Now: Music from the musicals 1975 - 2018

Musical Theatre performance at The Meteor Theatre Gwen is an opera singer and is joined for an evening of song, by special guests; Courteney Mayall, Alex Pelham-Waerea, Scot Hall, Hannah MacFarlane and Michaela Gilling Accompanied by the incomparable David Sidwell, Gwen and guests will be singing from musical theatre canon of 1975 through to 2018 Let them take you on a journey through the best pieces Broadway has to offer

Spiders, Flies, and the Internet

This article was originally given as a lecture at the Technology and Society Conference, Dordt College, Iowa, March 10, 1997. Author named incorrectly as Lyons

The Effects of Sulfur Sensitization and Stabilization by 4-Hydroxy-6-Methyl-1,3,3a,7-Tetraazaindene on Hydrogen Sensitization of a Photographic Emulsion

Hypersensitization using H2 gas is the most recent addition to the techniques available to reduce the effects of low intensity reciprocity law failure. Because of the presence of addenda in all commercially available emulsions, the interactive effects of hydrogen sensitization with a common stabilizer (4-methyl-6-hydroxy-1,3,3a,7-tetraazaindene) and a common form of chemical sensitization (Sulfur Sensitization) alone and together were investigated. A primitive, single jet emulsion was coated with and without the above addenda. Samples were paired and either treated to a hydrogen baking process at 65°C for 20 minutes, or left untreated. Sensitometric exposures were made in a room air environment for 1000, 100, 10, 1, 0.01, and 0.001 seconds. The results of this research indicated that: for exposure times where low intensity reciprocity law failure is minimal, the speed increase with H2 sensitization is only slight; sulfur and H2 sensitization can be partially additive; and, H2 sensitization tends to promote HIRF. Sulfur sensitization was not found to limit the reduction in LIRF by H2 sensitization, and tetraazaindene stabilization was not found to limit the sensitivity incease resulting from H2 sensitization

A Study of the Ancient Edomites: An Examination of the Civilization of the Nation of Edom and Its Relationship to Israel

This study attempts to analyze the history of the nation and kingdom of Edom. The author relates Edomite history through the lens of biblical criticism and available historical, geographical, sociological, and archaeological analyses. The Edomite relationship to ancient Israel is examined in an attempt to bring into focus much of the long forgotten and ignored history of Edom

A Comparison of the Solvent and Temperature Dependence of the Fluorescence Quantum Yield of Methyl-1-, Methyl-2-, and Methyl-9-Anthroate

Two flouescence parameters, the room temperature quantum yield and the activation energy for nonradiative decay, were studied for the three possible monosbstituted methyl esters of anthroic acid in a number of aprotic, nonaromatic solvents. For the 1 and 2 substituted esters, the quantum yield increased and went through a maximum with decreasing S1 energy. In contrast, for methyl-9-anthroate, a general monotonic decrease in quantum yield with decreasing S1 energy was found. We assume, that intersystem crossing is the only nonradiative decay process that competes with flourescence for the esters. Since we find that the esters show temperature dependent flourescence, intersystem crossing must occur by thermal activation to a triplet enery level (Tx) that lies higher in enery than the first singlet excited state (S1)

The Effects of the Read 180 Program on Oral Reading Fluency, Linguistic Comprehension, and Reading Comprehension with Secondary Special Education Students

There is great concern about secondary special education students reading achievement in decoding, listening comprehension, and reading comprehension. The READ 180 Program is an evidence and scientific based reading program that includes direct instruction, computer aided instruction, and reading materials that are high interest and implement the common core. The purpose of this study was to see the differences in oral reading fluency, linguistic comprehension, and reading comprehension in a pretest posttest model over a fourteen-week testing period. Ten ninth grade secondary students who were reading below the 25th percentile were instructed with the READ 180 Program with fidelity (90 minutes a day, four days a week, for fourteen weeks). The students were pretested and posttested with the Listening Comprehension Adolescent and the Gate MacGinitie Reading Comprehension Test. The students oral reading fluency was progressed monitored weekly with one minuet timed eighth grade reading probes from easyCBM that tracked total words read correctly, and the total number of miscues (words mispronounced, or omitted). The results showed that the students increased in the number or words read correctly and had a statistically significant decrease in miscues. In addition, on the Listening Comprehension pretest and posttest, the students realized a statistically significant increase on their posttest scores. The reading comprehension pretest and posttest scores did not see any change over the fourteen-week testing period. The results of the study conclude that the READ 180 Program had an effect on the student\u27s oral reading fluency and listening comprehension posttest scores

PointSampler: A GIS Tool for Point Intercept Sampling of Digital Images

Close-range digital photography to assess vegetation cover is useful in disciplines ranging from ecological monitoring to agricultural research. An on-screen point intercept sampling method, which is analogous to the equivalent field based method, can be used to manually derive the percentage occurrence of multiple cover classes within an image. PointSampler is a GIS embedded tool that provides a semi-automated approach for performing point intercept sampling of digital images, and which integrates with existing GIS functionality and workflows. We describe and illustrate the two general applications of this tool, in in efficiently deriving primary ecological data from digital photographs , and for the generation of validation data to complement automated image classification of a time series of groundcover images.  The flexible design and GIS integration of PointSampler allows it to be put to a wide range of similar uses