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A ‘Partnership for Victory’ between the University of Louisiana at Lafayette and Cox Communications has created the largest sponsorship to Ragin’ Cajuns athletics in history.
In recent months, Cox Communications pledged $2 million to UL Lafayette athletics and agreed to a 10-year partnership with the Ragin’ Cajuns.
Cox Communications will be recognized for its commitment to athletics during halftime ceremonies Saturday at Cajun Field. This is the first home football game for the Ragin’ Cajuns this season.
In the agreement, the UL Lafayette Athletic Department building on Reinhardt Drive will officially be named the Cox Communications Athletic Center and the company will have first right-of-refusal on future naming opportunities.
Also, Cox will have a prominent presence on the official Ragin’ Cajuns athletic website – www.ragincajuns.com – and on the football stadium scoreboard.
“ The $2 million pledge to Ragin’ Cajuns athletics has created a ‘Partnership for Victory’ which marks a milestone for Cox and the Lafayette community. The fact that both Cox and UL Lafayette are national leaders in technology makes this a perfect partnership. Athletics provides the window through which the world can see the university and all it has to offer,” said Jacqui Vines, Cox Communications vice president and region manager for Greater Lafayette.
Other aspects of the partnership will bring fiber connectivity to some on-campus and regional locations like the New Iberia Research Center, the Paul and Lulu Hilliard University Art Museum and the UL Lafayette Foundation and Alumni offices.
Vines said Cox believes in investing in the regional economy of Acadiana and sees UL Lafayette as a major driver of the current and future success of the region.
Through its nationwide, robust fiber network, Cox brings world-class technology, including the most advanced voice, video and data products on the market, to the Acadiana community.
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2019-04-24T08:27:14Z
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http://anisette.ucs.louisiana.edu/Advancement/PRNS/news/2006/881.shtml
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macalester
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Summer research offers an important chance to gain real-world experience in the field. Macalester professors work to prepare students for these opportunities and offer courses that teach crucial introductory skills. In my biology courses, that included learning to set up polymerase chain reactions, pipetting, experimental design setup, and literature analysis.
These techniques were valuable during my summer internship at the Johns Hopkins Medical Institute, where I worked in the lab of Dr. Mark Anderson, a Macalester alumnus. I found the internship through the Olin-Rice Hub, a service dedicated to connecting Macalester students with resources and learning opportunities. Each year, they offer one student from Macalester the opportunity to work in Dr. Anderson’s lab for 10 weeks.
Last summer, I worked with Dr. Anderson to study a protein called CaMKII. Although it’s naturally found in heart tissue, the overexpression of this protein is directly correlated with an increase in heart failure. His lab is interested in how CaMKII enters the mitochondria of heart cells, what role it might play in causing heart failure, and eventually how to target it as a potential treatment. We used a variety of advanced techniques in our research, including western blot analysis and Green Fluorescent Protein tagging, which allowed us to test whether CaMKII enters the mitochondria, and then to track its movement.
Because cardiovascular disease is currently the leading cause of death in the U.S., by investigating how CaMKII impacts the disease through its accumulation and over-expression, my research is part of an ongoing investigation into heart failure and an effort to save lives.
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2019-04-26T08:51:33Z
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https://www.macalester.edu/news/2019/02/treating-heart-disease/
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wikipedia
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defends a friendly piece through an enemy piece.
Position arising from Black Knights' Tango: Black's rook X-rays White's pawn on e4.
Position after 21...Bh4+ 22.Kf1; after 22...f5, Black's rook on f8 X-rays White's king on f1.
The second usage is seen in the position at left (top on mobile), which arises from the Black Knights' Tango opening after 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 Nc6 3.Nf3 e6 4.a3 d6 5.Nc3 g6!? 6.e4 Bg7 7.Be2 0-0 8.0-0 Re8 9.Be3 e5 10.d5 Nd4! Authors Richard Palliser and Georgi Orlov, in their respective books on that opening, both note that Black's rook on e8 "X-rays" White's e-pawn through Black's own pawn on e5. If 11.Nxd4 exd4 12.Bxd4 Nxe4 13.Nxe4 Rxe4. The identical position is reached, except that White has not played a2–a3, in the King's Indian Defense after 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.e4 d6 5.Nf3 0-0 6. Be2 e5 7.0-0 Nc6 8.Be3 Re8 9.d5 Nd4!
Of the position at right (bottom on mobile), arising from the Sveshnikov Variation of the Sicilian Defense, Atanas Kolev and Trajko Nedev observe, "On f1 the king is X-rayed by the f8-rook". They analyze the possible continuation 22...f5 23.exf5 Bxf5 24.Nxf5 Rxf5 25.Qg4 Bg5 (exploiting the pin along the f-file) 26.Kg2? Bxf4 27.Nxf4 Rg5 28.Nxg6+ Kg7 and White resigned in Delchev–Kotanjian, Kusadasi 2006.
Krasenkow–Seirawan, position after 23...Qd8–h4!: the black queen X-rays White's pawn on d4.
Rauzer–Botvinnik: Cafferty and Taimanov suggest 15.Qf2, removing the queen from the X-ray of Black's rook.
The position at left (top on mobile) arose after 23...Qd8–h4! in Krasenkow–Seirawan, 34th Chess Olympiad, Istanbul 2000. Michael Rohde writes of Seirawan's 23rd move, "Holding things up through an x-ray on the pawn on d4." Black would respond to either 24.e5 or 24.exd5 with 24...Qxd4+.
Gerald Abrahams alludes to the X-ray concept, without using that term, when he cites the aphorism, "Put your rook on the line of his queen, no matter how many other pieces intervene." He writes, "That doggerel jingle incorporates some experience". A future world champion played in that manner in Rauzer–Botvinnik, USSR Championship 1933. Two moves before the position at right (or bottom) arose, Botvinnik had played 13...Rfd8, X-raying the white queen through the pawn on d6. Now Bernard Cafferty and Mark Taimanov suggest "15.Qf2 to get away from the 'X-ray' attack from the d8 rook". Instead, the game continued 15.Rac1 e5! 16.b3 d5!!, exploiting the queen's position on the same file as the rook and leading to a win for Botvinnik 13 moves later.
Petrosian–Ree, position after 8.Qd1–b3; the queen X-rays Black's pawn on b7.
Dorfman–Tseshkovsky: Black, on move, exploits his queen's X-ray of White's king along the b8–h2 diagonal.
The position at left (or top) arose from the English Opening in the famous miniature Petrosian–Ree, Wijk aan Zee 1971 after 1.c4 e5 2.Nc3 Nf6 3.Nf3 Nc6 4.g3 Bb4 5.Nd5 Nxd5 6.cxd5 e4?? 7.dxc6 exf3 8.Qb3! Author Iakov Neishtadt cites the game as an example of an "X-ray". Black resigned because the white queen's X-ray of his pawn on b7, through Black's bishop on b4, wins a piece after, e.g., 8...a5 (or 8...Qe7) 9.a3 Bc5 10.cxb7.
The above examples all involve a latent attack along a file or rank. A latent attack along a diagonal has also been called an X-ray. The position at right arose in Dorfman–Tseshkovsky, 46th USSR Championship Tbilisi 1978. Cafferty and Taimanov write, "Black can use the 'X-ray' attack of his queen on the enemy king to break up the white bastions". Black exploited the X-ray along the b8–h2 diagonal and won quickly after 48...g5! 49.hxg5 h4! with a decisive attack. The game concluded 50.g6 Kxg6 51.Qa6+ Kg5 52.gxh4+ Kxf4 53.Qc4+ Ke3+ 54.Kh3 Kf2+ 55.Qxb3 Nxg5+! and White resigned in light of 56.hxg5 Qh8#.
White wins with the X-ray 1.Qxd8+!
White wins a pawn with the X-ray 1.Nxb7!
The third usage is given by the American master and writer Bruce Pandolfini, who states that one usage of "X-Ray" is "a skewer defense along a rank, file, or diagonal" that "protects a friendly man through an enemy man in the middle along the same line of power". Jeremy Silman uses the term in the same way, illustrating "X-ray" with the two diagrams at left and right (top and bottom). In the diagram at left (top), White wins with the X-ray 1.Qxd8+! followed by 1...Rxd8 2.Rxd8+ (note how White's rook defended his queen through the black rook on d5) Qxd8 3.Rxd8# or 1...Qxd8 2.Rxd5 Qf8 3.Rd8 and wins. In the diagram at right (bottom), White wins a pawn with 1.Nxb7!, when White's bishop on f3 defends the white knight on b7 through Black's bishop on d5. Silman states that the X-ray "takes advantage of pieces that appear to be adequately defended but really aren't".
Fischer–Bisguier (variation): White defends with the X-ray 28.Qxg5.
Euwe–Loman: White forced mate with the X-ray 17.Qh8+!
Raymond Keene also uses the term in this way in analyzing Fischer–Bisguier, New York 1957. Discussing a possible variation that could have arisen in that game (see position at left(top)), Keene writes that 28.Qxg5 (when the white queen defends against 28...Qxg2# through Black's queen on g4) "defends the mate—an 'X-ray motif', as Fischer once described it".
In Euwe–Loman, Rotterdam 1923 (diagram at right (or bottom)), White forced mate with 17.Qh8+! Bxh8 18.Rxh8#. Neishtadt writes of 17.Qh8+, "The X-ray! The bishop at b2 attacks the square h8 'through' the enemy bishop."
^ Edward R. Brace, An Illustrated Dictionary of Chess, David McKay, 1977, p. 310. ISBN 0-679-50814-7.
^ Edward Winter, Chess Note 4245. Retrieved on 2009-03-17.
^ Byrne J. Horton, Dictionary of Modern Chess, Philosophical Library, 1959, p. 220.
^ Richard Palliser, Tango! A Dynamic Answer to 1 d4, Everyman Chess, 2005, p. 177 (referring to "The e-file X-ray"). ISBN 1-85744-388-8.
^ Georgi Orlov, The Black Knights' Tango, Batsford, 1998, pp. 116–17 ("The idea of this mysterious rook move [8...Re8] is to prepare ...e6–e5 followed by ...Nd4! In that case the rook 'x-rays' the e4 pawn."). ISBN 0-7134-8349-0.
^ Bobby Fischer, My 60 Memorable Games, Faber and Faber, 1969, pp. 351–52. ISBN 0-571-09987-4.
^ Atanas Kolev and Trajko Nedev, The Easiest Sicilian, Chess Stars, Bulgaria, 2008, p. 98. ISBN 978-954-8782-66-1.
^ Michael Rohde, "Game of the Month", Chess Life, March 2001, p. 15.
^ Gerald Abrahams, Technique in Chess, Dover Publications, 1973, p. 18. ISBN 0-486-22953-X.
^ Bernard Cafferty and Mark Taimanov, The Soviet Championships, Cadogan Chess Books, 1998, p. 36. ISBN 1-85744-201-6.
^ Cafferty & Taimanov, pp. 36–37.
^ Rauzer–Botvinnik, USSR Championship 1933. ChessGames.com. Retrieved on 2009-05-29.
^ Petrosian–Ree, Wijk aan Zee 1971. ChessGames.com. Retrieved on 2009-04-04.
^ Iakov Neishtadt, Catastrophe in the Opening, Pergamon Press, 1980, pp. 255, 266. ISBN 0-08-024097-6.
^ a b Cafferty & Taimanov, p. 180.
^ Chess Informant, Volume 27, Beograd, 1979, pp. 55–56.
^ Bruce Pandolfini, Chess Openings: Traps and Zaps, Fireside Chess Library, 1989, p. 232. ISBN 0-671-65690-2.
^ Jeremy Silman, The Complete Book of Chess Strategy: Grandmaster Techniques from A to Z, Siles Press, 1998, pp. 132–33. ISBN 1-890085-01-4.
^ Silman 1998, p. 132.
^ Fischer–Bisguier, U.S. Championship 1957. ChessGames.com. Retrieved on 2009-05-26.
^ Raymond Keene in E. G. Winter (editor), World Chess Champions, Pergamon Press, 1981, p. 114. ISBN 0-08-024094-1.
^ Euwe–Loman, Rotterdam 1923. ChessGames.com. Retrieved on 2010-05-01.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-ray_(chess)
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yahoo
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0%70°53°Night - Partly cloudy. Winds E at 9 to 11 mph (14.5 to 17.7 kph). The overnight low will be 55 °F (12.8 °C).Breezy with a high of 70 °F (21.1 °C). Winds variable at 8 to 16 mph (12.9 to 25.7 kph).
Today - Breezy with a high of 70 °F (21.1 °C). Winds variable at 8 to 16 mph (12.9 to 25.7 kph).
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2019-04-22T23:36:36Z
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https://www.yahoo.com/news/weather/united-kingdom/england/standish-court-golf-course-91860163
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Reference
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worldcat
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Louisa's tenderness to the little birds, in winter. (Fourth series--no. 12.).
Moses G Atwood; Berquin, M.
Concord [N.H.]: : Published by M.G. Atwood., 1834.
Fourth series (M.G. Atwood), no. 12.
Find more information about: Moses G Atwood Berquin, M.
An adaptation and translation of one of the tales in Arnaud Berquin's L'ami des enfants. Cf. Rosenbach, A.S.W. Children's books. Sometimes published as: Louisa and the little birds.
Wrapper title varies: Louisa's tenderness to birds. At head of wrapper title: 12.
16 p. : ill. ; 11 cm.
Louisa and the little birds.
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2019-04-21T00:30:32Z
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https://www.worldcat.org/title/louisas-tenderness-to-the-little-birds-in-winter-fourth-series-no-12/oclc/82974120?amp;referer=brief_results
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Arts
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Kids
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fanpop
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1,the detik statement is false. 2,the 1st statment is true. Which statement is true?
Ahhh! Debs, youre making my brain hurt!
debs are you trying to kill me with einstein thinking?
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2019-04-21T07:18:46Z
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http://id.fanpop.com/clubs/picks/links/958624/title/fairly-random-pick-no-one-seems-interested
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Arts
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Reference
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utk
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The templates’ default CSS file includes everything you need to change the look and feel of your site.
Most site-wide modifications can be made simply by adding a class to the body.
The 2015 templates incorporate a variety of color schemes that can be “switched on” by designers. Many of the identity colors are available. These schemes modify the background color of the site as well as various elements within the page.
Simply add the color class to the <body>.
Likewise, you can change the style of typography on your site by adjusting the body class.
The university’s primary typeface is Gotham. Gotham is a licensed font and there is a cost associated with using it on your website. Please contact the UT Web Team for information on activating it for your site. Otherwise, it is perfectly acceptable to use the standard font stacks that are specified in the template CSS.
There are two styles for desktop navigation: the flyout panel and the sideways dropdown. This too is adjusted by adding classes to the <body> element.
As hard as we try to plan for every reasonable contingency, there are times when you simply need to write your own styles for a custom application or interface. If you need to customize the templates, please create a custom.css file and add all of your custom styles and style overrides to it.
Creating and coding your own styles requires a particular skill set that is beyond the scope of this document. However, if you are interested in learning, UT offers free access to Lynda.com to anyone on campus with a Net ID.
We strongly recommend that you do not overwrite or modify the default style.css file that is included with the templates, as we will need to make periodic updates to that document.
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2019-04-24T00:22:06Z
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https://brand.utk.edu/websites/using-html-web-templates/look-feel/
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Arts
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Reference
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wordpress
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Pure Spirit. Hear every word. Take what resonates.
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2019-04-19T12:48:14Z
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https://elxroflife.wordpress.com/2016/01/
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Arts
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Reference
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snd
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We talked with C. Marshall Matlock, Newhouse School of Public Communications competition & judging director and SND print competition director, about the state of readiness heading into this weekend’s Best of News Design™ competition at Syracuse University. The first entries are already laid out and ready for the judges.
Matlock has been involved with the competition for 21 years now, all of them hosted at the Newhouse School.
Q: Each year you get two big waves of entries arriving at Syracuse -– the domestic US deadline followed by the international deadline a week later. Then you have to sort through all the entries, verify payment of entry fees and correct categories and so on -– all of this BEFORE the first judge even arrives on campus. How’s the audit going so far?
We are officially done with the audit and most pages have been separated into categories and subcategories. Because of the amount of time we give publications to prepare entries we have decreased the amount of time the entry auditors have in getting everything ready for the judging. We always work right up to the wire and this competition is no different.
Q: How many total entries did you receive this year?
Shamus [Walker, SND audit coordinator] thinks it’s over 10,100 entries but we will not know for sure until the “big board” [a giant tally board that tracks the entries for the entire competition] is assembled, and that will not happen until Friday if we are lucky.
Q: Did you get entries from any countries that had not entered previous competitions?
Q: Aside from the inclusion of news magazines, do you anticipate any key differences or changes in this year’s competition?
We will have four judging teams rather than five for the general judging. We can do that because we have fewer entries today than we did two or more years ago. The quality of the judging should remain the same and that’s what we are most interested in — maintaining a high overall quality of judging.
Q: I know weather has played a role in the competition weekend in the past, do you have any concerns about the storms predicted Friday and into the weekend across the US?
We’ve only had three bad arrival days due to the weather in the past 20 years. In all three cases judges made it to Syracuse on the day they were supposed to arrive, but one year many missed the opening reception and dinner. The very worst day – the kind that had the Weather Channels crew reporting from the front of the hotel we stay in – there was a break in the weather and only one judge did not make it in on the opening Friday. That judge finally made it on Saturday and we carried on. We had one of the conflict judges fill in for him until he arrived. Another time we had an ice storm (as did much of the east coast). Everyone made it in but many didn’t make it in time for the opening reception and dinner. If we had the judging a week or so earlier we would have found temperatures in the upper 30s in some areas. We never try to predict the weather but we do try to compensate for it. That seems to work well.
Q: What are you most excited by at this year’s competition? Any prediction on how things will go?
As the director I’m excited that SND made its income budget and hopefully will continue to do well. While we have had a decrease in entries from two years ago, last year and this year we have roughly the same number of entries (remembering that we’ve added non-newspaper magazines this year). When we announced we’d be including magazines some designers became concerned because they didn’t think newsprint could compete with the paper that most magazines are on. I do not see that being a problem. Most magazines will be judged with other magazines, not newspapers. For the categories that do complete with newspapers the judges will be looking for quality no matter what the quality is printed on.
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2019-04-23T14:10:41Z
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https://www.snd.org/2010/02/best-of-news-design%E2%84%A2-set-to-begin-in-one-day/
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Business
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wordpress
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Just pick up the phone and dial. Just pick up the phone and dial. It’s not that hard. Really. The phone is an inanimate object and the person on the other end will not be able to bite your head off. Not even close.
As you can see, I’m having a hard time picking up the phone to make a particular call. And now I’m realizing that it is blocking my energy from doing other things that I want to. My mind is focusing on this one thing that I’m rather dreading.
ENOUGH!!!!! Can’t you hear my foot stamping on the floor?
Tonight I WILL make the call. I’ve got nothing to lose and everything to gain. Wish me luck.
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2019-04-25T00:43:22Z
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https://2011itsallaboutthelittlethings.wordpress.com/2012/01/16/blocked-energy/
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Arts
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dvdtalk
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Another example of how tasers are not a "safe" or "nonlethal" weapon.
OTTAWA, Nov. 15 - A video recording showing an emotionally wrought immigrant dying after being hit with a police Taser at an airport last month has touched off a fierce debate in Canada on police actions in the case and the rules governing use of Tasers.
The 10 minute recording, which was broadcast Wednesday night, was made last month by another passenger and initially seized by police. It shows a Polish immigrant, Robert Dziekanski, being hit just 46 seconds after four members of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police arrived to subdue him at the airport in Vancouver, British Columbia. It also supports accounts from eyewitnesses who said that the police officers did not appear to be in danger when the weapon was fired at least twice.
Mr. Dziekanski, a 40-year-old construction worker, had arrived in Vancouver to begin a new life with his mother. After a 10 hour delay caused by immigration processing, Mr. Dziekanski became upset when he could not find his mother, who had returned home.
Unable to speak English, Mr. Dziekanski became distressed and began shouting in Polish, moving furniture around, shoving equipment off a desk in an arrival area and, at one point, throwing a chair. His actions soon attracted the attention of other passengers and security officials.
When airport security officials first appear, passengers can be heard shouting to them that Mr. Dziekanski did not understand English. One woman, who the tape shows attempting to calm Mr. Dziekanski at one point, suggests that a Russian interpreter be summoned to help the confused man.
Moments later, four members of the mounted police arrive in the waiting area wearing bullet proof vests. Mr. Dziekanski shouted “Policja, Policja, Policja!” before walking away with his arms raised in the air. There was a brief conversation followed by a loud sound, apparently a Taser shot, and Mr. Dziekanski fell to the ground screaming in pain.
The recording captured what appeared to be a second Taser shot as three officers piled onto Mr. Dziekanski to subdue him. One minute and eight seconds after the police arrive, Mr. Dziekanski appeared to have stopped moving, and the recording ended a short time later.
An autopsy showed no evidence of alcohol or drugs in his system but was unable to determine a cause of death.
When the police seized the recording at the airport from Paul Pritchard, who was returning home to Victoria, British Columbia, they characterized it as an important piece of evidence. Mr. Pritchard recovered the tape after threatening legal action. Shortly before he released it to the news media late Wednesday, a police spokesman minimized its significance.
“It’s just one piece of evidence, one person’s view,” Cpl. Dale Carr told a news conference in Vancouver.
A coroner’s inquest, which will not find legal fault, has been called into the case. Some police critics are calling for criminal charges against the police officers.
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2019-04-19T04:15:47Z
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https://forum.dvdtalk.com/religion-politics-world-events/517437-canadian-police-taser-man-death.html
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savannahnow
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Let’s talk less about keeping refugees out of our country.
Let’s talk more about our shared humanity with refugees, whether the refugees are across oceans or right here in Savannah.
The upcoming Refugee Film Festival in Savannah aims to spark such conversations.
The free festival takes place June 19 at the GSU Armstrong Campus and is organized by Mountainfilm on Tour Savannah, Georgia Southern University and Lutheran Services of Georgia.
“The hope is that attendees will leave this event with a greater appreciation for the challenges faced by refugees around the world and a sense of the urgency and enormity of the refugee crisis,’’ said Cecilia Johnson, Refugee AmeriCorps member with LSG.
The film festival coincides with World Refugee Day, designated by the United Nations as an expression of solidarity with people who have been uprooted from their homes by war or persecution, said Pete Hoffman, director of military and local government affairs at GSU.
“Mountainfilm on Tour Savannah is proud to join with Lutheran Services of Georgia in highlighting the great work they do while furthering our mission of educating and inspiring audiences to create a better world through the power of film,’’ Hoffman said.
The film festival is happening at a time when the number of refugees resettling in the United States is declining because of the White House administration’s travel ban.
In fiscal year 2018, America is on track to resettle 61 percent fewer refugees than from the previous year and the fewest since 1980, when the modern system of admissions was established, The Economist reported.
Chatham County is experiencing a similar decline in refugees.
In fiscal year 2016, LSG resettled 102 refugees in Chatham County. In fiscal year 2017, 77 resettled here. So far in fiscal year 2018 (Oct. 1 2017-Sept. 30. 2018), LSG has only resettled 20 refugees in the community, Johnson said.
“Far more refugees are resettled in the Atlanta area, but they have seen a similar downward trend in numbers,’’ Johnson said.
The LSG refugee resettlement program depends on the help of volunteers.
“There are so many ways community members can be involved — assisting in apartment set-up for new arrivals, tutoring refugee children at after-school and summer programs, helping refugees learn English, donating items or money, or being a mentor to a newly arrived family,’’ Johnson said.
• What is a refugee: A refugee has been forced to leave their home to escape persecution, war or violence. They often end up in refugee camps, where the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) identifies the most vulnerable cases (less than 1 percent of all refugees) to be referred to resettlement countries, such as the U.S. They come from all over the world, and represent all races and religions. They are fleeing the trauma of violence, political unrest and terrorism, and are seeking a safe and prosperous life for their families.
• What it takes for a refugee to come to the U.S.: After the UNHCR screens the refugee and refers them to the U.S., they are screened by eight different U.S. agencies, including the FBI and Department of Homeland Security. Then they are assigned to a non-government organization, such as LSG, for resettlement. They are given a loan by the International Organization for Migration for their flight over, which they must repay within five years.
• What refugees are given in the U.S.: LSG uses a small grant from the State Department and works with community partners to provide each family with an apartment and necessary supplies to meet their basic needs upon arrival. Government and community services are provided to help families get on their feet during their first few months, but the expectation of the program is that each family becomes financially self-sufficient within three to six months.
Contact Anne Hart at anne@southernmamas.com. Follow her on Instagram @southernmamas.
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2019-04-19T02:38:25Z
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https://www.savannahnow.com/entertainmentlife/20180615/hart-to-heart-film-fest-at-gsu-armstrong-to-spotlight-plight-of-refugees
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sjgames
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If the purpose of art is to hold the mirror up to nature, the world must be one freaky-deaky place . . . at least according to artist Elisabeth Buecher. Most of her work is done with the intention of sparking environmental discussions. Some of it, like Stepparquet, is actually a bit practical, while other items are outright disturbing. And the cherry on the sundae? A few pieces allow your shower to attack you. And no, we don't have GURPS stats for that. Yet.
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2019-04-26T03:15:54Z
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http://www.sjgames.com/ill/archive/May_15_2009/Illuminated_Site_of_the_Week_Art_Imitates_Lifeforms
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Need a reminder for when you should be tuning into WBLM to try and win $5000?
Are you ready for the party of the summer with Street Eats and Beats? Tickets are on sale now!
Street Eats and Beats is back for its sixth year where you can enjoy eats from local and visiting food trucks, custom drinks from Tito's Handmade Vodka, ice cold beer from Gritty McDuff's, wine, delicious food and great live music.
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2019-04-20T06:58:41Z
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https://wblm.com/author/seanmckenna/
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animecrave
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Slice-of-life story about a group of four girls on the school tennis team. They rarely play tennis.
Feudal Japan is attacked by beasts called 'Youi'. Ryuudou Yukiatsu, a 'floater' and an employee at a bath house has the power of Ayagami ("The power to find the words behind things") which can be used in fighting against the Youi. That's why the members of a Youi-fighting group Bansha Aratamesho, called the Ayashi, are looking for Yukiatsu - they want him to become an Ayashi as well. Yukiatsu runs into a woman and a son who are chased by a Youi and has to face the past he's been running away from.
