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What do आप think of अंतरिक्ष Cowboy?
Which संगीत video do u prefer?
can u शामिल होइए my spot stefani joanne angelina germanotta? aka lady gaga!!!!
When is अंतरिक्ष Cowboy's Birthday?
What is अंतरिक्ष Cowboy's Real name?
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2019-04-18T12:47:28Z
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http://hi.fanpop.com/clubs/space-cowboy
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Arts
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smithsonianmag
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© Ian Berghammer. All rights reserved.
The more things change the more they stay the same. chain swing carousel at the Puyallup fair in Washington state.
Date Uploaded: Sept. 23, 2011, 12:06 p.m.
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2019-04-22T16:17:56Z
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https://www.smithsonianmag.com/photocontest/detail/american-experience/the-more-things-change-the-more-they-stay-the-same-chain-swing-carousel-at-/?ordering=-uploaded_at&filters=
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Arts
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Recreation
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nytimes
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I was raised by the leaders of the white nationalist movement with a model of American history that described a vigorous white supremacist past and once again I find myself observing events in which I once might have participated before I rejected the white nationalist cause several years ago. After the dramatic, horrible and rightly unnerving events in Charlottesville, Va., this past weekend, I had to make separate calls: one to make sure no one in my family who might have attended the rally got hurt, and a second to see if any friends at the University of Virginia had been injured in the crowd of counterprotesters.
Almost by definition, the white nationalist movement over the past 40 years has worked against the political establishment. It was too easy for politicians to condemn the movement — even when there was overlap on policy issues — because it was a liability without enough political force to make the huge cost of associating with it worthwhile. Until Tuesday, I didn’t believe that had changed.
We have all observed the administration’s decisions over the past several months that aligned with the white nationalist agenda, such as limiting or completely cutting off legal and illegal immigration, especially of Hispanics and Muslims; denigrating black communities as criminal and poor, threatening to unleash an even greater police force on them; and going after affirmative action as antiwhite discrimination. But I had never believed Trump’s administration would have trouble distancing itself from the actual white nationalist movement.
Until Trump’s comments, few critics seemed to identify the larger relationship the alt-right sees between its beliefs and the ideals of the American founders. Charlottesville is synonymous with Jefferson. The city lies at the foot of Monticello and is the home of the University of Virginia, the school he founded. Over the years I’ve made several pilgrimages to Charlottesville, both when I was a white nationalist and since I renounced the ideology. While we all know that Jefferson was the author of the Declaration of Independence, which declared that “all men are created equal,” his writings also offer room for explicitly white nationalist interpretation.
Jefferson’s writings partly inspired the American colonization movement, which encouraged the return of free black people to Africa — a goal that was pursued even by Abraham Lincoln during the first years of the Civil War.
I’m not offering these historical anecdotes to defame the history of the country. I’m not calling for Jefferson’s statue to be removed along with the Confederate memorials. I do, however, think it is essential that we recognize that the white nationalist history embedded in American culture lends itself to white nationalist rallies like the one in Charlottesville. If you want to preserve Confederate memorials, but you don’t work to build monuments to historical black leaders, you share the same cause as the marchers.
Until Tuesday I believed the organizers of the rally had failed in their goal to make their movement more appealing to average white Americans. The rally superimposed Jefferson’s image on that of a pseudo K.K.K. rally and brought the overlap between Jefferson and white nationalist ideas to mind for anyone looking to find them. But the horrific violence that followed seemed to hurt their cause.
And then President Trump intervened. His comments supporting the rally gave new purpose to the white nationalist movement, unlike any endorsement it has ever received. Among its followers, being at that rally will become something to brag about, and some people who didn’t want to be associated with extremism will now see the cause as more mainstream. When the president doesn’t provide condemnation that he has been pressed to give, what message does that send but encouragement?
It is a fringe movement not because its ideas are completely alien to our culture, but because we work constantly to argue against it, expose its inconsistencies and persuade our citizens to counter it. We can no longer count on the country’s leader to do this, so it’s now incumbent upon all of us.
R. Derek Black is a graduate student in history, focusing on the early Middle Ages.
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2019-04-24T20:18:32Z
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https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/19/opinion/sunday/white-nationalism-american-history-statues.html?ref=opinion
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Arts
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gumbopages
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This drink is a variation on the classic Sidecar, same classic proportions, with a change in the base spirit. Rather than brandy, Captain Morgan Spiced Rum is used (perhaps the only reason to keep that spirit in your bar is to make this superb drink). Also, rather than a rim of sugar, this drink's crowning touch is a rim of cinnamon sugar. Brilliant!
For me, the key to the successful consumption of this drink is to get a good lick of the cinnamon sugared rim with your first sip, and gradually work your way around until you lick off the last bit of the cinnamon sugar along with your last sip of the cocktail.
The drink was invented at the Drake Hotel in San Francisco (hence the clever shift of nomenclature) by Cory Reistad.
Moisten the rim of a cocktail glass with water or a lemon wedge, and dip in the cinnamon sugar so that the rim is coated evenly with cinnamon sugar. Allow to dry for a minute or three. Combine the rest of the ingredients with cracked ice in a cocktail shaker, shake and strain carefully into the rimmed glass. Enjoy.
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2019-04-25T18:08:17Z
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https://www.gumbopages.com/food/beverages/cable-car.html
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Arts
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Reference
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wikipedia
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The First Lady of Guatemala is the title held by the wife of the President of Guatemala. The current Guatemalan First Lady is Patricia Marroquín, wife of President Jimmy Morales, who had held the position since 2016.
^ Petrona Álvarez died in 1857. Rafael Carrera was president until 1865.
^ The position became vacant after the death of Petrona García.
^ Interim, while Justo Rufino Barrios was out of the country with his wife.
^ Desideria Ocampo died in 1910. Manuel Estrada Cabrera was president until 1920.
^ The position became vacant after the death of Desideria Ocampo.
^ Vilanova de Árbenz and Mancilla de Arana were female activists during the revolution; Toriello never married.
^ Cirigliano and Lucas married shortly after the inauguration of General Lucas Garcia, but they kept their wedding secret for the security of the First Lady, since the Guatemalan Civil War was raging at the same time.
^ Sandra Torres divorced Álvaro Colom on 7 April 2011, leaving the position of First Lady vacant.
^ The position became vacant from 7 April 2011 until 14 January 2012, following the divorce of Sandra Torres and Álvaro Colom.
^ Otto Pérez Molina resigned on September 2, 2015.
^ Batres Jáuregui, Antonio (1950). La América Central ante la historia: 1821-1921 Memorias de un siglo [Central America early history: 1821-1921 memories of a century] (in Spanish). 3. Guatemala City, Guatemala: Tipografía Nacional de Guatemala. p. 413. OCLC 912498282.
^ Piedra Santa, Irene (2010). Los mandatarios de Guatemala: historia no oficial (in Spanish). Guatemala City, Guatemala: Editorial Piedra Santa. pp. 76–77. ISBN 978-9929-562-00-4. José María Orantes Presidente interino 23 de junio de 1882 - 5 de enero de 1883. Gobernó 6 meses.
^ "President Barrios Returns Home". New Orleans, Louisiana: The Times-Picayune. 22 September 1882. p. 1. Retrieved 15 September 2017 – via Newspapers.com.
^ Bancroft, Hubert Howe (1887). History of Central America. The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft, Vol. VIII. Vol. III: 1801-1887. San Francisco, California: The History Company Publishers. p. 449. OCLC 631068242.
^ "Amor secreto". Prensa Libre. Guatemala. Retrieved 25 August 2015.
This page was last edited on 26 February 2019, at 02:06 (UTC).
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2019-04-24T15:27:13Z
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| 0.458152 |
nme
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NAPSTER has had its assets bought by the German media group BERTELSMANN.
Earlier this week, company founder Shawn Fanning and other top Napster executives were reported to have resigned amongst bitter internecine feuding – with the company telling its employees it would become insolvent if a proposed deal with Bertelsmann collapsed.
However, according to the Financial Times newspaper a deal has now been reached. Bertelsmann are to acquire Napster’s assets, paying a reported $8m for the brand and products. They will also discount loans to Napster, thought to be in the region of $85m. Fanning and others are expected to rejoin the group.
Despite Napster’s previous might, the company were hit by massive and costly copyright infringement suits for allowing users to copy music from computer to computer using their free software. They have worked to install an updated service that would require users to pay to swap songs.
Bertelsmann are hoping to relaunch Napster as a subscription service in the future.
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2019-04-26T15:44:53Z
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https://www.nme.com/news/music/various-artists-5211-1377938
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typepad
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Rob Marshall Online: Would Jesus Hang Saddam?
We had an interesting discussion the other night at a Bible study I was leading. It was completely off topic, but that's how things go. One of the participants was very adamant that God wouldn't send anyone to hell. In that person's opinion, a loving God would never do such a terrible thing, so everyone must be going to heaven. We never got around to discussing whether or not this included people like Saddam Hussein or Hitler, or other people who committed even greater atrocities against mankind.
Of course a good part of the discussion revolved around trying to get this person to realize the error in believing that everybody, no matter what they did during their lifetime, would get into heaven. Our concern was that this kind of thinking could lead some people to think that they can continue to sin and never have to worry about judgment. But if you really think about it, very few people think about eternity and how their choices will affect them, so it was all probably a moot point.
I think that it's easy for us to believe that hell is a necessary deterrent, but at the same time we also realize that God doesn't want to send anyone there. The inescapable fact is that the Bible clearly teaches that hell is real, and that people will be going there. There is a judgment that we all have to face, and for those who die without Christ, they will stand before God and be judged based on what they believed.
Like many people I saw some of the video clips from the trial of Saddam Hussein. It seemed a bit odd to me that he was allowed to show such disrespect toward the judge. I would have thought that they would remove him from the room, or gag him. But there was something else about him yelling at the judge that bothered me. It almost felt like he was saying the things he knew he should say, but with no real conviction (sorry, bad pun :-) about what he said.
Perhaps he realized that nothing he said or did would make any difference, but that he needed to say something. After all, there were TV cameras in the room and it was his last chance to tell his followers to reject the current rulers, and the American invaders, and incite them to continue wreaking havoc. And in that sense, I felt that it was wrong to broadcast his defiance to the world.
When the day comes, and we all stand before God and give an account of our lives, no one will be talking back to Him. There will be no hiding, and no arguing, because everything about our lives, even the thoughts that we had, will be laid out before us. In a very real sense we will be standing there, open and naked, before a Holy God. The evidence will be overwhelming, and for those who have not found forgiveness in Christ, it will be condemning.
But are earthly courts and judges as reliable and thorough?
I have to admit that my feelings about the trial of Hussein were somewhat mixed. It isn't that I thought that he didn't deserve to be executed. And it certainly had nothing to do with my stance on the death penalty, because I believe that people who commit murder should be executed. In one sense the punishment fits the crime, and in many ways our forms of execution are relatively humane, unlike the manner in which some people kill their victims.
The only problem that I have with executing murderers is that judgment on earth is rarely done in a just manner. People who have the money can afford expensive lawyers who are good at wooing a jury so that they decide in favor of their clients, regardless of their guilt or innocence. The poor are left with overworked and underpaid public defenders that may not get any real justice for their clients. The problem is that I can never be certain that everyone will be justly tried and that their punishment will be appropriate to their actual crime. If it weren't for that fact that innocent people are falsely accused and convicted, I would be a wholehearted supporter of the death penalty.
But regardless of how unfairly and unjustly people are tried here on earth; the truth is that the guilty will never really escape. God will judge us all, but He may not do it the way that we think He should. If there is one thing we know about God, it's that He forgives people; even some people that we believe should never be pardoned.
But would Jesus hang Saddam? I can only look at things from my perspective, which means that I can only look at a man's actions and never at his heart. From his actions I would say that Saddam was unrepentant to the very end, and that he deserved his punishment. Was that actually the case? I won't know until I get to heaven and see which line he's in.
When it comes to people being executed for their crimes, God has left that decision up to us. He allows us to put governments in place that create laws and systems to enforce those laws. Within those man-made systems there are a lot of problems, and injustice seems to be the rule instead of the exception. But our fate here on earth is just one very small piece of our lives.
Our ultimate fate, the final judgment we will all face, will be before a God who is just and who knows us better than we know ourselves. When He hands down his sentence on our lives we won't argue, we won't accuse Him of being prejudiced or unfair, we will simply bow our knees and confess that He is Lord. In the final analysis we will see that it was our choices, the ones that we made throughout our lives that determine eternity.
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2019-04-19T16:28:20Z
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https://robmarshall.typepad.com/robmarshallonline/2007/01/would_jesus_han.html
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pbs
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ISTANBUL — The U.S. said Sunday it was suspending non-immigrant visa services at its diplomatic facilities in Turkey following the arrest of a consulate employee, prompting Turkey to halt visa services in the U.S.
Metin Topuz is accused of espionage and “attempting to overthrow the Turkish government and constitution.” Turkey’s official Anadolu news agency reported that he allegedly communicated with former police chiefs in a 2013 corruption probe, 121 people involved in the attempted coup and hundreds of people using an encrypted mobile messaging application. The U.S. Embassy said it was “deeply disturbed” by the arrest.
Hamza Ulucay, a translator of the U.S. Consulate in the southern province of Adana, was arrested in March for alleged links to outlawed Kurdish militants.
An infamous brawl during Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s visit to DC in May led to an indictment charging 19 people, including 15 Turkish security officials, of conspiracy to commit a crime of violence. Erdogan called the indictment “scandalous” and said his security detail was protecting him against Kurdish militants protesting outside his ambassador’s residence.
More than 50,000 people have been arrested and 110,000 have been fired from government jobs as part of a state of emergency declared after the failed coup in Turkey.
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2019-04-26T02:55:39Z
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https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/u-s-suspends-non-immigrant-visas-turkey
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| 0.967039 |
washingtonpost
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Uri Dadush and Moisés Naím are senior associates at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Dadush has served as the World Bank’s director of economic policy, director of international trade and director of development prospects. Naím has served as an executive director of the bank.
The scandal over the repellent way the World Bank president is appointed has obscured an equally scandalous situation: the appointment process of the rest of the senior managers at the bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF). They too are selected through opaque, quota-driven negotiations that are a far cry from the meritocracy these two institutions claim to value and preach to others.
When the World Bank needs a new president — and this time the Obama administration is expected to name its candidate Friday — the charade goes like this: The public is told that the selection process will be “open, transparent and merit-based.” Then, the White House announces a name — how, we do not know — and the anointed American goes through pretend job interviews with the bank’s board of directors, who pretend to make a decision about which, in fact, they have no say. The handpicked American gets the job.
The indignant denunciations of this process — that it reeks of patronage and colonialism — obscure an interesting question: Why do developing countries allow this? For that matter, why do rich countries whose citizens are not considered, such as Canada and Japan, tolerate it?
We know why Europe accepts it: The same charade is played at the IMF, starring a European — the only “acceptable” origin for the top job. In last year’s non-contest to lead the IMF, Agustin Carstens, the highly respected chief of Mexico’s central bank, barely got a nod of support from developing countries; the French candidate, Christine Lagarde, was a shoo-in (and the same nationality as her predecessor as managing director).
There are three reasons behind the developing countries’ surprising coyness. The first is that the United States is the World Bank’s largest single shareholder. This makes it hard to dislodge and underscores the second reason: The World Bank’s top job is not worth a fight with the superpower, certainly not one that challengers are so likely to lose.
To win such a fight would require assembling a vast international coalition, especially among poor countries. And what do poor nations have in common? Their poverty — and not much else. Consider the six largest emerging markets: China and India are geopolitical rivals; Mexico and Brazil compete for regional leadership (Brazil preferred Lagarde, the French candidate, over the Mexican to lead the IMF); and Russia and Indonesia cannot be more different. Do these countries want to upset the United States so as to favor a rival candidate from their motley group? No.
The third reason — rarely mentioned but powerful — for the longevity of the U.S. and European monopolies over these appointments is that they are stealthily supported by another, less noticed cartel: the few countries that “own” a quota of the rest of the top jobs at the World Bank and the IMF.
Not only are these institutions’ leaders selected in uncompetitive ways, but many powerful positions — extending two or three levels below the top job — are similarly allocated. It boils down to a quota system in which merit is only one, and often not the main, criterion. Under this unwritten but long-established convention, for example, the No. 2 at the IMF is always an American, while two other powerful deputies are from, respectively, a developing and an advanced country. China now holds a fourth such top-ranked position. The head of the powerful fiscal affairs department goes to an Italian. And so on.
At the World Bank, the appointment cartel is equally powerful: Traditionally, Asia, Africa and Europe each get to select one managing director. The head of the International Financial Corp. is European, and the head of the Multilateral Insurance Guarantee Agency is always Japanese. The vice president slots are also carefully allocated. In numerous instances, candidates from other countries need not apply.
No well-run global company selects its senior management this way. These handicaps are ironic, and sad, because the World Bank and the IMF have significant missions in this rapidly globalizing world. Their managers’ decisions affect the livelihoods of millions. Little wonder there is no determined effort to dismantle the spoils system: Those who might challenge the appointments cartel may be next in line for a plum job.
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2019-04-21T00:52:25Z
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-imf-and-world-banks-quota-system-for-leaders/2012/03/22/gIQAP6hQUS_story.html
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udallas
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Printable Exam Schedule will be posted soon.
**Please note: This schedule is tentative and will be updated frequently in the weeks leading up to final exams.
Exam rooms: Unless otherwise posted, examinations will be held in the rooms where the class normally meets. Room changes will be listed at the bottom of this page soon.
To find exam time: Find the time block for each class you are taking this semester. For instance, if you are taking a class that meets MWF at 10:00AM, the exam will be given on Monday during the 8-10AM time period.
Any exceptions are noted in BOLD below.
Note: There is no official University policy regarding the maximum number of exams a student may have on a given exam day.
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2019-04-24T18:31:34Z
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https://www.udallas.edu/offices/registrar/final-exam-schedule.php
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Arts
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Reference
| 0.84807 |
jhu
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I Can Always Find a Little Sunshine in the Y.M.C.A.
My Little Book of Poetry.
A Serenade to an Old-Fashioned Girl.
You Keep Coming Back Like a Song.
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2019-04-22T20:02:46Z
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http://levysheetmusic.mse.jhu.edu/collection-search?search_api_fulltext=Irving%20Berlin&publish_date_year=&publish_date_year_1=&full_title=&item_author=&field_has_audio=All&box=&item_id=&field_is_public_domain=All&sort_by=search_api_relevance&page=3
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forbes
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War weapons were the inspiration for these rugs. Careful where you step.
Standing in bright sunlight filtered through the dirty windows of a giant self-storage warehouse in Queens, N. Y., Kevin Sudeith unfurls one carpet after another, unleashing a cloud of wool fibers and mothball fumes. He lines them up along the windows, the better to reveal their colorful patterns and bizarre motifs.
At first glance they look like the rugs woven for hundreds of years by the tribal peoples of Afghanistan. But instead of traditional abstract motifs such as water jugs, chickens, blossoms and horses, these rugs depict tanks, paisley-shaped helicopters, jets, hand grenades and Kalashnikov rifles.
Swordsmen on horseback had been the most martial images found on tribal rugs, up until the Soviets invaded Afghanistan in 1979. But the invasion gave Afghans an abrupt introduction to modern warfare. As Afghan men rose up to fight, women (for nearly all rugs are woven by women) began weaving these new sights into their rugs.
One of the earliest examples in Sudeith's collection shows mujahedin on horseback throttling to death red-horned devils representing Soviet soldiers. Along the rug's border runs a procession of Soviet tanks.
A tall, blond Minnesotan with a scraggly patch of fuzz beneath his lower lip, Sudeith, 38, is an artist and rug dealer who started collecting war rugs in 1996 after seeing one hanging in the home of a wealthy Italian jeweler. "I thought it was the coolest thing I had ever seen," he says. He saw the rugs as folk art. Wayne Anderson of Birmingham, Ala., who also collects the rugs, likes them for a less highbrow reason: "They make good high school graduation gifts. The images appeal to teenagers accustomed to violent images in videogames."
To finance his own collection Sudeith became a rug dealer in 1998 and has since sold some 300 war rugs. He currently has some 150 at prices ranging from $400 (for rugs with only a few war motifs) to $7,500 for larger, more complex designs. Sudeith claims war rug prices have doubled since Sept. 11 and quadrupled from 15 years ago. That beats the rest of the carpet market, where auction prices on all but the oldest pieces are at or below levels of two decades ago.
Sudeith's business is too small to support a showroom, so he ekes out a living selling at flea markets in Manhattan and Brooklyn and over his Web site, www.warrug.com, the best source of war rug images on the Internet.
Nearly all his pieces fall into the Beluch category of tribal rugs, meaning they have short wool pile secured by a wool-and-cotton foundation and average 60 to 100 knots per square inch. Backgrounds tend to be dark, usually blue or red, with brighter colors used as accents. Finer examples use traditional vegetable dyes that have a more subdued palette. Chemical dyes are brighter, even Day-Glo. The wool is minimally processed. As it ages, it oxidizes, increasing sheen and softening colors.
There have been several war rug exhibits since the late 1980s in Italy and Germany, and a show of 17 rugs debuts next February at the Australian National University in Adelaide. While Sudeith expects war rugs to be appreciated someday as important outsider art, that day isn't now. Most serious collectors prefer more-refined "city carpets," such as Iranian Ardabil rugs, made of 100% New Zealand worsted wool and boasting 150 to 200 knots per square inch. As for auctions, Christie's says it has sold one war rug, Sotheby's none. Specialist Mary Jo Otsea of Sotheby's says the only way war rugs will make it to auction is if they start fetching higher prices. Sotheby's won't auction any rug worth less than $2,000.
Sudeith chalks up this disdain to the fact that most buyers have seen only pitiful little carpets that feature nothing more interesting than a map of Afghanistan and a few hastily woven weapons. Larger, finer pieces are difficult to find. Less than 1% of Afghan rugs have war motifs. If a weaver is going to invest six weeks in making a 4-foot-by-7-foot rug, she usually picks a pattern guaranteed to please an average buyer--somebody who doesn't want to be intellectually challenged by a floor covering.
New York City rug behemoth ABC Carpet & Home has just 10 war rugs in its inventory of more than 100,000. Only 2 are collectible. The best is a beautiful 4-foot-by-7-footer in muted browns and tans featuring an intricate geometry of lines framing rows of Soviet tanks, their turrets pointing back and skyward--a nonaggressive posture used in the final 1989 withdrawal. Retail price: $1,100.
After Sept. 11 Sudeith was convinced his war rug business was over. But just six months later the entry of U.S. forces into Afghanistan brought a new wave of interest. Sudeith's problem suddenly became supply.
For nearly two years after the terrorist attacks he couldn't get any rugs at all from Afghanistan. After trade resumed, he found a whole new genre of war rugs had arisen. On woolen fields where Soviet weapons used to appear now stood U.S. armaments. A $400 rug shows an F-16, an Abrams tank and the slogan "Heat to War." Others, clearly made for sale to Americans, proclaim death to terrorists and "Long live U.S. soldiers."
Most dealers buy rugs by the bale, but Sudeith has a more intimate operation. Three of his current buyers are U.S. Special Forces operatives on the ground in Afghanistan. Sudeith pays one man double his costs, sending checks to his stateside wife. Another consigns rugs, getting paid when they're sold. The third receives costs plus a cut of profits. There are also a half-dozen native suppliers.
Before Sept. 11 it was easy for Sudeith to transfer money to his contacts using the anonymous, centuries-old Middle Eastern banking system known as hawala. In a dingy Manhattan office he would give cash and his contact's account number to a teller, who would make a few notations on a slip of paper. A few days later Sudeith's supplier would call to thank him for the payment. Now many hawala offices have moved and no longer accept cash. Those that remain require transactions be made by certified check or money order.
At the apex of his collection is an enormous 6-foot-by-12-foot rug with tight knots and beautiful colors that depicts a menagerie of animals--lions, chickens, deer--along with assorted weaponry and vehicles. The centerpiece of the rug is a square pond with a duck swimming in it. Beside the duck is a Stinger antiaircraft missile. Stingers, though rare in rugs, are historically significant. Provided to mujahedin by the U.S., they enabled the Afghans to shoot down Soviet aircraft. Sudeith says he won't part with it for less than $20,000.
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2019-04-26T09:52:44Z
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https://www.forbes.com/forbes/2003/1222/150
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Business
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stanford
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H-BLOOM is an e-mail group devoted to the discussion of the writings of Harold Bloom.
"They have the numbers; we, the heights"
Recent article by Bloom about the relation between quality in poetry and cultural politics.
One of the best of the metasites for literature, Voice of the Shuttle catalogs and provides links to electronic resources across the broad spectrum of the humanities and related social sciences; arranged by discipline, with separate sections for English (including American) Literature, Literary Theory, Minority Studies, and Women's Studies, among many others. Begins with useful "Highlights" of especially important sites for each section.
Like Voice of the Shuttle, Literary Research Tools is a collection of links to other sites on the Internet; focus is on English and American literature, subdivided by chronological periods, from Medieval through Twentieth Century, with an additional section for Theory.
The following New York Times book reviews (full text) are available online.
Please note: When you attempt to access these reviews, you will be asked to register for a free subscription to New York Times on the Web (unless you already have one).
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2019-04-21T10:04:47Z
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http://prelectur.stanford.edu/lecturers/bloom/links.html
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Arts
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si
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Dish with slightly everted rim, straight carved footring but slightly damaged; five repairs on rim; five spur marks from kiln stacking ring on interior bottom.
Clay: medium grey stoneware with white impurities, coarse and grainy.
Glaze: slightly milky, transparent, matte interior but slightly glossy on exterior; marred by pinholes on exterior lower body; foot and base unglazed.
Decoration: painted in underglaze iron pigment over thick creamy white slip; interior: a flower design on central medallion, a band of vegetal scroll on cavetto right below a band of geometric pattern; exterior: a band of vegetal design above a row of curve lines on body.
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2019-04-22T12:32:22Z
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https://www.freersackler.si.edu/object/S2005.297/
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Reference
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kshb
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OVERLAND PARK, Kan. — The Overland Park Farmers’ Market is officially open on Wednesdays for the season through Sept. 26.
It’s one of several changes the market is making to keep up with growing demand, according to its manager.
City leaders are still evaluating the best location for the farmer’s market, which could remain in the current location or go elsewhere.
Other improvements to the market include upgrades in electrical wiring, new sidewalks, and new paint on the pavilion.
The car wash next to the market is also being demolished to make room for more parking.
The Overland Park Farmers’ Market will now be open every Wednesday from 7:30 a.m. to 1 p.m., and every Saturday from 7 a.m. to 1 p.m.
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2019-04-18T12:31:27Z
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https://www.kshb.com/news/region-kansas/overland-park/the-overland-park-farmers-market-will-now-be-open-on-wednesdays
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Congratulations to Chan Ka Ho (EComE), Fu Wai Yuen (EComE), Kwan Man Chi (MPhil., supervised by Prof. P.T. Lai), Kwan Tin Man Tony (MPhil., supervised by Dr. L.K. Yeung), and Wong Wing Yin (EComE) for being awarded the Sumida and Ichiro Yawata Foundation Scholarships. The scholarships are awarded mainly on the basis of academic merit.
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2019-04-23T08:54:12Z
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https://www.eee.hku.hk/news/siy/
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Two police officers and a local musician were among the four people killed Friday morning when a gunman opened fire in a residential neighbourhood of Fredericton. A fourth victim has not yet been named. The suspect is a 48-year-old Fredericton man who is being treated in hospital for injuries.
IMPORTANT: Please do not post information about the position or activities of police or first responders. <br><br>We are still working an active incident. We will release confirmed information as soon as we can.
At this time, I would ask New Brunswickers, particularly those in areas identified by police, to keep informed about the situation as it develops and follow the instructions of law enforcement officials working in the area.
We at <a href="https://twitter.com/HfxRegPolice?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@HfxRegPolice</a> are following the situation in Fredericton this morning. I have spoken to Chief Fitch personally to offer her any support we can give. We stand with <a href="https://twitter.com/CityFredPolice?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@CityFredPolice</a> while they deal with this situation.
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2019-04-26T17:07:51Z
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https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/brookside-drive-fredericton-police-1.4780396
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I am nearly up to date – woohoo!
Just wanted to take a moment to say thank you to all the people who have liked any of my poems or are even following my ‘writing journey’ ths year. Once I have managed to crack this one I hope to return the favour and be able to check out what everyone else is doing. I know it’s all part of the experience but I seem to have been so wrapped up in playing catch-up that I haven’t been able to enjoy it as much as I hoped to.
In my defence, work is rather full-on as I have been in the middle of organising a two-week literary festival, so I am pleased to be where I am now, to be honest.
I am off to work on some kennings now – Vikings eh?
Decided to stay with something a bit archaic and plump for witches. Hurrah, up to date – time to look around and smell the roses!
deem them less than naught.
and we our souls redeem.
This entry was posted in Uncategorized and tagged day 13, kennings, NaPoWriMo, poetry. Bookmark the permalink.
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2019-04-23T00:42:47Z
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https://caroleoly.wordpress.com/2014/04/13/day-13-kennings/
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Aliyun, Alibaba's cloud computing subsidiary, joined hands with an artificial intelligence (AI) company to release a cloud platform for turnkey solution in voice interaction in Hangzhou on Thursday.
The platform, the first try of Alibaba to have cooperation in the intelligent voice sector, was launched by Aliyun and Rokid Co Ltd, a Hangzhou-based AI firm.
Based on Linux and Android operating systems, the cloud platform stores huge amount of voice techniques totally open to AI developers and partners. The techniques include far-field interaction, multi-noise identification, customized wake-up word, as well as voiceprint recognition.
Misa Zhu, founder and chief executive officer of Rokid, said that the cloud platform is the first full-stack service platform in China to connect terminals with the cloud.
"From now on, whether individuals or companies, they are fully equipped to have the best quality voice interaction facilities. Home appliances such as televisions, refrigerators, or even set-top boxes, can speak up to offer services to the customer."
Moreover, the cloud platform provides turnkey solutions for AI developers which not only apply to smart speakers, but can also be used in the whole intelligent voice industry, including toys, automobile and all home appliances.
"This has greatly lowered the threshold of developing smart voice products," said Zhu.
Liufei, deputy manager of the product business branch of Aliyun, said that the cloud platform has penetrated into all aspects of life, including smart home, automobile, smart transportation, internet of things, logistics, smart home appliances, etc.
The most exciting news is that up to 70 percent of the techniques stored on the cloud platform are free.
"The purpose of building this platform is to make the core techniques accessible for more people, and let all talents in the AI field optimize our techniques and therefore benefit the industry as a whole," said Zhu.
"In the era of AI, opening voice technology has become an inevitable trend. We hope to work with developers from all industries to explore the endless possibilities of voice interaction. That is why we not only offer services to those already existing developers, but also to novices in the field."
The cloud platform launched by Aliyun and Rokid has started offering voice solutions to companies such as Haier Group, Sichuan Changhong Electric Co Ltd, Baofeng TV and ZTE Co.
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2019-04-21T10:40:36Z
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http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/business/2017-10/12/content_33172164.htm
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On September 15th and 22nd at 3pm Eastern Time respectively, The Purse Strings radio program welcomes Essence Magazine Washington D.C. Correspondent Cynthia Gordy and BabyCenter.com CEO Tina Sharkey.
Cynthia Gordy, the first-ever Washington correspondent for ESSENCE magazine, will discuss the Michelle Obama factor and Mrs. Obama's impact on American women from a trend setting and marketing perspective on the "Purse Strings" radio program hosted by Maria Reitan on WebmasterRadio.FM Tuesday, September 15 at 3 p.m. Eastern time.
As Washington Correspondent, Gordy is responsible for developing and maintaining relationships on behalf of ESSENCE with the Obama administration, as well as the First Lady's staff. She also writes a monthly column in the magazine and a daily "Obama Watch" section online.
Gordy joined Essence magazine in 2004, and led their exclusive of the 2008 presidential campaign, scoring exclusive interviews with political leaders from both parties.
"Cynthia Gordy has a front row seat on history in the making. As such, she's the perfect person to reflect on Mrs. Obama's halo effect," says Maria Reitan, PurseStrings host. "Tina Sharkey has made history herself. Her pioneering work prior to Babycenter created a template for others to follow in the social media space."
