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← GREENBAR DISTILLERY TEAMS UP WITH THE BURRITO PROJECT TO FEED DTLA’S HUNGRY… AND THEY NEED YOUR HELP!
Shopping in DTLA just got a little better… thanks to the new Nordstrom Local at The Bloc. Before you get too excited, Nordstrom Local is NOT a full sized department store, but it does offer almost everything a real Nordstrom offers, and maybe even a little more. Nordstrom Local is described as “convenient drop-in service and style.” Nordstrom Local is all about service. You can shop on-line and pick up your purchases in the new store, and they will even run your packages out to you curbside. If your clothing purchases need alterations, they do it in the new store. There is a personal shopper service, dry cleaning, gift wrapping even a barber. If you buy something on-line that doesn’t fit or you just don’t like it, you can just return it to the store and they will return it for you.
Nordstrom Local is open 9am to 7pm on weekdays, and 11am to 6pm on weekends. Get more information about all the new services on their website.
This entry was posted in DTLA Shopping and tagged Downtown LA, Downtown Los Angeles, DTLA, Nordstrom, Nordstrom Local, The Bloc. Bookmark the permalink.
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Nestled in Albuquerque’s north valley is the historic village of Alameda. This area was the center of the Alameda Land Grant in the 17th century. Originally a farming community of handcrafted adobe homes surrounded by irrigated fields, Alameda retains much of its original character today. On the side streets, like Guadalupe Trail, you’ll often find yourself on narrow dirt and gravel roads which lead to rustic adobe homes, horse and cattle pastures, apple orchards and brilliant green alfalfa fields. Hidden in the rural beauty are many artisans eager to share their creativity.
Alameda is bordered on the east by the railroad tracks that originally helped to bring New Mexico into the modern age. To the north lies Sandia Pueblo. The famous Rio Grande, New Mexico’s life blood, forms the western border of Alameda, and the historic village of Los Ranchos roughly forms Alameda’s southern boundary.
More info on Alameda at the Alameda Studio Tour Website.
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Polish-born Rubinstein was celebrated as one of the greatest Chopin pianists ever, but his repertoire was much broader and included works written for him by Stravinsky and Szymanowski. He preferred studio recording and left a substantial legacy, mainly for RCA.
Arthur Rubinstein – the greatest Chopin pianist on record?
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2019-04-21T06:55:38Z
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https://www.gramophone.co.uk/musicians/artist/arthur-rubinstein-46874
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The moduli space of marked singularities was introduced by Claus Hertling in 2010 and parameterizes μ-homotopic isolated hypersurface singularities equipped with certain markings. This moduli space can be understood either as a global μ-constant stratum or as a Teichmüller space of singularities. The additional marking allows one to formulate the conjecture on the analytic behavior of singularities within a distinguished μ-homotopy class in terms of a Torelli type problem in a very efficient way. In my talk I will discuss the history of this problem and introduce carefully the notion of a marked singularity. Secondly, I will speak about very recent results on this Torelli type problem for singularities of high modality.
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https://www.iag.uni-hannover.de/631.html
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Bhimani, Alnoor, Sivabalan, Prabhu and Soonawalla, Kazbi A study of the linkages between rolling budget forms, uncertainty and strategy. British Accounting Review, 50 (3). pp. 306-323.
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The purpose of this study was to teach four preschool children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) to wash their hands independently using a video modeling-based intervention package. A research questions was asked: Is there a functional relation between a video modeling-based intervention package and increases in level and trend for washing hands independently? A multiple probe across participants design was used to answer this question. Results indicated that the intervention package had functional relation with the increase in level and trend of the three participants’ performance in washing hands. The intervention package of video modeling and least-to-most prompting was found to be effective to teach the participants the skills taught.
Prapti, Ndaru, "USING A VIDEO MODELING-BASED INTERVENTION PACKAGE TO TEACH HAND WASHING TO CHILDREN WITH AUTISM" (2018). Theses and Dissertations--Early Childhood, Special Education, and Rehabilitation Counseling. 66.
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https://uknowledge.uky.edu/edsrc_etds/66/
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2/ a virtual reality entertainment, often immersive and interactive.
[verb] to interact with or exist or function in virtual reality. Hence vircher.
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https://orionsarm.com/eg-article/47533cf37d5d4
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In Levant, satellite Internet from HughesNet is the gold standard. The company that first introduced satellite Internet to the United States still does it better than the competition. Both fast and affordable, it meets your needs in rural high speed Internet service so much better than dial-up or DSL ever could. With multiple plans to suit different types of users, our specialists will be happy to guide you through the process of finding the best one for you. Get connected now to fast Internet in Levant.
With more than 40 years in satellite communication industry, HughesNet knows exactly what Internet users are looking for. Residents of Levant are tired of waiting on dial-up and DSL connections and they know that there is something better and faster waiting for them. HughesNet brings the speed you need in Levant to do everything the Internet offers.
HughesNet has been around for a while, and is still continually improving. It brings you better speed than any other Internet provider in Levant. With speeds of up to 15 Mbps, you can do more.
Choose the #1 satellite Internet provider in Levant, Kansas and the country. Discover how much better the Internet can be. Call us now at 1-888-338-4141 and find out about the great deals we are currently offering and schedule your complimentary installation.
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Posted on September 06, 2012. Brought to you by yahoolocal.
It is the best Chinese restaurant all around. The price is great and the food is great.
Structure can be found at W Ridgewood Dr 7795. The following is offered: Men's Clothing. The entry is present with us since Sep 9, 2010 and was last updated on Nov 14, 2013. In Cleveland there are 34 other Men's Clothing. An overview can be found here.
Structure is located at 7795 W Ridgewood Dr, Cleveland, OH. This business specializes in Men's Clothing.
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Of course, I’m not gonna claim to know as much as your local butcher, but at some point in my life I will learn how to butcher a cow. Sounds a little morbid, and who knows I could be the next Dexter of Hong Kong but… I like my knives, man. And there’s a portion of cooking where one just has to know how their ingredients end up on the station, right?
Basically, how I work it out: if the muscle’s on the part of the cow where it gets the most direct stress (shoulders-a-movin’, legs-a-shufflin’), a wet-heat method like braising, poaching, steaming, whatever, is the better option because it breaks down all that connective tissue (is that what it’s called? I dropped Biology/all actual Sciences for IB). If the muscle’s not getting a workout: a dry-heat method like grilling, roasting etc (like for the much loved sirloin or hanger steaks) are more appropriate.
I marinaded the brisket in light soy sauce, sesame oil and cornflour for an hour. I also added an egg yolk cos I saw it once in a recipe for something Chinese and thought it made sense, like a balancing some kind of yin/yang dimension. Don’t really know what it did to the dish though, added depth let’s say??
After a quick sear in the wok (I did this all in a wok, by the way, allow an oven to braise when this is Hong Kong), I drained the excess liquid and put the beef to the side, and cleaned out the wok. I was once told never to add salt until the very end when you’re braising, I’m not sure whether this is just some old wives’ tale but I didn’t do it anyway.
I wanted to add some veg because I’m generally quite unhealthy and seeing green makes me feel a little more holistic cooking, so I threw in some broccoli with some soy sauce, sesame oil etc. – got some flavour coating dat wok ting before I made some magic innit. Not Chinese broccoli though. Not sure why, just wasn’t feeling it aesthetically. Obviously, cut these babies up for ease of one-bite-wondership. Oh, and wash them. Because cleanliness is next to Godliness. And if we are anything in this world, we are but God’s starving children.
Putting the greenery also to the side, I then returned the beef to the wok.
Added some fresh ginger, garlic and chili, then the wondersauce (the Chu Hou).
I just added water to make the braising liquid, but was contemplating beef stock – I’m sure this would’ve been fine also, just the end-product had a really good flavour anyway, so I don’t think there was any need for more beefiness. Anyway, give it an hour, maybe two, depending on how lean your meat is, and boil some vermicelli rice noodles 3 minutes before time – voila, tender stewed beef that tastes like something out of your favourite chaan teng.
My brother absolutely loved it, so if that counts for anything – try it yourself.
Note: I’m trying to practice my Cantonese so the characters are more for my reference than anything else. Apologies if I look like some well-tuned white kid; I’ve lived here for 20 years and can’t speak the language, a bit of a fail.
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a question iliongezwa: Can I share these beautiful pictures on facebook ? Can I also put some writing on it and share it?. What about my homepage. Can I put it there? What about flyers or my book? Can I publish a picture from Anne Stokes there? Thank-you for your answer.
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02/21/1995 Referred to the Subcommittee on Health and Environment.
01/30/1995 Executive Comment Requested from DOD.
01/30/1995 Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
01/26/1995 Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
01/19/1995 Referred to the Committee on Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, and National Security, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
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Bouchard St-Amant, P-A & Morin, H. Efficient University Funding Formulas.
Bouchard St-Amant, P-A & Morin, H. Student Aid Reform: Comparing An Increase in Eligible Expenses With An Increased Income Protection.
Bouchard St-Amant, P-A, Brabant, A. & Germain, E (soumis). University Funding Formulas: Incentives and Reforms.
Bouchard St-Amant, P-A (soumis). Getting the Right Spin: A Theory of Large Scale Diffusion on Social Networks.
(À paraître) Bouchard St-Amant, P-A (2019). Des effets des politiques de financement des universités, chapitre dans « L'État québécois: où en sommes-nous? » sous la direction de Paquin, S. & Bernier, R. (eds), Presses de l'Université du Québec.
Bouchard St-Amant, P-A & Brabant, A-N (2019). Politique de financement des universités: incitatifs et réformes, pour la Fédération québécoise des professeurs et professeures d'université. (url).
Bouchard St-Amant, P-A et Therrien, M-C (en cours). Politique d'encadrement du déploiement de la téléphonie 5G et des capteurs numériques, pour la Ville de Montréal.
Bouchard St-Amant, P-A (2017). Targeting Employers: A Prototype for Saskatchewan and Manitoba, pour le Gouvernement du Canada.
Bouchard St-Amant, P-A (2017). Optimal Allocation of Proactive Inspections: A Pilot-Project, pour le Gouvernement du Canada.
Bouchard St-Amant, P-A (2017). An Economic Analysis of Stoker-Boiler Biomass Powerplants.
Bouchard St-Amant, P-A (2016). A Cost-Benefit and Feasibility Analysis of Increasing Ontario’s Energy Importations from Hydro-Québec.
Bouchard St-Amant, P-A (2015). A General-Equilibrium Analysis of an Higher-Education Subsidy Paid Through Wage Taxes.
Bouchard St-Amant, P-A (2015). On the Design of Fines for the Canada Labour-Code: A Cost-Benefit Analysis, pour le Gouvernement du Canada.
Bouchard St-Amant, P-A (2015). Measuring the Economic Impact of the Multimedia Business Tax Credit.
Bouchard St-Amant, P-A (2014). Forecasting Reactive Assignments: A Fourier-Series and Time-Series Analysis, pour le Gouvernement du Canada.
Bouchard St-Amant, P-A (2015). Assessing the Effectiveness of the Tax Credit For Treatment Infertility.
Bouchard St-Amant, P-A (2009). Building an Inter-Generational (In)Equity Index.
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Anxious Parents Can Learn How To Reduce Anxiety In Their Kids : Shots - Health News The children of parents who struggle with anxiety are much more likely to develop it themselves. Therapy for both parents and children can help keep the often-debilitating disorder at bay.
Noah Cummings, 13, starts the morning with his mom, Heather Cummings, at home in Epsom, N.H.
Noah and friend Chandler Bean, 14, left, gear up for school.
Noah's parents had to learn to let him deal with his worries on his own.
Chandler and Noah shoot hoops. Noah recently went on a school trip to Washington, D.C., without worrying or needing to call back home.
"The way you learn how to manage life is by making mistakes or by stepping into things that feel uncertain, uncomfortable, or overwhelming and then proving to yourself through experience that you can manage it," Lyons says. The Cummingses were inadvertently suggesting to Noah that he couldn't handle it.
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https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2014/05/26/314602190/anxious-parents-can-learn-how-to-reduce-anxiety-in-their-kids
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So what, exactly, are all these lawyers who’ve been laid off from BigLaw doing now? It’s a grab bag, of course. Some we know have latched on to judicial clerkships. Others have gone back to school in other disciplines; still others have taken their practices in new directions. And many, we imagine, are waiting for the ice to thaw on this economy, at which point their former employers, they presumably hope, will realize just how badly they were missed and hire them back at their 2007-level salaries. For now, it’s a lot of Netflixed Entourage and rediscovering the joys of homemade pasta.
But one trend we haven’t exactly seen, to our mild surprise, is a rush of youngish lawyers heading out on their own, setting up solo shops, with little but a shingle and a Gmail account. We don’t exactly know why there hasn’t been a mass move to solo practice, but we imagine it has something to do with the fact that, well, it seems flat-out insane. Granted, the mean partners are gone, but there’s rent to pay, printers to fix, books to buy and, of course, clients to get. In other words, there’s a business to run, which, frankly, is a proposition that scares the bejeezus out of us — and probably a host of others law-school grads as well, risk-averse souls that we are.
Hi Mitchell, thanks for taking the time. So you’re at Foley Hoag in 2007. Walk us through how you made the decision to leave and start your own firm.
It’s not something I’d really ever thought about. I knew people . . .
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Dr. Jeanne McNeill has been awarded New Brunswick’s Family Physician of the Year award from the College of Family Physicians of Canada.
Dr. McNeill joined the University of New Brunswick in 1979 as a Beaverbrook Scholar.
Read the Times & Transcript article below.
Dr. Jeanne McNeill of Moncton has received New Brunswick's Family Physician of the Year award from the College of Family Physicians of Canada (CFPC).
She is one of 10 recipients of the 2013 Reg L. Perkin Award, which recognizes family doctors for their outstanding patient care, significant contributions to the health and well-being of their local communities, and their commitment to family medicine, teaching and research. The award recipients are nominated by their colleagues, community leaders and the CFPC's 10 provincial chapters.
McNeill has been a member of the College of Family Physicians of Canada since 1995.
She began her undergraduate degree at the University of New Brunswick in 1979 on a Beaverbrook Scholarship. A few years later she received her medical degree from the University of Alberta, and began her career in family medicine in Edmonton in 1987. McNeill moved back to New Brunswick in 1991 and joined the Horizon Health Network in Moncton where she continues to work today. She has been the medical director for family practice, geriatrics, and palliative care since 1998 while maintaining a full-time comprehensive community practice.
Since 1987, McNeill has been actively involved with the Federation of Medical Women of Canada and completed terms as president, national treasurer, and board member. She has been a member of the New Brunswick Medical Society since 1991, including past-president in 1998, and is currently chair of the communications and membership engagement committee. She has been a member of the Canadian Medical Protective Association (CMPA) Council and its related committees since 2006.
McNeill sat on many New Brunswick government committees, including the provincial breast screening program, Physician Resources Advisory Committee, and, most recently, the Diabetes Working Group.
McNeill maintains a strong role in her home community. Since 2002, she has made presentations to local high school and community groups to promote healthy lifestyles. She was director of the Home and School Association of Riverview Middle School, board member for Riverview Minor Soccer and the Riverview Tennis Association, and is currently president of the Legs for Literacy running event.
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I loved Question Time because you meet interesting people - it's great fun.
I asked Sinclair why he'd been chosen for this weekly television panel of punditry, run by benign, no-nonsense chairman Robin Day. I had thought that the balance was the three political parties and one industrialist Sinclair had been on the panel when the programme was broadcast from Scotland, with its Timex relevance.
No, they get two people thinking from the left and two from the right. And usually one of the two on each side is a known politician, and the other is less obviously political . . . they think l think from the right.
But in fact, one's opinions may vary from a set party line I think it such a pity that affiliation to a political party appears to tie one's thinking to a set of national party standards whereas so many decisions should be made at a more domestic, local level.
Exactly. You and I not being politicians are ill-suited to Question Time; I think it benefits the programme to have people who think for themselves, but the politicians are very vocal because they've thought out a stock answer for almost every subject, whereas l have to dunk up something on the spot because most subjects I haven't given any thought to.
What is all this computer power going to do for us?
The fifth-generation machine is a design principally concerned with thoughts and ideas as opposed to numbers. What I'm interested in what excites me - is making a machine which aids us as humans in the mental sphere in the same way as motors have aided us in the mechanical and the physical sphere. We've done very well there - right from the start of the industrial revolution we've been developing machines to aid us, and to take the burden off our muscles in every sense - machine tools, means of transport, domestic appliances, hand tools - that's gone very well; now's the time for doing the same thing for the intellect.
So far we've replaced human labour at the very lowest intellectual levels - no intellect's needed for washing up and so on - and now we're aiming at moving upwards and replacing intellect at the professional level. I think that what I'm doing is making a machine which will in due course sit in the home and replace - or supplement - the doctor, the solicitor, the teacher.
I get the impression that you're expecting Mr & Mrs Everybody to have a higher intellectual standard than I believe they actually have.
Oh no, not a bit; I'm not expecting that. I don't think that my machine will demand anything intellectually; it itself will have to have very great intellectual powers, but its users will have whatever intellectual powers they choose to have. The machine will be there, and it will advise them; they can ask it questions and it'll give them answers perhaps even tell them what to do. They can say: 'What's on television tonight?' and they won't have to worry about how it will get the information - it'll decide that; it'll ring up somebody or look it up in its memory banks, or find out by whatever means. Or they can say to it: 'What's the first train to London round about midday tomorrow?' or: 'I've got a pain in my right side and really haven't been feeling too well' - and it'll recognise them; it'll know who they are when they're talking to it.
TV programmes and trains to London - isn't this covered by teletext - Ceefax and Oracle?
I see. Will it actually tune itself to my intellectual level?
Yes, certainly. It'll know the person; it'll deal with each person in the family as an individual. I hadn't thought of it as tuning to intellectual level but it's a nice way of putting it; that's what it will be doing.
Well, in a sense it is. The way I ask my questions and the sorts of questions I can answer when it asks me will vary according to who I am. How does the machine find out about me?
It's introduced to the family when it first arrives. You'll sit down and it'll say: 'Hello, tell me your name?' and you'll say: 'I'm Johnny' and it'll ask questions to find out all about you.
But what then? Do you really foresee that everyone's going to be sitting at home talking to computers?
I think it's a wonderful thing. I think it will remove a lot of loneliness for old people, and it'll improve the standards of education dramatically - because we'll be able to have individual tuition . . . whether it'll be done at home, or at school with each person sitting in front of one of these strange teachers, I don't know.
As I imagine it, you'd look at this machine and see a face there talking to you; it would have a personality. There wouldn't be a face; you 'd just see one . . . I imagine that people would generate an image of the sort of face they'd like to see - it would certainly assume different personalities for different people.
Of course - eventually you could pack it all into a body and make it into a robot . . .
That's a different can of worms; how far away do you think this is?
I think we can make a machine that does all this in the early 90s, but it'll be too expensive for domestic use until the turn of the century.
We've already got a problem of non-standardisation - computers which don't communicate with one another because they use different languages or formats or media. What about standardisation for these machines which are orders of magnitude more powerful?
Ah - this is a machine you talk to, so its language is natural.
Interesting thought - machines from different manufacturers would have their own internal standards, but they could communicate with one another in plain English - or Japanese. You could shut a group of them in a room and listen to them having a conversation. But what about the standards for storing the information for what's on the telly or what time the trains are?
It will refer to whatever systems are available, just as you do - or I do - now. It'll be so enormously intelligent that it will be able to cope with all the different forms of information.
The machine's got to relate to the world as it finds it.
But if you have to alter the world . . .
No, you're trying to alter the world to fit in with this machine that I haven't yet developed.
So you'll need to have optical character recognition and something blinking over the times on the timetable?
I think it'll need to be able to read the papers . . I can see what you're saying and I don't deny that standards would help, but you've also got to be realistic. It probably won't happen to the extent that one might like - it would be nice if character fonts were standardised to make reading easier but that won't happen, so the machine's got to cope with that.
What is it that you find so terribly exciting about this idea?
I suppose it's because it'll be the first time that humans won't be the only known intelligence in the known universe. We don't have to wait for them to arrive from outer space; we can build them here.
Why do you want that to happen?
I don't particularly; I think it's exciting though!
So you treat it as an intellectual challenge rather than as an end product that you think will be useful?
On the contrary! I think it's a product which will be immensely useful. I think it will change mankind - create more wealth for mankind than any other development in history. I think that early in the next century we'll be able to make a robot with true intelligence and patience and all sorts of qualities; it will be able to walk into the Third World and advise them. These machines will be as the Greek slaves were to the Romans.
One difference is that you're not actually creating a slave class from existing people. In the case of the Greeks and the Romans you had a means for soaking up those who were not employers of slaves.
The people who employed the slaves were often the intellectual inferiors. The Greek slaves were superior to the Roman slave-owners. The Greek was often the intellectual - reading and writing letters, teaching the children and so on - that's why I'm using that particular analogy. So in that sense one doesn't see a need to mop up people.
Aren't some of today's problems borne of the fact that there is a shortage of menial jobs - or perhaps that many people have been 'educated' to have expectations beyond what they can achieve?
I don't know that they have been educated to believe that. I think there's a shortage of jobs at the moment because jobs have been shed from the manufacturing industry at such a rate that society can't adjust. Once that job-shedding ends, as it will, then I think society will adjust, and more and more people will be employed in service industries. I think this is happening in the States now. Even when we have robots people will prefer to be served by other human beings.
In 1850, 60 per cent of the population were either employed on the land or were servants, and it must have been unthinkable that those people could be elsewhere employed because they were the people who were thought of as only good for ploughing the land or scrubbing floors how on earth could they be employed? But they were.
That's what I mean about expectations. A servant who wanted to rise in the world could do so - well, theoretically. Most of them were content to do what they were doing and live from day to day in a simple fashion. They didn't think the world owed them a living. More benign employers and fewer potential employees with big ideas would work wonders for unemployment.
I think we'll go back to full employment in the early 90s. And then I think that one day much further ahead the robots really will be able to do everything that humans can - with all human actions and so on - it may be that people will prefer to be served by robots than by humans . . . in which case there won't be any jobs, unless the robots decide they don't want to bother with us! However, we won't have to face the problem until the twenty-first century, and it will depend on what people actually want to do; we might change our views about unemployment. Macmillan said to me: 'I don't know why people keep complaining about not having any work; some of my best friends never work at all and look at them'. People will be brought up to that way of thinking.
But they still have to have some means of support.
They need wealth, but that wealth will be created in abundance by the robot slaves. Think about it - supposing you could economically make a certain number of robots. They could make many more, and they could make a larger number still - so suddenly you've got lots and lots of them. And they could all go out and work, generate all the wealth - do anything you like; they're as intelligent as we are. They don't tire. I'm not saying when - but one day.
I think there's either a flaw in your argument or I'm not understanding it in the right way. I can't help wondering what on earth I shall do when robots are doing everything for me. I suppose they'll form their own bridge fours, and I can carry on as before. How far do you think the home computer has educated us for the future you describe?
I think that we've done the first and second stages of the job - we've got millions of people out there now who play with computers, who're familiar with keyboards; the next stage is to make a machine that's useful to them. An awful lot of computers have been bought by people who wanted to learn about computers - which is the intention - and to play games on them. But an awful lot of other people have bought them and found them inappropriate for their use. And we're really not winning if you still choose to use a pad to take your notes, rather than a computer. You can type, so if you had a machine which was sufficiently right for your needs you'd have it with you and put your notes straight into it.
But then if I had a machine which was sufficient to my needs it would actually transcribe what we're saying wouldn't it?
Oh yes, but the first sort of machine is just around the corner. It's not there yet, but it should be. It's what we've got to make; the opportunity is there. Instead of writing in your notebook, wouldn't you prefer to tell your machine where to file the data so you could retrieve it?
It all depends what one is used to. I find that, admirable as your idea might be, spreading out all my papers and saying: 'I want this sentence from here, and that sentence from there, and this paragraph in here . . . 'is something that you cannot do very well with a computer. Of course I know what you'll say about word processing, but I still need hard copy to be able to take a synoptic view of my material.
So you've tried to educate people, but they may have found that they can't do what they'd like to do with machines. Now, is there a danger that these people will go away sadly saying: 'Computers are not for us after all'? Do you really think you can take a second bite at the cherry; that you can come back with another machine and say: 'This will do what you had hoped'?
Yes. What tasks do you think young people want to do with computers that they can't do at the moment?
I think that they can do all the tasks with the appropriate machine, but to do all the tasks well is perhaps too expensive - and portability is so vital. I think that the reason that we cling to paper is that it's so portable.
Yes, and so fileable and so throw-awayable.
Yes, but it's the portability that's still lacking with computers. You want a printout of the data so that you can take it with you - not because you want the paper. If the whole machine always goes with you without it being cumbersome, then you can do away with the paper.
