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Sikhism a monotheistic religion founded by guru nanak (1469-1538/9). Its followers are known as Sikh (meaning disciple). Sikhism believes that God is one, omnipotent, and formless. Sikhs refer to God as Sat Guru (true teacher). They have ten gurus, from Guru Nanak to Guru Gobind Singh (1666-1708). Their holy book is the granth sahib or Adi Granth. According to Sikhism, prayers, mantras, abstinence and yoga do not serve the purpose of worship, which can be better accomplished by leading a pure life. There is no casteism in this religion. Fully committed Sikhs belong to the Khalsa (pure). Sikh boys and girls are initiated into the Khalsa at puberty. Sikhs are expected to rise early, bathe and recite the Japji, a religious poem composed by Nanak.
Guru Nanak attempted to reform the moral life of human beings and to remove superstitions from society. He tried to reconcile Hindu and Muslim thoughts. He preached that God can be found within human beings and does not need the rituals and controversies of existing religions. Nanak was followed by nine other gurus. The first five gurus are known as panj-pyare. Apart from Nanak, they are Angad (1504-1552/3), Amardas (1479-1574), Ramdas (1534-1581) and Arjun Singh (1563-1606). Their thoughts and concepts have been collected and compiled into the Granth Sahib.
Guru Nanak travelled across India extensively in 1499 to propagate his teachings and ideals. Then he journeyed to China, Bhutan, and the Middle East before visiting Maldah and Krishnanagar in West Bengal and faridpur and dhaka in bangladesh. He first propagated Sikhism among the potters of Rayer Bazar in Dhaka, where he excavated a pond for drinking water. At Jafrabad he built a gurdwara (Sikh house of worship). But these works of Guru Nanak are no longer extant. The 9th Sikh guru, Teg Bahadur Singh (1621/2-75), came to Dhaka in 1665. He built a Sikh dharmashala at Bangla Bazar and stayed there for some time. After his death his son, Guru Gobind Singh (1666-1708), the 10th and last guru, also visited Dhaka.
The gurdwara (literally the gateway of the Guru) is open to everyone. All gurdwaras fly a yellow flag known as nishan sahib. This flag carries the symbols of two curved swords, a double-edged dagger, and a discus. The flag symbolises the union of temporal and spiritual life and the bravery of the Sikhs. The main place of Sikh worship is the Golden Temple at Amritsar in the Punjab. From the Akal Takht Sahib temple, also at Amritsar, hukumnama, directives for religious and daily life, are issued. The main Sikh temple in Bangladesh is gurdwara nanak shahi, situated on the campus of the university of dhaka.
Male Sikhs carry five symbols: kes (uncut hair), khanga (small comb), krpan (steel sword), kara (steel bangle), kachh (loose drawers worn as an undergarment). Sikh men do not cut their hair, but tie it up and tuck it under their turbans. They neither shave nor trim their facial hair. The main Sikh festivals are observances of the birthdays of the gurus. Sikhs also observe the first day of Baishakh. The death anniversaries of their religious heroes are also observed. Sikhs burn their dead and throw their ashes into rivers or canals.
Sikhs constitute a small minority in Bangladesh. They usually come from abroad and live here temporarily. Sikh gurus also did not stay very long in Bangladesh to propagate their religion. During the Mughal and British rule, Sikh soldiers used to be posted to Bangladesh for short periods. They kept very much to themselves and did not develop close relationships with the local people from whom they differed not only in religion but also in language and lifestyle. [Sambaru Chandra Mohanta]
Bibliography JD Cunningham, Sikh Itihas, Durgadas Lahiri ed, Nabapatra Prakashan, Calcutta, 1987.
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#1 - Bad/Corrupt data files.
#2 - You are trying to use an item that is not even present on the server (config file says it there, but the actual file is not on HDD).
#3 - Typo in a config/pointer file somewhere.
Stop and think about it. If it works on your test server, but does not on the real one, what can it be except what is listed above?
Remember this - NO data transfer of ANY TYPE is 100% accurate/correct! It may be there, but one bit is wrong, thus the file is no good and will not work.
Ever downloaded something and it be 'bad' and you had to re-download it? How about 'parity bits' on memory?
Even on HDD to HDD transfers, you can have an error in the transfer, but the chance is very small, last time I knew, it was 1 * 10 to the 12th power chance of a bit failure.
You ever figure out whats up with this bud ?


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When she made the switch to CTV, Penny quickly stood out with her compelling storytelling, scoops, and compassionate portrayal of complex stories. She has been a key figure in the station's coverage of major events ever since — from municipal elections to the legislature spending scandal — but has also been known to suit up for unconventional assignments like flying a Boeing F-18 Super Hornet.
Inspired by the many challenges faced by herself and the field crews covering the historic 2017 wildfire season, Penny took the leap into podcasting in the spring of 2018, launching BTS with CTV News Vancouver, a podcast taking listeners behind the scenes and behind the stories from the station's busy newsroom. With her fellow reporters, anchors, producers, technical colleagues and occasional guests from outside the station, Penny dives into the complex ethical issues, technical challenges and even the emotional minefields CTV journalists tackle to bring their vibrant stories to air.
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Lloyd Campbell July 25, 2016
There are many artifacts on display at the Air Force Space & Missile History Center, including a white Jupiter rocket nose cone. Credit: Lloyd Campbell
The Air Force Space & Missile Museum and separate History Center, both located in Cape Canaveral, Florida, provide a unique look back at past space adventures, hardware, and facilities. You'll find the entrance to the History Center just outside the main entrance of the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.
The History Center, located just off the parking lot provides visitors with information regarding each of the cape's pads, both retired and active, including what type of vehicles launched from them, what missions, and other fun facts about each complex. Admission to the History Center is free.
An Atlas sustainer rocket engine. Credit: Lloyd Campbell
An original Gemini console. Credit: Lloyd Campbell
There is a lot of history represented in the center. Many important unmanned launches occurred at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, including the launch of the first American satellite, Explorer 1 on January 31st, 1958 from Launch Complex 26. All the manned Mercury missions launched from Cape Canaveral with the two sub-orbital flights launching from Launch Complex 5/6 and the four orbital flights launching from Launch Complex 14. In addition, all 10 manned Gemini missions launched from Launch Complex 19 at Cape Canaveral. Finally, Apollo 7 launched from Launch Complex 34 on the first manned Apollo flight.
Currently in use are Launch Complexes 37, 40, and 41 and information about those facilities and the vehicles currently launching from them is also available in the history center.
Also located in the History Center you'll find numerous artifacts including an Atlas rocket booster engine built by Rocketdyne, a Minuteman Reentry vehicle, a Jupiter nosecone, a Titan I second stage rocket engine, a Mercury Capsule boilerplate, a Launch Complex 19 Titan test console and many more interesting artifacts.
You'll normally find one of the dedicated volunteers there who will be happy to answer any questions you may have about the museum or its artifacts.
Don't forget to check out the gift shop!
The Up Close Cape Canaveral Tour from the KSCVC gives visitors an opportunity to see a replica Mercury Redstone rocket standing where Alan Shepard launched into space more than 50 years ago. Credit: Chase Clark
A boilerplate Gemini capsule. Credit: Lloyd Campbell
Another part of the Air Force Space and Missile Museum is located within the confines of Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. This includes the museum itself and a number of the launch pads used in the early days of space exploration. The Air Force used to provide a tour to those areas once a week, unfortunately the budget sequestration of 2013 cut the funding for that tour and it was never restored.
However you can still see those other areas, and more via an add-on tour available from the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex. Called the "Up Close Cape Canaveral: Then and Now Tour," the bus tour is currently only offered Thursdays through Sundays at 12:20 p.m. Due to security requirements of the base, all participants must provide a valid form of identification, for American citizens, a U.S. government-issued Driver's License or U.S. State ID card is required for all tour participants age 18 and over, and International adult and child participants must present a valid passport to take the tour.
On this tour you'll see the museum's Rocket Garden where you'll find numerous launch vehicles including a Delta IV Common Booster Core, like the three used recently in the Delta IV Heavy NROL-37 launch. Also you'll find a Minuteman I missile, a Firebee II target drone, a Titan I Intercontinental Ballistic Missile, a Corporal surface-to-surface guided missile, a Polaris A3 Fleet Ballistic Missile, and oddly enough, a railroad engine. The locomotive was once used to transport Titan missiles. You'll discover other unique vehicles and artifacts in the Rocket Garden.
You'll also see Launch Complex 26. There you will find the blockhouse, gantry, and pads located just off the rocket garden. This complex launched the first American satellite, Explorer 1 on January 31st, 1958. The blockhouse which sits a short 400 feet from the two pads has walls that are two feet in depth, windows comprised of 45 layers of glass totaling out at approximately one foot in thickness, and specially armored blast doors, all to protect the launch personnel working inside from any explosion occurring just outside their secure work area. The launch gantry towers 111 feet above the ground and was used for assembling and servicing launch vehicles at the complex.
A Second Stage rocket engine for the old Titan rocket. Credit: Lloyd Campbell
Launch Complex 34 remains as a memorial for the departed Apollo 1 crew. Credit: Lloyd Campbell
Adjacent to Complex 26, you'll find Launch Complex 5/6 where the first Americans to launch into space began their journeys. The first two Mercury program flights lifted off from Launch Pad 5 of the complex, Alan Shepard and Gus Grissom were the brave astronauts who took those first two sub-orbital flights and you can stand right where they lifted off from. On Pad 5 there is even a full-size replica of a Mercury Redstone launch vehicle to give you the feeling of what it was like back in 1961. Be sure to check out the launch ring on Pad 6, it was all that held that Redstone vehicle upright before it lifted off. Don't forget to check out the Blockhouse located at Complex 5/6 which contains much of the original equipment used to launch those early Mercury flights.
The tour also will take you to other parts of the base that are not part of the Air Force Space & Missile Museum, including Launch Complex 14 where John Glenn launched in his Friendship 7 Mercury Capsule on top of an Atlas rocket to become the first American to orbit the Earth. You will also see Launch Complex 19, where all of the manned Gemini Missions launched from. And you'll see Launch Complex 34 where the Apollo 1 crew, Gus Grissom, Ed White, and Roger Chaffee lost their lives when a fire broke out in their capsule on the pad during a routine test. While at LC-34 you may even witness a Delta IV rocket being prepared for launch at nearby Launch Complex 37. Another stop on the tour is the Cape Canaveral Lighthouse.
While visiting the Space Coast of Florida, take the time to head over to Cape Canaveral and check out the History Center and I highly recommend taking the "Up Close Cape Canaveral: Then and Now Tour" while visiting the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex to see other areas of the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station where space history was made.
Vintage equipment lines the wall of the blockhouse museums for Launch Complexes 26 and 5/6. Credit: Chase Clark
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Our kindergarten classes worked with learning their shapes this week. To build on this skill, we incorporated our math standards with art. Some classes made shapes using Play-doh and others traced shapes to make different pictures. The students were able to describe their work and say what shapes they either made or used to make their pictures.