Tina Sharkey, chairman and CEO of BabyCenter.com will appear on "Purse Strings" to discuss the lure of the BabyCenter.com challenge and the changes she's made to better connect with her women audience.
BabyCenter is the Web's number one global interactive parenting network and has nurtured more than 100 million parents since its launch with a blend of expert advice and user-created wisdom.
Since arriving at BabyCenter, Sharkey's mission has been to make BabyCenter the world's parenting partner. Previously, Sharkey pioneered AOL's instant messaging platform and co-founded iVillage.
(WOW I, II & III) and Smart Beauty I, II & III consumer insights, the Essence Book Club, Essence.com, and ventures in digital media (mobile, television and VOD). For 39 years, ESSENCE magazine, which has a readership of 8.1 million, has been the leading source of cutting-edge information relating to every area of African-American women's lives.
BabyCenter® is the Web's #1 global interactive parenting brand, reaching 78 percent of new and expecting moms online in the United States, and reaching 16 million parents monthly across 19 markets worldwide. BabyCenter, LLC operates http://www.babycenter.com, the largest online resource for expectant and new parents around the world, and has nurtured more than 100 million parents since its launch in 1997. BabyCenter® is available on the Internet in eight languages and has mobile applications available in English and Spanish. BabyCenter, LLC is based in San Francisco, California, and is a member of the Johnson & Johnson family of companies.
"Purse Strings," hosted by Maria Reitan of Carmichael Lynch Spong, is a program focused on marketing to women. Why Women, you ask? Women are the powerful majority in this country, comprising 51% of the population and they are in charge of 80% of all spending, and this number continues to grow. Therefore, as marketers, business owners and advertisers… we need to pay attention to her. Purse Strings will help you not only pay attention, but will also allow you to listen and react. Purse Strings airs Tuesdays at 3pm Eastern Time. All episodes are available on demand in the WebmasterRadio.FM archives inside the Advertising Channel or through iTunes. If you're interested in being a guest on the show, please send requests to maria.reitan@clynch.com.
About WebmasterRadio.FM WebmasterRadio.FM lifts the "veiled curtain" of the Internet, bringing the business community together through an interactive radio network. Its listeners are a global group, comprised of everyone from corporate executives and decision makers to small and mid-sized businesses and individual entrepreneurs. WebmasterRadio.FM's stellar line-up of radio programming includes "CoverStory" with Jiyan Wei of PRWeb, WebmasterRadio.FM's official newswire; "Market Edge" with W2/Racepoint Group Chairman Larry Weber; Fired Up! with Gordon Rudow of Bonfire Communications; "SEM Synergy" with Search Engine Marketing Industry Leader Bruce Clay and more. To tune into WebmasterRadio.FM's live content or check out the show lineup, please visit http://www.WebmasterRadio.FM.
Carmichael Lynch Spong is one of the most decorated public relations firms in the world. It is the three-time recipient of "PR Agency of the Year" by national trade journals The Holmes Report and PRWeek. With its headquarters in Minneapolis and offices in New York, Boston, Denver and San Francisco, the firm represents a select portfolio of blue-chip clients. Carmichael Lynch Spong is a division of Carmichael Lynch Inc., which is owned by the Interpublic Group of Companies Inc. (NYSE: IPG), New York. Visit http://www.carmichaellynchspong.com for more information.
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2019-04-25T19:17:32Z
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http://www.prweb.com/releases/2009/09/prweb2884624.htm
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Sensors and actuators are being increasingly deployed for monitoring and controlling different phenomena and processes in a stand-alone manner or attached to sensor nodes with communication capabilities as part of larger wireless sensor networks (WSN). In addition to the protocols for communication within the WSN, sensor nodes may also provide the gateway functionality towards other networks and/or support communication with other external devices. These devices either represent additional gateways for exposing data and metadata to external networks, or serve as connection points to WSN for instance for the on-site calibration and maintenance. Smartphones as advanced mobile terminals appear particularly suitable for such role. This paper investigates the role a smartphone augmented with WSN gateway functionality can play in WSN with respect to regular dedicated sensor and gateway nodes. As a practical example we show the implementation of a gateway augmented smartphone using a Samsung i8910 phone and a VESNA sensor node connected via Bluetooth. The role of a gateway augmented smartphone is to interface between WSN, which is using a proprietary networking protocol, and the mobile network. The data obtained from WSN can be enriched using smartphone’s embedded sensors before being sent to the remote server. We demonstrate this on an example of geo-tagging the collected data from WSN with the smartphone’s GPS-based location data.
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2019-04-19T03:15:23Z
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http://sensorlab.ijs.si/publication/57/smartphone-with-augmented-gateway-functionality-as-opportunistic-wsn-gateway-device
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"Structure and assembly in the order Picornavirales"
The order Picornavirales comprises of several virus families which infect humans, animals and insects. Even though all viruses in this order are icosahedrally-symmetric and are made of three capsid proteins, there are several distinct features found in their capsids. Additionally, the capsid assembly was thought to be conserved across virus families. However, our recent work suggests otherwise.
I will discuss two examples, human parechovirus (family: Picornaviridae) and norovirus (family: Dicistoviridae) from the order Picornavirales whose structures and assemblies do not follow not so common path.
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2019-04-26T14:04:06Z
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https://talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/14df7c1a-eadf-409b-a15e-b4fda8abb553/
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Bridgewater State College. (1987). The Comment, May 1987. 64(13).
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https://vc.bridgew.edu/comment/604/
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The Norwegian Final was held on February 27th at the NRK TV Studios in Oslo, hosted by Rune Gokstad & Øystein Bache. The winner was chosen by regional televoting and an "expert" jury.
Van Eijk came 14th at the ESC. Håvard Grytting was a backing singer for Norway in ESC 1998. Tor Endresen was a backing singer for Norway in ESC 1988 and represented Norway in 1997.
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2019-04-21T16:42:25Z
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http://natfinals.50webs.com/90s_00s/Norway1999.html
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The 20-part Danish murder mystery, The Killing, finished this week on BBC4. It has become a cult show among trendy liberal Guardian-reading types like me. I thoroughly enjoyed it. Now I know whodunnit but you can read this review without fear of spoilers. The Americanised version will begin airing on AMC, my favourite US station, next Sunday Evening in the coveted Breaking Bad/ Mad Men/ Walking Dead slot. This has never let me down yet, hope they don't blow it. I think the plot is slightly different, so you can watch one without spoiling the other.
Each hour-long episode followed 24 hours (8pm-8pm) of the police investigation of a murder of a young girl. There are three interlinked stories: the girl's parents coping with their grief and its effect on their relationship, the police investigation, and its impact on a liberal politician standing for mayor of Copenhagen. At the very start it is revealed that his campaign car was used to move the body, and it is unclear to what extent he or his team were involved. All three strands were very well written and acted. The overall appearance of the show is visually dark and intense, this is another consistently good aspect of the show.
The best character, among many good characters, is the chief investigator, Sarah Lund. She is tough, obsessively single-minded about the investigation, and rather hard to get on with. I hope she isn't made more feminine or likable (conventionally feminine and likable I mean) in the US version, but in any case that won't alter the excellent performance we have here.
If I have a reservation it is that the powerful forward impetus of the show was partly created by mysteries and red herrings. I am not sure how the 20 hours will stand up to repeat viewing, now that much of that suspense and curiosity is satisfied. Some shows need to be seen fresh and sequential - the first one or two seasons of 24 were like that, though this is better all round. Intellectually it was intricate: by the end of episode 18 there were at least 6 possible resolutions, all compatible with the extensive evidence and human reactions we had seen. At a couple of points in the last few episodes plot strands were closed off slightly ruthlessly by deux ex machina interventions out of nowhere. But these are small reservations. I will try to view it all again from the start and see how it holds up.
Overall, it is extremely high quality TV. The scene where the detective realises who the killer is - so easily an anti-climax after so many episodes - was intense and emotional. The bitter-sweet open-ended resolution of the three storylines and the human characterisation was exceptional. Forbrydelsen II is on BBC4 later in the year, and I hope it is as good.
Guardian TV review of the final episode (no spoilers).
Guardian blog of the final episode (major spoilers).
This is my major fear for the re-make. I can see lots of ways that the programme as a whole has the potential to translate really well, but can't help anticipating a softening of Sarah (or conversely, that she'll be made only a "hard-nosed woman who lives for her job and has no emotional ties").
We were a bit "huh?" after the last couple of episodes (although I should mention that J guessed the killer correctly after ep 1). I don't think I've quite understood yet exactly what was going on.
Can't really discuss what I think was well or badly explained without spoilering, but it passed the 'made me shout at the TV' test ('Sarah, No!').
I missed the first n episodes so decided to give it a miss. Now I'm hoping they'll bring it out on DVD.
They may even repeat it on BBC2. Though the BBC seem to have a policy against any foreign-language content on the main channels, which I think is ridiculous.
They might run it late at night, I suppose, when kids who might die of shock if they realised that there were other languages than AmericanEnglish have safely gone to bed.
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2019-04-19T18:45:12Z
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https://communicator.livejournal.com/795320.html
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B. Becker, Kaldenberg, D., and McAlexander, J., “Yellow Pages Usage by Professionals: An Exploratory Study of Dentists”, Health Marketing Quarterly, vol. 12, no. 2, pp. 97-110, 1994.
J. McAlexander, Becker, B., and Kaldenberg, D., “Positioning Health Care Services: Yellow Pages Advertising and Dental Practice Performance”, Journal of Health Care Marketing, vol. 13, no. 1, pp. 54-57, 1993.
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2019-04-24T19:58:43Z
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https://business.oregonstate.edu/biblio?f%5Bauthor%5D=2107
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George Comer was Canadian-born, but moved as a young man from Quebec to Connecticut with his mother.
Born in 1858, he was only 17 when he made his first whaling voyage, on the Nile, bound for Cumberland Sound. A 14-year hiatus from the Arctic followed, but he was at sea for most of that time, venturing as far away as the Antarctic on sealing trips.
The Antarctic experience readied Comer for the career that was to follow in the eastern Canadian Arctic. When he returned to the North, it was for three seasons as mate aboard the schooner Era, sailing out of New London, Connecticut, under his old master, Capt. John Spicer.
These were not whaling voyages, but rather trips to provision the whaling stations operated by the New England firm of C. A. Williams.
Williams’s stations were usually manned by two white men who employed Inuit crews in whaling, and also traded for the products of their hunting and trapping. The Era brought provisions, coal and trade goods, and took home the products of the previous season.
In 1893 Comer had his first taste of an Arctic winter. He sailed aboard the Canton to Hudson Bay, a voyage that lasted 15 months.
The ship wintered at Depot Island, just to the north of Chesterfield Inlet, and Comer had his first opportunity to interact with the Inuit for an extended period of time.
In 1895 he was finally master in his own right, taking over as captain of the ship, with which he was so familiar, the Era. He took her to Hudson Bay and wintered near Cape Fullerton, about 100 km north of Chesterfield Inlet.
He would come to know the area and its Inuit well, for on each of his following three voyages, all as master of the same ship, he wintered there for two consecutive winters.
American whaling in Hudson Bay had begun in 1860, as a result of the American experience in Cumberland Sound in the previous decade. In 1860, two American ships wintered at Depot Island; when they returned south the following year one of them carried a larger amount of whalebone than any American ship had ever taken in the Davis Strait and Cumberland Sound fishery, and the other’s cargo was almost as large.
This news spread like wildfire in New England. In the following decade there were 57 American whaling voyages to Hudson Bay.
But whales were a finite resource, and stocks declined quickly. The Scots were late coming to Hudson Bay but, when they did, they exploited the same stocks that the Americans continued to deplete.
By the time Comer arrived, whale stocks were seriously diminished. He took whales, to be sure, but he also traded extensively with Inuit for the products of their hunt on land and sea.
Still, Comer was that rarity in these difficult times, a whaler whose voyages almost all turned a profit for his employer. On his 1897 voyage, for example, which wintered twice at Fullerton, he took 15 whales which yielded 185 barrels of oil and 18,000 pounds of whalebone.
On his voyage in 1900, he brought home 130 barrels of oil and 7,000 pounds of bone, but also 398 musk-ox skins, 69 wolf pelts, 51 polar bear skins and 8 wolverine skins. Every bit of produce from the land helped offset the decline in whale products.
Comer employed Inuit to complement the work of his American crew. Most were Aivilingmiut, as they were native to the Fullerton area.
But he also hired Netsilingmiut and Qairnirmiut, who had come to Fullerton Harbour for the employment and trade opportunities.
“Those mechanical things” included gramophones, with which he entertained the Inuit, and devices on which he recorded traditional songs, dances and stories on wax cylinders. These were the first sound recordings of North American Inuit.
Captain John Spicer introduced Comer to the anthropologist Franz Boas of the American Museum of Natural History, who recruited him to collect artifacts, clothing, skeletal material and legends.
Comer made 220 plaster casts of Inuit for the museum; 177 of them were faces. His photographic collections survive today as glass plate negatives at Mystic Seaport, Connecticut, and as prints at the natural history museum.
He never felt comfortable collecting skulls and skeletons, despite Boas’s constant requests.
Like James Mutch, the Scots whaler who also collected for Boas, Comer was a rough and untutored ethnographer. Our knowledge of the material and intellectual culture of the Inuit of western Hudson Bay owes much to him.
Comer eventually retired to his home in East Haddam, Connecticut, a home filled with memorabilia from the North. He died there in 1937.
Next week, I will write about Comer and his relationship with an Inuit woman, Nivissannaq.
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2019-04-20T02:45:08Z
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https://nunatsiaq.com/stories/article/65674taissumanni_may_26/
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Located in the historic Old U.S. Customs House in the heart of downtown, the Houston MEPS has been processing applicants for the Armed Forces at the present site since 1966.
With a small staff, the MEPS aptitudinally tests, medically examines, enlists and ships to recruit training, thousands of young people annually. Although the financial impact made by the MEPS may be miniscule in a city the size of Houston, the MEPS has a significant impact on the lives of the youngsters from southeast Texas and southwest Louisiana and their families.
The Houston MEPS is one of a network of 65 MEPS located nationwide and in Puerto Rico.
The mission of USMEPCOM and the Houston MEPS is to process individuals for enlistment or induction into the armed services, based on DoD-approved peacetime and mobilization standards.
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https://www.mepcom.army.mil/Units/Western-Sector/9th-Battalion/Houston/
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http://www.craftown.com/free-deaf-dating-sites/
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Square Enix Forums > Eidos Classics > Imperial Glory > Imperial Glory - Mod Editing Forum > Ig Union! Join Today!
View Full Version : Ig Union! Join Today!
this is the IG union at GAMESPOT! join today to become part of the Napoleonic Union: Waging War!
what are you talking about? this has been going on for a month to get all the people you need? lol nice try but saying we stole your idea is pretty stupid. wheres YOUR union? i didn't think so.
first i don't have msn so what the freak are you talking about?! second why use gods name in vain?
I did not copy your union. Becuase first of all, this is the SECOND attempt at such a prospect. The first union we tried to start almost a month ago but failed to work due to some peoples (1) absence. (I stated this my self to you mod but you refuse to listen maybe Jrdrumso5 will have more effect as he is the union leader) And secondly, I just saw your attempt at a "union", more like a forum that really wasn't good, just recently. This was a week after our union was up.
in conclusion you need to chill and notice that not everyone is out to get you.
p.s. JOIN THE UNION! NEW UPDATES DAILY!
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2019-04-20T11:00:38Z
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https://forums.eu.square-enix.com/archive/index.php/t-60877.html?s=adba125c0a6406e2d3b8b62a7a915b3c
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ERDDAP has an email/URL subscription system so that you can be notified immediately whenever a dataset changes (for example, whenever new data is added to a near-real-time dataset).The system can send you an email or contact a URL that you specify. See also this comparison with ERDDAP's RSS subscription service.
ERDDAP will store the information that you provide, including your email address.
ERDDAP will treat the information that you provide as confidential and will not release it to anyone else.
These subscriptions have nothing to do with getting the actual data (see ERDDAP's home page).
ERDDAP is very good at detecting changes to gridded datasets because it can detect when the axis values (e.g., the time values) change.
ERDDAP is not very good at detecting changes to tabular datasets because there are usually no changes to the metadata when new data is added.
ERDDAP will detect if a dataset becomes unavailable (but perhaps not immediately). ERDDAP will immediately detect when that dataset becomes available again.
No one and no organization associated with this ERDDAP makes any promises about the suitability, reliability, or correctness of this service (see ERDDAP's DISCLAIMERS).
You didn't specify your email address.
The easiest way to use this form is to click on an envelope icon on an ERDDAP web page with a list of datasets (at the far right), or on a dataset's Data Access Form or Make A Graph web page. Then, the datasetID will be filled in for you.
Then, ERDDAP will send you an email with a link to validate your request.
Don't abuse this system by entering someone else's email address or a fake email address!
If you do, you may be blocked from using ERDDAP.
Or, you can request an email with a list of your valid and pending subscriptions.
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http://imars-physalis.marine.usf.edu:8080/erddap/subscriptions/add.html?datasetID=allDatasets&showErrors=false&email=
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Finalising venues for the IPL play-offs along with decision to float fresh tenders for various sponsorship and services will be finalised at the Committee of Administrators (CoA) meeting, on Monday.
The Olympic Council of Asia's (OCA) decision to bring cricket back into the Asian Games fold has been welcomed. But there is a major hurdle that has to be crossed to make cricket a part of multi-nation tournaments, like the Commonwealth Games, Asian Games and the Olympics.
The row started after the apex court passed a slew of directions on the basis of the Justice Lodha Committee report to bring transparency and accountability in cricket administration and appointed the CoA to take over the work of BCCI, which was stiffly opposed by officer-bearers of various state associations.
BCCI's acting secretary Amitabh Chaudhary continues to fire salvos at the Committee of Administrators (CoA). On Monday, Chaudhary shot of an e-mail to Board's GM, cricket operations, Saba Karim, questioning the reported formation of ad-hoc committee to pick the new coach of the Indian women's cricket team.
Former Pakistan star Javed Miandad has slammed the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) for reportedly planning to bar Pakistan from the ICC ODI World Cup to be held later this year.
Members of the Cricket Association of Bengal (CAB) failed to arrive at any decision as Friday's Special General Meeting (SGM) called to discuss the issue of granting voting rights to retired Indian players from the state decided to seek clarification on the matter from the Supreme Court.
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2019-04-25T07:59:08Z
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https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Committee-of-Administrators
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Dr. Michelle Zeman, who obtained her PhD with Dr. Karlene Cimprich at Stanford has joined the lab. Michelle’s work will focus on mechanisms of mutational robustness. Welcome Michelle!
Many congratulations to Richard and James! Thanks also to their committee members for some great suggestions.
Graduate student James Byers’ review, “Pernicious pathogens or expedient elements of inheritance: the significance of yeast prions,” was just published in PLOS Pathogens. Congratulations James!
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2019-04-19T09:01:18Z
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https://jarosz.stanford.edu/2014/01/
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The resolution, app memory limits, power restrictions, how to remotely control the HoloLens—it's all here.
Microsoft’s marketing machine has painted the HoloLens as sort of a quasi-magical device that can revolutionize the way we interact with computers. That’s still pretty true. But spend enough time digging through Microsoft’s online documentation, and you’ll find in reality that for all its $3,000 price, the the HoloLens is still limited in many ways.
Internally, Microsoft has known this for some time. But now that it’s begun circulating this information to developers, you need to begin learning about it, too—and the HoloLens has several significant weaknesses and strengths you might not have known about.
Granted, Microsoft’s HoloLens renders augmented reality—virtual objects superimposed over real-world objects, viewed through transparent glass— which is quite different than the virtual reality offered by the Rift, which plunges your eyeballs into a totally opaque, virtual theater. Still, dollars are dollars, whatever device you end up with.
By now, the hardware underlying the HoloLens is fairly well understood, at least in broad strokes. At its heart is a Microsoft Holographic Processing Unit (the HPU 1.0), which Microsoft custom designed to offload all the holographic image processing. Apps are processed by an undisclosed 32-bit Intel chip on top of 2GB of RAM (with an additional 1GB of RAM for the HPU), plus 64GB of flash allocated for storage. There’s also a 2MP camera on the front for video recording. Microsoft has said the HoloLens will have between 2 and 3 hours of battery life, based on active use; though it’s designed to be untethered, you’ll also be able to use it while charging.
Here’s where it gets interesting. Microsoft says the HoloLens optics include a pair of HD 16:9 light engines, without specifying the resolution. On its site, though, Microsoft spells it out: The “default and maximum supported resolution” of the HoloLens is 720p or 1268x720 per eye, while the lowest supported resolution is just 360p (634x360). Microsoft also insists that developers maintain a minimum of only 60 frames per second when coding HoloLens applications. If the HoloLens is capturing video, the frame rate will drop even lower, to 30 frames per second.
The Skype Holographic app for HoloLens allows you to move the virtual Skype window around physical space.
Both the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive offer a total resolution of 1080x1200 per eye and a 90Hz refresh rate. That’s much higher than the HoloLens on both counts.
It’s hard to say what this is going to mean in real life. Microsoft partner András Velvárt points out that the HoloLens is actually pushing 240 frames per second, allocating 60 FPS each to a red, green, blue, and a second green layer.
Microsoft’s documentation also goes into great detail identifying and trying to minimize sources of discomfort for the user, such as prioritizing a steady 60 frames per second to eliminate visual judder and make holograms feel stable. Terms like “jumpiness,” “swim,” and “drift” are all probably going to make their way into our conversation as we discuss augmented reality and virtual reality further.
Ignore the number of pixels, though. When evaluating your Windows Holographic experience, Microsoft would prefer that you focus upon something called “holographic density,” or how bright and beautiful a hologram is. The “holographic resolution” of the HoloLens is 2.3 million “light points,” Microsoft says, with a “holographic density” of 2,500 radiants, or “light points per radian”.
Three lenses laid one over the other allow the HoloLens to combine red, green, and blue images into color holograms.
It’s worth noting that the 2.3 million “light points” Microsoft is apparently calculating are more than the available pixels that the HoloLens actually renders, or about 913,000 pixels. Moreover, a hologram (such as an attacking robot) will take up a small portion of the screen. A PC’s 3D card needs to draw everything on the screen. The HoloLens, by contrast, just needs to draw holograms. Otherwise, the user will simply view the real world through its transparent lenses.
That might actually be a sneaky benefit of the HoloLens architecture. While the Rift needs to draw every pixel, the HoloLens many be able to reserve its processing power for where it’s needed most.
When I’ve used the HoloLens before, I’ve always noticed that holograms only appeared at a certain distance, and disappeared when they moved too close to my eyes. As it turns out, you’ll experience the same effect.
Microsoft believes the best holograms will appear to be about two meters away from the user because, in part, its HoloLens displays are fixed at that optical distance. Move a hologram too close or too far away, and the strain of trying to focus each eye becomes too great, and discomfort sets in. At an apparent distance of one meter, virtual objects rendered by the HoloLens will begin to fade out, and they’ll actually disappear as they close to 0.85 meters away.
An image showing what it could look like for two designers collaborating on a single digital model using HoloLens.
Microsoft also explains why the HoloLens field of view has seemingly shrunk as Microsoft has fine-tuned the hardware.
In other words, one eye will be able to see the hologram, while the other won’t. And that’s just going to look weird.
HoloLens holograms will appear no closer than a meter away from the user. The “sweet spot” of hologram viewing is an object that appears to be about two meters away.
There’s a reason why the Oculus Rift is connected to a PC: as an external display, it doesn’t have to worry about limitations like memory and storage. But the HoloLens is a standalone, mobile computer, and available storage and memory will be a real concern.
Microsoft has a number of amazing games that are planned for HoloLens. But developers will have to operate under a number of constraints, as well.
So yes, there will be some amazing HoloLens games that Microsoft hopes developers will use as examples, but others may be somewhat basic.
It seems possible that Microsoft might be able to get around some of these limitations by streaming data on the fly to the HoloLens, via its integrated 802.11ac connection. But don’t get your hopes up to play Call of Duty on the HoloLens—it ain’t gonna happen.
Even if the HoloLens had the graphics horsepower to run an app like a first-person shooter—and let’s be honest, stalking DOOM imps (or your coworkers) in your office building would be incredible—it probably wouldn’t. That is to say, it might run the app for a minute or so, then kill it. Here’s why.
Unfortunately, Microsoft may have built a 32-bit apps processor into the HoloLens, but it’s also passively cooled. That means if its internal temperature spikes too high, the only recourse it has is to shut down the offending apps.
Microsoft says its “essential performance targets” call for the HoloLens to spend less than one minute in the orange and red “danger” areas, where it generates too much heat. (See the graphic, below.) And if that happens, the HoloLens protects itself. “If HoloLens exceeds its thermal capabilities, the foreground application will be shut down to allow the device to cool off,” the documentation says.
The key, according to Microsoft, is keeping the 1-minute moving average (the red line) beneath the orange region of high power consumption. If the HoloLens overheats, it will automatically begin shutting apps off.
Microsoft allows apps to capture what the front-facing camera sees, and also what holograms you’re seeing. Microsoft calls this nifty feature mixed-reality capture, and you can launch it from the HoloLens device itself in one of two ways: either by telling Cortana, “Hey Cortana, take a picture [or video],” or by navigating to the main HoloLens menu.
Here’s the main HoloLens menu, according to Microsoft. To take a photo, you’ll either need to click the button or simply tell Cortana to take a picture.
Either way, however, your recording time is limited to three minutes. In addition, when the HoloLens is recording the mixed-reality capture, the HoloLens refresh rate will drop to 30Hz to coincide with the recording, which will also be recorded at 30Hz. Both video and still pictures will be captured at 1408x792 resolution, Microsoft says.
Microsoft has tailored a version of its Device Portal to the HoloLens as well. That may sound a bit dull, but Microsoft also uses the portal to provide a look into how the HoloLens views the world.
You can manage your HoloLens remotely using the HoloLens Device Portal. Separate screens allow you to download video captured by the device, connect it to wireless networks, and measure its performance in real time.
Chances are that the Device Portal will probably survive the developer environment and make it to the consumer version. Within the app you can connect the HoloLens to a network, watch its performance (and temperature) fluctuate in real time, command it to re-scan a room, and even send it text, which will float in the air as a hologram, via the keyboard. Here’s an even niftier feature, below: 3DView, which allows you to see what the HoloLens sees, in sort of a vaguely Terminator-esque perspective.
It might not be enough to offset the limitations we outlined earlier, but it does go to show the level of polish that Microsoft has applied to the HoloLens experience.
Kudos to Microsoft for exposing this level of detail to the developer community at large, and not hiding it behind a password or other protection. By doing so, you can wade through Microsoft’s Windows Holographic pages and draw your own conclusions.
The point isn’t that HoloLens is going to be better or worse than the Rift or other virtual reality devices—it’s that it’s going to be different. Geeks have a decent understanding of how a PC and smartphone works. But the HoloLens will require a new vocabulary, and we’re just beginning to learn the language.
Clarification: A point that was originally in the story—that augmented reality is quite different than virtual reality—was accidentally edited out of the article. It has been reinserted as the third paragraph. The resolution of the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift has also been corrected.
For more on HoloLens and its virtual reality competition, check out the spirited discussion from a recent PCWorld Show below.
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2019-04-26T02:22:01Z
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https://www.pcworld.com/article/3039822/we-found-7-critical-hololens-details-that-microsoft-hid-inside-its-developer-docs.html
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NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — Let’s get the bad news out of the way first. It doesn’t feel like the U.S. economy is firing on all cylinders.
Wage growth remains sluggish. The stock market continues to be volatile. Target, Macy’s and many other big retailers are struggling — and the recent spike in oil prices could further dent consumer spending.
Big homebuilder stocks Pulte and KB Home both rallied on the home sales news. And they are beating the broader market this year.
Shares of home price tracker Zillow — aka the web site you go to voyeuristically see what your neighbor’s home might be worth — are up more than 20% this year as well.
Another sign of housing strength? Home Depot and Lowe’s both reported strong earnings last week. They are bright spots in an otherwise lousy quarter for big retailers.
Wilson said that the recent upbeat guidance from luxury home builder Toll Brothers is a good sign as well.
Wilson said that it’s premature to start worrying about whether the recent housing rebound could lead to another real estate bubble like the one we had in the mid-2000s that helped lead to the subprime mortgage crisis and Great Recession.
It’s worth remembering that the cause of the most recent downturn is rarely what creates the next one. The recession before the one in 2008 was largely a byproduct of a tech bubble in 2000 — not froth in the housing market.
“Normal recessions are caused by excess somewhere in the financial system,” said Eric Marshall, manager of the Hodges Small Cap Value fund.
That level of excess doesn’t seem to exist in the housing market. In fact, some areas of the country are still struggling to recover from the depths of the 2008 downturn.
Along those lines, Marshall owns Plano-based LegacyTexas Financial Group, which he thinks has been unfairly punished due to the turmoil in the oil market.
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2019-04-18T11:11:39Z
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https://q13fox.com/2016/05/25/the-housing-market-is-suddenly-hot-again/?shared=email&msg=fail
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HAWAII'S TOP COP: Police officer Zane Hamrick, shown here in his patrol vehicle at the Kailua police station, saved a woman who fell into a sinkhole in Kailua after the Oct. 15 earthquakes. The rescue earned Hamrick recognition as one of the nation's top law enforcement officers. He will receive the honor next week at a ceremony in Washington, D.C.
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2019-04-24T20:57:12Z
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Established in 1998, Invocas is an insolvency support services company operating throughout the UK. We help our partners, their clients and our customers by providing them with access to a full range of solutions.
We currently have an opportunity for a Cashier Team Leader who will be responsible for the day to day running of the cash room.
Pay up employers, or prepare yourself for a public shaming!
The Government has unveiled new plans to name and shame any employers, who do not pay their staff the national minimum wage.
The new rules, due to come into force in October this year, have been designed to encourage more employers to pay their staff fairly – or shame them into paying up if they don’t.
According to the TUC (Trade Union Congress), an estimated 250,000 UK workers are paid less than the national minimum wage.
Gender equality in the workplace? Not where money is concerned!
According to the Chartered Management Institute (CMI), we still have a long way to go before we achieve gender equality in the workplace, where financial rewards are concerned.
In addition to the already existing pay gap between men and women who do the same job, on average, male managers’ bonuses are more than double those of female managers.
The CMI said that last year, the average bonus for female managers was £3,029, while men in similar positions were paid an average bonus of £6,442. These men also already earned salaries that were almost 25% higher than what their female counterparts were being paid.
Read more on the BBC News website.
Have you purchased a credit card and identity protection policy since 14th of January 2005? If so, you could be one of seven million people in the UK eligible for a refund, due to mis-sold protection products.
The Financial Conduct Authority, the Card Protection Plan Limited (CPP), as well as 13 high street banks and credit card issuers, have reached an agreement, which will see consumers who were wrongly sold a CPP product, get compensated.
Exactly how much money those being refunded might get back will depend on the product they purchased, and the amount of time they had it for. However, the average customer can expect to receive £185.
The other week we spotted an interesting interview in the Telegraph.co.uk Personal Finance section, with famous comedian and ‘Jonathan Creek’ star, Alan Davies.
He had a somewhat inventive – if illegal – way to boost his limited allowance as a teenager, and compares his relationship with money to Arsenal Manager Arsène Wenger’s “two types of footballers”.
If you are living on a tight budget – or just want to save money – it may well be worth your while browsing the Deals and Vouchers section of Martin Lewis’ MoneySavingExpert.com website regularly.
The website contains a wealth of personal finance information (no pun intended), covering shopping, banking, insurance, utilities and much more. In the ‘Deals’ section, you’ll find a number of sub-categories, including Eating & Entertainment, Popular Deals, and Travel.
Financial Fraud Action UK found in a recent survey of over 2,000 UK adults, that 23% had received a cold call asking for personal or financial information.
Furthermore, 39% of those surveyed stated that they were unable to tell the difference between a so-called vishing phone scam – where fraudulent callers attempt to extract a victim’s personal details illegally – and genuine callers, from e.g. their bank.
Read the full story on CreditToday.co.uk.