Even this small step needs a very great change in attitudes and methods of working. How much greater will be the problems of your new Periclean Athens?
Manifold. I don't want to think about it!
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http://rk.nvg.ntnu.no/sinclair/sinclair/questiontime.htm
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The users of the finished executable are not the only consumers of a software project. Sooner or later, other developers will have to work with our source code, and they deserve our pity no less than end users. Even the simplest application develops its own API, and it us up to us, who created it, to document it.
Along the way, we’ll be exploring Xcode’s own documentation system: how to use it, and how to extend it.
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2019-04-19T04:30:20Z
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https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/xcode-3-unleashed/9780768682939/ch16.html
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Rain hammered down on the cabin roof and the small boat rocked on the waves.
Read the rest…you won’t regret it!
This entry was posted in Blogflash 2012, Fiction and tagged 12 days of Christmas Blog Hop, Blogflash 2012, flood, Sun on 30th December 2012 by Lisa Shambrook.
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https://thelastkrystallos.wordpress.com/tag/12-days-of-christmas-blog-hop/
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Considering the Vaal Triangle’s unemployment rate, it will be a very cold winter for some indeed – especially the underprivileged children. In an attempt to alleviate some of the burdens an underprivileged child might face, Matt’s Foundation is collecting winter goods for the needy children in the Vaal. A blanket or warm jacket will surely make a difference for these children during the cold winter months. Matt’s Foundation, a registered Non-Profit Organisation and Public Benefit Organisation, calls on the community and businesses in the Vaal to help keep these children warm by donating blankets, jackets, jerseys, gloves, scarves or any other winter goods towards this cause. Matt’s Foundation’s goal is to collect 500 blankets before 30 May 2014! Please remember those less fortunate than you this winter. Stand together with Matt’s Foundation and help make a difference!
www.mattsfoundation.org.za / helpus@mattsfoundation.co.za / 016 420 2245.
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2019-04-21T04:20:43Z
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https://blogonvaal.wordpress.com/2014/05/15/winter-warmer-project-matts-foundation/
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Organization: Plovdiv University \P. Hilendarskii"
-type directive patterns is given. Software implementation of algorithm in MATHE- MATICA package and numerical examples are presented.
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2019-04-25T06:43:58Z
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http://library.wolfram.com/infocenter/Articles/8867/
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Animal Fun! Join Flor Bromley as she takes you on a journey through all of the different kinds of animals. We will learn about animals and dance to songs about farm animals, pet animals, jungle animals… all sorts of animals!
Featured Video: In this video, Flor tells the story of a tiny mouse and a big lion. Will they get to be friends? Illustrations by Jerry Pinkney. Let’s have fun storytelling!
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2019-04-25T14:00:51Z
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https://hilltownfamilies.wordpress.com/2019/04/07/hfvs-382/
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Master Chief has made an unexpected debut.
Photos and videos of the highly anticipated game have made their way onto the Internet.
According to IGN and G4TV, people have also been posting play-throughs of various campaign levels and even the ending of the game.
“We have seen the reports of ‘Halo 4’ content being propped on the Web and are working closely with our security teams and law enforcement to address the situation,” a Microsoft spokesperson told Game Informer.
It is still unclear as to whether the content that has been revealed is from the final Halo 4 game or if it is an unfinished build.
Microsoft has not commented on how serious the situation is.
Halo 4 is expected to be released on November 6.
The newest generation of the “My Little Pony” celebrates its second anniversary today. “My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic” first aired on October 10, 2010.
What was supposed to start out as a show for little girls attracted a unexpectedly large adult fan base.
According to the Hub, the cable television channel that runs MLP:FiM, roughly 95,000 adults ages 18-49 tuned in to watch the two-part Season 2 finale.
The Ohio State University Marching Band dedicated their most recent performance to a legacy of video games. The band played tracks from popular game series such as The Legend of Zelda, Halo, and Super Mario Bros. The video has gone viral on YouTube reaching over 4 million views within two days.
The Halo 4 live-action series “Halo 4: Forward Unto Dawn” has gone live today. The first episode was released and can viewed on the Halo Waypoint website and other sites such as YouTube.
The series is meant to give a backdrop to the Halo 4 story, according to IGN.
This is the first of five episodes. A new episode will be released weekly up until the release of Halo 4.
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2019-04-22T17:10:06Z
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https://typhurionsgamestuff.wordpress.com/2012/10/
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Hi there! The Carnival will be up tonight, but I have to skedaddle, because a buddy has come in unexpectedly from out of town, and I need to drink his health. In the meantime, check out this week’s Progress+Bootstraps Combo: the RealAge Test. Absolutely spot-on ways to slow aging and increase sheer physical quality of life.
Okay, where were we… well, since we’re going in sort of backwards order this evening, Todd MacMillan, a self-described “avid reader,” (I have an avid reader? Wow…) sends along another confirmation that there are cancer-munching viruses out there, and they seem to be perfectly harmless to us, to boot.
And Autumn, of Janus Gate, couldn’t get a full post up time, but points out some good news, indeed… some folks out in Arizona just got real lucky, when the Hand of God(tm) seemed to reach out to stop wildfires from burning their homes.
And, Bootstraps for Clever Spouses… who loves headaches? Who loves not having them any longer? Well, Bad Example has figured out “what to do when the heating pads go belly up… pretty damned clever. Even more clever than Technogypsy’s lovely wife, who is a pediatrician and uses cheap bags of frozen veggies as cold pads… but truly, figuring out the hot version is a stroke of genius.
Okay, well, this has been all backwards, so… hello!
I have to stew in my juices knowing I’ll never find him, nor hurt him with an axe.
Here’s the Supreme Court Nomination blog, a sister element of SCOTUSblog.
a) a HUGE political fight (and one for which the Democrats, paradoxically are itching, even though a fight of this magnitude plays directly into Replublican mid-term election hands. Court nominees are a serious motivator for the Republican base, and a big reason for why Daschle got tossed out. There is no conceivable better way of guaranteeing an increase in the Senate for the Republicans than a SCOTUS fight).
b) the potential for the traditional 5-4 balance to finally go away in favor of a 6-3 stable court, which hasn’t existed for most of my lifetime. You have to go back to the stable days of the Warren court for that.
still trying to cross the wires to get the bomb to work, but was actually wiring up 2 wires from the car stereo (his head trauma had him seeing triple) and the Iraqi Police figured it would be cruel to stop as he seemed so intent. The bomber died from his wounds at the hospital after having to put up with numerous jokes about whether or not this would get him his virgins in heaven.
Thomas Friedman, in the NYT, actually comes out in favor of something Bush is doing.
Awww, poor kitty! Heh heh heh.
There’s more, and plenty of it, from Debra Saunders out in SF, not that far away (by Texas standards) from the latest PETA animal slaughter.
it’s stories like these that make me just how apropos the word “evil” can be.
Over at Impearls, an interesting article: BBC confirms the flypaper strategy.
So I’m in a house with three beautiful women, one of whom sent me lovely orchids, another is my wife, and the third I’ve gotten into feltmaking for no other reason than I worked on it and she got hooked. I’m back from a funeral, I have new nephews and nieces, got to see nine out of ten of my great-aunts and great-uncles, and I managed to survive a serious round of questioning by one of my academic-article editors. Obviously… it’s Carnival Time….
Okay, I’m classifying this under “Bootstraps…” because it’s a real lemonaid-out-of-lemons kind of deal. BIG lemons. This guy is the coolest trucker you’ve never seen before over at Soldier’s Angel. Because I guarantee you, if you had seen him, you’d know.
The next one, from Steve Pavlina, is all about the classic interaction of attitude and results. Worth reading.
Not fitting into any category except plain old Good Things… Northstar has a photo of his Dad, circa 1955… If there’s anything that’s more important than family, it’s an awfully short list.
So, what’s Progress this week?
It’s not a cure for cancer… but it’s a treatment, and a good one. Check it out.
a girl was born in rural Pennsylvania, a place where the valley flooded every year, and a man who completed high school was a rarity. A green-grocer with a sixth-grade education wasn’t considered an ignorant man unless he earned the label, and he could make a nice life for his family if he worked hard and lived thriftily. Electricity was rare, and “Pinkerton” meant a thug hired to come in with pick handles and beat up any of the coal mine workers who got out of line. Everybody was white, though at the time that didn’t include anything south of the Alps or Pyrenees, and didn’t always cover Irishmen, who were still barred from owning property in parts of the Northeast.
Such a different world from 2005, when all her grandkids went to college, or aimed to, her husband was Italian, her neighbors were blacks, Koreans, and increasingly, Sikhs, each prosperous ethnicity deeply suspicious of the immigrant upstarts moving into the neighborhood. Coal was quaint in an age of nuclear power, and the fact that she knew the different kinds, and which burned cleaner than the other, was rare knowledge.
The world of 1918 is gone, and so is she. She died the way she lived, quietly taking care of everybody else. God give her peace.
Carnival of the Optimists #9: The Water’s Fine!
The Carnival of the Optimists is alive and back onto its regular schedule.
So what’s good news this week?
Only one Bootstrap this week… and it’s serious political news.
And finally, here’s Progress for this week. See that cute little sucker? That’s a Kemp’s Ridley sea turtle.
Y’see, a while back, we realized that too many plastic bags was a factor that was doing in the sea turtles. So they raised a bunch of Kemps Ridley’s up to maturity, and cut them loose on the beach, figuring that they’d remember this new nesting site and make it their own. Sure enough, the KR Boyz are back up to around 3000 turtles, and so far this year, 43 hatchings have happened… a bit burst over last year’s 40 total, and enough, at this rate, to be optimistic about these guys getting off the endangered list. Which is good for warming our hearts — and eating those jellyfish.
but maybe the fact that Chris takes after him is why we have such communication problems.
I knew Grandma wasn’t doing great, and that Grandpa had had a rough stretch but was improving… but we’re not real communicative. And the fact that for years I haven’t been able to bring myself to call DC (had a couple real bad experiences that way, they’re not phone people any more than I am) only makes it worse — and my fault.
So Grandma’s gone from being in bad shape, to (Sunday) being bedridden but improving, to (today) being on a respirator in the hospital and not expected to make it. A lot of this is the blood pressure: that side of the family is prone to it. Grandma Beall is too, but she smoked for years.
In some ways, this has very much been my week. But I wish I were better at reading between the lines, so I’d have been ready, rather than surprised.
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2019-04-25T04:47:21Z
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https://happycrow.wordpress.com/2005/06/
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It’s About Time! It’s About Changes! And, It’s About Time!
Who’s to say, you have to lose for someone else to win?
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2019-04-23T08:13:08Z
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https://giftoftruth.wordpress.com/tag/friendship/
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MIND WAR Productions is founded back in 2007; it is a full service Production Company, based in Islamabad, Pakistan. We specialize in Audio / Videos Productions, Commercials, Film and Web / Graphic Designing.
MW Productions provide highest level of professionalism in their services. We have highly professional, creative and enthusiastic team, who produce quality from conception to delivery, maintains the highest level of professionalism, delivering your project on time and up to your expectations.
Attention: MIND WAR Productions claim to offer quality service at affordable cost!
Hi, are you interesting to make a logo for a team for a free commision if you can (that's will be adorable) ? I see your works and that's great !
Dude! I really loved your work. Pakistan is so fortunate to have people like you. Keep up your awesomeness.
Hey, hello man. I wanted to ask if you accept comisions. I'm loking for a good designer to make my band logo, drawn in vectors and that stuff.
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2019-04-22T05:22:57Z
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https://www.deviantart.com/muddassir
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Date: Tuesday, May 20, 2008, at 8:58 p.m.
Joan of Arc soundtrack is really enjoyable, at the same time, it's quite haunting one. Eric Serra did a excellent job. But one thing if you notice some of the tracks in this album you'll find more effects than music, yes it was quite clear that it was deliberate attempt made by composer to create a mood among the listeners. And also the track no.26 "Angelus Medio Ignis", it was great one but Eric serra most probably inspired by Carmina Burana. Despite that it is actually a very good score. But it is very disappointing to see the reviewer has given just 2 stars. Atleast, i believe it deserves to get 4 stars.
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2019-04-25T15:55:42Z
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http://www.filmtracks.com/comments/titles/messenger/index.cgi?read=1
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In this book, Jerome McGann argues that contemporary language-oriented writing implies a marked change in the way we think about our poetic tradition on one hand and in the future of criticism on the other. He focuses on Walter Benjamin and Gertrude Stein as important intellectual resources because both see the history of poetry as a crisis of the present rather than as a legacy of the past. The crisis appears as a poetic deficit in contemporary culture, where values of politics and morality are judged prima facie more important than aesthetic values. McGann argues for the fundamental relevance of the aesthetic dimension and the contemporary relevance of cultural works of the past. McGann moves through several broad categories in his examination of contemporary poetry, including the ways in which poetry must be abstract, change, and give pleasure. The author draws on sources ranging from the poetry of Bruce Andrews and Robert Duncan to Looney Tunes cartoons. The experimental move in contemporary poetry, McGann contends, is an emergency signal for readers and critics as much as it is for writers and poets, a signal that calls us to rethink the aesthetics of criticism. The interpretation of literary works has been dominated by enlightenment models - the expository essay and monograph - for almost two hundred years. With the emergence of new media, especially digital culture, the limitations of those models have grown increasingly apparent. ""The Point Is To Change It"" explores alternative critical methods and provides a powerful call to reinvent our modes of investigation in order to escape the limitations of our inherited academic models. The goal of this process is to widen existing cracks or create new ones because, as McGann points out via the lyrics of Leonard Cohen, ""That's how the light gets in.
Jerome McGann is the author or editor of over 30 books of scholarship and criticism, among them Algernon Charles Swinburne: Major Poems and Selected Prose, Byron and Romanticism, Radiant Textuality: Literary Studies after the World Wide Web, Dante Gabriel Rossetti and the Game that Must be Lost, and Black Riders: The Visible Language of Modernism.
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2019-04-21T18:17:40Z
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https://www.whsmith.co.uk/products/the-point-is-to-change-it-poetry-and-criticism-in-the-continuing-present-modern-and-contemporary-poetics/9780817315511
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interval education is one of the excellent and maximum Max GC Extract substantial techniques of having rid of fat. an increasing number of aid in cutting-edge research propose that excessive intensity c language schooling workout workouts are the most productive and efficient manner of getting rid of fats inside the least quantity of time. in order in your frame to perceive the need to modify its ordinary processes, we exercise. optimistically the exercise we do places sufficient project on our body to make it adapt. common cardio exercise methods can be beneficial through the years, however the higher the intensity at that you exercise the lower the amount of time you will want to dissipate doing the exercising. moreover, your frame improves faster. This makes your frame more effective at putting off fat.
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2019-04-19T04:20:49Z
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http://forum.plyrics.com/read.php?1,979866,979866
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1999-05-13T05:27:42-04:00https://images.c-span.org/defaults/capitol.jpgRep. Kennedy spoke about the 2000 elections, and his party’s strategies concerning the upcoming campaign. He talked about the importance of “winning the House back,” and took media questions.
Rep. Kennedy spoke about the 2000 elections, and his party’s strategies concerning the upcoming campaign. He talked about the importance of “winning the House back,” and took media questions.
Congressional Democrats discussed campaign strategies to gain control of Congress in the 1998 midterm election.
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2019-04-22T10:13:13Z
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https://www.c-span.org/video/?123232-1/campaign-2000
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cafe24
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어떤 형식에도 구애받지 않는 자유로운 무대를 엽니다.
이주민, 한국인, 외국인, 지구인, 외계인... 아무것도 따지지 않습니다.
노래, 춤, 퍼포먼스, 연주... 어떤 형태의 공연도 가능합니다.
We are opening a free stage open to any form of performance.
Migrants, Koreans, Foreigners, Earthlings, Aliens... we don't discriminate.
Music, Dance, Performance, Concert... Any type of show is possible.
참여방법? How can you get involved?
2013년 오픈 스테이지의 첫 시작은 3월부터 시작됩니다.
2013's Open Stage begins in March.
If there are no applicants by the application deadline, that month's 'Open Stage' is cancelled.
7 이주민 독립영화제작 프로젝트를 위한 해피빈 콩모으기 모금함이 진행 중입니다.
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2019-04-21T04:44:03Z
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http://amcfactory.cafe24.com/xe/index.php?mid=notice&page=4&document_srl=371
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What: news and views from a rural perspective, with a blue tint, that might also include musings on other matters which amuse, bemuse, entertain, interest or irritate me.
Why: when I was a child if you didn’t live on a farm (and I didn’t) you probably had family or friends who did. That is no longer the case. New Zealanders are now predominantly city dwellers and the media reflects that so the rural voice is weaker and consequently the urban-rural divide is growing. Besides it’s fun.
From: a North Otago sheep, beef and dairy farm (that’s the view from my kitchen window above).
WHO: I am a journalist by training and a bitser in practice. I do a little freelance writing, am North Otago correspondent on Newstalk ZB’s Farming Show, have a regular spot discussing blogs and other internet sites with Simon Mercep on RadioNZ National’s Afternoons; used to teach Spanish night classes (with the very necessary assistance of a Uruguayan friend porque mi español está oxidado) * am a registered marriage celebrant and also a funeral celebrant.
I enjoy reading, walking, tramping, swimming and chocolate.
* The night classes ended when funding was cut. I regret that personally – and not just because without the classes my Spanish is even rustier – but I agree that it wasn’t the best use of public funds when so many people lack basic literacy and numeracy skills.
Really enjoyed you with Andy Thompson yesterday. We Blues must stick together!!! Get all your mates to tick ACT and the Nats will rule. Otherwise Helen will have a Rainbow Coalltion MMP can be manipulated.
I’m pleased you enjoyed my chat with Andy, Grahame but I disagree with you about ticking Act.
Only National can change the government. If you support Act’s philosophy and policies then give them your vote but don’t fool yourself that you’ll be helping National by doing so.
It’s the party vote that counts and National must have the most party votes if it’s to be able to lead the next government.
Thank you Ian, it’s good to know I’m not just talking to the ether.
Here for your entertainment are the possibly deluded ramblings of a grumpy old goat.
This is more a way of getting in touch with you rather than a comment, so please feel free to delete this!
I just wanted to let you know that about a little directory of NZ blogs called Kiwiology. We’ve just added your blog to it and would like to make sure you’re happy with the listing! Maybe you’d like to pop over and have a look at it, then let me know if you’d like any changes to be made (http://kiwiology.co.nz/politics-economy/homepaddock/). Of course you can also remove your listing if you like! Just give us a yell with any problems or feedback you might have.
I think you might find ACT just helped National form a government.
You’re quite wrong of course. It was the National + ACT + United total that counted (and possibly the Maori Party too).
So there were three or four ways to change the government. But only a vote for ACT could change the direction of the country. John the trader traded most of National’s differences with Labour away.
A great victory though, and congratulations for your part in it!
John – I’m delighted with the result, and congratulations for your contribution – those billboards are brilliant.
We’re currently working on an exiting new rural/farming project and I was looking to get in touch. I just want to run the idea by and see what you think.
This is the only way I could find of contacting you so feel free to delete comment and contact me on my email address.
Hi there – why do you have that utterly annoying sort of snap preview page come up all the time???
Barry – it’s nothing to do with this site, it’s on your computer, if you click on the top right hand corner of the snap preview you should be able to disable it.
While I wasn’t looking, you’ve changed your header (I think). I mostly read your posts via my feed reader, and only click through when I want to read the comments, or add one myself, so I guess it might have been a few days ago. It’s lovely.
The old view was from the kitchen window at dawn, the new one is same view on a spring afternoon.
Thanks Deborah – there is an explanation for why I was having a siesta when the award was presented which I’ll explain in a post soon.
I’d like to send homepaddock information on Christine Fernyhough & John Bougen’s new book published by Random House, 2 October, titled Ben & Mark, Boys of the High Country. Can you please email me contact information to send a review copy.
Thank you for the wonderful tribute to Bill King. He was an amazing man and with a very capable wife alongside him – Loris – achieved a life well lived in Wanaka. They strived for a community that was informed and committed. RIP Bill King.
Thanks for visiting my blog and leaving a comment. Family is from Central Otago and Invers. I have fond memories of visits there.
So you think that I maybe of the right !!..
I would make Maggie Thatcher look like a Communist..
It would be a very minor percentage..
NZ is in the best position in the world to bring in a cashless society..
Some one has to be the first.. Why not us ??
No offices needed ( Apartments )..
The savings in A4 paper.
You will hear so many argeuments against..
From those that have a pecuinary interest..
Building owners. Insurance companies. Tax Consultants. Lawyers et.al.
Why would we need the Tax Department ” Auditing “..
It has been a pleasure to come across your Blog..
Re transaction tax, Bill Englsih was asked about that at the weekend. I’m not sure of his exact answer but I think he said one problem was the electronic transactions based overseas.
Thank you for the compliment, I enjoy Inquiring Mind too – the cartoons, the quotes, the music, the dry wit, the inquiring mind.
Hi We need your Help to Save The Kingston Flyer Railway New Zealand’s Most Iconic Tourist Railway.
Hello my name is Jeremy Harris and in response to the CERRA I’ve created a facebook group looking to keep pressure on or hopefully, ultimately, amend this very troubling (from a democratic standpoint) Act.
I’m asking if those of you in the blogoshpere could write a quick post linking to it and ask your readers who are worried about our democracy to please join.
Good grief where have the last few months gone! I see I blogged you back in July Ele and we haven’t managed to catch up for a chat. Am keen to talk, are you able to contact me. The Agri-Women’s development Trust Website will be up and running soon so I will join the ranks of the cyber space.
HP .. You said you were fascinated when Osama was being taken down ..
More to the ref about Team six i think because the name was not known..
The chopper that was downed a couple of weeks ago with SEALS aboard had no member of team six aboard..
Now we hear.. after NATO said ” No boots on the ground “..
The SAS is in Lybia .. Just helping to co-ordinate..
I will now state… From personal knowledge..
Will be questioned from some on here ..
They have had their boots on the ground ever since it started..
PERFIDIOUS ALBION…. Since how long ???..
Bloody proud to be English !!
The night classes are even more important now! High unemployment, higher underemployment and unless you want to be a Canterbury drainlayer- no work prospects (unless of course you want to be a guest of the Aussies) AND nothing worth watching on the box! In the case of a second language, the research shows a second language study is a great help to learning English.
But none of the students were unemployed, almost all were at least middle income, often wanting to learn some Spanish before travelling ie not people in need of taxpayer help.
Every time I come to your sit Ele, I find something else that’s fascinating… thank you so much for your mention…still haven’t managed to sort why I don’t get your posts, even though it proudly says following at the top – so I come over manually at intervals to catch up !!!!!
Thanks Valerie, I enjoy my visits to your blog too, particularly your food for thought at the end of each post.
Sorry I have no idea why you don’t get posts but am pleased you pop in to catch up.
Thanks for the blog. It gives me a good understanding of how nice and clueless people can be. How can you keep cow poo (and nitrogen) from getting into the beautiful aquifers of the game Canterbury plains? How will you restore democracy to the Canterbury regional council? That was the action of a dictatorship and anti democratic. Shameful in my book. Killing off our only commercial free public broadcaster, TVNZ7. Shameful dictatorship. Enjoy dictatorship and private wealth while you can isolate yourself from the grim reality of many Kiwis.
Thanks, as you’ve worked out I’m in New Zealand, one of the first country’s to see the sun each day.
Thanks Ele. Interesting blog topics. Regards from Thom at the immortal jukebox.
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Florida regional Future City™ Competition is a National Engineers Week educational program for sixth, seventh and eighth-grade students to help interest in math, science and engineering through hands-on experience. The 2018-2019 theme is Powering Our Future! Teams designed a resilient power grid for their future city that can withstand and quickly recover from the impacts of a natural disaster.
For event details, visit FIU Calendar.
For more information pertaining to the South Florida Future City Competition, visit the South Florida Future City Competition website.
To learn more about the national Future City Competition, visit the Future City Competition website.
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Have you been shopping around for the perfect table, to no avail? What if I told you that you might get exactly what you want by making it yourself? Thanks to dozens of manufacturers and designers who understand consumers like you and me, you can shop around and buy the perfect set of legs to anchor your dream table, whether it’s a coffee table, dining table, side table, or even outdoor patio set.
Products to make DIY tables.
How easy it is it make your own table, you ask?
Table legs for a DIY table.
Start by finding a great tabletop to suit your needs. Get creative and upcycle an old door into a dining room table, put new legs on your existing tabletop, or tap into your love of woodworking and transform some raw wood into something built exactly to your specifications. Each manufacturer can give you more information about how the legs you purchase need to attach, but it’s often as easy as using simple hardware to attach the leg to the underside of the tabletop.
Ready to find the perfect legs for your next project?
