems as Australia had in place at that time an infamous bar on non-white people. He joined Warrington for £800 in July 1948. Roy Francis played in Warrington's defeat by Huddersfield the Championship Final during the 1948–49 season at Maine Road, Manchester.
He moved to Hull in November 1949 for a fee of £1,250. Francis played his last game on Boxing Day 1955 before switching to coaching, a field in which he was to make an even greater impact.
Francis became the first Black professional coach in any sport in Britain when he was appointed coach for Hull FC in 1954. His man-management, coaching methods and use of psychological techniques were considered twenty years ahead of their time. He was the first coach to embrace players' families and offer them transport to games.
Under his leadership Hull FC won the Championship in 1956 and 1958. Roy Francis was also the coach in Hull's two Cup Final appearances in 1959 and 1960.
Francis left Hull for Leeds in 1963 and oversaw their victory in the famous 1968 Challenge Cup Final when Don Fox missed with the last kick of the game for Wakefield Trinity.
Francis then moved to Australia to coach the North Sydney Bears for the 1969 New South Wales RFL season and stayed until 1970.
resentment in Australia and this prompted him to return to the UK in 1971.He become Hull's team manager again from 1971 to 1973. He later won a Premiership title back at Leeds during the 1974–75 season, before finishing his coaching career with Bradford Northern from 1975.
Francis died in 1989 but is forever remembered for the quality of the rugby that his sides played.


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New Horror Releases: Monstrous (2020) - Reviewed
Monstrous is the story of a young woman who elects to go searching for her friend who had gone missing in a town known for Bigfoot sightings. Her road trip takes her to a place far darker than the lair of a giant hairy monster, but we will leave the synopsis at that.
Written by lead actress Anna Shields (Little Bi Peep from 2013) and directed by Bruce Wemple (The Tomorrow Paradox and Lake Artifact (2019)) Monstrous follows Sylvia (Shields) who reluctantly goes to Whitehall, NY to trail the last place her missing friend had been seen. She is accompanied by Alex (Rachel Finninger), a stranger who is headed to the same town, but the Bigfoot subject is the last thing that comes up.
The film has amazing imagery that lends to the mystery of the forest and its mythological inhabitant, but the actual topic of Bigfoot is as scarce as the manimal himself. An entire hour of the film is clumsily devoted to girl-on-girl angst as a bland and overbearing attempt at character establishment. If you like chicks making out incessantly while you get drunk on the couch, Monstrous will satisfy you for most of the running time. If you aim to see a tension-filled Bigfoot film, perhaps pass on this one.
It is a bait-and-switch of topics, but having said that, the few sights of Bigfoot that we do get in this film are breathtaking, making it worth the tedious wait. The cinematography successfully embraces the legend and its larger-than-life appeal and the make-up effects for the entire film is believable and very well done. Wemple is clearly a thorough director, using atmosphere and color grading to enhance the scenes even more.
Monstrous delivers a promising opening sequence and follows with pleasant natural acting, especially by Sylvia's pal Jaime (Grant Schumacher), that gives the film credence on many levels. Unfortunately, the story is thin and predictable, focusing far more on common psychoses than the intended enigma it uses to hook audiences. However, it does jumble up expectations in exploring the more bestial attributes in humans, which runs a pretty metaphor to the mythos of the man-beast. The criminal element in the film will please fans of true crime and thrillers in general, so roll your dice!
The duplicitous nature of the film is a double-edged sword. Most audiences might feel cheated at the actual subject matter that is masked as what most would expect – an adventure into the untamed horror of the Sasquatch. Monstrous never claims to be exclusively about Bigfoot, though, therefore seizing every right to steer us into a slight detour during the film. Those who enjoy a double plot run will enjoy the sub-plot which is responsible for most of the horror aspect of the movie, after all.
To horror audiences, Monstrous will be forgettable, but that does not mean that it is not a decent opportunity to watch a solid piece of horror that will satisfy your serial killer needs.
--Tasha Danzig
Tags: 2020, bigfoot, monstrous, new horror releases, review, spoiler free, tasha danzig, the movie sleuth at 7/29/2020