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2019-04-26T04:50:02Z
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Last year Pitchfork booked a fierce lady lineup that inspired me to write about riot grrrl's resurgence on the festival circuit. With such a concentration of powerful women taking the stage, though—especially Sleater-Kinney, who cranked out an electric headlining set—it was easy to lose sight of the bigger picture. The sad fact is, the five female-centric groups I mentioned last year—Courtney Barnett, Ex Hex, the Julie Ruin, Sleater-Kinney, and Waxahatchee—accounted for almost half the women-led acts on the entire bill. There were just 11 in total, less than a quarter of the 45-act lineup.
This year, things aren't much different: out of 45 acts, only 12 are led by women. Once again a couple of strong headliners, Beach House and FKA Twigs, distract from the disproportionate ratio further down the bill. And the Pitchfork Music Festival isn't the only offender: the lineups at Bonnaroo, Coachella, and Lollapalooza all consist of roughly 75 percent all-male groups, despite the common gambit of securing at least one powerhouse female headliner in a futile attempt to say "See! We have women playing too!"
Just as troubling is the lack of genre diversity among the women who do get booked. Pitchfork is increasingly expanding beyond the indie pop and rock that usually dominate its lineup—in the past five years especially, it's included more electronic and hip-hop musicians. But of the 97 hip-hop or electronic-music acts the festival has booked in its history, only eight have been women.
These low numbers aren't for a lack of female performers. In Chicago, the 2016 Frontwoman Fest hosted more than 15 local groups with a variety of sounds (noise-rock, ambient, hip-hop), a larger and more diverse cast of female musicians than Pitchfork could manage to scrounge up from around the world. (This year's Frontwoman Fest, held at the Burlington, raised $1,500 for Girls Rock! Chicago.) It's also worth mentioning that the nine local acts on this year's Pitchfork lineup include only four women. Grassroots movements can boost local acts into the spotlight, but that leg up won't do women much good without real change to the entrenched patterns of gender inequality that have shaped the music industry.
"I actually think that Pitchfork does a better job than every other festival," says Melissa Oglesby, outreach director for Girls Rock! Chicago. "Everybody still has a long way to go, but I'm grateful that the programmers at Pitchfork are thoughtful about it." Still, she wonders why festivals in general are so bad at booking women: "Do they feel like they don't have a roster to draw from, or that the roster isn't going to be as profitable or something?" These are questions worth posing, especially when even the most enlightened fests don't top 30 percent women in their lineups.
All that said, the handful of women on this year's Pitchfork bill makes for a good mix: the infectious pop of Carly Rae Jepsen, the frenetic footwork beats of Jlin, the fierce rock of Savages, the otherworldly R&B of headliner FKA Twigs. Clearly Pitchfork has an eye for talented women. It just needs twice as many of them—at least!
A new exhibit of female painters responds to gender inequality.
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2019-04-20T18:38:49Z
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https://m.chicagoreader.com/chicago/pitchfork-festival-2016-women-savages-twigs-carly-jlin/Content?oid=22682116
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Former U.S. vice-president Al Gore and Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne announce in Toronto that Ontario is will longer generate electricity with coal-burning plants.
The Ontario government will mark the closing of the province's last coal-fired electricity plant with new legislation banning the use of coal in power generation.
And Premier Kathleen Wynne pulled in some high-wattage help – in the person of former U.S. vice-president Al Gore – to unveil the proposed law. In a speech in downtown Toronto Thursday, the anti-climate change activist said future generations will thank the province for fighting global warming.
"If they see the pollution levels falling, if they feel hope in their hearts and look at their own children and feel definitely their future is going to be brighter still, they'll look back at us and ask of us 'How did you find the moral courage to change, to rise up, to act?' " he said. "And part of the answer will be: 'Ontario, Canada, led the way.' "
The province's largest and last coal plant, in Nanticoke, is scheduled to shut down next month. The new bill, if passed, will make it illegal for the government to set up other coal plants in future.
The legislation is mostly symbolic: it will apply only to electricity plants, allowing other industries – such as steel and cement manufacturing – to continue burning coal. But Ms. Wynne touted it as expression of the province's commitment to cleaner sources of energy.
"We want to close the door on coal and we don't want to go back," she said. "It's our moral duty to take action, to protect our children, our grandchildren and and our fellow citizens."
Ms. Wynne's Liberals hold a minority of seats in the legislature, meaning they will need the co-operation of at least one other party to get the law passed.
The end of coal burning at Nanticoke caps one of the Liberals' longest-held goals. The party has promised to kill coal generation since it was elected a decade ago, and spent years shuttering plants and trying to build a green energy industry.
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2019-04-25T18:20:13Z
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https://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/ontario-vows-to-ban-coal-powered-electricity-generation/article15549963/
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Ayman Nour receives five years in prison for forgery after year-long judicial process.
A court on Saturday sentenced leading government opponent Ayman Nour to five years in prison for forgery at the end of a year-long judicial process that has drawn international criticism and strained Egypt's relations with the US. The conviction of Nour, the runner-up in this year's presidential elections, provoked uproar from his hundreds of supporters in and around the courtroom. Chief defense counsel Amir Salem shouted: "This is a political verdict that will be annulled by the appeal court. This verdict will go into the dustbin of history." Salem added that he would appeal to the Court of Cassation, the highest appeal body. Nour's wife shouted "Down with Hosni Mubarak!" Egypt's president. Judge Abdel Salam Gomaa left the court immediately after delivering the verdicts and sentences, later issuing a written judgment that rejected claims of a politically motivated trial. Outside the court, about 500 Nour supporters chanted "Hosni Mubarak's rule is illegal!" and "the trial is illegal!" They were barred from the court building by hundreds of riot police who had closed off the street. About a hundred supporters of the populist politician had slept in the street outside the court, which was cordoned off the night before, and some were seen crying after the verdict. Nour had pleaded innocent to ordering the forging of signatures to register his Al-Ghad party last year. He said he did not know several of his six co-defendants who allegedly assisted him in the fraud. One of the co-defendants retracted his confession during the trial, telling the court that security officials had coerced him to implicate Nour. In his judgment, Judge Gomaa wrote that Nour must have known about the forgeries because copies of the forged documents were found at his residence and he had ordered his aides to throw out copies stored at his office. "The court does not accept Ayman Nour's defense that the documents were forged by certain parties without his knowledge and with the aim of harming him," the judgment said. Looking pale and dressed in white, Nour arrived at the court from the hospital where he had been held in custody for a week after starting a hunger strike to protest his detention. The court ordered him detained on December 5 in a move seen as indicating that a conviction was likely. Nour's initial arrest on January 29 and 42-day detention strained US-Egyptian relations. Newspapers such as The New York Times and The Washington Post called for his release and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice canceled a visit to Egypt, apparently in disapproval of the government's treatment of Nour. On Friday, The Washington Post said that Nour was being vindictively prosecuted on "trumped-up charges." In an editorial, the newspaper said the trial judge was "notorious for handling the president's dirty work," and urged President George W. Bush to use US aid to Egypt as a lever to procure Nour's freedom. In 2002, Judge Gomaa convicted the sociology professor and rights activist Saad Eddin Ibrahim, an Egyptian-American, of tarnishing Egypt's image. The Court of Cassation overturned the verdict. The verdicts of the co-defendants were not heard as the courtroom erupted in shouts as soon as the judge delivered Nour's conviction and sentence. But Egypt's semi-official Middle East News Agency reported that all six were convicted of forgery, with Ismail Zakhariya and Ayman Ismail receiving five years in prison; Lotfi el-Shenawi, Ahmed Abd el-Shafi el-Gheryani and Mervit Saber receiving three years. Farag Shadid Abdel Hamid, who was tried in absentia, received 10 years. Nour finished a distant second to longtime President Mubarak in September's elections, Egypt's first contested presidential race, and lost his parliamentary seat in November's legislative polls. He is appealing the November result alleging irregularities. Nour's Al-Ghad Party issued a statement saying the verdict was "a matter of settling of the accounts of the presidential elections. The verdict had been issued a long time ago and it did not come from the court but from the regime which has destroyed political life for many decades," Al-Ghad said. Earlier this month, State Department spokesman Adam Ereli said the US was calling on Egypt "to make every effort to ensure that this trial conforms to international standards."
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2019-04-23T22:41:26Z
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https://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/Mubarak-opponent-Ayman-Nour-sentenced
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Where is the Albitz family from?
You can see how Albitz families moved over time by selecting different census years. The Albitz family name was found in the USA, the UK, and Canada between 1880 and 1920. The most Albitz families were found in the USA in 1880. In 1880 there were 43 Albitz families living in Pennsylvania. This was about 53% of all the recorded Albitz's in the USA. Pennsylvania had the highest population of Albitz families in 1880.
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An unusually short lifespan might indicate that your Albitz ancestors lived in harsh conditions. A short lifespan might also indicate health problems that were once prevalent in your family. The SSDI is a searchable database of more than 70 million names. You can find birthdates, death dates, addresses and more.
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https://www.ancestry.com/name-origin?surname=albitz
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In Stories We Tell, Sarah Polley plays with the documentary format to explore the nature of memory and storytelling, crafting a thoughtful, compelling narrative that unfolds like a mystery.
If a personal memoir film by a beautiful, successful young woman from a nice Toronto family sounds to you like it can only be an excuse for self-absorbed navel-gazing, well, you must not have seen a Sarah Polley movie yet.
Stories We Tell is one of those movies you watch on a screen and replay in your head for days, moving between its many levels of inquiry and touched, always, by Polley's compassion toward her relatives in particular and people in general.
The opposite of a courageous piece of work, Stories We Tell goes out of its way to protect every single person it touches.
Sarah Polley's remarkable Stories We Tell transcends every cliche in this confessional/investigatory genre, and it's one of the year's highlights.
What saves it is our realisation that it isn't just a documentary.
A bittersweet and compelling autobiographical family portrait.
It's thrilling, with emotional highs and lows that are intensified by the fact that we're watching real people-a real family-have their world shaken and turned upside-down.
Fiercely unsentimental, never nostalgic, [Sarah] Polley's version of the story is simultaneously always trying to get that much closer to the truth.
Stories We Tell is clearly a form of creative catharsis for Polley. Yet through its clarity and sincerity her documentary gathers greater meaning, transcending its humble origins and effortlessly enrapturing the audience with its bittersweet tale.
A finely-crafted and incredibly moving work.
Sarah Polley's funny and engaging documentary is also intelligent - academically and emotionally.
A quasi-Derridan, deconstructionist enquiry by Sarah Polley into her family history.
Polley surprises us with the brave and unreserved way that she exposes her family's secrets while trying to extract a meaning from her quest, even if she doesn't seem to know exactly how to end it, going a bit longer past what should have been its conclusion.
Quite dull, honestly. Who really cares that the mother had an affair and a child by another man which she passed off as her husband's? I'm sure it happens every day and not really of interest to anyone except the family involved. Certainly not enthralling viewing as the subject of a documentary. Even if it is from Sarah Polley's own life.
Though in my opinion it stops just short of being completely brilliant -- partly because of problems outlined within the movie itself -- Stories We Tell nonetheless succeeds by embracing its own unique and earnest nature.
A thoughtful, intimate biography concerning one's family from director/actor Sarah Polley, specifically centering around her mother and whether or not her father was in fact her mother's husband. Polley takes a Rashoman-esque stance in how she portrays her family and the stories she has them tell, each sounding mostly familiar but each containing details not included in the other versions. The result is an enamoring documentary about identity, how family shapes us, and how memory holds up over time. It is genuinely surprising how utterly fascinating this movie is, but Polley always maintains the human element that makes this film so special, every answer she is able to get out of her family feels real and human, with members of her family proving to be honest and not afraid to hold very personal details back from the viewer. One of the best films of 2013.
Storyteller: When you're in the middle of a story, it isn't a story at all but rather a confusion, a dark roaring, a blindness, a wreckage of shattered glass and splintered wood, like a house in a whirlwind or else a boat crushed by the icebergs or swept over the rapids, and all aboard are powerless to stop it. It's only afterwards that it becomes anything like a story at all, when you're telling it to yourself or someone else.
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2019-04-23T04:35:31Z
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https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/stories_we_tell
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fyresight
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To see some of my unfinished bits and works in-progress, check out the journal I share with Sage SK.
I also post updates and random chatter to my Twitter account.
Questions about my art? I have a FAQ!
How'd I get into the SWAT Kats and do I have a favorite? Got that too!
Fanart Central - Regularly updated.
Side 7 - Rarely updated.
A number of personal pages also have collections of my work used with my permission. If you see some of my images on another site and feel they might have been stolen, please contact me before you take any other action. Not only do a number of people host copies of my work with my full permission, as a general rule, I do not mind finding my art in collections of "Cool stuff I found on the internet!". I would, however, like to be informed when someone else is claiming my work as their own and/or if someone is selling my work. I do not sell my fanart. If you see my work on Ebay or anywhere else for sale, please tell me.
Recommended Reading - Reviews and recommendations for some of my favorite fanfics. Fandoms include SWAT Kats, Inuyasha, Fullmetal Alchemist, Blue Exorcist, Rurouni Kenshin and Bleach.
Gone to the Dogs - my Inuyasha fansite, featuring my fanart and fanfiction centered around my favorite foul-mouthed dogboy.
Just an (Itsy-Bitsy Teenie-Weenie) FMA Page - my Fullmetal Alchemist fansite where I keep the fanart, fanfics, and icons I've made for both the anime and manga incarnations of Fullmetal Alchemist.
What in the Blue Blazes?! - my Blue Exorcist/Ao no Exorcist fansite where I have fanart, fanfics, and icons for another favorite cute monster boy.
Spray Baptist Church - a website that I designed and update for my church.
Kris' Little Tiny ID-4 Page - a tribute to one of my favorite movies, Independence Day!
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2019-04-22T21:02:45Z
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http://www.fyresight.com/kristensk/mestuff/metoo.php
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fwcchoir
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Just like all non-profits, we have a board of directors who lead us in developing vision and ensuring we have the finances in place to continue offering valuable programs. We could not do what we do without their guidance and dedication.
Meet Kathryn Lemish, Vice Chair of FWCC’s Board of Directors. Kathryn grew up in Kendallville and how resides in Huntertown with her husband Dave and their two daughters, Nora and Amelia. She is an Assistant Vice President at Lincoln Financial Group in Fort Wayne, where she has worked for 17 years. She earned a Bachelor of Arts in Music in 1998. Even though she doesn’t have a full-time job in music, she has continued to work with area marching bands and winter drumlines, both teaching and arranging the percussion music for fall marching band shows with her husband.
1- How long have you volunteered for FWCC?
I’ve been helping at the FWCC since my daughter first joined in 2013 and have been on the Board since 2015.
2- What were you most surprised to learn about FWCC after getting involved?
I was really amazed at the quality of the music education. I knew from early parent meetings and learning about the organization online that they emphasized music education but until I started observing rehearsals, I didn’t realize how robust the education was. I’m still amazed by what the kids learn. I have a degree in music and I know there were people in my college theory and ear training classes that couldn’t do what some of the students in the FWCC do. It’s amazing!
3- Why do you think FWCC is important to our community?
There are so many reasons! Time after time, studies have shown that children who are involved in music do better in other core school subjects. Additionally, singing in a choir teaches kids to work together toward a common goal; when they’re on stage singing, they’re creating something beautiful with kids of different ages, interests, and backgrounds. They’re also building confidence by standing on a stage in front of thousands of people. These are great life skills! Plus, singing is fun and it’s a skill they can enjoy throughout their life!
4- What is your favorite FWCC memory?
That’s tough! Being on tour with the Concert Choir this year was really fun! But it’s always wonderful to watch my daughter sing with the choir – whether it’s on stage at the Embassy with the Fort Wayne Philharmonic or in a pizza place in North Carolina while on tour. Seeing her grow and mature, not only as a singer but as a person, as well, has been wonderful.
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2019-04-21T21:07:22Z
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https://fwcchoir.org/meet-the-board-kathryn-lemish/
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wordpress
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I know it has been awhile since I last posted anything on here, I had all good intentions of blogging at least once a week, but then life stepped in, never mind I’m back now. So here are a list of sites that I find worth visiting.
I hope you find some of these sites of use to you with your writing.
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2019-04-21T04:23:29Z
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https://awriter2b.wordpress.com/tag/book-ends-llc/
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wordpress
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Over the years, I’ve posted quite a bit about my Atheopagan Yule traditions. I thought I’d pull links to them together here for easy reference.
Personally, I like to do All The Things except buying and receiving gifts. The commercial consumption frenzy at this time of year really offends me (except for children, where I feel it is simply cruel to deny them what they see their peers experiencing every year), and I have enough stuff, so we dispense with that piece. But I like to drink the nog and mulled wine and seasonal ales, and erect and decorate a tree, and burn a Yule log with wishes for the new year, and eat too much and too well, and watch Hogfather, and sing carols (including the Atheopagan filks I’ve included in the hymnal) and listen to Renaissance Christmas music (This is my favorite album)…or jazz Christmas music…and visit with dear friends. And to tell ghost stories on Solstice night–an old tradition I hope will come back into fashion.
Plus, of course, a Yule ritual and feast thereafter.
So here are the various posts I’ve made on Yule practices, rituals and traditions over the years, with some Yuletide poetry as well. I hope they serve you in good stead and that yours is a warm, comfortable, joyous and love-filled Yuletide season.
Such a wondrous season – actually they all are!
“Wondrous” – I remember us discussing some semantic differences between Pantheism and Atheopaganism where you preferred “sacred” to “divine”.
Hi Mark, I thought you would like this, if you haven’t already seen it: the Venn Diagram of Yuletide traditions.
Also, you might like this collection of solstice viewing that I put together, including my story, The Gift of Naughtiness.
Oh my! Thanks for the Jazz Christmas music links. I find that Fourplay and Manheim Steamroller have the best holiday music, but I’ll be adding Oscar Peterson to my list.
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2019-04-20T01:02:50Z
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https://atheopaganism.wordpress.com/2018/11/24/yuletide-a-compendium/
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This dissertation focuses on the pedagogical structures that simultaneously facilitate complex learning and urban university-community partnerships in equitable ways. Through critical ethnography, I study an undergraduate community based learning (CBL) theater course that was designed in partnership between a faculty instructor and a director of a community organization. The findings show that there are five progressive elements of the CBL pedagogy that occur in the facilitation to participant learning and developing an activist mindset: the division of unconventional and conventional perspectives, conflict, confusion over the definition of participant roles, critical reflection, and the formation of a collaborative course community. My analysis uses sociocultural theory and critical race theory lenses to argue that the findings reveal the need to shift classroom CBL pedagogies to be more relational and more aware of hegemonic and potentially critical discourses within institutional spaces. The dissertation has implications for research and practice in the field of CBL pedagogy and curricula. Further, it offers a sociocultural-based pedagogical framework for CBL classes and a re-tooled curriculum of the observed course as an example of how instructors can plan and implement this sociocultural-based framework.
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2019-04-26T10:53:14Z
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https://etda.libraries.psu.edu/catalog/15361rtd154
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lsu
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Angiogenesis is the process of developing and elongating blood vessels. In obesity, angiogenesis controls the development of the adipose tissue, allowing it to expand as energy stores increase. When angiogenesis is blocked in rodent models, adipose tissue not only stops expanding, but regresses, proving a possible mechanism for weight loss. Nt, a Chinese herbal decoction, and gallic acid, an active antiangiogenic ingredient in Nt, were tested in clinical trials in combination for possible use as a supplement for weight loss. The Nt-gallic acid combination did not cause weight loss or a decrease in food intake in humans, principally due to the inability to achieve adequate serum levels. The highest absorption seen was 19% of 800mg gallic acid, far below the level needed to cause weight loss. In further research, gallic acid was tested in combination with colchicine, a tubulin inhibitor. This combination was hypothesized to act synergistically in an in vitro assay to inhibit angiogenesis. The combination inhibited angiogenesis 91% compared to the control, while the addition of the two compounds separately led to an 81% inhibition. In addition, pilot data shows that this combination, when added to a cream base, may aid in the treatment of psoriasis. These studies suggest that gallic acid is capable of inhibiting angiogenesis in humans when adequate therapeutic levels are reached.
Roberts, Andrew Thaxton, "Gallic Acid: Inhibiting Angiogenesis in Adipose Tissue" (2006). LSU Master's Theses. 1261.
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2019-04-18T11:08:21Z
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https://digitalcommons.lsu.edu/gradschool_theses/1261/
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wordpress
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Sounds like good news right? The numbers are down in line with some of the seasonal trends we have seen in the last few years. While some folks may be saying this is the sign we have hit or are nearing bottom; folks are still getting going into default, banks are still foreclosing, there is shadow inventory that needs dealt with so we have still have plenty of snow available to keep that snowball growing or at least maintaining its size.Click here for the CNBC article.
In working with clients sometimes they are trying to decide if they should borrow money, go into debt, etc to hang onto the house. You may be considering the same in light of some of the less negative news in the press.
It isn’t unheard of for my clients to be 40-60% underwater on their properties. It makes sense to consider the big picture. I have found it beneficial to walk through the scneario with my clients to see what makes sense.
The question is how many years in a healthy market will it take to recover the 40% loss?
I am not suggesting that home owners should choose to default on their loan because they are under water. I won’t ever tell a home owner to stop paying their mortgage. But borrowing from credit cards, family, personal loans, etc. at some point seems to be throwing good money after bad.
This entry was posted on December 26, 2011, 8:55 pm and is filed under Uncategorized. You can follow any responses to this entry through RSS 2.0. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
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2019-04-24T04:14:21Z
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https://boiseshortsale.wordpress.com/2011/12/26/foreclosures-fall-to-lowest-level-in-3-years/
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miamiherald
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“This person drove in a reckless manner with no regard for anyone around him,” Goranitis said.
The officer fired at Taylor, who kept on going, Goranitis said. He struck a parked police car and a wall in the garage, Goranitis added.
Taylor suffered a non-life-threatening gunshot wound and was taken to Aventura Hospital in custody. No one else was injured.
He was arrested on charges of aggravated assault on a police officer, grand auto theft, felony aggravated fleeing, reckless driving and driving with a suspended license.
The passenger, identified Thursday as Quantazesha Moneisha Clark, 19, was arrested on an active arrest warrant.
The mall is at Northeast 195th Street and Biscayne Boulevard, but the garage is on the back side of the property, hugging West Country Club Drive across from the Turnberry golf course.
Police sealed off the garage, but the mall itself stayed open for business, and customers shopped and walked in and out as usual as officers swarmed the scene and began their investigation.
Sgt. Chris Goranitis, Aventura Police spokesman, speaks about shooting at Aventura Mall on Wednesday, May 13, 2015.
“Operations have not been affected,” mall management said in a statement.
“Nobody is in danger. There is no one at large. This was an isolated incident,” Goranitis said.
In January, a similar drama played out at a strip shopping center north of the mall.
At the center, which is anchored by a Target and Whole Foods Market, two Aventura police officers fired several rounds into a car after the driver used the car to threaten an officer’s life. The driver took off but was arrested later in the day in Broward County.
In past years, the Aventura Mall has been the site of several shootings.
In 2009, one person was wounded in a police-involved shooting in a parking garage near JCPenney. In 2008, a man opened fire on a woman in another mall parking lot, wounding the woman before killing himself.
In 1999, a love triangle turned deadly in a murder-suicide in front of a mall Starbucks.
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2019-04-25T04:49:41Z
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https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/miami-dade/aventura/article20834379.html
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uea
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People & Planet’s University League is a comprehensive and independent league table of UK universities ranked by environmental and ethical performance. It is compiled annually by the UK’s largest student campaigning network, People & Planet.
This page is a guide to UEA's compliance with the People & Planet requirements.
Our environmental policy is publically available. UEA's Environmental Sustainability Policy is reviewed annually by the Sustainability Board, and signed off by the Vice-Chancellor.
The Management Review as part of our Environmental Management System (EMS) was held January 2018, and the latest version of the Environmental Sustainability Policy was signed March 2018.
UEA environmental strategy sets out time-bound targets. The Environmental Sustainability Policy outlines the University’s commitment to the areas specified. Each area has its own strategy/ policy documents that highlight the targets and timescales. The targets are reported and reviewed through the Sustainability Board, via quarterly reports from each Implementation Team. These are publicly reported through the Annual Environmental Report.
Sustainability is included within the portfolio of responsibilities of a member of the university senior management team. Prof Philip Gilmartin, Dean of the Faculty of Science, is Chair of the Sustainability Board. He sits on the Executive Team for the University, as does Prof Dylan Edwards, Executive Dean of the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences and member of the Sustainability Board.
Staff working in dedicated sustainability roles are listed on the university website. UEA's Sustainability, Utilities and Engineering Department consists of 13 roles. All are full-time.
Staff are supported with a budget for sustainability, and resourcing remains stable. Budget is available annually for Sustainable Performance and Energy Performance.
We have £615,000 p.a. to invest in energy-saving measures between 2018-2020 and we are coordinating end of life replacement of building service plant to try and deliver an additional 25% reduction in energy consumption. This represents an additional £500,000 of investment from previous years.
UEA supports a staff engagement scheme to involve staff in improving the environmental performance of the University. Our Sustainability Network is key to delivering campaigns and information across campus. We use Green Impact as a key tool to enable change making champions on campus, as well as running a monthly meeting schedule and a 'Focus On Month' programme to shape engagement.
UEA has an externally verified environmental management system (EMS), which covers the whole University estate. UEA passed its ISO14001:2004 audit in May 2015 and the updated ISO14001:2015 Standard in May 2018. We also hold the EcoCampus Platinum award.
UEA does not currently have an Ethical Investment Policy.
UEA has a publicly available carbon management plan which meets the Carbon Trust and most current Capital Investment Framework requirements. On 23 November, 2015, UEA’s Executive Team discussed and approved the 2015-2020 Energy and Carbon Reduction Programme.
The Sustainability Team, in collaboration with colleagues across Estates and UEA, will report annually on progress against the agreed target of reducing carbon emissions by 35% over the next 5 years and a 25% reduction in energy consumption.
Scope 3 emissions are included within UEA's carbon management. Carbon emissions from waste, water and imported electricity are reported in each Annual Environmental Report.
Based on EMR methodologies, 77.5% of our scope 1 and 2 emissions are related to non-residential activities and 22.5% are related to student halls of residence. This does not cover privately rented student houses.
Based on EMR methodologies, 51.9% of our reported scope 3 emissions are from non-residential activities and 48.1% are related to student halls of residence. This covers waste and water at the moment.
UEA students created the UEA Fairtrade Society in 2016, which is working with UEA Catering and the Sustainable Development Manager within the Sustainability, Utilities and Engineering Team to re-accredit UEA as a Fairtrade University.
UEA joined the Worker Rights Consortium (WRC) in 2014, allowing us to work towards ensuring the factories we procure from are compliant with the WRC code of conduct. Joining also commits us to conducting business in a socially responsible and ethical manner, and to protect and preserve the global environment.
Electronics Watch: UEA belongs to the Southern Universities' Purchasing Consortium (SUPC) to enable the university to access more financially beneficial contracts and frameworks, and centrally-managed auditing of suppliers and supply chains. SUPC is not a member of Electronics Watch, although they include the terms and conditions in any relevant contracts. For example, the Apple contract has the Electronics Watch T&Cs.
UEA has a publically-available Sustainable Food Policy. This document is reported to the Sustainability Board. The EMS Implementation Team for Catering involves University, Student Union, and contract caterer representatives.
The Sustainable Food Policy commits us to providing sustainable fish, and Red Tractor meat. The Sustainability Team and central catering are working together to increase the provision of vegetarian and vegan food options, and to promote local sourcing. All milk is sourced from local dairies. All vegetables and meat come from a local supplier. The catering teams are focusing on waste reduction and on reducing water and energy use, including through the purchase of new, efficient dishwashers purchased in 2017. Tap water and water machines are available in all catering outlets. Keep Cups and the use of customers' own mugs are subsidised and actively promoted.
Several UEA student societies support sustainable food, from local organic vegbox schemes to bulk purchase options through the Food Co-op Society, to the Green Growers Society's allotments.
Increase @SustainableUEA social media engagement.
Use the Living Lab programme as an opportunity for enhancement of UEA and EMS development.
These targets are reviewed annually by the Communications and Engagement EMS Implementation Team, which includes representatives of UEA operations, student, staff and academic groups.
Students and staff have oversight and involvement in the development and ongoing monitoring of UEA's Energy and Carbon Reduction Programme, and Environmental Policy and strategies. The Student Union has two representatives on the EMS Implementation Teams for 'Communications and Engagement' and 'Carbon Reduction', as well as two representatives on the Sustainability Board for overall oversight of the EMS and sustainability policy/ plan/ strategy.
Engagement opportunities for sustainability are a component of student induction processes. The Sustainability, Utilities and Engineering Department work with the Sustainability Society and Enactus UEA to deliver stalls throughout Welcome Week, as well as hosting events for specific networks. Members of the Department also deliver welcome talks to a number of academic programmes, including all new students of the School of International Development, and Health Sciences (including nursing and paramedic students, who are largely based off-campus). Students in their first year live in on-campus accommodation. All students receive information on waste management and sustainable travel, and on wider sustainability projects within their Accommodation Handbook.
The UEA Induction Module includes a section on sustainability. The staff training website includes the Sustainable Ways website in its list of essential links.
Training programme held on a secure site. See here for evidence.
UEA Students’ Union is working toward continual improvement for environmental sustainability. They participate in Green Impact Student Unions.
UEA is in the process of mapping current ESD activity, and supports student and staff engagement in ESD development. The University is investing resource and finances in improving institutional awareness of opportunities to increase ESD; the Sustainable Development Manager will be attending an international conference in September 2017 following separate national and international learning network opportunities.
UEA is a co-founder of the Aurora Network. Network members are committed to working together to find solutions to globally relevant problems, in areas such as sustainability, climate and energy, digital technology and human life and health. Members are actively developing new models for ESD, including through use of the UN Sustainable Development Goals to help structure and report progress.
The UEA Living Laboratory for Sustainability enables student sustainability projects on campus. Examples of coursework or PhD investigations linked to sustainability projects within the University/ Estates include investigations into sustainable travel options; changing messaging to enhance water-saving; social governance for sustainability in the built environment; biodiversity audits and habitat surveys.
The University supports and highlights School, Faculty or Research team projects for Sustainable Development. Find out more here: Research Connections.
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2019-04-21T10:15:23Z
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https://www.uea.ac.uk/about/sustainability/people-planet-uni-league
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csmonitor
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Even with no plumbing and limited electricity, US soldiers see the roof over their head as a luxury.
Just outside the VIP lounge at the former Saddam International Airport, a sign is taped to the door. It reads: "Stay Out or Die."
One might be tempted to assume the dire warning is left over from the ruthless government of Saddam Hussein. But, in fact, it was posted by members of the 101st Airborne Division as a means to stake out a prime spot to sleep.
The subtext of the sign reads: "Well, you'll at least lose a hand or something."
Welcome to the newly named Baghdad International Airport, temporary home to an assortment of US forces who have converted the modern, if somewhat dusty, terminal building into a combination barracks, hospital, supply depot, and recreation center.
You can find the 308th Civil Affairs Brigade in the luggage loading area. The soldiers of V Corps are bedding down on the padded seats at Gates 42 and 43. And the Black Hawk helicopter pilots of the 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment have set up their cots in the arrivals lobby.
"We are living pretty well," says Brian Hubbard, a corporal with the 101st. He motions into the plushly decorated room where some of Mr. Hussein's buddies must have cooled their heels waiting for flights.
"We're sleeping on the leather couches," he says.
As any seasoned international air traveler knows, there is nothing unusual about occasionally having to camp out in an airport terminal for a night or two. But some of these soldiers have been here two weeks and counting without any plumbing and only limited electricity.
That means no air conditioning despite 90-degree-plus heat, and, more important, no working toilets.
Two enterprising members of the 308th solved that problem by locating several pieces of scrap wood, two halves of a 55-gallon drum, two rolling luggage carts, and a couple of toilet seats.
A few hours later, after a bit of sawing and nailing, Lt. Col. Zbigniew Litynski and Maj. Derek Schneider arranged those ingredients into a two-seat privy.
