![]() ![]() ![]() It is considered an anime cult classic by some fans. However, a censored version is available. Kite is banned in Norway due to scenes in the film being considered "child pornography" which is a criminal offence in Norway. Subsequently, the OVA has been released three times in the United States, each with less censorship than the last (with the most recent release being reputedly uncensored). The DVD description states: "College student by day, vigilante by night, Sawa protects the innocent and mercilessly kills criminals in this intense Japanese anime." Release historyįirst released in 1998, Kite is controversial in its depiction of extreme gory violence and sexual content, including graphic rape scenes involving a very young Sawa (which is only shown in the uncut version of the film). There is the sound of a footstep and a creaking floorboard, and Sawa turns her head to look at the source of the noise before the screen goes black. The scene changes to Sawa at Oburi's loft in an abandoned building, waiting patiently for his return. She tosses both guns into the sewer, then removes her remaining earring and discards it as well.īefore Oburi and Sawa can reunite, Oburi is shot by another presumed child assassin – perhaps coincidentally a girl whose basketball he had destroyed near the beginning of the movie in response to an insult – and most likely the assassin Akai was talking about after raping Sawa for the last time. Akai then goes to where Kanie had been taking Oburi to confront him, but instead finds Sawa, who shoots him in the right hand and groin before emptying the magazines of both her and Oburi's guns into the rest of his body. One of the crime scene investigators reminds him that the body's location is where a double murder occurred several years prior, when the parents of a teenage girl were killed. He draws back the covering over the body and flinches when he sees it is Kanie. The next morning, Akai arrives at a murder scene. Sawa then leaves, saying she has an exam the next day. He tells her where Kanie is going to kill Oburi and that he is looking forward to finding Oburi's body. When Kanie drags Oburi off afterward, Akai tells Sawa he's impressed with the depth of her plan to kill Oburi, saying that he almost believed her act. Akai appears to decide that just killing Oburi isn't enough, and after Akai says "Sawa, thank me", the screen cuts to black. Sawa comes to Oburi's rescue again but is captured by Akai and Kanie. Oburi confronts Akai and tells him that he and Sawa are both leaving, but Akai overpowers and savagely beats him. ![]() When Oburi shows up alive, Kanie sends him after a corrupt district attorney, but the man is actually a SWAT officer, who nearly kills Oburi before Sawa arrives and saves him. During it, she loses one of her earrings and sustains several minor injuries. The bodyguards of this target nearly kill her in a struggle in the men's restroom. She lets Oburi live and goes to take out her next target. Realizing that Sawa has the drop on him, Oburi tells her that Akai and Kanie were the ones who murdered her parents, but Sawa reveals that she has known that for years. Oburi is leaving Akai and Kanie's service after killing three more targets, but Akai orders Sawa to kill Oburi instead of letting him go. Due to their relationship, Sawa slowly gains the emotional strength to escape from her guardians to set out on her own. Sawa's assassinations are famous among the police for her use of special bullets that explode inside the body after piercing the skin.Įventually, Sawa meets a fellow assassin named Oburi, who is of a similar age, and a bond quickly forms between them. Subsequently, over the years, she kills whomever she is ordered to, including corrupt police officers and corporate fat cats. Sawa is an assassin, who the corrupt detectives make kill an alleged rapist of young girls. Akai also gave her a pair of crystal earrings, each one allegedly containing the blood of one of her parents. Akai has had a sexual relationship with Sawa for the duration of his guardianship. The detectives investigating the crime, Akai and Kanie, are her guardians. Sawa kills him, and the old lady dies of a heart attack sometime later, after feeling around for her glasses in the bloody aftermath. When the film opens Sawa is on a date with a celebrity, but he begins yelling at an old lady, who had rebuked him for promiscuous ways, being on a date with such a young girl. Her parents are the victims of a gory double murder. Kite revolves around a schoolgirl named Sawa who is orphaned in her early teens. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() GCC compiler and toolset (original project by FSF.org).Welcome to Mac OS X Leopard User's Guide.Some iChat features offer better performance and quality with higher system capabilities.ĭeveloper tools require 1GB of memory and an additional 3GB of available disk space.Backdrop effects when using a DV camcorder require fixed focus, exposure, and white balance.Photo Booth and backdrop effects require an Intel Core Duo or faster processor.Video chats require an iSight camera (built-in or external), USB video class (UVC) camera, or FireWire DV camcorder and 128-Kbps upstream and downstream Internet connection.Audio chats require a microphone and a 56-Kbps Internet connection.Screen sharing in iChat and in the Finder requires a 128-Kbps Internet connection (300-Kbps recommended).įront Row requires a Mac with built-in IR and an Apple Remote.ĭVD Player requires a 1.8GHz PowerPC G5 or faster processor for improved de-interlacing. Backdrop effects when using a DV camcorder require fixed focus, exposure, and white balance.