First Social Stretch Goal! Help us spread the word!
All you have to do is help us reach out for even more agents that would join A.R.P.A. So let's call them out and get the air backup.
Here are the 2 posts (on Twitter and Facebook) with the first briefing that we made public after all so more people can see the great story we want to build up in the game. And we need you to share them. If we reach the final window we will unravel the mystery equipment that will be delivered to you with the first adventure!
Hello to all you adventure junkies!
We want to welcome you to our next Board & Dice project. Here you will find 2 titles under a single brand called the Page Quest Series. These are: A4 Quest and Page Quest: Mythical Artifacts.
Both games build on the same mechanic, but each will provide you with something different.... First of all you'll get a printed version of the already well known game - A4 Quest. which has succeeded already in the PNP world by offering an engaging gameplay that fits on a single A4 printed sheet. You don't need to prepare anything once it's printed it's ready to be played.
Additionally you will be able to get access to our brand new project (which we hope will become huge and epic!) called Page Quest: Mythical Artifacts. This will be available as a monthly subscription of Print and Play materials. These will form something like a tv show aired in the even time frames.
If you're wondering what will you find inside the box and in the subscription, take a look!
You have a lunch break during work hours or you're traveling on a train? Then find yourself some space and go on the adventure to put down some monsters and survive through an epic journey. The whole game has a humorous graphic design and its style resembles a two-dimension platform games known from computers or mobile games.
1. Kickstarter exclusives won't be available in retail or distribution!
What it means? Well we want to ensure you that all reached Stretch Goals in this project won't be available in the regular distribution and in the shops that didn't support it with the group pledge. We want to make all Backers feel honored! So that means ALL Stretch Goals are planned as Kickstarter EXCLUSIVES.
2. You are helping us to expand the Board Game Market!
Thanks to this project and your support we want to present you a new way of publishing and delivering games, which in our opinions could be very unique when it comes to bringing new games to homes all over the world. Firstly you will be receiving a professionally printed game (A4 Quest), which you can treat like a pilot episode preparing you for your epic adventure. This will include all the components that you need while playing Page Quest without looking for those extra components. Secondly you will be subscribing to the Page Quest adventures, which means that you will be receiving new content for the game monthly, with access to another file with some extra stuff for the next mission.
You are our fan and backer, and we value your time and support, so we will do all that's humanly possible to ensure that you receive your game first. Fulfillment of this project is the most important thing and no copy will be even available in our webstore before all Backers who filled their pledge on time in Pledge Manager, will receive their copy.
4. Community: Backers and their opinions are very important to us.
We want to build a great PnP community around Page Quest and this means we really value your involvement and we are here to listen to your opinions and ideas. We will try to answer each and every question in the comments or in a private message! We will also try to create a unique atmosphere here like we did during our previous campaigns (Exoplanets, Multiuniversum Project: Cthulhu, SUPERHOT The Card Game). Also we would love to build up this project in the hope that it will be alive for a long time after the Kickstarter campaign ends and that thanks to that it will be possible to create new seasons of Page Quest.
5. You can receive all additional content for free!
All stretch goals will be available for you for free and they will improve the quality of printed A4 Quest and also it will expand the content of Page Quest: Season 1. This means that almost every stretch goal will be expanding the length of the first season of Page Quest. Thanks to that you will be receiving more dedicated content for this game in a longer time frame. So in conclusion all of you will be a big part of creating new exciting episodes and adventures to the tv show that you will be living through.
Here you can find very important information about shipping and fullfilment!
Shipping time for worldwide destinations is about 4-6 weeks for economic, basic tracked postage.
Since all parcels will be sent from Poland, shipping costs for backers from this country will be half the normal price.
Please note that shipping will be paid after the Kickstarter campaign ends, from the Pledge Manager. Prices are final for all named pledge levels. But please remember that if you add more stuff in Pledge Manager, shipping prices might slightly change, depending on how many add-ons, games or extra items you want to get (costs of shipping depends on weight of elements you will add to your order in Pledge Manager).
SPIEL2018 PICK UP OPTION - for Backers who are planning to visit Spiel2018 we will offer FREE pick up option in Pledge Manager.
Also if you want to visit us in ur office - there will be such a FREE option in Pledge Manager.
Our team is a group of crazy, creative, and very hard-working people with a lot of cool ideas. Board & Dice and Thistroy Games have been working together for a few years on several different projects. What is more, we are planning even more projects together (for UK Games Expo 2018), so that shows how we appreciate this cooperation and Thistroy Games' way of thinking and working.
Board & Dice Publishing, let's call us the BaD Squad, is mostly run by four geeks fully engaged in games that we intend to publish.
For us, board games are something more than merely an idea for a business. Most of all, they are our great passion, which enables us to develop ourselves in several areas at the same time. Since we are a small Polish publishing firm, we can publish games that are to our liking and that we find interesting. That is, the ones we'd love to play ourselves.
So far, we have published Beer Empire, Dice Brewing, Exoplanets, The Curse of The Black Dice, Multiuniversum and Multiuniversum: Project Cthulhu, SUPERHOT The Card Game, Pocket Mars, The Networks German Edition, INBETWEEN - and many more in plans and in development process: Cartel, Page Quest, Blight Chronicles: Agent Decker... What more to say - we will have some cool proposals for you guys!
To make a long story short – we publish games that fascinate us. Such was the case with Beer Empire or Dice Brewing which reflected our love for brewing, or with Exoplanets and Pocket Mars which mirrors our huge interest in the cosmos and the laws governing our universe, SUPERHOT The Card Game and INBETWEEN as well.
The same situation is with Page Quest series: we thought this idea was amazing from the beginning, with mechanics we fell for instantly and the crazy promise of turning this game into a great SERIES of intelligent, SOLO games.
You should also know that we ran a successful Kickstarter campaigns in 2015 for the board game Exoplanets, and in the same year we also funded another of our games, The Curse of The Black Dice, on a Polish crowdfunding portal. In 2016 we funded Multiuniversum with Multiuniversum Project: Cthulhu. And in 2017 SUPERHOT The Card Game.
As Board&Dice we have experience in international sales and delivery of games to Europe, North America and Asian countries (distribution of Dice Brewing, Exoplanets, Multiuniversum – base game, and Multiuniversum Project: Cthulhu, SUPERHOT The Card Game, Pocket Mars, Beer Empire and our new game INBETWEEN). What is more, we are selling other publishers' games worldwide, so we can assure you that after the period indicated in the campaign your Backed games will be delivered to your hands. Most of the components have already been quoted and the suppliers have undertaken obligations with regard to delivery dates, so all deadlines presented in the campaign are real and compliant with our and our partners' abilities.
First materials for Page Quest are already prepared and all backers will receive their first adventures one week after this campaign ends. After that, new content will be sent to you each month (at first week of the month).
A4 Quest is finished in gameplay and graphic design. The last elements are also in the finish of testing phase here in Poland. What is important most of the game components were tested over 15,000 times (this is the number of downloads for A4 Quest).
A4 Quest, which is the core of the mechanics, was scrutinised by a very demanding and experienced community - PnP and SOLO player community who have publicly spoken about it in various media like BoardGameGeek, PnP Groups. and in every kind of Social Media forum (we're happy, because most of their opinions were very positive :) ). That's why we believe that A4 Quest and Page Quest are finished down to the smallest details and the only thing left is the production and delivery for A4 Quest and final artwork on Page Quest.
Additionally, we've already planned the logistics behind deliveries and have acquired an International Partner who allows us to deliver packages worldwide. On the other hand, Europe is the area in which we're successfully executing deliveries of games to our partners, shops or directly to players buying items from our web store on a daily basis.
This long description is our way to tell you that the campaign and game itself is well prepared and our team already spent several long months working on it.
If you have any questions for us or have any doubts then don't hesitate to contact us.
Page Quest: Mythical Artifacts PnP content including all unlocked Stretch Goals.
This is a digital reward and will be sent to you via email shortly after the campaign ends.
A4 Quest printed edition with 2 brand new, Kickstarter exclusive, adventures and 2 exclusive companions.
6 x Everything at the "Lone Wolf" level, as well as 6 x A4 Quest printed edition with 2 brand new, Kickstarter exclusive, adventures and 2 exclusive companions..


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Q: C++ if a pointer point to nullptr, can I replace it with number?
Hey guys, I encountered some problems about C++. Actually it's not the problem of language feature, otherwise it is related to kind of coding style.
OK, Let's get to the point!
I try to write the AVL Tree and want to calculate the balance factors,
and according the rule, the subtree without nodes(just a empty tree),
its height should be treated as -1. Yeah, everything thinks fine,
but when I write the code, use pointer to read Node class member,
I cannot read the nullptr BAD ACCESS, so I add lots of conditions, which makes my code look bad. Here is some parts of my code.

struct Node{
    int key;
    int height;
    Node* left;
    Node* right;
    Node* parent;
    Node(void);
    Node(int key);
};

    while((parent_node->left->height - parent_node->right->height) <= 1
          ||(parent_node->left->height - parent_node->right->height) >= (-1))
    {
        parent_node = parent_node->parent;
        if(parent_node == nullptr) break;
    }

The result I want is that when the parent_node's left subtree is empty,
its height will be treated as -1. And the fact is, though it's empty, its height should not exist.
So in the code I only list four cases
1. left subtree == nullptr && right subtree == nullptr
2. left subtree != nullptr && right subtree == nullptr
3. left subtree != nullptr && right subtree != nullptr
4. left subtree == nullptr && right subtree != nullptr
Then I replace the code of height part with the value -1 respectively.
It feels painful. And this condition happens in my coding time many times, I want to find the better solution.
My English is not that good, so my description maybe sort of misleading, I will appreciate it if you help me in any way.

A: Create a function that compute the height of a subtree including the special cases, and use that instead of accessing the ->height data member:
int heightOfSubtree(Node* tree) {
    if (tree == nullptr) {
        return -1;
    }
    else {
        return tree-> height;
    }
}

then your code becomes:
while((heightOfSubtree(parent_node->left) - heightOfSubtree(parent_node->right)) <= 1
      ||((heightOfSubtree(parent_node->left) - heightOfSubtree(parent_node->right)) >= (-1))
{
    ...
}

or better, you can define a member function in the Node structure such as this:
bool Node::isBalanced() {
    int unb = heightOfSubtree(left) - heightOfSubtree(right);
    return (unb <= 1) || (unb >=-1);
}

and your while condition becomes:
while(parent_node->isBalanced()) {
    ...
}

p.s.: I believe there is a logical error in your code: I am not sure the condition you are checking is correct, since it is always true (any number is either bigger than -1 or smaller than 1, for some both are true)

A: Unless I misunderstand, you could point to a sentinel node in stead of null as the terminator link. Set the height of the sentinel to -1 and it doesn't need to be handled differently for that part of the algorithm.