Some units have strung up field showers - a plastic bag and water nozzle surrounded by ponchos serving as shower curtains. But Colonel Litynski and Major Schneider are unimpressed. They're talking about converting a fuel pump and some plastic pipe into a real shower.
Despite a few obvious inconveniences, the airport terminal carries some distinct advantages for tired soldiers.
"We slept on a concrete slab last night in the middle of a mine field," says Spc. Stephen Shea, a Black Hawk helicopter crew member. He said the wind gusted to 50 knots and the dust and small stones sounded like rain pelting against the aluminum skin of the helicopter nearby. When he awoke in the morning, he was covered in dust.
To Specialist Shea, the arrivals terminal looks pretty good. "It's a lot better than concrete, especially in a dust storm," he says.
Spc. Daniel Crabtree of Streator, Ill., agrees. "It's fairly comfortable having an actual roof over your head," he says. "It's kind of like a luxury." He is positioning large pieces of drywall around a U-shaped area of seats that he is claiming as his own personal space near Gate 42. He says he prefers stretching out across the seats rather than using his Army-issued cot.
The troops do more than sleep and shower here. Just outside the bank in the arrivals lobby, someone has attached a DVD player to a working television set. On one recent day, about 30 soldiers were watching an episode of "Friends." Their laughter echoes though the cavernous hall.
For Staff Sgt. Robert Strawley of Mount Holly, N.J., bunking down in the airport is a battlefield accomplishment more than a convenience.
"This was a key objective for us," says Sergeant Strawley of the V Corps Battle Staff. "So it is a satisfying moment to occupy the airport and rename it Baghdad Airport rather than Saddam Airport."
The building itself is in fairly good shape and will probably not need extensive renovation prior to opening for international flights at some point in the future.
Most of the heavy fighting necessary to capture this strategic and highly symbolic location took place across the runway on the southwest approach to the airport. The only visible combat damage is a few strafed windows. And many of the doors in the building were kicked open by soldiers of the 3rd Infantry Division, as they conducted a room-to-room search for Iraqi forces.
In addition to the throng of US troops, the signs of military occupation are everywhere. Tanks and Bradley fighting vehicles rumble past on nearby roads. Humvees are in abundance. Helicopters are constantly arriving and leaving. And multiple flights of C-130 transport planes make the trip from Kuwait daily.
With only a few exceptions, it is now virtually impossible to find a portrait of Hussein at the airport. One of the few pictures still visible is a 15-foot-tall likeness of Hussein in a white suit with a paisley tie, painted on tile. It is located just outside the terminal building.
From a distance it appears untouched. But upon closer inspection, even this tribute has been slightly altered. With an ink marker someone has written in a comic-book bubble beside Hussein's mouth: "I Love France."
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2019-04-19T20:14:47Z
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https://www.csmonitor.com/2003/0430/p02s01-woiq.html
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cnn
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When you can't build up there's only one solution -- build down. At least that's the theory in some of London's wealthiest neighborhoods.
The UK capital is in the midst of a luxury basement boom, with well-heeled residents and developers excavating large areas underneath their homes and gardens. Some have used the extra space gained to install the likes of cinemas, gyms, wine cellars, golf simulators, bowling alleys and even swimming pools.
In the stylish borough of Chelsea and Kensington alone, there were 450 basement applications in 2013, according to figures provided to CNN by the local council. That's a 46% increase on 2012 and more than 500% increase on 2003 figures.
Reports indicate a similar story in nearby Westminster as well as Hammersmith and Fulham.
"People have been piling into the basement sector" in recent years, explained Stephen Merritt, managing director of specialist dig-down firm, London Basement. "We're probably doing around 30 to 40 projects a year now. (Clients) are definitely pushing the envelope more and more ... to create new basement space."
A lack of room and strict planning laws dictate that the facade of many of London's picturesque Victorian, Edwardian and Georgian-era neighborhoods must maintain their original character and outward appearance. This annuls the possibility of large extensions upwards and outwards. The simplest alternative therefore is to go down, Merritt explained.
"The price per square foot (of basement extension) in areas we work in is probably £400 to £500 per square foot (between $660 and $830 per sq ft). The extra space this brings is probably worth double that," he added.
As the UK property market heats up again, the extra value a kitted-out basement can provide is clearly an appealing option for investors and homeowners.
Where are the world's most expensive luxury properties?
But while underground digs are an increasingly common sight, the general concept of extending down is not new to London. Merritt says his company alone has been excavating in plush areas like Kensington since the mid to late 90s.
The difference today, however, is that the projects are becoming increasingly luxurious and ambitious. They have also spread to more modest, although still attractive neighborhoods, such as West Kensington, Wandsworth, Clapham and Fulham.
In some famous cases the operations extend as many as five stories underground.
Property mogul Leonard Blavatnik as well as composer Andrew Lloyd Webber have both reportedly excavated large areas beneath their palatial London properties in recent years.
Billionaire mobile phone mogul John Caudwell, meanwhile, has applied to dig beneath two mansions in the city's Mayfair district, replacing an existing basement pool and sauna area while extending further down.
These so called "iceberg basements" are the exception rather than the rule, however. Most extensions drop just one or two floors beneath the ground.
"I think for any property with a value over £2 million ($3.2 million) a basement extension is certainly a consideration for the owners," explained Rob Atkins of London estate agency, Domus Nova. "If you've lived in a house for 15 and 20 years and you cannot get a move for the right value then it is an option that can suit that growing family.
"You are now expected to pay 7% stamp duty (a tax on land and property transactions) on a move of over £2 million. All in, then, it might cost you 10% of your sell or your purchase to move house so people are looking inwardly instead of moving," he added.
These trends are similarly noted by developer Blaze Stojanovski. He believes the investment in a basement extension can be a smart one if made in the right location. Stojanovski currently owns 28 properties around west London and has added 11 basement extensions in recent years.
"On a price per square foot basements are hugely expensive, which is why 10 years ago people weren't really building them," he said. "As Fulham and other areas have come up price wise we have got to a stage where it is cost effective to dig basements."
But while keen to stress his experience of the positives, Stojanovski is also quick to point out that adding a basement in just any old house won't work.
"If you get the wrong property you could easily break even or lose money," he continued. "You have to make sure that the property is on the right street and it can justify a big investment like a basement."
Neighbors and those nearby, however, aren't always as keen.
Horror stories abound in London's local papers of skips falling through streets as the earth beneath is hollowed out while complaints about the inconvenience of noise and dust from dig sites is common.
"Our members have become increasingly worried by the nastiness of having great big holes dug next door to them," said Terence Bendixson, honorary secretary of planning at the Chelsea Society.
Could 'micro-homes' offer housing solution?
Randa Hanna of the Belgravia Residents Association meanwhile described "a multitude of problems" for residents in her area. "There were cases of serial fraud (with builders). There have also been instances of flooding and problems for neighbors living next door to the work," she added.
For the likes of Stojanovski and Merritt, these negative experiences are a genuine concern. Merritt believes there are few bad apples in the industry guilty of cutting corners but points to his own company's award-winning reputation as a considerate constructor.
As it stands, however, these complaints have done little to halt the attraction or number of applications for luxury basement digs. There have been rumors regarding a changing of the rules to limit underground extensions but these have yet to to be implemented in any London borough.
Given the international diversity of London's wealthiest residents and property investors, Stojanovski can even see the trend for subterranean extensions spreading to cities in other countries where space is tight and demand high.
Many of his current tenants are from outside the UK, while the majority of his recent sales have been to wealthy foreign investors.
"These people will be living and getting used to living in houses with basements," he said. "They will consider that and probably talk about that when they go back home.
"Therefore I wouldn't be surprised if you see that kind of basement living incorporated in houses for example in Paris, Rome, Vienna or Moscow in the future," he added.
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2019-04-25T23:46:13Z
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http://www.cnn.com/style/article/going-underground-london-luxury-basements/index.html
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(CNN) - After 8 hours of deliberations Thursday, a St. Louis jury awarded $4.69 billion to 22 women who sued pharmaceutical giant Johnson & Johnson alleging their ovarian cancer was caused by using its powder as a part of their daily feminine hygiene routine.
The jury award includes $550 million in compensatory damages and $4.14 billion in punitive damages. It's the largest verdict against the company that has sold Baby Powder and Shower to Shower brand talcum powder for decades.
A jury ruled in Johnson & Johnson's favor in one lawsuit in California last November. In October, a judge reversed two verdicts in favor of the company. A Missouri appeals court tossed out a $55 million verdict in June citing jurisdictional issues.
In 2006, the International Agency for Research in Cancer, which falls under the World Health Organization, decided to classify the use of talc in the genital area as "possibly carcinogenic to humans." In the US, government agencies and medical associations that track what causes cancer believe the topic needs more research to know for sure.
The US National Toxicology Program, part of the US Department of Health and Human Services, keeps a congressionally mandated list of "agents, substances, mixtures, and exposure circumstances that are known or reasonably anticipated to cause cancer in humans." Talc is not among the 248 listed; however, in 2010, when it was up for consideration to be included in the list, the agency explained that it has not fully reviewed talc as a possible carcinogen.
A separate but related set of lawsuits suggest Johnson & Johnson's powder is contaminated with asbestos. Asbestos, a well-known cancer-causing agent, is often mined near talc. A New Jersey couple was awarded $117 million after after the husband claimed the J&J powder he inhaled gave him mesothelioma, a cancer caused by asbestos exposure.
"For over 40 years, Johnson & Johnson has covered up the evidence of asbestos in their products," Mark Lanier, lead trial counsel for the women and their families, said in a statement. "We hope this verdict will get the attention of the J&J board and that it will lead them to better inform the medical community and the public about the connection between asbestos, talc, and ovarian cancer."
Doctors have noticed that talc particles have been in cancer tumors for decades, but it's been unclear how the contamination happened and if it led to the cancer. The women in this case claim to have all used talc based powder for decades to keep their bodies smelling fresh and clean, particularly in their genital area.
In a statement following the ruling, Johnson & Johnson said it is confident its "products do not contain asbestos and do not cause ovarian cancer,"
"Every verdict against Johnson & Johnson in this court that has gone through the appeals process has been reversed and the multiple errors present in this trial were worse than those in the prior trials which have been reversed."
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2019-04-20T09:12:50Z
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https://www.click2houston.com/health/469b-verdict-against-johnson-johnsons-over-powder
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cerebrum The largest part of the vertebrate brain. It consists of two cerebral hemispheres, which develop from the embryonic forebrain. The hemispheres have an outer convoluted layer of grey matter – the cerebral cortex – which contains an estimated ten billion nerve cells. Underneath this is white matter. The two halves of the cerebrum are linked by the corpus callosum. The function of the cerebrum is to integrate complex sensory and neural functions. The cerebrum is thought to play a critical role in the process of learning, which involves both short-term and long-term memory.
"cerebrum." A Dictionary of Biology. . Encyclopedia.com. 21 Apr. 2019 <https://www.encyclopedia.com>.
cerebrum (telencephalon) (se-ri-brŭm) n. the largest and most highly developed part of the brain, composed of the two cerebral hemispheres, separated from each other by the longitudinal fissure in the midline and connected at the base by the corpus callosum. The cerebrum is responsible for the initiation and coordination of all voluntary activity in the body and for governing the functioning of lower parts of the nervous system.
"cerebrum." A Dictionary of Nursing. . Encyclopedia.com. 21 Apr. 2019 <https://www.encyclopedia.com>.
cerebrum A pair of hemispheres originating from the anterior end of the fore brain: in primitive vertebrates it is concerned mainly with the olfactory sense, but in mammals it forms the largest part of the brain, with an increasingly convoluted cortex (grey matter), and is concerned with the analysis of sensory information and the instigation of responses. See also TELENCEPHALON.
"cerebrum." A Dictionary of Zoology. . Encyclopedia.com. 21 Apr. 2019 <https://www.encyclopedia.com>.
cerebrum Largest and most highly developed part of the brain, consisting of the cerebral hemispheres separated by a central fissure. It is covered by the cerebral cortex. It coordinates all higher functions and voluntary activity. The cerebrum is divided into hemispheres and four lobes, including paired frontal lobes that are the areas for learning and personality.
"cerebrum." World Encyclopedia. . Encyclopedia.com. 21 Apr. 2019 <https://www.encyclopedia.com>.
ce·re·brum / səˈrēbrəm; ˈserə-/ • n. (pl. -bra / -brə/ ) Anat. the principal and most anterior part of the brain in vertebrates, located in the front area of the skull and consisting of two hemispheres, left and right, separated by a fissure.
"cerebrum." The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English. . Encyclopedia.com. 21 Apr. 2019 <https://www.encyclopedia.com>.
"cerebrum." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. . Encyclopedia.com. 21 Apr. 2019 <https://www.encyclopedia.com>.
"cerebrum." Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes. . Encyclopedia.com. 21 Apr. 2019 <https://www.encyclopedia.com>.
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2019-04-21T08:58:55Z
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https://www.encyclopedia.com/medicine/anatomy-and-physiology/anatomy-and-physiology/cerebrum
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LEGACY — The Lighthouse Center, Inc.
I think it's pretty typical, when you're at a funeral, to think about your own demise. And today, as I attended a funeral, I was doing just that. I was thinking about my own funeral when the pastor mentioned the word, "legacy". My thoughts then went to what legacies I might be leaving, how I might have influenced people, whose lives I might have touched. But before I could get very far with that line of thinking, my thoughts drifted to the legacies I had received.
The first legacies that came to mind were from my mother. From her I learned that cooking and entertaining can be fun and exciting. And then I thought about the stuffed mushroom caps that I used to love and can't duplicate. I learned that its not where you buy your clothes, but how you wear them that's important. And there was an unspoken message that expensive jewelry was not important, not to be expected, and not to be asked for. Her final legacy was an Edgar Cayce book, left on her dresser at the time of her death, which sent me on a spiritual journey that has continued ever since.
My father's legacy was his work ethic. It was never talked about. It was one of those silent legacies that you don't even know you're getting.
From my grandfather I learned that you never touch the principle.
From my grandmother I learned that beneath a subservient exterior can lie a very capable woman.
From Jim and Max I learned the art of intrepid traveling.
My mother-in-law's legacy was thriftiness. She would only put three inches of water in the tub to conserve water and keep down the expense of heating it.
And so, as I reflected on the legacies I had received, I realized that we are unaware when we pick them up, that some are said out loud and others are unspoken, that the degree to which a person is important to us affects what we take from them.
And then I realized that we have no idea when we're influencing someone else's life. We really don't know what legacies we are leaving behind. However, I do know this, and it's a quote from Oprah, "We never touch a person's life so lightly that we do not leave a trace."
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2019-04-18T21:06:21Z
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http://sabra-house-d5jp.squarespace.com/new-blog/2016/1/30/legacy
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Since French fur traders first settled here, Quebec City has triumphed as the heart of French Canada. Churches dating back to the 1600s offer a quiet retreat from the chaos of urbanity, while sprawling green parks play host to historic battlefields and modern-day Frisbee games. It may be the closest to France you can get without crossing the Atlantic, but Quebec City has a flavor all its own.
The quaint plaza of Place-Royale is as French as Canada gets, with a bust of Louis XIV marking the center of the square. Here you'll also find one of Quebec's oldest churches, built in 1688. In the 17th century, this plaza hosted a bustling market -- and it's still the heart of the city.
The Musee de la Civilisation (mcq.org) is a culture-packed museum, with traveling exhibits about everything from religion to Rome's history. The diversity makes for an entertaining visit, whether it's your first time or your hundredth.
Perched on the St. Lawrence River, Battlefields Park -- known in French as Parc des Champs-de-Bataille -- is a romantic picnic spot, whether you visit with a lover, family or friends. Take a stroll around the Plains of Abraham, the site of a 1759 battle in the French and Indian War. Frommer's recommends visiting for the views, especially when families flock here on weekends.
Situated at the edge of Battlefields Park, the Musee du Quebec (mnba.qc.ca) is a former prison that now holds art from around the world. Adults can enjoy the Inuit art collection and the work of local artists while children enjoy hands-on projects in the crafts room.
The star-shaped La Citadelle (lacitadelle.qc.ca) has been perched on the St. Lawrence River since the 1750s. Once a formidable French fortress, it now hosts changing of the guard ceremonies every summer day at 10 a.m. and soldiers beating the retreat on drums every Friday at 7 p.m. in the summer.
This hilltop hotel seems built by a giant as it looms over the waterfront, dwarfing the buildings beneath it. Once a 17th century castle with turrets, the Fairmont Le Chateau Frontenac (fairmont.com) became a hotel in 1925 and has extended its hospitality to Alfred Hitchcock, Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, Ronald Reagan and Queen Elizabeth, according to Fodor's.
Governors' Park -- known in French as Jardin des Gouveneurs -- is a quaint park near the Chateau Frontenac. Take a stroll down the avenue Ste-Genevieve to view 19th century Victorian houses, or stand in awe of the 50-foot Wolfe-Montcalm Monument.
This cozy tree-lined park sprawls from a central statue of Joan of Arc on horseback -- a tribute to the French Canadians who lost their land to the British near this spot in 1759, according to Fodor's. In the summer, you'll find the park covered in colorful flowers.
The Hotel du Parlement (assnat.qc.ca) has witnessed the drama of regional politics since the 1880s. You can take a free, 30-minute tour of the building or call to reserve a seat watching the National Assembly and its standing committees.
The Frommer's-recommended Notre-Dame de Quebec belongs to the UNESCO World Heritage Historic District of Old Quebec. Inside, you can pray beneath its ornate ceiling -- which includes glittering gold leaf -- or unravel its history through two fires back to 1647.
Mackenzie, Ashley. "Top 10 Things to See in Quebec City." Travel Tips - USA Today, https://traveltips.usatoday.com/top-10-things-see-quebec-city-63411.html. 21 March 2018.
A picture of Quebec Winter Carnival.
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2019-04-23T16:10:55Z
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https://traveltips.usatoday.com/top-10-things-see-quebec-city-63411.html
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In this chapter we begin to examine some general recommendations for enhancing the end user's experience. This chapter also has an in-depth sample that creates a service using many pieces of the services infrastructure, as well as a Cisco IP Phone Services Software Developer Kit (SDK) component. The sample service demonstrates some of the recommended techniques for service behavior. Some of the recommended methods are explained in further detail with the sample service walkthrough.
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2019-04-23T09:28:36Z
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https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/developing-cisco-ip/1587050609/ch07.html
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The Battle Rages On — მძიმე როკ ჯგუფ Deep Purple-ის მეთოთხმეტე სტუდიური ალბომი, რომელიც გამოვიდა 1993 წელს. ეს არის უკანასკნელი ალბომი, რომელიც ჩაიწერა რიჩი ბლეკმორთან ერთად. რიჩიმ საბოლოოდ დატოვა ჯგუფი 1993 წლის ნოემბერში.
ჯგუფის კლასიკური, Mk2 ტიპის პერსონალი გაერთიანდა პირველად ალბომის Perfect Strangers ჩაწერის შემდეგ. ჯო ლინ ტერნერის თქმით, ეს ალბომი უფრო მეტად იყო The Cattle Grazes On (რქოსანი შეიშალა), რადგანაც, მისივე თქმით, სანამ მას არ გაუშვებდნენ ჯგუფიდან, ალბომისთვის მზად იყო უფრო ღირებული მუსიკალური მასალა და Deep Purple-მა მხოლოდ გადაამუშავა მისი იდეები.
↑ Deep Purple The Battle Rages On... review. Allmusic. Rovi Corporation. წაკითხვის თარიღი: 1 მარტი 2014.
↑ Bowling, David. (21 დეკემბერი 2011) Music Review: Deep Purple – The Battle Rages On. Blogcritics. წაკითხვის თარიღი: 10 თებერვალი 2017.
↑ Popoff, Martin (1 აგვისტო 2007) The Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal: Volume 3: The Nineties. Burlington, Ontario, Canada: Collector's Guide Publishing, გვ. 108–109. ISBN 978-1-894959-62-9.
↑ Breusch, Matthias (აგვისტო 1993). "Deep Purple – The Battle Rages On" (გერმანული). Rock Hard (75). http://www.rockhard.de/megazine/reviewarchiv/review-anzeigen/8913-the-battle-rages-on.html. წაკითხვის თარიღი: 2 მარტი 2014.
↑ "Deep Purple – The Battle Rages On" (გერმანული). Metal Hammer (54). აგვისტო 1993. https://www.metal-hammer.de/reviews/deep-purple-the-battle-rages-on/. წაკითხვის თარიღი: 2 მარტი 2014.
↑ ディープ・パープルのアルバム売り上げランキング იაპონურად. Oricon. დაარქივებულია ორიგინალიდან - 5 ივნისი 2014. წაკითხვის თარიღი: 1 მარტი 2014.
↑ Deep Purple – The Battle Rages On... გერმანული. Hitparade.ch. Media Control Charts. წაკითხვის თარიღი: 1 მარტი 2014.
↑ Deep Purple – The Battle Rages On... (album). Swedishcharts.com. Media Control Charts. წაკითხვის თარიღი: 1 მარტი 2014.
↑ Deep Purple – The Battle Rages On... (album) გერმანული. Austriancharts.at. Media Control Charts. წაკითხვის თარიღი: 1 მარტი 2014.
↑ Albumit 1993-08 elokuu Finnish. Wiki.pomus.net. წაკითხვის თარიღი: 22 მარტი 2017.
↑ Deep Purple – The Battle Rages On... (album). Norwegiancharts.com. Media Control Charts. წაკითხვის თარიღი: 1 მარტი 2014.
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↑ Deep Purple – Albums. ოფიციალური ჩარტების კომპანია. წაკითხვის თარიღი: 1 მარტი 2014.
↑ Deep Purple – The Battle Rages On... (album) Dutch. GfK Dutch Charts. Media Control Charts. წაკითხვის თარიღი: 1 მარტი 2014.
↑ Deep Purple Chart History: Billboard 200. Billboard. წაკითხვის თარიღი: 5 თებერვალი 2017.
ეს გვერდი ბოლოს დარედაქტირდა: 12:54, 1 ივლისი 2017.
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2019-04-20T06:16:24Z
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https://ka.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Battle_Rages_On
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wordpress
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It’s April 28, 2017. I know I don’t need to iterate that, since it’s probably everywhere on the screen, but it’s glaring at me. I have only published twice in the last year, and less than 10 in the last two.
I miss blogging. I miss writing. I miss having more time to myself. But a lot has changed in such a short amount of time.
One minute, I’m grabbing a coffee on my way to class, thinking about graduation and getting excited for my wedding. The next, I’m grabbing a coffee so I can handle the day alone with my 7 month old little girl; my husband at his job in D.C.
I think about frames of mind quite a bit, how your daily experience shapes who you are and how you perceive everything around you.
Now two years later I see her at the grocery store, baby in one arm and a shopping basket in the other. I see that she’s there during work hours and unbeknownst to everyone around, she actually does have a Bachelor’s and a Master’s degree. But maybe that’s not obvious with her mismatched hijab, trousers, over-sized blouse and casual Nikes. Oh, and bouncing, relentless baby.
But I don’t give myself enough credit. I’m taking care of three, sometimes four or five other people. I cook, I clean. I tolerate. I’m not just a holder of proofs of education. I carried a baby for 9 months, often painfully and in sickness. I had that baby cut out of me unexpectedly one night, but she was still perfect. All 5 pounds, 8 oz of her. She is still perfect, even though her mother might not be.
I went through post-partum depression. A battle I still fight peripherally with anti-depressants and a variety of obsessions (oh, there have been plenty…lipstick, crochet, and iced coffee).
I take pains not to let my daughter look at screens so much, but hilariously, I’m always surrounded by them myself. Imagine telling your child to be quiet and look away, while you desperately seek escapism through your Instagram feed. Try telling your mother and father in law not to let the baby watch Television, while you plan to catch up on a Netflix show later on. Go on, laugh at me trying to cling to my habits and motherhood at once, I’ve done it. Then I’ve shrugged helplessly and continued on.
It’s a mad juggle, honestly. You can cook a perfect meal, do the dishes, some cleaning, and do laundry later. Or you can do laundry now, make a somewhat decent supper, do the dishes, and save the rest for later. You can sleep when the baby sleeps, or you can use that time to do something for yourself. You can go to bed early and be energized for whatever life has for you the next day, InshAllah, or you can watch a movie with your husband. But you can’t really compromise on being a mother.
That’s 24/7, 365 glorious, exhausting, completely incredible days of the year, InshAllah.
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2019-04-24T20:10:54Z
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https://afootonthethreshold.wordpress.com/tag/nesha-usmani/
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Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha L.K. Advani today rejected clarifications from the PMO over Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s remark on plans for minorities.
India should not negotiate further with Washington on the civilian nuclear cooperation as the Bill passed by the US Congress and the Senate undermines New Delhi’s independent foreign policy, said Prakash Karat, CPM general secretary here today.
In a setback to the Congress, Mr Sawinder Singh Kathunangal, MLA and chairman of the Punjab Food Agro Corporation, along with five others, were arrested in an old land grab case here today following the rejection of his appeal by the sessions court.
Sensex plunged 400.06 points to close at 13,399.43 as foreign and domestic funds hammered down banking stocks in the wake of RBI decision to hike the cash reserve ratio by 0.5 per cent last weekend.
The first meeting of the Working Group on Jammu and Kashmir to strengthen relations between the troubled state and the Centre will be held here tomorrow.
Days ahead of the fifth anniversary of the Parliament attack, two LeT militants have been arrested from Mahipalpur bus stop in South Delhi.
OPINIONS: Prime Minister in waiting!
He practised what he preached. As willed by him, the body of Mr Saroop Krishen, the first Chief Secretary of Haryana, who died at his residence here last night, was sent to the PGI for research and other medical purposes. He was 91.
He had dinner, enjoyed his dessert and sat up to pen his next middle, a middle he was not destined to complete.
Middle: Tempt fate — and run hard for cover!
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2019-04-20T02:15:03Z
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https://www.tribuneindia.com/2006/20061212/
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proboards
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We have been sustaining 5 games a week for a few weeks now (Tuesday to Thursday, Saturday and Sunday). If we are to have an additional game each week, when should it be? There is a poll here.
Lots of places left for the coming week. Put your name down early if you wish to play on a particular day. If you put your name down later, settle for the places that are left.
You can SMS me if you are unable to access the message board. However, you bear the risk of the places being filled before I get round to putting your name down.
Certain games are more popular than others and fill up fast.
The basic principle is put your name down early if you want to play in the popular games. If the places fill up before then, there are lots of other games to choose from.
I am not inclined to increase the number of places in a game just to accommodate more players, as it may adversely affect the enjoyment of those who put their names down early. If necessary, the number of places will be decided by a poll.
Once the maximum number is reached, anyone else can only be in reserve.
On the other hand, please don't just put your name down for a popular game just to reserve a place for yourself without knowing whether you can play. Anyone who frequently withdraws, especially at a very late stage, or worse, fails to turn up, for a popular game, may be prevented from putting their name down for that game for a period of time.
Registered members putting names down for others is a privilege, and shouldn't be taken for granted. Please confirm with your friends (whether they are registered or not) before putting their name down for them, and remind them on the day itself to be on time and to bring the right colours.
One more reason why regulars should register early as members.
After the debacle of one registered member putting 14 names down in the first hour after the scheduling thread for this Sunday's game was put up, with immediate effect, no one can put more than 3 names (including his own) down for a game in the first 24 hours after the scheduling thread for that game is put up.
If more than 3 names are put up, the first three will be included in the list, while the remainder will be moved to reserve. If there are still places left after 24 hours, those in reserve will be moved up to fill those places.
This will continue to apply until a more comprehensive solution for overly-popular games can be implemented.
Beyond this Sunday and the next couple of weeks, I will use the introduction of prepayment to deter registered members from putting names down for too many others. Pricing may also be used to encourage players to switch from more popular games to less popular games.
After today's complications, I will not put names down for anyone other than myself in the first 24 hours after the scheduling thread for a popular game is put up. I encourage all registered members to do the same.
If it continues to be an issue, it may have to be that no one can put names down for others in the first 24 or 48 hours.
I've started a separate thread on prepayment. Until prepayment is fully introduced, I don't think the systems proposed above will work for more popular games, and will hinder less popular games.
* Popular games will be specifically designated as a popular game on the scheduling thread.
* From the time the scheduling thread is put up until 18 hours before the game, registered members can only put their own name down for a popular game. In the last 48 hours before the game, the game will be opened up to anyone else. If the places are already full, any one else can only be in reserve.
* The scheduling thread for popular games will be put up 5 days before the game as usual, but at about 11 pm instead of earlier in the day, so that those who cannot access the message board can access it from home.
To start with, the Sunday 5 to 6 pm game at the Premier Pitch and the Tuesday 9 to 10 pm game at Sports Planet will be designated as popular games.
However, if the places for these games are very slow to fill up, the restriction may be relaxed.
In order to accommodate those who want to be sure of playing with their friends, I have tried to get extra pitches at the popular times or the popular venues for extra games. However, as it is not possible to get an extra big pitch between 4 and 7 pm at the Premier Pitch on Sundays (with the 6 to 7 pm booking being used for the women's game), I have taken a big pitch from 5 to 6 pm at Sports Planet for this Sunday.
For weeknights, 9 to 10 pm on the big pitch at Sports Planet, I have an extra booking for next Wednesday (1 December 2010) on the big pitch.
There will be no restrictions at present on putting names down for the Thursday game, the Saturday game and the above extra games.
With quite a few people travelling, I'll relax the restriction on popular games. You can put up to 2 other names (apart from your own). The game will still be opened up 48 hours before the game.
The restrictions on popular games will be removed once prepayment system is fully implemented for that game.
Now that the Wednesday night game is also on the 7-a-side pitch at Sports Planet, and prepayment has been more strictly applied to the Tuesday night game, the numbers for each of the three night games on the 7-a-side pitch at Sports Planet (Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday) have been fairly even.
For the weekend, as more players have gotten used to playing on Saturday, and some of the Sunday regulars are not as regular as before, numbers between Saturday and Sunday on the big pitch at the Premier Pitch have also become more even.
There doesn't appear to be any overly popular games anymore, which is a good thing. Hopefully, having lots of reserves for overly popular games, and lack of players for other games, is a thing of the past.
For now, no more restrictions or requirements specifically to deal with more popular games or to get players to switch from more popular games to less popular games.
Although there are no more restrictions or requirements specifically to deal with more popular games or to get players to switch from more popular games to less popular games, if you are putting names down for others, please limit it to two others (other than yourself) in the first 72 hours after the thread is put up.
This was introduced to prevent all the places being filled up quickly by one or a few players putting names down for others after the schedule thread is put up.
However, after 72 hours, you can put more names down. As the schedule thread for regular games is usually put up 5 days before hand, 72 hours later is about 48 to 60 hours before the game.
Registered members can put their own names down for games.
* For a friend who is playing as a guest or who hasn't registered yet.
* For a player who doesn't have access to the message board for a significant period of time after the schedule thread is put up.
* For one or two friends if the two or three of you really want to play in the same game, and on the same team.
Both the person putting the name down for another, and the person whose name is put down, are both responsible for ensuring the latter turns up, or withdraws once he realises he can't make the game, more so the former.
I apply the above principles to myself as well.
Alex F SMSed me. I've reminded him that I try not to put anyone's names down for them until after the 48-hour cut-off. Anyway, it's quite close to the cut-off, and since Uday will play too, and he isn't as familiar with the system, I'll put both their names down for them this time.
This is especially so for prepayment games, as it gives priority to those who both put their own names down and prepay, but it also applies to all regular games. Again, those who put their own names down should have priority.
Even where it is a friend who wants to play, I will only put their name down for them before the 48-hour cut-off if I am playing in the same game.
However, I may occasionally help new or newer players by putting their names down for them.
Also, if a game gets cancelled, I will readily help those who put their names down for that game put their names down for another game, subject to availability. I put the names of John J and Eam down for Wednesday night after the Monday night game got cancelled.
This game filled up about a day after the schedule thread was put up, and there are currently 4 reserves. Mark T has suggested playing an extra hour from 10 to 11 pm. Follow the link to discuss the suggestion.
In any event, there is always the risk of withdrawals before the game. There are also 3 places still left for the game on Thursday night.
Further, there is an ongoing poll on having an extra weeknight 7-a-side game. So far, only two players have voted.