There's a lot to admire from these Turkish manufacturers. Choose from 18(!) colors on many of the steel products, and source table legs or a base that will be a seriously cool statement piece in your home. The 28" Bistro Table is my favorite, but the wide variety of hairpin leg styles will catch your eye too. Check out the etsy page for even more product options.
Very pretty, without a doubt. Pretty Pegs upgrade the feet on your couch, bed, and the legs on your coffee or dining tables. The products help homeowners transform the look of common IKEA furniture, but they can also be applied to any piece you wish to customize or build. I've often been drawn to the lovely colors and silhouette of Siri 160, and the new limited edition line of children's furniture legs with clowns would be a great accent in a kid's bedroom or playroom.
Upgrade a table with custom legs from PrettyPegs.
Looking for solid hardwood pedestal bases and ornately turned legs? Here's a good go-to. Whether you're restoring a special find, or trying to build a table to suit a specific home type, you're in luck with products like the Mission Dining Table Pedestal Kit and a classic 29" turned table leg.
At Hairpinlegs.com you'll find just that, and more. I like a great, steel hairpin leg when it comes to creating DIY tables because they can modernize the look of almost anything – from a raw edge piece of wood, to a traditional, ornately carved existing table you might have inherited. When you're poking around their site, be sure to check out the tripod stand. It's inexpensive, available in a variety of heights, and might just be the perfect end table or plant stand.
Where to buy legs for a DIY table.
Choose legs to fit your own custom DIY table.
Ferrous Hardware offers a wide selection of metal leg options, specializing in shorter height products that are perfect for furniture. I'm liking a lot of the options they have for sideboard and buffets, products in the 5-1/4" to 8-1/4" range. Dunbar would totally glam up the look of a midcentury cabinet in my dining room.
You'll find an assortment of hairpin legs at Rockler, but you'll also find a wide assortment of table building accessories which come in handy if you are building your own piece. From hardware to attach aprons, to drop leaf support, you might just leave feeling like you can build anything.
Here's one that I have firsthand experience with: Tablelegs.com is exactly what it says it is, offering a wide variety of table legs and furniture feet, even turned bedposts and other building materials. The company also offers custom projects to suit. I found them when I was looking specifically for table legs that were mid-century modern.
It's not always easy to find a secondhand table that's your style and is the right size, but I didn't let anything stop me from buying a small table recently, even though the turned legs weren't my style and two of them were damaged. What's a girl to do? Remove the tabletop, refinish it with a fresh coat of paint, and attach new 16" tapered legs to the underside. Instant custom coffee table! Ordering the tapered McCobb Legs in an unfinished wood was less expensive, and also left me the option to poly, stain, or paint them any color that I wish.
Check out a wide selection of turned wood table legs at Osborne Wood. Styles range from modern to Victorian, and craftsman to cottage. Unfinished varieties leave the everyday DIYer with the flexibility to stain and finish to match an existing tabletop.
Tablebases.com has table legs, but what I'm really drawn to is the variety of pedestals that could be used indoors or out. A few faves? The Turno-30 boasts a 30" wide, flat black base that would look amazing with a 60" round glossy white tabletop. For outdoor dining, I'd turn to a cast iron base that's a little more decorative like the E20 Black Table Base.
You'll find an affordable solution for the home or office at IKEA. Bonus points for being able to find coordinating tabletops the very next aisle over. If you're looking for something wooden and tapered, go crush on HILVER. I love the clean-lined powder-coated steel frames in both SINNERLIG and LERBERG. And for when you want height flexibility (kid table vs. adult dining table), go GERTON.
Häfele products are more industrial and architectural than you see in the everyday home, but range from furniture feet to table legs. It has always been in the back of my mind to build my own folding tables, and they actually stock folding table legs for just this purpose. Totally off topic, but if industrial is your style, they have some cool sliding barn door hardware too.
At Hairpin Legs for Less, you'll find very affordable hairpin leg styles. You'll also find legs that take the hairpin style a little further. For just $64, the Peak 10 product would make for a cool industrial dining table, and with so many color options, you can make these furniture legs feel much more expensive than they really are.
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NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Ten people were killed and two were injured when a four-storey hotel collapsed in a crowded part of Indore in Madhya Pradesh late on Saturday, a local police official said.
Rescue operations were complete and no other casualties were likely, assistant sub-inspector Ramesh Kirade told Reuters by telephone.
While the building was old, the reason for its collapse was not immediately known, Kirade said.
According to local news reports, the building collapsed after a heavy vehicle rammed into it.
Building collapses are common in India, where unscrupulous builders and officials often dodge regulations or overlook the need to renovate old structures.
In August, a 117-year-old building collapsed in the financial hub of Mumbai killing at least 22 people.
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NEW YORK, Aug 2 (Reuters) - The S&P 500 and Nasdaq rose in afternoon trading on Thursday, driven by Apple shares as the iPhone maker became the first publicly traded U.S. company worth a trillion dollars.
Apple Inc extended its post-earnings rally, advancing 3.2 percent and crossing the trillion-dollar market value threshold.
The smartphone maker led the S&P technology index higher, advancing 1.3 percent. Facebook Inc climbed 2.4 percent and Alphabet Inc gained 0.7 percent. Amazon.com Inc, part of the consumer discretionary index, was up 1.9 percent.
Trade-sensitive industrial companies, including Boeing Co , were the biggest drags on the Dow.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 2.68 points, or 0.01 percent, to 25,331.14, the S&P 500 gained 12.89 points, or 0.46 percent, to 2,826.25 and the Nasdaq Composite added 87.65 points, or 1.14 percent, to 7,794.93.
Yields on 10-year Treasuries edged lower as investors sought perceived safe-haven assets.
Shares of Tesla Inc jumped 14 percent after quarterly results convinced investors of future profitability and Chief Executive Elon Musk apologized for his behavior on the previous earnings call.
The Trump administration proposed weakening Obama-era fuel efficiency standards, setting up a legal battle between the federal government and states with tough emissions standards.
The S&P 500 automobiles index edged down 0.4 percent.
Of the 11 major sectors of the S&P 500, six were in positive territory.
For the second-quarter reporting season, 79.7 percent of the 380 companies that reported so far have posted earnings above analyst estimates, according to Thomson Reuters data.
Chemical producer DowDuPont Inc posted profit that beat consensus estimates for the fourth straight quarter, driven by price increases and strong demand. But it said higher raw material costs would hit all its units in the second half of the year, driving its stock down 2.2 percent.
On the deal front, Cisco Systems Inc said it would buy venture capital-backed cyber security firm Duo Security for $2.35 billion in cash. Cisco stock rose 1.4 percent following the announcement.
In economic news, the number of Americans filing for unemployment benefits rose less than expected last week and U.S. durable goods data showed an increase in new orders but a continuing slowdown in business expenditures on new equipment.
The S&P 500 posted 12 new 52-week highs and 5 new lows; the Nasdaq Composite recorded 77 new highs and 89 new lows.
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Have you abandoned your trusty old coffee maker for a newfangled pour-over or French press? Why not give that old coffee pot some new life by turning it into a lovely terrarium, like Enid of A Charming Project did in memory of her coffee-and-houseplant-loving grandmother?
Enid’s coffee pot terrarium recipe is almost as simple as brewing a good pot of coffee. Just add air plants, moss, rocks, and sand to your coffee pot and serve!
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Schack August Steenberg Krogh ForMemRS (15 November 1874 – 13 September 1949) was a Danish professor at the department of zoophysiology at the University of Copenhagen from 1916 to 1945. He contributed a number of fundamental discoveries within several fields of physiology, and is famous for developing the Krogh Principle.
In 1920 August Krogh was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery of the mechanism of regulation of the capillaries in skeletal muscle. Krogh was first to describe the adaptation of blood perfusion in muscle and other organs according to demands through opening and closing the arterioles and capillaries.
Besides his contributions to medicine, Krogh was also one of the founders of what is today Novo Nordisk.
He was born in Grenaa on the peninsula of Djursland in Denmark, the son of Viggo Krogh, a shipbuilder. He was educated at the Aarhus Katedralskole in Aarhus. He attended the University of Copenhagen graduating MSc in 1899 and gaining a doctorate PhD in 1903.
Krogh was a pioneer in comparative physiology. He wrote his thesis on the respiration through the skin and lungs in frogs: Respiratory Exchange of Animals, 1915. Later Krogh took on studies of water and electrolyte homeostasis of aquatic animals and he published the books: Osmotic Regulation (1939) and Comparative Physiology of Respiratory Mechanisms (1941). He contributed more than 200 research articles in international journals. He was a constructor of scientific instruments of which several had considerable practical importance, e.g. the spirometer and the apparatus for measuring basal metabolic rate.
Krogh began lecturing in the University of Copenhagen in 1908 and in 1916 was promoted to full professor, becoming the head of the first laboratory for animal physiology (zoophysiology) at the university.
Krogh and his wife Marie brought insulin to Denmark shortly after its discovery in 1922 by Nicolae Paulescu. Marie, a doctor who had patients with type 1 diabetes, was herself suffering from type 2 diabetes and was naturally very interested in the disease. Together with a doctor, Hagedorn, August and Marie Krogh founded Nordisk Insulinlaboratorium, where Krogh made decisive contributions to establishing a Danish production of insulin by ethanol extraction of the hormone from the pancreatic glands of pigs.
In the 1930s, Krogh worked with two other Nobel prizewinners, the radiochemist George de Hevesy and the physicist Niels Bohr on the permeability of membranes to heavy water and radioactive isotopes, and together they managed to obtain Denmark's first cyclotron for experiments on animal and plant physiology, as well as in dental and medical work.
He married Marie Jorgenson in 1905. Much of Krogh's work was carried out in collaboration with his wife, Marie Krogh (1874–1943), a renowned scientist in her own right.
August and Marie had four children, the youngest of whom, Bodil, was born in 1918. She too was a physiologist, and became the first woman president of the American Physiological Society in 1975. Bodil married another eminent physiologist, Knut Schmidt-Nielsen.
Torkel Weis-Fogh, an eminent pioneer on the study of insect flight, was a student of August Krogh's. Together they wrote a classic paper on that subject in 1951.
Krogh length, the distance between capillaries which nutrients diffuse to, based on cellular consumption of the nutrients.
Krogh's principle, that "for ... a large number of problems there will be some animal of choice, or a few such animals, on which it can be most conveniently studied."
Larsen, E. H. (2001). "August Krogh and the laboratory of animal physiology situated at Ny Vestergade 11". Ugeskrift for Laeger. 163 (51): 7240–7248. PMID 11797555.
Kardel, T. (1999). "About the seven little devils who changed physiology. August and Marie Krogh on pulmonary gas exchange". Ugeskrift for Laeger. 161 (51): 7112–7116. PMID 10647306.
Schmidt-Nielsen, B. (1984). "August and Marie Krogh and respiratory physiology". Journal of Applied Physiology: Respiratory, Environmental and Exercise Physiology. 57 (2): 293–303. PMID 6381437.
Poulsen, J. E. (1975). "The impact of August Krogh on the insulin treatment of diabetes and our present status". Acta Medica Scandinavica. Supplementum. 578: 7–14. PMID 1098401.
Dejours, P. (1975). "August Krogh and the physiology of respiration". Scandinavian Journal of Respiratory Diseases. 56 (6): 337–346. PMID 769148.
Kenez, J. (1965). "The Capillaries and Krogh". Orvosi Hetilap. 106: 177–178. PMID 14275297.
^ Krebs, H. A. (1975). "The August Krogh Principle: "For many problems there is an animal on which it can be most conveniently studied"". Journal of Experimental Zoology. 194 (1): 221–6. doi:10.1002/jez.1401940115. PMID 811756.
^ Hill, A. V. (1950). "August Schack Steenberg Krogh. 1874-1949". Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society. 7 (19): 220. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1950.0014.
^ Drinker, C. K. (1950). "August Krogh: 1874-1949". Science. 112 (2900): 105–107. doi:10.1126/science.112.2900.105. PMID 15442251.
^ Liljestrand, G. (1950). "August Krogh". Acta Physiologica Scandinavica. 20 (2–3): 109–116. doi:10.1111/j.1748-1716.1950.tb00688.x. PMID 15413515.
^ "Deaths of C. M. Wenyon, Clifford Dobell and A. Krogh". Comptes rendus des séances de la Société de biologie et de ses filiales. 144 (3–4): 160–1. 1950. PMID 15420871.
^ "August Krogh (1874-1949) the physiologist's physiologist". JAMA: the Journal of the American Medical Association. 199 (7): 496–497. 1967. doi:10.1001/jama.199.7.496. PMID 5335475.
^ Hurst, J. W.; Fye, W. B.; Zimmer, H. G. (2006). "August Krogh". Clinical Cardiology. 29 (5): 231–233. doi:10.1002/clc.4960290514. PMID 16739398.
^ Rehberg, P. B. (1951). "August Krogh, November 15, 1874-September 13, 1949". The Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine. 24 (2): 83–102. PMC 2599127. PMID 14901880.
^ Larsen, E. H. (2007). "August Krogh (1874-1949): 1920 Nobel Prize". Ugeskrift for Laeger. 169 (35): 2878. PMID 17877986.
^ Sulek, K. (1967). "Nobel prize for August Krogh in 1920 for his discovery of regulative mechanism in the capillaries". Wiadomosci Lekarskie. 20 (19): 1829. PMID 4870667.
^ a b "August Krogh - Facts". Nobelprize.org. Retrieved 2 August 2016.
^ "The Founders". www.novonordisk.com. Retrieved 2016-11-30.
^ a b "George de Hevesy: Explosion of new knowledge". Niels Bohr Institute. Retrieved 2 August 2016.
^ a b "The Founders". Novo Nordisk. Retrieved 2 August 2016.
^ Dantzler, William H. (July 2015). "Obituary Bodil Schmidt-Nielsen (1918-2015) 48th APS President". Retrieved December 17, 2015.
^ Krogh, August; Weis-Fogh, Torkel (1951). "The Respiratory Exchange of the Desert Locust (Schistocerca Gregaria) before, During and After Flight". Journal of Experimental Biology. The Company of Biologists. 28 (3): 344–357.
^ Fournier, R. L. Basic Transport Phenomena in Biomedical Engineering. Taylor & Francis, London, 1999.
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Did the 2005 Oscars get it right?
Richard: [narrating] God will forgive them. He'll forgive them and allow them into Heaven. I can't live with that.
This is not just a "kitchen sink" film. It's an thriller with an edge, a story and believable characters.
It is a fairly violent film, but that violence is given a realistic, documentary treatment, which is some ways makes it all the more shocking. There is no gore splatter, just cold, well-defined revenge. The trailer did leave me with the impression it was going to be much bloodier, but I feel that Shane Meadows got the balance right.
Paddy Considine's script is very good, and leaves enough room for the audience to be surprised at the next turn, and his portrayal of a vengeful brother is spot-on.
Provided they are happy with the lack of Hollywood polish, this is a film I'd recommend to any lovers of the thriller genre. It's well-paced and there are sufficient surprises to keep you guessing throughout.
Overall, it kept me well occupied and it gets a good 8/10 from me.
60 of 90 people found this review helpful. Was this review helpful to you?
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2019-04-20T13:39:15Z
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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0419677/?ref_=nm_flmg_loc_36
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The Ultrabook, a new class of ultraportable laptops defined by Intel, has been making waves lately as the next major step in laptop design. These ultraslim and lightweight laptops promise to combine the conveniences of tablets with the functionality of larger notebooks. If Intel and Ultrabook manufacturers can get the design and technology right, Windows users may finally have relatively affordable and varied alternatives to the reigning ultrathin laptop, Apple’s MacBook Air. In addition to the much thinner and lighter laptops we’ll see this fall, you can expect combo devices with sliding or removable multitouch screens for true all-in-one versatility. Here’s what you need to know about Ultrabooks and whether you should prepare to purchase one.
Ultrabooks are laptops based on reference designs that Intel announced at the Computex trade show in May. Although Intel makes computer chips, not entire laptops, the company has provided the Ultrabook specification (five different ones, actually) to laptop manufacturers so that they can produce a new army of “thin, light, and beautiful” portables.
Intel defines Ultrabooks as having Intel Core processors, a thickness under 21mm (0.8 inches), and a long battery life (initial Ultrabook models are rated for at least 7 hours). They also share 11- to 13-inch displays, a weight under 3 pounds (closer to 2.5 pounds), and a near-instant resume from sleep, thanks to their solid-state drives. Ideally--and this is the kicker--Ultrabooks should be priced at under $1000.
In short, Ultrabooks are designed to be inexpensive, high-performance, and svelte laptops.
In concept, Ultrabooks aren’t really new: After all, the MacBook Air meets the criteria, and Apple revealed it in 2008. And the laptop industry as a whole was already racing to thin-and-light long before the MacBook Air made skinny popular; five years earlier, for example, we had the 2-pound Sony VAIO x505.
Some people might argue that the MacBook Air is an Ultrabook, but “Ultrabook” is also a marketing term that Intel trademarked this year--a term that describes the laptop PC’s comeback attempt in a world of rising tablet and smartphone fame.
To date, if you wanted a well-designed, high-performance ultraportable laptop--something that you could easily carry everywhere without having to worry about looking for an outlet every couple of hours--and specifically one that cost about a grand, you’d have to turn to the MacBook Air. As PCWorld laptops editor Jason Cross has pointed out, Windows laptop makers haven’t been able to keep up with Apple in its innovation, marketing, and pricing for the MacBook Air.
Ultrabooks, however, may be the first worthy MacBook Air rivals, machines that can compete on all levels: design, hardware specs, and price. And Intel is pushing for innovation beyond the MacBook Air model.
Asus UX21: The first Ultrabook to be introduced, this 2.4-pound laptop has an 11.6-inch display, a 0.66-inch thickness, and an Intel Core i7 processor. It’s expected to start at under $1000 and launch this month.
Toshiba Portege Z830: Billed as the “world’s lightest 13-inch laptop,” the Z830 starts at just under $1000, is 0.63 inches thin, and weighs under 2.5 pounds.
Acer Aspire S3: Launching at 799 euros ($1134) and promising to capture the MacBook Air feel, the 13.3-inch Aspire S3 offers a Core i3, i5, or i7 processor and a choice between a traditional hard drive or an SSD.
Lenovo IdeaPad U300s: This 13.3-inch Ultrabook is expected in November starting at $1200. The U300s will be available in Core i5 and i7 models, and will have a Clementine color option.
Should You Buy an Ultrabook?
This year’s Ultrabooks are truly attractive laptops--for both business and personal use, and especially for travel. They’re powerful, flexible, incredibly thin, light, and durable. If you need a laptop right now, these are among your best options.
However, at the moment Ultrabooks aren’t the great value we first envisioned (due to manufacturers’ issues with high costs and limited supplies), and laptop makers are taking a wait-and-see approach to this new portable category, despite Intel’s $300 million investment in the project.
If you have a couple of months to wait, you could see these Ultrabooks drop in price and become even more attractive. Alternatively, you might prefer to get in touch with Windows 8 Ultrabooks next year, or hold out for Ultrabooks with 24-hour battery life, which are due in 2013.
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The Predators have avoided losing at least one key piece as they head into Game 6 of the Stanley Cup Final with their backs against the wall.
Center Colton Sissons wasfacing a possible suspension for cross-checking Penguins defenseman Olli Maatta late in Thursday's blowout Pittsburghwin. Sissons caught Maatta directly in the face with the shaft of his stick, though Maatta seemed to already befalling down as it happened. Regardless, Sissonswas given a match penalty for the play.
According to the NHL rulebook, any playerthat is on the receiving end ofa match penalty is suspended from further competition until the league makes a ruling on the incident.
Fortunately for Sissons and Nashville, the ruling came back in their favor.
That could have been a significant loss for Nashville, as Sissons has been centering the team's top line since Ryan Johansen went down with a season-ending injury in the Western Conference Final. Sissonshas six goals and six assistsin 21 games this postseason.
The Predators will have to hope they have similar luck with defenseman Ryan Ellis, who suffered an injury during Game 5 and didn't return. His status for Sunday's Game 6 is still up in the air.
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https://www.foxnews.com/sports/colton-sissons-avoids-suspension-after-cross-checking-penguins-player-in-the-face
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^ a b c Abdulamir AS, Hafidh RR, Abu Bakar F (January 2011). "The association of Streptococcus bovis/gallolyticus with colorectal tumors: the nature and the underlying mechanisms of its etiological role". Journal of Experimental & Clinical Cancer Research. 30 (1): 11. doi:10.1186/1756-9966-30-11. PMC 3032743. PMID 21247505. This article incorporates text by Ahmed S Abdulamir, Rand R Hafidh, and Fatimah Abu Bakar available under the CC BY 2.0 license.
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Dems Demand Flint Cash Now or Else!
Democrats including Michigan’s Congressional delegation are demanding Flint get gobs of money right now or they will shut down the entire US Federal Government.
There has been money set aside for Flint to help the city cleanup from a self imposed water disaster that left much of the municipal supply with unsafe levels of lead but so far the money has not been released. Democrats are demanding that the money be included in a continuing resolution this week and if it’s not then they will block the spending bill altogether and force Uncle Sam to close the doors at midnight Friday.
Both of Michigan’s Senators, Democrats Debbie Stabenow and Gary Peters joined their colleagues in the house to demand the payment now. The group said if the money isn’t on it’s way this week that they will move to block the spending bill altogether and force the government closure.
The continuing resolution put forth by the Republican leadership does not include a provision for Flint to get money from this bill. Congressman Dan Kildee a Flint Democrat said the message to residents of Flint is “loud and clear: You don’t matter.” Kildee says he intends to prove otherwise.
The continuing resolution bill does include about $500 million for Louisiana flood victims but the $220 million earmarked for lead poisoning in Flint and other cities is not included and that has Democrats making as much political hay as possible.
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Pack a suitcase and hurry to the airport! Help the Bubble Guppies fly an airplane through the sky and over the clouds. But beware the airplane pirates!
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Pete Souza spent nearly a decade documenting the rise of Barack Obama, first photographing him as a new US senator in Illinois under assignment from the Chicago Tribune. He went on to become the Chief White House photographer and Director of the White House photo office, and was present for many of the seminal moments of the Barack Obama presidency, including the scene in the Situation Room during the operation to capture or kill Osama bin Laden's death.
Pete Souza has since collected 300 of the best photographs and published them in a new book, Obama: An Intimate Portrait. Lately, he's been known to use his Instagram account to post witty criticisms of the current president, Donald Trump. He joined Alastair Campbell for an interview, where he talked about Obama, Lincoln and (after the mics were off) suggested that his next book might be a selection of photographs he took on his iPhone.
"People always ask me if I could photograph any leader in history, and I always say Lincoln. Can you imagine if there are were photographs like the ones I took of President Obama, of President Lincoln? The times were such that I wish photography had been more advanced when he had been president."
"Everyone takes pictures now, I think that's a good thing. The problem is not a lot of them are very good. You can take a good picture with a smartphone, but you still have to frame it right, get the lighting right."
"It was pretty tense. Pretty tense. We were in that little conference room while the raid was going on for about 40 minutes. There wasn't much conversation, it was mostly observation. They had put these guys in harms way, and they didn't know how it was going to turn out. And at first it turned out poorly, the helicopter crashed. When they said Geronimo KIA you knew that [Osama bin Laden had been killed]."
Miss this family in the WH. Here they are goofing around after a family photo I did in 2015.
Obama: An Intimate Portrait by Pete Souza is published by Allen Lane. £26.
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Designed by the guy behind the X-Files logo, Action Condensed is a new typeface that aims to make interfaces more exciting.
From Google’s Roboto to Apple’s San Francisco, there’s no shortage of typefaces optimized for interface design. For better or worse, though, those typefaces tend to be pretty bland. Christian Schwartz, of the small New York-based type foundry Commercial Type, thinks it’s time interface typefaces got a little more flavor. His company’s latest typeface, Action Condensed, is the raspberry to Roboto’s plain vanilla.
Action Condensed feels a lot more dynamic than other interface typefaces. But despite its vigorous and energetic feel, the sans serif is designed to be readable at relatively low resolutions and be just as good as Roboto and San Francisco for use in interfaces. For example, it features four weights with three separate grades (think: boldness) per weight. Despite this, characters in every grade have exactly the same width.
Why is that important? It means that a bolder grade will take up the same amount of room on-screen as lighter grades. That’s useful in interface design, because it allows you to change the state of a clickable or tappable text button, without the size of that button getting bigger or smaller. Imagine hovering over a clickable headline in Action Condensed with your mouse: the headline would get bolder, but it wouldn’t actually get bigger, disrupting the flow of the typography around it.
It doesn’t sound like a big deal, but making characters of the same width–regardless of their grades–is a tricky problem, says Schwartz. “There’s a staggering number of tricks utilized in this typeface to keep weight and spacing consistent,” he says.