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   The first script generates zoning commands suitable for Cisco MDS switches
   running NX-OS by examining existing fcalias entries and using pattern
   matching aginst a provided list of hostnames.  The use case here is a SAN
   migration to a new target array, in my particular initial case a NetApp
   cDOT cluster.  This may work on other Cisco NX-OS devices for fiber channel
   with minimal modifications.  The reliance here is existing fcalias entries
   that contain server hostnames and therefore can be matched against with
   case-insenstive regexes.

## List of Scripts

  - [genzonesfromexistingfcaliases.py](.genzonesfromexistingfcaliases.py)
  - [checkwwpnigroupfcaliases.py](.checkwwpnigroupfcaliases.py)
  - [initiatorscheck.py](.initiatorscheck.py)

## genzonesfromexistingfcaliases.py

```
usage: genzonesfromexistingfcaliases.py [-h] --hostname HOSTNAME
                                        --hosts_filename HOSTS_FILENAME --vsan
                                        VSAN --zoneset ZONESET
                                        [--fcalias_filename FCALIAS_FILENAME]
                                        [--target_fcalias TARGET_FCALIAS]
                                        [--username USERNAME]
                                        [--get_from_switch]
                                        [--password PASSWORD] [--use_keys]
                                        [--backout] [--key_file KEY_FILE]

Generate zoning commands from input file listing of short hostnames one per
line. Will match against switch fcalias entries by hostname pattern. print to
STDOUT. redirect with > filename.txt

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  --hostname HOSTNAME   MDS switch fqdn or IP.
  --hosts_filename HOSTS_FILENAME
                        list of hosts to match against. one per line
  --vsan VSAN           VSAN for fcaliases/zones
  --zoneset ZONESET     zoneset name
  --fcalias_filename FCALIAS_FILENAME
                        generated fcaliases output from 'ssh
                        username@switchname show fcalias >
                        switch_fcaliases.txt'
  --target_fcalias TARGET_FCALIAS
                        optional fcalias name of cDOT cluster on switch.
                        default ='NAC1'
  --username USERNAME   optional username to ssh into mds switch. Alternate:
                        set environment variable MDS_USERNAME. If neither
                        exists, defaults to current OS username
  --get_from_switch     get fcaliases directly from switch instead of file.
                        NOTE: not yet implemented
  --password PASSWORD   optional password to ssh into mds switch. Alternate:
                        set environment variable MDS_PASSWORD. If unset
                        use_keys defaults to True.
  --use_keys            use ssh keys to log into switch
  --backout             generate backout commands
  --key_file KEY_FILE   filename for ssh key file
```

> **note**: This script currently relies on the `--fcalias_filename` argument
and that the functionality to pull fcalias data directly from the switch is
not yet implemented as of 2015-12-17.  The output file save via redirection eg.
`> output_zoning.txt` could simply be reviewed and cut and pasted into the
relevant switch.

## initiatorscheck.py | checkwwpnigroupfcaliases.py
  These scripts perform checks that zoning items are as
  expected. Note that they also require the NetApp Manageability SDK which is
  for now behind support.netapp.com and requires a netapp login.  The first
  script is a comparison of NetApp igroup member WWPNs and fcaliases on the
  switch.  It's a post-check for some of the work here.  The second script is
  just a sanity check against a filer only for initiators that are logged in
  (zoned) but have no igroup membership.

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STC Trustee Gary Gurwitz: 25 Years Later, It's Still About the Students
Gary Gurwitz
When you ask Gary Gurwitz about South Texas College's greatest accomplishments, he doesn't talk about 2013's $159-million bond measure; he doesn't talk about the 564,548 square feet of new facilities that have just been added; and he doesn't talk about the millions of dollars in endowments he and his colleagues have helped secure. Instead, he talks about students.
"It's the number of people that STC has trained or introduced to higher education that would not otherwise have gotten their degrees or a certificate that I think about," says Gurwitz, who has been on STC's Board of Trustees since its inception. "Think about all the STC students over the years that otherwise would not have gotten the education they needed. I think that's a tremendous accomplishment."
As STC celebrates its 25th anniversary, there is perhaps no one more qualified to reflect on STC's accomplishments. Gurwitz, who received his Doctor of Jurisprudence degree from the University of Texas School of Law in 1959, has practiced in McAllen ever since. He has also remained active on STC's Board of Trustees, which he joined shortly after its foundation.
"When we first started, we held classes anywhere we could," reflects Gurwitz. "Some of our first classes were in old laundromats. And for a while, we couldn't make payroll. One thing we did do right was hire Dr. Shirley Reed. She really knew what she was doing and the trustees considered and supported her programs.
"I guess that worked out pretty well for everyone."
Under Dr. Reed's leadership, STC has come a long way from those early classrooms. With nearly 34,000 students, a faculty and staff of more than 1,600, over 120 different degree and certificate programs, and several state-of-the-art campuses and higher education centers, STC has become a hub for industry training and workforce development in the region.
"If you talk to the head of our economic development council, our mayor, any of our elected officials, they will tell you that the single most important thing that has happened to our region in the last 25 years is STC," says Gurwitz.
Over his time as a trustee, Gurwitz has watched the Rio Grande Valley transform from a mostly agrarian culture, with unemployment rates nearing 20 percent, to a bustling destination for families and businesses of all types. Throughout it all, STC's role has been critical.
"Education is the foundation or catalyst or main ingredient to everything," says Gurwitz. "You're not going to improve your community as a whole without it. You have to have education to get any employment, to educate our community, it had to be convenient, reasonably priced, and that wasn't readily available back then."
In addition to providing affordable and convenient access to education and career training, Gurwitz notes that STC's impact extends beyond the degrees and certificates it grants.
"Before, the 'college-going mentality' wasn't there or it was limited," says Gurwitz. "People didn't think college was an option. But STC changed that because it was affordable, and you could tailor your program to your particular circumstances. You should see these families at graduation nowadays. They're just so proud. We finally had to outlaw air horns."
Gary Gurwitz -South Texas College Board of Trustee
Nurturing this "college-going mentality" is one aspect of STC's widely successful dual-enrollment program, another accomplishment that Gurwitz takes special pride in.
"It was a new idea when we got involved," says Gurwitz. "Now, it's in vogue because people are seeing how successful our program is, how beneficial for the students and the community."
Founded in 2003, STC's Dual Enrollment program has allowed an estimated 95,000 students to attend college, tuition-free, while finishing their high school diplomas. This has saved families more than $180 million, according to estimates. At the same time, STC's program has become one of the largest in the state and is often cited as a model of collaboration and success at the national level.
Gurwitz, for his role in STC's success, has received many honors, including the prestigious M. Dale Ensign Leadership Award from the Association of Community College Trustees. Still, Gurwitz remains humble about his achievements, seeing STC's growth not as evidence of any one person's efforts, but as proof that its core mission is sound.
"I don't think STC changed," says Gurwitz. "I think what we were doing to begin with, we're still doing. It's just the scale that's changed. More programs. More faculty. More facilities. But the point is still the same: give people the education they need to be successful."
As for the future of STC, Gurwitz sees more of the same. At least that's what he hopes.
"What does the future hold? I don't know. But I do believe STC will be involved… That's always been STC's goal. And that's not something that will ever change."
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Alipay, the digital payment company owned by Alibaba, China's largest eCommerce company, has inked a partnership with Poynt, the maker of smart terminals.
According to a news release from Poynt, under terms of the deal, Alipay's more than 520 million registered users in China will be able to pay with Alipay across all Poynt devices in North America.
The Poynt Smart Terminal enhances the checkout experience by featuring dual touchscreens, wireless connectivity via 3G, Wi-Fi or ethernet, connection to a merchant's existing payment processor and supporting multiple payment options. The company's newest system, the Poynt 5, has all of the Poynt Smart Terminal's most popular features on a single-screen, handheld mobile point-of-sale (POS) system available to enterprise merchants.
"We are thrilled to partner with Alipay. Acquirers and merchants choose Poynt terminals to deliver on consumers' increasing tech-rich expectations; this partnership furthers our mission to empower merchants with technology superpowers and consumers with the best shopping experience," Osama Bedier, CEO of Poynt, said in the same press release.
Poynt, which claimed it is the first checkout experience to offer Alipay acceptance across acquirers, enables Alipay QR Code payments as part of its existing smart terminal capabilities, which includes mag stripe, EMV, NFC and gift cards. Merchants utilizing Poynt terminals will be able to accept Alipay without the need for any additional integration or hardware, the company said in the release.