Federation investigator Birdy chases the space criminal Geega through space to Earth, where he hides in the entertainment industry under a human disguise. Birdy goes undercover herself, posing as famous model “Arita Shion” that often uses a ‘space girl’ look. A male student, Senkawa, stumbles upon a fight between the two one night in an abandoned building only to be severed in half as he is used as a shield by Geega against Birdy. Birdy heals him from imminent death in some fashion- but Senkawas body, and life, are now changed and permanently linked to Birdy.
Shimogamo Yasabur� is a tanuki who is the third son of the Shimagamo family, who lives in Kyoto, along with humans, tanuki, and tengu. One day, Yasabur�'s father is eaten as a hot pot by human members of a group known as the "Friday Club". As Yasabur� takes care of his teacher, an old tengu, fights with other tanukis, and plays with a psychic human girl, Yasabur� approaches the truth about his father's death.
Mihama Academy is a prison-like school built to preserve fruit that has fallen too far from its tree. It is home to five female students who each have their reasons for enrolling in the academy and live their life idly within the walls of Mihama.
Based off of the original manga by Seimaru Amagi, and Fumiya Sato, The Files of Kindaichi Returns centers on the Hajime Kindaichi, grandson of the famous detective Kosuke Kindaichi. Though he usually appears to be a regular high school student, when a difficult case arises Hajime, along with his childhood friend Miyuki Nanase, police inspector Isamu Kenmochi, and rival Kengo Akechi, use their sharp deduction skills to solve each mystery.
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2019-04-23T00:06:37Z
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http://www.animecrave.com/index.php?page=multimedia/anime_fansubs&lett=&offset=930
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You and I have had this conversation in the past. I find it a fascinating subject (as do you) to consider. The notion of context, in my mind, is like the notion of truth - only valid at a specific point in time. Of course truth being subjective also by correlation requires that context is subjective.
However from a computational standpoint - I would have to separate context from truth, in that context is the raw descriptive attributes that make up "agreed upon surrounding information". There's a level of context (or a hierarchy of context) which breaks down even further: in relation to fight-or-flight as human instinct.
I think when processing data we should follow the wet-model, the neural model. Even though we may not know much about it (yet). The first is: fight-or-flight, running deterministic algorithms that determine fight-or-flight or relax type data sets may be the first level of filters. This of course has to be learned behavior over time, and of course the neural net or deterministic algorithms must be running consistently 24x7x365 absorbing input.
Beyond that, establishing context is very similar to the sleeping process - sorting, integrating, and re-arranging interpretation of all the sensory input we've received. Data is the same way, but now we must grapple with the following: FORM AND FUNCTION must be "stuck back together" in order to find true meaning or in order to use true data correlation and relevancy weightings. As you and I have said before: the brain may be made up of two types of basic functions: short-term, and long term memory, but the structure underneath is the same (synapses, dendrites, neurons, etc..) And the functions break down into immediate, versus nightly processing.
Following the natural world models might lead us to some interesting conclusions.
Finally got round to reading your postings. This is to pick up your assertion about data and context.
Recently, we have been thinking about decision-making based on accumulated experience and knowledge. In the process of thinking about knowledge management as a way to amass and distribute the potential knowledge in an organisation, we concluded that one key challenge of trying to record knowledge is that a piece of knowledge is actually is understood only in a particular context. In other words, a piece of data, which is understood as knowledge in a particular context, could be understood differently in a different context. And for the purposes of knowledge management, this poses a serious challenge as one cannot possibly list down all possible and future contexts.
Take another related example at hand. With Gmail, I am metagging my emails and some mails have more than 5 metatags (like "technology watch", "friends", "concepts", "ideas" etc). But yet now and then I would add new tags to old emails as I see new contexts to the old email, which can be considered a "data point".
My first thoughts on this are that creativity has been shown to jump with sleep: creative, efficient solutions to processes that could be done in an otherwise ungainly but straightforward pedantic fashion.
Jeff's idea of off-line processing being the time for re-contextualization is the same as my idea of the function for REM sleep (or REM-sleep associated processing) as the time to do the sometimes difficult process of blending new information into old, especially as it requires remodeling the old structure to incorporate new knowledge. Without the ability to erase or minimize old and new erroneous contextual tags, as Jeff puts it, the system would soon bog down with too many tags, or "more contexts than there are data points", as Jeff's colleague Jimmy Khoo wrote. The idea of interleaving new with old information as being a function for sleep is an idea of Bruce McNaughton, whose ideas themselves are influenced by David Marr.
Many studies show that sleep is important for learning complex associative things (making complex associations between items). Francis Crick and his colleague published a purely theoretical Science paper raising the possibility that sleep was for erasing all that unimportant information that passes into our brains each day.
My research shows both are true. The hippocampus, the assembly factory for complex associative memory and responsible for consolidating those memories to the neocortex in a parallel, distributed fashion, reactivates during REM sleep in a manner consistent both with strengthening newly acquired, as yet unconsolidated memories, and with erasing memories that have already been consolidated. Thus REM sleep could serve to recycle unnecessary synapses encoding what has become erroneous information all over the brain. I have yet to look at other structures. However some research in the field of synaptic plasticity during development strongly suggests that REM may be the time for pruning away the unused tags. My theory is that the unique conditions of this state make it the only time such pruning for remodeling normally takes place, during development and on to the end of life.
One final thought. I'm not sure that normally learning animals have much sequence neutral processing. Sequence may not be an important tag, but in some contexts it is good to have the order in which it was learned stored somewhere for reference. However, that said, much of what we know and do, especially the "how" of it all, needs no sequence tag. People with no hippocampus (bilateral lesion due to mishap) cannot ever remember having learned how to do something after their hippocampal loss (one famous ex. is learning how to build the Tower of Hanoi as fast as an intact person without ever remembering having seen the game before), but nevertheless their procedural learning is normal. Sleep may serve a role here, too, (especially sleep spindles of stage 2) but it is only just now starting to be uncovered.
"Sleep researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health believe it is more evidence for their theory of "synaptic homeostasis." This is the idea that synapses grow stronger when we're awake as we learn and adapt to an ever-changing the environment, that sleep refreshes the brain by bringing synapses back to a lower level of strength. This is important because larger synapses consume a lot of energy, occupy more space and require more supplies, including the proteins examined in this study."
Even I am always reading your posts it's been a long time without posting a comment.
You are representing a world of systems prepared for Helen Nissenbaum idea of context respect when managing privacy. Idea that has been included in the Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights.
So if we are able to retain context linked to customer consent for their data treatment and flows, then Helen Nissenbaum's idea is achievable in a much consistent way.
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2019-04-23T08:48:56Z
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https://jeffjonas.typepad.com/jeff_jonas/2006/08/accumulating_co.html
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Reference
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wired
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One of the quieter niches of the electronic publishing business deals with providing downloads of audio books, magazines and newspapers.
Getting people to recognize the PC as a source of valuable content is still an effort, but Audible hopes to change that with a viral marketing campaign that asks its customers to help spread the word.
Audible's on-demand audio files include top national newspapers and magazines, and both classic and best-selling novels. They offer more than 32,000 hours of audio programs and 165 content partners.
Audible hopes the campaign, appropriately called Spread the Word, will increase its customer base by 60,000 to 90,000 users.
To achieve this goal, Audible has sent marketing kits to about 30,000 of its most dedicated customers. In return for their customers' free marketing efforts, Audible will give away free audio files and $5,000 worth of tech prizes.
Spread the Words builds on the customer-referral volume the company has experienced informally.
"Our current customers have already played an essential role in our rapid growth, which has almost tripled our customer base within a year," said Donald Katz, CEO of Audible, Inc.
Customers who spread the word about Audible deserve to be rewarded, Katz said. In fact the kernel of the Spread the Words idea came from a customer and shareholder.
__The Hitchhiker on Hard Drive: __The last volume of Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker series has been recovered from the recently deceased author's hard drive.
The Sunday Telegraph in London reported that Adams' widow, Jane Belson, and personal assistant, Sophie Astin, found numerous versions of A Salmon of a Doubt, the sixth installment in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
Now comes the hard part: editing the manuscript without the author's input. The new book is scheduled to be released in May, on the first anniversary of Adams' death.
"There were so many different versions of the novel," said Ed Victor, Adams' literay agent. "He would take it and then revise it repeatedly so there were many files.... As soon as he wrote anything he would say, 'Oh God, that's terrible.' He was a very, very self-critical author."
"It is nice to be reading his work but it is tinged with great sadness," Astin said. "There is 20 years of work on the computer and I am pulling together all sorts of things. It will be a surprise but it will make people laugh, I hope."
Speaking digital rights: As it launches version 2.0 of its eXtensible rights Markup Language (XrML), ContentGuard announced its intention to hand control of XrML to a yet-to-be-chosen international standards organization.
ContentGuard, which provides digital rights language technology, is in discussions with several standards organizations about accepting this governance role.
By allowing the governance and development of XrML to be managed by an independent body, ContentGuard is seeking to open up XrML's future development to broad industry participation.
XrML 2.0 expands the capabilities of a digital rights language – usually thought of in connection with authorized use of protected digital content – to allow developers to establish the rights and conditions needed to access various Web services.
The software can apply rights to a wide variety of content and services to enable custom tailoring of digital offerings.
For example, a financial services company can expand its online products from simple password access to customized and personalized offerings that combine services and content such as portfolio analysis, real time video, online consulting or research.
Open an e-book: Hoping to promote literacy, accessibility and enhanced reading, the Open eBook Forum (OeBF) will launch an ad campaign in January. The literary call to action is Open an eBook: Discover New Worlds of Reading.
E-Book tech vendors, publishers, authors, libraries and educators are being asked to join in the promotion which is being sponsored by Adobe Systems, InterTrust Technologies and Microsoft.
Among its ambitious goals, the campaign hopes to point out that e-books advance literacy, provide access to more books for people with print disabilities, enhance reading with interactivity and provide portability and mobility of content.
George Kerscher, OeBF chairman and a member of Recording for the Blind and Dyslexic, emphasized that the campaign will highlight the opportunity e-books provide for people with print disabilities.
"Just like recordings, e-books provide tools for all people who cannot effectively read standard print because of a visual, perceptual or other physical disability," Kerscher said. "E-books enable those with disabilities to complete their education, advance their careers and expand their enjoyment of reading."
Judge your own cover: Readers won't be judging books by their covers if they are designing the covers themselves. Running Press Publishing hopes to begin Web-based service early next year, enabling readers to design personalized book jackets for the company's Miniature Editions.
Included in the series are The Kiss, Book of Hearts, Wedding Toasts and Motherhood.
Specialfavors.com will allow customers to choose illustrations, typefaces and background colors for the front cover, back cover and flap design.
M.J. Rose is the author of two novels and a two nonfiction books.
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2019-04-18T11:15:09Z
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https://www.wired.com/2001/11/audio-e-books-seek-a-buzz/
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Ken is taken aback when he meets Allison’s former boyfriend Kevin O’Connell (guest star Will Yun Lee, “The Wolverine”), now a very hot and successful doctor. So when Ken is asked to speak at a banquet honoring Kevin, he uses the opportunity more as a roast. Meanwhile, Molly struggles with a school assignment asking for what she wants to be when she grows up.
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2019-04-22T14:57:17Z
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https://abc.go.com/shows/dr-ken/episode-guide/season-01/4-kevin-oconnell
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askmen
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Tactical flashlights have become extremely popular in recent years. Not only do they offer better performance than your conventional kitchen-drawer model, they are small and light as well. And if you look in the right places, they can be more affordable, too.
But why should you care? I'm going to try to make the case that tactical flashlights are better in practically every single way and that even if you're not actively looking to buy one, they can be an excellent all-around tool to make your life easier.
1 What Makes A Flashlight Tactical?
What Makes A Flashlight Tactical?
Performance: A tactical flashlight will be able to output a lot more light. It will be able to illuminate objects from a much longer distance.
Weather Resistance: Out in the field, a tactical flashlight needs to be able to withstand anything from heavy rainfall, sand, or dust particles.
Reliability: A tactical flashlight needs to be reliable in both battery life and sturdiness. It won't do you any good if you run out of battery mid-way through a drill or expedition or the chassis cracks open after a fall.
Sturdiness: The handle of a tactical flashlight is required to take minimum to no damage when in use. Even if it falls out of your pack or off the back of a pickup truck, it should hold up and still be useable. The metal used in its construction should also be scratch resistant, hold up to dents and other rough use.
Versatility: A flashlight cannot be considered "tactical" if it only is able to complete a single task. It should be able to signal SOS in case you are in trouble, and light your way without scaring away local wildlife.
The word "tactical" often implies that it takes advantage of modern technologies. While there have been numerous technological and scientific advancements in the military over the last century, the need for a tactical flashlight hasn't changed that much. Today, it is not just the military that uses them, they are being used by policemen, outdoor enthusiasts, the fire department and hunters as well.
The word "tactical" is mostly tied to the science and techniques used by the military. In the field, soldiers will use tactical flashlights during recon missions, assaults, active engagements and overcoming geographical and structural obstacles. It also comes in very useful for communication with allies and identifying potential threats. A tactical flashlight is also often mounted to the barrel of a gun for max visibility during a confrontation.
Tactical flashlights are made to withstand a lot of force. They are made out of very rigid materials that won't give under a lot of pressure. This makes them very useful in hand-to-hand combat. In case of an encounter with an enemy in the dark, the bright beam of the flashlight can blind your opponent as well.
The police force will take advantage of the additional benefits of a tactical flashlight in many ways the military does. In the case of the fire department, finding missing persons is often aided by their use.
In the wild, there's often no other source of light at night other than your flashlight. Identifying or defending yourself from wildlife and navigation are often aided by a flashlight as well.
Of course, you don't have to be a licensed hunter or deployed to a war zone to be able to benefit from a tactical flashlight. Their many advantages make them a very useful tool for the average consumer as well. They are often small, light and powerful, making them an excellent addition to your Every Day Carry (EDC) or toolbox at home.
Let's have a closer look at all of the individual components that make up a typical tactical flashlight, their importance and what purposes they serve.
The LED is the actual source of light. They are often able to be used for up to 100,000 hours of continuous use. Instead of generating light through the use of a filament, LED bulbs are able to generate light without any moving parts.
The bezel is what holds the front of the flashlight together — bulb, lens and other electronics.
The lens isn't just there to protect the bulb from damage. It focuses the light and can color it, too, depending on its intended use. For instance, red is there to aid in night vision, while blue can help identifying blood.
The reflector is what concentrates the light of the bulb. It reflects the light of the bulb and allows the beam to be narrowed or widened as well.
The button or "tail switch" is usually found on the end of a tactical flashlight. This placement makes it easier to use without having to move the source of light, and makes it easy to press with a thumb when held in an upright position.
The many attachment points of a tactical flashlight is an important part of what sets it apart from conventional household ones. The lanyard allows it to be attached to nearly any type of attachment point on your gear. The pocket clip lets you easily attach it to exterior pockets of your pack or the front of your pants' pocket.
The battery life of a tactical flashlight should be at the top of the list of priorities, when shopping for one. The battery compartment makes up most of the handle. Conventionally, the battery packs used in tactical flashlights are rechargeable lithium ion. Other kinds of charging mechanisms include cranking mechanisms, shake-to-charge, USB, and regular AA or AAA (nickel or lithium) batteries.
The numbers that are often thrown around by the marketing teams will seem fairly nonsensical at first, but are crucial to understanding the particular flashlight's value proposition. Too little performance and you will have a bad time in the field. Too much power, and you will scare away wildlife, wake up the whole neighborhood or suffer the consequences of a limited battery lifespan.
There are standardized specifications for flashlight performance in the US. Established in 2009 by the American National Standards Institute, they outline standards for the following categories.
Impact Resistance: Measured in resistance of drops of certain heights onto a concrete surface.
How much lumen do I need?
Lumen is a standard unit measuring luminous flux and is a measure of the total quantity of light emitted by a source. ANSI lumens are a standardized measure, where the average light output of nine points around the source of light are measured when tested.
To find out the number of lumens you actually need, you first have to consider the task you are undertaking.
Up to 100 lumens: These tend to be low output flashlights for general use.
1000 and above: This power range is usually appropriate for emergency services, security and other professionals. These are able to damage your eyes, so be warned. They also tend to be much larger in size due to their increased power needs.
While standard alkaline battery sizes like AA and AAA are convenient and very easy to find at the store, they don't offer as much versatility and performance as rechargeable lithium ion packs. Rechargeable packs come in various capacities measured in milliamp hours (mAh) — the higher the number, the more power on a single charge. Conventional alkaline batteries will tend to be cheaper than rechargeable ones.
Tactical flashlights will often be sold alongside multiple rechargeable packs in a bundle,in addition to a charger.
The large majority of tactical flashlights will use tough, military-grade metal in their construction. But there are some alternatives to consider.
These tend to be flimsier and less sturdy than their metal counterparts. It is a good choice if weight is very important to you.
Aluminum is the most popular type of material used in tactical flashlights. There are different kinds of anodizing processes used in crafting aluminum. Look out for type II and III anodizing, when shopping for a tactical flashlight. They both refer to the sulfuric acid anodizing process that thinly coats the metal with a layer of anodized aluminum for better wear and corrosion resistance.
While it provides a stronger, more durable shell than aluminum, stainless steel tends to be heavier and is not as suitable for use in tactical flashlights.
There are many types of light to consider when picking out the perfect flashlight.
The tint and temperature are the biggest proponents to consider. Color temperature is measured in Kelvins and is cooler (blue) in the 2,600K to 3,500K range, while neutral between 3,500K and 5,000K. Beyond 5,000K, the light will produce a much warmer color (yellow-red). Look out for light in the 2,500K to 2,600K range for the most neutral light.
LEDs can produce a wide range of light temperatures. This, in addition to their low energy usage, make them perfect for use in tactical flashlights.
There are two kinds of light patterns you can generally chose from: flood and throw. Throw is more a more concentrated beam of light compared to flood. Of course, the choice here will depend on its intended use. Flood is great for lighting up a wide open outdoor space, while throw can be used to identify victims in an accident or blind enemies. Zoom rings around the bezel will often allow the user to switch from one to the other, depending on the design.
There are a couple of different sizes to consider when shopping for a tactical flashlight. Generally speaking, it's the battery size that determines the overall size.
Mini And Small: These usually feature conventional batteries ranging from AA to AAA. Expect this size to feature bulbs capable of outputting up to 250 lumens.
Medium: Four to six inches and usually feature double the battery life thanks to being able to fit two cells rather than one. Cree LEDs in this range are able to put out up to and beyond 1,000 lumens.
Large: If you are looking for a serious professional tool for recon and rescue missions, consider picking up a flashlight in this range. The bulbs will be able to put out serious amounts of light and can light up an entire field at night. Typical d-cell flashlights usually carried by policemen fall in this category.
Here are some of the best brands to consider, if you're in the market for a tactical flashlight. They will provide the best reliability, build quality, battery life and performance without breaking the bank.
The Streamlight 88061 ProTac offers the best balance of performance (350 lumens for 90 minutes, 150 lumens for over four hours) and battery life. It can take AA alkaline or lithium batteries and features a strong anodized aluminum construction. It only weighs 2.8 ounces and is IPX7 rated, meaning that it is waterproof up to 3 feet for 30 minutes.
It ticks almost all the boxes in the case you are looking for a general use tactical flashlight. Be sure to pick up some additional batteries, so you don't run out of juice when out on the hunt.
If you're not looking to spend as much and are looking to light up the night sky, look no further than the Solaray PRO ZX-1. It features an ultra bright Cree XM-L T6 bulb that can output up to 1200 lumens (but don't expect the AAA batteries to hold this for long). It can also strobe, signal SOS and its small size means it can be stowed practically anywhere.
This 250 lumen tactical flashlight has a small form factor, uses a single AA battery and has a rugged metal shell. It will cost you less than ten bucks, making it an excellent option for someone looking for an entry-level tactical flashlight.
This extremely well thought out tactical flashlight allows the user to take advantage of the ultra bright 1000 lumen bulb temporarily by operating a special side switch.
If you have a specific budget set aside for a tactical flashlight, consider the following tactical flashlights.
This low-cost alternative (and very familiar design) from Chinese manufacturer Qianxang offers 900 lumens of maximum output, water resistance and a Cree XML T6 LED that is rated at 100,000 hours. You can cycle through five modes and zoom for short and long range light.
Another great option is the V1-Pro. It has a 300 lumen maximum output and also runs off a single AA battery. It currently holds an impressive 4.6 star rating (out of 11,503 reviews) on Amazon.com. It has three modes: bright, dim, and strobe.
This kit comes with two flashlights: the ZX-2 and the Mini Pro-1. The latter is small enough to fit in your pocket. They feature the same impressive Cree XML T6 LED with a maximum output of 1000 lumens. Both shells are made of aircraft grade aluminum, and the charger and two battery packs are included, making this a great deal.
This high-grade tactical flashlight from Klarus is USB rechargeable and features the next generation of Cree LEDs — the Cree XHP35 HD E4 LED, offering up to 2000 lumens of light output (that's over 1,000 feet of illumination!). The Lithium ion batteries are rated at 3100 mAh and the patented Triple-Switch makes switching between lighting modes a breeze.
A tactical flashlight is only useful if you have the gear to take full advantage of one. Here are the mounts, clips and switches to get the most out of your newest gadget.
This kit comes with its own Cree L2 LED flashlight and a mount for a 20mm picatinny (a standardized firearm bracket). It can be switched off and on remotely thanks to the mount pressure switch. The assembly is fully waterproof, allowing it to be used in bad weather.
This heavy-duty nylon holster includes a belt clip and can be rotated 360 degrees. It can be locked into eight different positions and the molded foam inside will keep the flashlight secured.
This nylon web belt loop will keep your flashlight secure at your waist. This will fit most d-cell flashlights (usually a bit larger and bigger circumference than a regular tactical flashlight).
In case you are a new owner of the popular Fenix PD35 Tactical Flashlight (linked above), you should consider picking up this red filter for your next stealth mission.
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2019-04-19T22:23:09Z
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https://www.askmen.com/entertainment/guy_gear/best-tactical-flashlights.html
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Business
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sfgate
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2 Does Roundup Kill Grass During Cold Weather?
4 Is Burning Weeds Better Than Roundup?
Donning your armor of long sleeves and pants, safety glasses and plastic gloves, you're ready to do battle with the never-ending weeds in your garden. Wielding your sprayer filled with Roundup (glyphosate), you briskly step outside into the chilly morning air. While you may wonder if it's too cold to spray those weeds, according to the manufacturer the ideal temperature for applying Roundup is between 53 and 77 degrees Fahrenheit.
Roundup is a nonselective weed killer, usually applied to the foliage of weeds and other unwanted plants. To ensure success, spray the weeds' leaves until they're completely wet, but not dripping. By spraying when weeds are actively growing, usually in the spring and summer, the plants' cells pull the glyphosate all the way into the plants' centers, killing them down to the roots. Because Roundup is nonselective, avoid spraying on windy days; overspray may kill your desirable garden plants. Also avoid spraying when rain is in the forecast; if it rains within six hours you may have to reapply the Roundup to kill the weeds.
de, Ruth. "At What Temperature Does Roundup Work?" Home Guides | SF Gate, http://homeguides.sfgate.com/temperature-roundup-work-81477.html. 28 November 2018.
Can You Spray Roundup in Fog?
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2019-04-24T08:25:24Z
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https://homeguides.sfgate.com/temperature-roundup-work-81477.html
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Arts
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For Bill Clinton in 1992, it was the economy, stupid. For John McCain in 2008, it was the stupid economy. Exit polls showed that 62 percent of the electorate said the economy was the most important issue.
McCain managed to give Obama a run for the money through mid-September. The polls began to turn (decisively, it turns out) against him when the global financial system suffered a run on the money. And with the acuity bestowed by six weeks of hindsight, I think it’s possible to pinpoint three dates—Sept. 15, Sept. 24, and Oct. 15—that mark crucial turning points in the campaign.
On Sept. 15, Lehman Bros., having failed to convince the government it was worthy of a bailout, filed for bankruptcy. The same day, McCain proclaimed: “I think, still, the fundamentals of our economy are strong.” A twin killer. Lehman’s failure triggered a ferocious and unpredictable series of events—the freezing of money-market funds, a global credit seizure—that made it clear that 1) the fundamentals of our economy were anything but strong and 2) volatility was here to stay. McCain’s ill-timed line, a longtime presidential staple, showed he had no intuitive feel for how to talk about the economy at large or about the crisis at hand.
On Sept. 24, as talks about a Washington bailout intensified, McCain announced he would suspend his campaign and fly to Washington. The theory: McCain would put country first, force Obama off the campaign trail, forge a bipartisan compromise, and alter the dynamics of the race. But McCain didn’t have a game plan to triangulate effectively between the Republican gentry (the Bush administration, Wall Street, corporate America), who ardently demanded a bailout, and the pitchfork-toting peasants (House Republicans), who opposed it. He ended up leaving town and resuming campaigning without an agreement in place.
While McCain seemed detached, Obama caucused with financial graybeards and kept his campaign plane on the tarmac to get updates from his new speed-dialing buddy, Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson. Self-serving? You betcha. But doggone successful. And the passage of the bailout bill, which McCain grudgingly supported, neutered the increasingly ideological economic warfare McCain waged in the closing weeks. At a time when the Bush administration was nationalizing big portions of the (grateful) financial services sector, charges that Obama was a socialist, the redistributor-in-chief, the second coming of Eugene V. Debs, failed to gain traction.
The third fatal date? Oct. 15, when the third debate took place. Throughout the fall, Obama had rounded up financial icons such as former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker and Warren Buffett to serve as surrogates. They could reassure Wall Street and Main Street that Obama could steer the nation through treacherous financial waters. Rather than enlist a respected businessperson such as Mitt Romney or former eBay CEO Meg Whitman as his chief economic surrogate, McCain turned to an unlicensed plumber from Ohio. McCain mentioned “Joe the Plumber” seven times in the Oct. 15 debate. In the ensuing weeks, McCain routinely trotted out Samuel J. Wurzelbacher’s economic folk wisdom as gospel.
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Subject of Possible Rule Making: Revision of WAC 468-38-073(6) to comply with revision to federal rule. Specifically, the rule will be amended to provide a weight allowance, up to four hundred pounds, for the application of "idle reduction technology."
Reasons Why Rules on this Subject may be Needed and What They Might Accomplish: Without revision to the rule, the state will not comply with the federal code.
Other Federal and State Agencies that Regulate this Subject and the Process Coordinating the Rule with These Agencies: Federal Highway Administration (FHWA); Washington State Patrol (WSP). FHWA is used as a compliance resource during rule development. WSP has a primary review and comment role during rule development.
Process for Developing New Rule: Need for revision is the direct result of a revision in federal rule. The process includes regulatory and industry review.