It would have been very difficult to manage for some designers, but Action Condensed was designed for Commercial Type by the legendary Erik van Blokland–a veteran Dutch designer whose past typefaces include Trixie, the font famously used in the X-Files logo, as well as Eames Century Modern, a series of typefaces honoring the aesthetic of Charles and Ray Eames. Without the bag full of typography tricks Van Blokland brought to the table along with his decades of experiences, says Schwartz, Action Condensed might have been just as bland as the fonts it’s meant to replace.
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This entry was posted on November 29, 2018 by seekraz. It was filed under Bells Canyon, Photos - Outdoors and was tagged with Bells Canyon, Bells Canyon Utah, hiking, home, Image made 6-15-2017, Lone Peak Wilderness, love, photography, seekraz photography, Utah hiking, Wasatch Mountains, Wasatch National Forest.
Ahhhh, the sweet Wasatch. I wonder if I’ll ever see it again? There is something primal about the way it soothes the soul. Judging by the way SLC is expanding by leaps and bounds, I wonder how much longer it’ll remain a place to leave ‘civilization’ behind.
Sweet indeed, Gunta…and given your proclivity for wandering, I can imagine that you might make it back down there. And you’re right, too, there is something very primal about the way it soothes, maybe even from within that preverbal place in our brains. My kids have mentioned how the area is still growing, how many more cars and people there are…it seems that pretty soon, one will have to venture far to find solitude…..
That earthy richness…and yes, always beckoning, Lynn….
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About eight months ago, the three-store chain started putting these “quick response” codes in its train ads. When customers scan the little squares with their smartphone cameras, a coffee menu pops up on their screens. Then they can order a cup of coffee on the train—and have it waiting when they arrive at one of Ethical Bean’s shops.
Business has doubled since then, says Chief Executive Lloyd Bernhardt. “We catch people who are on the go and don’t have a lot of time,” he says.
With smartphone use soaring, many small companies are turning to these quick-response, or QR, codes to connect with customers on the go. They’re placing the codes in ads, direct mail, in-store displays and product packaging, and using them to link to a host of features—discounts, websites and videos. And, like Ethical Bean, many companies say they’ve seen a big sales boost.
I’ve been showing QR Codes I’ve found in the real world.
Ohhhhkay. Now we are getting into a real digital divide here.
Job applicants who can afford “app resumes” and those who can’t.
It was impossible to get no reflection.
Well, this is unusual. I’m wondering now if a sticker like that is actually a good idea. It can link to owner information on the Net if it gets lost.
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We are so accustomed to eating processed food in every aspect of our lives we forget about natural food. Result, major health problems.
Imagine funding research into extracting motion from the ambient zero point energy where the incoming, pressurized quantum foam pops are rectified to produce a pushing force. Totally new forms of transport.
This will affect millions of people and impact billions of dollars in income in Las Vegas and surrounding areas. Seems like weather control research would be a prime focus for their money now.
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Nathan Englander: Assimilating Thoughts Into Stories In What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank, Nathan Englander writes about his own faith — and what it means to be Jewish — in stories that explore religious tension, Israeli-American relations and the Holocaust.
The stories in Nathan Englander's new collection are based largely on his experiences growing up as a modern Orthodox Jew with an overprotective mother.
In What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank, Englander writes about his own faith — and what it means to be Jewish — in stories that explore religious tension, Israeli-American relations and the Holocaust.
In the title story — a riff on Raymond Carver's classic What We Talk About When We Talk about Love -- a Hasidic couple and a secular Jewish couple play a morbid game called "Righteous Gentile," in which they debate who would hide them during an imaginary second Holocaust. Englander says that though he calls it a game in the story, it's not really a game — and that's the point.
"I call it a game," he says, "because it makes it easier to talk about as a game — but it's something we play with dead seriousness in my family — we would wonder who would hide us in the Holocaust."
Englander, a fourth- or fifth-generation American, says despite his family's longstanding roots in the United States, they frequently played the mind exercise when he was little.
"We really were raised with the idea of a looming second Holocaust, and we would play this game wondering who would hide us," he says. "I remember my sister saying about a couple we knew, 'He would hide us, and she would turn us in.' And it struck me so deeply, and I just couldn't shake that thought for all these years, because it's true."
Englander grew up on Long Island in the mid-1970s, where he and his sister both attended a religious day school. The rabbis at the school would tell them graphic stories about the Holocaust and the Inquisition. At home, his mom wasn't much better.
Nathan Englander grew up in an Orthodox Jewish family. He now splits his time between New York and Madison, Wis.
"My mother raised me very clearly that if you cross the street, you will die," he says. "If you go outside, you will die. If you play sports, you will likely die. That's what I was getting at home."
Meanwhile, anti-Semitic graffiti popping up around his town was reinforcing all of his fears. Looking back, Englander says his paranoia and fears of nonexistent threats made him want to explore his roots further.
"I think that's why I had to live in Jerusalem all those years," he says. "There's a reason ... I spend my childhood in America feeling Jewish and not American. And it's only in Israel — it was those years there — where I got to be an American because everyone's a Jew."
Englander's time in Jerusalem overlapped with a period of brutal violence in the city. He says the constant real threat of violence actually made him more comfortable living his daily life.
'Hope': A Comic Novel About The Holocaust?
"That was a huge discovery," he says. "If you're paranoid and you put yourself in a place of real existential threat, then you're not paranoid anymore. It was a huge relief for me on that front. It was like living in Catch-22. ... The state of panic — I didn't stick out in a crowd anymore — the cold sweat was just general."
While living in Jerusalem, Englander also examined his own religious beliefs.
"It was the first time I saw ... deeply secular atheistic Jews who I could identify with," he says. "The first week there was when I gave up organized religion. My first Shabbat in Israel was when I broke [being Orthodox] after 19 years."
Englander remembers thinking that week that God would smite a bus he was riding on the Sabbath. When that didn't happen, he says, "it felt like I wanted a cheeseburger."
Eating a cheeseburger would have broken the Jewish law forbidding the mixture of milk and meat products. Still, Englander wanted one, he says.
"It was pretty hard to break that rule," he says. "I had to wait months to find one. My buddy and I had flown to London. I literally got out at Victoria Station and went up the stairs into Burger King and had me a Whopper."
He calls the process he went through an "active irreligiousity."
"I was trying to think of every rule that I could possibly break till I checked them all off," he says. "Because that's what a young person is going to do when they swing in the other direction. I'm 42 now; if I was complaining about something in high school, it would be time to let it go. But then, it was large and electric and active."
"Out of all the traditional Jewish documents, it's the one that's most living. There's an Armed Forces Haggadah and an Alcoholics Anonymous Haggadah and an LGBT Haggadah. Some people make a new Haggadah every year. It's a real living document. ... They're just constantly made throughout time. On the decision to translate it? It was really clear when I went back and looked at texts. I've always used the Hebrew side of the Maxwell House [Haggadah], which is a really great liturgy. The point is, I had never really looked at the English. And what committed me to it [was that] you should literally read the Haggadah and weep. It is so beautiful. It is just such a moving document to me."
"This education that I fought so wildly against was a huge effort for my parents to give me that education. We had these old-school rabbis. And I think that's the reason I write the way I do. ... [At the University of Iowa, one professor told me] that I was writing all of my sentences in transliterated Yiddish. My mom's from Boston and my dad's from Brooklyn but I hear everything [in a Yiddish] rhythm."
"As someone who spent a lot of years living in Jerusalem, one of the great perks is that when you come back, and you get into these Israel arguments in your American-Jewish clan, you can really just silence them by saying, 'I lived there.' So we used it like a bludgeon."
"I've been comparing it to friends' coming-out stories. When you're in a world and your parents are one way and you're told, 'This is how the whole world is, and this is how you're supposed to be,' and you're terribly unhappy in that world, it's a very scary thing. The whole time I was so religious and so sincere and so interested in the texts, but thinking this is not the world for me. And it grew and it grew."
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Colour Science Analytical (CSA) is far more than just an analytical laboratory. Over the past 30 years, CSA has established an excellent reputation for delivering bespoke solutions to complex industrial challenges.
CSA has worked in partnership with a wide variety of customers, from individuals to multinational companies. It has also provided expert witness services on many occasions. CSA’s expertise comes from its team of scientists, technologists and academics, who take great pride in providing the service that industry seeks. CSA also operates as an essential support facility for teaching and research activities. Its facilities and expertise are used by the School, as well as the wider academic community, including other university departments.
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UMR senior Katherine Downs has a thing for blueberries, but not the kind that grow on plants. Downs’ blueberries are of a more celestial makeup.
Called “martian blueberries,” these marble-sized rocks, found on Mars, are actually “concretions,” or formations of the iron oxide mineral hematite. They are called martian blueberries because they give the soil and rocks of the red planet a blueberry muffin-like appearance, and they could have huge implications about the existence of water – and possibly even life – on Mars.
David Wronkiewicz, associate professor of geology and geophysics and Downs’ OURE advisor, says there is a lot of excitement among the scientific community about these martian rocks because similar types of formations on Earth have typically signified the existence of water and even biologic activity. The blueberries’ presence on Mars, therefore, could point to proof that water, or perhaps life itself, has existed there.
According to Downs and Wronkiewicz, there are similar occurrences here on Earth: in the Navajo Sandstone in Zion National Park and the Iron Springs Formation sandstones of Parowan Gap in Utah. These terrestrial versions are generally referred to as Moque Marbles.
Downs, who will graduate in May with a degree in geology, is from Kewanee, Ill. She became interested in geology after attending the Jackling Institute, a UMR program geared toward upper-level high school students planning to go into engineering. “I was kind of a girly-girl, so geology wasn’t the obvious choice from the start,” she says. “My parents were kind of shocked and didn’t know what to expect, but they were supportive.” Downs plans to continue her research of martian blueberries into graduate school at UMR, and would eventually like to start an environmental geology consulting firm.
Downs and Wronkiewicz are trying to understand how the martian blueberries are formed, and eventually hope to simulate the process in laboratory experiments. They are using Dakota sandstone samples from Utah as nucleation seeds for the formation, which is similar to rust forming on a piece of iron.
Other implications involve the studying of mineral migration in the geologic past of Mars, as well as Earth. This may help track petroleum migration into and out of potential reservoirs, Downs says.
By Chuck Williams, a senior physics major. He was also one of the Perfect 10 Improv Group featured in last spring’s magazine.
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crew there at police headquarters, we'll bring you that news as it comes out. reporting live in south philadelphia, i'm george spencer, nbc10 news. a mixed bag of weather this morning throughout the region. >> depending on where you live, your day may have started with snow or with rain. a light coding was enough to slow the pace. this car slid off the road in lo low -- >> most of us saw plenty of rain today. the snow was a welcome sight meanwhile for the skiers on camelback mountain, the lifts were packed, the slopes where are busy.
clearing skies, but we have gusts up to 40 miles an hour during the afternoon tomorrow. we'll see what that means for the weekend weather and a round of some pretty heavy rain too. that's in the forecast coming up. from north carolina to new jersey, people are breathing easier after an atlanta county 5-year-old girl and her great grandmother are alive. >> the two spent days missing in the woods of west virginia. they left their homes in mays landing on christmas eve. they were heading to a relative's home in north carolina, but they never made it. yesterday a farmer found them on his property in dinwiddle county. >> reporter: there is a lot of relief here in the neighborhood where that 5-year-old lives and this afternoon we are learning more about the brave little girl who stayed strong through it all.
>> thank god for this to happen. >> reporter: a day after 71-year-old barbara briley and her great granddaughter were found alive and safe, ricardo recounted the reunion described to him between 5-year-old lamira briley and her loved ones. >> she was happy to see the family. >> dabny's girlfriend is one of barbara briley's children and currently in virginia with other relieved relatives. lamira briefly told her about being lost in the woods of west virginia w. >> they went out to try to find some help. >> lamira was scared, but she's a very tough girl. she's very bright and smart.
other one is in new york state. access to the compounds will be denied to all russian officials as of noon tomorrow. president obama released a statement on today's sanctions that reads in part, quote, these actions follow repeated private and public warnings that we have issued to the russian government and are a necessary and appropriate response to efforts to harm u.s. interests in violation of established international norms of behavior. officials say the area around 18th and chesnutt has been reopened for traffic after workers reopened that sink hole. no word on what caused that road to cave in. again, the word has been reopened to traffic. a roxborough woman is now charged with the murder of her ex-boyfriend. homicide detectives searched the home of 27-year-old martina westcott yesterday.
police say she shot terrell bruce execution style while they were driving in mt. airy on tuesday. police say wescott tossed her blood stained jacket over the bridge. 84-year-old hollywood legend debbie reynolds within hours of losing her daughter, actress carrie fisher. >> certainly a double tragedy for one of hollywood's most famous families. for icon debbie reynolds, the loss of her daughter seemed to be more than she could handle. reynolds died yesterday one day after carrie fisher. he told "variety" i miss her so much, i want to be with carrie.
is quite possible reynolds could have died of a broken heart, just like her son said. >> erin coleman, reporting for us. thank you, erin. a university city hooka bar went up in flames today. we're told the building suffered heavy smoke damage, including some to the apartments above, but everyone is doing okay. allentown has a new budget, one that ends a bitter fight between the mayor and city council. the deal boosts the wage tax to about 1.9%. it gives the city council more say in hiring and gives the city money to pay overtime and raises. the new budget puts an end to the mayor's threat to end his original spending plan.
the pledge of president-elect is taking a much different tony when talking about president obama. after donald trump slammed the president yesterday, president obama called the president-elect. >> trump said the phone conversation was positive and focused on a smooth transition. mr. trump said that they covered a lot of territory in the call. he said he'll call a news conference but still won't say how he'll separate his business dealings with the business of being president. today on instagram mr. trump posted, quote, my administration will follow two simple rules, buy american and hire american, end quote. national unemployment applications have fallen over the past two years, indicating mr. trump will inherit a solid jobs market. aids said mr. trump is personally involved in planning the events of january 20th.
leaders say they want more say over which schools get approved. a suspected atm robber is behind bars tonight. police in upper marion township arrested 26-year-old jahmahl goodwin. these surveillance images were taken moments before goodwin pulled a gun on a man who tried to rob a man in king of prussia earlier this month. three people are killed after a dump truck loses control on i-81 in central pennsylvania. severals say a tire blew on the truck in carlyle yesterday evening, the dump truck then swerved into oncoming traffic and into a semi. the highway was closed for eight hours following this accident. why is the city of wilmington still using faulty parking meters despite having more efficient parking kiosks in storage?
times striking her 11 times in the chest. >> do you think he at any point realized she was not his intend target? >> the grand son because actually supposed to be working that morning. so we think he went there with the intention of shooting and killing the grand son. he opened the door and saw the grand mother. and at that point, he made the choice that he was going to kill the grandmother since he was not there. >> has he made any comments in working with police? >> he has not. >> maurice green. he's a 31-year-old male, he has a lot of priors. i would also like to thank the homicide unit. they worked tirelessly through this week, all through the holidays.
lieutenant reel ran the investigation. sergeant gallagher assisted and lieutenant jenkins participated in the investigation. >> police have arrested maurice green in the murder of store owner marie bucks. thanks to surveillance video of him walking in the store and then walking out. >> that philadelphia grocery store owner is marie buck and he also said is that she was shot 11 times. family and friends are gathering this evening. we'll have more information when we get it. >> we had rain for most of us this morning, lehigh valley had the snow, it's 40 degrees there now, we have had some sunshine coming out. and 45 degrees in philadelphia. the wind has not really picked up yet. but it is going to be an issue tomorrow.
for new year's eve. there will be less wind as well. these temperatures are fairly close to average for this time of the year, for both fireworks displays, not too bad and for the mummers, we're going to be seeing pretty decent weather too. not much wind and temperatures rising into the 40. >> glenn, thank you. for many people your driver's license is your all-access pass to -- >> the new push to change that rule. plus marching to their own beat, how a group of mummers women took the time to make a special delivery to those in need today. but first here's a look at the closing bell on wall street for the second zralstraight day, th dow, nasdaq, and s&p 500 all closed down. about bassett.
forget hatchimals, we're watching for eagles to hatch. that's hariette there, jackie, and her mate m-15. we'll be on hatch watch throughout the newscast. in the meantime, the new year bringing a new change for your pennsylvania driver's license. >> why your id will no longer be enough for some security clearances and what's being done to try to fix the problem.
♪ i was on my way to work, the next thing you know, i was on the ground. ♪ the trash truck ran over both my legs. ♪ i had sixteen surgeries. ♪ i don't sleep through the night unless i have my medicine. ♪ my medical bills was piling up. my employer stopped paying me. pond lehocky has put me back together. ♪ [ it'[ goat bleat ] by peggy lee playing ] [ crow caws, music continues ] this is gonna be awesome!
when it comes to buying a house... trulia knows the house is only half of it. and with 34 map overlays like playgrounds, demographics, schools, and more... you can find the right house and the right neighborhood for you. trulia. the house is only half of it.
the new year is about to bring a new change for pennsylvania's driver's licenses. >> starting next month, the form of id will no longer be enough to get into a federal building. and if the state law does not change, you will not be able to use it to board planes in 2018. >> lauren, this is all because of a state law that keeps pennsylvania from complying with the feds right? >> reporter: yeah, ke, this is subtle and this is not some sort of oversight. this law prevents pennsylvania from complying with these federal regulations. that means if you look at your pennsylvania driver's license it doesn't have a little star on it and it won't be good enough to fly in 2018. heading into the security line, it's routine. >> i use my driver's license when i travel. >> reporter: jessica perez already had it in hand, leaving on a birthday trip to disney world with 4-year-old ava.
and didn't realize how difficult it was going to be to tie all that space together. with an open floor plan, you need to separate it with furniture. bassett had everything that we needed. fabric combinations marry the rooms together. having someone with bassett has been invaluable. we could've never dreamed up this room without bassett.
a surgeon in the midwest wasn't quite finished. >> the caring doctor performed surgery on the boy's best friend. as you can see, it's his favorite stuffed an mall. the children's hospital of wisconsin says the staff sometimes will do this kind of thing so that the children will feel comfortable. so when he week up from anesthesia, he had someone to recover with. this morning, some saw wet weather and some saw snow. >> bundle up for the breezy friday and get the extra hair spray ready. what you can expect for your new year's weekend. fios in the house!
dave this fios party is da bomb! fo shizzle! it's tv totally ahead of its time. yo, let me check that. oh snap. that x1 voice remote is crunk! and it lets me search with the sound of my voice. what should i watch? things have come a long way since you got fios. [nervously laughs] what's fios? fios has fallen behind. don't fall with it. xfinity x1 will change the way you experience tv.
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problems for some computers. the last leap second took place in 2015. glenn "hurricane" schwartz has more on your new year's eve forecast. >> it's looking pretty good. we have seen years with temperatures way lower than this, we have seen it with rain, we have seen it with snow. high winds. none of that is going to happen. we have 45 degrees, cloudy in philadelphia now, we're in the 40s across much of the region. delaware, mid 40s rights now. and the lehigh valley, that was the area that had the snow this morning. temperatures were below freezing for a while. they have been above freezing much of the day and that snow is pretty much melted. redding at 38. allentown 36. they got down to 23 degrees before the snow hit. bethlehem 38, easton at 38 degrees. so keep an eye on those temperatures overnight in case there are some icy spots.
we have got wind gusts to 40 miles an hour or more on friday. we have dry weather basically with a warming trend and monday and tuesday look like they're going to be pretty wet. this is what it looked like at 4:30 in the morning, the snow coming in, right on schedule. not a big storm, northern areas had the snow. rest of the area had rain. now we have a few snow flurries trying to come over the mountains and they're pretty trivial basically. the holiday weekend showing. basically dry weather, now it's windy on friday. saturday not as windy, sunday a little bit milder. i think we can get through all three days throughout the area. without any kind of precipitation. rain or snow wise. and for the eagles. we're having decent amount of sunshine, at least partly sunny skies, temperatures a little bit above average.
our average high temperature now is only 41 degrees. so the arctic air is coming in, on friday. it's going to ease up a little bit sunday and monday and tuesday as the moisture comes up. but this is a serious arctic outbreak that's coming later in the week and setting us up for next weekend and we may also have moisture coming across. so we have some decent chances for some snow, as you'll see in this 10-day forecast. the temperature going up a little bit on sunday, nasty day on monday. tuesday is less cold, but wet. and then starting on thursday, it starts getting cold, and we're talking about, look at this, high temperatures potentially in the 20s and chances of snow and not just a few flurries for next weekend. so next weekend is going to be significantly colder than this weekend, that's a pretty good bet.
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200 a week. >> we're blessed that we all have a safe home and we want that for these women we're delivering to. >> reporter: by mother's day of 2017, they're hoping to double the number to deliver 1,000 purses of hope. >> my hope is just to know, for them to feel empowered and for them to know that they have a sense of purpose. >> with their trunks and hearts full, they move on. >> you never know what a new lipstick can do for a woman. it could inspire them to go apply for that job and a whole new beginning. next at 5:00, we're following those breaki ing developments in the murder of that store owner in philadelphia. police have revealed now details about the suspect and why he killed her.
an emotional reunion with relati relatives and a new jersey 5-year-old. how loved ones say their prayers were answered.
jacqueline london, she's live in our breaking news center. jacqueli jacqueline? >> the suspect's name is maurice green. police told us they believe green's original target was marie's grandson. he shot marie green several times. >> so the decedent had a grand son who the suspect believed had something to do with his expensive chain. as a result of that, he was demanding money back from him, he never gave it back to him. he showed up at the store, because he thought the grandson was going to be there working. >> police say that green was seen on surveillance video running from the scene. they also received anonymous tips. they say that the grandson is cooperating with police and will not be charged.
we are also learning new details about the jersey shore woman who disappeared for days with her great grand daughter and don and tonight both are alive and recovering in the hospital. >> they somehow got lost on a trip from may's landing to north carolina. >> nbc 10 jersey shore reporter ted greenberg joins us live from the family's neighborhood in mays landing. >> reporter: people in this neighborhood can't wait for little lamira briley to return her, especially some of the communities youngest residents. >> i was jumping around. >> reporter: this 6-year-old is ecstatic that her play mate 5-year-old lamira briley are safe. >> i'm really, really happy because she came back.
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Plans in place to help protect 3.8 million vulnerable individuals from harsh weather this winter, but programme currently only 63 per cent funded.
Syrian refugees Nazih, his wife Fatima and their children warm their hands next to a stove inside their shelter at an informal settlement near Terbol in the Bekaa Valley, Lebanon.
Sitting in the single, unheated room that serves as their home in a run-down neighbourhood of the Lebanese capital Beirut, Samira and her husband Hussein have a familiar sense of foreboding at the prospect of their sixth winter in exile since fleeing the conflict in neighbouring Syria.
Like the majority of the roughly one million registered Syrian refugees living in Lebanon, the couple – originally from Deir Ez-Zour – have good reason to fear the arrival of colder temperatures and winter storms. Already struggling to cover their rent, food and medical expenses, they are ill-prepared for the harsh conditions and additional costs that winter brings.
Their main concern is for the welfare of their two-year-old son Haytham, who suffers from asthma and for whom the cold weather and heightened risk of infection pose a real threat.
It is a similar picture across the country, where tens of thousands of Syrian refugees live in flimsy structures made of wood and plastic sheeting in informal settlements. Flooded shelters are a familiar sight in Lebanon’s mountainous areas during winter, which also brings heavy snowfall and freezing temperatures to many areas.
“He’s had asthma since birth. When it gets bad his breathing becomes heavy and his face turns blue."
To help vulnerable refugees prepare for the cold temperatures, from November UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, began providing winter cash assistance of between US$225-375 to help with additional costs such as fuel, clothing and medical expenses. So far around 650,000 people have received such payments out of a planned total of 800,000.
Across the region as a whole, UNHCR aims to assist a total of 3.81 million Syrian and Iraqi refugees and internally displaced people with its winter assistance programme in Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, Turkey, Jordan and Egypt.
The programme targets the most vulnerable families with a mixture of cash assistance, building materials to repair and weather-proof shelters, and distributions of winter items including high thermal blankets, gas heaters and warm clothes.
It also includes plans to assist more than 1.1 million individuals displaced inside Syria, with priority given to those most recently displaced and others living in hard-to-reach or besieged areas.
Of the total US$228 million requested to finance this year’s winter programme, donations so far received amount to US$143 million - leaving a shortfall of around 37 per cent still needed to provide assistance to more than a million people.
Meanwhile, the approaching winter is also threatening the safety and welfare of refugees in other areas of the Mediterranean, including Greece, which was transited by more than 1 million people at the height of Europe’s refugee crisis.
UNHCR has been urging the Greek government to accelerate winter preparations for thousands of refugees and migrants in the main reception islands of Lesvos, Chios and Samos, warning of a possible repeat of the winter of 2016/17, with hundreds braving conditions in small tents and makeshift shelter.
UNHCR has also helped directly by more than 240,000 aid items to authorities to be used on the islands, including tents and winter clothing, and continues to support the transfer of people to the mainland to avoid winter spent in unheated tents with poor facilities.