Senator George Akume, the Chairman Senate Committee on Army, on Friday alleges that the Benue State Government was behind the attacks by herdsmen in the state.
Mr. Akume stated this while speaking to State House correspondents after he led a delegation of All Progressives Congress (APC) members from the state to visit President Muhammadu Buhari at the presidential villa in Abuja.
"When you talk about herdsmen and farmers' clash, it is a story going good-bye Have you heard of farmers/herders clashes in Benue again? No.
"We know those who were behind that; government was behind that. I am talking about the state government, through the livestock guards. They knew what was going on. So it is now a thing of the past.
"Everything that is going there is fraudulent in Benue State and the people are simply tired on this misinformation that they have been receiving. The narrative has changed; it is not question of herdsmen, we are not talking about religious and ethnic bigotry, we are talking about performance of government," the senator said.


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Q: How to toggle word wrap in Visual Studio's immediate window? Is there any way to toggle the wordwrap in the immediate window of Visual Studio? I have searched a lot. I could see the word wrap only for the code window. It is inconvenient to scroll right every time to see the hidden text.

A: Click into the Immediate Window, hold the Control key and press E and then W: tested on VS2022 Professional.
Source: MicrosoftDocs


Internet Download Manager is most widely used with Chrome Browser. But it cannot work properly unless you add IDM extension to Chrome.
When you installed IDM for the first time on your device, its extension was added to your Chrome Browser. But chances are, after a certain time period it stopped working properly.
Whenever you visit YouTube and play a video, you will see an IDM download tab appear at the top. This is the simplest way of telling if your IDM extension is working properly. If the download tab does not appear, it means you need to do some repairing.
The reason for this might be the IDM extension for your Chrome Browser is not working properly.
Now to fix this problem, first remove the IDM extension from Chrome.
Click on the three dots at the very right top corner of your Chrome Browser. Then navigate to More Tools > Extensions.
In the new window, you will see all the extensions listed out. Each extension will be presented inside separate cards. Remove the IDM extension. You will find the Remove Button right at the bottom of the card.
Open the Desktop Application of IDM. Navigate to Downloads>Options. This will bring up the Internet Download Manager Configuration pop-up.
Make sure the boxes 'Use advanced browser integration' and 'Google Chrome' are checked.
Program Files (x86)>Internet Download Manager.
Keep this window open. Now open the Extension tab on your Chrome Browser one more time.
Now simply drop the IDMGCExt.crx file from your C Drive, inside the Extension Tab on Chrome.
You might want to check if it works. Open Youtube on Chrome and Play a video. If the IDM download tab appears, this means you have successfully added IDM Extension to Chrome.
In the meantime here is a quick blog on how to use any website as a Search Engine on Chrome.


Another chic suede ankle boot from schuh arrives in black - this is Vortex. The durable upper features a side zip detailing, with a chunky rubber sole unit for a durable finish to see you through autumn/winter. A slight 4.5cm heel completes.


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https://www.thehour.com/norwalk/article/Police-trial-hearing-ends-in-firing-of-sergeant-8241520.php
Police trial hearing ends in firing of sergeant
Published 8:00 pm EDT, Monday, September 22, 2008
By FRANK MacEACHERN
Hour Staff Writer
The 24-year career of a Norwalk police officer ended Tuesday after he was fired for his role in alerting a fellow police officer that he was the suspect in a sexual assault allegation involving a 15-year-old Weston resident.
Sgt. Stephen Couture left the third-floor conference room at police headquarters before the decision was announced by the three-member police trial board at 4:05 p.m.
Couture's lawyer, Richard Gudis, slammed the decision to fire Couture, and said they will appeal it to the state Board of Mediation and Arbitration.
"The difference between the Norwalk police trial board and the state board is that the state board is a neutral, fair and impartial panel," said Gudis.
Saranne P. Murray, the lawyer representing the administration, was not at the hearing. She could not be reached by telephone for comment.
Police Chief Harry W. Rilling said it was a difficult day to see one of the department's officers fired.
"It's a very sad day for us," said Rilling. "It's a very difficult situation when you have to terminate a police officer."
Rilling had brought four charges against Couture that he violated the department's rules and regulations.
Couture had to turn in his badge and his handgun after the ruling, said Rilling, who added the department tried to handle the situation with sensitivity.
The trial board consisted of police commissioners Daniel O'Connor and Peter Torrano, as well as city personnel director James Haselkamp. The latter was asked to chair the trial board by Mayor Richard A. Moccia, who is the third member of the police commission.
In releasing the decision, Haselkamp said the board would not make any comment on its decision.
The board was critical of Couture's actions in alerting former Lt. Thomas Cummings, then commander of the Detective Bureau, about the investigation by Westport police.
They wrote that within 20 minutes of learning details about the allegation from Westport Detective Jill Ruggiero on the afternoon of Friday, Oct. 26, 2007, Couture told Cummings about it.
That decision "thwarted any possibility of an Internet sting," which Ruggiero had been considering, said the board, as it ruled Couture violated Section 4.16 of conduct unbecoming a police officer.
Cummings was charged in January with three counts of enticing a minor, two counts of second-degree sexual assault and three counts of risk of injury to a minor. He resigned from the police department on Feb. 15.
He is alleged to have had sex with two 15-year-old boys and attempting to have sex with another male juvenile.
After his conversation with Ruggiero, Couture called Cummings and told him they had to meet. They met in a parking lot where Couture testified he angrily confronted Cummings about the investigation
During that tense meeting, Couture received a telephone call about the case from Assistant State's Attorney Richard Colangelo. The two had briefly spoken about the issue earlier. Colangelo told Couture not to tell anyone about the allegation.
Couture didn't tell Colangelo that he had just told Cummings and was meeting with him at that moment.
The board also said Couture called Ruggiero at 5:34 p.m. that same day "and attempted to dissuade Detective Ruggiero from obtaining a formal complaint from the victim's mother."
The board ruled that
in telling Cummings about the allegation he violated Section 4.21, which governs the confidentiality of department business.
While it found he violated two of the charges, the board ruled he did not violate Section 4.23 in withholding information from his superiors.
The board ruled Couture "technically" violated Section 4.1 (Directive 2.8.12) but didn't impose any discipline for that violation.
Section 4.1 states that "officers shall not commit any acts which constitute a violation of the rules, regulations, directives or other orders of the Department whether or not stated in this General Order."
The board also said Colangelo's directive to Couture not to tell anyone was a mitigating factor in its decision to find that he did not violate Directive 2.8.12. That directive said the chief shall be notified of all complaints against the department or its employees.
Gudis said the charges were an overreaction due to the sensational nature of the investigation.
"Stephen Couture made a mistake and made a minor lapse in judgment, but for the salaciousnous of the alleged conduct by others, this would be, at worst, a written warning," said Gudis.
"Clearly this was more of a decision of political expediency than justice," he said. "Cummings was allowed to resign and (Lt. Michael) King was allowed to retire," said Gudis.
During the police probe, Cummings was investigated for downloading pornographic material on his department computer and the police computer assigned to him.
Neither Couture nor King were ever charged criminally for their actions.
Despite the firing, Gudis said he didn't believe Couture's career was over.
"I don't think so. I think when these same set of facts is put before competent and impartial tryers of law, Stephen Couture will be vindicated."