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There’s a little bit of magic in the cast BUT apart from that the moonlight just revealed all the flaws with this dated affair, old sport.
Despite the age gap, Colin Firth and Emma Stone have good chemistry and make this easy going and predictable 20s flick more than watchable.
So what is it about? An illusionist (Firth) is brought in to help unmask a possible swindle with a young “spiritualist” (Stone). To make matters worse, he might be falling for her.
I will admit that I’m not the biggest Woody Allen fan. I really feel that his work is overrated.
That’s not to say I haven’t enjoyed some of his films. I actually didn’t mind Match Point and Vicky Christina Barcelona. But did Woody Allen use my love for ScarJo against me?
Colin Firth was superb as the deluded egotist and illusionist Stanley.
His quick quips and sarcastic commentary certainly made him a monster cut from the same cloth as Blue Jasmine (Another Allen flick I enjoyed).
Allen and cinematographer Darius Khondji capture the look and feel of the 20s perfectly. Magic In the Moonlight is rich with that nostalgia for the classics.
It’s good to see Simon McBurney getting more screen time. I’ve been a fan of him for some time. His performance as the Arch Deacon in Rev being a particular highlight.
He sweeps into the scene with his sly grin and slithery charm in the form of an old university colleague, Howard Burkan.
Setting Stanley on his journey with a wager. A wager to try and expose Sophie the spiritualist as a fraud.
It’s all rather tame, easy going and delivers the odd chuckle as Stanley goes out of his way to upset the fools that celebrate this so-called spiritualist.
Hamish Linklater played the love struck and incredibly gullible Brice Catledge brilliantly.
Marcia Gay Harden (The Mist/Flubber) was a little flat. She has proven in the past that she can play a strong supporting role and play it well but her mother figure was highly unmemorable.
Eileen Atkins (Doc Martin) was very good as Stanley’s Aunt Vanessa. Providing a little more depth and understanding to her heavily armoured nephew.
BUT it’s all so predictable which makes it all a little drab.
The beautiful sunshine and the picturesque French coastline is still a sight to behold. Instantly making me want to go on holiday and distracting me from scribbling on my critical clipboard.
Firth delivers enough charisma to carry the film. Until he meets Sophie.
The spiritual sessions are entertaining enough as you sit there with Stanley trying to work out if it is a con or real.
The effects aren’t that bad either but this is essentially a theatrical piece.
The whole philosophical debates about the afterlife was interesting enough for twenty minutes and made for some fiery exchanges between the two leads.
BUT after a while, that’s all they do. Talk and bicker about life, death, love and beliefs.
I can see what Allen was trying to do but it just got a little irritating, long winded and a bit pretentious for me.
At first glance, I thought that only a friendship was going to blossom between the pair because of the steep age gap.
I don’t think it helped that Stone’s outfits made her look a little too young. I’m not sure whether that was Allen’s intention.
The change in tone as their relationship transforms to possibly something more came off a little uneven.
Stone and Firth did enough to make it believable. But if I’m honest, it wasn’t necessary and it made the final outcome so predictable and cheesy.
Stone is in very high demand and for the majority of her performance, I could see why. There were moments where her little spiritual tricks went on a bit and she did begin to get on my nerves.
She can’t dance. Well, jive anyway. Her improvised moves in a jazz club had me cringing.
The ending was very much like the classics. And that was the problem. The dated and corny moments we laugh at now with the oldies only added to their charm.
However, when you try and rekindle that in a modern reworking, it just doesn’t come off quite as well as you hope.
The final moments were very hammy. That charm coming off a little tacky. I tutted and shook my head. A guilty smile sneaking across my face for the attempt.
An easy going, charming little time filler with two stellar performances. Just don’t expect too much.
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Research clearly indicates that gender, racial and skill diversity simply produces better outcomes - better technology products, services and organizations.
From increasing the number of women in tech to empowering students from different socio-economic backgrounds, our mission is to attract and support the diverse technology talent of tomorrow.
Founded in 1997, Dalhousie University's Faculty of Computer Science is the premier research institution in Information Technology in Atlantic Canada. Our mission is to develop in our students the deep technical, problem-solving and leadership skills needed to create - or leverage - new computing technologies to empower people, organizations and society.
From oceans to healthcare, information communications technology to aerospace, our students, professors and alumni are using their skills to make an impact.
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Our award-winning professors work in four major areas of research, cutting across many industries and encompassing nearly all human endeavors.
We are also home to two high-profile initiatives - Institute for Big Data Analytics and DeepSense - as well as our own innovation playground, ShiftKey Labs.
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The theory is very difficult, I only state the result.
There are 4 main mesons for strong nuclear force.
we knew that for some atoms are more stable that others. like He, Ne, Ar, etc, which are belonged to noble gas. the reason for they are non-reactive is, there outer most electron shell is filled out.
similar things happened in nuclei. in the shell model of nuclei, protons and neutrons just like the electrons in atom. if the outer most shell of proton or neutron is filled out, the nuclei is very stable. and we called this number of proton or neutron be MAGIC NUMBER.
the first magic number is 2. nuclei with 2 protons is more stable then others. However, if only have 2 protons, with out neutron, it is very unstable because of coulomb force. and 2 neutron also unstable, if without a proton. the only stable 2 nucleons state is deuteron. If there are 2 protons and 2 neutrons, we called this double magic number, and this nuclei, which is He is very very stable.
the list of magic number is 2, 8, 20, 28, 50, 82, 126 in theory prediction.
however, when the nuclei become heavier and heavier, the stability of nuclei in the magic number lost. to understand this. we have to know that the magic number is come from the large spin-orbital coupling term in the Hamiltonian of the nuclei. and recent research suggest that, the spin-orbital coupling may change by the number of nucleons.
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The 'Party Sloth' tee by I Am Sloth rewrites the lyrics to LMFAO's wildly popular song 'I'm in Miami, B*tch,' to be more reflective of your lethargic lifestyle.
Partying takes up strength that we often don't have, or have never possessed. Our limited energy reserves would be better used channel-surfing through daytime television (ER reruns and Spanish telenovelas) and, say, chewing. Preferably on salty snacks that are high in calories and low in nutrients.
While the original lyric goes, "Drink all day/Play all night/Let's get it poppin'," the sloth-i-fied version reads, "Nap All Day. Sleep All Night. Party Never." Those who are committed to the party-free sloth lifestyle will definitely appreciate this hilariously adapted shirt.
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The Sun making a sextile to Pluto is ideal astrology for moving anything that feels stuck. This might include, for example, a habit or routine that’s outgrown its usefulness. You may, from time to time, be surprised by how quickly you evolve or change on certain matters. In this there is little to fear and much to celebrate.
Today’s Birthdays: Elijah Parish Lovejoy (1802-1837), Louisa E. Rhine (1891-1983), Paulene Myers (1913-1996), Hedy Lamarr (1914-2000), Dorothy Dandridge (1922-1965), Elizabeth Hawley (1923), James Schuyler (1923-1991), Anne Sexton (1928-1974), Carl Sagan (1934-1996), Mary Travers (1936-2009), Tom Fogerty (1941-1990), Robert Duncan McNeill (1964), Sandra Denton (1969), Brad “Scarface” Jordan (1970), Nick Lachey (1973), Delta Goodrem (1984).
As voters on Tuesday turned against the Republican Party one year after Donald Trump was elected president, a new report, “Autopsy: The Democratic Party in Crisis,” examines the role of Democratic Party loyalists in the party’s 2016 defeat. Amy and Juan look at the outcomes from election night with the report’s co-author, Norman Solomon. This episode also examines the Paradise Papers, the most recent document leak exposing widespread tax avoidance among the wealthy.
Moon Phase: Moon is in Disseminating (waning gibbous) phase and enters Last Quarter phase on Nov. 10 at 12:36 pm PST / 3:36 pm EST (20:36:19 UTC).
Moon Sign: Moon is in Cancer and enters Leo today at 4:29 am PST / 7:29 am EST (12:29:01 UTC).
Moon enters Leo at 4:29 am PST / 7:29 am EST (12:29:01 UTC).
— Ceres square Echeclus at 10:10 pm Nov. 8 PST / 1:10 am EST (06:10:24 UTC).
— Sun sextile Pluto at 4:12 am PST / 7:12 am EST (12:12:02 UTC).
— Sun square Praamzius at 5:55 am PST / 8:55 am EST (13:55:25 UTC).
— Venus conjunct Typhon at 7:21 am PST / 10:21 am EST (15:21:26 UTC).
Learning how to receive what others are offering you will help you grow, and will facilitate your success. Receiving requires vulnerability, and you would be well served to end your standoff with being open to others. You’ll know you’re succeeding when you consciously have to go beyond whatever fears come up, and trust others enough to nourish you.
The Sun making a sextile to Pluto is ideal astrology for moving anything that feels stuck. This might include, for example, a habit or routine that’s outgrown its usefulness. You may, from time to time, be surprised by how quickly you evolve or change on certain matters. In this there is little to fear and much to celebrate. You’re free to rise above conventions or superstition or fear of the unknown, and step into a whole new adventure.
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Pacifist Invasions: Arabic, Translation & the Postfrancophone Lyric. Liverpool University Press, 2017. Contemporary French & Francophone Cultures, 48.
Critically Mediterranean: Temporalities, Æsthetics & Deployments of a Sea in Crisis, coedited w/ Edwige Tamalet Talbayev. Palgrave, 2018. Mediterranean Perspectives, 4.
Cultures du mysticisme. Expressions maghrébines, vol. 16, nº 2, Winter 2017.
Khatibi misses the mark. North African French Poetry, edited by Thomas C. Connolly. Yale French Studies, nº 137, 2020.
Orogénique. Emmanuel Hocquard : la poésie, modes d’emploi, edited by Nathalie Koble, Abigail Lang, Michel Murat & Jean-François Puff. Les Presses du réel, 2020.
academic s n u f f & y o g u r t c u l t u r e. En Face & Beieinander: Festschrift for Richard Sieburth, edited by Sage Anderson, Paul Fleming, John Hamilton & Daniel Hoffmann-Schwartz. N.p., 2019, 67–70.
Temporality. On Kwame Anthony Appiah, edited by Rita Felski & Bruce Holsinger. New Literary History, vol. 49, nº 2, Spring 2018, pp. 255-259.
Critically Mediterranean: An Introduction, coauthored w/ Edwige Tamalet Talbayev. Critically Mediterranean: Temporalities, Æsthetics & Deployments of a Sea in Crisis. Palgrave, 2018, pp. 1-21. Mediterranean Perspectives, 4.
Mediterranean Lyric. Critically Mediterranean: Temporalities, Æsthetics & Deployments of a Sea in Crisis. Palgrave, 2018, pp. 241-259. Mediterranean Perspectives, 4.
érotisme mysticisme lettrisme. Introduction. Cultures du mysticisme. Expressions maghrébines, vol. 16, nº 2, Winter 2017, pp. 1-22.
Divine Breath of Genesis [Joyce Mansour]. The Middle Eastern francosphère, edited by Claire Launchbury. Francosphères, vol. 6, nº 1, July 2017, pp. 61-86.
In ¾, a trembling question: Mediterranean literature? Global France, Global French, edited by Leslie Barnes & Dominic Thomas. Contemporary French Civilization, vol. 42, nº 1, April 2017, pp. 75-96.
8e dormant. Vers une poétique franco-arabe : Salah Stétié lecteur de Rimbaud. Rimbaud & le sacré, edited by Denis Saint-Amand & Robert St. Clair. Parade sauvage : revue d’études rimbaldiennes, nº 27, 2016, pp. 169-181.
f. Literature in the World, edited by Simon Gikandi. PMLA, vol. 131, nº 5, October 2016, pp. 1274-1283.
Translating Translating Tengour. Traduire le Maghreb, edited by Olivia C. Harrison & Teresa Villa-Ignacio. Expressions maghrébines, vol. 15, nº 1, Summer 2016, pp. 115-131.
Alinguistic [Abdelfattah Kilito]. Expressions maghrébines, vol. 14, nº 2, Winter 2015, pp. 139-152.
Demeure, Jabès. French Forum, vol. 39, nº 2-3, Spring/Fall 2014, pp. 129-144.
Sky-Birds & Dead Trees: Edmond Jabès & Imruʾ al-Qays. Francophone Cultures & Geographies of Identity, edited by H. Adlai Murdoch & Zsuzsanna Fagyal, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013, pp. 146-163.
Hakim Abderrezak, Ex-Centric Migrations: Europe & the Maghreb in Mediterranean Cinema, Literature & Music, Indiana University Press, 2016. Bulletin of Francophone Postcolonial Studies, vol. 8, nº 1, Spring 2017, pp. 22–23.
Naïma Rachdi, L’Art de la nouvelle entre Occident et Orient. Guy de Maupassant et l’Égyptien Mahmûd Taymûr : influence de la littérature française sur la littérature arabe moderne, L’Harmattan, 2015. Nineteenth-Century French Studies, vol. 45, nº 1-2, Fall/Winter 2016–2017.
Serge Pey. Three Poems from “Why I Crush Tomatoes & Other Insurrections.” Jerome Rothenberg: Poems & Poetics. Jacket 2. 3 May 2015.
What Sounded Fresh Once: The Ear of Translation. Interdisciplinary Translation Workshop: Literature & Philosophy in Conversation. Convened by Rebecca L. Walkowitz & Ernest Lepore. Rutgers University. May 9-10, 2019.
holes. Situating Between-ness. Convened w/ Elisabeth Friis, Karin Nykvist & Brigitte Rath. The Between-ness of Lyric. Convened by Heather Dubrow, Rachel Falconer, Ralph Müller, Dominique Rabaté, Antonio Rodriguez, Hans Kristian Rustad & William Waters. Second biennial conference of the International Network for the Study of Lyric. University of Lausanne. June 4-7, 2019.
Is There a Future for Mediterranean Studies? Presider. Convened by CLCS Mediterranean, w/ Gail Hook, Paul Michael Johnson, Oana Panaïté, Núria Silleras-Fernéndez & Elizabeth Spragins. 135th Modern Language Association Annual Convention. Seattle. January 9-12, 2020.
Water Logics. An international symposium convened w/ Edwige Tamalet Talbayev. Tulane University. April 11-12, 2019.
Khatibi misses the mark. Yale University. Department of French. FREN 885 AFST 885 CPLT 735 Maghrebi French Poetry. Prof Thomas Connolly. April 1, 2019.
peuc plash crchcrch. Pleasure & Precarity at the Edge: Reading the Beach & the Harbor. Convened by Morgane Cadieu & Hannah Freed-Thall. American Comparative Literature Association 2019 Annual Meeting. Georgetown University. March 7-10, 2019. Stream A, 8.30–10.15.
sombre / vox ghost tongue.
º University College Cork. Department of French. February 7, 2019.
º Yale Univesity. Department of French. October 11, 2018.
water mark hocquard waldrop. Lieux communs/Common Places seminar series. Convened by Françoise Besson & Isabelle Keller-Privat. Laboratoire Cultures Anglo-Saxonnes. Université Toulouse 2–Jean Jaurès. January 29, 2019.
shoes. ‘The Best of Its Kind, Whatever the Kind’: A Roundtable on PMLA. Convened by Wai Chee Dimock. 134th Modern Language Association Annual Convention. Chicago. January 4, 2019.
tongues tonguing tarkos. Performing Multilingualism in World Literatures: Æsthetics & Activism. Convened by Jane Hiddleston, Wen-chin Ouyang, Laura Lonsdale & Nora Parr. Exeter College, University of Oxford. September 20-22, 2018.
Pacifist Invasions: Arabic, Translation & the Postfrancophone Lyric.
º University of Virginia. Program in Medieval Studies. Medieval Identities lecture series. Convened by Eric Matthew Ramirez-Weaver & Sana Abdi. February 15, 2018.
º University of Wisconsin–Madison. Middle East Studies Program. December 4, 2017.
º University of Minnesota Twin Cities. Department of French & Italian. December 1, 2017.
Unbearable: Love & Translation, Djebar & Ṭabarī. The Art of Translation: Poetics, Politics, Practice lecture series. Convened by Carolyn Shread. Smith College. February 6, 2017.
f—end[s] of french. Beyond French: Occitan, Arabic & the Languages of Poetry. Convened by Cecile Bishop, Downing Bray, Sanam Bader-Esfahani, Nicolas Estournel, Sarah Kay, Maria Sanchez-Reyes & Claire Reising. Future[s] of French series. Maison française. New York University. November 16, 2016.
… inappropriate personal lyrical secret. How Did ‘I’ Get Here? Humanities in the First Person. Convened by Raphaël Sigal & Youna Kwak. Center for Humanistic Inquiry. Amherst College. April 1, 2016.
Vocal mue—footnote to a footnote. Pascal Quignard & the Translation of His Hatred of Music. Conference & book launch w/ translators Matthew Amos & Fredrik Rönnbäck. Bard College. March 14, 2016.
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https://home.dartmouth.edu/faculty-directory/yasser-elhariry-ysr-lhryry
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CES – The Consumer Electronic Show - though people could be forgiven thinking it was the Car Electronic Show.
Most years seem to have an unofficial theme: 3D, Curved Screens or Smart Home. This year, the buzz is definitely autonomous vehicles. CES gives the impression they’re already mainstream, parked on our driveways or being used as car-sharing taxis, taking people to work. But having seen some demos, I’m as now as excited as everyone else.
One of the best demos I saw showed an in-car simulation where the view out of the windscreen was supplemented with text and graphic overlays. As I approached a school, the building itself and crossing areas were highlighted, while a voice warned that it was a busy time when children were likely to cross the road. Once I arrived in a town, the same voice told me there was a parking spot nearby and asked if I wanted to book it and enable auto-drive and park.
There was also a brilliant demonstration of the smart car headrest which monitors brain activity. A volunteer drove a virtual car, but when he distracted by a light thump on his shoulder, the car automatically came to a safe stop. Only when his concentration level increased, the car set off again.
But it’s definitely not all car-related. The connected home looks a lot more sensible and real than it did a couple of years ago, with more and more devices able to communicate intelligently.
A sensor which connects to a phone to analyse the molecular structure of materials. In a demo, a presenter used an app that advised which was the best tasting strawberry, before you bought it! They’ll be similar apps depending on the type of food you want to buy. A Chinese-based company is about to launch a phone with a sensor built in that will incorporate this feature, so it could go mainstream. Watch this space.
Similarly, there’s now a smart egg box which tells you which eggs to eat first.
The choice of home sensors is growing. Smoke alarms are old hat, but what about air quality monitors and even monitors that tell you when you need to dust? Or better still, you can now tell a robot vacuum cleaner to go and clean the house.
Many companies at CES are demonstrating various ways to interact with gadgets too. Voice control seems to be the preferred method, but an impressive device projected controls onto any surface, which can be controlled by fingertips for when visible cues are needed. This would come in handy when you’ve lost the TV remote or want to set the microwave, as you can project the controls onto a table.
TVs are still being made in all shapes and sizes but one that caught my eye was double-sided and only a centimetre thin. It will mean no more arguing about what to watch. Just place the TV in the middle of the room and choose which side you want to watch - literally!
Read the second part of my blog about the technology and gadgets I’ve seen at CES, on Monday.
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2019-04-19T04:33:00Z
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https://www.virginmedia.com/corporate/media-centre/blogs/our-tech-gurus-view-from-ces-part-1.html
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This official souvenir program was issued to commemorate the Ursinus College vs. St. Joseph's College football game on October 7, 1933.
Published as Volume 1, Number 1 of the Grizzly Gridder.
Club, Varsity, "Grizzly Gridder Ursinus College Official Football Program, October 7, 1933" (1933). Ursinus College Football Programs. 5.
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https://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/football_programs/5/
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2019-04-20T20:25:23Z
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https://oregonnews.uoregon.edu/lccn/sn85042444/1907-09-20/ed-1/seq-15/
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Shopping
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metal-archives
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A music video was made for "Odin Owns Ye All" and "Blot".
Månljus is the very first Månegarm song. It was composed in the cold end of 1995 but never recorded and released until then.
• Drums and guitars recorded at Studio Underground in Västerås, Sweden.
• Acoustic songs recorded and mixed at ECSS Studios in Sweden.
• Vocals, bass, keyboards, violin and additional guitars recorded at Studio Undercentral.
• Mixed at Studio Underground in Västerås, Sweden.
• Mastered at Ridge Street Studios.
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2019-04-19T22:54:35Z
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https://www.metal-archives.com/albums/M%C3%A5negarm/M%C3%A5negarm/530649
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"Taking courses in high school that challenged me and gave me insight into the way college courses work has developed me into the student I am today. Having taken college courses in high school allowed me to understand how to study best and prioritize my time best to accomplish everything that needed to get done. Taking the courses in high school allowed me to develop those skills early on and not create more stress once actually getting to college and trying to figure out how things work."
Rebecca Neville, Class of 2016. Rebecca is now a sophomore Nursing major at Olivet Nazarene University and plans to eventually become a nurse practitioner.
Chandler Mick, Class of 2014. Chandler is now a junior Accounting and Finance major at Indiana University. He is on track to intern with Ernst & Young in their Fraud Investigation and Dispute Services division and plans to work full time with them upon graduation.
"The most important part of participating in Early College to me was finding out what courses interested me the most. While the base high school class scratch the surface of many subjects, until you take a college level class, you are not able to truly grasp whether or not you will enjoy a career in that. For example, high school chemistry may be fun, but taking an entry level chemistry class will prove that majoring in chemistry is no easy task. Experimenting in high school with challenging courses will prepare you for your future college courses in whatever subject you choose."
" Early College shows students that college is doable and gives you a boost of confidence going into freshman year. Also, it helps you learn how to balance school, work, and a social life."
"The Early College Program really helped me with credits coming into college. I was ahead by about a semester and a half when it came to how many credits I had earned compared to my peers. The best part was how much I benefited from Early College when I actually got to college! I felt more prepared and ahead of my classmates because of my experiences."
Sophia Wickersham, Class of 2015. Sophia is now a junior Nonprofit Management and Leadership major at Indiana University with a minor in Marketing.
Gavin Bowling, Class of 2017. Gavin is now a freshman Engineering major at Purdue University. He plans to complete his undergraduate program in 2021 and then pursue a Master's degree in Engineering.
"The most impactful part of my participation has come from the freedom that the credits I earned have given me in my academic career here at Purdue. Due to the large number of credits I brought in with me, I have also had the luxury of lightening my workload during my first year at Purdue. Had I chosen to aim for a denser schedule, I would have had the option to explore many other areas of study as well, having already met many of my academic obligations. Finally, I would say that the array of knowledge and skillsets I acquired from the variety of Early College classes have better equipped me with the tools to succeed in the rigorous college curriculum. I would recommend future student complete the STGEC because it allows them to bypass many of the general education classes that universities require their students to take."
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2019-04-19T12:25:42Z
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https://wcearlycollege.weebly.com/alumni-testimonials.html
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The breakout American alternative outfit make a stopover here for the first time.
Read our interview with Josh Dun, the drummer, here.
Catch the duo at Hall 401-402, Suntec Convention and Exhibition Centre.
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2019-04-23T22:32:07Z
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https://www.timeout.com/singapore/music/twenty-one-pilots
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In C++ template programming, types of objects can get really large and incomprehensible even in small programs. For example, the following type (Wrapper) is a standard unary function object that wraps the member function read_line in class File.
The above code is pretty much unreadable and more bloated than necessary. Even typedefs don't improve readability as placeholder typedefs like Wrapper are distracting. The object generator idiom alleviates the situation.
In the object generator idiom, a template function is created whose only job is to construct a new object from its parameters. It is based on a useful property of function templates which class templates don't have: The type parameters of a function template are deduced automatically from its actual parameters. For example, consider a simple object generator defined in STL: make_pair.
make_pair returns an instance of the pair template depending on the actual parameters of the make_pair function. For example, make_pair(1,1.0) creates an object of type: std::pair<int, double> by automatically deducing the types of the objects being passed to the object generator function. make_pair is particularly handy in the case where a generated pair object does not need to be stored in a local variable.
m.insert (make_pair(1,1.0)); // No need to know how pair template is instantiated.
The C++ standard library defines several object generators to avoid code bloat. std::bind2nd and std::mem_fun are two such standard object generators that can be used to avoid code bloat in the example shown in the motivation section above.
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2019-04-20T04:49:32Z
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https://en.m.wikibooks.org/wiki/More_C%2B%2B_Idioms/Object_Generator
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Masteries are now in a more readable UI.
One has to select a mastery that one wants to level up, and earn experience towards that goal. Seems to be an alternate advancement system for those who love the leveling aspect of an MMO. Presumably after you unlock it with experience, you can then spend a mastery point to purchase it.
I got to within an inch of gliderhood but unfortunately didn’t quite get it before the first beta closed. Let’s see if they save character progress in between each stage.
Much more of the Verdant Brink map was opened up, though only a few areas were heavily populated by Mordrem so far.
Map has a day/night zone cycle, day apparently set to 75 minutes and night at 45 minutes or thereabouts. I logged in to about 15 minutes of day, and then it quickly switched to night.
There seems to be an overall zone goal of holding/defending Rally Points, escorting Pact Soldiers to said Rally Points and bringing Pact Supplies to build up each Rally Point to eventually unlock more (unknown) stuff. So far only one or two Rally Points got defended consistently, so there will be more to do when it finally launches, I’m sure. I’m looking forward to more organized attempts at this zone goal.
After a first hour of intense battlefield Mordrem fighting, I found myself getting tired of the endless war going nowhere (need my organization fix) and wandered off to the quieter and probably still unbuilt areas.
I do hope that the designers don’t forget in their excitement over playing with complex and sophisticated dynamic event chains to look after the little guys, the solo explorers and casual levelers that need a calmer exploration fix from time to time, those surprisingly numerous players who enjoy and miss the feeling of leveling in their starter and intermediate leveling zones – more pastoral surroundings, less tightly packed and threatening mob densities.
Personally, I do suspect we will still have some of these areas, even in the Heart of Maguuma. Even the Silverwastes has its peaceful jumping puzzle, to take a breather from the constant combat chains.
From my short glance at the zone and the spaces and scenery therein, there seems to be a goal to pack a lot into it – something for groups (PUG or organized), something for achievement-oriented soloists, something for explorer-oriented soloists and so on.
But I dunno, I have no words to argue or defend the Vision that others seem to hate so much.
If you like it, you like it. If you don’t, you don’t.
So instead, I will just post the screenshots that -I- had fun taking.
I remembered to take a PURPLE one for Eri’s theory of depressing endgame maps.
