 of the unsung female heroes who helped to get the first man into space. And we see it in our daily lives too, as women everywhere put up a fight against everything from unfair pay to incessant body-shaming.
In celebration of all that girl power, we're putting you to the test... and hopefully inspiring you along the way. Can you match the inspirational quotes to the incredible women who said them? It's time to discover how much you really know about the women who're speaking out!Hanneke Van Lavieren is Coastal Ecosystems Programme Officer at the UNU Institute for Water, Environment and Health (UNU-INWEH). She completed her masters degree in Marine Biology and Ecology in 1997 at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands, then worked as a Fisheries Biologist for the Netherlands Institute for Fisheries Research, where she studied catch composition and population dynamics of fish species in the Dutch beam trawl fishery. She took up a position as (coastal/marine) Technical Advisor for a conservation project in the Philippines for the Netherlands Development Agency in 1999. In 2001, she joined the UNEP Regional Seas Programme in Kenya, dealing with issues such as small islands, MPAs, coastal biodiversity, cetacean management, mangroves, climate change and marine invasive species. Since 2006 she has been managing and coordinating coastal projects for UNU-INWEH, together with Dr. Peter Sale.
Gives 5-6% speedup for Caterpillar_PatazStudio.blend.
Cycles: avoid 1.0f/(1.0f/x) divisions, which msvc (only) can't optimize.
This makes bmw scene in msvc 12 builds 6% faster.
It also gives a minor speedup for SSE hair in all compilers.
Cycles: fix 3-5% performance regression in msvc builds caused by a typo in stackchecking flags.
Also extract few common subexpressions in hair calculation.
loads instead of casts for win32 in x86 mode.Google Analytics advanced segments and custom reports save me a hell of a lot of time on a daily basis…
As part of my “day-to-day” role as a Digital Marketing Manager for a FTSE 250 listed company, I find myself jumping in and out of Google Analytics accounts for different geographic locations multiple times per day.
A lot of times, while I’m in either a meeting, on a telephone call, a Google Hangout or during a Google Chat, I have to be able to quickly gather in-country insights into organic search traffic.
As a result, I have used the Google Analytics segment builder to create hundreds of Google Analytics advanced segments so that I can analyse and interpret relevant in-country data in a matter of a few clicks.What's on Where in June, July and August
By Ferne Arfin, About.com Guide to United Kingdom Travel
Summer in the United Kingdom is the season for some of the most famous events on the UK's social, sporting and cultural calendar. Watching the races with the Queen at Ascot, waiting for standing room at the Wimbledon Tennis Tournament, joining the happy, festive crowds at the Edinburgh festivals - celebrate "The Best of British" during June, July and August in the United Kingdom.
The Edinburgh Festivals
August is festival month in Edinburgh. The Edinburgh Fringe Festival is the biggest performing arts festival in the world, with thousands of shows and tens of thousands of individual performances. But the Fringe Festival is just part of the story. Summer in Ediburgh also means film, literary and visual arts festivals as well as the high art of the Edinburgh International Festival. The population of Edinburgh's capital doubles during the festivals season. Here's why:
- Quick Facts About the Edinburgh Fringe Festival
- Edinburgh International Festival
- Edinburgh Fringe Festival Tickets - How to Plan Your Festival and Get Tickets
What's on in June
Music, heritage festivals, Royal Ascot and, at the end of the month, the world's greatest grand slam tennis at Wimbledon - plus the world's muddiest music festival at Glastonbury. June is a great month to visit the United Kingdom
- June Festival and Events Roundup
- Wimbledon Tennis
- Royal Ascot
- Heads Up for the Ascot Hats
- Glastonbury Festival
What's on in July
The UK's warmest month is the season for getting out by the water at the Henley Royal Regatta, watching the races - at York, Goodwood and round-about. Plus music and heritage festivals everywhere!