Thanks to all its money, Google is a big winner in the war for talent in Silicon Valley.
The latest evidence is a story we just heard from the founder of a large, successful enterprise startup.
This founder told us that his startup tried to poach a "programmer" currently working at Google.
The startup made the programmer what it thought was a big offer: a $500,000 salary.
"He blew us off," said the founder.
The programmer told the startup thanks for the offer, but Google was currently paying him $3 million per year in cash and restricted stock units.
A compensation of $3 million per year, or even $500,000 per year, is well above the Silicon Valley average for an engineer. Recruiter Scott Purcell says the software engineers he's placing typically make a base salary of $165,000. The average base salary for a Google engineer is $128,000.
But there are outliers besides our $3 million engineer. Twitter's senior vice president of engineer, Christopher Fry, earned $10.3 million last year.
Google has an industry-wide reputation for getting — and keeping — the people it wants.
It's pretty impressive, for example, that Google was able to remove Andy Rubin from the top of Android and still manage to keep him inside the company, working on robots.
This is a credit to CEO Larry Page. He's made Google into a place where really bright people get to work on extremely ambitious, large-scale problems. Before he took over Google as CEO in 2011, the company was losing a lot of people to startups like Facebook and Twitter. Now, not so much.
It is also a credit to the power of money, which Google has a lot of.
Update: On Twitter, ex-Googler Hunter Walk (now a VC) warns other startups: "The *worst* way to recruit from Google is with money. For anyone really good, Google will outbid you. So you're left with the ones they don't want to retain."
Google gettin on my damn nerves. They need to quit with all these so-called improvements on Youtube. Ain't improved shyt.
Thank you Farraface the changes to youtube is total bs and a hassle. Bing does seem to be underrated but if google keeps this up it won't be.
Not much to see about the programmer and his foolish spending.
i mean really.. why leave for a sixth of your cheque minus perks?