In the end, one of the reserves withdrew, so there were only 3 reserves. On the other hand, there might have been other players who didn't put their names down for tonight's game as there were already reserves early on.
There were also 4 reserves for the game last Thursday night (although we were short by one the Thursday before). The weeknight games this week are all full now, with 1 reserve for Thursday as well.
If the three weeknight 7-a-side games consistently fill up on the message board, I will start an additional weeknight 7-a-side game sooner rather than later.
However, players need to be flexible enough to switch to the additional game.
PS. The Monday night game at The Cage serves a different section of players.
As tomorrow night's game is cancelled, I've put the names of those who can switch to Thursday night down for them.
Justin is away for the rest of this week, and has asked me to put his name down for Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday next week.
I can do that on a one-off basis.
There was a time when the Sunday game at Turf City was so popular we had two games on the big pitch on Sundays.
However, numbers for Sunday dwindled from the end of last year onwards, and recently, for a couple of weeks (27 February and 6 March 2011), we only had enough players for the small pitch.
The Saturday game at Turf City is now more popular. From the time a Saturday game was re-started at Turf City on 17 April 2010 until towards the end of last year, it used to be a struggle to fill.
Even though those who play on Saturday prefer to keep it at 7-a-side on the big pitch, we have gotten up to 16 players on the message board alone over the past two weekends.
A year on, and we still have 5 game a week, but while a year ago, only two were 7 or 8-a-side (that is, about 58 to 60 players a week), now, they are all 7 or 8-a-side (70 to 72 players a week).
The popular games are now Tuesday and Saturday. There are often several reserves for Tuesday, including the games last week and this week.
While the Saturday game has become popular, the Sunday game has become harder to fill.
Even though the Saturday game is designated as 7-a-side while the Sunday game is designated 8-a-side, we have been getting 14 plus 2 reserves for the Saturday game but struggling to get 14 for the Sunday game.
I have also been trying to re-introduce a Monday night game at The Cage, but after having good games on 7 and 21 March 2011, the game has been cancelled over the two weeks due to insufficient numbers. This week's game was cancelled, and as the Monday night game at Turf City was short of players, several players switched to that game.
I will try to keep the Monday night game at The Cage going, if for no reason other than to have a regular 5-a-side game.
The Wednesday night game has been switched to the Premier Pitch @ Khalsa. The first game there was a fortnight ago. Although the game last week was cancelled due to the Cricket World Cup semifinal between India and Pakistan, tomorrow's game is on.
The Tuesday and Saturday games are currently the most popular.
* For all games, up to 48 hours before a game, any one member can only put a maximum of two names down, other than his own. This affects popular games more than other games.
* Prepayment has been introduced for weeknight games, and is strictly applied to the Tuesday game. I need to introduce prepayment for the Saturday game sooner rather than later. It will be easier if I move the game to the Premier Pitch @ Khalsa.
Jamie, who is relatively, new, put four names down for Tuesday's game, stating he would pay for all four. Jamie and one other of the four (Kelvin Koh) have played before, and the other two are completely new.
I e-mailed him to inform him the limit was two names other than his own, and whether Kelvin could register and put his own name down, or one of their mutual friends (Bryan F or Rai) could put Kelvin's name down for him. In the end, Bryan put Kelvin's name down for him.
Jamie made prepayment for all four soon after I e-mailed him. In hindsight, as prepayment was made early enough, I should have allowed Jamie to put four names.
In future, a member can put more names down provided prepayment is made early enough. Even then, I would not want one member to fill up all the places in a game, so even where prepayment is made, there will be a limit of four.
Surprisingly, couldn't get enough players for tonight (Tuesday night), so I had to fill in to make 14. Everyone seems very busy at work.
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2015-01-28 Assigned to MCI, INC. reassignment MCI, INC. ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNORS INTEREST (SEE DOCUMENT FOR DETAILS). Assignors: SHAW, DARRYL W., GUNASEKAR, GUNA D., LAWSON-SHANKS, PHILLIP E., MOORE, RICHARD G.
An approach is provided for supporting a plurality of communication modes through universal identification. A core identifier is generated for uniquely identifying a user among a plurality of users within the communication system. One or more specific identifiers are derived based upon the core identifier, wherein the specific identifiers serve as addressing information to the respective communication modes. The specific identifiers and the core identifier are designated as a suite of identifiers allocated to the user.
This application is a continuation of U.S. application Ser. No. 10/975,215, filed Oct. 28, 2004, which claims the benefit of the earlier filing date under 35 U.S.C. §119(e) of, U.S. Provisional Patent Application Ser. No. 60/537,896, filed Jan. 22, 2004; the entireties of which are incorporated herein by reference.
The present invention relates to communications, and more particularly, to providing integrated communication services.
Given the competitive landscape of communication services, service providers need to be more innovative in seeking new sources of revenue. When developing new services, service providers are ever mindful of cost. In general, the introduction of new communication services requires a large investment in new infrastructure, not to mention development costs. It is observed that, despite the popularity of the Internet and its many applications, the development of data communications has remained largely independent from voice communications and telephony services. In other words, the advancement in services on the telephony side has not been well integrated on the data network side. A key problem with the development of the numerous, diverse communication services concerns addressing, whereby users of such services find managing the multiplicity of telephone numbers, emails, user identifiers, etc. increasingly intractable.
Conventionally, a user is required to employ several disparate systems and service providers to engage in various modes of communication, ranging from telephony to instant messaging services. Generally, each communication system may employ a different addressing scheme by which parties or devices are specified. For example, a user may have one or more telephones numbers; e.g., home number, work number, and cellular number. Additionally, the user may also have pager or facsimile devices, each with their own telephone numbers. Beyond these telephony-based services, other staple communication services are executed over data communication networks, such as electronic mail and information/entertainment delivery. The popularity of instant messaging has also afforded the user with yet another avenue to communicate. Yet another way that the user may engage in communication is through use of a web site. For each of these modes of communication, the user is forced to use different separate accounts with different telephone numbers and/or addresses. For example, cable television requires use of a subscriber's name and street address.
Therefore, there is a need for an integrated approach to providing comprehensive communication services. There is also a need to deploy a communications service that utilizes existing infrastructure. There is a further need to support a new source of revenue for communication services.
These and other needs are addressed by the present invention, in which an approach is presented for providing a services overlay network encompassing a data network and a telephony network to support comprehensive communication services. These communication services can include toll free telephony service, paging, audio conferencing, video conferencing, electronic mail, and instant messaging. A suite of identifiers are assigned to a subscriber, wherein the identifiers include a core identifier providing a unique identifier for the subscriber within the overlay network, as well as one or more specific identifiers corresponding to different communication modes or services. The specific identifiers provide addressing information for the respective communication modes, and can be derived based upon the core identifier by concatenating (or “encapsulating”) the core identifier with text relevant to the corresponding communication mode. With the above arrangement, a party seeking to contact the subscriber need only have knowledge of one of the identifiers to reach the subscriber over any communication medium.
Also, the overlay network retrieves a profile of the user, wherein the profile specifies a plurality of addresses relating to the one communication service. The above arrangement advantageously provides an integrated approach to communication services using existing communication infrastructure. This approach also provides service providers with a new, viable source of revenue.
According to one aspect of the present invention, a method for providing universal identification in a communication system supporting a plurality of communication modes is disclosed. The method includes generating a core identifier for uniquely identifying a user among a plurality of users within the communication system. The method also includes deriving one or more specific identifiers based upon the core identifier, wherein the specific identifiers serve as addressing information to the respective communication modes. Further, the method includes storing the specific identifiers and the core identifier, and designating the specific identifiers and the core identifier as a suite of identifiers allocated to the user.
According to another aspect of the present invention, a computer-readable medium carrying one or more sequences of one or more instructions for providing universal identification in a communication system supporting a plurality of communication modes is disclosed. The one or more sequences of one or more instructions including instructions which, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform the step of generating a core identifier for uniquely identifying a user among a plurality of users within the communication system. Another step includes deriving one or more specific identifiers based upon the core identifier, wherein the specific identifiers serve as addressing information to the respective communication modes. Additional other steps include storing the specific identifiers and the core identifier, and designating the specific identifiers and the core identifier as a suite of identifiers allocated to the user.
According to another aspect of the present invention, a computing system for supporting universal identification is disclosed. The system includes a processor configured to generate a core identifier for uniquely identifying a user among a plurality of users, wherein the processor is further configured to derive one or more specific identifiers based upon the core identifier, the specific identifiers serving as addressing information to respective communication modes. The system also includes a memory configured to store the specific identifiers and the core identifier, wherein the specific identifiers and the core identifier are designated as a suite of identifiers allocated to the user.
According to yet another aspect of the present invention, a method of enabling inter-party communications is disclosed. The method includes assigning a suite of communication identifiers to a communication subscriber drawn from a pool of candidate communication subscribers. The suite of communication identifiers includes a primary communication identifier and at least one secondary communication identifier. The primary communication identifier singularly identifies the communication subscriber among the pool of candidate subscribers and serves as an address for the communication subscriber in a first communication medium. Each secondary communication identifier serves as an address for the communication subscriber in an alternate communication medium; each secondary communication identifier including the primary communication identifier and a medium identifier indicative of a corresponding alternate communication medium.
A system, method, and software for supporting addressing in an overlay network providing comprehensive communication services are described. In the following description, for the purposes of explanation, numerous specific details are set forth in order to provide a thorough understanding of the present invention. It is apparent, however, to one skilled in the art that the present invention may be practiced without these specific details or with an equivalent arrangement. In other instances, well-known structures and devices are shown in block diagram form in order to avoid unnecessarily obscuring the present invention.
FIG. 1 is a diagram of a communication system employing a services overlay network for providing communication services, according to an embodiment of the present invention. A communication system 100 can be deployed to provide integrated, comprehensive communication services, ranging from traditional telephony services with enhanced calling features to instant communication (or instant messaging) services. As seen, an overlay network 101 accommodates a variety of media and modes of communication, advantageously providing flexibility and customizability in the manner such communications are conducted. The network 101 provides numerous enhanced features, e.g., as directory and conferencing services, to facilitate establishment of communication sessions among parties. The overlay network 101 is “comprehensive” in a sense that a single subscription or user account encompasses several modes of communication across different communication platforms.
By way of example, given that the services are comprehensive and involve a multiplicity of different communication platforms, the services are supported with an overlay network 101 controlled by a service provider. The services overlay network 101 encompasses the following components and subsystems: a presence information server 103, an e-mail server 105, a media server 107, a shared web and file system space 109, an active directory 111, and a relational database 113 (e.g., Structured Query Language (SQL) based system), and a certificate and security server 115. In addition, the services overlay network 101 supports telephony services over data communication systems (e.g., Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP)) through, for example, a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) proxy 117. Further, a voice mail system 119 is included in the overlay network 101, as well as a video services system 121. Extensive conferencing capabilities are offered by a conferencing gateway 123 and a live meeting conferencing system 125, such as an application or screen sharing service. An intelligent information translator 126 can also be supported by the services overlay network 101. The translator 126 can provide protocol translation among disparate communication systems, and conversion among different communication modalities, as well as linguistic services (e.g., conversion from English to Chinese).
Under this exemplary scenario, the service provider also has an operation support system (OSS) 127, which supplies a variety of management and operational functions relating to the services overlay network 101. From a business perspective, the OSS 127 contains a billing module 129 for tracking usage and applying appropriate charges, a services provisioning module 131 for procuring the communication services, a sales module 133 to support sales activities, and a business intelligence module 135 for effecting business rules and policies. The OSS 127 further includes a network engineering module 137 for providing maintenance and monitoring activities to ensure proper performance of the services overlay network 101. A fraud module 139 is provided to monitor potential fraudulent activities associated with the many communication services offered by the services overlay network 101. Further, a logging and audit module 141 is included for tracking activities of the network 101.
In this example, a circuit-switched telephony system 143 operated by the service provider employs Class 3 and/or Class 5 switches to communicate with a Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) 145, which serves telephone stations 147. The telephony system 143 also has access to a cellular network 149 supporting cellular devices (e.g., cell phone 151).
As shown, the services overlay network 101 has connectivity via an overlay network common interface 150 to a public data network, such as the global Internet 153, which can support a multitude of devices (e.g., desktop PCs, laptops, Personal Digital Assistant (PDAs), smart phones, set top box, or other network device) and clients (e.g., browser, IM client, etc.). The overlay network common interface 150 provides a common, reusable access point to the business services within the overlay network 101 so that the functions of this network 101 can be instantiated, modified, queried, monitored, audited and used in a standardized manner (e.g., eXtensible Markup Language (XML) web service).
Because of the breadth of communication service offerings in conventional systems, a user can engage in varying modes of communication, which as noted above involves use of diverse communication platforms. For example, when a first user (“calling party”) wishes to communicate with another user (“called party”), or to locate or obtain information about the called party, the calling party selects a mode of communication and then recalls or obtains an address or identifier that is compatible with the mode of communication. The identifier specifies the called party or at least a device (e.g., phone, fax machine, computer, gaming console, television, etc.) that the called party is believed to be using for the communications. The calling party may then attempt to communicate using the chosen communication mode. If this attempt is unsuccessful, the calling party may have to select a different mode, apply a different address pertaining to the alternative mode and attempt communications again.
Terms such as “calling party” and “called party” are used herein to refer to parties that are to engage in communication, not simply in the context of telephony communications. In many of the scenarios described below, the “called party” will usually be a subscriber of the service supplied by the overlay network 101. For convenience, these terms are borrowed from the familiar field of traditional telephony, but it should be understood that many forms of communication may be sought and achieved other than a telephone call. Furthermore, the resultant communications may be real-time, two-way communications, such as telephony, or may be unidirectional or “asynchronous” like the sending of voice-mail and e-mail.
Beyond telephone numbers, a user may maintain other addressing information corresponding to other communication services, such as e-mail, and instant communications. These modes of communication involve a packet-switched data network as a primary transport. For each of these modes of communication, conventionally, the user possesses many separate accounts or may have a single account associated with several aliases. Yet another way that the user may be available, in some sense, in a communications environment is through a web site, or similar shared network based space. In this instance, the user may post information for others to view and respond to.
In the case of telephone communications, the “Find-me” feature has been implemented to try to reach a called party at multiple locations, thereby alleviating the need for a calling party to remember the numerous telephone numbers and to manually dial such numbers. As a further refinement, the list of phone numbers associated with the called party and maintained by the network is frequently updated to improve the likelihood of reaching the called party as quickly and efficiently as possible.
Another approach developed in telephony systems involves providing multiple services via a single call to an interactive platform, whereby a so-called “single number platform” provides telephone, pager, facsimile and voice-mail deposit. Even under these systems, other modes of communication, such as those supported over data communications networks, are excluded from this single number platform because such services employ an entirely different infrastructure in terms of hardware and software.
While Find-me features and single number platform approaches provide some relief in telephony communications, neither approach, as traditionally deployed, addresses the problem of managing the many disparate systems, interfaces, addressing schemes and different service providers associated with the variety of communication modes. Furthermore, traditional Find-me feature seeks to locate a called party on a trial-and-error (and often sequential) basis, which can be slow, inefficient and inconvenient to the calling party.
By contrast to these telephony-based services, the overlay network 101 integrates services from both the telephony and data arenas. The overlay network 101 provides for unification of communication services as well as supports presence mechanisms. For example, the overlay network 101 seamlessly supports media crossover from telephony sessions to instant communication or messaging sessions and electronic mails, despite the fact that such services involve different media types (e.g., audio versus textual data) and different terminal devices or user interfaces. As a further contrast, instant messaging (IM) and e-mail communications are addressed using alphanumeric identifiers, which differ substantially from traditional telephone numbers.
It is recognized that “presence” information, which indicates a user's availability to communicate at a particular device or address, plays an important role in integrating communication services. When presence is employed to facilitate the establishment of communications, the presence information server 103 maintains timely information about where the party may be located, at least logically, within the communications system 100. Presence can be conveyed in a number of ways. For instance, a subscriber using some form of communication device, such as a SIP telephone or an instant messaging client, can explicitly indicate their availability to communicate by performing a registration or by simply logging into an interface. The centralized presence information, as provided by the overlay network 101 via the presence information server 103, provides for multi-modes of access for updating presence status.
To appreciate the architectural advantages provided by the services overlay network 101, an alternative scenario is described such that the functionalities of the network 101 (to the extent possible) are effected at the end-user equipment, as opposed to the network. The end user can conceivably achieve a limited integration or interoperation among, for example, telephony, IM and e-mail. That is, because these various modes of communication converge within the one computer, it may be possible to provide some rudimentary degree of integration. The availability of all these capabilities relies upon the user's personal computer remaining operational at all times and being able to access the various IM, telephone and e-mail services. This end-user approach also requires the user to have the requisite knowledge and ability for determining how to accomplish the desired functions and to upgrade or purchase new software or hardware implements as needed to support the functions. Furthermore, the user must interface with each of the separate providers of the various modes of communications, where applicable, to maintain an active account and technical compatibility. Consequently, this approach encumbers the user with respect to time and expenses. Therefore, it is not cost effective or convenient for most users to have to manage their communications environment in this manner. Further, it is not consistent with the concept of universal service, which is required for communication systems.
Other problems with providing services using only end-user equipment relate to challenges of remote administration and the technical constraints that attend small scale systems. For example, the number of telephone lines required to handle all possible combinations of inbound calls and outbound dial-out poses a significant technical obstacle. If a personal computer in a household or small business has two lines dedicated for enhanced features, then an inbound call involving a dial-out will occupy both of the lines for the duration of the communication. Any other inbound calls occurring during this time would be denied.
In terms of service administration, if the user needs to reconfigure the computer to alter service-affecting settings or retrieve voice mail or e-mail, the user may be gravely restricted in terms of interaction with the computer. For instance, unless the personal computer supports a web interface, an interactive voice interface and the like, the user may not be able to enjoy the same multi-modes of access and richness of functionality that could be provided via a network service provider. Also, as the user travels to other locations away from the “home” communications environment, the features may not freely extended to other locations because telephone lines or key communication interfaces or devices are not available. Additionally, depending on how remote access to the computer is accomplished, the user's interaction with the dedicated personal computer may also occupy channels of communication in such a way as to temporarily limit the computer's ability to handle inbound communications from other parties.
The services overlay network 101 supplies managed services, whereby the encumbrances to the end users are minimized. As another example of why it is advantageous for some application-level data and processing function to reside in the network, it is noted that many sophisticated features are dependent upon a combination of sets of profile or configuration information. Such features are impossible or very impractical to implement in any reliable fashion if individual computer devices must interoperate with one another to provide coherent service processing. On the other hand, a central network-resident feature processor (or alternatively, a managed network of processors, such as a grid computing system) having immediate access to both profiles may perform very fast and reliable, yet sophisticated feature processing.
Yet another advantage to having a carrier or service provider maintain responsibility for features provided to users (or subscribers) is that extensive testing may be performed to provide robust, well-behaved features. Such testing takes into account a variety of possible interactions. It would be impractical, if not impossible, for subscribers to perform the degree of testing necessary to provide such robust features. Furthermore, it is unreasonable to expect a large number of end user computers to interoperate reliably, given the countless possible hardware and software configurations that can be utilized by these computers. Thus, it is clear that certain functions are better suited as network services than deployment within separate equipment maintained by each user.
As described above, a service provider may offer high availability and reliability of service, high economies of scale and ubiquitous access. Aside from circumventing the above mentioned problems, the network-side integration of multiple modes of communication under the control of a single service provider also makes possible new levels of useful functions such as profile and presence-dependent features, which may apply across multiple modes of communication. For example, a request from a first party to communicate to a second party may be fulfilled using any available mode of communication, and even a combination of modes in accordance with a rich inter-modal feature set.
A service provider may also maintain and apply per-user profile or configuration information that spans across applications, communications modes, and physical or logical boundaries and may be readily accessed from any point where it is needed for communications processing and for review and customization by the user.
By handling a number of normally disparate communications types through a single provider that can be accessed through the well defined common interface 150, the overlay network 101 also enables improved business models. For example, the billing module 129 can adopt a metered usage or periodic subscription-based form of billing for usage. This is in contrast to the up-front purchase or per-seat licensing arrangements typical in the commercial deployment of software applications. Billing options include impromptu arrangements involving collect “calls,” calling cards, credit/debit cards, pay-per-use (or view) and other alternate billing arrangements to which telephony or cable network users are accustomed.
In contrast to engaging several disparate modes of communications and associated service providers, the network 101 provides subscribers with the convenience of “one-stop shopping” and product bundling for a comprehensive set of services and advanced features. In instances where monitoring and accounting of usage activity is important to a subscriber (e.g., a business entity), complete and sophisticated accounting and audit can be enabled across all of the modes of communication.
FIGS. 2A and 2B are, respectively, a diagram showing identifiers uniquely associated with users of the communication system of FIG. 1, and a flowchart illustrating the process for generating the identifiers according to an embodiment of the present invention. As the service offerings of a service provider encompass multiple modes of communication and provides new value by the combination of these modes (i.e., cross-mode features and single subscription or profile for multiple services), the service provider can advantageously supply subscribers with a unified identity or suite of identities by which other parties may communicate with them.
A unique identifier (i.e., “core” or “primary” identifier) 201 is assigned to each subscriber in a communications service. This assignment can be performed in advance or on-the-fly via an automated system or by human intervention (e.g., manual operator). The unique identifier serves as the “core” for a variety of address types. Upon subscribing to the service, the unique identifier is used to reserve addresses in a variety of name spaces corresponding to different modes of communication. In a sense, the core identifier (or primary identifier) is a unique global identifier associated with each subscriber across all communication services of the overlay network 101.
The primary identifier 201, by itself, may or may not be appropriate for addressing communications in a specific mode of communication. The primary identifier 201 can be, for example, a telephone number that is used for placing telephone calls; this identifier 201 can be adapted to other forms of addresses, such as e-mail addresses, by concatenating other elements of an address, such as a domain name. That is, from this primary identifier, the network 101 maps to other secondary identifiers 203 that are suitable for specific modes of communication.
In essence, the primary identifier 201 provides convenience to parties seeking to contact a particular subscriber, wherein the parties need only know one identifier corresponding to the subscriber to communicate over a number of different communication mechanisms. With the primary identifier, if one form of address for the subscriber is known, then other forms of address may be readily ascertained. This mapping is transparent to the calling party. For convenience, the primary identifier 201 can be based upon a pre-existing identifier associated with the subscriber, such as a telephone number, that is already well known to other parties, as described in the example of FIG. 2A.
The process for generating the identifiers is as follows. In step 205, a user requests subscription to the communication services of the overlay network 101. A core identifier is generated for the user, as in step 207. As shown in FIG. 2A, a personal “800” number may be the primary identifier 201 for a given subscriber, such as “8001234567.” In step 209, it is determined whether the core identifier 201 corresponds to an address that can be used by one of the communication modes. If the core identifier cannot be used as an address over one of the communication modes, then a specific identifier is derived for each of these communication modes (step 211). This derivation can be performed by concatenating (or “encapsulating”) the core identifier with alphanumeric text utilized in the address scheme of the particular communication mode. In this example, the core identifier, as an 800 number, is usable via a telephony network (e.g., network 143). Therefore the core identifier can be utilized for one of the communication modes, while secondary identifiers are generated for the other communication modes, per step 213. The subscriber is allotted an instant messaging address, and an e-mail address as follows: 8001234567@oneme.com. The subscriber can further be assigned a web address of www.8001234567.oneme.com. Each of these secondary identifiers contains the core identifier of “8001234567.” Any form of identifier, address or alias may be used to specify the called subscriber. By utilizing some common textual information among the identifiers, any of these addresses can be readily derived from one another. The improved degree of commonality among these addresses also facilitates operation of the directory function supported by the directory 111. As another example, the primary number can be arbitrary or assigned by the business employer. The assigned identifier can also be textual representations provided that a suitable text-to-telephone number mapping occurs within the overlay network 101 to allow for traditional telephone processing, which is number based. This mapping can occur in the directory 111 or similar such directories (not shown).
In certain conventional text paging environments, identifiers have been used such that a telephone number of a particular pager corresponds to an e-mail address by which messages may be addressed to the same pager. In other words, the telephone number and e-mail address resolve to the same address, wherein the telephone number and e-mail address are unable to reach end devices other than the pager. In contrast, the overlay network 101 provides for feature processing wherein communications directed to a common address may result in establishment of communication with different devices. The telephone number and e-mail address, which are used to reach a subscriber, may for purposes of achieving a unified suite of identifiers for the subscriber, be decoupled from an actual telephone number associated with a pager, and the pager may actually be provided by a different service provider than the one through which telephone and e-mail services are provided to the subscriber.
Also, in conventional text paging systems, the addressing is not freely extensible to, for example, an instant messaging screen name because the paging service provider does not also operate an IM service for the paging customer and does not have control of IM addresses through IM providers.
FIG. 3 is a diagram of an intelligent service node capable of implementing the services overlay network of FIG. 1. Continuing with the example of FIG. 2A, the subscriber to the services of the services overlay network 101 is associated with a unique logical address, which in this case is a unique “800” telephone number. A calling party who wishes to contact the subscriber calls the subscriber's “800” number, causing the telephone call to be switched to an intelligent services node (ISN) platform 301. The routing of the call based upon the dialing of an “800” number is well known in the field of telephony intelligent networks, whereby such routing can be performed according to Signaling System 7 (SS7) using Transaction Capabilities Application Part (TCAP) messages.
It should be understood that the “call” may arrive in ways other than a telephone connection. For example, a party using an instant messaging client 305 may similarly access the ISN platform 301 and interact with the platform 301 via automated response system or manual operator in pursuit of the subscriber. A call from the IM client 305 may be handled using feature processing similar to a telephone call, but the handling of the call may be differentiated based on the nature of the IM client 305 and its capabilities, available bandwidth, etc.
Upon placing a telephone call to, or otherwise contacting the intelligent services node (ISN) platform 301, the calling party can be presented with the options of finding the subscriber, attempting to reach the subscriber by instant messaging or e-mail or being routed into voice mail, or this can occur automatically without requiring user intervention.
In FIG. 3, the subscriber is associated with several possible terminations, such as telephones 307 a-d, IM client 305, other network device 306 (such as entertainment or information console (e.g., television or gaming systems)), a voice mail repository 309, and an e-mail system 311. Each termination corresponds to a logical address, location, device or modality by which the called party may be contacted or by which an inbound call may at least be terminated or handled by voice mail, for example. Conventional telephone terminations may be reached via conventional telephone networks as indicated by switch network 313 and PSTN 315. Although not shown, some telephones may be coupled to the PSTN 315 through a Private Branch Exchange (PBX).
The IP phone 307 d can communicate via a data network, such as a packet network 317. The packet network 317 also provides data communications between ISN platform 301 and several network elements that accept textual data or streaming data representing audio or other media. These elements include IM client 305, voice mail repository 309 and e-mail system 311. As shown and previously mentioned, an intelligent information translator 318 is provided for translating among different communication modalities and supporting such translation services as text-to-speech, one type of speech to another type of speech, video encoding types, etc.
The communication system 300 utilizes a log database 319 that records network events occurring during the course of providing services. This log may record a variety of information and may be useful to provide billable usage information, assist in traffic engineering and fraud detection, and to provide the subscriber with useful data and statistics.
An inbound call may be routed and processed in a variety of ways as the communications system acts upon a calling party's request. The manner in which inbound calls are handled may be controlled by a profile associated with the subscriber and maintained in a feature management database 321. The subscriber may exercise control over the profile to affect how calls are handled and to where calls are directed. A portion of the profile may relate to a set of contact locations, such as telephone numbers, which should be tried when the subscriber is to be contacted. In an exemplary embodiment, these contacts include an office telephone, a mobile phone, a home telephone or addresses corresponding to other locations or devices to be contacted. The profile can also indicate such user preferences as time of day, and whether parallel, sequential, or overlapping logic is to be used for handling answering scenarios.
To improve the efficiency of handling an inbound call, presence information of the subscriber can be used to determine the best communication mode for contacting the subscriber. If it can be determined that, at the time of an inbound call, the subscriber is located with certainty at a specific one of the listed contacts and is receptive to communications, then that contact may be tried preferentially (or designated with higher priority). Likewise, if it can be determined that the subscriber is probably unavailable via a given contact, then attempts to reach the party via that contact may be avoided or at least used as a last resort.
Current or updated presence information for the subscriber is maintained in a presence information server 323, which may also be referred to as a presence database or location server. In the course of handling the inbound call from calling station 303, the ISN platform 301 may consult the presence information server 323 to determine what communication mechanisms are available for reaching the subscriber, along with the contact addresses or locations that should be tried. The presence information, in an exemplary embodiment, is determined from the subscriber being logged onto an IM client 305. Also, the subscriber can explicitly indicate at one of the telephone devices 307, such as user registration at an IP phone 307 d, that they are receptive to communications at a particular location or telephone number.
Also shown in FIG. 3 is a feature management server 321, which provides persistent feature-related information to be used in the course of handling calls. According to one embodiment of the present invention, the server 321 stores a profile associated with the subscriber. As previously indicated, this subscriber profile may contain, for example, a list of telephone numbers, contact addresses or other resources via which a subscriber may receive communications. Some typical profile information is depicted in FIG. 4.
Processing a given call involves interaction among recent presence information from the presence information server 323 and feature-controlling information from the feature management server 321. In addition, a directory function supported by a directory database 325 correlates the dialed number to a particular subscriber and support directory lookup functions that may be needed by the ISN platform 301. The ISN platform 301 can also provide assistance by way of a manual operator 327 for establishing communications, supplementing the automated response system, or helping with special needs or relay services.
The ISN platform 301 can supply a calling party with a variety of options during the process of attempting to reach a called party. Conventionally, such an inbound call would merely result in a call attempt to a single telephone number, with perhaps rollover to paging or voice-mail. Furthermore, the same destination telephone number would be used for every inbound call without any differentiation based on presence information or other features, except perhaps call forwarding. By contrast, within the system 300, once a calling party has made contact with ISN platform 301, the interaction proceeds with the calling party being presented options for communicating with the subscriber. The calling party is initially greeted with a prompt such as: “Welcome to OneMe. Please enter your PIN or choose one of the following options.” Depending on the options for which the subscriber is configured (and perhaps taking into account presence information of the subscriber), the calling party is provided with, for example, various options. The calling party can select a “Find” option, which will cause the ISN platform 301 to attempt communications with the subscriber via one or more contacts, such as a set of contacts depicted in FIG. 4.
Alternatively, the calling party can select a second option, such as an “IM” option, to initiate contact with the subscriber via the IM client 305. Various techniques by which communications may even be established between the IM client 305 and a telephone connection are described in co-pending U.S. patent application, entitled “Telephony Services System with Instant Communications Enhancements” (Ser. No. 10/404,094), filed Apr. 2, 2003, and co-pending U.S. patent application, entitled “Messaging Response System” (Ser. No. 10/404,111), filed Apr. 2, 2003; both of which are incorporated by reference herein in their entireties.
A third option, e-mail option, can be provided, whereby the subscriber is notified by e-mail of the inbound call having occurred, along with the textual transcription of the calling party's speech or audio annotation, or imbedded media bearing a recording of the calling party (or links to where recordings are stored).
In the fourth option, the calling party may elect to have the call connected directly to a voice mail (VM) or video system 309, so that the message can be later delivered via transfer or streaming to a recipient device 305, 308, and 311. It is also contemplated that other communication options can be presented, such as paging, facsimile deposit, intermittent communications via push-to-talk devices, etc.
If the inbound call is actually from the subscriber seeking to access their own voice (or video) mail or other functions, then the calling party may supply a Personal Identification Number (PIN) number to become authenticated and to gain access to the subscriber functions.
It is recognized that special circumstances may arise when multiple contacts are attempted contemporaneously. It is possible that more than one telephone will be answered at nearly the same time. It is also conceivable that some contacts that correspond to the telephones may each have an associated auto-attendant or voice mail capability for automatically handling inbound calls. In accordance with an embodiment of the present invention, a calling party does not receive the ringback or call progress indicator signals that would normally arise from each contact (as if they were contacted individually). Instead, the calling party receives a ring back signal or interacts with the operator 327 in the ISN platform 301 as call attempts are made to the called party.
