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The Main Reading Room is located on the first floor of the Thomas Jefferson Building, 10 First St., S.E., Washington, D.C. Reference librarians will be available to demonstrate the Library's online resources and discuss access to the Library's vast onsite collections, including services and collections for use in family history research. No other reference services will be available and all other Library of Congress reading rooms and buildings will be closed.
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Housed in the Southwest Gallery on the second floor through January 4, 2014, "The Civil War in America" exhibit presents the Library's unmatched Civil War collections. Items shown chronicle the sacrifices and accomplishments of those - in both the North and South - whose lives were lost or affected by the events of 1861–1865.
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New York will be visually teaching every imaginable sexual deviancy under the sun, including bestiality.
Educators will be teaching children as young as 11 the specifics of engaging in every kind of sex.
They will know it all, how to perform everything; nothing will be withheld.
Dear Readers,
I trust you are rejoicing in the cascading blessings of fall. It is a joy of innocence witnessing released crispy leaves racing through the air and winding to the ground.
Years ago, children playing in piles of leaves revealed the glory of this seasonal transition. This was their carefree world of innocent fun.
Unfortunately, dead leaves are not the only things that are being released in this interval in time. There is a downside to the autumn of 2011. A wintry storm of wickedness is removing every ounce of innocence from America's children.
You may know what I am approaching. It has been in the headlines. Educators are determined to fill America's children with gutter filth.
New York will be visually teaching every imaginable sexual deviancy under the sun, including bestiality. Educators will be teaching children as young as 11 the specifics of engaging in every kind of sex. They will know it all, how to perform everything; nothing will be withheld. Many godly adult couples have never even heard of the ghastly acts that will be taught to the most young.
It was stated in an MSNBC News report that most parents are sexually innocent to the intimacy that will be taught to New York children. Children will even be ushered on field trips where they learn the fastest route to a Planned Parenthood abortion clinic. They will learn many unspeakable things on other field trips.
They will be fully instructed regarding porn stars. They will become their sexual gods of the movie screen.
Parents will have no legal right to totally opt out their children from this debauchery. Young ones will be sexually owned by the state of New York.
Christians know the inerrant Bible teaches that only a healthy marital relationship is allowed. We know our speech is to be above reproach. The gutter vocabulary and diagrams of this curriculum should not become attached to our minds. Therefore, I place a warning on this news piece as it is explicit. I am very sorry that educating America's citizens has reached to this point: http://www.newsy.com/videos/nyc-sex-education-program-raising-concerns/
In Montana everything regarding sex will be taught to kindergarteners. I warn you this second video also tells it like it is. It is disruptive to any Christian's soul. It explains things that most people do not even think about, nor want to dwell on. These are activities we do not want to embed in our minds. http://www.newsy.com/videos/montana-parents-outraged-over-sex-ed-proposal/
We must guard ourselves to withstand being stained by the pollutants of satan's world. We learn the process of sexual pollutants in Romans chapter 1. This text explains the homosexual lifestyle that comes into play when people turn from following the Holy God of the universe.
Those of us who are older witnessed wicked educators turning children's attention away from God, when they were instructed to turn their attention to animals for the answers to created life. The truths of Romans 1 walked out of the Bible and were set openly before our eyes.
Turning to the created for answers whether it be in worship or through the belief system of evolution, leads down a sexual road of untamed animal behavior.
The evolution thrust has led to the acceptance of homosexuality. Despite the fact homosexuals bear in their bodies the consequences of their actions, as Romans chapter 1:27-32 warns, people still promote this lifestyle of death. Romans explains that once a society accepts this deviancy, it's headed to grievous consequences.
Massachusetts has been teaching the homosexual agenda since 2005. When it was first implement, a father was arrested for requesting an opt out for his kindergarten son who had already been exposed to homosexuality without his or his wife's knowledge. No parent was warned! He spent a night in jail and had to appear in court. He was mercilessly plagued by homosexual perverted people. The arrest and hateful harassment was to place fear in any parent who might oppose the vile curriculum. http://www.massresistance.org/docs/parker/main.html
One can ponder at times how many people, created in God's image, truly love the children of the world? It certainly appears many school administrators do not.
California's governor, Jerry Brown, recently signed a bill to introduce homosexuality to children starting in kindergarten. http://rescueyourchild.com/The_Problem.html
Curriculum mandates will include learning from a textbook that teaches "The Life and Times of Harvey Milk" by Randy Shilts. "Milk repeatedly engaged in adult-child sex and advocated for polygamous homosexual relationships."
To provide a little window into homosexual brainwashing, I have included this link of footage that was shot in a Friends church (Quaker) school: http://www.massresistance.org/media/video/brainwashing.htm (I must add, I do not believe in being cruel to children who are placed in unnatural situations. They need to be lovingly led to the LORD. However, I do believe they should not be allowed to promote sinful behavior that arises from parental indoctrination.)
True Christians are being encouraged to home-school their children in those states or cities that have joined the bandwagon of abominations. Proverbs 14:7 exhorts, "Leave the presence of a fool, or you will not discern words of knowledge." All children need to receive a wise education and that can only be achieved with the implementation of the Word of God. God makes it clear throughout His Bible that Christians must receive godly teaching and never false or evil teaching. Psalm 1 commands us not to be taught by the ungodly nor sit under those who scorn God.
Christ wants children innocent. He set them before us as an example of innocence in the Gospel of Mark, chapter 10. He desires that Christian young people be preserved in innocence. He only places His blessing on a marital sexual relationship. He does, of course, forgive people who repent (who turn from evil), who turn to Him.
What is being thrust in public education is childhood innocence is old fashioned. In this present wild world, satan's children work feverishly to remove the innocence of children. Many administrative educators do not strive to protect children; they look upon them as sex ponds. This is evidenced in California, New York, Montana, Massachusetts, and is moving to other states at a rapid rate.
This education is child abuse. Removing innocence from a child is child abuse! A person would have to be corruptly misguided not to understand why Planned Parenthood, the ACLU, NEA http://www.parentalrights.org/index.asp?Type=B_BASIC&SEC=%7BEC9944B8-96D9-4581-A9AE-06DD3173C964%7D and others want kindergarteners introduced to homosexuality in America.
No one in their right mind would teach the homosexual death agenda. No morally upright person would explain how to perform it in every detail, in a positive way.This is akin to placing children and teens in a pit of deadly snakes. It would never be taught to children who are truly loved. People who love children would never want them to succumb to God's curses placed on this sin, that being AIDS and other sexual diseases. Of course, all promiscuity leads to sinful bondage and physical consequences.
State of the art educators want children sexually conditioned in every way to prevent them from running to the police when abused. In this world of unrestrained sex, everyone is to be another's play toy. It is so disgusting to read how many people in America want the right to molest innocent children, including educators. Of course, what do you expect when liberal agenda followers have no problem murdering children before birth so they never see the light of day. We must not be surprised with New York's educational antics, knowing forty percent of New York's population is murdered through abortion. It is "the abortion capital of America." Children hold no priority status in this city of child abuse.
Perverted Americans are not ashamed to blog their child violating comments, using the most morally corrupt and hateful language. The Michael Jackson legacy mentality is running amuck; increasing daily, even in so-called Bible churches. Leadership hushes the facts if this occurs in their fellowship, preventing pastors from being arrested. This has occurred even here in conservative Idaho. My, how my heart breaks! Fortunately, these churches are still in the minority. Though the majority of churches seem to be tolerant of every evil way that slithers through the doors. The church is not aspiring forward to greater decency and modesty.
It was recently reported in Hollywood that most male actors and producers lust after child stars. One actor spoke out regarding his horrific experiences as a 14-year-old in Hollywood. He was surrounded with these perverted, famous men who deserve the death penalty. He was raped by a renowned producer. He believes a fellow actor friend committed suicide due to the fact he was abused while a child actor.
Another child destroyer is the ACLU. Of course, it is no secret that they have legally labored for years to assist pedophiles. The ACLU's advisement is sought by liberal politicians, inequitable judges, and our president. http://www.lifenews.com/2009/10/05/nat-5542/ ) These lawyers who fight mainly for wicked rights are currently standing for the rights of released sex offenders to drive through neighborhoods selling ice cream. Children are being abused by ice cream men—freed pedophiles, owning the full legal support of the ACLU. I am so grateful, some states are enacting laws of protection, defying the ACLU.
ABC News on the ice cream truck dilemma:
Not surprisingly, the ACLU upholds NAMBLA's (The North America Man Boy Love Association) right to power. This gay group of pedophiles is fighting to abolish all age limits on child sex. These people are far beyond grotesque. NAMBLA's president states there is no such thing as rape. They also proudly promote using babies for their sexual prowling pleasure.
President Obama's dear friend, Kevin Jennings, who held the position of Safe School Czar, stands solidly with NAMBLA. Fortunately, this vile man resigned, though the White House desired he maintain his position.
Jennings uplifted Marxist, Harry Hay, unashamedly, stating he was inspired by him. Hay was a leader of the gay rights movement, and was one of the largest promoters of pedophilia in the country. Jennings devoted a chapter to him in one of his homosexual promoting textbooks for public schools. Please watch video:
Hay actively promoted sex between men and boys and stood with NAMBLA. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Hay Wikipedia: 1986 Hay was confronted by police when he attempted to march in the Los Angeles pride parade, from which NAMBLA had been banned, with a sign reading "NAMBLA walks with me."
NAMBLA continually emphasis "sexual minority rights." In respect of this, California schools will boldly teach rights for "sexual minorities" in 2013. This vile term includes pedophilia rights. Children all over California will be taught to respect these wicked people as a minority group. This will include heroizing Harry Hay and other perverted gay activists.
(As a side note, homosexual indoctrination is also being propagated in our military. Our liberal politicians want all military personnel to be brainwashed in perverted sex education too. It is all about lewd behavior controlling every inch of American society.)
At Planned Parenthood's website you can read how the organization recommends teaching children sex soon after birth, and performing sexual exploration at age 5.
This is what the sexual revolution has brought us to.
The Bible teaches in the last days men's love will grow cold. People will become lovers of self! Today it is all about self-gratification. It is not about loving people enough to keep them chaste and pure in thought and action.
(A side note illustration to America's perversity: Buckets of free condoms are being provided for Occupy Wall Street demonstrators. Their sexual activity on the streets is vivid and this includes seeing women walking about naked. People in offices have complained about the lewd acts being performed before their windows. Wall Street Journal: http://blogs.wsj.com/metropolis/2011/10/24/occupy-wall-street-sex-at-zuccotti-park/ )
In closing, I challenge parents to teach abstinence and promote parental chaperone dating.
Love in Jesus Christ who can change minds. He will, one day, set this world right.
Val Lee
Reuters News
Some California sex offenders' addresses same as foster homes
By Roy Strom
Sat Oct 29, 2011 8:54pm EDT
(Reuters) – The state of California should immediately investigate why more than 1,000 sex offenders have the same addresses as licensed foster homes and facilities housing children, a new report by the state auditor said.
The findings posted on the state auditor website on Thursday matched up a California sex offender database with the Department of Social Service's list of registered foster homes. The report said more than 600 of the cases where addresses matched were "high risk."
Social Services got the list of addresses to investigate in July of this year, the report said. So far, 99 percent of the addresses have been investigated.
Those investigations have led to 36 sex offenders being barred from foster homes, four foster home licenses revoked and another four suspended temporarily. Sex offenders were found to be living or present at four of the foster homes in question.
In a letter to the California governor and legislature, Elaine M. Howle, the state auditor, urged Social Services to continue to match up sex offenders' addresses with licensed foster homes.
The findings came in a wide-ranging audit on the state's child welfare services for abused and neglected children that also found many counties do not investigate child deaths caused by abuse or neglect.
Although such investigations are not required by law, the report said county welfare services could learn how to take better care of foster or abused children by looking into the cases.
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About 25 residents of W. Chestnut Hill Avenue gathered at the Greylock Manor on Sunday afternoon to meet with officials from Green Woods Charter School, which plans to purchase the manor and convert it into its new campus.
Green Woods will pay Greylock Holdings, LLC $2.2 million for the manor, which has stood at 209 W. Chestnut Hill Avenue for over 100 years. It was most recently used as an office building, but has been vacant since 2008.
Jean Wallace, the school's CEO, said they wanted to move from their current location, at the Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education in Roxborough, because it was too small.
"We wanted to move ourselves where we can have 225 students comfortably," she said.
And Green Woods plans to expand to as many as 675 students over the next several years. Accordingly, their faculty and staff would gradually rise from about 20 to about 40. Residents were concerned that adding a school to the avenue would contribute to the congested traffic conditions.
"If we weren't meeting here today for your purposes, I would want to have a meeting to determine how to reduce the traffic as it is now, [without adding a school]," said W. Chestnut Hill Avenue resident Ulrich Hiesinger, addressing Wallace and the project's architect, Joe Jancuska, during the presentation.
Jancuska, who has served as the architect for 10 Philadelphia charter schools, presented his three-phase plan to convert the manor into a school that can accommodate Green Woods' planned expansion, and satisfy the community.
"We don't want it to work unless it works for everybody," he said.
Green Woods, a K-8 school, tentatively plans to move grades three through eight into the manor this September. The initial cost to prepare the property for the start of the 2011-2012 school years is $1.5 million, Jancuska said. Green Woods will use another $15 million over the next eight years to complete his plan.
Hiesinger, a resident of W. Chestnut Hill Avenue of over 30 years, also said he is concerned that Green Woods move into the Greylock Manor would take away from the "nature of the property."
"This property is part of the reason why this is an historic district," he said. "If you add 700-odd people…suddenly, what is it?"


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A couple of weeks ago I put a post together to how to calibrate your camera using the Datacolor Checker (available here). Now it's time to finish the workflow and talk about the Datacolor Cube and calibrating your pictures in the real world (N.B. this example uses the Process 2012 profile available in Lightroom 4 and Lightroom 5). The Process 2012 profile was introduced in Lightroom 4 and offers better control of the Shadows and Highlights of the image. To check your settings, make sure you are in the Develop module, choose menu option Settings / Process, 2012 (Current) should be displayed.
Before we do anything with the Cube, we should turn on the Lens correction inside Lightroom. Lens correction makes sure that any lens vignetting and pin cushioning are removed from the image. You can turn on lens correction in the Lens Correction panel (Yellow) using the check box on the basic tab or on the profile tab, in this case, the lens was chosen for me based on the meta data that was supplied from the image during the import.
Based on the previous post on calibrating the camera and lens using the Datacolor Checkr (available here) the colour profile has also been applied (Red) and the colours have been corrected based on this calibration.
The Datacolor Cube is in the scene and the grey/white side is facing the light source (in this case the sun) and the black trap/side is facing the camera. I have metered the scene to make sure that i get the correct exposure. As a result you can see that the histogram (Orange) is perfect and has tone across the highlights, mid-tones and shadows and isn't clipping anywhere. (You will see that the actual F stop used was f4.8 and not f4, this will cause the exposure to be slightly underexposed (Aperture ring slipped slightly when taken these photographs). Most Light meters are not calibrated when they are made. To calibrate it head over to Frank DoorHof's blog and follow the instructions there.
The cube is designed to make sure that my images look correct based on calibrated settings. It will do quite a few different things :-
- 1. Set the correct white balance (this is not part of the profile that the Spyder Checker created).
- 2. Enable me to set the correct white and black point for the image
- 3. Correct the Exposure
The Technically the CUBE is defined to provide :-
- 1 Chrome Ball Measures catchlight to analyze specular highlights.
- 2 White Face(s) Define highlights in relation to catchlight.
- 3 Gray Face(s) Measures color temperature and midtone response.
- 4 Black Face Defines shadows in relation to black trap.
- 5 Black Trap Defines absolute black.
It doesn't matter that the cube is the first picture, as long as you do it at some point during the shoot.
STEP 1: Set the White Balance
The White Balance tool is used to set the colour temperature of the scene.
You can see that the White Balance (Red) is taken from the camera 'WB: As Shot", the scene looks a little warm to me, so let us set this, set the White Balance. Click on the Eye Dropper (in the Red box) by clicking directly on it and it will be selected). Then click on the lighter of the grey faces using it. The White Balance will change (if required) and this will be the correct White Balance for this scene.
You can see in the following image, the new white balance (White Balance is now 5000, which is much cooler).
STEP 2: Exposure
Adjust exposure so that none of the color channels are clipped in your RAW converter's histogram. Keep an eye on the Cube in the image for reference as you make this adjustment.
Inside Lightroom, make sure that the Highlight/Shadow clipping indicators are turned on, you can do this by clicking on the up arrows within the histogram space (Blue) (this should be displayed now with a white border). You can also turn both highlight and shadow clipping on using the keyboard short cut key 'J'.
Move the exposure slider to the right until the bright specular highlight in the silver ball turns red (Blue box) (for extra information the brighter of the white sides now reads R99.2, G99.2 and B99.2 in the histogram (Red box)). You can also press the 'ALT' key whilst moving the Exposure slider to see when the highlights are starting to clip, if you don't want to have the Shadow/Highlight clipping on all of the time. If the bright white side of the Cube starts to clip, and you see the Red appear, back off slightly, you can also type the numbers in to the Exposure values for more control.
You should see a very snug fit between the end of the highlight (right hand side) of the histogram box (Red box). (N.B. Having looked at this exposure in more details the aperture ring moved during the shot and it used f4.8 as opposed to f4, thus causing an under exposure).
STEP 3: Brightness
Next, brightness can be adjusted to compensate for lightening or darkening that occurred during exposure adjustment. Check the RGB values of the lighter of the gray faces; this face is designed to represent 18% gray, and can be used to determine how light or dark image midtones should be. You are able to alter and work on this value by slightly altering the Exposure value and make sure the mid point is where you need it to be (it isn't hard and fast to be at 18%, it may be under or over, depending where in the scene you need it to be to make your image look amazing).
You can see in the histogram (Red) that the grey tones are now R 85.6, G84.8 and R85.2). We will check this actual value in Photoshop CC in the next step to see it as a percentage.
To test the values i am going to load the image in to Photoshop and see what the actual value of the Light grey face is, you can see that the value is now set to 18%, which means that the exposure is correct.
STEP 4: Blacks
Finally, set your black levels using the blacks slider in the Basic panel on the black trap. There should be a clear distinction between the black surrounding face and the black trap. If there is no seperation once the black trap has been set, you can use the shadows slider to create slight seperation.
You can see in the following image, as soon as i start to move the Blacks slider (Red), not only does the area under the ellipse (the Black Trap) go to black (displayed in blue) but the rest of the face goes to black as well.
To fix this we need to open the shadows using the shadows slider. You can see that by moving the shadows slider (Red) to the right we start up open up this area (Yellow). It will have an impact on the Black Trap, you will just need to work with both the Black and Shadow sliders to achieve the desired result.
Datacolor do recommend that the order of steps should be 1,2,4 and 3 because the mid-tone can shift in step 3, however this example was done with steps 1,2,3 and 4. As a final check you may want to go over the settings once again and check the values and the histogram.
You can see the final image below. Notice the shape of the histogram and that the ends (Highlights and Shadows are snug to the end of the histogram box), also there is a slight bit of clipping in the shadows which adds contrast and punch to the image. The only area that is clipping in the highlights is the silver ball at the top of the Cube. This is a perfectly calibrated image. The next step will be to use this across the other images on the shoot.
You can see the other images that i shot in the Survey mode view below. There images are straight out of the camera, and other than having a crop applied to tidy up the composition, have no other adjustments applied.
To make sure that the other images have the same settings, select the image that has the cube adjustments applied to it. (Notice the light grey box around the image in the film strip.)
Now in addition to this image, select the images where the adjustments need to be applied (i have used the CMD key on the MAC or CTRL key on the PC to select individual images that i want (i could also use the Shift key to select a range of images).
Then press the 'Sync' button (Red).
Here is the minimum set of adjustments that you are going to synchronise across the pictures, these settings are a representation of the changes that have been made to the calibrated image (described above), (including the colour profile for the lens and body from the Spyder Checkr (previous post), the Lens correction tab for automatically removing any lens issues, as well as the adjustments for the Cube white/black and exposure settings.
Press Synchronise, this will apply these settings to the other images.
You will see that Lightroom applies the adjustments to the images as soon as you press the button.
Of course you may need to tweak each image and make sure that it looks ok. But you can see by combining the Spyder Checkr, Spyer 4 Elite and the Cube, you can create extremely consistent results with the correct histogram and tonal values. Also the calibration process here is exactly the same in Adobe Camera RAW that comes with Photoshop.
Here is the link to the Datacolor website.


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Introduction to Pasture-Based Dairy Models
Joe L. Horner
Dairy Economist
Commercial Agriculture Program
Ryan Milhollin
Project Manager
Commercial Agriculture Program
Stacey A. Hamilton
State Dairy Specialist
Wayne Prewitt
West Central Region Agriculture Business Specialist
Tony Rickard
Southwest Region Dairy Specialist
The following series of minimalist, pasture-based dairy model farms (75-cow, 150-cow, 300-cow and 600-cow) was developed to help dairy producers understand the economics of these dairy systems. Each model is customized to reflect an operational system typical of a dairy farm and herd of four different sizes. These models were developed using assumptions, costs and benchmarking information from existing Missouri pasture-based dairies and from experts in the dairy industry. Data presented here reflect costs and conditions as of October 2010. While these farms were customized specific to Missouri, they could be adapted to conditions elsewhere.
For each of the model farms, these publications present a farm description and discuss herd management, milk marketing, labor management, capital investments, and financial analysis and statements. Certain assumptions about herd makeup, dairy management and equipment apply to all of the model farms. For example, all farm land is assumed to be purchased at $2,000 an acre, all herds are made up of 100 percent purchased crossbred dairy heifers, all dairies use parabone parlors with automatic take-offs, and all dairies have the same feed costs per cow per day. Differences among the models are determined by the size of the herd and by corresponding differences in management costs, capital investment, operating expenses and income.
Readers should be aware of the similarities and differences among the various model farms when using these publications.


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New Temporary Display at the V&A: Research on Paintings: Technical Art History & Connoisseurship
17 December 2012 – 22 September 2013
The following exhibition may be of interest to Courtauld students, especially those in the Conservation and Technology Department. The V&A is holding a temporary display looking at recent research on some of the Museum's European paintings- in particular 11 Italian, French and Netherlandish paintings created between the early 15th and early 19th centuries- including work by Tintoretto. During a recent research programme that lasted 2 years, 200 of the museum's paintings, were, as they say on their site, re-attributed or re-identified.
The culmination of this research is this display, which goes into detail on the methods and techniques used by researchers to examine the oil paintings, connoisseurship (i.e. close examination,) 'documentary research and technical analysis.' The 11 paintings featured act as case studies to provide a 'step-by-step' introduction to technical art history and conservation. Interestingly, the paintings will also be displayed with X-radiographs and infra-red photographs. This display is free and open to all. It is held in the Julie and Robert Breckman Prints & Drawings Gallery, Room 90. Please see http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/articles/r/research-on-paintings-technical-art-history-and-connoisseurship/ for more information.
Other useful links
V&A Conservation Journal Online
(The most recent issue can be found here: http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/journals/conservation-journal/spring-2012-issue-60/)
Preserving intangible integrity
The conservation and technical examination of Bernadino Fungai's Virgin and Child with Two Saints
Oil Painting: Materials and Techniques


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There are n doors in an alley. Initially they are all shut. You have been tasked to go down the alley n times, and open/shut these doors in a particular manner:
Given n doors, return the list of open doors.
Let's say n = 3.
Input n = 3 Output y is 1
The description does not match the example: The point 3 should be "3. On the # trip down the alley, start with door # [and process every #-th door]".
I agree with Jan - the description is not clear. The final instruction should be "return the list of open door #'s", presumably.
If the description was clearer, I'd give this problem a "like", because a good solution depends on a good analysis of the problem more than on just neat coding.
Sorry about the confusion. I tried to clarify the problem description.
Nice problem! The explicit solution was very surprising to me once I found it.
Classic problem--unfortunate that the test suite reveals the punchline.
Yes I initially thought y = sum(open doors)
good problem, easy solution once realising how to solve
easy if to think a bit
Nice explanation. I just derivated the formula from the solution ;-)
Thanks for the explanation.
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I am having to make a Boba Fett costume for my church's Christmas play, I have most of the armor done, I just need to figure out how to make ESB gauntlets and knee armor. I had been using plastic "for sale" signs for pretty much all the armor. I would like to use the same material for the gauntlets and knees, but I have no idea where to start with these pieces.


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- a "Cancun Adaptation Framework"
- incremental progress on REDD+ (reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation in developing countries, including conservation, sustainable management of forests, and enhancement of forest carbon stocks)
- a "Technology Mechanism"
- a "Green Climate Fund"
Taken together, these agreements keep the UNFCCC process on life support.
From the perspective of climate engineering, the most important result of the meeting was continued delay in negotiating a successor to the Kyoto Protocol. For years, the Ad Hoc Working Group on Further Commitments for Annex I Parties under the Kyoto Protocol (AWG-KP) has been working to reach agreement on binding emissions cuts to take effect after the first Kyoto "commitment period" expires in 2012. AWG-KP missed its original deadline at Copenhagen last year, and pushed back the deadline again at Cancun to a date uncertain. This is hardly surprising given the complexity of the issues and the stakes involved. Furthermore, any mitigation targets eventually agreed upon will almost certainly be insufficient in scale and scope to reduce the likelihood of catastrophic climate change. The results of Cancun underline just how sclerotic mitigation efforts have been up to now, and the necessity of augmenting emissions reductions with some form of climate intervention.


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Sławomir Kukliński received Ph.D. with honors from Warsaw University of Technology (94') and since then he is Assistant Professor there. He is teaching about mobile and wireless systems. From 2003 he also works for Telekomunikacja Polska (now Orange Polska) as research expert. From about 10 years he is focused on Future Networks and mobile and wireless systems with emphasis to self-managed networks. At present he is interested in application of cognitive techniques to control and management of SDN and 5G networks. He led many national research projects as principal investigator and was involved in many international projects, including FP6 MIDAS, FP7 EFIPSANS , FP7 4WARD, FP7 ProSense and till recently in Celtic COMMUNE (2011-2014). Actually he is coordinating 3 years long Polish-Luxembourgish project on Cognitive SDN (CoSDN). He is also working on SDN standardization in ITU-T (Study Group 13). He published many conference and journal papers, was a member of TPC of many conferences, and served as a reviewer to many conferences and journals.


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BRUSSELS—The European Commission has launched an online tool to rate universities worldwide. The new system, called U-Multirank, provides a more sophisticated alternative to cruder rankings by letting users select rating criteria out of 30 indicators in five areas: research, teaching, regional engagement, knowledge transfer, and international orientation. European universities, which tend to fare poorly in existing rankings, score better on some of these criteria.
Funded by the European Union, U-Multirank is presented as a departure from oft-criticized global rankings. Critics say that these charts—such as the Shanghai ranking and the Times Higher Education World University Rankings—rely on inadequate indicators and meaningless aggregated scores.
"We are not producing league tables. We don't think it is worthwhile. … We don't even think it can be done methodologically and statistically in the right way," said Frans van Vught, one of U-Multirank's project leaders, at a launch event here yesterday.
Bernard Rentier, rector of the University of Liège in Belgium and a fierce critic of existing rankings, says he is pleased with the first results of U-Multirank and that the system's indicators are "relevant and enlightening" to compare his university's performance with others. But Ellen Hazelkorn, a specialist of rankings and director of research and enterprise at the Dublin Institute of Technology, points out that U-Multirank uses some of the same data as other rankings do, including citation rates or patent figures. Some of those numbers, such as the student-staff ratio, are controversial and "not necessarily meaningful" to assess quality, Hazelkorn says.
U-Multirank was produced by a group of institutions led by the Center for Higher Education Policy Studies in the Netherlands and the Centre for Higher Education in Germany, and backed by €2 million from the European Union for the years 2013 to 2015. The system's architects incorporated the same data sources as those in traditional rankings, but also introduced fresh indicators, such as interdisciplinary publications and joint publications with industry, as well as self-reported data from student surveys and universities themselves. (Out of 879 universities listed in the database, about 500 have volunteered to provide their own data.)
With this broad range of indicators, U-Multirank can compare "like with like" and display the strengths of institutions that are usually outshone in classical rankings, says project leader Frank Ziegele. "For instance, there might be a university that has no A [score] in internationalization" because it is serves primarily a local or national audience, Ziegele says. "This is perfectly fine. This university fulfills an important function for society." U-Multirank can play up that diversity of roles and profiles, he says.
U-Multirank does provide a few ready-made rankings, including one based on research criteria. "American institutions of course are absolutely on top in terms of citation rates and other classical [criteria]," Ziegele says. But less renowned institutions, often from Europe, emerge at the top of the list in other categories, such as international publications or joint publications with industry.
"This is an attempt to put an end to the unfairness towards a great number of universities, like the 300 which never appeared in [another ranking], and which perform very well in some [areas]," said Androulla Vassiliou, the E.U. commissioner in charge of education, at yesterday's event.
Ziegele says he doesn't expect U-Multirank to push out other systems and that the appetite for traditional rankings will remain. "What I really hope is that our ranking is used for decision-making," he says. "I could see governments piggybacking on it," Hazelkorn says.
"[T]here's still a danger that too many consumers – particularly in Asia – will prefer the precision (however spurious) and simplicity of [existing] league tables to the relativism of personalized rankings," wrote Alex Usher, president of Higher Education Strategy Associates in Toronto, Canada, in a blog post yesterday. And if U-Multirank doesn't become very popular, universities, especially in North America, may be reluctant to spend time collecting the detailed information that the rankers ask for, Usher wrote.
U-Multirank hopes to convince the institutions that didn't volunteer their data to do so for next year's version. It also plans to include more universities and to add three disciplines (medicine, psychology, and computer science) to the current four (physics, business, mechanical engineering, and electrical engineering). Rentier, for one, is optimistic about the ranking's future. "The system is led by scientists, very open to discussion and clarification. There's a real dialogue that we don't have with other rankings at all."


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Posted: Mon 29 Nov 2010, 08:08
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l0wt3ch wrote:
I don't think anyone is name-calling, Thom.
Your comments about 4 year olds and elephants are a credit to your wisdom and maturity.
Just saying that "Eldy" is dumbed-down and patronizing. I personally wouldn't recommend it to anyone, regardless of what the European Union says.
And you put it so well....no doubt based on years of experience teaching and supporting seniors. I'm sure you can point to many organizations who hold you in high regard for your in-depth knowledge of teaching and senior citizens.
"Here Mom - look it even has instant messaging, you can talk to other Eldy users. Well, it may not be the same software that
big people use
, but it should be
good enough for you
Amazing....you just have to be a smart a**, and a sarcastic one too.
Of course you neglect to state how well accepted your product is, How many installations there are....and how many seniors you have trained.
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Amazing....you just have to be a smart a**, and a sarcastic one too.
Looks like you're the one name-calling.
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Of course you neglect to state how well accepted your product is, How many installations there are....and how many seniors you have trained.
So... Windows?
You've been advocating "Eldy" for so long, you can't admit it looks like it's for children. Or might be patronizing. Or dumbed-down and crippled.
This thread is for people with questions about EliteOS. Stop spamming it.
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Posted: Mon 29 Nov 2010, 09:27
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thank you for your comments
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Posted: Sun 09 Jan 2011, 10:16
Post subject: Upgrade to 5.20
Do you have plans to upgrade to Puppy 5.20?
My opinion on the themes/icons/wallpapers/fonts is that they are usually one of the first things I do to personalise any desktop anyway so why worry about it.
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Is there enough interest?
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Posted: Sun 09 Jan 2011, 20:29
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You can please some of the people some of the time but you can't please all the people all the time.
Doesn't it bite when you start a thread offering a new and perhaps promising solution to a problem and someone comes in looking for reasons to hate on it? I announced in the KVR audio forums my ProducerPup and someone comes in and turns the thread into a Win Vs. Lin mudslinging contest... I had to shut everybody up on that one, telling those who want to hate to start their own threads and get off of mine.
Anyways l0wt3ch, keep it up, listen to the feedback that you can actually do something about and don't worry about those who just want to compare it to what is already out there. There is no point in making a complete clone of Eldy. Regardless of its acceptance, there has to be a market for something that is relatively simple to use but is not condescendingly easy. From the descriptions, that may just be where EliteOS can shine.
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Posted: Sun 09 Jan 2011, 21:52
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Ha Ha
Been awhile since I checked you out l0wt3ch ....still prickly.....?
Nice website,
good work on your OSes, I have recommended Puppy Studio several times, and it's well liked
Hope Elite does as well, though you may want to sort out the niggles Sneeky spotted, and ask him to update his video [maybe give him a run-through on some of the philosophy and finer aspects of Elite?]...or do your own video, maybe
Thom, l0wt3ch's not the only one showing his age, and I'm an even older fa*t than you....
We're all in the same global fishbowl, mate
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Posted: Thu 10 Oct 2013, 19:03
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l0wt3ch wrote:
Is there enough interest?
Yes - although I havent tried EliteOS in depth yet (roll on the weekend) - but it is clear from some of the comments here that you had started some interesting work with Festival etc and were trying to target this at newcomers / seniors etc.
Anything that advances puppy to make it accessible to blind / old / crippled or whatever marketplace is a good cause in my book. I stumbled on this thread purely because of the Speech-to-text angle and I am sure that lowtech is one of those devs who has sufficient genius to make such things work. I'd welcome such efforts.
Puppy is a niche product and it is a disappointment that some good versions get stalled just before they mature into something that is just right for the target audience. I'd love to see EliteOS updated.
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Posted: Thu 10 Oct 2013, 19:46
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l0wt3ch is AFAIK gone -- he had some distinctly unpopular positions (I don't remember many of them) and there was a very large long thread a year or two ago with plenty of fireworks between him and the rest of us over his Puppy Studio distro. Part of the end of that was him leaving this forum.
Unless the user "announcer" is him (could be, not sure) I'd say at this point there's too much anger, sadly, for him to come back any time soon.
A pity since he seemed like quite a smart dude. Had a few out-there ideas IIRC, but hey that's most folks I know...
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l0wt3ch is alive and well, improving his great Studio1337, and it has been clinically proven that he is not the devil, mamby-pamby forum wimps aside
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The http://eliteos.ca/ link seems to be broken.
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I grabbed it from his link on page 2:
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ciento wrote:
l0wt3ch is alive and well, improving his great Studio1337, and it has been clinically proven that he is not the devil, mamby-pamby forum wimps aside
never said he was the devil. I think he's a fine fellow who has some odd views on things. I will be the first person to point out that I'm built the same way. There's nothing wrong with being outspoken on a couple things.
There are exactly two things I don't like that went on with him. Not characteristics of the fellow himself, just some things that happened.
I don't like the idea of charging money for Linux, period (and wouldn't use RedHat or SuSE for that reason, even if I *could* afford them) -- I realize that there are some that need paid support, and I understand that -- but you shouldn't have to pay money to obtain a copy of the distro itself. That's against the idea of free software, which is at its core what Linux is really about IMO.
The other thing is the fireworks that happened. I realize that they were probably unavoidable -- most folks do have tempers, after all -- and I also admit that it's more my opinions and principles here than anything l0wt3ch did. I'm just one of those "why can't we all just get along, please?" type people that don't like to see *any* conflict, even though conflict amongst humans is kind of a natural thing (to say the least).
If l0wt3ch came back to the forum, I'd be one to welcome him -- but I'd also ask him to consider making his Puppy Studio free, and I wouldn't use it (as a matter of principle more than wallet restrictions, although both are most certainly issues here) unless and until he did.
On that note -- I sort of understand why l0wt3ch charges for Puppy Studio. I recall him (or someone speaking for him) stating that his position was that he invested time and effort into that distro, and plenty of it -- and got little in return. Here is my response, you're welcome to send it to him (or not) as you'd like...
I understand you've put tremendous time and effort into your work. Many many others also did -- Linus Torvalds and Barry Kauler are two notable individuals, and there are countless hundreds of others, including many if not most members of the Murga Puppy Forums. I ask you to consider how much *they* charged for *their* work. I also ask you to consider one other thing: emotion. How many lives has your work touched in a positive way? How does it make you feel to know that? Most importantly -- since that is usually the payment for F|OSS software, that feeling of gratitude, of (in a way) importance, that you've helped others and they are grateful for it even if they don't tell you -- why isn't that enough, especially in a time when the "every man for himself" attitude is literally almost tearing countries apart right now (particularly mine, the US)...?
I'd like to hear l0wt3ch's response to that... I think I'll PM Announcer and ask him to ferry the message.
EDIT: Announcer, you have a PM
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I don't like the idea of charging money for Linux, period (and wouldn't use RedHat or SuSE for that reason, even if I *could* afford them)
Without massive and expensive corporate involvement over many
many years, linux, as known in small potato distros, like rehat,
suse, and puppy, would not exist.
The computer you use is also software, that just happens to have
been placed in silicon, a result of other expensive corporate involvement, yet you apparently have, and apply different standards,
when it suits the moments zeal. I doubt your internet connection,
which also relies on corporate softwares, is free, either, and yet,
here you are.
A foolish and self-absorbed generation now want free healthcare, free food, free housing, free software, free fill-in-the-blank,
telling their leaders to keep 'the fed' printing the cash, keep crancking out
China's IOU's.
But when somebody has sacrificed and invested their life, to become doctors, ranchers, builders, and coders, the good book says,
'the laborer is worthy of his hire'. I have purchased 4 boxed set linux versions over the years, and a few more that were a dvd glued
on a to a giant $40-$50 doorstop manual, that good people worked hard
to publish, so that others could learn.
No regrets at all. Money well spent.
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Jack Osbourne has been diagnosed with multiple sclerosis.
The son of heavy metal legend Ozzy Osbourne told People he got the news just two weeks after he and his fiancee, Lisa Stelly, welcomed a daughter, Pearl Clementine, into the world.
A disease that affects the central nervous system, the effects of MS can be minor or seriously disabling. It can affect muscle control, strength, vision, balance thinking and feeling.
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Osbourne was clearly emotional about the timing of the ordeal.
"I was just angry and frustrated and kept thinking, 'Why now?'" the former reality star told People. "I've got a family, and that's what's supposed to be the most important thing."
The interview will appear in next Friday's issue. Osbourne's mother Sharon was also interviewed for the piece.
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Levi Stubbles (June 6, 1936 – October 17, 2008), better known by the stage name Levi Stubbs, was an American baritone singer, best known as the lead vocalist of the Motown R&B group The Four Tops.
Born in Detroit in 1936, Levi Stubbs began his professional singing career with friends Abdul "Duke" Fakir, Renaldo "Obie" Benson and Lawrence Payton, forming a singing group called The Four Aims in 1954. Two years later, after having signed with Chess Records, the group changed their name to the Four Tops. The name change was meant to avoid confusion with the then-popular Ames Brothers. The Four Tops began as a supper-club act before signing to Motown Records in 1963. By the end of the decade, the Four Tops had over a dozen hits. The most popular of their hits (all of which featured Stubbs on lead vocals) include "Baby I Need Your Loving", "I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch)", "It's the Same Old Song", "Reach Out I'll Be There", "Standing in the Shadows of Love", "Bernadette", "Still Water (Love)" and "Ain't No Woman (Like the One I've Got)".
Although Stubbs was a natural baritone, most Four Tops' hits were written in a tenor range to give the lead vocals a sense of urgency. Stubbs and the other Tops remained a team until Payton died in 1997, at which point Theo Peoples took his place. The Four Tops were elected to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1990, and have sold over 50 million records worldwide. In 2000, Theo Peoples replaced Stubbs as lead singer, with Ronnie McNeir taking the place that Payton originally held. Duke Fakir is now the only surviving member of The Four Tops' original lineup. Benson died on July 1, 2005.


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|Lestrange Vault
|Location information
- "The door of the vault melted away to reveal a cavelike opening crammed from floor to ceiling with golden coins and goblets, silver armour, the skins of strange creatures -- some with long spines, others with drooping wings -- potions in jeweled flasks, and a skull still wearing a crown"
- —Description of the interior of the Lestrange Vault as seen by Harry, Ron, Hermione, and Griphook when they break in[src]
The Lestrange Vault is a vault at Gringotts Wizarding Bank in London, England that belongs to the Lestranges, a very old and wealthy pure-blood family. In addition to containing large amounts of gold, Galleons, and treasuras the hiding place of Helga Hufflepuff's Cup, one of Lord Voldemort's Horcruxes. Noticeably, the vault was robbed in 1998 by Harry Potter, Hermione Granger, and Ron Weasley with the assistance of former Gringotts employee Griphook during the Second Wizarding War.
It is unknown what happened to the vault and the Lestrange fortune after Voldemort's fall, or if the fortune even survived the dragon's rampage during the robbery, as no known members of the Lestrange family survived without going to Azkaban.
Early HistoryEdit
Not much is known about the early history of the vault except that it was used by multiple members of the Lestrange family to hide the treasure.
Addition of the HorcruxEdit
At some point in time, Lord Voldemort gave Bellatrix Lestrange Hufflepuff's Cup, one of his Horcruxes, to keep safe in her vault, though he didn't tell her its true nature. Presumably, the reason Voldemort had his Horcrux hidden in the vault is because, as an orphan, he never had a vault at Gringotts and was envious of wizarding families with a Gringotts vault, considering it to be a great honour. Voldemort also knew the Lestrange's vault was well protected and thought it was a safe place to hide Hufflepuff's Cup.
Addition of the Fake SwordEdit
- "You're a lying, you filthy Mudblood, and I know it! You have been inside my vault at Gringotts! Tell the truth, tell the truth! What else did you take? What else have you got? Tell me the truth or, I swear, I shall run you through with this knife! What else did you take, what else? ANSWER ME! CRUCIO!"
- —Overheard parts of Bellatrix's interrogation of Hermione Granger[src]
Harry had Griphook (also held captive at Malfoy Manor) to lie and say it was a fake, but Bellatrix's panic led to Harry thinking that there could be something else of Voldemort's in her vault — his Horcrux, Helga Hufflepuff's Cup, seeming most likely. Bellatrix Stunned all the Snatchers, intending to kill them later, as Draco was unwilling to himself. Bellatrix then interrogated Hermione and tortured her with the Cruciatus Curse, but Hermione managed to lie, claiming the real sword was only a copy.[1] In fact, the true sword presented itself to Harry and his friends in the Forest of Dean at the bottom of a frozen lake, as the sword had to be retrieved under circumstances where bravery and valour had to be shown.
Bellatrix also threatened Hermione with a knife, after Harry and Ron escaped from the cellar with the assistance of Dobby and Ron disarmed her. While holding the knife to an unconscious Hermione's throat, Bellatrix demanded that the boys drop their wands, and then pressed her Dark Mark, calling Voldemort. However, Dobby reappeared and caused the chandelier to fall from above Bellatrix's head, prompting her to release Hermione and jump out of the way. As the house-elf Disapparated with Harry, Bellatrix threw the knife at Dobby, fatally wounding him in the chest. She and her relatives were severely punished by Voldemort for allowing Harry to escape. Bellatrix also lost her wand in the skirmish.
Not long afterwards, Hermione used some of Bellatrix's hair, which had fallen onto her clothes while Bellatrix held her hostage, to create Polyjuice Potion to impersonate Bellatrix. This made it possible for her, Harry and Ron to steal the Horcrux from the Lestranges' vault.[1]
1998 RobberyEdit
Around Easter of 1998, Harry Potter, Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger were captured by Snatchers and brought to Malfoy Manor. There, Bellatrix Lestrange panicked at the sight of Godric Gryffindor's Sword among their possessions, as she had believed the sword to be in her vault at Gringotts, along with another item Voldemort had given to her.[2] Thus, after the trio escaped the Manor, they planned to break into Gringotts in order to steal the item from Lestrange. Gringotts was warned that imposters might try to get in and had extra security precautions in place.
In spite of this, on 1 May, 1998, Harry, Hermione, and Ron were able to break into the vault with the assistance of goblin and former Gringotts employee Griphook. They realised that the treasure had been protected with the curse of Flagrante and Gemino, thus, every time they touched the treasure it would burn them and multiply, raising the danger that they would be crushed to death by the searing hot metal. Despite the security measures placed on the contents of the vault, the trio obtained Helga Hufflepuff's Cup and escaped on the back of the dragon that had been guarding the vault door.[3]
ContentsEditThe Lestranges' vault contained great treasures, crammed from the floor to ceiling with gold coins, silver armour, skins of great creatures with long spines and drooping wings, potions in jewelled flasks and a skull donning a crown.
The most prominent of its contents was the cup of Helga Hufflepuff, which was turned into a Horcrux by Voldemort, and the fake Sword of Godric Gryffindor. Voldemort chose this vault as his Horcrux's hiding place due to the fact that, since his childhood, he envied the wizards who owned a vault, as he himself did not due to his orphan-status. As a result, along with his once high-regard for the Lestranges and knowing Gringotts' high security measures, he entrusted the Lestranges with the cup as well as the sword.
Security measuresEdit
In order to reach this vault, one must be escorted by an employee of Gringotts on a cart, which will be inundated by the Thief's Downfall if this defence is activated by the Gringotts goblins. A dragon guards the door and will only shrink back at the sound of a goblin's clankers, in anticipation of being painfully punished. With the touch of the employee, the door will open. For this vault, it required the goblin employee to put his entire palm on the door, rather than just a finger, to open it.
As discovered by Harry, Ron, Hermione, and Griphook's break-in of the vault, all the treasure inside had been cursed with Geminio and Flagrante. Thus, everything is hot to the touch and will replicate at a rapid rate if touched, until the potential thief is buried and burned. These replicates are identical in appearance, but have no monetary value whatsoever.[3]
The high security of this vault suggests that it is even deeper underground than Vault 713, which also had to be accessed by cart and by a goblin employee, but did not have any kind of creature guarding it.[4]
Behind the scenesEdit
- In Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2, the treasure is cursed with Geminio, but not Flagrante.
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (First appearance)
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (Mentioned only)
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (video game)
- LEGO Harry Potter: Years 5-7
Notes and referencesEdit
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
- ↑ Deathly Hallows, Ch. 23
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Ch. 26
- ↑ Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Ch. 5


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With surgery on Robert Griffin III's right knee complete, the next step in the process will take more time.
The Washington Redskins' rookie quarterback will undergo rigorous rehabilitation to prepare for the 2013 NFL season, but the prognosis for a full return remains positive.
Dr. James Andrews, who operated on Griffin's anterior cruciate and lateral collateral ligaments, issued the following statement after Wednesday's surgery:
"Robert Griffin III had successful knee surgery early this morning. He had a direct repair of his LCL and a re-do of his previous ACL reconstruction. We expect a full recovery and it is everybody's hope and belief that due to Robert's high motivation, he will be ready for the 2013 season.
"The goal of his treatment is to give him the best opportunity for a long professional career."
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I conduct online tutions in Science and Mathematics. I am thinking that if I have web based whiteboard application, then it will be good. I have a website. My plan is that I will give a url to my student. That url will contain whiteboard + chat application. We will interact through that. It should be possible to draw text and various shapes like circle, triangle, etc. on the whiteboard. Any change made by one of us should be seen in real time by the other.