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Smorgasbord Posts from Your Archives – The Seven Deadly Sins and How to Use Them in Your Writing Life by Adrienne Morris
Delighted to welcome Adrienne Morris to the series with her posts from the archives. In her first post she uses the equates our writing to the Seven Deadly Sins…
The Seven Deadly Sins and How to Use Them in Your Writing Life by Adrienne Morris.
The number seven symbolizes perfection. Yet in writing it's far better to dabble in the deadly seven.
Those cardinal sins we relish observing in others from our lofty, virtuous towers are the stuff of conflict and story.
Historical fiction writers have a host of real-life historical villains, but while sins are seen as relative these days, the following list is still quite helpful for the stuck writer.
Lust – to have an intense desire or need.
Some of us lust after five star reviews, don't we? But let's talk character. A morphine addict's addiction is only one extreme example of the many lusts mortals grapple with or go for. John Weldon hides his addiction for over 700 pages. Some don't like such long books. They lust after other things, but I need to dig deep into my characters. It's why I write.
Gluttony – excess in eating and drinking.
Gluttony is one I rarely see used in fiction. Yes, we have the drunks who are often (but not always) seen as comic or tragic and unable to help themselves. How does gluttony move a story forward? If someone overeats aren't they only hurting themselves? Do stolen cookies and late-night binges affect other family members? I wonder if acceptance and tolerance help the person in the grips of gluttony. For a brief period of time my character Katherine becomes a glutton. Some might say she was a glutton for punishment. What turns a person toward gluttony?
Greed – excessive or reprehensible acquisitiveness.
There's a pattern here, isn't there? Humanity is quite full of selfishness. This sin is one of my lesser frailties (I have enormous heaps of some of the others) but oh how fun it is to write about Buck Crenshaw's greedy brother. Greed can be hidden in characters, too. Buck is greedy for control. He thinks he's generous, and he is, but he's often fooled by his lust for acceptance and desire for emotional safety.Laziness – disinclined to activity or exertion: not energetic or vigorous.
Laziness is often a sign of deep fear and fatalism.
Why bother starting something when it's going to fail anyway? Lazy characters rarely become main characters because they don't do much. Yet their passivity can lead to exciting tragedy, failed marriages and melancholy regrets.Wrath – strong vengeful anger or indignation.
Wrath is the stuff of writing!
We all love a good fight and the clever and biting remark that tears the seams from a book. We decry war in real life, but a book without war, even a war raging in our character's heart, often doesn't get to the heart of life. Families in conflict. That's my thing. It's what I love. Writing historical family saga novels makes me want to get up in the morning.Envy–painful or resentful awareness of an advantage enjoyed by another joined with a desire to possess the same advantage.
In writing family saga fiction envious siblings are gold. The Crenshaw family in The Tenafly Road Series would not exist without parents who motivate their children by setting them upon each other. The painful part is loving a friend or family member yet envying their success. Brutal–and great for writing.
Pride – quality or state of being proud – inordinate self esteem.
And here we get to the bottom of it. PRIDE. This one word is at the heart of great fiction and our sorry little lives as humans. I say this lovingly because as a writer I relish misplaced pride. We think of characters with pride as the braggarts, but they come in the mousy little men and women too who spend far too much time thinking of how inadequate they are.
The seven deadly sins are really just different versions of self-obsession. Self-obsession is what novels are all about. We read to see how we (as in humans) do and see and feel things. We are obsessed with our species. I am. It's a big love/hate fest living with and writing about people. The sins (and the virtues) keep life interesting and writers writing.
©Adrienne Morris and image.
My thanks to Adrienne for sharing her post and her interesting perspective on our drive to write and create stories.
Books in The Tenafly Road Series
The most recent review for Forget Me Not.
At this point, I have kind of grown up with this series… By Theodora on October 11, 2017
At this point, I have kind of grown up with this series and it is interesting how it has somewhat mirrored my life. You always think the next phase is going to provide answers and while it does often do that, it then brings a whole new set of catastrophes to worry about. I love that this series has a subtle humor to it, similar to that of a private joke you have with yourself. I've cared for each character almost equally, kind of the the way I would love those in my family. They each provide a different perspective that I can find myself relating to in some way, even if I completely disagree. Definitely my favorite in the series so far.
Read the reviews and buy the books: https://www.amazon.com/Adrienne-Morris/e/B00CDO9CU
and Amazon UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Adrienne-Morris/e/B00CDO9CU0
Read more reviews and follow Adrienne on Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/8266592.Adrienne_Morris
About Adrienne Morris
Adrienne Morris is author of the novel The House on Tenafly Road (selected as an Editors' Choice Book by The Historical Novel Society and a Notable Indie Book of the Year) and The Tenafly Road Series, the continuing family saga of the Weldon and Crenshaw families of Gilded Age Englewood, New Jersey.
"I write family sagas because I love people. I love their flaws. I love their dreams and deceptions. Historical fiction allows me to reckon with thoughts and feelings I'd rather not address in the here and now. There's a certain safety and freedom in placing personal revelations one hundred years behind you."
Musty old libraries, abandoned houses and corsets bring to life the many characters crowding Adrienne's imagination, but it's the discovery that people, no matter the century they live in, share the same struggles, hopes and desires (the greatest desire being love) that keeps her up at night writing. Adrienne's novels are love letters to those of us who feel less than perfect. They are an invitation to love ourselves and others despite our many imperfections.
Adrienne also milks goats, chases chickens and sometimes keeps her dogs off the table.
Connect to Adrienne
Website/Blog: https://middlemaybooks.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/MiddlemayFarm
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/middlemay_farm/
Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/morris_adrienne/
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40 thoughts on "Smorgasbord Posts from Your Archives – The Seven Deadly Sins and How to Use Them in Your Writing Life by Adrienne Morris"
Billy Ray Chitwood on November 9, 2017 at 1:59 pm said:
Adrienne writes an enjoyable and vital message to writers. Thanks for sharing, Sally and Adrienne. My best wishes. Hugs…
Thanks for sharing Billy Ray. xx
Adrienne Morris on November 9, 2017 at 6:58 pm said:
I'm so glad you enjoyed it Billy Ray.
Kev on November 9, 2017 at 3:13 pm said:
Thanks Kev.. x
Reblogged this on Love, Life, Tears, and Laughter: Our Life… Then, Now, and Hereafter and commented:
Sinful delights for writers, folks!
Thank you for sharing Kev.. x
Thanks so much for the reblog! Sins can be fun, can't they? Hehe
Kev on December 11, 2017 at 1:25 pm said:
Most certainly. Lol
balroop2013 on November 9, 2017 at 3:33 pm said:
The scriptures mention only three – "Greed, attachments and wealth". Now I can see how these three lead us to more. Thanks for sharing a wonderful wisdom.
Thanks Balroop.. I am sure the human race will come up with a few more before long! xxx
If we look at pride we can see that so many other evils come from just that one thing. Sigh. Oh, humanity!
D. Wallace Peach on November 9, 2017 at 3:43 pm said:
A fun and fascinating post. Greed is the villain in many of my books. It's such a pervasive problem! Thanks, Adrienne and Sally
Thank you Diana.. and I think when we look at world politics and those hoarding their money that it plays a huge part in our lives… xxx
What is at the root of greed? Fear? Pride? What's your take, D?
D. Wallace Peach on November 9, 2017 at 10:53 pm said:
My stance on it is that it all goes back to fear, Adrienne. I actually think that all the sins, at their core, are fear-based. Love, on the other hand, takes a great deal of courage. 🙂
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Sinful delights for writers folks!
I reblogged this to the wrong site, Sally. All corrected now!
Thank Kev.. have just seen your email and will get back to you.. hugs xx
Kev on November 18, 2017 at 3:51 pm said:
robbiesinspiration on November 9, 2017 at 6:31 pm said:
Fascinating, Sally and Adrienne. I have never thought of the seven deadly sins as being self obsession but that is right. Obsessions in any form can be harmful.
They are and usually come back to greed.. says she hiding the chocolate… hugs xx
Never thought of hiding chocolate as anything other than survival of the fittest in my house.
Smorgasbord - Variety is the Spice of Life. on November 9, 2017 at 10:17 pm said:
haha… xx
Yeah, it's too bad because I'm an obsessive person. 😉
Sally, thank you for giving us this platform. What an inspiration.
Always enjoy sharing interesting posts Adrienne.. hugs xx
Tina Frisco on November 9, 2017 at 10:37 pm said:
This is fascinating. I give my characters all manner of flaws but never thought to consult the 7 deadly sins. You've sent me on a character vision quest, Adrienne. Terrific post 🙂 ♥
Thanks Tina..♥
Adrienne Morris on November 10, 2017 at 1:03 am said:
A vision quest…I like that! Glad you enjoyed, Tina.
Loved this! 🙂 xx
Always aim to please, dg. 🙂
Thanks Debby..hugs xx
Adrienne Morris on November 10, 2017 at 11:54 am said:
Thanks for the reblog!!
marisselee on November 15, 2017 at 8:14 am said:
I have been told about my pride many times…unfortunately, that and my stubbornness sustained me to be able to do things in life. I guess, pride, if not accompanied by disdain, cannot be altogether bad. Tweeted.
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From a Group of Local Citizens to a Regional Land Conservancy
History of West Creek
Formerly West Creek Preservation Committee
Since its founding, West Creek has been a model of citizen action and land conservation, maximizing benefits and leveraging projects to the fullest extent possible. Initially embracing the much-needed role of an urban land trust serving Greater Cleveland, West Creek ultimately evolved into a diverse non-profit conservation organization serving the region. Recognized for its successful conservation and restoration initiatives, West Creek is led by a Board of Directors overseeing a professional Staff and many volunteers.
The original focus of West Creek was an undeveloped 300-acre natural area in the upper West Creek Valley. In the mid-1990s, the property was slated to become another shopping center and the City of Parma's second golf course. Despite its location in a densely populated area, and while the creek and surrounding land had suffered severe degradation over the years, the beauty of the natural area endured.
A small group of concerned citizens recognized the value of preserving the West Creek Valley and formed West Creek Preservation Committee. The Committee proposed an alternative to development that would not only preserve the West Creek Valley but make it available for public enjoyment. The Committee used grass-roots efforts and initiatives to convey their vision for preservation, which garnered widespread community support of both citizens and elected officials. Ultimately, the committee was successful in creating the West Creek Preserve and Greenway, a network of recreational trails and corridors linking the park to neighborhoods, other parks and the Towpath Trail.
In 2006, in partnership with the City of Parma, Cleveland Metroparks, and the Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District, West Creek Preserve became West Creek Reservation, a park that serves over 180,000 visitors annually and is home to the Watershed Stewardship Center. Over the years the Reservation has continued to expand through the work of what is now known as West Creek.
West Creek has readily accepted and stepped into roles where the need exists, supporting and assisting partners and communities with a variety of unique and challenging opportunities. West Creek stepped in to serve as the landowner for many critical projects such as Irishtown Bend, Morgana Bluffs Nature Preserve, and the former Haydite Mine.
West Creek's involvement in Irishtown Bend ultimately facilitates the stabilization of a 23-acre area along the Cuyahoga River protecting vital infrastructure and the integrity of the shipping channel. The property will be transformed into an urban park and provide the key linkage for the Lake Link Centennial Trail's connection to Wendy Park, Whiskey Island and Lake Erie. Morgana Bluffs Nature Preserve is a restored urban natural environment and land lab for local children in the Slavic Village neighborhood of the City of Cleveland; a unique partnership with the Boys and Girls Club of Northeast Ohio. The former Haydite Mine in Independence is a 100-acre site bordering Cuyahoga Valley National Park, Cuyahoga Valley Scenic Railroad, and the Hemlock Creek Trail. West Creek stepped up to secure the land, see it through the reclamation process, and ultimately integrate it into the national park to provide a unique recreational asset for the region.
West Creek has worked closely with many partners, including Cleveland Metroparks where the transfer of critical parcels to Metroparks has enabled such things as the Lake Link Trail connecting Cleveland's Lakefront to the Towpath Trail, the creation and expansion of West Creek Reservation as well as other trail and park developments In recognition of its longstanding partnership with Cleveland Metroparks, West Creek was awarded the "Outstanding Support Organization" from the National Association of County Park and Recreation Officials for helping Cleveland Metroparks conserve greenspace and manage stormwater.
At the present time, West Creek is prioritizing conservation throughout the Lake Erie Watershed and beyond. West Creek continues to share its expertise and provide land conservation services to individuals, partner organizations, and communities. West Creek has protected thousands of acres in dozens of communities across the region, while placing importance on water quality improvement, storm water abatement, wetland and riparian corridor restoration, environmental education and outreach, historic preservation, and natural resource stewardship.
Dave Vasarhelyi gathers local volunteers and forms West Creek Preservation Committee (WCPC), a grassroots organization devoted to protecting over 300 acres of natural area along West Creek in Parma
WCPC develops and publicly presents the vision for the West Creek Preserve and Greenway
WCPC receives its first project grant for educational outreach (from Great Lakes Aquatic Habitat Network)
News reports indicate multiple proposals to build a combined shopping complex and golf course on city and privately-owned land along West Creek, which would destroy Parma's largest remaining green space
Following a successful WCPC initiative petition in which over 6,000 voter signatures are gathered in 10 days, Parma voters reject by 72% a proposed golf course and choose to protect natural habitat on 162 acres of city-owned land and dedicate it as West Creek Preserve
WCPC is awarded its first foundation grant for educational outreach (from Gund Foundation)
WCPC assists the newly-formed Parma Park Advisory Committee; WCPC begins to facilitate and later leads land acquisition efforts to expand West Creek Preserve and begin creation of the West Creek Greenway
WCPC succeeds in having the West Creek area incorporated into the Ohio & Erie Canal National Heritage Corridor, signifying its regional historical significance