During such processing, the ISN platform 301 provides interactivity with any users who have answered the telephones. As each phone line is answered, the ISN platform 301 presents information about who the call is for and/or who is calling. The answering user on each answered line is prompted to accept or decline the inbound call. If none of the answering parties accepts the call, then the contacts are treated the same as a declined or unanswered call and the call may be forwarded to a particular voice mail, video, or e-mail system associated with the subscriber, if so configured.
The above approach avoids conflicts among multiple voice mail or telephone answering services. If an answering user accepts the call and all other calls go unanswered or are declined, then the call is connected to the party who accepted the call. If multiple lines are answered in response to the inbound call and the call is accepted by multiple answering parties, then the parties become coupled to the calling party in a conferencing or “party line” fashion, similar to the manner in which multiple parties on an analog telephone line may hear one another. This may be useful so that the parties may coordinate with one another about who should remain on the call.
FIG. 4 is a diagram showing exemplary content of a user profile, in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention. As early described, the user or subscriber profile can specify a set of contact locations. The profile may also contain configurable settings that related to calling feature functionality, privileges, service attributes, billing information, time-of-day dependent features, and other user-associated attributes that affect the handling of communications by the service providing system. Certain attributes in the profile may be directly reviewed and edited by the associated subscriber, whereas other attributes, such as subscriber privileges, may be controlled by a service provider or a designated administrator (as is typical in a business enterprise).
Upon initially establishing a profile, the service provider may provide for default communications settings. Default settings can be instituted by the service provider system automatically based on user behavior or other factors, such as time of day or day of week.
FIG. 4 shows four tables as examples of the type of information that may be contained in the profile associated with a subscriber; the subscriber profile may be changed to affect how services are implemented for the subscriber. Table 401 is an e-mail forwarding list. A phone contact table 403 provides a list of telephone numbers, and table 405 is a list of IM addresses. As the subscriber initially subscribes to such a service, the phone contact table 403 may have the subscriber's telephone number entered as the first entry. This default condition causes the system to initially act effectively as a “personal 800-number” service.
After the service is initialized, the subscriber may add telephone numbers to table 403 so that, for example, a “Find me” service may be implemented. As shown in table 403, each telephone number may be associated with a configuration button 407, so that attributes of each contact telephone number can be set by the subscriber. In an exemplary embodiment, these attributes include the type of device (such as telephone, pager, fax, voice-mail, etc.), number of rings to allow before abandoning the number, time of day features associated with the each number and other attributes. Furthermore, as shown by checkbox 409, the subscriber may indicate that inbound calls are to be handled by contacting all of the contacts provided in table 403.
Where inbound communications and the invocation of features involve reaching the subscriber by e-mail, table 401 is consulted to determine one or more addresses at which the subscriber may be reached. The subscriber may exercise control over the entries in this table.
Table 405 is consulted to determine one or more IM addresses at which the subscriber may be reached. The subscriber can edit the contents of this table 405 to cause IM messages or other communications that may be received at an IM client to be forwarded to the desired addresses. Table 411 provides a list of other network devices, and is accessed to determine whether any other device that is capable of receiving communications on behalf of the subscriber.
When a calling party seeks a subscriber, the contacts provided for the subscriber can be attempted sequentially, simultaneously in an staggered or overlapping fashion and with some preferences observed (or any such combinations), depending upon the logic employed by the system and/or the preferences of the subscriber as expressed, for example, in tables 401, 403 and 405 in FIG. 4. The contacts may be presence-related. That is, the complement of contacts provided may be dependent upon presence information for the subscriber.
A subscriber may access their profile information and other functions of the system in a variety of ways. For instance, through a telephone connection or other form of audio interface, subscribers may access a voice response unit or voice portal, allowing them to review and make modifications to their profile information, account information and other pertinent aspects of the features provided by the network. The subscriber may also check messages or other stored communications tendered by the network, as well as check the log of activities to observe communications activities that have occurred. The subscriber can change their presence status or may temporarily override aspects of how inbound calls are handled. Any of these facilities that can be accessed or controlled by the subscriber can be accessed through Web applications, text messaging, e-mail, or any other form of communication by which the subscriber would normally communicate with other parties.
FIG. 5 is a diagram of an instant communication environment supporting the communication services of FIG. 1. As noted, depending on the service configuration, a subscriber may be notified of an incoming call (or, more generally, a communications attempt) from another party via IM client. Through instant messaging from the ISN platform 301, the subscriber may be informed of the calling party's identity or other associated information as derived from a variety of possible sources, such as corporate or network directories.
Furthermore, the subscriber may be able to alter the handling of the call via instant messaging. For example, the subscriber may use instant messaging to instruct the ISN platform 301 to forward the call to voice mail or to another destination. Alternatively, the subscriber may elect to “take” the call using the instant messaging client as an audio interface or a textual interface with text-speech translation being provided by the service provider. This scenario exemplifies several important advantages to a comprehensive service offering using in-network feature processing rather than relying upon processing at an end user device. The subscriber may also use instant messaging to perform a rollover from one mode of communication to another.
Accordingly, the notion of a “universal” message relay is effected. The universal message relay allows a subscriber to receive communications via a screen name that is derived from the primary identifier, even if the subscriber is actually using a different, perhaps pre-existing screen name account on one of a multitude of IM services. As described earlier, this allows a comprehensive communication provider to allocate a screen name, consistent with the subscriber's suite of identifiers, without worrying about conflicts with other screen names or addresses.
The arrangement of FIG. 5 illustrates an approach to accomplish a remapping of addresses and rerouting of traffic such that the screen name adopted for the overlay services is independent of whatever particular IM services and screen names the subscriber employs. The mapping of the users' assigned screen name to one or more IM screen names is determined by a list in the subscriber's profile information, as shown in FIG. 4.
In the example of FIG. 5, within communication system 500, an IM client 501 seeks to communicate with a subscriber by addressing messaging communications to a screen name derived from the primary identifier associated with the subscriber. Another IM client 503 represents an IM client through which the subscriber communicates through an IM service provider 505. An IM client 507 represents another client through which the subscriber can communicate using a different IM service provider 509. As mentioned before, different IM service providers 505, 509 may use proprietary software, techniques and protocols which are generally not compatible among providers. Nevertheless, in accordance with the present teachings, a single communication addressed to the subscriber using a screen name based on the primary identifier described herein may be routed to either or both of the different types of clients 503 and 507.
Furthermore, the addresses by which IM client 501 may direct communications to these other clients are entirely independent of the screen names by which each of the clients is known in their respective IM services.
A user using IM client 501 may contact a service provider system 511 and interact with, and engage the services of, an automatic or manual operator (e.g., operator 327 of FIG. 3) to assist in establishing communications. The service provider system 511 may provide the same array of services and interactivity as the ISN platform 301.
In response to a request from IM client 501 to establish communications with a subscriber associated with IM client 503 or 507, the service provider system 511 accesses profile information pertaining to the subscriber. Part of this profile information, similar to the table 405, may provide the service provider system 511 with a mapping of the screen name used by IM client 501 to the screen names, corresponding to IM clients 503 or 507. The profile information may also direct the service provider system to invoke features related to establishing contact between IM client 501 and the other IM clients shown, or perhaps other devices associated with the subscriber.
It is noted that because various IM services may employ different techniques and servers and networks that the service provider system 511, in order to forward messaging communications to the IM clients 503, 507, may need to be adapted to the protocols and interfaces for proper operation with the respective systems 505, 509. Consequently, connectors (or gateways) 513 and 515 are used to interface the service provider system 511 to the particular requirements of corresponding IM messaging environments (which generally are proprietary). It should be noted that, because communications from another party may originate from an IM client 501 that is compliant with disparate IM services, some additional measures may be needed to ensure that service provider system 511 is receptive to communications from any possible originating IM client. Thus, it is noteworthy to point out that as communications enter from an IM client of one type and are coupled to an IM client belonging to the subscriber, which may be of a different type, the service provider system 511 also accomplishes a translation of sorts between different IM services.
The combination of the service provider system 511 and one or more connectors 513, 515 which interface the service provider to IM services can constitute a Universal Message Relay network 517 which accomplishes the task of decoupling the screen name used by IM client 501, which was derived from the primary identifier for the target subscriber, from the particular screen names that the subscriber uses in the various IM services. This, in turn, allows a service provider to arbitrarily assign a screen name to the subscriber that is derived from the primary identifier and is correlated to analogous identifiers used in other modes of communication over which the service provider has control of the name space.
In an exemplary embodiment, the profile information associated with subscribers, as well as other information that may affect how communications are established with the subscriber, can be stored in routing instruction database 519 and made accessible to the service provider system 511. In the course of processing other features that may be invoked in response to the request from IM client 501, the service provider system 511 may also access presence information pertaining to the subscriber as stored or maintained in a presence information database 521.
FIG. 6 is a diagram of an exemplary graphical user interface (GUI) for supporting Find and Presence functions, according to an embodiment of the present invention. As shown, a computer user interface desktop 600 has several activatable controls related to communications over the services overlay network 101. These controls may reside on the desktop of the interface provided to the user or may be provided as toolbar icons presented in conjunction with applications being run on the computer.
In this example, a button 601, labeled “Find,” can be activated by a user to access one or more directory services of the overlay network 101; such directory services are more fully described below with respect to in FIG. 7. Activating this button 601 may provide the user with addresses or contact information by which another party may be reached. Accessing this information may be preparatory to communications or may be done simply to retrieve address information for reference purposes.
Additionally, a button 603, labeled “Determine Presence,” allows the user to determine the current availability of a party. This is information is useful prior to attempting to establish communications with the party, which if known, can avoid waste of network resources and time and effort of the subscriber. Having activated the button 601, the user may have selected a particular party of interest and this information may serve as a context for invoking button 603 to determine presence of that party.
A button 605, labeled “Communicate,” allows the user to take the next step of establishing communications with the identified party. Further, a button 607, labeled “My Presence Status,” allows the user to interact with the network for altering their own presence indication within the network. This is the presence indication that indicates availability of the user as it would be represented to other parties.
It should be noted that buttons 603, 605, 607 and preferably button 601 access capabilities and functions within the network directly from the user's desktop.
FIG. 7 is a diagram of the directories utilized in implementing the Find service initiated by the GUI of FIG. 6, according to an embodiment of the present invention. Akin to accessing an enterprise address book for sending e-mails, a “Find” button 601 may access an active directory 701 that is internal, for instance, to a business or enterprise. Through communication with Web application or Web service 703, the button 601 may avail the user of directories outside of the user's company or local domain. For example, the user accesses directories 705 of other companies when the appropriate authorization mechanisms are in place. A connection 707 supports communication between the directories 705 and the Web service 703. Through connection 709, at least part of the directory 701 being made available to other parties to Web service 703. It is recognized that mutually shared access of directory information across companies may be useful and appropriate for collaboration among companies, promoting contact of sales and support personnel and other types of business relationships.
As seen in FIG. 7, the Web service 703 also interfaces with a user database 711 that can store user (or subscriber) profile information, as detailed with respect to FIG. 4. Additionally, a directory assistance (i.e., “411”) database 713 can be maintained by a service provider for a large number of subscribers to the service.
It is contemplated that a comprehensive directory service as depicted in FIG. 7 may service requests through a variety of vehicles. For example, request for a directory look-up may be submitted from a user or an application via e-mail and the directory may act upon the request and provide a response by e-mail or other means, perhaps as specified by the requestor.
As evident from the above discussion, a communications service provider may advantageously provide a comprehensive service that spans many modes of communications and provide allocation of coordinated identifiers to improve the convenience of using the various modes. An approach is set forth for using a primary identifier to derive a set of addresses or identifiers suitable for the various modes of communication supported. This addressing scheme permits integration of the several modes of communication into a cohesive overall communication service with many significant practical and functional advantages. This approach facilitates communications among parties by any available means and enables a rich feature set encompassing many modes of communication. Hence, a single “call origination” may explore many more possibilities and may entail greater interactivity and flexibility than previously possible.
The overlay network 101 of FIG. 1 centralizes, and provides ubiquitous access to, such elemental functions as presence indication and user profile management which may now be commonly employed across any of the available modes of communication. The offering of a comprehensive service also allows for comprehensive tracking, accounting and billing for usage activity across many modes of communication.
It is recognized that the functions of the overlay network 101 can be implemented by any variety of computing systems, such as the one shown in FIG. 8.
FIG. 8 illustrates a computer system 800 upon which an embodiment according to the present invention can be implemented. The computer system 800 includes a bus 801 or other communication mechanism for communicating information and a processor 803 coupled to the bus 801 for processing information. The computer system 800 also includes main memory 805, such as a random access memory (RAM) or other dynamic storage device, coupled to the bus 801 for storing information and instructions to be executed by the processor 803. Main memory 805 can also be used for storing temporary variables or other intermediate information during execution of instructions by the processor 803. The computer system 800 may further include a read only memory (ROM) 807 or other static storage device coupled to the bus 801 for storing static information and instructions for the processor 803. A storage device 809, such as a magnetic disk or optical disk, is coupled to the bus 801 for persistently storing information and instructions.
According to one embodiment of the invention, the processes for supporting universal identifiers can be provided by the computer system 800 in response to the processor 803 executing an arrangement of instructions contained in main memory 805. Such instructions can be read into main memory 805 from another computer-readable medium, such as the storage device 809. Execution of the arrangement of instructions contained in main memory 805 causes the processor 803 to perform the process steps described herein. One or more processors in a multi-processing arrangement may also be employed to execute the instructions contained in main memory 805. In alternative embodiments, hard-wired circuitry may be used in place of or in combination with software instructions to implement the embodiment of the present invention. In another example, reconfigurable hardware such as Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) can be used, in which the functionality and connection topology of its logic gates are customizable at run-time, typically by programming memory look up tables. Thus, embodiments of the present invention are not limited to any specific combination of hardware circuitry and software.
The computer system 800 also includes a communication interface 817 coupled to bus 801. The communication interface 817 provides a two-way data communication coupling to a network link 819 connected to a local network 821. For example, the communication interface 817 may be a digital subscriber line (DSL) card or modem, an integrated services digital network (ISDN) card, a cable modem, a telephone modem, or any other communication interface to provide a data communication connection to a corresponding type of communication line. As another example, communication interface 817 may be a local area network (LAN) card (e.g., for Ethernet™ or an Asynchronous Transfer Model (ATM) network) to provide a data communication connection to a compatible LAN. Wireless links can also be implemented. In any such implementation, communication interface 817 sends and receives electrical, electromagnetic, or optical signals that carry digital data streams representing various types of information. Further, the communication interface 817 can include peripheral interface devices, such as a Universal Serial Bus (USB) interface, a PCMCIA (Personal Computer Memory Card International Association) interface, etc. Although a single communication interface 817 is depicted in FIG. 8, multiple communication interfaces can also be employed.
The network link 819 typically provides data communication through one or more networks to other data devices. For example, the network link 819 may provide a connection through local network 821 to a host computer 823, which has connectivity to a network 825 (e.g., a wide area network (WAN) or the global packet data communication network now commonly referred to as the “Internet”) or to data equipment operated by a service provider. The local network 821 and the network 825 both use electrical, electromagnetic, or optical signals to convey information and instructions. The signals through the various networks and the signals on the network link 819 and through the communication interface 817, which communicate digital data with the computer system 800, are exemplary forms of carrier waves bearing the information and instructions.
The term “computer-readable medium” as used herein refers to any medium that participates in providing instructions to the processor 805 for execution. Such a medium may take many forms, including but not limited to non-volatile media, volatile media, and transmission media. Non-volatile media include, for example, optical or magnetic disks, such as the storage device 809. Volatile media include dynamic memory, such as main memory 805. Transmission media include coaxial cables, copper wire and fiber optics, including the wires that comprise the bus 801. Transmission media can also take the form of acoustic, optical, or electromagnetic waves, such as those generated during radio frequency (RF) and infrared (IR) data communications. Common forms of computer-readable media include, for example, a floppy disk, a flexible disk, hard disk, magnetic tape, any other magnetic medium, a CD-ROM, CDRW, DVD, any other optical medium, punch cards, paper tape, optical mark sheets, any other physical medium with patterns of holes or other optically recognizable indicia, a RAM, a PROM, and EPROM, a FLASH-EPROM, any other memory chip or cartridge, a carrier wave, or any other medium from which a computer can read.
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By the eighth millennium BC, people of a Neolithic culture had settled into a sedentary way of life there in fortified mud-brick villages, where they supplemented hunting and fishing on the Nile with grain gathering and cattle herding. During the fifth millennium BC migrations from the drying Sahara brought neolithic people into the Nile Valley along with agriculture. The population that resulted from this cultural and genetic mixing developed social hierarchy over the next centuries become the Kingdom of Kush (with the capital at Kerma) at 1700 BC Anthropological and archaeological research indicate that during the predynastic period Nubia and Nagadan Upper Egypt were ethnically, and culturally nearly identical, and thus, simultaneously evolved systems of pharaonic kingship by 3300 BC. Together with other countries lies on Red Sea, Sudan is considered the most likely location of the land known to the ancient Egyptians as Punt (or “Ta Netjeru”, meaning “God’s Land”), whose first mention dates to the 25th century BC.
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I don’t know what Amir is talking about it, you can define history of Sudan according to how it suited you. According to the Arab Sudanese they think Sudan began with Mohamhed Ahmed Al-Madi which is totally a fasle perception in thier minds.. The enterance of Arab invasion to Sudan was the worse tragedy moment of largest Country in the Horn of Africa, the Sudan. We have to recontruct the History of Kush nation again for years to come as soon Nuba Mountains, Blue Nile, and Darur defeat Arab Regime in Khartoum.
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President Donald Trump doubled down in tweets on his promise to build a border wall between the U.S. and Mexico, and he would have Mexico pay for it.
President Donald Trump, in a series of tweets Thursday morning, said his plans to build a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border remain unchanged, including his claim that Mexico will pay for it "directly or indirectly."
His tweets came a day after his chief of staff, John Kelly, reportedly told Democratic lawmakers in a closed-door meeting that many of Trump's campaign stances on immigration were "uninformed," and that a wall would never be built along the entire border nor would Mexico pay for it. The Washington Post reported Kelly's remarks during the meeting.
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Trump appeared to rebut Kelly's alleged statements on Twitter. He wrote, "The Wall is the Wall, it has never changed or evolved from the first day I conceived of it."
In a subsequent tweet, Trump added that Mexico would eventually pay for the wall, despite the Mexican government's repeated vows that they wouldn't do so. He also took a jab at another campaign boogeyman, deriding the North American Free Trade Agreement.
"The Wall will be paid for, directly or indirectly, or through longer term reimbursement, by Mexico, which has a ridiculous $71 billion dollar trade surplus with the U.S.," he said. "The $20 billion dollar Wall is 'peanuts' compared to what Mexico makes from the U.S. NAFTA is a bad joke!"
Earlier this month, Trump asked Congress to set aside $18 billion over the next decade to build more than 700 miles of fencing along the border. Less than half would be in areas where there is currently no fencing. The rest would be secondary or replacement barriers.
While Trump's statements about the wall during the campaign rarely included much detail, he did say during a Kansas City rally in December 2016 that "only" 1,000 miles of new barrier would be needed. "A lot of natural barriers that are extremely tough to get across" would take care of the rest of the nearly 2,000-mile southwest border, he said.
Funding the wall has become a key point in negotiations to protect the status of young, undocumented migrants known as "dreamers." A bipartisan, compromise deal announced Wednesday would fund the Trump's administration $18 billion request for more fencing, including $1.6 billion in 2018 to build 71 miles of barriers in San Diego and south Texas.
"We need the Wall for the safety and security of our country," Trump said in another Thursday tweet. "We need the Wall to help stop the massive inflow of drugs from Mexico, now rated the number one most dangerous country in the world. If there is no Wall, there is no Deal!"
A few hours later, Mexico's Ministry of Foreign Affairs pushed back against Trump's claim that their government would pay for the physical barriers, and that the country is the most dangerous in the world.
"We reiterate what we have said many times: Mexico will not pay, in any way, for a wall along the border in U.S. territory," Mexico's Foreign Minister Luis Videgaray said on Twitter. "This determination is not part of a Mexican negotiation strategy, but rather a principle of sovereignty and national dignity."
In a formal statement, the Mexican government acknowledged it has a problem with drug-related violence, but said it was "openly false" that the country was the most dangerous in the world, citing statistics from the United Nations. It said the United States was as much to blame for the violence fueled by the illegal flow of drugs, weapons and money.
"We reiterate that it is a shared problem that will only end if we deal with the root causes: the high demand of drugs in the United States and the supply from Mexico (and other countries)," the statement read. "Transnational criminal organizations have caused the deaths of thousands of Mexicans, including members of the armed forces and police, and thousands of Americans. Only with an understanding of a shared responsibility, by working together, and mutual trust can we overcome these challenges."
Trump's tweets show his views on the wall have evolved since the campaign, when he called for a solid, concrete wall along the entire border. Once in office, after meeting with border agents and officers, he abandoned the idea of a solid wall.
"Parts will be, of necessity, see through and it was never intended to be built in areas where there is natural protection such as mountains, wastelands or tough rivers or water," he added.
Those statements echo his two Homeland Security secretaries: Both Kelly, who served in that post before becoming his chief of staff, and current Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen have told Congress that there is no need for a wall "from sea to shining sea."
His administration has used interchangeably the terms "wall," "fence" and "barriers" when referring to the physical structures along the U.S.-Mexico border.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection is wrapping up evaluations of eight border wall prototypes in San Diego — four made with reinforced concrete and four with alternate materials. Trump has said he might inspect the prototypes in person, but so far no visit has been scheduled.
CBP said the prototype designs will influence the construction of additional barriers built on the border.
Democrats: How much land will the government seize for a border wall?
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TermCoord has recently become member of the European Association for Translation (EAFT), a network for exchange of terminology resources, experience and best practices between universities, translation companies, national terminology associations and individual members, namely, well-known experts in the field of translation and terminology. The Association also provides information on activities and events in the field of terminology and is an excellent place to find and contact stakeholders of terminology work.
TermCoord has already entered the special issue of the EAFT newsletter with the “Lexicograffiti” seminar, held on January 23, 2012 in the Schuman Hemicycle.
Along with the TermCoord logo, the logo of and link to IATE is permanently present on EAFT’s homepage.
This entry was posted in Uncategorized and tagged EAFT, terminology, translation. Bookmark the permalink.
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The Westminster parliament is famous throughout the world, but often presented as relatively non-influential when it comes to making the law. Meg Russell and Daniel Gover‘s new book Legislation at Westminster is the most detailed study of the British legislative process for over 40 years, and challenges these assumptions. In a blog originally posted on the Constitution Unit, the authors summarise their findings on how different groups of actors at Westminster exercise subtle and interconnected influence, contributing to what they dub ‘six faces of parliamentary power’.
Government backbenchers are often considered to be the most influential actors at Westminster, given ministers’ need to maintain their support and votes. Yet the way they influence the process is subtle, with concerns often expressed behind the scenes. When taking into account parliament’s likely reactions to a bill, this group is hence very important – so much so that ministers (who after all come from the same party, or parties) frequently internalise backbenchers’ concerns. This group can be very important in putting matters onto to the government’s agenda, and keeping them there – for which they can use tools often considered unimportant, such as early day motions (EDMs) and private members’ bills. For example these mechanisms were used successfully to maintain pressure on the Labour government to introduce corporate manslaughter legislation. A source close to Tony Blair told us that ‘TB didn’t want corporate manslaughter legislation, for a variety of reasons’, but the government legislated nonetheless, partly to placate backbench MPs. This group is also key when ministers consider how to respond to defeats in the Lords – although the Lords alone cannot force policy change, ministers will often back down if Commons backbenchers share peers’ concerns. This occurred on key issues regarding Blair’s attempt to introduce identity cards, with amendments that contributed to the scheme falling apart.
The parliamentary select committees play no formal role in agreeing legislation, but are surprisingly important. We found more than 1700 mentions of select committees in debates on the 12 bills (i.e. an average of over 140 per bill). The views of these respected committees, and the evidence that they provide can – like input from pressure groups – be important both to those defending and attacking government positions. The key constitutional committees – the Lords Constitution Committee and Delegated Powers and Regulatory Reform Committee (DPRRC), and the Joint Committee on Human Rights – frequently make recommendations on bills which are adopted in amendments, either directly by government or following pressure from other members. The book contains numerous examples, some high-profile. Other committees less frequently engage in this way, but a very interesting example comes from the House of Commons Health Committee, which expressed concerns about limitations on Labour’s ban on smoking in public places, and helped to force a vote which toughened these provisions. This could act as an inspiration to other committees to be more active on bills.
Legislation at Westminster: Parliamentary Actors and Influence in the Making of British Law is published by Oxford University Press on 31 August 2017.
This post was originally posted on The Constitution Unit blog and is reposted with permission.
This entry was posted in Blog and tagged House of Commons, House of Lords, legislation, power, scrutiny, select committees. Bookmark the permalink.
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Opening Address: MATHEW TRINCA – Director at the National Museum of Australia.
Matt gave the opening address and linked our experience of ourselves with that of the community around us. He gave a very interesting account of his Italian family history and the impact that had on his own life in relation to his experience of the world around him.
Matt’s address really had me thinking of how my family history has impacted my world. I found myself remembering my visit to Wales in 2004. My paternal family history is Welsh and even though I was always proud of it, until my visit, I never really gave my Welsh heritage much thought at all. Other than feeling as though I actually did know my ancestors, after spending many years researching their lives.
Until I arrived in Haverfordwest, Pembokeshire, Wales, and was immediately struck by how at home and comfortable I felt. This was very much an unexpected reaction that I had. Matts address reminded me of this and makes me realise that yes, my past family history has impacted my present experiences of life.
Session 1: What can I find using erecords? CORA NUM, Professional history researcher, lecturer and writer.
This session was prerecorded, as Cora had recently injured herself and was unable to attend. I am feeling disappointed that she isn’t here, however the session was very professionally done and jam packed with information. Cora gave us updates on the latest records available online for searching at home. Many free, some requiring a small subscription. I found this session very informative and much needed as I have taken a step back from research for a couple of years, due to work pressures. There have been many changes in that time, with much more information now openly available online.
This is a subject that I knew very little about before today’s session. We were first given a brief scientific overview. I have to say that much of it went over my head and I was relieved when we were told it wasn’t necessary to remember the technical aspects of DNA. I had been considering sending my DNA away for testing, but wasn’t sure if it would be worth it. I am now convinced that this would be a good thing to do, and will look into it asap.
This session was a technical “how to do” Evernote and Dropbox. I have used Dropbox but never Evernote, so was very keen to learn more. What I learnt from this session is that there will be many sleepless nights coming up as I scan all my documents, certificates etc onto Evernote. It seems to me that this must be done to simplify my life. But one thing I’m not sure of, is what to do with the documents when they have been scanned. Scanning is being done to limit the paper that has to be kept. But, can I shred certificates and important documents? I think not. Need to do some thinking on this.
I was looking forward to this sesssion, for it’s subject matter and also to hear the presenter. I have heard Helen speak on varied subjects and she never fails to deliver. Today was the same. Helen is a wonderful presenter who brings her subject matter to life. This is quite a depressing subject, but I do have ancestors who were in the workhouse so now have more information that will continue my research..
The day ended with me feeling as though my brain might explode with all the new information that it had taken in today. My to do list is now much longer and I am wondering how on earth I will have time to go to work. Must remember to get my priorities right.
I share that exploding feeling.
Re Evernote – I recommend this excellent blog post – http://worldwidegenealogy.blogspot.com.au/2015/03/digital-preservation-or-why-i-worry.html.
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Allow me to preface this entry by saying that I love Wolfie with all my heart. He is a wonderful person, and I am utterly thrilled that he wants to spend the rest of his life with me as much as I want to spend the rest of my life with him.
...in the middle of my forehead.
I didn't even know one could get forehead-hickeys.
Ah, a woman after my own heart!
Does your lovely bride know you feel this way? Or should we be comparing "I walked into a cabinet door, yeah, that's it" bruises at our next meeting?
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(AllHipHop News) Many Americans' first time seeing Kanye West on television was when the rapper/producer declared "George Bush doesn't care about black people" during a Hurricane Katrina benefit program in 2005. Ten years later, Kanye was back on the small screen at the MTV Video Music Awards declaring he plans to one day hold the the highest office in the land like George W. Bush.
But what does the 43rd President of the United States think about Ye's potential run for the White House in 2020? TMZ caught up with Bush in D.C., and the photog asked the former Commander-In-Chief about Kanye. W just simply laughed.
It would not be a surprise if Bush chose not to endorse Kanye for president. He called the Chicago native's Katrina diss the worst moment of his presidency. Mr. West can at least take solace in the fact that current Republican candidates Donald Trump and Ben Carson have said nice things about him.
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Bluetooth is a short-range wireless communication technology that is both stable and energy efficient. The technology allows for easy wireless connection to other Bluetooth devices, so you can play your favourite music from any smartphone, tablet or laptop, including the iPod or iPhone, with a Bluetooth-enabled speaker.
The quality of your sound experience is determined by how the soundbar is positioned in a room. Luckily, this system comes with a smart auto-orientation sensor that instantly optimises audio quality once it detects whether your soundbar is placed horizontally or vertically. So, whether you choose to sit your soundbar on a shelf or mount it on a wall, you can be sure you'll always have a superb audio experience.
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The end of the year is a time for reflection, to look back at what was accomplished and look ahead at what’s to come. Here at Aurelius, we’ve been keeping busy!
This past fall semester, we assisted with another digitally-enhanced class, this time in Classics. Students in Dr. Valentina DeNardis’s Cities of Ancient Greece (Classics 2051) class had a component to present their research on ancient sites on a course website. This website will be similar in appearance to the Ardmore Project, with a map and clickable locations that lead to students’ essays. Students are currently finishing up their coursework as the semester winds down, so this website will be ready for viewing early in 2015, with a launch party for the project scheduled for February 16 (more details to come). Complementing the class on Ancient Greece, we will be assisting with another of Dr. DeNardis’s classes in the spring semester, this time focusing on Ancient Rome. This course will also be discussed at February’s launch party.
Map of Greece, from volume 8 of The Travels of Anacharsis the Younger.
Our other major project for the fall semester was organizing and hosting a series of Digital Humanities workshops for graduate students. The series consisted of five workshops, beginning with an Introduction to Digital Humanities, and followed by Coding Basics, Audio Editing, WordPress Beyond the Basics, and Mapmaking for Digital Humanities. These workshops were taught by local experts and focused on providing students with an introduction and overview to some useful tools and ideas. Students who participated enjoyed the workshops and learned a lot.
Looking ahead to the spring, in addition to our continued collaboration with Dr. DeNardis on describing the ancient world, we will be collaborating again with Dr. Craig Bailey of the History Department on a reiteration of the Ardmore Project. This time around, we will actually be expanding the project to encompass more of Lower Merion Township. We just met with Dr. Bailey and I’m pretty excited about his ideas for the future of this project!
Map of Lower Merion, from the Atlas of Philadelphia and Environs (1877).
We wish you a happy & healthy holiday season and we hope you’ll stay tuned for more about our new and continuing projects!
During the spring semester, the Aurelius Digital Humanities Initiative launched its second project, a digital edition of El Peru en sus tradiciones en su historia, en su arte. The project was commandeered by Visiting Assistant Professor of Spanish Chad Leahy, PhD, who worked with his special-topics Spanish class to digitize and transcribe the text. Guidance was also provided by Laura Bang, digital and Special Collections curatorial assistant, and David Uspal, senior web specialist for library services and scholarly applications. Dr. Leahy explains that the materiality of text as object, the smell and feel of the item itself, has a story to tell us and digital humanities as a new technology has a way of opening this aspect of the text to the world.
El Peru en sus tradiciones en su historia, en su arte is a 133 page multimedia scrapbook that contains postcards, newspaper clippings, drawings—more than 160 distinct visual objects in all. In many cases, these entries are copied without original sources, raising difficult questions regarding authorship, provenance and purpose. There is no way to prove authorship, but Dr. Leahy speculates that the text may have originated through the Augustinian missions in Peru and was probably a gift. The latest internal date, 1924, suggests that the scrapbook was produced in the latter half of the 1920s. In addition to studying the Peruvian text, Dr. Leahy’s class had the opportunity to develop hands-on digitizing skills while scanning the text Los dramas de la Guerra, a serialized account of the First World War published in Barcelona during the war years.
