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Global Number of Displaced People Surges
In the wake of World Refugee Day, new Worldwatch Institute study examines the number of internationally and internally displaced people worldwide
Washington, D.C.—For reasons that range from warfare and persecution to natural disasters and development projects, an estimated 92.6 million people were forcibly displaced in 2012, either inside their home countries or across a border, writes Michael Renner in the Worldwatch Institute's latest Vital Signs Online trend (www.worldwatch.org).
International refugees under the care of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) numbered 10.5 million, and there are also close to 1 million asylum seekers worldwide. Internally displaced persons (IDPs)—at 28.8 million—outnumber international refugees by a significant margin. People displaced by natural hazards—typically also displaced inside their own countries but seen as a separate category since, unlike IDPs, they are not victims of human actions—ran to more than 32 million in 2012, but this number varies considerably from year to year. In addition, a large number of people are displaced by ill-considered development projects. No firm numbers exist, but the World Disasters Report 2012 offers a rough guess of 15 million such individuals.
Over time, the trends in refugee and IDP numbers have diverged substantially. The number of international refugees climbed from below 5 million in the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s to a peak of close to 18 million in the early 1990s, but it has since declined to just above 10 million. Given the unresolved Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the number of Palestinian refugees has been rising over the decades from less than 1 million in 1950 to about 5 million today. For internally displaced persons, only a much shorter time series of data is available. Following a rapid rise and then decline in the 1990s, their numbers have risen steadily to record levels.
During 2012, some 1.1 million people were newly displaced across international borders—principally from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Mali, Somalia, Sudan, and Syria. This is equivalent to about 3,000 persons each day, and it is the highest annual figure since 1999. Meanwhile, only 526,000 refugees returned to their home countries voluntarily during 2012—primarily to Afghanistan, Côte d'Ivoire, and Iraq.
Around 6.5 million people were newly displaced inside their own countries during 2012, far surpassing returnees and thus raising the total number of IDPs to the highest figure since comparable data were recorded in 1989. Colombia has the largest number of IDPs, estimated at between 4.9 million and 5.5 million, followed by Syria (3 million), the DRC (2.7 million), Sudan (2.2 million), and Iraq (2.1 million). Regionally, sub-Saharan Africa has the largest number of IDPs at 10.4 million, followed by the Middle East and North Africa (6 million), the Americas (5.8 million), South and Southeast Asia (4.1 million), and Europe/Central Asia (2.5 million).
"Unlike international refugees, many IDPs do not receive protection and assistance, often because their own governments or armed opposition groups block access to them," said Renner, the study's author and a senior researcher at Worldwatch. "Lack of safety for aid workers and inadequate transport and logistical infrastructure are additional factors." UNHCR has had an expanded role in caring for IDPs, and the number that agency has under its care has risen from 4–5 million people a decade ago to some 17.7 million people at the end of 2012—about 60 percent of the worldwide IDP population.
UNHCR's responsibility has steadily expanded over the years, reflecting greater complexity in the types and patterns of displacement around the world. This concerns not only IDPs but also stateless people as well as people affected by major natural disasters. The number of people forced to flee in the face of rapid-onset natural disastersfluctuates strongly from year to year, depending, of course, on the severity and frequency of disasters. The figures include the impacts of floods, storms, earthquakes, and wildfires but not droughts, which also may generate large movements of people. In some cases, people are displaced for prolonged periods of time, especially when there are recurring disasters.
The number of climate-displaced persons is generally expected to rise in coming years as extreme weather events become more frequent and intense and as droughts, desertification, sea-level rise, and glacier melt become more prominent phenomena.The International Organization for Migration, for example, has suggested that in a 4 degrees Celsius world, the commonly cited estimate of 200 million people displaced by climate change by 2050 could "easily be exceeded." But it is impossible to make any reliable projections about how many people may be uprooted due to climate change in coming years and decades. There are too many unknowns to be able to predict the scale of population movements to come, let alone their direction, destination, and timing.
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- Long-term international migrants—people who decide to live outside their home country for a year or longer—are estimated at 214 million, and internal migrants may number as many as 740 million.
- Afghanistan (at 2.6 million) remains the leading country of origin for refugees, followed by Somalia (1.1 million), Iraq (746,000), Syria (729,000), and Sudan (569,000).
- In 2012, three quarters of all disaster-related displacements took place in just four countries: more than 9 million people in India, 6.1 million in Nigeria, more than 5.5 million in China, and 3.7 million in the Philippines. Hurricane Sandy, by comparison, displaced 1.1 million people in the United States and Cuba.