I think this one is GW2’s claim to a Skyrim look-alike. The treetop textures, the lighting, the photo-realism just kinda blew me away.
I have… no words to describe the Itzel stare.
More of those Maguuma Wastes-style ruins we’ve all come to know and love in Dry Top and Silverwastes. Dying to know more about the origins or creators of these structures.
They weren’t kidding about the verticality of this zone. (I briefly considered spectral walking my way down – I played a necro rather than a revenant this time around – then in a brief fit of sanity, managed to find the NPC that teleported you into the pit.
The cloudy ominous drop that awaits clumsy glider-less travelers.
There were some nearly empty caves under the Wyvern Cliffs, save for a few new Mushroom mobs, which were quite cute, in a nightmarish Mario Goomba sort of way.
One moment of perfect beauty.
That’s all this explorer soul needed.
This entry was posted in Guild Wars 2 and tagged beta, beta test, exploration, gratuitous screenshots, heart of thorns, masteries, why I explore.
Definitely love the design of the environment,still worried about the price of Heart of Thorns.
If it ends up at 50$/euro I won’t buy it immediately,which makes me somewhat sad.I am hoping for about 30,where i can actually afford it without feeling bad for wasting my money.
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2019-04-25T01:47:35Z
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https://whyigame.wordpress.com/2015/05/27/gw2-heart-of-thorns-beta-screenshots/
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Our educational efforts are primarily directed to introducing narrative reflective practice in the pre-clinical years, as well as providing focused, large and small group sessions on professionalism and well-being, spirituality and health, and interprofessional team communications, in our first- and second-year patient-centred care courses (a total of 11 sessions in 2011–12).
We have also developed an on-line repository of medical humanities resources that includes material relevant to a variety of pre-clinical topics associated with our different systems-based courses (e.g. endocrinology, neurosciences, etc.). These are posted on the online learning platform used by our medical students. Over time, we look forward to creating an online learning environment that supports structured interaction between a community of learners interested in the medical/ health humanities.
In addition, we offer a number of elective courses that offer students an opportunity for in-depth exploration of human illness experiences and health care with respect to arts- and humanities-informed perspectives.
An orientation session is organized at the beginning of the academic year to introduce medical students to the AHHM Program, with a focus on the many educational opportunities that exist to support their learning and development as patient-centred, humanistic and professional health- care practitioners.
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2019-04-25T10:40:17Z
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https://www.ualberta.ca/medicine/programs/ahhm/undergrad
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Weiting Wei (born. FuJian China) received her MFA in Visual Art from Columbus College of Art & Design in 2018. She is a multimedia artist creating works out of paper, wax, clay, and soap. Her sculptural work uses traditional elements to explore very personal, yet universal, experiences of motherhood. The lotus is used as a central theme to represent humanity. In Chinese culture the lotus symbolizes perfection, and ultimate purity of the heart and mind, because it rises untainted and beautiful from the mud. Weiting creates numerous works that feature the lotus in different states to express this lifecycle and the beautiful struggles we experience as we grow.
2th DeHua Ceramic Biennale, DeHua China.
Be a light sleeper, LOTTI X HUMMI, XiaMen, China.
Abstract, Art Room Gallery, On line exhibition.
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2019-04-23T18:31:56Z
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https://weiting-wei.squarespace.com/about
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Not just for rice pudding fans, this wonderful dessert is flavoured with vanilla and brandy and enriched with cream before being layered in a dish with red fruit and slivered almonds. Red fruit is traditional in Scandinavia but apricot or apple compote are just as delicious.
Bring the milk to the boil in a heavy saucepan then stir in the rice and vanilla pod. Cook, stirring for 5 minutes then cover and simmer very gently for 25 minutes until the rice is tender and the mixture has thickened. Remove the vanilla pod and leave to cool.
Whip the cream until just floppy then fold into the rice with the brandy and sugar to taste. Layer up the rice and cherry compote in a glass dish or individual dishes and scatter with slivered almonds. Chill until ready to serve.
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2019-04-22T00:42:26Z
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https://www.waitrose.com/home/recipes/recipe_directory/c/christmas_rice.html
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It's been ages! So much has happened since I last blogged. So much, in fact, that I am going to make this a 2 (or 3, depending on how long-winded I get) part series entitled: Where is She Now? The Jordana Brown Story. Today's entry is about my search for a place to live after leaving the comfortable, but temporary, environs of Ulpan Etzion.
Regardless of my opinions of my accommodations in ulpan (okay facilities, lackluster food options, undesirable location) it was a great home for my initial five months after making aliyah. It was always there when I needed it, with my tiny bed and my unreliable 78 bus line, and I will miss it. About a month before the ulpan ended, a frenzy began wherein all ulpan students suddenly realized we needed a place to move! Permanent locations were discussed, many hoping to move to the Tel Aviv area (why?!) with most choosing to stay in the Jerusalem area. Roommates were buddying up, and appointments to see rooms and apartments were being made. I knew for myself I had several requirements; I wanted to live near the center of town and I wanted to live alone. While most single Orthodox Jews my age choose to live in the German Colony/Katamon area (there's even a whole Israeli television show about single life there, called "Srugim") I knew that it wasn't the place for me. Don't get me wrong, I have friends there and hope to spend a lot of wonderful shabbat meals in the area, but for me, I wanted a more central location. I decided to look in the Nachlaot, Rehavia and center of town areas exclusively. Then there was the whole "living alone" situation. This came about because I have never done it and always wanted to. I am a social person (to put it mildly), but I love the idea of having my own space to come home to, after being surrounded by people all day. I love the idea of hosting a million friends and family members from Israel and abroad, being a landing pad for anyone who needs a place to crash. I love the idea of hosting meals and parties, without checking to see if it's okay with my roommates. And I really love the idea of decorating my own place! But this independence comes with a price- namely, taking care of every single bill and the entire rent on my own for a whole year! That's really daunting for a chick who hasn't had a full-time job in six months! (More to come on job shenanigans in a future post!) But I saved up in New York City (throwback to being a rich American!) and knew that I had to at least try to make this "living alone" thing happen.
The first area I searched was the two-headed dragon known as Facebook groups and Janglo. There are several Facebook groups dedicated to people looking for apartments or roommates in Jerusalem (and everywhere else in Israel), as well as Janglo, a website for English-speaking Jerusalemites looking for basically anything. Why is this a two-headed dragon, you might wonder. Because if I went to these sites looking for English-speaking apartment options so did every other English speaker in Jerusalem! We are a simple bunch, we Anglos. We want things in English, we want to read and understand, and we want to communicate with brokers and renters who speak our common language. But this leads to a highly competitive real estate market, where an apartment posted in Nachlaot lasts maybe a half hour before it's rented! And it got frustrating after a while. One funny story: The Facebook ad read: "Adorable apartment in Rehavia, cheap rent, 6 months with option for longer, one bedroom with loft." There were some accompanying pictures of a leafy entryway and the price was right, so I set up a time to see the place. When I got there, it was a) not in Rehavia (it was really in Katamon) b) the renter had disappeared from mobile communication and c) impossible to locate the entrance in the labyrinth of this building. Finally, the renter showed me the place. It was actually too narrow to even stand side by side in the "kitchen", her bed was on a loft over the bathroom, and breathing was getting difficult in such a confined space. Then, she showed me a larger bedroom, certainly suitable for habitation. I asked her why she didn't live there! She responded that her roommate lived in that room! Roommate?! Where was that in the ad? And is this roommate staying? I told her I wasn't interested and frankly, she was being ripped off. She told me she had plenty of interest from her Facebook ad, so she wasn't worried. I screamed in my head "Maybe that's because your entire ad is a misleading lie?!" but with my mouth told her that was great and wished her luck.
After that debacle, a Israeli friend suggested trying "Yad2" which is where Israelis tend to rent their places. This opened up a whole new world of possibility- endless apartments for rent in every price range, with pictures and descriptions! Unfortunately, there was no English translation on the site, but it gave me ample opportunity to work on my Hebrew reading skills. The first place I found was a loft space in the center of town. It was a cool studio with a ladder leading up to the "gallery." I hadn't really thought about living in the center, but the place was kind of great and the price wasn't terrible, so I said I'd be in touch and kept looking.
When you have parameters such as mine, you go see anything that looks right. It's kinda like dating, though. On paper, it checks all the boxes, but in reality it is just not for you. Like the apartment I went to see near the shuk which was literally in a bomb shelter.The renter was explaining how much room I had and how cool the layout was and all I'm thinking is "G-d forbid there's another war and I am hosting the whole building in my bomb shelter living room!" So, needless to say, that place was a no- go. Another place I saw had neighbor children climbing all over the entrance. Another was a glorified dorm room. Yet another was basically situated on a highway. To top it off, the neighborhood where I wanted to live most, Nachlaot, was really pricing me out. It was as if all the hippies (a large demographic of the area) were contriving to keep me out! It was all becoming very demoralizing and my time in ulpan was running out.
I kept coming back to the loft apartment I saw in town. I showed it to my cousins, some friends and my visiting aunt and uncle, who all saw the potential I did. I decided to move to the center of town and live in a loft! Easy- peasy right? Wrong! Coming up on Part 2 (because this post is getting super- long): The Saga of my Apartment. There are laughs, there are tears, and as always, the end is happy! Stay tuned!
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2019-04-26T16:25:25Z
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https://www.jpost.com/Blogs/Jordana-In-Jerusalem/House-Hunters-Jerusalem-386691
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Why A Kentucky VA Loan?
The more you know about our home loan program, the more you will realize how little “red tape” there really is in getting a Kentucky VA loan. These loans are often made without any down payment at all, and frequently offer lower interest rates than ordinarily available with other kinds of loans. Aside from the veteran’s certificate of eligibility and the VA-assigned appraisal, the application process is not much different than any other type of mortgage loan. If the lender is approved for automatic processing, as more and more lenders are now, a buyer’s loan can be processed and closed by the lender without waiting for VA’s approval of the credit application.
Additionally, if the lender is approved under VA’s Lender Appraisal Processing Program (LAPP), the lender may review the appraisal completed by a VA-assigned appraiser and close the loan on the basis of that review. The LAPP process can further speed the time to loan closing.
While the appraisal is being done, the lender (mortgage company, savings and loan, bank, etc.) can be gathering credit and income information. If the lender is authorized by VA to do automatic processing, upon receipt of the VA or LAPP appraised value determination, the loan can be approved and closed without waiting for VA’s review of the credit application. For loans that must first be approved by VA, the lender will send the application to the local VA office, which will notify the lender of its decision.
More than 29 million veterans and service personnel are eligible for VA financing. Even though many veterans have already used their loan benefits, it may be possible for them to buy homes again with VA financing using remaining or restored loan entitlement.
Most important consideration, no down payment is required in most cases.
Loan maximum may be up to 100 percent of the VA-established reasonable value of the property. Due to secondary market requirements, however, loans generally may not exceed $417,000.
No monthly mortgage insurance premium to pay.
limitation on buyer’s closing costs.
An appraisal which informs the buyer of property value.
For most loans for new houses, construction is inspected at appropriate stages to ensure compliance with the approved plans, and a 1-year warranty is required from the builder that the house is built in conformity with the approved plans and specifications. In those cases where the builder provides an acceptable 10-year warranty plan, only a final inspection may be required.
An assumable mortgage, subject to VA approval of the assumer’s credit.
Right to prepay loan without penalty.
VA performs personal loan servicing and offers financial counseling to help veterans avoid losing their homes during temporary financial difficulties.
What Is A Kentucky VA-Guaranteed Loan?
These loans are made by a lender, such as a mortgage company, savings and loan, credit union or bank. VA’s guaranty on the loan protects the lender against loss if the payments are not made, and is intended to encourage lenders to offer veterans loans with more favorable terms. The amount of guaranty on the loan depends on the loan amount and whether the veteran used some entitlement previously. With the current maximum guaranty, a veteran who hasn’t previously used the benefit may be able to obtain a Kentucky VA loan up to $417,000 depending on the borrower’s income level and the appraised value of the property. The local VA office can provide more details on guaranty and entitlement amounts.
What Can A Kentucky VA Loan Be Used For?
To buy a home, including townhouse or condominium unit in a VA-approved project.
To simultaneously purchase and improve a home.
To improve a home by installing energy-related features such as solar or heating/cooling systems, water heaters, insulation, weather-stripping/caulking, storm windows/doors or other energy efficient improvements approved by the lender and VA. These features may be added with the purchase of an existing dwelling or by refinancing a home owned and occupied by the veteran. A loan can be increased up to $3,000 based on documented costs or up to $6,000 if the increase in the mortgage payment is offset by the expected reduction in utility costs. A refinancing loan may not exceed 90 percent of the appraised value plus the costs of the improvements. Check with a lender or VA for details.
To refinance an existing home loan up to 90 percent of the VA-established reasonable value or to refinance an existing VA loan to reduce the interest rate.
To buy a manufactured home and/or lot.
VA Loans – Who Is Eligible?
Veterans with active duty service, that was not dishonorable, during World War II and later periods are eligible for VA loan benefits. World War II (September 16, 1940 to July 25, 1947), Korean conflict (June 27, 1950 to January 31, 1955), and Vietnam era (August 5, 1964 to May 7, 1975) Veterans must have at least 90 days’ service. Veterans with service only during peacetime periods and active duty military personnel must have had more than 180 days’ active service. Veterans of enlisted service which began after September 7, 1980, or officers with service beginning after October 16,1981, must in most cases have served at least 2 years.
Basically, reservists and National Guard members who were activated on or after August 2, 1990, served at least 90 days and were discharged honorably are eligible. VA regional office personnel may assist with eligibility questions.
Members of the Selected Reserve, including National Guard, who are not otherwise eligible and who have completed 6 years of service and have been honorably discharged or have completed 6 years of service and are still serving may be eligible. The expanded eligibility for Reserves and National Guard individuals will expire October 28, 1999. Contact the local VA office to find out what is needed to establish eligibility. Reservists will pay a slightly higher funding fee than regular veterans. (See paragraph entitled “Costs of Obtaining a VA Loan” in How to Get a VA Loan).
Had A VA Loan Before?
Veterans who had a VA loan before may still have “remaining entitlement” to use for another VA loan. The current amount of entitlement available to each eligible veteran is $36,000. This was much lower in years past and has been increased over time by changes in the law. For example, a veteran who obtained a $25,000 loan in 1974 would have used $12,500 guaranty entitlement, the maximum then available. Even if that loan is not paid off, the veteran could use the $23,500 difference between the $12,500 entitlement originally used and the current maximum of $36,000 to buy another home with VA financing. An additional $14,750, up to a maximum entitlement of $50,750 is available for loans above $144,000 to purchase or construct a home.
Most lenders require that a combination of the guaranty entitlement and any cash down payment must equal at least 25 percent of the reasonable value or sales price of the property, whichever is less. Thus, in the example, the veteran’s $23,500 remaining entitlement would probably meet a lender’s minimum guaranty requirement for a no down payment loan to buy a property valued at and selling for $94,000. The veteran could also combine a down payment with the remaining entitlement for a larger loan amount.
A qualified veteran-transferee (buyer) agrees to assume the VA loan and substitute his or her entitlement for the same amount of entitlement originally used by the veteran seller. The entitlement may also be restored one time only if the veteran has repaid the prior VA loan in full but has not disposed of the property purchased with the prior VA loan. Remaining entitlement and restoration of entitlement can be requested through the nearest VA office by completing VA Form 26-1880.
The CRV (Certificate of Reasonable Value) is based on an appraiser’s estimate of the value of the property to be purchased. Because the loan amount may not exceed the CRV, the first step in getting a VA loan is usually to request an appraisal. Anyone (buyer, seller, real estate personnel or lender) can request a VA appraisal by completing VA Form 26-1805, Request for Determination of Reasonable Value. After completing the form, it can either be mailed to the Loan Guaranty Division at the nearest VA office for processing or an appraisal can be requested by telephoning the Loan Guaranty Division for assignment of an appraiser. The local VA office may be contacted for information concerning its assignment procedures. The appraiser will send a bill for his or her services to the requester according to a fee schedule approved by VA. To simplify things, VA and HUD/FHA (Department of Housing and Urban Development/Federal Housing Administration) use the same appraisal forms. Also, if the property was recently appraised under the HUD procedure, under certain limited circumstances, the HUD conditional commitment can be converted to a VA CRV. The local VA office can explain how this is done.
It is important to recognize that while the VA appraisal estimates the value of the property, it is not an inspection and does not guarantee that the house is free of defects. Homebuyers should be encouraged to carefully inspect the property themselves, or to hire a reputable inspection firm to help in this area. VA guarantees the loan, not the condition of the property.
The application process for VA financing is no different from any other type of loan. In fact, the VA application form is the same as that used for HUD/FHA and Conventional loans. The mortgage lender verifies the applicant’s income and assets, and obtains a credit report to see that other obligations are being paid on time. If all is well and the appraised value of the property is enough to cover the loan needed, the lender, in most instances, can then close the loan under VA’s automatic procedure. Only about 5 percent of VA loan applications have to be submitted to a VA office for approval before closing.
A basic funding fee of 2.00 percent must be paid to VA by all but certain exempt veterans. A down payment of 5 percent or more will reduce the fee to 1.50 percent and a 10 percent down payment will reduce it to 1.25 percent.
A funding fee of 2.75 percent must be paid by all eligible Reserve/National Guard individuals. A down payment of 5 percent or more will reduce the fee to 2.25 percent and a 10 percent down payment will reduce it to 2.00 percent.
The funding fee for loans to refinance an existing VA home loan with a new VA home loan to lower the existing interest rate is 0.5 percent.
Veterans who are using entitlement for a second of subsequent time who do not make a downpayment of at least 5 percent are charged a funding fee of 3 percent.
Note: For all VA home loans, the Funding Fee may be paid in cash or it may be included in the loan.
Reasonable closing costs may be charged by the lender. These costs may not be included in the loan. The following items may be paid by the veteran purchaser, the seller, or shared. Closing costs may vary among lenders and also throughout the nation because of differing local laws and customs.
No commissions, brokerage fees or “buyer broker” fees may be charged to the veteran buyer.
Kentucky VA Loans – Need More Information?
Veterans seeking more detailed information concerning the VA home loan program may request VA Pamphlet 26-4, VA-Guaranteed Home Loans for Veterans, or VA Pamphlet 26-6, To the Home-Buying Veteran, from the nearest VA office. Loan Guaranty personnel at that office will also be pleased to answer specific questions and provide any other assistance they can.
Remember, VA-guaranteed financing is a benefit which Congress intended eligible veterans should have. If you are a veteran homebuyer or know of one, it makes sense to look into the VA loan program as a good way to finance a home purchase.
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2019-04-23T18:33:38Z
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https://kentuckyvaloan.wordpress.com/how-to-apply-for-a-kentucky-va-loan/
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2014-11-19 Assigned to SILICON VALLEY BANK reassignment SILICON VALLEY BANK SECURITY AGREEMENT Assignors: OGIN, INC.
A Mixer/Ejector Wind Turbine (“MEWT”) system is disclosed which routinely exceeds the efficiencies of prior wind turbines. Unique ejector concepts are used to fluid-dynamically improve many operational characteristics of conventional wind/water turbines for potential power generation improvements of 50% and above. Applicants' preferred MEWT embodiment comprises: an aerodynamically contoured turbine shroud with an inlet; a ring of stator vanes; a ring of rotating blades (i.e., an impeller) in line with the stator vanes; and a mixer/ejector pump to increase the flow volume through the turbine while rapidly mixing the low energy turbine exit flow with high energy bypass wind flow. The MEWT can produce three or more time the power of its un-shrouded counterparts for the same frontal area, and can increase the productivity of wind farms by a factor of two or more. The same MEWT is safer and quieter providing improved wind turbine options for populated areas.
This application is a continuation of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 12/054,050, filed Mar. 24, 2008. That application claims priority from Applicants' U.S. Provisional Patent Application Ser. No. 60/919,588, filed Mar. 23, 2007 (hereinafter “Applicants' Provisional Application”). Applicants hereby incorporate the disclosure of both applications by reference in their entirety.
The present invention deals generally with axial flow turbines. More particularly, it deals with axial flow wind turbines.
Improvements in the technology of electrical power generation by wind and current-based water turbines are being sought throughout the world as part of the effort to reduce dependency on fossil fuels. The European Union has just announced a major sustainable energy project that includes significant use of wind power and is requesting the US to join this effort.
(6) Poor and/or unacceptable esthetics for urban and suburban settings.
The underlying cause for the problems and limitations listed above is that the vast majority of existing wind/water turbine systems depend on the same design methodology. As a result, virtually all existing wind turbines are unshrouded/unducted, have only a few blades (which tend to be very long, thin and structurally vulnerable) and rotate at very low blade-hub speeds (thus requiring extensive internal gearing for electricity production) but have very high blade-tip speeds (with its attendant complications). These are all similar because they are all based on the same aerodynamic model that attempts to capture the maximum amount of the power available in the wind utilizing the “Betz Theory” for wind turbines (circa 1926) with Schmitz corrections for flow swirl effects, aerodynamic profile losses and tip flow losses. This theory sets the current family of designs and leaves very little room for improving the aerodynamic performance. Thus industry's efforts have primarily become focused on all other non-aerodynamic aspects of the wind turbine, such as, production and life costs, structural integrity, etc.
Wind turbines usually contain a propeller-like device, termed the “rotor”, which is faced into a moving air stream. As the air hits the rotor, the air produces a force on the rotor in such a manner as to cause the rotor to rotate about its center. The rotor is connected to either an electricity generator or mechanical device through linkages such as gears, belts, chains or other means. Such turbines are used for generating electricity and powering batteries. They are also used to drive rotating pumps and/or moving machine parts. It is very common to find wind turbines in large electricity generating “wind farms” containing multiple such turbines in a geometric pattern designed to allow maximum power extraction with minimal impact of each such turbine on one another and/or the surrounding environment.
The ability of a rotor to convert fluid power to rotating power, when placed in a stream of very large width compared to its diameter, is limited by the well documented theoretical value of 59.3% of the oncoming stream's power, known as the “Betz” limit as documented by A. Betz in 1926. This productivity limit applies especially to the traditional multi-bladed axial wind/water turbine presented in FIG. 1A, labeled Prior Art.
Attempts have been made to try to increase wind turbine performance potential beyond the “Betz” limit. Shrouds or ducts surrounding the rotor have been used. See, e.g., U.S. Pat. No. 7,218,011 to Hiel et al. (see FIG. 1B); U.S. Pat. No. 4,204,799 to de Geus (see FIG. 1C); U.S. Pat. No. 4,075,500 to Oman et al. (see FIG. 1D); and U.S. Pat. No. 6,887,031 to Tocher. Properly designed shrouds cause the oncoming flow to speed up as it is concentrated into the center of the duct. In general, for a properly designed rotor, this increased flow speed causes more force on the rotor and subsequently higher levels of power extraction. Often though, the rotor blades break apart due to the shear and tensile forces involved with higher winds.
Values two times the Betz limit allegedly have been recorded but not sustained. See Igar, O., Shrouds for Aerogenerators, AIAA Journal, October 1976, pp. 1481-83; Igar & Ozer, Research and Development for Shrouded Wind Turbines, Energy Cons. & Management, Vol. 21, pp. 13-48, 1981; and see the AIAA Technical Note, entitled “Ducted Wind/Water Turbines and Propellers Revisited”, authored by Applicants (“Applicants' AIAA Technical Note”), and accepted for publication. Copies can be found in Applicants' Information Disclosure Statement. Such claims however have not been sustained in practice and existing test results have not confirmed the feasibility of such gains in real wind turbine application.
To achieve such increased power and efficiency, it is necessary to closely coordinate the aerodynamic designs of the shroud and rotor with the sometimes highly variable incoming fluid stream velocity levels. Such aerodynamic design considerations also play a significant role on the subsequent impact of flow turbines on their surroundings, and the productivity level of wind farm designs.
In an attempt to advance the state of the art, ducted (also known as shrouded) concepts have long been pursued. These have consistently provided tantalizing evidence that they may offer significant benefits over those of traditional unducted design. However, as yet, none have been successful enough to have entered the marketplace. This is apparently due to three major weaknesses of current designs: (a) they generally employ propeller based aerodynamic concepts versus turbine aerodynamic concepts, (b) they do not employ concepts for noise and flow improvements, and (c) they lack a first principles based ducted wind/water turbine design methodology equivalent to the “Betz/Schmitz Theory” that has been used extensively for unducted configurations.
Ejectors are well known and documented fluid jet pumps that draw flow into a system and thereby increase the flow rate through that system. Mixer/ejectors are short compact versions of such jet pumps that are relatively insensitive to incoming flow conditions and have been used extensively in high speed jet propulsion applications involving flow velocities near or above the speed of sound. See, for example, U.S. Pat. No. 5,761,900 by Dr. Walter M. Presz, Jr, which also uses a mixer downstream to increase thrust while reducing noise from the discharge. Dr. Presz is a co-inventor in the present application.
Gas turbine technology has yet to be applied successfully to axial flow wind turbines. There are multiple reasons for this shortcoming. Existing wind turbines use non-shrouded turbine blades to extract the wind energy. As a result, a significant amount of the flow approaching the wind turbine blades flows around and not through the blades. Also, the air velocity decreases significantly as it approaches existing wind turbines. Both of these effects result in low flow through, turbine velocities. These low velocities minimize the potential benefits of gas turbine technology such as stator/rotor concepts. Previous shrouded wind turbine approaches have keyed on exit diffusers to increase turbine blade velocities. Diffusers require long lengths for good performance, and tend to be very sensitive to oncoming flow variations. Such long, flow sensitive diffusers are not practical in wind turbine installations. Short diffusers stall, and just do not work in real applications. Also, the downstream diffusion needed may not be possible with the turbine energy extraction desired at the accelerated velocities. These effects have doomed all previous attempts at more efficient wind turbines using gas turbine technology.
Accordingly, it is a primary object of the present invention to provide an axial flow wind turbine that employs advanced fluid dynamic mixer/ejector pump principles to consistently deliver levels of power well above the Betz limit.
It is another primary object to provide an improved axial flow wind turbine that employs unique flow mixing (for wind turbines) and control devices to increase productivity of and minimize the impact of its attendant flow field on the surrounding environment located in its near vicinity, such as found in wind farms.
It is another primary object to provide an improved axial flow wind turbine that pumps in more flow through the rotor and then rapidly mixes the low energy turbine exit flow with high energy bypass wind flow before exiting the system.
It is a more specific object, commensurate with the above-listed objects, which is relatively quiet and safer to use in populated areas.
A mixer/ejector wind turbine system (nicknamed the “MEWT”) for generating power is disclosed that combines fluid dynamic ejector concepts, advanced flow mixing and control devices, and an adjustable power turbine.