Participants loved the way the website reformatted for easy reading on hand held devices.
The first full academic year of the Aurelius Digital Humanities Initiative was a great success with two classroom-based projects and their respective launch parties.
On Tuesday, March 11, we launched our first digital humanities project, the Ardmore Project. Looking at “Suburban Life in the Early 20th Century,” this project profiles the town of Ardmore, PA, through an interactive map and case studies. Students in Dr. Craig Bailey’s junior research seminar for History majors learned how to conduct historical research by accessing primary source materials available through local archives and special collections. In addition, students got hand-on experience in editing a website as they compiled their research into biographies and case studies for inclusion in the project website.
On Wednesday, April 2, we launched our second project, a digital edition of El Perú en sus tradiciones, en su historia, en su arte. This project is a digital edition of a Spanish-language manuscript from the Special Collections of Falvey Memorial Library. Students in Dr. Chad Leahy’s special topics Spanish class learned about the process of creating and editing digital scholarly editions of texts and got hands-on experience in compiling a digital edition of their own. Students transcribed the text and added light annotations and Dr. Leahy provided the final textual review and corrections.
Both classes had an additional assignment of digitizing materials for Villanova’s Digital Library. In small groups, students made appointments to spend about an hour scanning documents with Digital Library staff. This gave students first-hand experience in how rare and fragile materials are handled and made available to a wider audience through digital copies. Students in Dr. Bailey’s class scanned issues of the Ardmore Chronicle from 1905 while Dr. Leahy’s students scanned Los dramas de la guerra, a serialized account of the First World War published in Barcelona during the war years.
We are really proud of both of these projects. Special thanks go to our faculty collaborators, Dr. Bailey and Dr. Leahy, for recognizing the value of getting digital skills into the classroom. These students now have high-quality digital projects with their names attached that they can refer to as they enter the job market or apply to graduate school. The digital humanities continue to grow and it is important to train the next generation of scholars in the tools and concepts that will become standards.
For the coming year, we are already planning a series of DH workshops for graduate students in the fall semester, putting together more classroom-based projects, and compiling an online exhibit of graduate History students’ research. There is already much to look forward to, so stay tuned as we continue to grow our DH community here at Villanova.
(PhillyDH) represents a friendly peer network of novices and experts alike, dedicated (for now) to the exploration of new ideas, tools, and best practices in the world of digital humanities via forums, workshops, meetups, happy hours and whatever else suits our fancy.
Begun back in the fall of 2012 out of discussions at a regional ThatCAMP, PhillyDH is a loose association of individuals interested in promoting Digital Humanities in the greater Philadelphia area. More of a volunteer-driven collective than a formal group, it has no real hierarchical structure (no officers, etc); rather, events and promotions are all started by members of the group generously volunteering their time, efforts and resources.
PhillyDH: we have a logo, so we must be legitimate.
An example of this: on Tuesday, June 4th, 2013 the University of Pennsylvania held PhillyDH@Penn, an “unconference” (i.e. a participant-driven meeting), at the new Special Collection Center at the Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center. Activities for the day included two sessions of planned workshops, three rounds of unconference sessions, and a lightning round of talks (short, two minute blurbs), capped off by “The Age of Scale”, a talk by Michael Edson, the Smithsonian Institution’s Director of Web and New Media Strategy. Workshops and unconference sessions held included various topics such as Open Access Images, Video Production, Photo Editing (with free and open source products no less!),and intensity mapping, as well as on technologies including EAD, TEI and OpenRefine.
Previous to this event, on April 11th, 2013 PhillyDH met at the Chemical Heritage Foundation in downtown Philadelphia for a Project Incubator night, where over thirty local PhillyDH members gathered to offer advice, ideas and expertise for six local project proposals. The idea was for the PhillyDH community to act upon its mission statement “to learn, to teach, to collaborate, to create, to pitch-in” and help local projects move forward, for both potential projects and projects already in the works. Projects on the docket for the evening included projects exploring the educational value of gaming, mapping of historical data, and aggregating information on local events and projects, among others.
Everything poetically comes full circle when, on September 27 and 28th 2013, PhillyDH will be the host for the next Philadelphia area ThatCAMP.
Last Tuesday, April 30, was the formal launch party for the Aurelius Digital Humanities Initiative. We had a “soft launch” in the fall to let people know Aurelius existed, but Tuesday’s event was a glimpse into two of the projects that we are currently working on. (Both of these projects happen to be mapping projects, but we’re certainly open to other kinds of projects!) I gave a brief introduction about the definitions of DH and the kinds of projects Aurelius can support, then I turned it over to our speakers.
Our first presenter was Dr. Annika Thiem, an assistant professor in the Department of Philosophy. Annika’s project will investigate the role of New York City as a “shadow-protagonist” in Uwe Johnson’s Jahrestage (Anniversaries) tetralogy (published from 1970-1983), in which the main character Gesine Cresspahl navigates her way around the city while relating her own and her family’s memories. The idea for this project is to create a searchable, interactive map of locations, historical layers, and topics. This project is in its earliest stages, so we do not have a projected launch date, but you can see a screencap of the mockup website below.
The second presenter was Dr. Craig Bailey, an associate professor in the Department of History. Last year, Craig taught a junior research seminar that focused on local history and this year we’ll be bringing that course into the digital realm. Students will have the opportunity to explore the history of Ardmore, PA, through census data, maps, and other archival materials and use their findings to compile an interactive map of the region. We’ll be working with Craig to develop the course so that students will get hands-on experience in Falvey Library’s Special Collections and Digital Library. We’ll be running this course in the fall semester, so stay tuned for more details. For now, you can see a screencap of the website mockup below.
David Uspal, Aurelius’s Digital Humanities Technology Developer, then gave a brief overview of some of the technology he’s been developing to support these two projects, including the interactive map and timeline tools.
I was very excited to see such a great turnout and interest for this event. Stay tuned to hear more as these projects progress and please be in touch if you have your own DH project idea you’d like to collaborate on!
The Library will be celebrating the formal inauguration of Aurelius with a launch party scheduled for Tuesday, April 30 at 1:00pm in Room 205 in the second floor Learning Commons of the Library. The event will feature a discussion of the definition of “digital humanities” and how Aurelius will support this emerging trend in scholarly practice, as well as work-in-progress project overviews from Dr. Craig Bailey (History) and Dr. Annika Thiem (Philosophy). Light refreshments will be served. This event is open to the public.
More information about Aurelius can be found on our website.
November 27, 2012, was the inaugural meeting of the new regional group for digital humanities in the Delaware Valley. There are already over 100 members in the Google Group and 34 of us showed up at the Chemical Heritage Foundation for the first meeting. I’m so excited that so many people are interested in creating a regional DH group! I first got interested in DH while working on my master’s degree in the Washington, D.C. area, which is fortunate to have two really excellent DH centers (CHNM and MITH), so I’m really excited to help bring some of that vibe to Philly!
At the meeting, we discussed a few topics including what our vision for the group is and what sorts of things we would like the group to do. In order to facilitate this, we broke into a few smaller groups. You can read the minutes from the meeting here. If you’re interested in helping out, our working groups are: the web & social media team, the programming team, and the outreach team. If you don’t want to help out actively at this time, you are welcome to stay in touch via the Google Group and Twitter (more social media accounts to follow).
As we start our own DH initiative here at Falvey Library, I’m wrestling with a lot of the same questions the regional group is. It’s easy to say that we should support DH, but it’s much harder to make that vision into a concrete reality. What is/are the digital humanities? How can we “sell” it to people who would be interested in the kinds of projects you can do with DH, but maybe don’t understand what DH is? How do we evaluate DH projects? How do we integrate DH into the classroom? There are a lot of questions and — at least for now — not as many answers. But that’s okay. DH is a growing movement and, more importantly, a growing community. I’m looking forward to seeing what we can grow here at Villanova.
Today, at an informal “brown bag lunch,” we are excited to introduce the Aurelius Digital Humanities Initiative, a project of Falvey Memorial Library to support digital humanities (DH) projects and promote a DH community here at Villanova.
Humanities scholarship and technology are intersecting in interesting ways and the Library believes it is important to facilitate and support these connections.
Our digital humanities initiative is still a work-in-progress as we get a feel for the interests and scope of those interested in DH at Villanova. What should a Villanova DH program look like? We hope you’ll be part of the conversation!
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PERFECT LOOPS > The CDX utilizes Numark''s Beatkeeper technology, which analyzes the bpm of the incoming audio. This feature gives users the ability to quickly create and drop perfect, beat-matched loops.
Although CD players for DJs have been around since the 1990s, they have faced considerable opposition from spinners throughout the years, mainly because they didn't offer the tactile feel and control of a conventional turntable. Even up until the latter part of the decade, many vinyl aficionados resisted the advantages that CDs offered. It wasn't until CD burners and software became widely available that the digital format really started to take off, propelled further by the dawn of CD players with touch-sensitive jog wheels or platters.
Face it: CDs and MP3 files offer irrefutable advantages to vinyl records, the most obvious of which is the ability to store a massive collection of music in a book of CDs or on a hard drive instead of having to lug around heavy crates of records. Despite all of the technological advancements, a totally familiar and inexpensive interface for playing CDs like vinyl had yet to be brought to market. Stanton's FinalScratch 2 and Rane/Serato's Scratch Live require fairly powerful computers, making it financially out of reach for many, and although touch-sensitive and motorized CD platters come close, they're just not the same. Enter the Numark CDX.
Cleverly combining the electronics of a CD player with the mechanics of a traditional turntable, the Numark CDX allows DJs to play, control and scratch CDs with an actual piece of 12-inch vinyl on a direct-drive platter while still offering the digital features that CD DJs have become accustomed to. Similar in size and weight to a professional turntable, the CDX is styled after Numark's flagship TTX turntable, using a direct-drive motor that provides a whopping 5.0 kg of torque for ultraquick startups. But how does it do it? Does a laser detect the motion of the record? Does it have a trackball under the hood somewhere? Neither of these is correct. The heart of the CDX is the motor and spindle. The unit responds to the motion of the record via the spindle itself and to any force applied to the platter.
After aligning the platter, the cap and the vinyl record and screwing on the spindle, the CDX is ready to go. You can even use your own vinyl record by drilling three alignment holes into the label with the included template. Connections — located around the back and bottom of the unit in an angled area that's hidden when the unit is placed flat — include RCA line outputs, digital S/PDIF output, relay play and remote connections, MIDI In and Out, grounded AC power and a switch for operating the unit in 115 or 230V. Solid rubber feet and plenty of vents to prevent overheating are located on the bottom, and the unit has a sturdy feel at 22 pounds and sharp looks with its dark-gray paint job and silver controls.
The front of the unit houses the slot-loading CD transport that supports audio CDs, CD-Rs (for MP3 discs) and CD-RWs. The platter is right in front, with most of the controls logically placed toward the rear of the unit. Large start/stop buttons are placed in both front corners, with a brake adjustment dial on the left and a startup adjustment dial on the right, allowing for a variety of start/stop settings from immediate all the way through to a slow crawl. A large and bright VFD (vacuum fluorescent display) shows bpm, time, status and menu options in a cool blue light on a black background that's easy on the eyes. Five buttons just above offer the main set of controls for the CDX. The Display button toggles between elapsed time, track time remaining and total time remaining with a secondary function as a back button when using menu options. Store/Recall is used to save cue points. The Menu button accesses additional options for the CDX — for instance, a sequence of tracks can be programmed; relay play between two units can be toggled on or off; interlock mode can be activated (which synchronizes the beats of two connected units); the default speed of the platter can be set to either 33 or 45 rpm to suit your preference; dead space at the end of tracks (gaps) can be eliminated (a great idea when you're playing a CD from beginning to end); and reverse mode can be toggled between digital or platter-dependent modes. In addition, the Utility submenu controls sleep mode, remote type operation for fader start, digital output select, calibration and a full reset. The Single button switches between single play or continuous play modes, and the Pitch button toggles the unit between ±6, ±12, ±25 and ±100 percent. The full-size pitch slider is to the right, and just below the screen is a large rotary encoder knob; use it to select tracks and then push it in to confirm selections.
The top center of the CDX contains controls for the many loop and cue functions. Although similar to the looping functions of most CD decks, the CDX's built-in Beatkeeper technology accurately detects the bpm of a track and uses this information to automatically make perfect loops, or Smart Loops. Users can make loop points on the fly or by pausing or holding the record at the desired location and pressing the appropriate button. The Reloop button retriggers the loop from the in point.
Now, as anyone who's tried to create a precise loops knows, hitting the in and out points at just the right moment can be quite tricky, even with a lot of practice. With Smart Loops engaged, the timing of your loop points is automatically adjusted to fit within the detected bpm, meaning that your timing can be a little bit off, and the CDX will interpolate the correct timing for you — most excellent! The Trim button allows for further precision by letting you edit the loop points manually. Furthermore, the entire length of the loop can be retained but shifted forward or back in the timeline. In addition, you can instantly adjust the length of the loop in incremental units without having to redo the loop points. For example, say you grab a one-measure (four-count) loop. By using the two Shift buttons, you can shorten the size of the loop to two counts or one count, as well as two or four measures. Looping is also facilitated by a four LED bar graph and a Tap button. The red lights mark the beat location with the measure, and you can reset the start of the measure by hitting the Tap button, which you can also use to manually input bpm. These looping features alone make the CDX stand out from the competition.
The Numark CDX also includes built-in DSP effects such as Sonar, Slide, Echo, Filter, Chop, Auto-Pan and Auto-Decimation. These are activated either by pressing a dedicated button for the desired effect or by holding a button to access an additional effect. A dedicated and sizable jog wheel is used to modify certain parameters of the effects, as well. Sonar is similar to a flange or phase effect. Normally, the depth of this effect will return to zero when it is turned on and off, but you can bypass this by holding down the Sonar button for a couple of seconds. Slide is essentially a pitch shifter, allowing you to smoothly change the key, or tone, of the music without altering its speed. The Echo effect works with the following time divisions: 64th, 32nd, 16th, eighth, quarter, half and whole (one-measure) notes; you can also use the effect with negative time values by turning the wheel counterclockwise for a pre-Echo. Curiously, however, the Echo effect doesn't continue when the platter is stopped.
The Auto Decimation effect reduces the bit rate of the music, creating increasing levels of distortion, and is accessible by holding down the Echo button for two seconds. You can dial in mild distortion or crush it to the point of sounding like something coming from an Atari 2600. The Filter can work in either isolation (bandpass) or kill (band reject) mode, and the frequency can be dialed up or down with the jog wheel. When you get to either end of the frequency spectrum, it will continue from the other extreme. Chop works like a transformer, breaking up the music in specific intervals with the same time divisions used in the Echo effects. The jog wheel is also used as a search function — just hit the Search button, and you can quickly scan through a track to find the desired location. The wheel has just the right amount of resistance, letting you flick the wheel for quick scans.
One of the coolest features of the CDX is the Scratch Mode button, which allows you to select among four different ways in which the platter or record controls the sound. Scratch Mode makes the CDX respond just like a traditional turntable, with all directional movements being heard. Scratch + FWD mode plays only forward motions, eliminating the sound of any backward (counterclockwise) motions. Scratch + Cue returns playback to the last set cue point every time the record is grabbed or stopped, and Scratch + Cue + FWD returns playback to the last cue point and plays only forward motions. This is a nice set of features for the scratch DJ and turntablist, as it facilitates certain tricks, especially beat juggling. Just next to the Scratch button is a Reverse switch that operates in one of two ways: Reverse changes the direction of the physical platter until it's released (you can adjust sensitivity through the menu options), and Bleep immediately reverses the direction of playback using the buffer while the platter maintains forward motion. Also, the motor can be turned off without affecting playback to prevent accidental stoppage of playback, and there's a dedicated button to toggle between 33 and 45 rpm.
Overall, the Numark CDX feels great. The vinyl and platter response is extremely accurate, and best of all, you can be as rough as you want without a needle coming out of a groove! The Smart Loop functions and built-in effects are a major plus, and the ability to play MP3 data discs is an added bonus. Although the pitch-control resolution only goes down to 0.1 percent (which is pretty standard anyway), this is by far the best emulation of a vinyl turntable by a CD player. If a turntable and a CD player had a baby, it would be the CDX.
Pros: Amazing response and feel. Flexible, easy, perfect looping with Smart Loops and Beatkeeper. Built-in DSP effects. Slot loading. Versatile scratch modes. Separate jog wheel for searching and effects control. MP3-data-CD support. More features implemented in future software upgrades.
Cons: Maximum pitch control resolution only 0.1 percent.
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2019-04-22T22:19:46Z
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https://www.emusician.com/gear/numark-cdx
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Born c. 1969; married Eli Crews (a musician and music producer); children: Gus. Education: Earned degree in American studies from the University of California—Santa Cruz, 1991.
Addresses: Office —c/o HarperCollins, 10 E. 53rd St., New York, NY 10022.
Assistant to the publisher of the Bay Guardian , early 1990s; also worked in operations at SF-Gate, the online news site of the San Francisco Chronicle , c. 1995; writer of the "Buzz Town" column for www.sfgate.com after 1997; first book, Monkey Girl , published by Manic D Press, 1997; poet, spoken-word, and founder of The Beth Lisick Ordeal, a music-and-poetry ensemble, which released their first album, Pass , on the Dunord Recording label, 1999; collaborates with Tara Jepsen on stage and film; co-founder of the Porchlight storytelling series with Arline Klatte, c. 2002; signed to book deal by Regan Books, for the 2005 memoir Everyone into the Pool: True Tales.
San Francisco-area comedian, writer, and musician Beth Lisick is the author of Everyone into the Pool: True Tales , a collection of entertaining essays that chronicle her life to date as a poet, band front-woman, and mother. Throughout the chapters, Li-sick's counterculture attitude and penchant for wise-cracks echo her stage performances as well as the nightlife column she once authored for a Bay Area newspaper. "I tried to write a book of funny stories without resorting to things typically associated with women, " she explained to Reyhan Harmanci in the San Francisco Chronicle , "like 'men' or 'shopping.'"
In the mid- to late 1980s, when Lisick was at Saratoga High School in California's Santa Clara Valley, she was both a track champion and her school's homecoming queen. After graduating from the University of California's Santa Cruz campus in 1991 with a major in American studies, Lisick moved to San Francisco and drifted through a series of low-wage jobs. "For a long time, I thought I wanted to be a pastry chef, " she recalled in the San Francisco Chronicle interview. "Talk about bad hours and bad pay!" She discovered her true calling one night when she took the stage at a San Jose venue for open-mike night. As she told Harmanci, "I learned something really important after that first time— that I'm not afraid of public speaking."
By 1997, Lisick had had her first book published locally—a collection of poetry and prose titled Monkey Girl —and was writing a nightlife column for the website of the San Francisco Chronicle. She also founded a band, The Beth Lisick Ordeal, which featured her poetry backed by Beatnik-style instrumentation. Her act won a slot on the 1998 Lilith Fair, the national tour showcasing female musicians, and a year later they released an album, Pass , on a San Francisco record label.
Much of Lisick's poetry and storytelling revolved around her rather mundane childhood in Saratoga, the daughter of two parents who were transplanted Midwesterners to northern California, but missed out entirely on the hippie era. "At open-mike bars, everyone was denying their past like it wasn't cool, " she told Las Vegas Sun journalist Kristen Peterson. "They're acting like they were raised in the Chelsea Hotel. I loved growing up in the suburbs."
In 2001, Lisick's second book, This Too Can Be Yours , was published, and around this same time she had a child, a son named Gus, with her husband, a musician and music producer. She landed a book deal after an appearance at a 2002 event called Litquake, when a literary agent in the audience was impressed by her reading of a selection from This Too Can Be Yours. Signed to Regan Books, an imprint of Harp-erCollins known for its nonfiction bestsellers, Lisick produced Everyone into the Pool: True Tales , a collection of stories from her life. She revisits her suburban high school life, reveals incidents of sexual experimentation, and chronicles her experiences inside San Francisco's thriving alternative culture, which included a stint as a squatter, or illegal resident of a dwelling unzoned for residential use.
As Lisick writes in the introduction, she had a pleasant-enough childhood and family, and "it seemed as if I was on my way to becoming a highly functioning member of society or at least someone who wouldn't end up living the way I did. I'm talking about the illegal warehouse spaces, the ten-year lapse without seeing a doctor or dentist, driving cars held together by Bondo, crashing on floors across the United States and Europe while touring with my 'poetry.' Now, at age 35, my yearly income hovers right near the poverty line."
Everyone into the Pool earned good reviews, and prompted comparisons to humorist David Sedaris from some critics. "Lisick's self-effacing voice keeps the book moving at a brisk pace, " noted People book reviewer Jonathan Durbin, while Jennifer Reese, writing in Entertainment Weekly , described Lisick's writing style as "both offbeat and upbeat, wised-up yet curiously wholesome."
Lisick has continued to collaborate with others, including Arline Klatte, with whom she founded the Porchlight storytelling series in the Bay Area. She also works with friend Tara Jepsen on film projects, some of them involving an act they call "Mitzi and Carol." She also performs occasionally with her husband, Eli Crews, as The Loins. Their stage shows involve dancing and singing to pre-recorded music tracks. "It's sweaty couples-therapy rock, " Lisick told Lessley Anderson in the New York Times. "We're working out our relationship issues through a series of dance moves."
Lisick's next book project involves meeting do-it-yourself experts from across the United States, such as a Wiccan in Indiana and a table-tennis champ in Wisconsin. She and Crews live in a Bay Area community best described as in transition. "We live basically on the Berkeley-Oakland border, " Lisick told Portland Tribune writer Eric Bartels, but noted that their neighborhood was not the ideal place to raise a three-year-old. "I'm ready to be able to live decently. It's so gnarly in our neighborhood; he's just being shuttled in and out of the house—no hanging out in the street. It's just these crazy kids running around barefoot and lighting firecrackers off their parents' lit cigarettes."
Lisick does not refrain from taking the occasional odd job for extra cash. She appeared in a series of television commercials for a Bay Area check-cashing chain, and as late as 2002 helped out a friend's food-delivery company by appearing in a public-relations stunt that involved impersonating a piece of fruit. "I realized as soon as I put on the foam banana suit that I wasn't really embarrassed about it, " she recalled with her characteristic wit in the interview with Harmanci for the San Francisco Chronicle , "but I felt bad for other people seeing me, a thirtysome-thing mother in a foam banana suit, who felt bad."
Monkey Girl (poetry and prose), Manic D Press, (San Francisco, CA), 1997.
This Too Can Be Yours (short stories), Manic D Press, 2001.
Everyone into the Pool: True Tales (memoir), Regan Books/HarperCollins (New York City), 2005.
Entertainment Weekly , July 8, 2005, p. 75.
Las Vegas Sun , July 21, 2005.
Library Journal , June 1, 2005, p. 128.
New York Times , August 28, 2005, p. ST4.
People , July 18, 2005, p. 49.
Portland Tribune , August 26, 2005.
San Francisco Chronicle , January 21, 1999, p. D1; November 4, 2001, p. 1; July 12, 2005, p. E1.
Beth Lisick Website, http://www.bethlisick.com/ (October 12, 2005).
Excerpt from Everyone into the Pool: True Tales , Amazon.com, http://www.amazon.com (October 12, 2005).
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2019-04-18T21:17:03Z
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https://www.notablebiographies.com/newsmakers2/2006-Le-Ra/Lisick-Beth.html
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Mobile Communications on board Aircraft (MCA) is a system which allows air passengers to use their own mobile devices on board aircraft. Currently, MCA is available onboard over 200 aircrafts flying over EU territory, most of them non-EU airlines. In 2011 and 2012, the amount of data exchanged through MCA increased over 300%, proving it as a growing industry.
In November 2013, we've adopted a Decision allowing UMTS2100 (3G) and LTE1800 (4G) to be used by passengers on board aircraft in addition to the GSM band. This means passengers will now be able to use their mobile terminals for broadband services, such as internet access on MCA equipped aircraft.
In 2008, we already introduced rules to harmonise conditions for the take-off of GSM (2G) in the 1800MHz band pan-European mobile communication services on board aircraft.
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2019-04-24T12:20:07Z
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https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/en/mobile-communications-board-aircraft-mca
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I will try to continue now to talk about the dark hole I was in after being diagnosed. I remember waking up many, many nights in a fully awake nightmare. Reaching out some times for the sides of the truck we used to drive when we were truck drivers, and not finding a wall there, but thin air. Then the falling down onto the floor. Waking my husband, the flash of the bedroom light coming on, the walls around me not looking familiar at all. Sometimes I would just wake shaking Sean trying to wake him up, telling him we are going to be late getting to work because we overslept. Other times, waking up, turning my head and feeling so scared, so afraid to move, to breathe, to utter even a sound because I had no idea who the man in my bed was.
Thankfully the months and months of these horrible nights did not lead to years – as of yet. Luckily I was being given different kinds of meds to try to help with the disease’s side effects. Yes, it was hard, and still is, being that “lab rat”, but in the beginning, it was my only hope to get any real grasp on not only my night terrors, but also staying alive and wanting to stay living.
If it wasn’t for that dear neurologist I spoke of in an earlier blog, I don’t think I would be here today. Not that my family wasn’t supportive and there for me, but they had no idea how to even begin to try and find “something that worked” medically for me and my condition.
If you’re a parent, have you ever felt that absolute terror of losing your child’s hand in a store? Or a phone call in the middle of the night about a car accident a loved one was in? Or even that horrible message that a person you loved passed away? That’s what I felt every single night I went to bed – and sometimes during the day too. I honestly couldn’t tell any of you how I ever got through it. I know my faith in God is the correct answer, and of course what I believe. But if you would have seen and known me back then, you would have had your doubts too.
I know things started slowly. I do remember with the new meds, the side effects from the meds themselves were taking up most of my “mental” state and the disease was kind of put on a back burner per say. I went through many physical pains from the meds and some mental too. Just because of all the juggling going on inside of my brain. But in time, some of it got better. I still couldn’t fully process daily tasks or remember my days or the many faces I seen in my doctor’s offices. I didn’t quite truly understand why all of a sudden I was no longer alone at home anymore either, or why I just couldn’t grab my keys and head to the beach anytime I wanted to. I started to really miss privacy and “my alone time”.
Some of my memories were there again all of a sudden too. Like a lightbulb was turned on. But at the same time, I couldn’t remember what I had ate for breakfast or what time of the year it was.
They say with Alzheimer’s your memories go backwards, and in a way, I would say that sounds pretty close. But not quite right either. It hasn’t really gone backwards, it’s more like my childhood memories are more “in front” now. The things I had forgotten over time, were like they had just happened a couple years before, instead of many, many years earlier. I dont quite remember names of childhood friends exactly, but remember faces and/or events. I remember things that made me laugh and things that made me cry. I remember now even more since my dad had passed away, of how much I couldn’t wait until he got home from work every night. How much my mom and dad loved me and how much I loved them. I remember the little things too – the pond my dad dug that we fished and swam in. The wind blowing through my hair as I rode my bike up and down the hills by my childhood home. I remember the smell of my mom’s lilacs and the acres of freshly mowed grass my dad had just cut. I remember the sounds in the distance of owls and birds and crickets and bullfrogs outside my bedroom window.I remember the feeling of the sun beating down on my face as I swang in an old tire swing my dad made for me. I remembered the sound of an old car my brother drove as it rounded the corner coming home and of the gravel underneath as he pulled into the front of our house.
I remember running with my dog Pepper and chasing rabbits to hopefully just once to be able to pet one. I remember sitting on my back porch with my grandpa as he showed me his collection of matchbooks. I remember my grandma telling me stories about my ancestors and at the same time, her loving to watch the races on her TV. I remember the prickers from all the raspberry and blackberry bushes I used to climb through to just fill a basket with. I remember the warmth of my father’s woodstove he built and the fresh smell of bread my mom had just baked. I remember the snow forts I used to build with my dad and brothers and I remember skiing down our back hill with my mom and dad. I remember eating snow and making snow angels. I remember snow ball fights and hot cocoa out of a thermos. I even remember my daddy carrying me to bed when I fell asleep on his lap.
I remember being baptized and our church family. I remember my sister and my brother’s weddings and my nieces and nephews as they were each born. I even remember most of their friends throughout the years and finally, my first car.
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2019-04-21T20:35:37Z
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https://mwagner21.wordpress.com/2015/01/23/
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A new Agri-Informatics facility, Water Sciences Building, an extension to the existing Pilot hall, and a new Fire Station to enhance research and learning facilities for staff, students and visitors as part of a 25-year masterplan.
Luton youth centre at 74 Bute St, receives $2,000 grant in Contract magazine’s 2017 Inspirations Awards. The 10,000-sqft headquarters and youth centre was designed for UK charity Youthscape.
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2019-04-26T12:00:12Z
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https://www.e-architect.co.uk/england/bedfordshire-buildings
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Chapter 7 Section 2 is going to involve a flipped classroom. In class we read the section, "Convention and Compromise" pages 194-201. Click on one of the icons below to watch and listen to the PowerPoint. As you are viewing review/complete the 7-2 Worksheet (handed out in class or print the file below).
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2019-04-19T20:40:52Z
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https://ushistoryteam81.weebly.com/ch-7-a-more-perfect-union.html
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wordpress
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Searching through my abundant supply of letter stickers to find the right size for this project I found this really, really old set of stickers. No “T” 😦 There is, however, a black outline from where a “T” was. BUT to only have one negative letter was not going to be good.
I have one of the original Cricut machines. The smallest it will go down is 1″ which I’ve used on the letters of the person’s name for this Holder. I have not played with my Cricut much so I really don’t know all that it is capable of….other than cutting out letters.
I need to get into my room and get it cleaned out today. I have some black rhinestones I need to find in that flaming mess so I can attach one to the “U” where the unsightly space is.
Speaking of letters, I dug further in my stash for the lettering around the cover.
Both images…Pistol Pete and the Spirit Rider on Bullet….are from the internet and printed on Whisper White card stock. Should you decide to print a photo on card stock and wish to have the image not fade over time there is a product that is good for this.
Krylon‘s “Workable Fixitif” is the best stuff to use. This is NOT RECOMMENDED for use in scrapbooks because of the chemicals in this product.
If you draw with chalks this stuff is the best. It will keep the work you have already done from smearing as your hand moves around the paper as you draw. You can still go back to an area already worked with no fear of having a slick surface with no chalk adhesion.
When you first spray this over a photo on card stock the photo will change and get darker. Don’t worry, let it set for about 20 minutes. It will dry clear and your photo will look as it did before you sprayed it. Also, take this outside!! Spray this pungent stuff outside. Do several passes about 5 inches from the surface of what you are spraying. Don’t linger in a spot too long or it will cause the colors to bleed and run. Not good 😦 Coat the entire image and surrounding paper you will be working with.
I have a treacherous path into my room. This space is beginning to look, and feel, as though it should be featured on one of those “Hoarder” shows.
I have two bases being pressed right now. They will not be workable until later this afternoon so it is time to get in this room for some purging, cleaning, and reorganizing.
Have fun cleaning! I like putting things where they belong! Then when everything is put away, you’ll have a good idea if any of the storage spaces need to be “repurposed” for something else that fits it better. That DOES NOT MEAN GOING TO THE STORE FOR MORE STORAGE CONTAINERS, though!
Kelley actually suggested that maybe it was time to PURGE some of my supplies when we were making space for her in her room. I don’t believe my personal dictionary even has a LISTING for that word – have you ever heard of it, because I HAVE NOT!!!
Love the way you think outside of the box. I have this thing called Packratism 🙂 Yup pack as much stuff as I can in this already stuffed space, well Brian would say that at least lol. I’ve not heard of the krylon spray ,I was told to spray cheap aerosol hairspray on the chalked images but even then it’s much better to in a well ventilated area. I will have to check this stuff out. Hope all goes well with the craft room clean up. Will be looking foward to seeing your progress.
Join the “Packratism” League 😀 Nearly everything I see anymore I think how it can be used on some project. Plastic lobster bibs, restaurant menu that looks like an old newspaper.