īoot Camp requires a Mac with an Intel processor and Windows XP Service Pack 2 or Windows Vista (sold separately). Backdrop effects require an Intel Core Duo or faster processor. Photo Booth requires an iSight camera (built-in or external), USB video class (UVC) camera, or FireWire DV camcorder and an Intel or PowerPC G5 processor. Time Machine requires an additional hard drive (sold separately). ![]() Some features require a compatible Internet service provider fees may apply.Mac computer with an Intel, PowerPC G5, or PowerPC G4 (867MHz or faster) processor.Mac OS X 10.5.9 (released October 31, 2021, unofficial support for PowerPC only). ![]() ![]() ![]() International Journal of STEM Education, 7(1), 1–14. Reviewing assessment of student learning in interdisciplinary STEM education. Dershimer, C., Krajcik, J., Marx, R., & Mamlok-Naaman, R. 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International Journal of STEM Education, 3(11). A conceptual framework for integrated STEM education. Technology and Engineering Teacher, 72(1), 17-21. Engineering design: Diverse design teams to solve real-world problem. The results of this study indicate that students can learn domain content outside of their course of study. The comparisons between domain and cross-domain knowledge in science and engineering content found no significant differences however, the mean score gain in cross-domain was higher than within the subject domain. The comparison between science and engineering students’ knowledge gain showed that the integrated STEM unit significantly impacts students’ content knowledge. The results indicate that the integrated STEM unit implemented by teacher collaboration increased students’ overall STEM content knowledge. The data were analyzed through the independent samples t-test. This study employed a quasi-experimental nonequivalent comparison group design and collected a total of 1,345 pre/post-test assessments. The researchers constructed a STEM knowledge multiple-choice pre/post-test assessment to assess students’ understanding of these concepts. The integrated STEM unit included entomology, biology, biomimicry, physics, and engineering design content. After completing a two-week teacher professional development workshop, science and engineering technology teachers implemented an exemplar STEM unit called D-BAIT. The following study presents students’ STEM content knowledge achievement after learning an integrated STEM unit taught by science and engineering technology teachers. Integrated Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) teaching provides an opportunity for students to learn STEM knowledge across two or more domains. ![]() ![]() ![]() In addition, any sub-folders and BarTender documents in those sub-folders are also available. When you define a root folder, it becomes available in Print Portal's Folder Navigator, and any BarTender documents within that folder are displayed in the Document Browser. Root folders can point to directory folders available on your web server or to BarTender Librarian folders. Root folders are the document folders that you have configured Print Portal to recognize so that users can print the BarTender documents that are saved in them. I would go as far as saying Bartender is a requirement to play at your best potential but I don't want to start any wars between other players out there.Open topic with navigation Defining Root Folders It is by far one of the most useful addons I have ever downloaded and would strongly recommend it to anyone that plays the game. That is pretty much all there is to say about Bartender though. You will have to click on the picture in order to enlarge it. ![]() I used Bartender to fully customize it but I used Masque/Buttonfacade to make the circles. This next picture is my entire interface. Although Bartender doesn't make the buttons circles, that's Buttonfacade, a completely different addon. These are on the bottom left side of my screen:Īs you can see with that picture you can customize your bars really however you want. It's a bit spotty considering Blizzard recently removed a lot of abilities with 5.0.4 but you will be able to see the layout and how much different it looks than the normal Blizzard Interface.įirst picture are my 3 main bars where 90% of my hotkeys lie. Now to give you an idea how pretty your interface will look with bartender I took a few pictures of mine. The only thing you can't do with Bartender is customize your Unit Frames, they'll take another addon which we can get into later. With Bartender you are almost fully able to customize your entire interface. Also in these options there are ways to turn off Blizzard's art bar and mess with other important game features like your bag bar, micro menu, stance bar and more.īelow is a picture of the window that comes up when you type /Bartender.Īs you can see there are many options available as aforementioned. pretty much everything about the hotbar you can change. From this menu you are allowed to configure up to 10 different hot bars, making them bigger, smaller, changing the rows and how they're configured, how many buttons are on each bar, the space between each bar. Once you add Bartender into your addon folder you will want to login to the game and type /Bartender to bring up the Bartender menu. I personally can't play this game without Bartender anymore, it's the first addon I download each time I return to the game and the first addon I update after a patch. There are quite a few bar addons out there but Bartender is one of the most well known ones and most supported. Bartender allows you to fully customize your interface, moving every bar anywhere you want on the screen. Untitled Document WoW Bartender Addon Guideīartender is one of the most popular addons players download for World of Warcraft. ![]() ![]() It marked the first time an American presidential campaign commissioned a famous artist to create a poster, and sales of the poster raised about $40,000 for McGovern. His poster for George McGovern’s campaign, Vote McGovern (1972) is arguably his most legendary presidential portrait. As Warhol established his oeuvre, focusing on the media-as the connection between pop culture and politics-gave Warhol a buffer and allowed him to avoid making explicitly political statements.