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Oscars 2018: The shape of a snoozefest
Frances McDormand, Gary Oldman and 'The Shape of Water' triumph at a very serious ceremony
by Matt WolfMonday, 05 March 2018
Fishy? 'The Shape of Water' wins Best Picture
Is #MeSnooze a hashtag? It could well be for those who sat through the 90th annual Academy Awards, an Oscar night so reined in by the current climate in Hollywood that it was as if all the fun and frolics had been leached out of a ceremony always at its best when it lets in a teensy bit of the lowbrow, or at least allows for the unexpected.
The unpredictable was certainly the case last year. The Best Picture cock-up (the so-called Envelopegate) wasn't going to happen twice in a row, even if Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway were invited back to do the honours: "Presenting is lovelier the second time around," Dunaway deadpanned. Indeed, Guillermo del Toro rather sweetly checked to make sure that the card was accurate before stepping to the podium to give thanks for his film, The Shape of Water, winning Best Picture. The top prize was in this instance easily the most competitive of the night, with many expecting Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri or even Get Out to squeak in at the final moment. (The Shape of Water, which won four Oscars in all, was the evening's big winner, followed by Dunkirk with three, all in technical categories.)
By the point del Toro made the second of his two visits to the stage, a long evening (nearly four hours) had some while before run out of juice. Perhaps as if in understandable obedience to movements that hadn't been named this time last year, Hollywood's annual paean to itself has rarely seemed so muted. Sure, there was the offer of a jet ski for the presenter who gave the shortest speech (step up Mark Bridges, the costume designer for Phantom Thread), and host Jimmy Kimmel announced that he would time all the speeches instead of allowing the orchestra to drown them out: Bridges' lasted 36 seconds.
But somewhere past the halfway mark, prolix winners were indeed given a musical prompt to hurry up. By that point, too, one had begun to notice that Kimmel often seemed strangely absent from his own second consecutive hosting gig, having promised at the end of last year never to come back. From an opening monologue comparatively light on comedy and thick with an earnest reminder of where the industry has got to now, one felt the evening all but buckling under the weight of having to toe the correct line. During one of his wanderings through the audience Kimmel asked Steven Spielberg if he had any pot. You wondered whether a collective toke might do everyone some good.
The very start – with contemporary faces folded into retro-style visuals in keeping with the Oscars' nine decades – was a great idea given insufficient room or space to build: think how much Johnny Carson and Billy Crystal would have done with the same material. Or how much more relaxed such presenters as Tiffany Haddish (Girls Trip) and The Big Sick's Kumail Nanjiani seemed in the face of #MeToo, #TimesUp and a newly enlightened climate that brought out the impassioned trio of Annabella Sciorra, Salma Hayek and Ashley Judd, three of the many women who have levelled allegations of sexual abuse at the producer Harvey Weinstein. (For the record Weinstein was namechecked during the show while Woody Allen and Kevin Spacey, among others, were not. Oh, and Mike Pence was, though Donald Trump wasn't – at least directly. Lord knows how the Orange One feels about Mexican filmmakers winning the directing Oscar four out of the last five years: mandatory cheeseburgers for everyone, one fears.)
Even the redoubtable Frances McDormand (pictured above), kicking off with her now-familiar strategy at such events of informing us that she had "something to say", closed out her Best Actress remarks with talk of an "inclusion rider" – an industry-speak reference that sent everyone scurrying to Google. Oh for the comparative brio and passion she brought to the stage when she won her first Oscar 21 years ago for Fargo: the rhetoric, or McDormand's delivery of it, is looking ever so slightly canned, though it was a nice touch when she encouraged all the female nominees in the auditorium to stand. Meryl Streep, with 21 nominations the prevailing female Oscar grandee, immediately led McDormand's call, and the other women directly followed. (Streep, incidentally, now seems to occupy the prime position in a seat down-centre that for years went to her Ironweed co-star, Jack Nicholson.)
The roll call of winners was pro forma pretty well down the line: the trophies themselves were awarded across an array of films, with Lady Bird among the few that was entirely shut out. All four acting awards followed expected protocol, the Academy missing a golden opportunity to honour on the same night Gary Oldman (Darkest Hour) and the first of his five wives, Phantom Thread's Lesley Manville.
And though the enthusiasm inside the Dolby Theatre for nominees Daniel Kaluuya (Get Out) and Timothee Chalamet (Call Me By Your Name) might have suggested an Adrien Brody-style upset, Oldman's Winston Churchill once again prevailed, just as McDormand and Sam Rockwell did for Three Billboards and Alison Janney's LaVona Golden (from I, Tonya) did for supporting actress. "I did it all by myself," Janney said once she got to the stage, pausing for effect before issuing a correction: "Nothing could be further from the truth." And though the self-seriousness of the evening seems to work against discussion of the nominees' sartorial choices, Janney did look a lot more comfortable here than several weeks ago at the Baftas. Gone, thank heavens, was the collar ready to behead her at any second.
There were undeniable delights scattered here and there. It was wonderful to see the great Roger Deakins finally awarded for cinematography for Blade Runner 2049, his 14th nomination, just as one was heartened by the cheers for Mudbound's Rachel Morrison – the first woman ever nominated in the cinematography category. The two British winners, themselves a couple, for live action short film for The Silent Child were eloquence and grace personified, and one can only assume that the subject of their film, six-year-old Maisie Sly, had some while before gone to bed.
Eva Marie Saint, who won an Oscar for On the Waterfront in 1955, at age 93 handled presenting chores with aplomb, and Broadway regular Keala Settle once again proved the undeniably galvanic power of best song nominee "This Is Me" from The Greatest Showman, which brought an ovation-happy audience once again to its feet. In context, the fact that the award actually went to "Remember Me" from Coco (a winner as well for animated film) remains a head-scratcher given that all four of the other song nominees came across better in performance. (Gael Garcia Bernal's pitch troubles didn't help the "Remember Me" cause.)
And to be honest, once all the appeals to inclusivity, immigrants, and a kinder, fairer Hollywood had quite sensibly and aptly been made, one still found oneself wishing for just a tiny bit of vulgarity or something truly lively that might at least knock at the door of the prevailing constraint. Del Toro – as gifted a speech-giver as the film industry has these days – got some of the way there in his buoyant shout-out to youth across society "showing us how things are done". But I have a hunch there was a silent nod of assent when Oldman, paying tribute to his 98-year-old mum back in Britain, urged her to "put the kettle on". By that point, we all could have used a drink.
Overleaf: the full Academy Awards results
Lord knows how the Orange One feels about Mexican filmmakers winning the directing Oscar four out of the last five years
The Best Films Out Now
The Shape of Water review - love in a Cold War climate
Darkest Hour review - Winston airbrushed for the 21st century
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri review - Frances McDormand is on fire
Dunkirk review - old-fashioned filmmaking on the grandest scale
more Film
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Blu-ray: Liberté On 'libertinage': Albert Serra's improvisaton of 18th century debauchery is painful in every sense
Blu-ray/DVD : The Tin Drum A dark and comic vision of Germany's past
Blithe Spirit review - cloth-eared Coward Judi Dench tries, but Coward adaptation still tanks
Dear Comrades! review - Andrei Konchalovsky exposes the Soviet past The tragic June 1962 events in Novocherkassk are the backbone of retro drama
Blu-ray: The Night Porter Liliana Cavani's transgressive drama was widely misunderstood on its original release
One Night in Miami review - black history come alive Regina King's directorial debut about a momentous meeting
Pieces of a Woman review - a home birth ends in tragedy Vanessa Kirby excels in devastating exploration of grief and loss
Sing Me a Song review - beautiful but devastatingly sad A lost soul personifies a society in crisis
Steve McQueen: The Lost Movie, Sky Documentaries review - the classic motor racing film that never was How fate conspired against the car-crazy star's Formula One movie
DVD/Blu-ray: Are We Lost Forever Separation, Swedish-style, in a chamber portrait of a gay couple in break-up
Blu-ray: Visual Acoustics 'The Modernism of Julius Shulman' salutes an eminent American architectural photographer


April is always a fun month in the Eagles. The weather is starting to get warmer, which means we can be outside more! We spent time exploring our playground, looking for signs of the flowers starting to peek out and digging to look for bugs and worms. Hands on science exploration at its best!
At the start of this month we spent more time talking about the weather. We explored wind, clouds, rain, and sun. One sunny day, we went outside and lay down to watch the clouds. Then we drew what we saw! We have very vivid imaginations! We also used some outside time to make our own rainy art. We used watered down paints to splatter our giant paper! As the paint dripped down, it began to mix together and create new colors. It also looked like rain running down a window!
This month also brought us to our next holiday, Easter! We took a trip to Johnson's Farm for an egg hunt and to see the Easter Bunny! We had an awesome time! At school, we used plastic eggs to play matching games and continue working on our letter and number recognition. We also used our plastic eggs to practice our fine motor skills by stacking as many halves as possible!
The Eagles also finished off the alphabet this month! That means we began looking deeper into the vowels and the sounds they create. We used a lot of fun rhyming books to help create word families to hang in our class. Our first was the word family '–at', such as cat, mat, rat, hat, etc. We even helped to read the words in one of our big books!
Every day we find new and fun ways to work on all the skills we need for Kindergarten next year. We are practicing measuring with measuring tapes, counting our napkins for snack, and sorting our toys in new ways! We are also becoming very excited about the computers and the skills we can practice using our games! The games are fun, but we are learning at the same time!


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The holonomy Lie algebras of neutral metrics in dimension four
Ryad Ghanam, G. Thompson
The Lie algebra isomorphism between su(1,1) × su(1,1) and o(2,2) is used to obtain a list of subalgebras of the latter. The resulting list of 32 subalgebras is then examined on a case by case basis to see if each can be the Lie algebra of the holonomy group of a neutral metric in four dimensions. The conclusions, taken in conjunction with previously known results, furnish a classification of such Lie subalgebras of o(2,2), with only one case remaining unresolved.
Journal of Mathematical Physics
Holonomy
Subalgebra
Lie Algebra
Holonomy Group
Ghanam, R., & Thompson, G. (2001). The holonomy Lie algebras of neutral metrics in dimension four. Journal of Mathematical Physics, 42(5), 2266-2284. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1362284
The holonomy Lie algebras of neutral metrics in dimension four. / Ghanam, Ryad; Thompson, G.
In: Journal of Mathematical Physics, Vol. 42, No. 5, 05.2001, p. 2266-2284.
Ghanam, R & Thompson, G 2001, 'The holonomy Lie algebras of neutral metrics in dimension four', Journal of Mathematical Physics, vol. 42, no. 5, pp. 2266-2284. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1362284
Ghanam R, Thompson G. The holonomy Lie algebras of neutral metrics in dimension four. Journal of Mathematical Physics. 2001 May;42(5):2266-2284. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1362284
Ghanam, Ryad ; Thompson, G. / The holonomy Lie algebras of neutral metrics in dimension four. In: Journal of Mathematical Physics. 2001 ; Vol. 42, No. 5. pp. 2266-2284.
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Buried in the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018, signed by President Trump, is one standout change pertaining to cases with a Medicaid lien that repeals Medicaid's expanded third-party recovery rights. On Ringler Radio, host Larry Cohen joins co-host Cindy Chanley and returning guest, Eric Vaughn, Executive Director of National Structured Settlements Trade Association, (NSSTA) to discuss this huge development and what it means for Medicaid recipients in a structured settlement, plaintiff and defense attorneys, and settlement consultants.
As James M. Early, CSSC, a Senior Advisor at Ringler, becomes the 2017 President of the National Structured Settlement Trade Association (NSSTA), there's work to do on Capitol Hill. Listen as Jim Early, talks with Ringler Radio host, Larry Cohen along with Executive Director of NSSTA, Eric Vaughn, about tax code reform legislation, tort reform and advocacy for disabled Americans with a new administration in Washington, D.C.
There has been major legislative movement making improvements to the Structured Settlement Protection Act across the states, most recently in Florida, Virginia and Wisconsin. Now, progress is being made to ensure that injured parties are being protected and the word of the benefits of structured settlements is spreading. Ringler Radio host, Larry Cohen and his co-host, Jim Early invite Eric Vaughn, Executive Director of National Structured Settlements Trade Association, to discuss this important legislation.
Insights about how structured settlements are used and what can be done to improve the process are featured in a new Claims and Litigation Management Alliance (CLM) article titled, Understanding Structured Settlements, written by Kevin Silo, President of the National Structured Settlements Trade Association (NSSTA) and Taylor Smith, President of CLM Advisors. Based on a NSSTA survey of claims professionals, hear about important issues especially when it comes to structured settlement consultants. Ringler Radio host, Larry Cohen and his co-host, Jim Early invite Eric Vaughn, Executive Director of National Structured Settlements Trade Association, to discuss the details on this podcast.
NSSTA stands for National Structured Settlements Trade Association – the largest gathering of top professionals in the country taking the lead in the structured settlement industry. On Ringler Radio, host Larry Cohen welcomes Eric Vaughn, Executive Director of National Structured Settlements Trade Association, to discuss what's ahead for NSSTA 2012. Eric addresses everything from NSSTA's Annual Meeting to its Take the Hill initiative with Congress, and the steps individuals of retirement age should take to ensure a better financial future.
On this edition of Ringler Radio, host Larry Cohen welcomes Eric Vaughn, the newly appointed Executive Director of National Structured Settlements Trade Association, (NSSTA), to discuss NSSTA's new agenda and what's new in the structured settlement industry. In his first interview in his new position, Eric discusses his vision for NSSTA, meeting the challenges in the industry, the highlights of NSSTA's 25th Annual Conference and looking for a lifetime of security for injured parties and their families.


Do animals think? It's a question that has intrigued scientists for thousands of years, inspiring them to come up with different methods and criteria to measure the intelligence of animals.
Bryan B Rasmussen navigates through this controversial question, showing how determining intelligence often says more about how humans think than about anything else.


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Mordecai Myers
Birth: 5-31-1776
According to 18310105WHS_FMS1: After the departure of George Boughton, whom WHS had befriended, from the Eagle Hotel in Albany, WHS became friendly with Myers, even though WHS opposed the Masons and Myers was Deputy Grand Master of the Grand Lodge, "whose pillars," acc. to WHS, "we have undertaken to prostrate."
Letter from Frances Miller Seward to Lazette Miller Worden, February 24, 1832
Letter from William Henry Seward to Elijah Miller, January 1, 1832
The New York State Register for the Year 1830, The Fifty-Fourth Year of American Independence, with a Concise United States Calendar.
Roger Sherman Skinner
Chapter Title:
"Masonic Record"
Clayton & Van Norden
339 (Myers's Masonic title)
http://books.google.com/books?id=6o0UAAAAYAAJ&lpg=PA339&ots=eXOEg-7HwC&dq=myers%20grand%20lodge%20new%20york%201831&pg=PA339%23v=onepage&q=myers%2520grand%2520lodge%2520new%2520york%25201831&f=false#v=onepage&q=myers%2520grand%2520lodge%2520new%2520york%25201831&f=false
MYERS, MORDECAI (Captain, Thirteenth U. S. Infantry.) Grand Master of ''Phillips Grand Lodge." (See sketch in Lossing's " War of 1812," pp. 641 and 654, and in McClenachan's " History of Freemasonry in New York," vol. ill., p. 395.) http://www.jbuff.com/mmye.htm < Earliest Jewish resident of Western New York (1776-1871). Born in Newport, Rhode Island. Myers was captain of the cantonment of Williamsville during most of 1813 and therefore qualifies as the earliest known Jewish resident of Western New York. Myers saw substantial action throughout the War of 1812. He sustained a serious wound at the end of the Battle of Crysler's Farm on the Canadian side of the St. Lawrence River in November 1813, while leading the Thirteenth Pennsylvania Infantry. Myers became mayor of Schenectady in 1851 as a Democrat, and again in 1854 as a Whig. http://www.fau.edu/library/brody14.htm Captain Mordecai Myers: A Military Hero and Politician, by Seymour "Sy" Brody After not faring well as a storekeeper in Richmond, Virginia, Captain Mordecai Myers, who was self- educated, achieved success as a military hero and a politician. He was born in Newport, Rhode Island, in 1776, the same year that the American Revolution began. One of the great thrills of his life happened while watching General George Washington take the oath of office as the first President of the United States of America. He joined the military company under the command of Colonel John Marshall, who was to become the Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. After his tour of duty in the army, he went to New York to try again operating a retail store, which also turned out to be a failure. He then turned to politics, where he achieved success. He became a member of Tammany, which was a political group fighting the old conservative Federalist Party in New York. This political machine managed to break the strangle-hold of the Federalists and Myers started politically moving up the ladder. While he was engaged with his newfound political life, Myers studied military tactics for two years. He joined an artillery company under the command of Captain John Swarthout and, later, he was commissioned as an officer in the infantry. When the War of 1812 started, Mordecai Myers was commissioned a captain in the 13th Pennsylvania Infantry. Captain Myers became a hero when he saved more than two hundred men and their military supplies. General John Parker Boyd sent Captain Myers to Sacketts Harbor, where two boats loaded with more than 250 men and military supplies were wrecked. When he arrived to rescue them, he found the two boats were fast filling up with water, the sails were flapping aimlessly in the wind, many of them were drunk from partaking freely of the liquor from the hospital stores and there was complete chaos among the crew. Exercising great energy and skill and risking his life, Myers and his men rescued more than 200 men and saved what was left of the military supplies. However, fifty men lost their lives by drowning. Myers distinguished himself in a number of engagements during the Canadian campaign. During one of these engagements at Chrysler's Farm, he was seriously wounded. He recovered from his wounds and became involved in politics in New York City. He was elected to the New York State Assembly and then decided to move to Schenectady, where he became the city's first Jewish mayor. Myers died at the age of 95 in 1871, remaining active to the end in politics and Jewish circles.
Gary L. Heinmiller
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Capt Mordecai Myers


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Putting a Price on a Life
1871 Life insurance policy
From "The Cooper Collections of U.S. Railroad History" uploader's personal collection, Public Domain
By: Livia Gershon
If you have a life insurance policy, that means your insurance company pays your beneficiaries when you die, right? Turns out, the answer is: um, sometimes. A new Florida law requires life insurance companies to actually contact the beneficiary of a policy and pay them when the policy-holder dies—something they apparently often don't do unless a claim is filed. That behavior might be unethical, but it's perfectly logical for a profit-oriented company.
The very concept of life insurance can be morally troubling. In a 1978 paper, Viviana A. Zelizer described how people in the early nineteenth century shied away from the product, which seemed to tie together death and commerce. But, she writes, by the end of the century, many people accepted a counterbalancing argument that not buying insurance was its own moral failing.
In the eighteenth century, before the advent of life insurance, widows and orphans typically inherited enough land that they could support themselves. They could also expect help from neighbors and from mutual aid groups. Similarly, neighbors and relatives handled the physical work necessary to bury the dead. Then early in the nineteenth century, with fire and marine insurance becoming increasingly popular, new companies were formed to sell life insurance. State legislatures quickly granted them charters, but the public was mostly uninterested in the new product.
Zelizer writes that it's no surprise that people didn't like the concept at first. Since ancient Rome, Western law had held that a man's life could not be given a monetary value. Many critics of the day made a similar argument. The Mennonite Church, which threatened to excommunicate any member who insured his life, warned that the practice "is equivalent to merchandising in human life."
To some, the idea of life insurance evoked superstitious fears. A booklet published by one insurance company quoted a common objection made by wives: "It would make me miserable to think that I were to receive money by your death. … It seems to me that if [you] were to take a policy [you] would be brought home dead the next day."
It was only toward the middle of the century that life insurance began to catch on. The country was urbanizing—the percentage of Americans living in urban areas doubled between 1840 and 1960. As families left productive rural households for city life, they typically became completely dependent on a male earner's wage. At the same time, they left behind the support systems of extended families and neighbors. Insurance companies argued that a man would be judged harshly by friends and relatives after his death if he didn't make sure his family would be provided for.
Religious leaders began to embrace the need for insurance. "Once the question was: can a Christian man rightfully seek Life Assurance?" Rev. Henry Ward Beecher asked in 1870. "That day has passed. Now the question is: can a Christian man justify himself from neglecting such a duty?"
Considering how morally conflicted we've always been about life insurance, perhaps it's not that surprising to see the ethics of the enterprise back in the news.
deathinsuranceAmerican Journal of Sociology
Human Values and the Market: The Case of Life Insurance and Death in 19th-Century America
By: Viviana A. Zelizer
American Journal of Sociology, Vol. 84, No. 3 (Nov., 1978), pp. 591-610
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President Trump's decision to order the assassination of Iranian Major General Qasem Soleimani has backfired in spectacular fashion. Why?


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    fc.filter(ee.Filter.gt('UP_CELLS', 0).and(ee.Filter.lte('UP_CELLS', 1000))),
    fc.filter(ee.Filter.gt('UP_CELLS', 1000).and(ee.Filter.lte('UP_CELLS', 10000))),
    fc.filter(ee.Filter.gt('UP_CELLS', 10000).and(ee.Filter.lte('UP_CELLS', 100000))),
    fc.filter(ee.Filter.gt('UP_CELLS', 100000).and(ee.Filter.lte('UP_CELLS', 500000))),
    fc.filter(ee.Filter.gt('UP_CELLS', 500000).and(ee.Filter.lte('UP_CELLS', 2000000))),
    fc.filter(ee.Filter.gt('UP_CELLS', 2000000).and(ee.Filter.lte('UP_CELLS', 5000000)))
  ];

 var style_rivers = '\
  <RasterSymbolizer>\
    <ColorMap  type="intervals" extended="false" >\
      <ColorMapEntry color="#8856a7" quantity="0" label="0" />\
      <ColorMapEntry color="#8856a7" quantity="1" label="1000" />\
      <ColorMapEntry color="#8856a7" quantity="2" label="10000" />\
      <ColorMapEntry color="#8856a7" quantity="3" label="100000" />\
      <ColorMapEntry color="#8856a7" quantity="4" label="500000" />\
      <ColorMapEntry color="#8856a7" quantity="5" label="2000000" />\
    </ColorMap>\
  </RasterSymbolizer>';

  var rivers_image = ee.Image(0).mask(0).toByte();
  var count = 6;
  var size_multiplier = 1.5
  for(var i=0; i<count; i++) {
    rivers_image = rivers_image.paint(rivers[i], i, i*size_multiplier + 1);
  }

  return rivers_image.mask(ee.Image(rivers_image.mask().multiply(0.7))).clip(aoi).sldStyle(style_rivers);
}

function smoothen(image) {
  image = image
    .focal_max({radius: 14, units: 'meters'})
    .focal_mode({radius: 30, units: 'meters', iterations: 5})
    .focal_min({radius: 14, units: 'meters'})

  return image;
}

function renderWaterLandsatSmooth() {
  var water_15 = ee.Image("users/gena/AU_Murray_Darling/MNDWI_15_water_WGS");
  var water_mask_15 = water_15.expression('r+g+b', {r:water_15.select(0), g:water_15.select(1), b:water_15.select(2)}).gt(0)

  water_mask_15 = smoothen(water_mask_15).focal_max({radius: 30, units: 'meters'}).or(water_mask_15);

  return water_mask_15.mask(water_mask_15).visualize({palette:'00b2ff'});
}

function renderWaterLandsat() {
  var water_15 = ee.Image("users/gena/AU_Murray_Darling/MNDWI_15_water_WGS");
  var water_mask_15 = water_15.expression('r+g+b', {r:water_15.select(0), g:water_15.select(1), b:water_15.select(2)}).gt(0)

  return water_mask_15.mask(water_mask_15).visualize({palette:'00b2ff'});
}

function renderLandsat8(percentile) {
  var aoi = ee.FeatureCollection('ft:1778IyIZLZKSKVgko9X3aIV94E7jcm28uniyD6ycp')
    .filter(ee.Filter.eq('HYBAS_ID', 5030073410));

  var l8 = ee.ImageCollection('LANDSAT/LC8_L1T_TOA')
    .filterBounds(aoi)
    .filterDate('2013-06-01', '2015-06-01')
    .select(['B6', 'B5', 'B3'])
    .reduce(ee.Reducer.percentile([percentile]))
    .clip(aoi)

  return l8.visualize({min:0.05, max:[0.3, 0.3, 0.4], gamma:1.0})
}

function renderWaterOSM(opt_color) {
  var color = opt_color || 'aaaaff'

  var rivers_lines_osm = ee.FeatureCollection('ft:1nlWWjT4VkGjkp-kXKroFuyUuKDUSTqce_DDtmOt1')
  var rivers_polygons_osm = ee.FeatureCollection('ft:1gUbHjPLpeC4Vzi59vE5JSFfLRDtcrngyWfSn8mQC');

  var rivers_image = ee.Image(0).mask(0).toByte();
  rivers_image = rivers_image.paint(rivers_lines_osm, 1, 1);
  rivers_image = rivers_image.paint(rivers_polygons_osm, 1);
  rivers_image = rivers_image.focal_max({radius:15, units:'meters'});

  return rivers_image.mask(rivers_image).visualize({palette:[color, color]});
}

function renderCatchment() {
  var au_catchments_level3 = ee.FeatureCollection('ft:1778IyIZLZKSKVgko9X3aIV94E7jcm28uniyD6ycp')
  var aoi = au_catchments_level3
    .filter(ee.Filter.eq('HYBAS_ID', 5030073410));

  var image = ee.Image(0).mask(0).toByte();
  image = image.paint(aoi, 1);
  return image.mask(image).visualize({palette:['000000'], opacity: 1.0});
}

function renderCatchmentBoundary() {
  var au_catchments_level3 = ee.FeatureCollection('ft:1778IyIZLZKSKVgko9X3aIV94E7jcm28uniyD6ycp')
  var aoi = au_catchments_level3
    .filter(ee.Filter.eq('HYBAS_ID', 5030073410));

  var image = ee.Image(0).mask(0).toByte();
  image = image.paint(aoi, 1, 2);
  return image.mask(image).visualize({palette:['FFFFFF'], opacity: 1.0});
}

function renderHandClasses() {
  var hand = ee.Image("users/gena/AU_Murray_Darling/SRTM_30_Murray_Darling_hand");
  var dem = ee.Image('USGS/SRTMGL1_003')

  //var terrain = ee.call('Terrain', dem);

  var gaussianKernel = ee.Kernel.gaussian(3, 2, 'pixels', true, 2);
  var terrain = ee.call('Terrain', dem.convolve(gaussianKernel));

  var slope = radians(terrain.select(['slope']))
    .lt(0.076)