WCPC incorporates as an independent non-profit 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization
West Creek Preserve is officially dedicated as Parma's first park for conservation
Parma voters pass a $3 million bond levy by 62% to purchase 72 acres of prime woodlands and wetlands from Gannett Broadcasting to enlarge West Creek Preserve; WCPC facilitates the acquisition
Cuyahoga County Planning Commission completes the "West Creek Valley Management Plan" identifying strategies for land use, water quality, and recreational trail opportunities in the West Creek watershed
Using a combination of grant funds, WCPC purchases its first conservation property, a 1.5-acre site along West Creek at Pleasant Valley Road in Parma
WCPC leads successful efforts to protect 40 additional acres of West Creek Valley adjacent to West Creek Preserve
WCPC receives a $730,000 grant in the 1st round of Clean Ohio conservation funding to acquire over 60 acres for the West Creek Greenway; WCPC will be awarded Clean Ohio funds in every subsequent round
WCPC receives an Ohio EPA grant to hire a watershed coordinator
Under the direction of Professor Terry Greathouse of Cuyahoga Community College, WCPC, CCC, the City of Parma, and hundreds of volunteers collaborate to create 2 acres of wetlands in West Creek Preserve
WCPC opens its first office, at Rockside Plaza in Parma, and hires its first staff member
WCPC partners with Trust for Public Land and the City of Parma to save the historic Henninger House from demolition and acquire it for a future trailhead along the West Creek Greenway; the canal-era property includes the oldest structure in Parma
WCPC partners with the Village of Brooklyn Heights to protect the threatened 27-acre Eagle Glen parcel along West Creek, doubling the size of Brooklyn Heights Park
Parma Park Advisory Committee, with support from the City of Parma and WCPC, completes and opens the first mile of trail in West Creek Preserve; it includes a scenic steel bridge spanning West Creek
WCPC and the City of Parma complete acquisition of 72-acre Gannett property, which is added to West Creek Preserve
Cleveland Metroparks announces discussions regarding a lease of West Creek Preserve for a new reservation; public input workshops are held
WCPC partners with the Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District for stream habitat restoration projects along West Creek
WCPC, the City of Parma, and Cleveland Metroparks enter into a lease agreement in which Metroparks will manage West Creek Preserve as its 16th reservation; WCPC will lead efforts to expand and connect new reservation to the Ohio & Erie Canal Towpath Trail
WCPC, Cleveland Metroparks, and Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District partner to lead watershed stewardship programs out of a planned Watershed Leadership Center at West Creek Reservation
Cuyahoga Valley Chamber of Commerce bestows 2006 Organization of the Year award on WCPC for green space preservation, water resource restoration, and creation of a recreational trail network
West Creek Greenway trail planning is completed and ready for implementation to connect with the Ohio & Erie Canal Towpath Trail
WCPC aids the City of Seven Hills in receiving a Northeast Ohio Areawide Coordinating Agency grant for a 1-mile trail segment of the West Creek Greenway east of Broadview Road; it opens by year end
WCPC, Trust for Public Land, Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District, and the City of Independence purchase a closed big box store and 10-acre West Creek confluence site to restore the streambed, floodplain, and wetlands, and create a new riverfront park along the Cuyahoga River
Parma City Council and Ohio Representative Timothy DeGeeter honor WCPC founder Dave Vasarhelyi and chair Dave Lincheck in celebration of the organization's achievements on its 10th anniversary
WCPC acquires Valley Tavern site in Independence, across from confluence site, to improve wildlife habitat and help manage stormwater along West Creek
WCPC completes its first project within the City of Cleveland, acquiring a 22-acre conservation easement on prime riparian corridor, wooded ravine, and restored open space for Treadway Creek Greenway & Trail, the first neighborhood trail west of the Cuyahoga River to connect with the Towpath Trail
The West Creek Watershed Action Plan is completed and receives full endorsement by Ohio EPA
WCPC acquires a 55-acre conservation easement in the upper Big Creek watershed to form Busch/Snake Hill Conservation Area for future restoration and low-impact recreation
WCPC completes and adopts a strategic plan which reinforces its role as an urban land conservancy, formally expands its service area to all of Greater Cleveland, and outlines a plan to grow the organization's capacity and sustainability
WCPC accepts donation of 5-acre Novy property in Brooklyn Heights containing a West Creek tributary on the south side of I-480; it becomes the largest stream restoration initiative on lower West Creek, totaling nearly ½ mile and over $2 million
Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District awards WCPC a $30,000 grant in their first round of Watershed Operating Support Grants, which recognizes the importance of local watershed organizations
Cosponsors WCPC and Friends of Big Creek lead the first Greater Cleveland Trails Conference in Middleburg Heights
Gund Foundation awards WCPC $100,000/year for three years for operation of urban land conservancy
Cuyahoga County Natural Resources Advisory Council awards WCPC Round 6 Clean Ohio Conservation Funds totaling $535,000 to protect 6 parcels in Seven Hills and Parma and 2300 feet of stream
WCPC receives a $103,000 Clean Ohio Trails Fund grant and a $130,000 Recreational Trails grant for land acquisition along a trail segment connecting Henninger House to Brooklyn Heights Park
WCPC accepts donation of 3-acre Penko property in North Royalton containing Big Creek headwaters; proceeds of house sale fund the purchase of additional 3 acres in Brooklyn, critical to proposed Big Creek Connector Trail
WCPC protects its first parcel of land within the Euclid Creek watershed in partnership with the City of Cleveland and Friends of Euclid Creek
WCPC hires its first executive director
WCPC revises its mission statement to better reflect its core principles and countywide service area
Cleveland Metroparks announces groundbreaking for $12 million in improvements to West Creek Reservation with partners Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District, the City of Parma, and WCPC
WCPC and Cleveland Metroparks begin management of GLRI grant for West Creek Ecosystem Restoration Project under West Creek Neighborhood Stewardship Program
WCPC partners with OSU Extension and City of Cleveland to reclaim 6 acres of vacant urban land and facilitate Kinsman Farm Project, serving as ongoing landholder and licensor of plots to urban farmers
WCPC has conserved or assisted others in the conservation of over 700 acres, owns 66 conservation parcels, and holds 20 conservation easements
WCPC hires first bookkeeper/office manager
Along with many partners, WCPC and Friends of Big Creek organize the Second Biennial Greater Cleveland Trails & Greenways Conference in Independence
WCPC partners with the City of Parma and Cleveland Metroparks to facilitate acquisition of Dentzler Trail land for neighborhood trail connection
WCPC adopts West Creek Conservancy (WCC) name to better reflect its primary services
WCPC continues to evolve as a land conservancy and watershed protection organization, coordinating stream and wetland restoration projects, conserving additional natural areas, and acquiring land needed for the West Creek Greenway
WCPC conservation projects beyond the West Creek watershed grow as WCPC receives an increasing number of inquiries about working in the larger Greater Cleveland community
WCC holds its first annual Tails for Trails Dog Walk-a-Thon fundraiser at Seven Hills Recreational Trail
WCC is named a Partner-of-the-Year by Cleveland Crops; WCC helped secure 20 acres for their farming operations
WCC holds its first large-scale fundraising event, Blues for Greens; a capacity crowd of over 400 attends at Sava Event Center in Broadview Heights
Through partnership with Cuyahoga County Board of Developmental Disabilities, the City of Parma, and Parma Area Historical Society, WCC facilitates creation of Greater Cleveland's largest urban farm, Cleveland Crops urban farm at Parma's Stearns Homestead
WCC partners with Friends of Euclid Creek and Cuyahoga Soil & Water Conservation District to create the 9-acre Redstone Run Highland Reserve in Richmond Heights
WCC holds its 2nd Annual Tails for Trails Dog Walk-a-Thon at West Creek Reservation
WCC assists Cleveland Metroparks in preserving nearly 50 acres in the East Branch watershed of Rocky River, a recognized Blue Heron Rookery with abundant high-quality streams and wetlands
Capital improvements by Cleveland Metroparks to the 325-acre West Creek Reservation are completed; West Creek Reservation and Watershed Stewardship Center celebrate their grand opening; WCC opens an office at the new center
Gateway to West Creek: Protecting the Confluence, a 10-acre restoration project in Independence, breaks ground to provide emergency floodplain, storm water storage, and natural parkland at West Creek's confluence with the Cuyahoga River
WCC secures an additional 10 acres from Gannett Broadcasting for future incorporation into West Creek Reservation
In partnership with Cleveland Metroparks, WCC completes the 2nd and 3rd phases of a model stormwater retrofit program for residential areas; impact on water quality is notable
WCC sponsors an Ohio Historical Society marker for Parma's Henninger Homestead; a well-attended dedication event also features installation of a commemorative brick plaza
WCC acquires 7 acres of woodlands and headwater streams for future Dentzler Trail connection between West Creek Reservation and Stearns Homestead in Big Creek Watershed; Cleveland Metroparks completes three bridges crossing West Creek to reach Dentzler Road
WCC partners with Friends of Euclid Creek and Cuyahoga Soil & Water Conservation District to protect 19 acres containing rare urban wetlands adjoining Highland Heights Park
WCC holds its 2nd Blues for Greens conservation gala at St. Michael's Woodside in Broadview Heights; a capacity crowd of over 400 again attends
Along with many partners, WCC and Friends of Big Creek organize the Third Biennial Greater Cleveland Trails & Greenways Conference in Mayfield Village
WCC conserves a 22-acre property in Brooklyn Heights having ½ mile of Cuyahoga River shoreline
WCC transfers to Cleveland Metroparks a parcel purchased in 2012, near Scranton Road in Cleveland, critical to forming the Lake Link Trail, which will join Cleveland's lakefront to the Towpath Trail
Partnering with the City of Independence to develop the Hemlock Creek Trail, WCC launches a funding campaign to complete this key link between West Creek Reservation and Cuyahoga Valley National Park, extending the West Creek Greenway to the Towpath Trail; WCC leverages over $510,000 toward the project
WCC partners with the City of North Royalton, Rocky River Watershed Council, and Cuyahoga Soil & Water Conservation District to complete a headwater restoration project in Healey Creek, part of the Rocky River watershed
WCC hires its first Stewardship and Outreach Manager, which significantly increases plantings, clean-ups, invasive species removal days, community event staffing, newsletter production, and hikes/tours
WCC leverages over $25,000 to complete restoration of Henninger House windows and doors
For a cost of over $550,000, WCC acquires properties totaling over 30 acres in the upper reaches of the West Creek Valley that enable extension of West Creek Reservation to key destinations: Broadview and Pleasant Valley Roads, and Normandy High School
WCC conserves 17 acres of floodplain along 2,200 feet of Baldwin Creek, a tributary of Rocky River
WCC is awarded $3.5 million in Clean Ohio funds to conserve over 276 acres, including the 80-acre Parmadale campus next to West Creek Reservation and 180 acres in the Village of Valley View
WCC partners with Tinker's Creek Watershed Partners and the City of Warrensville Heights to conserve 16 acres along Hawthorne Creek containing wetlands and expanding 30 adjoining acres of protected habitat
WCC coordinates the creation of the Central Lake Erie Collaboration, a group of 14 regional watershed organizations spanning 130 miles from Conneaut River to Sandusky Bay, to work on shared water quality issues
WCC obtains a 75-acre easement on high-quality wetlands holding 3,000 feet of Tinkers Creek headwater streams in Aurora to help buffer the adjacent 400-acre Aurora Wetlands Park from approaching sprawl
WCC, Big Creek Connects, and other partners organize the Fourth Biennial Greater Cleveland Trails & Greenways Conference in Brecksville
WCC acquires 14 acres of Chippewa Creek floodplain in Broadview Heights containing 1,400 feet of stream
WCC partners with Fairview Park and Rocky River Watershed Council, obtained a conservation easement on 12 acres in Coe Creek valley to preserve 3,000 feet of stream flowing into Rocky River Reservation
WCC holds Up! A Creek, its award-winning conservation gala, at West Creek Reservation to celebrate the organization's 20th year of local land conservation
WCC conserves 50 more acres along West Creek in Parma, which is added to West Creek Reservation in 2019
WCC acquires 35 acres of high-quality wetland to buffer Tinkers Creek State Nature Preserve in Aurora from nearby development
WCC partners with Slavic Village, Cleveland, Cleveland Metropolitan School District, and Boys & Girls Clubs of Cleveland to conserve 4.5 acres of Morgana Run valley for a nature preserve and land lab for local children; Morgana Bluffs Nature Preserve opens in 2019
WCC accepts a 20-acre conservation easement in Cuyahoga Falls containing over 3,000 feet of stream flowing into Mud Brook, a tributary of the Cuyahoga River
Partnering with The Nature Conservancy, WCC preserves 117 acres of Cuyahoga River headwaters in Montville Township for eventual restoration of streams and wetlands
WCC removes 12 impermeable acres from the former Parmadale campus, significantly reducing runoff to the headwater streams of West Creek
WCC acquires a 100-acre former mining site in Independence for restoration; most of the site will eventually transfer to Cuyahoga Valley National Park
WCC acquires 14 acres of Irishtown Bend near downtown Cleveland as part of a larger partnership to allow the Port Authority to stabilize a critical hillside and protect the Cuyahoga River's navigation channel; partners will ultimately transform the 17-acre site into an urban park
WCC is honored with a National Association of County Park and Recreation Officials (NACPRO) Outstanding Support Organization Award for its ongoing work with Cleveland Metroparks to conserve greenspace and manage stormwater
WCC protects 60 acres near Hampton Hills Metro Park in Akron holding Native American cultural sites
Partnering with Euclid Creek Watershed Council, Friends of Euclid Creek, and Cuyahoga Soil & Water Conservation District, WCC acquires 37 acres in Highland Heights to protect high-quality wetlands and unique prairie remnants from development, creating the Dusty Goldenrod Preserve
The City of Independence, WCC, Cuyahoga Valley National Park, and other partners celebrate the dedication of Hemlock Creek Trail, a 2-mile segment of the West Creek Greenway joining the Towpath Trail
WCC conserves 16 acres of the former Sycamore Golf Course in Cuyahoga Falls to buffer Mud Brook from development and for a potential trail link to the Towpath Trail, then acquires 84 more acres in Akron's Merriman Valley to further protect Mud Brook
WCC partners with Tinkers Creek Watershed Partners to acquire 37-acre easement from City of Bedford containing 3,700 feet of Tinker's Creek, for stream and habitat restoration
WCC acquires easement on 10 acres of high-quality wetland in Amherst as part of a mitigation program with EnviroScience, the first step in protecting 200 more acres of nearby wetlands
WCC acquires 202 acres of Brandywine Creek habitat in Northfield Township, a priority conservation area containing over 100 acres of wetland and 2 miles of stream
WCC applies for over $7 million in Clean Ohio funds to acquire over 500 acres across 6 northeast Ohio counties