In the preferred embodiment, the MEWT is an axial flow turbine comprising, in order going downstream: an aerodynamically contoured turbine shroud having an inlet; a ring of stators within the shroud; an impeller having a ring of impeller blades “in line” with the stators; a mixer, attached to the turbine shroud, having a ring of mixing lobes extending downstream beyond the impeller blades; and an ejector comprising the ring of mixing lobes (e.g., like that shown in U.S. Pat. No. 5,761,900) and a mixing shroud extending downstream beyond the mixing lobes. The turbine shroud, mixer and ejector are designed and arranged to draw the maximum amount of fluid through the turbine and to minimize impact to the environment (e.g., noise) and other power turbines in its wake (e.g., structural or productivity losses). Unlike the prior art, the preferred MEWT contains a shroud with advanced flow mixing and control devices such as lobed or slotted mixers and/or one or more ejector pumps. The mixer/ejector pump presented is much different than used in the aircraft industry since the high energy air flows into the ejector inlets, and outwardly surrounds, pumps and mixes with the low energy air exiting the turbine shroud.
In this first preferred embodiment, the MEWT comprises: an axial flow wind turbine surrounded by an aerodynamically contoured turbine shroud incorporating mixing devices in its terminus region (i.e., an end portion of the turbine shroud) and a separate ejector duct overlapping but aft of said turbine shroud, which itself may incorporate advanced mixing devices in its terminus region.
In an alternate embodiment, the MEWT comprises: an axial flow wind turbine surrounded by an aerodynamically contoured turbine shroud incorporating mixing devices in its terminus region.
First-principles-based theoretical analysis of the preferred MEWT indicates that the MEWT can produce three or more time the power of its un-shrouded counterparts for the same frontal area, and increase the productivity of wind farms by a factor of two or more.
Applicants believe, based upon their theoretical analysis, that the preferred MEWT embodiment will generate three times the existing power of the same size conventional wind turbine.
Other objects and advantages of the current invention will become more readily apparent when the following written description is read in conjunction with the accompanying drawings.
FIG. 26 shows an alternate embodiment of the preferred MEWT with mixer lobes on the terminus region (i.e., an end portion) of the turbine shroud.
FIG. 27 shows the geometry and nomenclature used in a ducted power system.
FIG. 28 is a graph showing the Schmitz corrections for an unducted turbine.
FIG. 29 is a graph showing the degree of correspondence between an approximate solution and an exact solution for an equation.
FIG. 30 is a graph showing the degree of correspondence between an approximate solution and an exact solution for an equation of the maximum power for a ducted wind/water turbine.
FIGS. 31( a), 31(b), and 31(c) show related results for a ducted wind/water turbine.
FIGS. 32( a), 32(b), 32(c), and 32(d) show a basic mixer-ejector system.
FIG. 33 shows the geometry and nomenclature used in a single-stage mixer-ejector wind/water turbine system.
FIG. 34 is a graph showing the predicted Betz equivalent maximum power that can be extracted by a mixer-ejector system, a ducted system, and an unducted system.
This result is of fundamental importance to wind/water turbine design. It is used as a core element in the detailed aerodynamic design of the cross sectional shape of the turbine blade along its radius so as to guarantee the capture of the maximum power available from the total flow passing over the blade. An additional adjustment is made to the blade designs in order to account for the reduction of the captured power due to residual swirl in the flow aft of the blade, blade tip losses, and aerodynamic profile losses—all of which are referred to as the Schmitz corrections. These loss effects are reproduced here in FIG. 28 in order to highlight an important fact—to capture anywhere near the Betz power extraction limit, the turbine blades must either have numerous blades or rotate with high tip speeds, have high aspect ratio, and have high lift to drag coefficients. Virtually all existing turbines, as exemplified by those shown in Prior Art FIG. 1A, honor the aerodynamic requirements of this Betz-Schmitz analytical model.
Equations 1 thru 4 give a complete representation for power generating wind/water turbines. It remains now to first generalize these for ducted configurations and then for mixer-ejector configurations.
These equations explicitly retain the shroud/duct force, Fs, influence on flow field. The force, Fs, is generated in the current inviscid flow model through introduction of circulation about the ring airfoil formed by the shroud/duct.
These equations introduce a flow boundary condition and therein correct previously proposed and used models. In all previous applications of the one-dimensional actuator disc model to ducted wind/water turbines, the equation set was closed by imposing the pressure level as a downstream boundary condition at the duct exit plane, AD.
which enjoys a surprising wide range of applicability.
Equations 7a-7c provide a missing Betz-like core element for the detailed design of the cross sectional shape of the turbine/propeller blades so as to guarantee the capture of the maximum power available from the flow passing over the blade, as well as the basis for Schmitz-like analysis correcting the results for swirl and aerodynamic profile losses.
Most significantly, it is observed that: (a) ducted props are theoretically capable of capturing many times the power of a bare wind/water turbine and (b) there is but a single parameter, Cs, and by association the circulation about the duct, that determines the maximum power that can be extracted from the flow. This now explicit relationship that couples the design of the blades and its surrounding duct must be satisfied in order to achieve optimal power extraction. With this new model in hand, a rational approach to the design of wind/water turbines can proceed with the potential for achieving maximum power output available.
A complete set of related results are presented below and in FIGS. 31( a), 31(b), and 31(c).
and the results are shown in FIG. 31( c) for two duct area diffusion ratios.
A sophisticated and unique design system and methodology for single and multi-stage mixer-ejectors can be applied to enhance subsonic ducted power systems. It is necessary to couple the governing equations for the flow through multistage mixers to the flow field of the ducted configuration shown in FIG. 27, leading to the flow configuration shown in FIG. 33 for the case of a single stage mixer-ejector wind/water turbine system.
It is seen that mixer-ejectors significantly increase the maximum power extraction potential over that of the unducted case (Cse=0, Ae/AD=1) as well as the ducted case (0>Cse>0, Ae/AD=1). FIG. 34 indicates that levels of 2 and 3 times the bare turbine case and 70% greater than the ducted case are obtainable.
a single or multiple-stage mixer-ejector to ingest flow with each such mixer/ejector stage including a mixing duct for both bringing in secondary flow and providing flow mixing-length for the ejector stage. The mixing duct inlet contours are designed to minimize flow losses while providing the pressure forces necessary for good ejector performance.
The resulting mixer/ejectors enhances the operational characteristics of the power system by: (a) increasing the amount of flow through the system, (b) reducing the back pressure on the turbine blade, and (c) reducing the noise propagating from the system.
mixer lobes on a single stage of a multi-stage ejector system.
Referring to the drawings in detail, FIGS. 2-25 show alternate embodiments of Applicants' axial flow Wind Turbine with Mixers and Ejectors (“MEWT”).
(e) an ejector 122 comprising a shroud 128, surrounding the ring of mixer lobes (e.g., 120 a) on the turbine shroud, with a profile similar to the ejector lobes shown in U.S. Pat. No. 5,761,900, wherein the mixer lobes (e.g., 120 a) extend downstream and into an inlet 129 of the ejector shroud 128.
The center body 103 MEWT 100, as shown in FIG. 7, is preferably connected to the turbine shroud 102 through the stator ring 106 (or other means) to eliminate the damaging, annoying and long distance propagating low-frequency sound produced by traditional wind turbines as the turbine's blade wakes strike the support tower. The aerodynamic profiles of the turbine shroud 102 and ejector shroud 128 preferably are aerodynamically cambered to increase flow through the turbine rotor.
Applicants have calculated, for optimum efficiency in the preferred embodiment 100, the area ratio of the ejector pump 122, as defined by the ejector shroud 128 exit area over the turbine shroud 102 exit area will be between 1.5 and 3.0. The number of mixer lobes (e.g., 120 a) would be between 6 and 14. Each lobe will have inner and outer trailing edge angles between 5 and 25 degrees. The primary lobe exit location will be at, or near, the entrance location or inlet 129 of the ejector shroud 128. The height-to-width ratio of the lobe channels will be between 0.5 and 4.5. The mixer penetration will be between 50% and 80%. The center body 103 plug trailing edge angles will be thirty degrees or less. The length to diameter (L/D) of the overall MEWT 100 will be between 0.5 and 1.25.
First-principles-based theoretical analysis of the preferred MEWT 100, performed by Applicants, indicate: the MEWT can produce three or more time the power of its un-shrouded counterparts for the same frontal area; and the MEWT can increase the productivity of wind farms by a factor of two or more. See Applicants' AIAA Technical Note, identified in the Background above, for the methodology and formulae used in their theoretical analysis.
Based on their theoretical analysis, Applicants believe their preferred MEWT embodiment 100 will generate three times the existing power of the same size conventional wind turbine (shown in FIG. 1A).
In simplistic terms, the preferred embodiment 100 of the MEWT comprises: an axial flow turbine (e.g., stator vanes and impeller blades) surrounded by an aerodynamically contoured turbine shroud 102 incorporating mixing devices in its terminus region (i.e., end portion); and a separate ejector shroud (e.g., 128) overlapping, but aft, of turbine shroud 102, which itself may incorporate advanced mixing devices (e.g., mixer lobes) in its terminus region. Applicants' ring 118 of mixer lobes (e.g., 120 a) combined with the ejector shroud 128 can be thought of as a mixer/ejector pump. This mixer/ejector pump provides the means for consistently exceeding the Betz limit for operational efficiency of the wind turbine.
Applicants have also presented supplemental information for the preferred embodiment 100 of MEWT shown in FIGS. 2A, 2B. It comprises a turbine stage 104 (i.e., with a stator ring 106 and an impeller 110) mounted on center body 103, surrounded by turbine shroud 102 with embedded mixer lobes (e.g., 120 a) having trailing edges inserted slightly in the entrance plane of ejector shroud 128. The turbine stage 104 and ejector shroud 128 are structurally connected to the turbine shroud 102, which itself is the principal load carrying member.
The length of the turbine shroud 102 is equal or less than the turbine shroud's outer maximum diameter. The length of the ejector shroud 128 is equal or less than the ejector shroud's outer maximum diameter. The exterior surface of the center body 103 is aerodynamically contoured to minimize the effects of flow separation downstream of the MEWT 100. It may be longer or shorter than the turbine shroud 102 or the ejector shroud 128, or their combined lengths.
The turbine shroud's entrance area and exit area will be equal to or greater than that of the annulus occupied by the turbine stage 104, but need not be circular in shape so as to allow better control of the flow source and impact of its wake. The internal flow path cross-sectional area formed by the annulus between the center body 103 and the interior surface of the turbine shroud 102 is aerodynamically shaped to have a minimum area at the plane of the turbine and to otherwise vary smoothly from their respective entrance planes to their exit planes. The turbine and ejector shrouds' external surfaces are aerodynamically shaped to assist guiding the flow into the turbine shroud inlet, eliminating flow separation from their surfaces, and delivering smooth flow into the ejector entrance 129. The ejector 128 entrance area, which may be noncircular in shape (see, e.g., FIG. 25), is larger than the mixer 118 exit plane area and the ejector's exit area may also be noncircular in shape.
Optional features of the preferred embodiment 100 can include: a power take-off 130 (see FIGS. 4 and 5), in the form of a wheel-like structure, which is mechanically linked at an outer rim of the impeller 110 to a power generator (not shown); a vertical support shaft 132 with a rotatable coupling at 134 (see FIG. 5), for rotatably supporting the MEWT 100, which is located forward of the center-of-pressure location on the MEWT for self-aligning the MEWT; and a self-moving vertical stabilizer or “wing-tab” 136 (see FIG. 4), affixed to upper and lower surfaces of ejector shroud 128, to stabilize alignment directions with different wind streams.
FIGS. 14, 15 show optional flow blockage doors 140 a, 140 b. They can be rotated via linkage (not shown) into the flow stream to reduce or stop flow through the turbine 100 when damage, to the generator or other components, due to high flow velocity is possible.
FIG. 8 presents another optional variation of Applicants' preferred MEWT 100. The stator vanes' exit-angle incidence is mechanically varied in situ (i.e., the vanes are pivoted) to accommodate variations in the fluid stream velocity so as to assure minimum residual swirl in the flow exiting the rotor.
Note that Applicants' alternate MEWT embodiments, shown in FIGS. 9-23 and 26, each use a propeller-like rotor (e.g., 142 in FIG. 9) rather than a turbine rotor with a ring of impeller blades. While perhaps not as efficient, these embodiments may be more acceptable to the public.
Applicants' alternate MEWT embodiments are variations 200, 300, 400, 500 containing zero (see, e.g., FIG. 26), one- and two-stage ejectors with mixers embedded in the terminus regions (i.e., end portions) of the ejector shrouds, if any. See, e.g., FIGS. 18, 20, and 22 for mixers embedded in the terminus regions of the ejector shrouds. Analysis indicates such MEWT embodiments will more quickly eliminate the inherent velocity defect occurring in the wake of existing wind turbines and thus reduce the separation distance required in a wind farm to avoid structural damage and/or loss of productivity.
FIG. 6 shows a “two-stage” ejector variation 600 of the pictured embodiment 100 having a mixer at the terminus region of the ejector shroud.
The ejector design concepts described herein can significantly enhance fluid dynamic performance. The basic concept is as depicted in FIG. 32( a) through 32(d) and involves the use of convoluted lobed-mixers to enhance the flow through single and multi-stage ejectors. These mixer-ejector systems provide numerous advantages over conventional systems with and without ejectors, such as: shorter ejector lengths; increased mass flow into and through the system; lower sensitivity to inlet flow blockage and/or misalignment with the principal flow direction; reduced aerodynamic noise; added thrust; and increased suction pressure at the primary exit.
a water power system that automatically aligns with the water flow direction.
It should be understood by those skilled in the art that modifications can be made without departing from the spirit or scope of the invention. For example, slots could be used instead of the mixer lobes or the ejector lobes. In addition, no blocker arm is needed to meet or exceed the Betz limit. Accordingly, reference should be made primarily to the appended claims rather than the foregoing description.
mixing the reduced-energy fluid stream with the secondary fluid stream to transfer energy from the secondary fluid stream to the reduced-energy fluid stream, thereby enhancing the flow volume of the primary fluid stream passing through the turbine and increasing the amount of energy extracted.
14. The method of claim 13, wherein the turbine is a horizontal axis wind turbine.
15. The method of claim 13, wherein the means for defining a primary fluid stream is a mixer shroud having a flared inlet and a plurality of mixer lobes disposed around an outlet.
16. The method of claim 15, wherein each mixer lobe has an inner trailing edge angle and an outer trailing edge angle, the inner angle being different from the outer angle.
17. The method of claim 16, wherein the inner angle is greater than the outer angle.
18. The method of claim 16, wherein the inner angle is less than the outer angle.
19. The method of claim 16, wherein the inner angle and the outer angle are independently in the range of 5 to 25 degrees.
20. The method of claim 15, wherein each mixer lobe has an inner trailing edge angle and an outer trailing edge angle, the inner angle being equal to the outer angle.
21. The method of claim 15, further comprising forming the downstream terminus of the shroud to direct the reduced-energy primary fluid stream away from the central axis.
extending a turbine outlet into an ejector shroud inlet.
23. The method of claim 22, wherein the ejector shroud has a ring of mixer lobes around an ejector shroud outlet.
directing the bypass fluid stream toward the turbine axis and directing the primary fluid stream exiting the turbine stage away from the turbine axis, effecting energy transfer from the bypass fluid stream to the primary fluid stream, thereby enhancing the flow volume of the primary fluid stream and increasing energy extraction.
25. The method of claim 24, wherein the shroud has a flared inlet and a plurality of mixer lobes disposed around an outlet.
26. The method of claim 26, wherein each mixer lobe has an inner trailing edge angle and an outer trailing edge angle, the inner angle being different from the outer angle.
27. The method of claim 27, wherein the inner angle is greater than the outer angle.
28. The method of claim 27, wherein the inner angle is less than the outer angle.
29. The method of claim 27, wherein the inner angle and the outer angle are independently in the range of 5 to 25 degrees.
30. The method of claim 26, wherein each mixer lobe has an inner trailing edge angle and an outer trailing edge angle, the inner angle being equal to the outer angle.
mixing the reduced-energy fluid stream with the second fluid stream downstream of the shroud to permit the formation of a reduced pressure area, the reduced pressure area causing entrainment of additional fluid through the turbine.
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The NFL season kicked off Thursday at Sports Authority Field, home of the Denver Broncos. The stadium is just one of 36 that have received a total of $3.2 billion in tax breaks since 2000.
That's according to a new study from the Brookings Institution, which looked at 45 stadiums in the four major sports leagues that have been built or renovated in that time.
The stadiums were financed in part with municipal bonds, which are issued by local governments. Interest on those bonds is exempt from federal taxes.
Brookings calculates that the federal government lost $3.2 billion in tax revenue -- and $3.7 billion if you count the windfall that high-income bondholders get.
The most expensive across all leagues was baseball's Yankee Stadium, which opened in 2009 and cost $2.5 billion to build. It received a federal subsidy of $431 million, and the federal government lost a total of $492 million in potential revenue.
The NFL has built or renovated 13 stadiums using tax-exempt bonds since 2000. Major League Baseball has used bonds for 12 stadiums. The NBA has built seven stadiums with them, and the NHL has built four.
Ultimately, the study asserted, stadiums provide few economic benefits -- undercutting a main argument that teams use to persuade cities to finance stadiums.
Because the tax breaks are federal, taxpayers in Montana helped fund construction of the Cardinals stadium in Arizona. And people who live near teams are paying for stadium construction whether they're fans or not.
In order to qualify for federal tax exemption, cities and states can pay back only 10% of the bonds with money that comes from the stadium, such as ticket sales or the rent that the team pays to use the stadium.
Stadiums were largely built without federal funding until 1953. That's when baseball's Boston Braves moved to Milwaukee and got a new publicly funded stadium. Using federal money for construction became a trend, despite attempts by Congress to curb it.
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Note: This is a slightly longer version of the article that was published in Dancing USA.
Heidegger described learning as a dialectic between two states of knowing. The terms generally used in an English translation of the original German are "present-at-hand" and "ready-to-hand". Present-at-hand, or vorhanden, is an understanding of an object detached from the act of using it. Ready-to-hand, or zuhanden, is an understanding of an object in the act of using it. (Ehn 1989, p. 63) I can never keep straight which is which, so I will fit my own terms to Heidegger's concepts.
The typical example is that of a hammer. The use of a hammer can be understood separate from its use. The use of a hammer can be understood during or within its use. Thus, with separated or distanced understanding of the use of the hammer (i.e. present-at-hand), you might think "First, hold the nail just so. Second, raise the hammer 12 inches from the nail. Third, bring the hammer down with so much force. Fourth, stick finger in mouth and try not to yell." In contrast, with connected or immersive understanding (i.e. ready-to-hand), you simply act. This is a kind of knowing in which explicit rational thought gets in the way of performing the act correctly. It is like thinking of the hammer and you as a single entity, rather than thinking of the hammer as a separate tool.
Both kinds of knowing are necessary for learning to occur. Some learning is based on reinforcing your immersive understanding (i.e. repeated practice). At regular intervals, though, you need to stop and break down what you are doing in order to make significant steps forward in your skill. In dance terms, you might look at yourself on a videotape and say "Oh. My rock step is too big and that is throwing me off balance." You then need to integrate this new distanced understanding into your immersive understanding of the dance.
This dialectic process provides one description of what happens as one learns to dance where dance is an activity done alone. I believe it is also a description of the follower's learning process, but since I have limited experience as a follower, this assertion should be understood as tentative.
The main point I want to suggest here is that Heidegger's ideas can be used to explain why learning to lead is so difficult.
The leader can practice a step, break it down, and integrate the new insights. This is no different from the follower, or from dancing alone. However, during actual social dancing, the leader must be in both a distanced and an immersive state of knowing at the same time. The immersive state is necessary to fully express the dancers' emotional response to the music, and if everything is just right, to allow a transcendental state to come into being. However, the distanced state of knowing needs to be present for floorcraft. Letting your partner crash into another couple has a way of really spoiling the mood. The distanced state of knowing also needs to be present so that the leader can compose the kinds of extended patterns that can then enhance the immersive expression of the music.
It is likely that there are other activities which allow for, or demand, such dual states of knowing. Nonetheless, dance is an activity in which it is relatively easy to see the concept of dual states of knowing, and to try to put a philosophical idea to work for you.
References: Ehn, Pelle (1989). Work-Oriented Design of Computer Artifacts. Stockholm, Arbetslivscentrum.
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Al Chez was the long time trumpet player on CBS's "The Late Show With David Letterman." He was with Paul Shaffer and the Late Show for over 15 years, appearing on both CBS and NBC. Al previously has toured/played with Bon Jovi, Robert Cray, Tower ofPower, Arturo Sandoval, The Young Rascals, The Rolling Stones, David Bowie, Maynard Ferguson, Eric Clapton, and The Dave Edmunds Band.
Al has performed at 3 presidential inaugurations and traveled the world many times. He has appeared at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Inductions every year since 1986 and has performed `The Concert for New York City, The Concert of the Century, and A Very Special Christmas Concert at the White House and The Closing Ceremonies of the 1996 Summer Olympic Games. Alan has appeared numerous times at The DCI Championships lending his horn for the National Anthem and concerts.
Mr. Chez has been involved with many drum corps over the years beginning in 1969 with The Saints from New Jersey. In the late 70's early 80's Al became a marching member and soloist of The Garfield Cadets. Alan has also performed with The Bushwackers and Reading Buccaneers.
After his marching days were over, Chez became a brass and visual instructor. He was part of the team that was instrumental in winning numerous Drum Corps International Championships. Mr. Chez worked under George Zingali, Mark Sylvester, Donnie Van Doren, Dean Westman, Wayne Dillon, Jimmy Steele, Dean Musson, Tom Swan and Gino Cipriani.
Alan has also worked with the Brass lines of The Oakland Crusaders, Reading Buccaneers, The Cadets, Crossmen, The Bushwackers, Kingston Grenadiers, and Empire Statesmen. Since 2000, Alan has been on the brass staff of the Crossmen World Class Drum Corps. Chez also wrote drill for a period of time, co-writing The Bushwackers 1986 DCA Championship drill.
Mr. Chez also worked for numerous high school bands across the country and continues his work with The University of Virginia Cavalier Band. Al holds a honorary Masters Degree in music performance. He is an active clinician and speaker throughout the country. Additionally, Al is a member of The John P. Stevens Hall of Honors, Drum Corps Buglers Hall of Fame and The Cadets Hall of Fame.
Alan Chez had been involved in the drum corps activity since 1969 and intends many more years of service to this non-profit based youth development activity. Al still believes he owes this great activity and is looking to pay it forward to future generations of drum corps enthusiasts. Al is pleased to be returning for his 15th season with the Crossmen, performing the duties for 2015 as consultant for brass and music programming.
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http://www.crossmen.org/al-chez-staff
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Instagram kinda has a monopoly on the food sharing/guilt-inducing social media market. If you posted a dinner pic to Facebook everyone would be like: “Hey, is that a sonogram or poorly edited clip of political propaganda? No? Then get it out of here!” But we’re not here to talk about that, we’re going to talk about Deliciously Stella.
The moral behind the clean eating satire is to highlight how standards of perfection have shifted from unattainable heights to being rubbed in your face by people you went to secondary school with and the effects of that.
The account was launched last year and has acted as the catalyst toward live shows and a book release!
You can find the Instagram here and if you’re interested in the Deliciously Stella book, click here!
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https://www.look.co.uk/list-for-life/instagram-women-eat-unhealthy-556095
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Oslo es t' kapitel an t' biges citii o' Norwaii. T' popyulayshun es 658,390 i' 2016.
This page was last edited on 1 August 2018, at 11:20.
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Chibi Byakuya. . Wallpaper and background images in the Bleach Anime club tagged: bleach kuchiki byakuya chibi.
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http://www.fanpop.com/clubs/bleach-anime/images/33252888/title/chibi-byakuya-fanart
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LOS ANGELES, March 24, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Vinotemp, a recognized leader in the wine storage and refrigeration industry for 30 years, today announced that the industry's first Brushed Stainless Modular Under Stairs Wine Cabinet along with the new Designer Series Stainless Outdoor Refrigerator have been honored with a Platinum and Gold Award for Design Excellence (ADEX) - the largest and most prestigious awards program for product design of appliances, furniture, fixtures and finishes marketed to the design trade.
"The 2014-2015 ADEX Awards attracted upwards of 500 companies and thousands of innovative new product submissions," said John Platter, executive director of ADEX. "ADEX judges are among the A&D industry's most respected in their respective areas of expertise. The ADEX Award represents the best product and project designs of the year in the opinion of those who matter the most, and Vinotemp has earned its place among the elite ADEX group."
Vinotemp's Brushed Stainless Modular Under Stairs Wine Cabinet is a modern wine storage solution that can be specified under new and existing standard staircases, and because the unit is modular, its depth (racking for storing wine bottles one, two or three deep) and length (from two to six or even eight doors) can be customized to best accommodate varying wine collection and staircase sizes.
Vinotemp's new Designer Series Stainless Outdoor Refrigerator features an easy to clean stainless steel body and door, full-length curved door handle, and front exhaust. A soft glowing white LED interior light provides extra visibility while a well-insulated door helps to protect against outdoor elements - the door also includes extra storage space (wine bottles can easily be stored in the door).
"We enjoy pushing the envelope when it comes to providing attractive, creative, yet practical wine and beverage storage options," states President of Vinotemp, India Hynes. "Being recognized by ADEX with another Platinum award, as well as a Gold, is an honor. The esteemed recognitions serve as affirmation of the work it took to create these unique Vinotemp wine and beverage storage options."
All of the entries in each of the ADEX categories have potential for three award levels of Platinum, Gold or Silver. Judges awarded points based on form, function, value, and fitness for particular purpose. Total points earned determined each winner's award level. All Platinum, Gold and Silver level products will be published in the 2015 ADEX Winners Edition and will be featured all year on designjournalmag.com.
To learn more about Vinotemp's award-winning wine and beverage storage options, please visit www.vinotemp.com.
For 30 years Vinotemp® has manufactured custom wood wine cabinets, wine racks, wine cellars, and cooling systems and has been the leading distributor of wine coolers, beverage coolers, wine dispensers, wine accessories, and more. Close attention to market demand and non-standard ideas have resulted in Vinotemp's ability to offer diversified wine storage solutions utilized by renowned resorts, restaurants, hotels, and the yachting industry. For more information about Vinotemp contact 800-777-VINO (8466) or visit Vinotemp.com.