- July Festivals and Events Roundup
- The Henley Royal Regatta
- Thoroughbred Racing at York
- The Hampton Court Palace Flower Show
What's on in August
The Edinburgh Festivals take over Scotland's beautiful and historic city for most of August. But that's not all there is to do and see in the UK this month - including one of the world's great yacht regattas on the Isle of Wight.This post was updated on August 23rd with all the newly announced dates.
Shaun the Sheep: The Flight Before Christmas – Aardman animated feature film based on the charismatic sheep.
Robin Robin – November 24th – Aardman Animation produces this short movie.
Single All the Way – December 2021 – Gay holiday rom-com from Michael Mayer.
The Princess Switch 3 – November 2021 – Vanessa Hudgens returns for the multi-character romantic comedy.
Netflix is all-in on the royal family whether that be covering them in The Crown or partnering up with Prince Harry. Next will come the biopic musical of Princess Diana.
The live recording of the Broadway musical was filmed at the Longacre Theatre in New York City.
My Little Pony is coming to Netflix this fall with a brand new feature-length movie that will run for 90 minutes.
The movie will see the Pony world of Equestria losing its magic with our heroes embarking on an adventure to help save Equestria.
Not to be confused with the Danish thriller, The Guilty is the new action-thriller starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Ethan Hawke, and Riley Keough.
The movie is about a demoted police officer who has been assigned to call dispatch gets a rather intense call from a kidnapped woman.
Blood Brothers: Malcolm X & Muhammad Ali – September 9th – Documentary on the historical icons.
Love Hard – November 5th – McG produced romance movie starring Nina Dobrev and Jimmy O. Yang. Directed by Hernan Jimenez.
Mixtape – December 2021 – Rom-com starring Julie Bowen, Jackson Rathbone, and Nick Thune. Directed by Valerie Weiss.
Want to add tons of fun to skill building? Try these fabulous feely bag games!
Children love a mystery-and, naturally, they love to solve it! With just a few ideas you can turn the all-time favorite mystery game, the Feely Box (or Bag), into a great tool for encouraging thinking skills, including perception, prediction, analysis, and synthesis. Along the way, children will be using important expressive and descriptive language.
It's easy to get started. Just put an item (more than one, if you want) in a bag and invite children to guess what it is. They can use tactile, visual, or auditory clues, or "all of the above!" Ask open-ended questions to spark children's thinking. (What does this remind you of? How many ways can you describe it or use it?) Write down their ideas. This will help them make a connection between the spoken and the written word.
Start with a colorful pillowcase or bag. Encourage multi-sensory learning by using bags with varying textures. (A burlap feed bag will feel very different from a satin pillowcase and will invite children to use different vocabulary in the game.) Consider an attractive gift box for larger items.
Children may like to help you decorate a special Feely Box to use for a new twist on Show & Tell, in which they hide their Show & Tell object in the box/bag and ask their classmates to guess what it is! Children love giving clues for others. Tactile, auditory, and/or verbal clues (their choice) can be used to solve the mystery, turning a standard activity into a deductive-reasoning game!
This is the fun part, because the game changes when you change what's in the bag. Now is the time to think "out of the box" (or the bag!) by presenting children with challenging objects and ideas. Look for objects that have an unusual shape or that children may not have seen before. Invite children to feel the objects and try to guess what they are. Then reveal the secret items and ask children to suggest many different ways to use them.
Shift the nature of the game from visual/tactile to auditory by adding objects that make a sound. Ask: What might make this sound? How many different things can we think of that make a similar sound? Write children's answers and predictions on chart paper, then pull out the item!
More Fun With Feely Bag Games Feel and Say!
A multi-sensory feely bag game is perfect for the development of descriptive vocabulary. Place an interesting object in the bag and invite children to use as many different words as they can to describe it as they feel it. Write their words down in rows like a poem-big, squishy, soft, round. After children have described the object, they can try to identify it and add the word to the end of the poem: Big