Almost 20,000 have come to the islands since July. Most are from Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan and include many families with young children, and other vulnerable people in need of dignified accommodation and conditions. .
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The gig was at the Stairways Rock Club in downtown Birkenhead. We arrived at a nearby pub around 10pm and saw (Hawkfrendz') Trev Hughes and Thomas Crimble there. We had a brief chat. Thomas was a likeable chap and was looking forward to the gig, which we found out wasn't to start until midnight. I also had a little chat with Huw (Lloyd-Langton).
The hall was full, though not very large. The band put on a very good show, with the crowd clearly enjoying it. Nik Turner came onto the set in his Spiky Alien kit, and I have no idea how he could stand it in all that latex given the heat. Thomas Crimble was very solid on bass, with Terry Ollis absolutely excellent on drums - matching Simon King or Richard Chadwick at their best. As most will know, DikMik didn't make it, and they had a young guy (from the backing band?) making whooshy noises on synth.
They opened with Sonic Attack and closed with Silver Machine (Nik's alternative lyrics, washing machine and all) with Shouldn't Do That for the encore. I wasn't taking notes on the order, but other tracks played were Be Yourself, Psychedelic Warlords, Paranoia, Hurry On Sundown, Seeing It As You Really Are, Master of the Universe, Brainstorm (without the key change at the end). I'd have to check my tape to complete the list. Most songs involved a fair amount of jamming, and for me they were at their best doing this because of Nik and Huw's problems with the lyrics. Others said they'd have preferred a more structured gig, but I suspect that there wasn't sufficient rehearsal time to make that happen.
It seemed to me later in the gig that Nik was perhaps a little out of it, often singing words to other songs, or singing the same song, but out of time. It's hard to tell, since sometimes this is merely part of his "rock circus" act. Huw appeared to be trying to cover for him at times, but was a bit hoarse himself. Thomas Crimble was excellent at this point in continuing to sing songs straight and in a melodic voice. At one point during Hurry On Sundown, Huw was clearly failing to bring Nik back into line on the lyrics and did a deal with Thomas where whenever Nik sang a line, they'd each sing a different one, like a canon but with Nik's randomness - the effect was actually pretty good with that song and I'd really like to see this done more deliberately.
For me, the best track of the evening was easily Seeing It As You Really Are, a favourite of mine anyway, with Be Yourself a close second. The stars of the evening were without doubt Crimble and Ollis. Nik was just a little too out of it and only shone jamming his sax, with even the flute on Hurry On Sundown not really working very well. But as someone said, if one of the band is too gone to play, that's pretty authentic early Hawkwind too.
If any of you get the chance to catch them in Wales on Friday, do it. You won't regret it, I wish I was going myself.
Anyone: My tape break was during Seeing It As You Really Are, which was a bummer. If anyone gets a tape of this gig without that, I'd be very very interested in a trade. I also reckon my tape has suffered from being too close to the speakers.
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2019-04-19T08:28:30Z
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ISLAMABAD – Pakistan's military says its jet fighters have struck five militant hideouts in a northwestern tribal region bordering Afghanistan, killing at least 21 insurgents.
The military said in a statement that Thursday's airstrikes were carried out in the Tirah valley in Khyber tribal region. It provided no further details.
Pakistan's air force often targets suspected militants and their hideouts in Khyber, and elsewhere in the country's northwest. The region is believed to be a hiding place for Pakistani Taliban and foreign militants.
The latest strikes came a day after a suicide bomber targeted a meeting of anti-Taliban elders in the Khyber region, killing five people.
Pakistan's army is also carrying out a major operation against militants in North Waziristan tribal region, to the south of Khyber.
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2019-04-22T22:25:20Z
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https://www.foxnews.com/world/pakistani-military-jets-strike-5-militant-hideouts-in-northwest-killing-21-insurgents
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← Are formula 1 cars too quiet?
Should electronic vehicles make noise?
Members of the European Parliament have voted to make ‘Acoustic Vehicle Alerting Systems’ mandatory for all electric and hybrid vehicles in 5 years time. But is this a good idea? I have a personal reason to question whether the claims of improved road safety are right.
So why am I against the use of alerting sounds on electric cars? It might surprise you to hear it has nothing to do with my work as an acoustic engineer and the lost opportunity to reduce noise levels in cities. I would rather electronic cars were quiet because I think that my commute would be safer.
I am currently recovering from a broken shoulder caused by someone stepping off a pavement in front of me and a fellow commuter who were using silent vehicles (bikes). One of the hazards of riding a bicycle in a crowded city is that pedestrians sometimes rely too much on their hearing and don’t look out for cycles. I would prefer electronic cars to be silent because it might encourage pedestrians to be more observant.
What do you think? Should electronic cars make artificial noise?
Meeting—2008 (Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, 2008), 1747–50.
This entry was posted in Noise and tagged electronic cars, electronic vehicles, EU, european parliment, hum, hybrid cars, hybrid vehicles, new scientist, nissan, Noise, Vehicle Alerting Systems. Bookmark the permalink.
I’m all for keeping electric cars quiet. More space to hear the wind, birds and especially silence. The less artificial noises created the better. People should learn to be more observant whether behind the wheel or in the cross walk. Also has there been studies done to see if over time electric cars become more noisy? The BART transit system in the bay area was touted as quietest train system when it was built. Now you can hear it for miles.
Hi Trevor. I’m sorry to read about your shoulder. I hope you heal quickly. I think cars ought to make some noise to alert pedestrians to oncoming traffic. It’s true pedestrians should be more diligent and so should drivers. But, it’s human nature to let diligence lapse at times and it’s often those moments in which accidents occur. If a vehicle can be programmed to sound an alert to people in its path, I think it should be done. There are also environments where sound is the only clue one has that traffic is approaching. I’m thinking of winding country roads and other sharp turns.
As a cyclist and noise policy specialist I find your argument for keeping electric cars quiet convincing. Increasingly urban pedestrians (and, admittedly, some cyclists) roam the streets cocooned in headphones, like drivers cocooned in cars, oblivious to what’s going on around them. A common pedestrian reaction to an oncoming cyclist glimpsed askance is to put the head down and step out regardless – most motorists (there are always exceptions) – do look when they pull out. As a cyclist, I have been caught out by smart cars pulling out and the odd Prius as it reverses silently when have not been looking properly. We could develop a world filled with generic warning sounds ranging from reversing alarms to bike bells and electronic car noises – but isn’t it better that we all learn to become conscious of what’s around us and maybe take things a bit more slowly and carefully? Agree on country roads sound important – however at speed road/tyre noise is the predominant sound – and given the current state of rural roads I think we will hear them coming.
I’m from the keep them quiet, reduce noise in our cities school, but in answer to Damian’s comment, and in a response to the EU vote, I would encourage car manufacturers to design more intelligent systems, that make noise only when needed. It is not beyond our engineering to compensate for vehicle speed, proximity of other objects, geographic location etc and adapting the sound to this.
An interesting view, to which I can see both sides of the argument. I understand that we need people to be more aware as this would solve many problems, but at the same time I don’t think an increased likelihood of being hit by a car is going to make much difference judging by the way many pedestrians seemed to cross the roads nowadays!
Ulf Sandberg has thoroughly reviewed this issue, Dec 2012 paper at link below. He argues against increasing vehicle noise and suggests reducing ambient noise overall, and hence lessen masking, would be a better strategy providing a greater overall benefit for society. He also suggests that there is scant evidence to support either that it is a problem in the first place or that increasing electric vehicle noise is going to be of significant benefit.
Analagous to this issue is reversing alarms, which at the moment I am hearing all day from a construction site next door, the site being surround by several large apartment blocks (100s of units). We have all been disturbed by this for weeks with no apparent benefit to safety, there generally being no people on the site other than the drivers of the earth moving vehicles.
I have also undertaken a number of quarry noise impact assessments where the only noise causing disturbance to closest residents, and for which noise mitigation is not permitted because it is to do with safety, are the reversing alarms.
Wouldn’t a focused sound system, both fore and aft, controlled by a proximity detection system be the best answer? Just like light pollution, sound pollution needs to be controlled and thousands of noise emitters rolling around cities and towns, putting out noise in directions that it’s not needed, seems terrible. A “horn button” for the driver could turn up the warning noise power and perhaps broaden the sound’s cone for emergencies but the general sound level and pattern would be tightly controlled to only the direction of travel and only to the distance of a vehicle’s emergency stopping distance.
In lieu of manufacturing engine noise on electric cars, they should just be equipped with sleigh bells.
Making electric cars noisy is asinine. Some pedestrians were hit by cars that by happenstance were electric, so rather than accept culpability, they made a presumptive correlation that it’s because the cars were too quiet.
Prior to legislation some real-life testing needs to be done. The majority of people do not hear the engine noise of most vehicles over the din of city life. The primary safety cues are vehicle movement, vehicle occupancy, and road noise.
PS: A cyclist myself, I sympathize for your injury. I don’t use a bike bell, but am a very vocal rider. As I’m sure you do, I make every effort to acquiesce to pedestrians despite my right-of-way…both for courtesy and safety. Though no matter my best efforts people still jump out in front of me, and of course, once one leads the crowd follows. Maybe I should attach sleigh bells to my bike too.
As to my safety as a pedestrian, since it seems like I’m always being bumped into, I sometimes contemplate the following solution for crowded places. Enjoy.
I am visually impaired. No amount of awareness except audio feedback will allow the blind and visually impaired to hear approaching vehicles. I believe there should be some uniform sound that duplicates engine noise so that the blind can identify approaching cars. An electronic whirring sound could be confused with a stationary object like an air conditioning condenser. The alerting sound should sound like what we identify as a car, truck, motorcycle, etc. Given the fact that the blind aren’t driving or whizzing through traffic on bikes, we tend to be the most vulnerable in traffic to begin with, and have no choice but to be pedestrians. It’s not just noise to us….it’s a matter of life and death for the blind.
Have been thinking about this a lot.
The dutch solution to the bicycle safety issue is to have your mudguards rattle constantly as you roll down the road.
There’s doubtless something mechanical that can be fitted to a motor which will cause it to generate a sound. It is also possible to design tires for high ground noise rather than low ground noise.
The solution of pedestrians being more observant isn’t viable for all parties. As a teacher of the visually impaired, someone who is blind/visually impaired relies on these sounds to travel independently. That is the major concern. How can you tell someone who is blind to “be more alert” when they rely on their auditory senses, and these cars lack the sound?
It should not! Noise pollution is also a problem of every region.
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2019-04-23T22:09:41Z
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Life on Earth may be wiped out within the next five billion years, but Professor Leen Decin with Belgium's KU Leuven Institute of Astronomy questions if the planet itself will still be able to survive afterwards.
She is quoted in a recent press release as saying, "...the fate of the Earth is still uncertain. We already know that our Sun will be bigger and brighter, so that it will probably destroy any form of life on our planet. But will the Earth's rocky core survive the red giant phase and continue orbiting the white dwarf?"
Decin's query is a result of research conducted by her and an international team of scientists.
They found that the sun will likely expand into a giant red star over the next five billion years, and, two billion years after that, is expected to become "a tiny white dwarf star."
The scientists based these conclusions on a close examination of a star called L2 Puppis which is considered to represent a future model of the sun's development.
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2019-04-25T19:49:05Z
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Why this one: I’ve owned it forever and got tired of looking at it. And it’s the last of the series, so it feels more like accomplishing something.
If I had to choose one phrase to sum up this book, I’d be torn between “kind of a downer” and “five pounds of plot in a ten pound sack.” The basic premise is that Abby, an American whose father recently died, arrives in London to join the charming Englishman she married by proxy. She’s horrified to realize that not only is he a pompous, controlling jerk at home, but he didn’t agree to their marriage and doesn’t want her at all. (Except for how much he wants her, of course.) But even though he’s obnoxious, he’s got that hot broody thing going on, so Abby sets out to make Spencer realize she should be his wife in truth.
There’s actually a fair bit going on in the book — de rigeur dumb mystery, Abby’s plans for her father’s medicinal business, Spencer’s tragic backstory — and yet it finds time to be dully repetitious. The interactions between Abby and Spencer never seem to get anywhere, except occasionally to making out. Which is fun to read — until Spencer uses it as a weapon. (Admittedly, Abby behaves badly too, in trying to manipulate him.) And the rest of the book is Abby being comforted and advised about Spencer by her women friends. No Bechdel test passing here.
It’s probably not as bad as I’m making it sound, for readers who enjoy wallpaper historicals. (I guess this is Georgian, but only because King George makes an appearance.) But… kind of a downer. Abby tries so hard, and continually feels so bad about herself, because Spencer refuses to tell her the real reason he won’t keep her as his wife. (He thinks he can’t have children, and his father’s refusal to have more drove his stepmother away.) The conflict is resolved rather sweetly, and though of course there’s a baby epilogue, it’s a reasonable one.
I should probably mention that Abby is half Native American. The story doesn’t do much with this, but I don’t think it’s overtly offensive either, except when Spencer makes a comment about the supposed extra sensuality of dark-skinned women.
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2019-04-24T00:56:53Z
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President Mandela firmly believed in the transformative power of education and its ability to bring dignity, self-actualization, and prosperity to Africans. Throughout his presidency and after, he dedicated much of his efforts to ensure that children from all walks of life had equal access to education, regardless of their economic background. The objective of the Mandela Centennial Scholars Programme is to honor President Mandela’s legacy and carry forward the important work he began in education by identifying 100 outstanding young Africans from disadvantaged backgrounds to attend ALU. These students will benefit from a scholarship and unparalleled opportunities for leadership development.
Is there a scholarship application? How can I access it?
Yes. The scholarship application will be made available on the ALU Admitted Student Portal under the Finance section. Access is only granted to candidates who have applied, have been accepted to ALU and are approved for study at ALU in Rwanda.
Candidates should have approval to study at ALU in Rwanda for any degree programme, and should be an African national.
Do I need to be admitted to ALU to apply for the scholarship?
Yes. You will only be able to apply for the scholarship once you have been accepted to ALU and have been approved for study at the Rwanda campus.
The scholarship covers full tuition, travel, housing, and a stipend to cover food and other living expenses. For Rwandans living in Kigali, it will only cover tuition fees.
What is the application process for the scholarship?
Once admitted, eligible candidates can access and submit their application for the Mandela Centennial Scholarship on the ALU Admitted Student Portal. Candidates for the scholarship will be required to take an Artificial Intelligence admissions simulation called Knack, and submit a 500-1000 word essay for review by the scholarship committee.
Can current ALC or ALU students apply?
No, the scholarship is only for students starting the first year in September 2018 at ALU.
Can students from previous years who deferred their start date to September 2018 apply?
Yes, deferred students who are starting their first year in September 2018 at ALU can apply.
Is there a deadline to apply for the scholarship?
The deadline for the scholarship application is 15 May 2018.
No, the scholarship is only for September 2018 start date. Recipients of the scholarship will be required to attend a leadership bootcamp starting on 3 September 2018 at ALU in Rwanda before starting their orientation week.
Are there any fees associated with the Mandela Centennial Scholarship Application?
There is no fee associated with applying to the programme.
How will the selection committee assess my application?
The Mandela Centennial Scholarship selection process strives to understand candidates as individuals and to assess them within their own academic, professional and cultural contexts. We will look at your application essay as a key tool in understanding your personal experience and approach to leadership. We want candidates to provide specific examples of their leadership that explore their abilities to understand challenges and opportunities, envision solutions, take initiative to act, inspire others to join an effort, and push through resistance and/or challenges in reaching results. The admissions simulation Knack will also be taken into consideration.
When will I find out if I got the scholarship?
We will be announcing scholarship recipients by 30 June 2018.
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"Both Government and industry have roles in ensuring that people are aware of the general risks online. Both also have a critical role to play in ensuring that the public are conducting online transactions with them safely. The nature of the Internet means that it is our collective responsibility to ensure that people are doing what they can to make themselves and their families safe online so that they can enjoy the real benefits of the Internet" (p 4).
6.2. The tone is typical of the Government's evidence to this inquiry. While there is a passing acknowledgement that Government and the industry have a "collective responsibility" in the area of personal Internet security, in practice their roles appear to be limited to making people "aware" of the risks online, and providing them with the tools "to make themselves and their families" secure.
6.3. The tenor of our Report thus far is clear: we have argued throughout for Government, regulators, the IT industry and online businesses to take more active steps to improve personal Internet security. We have recommended a range of incentives designed to ensure that those best placed and most competent to improve personal Internet securitythe ISPs, software and hardware vendors, and the companies who conduct business onlineare motivated to do so.
6.4. But at the same time, just as drivers are required to meet certain standards, not just for their own protection, but for the protection of other road-users, so individuals in the online world must take a measure of responsibility for their own security and that of others. We therefore begin this chapter by examining where the balance lies between individual responsibility and Government, regulatory or corporate action.
6.5. We also consider in this chapter the largely self-contained issue of online safety, the prevention of actual physical or psychological harm to individuals. This is a matter in large part of personal behaviour, though here too the IT industry and businesses operating online bear a significant responsibility.
"The typical computer user can do little to identify or mitigate technical risks. He buys a computer as a consumer electronic appliance, plugs it in and uses it; attempts to turn up the 'security level' of his browser will cause some web sites to not work; he has no way of telling good security software from bad; and many of the problems are completely outside the control of even technically sophisticated users" (p 211).
6.7. There were many other expressions of a similar view. We have already drawn on Bruce Schneier's arguments that ISPs should do more to protect individuals. He summed up his position by reference to his mother: "I always use my mother as an example. She is not stupid; she is very intelligent, but this is not her area of expertise. If I tell her, 'You have to be responsible for your Internet security', she will not be able to. It is too technical, in ways she cannot deal with" (Q 529).
'Well, what about my mum?'" (Q 691). More optimistically, Andrew Cormack said that "I taught my parents how to use [the Internet] safely and that was fairly painless" (Q 992).
6.9. Such comments mask a real demographic change of the last decade, following on from the development of the World Wide Web, and Microsoft's inclusion in the late 1990s of an easy-to-use web browser as standard with its operating systems. We began this Report by noting that Internet use in the United Kingdom grew from 2000-2007 by 144.2 percent. A significant part of this growth is made up of older peopleaccording to the Oxford Internet Survey, from 2003-2005, Internet use among pupils and the working population remained almost entirely flat, but among the retired it rose from 22 to 30 percent. As the population continues to age there is every likelihood that "silver surfers" will make up an even larger proportion of Internet users. Education, as Roy Isbell of Symantec noted, will increasingly need to "target that demographic" (Q 452).
6.10. This is not to say that the stereotype of the elderly, gullible and technically incompetent Internet user is justifiedgullibility and lack of technical know-how will be found in individuals in every age cohort. The key point is that the rate of growth in Internet use across society means that there are bound to be many individuals, of all ages, using the Internet to bank, shop, or send and receive email, without having high levels of IT skills.
6.11. There are two key aspects to improving the ability of individuals to manage online security. One is to promote awareness of the risks online; the second is to instil knowledge of how practically to manage them. Both are necessaryone without the other is of little use.
6.12. Currently the picture is disjointed. Evidence from Professor Steven Furnell and Dr Andy Phippen, of the Network Research Group at Plymouth University, highlighted a very high level of understanding of basic terms such as "virus", "firewall" or "Trojan horse". However, it is less clear how far this self-reported "understanding" of general risks translates into detailed understanding of specific risks and counter-measures. In hands-on trials the Plymouth survey showed that only 73 percent of users were able to determine the security settings level within their web browser, while only 33 percent were able to determine whether communication with a specific web page was using a secure connection (p 383). Even those who described themselves as "advanced" Internet users (and had academic qualifications relating to IT and experience of Internet security) were by no means uniformly able to perform these tasks.
6.13. Such findings were echoed by several witnesses. According to the Royal Academy of Engineering, "despite fairly high levels of awareness and concern about threats in general, the level of awareness of the actual threats is fairly low" (p 427). EURIM concluded that "awareness is less of a problem than conflicting and impractical advice and guidance", and expressed concern at the "very real risk that further raising awareness without making it very much easier for consumers to protect themselves and their children and to report malpractice will lead to a serious loss of confidence" (p 370).
6.14. We fully endorse EURIM's point, that raising awareness or risks without developing the knowledge and skills needed to manage such risks could undermine confidence in the Internet. The Government's evidence, however, blurs this distinction. It identifies "information, understanding and appropriate training" as "among the primary challenges in tackling the growing risk of Internet security threats". It also draws attention to initiatives "to raise public awareness of e-crime and the basic steps users can take to protect themselves" (p 5).
6.15. We have already drawn attention to the findings of a survey sponsored by the Government's "Get Safe Online" website, showing that 21 percent of people thought e-crime was the type of crime they were most likely to encounter, and that e-crime was feared more than mugging, car theft or burglary. These findings are clearly out of proportion to the real riskbut it may be that the Government's well-intentioned efforts to raise "awareness" of e-crime, without paying enough attention to the ways in which individuals or businesses can protect themselves against it, are actually making the problem worse.
6.16. To meet the challenges of public understanding, according to the Government, "simple, clear advice from one source is required". They go on to identify the "Get Safe Online" website, bringing together Government, industry and law enforcement, as providing such a source. However, a few paragraphs further on, the Government also note that "There are a range of public and private sector initiatives underway to raise public awareness of e-crime and the basic steps users can take to protect themselves. These include Get Safe On Line (GSOL) [sic], Bank Safe On Line, IT Safe and Fraud Alert" (p 5).
Get Safe Online is the closest thing in this country to a comprehensive, unified source of information on online security and safety. It is sponsored jointly by the Government, the Serious Organised Crime Agency, major IT companies such as Microsoft and BT, and companies from the financial services sector such as HSBC.
The Government also provide other services, including IT Safe, which sends email alerts to home and business users, and a Home Office website dedicated to identity theft.
The banking industry, through payments service APACS, sponsors Bank Safe Online, as well as a separate website devoted to card fraud, Card Watch.
The Metropolitan Police Service has created the Fraud Alert site, to which victims of e-crime can forward complaints and fraudulent emailsthough this is directed primarily at residents of London.
6.18. The Internet is open to allit will never be possible wholly to prevent the multiplication of sources of advice on security. However, it is clear that the Government should be seeking, in collaboration with public and private sector partners, to provide a single, coherent source not just of information, but of realistic advice on the practical steps that individuals can take to manage risk. In many respects the Get Safe Online website already provides such advice in exemplary fashion. However, since its launch in late 2005 a number of the original sponsors (including companies listed in the Government memorandum, such as Lloyds TSB, Dell and MessageLabs) appear to have withdrawn their sponsorship. This is worrying: the site needs a higher profile and the authority that would come from a wider range of private sector sponsors. To achieve this it needs stronger, high-level political endorsement.
6.19. The regulator of the communications industry, Ofcom, is notable by its absence from the list of sponsors of Get Safe Online, despite the fact that Section 11 of the Communications Act 2003 gives Ofcom a statutory duty to promote "media literacy". Ofcom defines media literacy as "the ability to access, understand and create communications in a variety of contexts" (p 322)a definition with which we have no quarrel. However, Ofcom's action hitherto appears to have been limited to a "media literacy audit", focusing on issues such as attitudes to the disclosure of personal information online and the blocking of inappropriate content. Ofcom's evidence did, however, state that "in 2007-08 Ofcom will place a much greater emphasis on media literacy" (p 323).
6.20. In oral evidence Tim Suter, Ofcom Partner for Content and Standards, accepted that it was part of the regulator's remit "to help consumers to both access and understand the communication services which are available to them and that will include making sure, as far as possible, that they know of the tools which are available to help them manage that environment in a way they want to manage it" (Q 1025). But when pressed on how Ofcom had in fact gone about this task, he referred only to the survey and to the new kite mark on content control software (for which see above, paragraph 3.17).
6.21. Thus Ofcom's formal definition of "media literacy" ("the ability to access, understand and create communications in a variety of contexts") is extremely broad, and would certainly encompass technical security online (for example, the ability to spot a phishing email). Yet its interpretation of "media literacy" in practice is far narrower, and wholly content-focused. It appears to have take no steps at all in the area of technical Internet security. Not only does it not sponsor Get Safe Online, but anyone seeking information from the Ofcom website on, for instance, spyware, will simply be told to "ask your ISP for more advice".
6.22. Ofcom's narrow interpretation of "media literacy" is puzzling. Section 11 of the Communications Act 2003 defines "media literacy" in terms of the public's understanding of "material published by means of the electronic media". Material is further defined as being "published" if it is "distributed by means of an electronic communications network to members of the public or of a section of the public".
6.23. We have already noted that the way in which information transmitted via the Internet is broken down into packets of data means that the superficially plausible distinction between "content" and what can loosely be described as "code" collapses. It follows that Section 11 can be interpreted to cover a very broad range of data distributed by means of the Internet, not just what might be loosely defined as "content". Ofcom's remit is thus in reality so broad as to encompass all aspects of media literacytechnical competence in managing operating systems and security software as well as the ability to control "content" safely.