Aerosol hair spray works pretty good. The only problem is the “sticky” factor. Any moisture, even years later, is attracted to the hair spray. The Krylon stuff doesn’t not attract moisture so the piece won’t get sticky in a humid area.
Just think of all the things you will find Leslie that you forgot about since you last cleaned and tidied your craft area. I think I enjoy the time I spend rearranging my craft stuff – perhaps I need to get out more 🙂 I shal be glad when I have the space to have all my craft stores out and around me instead of having to keep ferretting around hunting for items that have been stored and then having to put it all away again when I’ve finished.
Using the negative of the letters is good…necessity is the mother of invention!
Your day for wallowing around in a messy craft room will come. Except I don’t think your room will get messy since you’ve trained yourself to put things back after you are done with them. THAT is a good habit to have and I’m going to set that as my next goal 😀 Be respectful of my craft room and my products.
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2019-04-24T16:58:52Z
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https://messageinafold.wordpress.com/2011/12/16/using-the-negative-space-of-letter-stickers/
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juilliard
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Currently dividing her time between London and Washington, D.C., the conductor Anne Manson is clearly a woman on the go. Her personal demeanor, like her conducting, exudes a sense of purpose and intensity befitting someone who has caught international attention as a musical trailblazer: the first woman ever to conduct at the Salzburg Festival, one of just a handful of women to serve as music director of a major American symphony orchestra, and a passionate champion of contemporary and unduly neglected music.
Since making her New York debut with the Juilliard Orchestra in an all-Ives program for the 2004 Focus! festival, Manson has conducted at Juilliard several times and returns this month for a Juilliard Orchestra concert on October 11 at 8 p.m. in the Peter Jay Sharp Theater. The diverse program—emblematic of Manson’s penchant for the new and unfamiliar—includes recent works by Zhou Long and Jennifer Higdon, alongside Bartok’s The Miraculous Mandarin and Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 25 in C, K. 503.
Manson, 46, takes a special pleasure in introducing audiences to new pieces music—especially at Juilliard. “I find contemporary music very exciting, discovering new works and playing them for people. I also find it very exciting to discover non-contemporary works that are not well known,” Manson says.
One of the landmarks of Manson’s early career was stepping in for Claudio Abbado to conduct the Vienna Philharmonic in Boris Godunov at the Salzburg Festival in 1994. Manson had become Abbado’s assistant at the Vienna Staatsoper shortly after finishing her studies in London. A door was opened for her when she was asked to lead a rehearsal for Boris when Abbado had fallen ill.
Soon after, Manson’s name was suggested when the Salzburg Festival needed a conductor for a performance ofBoris that Abbado could not attend. When the director of the Salzburg Festival approached the orchestra about the possibility of engaging Manson to conduct the final performance of the opera, the orchestra enthusiastically agreed.
Over the course of Manson’s career, she has witnessed a dramatic shift in views about women on the podium. She muses on her experience as the lone female student in Del Mar’s conducting class. “I’m not sure he really thought that women could conduct orchestras. I’m not sure he would have ruled it out, but it was not necessarily obvious [to him] that a young, female musician could become a professional conductor.” Now, Manson sees a bright future for women in conducting. “To say that women aren’t encouraged to pursue conducting is no longer true. It probably was the case some years ago, and that’s why you don’t see that many women at the peak of their form right now. I think that will probably change, and in the next 10 to 20 years, we’ll see more women as music directors.
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2019-04-26T15:40:48Z
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http://journal.juilliard.edu/journal/conductor-trail-musical-excitement
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Composition: Cotton/nylon Care: Cold hand wash only. Dry flat. Do not tumble dry. All Lisa Maree crochet swimwear is created from a cotton/nylon mix yarn to ensure that the suit stretches and does hold its shape even when wet. All crochet swimsuits have removable padding in the bust for added support and shape.
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2019-04-24T09:53:56Z
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https://www.tumblr.com/widgets/share/tool/preview?canonicalUrl=https%3A%2F%2Flisamaree.com.au%2Fproduct%2Fmemories-made%2F
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uiowa
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The next scheduled maintenance window for the HPC systems is August 8, 2018 8AM - August 9, 2018 8AM.
During this time the Neon and Argon systems will be offline for maintenance. All jobs running at the beginning of the maintenance will be killed.
System updates and security patches.
The gpu.cuda.dev_free and gpu.cuda.procsum resources will be removed from the system. Instead a new resource ngpus is available that supersedes these resources. For more details on requesting GPU resources on Argon please see the Argon Documentation.
Change in qlogin behavior - There is a change being made to how job slots are allocated for qlogin sessions. Prior to August 8, 2018, by default, requesting a qlogin session would try to request an entire node. If one was not available then the qlogin request would not be fulfilled. Note that it was always possible to explicitly request less than an entire node. After August 8, 2018, by default, a qlogin request will try to allocate as many job slots on a node as possible. That might be an entire node but if an entire node is not available then the request will automatically be scaled down to fewer job slots. This should result in fewer failed qlogin requests while still attempting to provide as many resources as possible for use in the qlogin session. Note that if you do have a specific requirement for a number of job slots then you can request those explicitly.
The license server hosting the Intel Compilers licensing will be modified to allow cloud support.
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2019-04-19T01:05:30Z
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https://hpc.uiowa.edu/system-news/scheduled-maintenance-august-8-2018
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wordpress
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#NASA ‘s ISS talks to Time.com about #FIFA , life away from family and more!
This is one video you won’t want to miss! It shows astronauts playing soccer from the International Space Station (ISS) and they answer fan submitted questions. The crew talks about the teams that they are rooting for, their jobs, what type of cameras they use for space photography, the foods that they miss eating, and how often they get to chat with their families among other things.
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2019-04-24T04:55:16Z
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https://mygreenhalo.wordpress.com/category/interview/
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Papers on the Fermi Paradox, aka "the universe is huge and old, space is transparent, colonization doesn't seem that hard, where are all the aliens or signs of their existence?"
Karl Schroeder linking to the next paper, and briefly mentioning his own idea of Rewilding, that advanced technology for some reason ends up looking like nature.
13 page PDF by Keith Wiley, "The Fermi Paradox, Self-Replicating Probes, and the Interstellar Transportation Bandwidth", reviewing the potential impact of SRPs and flaws in various arguments against them, including Landis's percolation model, and Sagan's "mutations would be just too dangerous". Percolation stoppage requires unrealistic assumptions, and modern tech shows that we can reduce viable error rates to very low levels. For that matter, the number of replications in our own bodies is at least comparable to that involved in sweeping a galaxy -- he actually cites a much higher number, 10,000 trillion -- without having all that many cancers.
27 page PDF, oldie but goodie. Modifies the Drake Equation, as does Wiley.
Me, I've long been in the camp of what Brin calls the Uniqueness Hypothesis, allied with the Anthropic Principle. Someone has to be first, and if von Neumann probes can sweep the galaxy easily, then the first can be the last. If we get as far as being able to envision such probes, probably no one else has yet, and we will. Unless we do ourselves in first, but that sort of thing doesn't help the number of aliens be larger than 0 either. As for why we might be first: planets are common, and life might be fast to develop where it can (but see Hanson on hard steps), but *stable* planets might be a lot rarer; we could be unusual in not having had total mass extinctions. Or human level intelligence is rare. Or industrial civilization -- heck, humans were around for maybe 90,000 years without developing agriculture; why?
One could quibble (wouldn't such cities be covered?) but the possibility of detecting artificial lighting and its spectral oddities strikes me as another useful SETI tool, and constraint on what anyone out there is doing.
How long for replicators to sweep the galaxy?
Say stars are 4 light years apart on average. (This is probably low, but that actually slows things down.) Say travel time is 10,000 years (still fast by our standards, 120 km/s), and that it takes 10,000 years to build up to the next probe, as might fit if you're sending a small band of colonists who have to build up a new systemwide civilization. 20,000 years, 4 light years, 5000 years per light year on average. So, 500 million years to cross the Milky Way. That sounds like a long time... but then you consider life being 3 billion years old on Earth, and second(?) generation stars developing 8 billions years ago, and it's not that big a fraction of the available time.
Also note you have to improve both limiting factors to make a difference in speed. So for 50 million years, less than the time since the K-T dinosaur extinction, you need 1000 year travel time, or 0.004 c, and 1000 year development/doubling time. 4% c and 100 year doubling gives you 5 million years for the galaxy, less time then it took for humans to evolve from our last ancestor with chimps. 4% c is still well within nuclear energies, if beyond our ability to build an actual engine. 40% c (via huge mass ratios, or beamed propulsion, or antimatter) and Drexlerian nanotech doubling of 10 years gives 500,000 years, maybe 2-5x as long as the age of Homo sapiens sapiens.
If distance is 6 light years, and you spend 15,000 years in travel and 10,000 in doubling, that's 25,000/6 or 4166 years per light year, which is why I said taking a low number slows things down. And of course that assumes sending a minimal number of probes to exactly the two nearest neighbors, rather than spamming everything within reasonable range, e.g. sending probes to 4 and 8 ly away, in which case it'd be the longest legs which limited your expansion time; 8 ly jumps would mean 375 million years, or 37.5 million years, etc.
Note that broadly speaking, colonizations and civilizations, or generation ships, are "self-replicating probes" of their own. It's not like you're limited to mechanical clanking replicator von Neumann machines or dubious nanotech; replicators are free to include biology as needed, whether frozen bacteria for use in bioreactors for mineral separation or colonists for intelligence. Granted, full colonies are probably erratic enough for the percolation model of non-propagating colonies to fit, but anyway.
I'm always dubious about Fermi Paradox stuff, because there are a whole lot of assumptions involved. Maybe technological intelligence is fairly rare and typically has one of two paths - extinction before they attain interstellar capability or becoming a massively networked collective (perhaps uploaded, perhaps not), where no one wishes to go more than (at absolute most) a light second or two beyond the main collective.
Also, if intelligence is rare (and thus, it's maybe 10,000 light years between intelligences) interstellar travel or communication as a means to meet other sentients is essentially useless.
At that point, what are the reasons for interstellar expansion? Trade in raw materials is pointless and vastly uneconomical. If other life-bearing worlds are by definition not habitable to your species (being evolved for entirely different life=forms), then the only answers are space colonies or terraforming, which you can do just as well in your homesystem.
Exploration via probes makes sense, but again, once you've gone more than 1,000 or so light years travel time + reporting back time starts getting sufficiently long that even long-lived sentients might not bother. It's going to be far easier to build non-replicating probes, and that can get you data on every potentially interesting star within a reasonable range.
Finally, I remain dubious about self-replicating probes that remain active over millennia, drifting through deep space. Too much interstellar dust and fast probes are destroyed (and if you're going 0.004 C, too much isn't very much). There's going to be a failure rare for all tech - over thousands of years, that failure rate might be fairly high. The failure rate for probes landing on planets and successfully making more probes (and propulsion for them) is likely to be even higher.
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2019-04-21T17:14:43Z
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https://mindstalk.livejournal.com/305811.html
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A while back, I was laying on the couch with a sick kiddo finally sleeping, even though that meant she was literally sleeping on top of me, I was thinking about what it means to be a mom.
Eating lunch with one hand while holding her baby in the other arm.
Knowing every single word to every single song in every single Mickey Mouse Clubhouse episode.
Cheering on daddy, as he spends way too much money throwing darts at balloons at the fair, just to win our baby girl the stuffed dinosaur she fell in love with.
Feeling helpless when they’re sick and can’t tell you what hurts.
Finding snacks in all. the. places.
Mastering the quickest showers on Earth.
Laying in bed at night, scrolling through the several dozen pictures you took of her that evening and wondering what you ever did with yourself without her.
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2019-04-19T20:37:21Z
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https://southernlyeverafter.wordpress.com/2016/04/
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The need for pattern discovery in long time series data led researchers to develop algorithms for similarity search. Most of the literature about time series focuses on algorithms that index time series and bring the data into the main storage, thus providing fast information retrieval on large time series. This paper reviews the state of the art in visualizing time series, and focuses on techniques that enable users to interactively query time series. Then it presents TimeSearcher 2, a tool that enables users to explore multidimensional data using coordinated tables and graphs with overview+detail, filter the time series data to reduce the scope of the search, select an existing pattern to find similar occurrences, and interactively adjust similarity parameters to narrow the result set. This tool is an extension of previous work, TimeSearcher 1, which uses graphical timeboxes to interactively query time series data.
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2019-04-26T04:33:17Z
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http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/publications/interactive-pattern-search-time-series-2004
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George R.R. Martin greets a cosplayer at San Diego Comic-Con.
"I sold my first story in '71," says George R.R. Martin. "I didn't go full-time until '79."
We're in a room called a "pod" in the middle of a Petco Park parking lot in San Diego on the final day of Comic-Con. It's part of an exhibition from Courtyard Marriott, who is reaching out to travelers by showcasing their "innovation rooms" during days of cosplay contests and special guest appearances. Today is the grand finale with the reveal of the contest winners, who are crowned by Martin. The author of the series A Song of Ice and Fire, which became the television series Game of Thrones, answers questions from the event's MC, Noah Cappe, and fans in the crowd. After that, he meets with press. That's how we ended up in the pod, where I asked him about the times he felt like a struggling writer.
Martin says that he was a "rising writer" for years. "I was publishing more and more, but I still wasn't making enough money to live on," he says. Martin recalls wondering if he would spend his life working as a teacher (which he did for a while) or a journalist (his college major) and writing on the side. "In the history of science fiction, some of the giants of the Golden Age never were full-time writers," he says. He mentions Clifford Simak, the famed sci-fi writer who was a journalist by day.
"The other thing," Martin adds," is that in this business, you're only as hot as your latest book." After finally transitioning to full-time writer, Martin wrote a novel called Armageddon Rag. It wasn't a big seller. "Suddenly, my career as a novelist was over. I couldn't get a publisher to buy my next novel. Nobody wanted to know my name."
Martin repeats the advice he says he often tells writers: "This is not an occupation for someone who values security." Right now, though, Martin is pretty secure. His novels spawned a massively popular HBO series. Game of Thrones is so big that parts of the exhibit hall would come to a dead stop when the stars of the show turned up on the top level of HBO's booth. Martin is essentially god of that universe and no character is safe from the wrath he can inflict with a strikes against a keyboard.
I have a lot of admiration for Martin. It's more than just an addiction to Game of Thrones or the massive tomes upon which they're based. While I've spent much time discussing the parentage of Jon Snow with my friends, I'm more interested in Martin as a person. In a pop culture landscape that is riddled with so-called geeks name-checking their interests as a means of gaining fans, Martin is the real deal.
Earlier in the day, during the fan event, he talks about how he started going to San Diego Comic-Con back in 1987, when he was writing for the cult TV series Beauty and the Beast. Beyond that, he claims to be "the first comic book convention fan," having been attendee number one at a small, New York event in 1964 organized by a teenage Len Wein, who later co-created Wolverine. Now, conventions are massive events and Martin's popularity has soared to the point where he laments no longer being able to walk the show floor and look for comics.
Martin is the writer that I want to be, not in terms of style, but in attitude. He does his thing whether or not you like it. That next Ice and Fire book will come out when he thinks it's ready, no matter how many times fans ask about it. It doesn't matter how much you love a character. He or she will probably get killed and Martin will joke about it. He does the thing that so many in entertainment seem to fear: He doesn't give into fan fantasy.
Moreover, in an environment where everyone is trying to get the attention of the fans, Martin doesn't pander. That goes beyond his books. Ask him whether he prefers Star Wars or Star Trek, which happened during the fan event, and he'll answer Forbidden Planet. Then, he'll crush Trekkie hearts by adding, "Star Trek was a lot of fun, Roddenberry stole everything from Forbidden Planet." But, he doesn't stop there. "Long before the Enterprise, there was the C-57D and Commander Adams before Captain Kirk and his doctor and his first officer forming a triad investigating the ancient demise of the race of the Krell and there was Robby the Robot there who was the best robot in science fiction history. You can keep R2-D2. Give me Robby the Robot every time."
Martin doesn't have to stick to the geek platform at Comic-Con. Some might say that's only because he's super famous. I would argue that this is why he's super famous. After a while, listening to people gush about the hot properties of the moment gets old. Hearing the author of the hottest property of the moment talk about the War of the Roses or The Great Gatsby or how writing has enabled him to travel and reading lets his imagination do the same is much more interesting.
The best part, though, is how encouraging he is to the members of the audience. "I know that in an audience like this, there are aspiring writers. There are aspiring artists," he says. "Twenty, thirty years from now, someone standing out there right now will be up here."
Martin gets the crowd because, years ago, he was part of the crowd. It took decades, but, now, he's the most in-demand novelist at the convention.
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2019-04-20T16:26:39Z
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https://www.laweekly.com/arts/george-rr-martin-is-the-coolest-nerd-at-comic-con-4895388
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Fire up Software Update! In what may be the last Snow Leopard-era OS update ever before Lion’s official first roar, Apple on Thursday released Mac OS X 10.6.8.
In addition to what Apple terms “general operating system fixes that enhance the stability, compatibility, and security of your Mac,” the update tweaks the Mac App Store to prepare for the release of Lion. It also resolves an issue that caused Preview to crash, improves IPv6 support and VPN reliability, and identifies and removes known variants of the Mac Defender Trojan horse. There are a number of other improvements included in the update, all of which are detailed in an Apple support document.
You can download the entire update directly from Apple's website if you prefer: Apple provides both a 474.2MB incremental update, along with the heftier 1.08GB combo updater.
Apple also released the 10.6.8 update for Mac OS X Snow Leopard Server. Among other things, it fixes issues displaying videos in Wiki pages for Firefox and Internet Explorer, improves the reliability of sharepoints with Time Machine, address the reliability of vacation email notices, improves international character handling and authentication support for iCal Server, properly enables earlier updates in Software Update Server, and improves reliablity for cascading Software Update Servers. For a full list of fixes, follow the link above. Both a 542 MB incremental update and a 1.27GB combo updater are available directly from Apple.
In addition to that update, Mac OS X Server users can also now grab Server Admin Tools 10.6.8, which revises a number of administration tools and utilities for the server software. It’s available via Software Update as well as in a 255.9MB update from Apple’s support downloads site.
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2019-04-23T17:16:12Z
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https://www.macworld.com/article/1160706/mac_os_x_1068.html
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I was once ashamed of my mother. I was mortified by the woman who gave me life and love. It was never how she treated me, how she acted, or how she looked. What always made me cringe was the unsettling noise that escaped her mouth as she tried to speak English.
As a child of an immigrant, I grew up part daughter and part translator as my mother tried to adapt the language necessary to survive in the United States. “Be patient with me,” she would always tell me, but I simply could not.
Over the years my mother found ways to communicate with the outside world without my assistance. As I grew older, I found myself more infuriated with her and her continued inability to speak proper English. I would leave the room whenever she received a call because I could not help but pity the person on the line trying to make sense of what my mother was saying. Eventually, people on the phone stopped asking for my mother and requested me to speak for her instead.
What amazed me the most about the situation was the distinct contrast between her English and Spanish. When she spoke to me in Spanish, every sentence was a piece of poetry. My mother had a way of captivating anyone around and intriguing them to come to her whenever she spoke her native tongue.
This didn’t soothe me, but instead angered me further. I couldn’t see the logic in her being able to speak another language so perfectly, when the language in which she truly needed to function was beyond her.
My attitude changed when I went to visit my family in our home country of Argentina. I expected to struggle, but I felt that I knew enough Spanish to converse without a problem. I was soon proven wrong as all the conversations quickly overwhelmed me.
Everyone spoke too fast, unlike the way my mom spoke Spanish to me at home. Even my family I was visiting had to dramatically change their way of speaking to accommodate me. They tried not to show it, but I could see the strain that I was putting on them as they tried to find a way of communicating. The trip really turned the tables on me and for two weeks I experienced what my mother went through every day.
Now my mother shines in a new light. I applaud her when she challenges words she doesn’t usually use. I help her in learning how proper sentence structures should sound. My mother struggles with her less than perfect English still, but she keeps her head high and doesn’t let that stop her from expressing her thoughts.
She teaches me by example that language is important in life and in how a person presents to society. What is more important is the ability to acknowledge and accept the limitations of others in order to help them grow.
I can to complete my registration without money(credi card),Is ther your office in Baki,I want to cannect,to have information.I have graduated university in english,I want to work with normal salary in Foreighn country.
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2019-04-20T16:37:22Z
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http://immigrantconnect.medill.northwestern.edu/blog/2010/04/19/the-language-barrier/
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Med Sci Sports Exerc. 2013 Jul;45(7):1386-93. doi: 10.1249/MSS.0b013e3182860099.
Combined aerobic and strength training and energy expenditure in older women.
Hunter GR1, Bickel CS, Fisher G, Neumeier WH, McCarthy JP.
To examine the effects of three different frequencies of combined resistance and aerobic training on total energy expenditure (TEE) and activity-related energy expenditure (AEE) in a group of older adults.
Seventy-two women, 60-74 yr old, were randomly assigned to one of three groups: 1 d · wk(-1) of aerobic training and 1 d · wk(-1) of resistance training (1 + 1), 2 d · wk(-1) of aerobic training and 2 d · wk(-1) resistance training (2 + 2), or 3 d · wk(-1) of aerobic training and 3 d · wk(-1) of resistance training (3 + 3). Body composition (dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry), feeling of fatigue, depression, and vigor (questionnaire), strength (one-repetition maximum), serum cytokines (enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay), maximal oxygen uptake (progressive treadmill test), resting energy expenditure, and TEE were measured before and after 16 wk of training. Aerobic training consisted of 40 min of aerobic exercise at 80% maximum heart rate, and resistance training consisted of two sets of 10 repetitions for 10 different exercises at 80% of one repetition maximum.
All groups increased fat-free mass, strength, and aerobic fitness and decreased fat mass. No changes were observed in cytokines or perceptions of fatigue/depression. No time-group interaction was found for any fitness/body composition variable. TEE and AEE increased with the 2 + 2 group but not with the other two groups. Nonexercise training AEE (nonexercise training activity-related thermogenesis) increased significantly in the 2 + 2 group (+200 kcal · d(-1)), group 1 + 1 showed a trend for an increase (+68 kcal · d(-1)), and group 3 + 3 decreased significantly (-150 kcal · d(-1)).
Results indicate that 3 + 3 training may inhibit nonexercise training activity-related thermogenesis by being too time consuming and does not induce superior training adaptations to 1 + 1 and 2 + 2 training.
Pre and post 16 weeks training energy expenditure data. Total energy expenditure/day (TEE) is divided into average aerobic/resistance exercise training energy expenditure (AREE), non-exercise activity thermogenesis (NEAT), thermogenesis of food, and resting energy expenditure (REE). A significant increase in TEE and NEAT was observed for group 2 (p < 0.01) while group 3 had a significant decrease in NEAT (p<0.05). No other significant changes in EE occurred.
Med Sci Sports Exerc. ;45(7):10.1249/MSS.0b013e3182860099.
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2019-04-19T10:41:37Z
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23774582
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SANDY SPRINGS, Ga. (AP) - Some metro Atlanta commuters are upset that tolls on Georgia Highway 400 are going away Nov. 20.
WSB-TV reports (http://bit.ly/17uizm8) that many motorists fear that removing the 50-cent tolls will lead to traffic jams as more drivers use the road after it's free.
The State Road and Tollway Authority said it has received several emails from concerned drivers.
Agency officials have said they anticipate an 18 percent increase in traffic volume once the tolls are removed.
In 2012, Gov. Nathan Deal announced the toll booths would be removed by the end of 2013.
Deal said Wednesday that he made a promise to Georgians that the toll would be removed, and he intends to keep that pledge.
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2019-04-23T06:44:49Z
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https://www.onlineathens.com/local-news/2013-05-30/motorists-complain-about-removal-ga-400-tolls
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Energy is a central concept in physics, chemistry, and biology. However, students who study all three disciplines can end up with a fragmented rather than unified understanding of energy. In the context of an introductory physics course for life sciences students that focuses on interdisciplinary connections, we look at how students can reconcile energy concepts across the sciences. We also look at the metaphors that can be used for reasoning about energy, including energy as a substance and energy as a vertical location. Both students and experts can productively coordinate multiple metaphors for energy.
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2019-04-23T20:22:30Z
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http://guevents.georgetown.edu/event/physics_colloquium_what_is_energy_blending_scientific_disciplines_and_blending_metaphors
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"It is imperative to note that Emma Thompson has strictly expressed that questions regarding her personal and private life not surface during any portion of the interviews. We would like to respectfully request that you honor her wishes."
The request, and the stern formality of its wording, came as a mild surprise to many journalists who had previously interviewed the 36-year-old Thompson. During past meetings with the press, Thompson seemed exuberantly candid, delightfully down-to-earth and, occasionally, just a wee bit bawdy.
A few months ago, however, Thompson separated from her husband, actor-director Kenneth Branagh, leading to all sorts of messy speculation and gossip-mongering in the British tabloid press.
Therefore, it isn't altogether surprising that, even as she does her best to publicize her latest movie, she reserves the right to remain circumspect.
At one point during an interview in a posh Manhattan hotel, she pointedly compared contemporary standards of behavior with the standards of 1811, the era of "Sense and Sensibility." People may have been stuffy and more repressed back then, Thompson allowed. But they did practice common courtesies.
"I rather regret that we don't continue to observe them," Thompson said, "because they're very useful. I don't think we know how to behave anymore."
Perhaps. On the other hand, it appears that the television and print journalists who swarmed around Thompson during three days of interviews were on their very best behavior. The questions remained focused on the subject at hand, "Sense and Sensibility," and with good reason. The film already has earned rave reviews and a fistful of critics' awards, and is considered a strong Oscar contender.
Thompson does double duty as star and screenwriter in "Sense and Sensibility," an amusing and affecting adaptation of Jane Austen's classic novel. As Elinor Dashwood, one of two marriage-minded sisters who nearly miss the chance for happily-ever-aftering, she is first among equals in a strong ensemble that also includes Alan Rickman, Kate Winslet and Hugh Grant. The plot is compelling, the dialogue is witty -- and the credit, Thompson insisted, must go largely to her source material.
"Jane Austen is a great ironist and a great satirist," Thompson said. "And because she's drawn all of these characters from her life, they seem so real. You just know that when she was in the middle of Chapter 17 and So-and-So came to call, she would simply put Chapter 17 under the blotter, offer them tea and seedcake, hear the latest story from the rectory or the big house -- and then bang it in to Chapter 17 as soon as So-and-So left.
"So it's clear that this story was absolutely based on reality. And it's also clear that people really haven't changed all that much. That's why (`Sense and Sensibility') seems so brand new and sharp as a pin, still. She seems to me more contemporary than many later writers.
"Now, of course, we have psychobabble for all the things that people are doing in this story. Elinor? She's in denial, she's a coper, she's repressing her emotions. And Marianne is an idealist, but she's projecting. We've got words for this behavior now, and we now see psychoanalysts for it. But we haven't changed. It's obvious we haven't changed."
Thompson was first approached to adapt "Sense and Sensibility" nearly five years ago, after producer Lindsay Doran saw several episodes of a British television comedy series that featured skits written by Thompson. Doran didn't have to look far to find Thompson -- at the time, she was starring in "Dead Again," a movie Doran was producing for Sydney Pollack's Mirage company.
"But, you know, I didn't take it for granted that I was going to star in it as well as write it. When I was first asked to write the screenplay, I really wasn't in a position to say, `Oh, and by the way, I'm going to play Elinor.' "
Even when she was in that position, after received an Oscar for "Howards End" and Oscar nominations for "Remains of the Day" and "In the Name of the Father," the decision remained with the director, Thompson said: "Directors cast the movie. That's what they're paid for."
However, the director eventually chosen to make "Sense and Sensibility," Taiwanese filmmaker Ang Lee ("The Wedding Banquet"), couldn't imagine anyone else in the role.
Now some observers are imagining Emma Thompson as the first woman in history to win Academy Awards for best actress and best screenplay in the same year.
Thompson insisted that she hasn't allowed herself to entertain such thoughts. "Maybe I'm in denial," she said.
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2019-04-18T20:20:14Z
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https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1996-01-05-9601050033-story.html
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The glyph for SaTurn is comprised of a cross with an elongated bottom (T), and a backwards S connected to the bottom right.
_ "ST can be expressed hieroglyphically as $ symbolizing the serpent and the T, the cross or the Tree of Life. It is the life (serpentine) force pushing thru the growing point, threshold or "site". Theu the pairing of S and T strongly accents foundation, the "seat" of consciousness. Set, the oldest Eqyptian god, forms the basis of all the other gods, and being so basic or low he is considered evil. (To descend so low is to be considered "drunk" ot "sotted". A "sot" is also a child, the foundation of man." from Robert M. Hoffstein's "The English alphabet: an inquiry into its mystical construction" (New York: Kaedmon Publishing, 1975).
SaTan, STructure, STatus, STate, conSTriction, conSTruction, auSTere, STern, SeT, STone, STuck, STand, resiST, teST, STasis, sySTem, STabilize, eSTablish, eSTate, STandard, crySTalize, STress, conSTant, STiff, obSTinate, liST, STrain, STrict, STick, STatement, etc.
How do you give additional STructure to our number sySTem? With ST, of course! We measure things againST the firST (1st) and the laST. How do you give STructure to countries? With STatutes of STate. STructure urban geography? With poSTal STreet addresses. How do you SeT something in memory? STudy it! Give STructure to a process? with STart and STop!
We even have a part of speech built around the ST of SaTurn! Adjectives describe things -- SaTurn defines the outer limit of things. It is the limit of our sensory perceptions.
All adjectives have a comparative and superlative form. The superlative form is the limit. You cannot get any colder than coldeST. ST is SaTurn. It is the limit!
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2019-04-23T08:03:04Z
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http://www.aquarianage.org/west/planets/st-etym.html
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Forest new tab wallpapers amazing collection.
Forest tab extension is a beautiful & unique themes and backgrounds experience. The most amazing forest wallpapers only for you!
This extension has a tons of themes and wallpapers like sunshine nature. With fresh backgrounds being added to the collection weekly. So you will get a new enchanted landscape wallpapers every week for your home screen. And each wallpapers is designed to fit with any screen and widget.
weather addon, gives you the current weather status in your area. Never get bored again - let the app auto-magically set new top-quality ocean cherry blossom themes as often as you wish. Simple to use... And always free! Make your own new tab experience, with lots of fun add on. Simple interface with snowy foggy hd imgs.
forest themes is the best app for fans who enjoy aesthetic winter wallpapers. You'll discover an amazing hd wallpapers waiting for you.
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2019-04-22T23:55:46Z
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https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/forest-wallpapers-new-tab/dgciilmmefemalcbgkpffeefekdcmbic
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In November, United Way of Southern Nevada’s Volunteer Center launched its new and improved volunteer management website. This new system gives you more resources including the ability to post opportunities electronically, track volunteer hours, and run volunteer statistics and reports.
With this transition, we are asking our partners to attend a training on the new system over the next few months. The training will cover posting opportunities, running reports, tracking volunteer hours, and other upgrades to the software. These trainings will be 2 hours long and will take place at United Way of Southern Nevada. Feel free to bring lunch!
If you have attended the Partner Staff Technology training already, you do not need to attend.
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2019-04-20T00:45:23Z
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https://volunteeruwsn.wordpress.com/tag/training/
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Comparative effectiveness of advanced wound dressings for patients with chronic venous leg ulcers: a systematic review.
The purpose of this study was to systematically review the literature on the benefits and harms of advanced wound dressings on wound healing, mortality, quality of life, pain, condition of the wound bed, and adverse events for patients with chronic venous leg ulcers as compared with treatment with compression alone. We searched for primary studies in the databases of MEDLINE, EMBASE, the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials, and the Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature(®) from January 1980 through July 2012. Each study title, abstract, and full article was evaluated by two independent reviewers. Thirty-seven studies met our specific search criteria, although most evidence was of low or insufficient quality. Cellular dressings, collagen, and some antimicrobial dressings may improve healing rates of chronic venous leg ulcers vs. compression alone or other dressings. Limited data were available on other outcomes. The poor quality of the literature limits conclusions and necessitates future, well-conducted studies to evaluate the effectiveness of advanced wound dressings on chronic venous ulcers.
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2019-04-18T14:16:24Z
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https://scholars.duke.edu/display/pub1352406
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