Find Vinotemp on Facebook.com/Vinotemp and Twitter @Vinotemp.
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2019-04-20T08:49:04Z
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https://www.cnbc.com/2015/03/24/globe-newswire-vinotemps-newest-wine-and-beverage-storage-solutions-earn-2015-awards-for-design-excellence-adex.html
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Chibale, K. 2011. Novel orally active antimalarial thiazoles.
Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, 54: 7713-7719.
Caira, M.R., Georgescu, E., Georgescu, F., Albota, F.
Caira, M.R., Dumitrascu, F., Georgescu, E., Georgescu, F.
Caira, M.R., Georgescu, E., Barbu, L., Georgescu, F.
derivatized cyclodextrins and their inclusion complexes.
Current Organic Chemistry, 15: 815-830.
Anaya, G., Land, K.M., Chibale, K. and Smith, G.S. 2011.
thiosemicarbazone complexes against Trichomonas vaginalis.
Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry, 105: 1562-1568.
adult healthy volunteers. Malaria Journal, 10(63): 1-9.
E-Structure Reports Online, E67: m1498.
Crystallographica Section E, 67:o921 (-o921 remove).
Chiririwa, H., Meijboom, R. and Omondi, B. 2011.
Section E-Structure Reports Online, E67: m1497.
Section E-Structure Reports Online, E67: m1496.
glycol. Molecular Pharmaceutics, 8: 877-888.
1,2,3-triazoles and evaluation of their antimalarial activity.
Belstein Journal of Organic Chemistry, 7: 1745-1752.
C., Trivelli, X., Kapishnikov, S., Leiserowitz, L., Dive, D.
resistance. ACS Chemical Biology, 6: 275-287.
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http://research2011.uct.ac.za/books/faculty_reports/science/files/assets/basic-html/page26.html
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Much of modern macroeconomic analysis involves an element of computation. From forecasting macroeconomic data to simulating DSGE models, macroeconomists are increasingly embracing computers as an integral part of conducting analyisis. Below you will find links to various sources of information regarding some commonly used programming languages in economics.
Kevin D. Salyer (UC Davis) posted this Introduction to Mathematica guidebook for one of his economics courses. The document walks new users through many basics such as organizing and manipulating lists, solving systems of equations, differentiation and integration, and a nice section on creating graphics.
Macro Group has conducted a computing challenge in which graduate students wrote code to solve an identical problem in multiple languages. Read more about the preliminary results here.
Aruoba and Fernandez-Villaverde (2014) solve a neoclassical stochastic growth model using value function iteration and grid search, a standard macroeconomic exercise, in multiple languages. The coding is intended to represent the “Average economist” and thus the code is not optimized for the peculiarities of each language. A link to the most current version can be found here.
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https://blogs.uoregon.edu/macrogroup/resources/programming/
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This guide is intended for all people, like webmasters and web designers, who want to integrate stereo images into web pages.
Stereoscope Applet is the most popular solution to present stereo images on the Internet! Today (31 oct 2001) more than 30 sites with more than 1500 stereo images are using Stereoscope Applet!
Stereo images are images which give a better spatial perception. In contrast to a 3D image, a stereo image gives the real depth!
Stereo images can be viewed by red/green glasses, shutter glasses, autostereoscopic display and a lot of other devices. To create a stereo image you need at least two ordinary images which are taken from two different locations. Normally these two locations are your two eyes.
Presenting stereoscopic images on the Internet is easy, but some solutions require to install special software on the client computer. That is not accepted by many users.
The web designer can choose between the standardized JPS or separate left and right eye images and Stereoscope Applet does the rest! No more preparation of red/green, interlaced and other formats is required. No more programming of several HTML pages for the different viewing methods is needed!
The web site visitors do not need to install any software! Instead they can enjoy the stereo images immediately!
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http://www.stereophotography.com/sapplet/authoring/intro.html
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Future teachers at K-State have the opportunity to expand their teaching credentials through additional endorsements. Maybe you will work in a district with a high population of English Language Learners, or you have an interest in working with students with special needs. Either way, K-State offers the courses to ensure your success in these fields.
For those who want to teach full-time in an ESL classroom or for those who just want to add the endorsement to their license.
Provisional license allows you to teach for up to 2 years in a special education classroom while working on graduate courses to complete a master’s in special education.
Elementary majors who may have interest in teaching upper levels can test up to add the middle level endorsement.
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https://coe.ksu.edu/future/endorsements.html
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Undersea Hyperb Med. 1996 Sep;23(3):185-8.
Measurement of oxygen concentration in delivery systems used for hyperbaric oxygen therapy.
Stephenson RN1, Mackenzie I, Watt SJ, Ross JA.
Department of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, University of Aberdeen Medical School, Scotland.
Efficient delivery of oxygen is important during hyperbaric oxygen therapy. We compared two systems in common use, and developed a method to ensure that O2 delivery was adequate during treatment. The systems were a demand valve system with an oral-nasal mask, and a continuously ventilated hood. Five groups were studied over two different time periods, and a further trial was undertaken to examine exhaled O2 levels. The results showed that an acceptable Fio2 could be reliably achieved only with the continuously ventilated hood system or when trained staff supervised their colleagues using the demand system. Inasmuch as the oral-nasal mask system is the standard equipment for the North Sea diving industry, this work shows the importance of ensuring that the correct dose of O2 is delivered. The study indicates, however, that identification of the problem does not always allow a complete solution, and that a hood-based system is more reliable.
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2019-04-23T16:36:57Z
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8931286
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If there were a sliding scale for store clerk helpfulness, big-box stores would be at the bottom, of course. ("What? Me a sales person? Nah. I just wear this uniform because it's cool-looking.") And Lakewood Hardware would be at the top. The owner/proprietor, Khandoo Nagar, and his two top sales people, Scott and Kevin, have a century of hardware experience between them. But that's maybe the least of it. You walk in this place holding a whatchamacallit before you in one hand like a talisman. A salesperson drifts forward wordlessly, takes it from your fingers, studies it closely, then leads you to exactly the thing you need to fix your problem. It's a good place to visit even when you don't need anything, just to remind yourself how the basic retail customer service model was supposed to work.
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2019-04-23T07:21:25Z
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https://www.dallasobserver.com/best-of/2009/shopping-and-services/best-hardware-store-6462416
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Global climate change is loading the dice, making extreme weather events like forest fires and Hurricanes even more intense. Seattle has experienced some of its rainiest and least snowy winters, its hottest and driest summers, and its highest tides on record. Learn from international experts how homeowners, new development and local government all play a role in improving Seattle's climate resilience.
Part of the Urban Innovations Speakers Series.
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2019-04-24T10:17:44Z
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http://www.seattlechannel.org/TownSquare?videoid=x82850
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Furnishing Your Home: Buying Upholstered Furniture.
dc.relation.ispartof Leaflet / Texas Agricultural Extension Service; no. 845.
dc.title Furnishing Your Home: Buying Upholstered Furniture.
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https://oaktrust.library.tamu.edu/handle/1969.1/164858?show=full
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A map made with open data shows the extent of the humanitarian emergency in the Horn of Africa.
Drought, conflict and rising food prices have put the lives of millions of people in the Horn of Africa at risk. Today, on World Humanitarian Day, citizens and governments alike are looking for ways to help victims of the East Africa drought. According to the State Department, more people than the combined populations of New York City and Houston need urgent assistance in the Horn of Africa. To understand the scope of the unfolding humanitarian disaster, explore the embedded map below.
The map was built by Development Seed using open source tools and open data. It includes estimates from the Famine Early Warning System Network (FEWS NET) and the Food Security and Nutrition Survey Unit – Somalia (FSNAU), coupled with data from the UN Office of Humanitarian Coordination and Affairs (UN OCHA). The map mashes up operational data from the World Food Program with situational data to show how resources are being allocated.
This map makes information actionable and makes its easy to see both the extent of the crisis and the response to it. It allows people to quickly find information about how to easily contribute much needed donations to support aid efforts on the ground, and see where those donations are actually going. In the Horn of Africa, the World Food Programme can feed one person for one day with just $0.50. Using this map it is possible to see what is needed budget wise to feed those in need, and how close the World Food Programme is in achieving this. Going forward, new location and shipment data will be posted in near real-time, keeping the data as accurate as possible.
Development Seed has also applied a fundamental platform principle by making it easy to spread both the data and message through social tools and embeddable code.
If you’d like to donate to organizations that are working to help people directly affected in the crisis, Interaction.org has posted a list of charities. If you’d prefer to donate directly to the World Food Program, you can also text AID to 27722 using your mobile phone to give $10 to help those affected by the Horn of Africa crisis.
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2019-04-20T14:52:55Z
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http://radar.oreilly.com/2011/08/horn-of-africa-hunger-visualization.html
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It’s been nearly ten years since Nick Harkaway kung fu kicked his way into fiction with The Gone-Away World, a Douglas Adams-esque epic that announced the arrival of an author with an imagination to die for—and a sublimely sardonic sense of humour, too. There were of course those critics quick to dismiss him when he flexed some of the same muscles a second time in the underrated Angelmaker, but his next novel, 2014’s terrific yet tragic Tigerman, showed that Harkway had more to offer than madcap shenanigans punctuated by fits of wit.
Make that much more, if Gnomon is anything to go on: it’s easily his most ambitious book, and arguably his best yet. It’s certainly his biggest. Constructed like Cloud Atlas—and at least as long—its vast canvas takes in tales of inexplicable ancient history, our appallingly prescient present and, fittingly, the far flung future, all of which orbit Gnomon’s central Orwellian thread like spy satellites on an imminent collision course.
The first is a government of the people, by the people, without intervention or representation beyond what is absolutely necessary: a democracy in the most literal sense, an ongoing plebiscite society. The second is the institution for which Britain perhaps above all other nations has always searched, the perfect police force. Over five hundred million cameras, microphones and other sensors taking information from everywhere, not one instant of it accessed initially by any human being. Instead, the impartial, self-teaching algorithms of the Witness review and classify it and do nothing unless public safety requires it.
“In the gaps where the cameras cannot scan or where the human animal is yet too wild and strange, there are the Inspectors, prosecutorial ombudsmen to the surveillance state, reviewing and considering any case that passes a given threshold of intervention.” Gnomon, in simple terms, is the story of one such Inspector investigating one such case. It falls to Mielikki Neith, “an enthusiastic proponent of both the System and the Witness,” to delve into the life and times of one Diana Hunter, an indignant opponent of the institutions Neith holds so near and dear.
“The philosophical argument the System advances in its own favour—safety and empowerment in exchange for total personal transparency—did not persuade her. Quite apparently, she saw an irreducible virtue in the right to be unobserved.” Hunter’s was thus a home stripped of the technology the Witness watches with. Alas, that in itself attracted its attention. So intent was she on remaining off the radar that the Witness was caused to wonder—in an entirely detached fashion, naturally—what she had to hide. To wit, Hunter was taken in for interrogation. For mind-reading, really, the better to see if she was guilty of sedition.
But she died before any such determination could be made.
With no other evidence to assess whether or not her death was deliberate—whether it was murder or manslaughter or merely malfeasance—Neith uses the same thought-policing procedures to relive Hunter’s experiences. “Her record should be a ragged but truthful account of her self: less a cut-glass cross section than a jellied scoop lifted from a bowl.” In the hands of the right Inspector—and Neith, at least, believes herself to be “proper police”—that should be enough to bring the case to a close. To her surprise, however, she finds not facts, but a “farrago of lies.” Rather than a record of Hunter’s own story, other, seemingly disconnected stories come to the fore.
Kyriakos the banker is both blessed and cursed by the spectre of the shark that gobbled his watch; the embittered alchemist Athenais is called upon to solve an impossible murder that took place in a chamber no-one should know she created; the Ethiopian painter Berihun Bekele reinvents himself as the art director of a massively multiplayer role-playing game that may or may not contain be the basis of the system that became the Witness; and in a star-faring future society that “to your tiny, bounded and distressingly localised self” is likely to look like a fantasy, an “aspiring serial murderer of cosmoses” plots the end of everything.
As such, the secondary texts that make Gnomon such a monolithic novel are of critical import to the enraptured reader, and picking out the pivotal parts—particularly the recurring themes and memes—is a puzzle that proves a pleasure to pursue. Too often, however, Harkaway’s hints rob us of our reward for recognising “a rare and beautiful mathematical caprice called a Markov chain: an apparently meaningful sequence in a flow of random numbers.” They make Gnomon a mite more accessible, yes, but it is not otherwise an easy read, so when answers are handed to us on pretty little platters, it cheapens an experience so rich as to be remarkable in every remaining respect.
In its cautionary characters and in its careful construction, in its incredible creativity and in its conversely very credible commentary, Harkaway’s latest is likely his greatest. As in The Gone-Away World and Angelmaker before it, the macro is simply magnificent—Gnomon bursts at the seams with appealing ideas, powerfully put, and perhaps more relevant than ever—but bolstered as it is by the micro that made Tigerman so moving at the same time as being buttressed by the author’s inquiries into the meaning of life in the digital era in The Blind Giant, this isn’t just a big, brash book about technology or horology, it’s a breathtakingly bold, barely-tamed beast of a read about being human in an increasingly alien age.
Gnomon is available from Knopf in the US and from William Heinemann in the UK.
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2019-04-18T12:18:27Z
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https://www.tor.com/2018/01/12/book-reviews-gnomon-by-nick-harkaway/
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If you have trouble figuring out how to signup for Coursera courses for free, don’t worry — here’s an article on how to do that,too.
Ever since the beginning of the artificial intelligence (AI) boom in the early 2010s, there’s been a corresponding drought in talented AI developers and researchers. The way to fix this is to educate more of them, and last week, MIT announced a $1 billion initiativeto do exactly that: it will establish a new college of computing to train the next generation of machine learning mavens.
Importantly, the college isn’t just about training AI skills. Instead, it will focus on what MIT president L. Rafael Reif calls “the bilinguals of the future.” By that, he means students in fields like biology, chemistry, physics, politics, history, and linguistics who also know how to apply machine learning to these disciplines.
Two-thirds of the planned $1 billion commitment has been raised so far, with $350 million coming from Stephen A. Schwarzman, CEO of the private equity firm Blackstone. The new college will be named after Schwarzman, and it will include 50 new faculty positions, half of which will focus solely on computer science, while the rest are jointly appointed by the college and other MIT departments. The college is scheduled to open in September 2019, and its new building is planned to be completed in 2022.
MIT is also angling the college as an ethically minded enterprise; one of its stated aims is to research “ethical considerations relevant to computing and AI.” It’s a frequent criticism of contemporary AI efforts that researchers sometimes ignore the history and lessons of the fields they are trying to “disrupt.” More collaboration should help.
It's fun when I get to include an article on my former firm. Recently, Ernst & Young LLP (EY) announced it is launching a new program to collaborate with universities and usher in the digital workforce. This program, Day One Ready, prepares students for today's real business world and connects them to potential internship opportunities. It is the newest element of the Tax practice's proprietary upskilling initiative designed to create the workforce of the future and to help EY meet the demand for digitally skilled talent. This program is an expansion of a successful pilot cooperative curriculum with the University of Dayton in Ohio.
"Our approach to staying ahead of disruption will create jobs for people in many ways," said Martin Fiore, partner, Ernst & Young LLP, and EY Americas Tax Talent Leader. "We are driving the development of the right skills for those jobs by working collaboratively with academic institutions and modifying learning at all ages and levels to develop a total workforce with the needed capabilities for the future."
The courses offered by EY to associated universities include: Lean Six Sigma; Robotics Process Automation; Excel Power Modeling; Data Analytics and Visualization; Autonomous Systems; Coding; and Mindfulness to enhance the ability for students to innovate in the future. The new curriculum is taught by a combination of university faculty, EY trainers and guest lecturers who deliver mini-courses on the most in-demand skills for future professionals, mainly consultants.
Other elements of EY's dedication to the future of work include: collaboration with more universities in 2018; changes to recruiting targets with science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) backgrounds; coursework for current employees to develop capabilities for the future; and executive-level training for digital certification. Among the upskilling programs to help current EY professionals deliver new skills and work more effectively with clients, the latest is Elite Skills Week. This week-long session of courses is held at the innovative Q Center in Chicago to develop five of the Day One Ready skills critical to the workforce of the future.
Fiore explained the change of focus on recruiting and training: "The future will be governed by predictive analytics, algorithms and artificial intelligence. Our strategy is to shift the workforce, adjust hiring and evolve learning programs with technology-enabled processes, chatbots, and critical thinking. Our curriculum is far from static and will gradually include more advanced learning that helps our people to understand, use and innovate our services with each generation of digital disruptors. We will continue to have new and exciting job opportunities and are willing to help develop people to bring the right skills."
While blockchain adoption remains slow, industries including finance, manufacturing, and healthcare are exploring the developing technology's potential to create business advantages like reduced operational costs, faster transaction speeds, and more secure records.
An estimated 1,520 blockchain startup companies are now looking for workers, along with a number of corporations like IBM and Microsoft. As the market continues to grow, more lucrative career options will open up for those who are skilled in the various blockchain technologies.
Here are six of the best blockchain jobs on the horizon, according to the report.
1. Blockchain Project Manager.Companies are interested in developing blockchain solutions and will need to communicate their needs to a blockchain development firm. Project managers will be required to manage and facilitate these projects, especially as companies take on more clients. The project manager will be responsible for translating the company's needs into technical language, and the blockchain developers' needs into plain English. They are also tasked with planning and supervising the execution of the blockchain project.
3. Blockchain Quality Engineer.A blockchain quality engineer is responsible for all areas of quality in the development environment, including automation frameworks and tests, manual testing, and dashboards. This professional is typically responsible for planning and delivery of complex blockchain projects, as well as developing, applying, and maintaining QA automated test standards.
4. Blockchain Legal Consultant/Attorney. Many attorneys working in tech have reported getting more calls from potential clients seeking advice about how to structure and govern cyber currency Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs) as well as on the issues they may face as they launch blockchain and fintech projects. The need for legal professionals to guide these projects will only grow as the technology matures.
5. Blockchain Designer. Companies will need designers to create websites that inform customers what they offer in the blockchain space. For example, a recent job posting for a user interface (UI) designer wanted a professional who could create a UI design with Sketch, PS, and Figma that would work in both mobile and web applications. These professionals should also have excellent communications skills, and be able to work with content, operations, and marketing teams.
6. Blockchain Engineer.This year, there were 14 open jobs for every one blockchain developer or engineer. These professionals are responsible for creating and implementing digital solutions for companies using the blockchain. Engineers must study the blockchain tech needs of their company and create the applications to meet those needs. They should be skilled in Java, Hyperledger Fabric, Ripple, Solidity, Python, Bitcoin, Oracle Identity, and access management solutions.
A new, low-cost technology could provide drinking water in regions where resources are scarce, or where natural disasters have struck.
Scientists have developed a new technology that uses the sunlight to purify water with near-perfect efficiency.
The idea of using energy from the sun to evaporate and purify water was reportedly described by Greek philosopher Aristotle over 2,000 years ago.
By draping black, carbon-dipped paperin a triangular shape and using it to both absorb and vaporize water, researchers have developed a method for using sunlight to generate clean water with near-perfect efficiency.
“Our technique is able to produce drinking water at a faster pace than is theoretically calculated under natural sunlight,” said Qiaoqiang Gan, an associate professor at the University at Buffalo in New York.
“Usually, when solar energy is used to evaporate water, some of the energy is wasted as heat is lost to the surrounding environment. This makes the process less than 100% efficient. Our system has a way of drawing heat in from the surrounding environment, allowing us to achieve near-perfect efficiency,” said the associate professor.
Researchers have launched a startup, Sunny Clean Water, to bring the invention to people who need it. The company is integrating the new evaporation system into a prototype of a solar still, a sun-powered water purifier.
Solar stills have been around for a long time. These devices use the sun’s heat to evaporate water, leaving salt, bacteria, and dirt behind.
Then, the water vapor cools and returns to a liquid state, at which point it’s collected in a clean container.
The technique has many advantages. It is simple, and the power source — the sun — is available just about everywhere. However, even the latest solar still models are somewhat inefficient at vaporizing water.
Researchers addressed this challenge by increasing the efficiency of their evaporation system by cooling it down.
A central component of their technology is a sheet of carbon-dipped paper that is folded into an upside-down “V” shape, like the roof of a birdhouse.
The bottom edges of the paper hang in a pool of water, soaking up the fluid like a napkin. At the same time, the carbon coating absorbs solar energy and transforms it into heat for evaporation.
The paper’s sloped geometry keeps it cool by weakening the intensity of the sunlight illuminating it. Since most of the carbon-coated paper stays under room temperature, it can draw in heat from the surrounding area, compensating for the regular loss of solar energy that occurs during the vaporization process.
Using this set-up, researchers evaporated the equivalent of 2.2 liters of water per hour for every square meter of area illuminated by the regular sun, higher than the theoretical upper limit of 1.68 liters, according to the new study.
The team conducted its tests in the lab, using a solar simulator to generate light at the intensity of one regular sun.
“Most groups working on solar evaporation technologies are trying to develop advanced materials, such as metallic plasmonic and carbon-based nanomaterials,” Professor Qiaoqiang said.
“We focused on using extremely low-cost materials and were still able to realize record-breaking performance,” he said.
"The world is rapidly running out of computing capacity", Satya Nadella said at the World Economic Forum in Davos. The head of tech giant Microsoft warned that superfast quantum computers were needed to solve some of the most difficult problems.
Mr. Nadella cited the quest to create a catalyst that can absorb carbon, in order to help tackle climate change.
This, he cautioned, would likely not be achieved without an increase in computer processing power.
"Moore's Law is kinda running out of steam," Mr. Nadella told assembled delegates, referring to the maxim that the power of computer chips doubles every two years.
The Microsoft chief executive also took aim at so-called "re-skilling programs", calling them "one of the greatest wastes of money".
Such schemes, which are designed to retrain those whose professions have been lost to globalization or automation, are often "done without a true understanding of where the labor market is going," Mr. Nadella argued.
Instead, the India-born chief executive, who took over at the helm of Microsoft in 2014, said that reforming school curriculums was of paramount importance.
"We can, with some certainty, say that we will need more people graduating from our schools who will need to be comfortable with these augmented realities," he predicted.
"The fact that most curricula in schools still don't recognize computer science like they do math or physics is just crazy."
Mr. Nadella added: "We need middle school teachers of computer science of the highest quality."
He also emphasized that artificial intelligence, on which Microsoft is increasingly focused, could be a part of the solution to joblessness, rather than merely its cause.
Earlier, Klaus Schwab, the man behind the World Economic Forum, called for leading tech executives to consider the disruption that their products may cause to economic, political and social life.
"If we act now," Mr. Schwab said, "we have the opportunity to ensure that technologies - such as artificial intelligence - sustainably and meaningfully improve the lives and prospects of as many people as possible."
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2019-04-21T22:39:06Z
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https://rickrichardsoncpa.weebly.com/blog/category/education
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This event is registered to Kincardine Scottish Festival and the User ID for this account is 5193969300. The email address that has control of this account is ki∗∗∗ @ bmts.com. You must login with User ID 5193969300 to update this event.
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2019-04-21T16:13:29Z
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https://festivalnet.com/31295/Kincardine-Ontario/Ethnic-Festivals/Kincardine-Scottish-Festival-Highland-Games
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Royal fans will soon be able to see Princess Eugenie's two wedding dresses up close.
A Royal Wedding: HRH Princess Eugenie and Mr Jack Brooksbank is set to open at Windsor Castle's state apartments on 1 March. The exhibition will show Eugenie's stunning bridal gown, designed by Peter Pilotto and Christopher De Vos, alongside her blush-coloured evening dress created by Zac Posen.
The emerald tiara lent to the bride by the Queen and the groom's black and grey morning suit made by Savile Row tailors, Huntsman, will also be included.
The special exhibit aims to give visitors a chance to view the detail and craftsmanship involved in the creation of the bride and groom's outfits following their nuptials on 12 October last year. And there's no doubt that Eugenie's dress, with its fitted bodice and full-pleated skirt, is the star of the show.
The fabric was created with symbols that are meaningful to the bride and groom, including the White Rose of York and ivy, representing the newlyweds home, Ivy Cottage. Eugenie also requested a low back on the portrait-neckline gown, so that the scar from surgery she underwent aged 12 to correct scoliosis could be seen.
In a recording made for visitors, Eugenie explains: "I had always wanted a low back, part of it was showing my scar. I believe scars tell a story about your past and your future and it’s a way of getting rid of a taboo. For me it’s a way of communicating with people who are going through either similar situations with scoliosis or having a scar of their own they are trying to deal with."
Of course, the display wouldn't be complete without the Greville Emerald Kokoshnik Tiara that the bride borrowed from her grandmother. Originally made in 1919, this will be the first time it has been exhibited in its history. Eugenie's diamond and emerald drop earrings, which were a gift from her new husband, will be featured alongside the impressive headpiece.
Also on show is the striking Ralph & Russo made of honour outfit worn by Princess Beatrice, plus the clothing worn by bridesmaid, Theodora Williams, and pageboy, Louis de Givenchy. Their sweet outfits were made by the London-based children’s designer Amaia Kids.
The exhibition comes after the Duke and Duchess of Sussex's wedding outfits were shown in Windsor last autumn. This display closed on 6 January, but if you missed seeing Meghan's dress, it will be open at the Palace of Holyroodhouse from 14 June to 6 October 2019.
A Royal Wedding: HRH Princess Eugenie and Mr Jack Booksbank is part of a visit to Windsor Castle from 1 March to 22 April 2019.
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2019-04-22T02:32:11Z
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https://www.harpersbazaar.com/uk/bazaar-brides/a26248741/princess-eugenie-jack-brooksbank-wedding-outfits-windsor-castle/
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McVey, Kuniko Yamada (2000) "Report on the Third Japanese Studies Librarians Training," Journal of East Asian Libraries: Vol. 2000 : No. 120 , Article 9.
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2019-04-20T12:57:32Z
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https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/jeal/vol2000/iss120/9/
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Thanks to alert reader Kit La Touche, I’ve now seen the actual article from Quentin Atkinson. It has lots of statistical detail, but doesn’t really answer my objections. There’s nothing at all about the sampling problem, nothing about historical trends if any in phoneme size, nothing to indicate he realizes that the Bantu explosion basicially erases most of African language diversity.
Plus, though he mentions the idea that modern population size can’t be projected into the past, he doesn’t seem to realize that it may be entirely uncorrelated with ancient (> 15,000 years) population sizes. E.g. Mandarin doesn’t have a billion speakers today because it was a particularly large tribe in 13,000 BC. For most of our existence we were hunter-gatherers, and most languages probably didn’t exceed 500 speakers, except when a tribe could expand into virgin territory.