6.24. In light of these considerations, we can only agree whole-heartedly with the words of the Minister, Margaret Hodge MP: "Could we have a step change in Ofcom's performance around its media literacy duties? I think the answer has to be, yes" (Q 868).
are 'pull technology' and require the user to go looking for the information they contain" (p 352). Education too is needed.
6.27. At the same time, it is essential that schools themselves should have secure IT systems in place, so that children are not exposed to risks in the school environment. The arrangements for achieving such security are improving, and the National Education Network (NEN) commented that the Government-sponsored agency Becta was "undertaking excellent work in moving UK schools towards a standards-based approach to the design of IT systems" (p 407). Network connections for schools are typically provided by the 10 Regional Broadband Consortia, formed as part of the Department for Education and Skills' Regional Broadband initiative. East Midlands Broadband Consortium, which submitted evidence to this inquiry, provides connectivity to 2,100 schools (p 365).
6.28. However, NEN also expressed concern at possible inconsistencies in interpretation of network design by technical staff in schools, as well as at the implications of increased devolution of funding to local level. Andrew Cormack, who has been involved in revising the ICT curriculum, noted that "Getting teachers, not just to teach Internet security one hour a week but to themselves behave correctly, that is hard" (Q 992). As in other areas of the curriculum, achieving consistently good practice across all schools will be a huge challenge.
6.29. Moreover, teaching online security to school pupils as part of the ICT curriculum will not in itself be sufficient. It is worth recalling that the explosion in use of the World Wide Web dates back only to the mid-1990s; anyone beyond their late 20s is likely to have learned to use the Internet not at school, but as an adult. While the QCA regulates courses in ICT targeted at adults, reaching the bulk of the adult population is a far greater challenge.
6.30. The scale of this challenge was highlighted by a 2006 survey by NCH (formerly National Children's Homes). Focusing on child safety (an issue which we discuss in more detail below), NCH highlighted what it called "alarming discrepancies" between the level of understanding of the Internet of children and that of their parents. For instance, it claimed that a third of children used blogs, while two thirds of parents did not even understand what a blog was, and only 1 percent of parents believed their children used blogs.
Some parents will come and do it but they are the parents who already understand the issues. It is a good idea but we have not found a way of doing it successfully." Jim Gamble, Chief Executive of the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (CEOP), which has close links to schools, was in favour of "demystifying" the technology for parents. For him the question was "how do we engage them in a way that helps them develop a better understanding?" He suggested using the technology itself to communicate with parents, for instance by sending school reports by email as well as in writing (Q 201).
6.32. More generally, we fully endorse the statement by UKERNA (which operates the JANET network linking universities, Research Councils and regional schools networks) that "all opportunities to raise awareness, skill and confidence levels of users of all ages need to be taken". UKERNA went on to highlight the possibility that "children who learn safe practice at school should be encouraged to teach their parents and grandparents at home" (p 299). Such approaches will require creativity on the part of individual communities, schools, businesses and charitiesit is not necessarily an area for direct Government intervention. UKERNA, for instance, singled out for praise the interactive "Know IT All" site developed by the charity Childnet International.
6.33. We began this Report by distinguishing between Internet securitythe means of controlling the uses to which PCs or other interconnective devices, and the information stored on them, are putand Internet safetythat is, personal safety, the avoidance of direct physical or psychological harm that may affect individuals as a result of their actions online. The first of these issues was from the start the focus of this inquiry, and of most of the evidence we received. However, we also received evidence on the second issue, which is discussed briefly in the following paragraphs.
6.34. This distinction is of course to some extent artificial, as any victim of crime, including online fraud or identity theft, may suffer personal harmstress and anxiety, at the very leastin addition to financial loss. At the same time it allows us to separate out from the main subject-matter of this Report particular issues to do with online behaviour, child protection, and social networking online.
6.35. The first point to be made is that the Internet has been of enormous value in facilitating new forms of communication. No-one would have predicted 20 years ago the way in which email has become a mainstay of social interaction; in the mid-1990s few had heard of SMS, now an industry worth over $80 billion per annum; five years ago no-one would have predicted the explosion of social networking, Instant Messaging and VoIP. New technologies and opportunities continue to emerge.
6.36. But this rate of innovation has also been bewildering. It takes time for people to develop norms of behaviour appropriate to new forms of communication. In the physical world many such norms are well-established: when meeting someone for the first time, an individual identifies various signals to do with facial expression, eye contact, tone of voice, or physical gestures, and, according to the particular cultural context, knows how to react appropriately. Or, when crossing the road, the individual observes familiar rules to avoid accidents. Although norms have evolved in the online world, they are nothing like as sensitive or as effective. The risk of misunderstanding, misrepresentation or exploitation is constant.
6.37. Moreover, even though we live in an era of increasing concern over data protection and privacy, the wholesale disclosure of personal information online has become commonplace. Although attention hitherto has focused on the risk to children of such indiscriminate disclosure of personal information, in reality every Internet user, young or old, faces a degree of risk that this information will be abused by others.
6.38. Software designers are increasingly focusing on the issue of identity management online. In the course of our visit to Redmond we met Kim Cameron, Microsoft's Identity and Access Architect, and discussed Windows CardSpace, which seeks to provide a unified system for online identity management via end-user machines. This is now available in the Windows Vista operating system. The evidence submitted to this inquiry by the small software development company Edentity Ltd outlines a web-based system of identity management known as "Personal Information Brokerage"while also lamenting the lack of interest in the concept shown by the Government.
6.40. Linda Criddle was emphatic that the IT industry and businesses operating online should take their share of responsibility for reducing risk in all these areas. Even risks arising from carelessness, which might seem to be a purely individual responsibility, could be mitigated if software products were designed with detection tools that could spot and alert users to characteristic acts of carelessness, such as disclosure of personal information without adequate security. The key was that products should be developed in such a way as to educate consumers about risks and to provide them with the tools to manage these risks.
6.41. Ms Criddle's most scathing criticisms of corporate failure were directed at social networking sites. For instance, she identified several points in the sign-on process for social networking site MySpace (now owned by News Corp), which appeared to encourage or reward the disclosure of personal informationreal names, email addresses, photographs, and so on. But social networking sites were not the sole offenders. Security tools on the Microsoft Network (MSN) were also inadequatefor instance, content filtering offered by the MSN network screened only external content, not content generated by the network itself.
6.43. Jim Gamble focused in particular on the formal education system. CEOP has not only developed extensive links with schools, but has also rolled out an education campaign targeted at one million pupils. John Carr, Executive Secretary of the Children's Charities' Coalition on Internet Safety, also focused on schools, though highlighting the difficulties in reaching parents by this means, and concluding that "we also need to find other ways of reaching parents" (Q 243). We agree. It is essential to reach young people through schools. However, we also believe that the more holistic approach described by Linda Criddle, building education into the products developed by industry and business, is vital to supplement formal education.
6.44. We are pleased to observe that to some extent the Government are already moving in this direction. For example, we have previously noted that the regulator Ofcom, with Government backing, has developed a BSI kite mark for content control software, and we have recommended that further kite marks be developed for secure Internet Services. This approach, emphasising industry self-regulation, but providing incentives by means of formal recognition of best practice, could also be extended in the field of personal safety online.
6.45. The Government's view, summarised by Tim Wright, is that "self-regulation is the best approach" (Q 203). John Carr also argued that "self-regulation is always going to be a better approach because it is more flexible and quicker"though conceding that if self-regulation did not deliver, "the Government will step in and legislate" (Q 248). We agree. Governments are not well-placed to intervene directly in an area as fast-moving and diverse as social behaviour onlinethey cannot design or identify technological solutions, and they cannot judge the rights and wrongs of the personal behaviour of individuals. However, they can collaborate with industry in agreeing general standards of best practice in such areas as the design of social networking sites, and in awarding recognition (in the form of kite marks) to those that observe these standards.
6.46. The Government-sponsored Get Safe Online website already provides useful information and practical advice to Internet users, but its impact is undermined by the multiplication of other overlapping websites. We recommend that the Government provide more explicit high-level political support to the Get Safe Online initiative and make every effort to recruit additional private sector sponsors. If necessary, the site should be re-launched as a single Internet security "portal", providing access not only to the site itself but acting as a focus and entry-point for other related projects.
6.47. We agree with the Minister that there needs to be a "step change" in the way the regulator Ofcom approaches its duties in relation to media literacy. We recommend that Ofcom not only co-sponsor the Get Safe Online project, but that it take on responsibility for securing support from the communications industry for the initiative.
6.48. We further recommend that, in addition to the new kite mark for content control software, Ofcom work with the industry partners and the British Standards Institute to develop additional kite marks for security software and social networking sites; and that it continue to keep under review possible areas where codes of best practice, backed up by kite marks, might be appropriate.
6.49. We recommend that the Department for Children, Schools and Families, in recognition of its revised remit, establish a project, involving a wide range of partners, to identify and promote new ways to educate the adult population, in particular parents, in online security and safety.
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2019-04-22T06:10:39Z
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Three weeks ago, 130 scientists, entrepreneurs and policy leaders held an invitation-only, closed-door meeting at Harvard University to discuss an ambitious plan to create synthetic human genomes. Now, after a flurry of criticism over the secrecy of the effort, the participants have published their idea, declaring that they’re launching a project to radically reduce the cost of synthesizing genomes — a potentially revolutionary development in biotechnology that could enable technicians to grow human organs for transplantation.
“[T]he goal of HGP-write is to reduce the costs of engineering and testing large genomes, including a human genome, in cell lines, more than 1,000-fold within ten years, while developing new technologies and an ethical framework for genome-scale engineering as well as transformative medical applications,” the group wrote in a draft of a news release obtained by The Post. The project will be administered by a non-profit organization called the Center of Excellence for Engineering Biology, the news release said.
The plan drew a negative response from the head of the National Institutes of Health, Francis Collins, who had led the earlier Human Genome Project. In a statement released by NIH, Collins said it was premature to launch such an initiative.
No one is talking about creating human beings from scratch. One application of cheaper genome synthesis, according to geneticist George Church, one of the authors of the Science article, would be to create cells that are resistant to viruses. These would not be cells used directly in human therapies, but rather in cell lines grown by the pharmaceutical industry for developing drugs. Such processes are vulnerable now to viral contamination.
“If you’re manufacturing human therapeutics in mammalian cells, and you get contamination, it can blow you away for two years, which has actually happened,” Church said.
The synthetic genome plan emerged from two closed-door meetings, one in New York City last year, and the second on May 10 at Harvard.
The latter drew criticism from researchers who objected to the closed-door nature of the event; organizers said they didn’t want to publicize their idea in advance of the publication of the article in Science. They said they plan to put a video of the proceedings online.
Endy on Thursday renewed his criticism. He said the group is proceeding without approval of the broader scientific community or any independent ethical review, he said.
The project has four lead organizers: Church, a geneticist at Harvard Medical School; Jef Boeke, director of the Institute for Systems Genetics at the NYU Langone Medical Center; Andrew Hessel, a researcher with the publicly traded company Autodesk; and Nancy J. Kelley, formerly executive director of the New York Genome Center.
The news release stated that Kelley will be the top executive for the project, and that Autodesk has committed $250,000 in funding for the planning efforts.
The organizers hope to raise $100 million by the end of this year, with an eventual goal of devoting $3 billion to the effort. The authors of the Science article wrote that some portion of the money that would be raised for the project should be directed toward addressing the ethical, legal and social issues surrounding how new genetic engineering technologies will be used.
Church, informed of Endy’s latest comments, said nine of the participants in the Harvard meeting were experts on the ethical, legal and social implications of technology, and he said he expects many more will respond to the article in Science.
“Even when we identify something that we do not want, we need to think deeply about how to prevent it — effective surveillance, deterrents and consequences,” Church told The Post.
Church, whose laboratory at Harvard Medical School is renowned for breakthroughs in genetic engineering, said that in a span of three to 10 years it should be possible to bring down the cost of synthesizing long stretches of DNA by a thousand-fold. That would mirror the huge declines in the cost of sequencing – that is, reading – human genomes. He said researchers are already synthesizing stretches of genetic code, but only in small pieces. The obstacle to widespread application and testing of synthetic genomes is the cost, he said.
The field of genetic engineering has been dealing with ethical quandaries since the 1970s. In December, for example, scientists from the U.S., Europe and China met in Washington and agreed to put limits on the breakthrough gene-editing technique known as CRISPR, which has the potential to make heritable changes in a person’s genome.
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2019-04-19T14:44:53Z
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https://jasperandsardine.wordpress.com/2016/06/04/you-will-be-as-godsscientists-announce-plan-for-synthetic-human-genome/
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Cancer cells’ ability to develop resistance to conventional therapies poses one of the most daunting challenges to effective treatment. Strategic combinations of different therapies represent the future of cancer treatment, as they hold the greatest promise for overcoming therapeutic resistance. Radiation therapy’s primary aim is to kill cancer cells by damaging their DNA, but it has also been shown to stimulate the body’s immune system to attack cancer cells. For this reason, therapeutic combinations that pair radiation with immunotherapy, which also uses the immune system to fight cancer, are especially promising. The clinical usefulness of these combinations is currently limited, however, as the mechanisms by which DNA damage caused by radiation activates the immune system are still poorly understood. Uncovering these mechanisms is crucial to designing more effective therapeutic combinations and advancing cancer treatment. We have recently discovered the molecular and cellular pathway that links DNA damage to immune responses, but further study is needed to understand precisely how damaging tumor DNA triggers the immune system to fight cancer. We propose three research projects, each of which will closely investigate a portion of this pathway to understand how it works and how it can be stimulated or suppressed for therapeutic purposes. Understanding, at the molecular level, how DNA damage leads to anti-tumor immune responses will allow us to more effectively design therapeutic combinations of radiation and immunotherapy, as well as combinations of immunotherapy and other therapies or drugs that damage tumor DNA. If successful, our studies will develop innovative therapeutic strategies that could challenge current standard clinical practice to greatly improve treatment outcomes for patients with cancer.
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2019-04-22T08:23:19Z
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https://cprit.state.tx.us/grants-funded/grants/rp180725
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There has been much discussion recently about the possibility of deflation in the global economy. Many Western economies are experiencing what we call “disinflation”, where the rate of increase of prices falls over time. If the rate of increase falls enough, it becomes a decrease – and then we are into deflation. This sort of “boiling frog” deflation is very different from the acute deflation of the financial crisis, when prices went into freefall with catastrophic effects on jobs and incomes. Many people regard it as beneficial. After all, if prices are falling, money goes further, doesn’t it? You can buy more stuff both now and, if you save, in the future. What’s not to like?
Those who think that this kind of slow deflation can be benign usually point to the latter part of the 19th century as a time when economies were growing even though the general price level was falling. There were casualties, of course: this period is sometimes known as the “Long Depression”, mainly because of the economic decline of the agricultural sector in Europe at that time. But other industries, such as railroads, were booming.
But comparing such a period with now is comparing apples and pears. Inflation and deflation are primarily monetary phenomena: the inflation rate is the change in the purchasing power of money. During the Long Depression, the whole Western world was using gold as its currency, though sometimes with silver too. It was the period of the classical gold standard, which ended in 1914 with the financial crisis that preceded the outbreak of World War 1.
Using a commodity such as gold as money means that the quantity of money in circulation remains fixed unless more gold coinage is produced. A falling general price level is therefore a sign that the economy is GROWING. More – or better - goods and services are being produced relative to the amount of money in circulation: the value of money rises and the price of goods and services falls. This is “benign” deflation.
But this is very different from the way in which the quantity of money changes in a modern fiat money economy. In our fiat money economy, the quantity of money in circulation is determined principally by bank lending. When banks lend, they create an amount of fiat money equal to the amount of the loan. What we call “broad money” – which is the money actually used for transactions in the real economy - therefore expands. When the loan is paid off, the money the bank has created is destroyed, and the broad money supply therefore contracts.
When broad money contracts, the value of money rises relative to goods and services, causing a fall in the general price level. So you can buy more stuff both now and in the future. Consumers rejoice, because their shopping bills shrink. Savers rejoice, because their savings increase in value.
It’s all because of how money is created. For broad money to be created under our fiat system, someone has to borrow. So for our monetary system to work at all, there must be debt. When the value of money increases because some are paying off their debts (or defaulting on them), the value of debt for the remaining borrowers increases. That includes households, governments and businesses. All of them become MORE INDEBTED relative to their incomes when the value of money rises. This is because although incomes tend to flex with the value of money, the stock of debt does not. Debt is nominal.
If this isn’t clear, let me give you an example. If you have a debt of $1000, and the value of money increases by 5% (outright deflation), you still have to pay $1000. You don’t get a reduction in your nominal debt because the value of money has risen. So your lender benefits from the increased value of money. But you don’t get a pay rise. In fact you may even get a pay cut. After all, from your employer’s point of view, your pay is costing him an extra 5%. The fact that you will have to pass that straight on to your lender doesn’t concern him.
There are a lot of highly indebted people out there, and highly indebted companies and governments, too. Outright deflation would increase their debt burdens, forcing them to cut spending and defer investment decisions. It may even force some of them to default: if defaults are sufficiently widespread, the money supply falls abruptly. When people, businesses and banks are highly indebted, slow deflation can all too easily change to virulent debt deflationary collapse.
But increased debt burdens are not the only problem. Our economy depends on lending. When there is deflation, people don’t want to borrow, because any money they borrow increases in value during the period of the loan. And they don’t want to spend, because prices tomorrow will be lower, so they will get a better deal. Therefore businesses don’t invest, households don’t spend, and banks don’t lend. Of course, this would happen under a gold standard too. But in our fiat money system, reduction in lending causes the money supply to drop, making money even more scarce and accelerating the rate at which prices fall. This is very different from a gold standard where bank lending and the money supply are not connected, so falling prices do not affect the quantity of money in circulation. In a fiat (credit) money system, even if the level of indebtedness is relatively low, falling prices mean a falling money supply – and a falling money supply generates further price falls. It is easy to see how this can become an out-of-control deflationary spiral. No wonder central banks fear deflation.
Of course, this is not to say that technological advances that drive down production costs, enabling people to buy better widgets for the same amount of money, aren’t a good thing. But in my view it is incorrect to call this deflation. If you buy a new improved widget for the same amount of money as the old widget, the amount of money you pay hasn’t fallen. And you may at the same time be paying more for some products without realising it: companies create “hidden” inflation by all manner of dodges such as cutting product sizes, adding inexpensive fillers to make products larger or heavier, or improving packaging to make products look as if they are better quality. We don’t usually count these effects in measures of inflation: it is therefore perverse to argue that technological changes that improve the quality of products without increasing their price are deflationary.
Furthermore, productivity improvements enabling companies to make money while lowering prices do not necessarily follow through into higher real wages, and may result in higher levels of unemployment. This is actually what happened in the Long Depression: yes, there was economic growth, and prosperity for many of those in work, but there was also high unemployment and poverty. The “technological changes cause benign deflation” argument is in my view seriously flawed.
I am unconvinced that the benefits of falling prices ever outweigh the problems they create, even when the money supply is fixed. But of one thing I am certain. In an economy in which the production of money depends on the production of debt, there is no such thing as benign deflation.
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2019-04-21T00:56:41Z
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https://www.forbes.com/sites/francescoppola/2014/02/26/deflation-is-not-benign/
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I am an M.A. candidate at the Indiana State University. Before I arrived in the U.S. in summer 2017, I lived on the West Coast of New Zealand for one and a half year. The landscape of the West Coast and the history behind it have always been my interest.
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2019-04-26T12:41:31Z
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https://www.lensculture.com/yichen-hu
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darkmagician on Norse God anyone?
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2019-04-21T21:06:17Z
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https://darkmagician23.wordpress.com/tag/wolfram/
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Lisa prepares viewers for a third season of love, work, tears of joy, hate, evil, success, and more.
Hey Everyone! Just watched Work Out: The Warm Up and all I can say is "What the %&$#-." OK, so I can't say that, so I will just say, "WOW!" I hope you all are geared up and ready for the season premiere coming up. Now I know most of your reactions toward me will be like, who is hell this chick blogging? A trainer? Jackie's hidden lover? Well the answer to both is NO, particularly HELL NO to the second question. I'm actually the stiletto-wearing Managing Director of Sky Sport gym and Medical Facility. Jackie hired me on the spot, which was a major shock, considering my background is sales, client services, and marketing, not health and fitness. I only owned designer sneakers and quickly realized that the treadmill doesn't mix with high heels and designer dresses I'm the beauty (ha -- the cocky side of me!) and business brain of Sky Sport that spends the majority of my day on my cell phone, meeting with "KING" Jackie, handling day-to-day operations of the gym/medical facility and my favorite: wiping vomit from the gym floor! Clients: Please refrain from eating right before working out. PLEASE!
Jackie and I have a lot in common, especially when it comes to helping people and giving back. I admire her business ethic and dedication to Sky Sport. On the flip, we are both strong Type A females and sometimes life "ain't" a tea party with us. Jackie's personal life tends to bleed into my life by default and while difficult I understand, I tend to like her better when she is single. Despite my feelings, I hope that she finds happiness and true love with her new girlfriend. If I were a betting woman, an iceberg in the middle of the desert has a better chance of surviving, based on what is upcoming in Season 3!
The trainers ... hmmm. Work-wise, they are some of the elite trainers in LA, but oh my, do they know how to stir things up! The old crew is back and now they are mixing it up with a couple of new trainers. I'm still in shock over some of the stuff I witnessed! I consider myself an "insider" on what goes on at the gym, because I'm there all day and night! Sometimes I feel like I stepped on the set of Days of our Lives. Yes, I do my share to spur it on, but trust, the craziness has a life of its own. So buckle up girls and boys because Season 3 is filled with love, work, tears of joy/hate, evil, success, back-stabbing, laughter, jealously, bitterness, scandal, and fun!
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2019-04-19T16:15:41Z
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https://www.bravotv.com/work-out/season-3/blogs/buckle-up
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@menshealthstyle for a man withshort-medium hair, how would you style it so you can be both out to have fun and professional looking?
"For men with short to medium hair ask your barber for close fading on the sides above the temples. This will keep the sides short and the top fuller and longer—the perfect length for easy styling. If you want one all-day look, part it to the side. Or, if you want a professional get-up, comb it back. Then, for a more playful and casual look loosen it up with your hands, keeping the top messy and textured. This is great for happy hour after work or a night out on the weekend.
Remember, a little product never hurt. If you need something to keep your hairdo going all day long, try working a small amount of Sumotech from Bumble and Bumble through your hair. Don’t forget that this product is buildable, so play it safe and start with a little—you can always add more later. Be sure to evenly work the product through to the tips of your fingers before applying. You don’t want to pat your head with a lot of product on your palms."
For more hairstyle inspiration and expert tips, check out these five great looks.
Follow us @MensHealthStyle on Twitter for more answers to your grooming questions.
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2019-04-25T09:52:14Z
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https://www.menshealth.com/style/a19536574/ask-mh-style-short-medium-hair/
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Postcard with a view of the front of the British Museum, 1906. © The Trustees of the British Museum.
Greetings! – this is Alessandro and I am one of the ceramics specialists for the ERC TwoRains project. For my PhD research, I am pursuing a holistic approach to the study of archaeological ceramic materials from Indus urban and post-urban sites being excavated by the project to trace social continuity and transformations within the production systems of rural communities.
Long story short: I spend a lot of time looking at fragments of pottery, thin-sections and ceramic powder samples. I am combining technological and compositional methods to study ceramic industries, including thin-section petrography, XRD, FTIR, WD-XRF and pXRF. Combining these methods with traditional morpho-stylistic analysis, I am investigating the production (chaîne opératoire) of artefacts to understand synchronic and diachronic cultural behaviour.
In the last 6 months, I have been taking short breaks from microscopes and databases in Cambridge to explore the basements at the British Museum, London. Under the supervision of Dr Daniela De Simone, Tabor Foundation Curatorial and Research Fellow, South Asian Archaeological Collections, I have had the chance to make a small contribution to the new Indus displayed collection. In fact, the well-known Room 33 – China, South Asia and Southeast Asia – is currently closed and Curators at the BM are working hard to present the refurbished gallery by November 2017 (do not worry, no spoilers here for you)!
Indus Ceramic Cones. © The Trustees of the British Museum.
Daniela has been working on the new display of Indus cases, and I have been helping her reassess some of the artefacts hidden in the basement, which is a cavern of archaeological wonders, ranging in date from Neolithic Balochistan to the Early Historic period; from Indus crafts to Buddhist art; and from ceramic figurines and vessels to metalworks and semiprecious stones.
Red terracotta figure, c. 2nd century BCE, Akra, Pakistan. © The Trustees of the British Museum.