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Lone Black Holes Discovered Adrift in the Galaxy
Astronomers using the Hubble telescope and ground-based observatories have discovered the first examples of isolated, stellar-mass black holes adrift among the stars in our Milky Way Galaxy. They detected two of these lonely, invisible objects indirectly by measuring how their extreme gravity bends the light of a more distant star behind them. All previously known "stellar" black holes have been found orbiting normal stars. Astronomers determined the presence of those compact powerhouses by examining their effect on their companion star. These new results suggest that black holes are common and that many massive but normal stars may end their lives as black holes instead of neutron stars, the crushed cores of massive stars that end their lives in supernova explosions. The findings also suggest that stellar-mass black holes do not require some sort of interaction in a double-star system to form but may be produced in the collapse of isolated, massive stars, as has long been proposed by stellar theorists.
Lone Black Hole Passes in Front of Star
Two international teams of astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and ground-based telescopes in Australia and Chile have discovered the first examples of isolated stellar-mass black holes adrift among the stars in our galaxy.
All previously known stellar black holes have been found in orbit around normal stars, with their presence determined by their effect on the companion star. The two isolated black holes were detected indirectly by the way their extreme gravity bends the light of a more distant star behind them.
"These results suggest that black holes are common and that many massive but normal stars may end their lives as black holes instead of neutron stars," said David Bennett of the University of Notre Dame, South Bend, Ind. Bennett presented his team's results today in Atlanta at the 195th meeting of the American Astronomical Society.
The findings also suggest that stellar-mass black holes do not require some sort of interaction in a double-star system to form but may also be produced in the collapse of isolated massive stars, as has long been proposed by stellar theorists.
The black hole's gravity acts like a powerful lens, bending the light of a background star so that it appears as two separate images when the black hole slowly drifts in front of it. The bending angle is about 100 times smaller than the angular resolution of Hubble, so the two distorted images of the background star cannot be separated, even in high-resolution Hubble images.
However, the black hole's gravity also magnifies these stellar images, causing them to brighten as the black hole passes in front. Bennett's team was searching for these passages, called gravitational microlensing events.
Careful analysis of the two events reveals that the lensing objects are each approximately six times the mass of the Sun. If the objects were ordinary stars with this mass they would be bright enough to outshine the more distant background source star. The masses are also too large to be white dwarfs or neutron stars. This leaves a black hole as the best explanation.
This microlensing detection technique, combined with Hubble's extraordinary resolution to pinpoint the lensed star, opens the possibility for searching for lone black holes and assessing whether they contribute to the galaxy's long-sought "dark matter."
These microlensing events were discovered in 1996 and 1998 by the Massive Compact Halo Object (MACHO) collaboration with the National Science Foundation, using the 1.3-meter telescope at the Mount Stromlo Observatory in Canberra, Australia, while the magnification was still increasing. The prompt discovery and announcement of these events enabled precise follow-up observations by the Global Microlensing Alert Network (GMAN) from the 0.9-meter telescope at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory (CTIO) and by the Microlensing Planet Search (MPS) project, using the 1.9-meter telescope at Mount Stromlo.
The MACHO team surveys tens of millions of stars in the direction of the center of our galaxy, where the starfield is very crowded, increasing the chances for seeing rare gravitational microlensing events. The two events were also of exceptionally long duration, lasting 800 and 500 days respectively, which suggests that the lensing objects have a high mass.
Follow-up observations were done with Hubble on June 15, 1999 to clearly identify the lensed star for the first event and make a precise measurement of its brightness after the lensing event. The Hubble frame indicates that the lensed star was blended with two neighboring stars of similar brightness that could not be separated in the poorer-resolution, ground-based images. Hubble's identification of the lensed star allowed for an accurate estimate of the mass of the black hole.
The 1998 event was brighter, and modeling of the ground-based measurements enabled astronomers to determine the brightness of the lensed star, but this determination awaits confirmation with future Hubble images.
There have been more than 300 instances of gravitational microlensing seen towards the central regions of our galaxy to date. The longest duration microlensing events could be caused by either very massive lenses or slow relative motion between the lens and source, but additional information was needed to determine the parameters of the lensing event. This additional information was obtained by the GMAN and MPS groups using the 0.9-meter telescope at CTIO and the 1.9-meter telescope at Mount Stromlo in the form of an asymmetry in the pattern of magnification with time due to the orbital motion of the Earth. This asymmetry is known as the microlensing parallax effect as it is similar to the parallax effect which yields the distances of nearby stars.
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Four months ago today I embarked upon my second major scanning project for 2008. The first project was to sort and scan my mother's photograph albums which took from April through August. There is still one group of photos left with that project and, in my goals for 2009, I stated that I hope to have those done by the end of March.
Other files that were scanned and kept were put in folders and are being stored in small "bankers" boxes in the garage. Only about a third of the files that I had were kept. Everything else has been recycled, most of it scanned first, but not all. The binders on the shelves and the folders and in the filing cabinets consumed nearly 40 linear feet, while what was kept amounts to about 13 feet (9 bankers boxes 15.5" deep and the papers on the table).
The "before" photo, above, was taken November 13, 2007. And below is what it looks like now (photo taken yesterday).
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ohw that's not expensive at all. I've asked around over here, but there wasn't any available under 100 euro's... and that was a rather small one too. I'm not going to spend a lot of bucks on the EFF con, because I'm still kind of wondering how it will turn out (since it's not a comic con, and I have a hunch that they have put us somewhere all the way in the back ) but I'll definitely look into it for possible future con's thanks!
Honestly eBay is your best option for these things if you don't want to pay massive prices. I'd suggest looking up "roll up banner" and making sure the description includes them printing the image etc. But I'd also suggest looking up wire storage cubes, they're handy as shelving or backing displays and they fold down easily. Both are available via eBay for less than £30.


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Have you seen Lost Highway?!
Fuck it, knock on the door and sell it to Lynch for $8.
I'd say seeing where David Lynch lives is more than just somewhat cool... was his abode "Lynchian" in any way? Did it remind you of one of his films? Any outward signs of the personality on the inside? We should have a "Xixax Cribs" topic where we could discuss these things.


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Experimental Results Extension
In this section, we look at how matching can be enhanced by removing duplicate matches, by analyzing the histograms of distances, and by adding images to the landmark's database.
Duplicates Removal. To test the impact of duplicate matches' removal, we ran both the original and the new matching algorithms (see "Image Matching Algorithm" and "Matching Enhancement by Duplicates Removal") on our sample databases for various SURF thresholds. In part (a) of Figure 4, we display the average of the top 1 precision (the precision of the top matched image), top 5 precision (the precision of the top 5 matched images), and the average precision over the 10 databases. Clearly, removing the duplicate matches improves the performance.
Matching Enhancement through Histograms Distances. In part (b) of Figure 4, we display the top 10 retrieved images for the Chiang Kai Shek Memorial Hall in Taiwan and the Capitol in Washington DC from the database mentioned in the section "Building a More Realistic Database" by the updated matching algorithm with duplicates removal. We also used the histograms of distances to further refine the match, as explained previously. Based on the histograms analysis, images labeled with a red square in the figure are rejected and those tagged with a blue square are retained. From these experiments, we see that portraits and statues of people can be clearly distinguished and rejected, since most of the queries are those of buildings. Such images in general have a very symmetric histogram. They also may have a large mean. We observed similar results for the other queries mentioned previously also.
Matching Enhancement through Database Extension. For each of our 10 landmarks, we download the top 21 images returned by Google image search when queried with the title of the landmark Wikipedia page, and we add them to the corresponding landmark database. Next, we apply our matching algorithm to the improved results in part (c) of Figure 4. Obviously, the top 1 and top 5 precision values increase for almost all the 10 databases mentioned in the section entitled "Building a More Realistic Database."
Implementation and Optimization
In this section, we discuss how to optimize the algorithms to meet reasonable response time on the MID and how to take advantage of the features of the Intel Atom processor.
Feature Extraction and Image Match. As we have described in the previous sections, image feature extraction and image match (if the precached data were available on the MID) are performed on the MID client device. To perform these tasks, the MID requires significant computing power and memory storage.
Software Optimization. Software optimization includes the following components.
- Image feature extraction. The original SURF-based image feature extraction code is based on the OPENCV implementation as described earlier in this article. We identified two hotspots after using the VTune analyzer: keypoint detection and keypoint descriptor generation. We applied multiple optimization techniques to these hotspots to speed up the image feature extraction. We multi-threaded keypoint detection and keypoint description generation by using OPENMP, and we achieved 1.6X speedup when compared with the single-thread version on an Atom processor. Converting keypoint detection from floating-point to integer arithmetic provided an additional 15% speedup. We also quantized a keypoint descriptor from float (32 bit) to char (8 bit) that resulted in a 4X reduction in the data storage requirements. Performance was improved by taking advantage of the integer operations without significantly degrading the quality of the results.
- Image match. We again used the VTune analyzer and identified distance calculations as the hotspot of image match. We multi-threaded keypoint detection and keypoint description generation by using OPENMP. We achieved a 1.7X speedup when compared with the single-threaded version on an Intel Atom processor. We also vectorized the distance calculation by using SSE intrinsics to take advantage of 4-way SIMD vector units in the Intel Atom processor, which provided a 2X speedup over the nonvectorized image match codes.
Performance on a Platform Based on the Atom Processor
We analyzed the software implementation on a single core, hyper-threaded Intel Atom system (800MHz, 256MB RAM 512KB L2 cache), running a Linux. Our performance analysis is conducted on four datasets with different sizes and resolutions: 10 QVGA images, 10 VGA images, 100 QVGA images, and 100 VGA images. We chose these datasets for two reasons: a) most of the current MID devices take QVGA or VGA video input; b) for a given GPS location, the visible landmarks normally range from 10 to 100. Hence, with the help of GPS localization, we need to pre?cache 10-100 landmarks for database comparison. Figure 5(a) shows the total runtime of datasets to compare performance by using pair-wise match versus FLANN indexing. Figure 5(b) lists the runtime breakdown for each component including keypoint detection, descriptor generation, and image match. For the VGA resolution, the number of keypoints per image is around 800; and for the QVGA resolution, the number of keypoints per image is around 350. From the figures, it is clear that pair-wise matching runtime increases linearly with the database size. With FLANN indexing, the runtime scales very well when the database size increases. When a query image needs to be compared against a database size larger than 10 (which is a common case), we should consider using FLANN indexing instead of pair-wise matching to get a faster response. Overall, the execution time is about one second for querying a VGA image from a 100 VGA image database.
Tracking. The tracking algorithm explained previously has been optimized by using:
- A simplified multi-resolution pyramid construction with simple 3-tap filters
- A reduced linear system with gradients from only 200 pixels in the image instead of from all the pixels in the images
- SSE instructions for the pyramid construction and the linear system solving
- And only the coarsest levels of the pyramid to estimate the alignment.
Performance was measured on the same Intel Atom system by using VGA (640x480) input video and different options. The results are shown in Figure 6, which displays the measured frames per second (fps) for different models (displacement/camera rotation), estimation method (robust/non-robust) and resolution levels and iterations per level used. For pure displacement models, using non-robust estimation and running five iterations in Levels 3 and 4 of the multi-resolution pyramid (Level 1 being the original resolution) the performance is over 80 fps.
In [8], we presented MAR with a fully functional prototype on a MID device with an Intel Atom processor inside. In this article, we described new improvements to the matching and tracking algorithms in addition to the design of the system and its database. We also presented the code optimization benchmark results for the Intel Atom processor. With all these improvements, MAR demonstrates the powerful capabilities of future mobile devices derived from location sensors, network connectivity, and computational power.
The authors would like to thank Igor Kozintsev, Oscar Nestares, and Horst Haussecker for their significant contributions to this work.
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One of the most enduring impressions of the Titanic story is how the three passenger classes–First, Second, and Third (or "steerage") were a microcosm of the world in which the Titanic was built. And in point of fact, it is a reasonable if inexact analogy: class defined the Edwardian world. The boundaries were always quite clearly defined, falling into three categories–the working, or lower class; the middle class; and the upper class. Mobility, especially from the middle to the upper class, was usually discouraged, although the line between the lower and middle classes blurred occasionally. The first decade of the 20th Century was nothing like today's egalitarian, socially mobile society. A rigid, millennium-old class structure still exerted a near-overpowering influence on every aspect of life: vocabulary, diet, education, clothing, housing, profession, even the choice of friends were all to greater or lesser degrees prescribed or proscribed by a person's position in society.
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The world of the middle class, in turn, was one of bank clerks, accountants, brokers, bookkeepers, merchants, and shopkeepers, and their families. They were men and women who fiercely guarded their social station, obsessed with respectability, unfailingly prim and proper, embracing patriotism, education, hard work, and piety, always watchful to never say or do something that even hinted at a lack of good manners or proper breeding.


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The two thousand descendants of King Solomon's ancient harem have the ultimate power of seduction: Their very touch is as addictive as any drug.
But that power comes at a price: Wives are only fertile until the age of twenty-four. They can bear only daughters.And they die giving birth.
Hunted for hundreds of generations by men who crave their touch and fear its power, the Wives have kept themselves safe by following three simple rules:
A Wife shall have no meaningful relationships outside the clan.
A Wife'saddictivetouch may be used only for procreation or to protect the clan.
A Wife shall sacrifice herself for her daughter at the age of twenty-four.
But tonight, the rules have been broken, and someone must pay.
In the blistering first episode of KING SOLOMON'S WIVES: HUNTED, we meet Sumarra on the night she plans to conceive.Instead, she and the other wives find themselves under attack from a group of male hunters, intent on destroying them. Sumarra has always broken small rules and indulged rebellious tendencies. And now that the Wives have been found, her defiance will either be their salvation or her own undoing.
Welcome Holly! It's so great of you to stop by today! Tell us about your current release.
King Solomon's Wives is a serial novel, released in 100-page episodes, about a group of women alive today who descended from Solomon's ancient harem. It's a contemporary story with plenty of historical context.
I've imagined a whole mythology around the women--living in the harem caused genetic changes that gave them an addictive touch. They die in childbirth and always give birth to daughters who carry their memories. It's fun to write, because I can reach back to any time in history to explore the Wives' stories.
Does travel play in the writing of your books?
Absolutely. Travel is always research for me, because my characters, the Wives, live as fugitives in small groups all over the world. I've got storylines in
Where do you dream of traveling to and why?
Well... considering I need to set a couple of later episodes in
, I would love to go there soon. I'd also love to see Istanbul and Morocco . I love history, and I'm fascinated by cultures that are so different from mine. Kyoto
When in the day/night do you write? How long per day?
Every morning, 6-8am. I rarely miss a day. I get in a few extra hours on the weekends, too. My current serial schedule is pretty tight, so I have to stay focused.
Who are your books published with?
Coliloquy, a new experimental publisher who does "active digital fiction," meaning the books are interactive. Some of their offerings are choose-your-own-adventure. Some are serials. For King Solomon's Wives, readers get to vote on the direction of the series when they reach the end of each episode.
Do you hear from your readers?
Yes! This is what made me want to go with Coliloquy to begin with. Readers decide the fate of certain characters and how I'm going to address certain plotlines. I love getting reader feedback stats every Tuesday evening. The next episode ends with the question, "Which Wife would you most like to see fall in love?" This is a difficult fate for a Wife, because love is forbidden by the clan.
What book are you reading now?
I've been getting into comic books recently. I love anything by Brian K. Vaughn. I'm reading his Saga series now.
Are the names of the characters in your novels important? How and why?
Absolutely. My characters descend from Africa,
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I'm sure you will want to hear all about it,
but for now I'll have to wait until it's announced.
after L.A. daniel and I will fly to amsterdam
to see if 200 guitar players
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My level of productivity has greatly declined during the Olympic games.
I'm not sure why, but I am really into the the 2012 games. I'm over-eager and excited. I'm invested in the stories of the athletes, and carefully choose my heroes. I'm so over Michael Phelps. I adore Gabby Douglas.
Honestly, I feel like a kid again. Back in those days, my sisters and I would huddle in front of the television and cheer on our favorite athletes (the ice skaters and gymnasts, of course). Oh, how we loathed Oksana Baiul! And how we loved Kristy Yamaguchi!
I'm telling you, I'm a nerd about this stuff.
And somewhere in the midst of all this Olympics madness, I've carved out a little bit of time to cook. It's finally tomato season in the Northwest, and thus this recipe was born.
I have a Sun Gold cherry tomato plant in my backyard, and it produces a lot of tomatoes. It's a crazy little plant and I can hardly keep up with the tomato production. If there was a tomato Olympics, I'm pretty sure my plant would get a medal. (See what I did there? I brought it all back to the Olympics).
So, if you're in the throes of cherry tomato season and need a good recipe for your arsenal: this one is a gem. It's simple, elegant, and ridiculously tasty. It's like a better version of tomato bruschetta (who knew it could get any better?).
As for me, I'm off to watch more of the Olympic games. Go USA!
Adapted from Cheesy Melty Toasty
Makes 1 cup of roasted tomatoes, enough for 8-10 small appetizers.
1 pint cherry (or grape) tomatoes, halved (I used a mix of sungolds and red grape tomatoes)
1.5 tablespoons olive oil
1.5 tablespoons balsamic vinegar
1.5 teaspoons honey
1/2 teaspoon red chili flakes
salt & pepper, to taste
2 cloves garlic, minced
1/2 cup fresh basil
Baguette slices
Ricotta cheese
Preheat oven to 275 degrees. Place halved cherry tomatoes on a lined baking sheet and drizzle with olive oil and a splash of balsamic vinegar. Sprinkle with salt & pepper.
Roast cherry tomatoes in the oven for an hour and a half, or until the tomatoes are brown and caramelized.
While tomatoes are roasting, slice 1/2 of a baguette into thin slices. Heat a small amount of olive oil in a skillet on the stove top. Toast bread slices in the skillet, 3-4 minutes on each side (or until golden and crisp). Set aside.
When the tomatoes are ready, remove from the oven. Remove the roasted tomatoes to a bowl and allow to cool. Once the tomatoes have cooled to room temperature, toss with the rest of the olive oil and balsamic vinegar. Add in the honey, red chili flakes, minced garlic. Slice the basil into a chiffonade (very thin strips) and toss 1/2 of the basil into the cherry tomato mixture. Taste, and add more salt and pepper if necessary.
Slather each piece of toasted baguette with fresh ricotta cheese. Top with the roasted cherry tomato bruschetta, and garnish with a bit more sliced fresh basil. Feel free to drizzle a little extra honey over the top. Eat and enjoy.
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South Piedmont Community College provides the opportunity to earn credit through alternative methods of instructional delivery. Distance learning delivery systems at SPCC include online courses, blended courses, web-enhanced courses, interactive television courses, and video courses.
Online (Internet, Moodle) are taught via the Internet using Moodle, the college's course management systems. Online learning gives students the flexibility of accessing course information, submitting their assignments, and participating in course discussions and projects at a time and place that is convenient to their schedules. Online courses are offered as part of the College's regularly scheduled classes and can be accessed starting of the first day of the term. All online courses have IN section numbers. Students are charged a $7.00 fee for each online course.
Blended courses combine required, scheduled class time with learning units online in Moodle. The number of scheduled class meetings varies from course to course. Access to a computer connected to the Internet as well as computer and Internet skills are required for these courses. Courses listed with B in the section number are blended courses. Students are charged a $3.50 fee for each blended course.
Web-enhanced courses required that students attend all regularly scheduled class meetings, but they must also have access to and be able to use a computer that's connected to the Internet. The Moodle course site for these courses can be a resource for checking grades, handing in assignments, doing group work, as well as many other things. Courses with a W in the section number are web-enhanced.
Courses offered through interactive television technology have two-way interactive video technology that connects teaching locations throughout the state or between local campuses. Interactive television (ITV) enables a student to attend face-to-face classes that may be taught at SPCC or received from another institution. ITV enables the course instructor and students in a classroom at one location to see, hear, and talk to students in a comparably equipped classroom at another location. Courses with IT and IH in their section numbers are interactive television.


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Road Test: 2013 Ford Fusion Hybrid "The New Sleek Sipper"
One of the biggest buzz vehicles for the 2013 model year is the all new 2013 Fusion Hybrid from Ford. The original Fusion and its Hybrid variant gave the Ford brand some credibility in the mid-size vehicle market and this new vehicle aims to shoot it to the top. The new Fusion comes at the peak of the popularity of the hybrid or alternative energy vehicles as the ever-increasing battle to beat $4/gallon gas prices wages on. As we hopped behind the wheel and took a drive through the California town of Signal Hill we were surrounded by numerous oil pumps, sucking the ground to feed the appetite of the gas starved LA area , and we wondered if we were sitting within their next big nemesis.
A walk around the new Fusion will give you a good glimpse at the direction the styling department of the Blue Oval brand is heading as the old three bar grill and plain lines are replaced with a almost Aston-esque outline. The car is quite the head turner and even in luxury car-laden California we received a fair bit of stolen glances and giant grins from other drivers at stop lights. The trend in the past was to make the hybrid variation of a normal car stand out frm the crowd with large green hybrid badges or sometimes even large "HYBRID" lettering; the new Fusion doesn't resort to these obnoxious games. A quick glance around the outside of the car and you will find two hybrid badges on the front doors and then a small badge on the truck to show that this Fusion has something electric hiding underneath…
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TASTING NOTESTo make our Sticky we have taken ripe Semillon grapes and cane-dried them to intensify the natural flavours of tropical fruit and apricot marmalade. Enjoy this wine now or if you have the patience, give it a few years to see the flavours really develop.
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Beautiful documentary tells the story of one woman's heroic battle to find her missing brother and restore his life
ATLANTA, Georgia – A SISTER'S CALL, the award-winning documentary brilliantly directed by Rebecca Schaper and Kyle Tekiela, continues garnering prizes at film festivals around the country. A Sister's Call can now be purchased online through Pivotshare and viewed on the web and across leading mobile and tablet devices. The film was produced by directors Schaper and Tekiela in association with Kartemquin Films, creators of the 1994 award-winning classic documentary, Hoop Dreams. Kartemquin Films served as an editorial consultant on the project, helping to mold the final product through their world-renowned KTQ Labs program. The group is also helping with outreach as the project moves forward.
A Sister's Call, winner of the San Diego Film Festivals Best Documentary prize, among more than a dozen other awards, was also nominated for Oxford American Magazines coveted title of "Best Southern Film" in 2012. Speaking on the films impact, Michael Dunaway from PASTE Magazine called the movie, "A haunting explanation of the meaning of family. It unpacks its secrets slowly and to devastating effect. The characters will stay with you long after you leave the theater."
Director as well as a participant in the documentary, Rebecca Schaper, has said, "We have all been very touched by audiences everywhere embracing our film. It was our mission that this project might help hurting people heal and we're just thrilled to see the positive response."
The project is currently touring the country with independent community screenings and discussion with people whose lives have been affected by someone they have known with a mental illness. The life of the entire Richmond family continues to heal hurting lives through A Sister's Call. Director Tekiela says that their "goal from day one-teach the audience about the illness simply by letting them experience it in all its beauty and horror." Though the principal subject of the documentary, Call Richmond passed away in September of 2012, the impact of his life will live on through the film.
Filmed over fourteen years, the documentary tells the story of Call and Rebecca Richmond who were born into Atlanta's high society. To their neighbors, they appeared to be the perfect family. But nothing could have been further from the truth. Mary, their mother, a beautiful and dazzling socialite, was in reality plagued by paranoid schizophrenia, and battled her sickness with alcohol and narcotics, while her doctors administered a continuous series of shock treatments. Their father, a debonaire war hero, tried to keep up the facade of success while in turn hiding his own horrifying secrets.
With only a semester of college remaining, Call gave in to his own fight with paranoid schizophrenia and simply walked out on his life. Overwhelmed by the voices in his head, he began wandering the country, drifting in and out of sanity. Amazingly, after twenty years of searching, Rebecca found her brother alive, but not well…A Sister's Call chronicles Rebecca's heroic mission to bring her brother back from the depths of homelessness and schizophrenia all while seeking a way to heal herself and her family from the tragedies of her past.
Spencer Watson from SYNC Magazine said, "It is in turns heartwarming and heartbreaking. Rarely are conversations on camera so real." The project is also being lauded by those involved with treating mental illness. Greg Wright from Social Workers Speak says, "The films is a roller-coaster ride…shows the travails people who have mental illness and their caretakers experience." A Sister's Call is being distributed on the Pivotshare digital media platform and may be purchased and viewed here – A Sister's Call.
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In 1966, Kartemquin Films began making documentaries that examine and critique society through the stories of real people. Their documentaries, such asThe Interrupters, Hoop Dreams and The New Americans, are among the most acclaimed of all time, leaving a lasting impact on millions of viewers.
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You might be right ?JGTR wrote:Hmmmmmm.....yet to see any proof that washing kites in fresh water is detrimental. I used to wash mine regulary with tap water and it did keep them in noticeably better condition than friends who did not. It removes sand and I have also read that it reduces the effect of salt crystals that can be abrasive and focus the suns rays but I've yet to see proof if this. UK kiter experimented trying to get mildew to grow on kite material in a variety of conditions and failed.
From my experience washing kites regulary with fresh water and occasional cleans with mild detergent keeps the fabric in better condition.
Major kite killer is leaving them flapping in the wind!!! Breaks down the fabric.
Or not...
Because, if you rinse your kites like that, you are by nature most likely more caring about your gear, than most of your friends - thus your gear WILL of course be in better condition than theirs, over the years - but not necessarily because of the tap water rinsing
As said, you can also be right - but the argument itself that yours hold up better is not valid IMO.
Regarding Mildew Noel - it does not always take 3 days to occur !
It can happen overnight - just one night left with fresh water, and your kite can look ugly as hell, with NO way to get rid of it whatsoever
On the other hand, one can be lucky, that even with freshwater rinsing or rain - the kite can be stored wet for endless amount of time without getting "brown" (mildew) on the white areas especially.
So the very nature of mildew is very complex, and you can not know if it will happen or not.
I never ever waste time on rinsing, but if rain-wet I try to dry as good as possible to avoid a shitty looking kite, literally taken.


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Basic Facts About Hummingbirds
Hummingbirds are small, colorful birds with iridescent feathers. Their name comes from the fact that they flap their wings so fast (about 80 times per second) that they make a humming noise. Hummingbirds can fly right, left, up, down, backwards, and even upside down. They are also able to hover by flapping their wings in a figure-8 pattern. They have a specialized long and tapered bill that is used to obtain nectar from the center of long, tubular flowers. The hummingbird's feet are used for perching only, and are not used for hopping or walking.
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Hummingbirds primarily eat flower nectar, tree sap, insects and pollen.
The hummingbird's fast breathing rate, fast heartbeat and high body temperature require that they eat often. They also require an enormous amount of food each day. Hummingbirds have a long tongue which they use to lick their food at a rate of up to 13 licks per second.
It is difficult to estimate population numbers since there are many different species spanning a large geographic area.
Hummingbirds are found only in the Western Hemisphere, from southeastern Alaska to southern Chile, although most live in the tropics. There are more than 300 species of hummingbirds, 12 of which summer in North America and winter in tropical areas.
Like other birds, hummingbirds communicate via visual displays. Hummingbirds are very territorial and have been observed chasing each other and even larger birds such as hawks away from their territories.
Gestation: 13-22 days.
Clutch size: Between 1-3 eggs.
The young start to fly in 18 to 30 days.
Historically hummingbirds were killed for their feathers, today they face different but equally devastating threats.