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SBU News > Stony Brook Matters > Alumni Spotlight > Biology Major Mathew Varghese '15 Learns Life Lessons
Alumni SpotlightStony Brook MattersStudent Spotlight
Biology Major Mathew Varghese '15 Learns Life Lessons
Part of getting an education is learning what you're made of, especially when under pressure. Biology major Mathew Varghese '15 has learned that life lesson many times.
In the lab Mathew performs spectrophotometry, measuring how much light a sample absorbs.
When he was a high school student, Mathew volunteered at Flushing Hospital Medical Center, working at the front desk and answering patients' questions.
"One doctor liked talking to me about medicine," he said. "He would name a set of symptoms and asked me what I thought the problem could be. My knowledge of the human body came from my AP biology class, so I struggled every time."
But the doctor's interest in his opinion spurred Mathew on to pursue biology in college. He learned what impassioned him.
At the end of his freshman year at Stony Brook, Mathew was assigned to give a speech for the Undergraduate College of Human Development. He'd never written or delivered a speech before and said he had no idea how to begin. He only knew he wanted the speech to be sincere, optimistic and humorous.
So he began with a joke. "I hope that you are all enjoying the convocation so far. I know I am because there's lots of free food and I am very, very poor."
The room remained absolutely silent. He tried once more.
"That was a joke, so don't be afraid to laugh, because there are going to be a lot more of them."
That was the tension-breaker that won the audience over and Mathew learned the importance of persistence and trusting his instincts.
Right around that time, Mathew assisted doctors in the Division of Trauma, Emergency Surgery and Surgical Critical Care at Stony Brook University Hospital.
"I saw many of the patients struggle with their medical ordeals and could only imagine the hardships they faced. But I could tell they loved company, even if it only came in the form of a young volunteer," he said. "The Hospital exemplified what it means to treat patients with more than medication. I learned that in medicine, the patient always comes first."
Fast forward to Mathew's junior year, when he was a teaching assistant for organic chemistry and he and his friend Esha Chebolu decided to hold a small review for students. Mathew expected no more than 20 students to show up but was greeted instead by the sight of nearly 60 people at Frey Hall, some of whom had to sit on the windowsills for lack of seats. Caught off guard, Mathew hurriedly printed out 40 more copies of the review notes. The lesson that day: Expect the unexpected.
During his sophomore and junior years, Mathew volunteered to travel with the Stony Brook Global Medical Brigades to Panama and Ghana, where he helped run a free medical clinic in a poverty-stricken community of 700. With only about 30 fellow students, the Brigade treated 600 people, and gave educational presentations on proper hygiene, wrote prescriptions and shadowed doctors.
Mathew interacts with children in Ghana as a member of the Global Medical Brigades.
"One of the Ghanaian doctors, Gideon, took the time to explain to me each patient's health issues, and in the 90-plus-degree heat, he still made sure that every patient was cared for," said Mathew. "It was inspiring how he looked beyond the disease and saw the patients as real people with real emotions. He taught me compassion."
Having spent four years as a member of the campus chapter of UNICEF helping raise funds for that organization, Mathew learned self-reliance when he became its president in his senior year.
There was at least one more important lesson awaiting Mathew at Stony Brook.
By his own admission, Mathew was inexperienced in research, although he had a couple of lab courses under his belt.
"I knew that I could excel in research if given the opportunity," he said.
Thanks to Assistant Professor Edward Chan in the Department of Pharmacology, Mathew got one in his senior year. Although he was a novice in the lab, Chan took the time to teach him the fundamental techniques used in research. Nevertheless he had to learn by doing.
"The first time I was making a gel for Western blotting, which is an analytical technique widely used to detect specific proteins in a tissue sample, I got the gel mix ready and was so happy when I poured it into the apparatus," he said. "I sat and waited for the gel to polymerize but to my horror, I noticed that the gel level was slowly dropping. The entire gel mix leaked through the bottom, which I had forgotten to seal. Instead of getting angry, Dr. Chan laughed and corrected my mistakes. Toward the end of the year, I was making gels for the entire lab and running experiments of my own."
And that is when Mathew learned perhaps three of the most important lessons in life — humility, patience and forgiveness.
Mathew has no trouble naming his favorite aspect of Stony Brook — the community.
"I was given many wonderful opportunities and met so many great people. Whether it was my friends, my professors, or my mentors, they all played an instrumental role in any success that I have had," he said. "I am grateful to these people and Stony Brook University as a whole for an amazing college experience."
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from __future__ import absolute_import, division, print_function, unicode_literals

