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Mercy students attended the Somos el Futuro Collegiate Summit in Albany on March 9, joining several hundred college students interested in learning about New York State's political landscape, exploring potential career paths and amplifying their voices about important issues. Because many of the Mercy students attending the Collegiate Summit are veterans, they were particularly interested in discussing New York's plans to better support veterans reintegrating into civilian life, though other issues — such as how legislation affects Hispanic-serving institutions, like Mercy — came up as well. The Collegiate Summit is a relatively new addition to the long-standing Somos Conference, which is organized by the New York State Assembly and Senate Puerto Rican/Hispanic Task Force.
Attending the Somos Collegiate Summit gave special visibility to Mercy's students and mission. Mercy was one of the first private colleges invited to attend the event once it opened up to schools beyond The City University of New York (CUNY) and State University of New York (SUNY) a few years ago and is still one of few private colleges represented. This honor is partly due to Mercy's designation by the U.S. Department of Education as a Hispanic-serving institution with more than 30 percent of full-time Mercy undergraduates identifying as Hispanic.
Given the strong leadership from Bronx legislators in organizing and moderating the Somos Collegiate Summit, Mercy's Chief Community Relations Officer Lenny Caro asserts that Mercy students on the Bronx Campus should feel especially proud. "This vibrates bigger than anything else for our students in the Bronx. They can say, 'That's us up there!'" Caro himself was recognized at the conference by U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer and New York State Assembly Member Marcos Crespo for his service on the Somos board.
At this year's Somos Collegiate Summit, students heard from and spoke with a range of legislators and corporate leaders, including U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, New York State Sen. Marisol Alcantara, Bronx Borough President Rubén Díaz, Jr., Google's Head of Latino Community Engagement Laura Marquez, and several assembly members. Before and after the plenary sessions, students were also able to meet potential employers — such as the Metropolitan Transit Authority, the New York State Department of Public Service and the New York Power Authority — at a job fair.
In addition to answering questions from the audience, many speakers used their time on stage to encourage students to speak up and take action. Crespo, who represents Assembly District 85 in the Bronx, described the Collegiate Summit as the most important part of the Somos Conference. He sees the students in the room as the ones who will continue the legacy of the Hispanic elected officials who have worked for decades to give middle-class, working and poor people from all ethnic minorities a voice in state government. He made it clear, however, that anyone can be an agent of change, whether an elected official or not.
Gillibrand emphasized a similar message: "I often tell people that the only way anything ever changes is when regular people just like each of you stand up and demand it …. We are constantly being reminded of how much power young people have to effect change in our country …. Don't stop demanding change."
Mercy junior Raquel Williams-Castro took this cue and told Gillibrand about her transition back to civilian life in New York after retiring from the United States Army: "I felt like veterans were invisible. Especially after 9/11, I'm amazed that New York doesn't recognize or do more for veterans. I asked Sen. Gillibrand about her plans to change that." After giving a brief response on stage, the senator asked Williams-Castro to connect with an aide so they could continue the conversation, an offer that came as a welcome surprise to the Mercy student: "I am really still in shock. I've never spoken to a senator, let alone had an invitation from a senator."
Indeed, Gillibrand's reaction impressed the other Mercy students attending the Somos Collegiate Summit as well: "The senator was very interested in assisting [Raquel] personally. That direct attention, that made us raise our eyebrows," explained Mercy student and United States Army veteran Hector Rivera. Now serving as a Veteran Admissions Recruiter for Mercy, Rivera explains that attending the Collegiate Summit gave him a greater awareness of the services available to Hispanic students. He was also pleasantly surprised by the fact that legislators and corporate leaders were "willing to listen to what students have to say in order to try to implement changes." He notes that civilians — including legislators and professors — have much to learn about military personnel and veterans, including the challenges they face upon reintegrating into civilian life. But airtime at an event like this one and interest from a U.S. senator are certainly steps in the right direction.
In addition to empowering Mercy's Hispanic students, the Somos Collegiate Summit is important at an institutional level, Mercy Provost and Vice President of Academic Affairs Dr. José Herrera asserts. He sees the event as a chance to remind the assembly members who represent the Bronx and Manhattan about Mercy's mission and the kinds of students Mercy serves. "It was important to show that there's a Mercy presence at the conference," he explains, "and that we stand side by side with our Hispanic students."
From his perspective, it is important for Mercy students to participate in the Somos Collegiate Summit because they begin to understand "the political power that a Hispanic student has. Especially for first-generation students, it can be really difficult for them to rise above their everyday life and see the political landscape."
Williams-Castro feels this political power as she prepares to meet with Gillibrand: "I feel like it's the right time for me to say something. Now that I'm retired from the military, I have the ability to speak about what I want to speak about. I'm a social work major, and I'm all about social justice and change." Her drive to take action must be exactly what the New York State Assembly and Senate Puerto Rican/Hispanic Task Force hoped for when organizing the Somos Collegiate Summit — and is exactly what New York needs.


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In a special edition of Meet My Owl, I am pleased to introduce "Owliver". He's my newest owl. And he's permanent.
I love him!!!
(excuse the fading pedicure)
As some of you know, my first irresponsible thing I planned to do after finishing my dissertation was to get a tattoo. You all thought I was joking. Ha! I just needed to wait for a week when I could go barefoot. It's spring break and I have the week off, so yesterday morning I headed to Rock Steady Tattoo in Hampton for my owl.
Unfortunately, the visit on Friday did not allow me to schedule an appointment and I was told to come first thing on Monday. When I got there, only one person was there and he said he couldn't get me in until Wednesday. Well, I was willing to wait until then because I had heard such great things about the place. I scheduled the appointment and headed home. On the way, I got this weird feeling like I needed to do the tattoo now, so I called a couple of other places that I'd been looking at and one was open at lunch for walk-ins.
So, Mom (yes, my mom went and now she wants one too) and I headed to Virginia Beach Ink on Laskin Road. I was a little apprehensive because I knew I was getting into a situation that may end badly, depending on who was at the shop when I got there. Happily, Dwayne was there and able to get me in right away. He was awesome!!!
I don't know what everyone was talking about. It did not hurt at all, not even a little. I think it hurts worse to get flu shots than it did to get a tattoo. It sort of felt like someone was scraping at my foot with something like a fingernail. Maybe I have a high pain threshold. Maybe Dwayne was the bomb.I was in and out in less than an hour. I had a wrap over it for about three hours and then I removed it and washed it with mild soap. I was expecting for it to get scabby or crusty. Not a bit of bleeding, scabbing, or crusting. It looks perfect. The lines are a little raised up, which you can see in the photo, but I am to start putting Lubriderm on it four times a day now so it should smooth out.
I was instructed to avoid wearing shoes and socks for a few days, so I did my stretching DVD this morning. That was fine with me because I did more than enough walking on Saturday and Sunday around D.C.
I'm 100% pleased with my new owl. I had to get him a little bigger and a little more on the top of my foot because of the design and scarring from a surgery, but he's exactly what I wanted. Now I really feel like the dissertation is done!

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Thursday 7th February 2019
Wilkinson Sword has today announced a partnership with The Lawn Tennis Association (LTA), to show its support for the governing body of tennis in the UK.
Founded in 1772, Wilkinson Sword will partner with the Governing Body until 2020 with rights including on-court branding across the four British Tennis Major Events (Fever-Tree Championships, Nature Valley Open, Nature Valley International, Nature Valley Classic), as well as a bespoke pop-up in the players' lounge at the Fever-Tree Championships.
The partnership will see a range of Wilkinson Sword products sampled across different events, alongside other Edgewell brands.
Diana Graovac, Regional Segment Manager, North West Europe at Edgewell said: "We're proud to be a partner of the LTA and are dedicated to ensuring athletes, and spectators alike, are always game, set and match ready."
"We believe this partnership highlights our commitment to tennis in Britain from the grassroots game right to its premier summer events. As a brand, we're dedicated to help encourage a younger audience to engage with sport earlier, which aligns perfectly with the LTA's new vision."
Scott Lloyd, Chief Executive of the LTA added: "The LTA's vision is to open up tennis in Britain to anyone with an interest, from players of all abilities and backgrounds to its millions of fans. We are delighted to partner with Wilkinson Sword and are excited to start working together to showcase tennis to people who love our sport as well as those who may have never experienced it for themselves before. "
To find out more about Wilkinson Sword and its partnership with LTA, please visit https://www.lta.org.uk/about-us/sponsors/.


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Tristan Shambee, 14, of Evanston, was pronounced dead at 7:36 p.m. at Northshore Universty Health System Evanston Hospital, according to the Cook County medical examiner's office after a water rescue effort at Gillson Park Beach in Wilmette.
Wilmette Fire Department responded about 5:11 p.m. Saturday to a water rescue at Gillson Park Beach, 101 Lake Avenue, Wilmette after two friends reported him missing while swimming. Wilmette responded with divers, Glenview responded with divers, Glencoe responded with divers and a boat, and Evanston responded with divers and a jet ski. Special Chicago Fire Department helicopter, U.S. Coast Guard called to the scene as Chicago Fire Department helicopter was not immediately available, MABAS Division 3 Decon and underwater sidescan sonar also responded the scene. Chicago Fire Department helicopter responded for reconnaissance after refueling from a rescue operation near the breakwater east of Navy Pier at about 5:00 p.m.
A male was pulled from the water about 7:00 p.m. Saturday. Witnesses report CPR was performed as the victim was transferred to an awaiting ambulance.
A box alarm was transmitted for all Division 3 divers at 5:48 p.m. Saturday. Prospect Heights divers and all Division 3 divers, including rescuers from Deerfield-Bannockburn, Northbrook, Park Ridge and Skokie also responded.
Waves were choppy. Tristan Shambee was reported missing presumably under water about 15 minutes, as firefighter divers and rescuers assembled at the scene. A Rip Current Statement was issued for the weekend, updated to high risk of rip currents for the Cook County Illinois shore and Indiana shore, and moderate risk for Lake County, Illinois shore.
Air temperature 72.6°F, winds calm, skies clear at the time of the incident.
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Armand Louis de Gontant Biron, Duc de Lauzun, was born in 1747, and thus was eight years older than the Queen. He had been reared in the boudoir of Madame de Pompadour, and on account of a difficulty in choosing a tutor for him, a lackey of his late mother's taught him to read. At twelve years of age, he too entered the regiment of the Swiss Guards, knowing that he would succeed to an immense fortune. At nineteen, he married a charming young girl, grand-daughter and heiress of the Maréchal de Luxembourg. Her graces and- virtues won all hearts except her husband's. He came to Versailles when he was twenty-eight years of age, and found the Queen on intimate terms with his friend the Princesse de Guéménée, who procured him the introduction which he coveted, and he received some kindness from Marie Antoinette. A race, in which his horse was ridden by a child, made him fashionable; and at the Queen's request, other races were arranged.
Lauzun was a French Lovelace, an avowed womankiller, with all the immoderate vanity and odious heartlessness of such a character. He ran after those women who were much in the public eye—grandes dames, famous beauties, celebrated actresses. To throw on queens themselves bold looks—to make the proudest hearts beat, were it only with indignation —to cause the most glorious eyes to shine, if but with anger—to excite the jealousy of the salon, the envy of the men, the ecstacy of the women, was his chief ambition. And this very fine gentleman had the weaknesses of a fine lady, and carried them off admirably. He could weep ostentatiously, without looking ridiculous; he changed colour like the Comtesse Diane, who had an inconvenient habit of blushing like a school-girl; he even fainted when it was desirable to produce a sensation.
Marie Antoinette had no great liking for Lauzun, yet she regarded his vices with a certain foolish interest and curiosity—feelings which such mauvais sujets, as she knew him to be, are apt to excite in women like her. Mercy wrote of him as one of the dangerous young fools to whom the Queen gave too free access; but the Comte added no hint that could support the outrageous fatuousness of the Duc de Lauzun's assertion of the Queen's favour. Lauzun, on his part, had no special regard for Marie Antoinette; but the role of admirer of the first woman in France pleased his coxcombry, and, as he fancied, mortified les grandes dames.
Suddenly a lively sensation was excited at Court by the incident of "the heron's plume," told in two very different ways. One day Lauzun appeared at Madame de Guemenee's in uniform, with a snowwhite heron's plume in his casque. Some evenings afterwards, the Queen showed herself with the same unique plume in her head-dress. Lauzun's vapouring statement was, that the Queen had said to Madame de Guéménée that she, Marie Antoinette, was dying to have the heron's feathers, which he sent to her accordingly through his obliging ally. The Queen, he added, not only wore the plume, but appealed to him as to what he thought of it in her head-dress, and declared she had never found herself adorned so much to her mind. The Duc de Lauzun then wrote down a cock-and-bull version of an interview he had with the Queen, when she insinuated her attachment to him, and, but for the restraint he put upon himself, .would have expressed her regard openly.....It is saying little to note that [Marie-Antoinette] had many enemies. She had managed to pique and alienate some of the representatives of the greatest houses in the kingdom—such as "the Montmorencies, the Clermont-Tonnerres, the Rochefoucaulds "—by the constant injudicious display of her preference for her private friends; above all, for Madame de Polignac and her set—a line of conduct against which Mercy had warned the Queen to no purpose. For some time, as her old friend and adviser had not failed to point out, her weekly balls, when the Court was at Versailles, had been ominously ill-attended. The great families did not care to come from Paris and find the Queen so engrossed by a bevy of favourites and her own amusement as hardly to take the trouble, in spite of her naturally gracious manners, to "hold a circle," and take due notice of her guests. Besides, these offended magnates were by no means without skeletons in their own cupboards, and felt further insulted by some painfully honest speeches of the young Queen's, such as, "I do not care to receive wives who are separated from their husbands."Madame Campan's explanation has the merit of being credible. The Queen had rashly admired the rare plume, when the Duc de Lauzun at once offered it to her through Madame de Guéménée. The offer embarrassed Marie Antoinette, who did not see how she could refuse it, or accept it without presenting Lauzun with an equivalent—a course to which there were many objections. On the whole, it seemed the best plan to take the feathers as a matter of course, let their former owner see her wear them once, and then suffer the subject to drop. But her imprudent condescension to such a man bore its natural fruits. The Duc de Lauzun solicited an audience, and Madame Campan, who was in the next room in the performance of her duty, again heard the Queen's voice raised in anger. "Go, sir," were the words she said this time, and when her dismissal was obeyed, she protested to her bed-chamber woman," That man shall never again come within my doors." As an established fact, the Queen from that date testified her displeasure and dissatisfaction with the nobleman. When the Maréchal de Biron died, the Duc de Lauzun, the heir of his name, desired the post of colonel of the French Guards, but the Queen prevented his nomination, procuring the commission for the Duc de Chatelet. For that matter, Lauzun had been unmasked to her by Mercy and the Abbé as early as 1777. Lauzun was overwhelmed with debt, in consequence of his reckless life and prodigal extravagance; though he had started with a hundred thousand crowns rent, he owed two millions. Madame de Guéménée importuned Marie Antoinette in vain for lettres d'etat, to save the spendthrift from his creditors. It is equally well known that the disappointment of his unwarrantable expectations threw the Duc de Lauzun into the faction of the Duc d'Orleans, and converted the Queen's pretended admirer into a bitter enemy both of her and the King.
More on Lauzun from Madame Guillotine and Lauren.The Duc de Lauzun fought well in La Vendée against the defenders of the altar and the throne; but his comrades could not forget or forgive his birth and assumption of superiority. He was guillotined on the 1st of January, 1794. It is said that on the scaffold he declared, "I have been false to my God, to my order, and to my King." The Duc de Lauzun, like the Baron de Besenval, left behind him memoirs, the authenticity of which, though at first questioned with indignation by his greatest friend, Talleyrand, is now universally admitted. The only testimony against the good name of Marie Antoinette which could be for a moment entertained by any reasonable person, is contained in the malicious inferences and vindictively-garbled statements of these two noble braggarts, who proclaimed to the world what, if true, it would have been the height of treachery in them to reveal, but which, as it is, bears its foolish falsehood on its brazen face. (Marie-Antoinette, the Woman and the Queen by Sarah Tytler, pp. 95-98)There is no question that the first calumnies against the Queen arose in the salons, and tempted every unworthy fine gentleman, who listened to the sneers and doubles entendres, and believed in them, to profess insolently to appropriate Marie Antoinette's frank smiles and ready kindness.
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text: With his apostolic letter of March 29, 2019, Pope Francis established new legal procedures to better protect minors and vulnerable adults within the Vatican City State. While there are few minors living in the Vatican, there are minors in the Sistine Chapel Choir, in the pediatric hospital, and in the pre-seminary, all controlled by the Vatican. There is actually an ongoing investigation begun in 2017 at the St. Pius X pre-seminary of allegations that a future priest abused a younger fellow student. The new law covers all forms of physical and emotional abuse, not just sexual abuse, and includes mistreatment, neglect, abandonment and exploitation against minors under the age of 18 and vulnerable adults. The act covers any Vatican public official, employee, diplomat, personnel, clergy, chaplain, assistant, volunteer, as well as lay people residing in the Vatican. The law requires "without delay" reporting abuse learned about or suspected. A failure or "wrongful delay" in reporting can result in a fine of 1,000 to 5,000 euros for a "public official" and up to six months in jail for a policeman or official. Anyone can make a report. Crimes against minors are automatically prosecutable. The statute of limitations is 20 years after the victim turns 18. The new law includes, among other things: appointment of a Contact Person for prevention of abuse and training officials and workers, support services and protection for the alleged victim, instruction on how investigations and trials should be conducted so they are fair and maintain a presumption of innocence for the accused, and obligation for background checks in the selection and hiring of Vatican personnel and volunteers. The law includes prohibiting: corporal punishment; photographing, filming or contacting a minor by phone, online or through social media without written parental consent, being alone or out of sight of others when with a minor or vulnerable adult and showing favoritism to one child with gifts. For credible accusations the suspected perpetrator is to be removed from pastoral activity. Pope Francis has amended the Code of Canon Law to include an automatic dismissal of a member of a religious order who is absent without authorization from their community for at least 12 months. This change will go into effect on April 10, 2019 and is not retroactive. The current law states that "a member must be held as ipso facto dismissed from an institute" if they "defected notoriously from the Catholic faith" or have married or attempted to marry. The Pope wrote that "community life is an essential element of religious life and religious are to live in their own religious house and are not to be absent from it except with the permission of their superior." After six months of absence, Canon Law instructs superiors to do everything they can to find the person to help them "return to and persevere in his or her vocation." Archbishop Carballo, secretary of the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life said that in most cases men in women are given temporary permission to leave, but they never returned. Unless they have requested a dispensation from their vows or have been dismissed, they legally are still part of the order. They can find themselves in situations incompatible with religious life or can demonstrate behavior in contrast with it." Also their life outside the community could have implications of "an economic nature that could harm the institute," which is why the Church needed a process for the order to initiate the dismissal.


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Definition of the noun arc
What does arc mean as a name of something?
noun - plural: arcs
- electrical conduction through a gas in an applied electric field
- lexical domain: Natural Phenomena - nouns denoting natural phenomena
- synonyms of arc: discharge / electric arc / electric discharge / spark
- more generic term: electrical conduction = the passage of electricity through a conductor
- more specific terms:
- brush discharge = discharge between electrodes creating visible streamers of ionized particles
- Saint Elmo's light / Saint Ulmo's light / Saint Elmo's fire / Saint Ulmo's fire / corona discharge / St. Elmo's fire / electric glow / corposant / corona = an electrical discharge accompanied by ionization of surrounding atmosphere
- flashover = an unintended electric discharge
- a continuous portion of a circle
- lexical domain: Shapes - nouns denoting two and three dimensional shapes
- more generic terms: curve / curved shape = the trace of a point whose direction of motion changes
- more specific word: limb = the graduated arc that is attached to an instrument for measuring angles
- part of: circle = ellipse in which the two axes are of equal length; sector = a plane figure bounded by two radii and the included arc of a circle
- something curved in shape
- lexical domain: Shapes - nouns denoting two and three dimensional shapes
- synonym of arc: bow
- more generic terms: curve / curved shape = the trace of a point whose direction of motion changes
- more specific word: rainbow = an arc of colored light in the sky caused by refraction of the sun's rays by rain
Alternative definition of the noun arc
- [astronomy] That part of a circle which a heavenly body appears to pass through as it moves above and below the horizon. [definition from 14th c.]
- [geometry] A continuous part of the circumference of a circle (circular arc) or of an other curve. [definition from 16th c.]
- synonyms: circular arc, circle segment
- A curve, in general. [definition from 17th c.]
- synonyms: arrow, directed edge
- A band contained within parallel curves, or something of that shape. [definition from 17th c.]
- [context: electrics] A flow of current across an insulating medium; especially a hot, luminous discharge between either two electrodes or as lightning. [definition from 19th c.]
- A story arc. [definition from 20th c.]
- [mathematics] A continuous mapping from a real interval (typically
[0, 1]) into a space.
- [graph theory] A directed edge.
Definition of the verb arc
What does arc mean as a doing word?
verb - inflections: arcked, arcking
- form an arch or curve
Alternative definition of the verb arc
- [intransitive] To move following a curved path.
- [intransitive] To form an electrical arc.
- The Arc is a 128-kilometre-long river in the Savoie département of south-eastern France. It is a left tributary of the Isère River, which it joins at Chamousset, approximately 15 km downstream from Albertville. Its source is near the border with Italy, in the Graian Alps, northeast of Bonneval-sur-Arc. The valley of the Arc, the Maurienne, is an important transport artery between France and Italy.
- also known as Arc river
- part of Savoie
- The Arc is an 83 km long river in the south of France. It arises at an altitude of 470 m, close to the village of Pourcieux. It then passes through Aix-en-Provence before flowing into the Étang de Berre, a lake to the west of Marseille.
- also known as Arc river
- part of Bouches-du-Rhône
- ARC a.k.a. American River College is a California community college located in the unincorporated area of Sacramento, California in northern Sacramento County, California.
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- Arc a.k.a. Arctic Village Airport is a public use airport located one nautical mile southwest of the central business district of Arctic Village, a Native American village in the Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area of the U.S. state of Alaska. It is owned by the Venetie Tribal Government.
- part of Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area, 99722
There are other places with in their name, like Des Arc, Sunda Arc, Bois D'Arc, Arc-lès-Gray, Arc de Triomf, Arc of Elvira, Arc-et-Senans, Arc-sur-Tille, Arc-sous-Cicon, Arc de Triomphe, Arc-sous-Montenot, Vallon-Pont-d'Arc, Bois D'Arc Township, Sainte-Jeanne-d'Arc, Maison de Jeanne d'Arc, Church of St Joan of Arc, Central America Volcanic Arc, Lesser Antilles Volcanic Arc.
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- ARC is a musical group.
- members:
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- Arc is a musical group.
- members:
- albums: "Arc vs. Tiny Objects in Space", "12k"
- ARC is a musical group.
- album: "... At This"
There are other groups with in their name, like Arc Lab, Old Arc, Arc Iris, Arc Angel, Arc Gotic, Arc-turus, l'arc six, Arc Angels, Arc-en-ciel, ARC Ensemble, Arc in Round, Arc of Doves, Arc of Light, Janne Da Arc, Arc of Ascent, L'arc En Ciel, L'Arc-en-Ciel, The ARC Choir and The Mercury Arc.
ARC a.k.a. Artists Recording Collective is an independent music label brand and 21st Century music business model that was created by professional musicians for professional musicians. It provides a platform for member projects and activities to reach a global audience. Based largely on using the Internet, digital music distribution and related technologies, Artists Recording Collective provides an alternative to the traditional recording industry and music promotion business models.
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Arc is a fictional character from Petite Princess Yucie.
- "Arc" is a live album of feedback, guitar noise, and vocal fragments that was realized from various shows on the 1991 Neil Young and Crazy Horse US tour, which was originally released with Weld in a special-edition 3-CD set called Arc-Weld.
- artists: Neil Young, Super8 & Tab, Tritonal
- genres: Electronic music, Noise rock, Computer music
- released on (24 years ago)
- "Arc" is the second studio album by British indie pop band Everything Everything. It was released in the United Kingdom on 14 January 2013, having been preceded by the singles "Cough Cough" and "Kemosabe".
- genres: Indie rock, Art rock
- released on
- "Arc" is a composition, cataloged instance.
- music and lyrics by Eddie Vedder
- "Arc" is a musical album of Parched.
- released in (12 years ago)
- "arc" is a musical single of UNDER NINE.
- released on (6 years ago)
- "Arc" is a musical album of Jimmy Haslip.
- released in (23 years ago)
- "Arc" is a musical EP of The Most Dangerous Race.
- "Arc" is a composition.
- music by Namlook
- "Arc" is a composition.
- music by Alex Bleek & Damon Kirkham
- "Arc" is a composition that was nominated for Best Classical Composition in the 2000 Juno Awards.
- music by Alexina Louie
- award: - Juno Award for Classical Composition of the Year nomination for Alexina Louie
- "Arc" is a musical album that was nominated for Best Global Album in the 1998 Juno Awards.
- artist: Thomas Handy Trio
- award: - Juno Award for World Music Album of the Year nomination for Thomas Handy Trio
- "Arc" is a song by the rock group Pearl Jam off of the band's 2002 album, Riot Act. It is the fourteenth track on the album.
"Arc" is a book by Andrew Mossin.
- "Arc" is a film, directed by Robert Ethan Gunnerson.
- country: United States of America
- language: English Language
- starring:
- genres: Thriller, Crime Fiction, Mystery, Crime Thriller, Drama
- released in (10 years ago)
- "Arc" is a film, directed by Max Doyle.
- genre: Drama
- released in (4 years ago)
- ARC is a Dutch association football club from Alphen aan den Rijn. The club, established in 1927, is in the Topklasse, the third tier of football in the Netherlands. ARC won the title in the Saturday Hoofdklasse A division in the 1997–98 season.
- Arc is a dialect of the Lisp programming language now under development by Paul Graham and Robert Morris.
- official website: arclanguage.org
- Arc, for activity-regulated cytoskeleton-associated protein, is a plasticity protein first characterized in 1995. Arc is a member of the immediate-early gene family, a rapidly activated class of genes functionally defined by their ability to be transcribed in the presence of protein synthesis inhibitors. Arc mRNA is localized to activated synaptic sites in an NMDA receptor-dependent manner, where the newly translated protein is believed to play a critical role in learning and memory-related molecular processes. Arc is widely considered to be an important protein in neurobiology because of its activity regulation, localization, and utility as a marker for plastic changes in the brain. Disfunctions in the production of Arc protein has been implicated as an important factor in understanding of various neurological conditions including: Amnesia; Alzheimer's disease; Autism spectrum disorders; and, Fragile X syndrome. Along with other IEGs such as zif268 and Homer 1a, Arc is also a significant tool for systems neuroscience as illustrated by the development of the cellular compartment analysis of temporal activity by fluorescence in situ hybridization, or catFISH technique.
- ARC is a lossless data compression and archival format by System Enhancement Associates. It was very popular during the early days of networked dial-up BBS. The file format and the program were both called ARC. The ARC program made obsolete the previous use of a combination of the SQ program to compress files and the LU program to create .LBR archives, by combining both compression and archiving functions into a single program. Unlike ZIP, ARC is incapable of compressing entire directory trees. The format was subject to controversy in the 1980s—an important event in debates over what would later be known as open formats.
- The Arc is a number of Bahá'í administrative buildings at the Bahá'í World Centre on Mount Carmel located at Haifa, Israel. They include the Seat of the Universal House of Justice, the Seat of the International Teaching Centre, the International Archives, and the Centre for the Study of the Sacred Texts. A fifth building, the International Bahá'í Library, has yet to be built.
- ARC a.k.a. Advanced Resource Connector is a grid computing middleware introduced by NorduGrid. It provides a common interface for submission of computational tasks to different distributed computing systems and thus can enable grid infrastructures of varying size and complexity. ARC includes data staging and caching functionality, developed in order to support data-intensive grid computing. ARC is an open source software distributed under the Apache License.
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- Arc: A arc in finite projective geometry is a set of points which satisfies, in an intuitive way, a feature of curved figures in continuous geometries. Loosely speaking, they are sets of points that are far from "line-like" in a plane or far from "plane-like" in a three-dimensional space. In this finite setting it is typical to include the number of points in the set in the name, so these simple arcs are called k-arcs. An important generalization of the k-arc concept, also referred to as arcs in the literature, are the-arcs.
- Arc is a TV program, begun in (6 years ago).
- country: United States of America
- created by Frank Spotnitz
- ARC is a 2013 Telly Award winner.
- also known as Advertising Resources & Consulting, Advertising Resources & Consulting LLC
- award:
- Telly Award for Local TV & Local Cable Commercial - Insurance - "West Bend - Stories of the Silver Lining"
- Telly Award for Local TV & Local Cable Commercial - Editing - "West Bend - Stories of the Silver Lining"
- Arc is a school, educational institution.
- Arc is a software.
- Arc a.k.a. SCO1648 is a gene.
- Arc is a protein.
- also known as Arg3.1, Arc3.1, KIAA0278, Activity regulated cytoskeleton-associated protein, Activity-regulated cytoskeleton-associated protein
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Facing Challenges of Talent & Olympiad for in Science & Mathematics (2014)
For Class-X by Virinder Kumar Bhargava
An arc is any part of a circle. 15. Chords...
The Computist's Manual of Facts (1853)
And Merchant's and Mechanic's Calculator and Guide; Or, A Complete Library of Numerical, Arithmetical and Mathematical Facts, Tables, Data, Formulas and Practical Rules, for the General Business Man, Merchant, Mechanic and Accountant by Ezra S. Winslow
An Arc is any portion of the circumference, as B c a, or h D g.
The Computist's Manual of Facts, and Merchant's and Mechanic's Calculator and Guide (1855)
by Ezra S. Winslow
An Arc is any portion of the circumference, as B c a, or h D g.
Dictionary of Film Terms (2006)
The Aesthetic Companion to Film Art by Frank Eugene Beaver
The arc shot provides a varied perspective of the photographed scene by partially or totally circling characters or objects, for example, the filming of the principal characters in a picnic scene in the adult thriller, Consenting Adults ( 1993, photo ...
A Dictionary of Epidemiology (2014)
by Miquel Porta
minus the absolute risk of events in the control group (ARC): ARI = ART–ARC. Same as RISK DIFFERENCE. Also, the proportion ...
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- Mark VI Arc Reactor - COMPLETE (Explanation)
A breakdown of the inner workings of the Mark VI Arc Reactor assembly and components. Go here to see the a complete demonstration and best acting this side ...
- An explanation of PLC and ARC Farm Bill options
Morrow County, Ohio farmer Anthony Bush has been on the ground level of the development of the 2014 Farm Bill. This new farm policy offers some new options ...
- Arc Meaning
Video shows what arc means. That part of a circle which a heavenly body appears to pass through as it moves above and below the horizon.. A continuous part ...
- Vaal storm call arc build! Build diary 1! Explanation, idea, goals, progression
Hope this helps some of you out there that are interested in the build :) KEEP IN MIND EVERYTHING IS SUBJECT TO CHANGE!! Stream ...
- Flembaz - Terminology [Blind Arc] - Free Download
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- Second of arc Meaning
Video shows what second of arc means. An angle, one sixtieth (1/60th) of a minute of arc or one 3600th of a degree.. second of arc synonyms: arcsecond.
- ARC Meaning
Video shows what ARC means. AIDS-related complex. ARC Meaning. How to pronounce, definition audio dictionary. How to say ARC. Powered by MaryTTS ...
- Branches Arc Explanation
Chris Witherall explains the Branches Arc concept, briefly describes the creative process and gives updates on the release schedule.
- DENTAL CAD Tutorial Lesson 4 - ARC JAW DEFINITION
- Penalty arc Meaning
Video shows what penalty arc means. an arc whose center is the penalty spot, extending from the top of the penalty area.. Penalty arc Meaning. How to ...
- Noah Arc Plot Explanation
- Arc Vocabulary, Arc Measures, & Arc Length
By the end of this video, you will be able to identify the different types of arcs as well as .point out the characteristics of them, and measure both the length and ...
- Mindfulness Definition by ARC founder J. Stewart Dixon
Basic mindfulness definition as taught in class by awakening resource center founder Jeff Stewart Dixon. Discussion of mbsr, meditation, awareness, ...
- Yugioh ARC V #52 The real meaning of the L D S Berofe Leo School Duel
- The Professor: Finding the length of a arc to a circle- explanation of the word subtend
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- Trig: Arc Length - Radian definition - Formula - Examples
Development of the formula via the definition of radian.
- Desert Arc Gives New Meaning To The Word "Float" In Palm Desert Golf Cart Parade 2012
Impressive Desert Arc of the desert float in 2012 Palm Desert Golf Cart Parade.
- Tropical arc Meaning
Video shows what tropical arc means. A weak aurora above the tropics. Tropical arc Meaning. How to pronounce, definition audio dictionary. How to say tropical ...
- Explanation of Arc Length v2
- How to Change the Language on Sony Ericsson Xperia arc
- ARC.PR vs NT123 ESL One New York 2015 Europe Qualifier Game 2 bo3
ESL One New York 2015 - Europe Qualifier. newteam123123 vs ARCADE.Power Rangers - Round 1. The base prize pool for this tournament is 250000, which ...
- Brief Description of Arc Flash
This is just a small informational video about Arc Flash and the affects it has if one were to ever happen to a worker who is unprotected.
- Description of Easter Seals Hawaii/Arc of Kauai Collaboration
- Language Forms and Functions ARC
- Microsoft Arc Touch Mouse (with NSFW language/excitement)
- ARC=ET Pres. Shine Language
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As an entrepreneur, as an employer, the weekends many times, when you are away from the everyday workplace, become the unconscious thinking time, a very productive time. For those of you have employees, this is their time, for many, to kick back and relax before returning refreshed to the workplace in a day or two. But for many employees, the stress they experience with their finances becomes more intense on the weekend when they have to deal with the money for all sorts of things.
Can you, as an employer, spot the signs of financial stress in your workplace with your employees? If you are seeing these signs, you are also seeing a lack of productivity, which does affect you and your business, and a lack of happiness in your employees.
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- Folks spending time dealing with personal finances while in the workplace.
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With superior consumer focus, Zespri aims to provide kiwi fruit all year round by forging partnerships around the world with experienced growers, then combining this united grower-owned platform with best practice in all of their processes.
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Three factors combined to launch Zespri on a whirlwind BPM journey:
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"The superior man is distressed by the limitations of his ability; he is not distressed by the fact that men do not recognize the ability he has." ~ Confucious
In September, 2008, I went through a life changing event. I had lost all feeling in my hands and feet and after several weeks of tests, a neurologist discovered massive bone spurs in my neck that were cutting deeply into my spinal cord. One of the best neurosurgeons I could find, Dr. Warren Neely, scheduled the surgery almost immediately once the problem was found due to the severity of the situation. He would be installing titanium rods in my neck and fusing C3, C4, C5, C6 & C7. He assured me he had performed hundreds of these similar surgeries during his 30+ years as a neurosurgeon and I would be under for about 2 hours.
The surgery didn't quite go as planned. The 2 hour surgery ended up being just over 5 ½ hours. When Dr. Neely emerged from the operating room, my wife said he was "wringing wet" and looked like he had just gone 12 rounds with Mike Tyson. The plan was to remove the bone spurs with laser, but Dr. Neely said in over 30 years of surgery he had never seen bones as hard as mine, nor had he ever seen bone spurs as large as mine. The only way to remove them was to drill holes in them then break the bone particles off with a small hammer and chisel. He informed me later than in the process, he had cause "massive nerve damage" and was certain some of it would be permanent.
Now, 5 years later, he was right. I developed surgical peripheral neuropathy, predominantly in my right foot and lower leg. I consider my life in two parts, before and after surgery. I often tell people, if I was physically a 10 before surgery, today I am a 4 or 5. I simply cannot do the physical things I did my entire life. I later found that I used my experience to shape my views on others. Enter Peyton Manning.
The future hall of fame quarterback underwent the same surgery I went through. I immediately began telling people, his career was over. Based on my experience, I didn't believe there was any way he would ever wear a football uniform again, and certainly not effectively. I even tried to take into account that he was 20 years younger than me at the time of his surgery and didn't experience the complications I went through, I still thought it would be impossible for Peyton Manning to ever be an effective quarterback and he would end up either hurt badly or tremendously embarrassing an otherwise stellar career.
Boy was I ever wrong! I was never a huge Peyton Manning fan, but he has now earned every ounce of respect that I can muster. He is a testament to what a person can accomplish by not listening to the critics (like me and the Indianapolis Colts who released him to free agency) who would impose their own limitations on what he was capable of doing. Although his arm strength is not what it once was, the argument can definitely be made that not only has Peyton Manning made a full come back, but he is even better today than he was before his surgery, if that is possible.
I'm a very positive person and normally do everything in my power to encourage others to strive to reach a higher level, but I allowed my own experience to pre-judge what someone else might be able to accomplish. How often do we place limits on others, like telling children they need to be "more realistic"? How often have others placed limitations on us that we allowed to convince us we were in over our heads and needed to be "more realistic"? The truth is, no one knows for certain what another person is ever capable of. Don't let the critics put limitations on you, and don't you put your limitations on others.
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