Here’s his languages, which he gets from the WALS survey. I was worried that he was overrepresenting the Polynesian languages, but it seems not. On the other hand, some areas are strangely thin. There can’t be many Khoisan languages there, and quite a few areas are worryingly sparse: India, East Africa, southern Australia, North America.
At one point he contrasts an analysis based on families, which suggests Africa as the origin, with one based on individual languages, which narrows it down to sub-Saharan Africa, especially the west. But dude, look at your map; you only have four data points in northern Africa, and only four on the east coast.
And here’s his actual scatterplot, with legend. That’s an awfully, well, scattered distribution; note that his own analysis suggests that the distance from Africa accounts for just 19% of the variation.
I finished Dead Space last night, and learned today that my friend Tieboy a.k.a Chris (here is his shiny new blog) hasn’t played it. Ha ha, Chris, I’ve played a game you haven’t! Also, in the few moments you actually see Isaac Clarke’s face, he looks a lot like Chris.
I really liked it; it’s about the best single-player shooter since Half-Life 2. (That is, I’m excluding RPGs like the Bethesda and Bioware games.) It’s really good at the horror element… the necromorphs are creepy, even more so because you can see that they are ex-humans. And even more than HL2 they nail the scariness of living a nightmare– you pause before entering any new area or more open area and make sure you’ve reloaded, because bad things are out there. Things jump out at you; things scuttle around on the ceiling and hunt you; things re-appear in areas you’d cleared. And it’s pretty cool that the game does not pause when you check inventory or the map.
It loses on the comparison to HL2 in terms of writing and plausibility. Every chapter is of the form “Someone makes Isaac wander through monster-infected areas of the ship to fix or fetch things that are scattered as widely as possible.” Take that asteroid up there. That’s your rescue beacon. OK, sure, but why? Why not, you know, a little rocket? Or, there’s one section where you have to blow up incoming asteroids. Why park this ship in an orbit where random debris will destroy it in three minutes if you don’t have a cannon constantly operating? Or, you have to go fetch some nav cards, because… jeez, I have no idea, what is a nav card? These things are not terrible; I just think Valve is better at making the levels seem like a coherent story.
I ended up relying almost entirely on the plasma cutter and pulse rifle. I didn’t need anything else on Easy, and I never could figure out a use for the contact beam, and I never found a line gun. I still kind of don’t like the upgrade system… you basically can only fully upgrade one item, a system which discourages experimentation.
Oh, and not being able to save when you like is dumb. You don’t restart at your last savepoint when you die anyway, so what would be the problem with being able to save at any time you are not in combat?
For variety, there are zero-g and occasional no-air environments, plus a stasis module that slows devices or monsters down (this is fun, though there are times you are screwed if you’re low on charges for it), plus a kinesis module (which is pretty much a gravity gun). I think the zero-g sections would have been more fun if Isaac didn’t have magnetic boots; as it is he’s still walking on a surface, which doesn’t exactly feel zero-g.
My major complaint is with the overall plot. I finished the game thinking what the hell? (SPOILERS AHEAD.) For one thing, I’m not sure it’s a great idea to undermine your avatar… Isaac sees his girlfriend Nicole several times, only she’s dead (as we learn in a really disturbing movie). But she was, well, helping him with electronics, in one case across a hallway Isaac can’t jump across… what is supposed to have been happening there?
I see her too, shes right there!
And then there’s the Marker. You’re told you have to bring it back to the planet in order to stop the plague, and because Isaac does everything he’s told, he does. Then his shipmate Kendra starts taking it back, because she’s a scumbag and wants it for… um… something. And then you defeat the Hive Mind another way, never replacing the Marker. So was it important or not? Was moving the marker back a good idea, or a horrible idea, or a complete red herring? I have no idea.
Well, here’s the article in the Economist, and the scientific paper.
The short version is, a professor at the University of Auckland in New Zealand has taken about 500 modern languages and applied the theory of the founder effect to them, positing that the most recently diverged languages will have fewer phonemes than older languages. The finding is that language originated somewhere in Africa, big surprise. This sounds an awful lot like another attempt at “mass comparison” to me, so I thought I’d ask what a real internet linguist thinks of the issue. Do phonemes even exhibit the founder effect? I thought that was mainly something that happened with entire words, not fundamentals of words.
Unfortunately the Science article is subscriber-only, so I’m relying on the Economist summary. And from that, it looks barmy to me. But for all I know, the real article addresses my concerns.
It has been known for a while that the less widely spoken a language is, the fewer the phonemes it has.
How firmly do we ‘know’ this? The highest number of phonemes are found in some Khoisan languages, with very small numbers of speakers; the Caucasian languages are also notoriously consonant-happy. Languages vary so much that sampling is a real issue. Atkinson is taking 504 languages; that’s about 1/10 of the total. Is that a random sample? Almost certainly not; as I’ve found in researching my numbers list, getting information about all languages is a very difficult project. So very likely he’s using the most readily available sources— which are going to be biased toward the most spoken languages. That’s pretty much guaranteed to screw up looking at the # phonemes /# speakers correlation, as several thousand less-studied, low-#-speaker languages are left out.
Here’s a paper that discusses the supposed correlation more closely; note that the researcher uses the UPSID database, which will be subject to the most-studied problem; also that the actual scatterplots are very loose; the correlation may be significant but it’s obviously not the most significant factor.
So, as groups of people ventured ever farther from their African homeland, their phonemic repertoires should have dwindled, just as their genetic ones did.
OK, forget population size then. It looks like all he did was plot # phonemes vs. distance from Africa anyway. But his thesis depends on the idea that number of phonemes decreases over time. First, how could this be tested by looking at contemporary languages anyway? He has to be asserting that somehow African languages preserve their phonemes more… why would they? Do the phonemes get lost in transit?
Do languages really lose phonemes over time? To evaluate that we have to look at language over time, not over geographic areas. As just one data point, Latin had about 24 phonemes; French has about 38. Old English had about 32, modern English around 39. I’d be really surprised if there were actually a strong tendency to lose phonemes over time. We’ve been speaking for 50,000 years; if there were such a tendency we should all have languages with minimal inventories, like Rotokas. I would expect there to be countervailing tendencies that restore the number of phonemes.
Charlie Stross has been answering questions on his blog. I like Stross for taking reasoned, often contrarian positions on SF conundrums, and one of his answers was particularly arresting. Someone asked what he’d do if he had an AI at his disposal for one hour which could think ten lifetimes’ worth of thoughts.
But (as he says in the ellipses) it’s not just scale; it’s that thinking isn’t the only thing you need to do in science… and therefore that a thinking machine is not what it’s cracked up to be. A research team doesn’t sit down and think for years on end; it has to go out at least sometimes to test hypotheses, build prototypes, gather data. Even a theoretical physicist has to wait for theories to be tested to see what trains of thought are reasonable.
All of this makes me more comfortable in my assertion that human-level AIs are a bad idea. Something sitting in a box thinking is not a replacement for human beings, and not even that useful if it can retain computer-like speeds even as it handles human-level intelligence.
Yglesias has an excellent reminder not to get too excited about long-term budget plans. We have a long-term problem and the obvious solution is a long-term plan. But the obvious solution is wrong. Nothing Congress does today will determine what the budget is in 2031, because Congress can override that in 2021-2030.
That’s part of why Ryan’s plan is such a cheat: it hands $3 trillion in cuts to the rich right now, to be paid for by vague spending cuts ten years down the road. Seriously, you’re a Congressman in 2031 and seniors are howling about Ryan’s benefit cuts: you’re going to be constrained by Ryan-from-20-years-ago? Certainly not, any more than Ryan feels constrained by anything Congress did in 1991.
This isn’t speculation, it’s just history. We had a balanced budget in 2000, carefully established after years of work by Clinton and his congressional allies. It was destroyed in a few short years by his successor.
The paradox is that if Congress does nothing, then we actually come close to a balanced budget. Bush’s deficit-pumping tax cuts are scheduled to expire in 2012; we’re leaving Iraq; there are other things like the ‘doc fix’ that would expire if Congress didn’t act. Doing nothing is not the best plan; the irony is that it’s better than what is likely to actually get enacted, because the Republicans are going to insist on worsening the deficit with tax cuts.
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2019-04-19T13:11:40Z
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https://zompist.wordpress.com/2011/04/page/2/
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Games
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Xiaoshan Xu, assistant professor of physics and astronomy at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, is using a $750,000 award from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Early Career Research Program to develop a novel approach that could advance the field of spintronics.
For many people, it doesn’t get much better than modern electronic devices such as smartphones and computers. With a few taps of the finger, we can chat with friends, get a Lyft or skim restaurant reviews at what feels like breakneck speed.
But according to Nebraska’s Xiaoshan Xu, the devices of the future will be even faster, cheaper and more energy-efficient, thanks to a rapidly evolving field called spintronics. He’s using a $750,000 award from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Early Career Research Program to develop a novel approach that could advance basic research in this area.
Today’s devices operate by measuring electrons’ charges — positive or negative — as they move through circuits. Spintronics exploits charge, too, but it also capitalizes on another property of electrons: their spin, a characteristic that makes them act like very small magnets. Spin can be “up” or “down.” When enough electrons’ spins are in sync, all up or all down, they create magnetic fields that are measured and stored as information.
A major advantage of spintronics is that by manipulating both spin and charge, information processing and storage are faster and more compact. Spin-based devices are also more energy-efficient because electron spin can be maintained even after a power source is turned off.
But there are hurdles to clear before spin-based electronics become a reality, and Xu said he’s determined to use his research to address them.
Xu’s team is tapping into resources at Nebraska’s Materials Research Science and Engineering Center (MRSEC) to engineer ultrathin layers of croconic acid, which can be sandwiched between two magnetic layers to form a three-layer spin valve that turns electricity on and off in a spin-based device. When the magnetic layers align, electrical current passes through the valve. When the magnets are oppositely positioned, the current is blocked.
The valve isn’t a new idea, and it parallels the function of a transistor in conventional electronics. But researchers have long struggled to control spin as electrons move through the middle layer, Xu said. Using croconic acid addresses that problem because it’s ferroelectric: its properties change when exposed to an external electric field.
This means that by applying a certain electric voltage to the valve, his team can control electrons’ spin as they travel. This avoids the need to apply a magnetic field, which has a similar effect but uses much more power.
Croconic acid also combats another persistent problem in spintronics: short spin lifetime, which means electrons can’t carry information very far. The acid’s lightweight atoms — oxygen, carbon and hydrogen — and its highly organized crystal structure limit interference with spin, lengthening its duration. This translates to longer-distance travel for spin, a prerequisite for more complex applications.
Using croconic acid is novel, Xu said, because it’s an organic, or carbon-based, material. Organics are cheaper, lighter and more flexible than their inorganic counterparts. Xu’s team is showing that organics can be produced in large quantities in very thin sheets, paving the way for their widespread use in spin-based devices.
Xu credits his partnership with MRSEC, funded by the National Science Foundation, for enabling him to engineer the materials of the future.
The DOE Early Career Research Program supports exceptional scientists early in their careers, when many scientists do their most formative work. The program, now in its ninth year, is designed to boost the nation’s scientific workforce.
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2019-04-26T16:46:00Z
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https://news.unl.edu/newsrooms/today/article/xu-earns-early-career-award-to-advance-next-gen-electronics/
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As part of the Dome Replacement Project, the Legislative Council authorized copper to be saved for art projects that would be designed specifically for the State House. A special committee, the State House Copper Reuse Project Committee was formed from legislators, artists, the Maine Arts Commission and others to select the artwork that would be displayed in the State House.
The first of the art projects has been completed and is hanging above the Law Library door. This project is entitled Outside In by Judith Allen of Portland, Maine. Ms. Allen is a visual artist and printmaking instructor and professor. She has taught printmaking, drawing and sculpture at the University of Maine at Augusta, the University of Southern Maine and the Maine College of Art. Some of her recent work has been exhibited at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Portland, Maine and the University of New England in Portland, Maine.
The second art project has been installed in the main lobby as you exit the building. Artist Jim Creighton has created what he has entitled White Pine Trees in Silhouette. After working as a cabinetmaker in Boston for a decade, Mr. Creighton moved with his family to Maine in 2011. Since that time he has returned to art making, pursuing public art projects as well as maintaining a studio practice in Brunswick. Originally trained as a sculptor, Mr. Creighton creates 2 dimensional and 3 dimensional works in a variety of materials. His works often include representations of nature while exploring the nature of representation.
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2019-04-18T14:46:34Z
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http://legislature.maine.gov/execdir/copper-reuse-art-projects/9510
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Arts
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europa
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Recent consumers' research conducted by GfK has shown that European consumers have a low to limited knowledge of the ingredients and nutritional values of alcoholic beverages. We also know that consumers' knowledge of ingredients and nutritional values varies across alcoholic beverages, with beer being relatively well known compared to other drinks. Research has further shown that an increasing number of consumers are using off-label information platforms (such as websites, mobile applications, etc.) to look for such information in addition to what's on the label.
Regulation 1169/2011 on Food Information to Consumers adopted in 2011 (entering into force fully in 2016) foresees that, whilst alcoholic beverages up to 1.2% abv and other food and drink items must indicate the list of ingredients and nutritional values, alcoholic beverages of more than 1.2% abv are not under an EU-wide obligation to do so. Under current rules, alcoholic beverages may share such information on a voluntary basis as long as general rules laid down in Reg. 1169/2011 are followed.
By committing to share ingredients and energy information across Europe, AB InBev goes beyond what required by EU regulation at the time of the pledge. AB InBev commits to share such information on-label for at least 80% of our volume across Europe by February 2018 and include full nutrition information (Big 7) on secondary non-returnable packaging; in addition, we will provide full ingredients and nutrition information online. The extended timeline allows new labels to be created and produced as part of the new packaging cycles.
The objective of the commitment is to increase consumers' knowledge of our beers' ingredients and nutritional values. We believe consumers have a right to know what's in their beers and we want to provide adequate information to consumers both on-label and online.
The commitment will develop consumers' knowledge of beer ingredients and nutritional values using the best ways to inform consumers. This will help implement the priority area "Develop efficient common approaches to provide adequate consumer information"
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2019-04-21T10:11:01Z
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https://webgate.ec.europa.eu/sanco/heidi/eahf/commitment/view/1720
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Health
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cvut
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Wu, T., The SRP Authentication and Key Exchange System September 2000.
Carlson, J.; et al., EAP SRP-SHA1 Authentication Protocol. July 2001.
Paul Mackerras (paulus@samba.org), based on earlier work by Drew Perkins, Brad Clements, Karl Fox, Greg Christy, and Brad Parker.
3b. The name(s) of the authors of this software must not be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without prior written permission.
4. Redistributions of any form whatsoever must retain the following acknowledgements: "This product includes software developed by Computing Services at Carnegie Mellon University (http://www.cmu.edu/computing/)." "This product includes software developed by Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>". "This product includes software developed by Pedro Roque Marques <pedro_m@yahoo.com>". "This product includes software developed by Tommi Komulainen <Tommi.Komulainen@iki.fi>".
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2019-04-19T00:41:05Z
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https://jlk.fjfi.cvut.cz/arch/manpages/man/pppd.8
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Recreation
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american
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We are saddened to lose Johnson's Florist and Garden Center as a tenant as well as a neighborhood fixture at their Tenleytown location. We have tremendous respect for them as a family and as a local business that has been part of the community fabric.
With a deep understanding of their meaning to the community, American University has worked tirelessly to keep Johnson's as a tenant, particularly over the last three years. We have made significant concessions over a long period of time that we would not have made for other commercial tenants. Moreover, we were unable to balance their needs for space and building access with the needs of other tenants, such as medical facilities that receive supplies to treat children and expectant families.
Unfortunately, the changing demographics and purchasing habits of the Washington, DC consumer market also have made it difficult for a full-service garden center to be viable in a smaller urban location while keeping pace with fair market rates for retail space.
We truly wish the Johnson family the best in the future.
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2019-04-26T06:00:09Z
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https://www.american.edu/communityrelations/johnsons-florist-closure-open-letter.cfm
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Business
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wordpress
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Earlier this month, we went to our old college town for the first time since I left 23 years ago. We were there to see some people in our family, but for me, not really. I was very much looking forward to seeing how the college had survived without me. Clearly they had the funds to improve it, because there were like 50 new buildings, it now had a food court, and a brand new gym with like 10 new full sized basketball courts.
So yeah, I guess it did okay without me. The town that housed the college, however, had not changed AT ALL. It’s the same little podunk, rinky dink, cow town it was before. It’s like they didn’t even acknowledge that this amazing college that was thriving and growing, changing and advancing right in front of their faces. The town could have capitalized on the 30,000 students that were right there, willing give massive amounts of money to a restaurant or a mall or a any number of amazing businesses, that catered to them even one bit, but it seemed like they didn’t really care.
Anyways, we had to stay in a hotel while we were there, but we couldn’t seem to find one for under $170. We finally sucked it up and paid the exorbitant fee. I figured it had a pool and free continental breakfast, so it wouldn’t be that bad. It was bad. I wouldn’t have paid $30 for this hotel. It was the absolute worst.
I had some leftovers that my wife got me, but didn’t have the time to eat because I was driving. So my son and I decided to go downstairs and ask the front desk for some salt. We waited behind a guy that asked if they had a room that night. He said no. Didn’t help him find another place, or offer any suggestions. Finally the guy just asks if he can use his phone. He pulls out a rotary phone.
We finally get to talk to the “concierge”.
Do you have any salt? Nope.
Are you sure? I see that you have a breakfast area right behind us.
Wow, thanks for going out of your way there.
The next morning at 6:30 am, we get up for breakfast. When we get there, dozens of people are already there. I am flabbergasted by the enthusiasm for continental breakfast. I don’t know if it is because it is free, but if you’ve ever been to a continental breakfast, it usually isn’t that great. They usually have some day old eggs, some super sweet orange juice and a toaster for crappiest week grain bread. I’ve had better breakfasts at boy scout camps and they are known for burning water.
Yet, there people are in droves. Devouring every little morsel of bread, every bad flavored yogurt and practically knocking each other over for a half pint of milk and snack sized cereal packet. Breakfast they would never allow in their own homes, but all of a sudden in a hotel, they think of the continental breakfast as the greatest thing since sliced bagels.
Oh look, they are RIGHT THERE!
I will never understand the enthusiasm for continental breakfasts. On the other hand, they do have salt packets here. OH YOU DON’T HAVE SALT PACKETS HERE? THEY ARE RIGHT HERE. ALL YOU HAD TO DO WAS WALK ACROSS THE LOBBY AND YOU COULD HAVE PICKED ONE UP FOR ME YOU STUPID FRONT DESK ‘CONCIERGE’!
So yeah, totally worth all $170 for the night.
Looks like you learned some new lessons at your old college: Pack your own salt, sleep in a tent, and eat at IHOP. Also, to avoid a continental breakfast, you should visit an island next time.
I will never learn my lesson. You can take that to the bank. I have a talent for not learning from my mistakes.
I always keep salt, pepper and frankfurters in my pocket for just such an emergency… It works out okay except I’m constantly being followed by dogs….
That sounds awesome. I bet those hot dogs come in handy when you want to keep everyone away from you, which, of course, I do.
LOL! If you haven’t watched it yet, Google “Key and Peele Continental Breakfast.” I’ll have what I’m having!
That sounds amazing. I think I will go do that right now. I’m sure they stole that skit from my blog that I just thought of a month ago too.
I just watched it and it describes the enthusiasm of everyone else there except me. I think the only reason I didn’t like it was because I am bitter.
Continental breakfasts are worthless. I’d rather eat at a local place and get what I want!
I’d rather eat out of my kitchen when the fridge and the cupboard are bare. They have the worst food and I wouldn’t even feed mosquitos that stuff.
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2019-04-19T19:03:11Z
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https://bensbitterblog2.wordpress.com/2018/07/31/continental-breakfast-bitterness/
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MACHESNEY PARK, Ill. (WIFR) He went undefeated as a junior at Winnebago on his way to a state championship, now Trace Engelkes is trading the wrestling mat for the octagon.
Engelkes will make his mixed martial arts debut on Aug. 4 in Island Lake, Illinois at XFO's Outdoor War 14.
The 24-year old has trained for the last three months at Northern Illinois Combat Club in Machesney Park. He recently took some time off to help coach Team Illinois to a pair of national championships in freestyle and Greco-Roman wrestling at the U.S. Marines Cadet & Junior Nationals.
He is one of a handful of wrestlers to make the move to MMA. Hononegah graduate Corey Anderson is finding success in the UFC and Stillman Valley's Tom Holder had his first fight with Bellator last year. He believes the sport of mixed martial arts is on the rise in the Stateline.
"With the transcendence of MMA internationally and on a national level, you'll those in local areas too, it just might take a little longer," said Engelkes.
"I really think we're starting to see it in the Rockford area now where MMA is getting bigger and bigger, jiu-jitsu is getting bigger and bigger. All these combat sports are really starting to flourish a little bit with the help of the UFC taking off and Bellator taking off."
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2019-04-20T12:49:15Z
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https://www.wifr.com/content/sports/Former-Winnebago-wrestling-state-champion-set-to-make-MMA-debut-488960131.html
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There are literally no words to describe how awesome this is (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6D5xpCgETk). Its NWA so it has a fair bit of language.
As a bonus here are some nerds on cellos playing The Final Countdown (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IliwQImJrYE).
I loved the Countdown. That was cool. Thanks for the link.
'NWA' <-- Disgusting acronym. Have no desire to listen to anything related to a group that refers to itself as such.
Never heard the original, so "best" or "worst" cover is lost on me.
Is that Carlton from Fresh Prince?
I think that would be a no.
But what does Northwest Airlines have to do with this?
I'd rather listen to Sinead O'Conner's I am Stretched on Your Grave (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iiGHGSsczjg). It has the same electric drum beat.
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2019-04-26T12:42:10Z
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https://absolutewrite.com/forums/archive/index.php/t-155498.html?s=6a0d690cfc4c4de0014313664f6e0c5b
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Arts
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‘TIS the season to indulge and that is exactly what Sheraton Imperial Kuala Lumpur Hotel believes as it rolls out exclusive Christmas and New Year menus for three of its restaurants.
A tour through the different interpretations of Christmas dining starts off with classic Christmas meals, woven in with the sweetness of berries in Essence’s “Berryful” buffet, followed by an authentic taste of hearty Italian festivities at the Tuscany-inspired Villa Danieli restaurant.
For an Oriental-type dining experience, diners can enjoy speciality Cantonese cuisine set menu for Christmas Eve dinner or have Christmas dim sum brunch at Celestial Court restaurant.
Picking out a few dishes from the many highlights of the three dining options was a difficult task.
Sheraton Imperial Kuala Lumpur Hotel‘s executive chef Kamaruddin Adnin (left) and di Stefano preparing Villa Danieli‘s Christmas main course, a turkey roulade stuffed with dry fruit, nuts, grilled spinach, gnocchi with turkey and cranberry jus.
Among the starters are a succulently grilled scallop dish with Jerusalem artichoke, confit porcini mushrooms and crispy bacon called Capesante alla Griglia.
There is also crunchy fried turkey wonton topped off with a cocktail made up of three types of melons and served with wasabi mayonnaise and crispy ginger.
However, as main courses go, Villa Danieli’s turkey roulade stand out.
Brought in by the restaurant’s head chef Gaetano di Stefano, the dish is a unique Sicilian recipe of turkey stuffed with dried fruits and nuts such as apricots and pistachios.
It is combined with grilled spinach gnocchi made up of potato, parmesan cheese, eggs and flour, cooked in butter and drizzled with turkey cranberry jus.
Terrina di Crostacei, a seafood terrine, spice gazpachio, lime mayo and red dragon fruit.
A truly Italian Christmas dessert is the Panettone Con Vanilla Zabalion, a bready textured dessert baked with cherries slathered in vanilla sauce.
Another traditional dessert, the Christmas Ball Bite, is a fruity Christmas pudding that ends the indulgence on a sweet note.
As the countdown begins for a new year, test out different flavours with either of the restaurants – with a choice of either a buffet dinner by Essence, or set menus prepared by Villa Danieli and Celestial Court.
To prepare for a long, filling meal ahead, start off slow with a light appetiser, like the thinly sliced beef carpaccio with capers, semi-dried cherry tomatoes or peppery arugula and mustard dressing.
At Celestial Court, they will prepare a traditional roasted duck with plum sauce as a main course that is crispy on the outside and juicy on the inside.
The Capesante alla griglia, a grilled scallop, Jerusalem artichoke puree, confit porcini mushroom with crispy beef bacon is an appetiser for Villa Danieli restaurant‘s Christmas menu.
For a heftier meal, Essence offers international delicacies such as an oven-roasted Australian beef striploin with baby French beans as well as spread of local dishes.
Villa Danieli’s six course set menu for New Year’s Eve dinner will feature a lamb loin wrapped in filo pastry, olive tapenade, artichoke puree and lamb jus.
After that long list of possibilities and choices presented by the restaurants, a chilled avocado puree with walnut ice-cream and fresh fruit trifle has the right combination of creamy-tart flavours to complete the meal.
Or one could just go straight for the sinful Nutella Tiramisu – it is the holidays after all, so diets are definitely out the window.
The Christmas Eve menus are priced at RM145nett for Essence and RM158nett for Villa Danieli and Celestial Court.
A little Crispy Fried Turkey Wonton on Trio Melon Cocktail served with wasabi mayonnaise and crispy ginger, an appetiser from Celestial Court restaurant.
On Christmas Day, the prices are RM148nett for brunch at Villa Danieli and RM138nett for Essence’s buffet or Celestial Court’s brunch.
The New Year’s Eve menus are priced at RM188nett for Villa Danieli and RM158nett for Essence and Celestial Court.
On New Year’s Day, the Essence’s buffet is priced at RM121nett and RM138nett for Celestial Court’s brunch.
Villa Danieli will be closed on New Year’s Day.
The New Year‘s main course for Villa Danieli is a Lamb Loin Wrapped in Filo Pastry, Olive Tapenade, Artichoke Puree and Lamb Jus.
ESSENCE / VILLA DANIELI / CELESTIAL COURT, Sheraton Imperial Kuala Lumpur Hotel, Jalan Sultan Ismail, Kuala Lumpur. (Tel: 03-2717 9933 / 9922 / 9988). Business hours: 6am to 11.30pm daily / noon to 3pm on Tuesdays to Saturdays and public holidays, 11am to 3pm on Sundays and 6.30pm to 10pm daily / Mondays to Fridays from noon to 2.30pm, 10.30am to 3om on weekends and public holidays, and 6.30pm to 10pm daily.