  //Map.addLayer(slope.mask(slope), {palette:'000000'}, 'slope < 0.076', false)

  slope = slope
    .focal_max({radius: 50, units: 'meters'})
    //.focal_mode({radius: 55, units: 'meters', iterations:5})
    .focal_min({radius: 50, units: 'meters'})

  //Map.addLayer(slope.mask(slope), {palette:'000000'}, 'slope < 0.076 (smoothed)', false)

  var hand_class = hand.addBands(slope).expression(
    "(b(0) <= 5.3) ? 0 \
      : (b(0) <= 15 && b(0) > 5.3 ) ? 1 \
      : (b(0) > 15 && b(1) == 0 ) ? 2 \
      : (b(0) > 15 && b(1) == 1 ) ? 3 \
      : 0"
  );

  var style_hand_classes = '\
  <RasterSymbolizer>\
    <ColorMap  type="intervals" extended="false" >\
      <ColorMapEntry color="#000055" quantity="0" label="Waterlogged"/>\
      <ColorMapEntry color="#00ff00" quantity="1" label="Ecotone"/>\
      <ColorMapEntry color="#ffff00" quantity="2" label="Slope" />\
      <ColorMapEntry color="#ff0000" quantity="3" label="Plateau" />\
    </ColorMap>\
  </RasterSymbolizer>';

  var azimuth = 90;
  var zenith = 30;

  //var hand_class_vis = hand_class.visualize({palette: colors_hand_classes})
  var hand_class_vis = hand_class
    //.focal_mode({radius:29, units:'meters', iterations:5})
    //.focal_mode({radius:0.8, iterations:5})
    //.focal_max({radius: 30, units: 'meters'})
    //.focal_min({radius: 30, units: 'meters'})
    .sldStyle(style_hand_classes)

  var aoi = ee.FeatureCollection('ft:1778IyIZLZKSKVgko9X3aIV94E7jcm28uniyD6ycp')
    .filter(ee.Filter.eq('HYBAS_ID', 5030073410));

  return hillshadeit(hand_class_vis.clip(aoi), dem, 1.1, 2, azimuth, zenith)
}

function addLayer(map, index, layer, callback) {
  var mapId = layer.getMap({}, function (mapId, error) {
    if (error) {
      console.log(error);
    }

    var id = mapId.mapid;
    var token = mapId.token;

    // The Google Maps API calls getTileUrl() when it tries to display a map
    // tile.  This is a good place to swap in the MapID and token we got from
    // the Python script. The other values describe other properties of the
    // custom map type.
    var eeMapOptions = {
      getTileUrl: function(tile, zoom) {
        if(map.overlayMapTypes.getAt(index).opacity < 0.01) {
          return '';
        }

        var baseUrl = 'https://earthengine.googleapis.com/map';
        var url = [baseUrl, id, zoom, tile.x, tile.y].join('/');
        url += '?token=' + token;

        //console.log(map.overlayMapTypes.getAt(index).opacity + ' ' + url)

        return url;
      },
      tileSize: new google.maps.Size(256, 256)
    };

    // Create the map type.
    var mapType = new google.maps.ImageMapType(eeMapOptions);

    // Add the EE layer to the map.
    map.overlayMapTypes.setAt(index, mapType);

    mapType.setOpacity(0.1);

    if (callback) {
      callback();
    }
  });
}

var initialize = function() {
  var myLatLng = new google.maps.LatLng(-32.248232, 145.546875);

  var mapOptions = {
    center: myLatLng,
    zoom: 7,
    //maxZoom: 15,
    maxZoom: 25,
    draggable: true,
    streetViewControl: true,
    scaleControl: true,
    scaleControlOptions: { position: google.maps.ControlPosition.BOTTOM_RIGHT }
  };

  // Create the base Google Map.
  var map = new google.maps.Map(document.getElementById('map'), mapOptions);
  map.setMapTypeId(google.maps.MapTypeId.TERRAIN);

  var layerCount = 0;
  var maxLayerCount =  16;

  function onLayerAdded() {
    layerCount++;

    if (layerCount < maxLayerCount) {
      return;
    }

    // OSM water (red)
    var initialOpacity = 1;
    createOpacityControl(map, initialOpacity, map.overlayMapTypes.getAt(14), 'OSM (red)', 14);

    // OSM water
    var initialOpacity = 70;
    createOpacityControl(map, initialOpacity, map.overlayMapTypes.getAt(13), 'OSM', 13);

    // HydroSHEDS
    var initialOpacity = 1;
    createOpacityControl(map, initialOpacity, map.overlayMapTypes.getAt(12), 'HydroSHEDS', 12);

    // Landsat water
    var initialOpacity = 1;
    createOpacityControl(map, initialOpacity, map.overlayMapTypes.getAt(11), 'Water LS', 11);

    // Landsat water
    var initialOpacity = 70;
    createOpacityControl(map, initialOpacity, map.overlayMapTypes.getAt(10), 'Water L', 10);

    // HAND mask
    var initialOpacity = 1;
    createOpacityControl(map, initialOpacity, map.overlayMapTypes.getAt(9), 'HAND mask', 9);

    // HAND rivers
    var initialOpacity = 1;
    createOpacityControl(map, initialOpacity, map.overlayMapTypes.getAt(8), 'HAND < 1m', 8);

    // flow accumulation
    var initialOpacity = 1;
    createOpacityControl(map, initialOpacity, map.overlayMapTypes.getAt(7), 'Flow Acc', 7);

    // HAND classdes
    var initialOpacity = 1;
    createOpacityControl(map, initialOpacity, map.overlayMapTypes.getAt(6), 'HAND class', 6);

    // HAND
    var initialOpacity = 1;
    createOpacityControl(map, initialOpacity, map.overlayMapTypes.getAt(5), 'HAND', 5);

    // DEM
    var initialOpacity = 1;
    createOpacityControl(map, initialOpacity, map.overlayMapTypes.getAt(4), 'DEM', 4);

    // Landsat 8 35%
    var initialOpacity = 1;
    createOpacityControl(map, initialOpacity, map.overlayMapTypes.getAt(3), 'Landsat, 35%', 3);

    // Landsat 8 25%
    var initialOpacity = 1;
    createOpacityControl(map, initialOpacity, map.overlayMapTypes.getAt(2), 'Landsat, 25%', 2);

    // Landsat 8 15%
    var initialOpacity = 1;
    createOpacityControl(map, initialOpacity, map.overlayMapTypes.getAt(1), 'Landsat, 15%', 1);

    // Catchment
    var initialOpacity = 85;
    createOpacityControl(map, initialOpacity, map.overlayMapTypes.getAt(0), 'Catchment', 0);
  }

  addLayer(map, 0, renderCatchment(), onLayerAdded);
  addLayer(map, 1, renderLandsat8(15), onLayerAdded);
  addLayer(map, 2, renderLandsat8(25), onLayerAdded);
  addLayer(map, 3, renderLandsat8(35), onLayerAdded);
  addLayer(map, 4, renderDem(), onLayerAdded);
  addLayer(map, 5, renderHand(), onLayerAdded);
  addLayer(map, 6, renderHandClasses(), onLayerAdded);
  addLayer(map, 7, renderFlowAccumulation(), onLayerAdded);
  addLayer(map, 8, renderRiversHand(), onLayerAdded);
  addLayer(map, 9, renderHandMask(), onLayerAdded);
  addLayer(map, 10, renderWaterLandsat(), onLayerAdded);
  addLayer(map, 11, renderWaterLandsatSmooth(), onLayerAdded);
  addLayer(map, 12, renderRiversHydroSheds(), onLayerAdded);
  addLayer(map, 13, renderWaterOSM(), onLayerAdded);
  addLayer(map, 14, renderWaterOSM('ff2020'), onLayerAdded);
  addLayer(map, 15, renderCatchmentBoundary(), onLayerAdded);

  /*
  var infowindow = new google.maps.InfoWindow({
    content: 'Change the zoom level',
    position: myLatLng
  });
  infowindow.open(map);

  google.maps.event.addListener(map, 'zoom_changed', function() {
    var zoomLevel = map.getZoom();
    map.setCenter(myLatLng);
    infowindow.setContent('Zoom: ' + zoomLevel);
    layerHand.setMap(null);
  });
  */

  /*
  // add catchments
  layer = new google.maps.FusionTablesLayer({
      map: map,
      heatmap: { enabled: false },
      query: {
        select: "col15",
        from: "13dShZ5yGqCEqk3dsJvYEL3lsa1hEmpMRldxK7aSa",
        where: ""
      },
      options: {
        styleId: 2,
        templateId: 2
      }
    });
  */
};

/*
  // add catchments
  layer = new google.maps.FusionTablesLayer({
      map: map,
      heatmap: { enabled: false },
      query: {
        select: "col15",
        from: "13dShZ5yGqCEqk3dsJvYEL3lsa1hEmpMRldxK7aSa",
        where: ""
      },
      options: {
        styleId: 2,
        templateId: 2
      }
    });

*/

function createOpacityControl(map, opacity, overlay, title, index) {
	var sliderImageUrl = "/static/opacity-slider3d14.png";

	// Create main div to hold the control.
	var opacityDiv = document.createElement('DIV');
	opacityDiv.setAttribute("style", "margin:5px;overflow-x:hidden;overflow-y:hidden;background:url(" + sliderImageUrl + ") no-repeat;width:71px;height:30px;cursor:pointer;");
	// Create knob
	var opacityKnobDiv = document.createElement('DIV');
	opacityKnobDiv.setAttribute("style", "padding:0;margin:0;overflow-x:hidden;overflow-y:hidden;background:url(" + sliderImageUrl + ") no-repeat -71px 0;width:14px;height:21px;");
	opacityDiv.appendChild(opacityKnobDiv);

        // title
	var opacityTitleDiv = document.createElement('DIV');
	opacityTitleDiv.setAttribute("style", "text-align:center;border:0px solid;margin-top: 18px;text-shadow: 1px 1px 0px white, -1px -1px 0px white, 1px -1px 0px white, -1px 1px 0px white;");
        opacityTitleDiv.appendChild(document.createTextNode(title))
        opacityDiv.appendChild(opacityTitleDiv);

	var opacityCtrlKnob = new ExtDraggableObject(opacityKnobDiv, {
		restrictY: true,
		container: opacityDiv
	});
	google.maps.event.addListener(opacityCtrlKnob, "drag", function () {
		setOpacity(map, opacityCtrlKnob.valueX(), overlay, index);
	});
	google.maps.event.addDomListener(opacityDiv, "click", function (e) {
		var left = findPosLeft(this);
		var x = e.pageX - left - 5; // - 5 as we're using a margin of 5px on the div
		opacityCtrlKnob.setValueX(x);
		setOpacity(map, x, overlay, index);
	});
	map.controls[google.maps.ControlPosition.RIGHT_TOP].push(opacityDiv);
	// Set initial value
	var initialValue = OPACITY_MAX_PIXELS / (100 / opacity);
	opacityCtrlKnob.setValueX(initialValue);
	setOpacity(map, initialValue, overlay);
}
function setOpacity(map, pixelX, overlay, index) {
	// Range = 0 to OPACITY_MAX_PIXELS

	var value = (100 / OPACITY_MAX_PIXELS) * pixelX;
	if (value < 0.01) value = 0;

        //console.log('Opacity: ' + value);

	if (value === 0) {
                var oldOpacity = overlay.getOpacity();
                if(oldOpacity >= 0.01) { // was shown
                  //console.log('hide')
                  overlay.setOpacity(0);
                }
	}
	else {
                var oldOpacity = overlay.getOpacity();
                if(oldOpacity < 0.01) { // was hidden
                   //console.log('show')
                   map.overlayMapTypes.setAt(index, overlay);
                }
		overlay.setOpacity(value / 100.0);
	}
}
function findPosLeft(obj) {
	var curleft = 0;
	if (obj.offsetParent) {
		do {
			curleft += obj.offsetLeft;
		} while (obj = obj.offsetParent);
		return curleft;
	}
	return undefined;
}


Vantage Partners helps some of the world's leading global companies with conflict resolution and partner relations – mergers, alliances and partnership management.
Their management consultants provide global, hands-on professional service delivery supported by mobile information technology – primarily laptops, printers and projectors. When Scott Martin joined Vantage to manage their IT, there was no process for tracking these assets and no inventory. So, when there was an IT problem, it was difficult to fix, as there was no record of the specifications of the distributed tools.
Martin started by building system to manage inventory. He adapted an Access database to capture and manage the inventory data – including ages, version histories and more. This data was associated with a unique ID number attached to each asset – a simple solution that hit a snag when he started attaching his ID labels. The label information was wearing off and labels were falling off, rendering the barcode unreadable or missing. "The label is critical for quick ID," said Martin. "A cheaper solution led to disappointment; I needed something with a strong adhesive and durable printing." A Web search lead him to Metalcraft and a recommendation for Premium StyleMark bar code labels – polyester property tags that deliver outstanding adherence to plastic surfaces with Tedlar® film and color sub-surface printing to protect the logos, copy and bar code against abrasion and other rigors of extended business travel.
Vantage has improved their business continuity and budget with Martin's new processes. The inventory helps him manage upgrades and depreciation as well as supporting the consultants. Reliable ID for these world travelers means being able to handle software issues and other errors remotely based on the data tied to the Metalcraft label.


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Home Quiz Free Eyes Test: Prove You Have an Eagle Eye By Finding The...
Free Eyes Test: Prove You Have an Eagle Eye By Finding The Odd One Out
In this puzzle picture, your challenge is to find out the Emoji which is different from other similar-looking Emojis. Maybe it's too easy to see. But be careful! It'll get harder and harder.
We have all levels but it gets harder and harder.
Now let's get started!
1. Can you find the odd one out?
2. Give it a try!
3. The next one
4. For this one, you only have 20 seconds to find the difference
5. Next chance! Let's set the clock again
6. Let's make this harder! Can you do this one in less than 40 seconds?
I. QUIZ 1
II. QUIZ 2
VI. QUIZ 4
V. QUIZ 5
It's Quite Tricky To Find The Difference. But That Doesn't Mean You Can't Get It Right – Try Your Best!
Which One Is Not Like Others? Keep Looking At The Picture Until You Figure It Out
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It's Quite Tricky To Find The Difference. But That Doesn't Mean...
Which One Is Not Like Others? Keep Looking At The Picture...
This Eye Test Is A Bit Confusing. Are You A Clear-sighted...
9 Out Of 10 People Get Wrong On The First Attempt!...


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Amber Rollins, 913-205-6973, amber@KidsAndCars.org
Janette Fennell, 415-336-9279, Janette@KidsAndCars.org
#HotCarsKill - Kids and Car Safety partnering with PETA to save lives
Children and pets dying or being injured in hot cars is a significant public health problem. The good news is that these tragedies are preventable.
Kids and Car Safety has collected data about at least 8,000 children that were left alone in hot cars or gained access independently into unoccupied cars between 1990 and 2020. Of those, over 990 children lost their lives due to heatstroke and more than 1,200 children were injured. Since last year, PETA documented at least 32 companion animals that have died from heat-related causes. Those are just the cases that were reported and documented—most aren't.
Tomorrow (6/9), Kids and Car Safety is partnering with animal welfare group PETA for a #HotCarsKill social media blitz to raise awareness about the danger of hot cars on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Memes for use on social media can be found here.
Both children and dogs are more susceptible to heatstroke due to their inability to regulate their body temperature. A child's body temperature rises 3-5 times faster than an adult and dogs are unable to sweat causing their body temperature to rise quickly to deadly levels. This combined with the fact that a vehicle acts like a greenhouse which creates a deadly environment for children and pets in cars in a matter of minutes.
Over the past 30 years, child hot car deaths have continued to trend upwards despite widespread education programs and public awareness. On May 12, 2021, the Hot Cars Act (H.R. 3164) was reintroduced in the U.S. House of Representatives by Reps. Tim Ryan (D-Ohio) and Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.). The bill calls for technology that can detect the presence of an unattended occupant inside a vehicle and alert the driver and/or others. During the 2019–2020 legislative session, the Hot Cars Act passed the U.S. House of Representatives as part of the Moving Forward Act (H.R. 2). It failed to pass in the Senate.
The type of technology called for in the bill is readily available and inexpensive. Diverse stakeholders including families that have been impacted by hot car incidents, public health, safety and consumer organizations, law enforcement and first responders, animal protection groups and others have all voiced support for a technological solution to this problem.
"We truly value our partnership with PETA because no one should ever lose a loved one in a hot car. This new campaign is vital and much appreciated because we all need to work together to ensure children or pets are never left alone in a vehicle, stated Janette Fennell, president of Kids and Car Safety. With this new campaign, #HotCarsKill, more people will be made aware of these dangers and learn how to get involved to save lives, she continued.
"Temperatures inside a parked car soar to dangerous heights in just minutes, so even a 'quick errand' can turn deadly for a dog or a child locked inside," says PETA President Ingrid Newkirk. "With the hottest days of summer on the way, PETA is ready with all the tips people need to step in and prevent these heartbreaking tragedies."
While safety advocates push for technology in all cars, Kids and Car Safety is urging the public to learn what to do if they come across a child or pet in a hot car and to follow their recommended safety tips. The child safety organization offers an emergency window breaking tool that fits on a keychain that can help save a life in an emergency situation. Everyone should have this live-saving tool on their keychain.
Kids and Car Safety Graphics: https://www.kidsandcars.org/hotcarskill/
PETA Infographics: https://www.peta.org/misc/hotcarskill-infographics/
Kids and Car Safety is a national nonprofit organization dedicated to keeping young children and pets safe in and around vehicles.