īy the 1970s, Warhol was finally ready to start making explicitly political statements. He did not paint the Vietnam War, but his film Chelsea Girls includes a monologue parodying the radio reportage of Hanoi Hannah. He did not paint civil rights leaders, but he painted one of the most iconic photographs of police brutalizing demonstrators in Birmingham, Alabama. He did not paint President Johnson, but he painted the photograph of Johnson’s chaotic swearing-in ceremony. ![]() However, when Warhol first started to define himself as a Pop artist and experimental filmmaker in the mid-1960s, his work rarely focused on politics so much as media coverage of political issues. Warhol’s literal silence when it comes to Johnson’s presidency may seem puzzling, especially since Johnson held office during such important years in Warhol’s career. Warhol himself contributed eleven seconds of silence. ![]() The album is a radical auditory collage in which songs, poems, chants, and gossip overlap with excerpts from radio coverage of the wedding of Luci Johnson, President Johnson’s youngest daughter. Other contributors included Superstars and friends of the Factory such as Gerard Malanga, Ingrid Superstar, The Velvet Underground, Allen Ginsberg, Peter Orlovsky, and Ed Sanders. Underground, a 1966 album created by an underground newspaper called The East Village Other. A few years later, Warhol participated in the recording of Electric Newspaper, Hiroshima Day, USA vs. But Johnson’s presence is heavily implied in some of Warhol’s portraits of Jackie Kennedy, in which Warhol appropriated an infamous photograph of the stunned soon-to-be-former First Lady standing next to Johnson on Air Force One as he is sworn in as the country’s thirty-sixth president. Warhol never created a portrait of Lyndon Johnson, unless you count an obscure Polaroid depicting a framed photograph of Johnson behind a white plaster monkey. Kennedy’s smiling face is partially visible in some of Warhol’s Jackie portraits, in which Warhol had appropriated a photograph of the happy couple greeting their supporters in Dallas. ![]() The attractive and dynamic Kennedy that we tend to remember shows up in Warhol’s artworks from later in the decade. In his book Popism (1980), Warhol remarked, “I’d been thrilled having Kennedy as president he was handsome, young, smart…” yet in this drawing Kennedy appears sweaty and tired after a “tough day” of cabinet meetings shortly after his inauguration. Warhol’s first-known rendering of JFK appears as a rough sketch in one of his early drawings of a newspaper front page, Pirates Sieze Ship (1961). In examining his portraits of presidents and his interactions with First Families from the Kennedy administration to the Reagan administration, we can see both Warhol’s growing willingness to delve into the realm of politics and Warhol’s increasing acceptance by the political elite. By the end of his life, Warhol had visited the White House on at least five occasions, at the request of three different presidents. Although often characterized as an apolitical artist, Andy Warhol began making portraits of political figures early in his career. ![]() ![]() ![]() For each loop, you can control both the number of subdivisions (the number of onsets) in each loop and the length (duration) of each subdivision. With these two definitions in mind, let’s take a look at the Groove Pizzeria interface. In Western music, you mostly see polymeter over short time spans in the form of hemiola or syncopation. This is much more common in Western music than polyrhythm. The onsets in each loop have the same duration, but each loop has a different number of onsets. Polymeter is two or more concurrent loops of different duration.In Western music, polyrhythms usually only occur for short time spans in the form of tuplets, but in West African drumming, polyrhythms are a core structural feature. ![]() When people talk about 4:3 or 5:2 polyrhythm, this is what they mean. Finally, t he ratio of the number of onsets in each loop is not a whole number (otherwise one loop would just be an even subdivision of the other). T he loops contain different numbers of onsets, meaning that the subdivisions of each loop are not same length. Each loop consists of a set of evenly-spaced subdivisions or rhythmic onsets. Polyrhythm is two or more concurrent loops of equal duration.Tyler’s thesis contains the clearest definition of the terms that I know of, which I paraphrase here. The words “polyrhythm” and “polymeter” are frequently used interchangeably, but they are not the same thing. This means that you can use the Groove Pizzeria to make polyrhythm and polymeter. The Groove Pizzeria gives you two sets of concentric rhythm necklaces, each of which can have its own time duration and subdivisions. The Groove Pizza is a set of three concentric rhythm necklaces, each of which controls one drum sound, e.g. Like the Groove Pizza, the Groove Pizzeria is based on the idea of the rhythm necklace, a circular representation of musical rhythm. You can record the Groove Pizzeria’s output using Audio Hijack, however. As of this writing, there are no presets, no saving, no exporting of audio or MIDI, and no changing drum kits. Note that the Groove Pizzeria is still a prototype, and it doesn’t yet have the full feature set that the Groove Pizza does. For his NYU music technology masters thesis, Tyler Bisson created a web app called Groove Pizzeria, a polyrhythmic/polymetric extension of the Groove Pizza. ![]() |
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