import numpy as np
import sklearn
from sklearn.linear_model import LinearRegression
from sklearn.manifold import Isomap
from sef_dr.classification import evaluate_svm
from sef_dr.datasets import dataset_loader
from sef_dr.linear import LinearSEF

def outofsample_extensions(method=None, dataset=None):
    np.random.seed(1)
    sklearn.utils.check_random_state(1)

    dataset_path = 'data'
    train_data, train_labels, test_data, test_labels = dataset_loader(dataset_path, dataset, seed=1)

    # Learn a new space using Isomap
    isomap = Isomap(n_components=10, n_neighbors=20)
    train_data_isomap = np.float32(isomap.fit_transform(train_data))

    if method == 'linear-regression':
        from sklearn.preprocessing import StandardScaler
        std = StandardScaler()
        train_data = std.fit_transform(train_data)
        test_data = std.transform(test_data)

        # Use linear regression to provide baseline out-of-sample extensions
        proj = LinearRegression()
        proj.fit(np.float64(train_data), np.float64(train_data_isomap))
        acc = evaluate_svm(proj.predict(train_data), train_labels,
                           proj.predict(test_data), test_labels)
    elif method == 'c-ISOMAP-10d' or method == 'c-ISOMAP-20d':
        # Use the SEF to provide out-of-sample extensions
        if method == 'c-ISOMAP-10d':
            proj = LinearSEF(train_data.shape[1], output_dimensionality=10)
            proj.cuda()
        else:
            proj = LinearSEF(train_data.shape[1], output_dimensionality=20)
            proj.cuda()
        loss = proj.fit(data=train_data, target_data=train_data_isomap, target='copy',
                        epochs=50, batch_size=1024, verbose=False, learning_rate=0.001, regularizer_weight=1)
        acc = evaluate_svm(proj.transform(train_data), train_labels,
                           proj.transform(test_data), test_labels)

    print("Method: ", method, " Test accuracy: ", 100 * acc, " %")

if __name__ == '__main__':

    for dataset in ['15scene', 'corel', 'mnist', 'yale', 'kth', '20ng']:
        print("Evaluating dataset: ", dataset)

        print("Evaluating baseline linear-regression (10d) for providing out-of-sample extensions...")
        outofsample_extensions('linear-regression', dataset=dataset)

        print("Evaluating linear SEF (10d) for providing out-of-sample extensions...")
        outofsample_extensions('c-ISOMAP-10d', dataset=dataset)

        print("Evaluating linear SEF (10d) for providing out-of-sample extensions...")
        outofsample_extensions('c-ISOMAP-20d', dataset=dataset)

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub