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Online-video guide snags $11 million in VC funding
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19 Feb 2010Clicker, which offers a comprehensive guide to Web programming, has secured venture funding to invest in engineering and partnerships.
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4 Responses to Online-video guide snags $11 million in VC funding
E D
March 11th, 2010 at 2:35 pm
They're identical, except that a civil partnership cannot take place in a religious setting.
Beach Saint
March 21st, 2010 at 4:47 am
At $499, 2250 pages and 18 pounds, Arts & Humanities Through the Eras by Philip M. Soergel is probably the most comprehensive book you will find.
From Booklist
Over the last two decades the historical focus has shifted from viewing events in a simple historical context to a more integrative perspective. This set offers a multidimensional picture of primarily Western civilization, covering Ancient Egypt (2675-332 B.C.E.), Ancient Greece and Rome (1200 B.C.E.-476 C.E.), Medieval Europe (814-1450 C.E.), Renaissance Europe (1300-1600 C.E.), and The Age of the Baroque and Enlightenment (1600-1800 C.E.). Similar in organization to Gale's American Eras and World Eras lines, the work exposes readers to each historical period through the study of nine different arts and humanities topics: "Architecture and Design," "Dance," "Fashion," "Literature," "Music," "Philosophy," "Religion," "Theater," and "Visual Arts." Each topic area is treated in a different chapter, but the connections between topics are highlighted both in the text and through cross-referencing. The result is a broader and more inclusive picture of the culture of each period, emphasizing connections between, for example, religion, dance, and literature or between the visual arts and architecture.
Each chapter is structured in the same way, containing a chronology; an overview of the development of the field under scrutiny; a "Topics" section, which discusses various movements, schools of thought, and masterworks that characterize the discipline during that era; a handful of biographies of significant people; and a list of documentary sources. Each of the subsections within "Topics" includes a list of sources. The writing, produced by subject experts, is uniformly clear and informative but quite pedantic. It is certainly not leisure–interest reading but does impart information in an admirably direct style.
Sidebars offer primary source material (letters, poems, essays, songs, epitaphs, etc.). Numerous black-and-white photographs, maps, and reproductions extend the text well. Technical terms and definitions appear both in the text and in the glossary, and lists of works for further reference, as well as media and online sources, are listed at the back of each volume. Although there is not a cumulative index, each volume does have its own accurate index. Aimed at college and university students with or without historical background, this set provides a solid picture of western European history through the arts. Ann Welton
Jon
April 3rd, 2010 at 7:00 pm
This type of training is generally referred to as 'positive reenforcement training'. There's not much to it, just give her a treat and love (petting and telling her what a good cat she is) every time you click the clicker. Then start cutting back on the treats, and just giving her love with a click. She'll learn that the click means you are happy with her. A fully trained cat will won't expect anything with a click, but they will want to do things to get a click, because they know you are happy with them. Make sure you carry the clicker around, so you can give her clicks for absolutely anything she does right.
When you want to train her, say, to sit on the toilet, give her a click when she makes the slightest move in the right direction. So click when she enters the bathroom, click when she approaches the toilet, etc. Then back off the clicks until she learns exactly what you want.
To train against behavior, so to train her not to do something, don't ever hit her or yell at her or do anything that she won't like. You want her to love you (obviously) so that she'll want to do things for you. Just quietly correct her (take her down from the table, for example) and ignore her for a bit. The 'silent treatment' so to speak. She knows when you are happy by the clicks, and she'll figure out fast that no clicks means you are unhappy.
I trained my cat the same way, but I make a sound with my mouth instead of a clicker. He knows not to go out the front door and not to leave the porch in the back, and that he's allowed the bed, but not to sleep on the pillows or sheets. Many people toilet train their cats this way (so they will use the people toilet). Don't listen to anyone who says it can't be done, they just haven't put the time into it. It's even been done with snakes and lizards, so it can defiantly be done with a cat. Good luck!
Ted P
May 10th, 2010 at 4:35 am
The university of Arizona has a 14 month BSN program in partnership with some Tucson agency. I think normally you sign a contract with them to work for about 3 years as an RN and if you leave earlier than that you pay them back. It sounds like its tuition free and you give them 3 years After you graduate.
I hope that helps