Habitat loss and destruction are the hummingbird's main threats. As hummingbirds are often specially adapted to each unique habitat, each species of hummingbird currently listed as vulnerable or endangered on the IUCN red list are all threatened due to habitat destruction and loss.
The earth's changing temperatures due to climate change are affecting hummingbird migratory patterns, causing different species to be spotted in locations well outside their normal range, where it may be harder for them to find food.
Reasons For Hope
Hummingbirds in the U.S. and around the world have the benefit of being garden and backyard favorites. Many people put out hummingbird feeders or grow flowers that attract hummingbirds in the warmer months that allow these birds to refuel during their long migratory journeys. What's in sight is often in mind, and many fans of hummingbirds are doing what they can to keep every backyard, park and garden a friendly place for these beautiful birds.
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Weight: .08 -.7 ounces.
Heart rate: 1,260 beats per minute.
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New anime that'll make me cry!
I'm looking for a Romance/Drama anime that really will make you cry, and I mean really cry. It was a long time since I was so heavily influenced by anime and now I feel I had enough of all rigid, unfeeling shows where the concept is about a nerdy, lonely teenage girl's struggle amongst bullying beauty queens, the perfect, self-righteous guy with an ego the size of the Indian Ocean, that always had an eye on her, but never dared to admit his love for her because in reality he's really shy and unsure of himself.
So give me something with an kick-ass storyline!
And yeah, I don't really mind if the "big drama that will make me cry" is that the main character dies and leaves her/his lover behind, but that's just so sad so I would prefer something that's more .. alive. But like I said, I really don't mind so if you got something like that, tell me! As long as I will make the pillow a little wet
Please bear with me and my useless english
[ There's a link in my signature that will show you my animelist so you'll know what I'm currently watching and what I've watched already ;D]
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How about Phantom: Requiem for the Phantom?
Not really a romance show but has implications, but still realistic and dark story about assasins. Has a good story and great cast of characters, at one point you hate them yet at another start to feel sorry. Has several dramatic and tence moments.
And some shooting action.
Let me know if you liked it when you are done.
Also duno if you tried but how about Clannad, season 2 highlights romance drama the best. The guy doesn't have huge ego and the girl isn't fighting against beauty queens.
Ga-Rei Zero maybe... it is more friendship based but has romance too together with sword action.
|2010-12-29, 18:20
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First that come up to my mind are Kimi ga Nozomu Eien and True Tears. I' don't know if they'll make you cry, but in my opinion they stand out as romance drama out there.
|2010-12-29, 18:27
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Oh goodness, I'm extremely new to anime myself so I don't have a whole lot of suggestions, but I've heard that Elfen Lied is a real tear jerker if you can withstand large amounts of blood, gore, and nudity.
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|2010-12-30, 00:49
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Cross Game - I need more
Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: I've moved around the American West. I've lived in Oregon, Washington, Utah, and Oklahoma
Age: 40
Cross Game definitely a tear jerker right from the first episode.
Clannad You'll need to get to the second season for the tears. My own way of thinking about it is: First Season = laughter, second season = Tears. If I was marketing it in the US I'd call it "Laughter and Tears".
Honey and Clover Very moving and emotional
Chrono Crusade Classic Greek Tragedy - Pride goeth before the fall.
Neon Genesis Evangelion - Life sucks. And then you die. Go huddle in a corner, whimpering as you contemplate the awfulness of life.
Masion Ikkoku By the end you'll be crying the good kind of tears. That's how happy you are.
|2010-12-30, 00:54
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Location: FL, USA
Age: 31
|2010-12-30, 03:13
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needs moar YAN :3
Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: southern california
|2010-12-30, 07:40
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Beautiful fighter.
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: England, UK
Age: 32
NANA is the show you must watch. There's some depressing moments at the start, though once you pass a certain part of the story which is about half way in, it's full of heavy and depressing from there. You'll spend each episode in tears, i'm sure.
Fantastic show, really. Worth your time.
|2010-12-30, 17:24
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Senior Member
Join Date: May 2009
Age: 26
why does everyone wants to cry?
It's damn Christmas and New Year guys, cheer up!
Clannad is a must for you.
Angel Beats made me cry like no other anime.
Toradora may fit for your description.
Maybe Macross Frontier? Very nice action,plot and romance + songs kick ass, so definitely watch hit. It also fits your "crying girl" description , but not that much.
|2010-12-30, 19:47
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Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: England UK
Clannad was the first anime that made me cry so much, I remember crying through an entire episode none stop... and then repeated the same one because it was so moving.
An other one that will make you sad or cry is Kimi Ga Nozomu Eien
There is a few more, but these are two from the top of my list.
School Days might make you cry for the injustice done to one of the girls, but it also make you angry.
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