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Home/Support/Support Forum/When will the next official Dynamic C 10 update be available?
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When will the next official Dynamic C 10 update be available?
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asked Feb 18, 2016 in Rabbit Software by miker27 New to the Community (9 points)
Digi released the Dynamic C 10 source code as Open Source on github for active Rabbit community involvement. All libraries are covered by the MPL 2.0 license, with samples covered under the ISC license. See https://github.com/digidotcom/DCRabbit_10.
In addition to the Open Source initiative, we are also announcing the upcoming Dynamic C 10.72A maintenance release. The fully integrated installer will be available for download on the Digi support site on March 31, 2016. A corresponding link will also be shared in the relevant Digi and external forums.
The releases are focusing on delivering significant security enhancements for Rabbit customers. This includes TLS 1.2 security for modern web browser compatibility, a new option for strong 256-bit AES encryption, support for SHA-256/SHA-224 digests, SHA-256 signatures in X.509 certificates, and default 128-bit AES cipher settings. The releases also provide miscellaneous minor bug fixes, including a Wi-Fi connectivity issue preventing successful connection to access points configured in WPA mixed-mode (TKIP and CCMP).
answered Feb 18, 2016 by miker27 New to the Community (9 points)
The fully integrated installer for the new Dynamic C 10.72A release, including release notes (readme file),
is now available for download on the Digi technical support website in the "Dynamic C 10" product section under "Development Software and Sample Code".
http://www.digi.com/support/productdetail?pid=4978
commented Mar 31, 2016 by miker New to the Community (38 points)


I've had the pleasure of photographing the Vondra family for the last couple of years, and it just keeps getting better and better. In this session, we ventured right outside of Denver in Indian Hills to capture some beautiful images. The light, the love, it was ALL magic.
It's important to select Denver family photographers that are comfortable with babies and children that know how to capture just the right expression on a child's face. Often, family photo sessions don't go as planned. Babies can be cranky and kids are impatient. It's best to have a Denver family photographer who knows how to coax a candid, natural smile from even the most reluctant kiddo.
Be well rested, often this can be difficult. With crazy work and school schedules, it almost seems impossible! Plan naps ahead of time, and try and get good nights rest the day before. Allow yourself plenty of time to get to the session without rushing.
Bring snacks! It's always a lifesaver if you carry a few healthy treats along for your session. Water is also a great idea, especially for those hot summer days.
Pack a few favorite toys (squeaky ones are the best). Your little one may need to regroup during a session and a great way is to be distracted is with their favorite toy for a bit. A blankie works wonders too.
Have a couple of your child's favorite songs queued up on your phone. Happy songs equal happy times and big smiles.
Bring an extra change of clothes for your little one. You never know, stains happen. While most can be photoshopped, it's nice to have a backup for your Denver family portraits! Feel Free To contact me for more tips and details.


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Davis Wiki
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Davis Wiki is a wiki dedicated to information and news on the town of Davis, Calif. The site was created in 2004 by Philip Neustrom and Mike Ivanov while the two were undergraduate students at the UC Davis.
The site contains pages information necessary to orient oneself in Davis, with categories for basic city services, restaurants and other businesses. As a wiki all information is added, edited and vetted by users of the site, but Davis Wiki goes an extra step in asking editors to use their real names on the site.
Along with acting as an information source the wiki has proven to be a provider of news. In the spring of 2010 Davis Wiki users took to the site to spread word of a young con artist who was soliciting money from residents.
In June 2010 Neustrom and Ivanov were among the winners of the Knight News Challenge, receiving a $350,000 grant to build on the existing wiki software they use to run the site. The pair have been developing LocalWiki, a software and support program that would allow any community to start up a localized wiki similar to Davis Wiki. In September 2010 LocalWiki raised over $25,000 in support of the project through Kickstarter.
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Oct. 6, 2010 / Lois Beckett
Trust, mobile, and money: New focal points (and hints for applicants) for the new Knight News Challenge — For the first time, this year's Knight News Challenge will be requesting entries in three specific categories: mobile, revenue models, and reputation/credibility. The contest judges won't be seeking a certain...
June 18, 2010 / Laura McGann
Knight News Challenge: Is a wiki site coming to your city? Local Wiki will build software to make it simple — Residents of Davis, Calif., have pulled off a feat that new media enthusiasts would love to replicate across the country. Since 2004, a local site has emerged as the go-to place for news and information about the communi...
June 16, 2010 / Joshua Benton
Announcing the 2010 Knight News Challenge winners: Visuals are hot, and businesses are big winners — They started out last year as a crowded field of hopefuls from around the world, each dreaming of a chance to perform under the big lights. Over months, their numbers dwindled as the level of competition rose; each succe...
Nov. 6, 2009 / Michael Andersen
Welcome to Davis, Calif.: Six lessons from the world's best local wiki — Ah, Davis: home of 60,000 people, 30,000 students, 188 sunny days a year, a 16 percent bike commute mode share and the busiest local wiki in the world. If I were Omaha World-Herald Publisher Terry Kroeger, I'd be b...
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Primary author: Mark Coddington. Main text last updated: June 13, 2011.
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SURVIVOR Singer JIMI JAMISON Dead At 63
SURVIVOR lead singer Jimi Jamison has died of an apparent heart attack. He was found at home around 1 a.m. Monday morning by his son. The musician was 63 years old.
Jamison served as SURVIVOR's lead singer from 1984 until 1988, recording three albums with the band, 1984's "Vital Signs", 1986's "When Seconds Count" and 1988's "Too Hot To Sleep". Jamison rejoined SURVIVOR in 2000 for another six years.
Family attorney Jeff Ward released the following statement:
"This afternoon renowned musical performer and lead singer of SURVIVOR Jimi Jamison passed away at his home in Memphis, Tennessee.
"Jimi was a friend to everyone he met. He was a loving father and grandfather and was always a person who valued people more than anything else.
"The family has asked for privacy during this extremely difficult time.
"In lieu of any demonstrations of sympathy, the family has requested that donations be made to Jimi's favorite charity, St. Jude's Children's Research Hospital."
Often referred to as one of the American top rock vocalists, Jamison was the singer with TARGET, COBRA and SURVIVOR, apart from being an accomplished solo artist on his own.
Jimi performed backup vocals on recordings by ZZ TOP, Joe Walsh and numerous other recording artists. Billy Gibbons refered to Jimi as the fourth member of ZZ TOP and Casey Kasem, on his nationally syndicated radio show "American Top 40", called Jimi Jamison "The Voice." Among Jamison's best-known performances are "Burning Heart", from the "Rocky IV" movie, which hit No. 2 on the Billboard chart, "High On You" (No. 8), and "The Search Is Over" (No. 4).
His solo career started in 1991 with the release of "When Love Comes Down", followed in 1999 by "Empires", the album which included the theme "I'm Always Here" for "Baywatch". In 2008 Jamison teamed up with the other former SURVIVOR bandmate Jim Peterik, who wrote and produced for him the acclaimed album "Crossroads Moment". On the heels of this superb release, Jimi toured Europe a few times, culminating with an appearance at the popular Firefest in the UK in 2011.
Jamison's final solo album, "Never Too Late", came out in 2012.
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The shooting during the Route 91 Harvest Festival in Las Vegas, Nev., on Oct. 1, 2017, claimed the lives of more than 50 people -- 58, to be exact. The victims were 58 country music-loving people who gathered on the Las Vegas Strip to enjoy the company of friends and hear plenty of live music.
Among those who died when a lone gunman began firing on the Route 91 Harvest Festival crowd from a hotel room on the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino are someone's parents, children, brothers, sisters, significant others and friends. They were veterans, teachers, off-duty police officers, lawyers ... and they were all taken far too soon.
The photo gallery below contains the names and stories of the victims of the Route 91 Harvest Festival shooting. In addition to these 58, more than 800 people were injured in the shooting -- to date, the deadliest mass shooting committed by an individual in the United States.


Whether we like it or not, kids are always watching.
As a parent, kids are always watching what we do and say. Same can be said about teachers and our daily interaction with students. This is an immense responsibility; one I have been reflecting greatly on lately in both my role as parent and teacher. I think this video, which has been around for a while now, is a great clip to get adults thinking about the impact they have on the children in their lives.
I consider myself a keen observer, or possibly an awkward stalker, of adults in the various settings I find myself in. It is no surprise when I witness kids acting in the manner in which they observe adults acting or struggling to make sense of adult behaviors.
I notice when parents are on a sideline or a bleacher yelling obscenities at other athletes, coaches or officials. I am never surprised when I see their child mimicking the same behavior. Youth sports has sadly become a place of one-up-man-ship and poor sportsmanship at a deeply troubling level. Kids observe parents in a horribly negative context and make evaluations on future actions as well as about right and wrong.
I am aware of the parents who verbally abuse their child in the stands at a swim practice and then watch that same child show verbal aggression to their peers. It is no secret, when kids are the receivers of harsh verbal attacks they are more likely to use the same tactics in their social interactions. In addition, by-standing children observe this behavior and begin to evaluate as well.
I sit and watch kids doing homework with their parents and hear the parents tell them they can't help because they always thought [fill in subject] was stupid and hard. Then the same kid will refuse to do the work and hold a preconceived grudge in that class. I often ask parents to lie to their kids when it comes to specific subjects they might not like. Kids feed off what we tell them and if we choose to "bash" a particular academic pursuit we have given them a blank check to write it off as well.
Kids watch adults eat unhealthily or choose not to exercise. While this may seem judgmental or harsh, kids look to adults in their lives as role models and health is a big part of this. I run every single day and my sons see exercise as a valuable part of living and have taken to running with me as well. If I want my boys to be healthy, I need to model that in my life choices be it physical activity or food choices. Teachers are no different in the ways in which they influence students and their choices about health and all that entails. When a student is told they need to lose weight and make healthier decisions by an overweight adult sucking down their 3rd McDonald's Coke of the morning, should they listen?
As adults, we have children in our lives, either our own kids or our students who look to us. Even when we don't want them to or don't think they are, kids are watching and listening. What are they hearing and what are they seeing?