Last but not least, Daniela knows about my involvement in Museum education at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, and National Museum of Oriental Art ‘Giuseppe Tucci’ in Rome. So, she challenged me once: “Can we make a board games for kids and young adults to make them engage the Indus collection even more?” – That is how ‘The Treasure of the Unicorn’ board game was born. It is currently in its ‘beta testing’ phase and we will use photos from objects displayed in the new gallery. Hopefully, we will soon be able to play with it and guide the younger public to approach the fascinating Ancient Indus Civilisation and its technologies and crafts.
Time to go back to my Indus pots and thin-sections from Haryana and Uttar Pradesh. Stay tuned for more news on Ancient Indus crafts and technologies!
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https://tworains.wordpress.com/2017/03/16/beyond-indus-ceramics-exploring-the-british-museum-collections/
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American Samoa's Governor Togiola Tulafono and Samoa's Prime Minsiter Tuilaepa Sailele have discussed a joint approach to combat drug problems in their two countries.
The governor says he and the Prime Minister examined the possibility of establishing a joint task force to deal with drugs.
The governor said that they will continue their dialogue on this issue and the public will be informed of the results.
In his Flag Day address in April, the governor appealed to Prime Minister Tuilaepa Sailele for the two countries to work together to stamp out drugs.
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2019-04-19T13:18:07Z
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https://www.radionz.co.nz/international/pacific-news/162634/leaders-of-america-samoa-and-samoa-to-tackle-drug-problems-together
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The tunnel chase would be an extended end fight between the T-850 and the T-X.
The T3 boxset, made by McFarlane, had a fight between the damaged T-850 and the T-X Endoskeleton with legs. Also in the first T3 trailer, there were some flashes of the T-X endohead in the dark.
TheArnoldFans had an interview (October 7, 2002) with Pablo Helman, ILM visual effects supervisor, and he mentioned the tunnel scene.
TheArnoldFans: Are there CGI robots to go along with Stan Winston's?
Pablo Helman: Yeah, well, in that tunnel scene, we had to marry practical things that Stan Winston was bringing in, all the puppets, plus we had to match his puppet to the digital puppet. And so, that's going to be a real challenge.
"According to what I know, the tunnel chase shows the T-X in full endo (with it's legs) form going after John, Kate and the T-850 deeper into the Crystal Peak compound. The T-850 slowly pushes the T-X back and they keep fighting and throwing each other around. I am not sure that this is what happens..."
"Well from old set-reports and interviews from many people there was talks about how ILM would use the T-X endo as CGI in some parts. As well as Arnold said the Tunnel chase at the end would be so suspensefull. Also look at Todd McFarlane's Doll of the end fight he is not as damaged at first. I believe that the original fight was much much longer and different. From the original Teaser Trailer it showed flashes of the T-X in darkness breathing. And I think originaly they took off deep into the mountain and the T-X follwed them Endo whole to kill them. Then an epic battle took place and the T-850 got more damaged as time went on. I really believe this was filmed."
"It should also be noted that in the final product, Stan Winston's puppets for the T-X endoskeleton and damaged T-850 are seemingly nowhere to be found. (I was looking forward to seeing Arnold's puppet in action!)."
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In my search for an easy to understand Bloom’s Taxonomy, I came across two very helpful infographics.
Another helpful resource is Smart Tutor’s Blooming Orange Poster which features verbs/ synonyms relating to each of the thinking skill. You can access a pdf file of the poster through this site, which is as reposted below.
This entry was posted in Notes and Resources, Personal Selections and Commentaries and tagged Bloom's Taxonomy, Blooming Orange, infographic, Rebecca Stobaugh, Routledge, Smart Tutor on September 24, 2013 by SCG.
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Maybe there are some of us who still don’t know the meaning of KPIs.
Some of us, instead, might hardly spend a week at work without hearing the expression.
I’m getting tired and upset of hearing about our performances, of effectiveness, productivity at our work, with the outcome of millions of us being made redundant.
I wish we, citizens, could in turn, propose, develop and appraise KPIs for our representatives, and the public thing (Res-publica), as well as in the private corporations environment.
On the other hand, when I try to put things in perspective in our globalized society, many things hardly fit together.
In slightly more than half a century, man managed to land on the moon, put a robot on Mars surface, send a telescope to space to survey the limits of the Universe.
In less than 25 years, computers left the big and cumbersome computer centres to become instant, light, cordless and ubiquitous devices integrated in mobile telephone handsets. Not to mention the evolution Internet underwent in the past 15 years.
France and Great Britain were capable to develop an airplane that in spite of having proved being unsustainable, actually revolutionised commercial air travel. The path was lit for the future and quite next space travel and tourism.
Either ground, sea or air machines, reached a state-of-the-art that ranges from unmanned drone planes, to stealth sea battle ships. Missiles have also been part of an amazing evolution both in power and in guidance technology.
I’m listing it separately for maybe it’s one of the most unexpected leaks from military technology to everyday life. We can now position ourselves no matter where in the world we are, and send our position through our mobiles to all our friends, as well as locate our pictures with a precision equal to that of NASA.
Altogether with many of the KPIs above, I choose webcams not for the simple fact that you could broadcast your life in real time into the WWW, but mainly because through them, we could be in position to see almost ANYTHING WE’D WANT TO. And if we can’t, it’s not due to a technological issue.
I’m sure that any of you who will read this post, being in the industry that you are, will be able to make a more exhaustive and thorough list of the respective cutting-edge breakthroughs.
Any CEO in the world, who failed to obtain acceptable results as per in the objectives of the company (not to say show losses) in a balance sheet, would be – correct me if I’m wrong – fired immediately, no matter what.
So how is it that nobody was held responsible for the occurrence of those big four failures of the “most secure” both military and financial systems in the world?
How many organisms have accountability in the above facts?
Why is it that apparently, we have to believe in good faith, that all of them were unpredictable events?
Why do we believe so?
Don’t YOU have ANY questions?
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< Why Are Men Leaving The American Workforce?
We've been exploring the changing roles of men and today we hear about men in the workforce. The job market is often portrayed as a snapshot - a brief moment in time. The unemployment rate moves up or down a notch. A single month's job growth is better or worse than forecasters had predicted. But there is a long unfolding story about employment in America that often gets overlooked. It's the story of men opting out of work altogether. Here's NPR's Uri Berliner.
URI BERLINER, BYLINE: After World War II, it was a great time to be an American man in the workplace. Hiring was strong for white-collar jobs and factory work. Industries like autos, aviation and steel were booming.
UNIDENTIFIED MAN: To Jim Robbins, making steel for America is a job with a future. Jim, planning for the future, is filled with determination to make way for tomorrow. And the industry in which he serves is also a part of that tomorrow.
BERLINER: That industry clip from a U.S. steel plant expresses the optimism of the times. Nicholas Eberstadt is an economist with the American Enterprise Institute. He says if you were a man in the 1950s, you had a job. Or if you lost it, you started looking for another one.
NICHOLAS EBERSTADT: If you weren't in the Army and you weren't in jail, you were very very likely working. And there was probably a good reason for why you were not seeking work and not working, if that was the case.
BERLINER: But by the 1960s that started to change. Men began leaving the workforce. If they couldn't find jobs, some men simply stopped looking. And ever since, more and more men have been opting out of work. That's a fact not in dispute anywhere across the ideological spectrum. Here's Eberstadt of the right-leaning American Enterprise Institute.
EBERSTADT: This has been going on now for just about half a century.
BERLINER: And Heidi Shierholz of the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute.
HEIDI SHIERHOLZ: We've been seeing this just long - decades-long decline in men's labor force participation.
BERLINER: That decline has been relentless, persisting through recessions and even in periods of strong growth and job creation, like the 1990s.
EBERSTADT: So it's happened during good times. It's happened during bad times.
BERLINER: The departure from work can't be explained away by factors like men retiring earlier or young men staying in school longer to get more degrees. Back in the 1950s, just 3 percent of men in their prime working years - that's considered 25 to 54 - were out of work and not seeking employment. Last year, that number was 12 percent.
DAVID HUDDLESTON: (As Jeffrey Lebowski) Are you employed, sir?
JEFF BRIDGES: (As The Dude) Employed? (Laughing).
HUDDLESTON: (As Jeffrey Lebowski) You don't go out looking for a job dressed like that, do you? On a weekday?
BRIDGES: (As The Dude) Is this the - what day is this?
BERLINER: That's the ultimate slacker - the Dude in the movie "The Big Lebowski." Obviously, an extreme case - back in the real world, as more men opted out of the workforce for whatever their reasons, women streamed in. And at the same time, they've been obtaining more education. The most recent figures show nearly 60 percent of all bachelor's degrees in the U.S. are earned by women. MIT economist David Autor says women have responded to an increasingly demanding job market by getting more education - men not so much.
DAVID AUTOR: You might say well, why haven't men responded more effectively? Why haven't they educated better - more? Why haven't they moved into higher-wage occupations? And that is less clear.
BERLINER: As might be expected, economists don't agree on why so many men have left the workforce. Some possible factors they cite - there's less of a stigma today if a man doesn't work. Union clout has declined. More men are in early retirement, receiving disability benefits. New technology has eliminated manufacturing jobs and competition from abroad moved others overseas. Economist David Autor says many service jobs that remain in restaurants and retail, for example, don't pay as well as the factory jobs that disappeared.
AUTOR: The most important factor, I would say, behind declining male employment rates is declining wages for less educated workers.
BERLINER: So what can be done? Certainly, more education and better education would make a difference, but that's long-term. Autor says a smaller fix might help. He suggests expanding the earned-income tax credit. That's the subsidy that rewards low-income workers when they find jobs and keep them. But right now, it primarily benefits women and children, not single men. Uri Berliner, NPR News.
So as we've just heard, for men working blue-collar jobs, it's become harder to get ahead. On average, they make less money and have far less job security than previous generations.
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Description Crowd gathered together to watch starting of irrigating pumps, Cache Junction, Utah, 1920. (Negative Available) (5.25 x 9.5 inches). One black and white photograph (5.25 x 9.5 inches) mounted on board. (Negative Available).
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Proposals for freedom in the economy: unconditional basic income, cooperative ownership of enterprise, socialized health care.
In a little over a week, one of the editors of this blog, Alex Gourevitch, will be speaking at the Left Forum with Corey Robin and Doug Henwood on a panel on freedom and the economy. The panel is one of three organized under the general theme ‘reclaiming freedom for the left,’ in part inspired by this excellent article by Corey Robin. In anticipation of the panel, we thought we would try out some of the ideas that we will discuss at the Left Forum itself.
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The JRC maintains and enriches the European Atlas of the Seas with the support of DG MARE. This portal disseminates cartographic information related to EU's coasts and seas both as maps and open data. The target audience are professionals and anyone interested in Europe's seas and coasts and related European policies (Integrated Maritime Policy, Common Fisheries Policy, etc.). The European Atlas of the Seas receives 600 visitors per day. It offers an up-to-date and remarkably diverse range of information about Europe's seas, such as sea depth, underwater features, coastal regions geography and statistics, blue energies, maritime resources, tide amplitude, coastal erosion, fishing stocks, quotas and catches, European fishing fleet, aquaculture, maritime transport and traffic, ports' statistics, maritime protected areas, tourism, maritime policies and initiatives, outermost regions, etc.
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Katherine researches the design and control of robotic systems that enable a user to touch virtual objects and distant environments as though they were real and within reach. These haptic interfaces combine electromechanical sensors and actuators with high-speed computer control to fool the human sense of touch. By studying applications such as robot-assisted surgery, tablet computers, stroke rehabilitation, and personal robots, Katherine seeks to improve our understanding of haptic feedback and uncover new opportunities for its use in interactions between humans, computers, and machines.
Katherine Kuchenbecker featured in NewScientist.com's "Haptic soldiers guided by buzzing belt"
Katherine Kuchenbecker discusses her work with haptic technology and improving the use of sensory receptors in skin on cbc.radio in "Out of Their Minds"
Katherine Kuchenbecker profiled in MentorNet's "Being a Woman in Engineering is "Fun'"
Joe Romano, GRASP PhD Student, won the Best Short Oral Presentation Award at the 2010 IEEE Haptics Symposium.
Katherine Kuchenbecker and her students at the IEEE Haptics Symposium Conference - "Tactile Gaming Vest Punches and Slices"
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On May 25, 1787, the Constitutional Convention was convened in Philadelphia after enough delegates had shown up for a quorum.
In 1803 American essayist and poet Ralph Waldo Emerson was born in Boston.
In 1844 a Washington correspondent for the Baltimore Patriot became the first journalist to send a story by telegraph.
In 1878 dancer Bill "Bojangles" Robinson was born in Richmond, Va.
In 1895 playwright Oscar Wilde was convicted on a morals charge in London and was sentenced to prison.
In 1897 boxer Gene Tunney was born in New York.
In 1926 jazz trumpeter Miles Davis was born in Alton, Ill.
In 1929 opera star Beverly Sills was born in New York.
In 1935 Babe Ruth hit the 714th and final home run of his career, for the Boston Braves against the Pittsburgh Pirates.
In 1968 the Gateway Arch, part of the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial in St. Louis, was dedicated.
In 1979, 275 people died when an American Airlines DC-10 crashed on takeoff from O'Hare International Airport.
In 1986 an estimated 7 million Americans participated in Hands Across America, forming a line across the country to bring attention to the nation's hungry and homeless.
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Color-Pencil Portrait Drawing – Bipasha Basu magically appears on a page of my diary!
Read the story of Bipasha Basu’s Diary Portrait here.
And here’s the portrait in question.
Read about Bipasha Basu here.
She’s known for her bold roles, her item numbers, and her relationship with John Abraham (until about a year ago, they were together.) The caricaturist thinks that she’s one of the most beautiful women actors in Bollywood.
If you don’t believe the Tom Riddle story, here’s another one.
Last year I was at a stationery store buying a clutch-pencil (which by the way, is my favorite drawing instrument.) I don’t know how and why, the salesman thought that I’d be interested in some terribly expensive drawing pencils. I looked at this set of twelve pencils, checked the price, did a quick calculation, and decided that I wasn’t going to be fooled into buying pencils that would cost me a dollar fifty per piece. Ten minutes later, I left the store with 12 Derwent Water Color Pencils. The pencils came home and went straight into my drawing materials cupboard that is accessed about once a year. I remained loyal to my clutch-pencil. One of these days when I am feeling less possessive about it, I’ll shoot a picture and show you this beautiful Rotring pencil that’s been my constant companion for the last five years.
To make a long story short, those pencils stayed in the cupboard, until about a week ago, when I needed some yellow stickies and for some reason I thought that if I dived in deep enough into that treasure chest of a cupboard, I’d find them. So I dived in, and came up with the stickies and…that box of Derwent Pencils.
The newspaper that lay on the table had Bipasha’s picture in an ad, and my diary lay next to the newspaper. This is how everything came together, and I ended up drawing Bipasha’s portrait in my diary.
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Brace yourself, Louisville. It looks like the New England Patriots are coming to town. Wide receiver Julian Edelman, fifth from right, uploaded a photo of himself and some of his teammates on Friday in front of a plane with the caption “#brosweekend #derbytme [sic]” and it looks like a party.
Quarterback Tom Brady, center, who was spotted at the race last year with Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers, is in the mix, as is tight end Rob Gronkowski, third from right.
Suffice to say, the mint juleps will definitely be served spiked this weekend — and with Gronk on board, you can take that literally.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/early-lead/wp/2015/05/01/tom-brady-rob-gronkowski-and-julian-edelman-fly-to-kentucky-derby-for-bros-weekend/
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Families -- Wisconsin -- Bangor.
Education -- Wisconsin -- Bangor.
Recreation -- Wisconsin -- Bangor.
Bangor (Wis.) -- Social life and customs.
Publication [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 1981.
Mengel describes her family background and life in Bangor, Wisconsin. She details Bangor's community life, recreation and social practices, and ethnic composition. She also discusses her teaching career.
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FUKUSHIMA, Japan (AP) — An unexpected spike in pressure inside a troubled reactor set back efforts to bring Japan's overheating, leaking nuclear complex under control Sunday as concerns grew that so far minor contamination of food and water is spreading.
The pressure increase raised the possibility that plant operators may need to deliberately release radioactive gas, erasing some progress in a nuclear crisis as the government continued its halting response to a catastrophic earthquake and tsunami that savaged northeast Japan on March 11.
A teenage boy's cries for help led police to rescue an 80-year-old woman from a wrecked house in a rare rescue after so many days.
Beyond the disaster area, an already shaken public grew uneasy with official reports that traces of radiation first detected in spinach and milk from farms near the nuclear plant are turning up farther away in tap water, rain and even dust. In all cases, the government said the radiation levels were too small to pose an immediate risk to health. Still, Taiwan seized a batch of fava beans from Japan found with faint — and legal amounts — of iodine and cesium.
"I'm worried, really worried," said Mayumi Mizutani, a 58-year-old Tokyo resident shopping for bottled water at a neighborhood supermarket to give her visiting 2-year-old grandchild. "We're afraid because it's possible our grandchild could get cancer." Forecasts for rain, she said, were an added worry.
Troubles at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear complex threatened to spread more radiation. While all six reactors saw trouble after the disasters knocked out cooling systems, officials reported progress in reconnecting two units to the electric grid and pumping seawater to cool overheating reactors and replenish bubbling and depleted pools for spent nuclear fuel.
But pressure inside the vessel holding the reactor of Unit 3 rose again Sunday, forcing officials to consider the dangerous venting. The tactic produced explosions during the early days of the crisis. Nuclear safety officials said one of the options could release a cloud dense with iodine as well as the radioactive elements krypton and xenon.
The plant's operator, Tokyo Electric Power Co., temporarily suspended the plans Sunday after it said the pressure inside the reactor stopped climbing, though at a high level.
"It has stabilized," Tokyo Electric manager Hikaru Kuroda told reporters. Kuroda said temperatures inside the reactor reached 572 Fahrenheit (300 degrees Centrigrade), and the company wants to minimize radiation releases. The option to release the highly radioactive gas inside is still under consideration if pressure rises, he said.
The higher reactor pressure may have been caused by a tactic meant to reduce temperatures — the pumping of seawater into the vessel, Kuroda said.
Using seawater to douse Unit 3 and the plant's other reactors or storage pools — Unit 4 was sprayed again Sunday — was a desperate measure. Seawater is corrosive, and so is damaging the finely milled machine parts of the plant, rendering it ultimately unusable.
The government acknowledged Sunday that the entire complex would be scrapped once the emergency is resolved. "It is obviously clear that Fukushima Dai-ichi in no way will be in a condition to be restarted," Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano told reporters.
Growing concerns about radiation add to the overwhelming chain of disasters Japan has struggled with since the 9.0-magnitude quake. The quake spawned a tsunami that ravaged the northeastern coast, killing more than 8,100 people, leaving 12,000 people missing, and displacing another 452,000, who are living in shelters.
Fuel, food and water remain scarce for a 10th day in the disaster. The government in recent days acknowledged being caught ill-prepared by an enormous disaster that the prime minister has called the worst crisis since World War II.
Bodies are piling up in some of devastated communities and badly decomposing even amid chilly rain and snow.
"The recent bodies, we can't show them to the families. The faces have been purple, which means they are starting to decompose," says Shuji Horaguchi, a disaster relief official setting up a center to process bodies in Natori, on the outskirts of Sendai. "Some we're finding now have been in the water for a long time, they're not in good shape. Crabs and fish have eaten parts."
Before the disasters, safety drills were seldom if ever practiced and information about radiation exposure rarely given in Futuba, a small town in the shadow of the nuclear plant, according to 29-year-old Tsugumi Hasegawa. In the aftermath, she is living in a shelter with her 4-year-old daughter and feeling bewildered.
"I still have no idea what the numbers they are giving about radiation levels mean. It's all so confusing. And I wonder if they aren't playing down the dangers to keep us from panicking. I don't know who to trust," said Hasegawa, crammed with 1,400 people into a gymnasium on the outskirts of Fukushima city, 80 miles (50 miles) away.
Another nuclear safety official acknowledged Sunday that the government only belatedly realized the need to give potassium iodide to those living within 12 miles (20 kilometers) of the nuclear complex.
The pills help reduce the chances of thyroid cancer, one of the diseases that may develop from radiation exposure, by preventing the body from absorbing radioactive iodine. The official, Kazuma Yokota, said the explosion that occurred while venting the plant's Unit 3 reactor last Sunday should have triggered the distribution. But the order only came three days later.
"We should have made this decision and announced it sooner," Yokota told reporters at the emergency command center in the city of Fukushima. "It is true that we had not foreseen a disaster of these proportions. We had not practiced or trained for something this bad. We must admit that we were not fully prepared."
Contamination of food and water compounds the government's difficulties, heightening the broader public's sense of dread about safety. Consumers in markets snapped up bottled water, shunned spinach from Ibaraki — the prefecture where the tainted spinach was found — and overall express concern about food safety.
Experts have said the amounts of iodine detected in milk, spinach and water pose no discernible risks to public health unless consumed in enormous quantities over a long period of time. Iodine breaks down quickly, after eight days, minimizing its harmfulness, unlike some other radioactive elements which remain in the environment for decades.
The governor of Fukushima, where milk contaminated with iodine was found at one farm Friday, urged dairy farmers across the prefecture to halt all sales — just short of a ban in consensus-driven, if polite, Japan.
Edano, the government spokesman, tried to reassure the public for a second day running Sunday. "If you eat it once, or twice or even for several days, it's not just that it's not an immediate threat to health, it's that even in the future it is not a risk," Edano said. "Experts say there is no threat to human health."
No contamination has been reported in Japan's main food export — seafood — worth about $3.3 billion a year, less than 0.5 percent of its total exports.
Yamaguchi reported from Tokyo, as did Associated Press writers Elaine Kurtenbach, Tim Sullivan, Joji Sakurai, and Jeff Donn.
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TOKYO, Feb 5 (Reuters) - Japan’s biggest trading house Mitsubishi Corp on Tuesday posted a 6 percent rise in its April-December net profit thanks to higher income from energy operations, and stuck to its record profit forecast for the year despite one-off losses.
Mitsubishi’s net profit grew to a record 442 billion yen ($4 billion) for the nine months to Dec. 31 from 416 billion yen a year ago.
The company booked an impairment loss of 28 billion yen on its stake in Singapore’s Olam International and 31 billion yen on its investment in iron ore mines in Chile in the October-December quarter, but it kept its forecast of a record 640 billion yen profit for the year ending March.
“We have paid a premium for Olam as we had expected synergy with our operations, but the outcome has missed our target,” Mitsubishi Chief Financial Officer Kazuyuki Masu told a news conference.
But Mitsubishi, which owns a 17.4 percent stake in Olam, has no plan to trim its stake in the Singaporean commodity trader and plans to seek more synergies in areas such as Africa, Masu said.
Olam said last month that it plans to invest $3.5 billion into key growth areas, such as edible nuts, coffee and cocoa, over the next few years, while exiting four existing businesses to raise funds.
As for the Chilean mines, Mitsubishi took the loss due to an extra environmental cost to build a tailing dam mainly for the Los Colorados mine and a repair cost for a broken shiploader at a port.
The port’s loading operation has been stopped since the collapse of the shiploader in November, Masu said.
The three mines — 25 percent owned by Mitsubishi and 75 percent by Chilean iron ore and steel producer CAP SA — produced 14 million tonnes of iron ore in 2018, according to a Mitsubishi spokesman.
Mitsubishi’s annual profit prediction missed the 655 billion yen mean forecast in a poll of 9 analysts, according to Refinitiv.
Its nine-month profit was only 69 percent of its full-year estimate, but Masu said a special gain from its planned sale of two Australian thermal coal mines and stronger profits from some segments are expected to fill the gap.
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“More is better” is a philosophy that applies to a lot of different situations. When it comes to strength training, though, more (reps, sets, days) is not necessarily better. As a matter of fact, research indicates that more can be associated with a diminishing return. Don’t gauge the effectiveness of your exercise routine by the amount of time you spend in the weight room. Instead, take a closer look at what you accomplish — in both the short- and long-term. Effort is important… you’ve got to work hard. But hard work without a purposeful plan won’t get you very far.
It’s important to understand what you want to accomplish, since different strategies are necessary to achieve different results. A strength and conditioning professional can help you sort out things like exercise selection, intensity level, sets, repetitions, rest intervals, and days per week. Make sure to align your plan with your goal(s).
Once you’ve decided on the plan/strategy that’s right for you, put it on paper (or, I guess, in your smart phone). Create a workout chart to track your activity and progress. Refer to them frequently.
You should challenge/push yourself a little more with each subsequent workout — add a little more weight, one or two more reps, or the speed at which you progress through the exercise. Don’t allow yourself to plateau. Your body will adapt to your current level of activity, so variety and progression is the key.