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Bathum and Kurka win downhill gold at Panorama world cup
|Team USA's Andrew Kurka wins gold, with Chris Devlin-Young in third at the Panorama world cup.
PANORAMA, B.C. – Mark Bathum and Andrew Kurka won gold for Team USA on the first day of downhill competition at the International Paralympic Committee Alpine Skiing World Cup at Panorama Mountain Village today.
In the men's sitting division, Kurka (Anchorage, Alaska) notched his first ever world cup win at only 21 years old.
"It feels really great to win in what is really only my third international competition," Kurka said. "I'm just hoping to carry this through to Sochi. There are still more races here this week, so I don't want to get ahead of myself, but I'm feeling really good."
2010 Paralympic downhill silver medalist Bathum (Mercer Island, Wash.)and his guide Cade Yamamoto won gold in the men's visually impaired race. Bathum has been on a roll this season, with four wins earlier in December at the Copper Mountain NorAm Cup.
Four-time Paralympian Chris Devlin-Young (Bethlehem, N.H.) also made a trip to the podium as he finished close behind Kurka to take bronze in the men's sitting downhill.
In her first world cup competition since tearing three ligaments in her shoulder last summer, three-time Paralympic gold medalist Alana Nichols (Farmington, N.M.) won silver in the women's sitting downhill. Reigning downhill world champion Laurie Stephens (Wenham, Mass.) was close behind Nichols to take bronze.
Danelle Umstead and guide Rob Umstead (Park City, Utah) finished third in the women's visually impaired field, while Allison Jones (Colorado Springs, Colo.) won bronze in the women's standing race.
"This was definitely a situation where our training runs got better each day," said Kevin Jardine, high performance director for U.S. Paralympics alpine skiing. "Our athletes were ready to race today in spite of some difficult terrain that took out a few athletes today. Maybe we didn't ski the best we could today, but we skied better than our competition, and that is all that matters."
The Panorama world cup features more than 70 athletes from 13 countries and runs through Tuesday, Jan. 14. Team USA will have a quick turnaround with the next IPC Alpine Skiing World Cup slated for Jan. 17-20 in Copper Mountain, Colo.
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Place the numbers 1, 2, 3,..., 9 one on each square of a 3 by 3 grid so that all the rows and columns add up to a prime number. How many different solutions can you find?
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COSHOCTON, Ohio (AP) - An Army veteran who says his pet ducks help relieve his post-traumatic stress disorder is now hoping for a change in the Ohio village law that prohibits him from keeping the animals in his backyard.
Darin Welker, who served in the Army National Guard, was cited for violating a ban on keeping farm animals in West Lafayette, about 80 miles east of Columbus. He and his attorney said Wednesday that village officials are considering the possibility of a new law.
'The village is in agreement and willing to negotiate a new village ordinance for animal therapy,' Welker's attorney, Robert Weir, said.
Village Council Member Ron Lusk would only say that the council and mayor are trying to work out a solution to the problem and that will include taking a look at the ordinance to see if any changes are needed.
Lusk said he couldn't comment further because the case is still in court. But he did add that he and other village administration officials are military veterans and wouldn't do anything to slight other veterans.
Welker says his back was injured in the service and his 14 ducks provide physical and emotional therapy. He says they ease his depression.
A Coshocton Municipal Court hearing scheduled Wednesday on Welker's citation was continued for 60 days, and Weir said he hopes something can be worked out by then.
Welker had wanted to have his day in court, even after a Pennsylvania stranger paid his $140 fine and court costs. He said he now hopes for a new ordinance that would let him keep his ducks.
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Christine O'Donnell appeared on 'Today' this morning to explain why she walked off the set of a CNN interview with Piers Morgan, an incident which made headlines yesterday. In a live interview with Savannah Guthrie, O'Donnell called Morgan's line of questioning "creepy" and edging on "sexual harassment."
O'Donnell, who is on a press tour to promote her book 'Troublemaker,' began the segment a bit flustered, struggling with her earpiece and searching for words. She regained her composure, however, and denied that Morgan's questions about her opinions on gay marriage were what drove her to halt the interview (as Morgan has stated) and claimed that his repeated "personal, intimate questions" — including ones about her past as an anti-masturbation advocate — were to blame.
O'Donnell also claims that Morgan's questions were "sexist," and that he would not ask the same questions of a male guest: "Imagine if Bill Clinton were there. Do you think he would ask him, 'Do you still hang out with Monica Lewinsky?'"
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Pennington County, South Dakota Genealogy
United States South Dakota Pennington County
Guide to Pennington County, South Dakota ancestry, genealogy and family history, birth records, marriage records, death records, census records, family history, and military records.
County Information[edit | edit source]
Description[edit | edit source]
County Courthouse[edit | edit source]
Pennington County Courthouse
Pennington County, South Dakota Record Dates[edit | edit source]
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There is no known history of courthouse disasters in this county.
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1875--Pennington County was created 11 January 1875 from unorganized territory.
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Before South Dakota was a state in 1889, parts of South Dakota were included in the 1836 Iowa Territory census (also known as Wisconsin Territory), 1840 Iowa Territory census, 1850 Minnesota Territory census, and the 1860-1880 Dakota Territory censuses.[4] See links listed below.
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See South Dakota Land and Property for additional information about early South Dakota land grants. After land was transferred to private ownership, subsequent transactions were usually recorded at the county courthouse, where records are currently housed.
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Local histories are available for Pennington County, South Dakota Genealogy. County and town histories may include biographies, church, school and government history, and military information. For more information about local histories, see the wiki page section South Dakota Local Histories.
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Periodicals[edit | edit source]
Probate Records[edit | edit source]
In most counties in South Dakota, probate records have been kept by the county judge. They include wills, fee books, claim registers, legacy records, inheritance records, probate ticklers, and dockets. The records are available at the county courthouse.
The FamilySearch Catalog lists films of probate records. To find the records for this county, use the Place Search for South Dakota, Pennington then click Probate records.
Online Records
School Records[edit | edit source]
Tax Records[edit | edit source]
South Dakota tax records complement land records and can be used to supplement the years between censuses. There may be gaps of several years in the records.
Vital Records[edit | edit source]
Vital Records consist of births, adoptions, marriages, divorces, and deaths recorded on registers, certificates, and documents. See the CDC Where to Write website for information on acquiring copies of these records.
Birth[edit | edit source]
Marriage[edit | edit source]
Death[edit | edit source]
Divorce[edit | edit source]
Research Facilities[edit | edit source]
Archives[edit | edit source]
Family History Centers[edit | edit source]
Family History Centers provide one-on-one assistance and free access to premium genealogical websites. In addition, many centers have free how-to genealogy classes.
Libraries[edit | edit source]
Museums[edit | edit source]
Societies[edit | edit source]
Rapid City Society For Genealogical Research
Websites[edit | edit source]
Research Guides[edit | edit source]
References[edit | edit source]


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