Don’t leave your workout for when you “have” time. You’ve got to make time for strength training. Treat it as you would any other appointment or priority — schedule it in advance.
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The acorn is the fruit of the oak tree. It is a nut, and contains a single seed (rarely two seeds), enclosed in a tough, leathery shell. Acorns vary from 1 – 6 cm long and 0.8 – 4 cm broad. Acorns take between about 6 or 24 months (depending on the species) to mature.
Acorns are one of the most important wildlife foods in areas where oaks grow. Creatures that make acorns an important part of their diet include birds, such as jays, pigeons, some ducks and several species of woodpeckers. Small mammals that feed on acorns include mice, squirrels and several other rodents. Such large mammals as pigs, bears, and deer also consume large amounts of acorns: they may constitute up to 25% of the diet of deer in the autumn. In some of the large oak forests in southwest Europe, traditionally called "dehesas", pigs are still turned loose in oak groves in the autumn, to fill and fatten themselves on acorns.
Acorns contain tannins, which are toxic to some animals such as horses. The tannins can be soaked out, using water.
↑ Janzen, Daniel H. 1971 Seed predation by animals. In Richard F. Johnson, Peter W. Frank and Charles Michner (eds) Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics.
↑ Brown, Leland R. 1979. Insects feeding on California oak trees. In Timothy Plum and Norman Pillsbury (eds) Proceedings of the Symposium on Multiple-use management of California's hardwood resources, Gen. Tech. Rep. PSW-44, USDA, Forest Service, Pac. S.W. Forest and Range Experiment Station, Berkeley, California, pp. 184–194.
This page was last changed on 16 April 2019, at 03:37.
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Stop By Our Super(Duper)Market July 13-15th!
What are you doing next weekend? You're coming to our Super(Duper)Market, that's what! The three-day pop-up super-store will feature our favorite vendors, retailers and food fanatics from East Coast to West Coast selling their goods under one roof. It's located at 410 W. 16th St. and will be open Friday, July 13th, 11 a.m.-4 p.m., Saturday, July 14th, 11 p.m. to 6 p.m. and Sunday, July 15th, 11 p.m. to 4 p.m. Cash and credit cards are accepted.
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2019-04-24T22:48:06Z
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http://www.papermag.com/stop-by-our-superdupermarket-july-13-15th-1426157097.html
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Kidnapped and confined in a harem—that’s not the scenario Charlotte Quade envisioned when she prayed for just one grand adventure before sailing home to Washington Territory from Europe. While exploring the ancient, exotic island kingdom of Riz, Charlotte foolishly lost her way. In a dizzying moment, she was snatched, bound up in a sack and unceremoniously dumped—completely naked!—in the ship’s cabin of the very same man who had caught her fancy as a young girl in Seattle: Captain Patrick Trevarran.
But Charlotte’s dream lover turned out to be no gentleman! He had once gallantly fetched her, as a mischievous teenager,from the riggings of his ship, but now he appraised her with exasperation and quickly packed her off to the harem of a sultan friend. When they were reunited—as much by mercy as by fate—it was clear that Patrick wished merely to tease and trifle with this pretty, rebellious American. But, through their adventure, Charlotte had discovered a provocative man torn between recklessness and devotion, between storm and calm. Now, with all the strength and passion she possessed, Charlotte would chart a course that would sweep them at last to their destiny—a glorious and resounding love.
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2019-04-22T22:14:28Z
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https://www.lindalaelmiller.com/books/taming-charlotte/
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Chartist leader Robert Peddie was charged with conspiracy, sedition, and riot for his participation in the attempted rising in Bradford in January 1839. A staymaker by trade, Peddie served three years’ hard labour between 1840 and 1843. He suffered from the horrors of the “silent system,” prison regulations that forbade all verbal communication between the prisoners, intending to prevent the perceived contaminating associations of prison subculture and to induce the prisoners’ internal transformation by isolating them. Officers even silenced their footsteps by wearing cloth shoes, compounding the prisoner’s sense of isolation as they laboured on the treadmills. Peddie was allowed to write home to Edinburgh once a month. The poems he sent appeared in The Chartist Circular, a Chartist paper based in Glasgow, Scotland; and he later collected them together with extracts from his petition to the House of Commons, publishing a volume called The Dungeon Harp (1844).
Because The Chartist Circular did not pay the stamp duty, it was not permitted to publish any news; and the original poetry it published could only refer to politics in general or abstract terms. Peddie’s poem “A Voice from Beverley,” which “cannot fail to be popular with our readers,” refers to topical events despite ostensibly being a sentimental love lyric addressed only to Peddie’s wife. Posing as a solitary confession of feelings overheard by the wider audience of the newspaper’s readers, in the context of the Chartist Circular the poem actually functions as an exhortation to the families and communities fractured by the repercussions of the Chartist risings. The poem appeared in the Circular on September 26, 1840. While the date “August 1840” marks the poem as contemporary, the title indicates that the speaker is serving time in the Corrections House for the east riding at Beverley in Yorkshire, rather than languishing in an imagined or historical dungeon. Peddie’s decision to name his poem “A Voice” calls attention to his suffering under the silent system, under which he was forbidden to speak or sing, to receive sympathetic visitors, or to send poems or letters containing explicit references to political matters.
“A Voice from Beverley” is one of several lyrics of feeling that Peddie wrote while imprisoned. Peddie developed his own exhortatory variety of the lyric of feeling, which politicized the familiar Wordsworthian imagery of rivers and rainbows, and Burns’ sentimental apostrophies to absent lassies, using them to express Chartist solidarity. Peddie’s later poems — “Spirit of Freedom,” “Ode to Freedom,” and “Verses Written in Prison” — are panegyrics on “the stream of mind”: the working classes’ freedom to think, communicate, and convoke. Hallmarks of lyric thus become “contaminating associations,” connecting Peddie’s personal dream of returning to an idealized Scottish community with the Chartist goal of reaching liberty and equality through collective action. In Peddie’s lyrical mode, the individual’s verbalized feelings are the fundamental source (and the last holdout) of political resistance.
“Its first issue achieved a circulation of over 20,000, and the paper maintained a circulation of 22,500 copies a week through its first year. However, by 1841 The Chartist Circular was struggling financially and sales started to decline. It eventually ceased publication in July 1842, having at the close achieved a circulation of only 7,000 a week” (British Library).
Far frae love and thee, lassie.
My soul’s at hame wi’ thee, lassie.
At hame wi’ love and thee, lassie.
Is filled with love to me, lassie.
’Midst a’ that I maun dree, lassie.
A blank when wanting thee, lassie.
A’ wi’ love and thee, lassie.
Our happiest hour of early life.
I’d live with love and thee, lassie.
That I’ll meet love and thee, lassie.
Will meet with love and thee, lassie.
When far from love and thee, lassie.
The letterpress in the Chartist Circular reads “tyrants.” I have added the apostrophe so that the text matches the poem as it appears on p.59 of Peddie’s volume The Dungeon Harp (1844).
Waukrife, adj. Scots. Sleepless, wakeful, insomniac (DSL).
Maun, aux. v. Scots. Must. Dree, v. Scots. Dread, fear.
Day-spring, n. Daybreak, early dawn (OED).
There are two rivers in the UK named the River Tyne. Peddie likely refers to the river that rises in the Moorfoot Hills in Midlothian (south of Edinburgh), and empties into the North Sea off the coast of East Lothian.
The letterpress in the Chartist Circular reads “lassie.” I have changed the text to match the poem as it appears on p.60 of Peddie’s volume The Dungeon Harp (1844).
The letterpress in the Chartist Circular reads “powe.” I have added the word-final “r” and comma, so that the text matches the poem as it appears on p.61 of Peddie’s volume The Dungeon Harp (1844).
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2019-04-23T18:20:19Z
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https://popularvictorianpoetry.wordpress.com/an-anthology-of-popular-victorian-poetry/robert-peddie-a-voice-from-beverley/
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Ripablik blong Vanuatu i kaontri long pasifik we olgeta save tok tok long Bislama. Kapital blong hem i Port-Vila.
The Republic of Vanuatu is a Melanesian island nation located in the South Pacific Ocean. The archipelago is located some 1,750 km (1090 mi) east of ► Australia, 500 km (310 mi) north-east of ► New Caledonia, west of ► Fiji and south of the ► Solomon Islands. Vanuatu was first inhabited by Melanesian people. Europeans began to settle in the area in the late 18th century and in 1906 Britain and France officially claimed the country, jointly managing it through the British-French Condominium. An independence movement was established in the 1970s, and the Republic of Vanuatu was created in 1980.
La République du Vanuatu est un État de Mélanésie situé dans le sud-ouest de l'océan Pacifique, en mer de Corail. L'archipel est situé à 1 750 kilomètres à l'est de l'Australie, au nord-est de la Nouvelle-Calédonie, à l'ouest des îles Fidji et au sud des îles Salomon.
More images Vanuatu - Vanuatu (Category).
Some maps of Vanuatu can be found in the Atlas of Vanuatu.
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2019-04-18T10:38:05Z
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https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Atlas_of_Vanuatu
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weebly
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I am a new MYP teacher who is struggling to understand the program. I am yet to undergo training. I specifically teach grades 9-10.
I came across your webpage, theMYPteacher, while trying to search for some assessment task samples for B and C. There are not a lot of MYP sites where I can get good samples for assessments A-D.
I would appreciate for any help you could extend to me with regard to this matter.
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2019-04-24T10:45:07Z
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http://themypteacher.weebly.com/home/domain-change
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Golden Records -- "King Kong"
Which brings us to this week's Old Time Radio showcase, as Halloween once again approaches and is the time for stories of the macabre, of the supernatural, of grisly murders, mayhem, and most of all--monsters. King Kong was conceived by Edgar Wallace (who died from undiagnosed diabetes in the early stages of drafting the film--1875-1932) and Merian C. Cooper (1893-1973) and was inspired by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's 1912 novel The Lost Island. The basic plot involves a filmmaker, Carl Denham, in search of an uncharted realm known as Skull Island somewhere in the Indian Ocean, a "lost island" where time has stopped and prehistoric dinosaurs and other large beasts still roam, and where the island's natives have built a gigantic wall as a defense against the mighty Kong, to which they offer periodic sacrifices to insure their safety. Before the long ocean voyage can begin, however, Denham (played by Robert Armstrong--1890-1973), walking the streets of New York City, spies a young out-of-work woman, Ann Darrow (played by Fay Wray--1907-2004), and convinces her to become part of his latest wildlife film, to join this "adventure of a lifetime" as the lead female interest in the film. Of course, things go awry when they reach their destination, and the hair-raising, deadly surprises they encounter as they explore Skull Island in search of Kong and battle its primitive monsters, make for a frightening film-going thrill-ride for youngsters of all ages. We all know how it ends, with Kong on display back in New York, and the tragic (now iconic) closing sequences where Kong meets his fate, and the sympathy the audience has grown to feel for the giant ape leads to the now-famous line of dialogue from Denham, "Oh, no, it wasn't the airplanes. It was Beauty killed the Beast."
As for this audio dramatization of King Kong, it is notable for several reasons, not least of which is that aside from the now lost 1933 serial adaptation--and to the best of my knowledge based on recent research--it is one of a kind, as no other radio version has ever been made, so this non-radio LP adaptation of the movie is all we have, and an excellent one it is (especially given its half-hour format). Cherney Berg (1922-2003) adapted King Kong for the Famous Monsters Speak series, as he did all of them. They were recorded and transcribed onto large vinyl discs (33 1/3 rpm long-playing records, the format used for music albums at the time, and even into the 1980s until the CD became the recording medium of choice). For those seeking copies of this LP, please note that many sellers are offering a specialty item as the "King Kong radio version 1938." Such a recording does not exist, so buyer beware. Below is an example of one of the Famous Monsters Speak albums.
So listen now to this rare audio dramatization of King Kong, one of the world's most enduring monsters, a superb rendering suitable for children of all ages, especially during the Halloween season.
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2019-04-23T20:26:48Z
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https://tangentonline.com/old-time-radio/3276-golden-records-qking-kongq?tmpl=component&print=1&page=
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Everybody's a cleric these days, especially at The New York Times, where Ross Cardinal Douthat and Bill Keller both took the opportunity this weekend to weigh in on the soon-to-be-vacant Chair Of Peter, and the upcoming process to fill it. As to the former, His Eminence took to the keyboard more in sorrow than anger, mourning the passingof the "Catholic Moment" in which John Paul II and Ronald Reagan came together in order to allow the Republicans to carry Pennsylvania and Illinois, in keeping with god's eternal plan.
Indeed, between Mitt Romney's comments about the mooching 47 percent and the White House's cynical decision to energize its base by picking fights over abortion and contraception, both parties spent 2012 effectively running against Catholic ideas about the common good.
You see, Romney's "47 percent" remark, which he actually said, and which the Republicans made a sufficiently loud sub-theme of their campaign that they dedicated an entire session of their national convention to Moochers And Looters Night is exactly the same as a "fight" the White House "picked" over contraception — I'd love to see what fight over abortion His Eminence is going on about here — in which the president already has compromised from his original position twice, by my count. Once again, I fear His Eminence is having visions.
Neuhaus was a nut who once hosted a symposium (literally) on sedition in his little magazine.
...in American politics, one that began in the 1980s after John Paul's ascension to the papacy and the migration of many Catholic "Reagan Democrats" into the Republican Party.
Yes, because the migrations of those particular Catholics occurred because of the mutual work on social justice done by John Paul II and Ronald Reagan, and not because Reagan played racial resentment and class warfare like a Stradivarius for his entire presidency and for cynical political purposes. Reagan crusaded for tax-exemptions for segregated Christian academies, but he really didn't do fk-all on abortion.
None of this chin-stroking for Keller, though. He's a can-do kind of pundit, and he'd like to see the Vatican get up off the mat and get its act in gear, by cracky.
The first major task facing Benedict's successor will be to get past the lingering horror story of predatory priests, to restore the trust of the faithful and the respect of the general public. The business world has much to teach about surviving scandal. Michael Useem, director of the Center for Leadership and Change Management at the Wharton School, told me the church might learn from the way Warren Buffett cleaned up Salomon Brothers after a bond-trading scandal and Ed Breen revived Tyco International after its chief executive went to prison for theft. The remedies were bold and effective. First, a purge of those responsible for the abuses and the cover-up. ("Managing out," as it is called in the corporate vernacular, has been a major weakness in the church, so it was heartening to hear the Vatican spokesman say that Benedict's retirement could "open the door for a potential wave of resignations.") Second, unstinting disclosure to investigators, waiving any privileges. Third, appointment of a compliance officer with impeccable credentials, ethical tenacity and conspicuous support at the top. At Tyco, the new leadership went on a high-profile road show of the company's outposts to drive home the reforms.
Because when I consider how to rehabilitate a major institution from its own self-inflicted moral and ethical (and criminal) carnage, the first place I go is to the American corporate class, especially if I can find two examples I can cite, one from 10 years ago and another one from 20, because there has been no visible evidence of increased criminality within the American corporate class in the years since.Show me a federal prison where some cardinals live in the same barracks as some executives from, say, Goldman Sachs, then we can talk.
Meanwhile, as the shock wears off, the conspiracy theories fly as to the real reasonswhy Benedict hung 'em up.Most of these are likely to grow legs like Usain Bolt's between now and the conclave, and especially if the conclave is followed by mass resignations inside the Vatican itself. People also are worried about the confusion that will be sown if the ex-pope remains in the Vatican with his successor. If he had a sense of humor, he'd move to Avignon.
In this way was aroused a widespread distrust of the papacy, which could not fail to result in consequences detrimental to the interior life of the Church.
The Holy Spirit, she works in mysterious ways, she does.
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2019-04-20T02:22:01Z
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https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a17514/your-daily-pope-gets-suggestions/
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RE: The tariff classification of a travel case from China.
In your letter dated September 24, 1997, you requested a classification ruling.
The submitted sample is a barrel shaped travel case constructed of synthetic fiber measuring approximately 6" X 6" in diameter. This case is similar to a train case designed to contain personal effects during travel. It features a two-pull zipper closure with heart charms one inch from the top. This case is carried by a self fabric strap and is decorated with fabric roses across the strap and around the top circumference. Your sample will be returned to you as requested.
The applicable subheading for the travel case will be 4202.12.8070, Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States Annotated (HTSUSA), which provides for vanity cases and similar containers, with outer surface of textile materials, other, other, of man-made fibers. The duty rate will be 19.3% ad valorem.
Items classifiable under 4202.12.8070, HTSUSA, fall within textile category designation 670. Based upon international textile trade agreements, products of China are subject to visa requirements and quota restraints.
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2019-04-26T01:44:43Z
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http://www.faqs.org/rulings/rulings1998NYC80058.html
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usatoday
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Brit Bennett's wise debut novel is set in a black community in California.
There is an old adage that says never compare your insides to other people’s outsides, a lesson that would serve the protagonists of The Mothers well.
Set in a black community in contemporary Southern California, Brit Bennett's debut novel (Riverhead, 288 pp., *** ½ out of four stars) focuses on the lives of three characters and their journey into adulthood: Nadia Turner, a high school senior still mourning her mother, who committed suicide; Luke Sheppard, the 21-year-old former football star and preacher's son Nadia falls for; and Aubrey, Nadia’s chaste best friend.
And it focuses on a secret — an unplanned pregnancy and how an ensuing cover-up impacts the characters' lives.
The book opens with "the Mothers lamenting" the secret. These faceless and nameless church elders act as a speculative Greek chorus, reappearing throughout the book, voicing exasperation as well as expectations and opinions. Thus the reader is given an intimate look at the two worlds the protagonists must navigate, the world they live in and the world others, in this case the Mothers, ascribe to them.
Bennett’s witty and worldly prose belies her age of 26 as she brings a strong voice to her wide range of characters, from the youthful protagonists to the church elders. Her storytelling does what all truly good fiction does: it draws you in and, on a universal level, connects with you and makes you think. We may not identify with Nadia, Luke and Aubrey at first, but we find ourselves relating to them. Their emotions and burdens speak to us.
There is a commonality to how we all live our lives and it shines through in Bennett’s writing. We are our past acts and secrets, but we are also what others perceive us to be. The Mothers is a thought-provoking novel that will resonate long after it is read.
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2019-04-20T15:14:08Z
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https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/books/2016/10/29/the-mothers-brit-bennett-book-review/92743192/
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boards2go
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We had inpatient patient and while the consultant is doing private practice during his admin session, he asked a senior SAS to see his inpatient!?!?!?
They know to cover their tracks?!
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2019-04-22T18:49:51Z
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https://www.boards2go.com/boards/board.cgi?action=read&id=1536129540.7744&user=chungchua
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and confident in what ever I plan to do.
Wild Fact About Me WOW..I'm married to a Omega Man.
My Philosophy Life can be beautiful, when your dreams come true.
What Gives Me Hope The love that my family gives me.
If I were Mayor, I'd make the world a better place by That we all can get along with one another, eliminate the hate and anger.
What/who changed my life and why book-the 5 people you meet in heaven,movie- my sisters keeper,person my dad.because he fought his illness to the end and never hassle or blame anyone or ask why me.
Quotation The only way to find rainbows is to look within your heart,only way to live fairy tales is through the imagination and power of your mind.
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2019-04-21T14:23:37Z
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https://www.care2.com/c2c/people/profile.html?pid=874020264
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Will This New Corning Tech Change the Way You Drive?
The glassmaker is previewing new Gorilla Glass applications in automotive technology. Will this grow the company's top line anytime soon?
Glassmaker Corning (NYSE: GLW) is known best for making the lightweight, shatterproof Gorilla Glass for smartphone and tablet touchscreens. Most of the company's profits, though, come from sales of TV screens. But at the Paris Auto Show, the company displayed (pardon the pun) a new automotive application for its glass -- and not the one you might think.
Corning makes touchscreens for a number of products -- which may soon include vehicles. Image source: Getty Images.
Corning has long been experimenting with using its ultrathin, shatter-resistant, flexible Gorilla Glass as part of a car's windshield. The result has been a windshield that is 25% to 50% thinner and 30% lighter, contributing to fuel economy and -- by lowering the car's center of gravity -- handling. It's also more shatterproof and could even result eventually in windshields with display technology, meaning that warnings and gauges could soon be projected onto the bottom or top of the windshield, reducing the need for drivers to look down at the dashboard while driving.
In January, Corning announced a joint venture with automotive glassmaker Saint-Gobain Sekurit to develop, manufacture, and sell such lightweight auto glass. Already, Ford (NYSE:F) has announced that it will use Gorilla Glass for "multiple glazing applications" on its Ford GT, including in the windshield and as a rear engine cover to reduce engine noise. Ford also conducted a joint study with Corning in April that showed the advantages of using Gorilla Glass as a windshield glaze. Ford has made significant investments in lightweight vehicle technologies, including changing out parts made of steel for those made with lighter-weight carbon fiber.
While the current consumer-electronics market for Gorilla Glass is less than 1 billion square feet per year, the total automotive glass market is 5.5 billion square feet per year. According to Forbes, capturing just 5% of that market could result in specialty materials segment revenue increases of 25% for Corning. But the biggest innovation from Corning could come not outside the car, but inside it.
Although a car's windshield is the obvious place Corning's glass could have an impact, the company isn't just stopping there. The company hopes that, in an increasingly connected world, cars will also utilize its glass inside the cabin.
On the company's third-quarter earnings call, CEO Wendell Weeks said he anticipated that use of glass in auto interiors would "dramatically increase" as designers of connected and autonomous vehicles began incorporating touchscreens into their vehicle designs. Weeks thinks that Gorilla Glass, because of its ability to allow for cost-effective curved glass and screen designs, offers "a unique path" and "a great new opportunity."
At the Paris Auto Show in early October, such curved Gorilla Glass center consoles were on display inside a Renault Trezor concept car and also at the booth of automotive technology company Faurecia. Faurecia in particular hopes to transform the traditional automotive cockpit into "an adaptable interior with additional retractable tablets and screens for autonomous driving mode and intuitive control of functions such as ambient lighting, ventilation, seat massage, and active screens," according to a company press release. Said screens were developed in partnership with Corning.
However, it's a big leap from a concept car to an actual mass-produced and mass-marketed vehicle, which is the only way Corning's automotive cabin products will scale to create significant revenue for Corning and its investors. Such a transformation may have to wait until autonomous vehicles hit roadways en masse (because what's the point of installing an interactive cockpit touchscreen if the driver isn't supposed to be looking at it?). And the autonomous-vehicle revolution could be right around the corner or decades away, depending on whom you ask.
The company has been vague about when it expects its automotive investments to pay off. Regarding automotive glass, Forbes reported in 2014 that the company believed it would take "three or four years" to realize any significant revenue from automotive Gorilla Glass. In the past, Corning has also stated that it anticipated $1 billion in automotive revenue by 2020, the year by which the Ford GT is set to be available.
We'll get revenues in both areas, right, and are already experiencing that. How big it will be? That we just don't know yet.
And that's really the takeaway for investors. The new automotive technology is exciting, no doubt, and seems likely to result in increased revenue once the technology is adopted. But how much revenue will result and when it will begin flowing is anyone's guess.
For now, Corning's automotive dreams should make investors optimistic that the company will someday no longer be a one-trick pony when it comes to turning a profit. But in the short term, investors can do little more than wait -- and hope.
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2019-04-20T08:13:30Z
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https://www.fool.com/investing/2016/11/01/will-this-new-corning-tech-change-the-way-you-driv.aspx
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Down from the broken pipe.
Turning the dark road white.
Where it’s supposed to go.
Watch the icy torrent flow.
What says the city when we call?
They’ll send the salt trucks the time is right.
That ice is no more than wet.
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2019-04-21T09:09:03Z
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https://jasini.wordpress.com/2014/02/04/ode-to-a-broken-water-main/
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The UTSA College of Sciences (COS) will host the 2013 COS Research Conference from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., on Friday, Oct. 18 in the University Center on the UTSA Main Campus. The research conference will feature nearly 600 participants from universities across South Texas.
Five UTSA scholars (Drs. Karl Klose, Doug Frantz, Kristina Durante, Tom Tunstall, and Martha Atkins) will be among the 19 speakers on the agenda at this year's TEDx San Antonio conference, "Minds Wide Open." The conference will be 10 a.m.-6 p.m., Saturday, Oct. 12 at Rackspace Global Headquarters on Walzem Road in San Antonio.
The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) will host an expo to showcase its graduate and undergraduate student research and innovation. The 2013 Student Research Expo will be 11:30 a.m.-5 p.m., Thursday, Sept.19 in the H-E-B University Center Ballroom (1.104) at the UTSA Main Campus.
The Water Institute of Texas (WIT) will bring local, state and national experts to UTSA in October to share key insight into two important themes within Texas’ emerging water issues: long-term water availability and the water regulatory environment.
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2019-04-23T02:03:04Z
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http://research.utsa.edu/category/research-news/symposiums-conferences/page/5/
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