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2019-04-24T15:55:22Z
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http://vicki-zhao.com/christmas-and-new-year-menus-feature-array-of-international-and-local-delights-eat-drink/
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lacnyc
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The Jewish Community Council of GCI is looking to hire an experienced Adult ESL/Computer instructor to provide ESL/Digital Literacy instruction to adults in the Queens.
Classes will meet in the evenings from 6-9pm.
Duties include: assessing/testing students, providing appropriate instruction etc. BA and excellent English written/oral skills required.
BEST Plus certification strongly preferred.
Please indicate "Queens ESL Instructor" in the subject line.
The Jewish Community Council of GCI is looking to hire an experienced Adult ESL instructor to provide Workplace Literacy/ESL instruction to adults in the Bronx.
Classes will meet on Mondays and Wednesdays from 6-9pm.
Bi-lingual Spanish and BEST Plus certification strongly preferred.
Please indicate " Bronx Evening ESL Instructor" in the subject line.
The Jewish Community Council of GCI is looking to hire an experienced Adult ESL instructor to provide Workplace Literacy/ESL instruction to adults in Brooklyn.
Please indicate "Brooklyn Sheepshead Bay Evening ESL Instructor" in the subject line.
Classes will meet on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 6-9pm.
Bi-lingual Mandarin preferred, and BEST Plus certification strongly preferred.
Please indicate " Brooklyn Bay Ridge Evening ESL Instructor" in the subject line.
The Jewish Community Council of GCI is looking to hire an experienced Adult ESL instructor to provide ESL instruction to adults in Brooklyn.
Classes will meet 2 mornings per week.
Please indicate " Brooklyn Morning ESL Instructor" in the subject line.
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2019-04-24T07:56:06Z
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https://www.lacnyc.org/jobs-board/instructors-multiple-positions-pt
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Arts
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Computers
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ashbrook
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I saw a brief interview with Clinton on Saturday (I think) in which he was asked about being inducted into the Arkansas Black Hall of Fame. He said that he was honored and that such matters go beyond color of one’s skin. So far so good. Then he quoted (he said) Martin Luther King, Jr. to the effect that what matters is not the color of one’s skin, but the content of one’s heart. Of course, King said "content of our character" not heart. Clinton intentionally misquoted it; he just couldn’t bring himself to say character. Amazing, but not surprising.
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2019-04-24T04:06:23Z
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http://nlt.ashbrook.org/2002/10/clintons-heart.php
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In about three months of therapy Bradley has gone from not being able to sit up to sitting, getting from sitting to laying, getting from laying to sitting, scooting, crawling and pulling onto his knees. Now we are working on getting him to take the next steps to pull up to his feet. He will put some weight on his feet now. He is into everything and going everywhere on his own. I blink my eyes and he has disappeared into the other room.
His eating has greatly improved. He did not like baby food at all. As soon as I started giving him table food he started eating more solids. He pretty much eats whatever we eat. When him and I go to litigation lunch he eats the whole time.
In the last two days we have had a sippy cup break through. We went through about five sippy cups. EI brought us a special straw training cup and while he will drink from it he won’t drink much, maybe 3 ounces in a day. Yesterday I started putting his formula in his NUK sippy cup (that matches his bottles, that were the only bottle he would take) and he drank almost all of it. Today I have put two of his bottles in it and he has drinker both of them. It’s crazy how the first cup we tried now months later and many cups later its the cup he is taking.
Sleeping is a progress. Sleeping through the night is one of his goals. Several times he has gotten to the point that he would sleep through the night a night or two then he’d get an ear infection and he wouldn’t sleep through the night again. He likes to go to bed around 6:30 pm and stay on the bed till 6 am but he will get up one or two times for a bottle. Last night he slept 12 hours without getting up so hopefully we are getting closer to sleeping through the night.
His ears have been a continuously concern. He has had four ear infections but three different occurrences. The last time he had one it was in one ear, he took meds and it moved to the other ear, got more meds and it cleared up. We discussed tubes but that was when his doctor realized he needed one more to qualify for them. However due to all the issues he has had and now that he is finally doing so well the doctor is very uncomfortable putting him to sleep. He said something tells him not to put Bradley to sleep so I agreed no tubes. If he has more ear infections that are worse we will revisit that thought but for now he will not be getting them.
We have had many issues with the insurance company when it comes to getting Bradley’s medicine filled. One of his medicines he was suppose to take three times a day but the doctor said he didn’t have to have it that many times and the possible side affects of it scared me so all he ever got it was twice a day. After he started doing so well eating I decided to stop one of the doses of it. It’s the medicine that made him sleep so we had a few rough nights but it was worth it. Then after his doctor’s appointment we completely stopped that medicine. One down and one to go. Once we saw he was doing well without the first medicine that we stopped it was time to start decreasing the other medicine. He only took it once a day so we cut the dose in half and after about a week completely stopped it. He has now been medicine free for three days.
All and all he is doing much better now. We have to go back to the heart doctor this fall and hopefully he will be released from the heart doctor then. We go to the eye doctor next week and hopefully we will get a good report there.
Every time I make something I always have some fabric left over that is too small to make something big but too big to toss. This time I decided I would make a hat and poncho to match the reversible hat and two scarves I made.
I love Pinterest (now more than reading blogs) and I can always find a project for what I want to make on Pinterest (easier than weeding through a Googe search too). I found this cute pattern here to make the hat and poncho for an 18″ baby doll.
Now to find some other cute baby doll patterns to make!!
I recently found a scarf pattern that I wanted to try out. I had this cute poke a dot fleece that I bought on clearance and I thought this will be perfect for the scarf. You can find the pattern here.
But I wanted to make a hat to go with it. So I started looking and that was when I found the pattern for the hat I made Noah. I used the same pattern to make a hat to match the scarf but I didn’t attach spikes or a tassel because I wanted to make it reversible.
After making it reversible I needed a scarf to match the other side of the hat. Alyssa wasn’t too crazy about the first scarf I made. She prefers a long scarf that she can wrap around several times. I decided I’d make a long tube scarf to match the other side of the hat.
She likes all of them!!!
I had some different fleece in my stash. Noah wanted it the colors to look like Bowser. He is my video game lover!! He plays video games allllll the time. At first he picked green for the hat and tan for the spikes then he changed his mind and said he wants white for the spikes so that was what I did.
Now I have to figure out a way to attach spikes to make it look more like bowser. I have a feeling that will require hand sewing which I hate doing.
The other day I was in Hobby Lobby and saw this fabric on clearance. I always check out their clearance stuff in the sewing and scrapbooking departments. I wasn’t sure what I’d use it for but it was $2 and such fun fabric that I had to get it.
After getting home and unrolling it to wash I thought that’s the perfect cut for a simple skirt. So I decided I’d make a skirt out of it. I started to add some ribbon around the bottom but I couldn’t find anything in my stash that I liked to go with it so I changed my mind.
Now to see what my little one thinks of it when she gets home from school. But since she will tell you her favorite color is rainbow and she LOVES skirts I’d say it will be a win!!
I love to repurpose. I repurposed Noah’s old blue jeans into skirts and now Adam’s old t-shirts into dresses. I found the original post on Pinterest and LOVED the dress. It was so cute I knew I wanted to make one for my girls. You can find the original post here.
When Adam got some new under shirts and went to toss his old ones I kept them. I knew I could dye them any color I wanted and make this dress or a few other outfits I had seen made from t-shirts. Adam was so nice and did the dying for me. I already had some red dye so I decided I’d use it and I picked up some pink dye at the store. It wasn’t as pink as I wanted so we added a few drops of red to the pink to make it darker.
I didn’t have a basic dress pattern so I made my own. I laid Alyssa’s dress on a big piece of paper and drew an outline of it for the dress I made for Taylor. Then I added about 1/2 an inch all the way around my pattern to make a pattern for Alyssa’s dress.
For the most part I followed the pattern. I did things a little different with the sleeves and the neck. I had planned on doing some embroidery to the front of it but I put the dress together and I should have done it before I put the front and back together so the embroidery idea will have to wait for something else. The girls love it!!
One down and one to go! This weekend I decided I wanted to kinda follow an idea I found on Pinterest but I wanted to change it. The original post is here.
I loved the idea of adding the ruffles to a shirt but I wanted more of a dress and the shirt I had was not a long shirt. So I used some fabric I had and made the shirt longer. I started out with this red peace sign fabric. But I wanted more than just it. So I started digging through some fabric and found the green star fabric from a blanket I made years ago. I thought they looked really good together. Right before I was about to ruffle the stripes of fabric I laid it out to show to Adam and I thought tulle would make it so much cuter. So back to digging in my stash to find I had lime green and red tulle, perfect! Then I added tulle to each stripe of fabric before I ruffled it.
The original post said to add the stripes from the top down but I did it from the bottom up and now I understand why. It’s hard to sew the last few rows on when I have so much already below it to bunch up over the sewing machine but it worked out.
Now I have one more to finish and both of my girls will have a cute new dress to wear. It’s a little hard for Taylor to get on and off. She will need help getting it on but it’s super cute on. Sorry my picture isn’t with her modeling it. When I realized I needed a picture she had already taken it off and after the whining putting it on and taking it off I didn’t feel like doing it again.
In my last post I said I would post my list of unfinished projects. Now that I have emptied a plastic tub that was full of fabric I now know what sewing projects I have to finish.
Not too bad on my sewing list. Only thing is while it looks like five projects its really eight because one through three are two separate outfits.
I also have some projects related to my cricut to finish. It has not been very high on my list. Don’t get me wrong I love my cricut but I HATE when I have an issue with cutting and the truth is I probably need some new mats so it cuts crappy.
I also have some scrapbooking to finish. The only thing is, it’s going to take a lot of time and room so I am going to have to finish everything else so I can put up my sewing machines and cricut (well I’ll probably use it for scrapbooking) before I pull out all of that stuff. I bought some stuff and ordered the prints but never scrapbooked our wedding pictures. Hopefully that will be something I’ll have the time and space to work on soon.
After Christmas I started cleaning out, decluttering and organizing my house. Since Bradley is starting to get around baby proofing is a must. I have now basically cleaned out and decluttered my whole house. I still need to buy some stuff to help me organize some stuff and I have a list of things to make to help with organizing stuff but its getting there.
With this mind set over the weekend I decided I wanted to start using up some of my scrap fabric. I’ll buy a yard of something, cut out what I need and stuff the rest of it in a drawer to save to make something else with because its too much to just throw away. I ended up making two baby doll blankets and pillows, a pillow to match Bradley’s blanket and I made an Alabama football blanket. That cleaned out ALOT. Fleece is thick fabric and takes up a lot more room than other fabric.
When I changed the sunroom from a playroom to a craft/homework room I had Adam get all my plastic tubs of stuff out from under the house. I have lots of craft stuff. Slowly I have organized a lot of it and got the room set up nicely. But I have tons of yard and fabric. I decided I’d start going through some of my tubs and cleaning them out. I have a good bit of fleece in one of them. The first one I opened had some fleece from a quilt that I started when Alyssa was a baby. Yes I said a baby and now she is 8. It’s really too young for her now being Sesame Street but I have decided I am going to finish it and this has put me on a mission to finish unfinished projects.
I know as crafters we all have lots of unfinished projects but until I got in the tubs I forgot about some of them. I want to challenge everyone to make a list of your unfinished projects and work on finishing them. I know for me it’s going to mean looking in some plastic tubs before I know what all I have to finish but I am going to work on that list and I’ll share it. I’d love to see other people’s unfinished projects too.
Below is a picture of my unfinished project I am currently working on finishing. It’s the quilt I started years ago when Alyssa was a baby. I also have fleece to make one for a boy too but I never cut that fleece so I am thinking I may make something different with it.
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2019-04-26T02:29:55Z
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https://asantbandersonfamily.wordpress.com/2013/01/
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Arts
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Health
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chron
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When you open your business, how you choose to account for your finances will be one of the most important decisions that you will make. You will need to choose a sole proprietor accounting method. An accounting method is the method by which you will recognize your expenses and income. You have two general accounting methods at your disposal: The cash method and the accrual method.
A sole proprietorship is a type of legal business entity, and is one of the most common business entities. It's easy to establish a sole proprietorship and the costs are low. A sole proprietorship is the least expensive business form to establish.
A sole proprietorship has only one owner. That owner is responsible for all of the business gains and losses. The sole proprietorship may have its own trading name, but all liabilities are the responsibility of the business owner.
In a sole proprietorship, a business owner can choose which accounting method to use. It is important to understand your options to make an informed choice.
The accounting methods aren’t arbitrary; each method has certain qualities that distinguishes it from another method and has advantages and disadvantages. Even if you hire an accountant to handle your financial reporting for you, it is important that you know how each accounting method works so that you can select the method that works best for your business.
When you use the cash basis of accounting, you record income only when you receive that income. The same is true for expenses: Money is spent only when it has has left your account and has been transferred to the recipient's account. Then you record that expense.
The cash basis for accounting does not take into consideration any debtors that owe you money or any creditors to whom you owe money. You do not count accounts receivable and accounts payable when recording your finances. You consider only cash.
Let’s say you sell something to a client and you then send that client an invoice for $1,500. The sale occurred on April 25, and you sent the invoice to your client on April 25. The client paid you on May 5. You record the payment on May 5, because that is when you received the payment.
One of the advantages of the cash method of accounting is its simplicity. You track the movement of cash, which is easy For this reason, many small business owners prefer to use the cash basis of accounting.
Another advantage of this method is the fact that you do not have to pay tax on revenue until that revenue has materialized in the form of cash in hand or cash in the ban*k*. Accounts payable and accounts receivable are not figured in calculating taxable income.
The greatest d*isadvantage of the cash method* is that it can make it difficult to see the bigger picture. It can give an inaccurate picture of the business. Since it is cash flow that is being tracked – expenses and incomes are real but they won’t be considered, because they haven’t materialized ye*t.* You could have a strong month and then a slow month. If the cash from a strong month materializes during a slow month, then that slow month may incorrectly seem like a good month, because you are swimming in cash.
The accrual method of accounting differs from the cash method of accounting, because of when this method recognizes income and expenses. You record an income when you earn that incom*e.* You recognize an expense when you are billed for that expense. When you actually receive payment for the income or when you actually make a payment doesn't matter.
So if you sell something to a customer for $1, 500 on April 25 and then send that customer an invoice for that amount, then you immediately record that as a sale. You won’t record it again on May 5, when that customer makes the payment, since the sale already exists in the books.
The main advantage of the accrual method of accounting is that it gives the owner of the businesses a clearer indication of how the business is doing. Since you’re recording income and expenses when they first occur, you will know how the business is doing in terms of how its revenues compare with its expenses, and you will be better able to make informed decisions about the direction of the business.
The main disadvantage of the accrua*l* method of accounting is that it does not show your cash flow. It doesn’t tell you how much cash you have in the bank. Your books might show you that you have made staggering sales and have spent little on expenses. However, if all sales are in the form of credit sales, you will have a long list of those who owe you money, but no cash in the bank. This means that your business will have a difficult time paying its expenses. This can be devastating for most small businesses. It is a good idea to always keep careful track of your cash flow.
Another disadvantage is that an income will be eligible for taxation in the tax year it is earned, regardless of whether you have received payment for it. If you do not take control of your cash flow, you might not be able to pay your taxes on time, resulting in penalties.
As a small business owner, you can use either of these two accounting methods. Using the cash method is is easier to understand and maintain than the accrual method. However, the cash method risks not giving you the full picture. On the other hand, even though the accrual method is more accurate, it involves maintaining more records. Ultimately, what's right you will depend on your preferences.
Debitoor: Sole trader – What is a sole trader?
Intuit Quickbooks: Cash vs. Accrual Accounting: What’s Best for Your Small Business?
Durden, Olivia. "The Accounting Methods for Sole Proprietorship and Cash Accrual." Small Business - Chron.com, http://smallbusiness.chron.com/accounting-methods-sole-proprietorship-cash-accrual-20550.html. 09 April 2019.
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2019-04-22T22:23:09Z
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https://smallbusiness.chron.com/accounting-methods-sole-proprietorship-cash-accrual-20550.html
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Arts
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Business
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gamespot
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We deliver some impressions on the localized version of Berserk, titled Sword of the Berserk: Gut's Rage.
We've been fooling around with Eidos/Yuke's localized version of Berserk (titled "Sword of the Berserk: Gut's Rage") for the past few days and have surfaced to prime you with what to expect insofar as changes to the US version.
First of all, all the blood has stayed in the game, and supposedly there has been more ketchup added to the US version, although we didn't notice a significant difference. The next big change, obviously, is the redone voice-acting for the American version. The voice-acting was rerecorded in a matter of weeks. Eidos had roped in the Soul Reaver voice talent to do the honors. Surprisingly, the majority of the voice- acting is very well done, with minor points subtracted due to Gut's annoying elf companion. Gut's name has been changed from the original Japanese pronunciation of "Gatsu." Why, we have no idea, but it's superficial change at best.
Sadly, Eidos doesn't seem to have done anything to remedy the funky camera angles or the wacky collision detection, making this as direct a port as possible. Other minor enhancements include the removal of the extra-easy and extra-hard difficulty levels. The Easter eggs that you unlocked by beating those modes in the Japanese version have been folded into the remaining easy, normal, and hard modes.
Sword of the Berserk: Gut's Rage should ship before the end of March, so if you're looking for the full story on this superlative hack 'n' slasher, check out our full import review.
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2019-04-20T02:17:21Z
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https://www.gamespot.com/articles/hands-on-us-berserk/1100-2541508/?utm_campaign=gamespace&utm_content=footer&utm_medium=partner&utm_source=gamerankings
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writersservices
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For the last six weeks following the dismissal of William Lynch as the company's CEO there have been a slew of articles eulogizing Barnes & Noble.
The story appears to be simple and straightforward: starting in 2009, after years of losing market share to Amazon and the launch of the Kindle, Barnes and Noble (B&N) - America's dominant bookstore chain - tried to turn itself into a tech company and this, in retrospect, is now viewed as a grave mistake.
But was it really? Well, yes and no.
What happened? B&N's flashy new tablets simply didn't sell. Contrary to would-be spinoff company's name, Nook Media, B&N had never developed the level of rich media content - movies, music and television shows - that Apple and Amazon offer. Amazon offered its Prime On Demand service as well as specialized all-you-can-consume packages for children; Apple had the most desirable tablets in the world and a loyal base of users. The new Nooks units sat on shelves gathering dust. (And have been selling at very deep discounts to clear inventory ever since).
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2019-04-20T18:15:19Z
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https://www.writersservices.com/storylinks/2013-08-26/reports-barnes-nobles-death-are-greatly-exaggerated-publishing-perspectives
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Business
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yourwebapps
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After reading the Zumbrunn and Krause article I was reminded of a few things from our writing course that are very important aspects of effective writing instruction, but can be forgotten when so much emphasis is put on other things (i.e. standardized test scores). I really liked how the writers were very specific about the five principles of writing instruction, and how well organized the article was. Most of the principles do not focus on what the teacher has the students do, but focuses on how the teacher thinks about, encourages/ promotes, and prepares for writing. Principle 4, "Effective writing instruction and practice happen every day", is something that I strongly agree with, and implement in my classroom. It is much more difficult now that I am in third grade with the many assessment and testing demands that we have, but writing workshop was not something I was not willing to give up in my schedule. Last year I saw what an impact daily writing instruction and practice had on my first graders' reading growth, and I expect the same thing this year. I also strongly agree with principle 2, "Effective writing instruction encourages student motivation and engagement." I have watched (most of) my students' attitude about writing workshop change since we first began back in September. I think at first they assumed writing time would consist of prompts. Once I told them they would be choose their own topics, and I taught them how to come up with topics, they were much more motivated to write (and even asking for writing time to be extended).
What ideas do you want to incorporate in your own teaching? Why?
Last week I began incorporating a suggestion from the same article. I've always conference with students during writing workshop, but I've never been very organized in doing so. I created a record/ checklist that allows me to keep up with whom and how many times I've conferenced thought the week. I also put four reminders at the bottom of the checklist: 1) Compliment 2)Question/clarify 3) Make a suggestion 4) Compliment again.
A question I have is how do/do you have students type their stories to publish on their iPads? Last year I typed my first graders' final drafts on my mac while they read them to me. I feel like third graders could and should be typing and publishing their own works.
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2019-04-20T04:50:03Z
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http://disc.yourwebapps.com/discussion.cgi?disc=246020;article=318;title=RE%206575%20Literacy%20and%20Technology
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Arts
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Computers
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ucsb
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Hello and welcome to the College of Letters & Science.
Allow us to introduce ourselves. We are Paula Bautista and Tanya Higuera. We are academic advisors in the UC Santa Barbara College of Letters & Science. We work specifically with international students on questions about requirements to obtain their UCSB degrees, as well as EAP Reciprocity Students.
Our office is located in 1117 Cheadle Hall and students may see us by appointment or on Friday mornings from 9:00-11:30 am on a walk-in basis.
To schedule an appointment, please come to 1117 Cheadle Hall or call (805) 893-2038 between the hours of 9:30-11:30 a.m. and 1:00-3:30 p.m., Monday through Friday.
Note: the content of these pages is designed for students who have been formally admitted to UCSB or are participating in the EAP Reciprocal exchange program.
International students registered in courses through UCSB Extension only (and who have never been admitted to UCSB) should contact the Extension office regarding any questions.
Can I do coursework in my home country over summer?
Need a signature on an OISS Form?
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The Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA), a division of the American Library Association (ALA), is accepting applications for a member editor for a new online research journal. The deadline for applications is Sept. 30.
The search is underway for a new executive director for the Reference and User Services Association (RUSA) and the Association of Specialized and Cooperative Library Agencies (ASCLA) based at ALA headquarters in downtown Chicago.
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This dark yellow prepared mustard had the electrifyingly hot flavor you’d find in Colman’s mustard powder. One taster thought the zippy kick brought out the hot dog’s salty, savory quality. But another found it “strangely terrible.” While in a three-way tie for fourth place when tasted with hot dogs, this mustard did come in second when tasted on its own.
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The best part is that I got to visit it during Fall. The colorful leaves added magic to the whole dreamlike layout.I believe springtime would be even more wonderful than this. The well manicured garden definitely are breathtaking.
During our road trips, we often try to check those attractions that lie along the way to our main destinations. One such attraction was the Sunset crater volcano. The long drive from Monument valley to Phoenix seemed to be tiring and boring and so hubby googled to check if there were any places worth stopping by on the way. He found the name Sunset Crater Volcano National Monument, a nature preserve just 15 miles (24 km) north of Flagstaff, and along U.S. Highway 89. We had never seen a crater and so decided to give it a try.
We headed towards the monument along highway 89.First we stopped at the visitor center which was just at the entrance, for information of the area. With our national park pass, our entrance to the park was free or else there was a minimal fee of $5 per person. The monument is managed by the National Park Service in close conjunction with nearby Wupatki National Monument. The site had an interesting historical background.
In 1928, local citizens learned that a film company planned to dynamite the slopes of the cinder cone to create a landslide for a movie. Their protests prompted President Herbert Hoover to protect Sunset Crater and the surrounding 3,100 acres as a National Monument in 1930. It occupies an area of 5 square miles (13 square km) within Coconino National Forest. Hiking on the volcano cinder cone itself has been prohibited since 1973 because of excessive erosion caused by hikers.
The monument is centered on a truncated cinder cone, the remnant of an extinct volcano that rises 1,000 feet (300 meters) above the surrounding area. The cone was dated by means of tree rings found in remains of nearby buried Native American pit houses; it apparently began forming after an eruption that occurred in the winter of 1064–65 (eruptions probably continued intermittently for roughly 150 more years).
It was winter time and the snow and the pine trees alongside the road made a spectacular view.
The monument contains numerous lava flows and lava beds with ice caves. Powerful explosions profoundly affected the lives of local people and forever changed the landscape and ecology of the area. Lava flows and cinders still look as fresh and rugged as the day they formed. But among dramatic geologic features, you’ll find trees, wildflowers, and signs of wildlife.
We had never seen lava before and so were very excited to get such a close up view. There are two trails in the area. One, the Lava Flow Trail, takes you on a mile-long loop at the base of Sunset Crater and the other, Lenox Crater Trail, is a half-mile walk up an old volcano along a wide path of loose cinders.
We stopped the car and walked around the one mile trail. We did not go to the crater as it was a very long uphill hike. The volcanic lava all around the area was quite unusual, like dug up tar roads!
We spent some time around the area but the temperature was pretty cold and so we couldn’t stay outside for long. Taking some quick photos we headed back for Phoenix. All in all the view was just amazing and we had a wonderful time there.
The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God.
Arches National Park, located approximately 7 miles north of Moab, in the high desert country of Utah, contains the largest known concentration of natural stone arches in the world.
Established in 1929 as a National Monument, and gained National Park status on November 12, 1971, the Park encompasses some 77,379 acres and contains more than 2000 natural arches. With its very distinctive rock formations, Arches national Park is one of the most unique and exotic place to visit in the US.
I was lucky enough to get the chance to visit this incredibly breath-taking place twice and hope to visit again in the future. The entrance of the park has a dramatic feeling of Jurassic park. It is located only 5 mi (8 km) north of Moab, along Hwy 191.
I was awestruck by the innumerable rock formations towering different levels. I could only marvel at the landscape of contrasting colors, landforms and textures. The rock layers reveal millions of years of deposition, erosion and other geologic events.
We drove along the scenic park highway which is 18 miles long and connects all the major viewpoints and trailheads within the park. Throughout the journey my camera clicked nonstop as the multitude of red rocks posed in front of me in different forms all along the way. The park is filled with enough fins, spires, hoodoos, towers, arches, windows, and other “miracles of nature” to keep your jaw dropping all day. I didn’t want to miss a single moment of the trip.
The first point we stopped at was Park Avenue and Courthouse Towers – monolithic spires and ridges of rock standing isolated in largely flat terrain. The first visitors said they were reminded of the famous Park Avenue of New York. All of the distinctive arches and formations in the park have earned names befitting their shape, including Courthouse Towers, Window Arch, Skyline Arch, Balanced Rock and the infamous Delicate Arch whose image adorns the Utah license plates.
Our next stop was at the Balanced rock, a mammoth boulder balanced precariously on a pedestal. There is a very short hiking trail to the base of this 128-foot tall fragile formation.
From Balanced Rock, a paved road leads to the Windows Section of the Park. This area features the Cove of Caves, Parade of Elephants, Turret Arch, the North and South Window Arches, and the fabulous Double Arch. While the arches are visible from the road, they are best viewed from the short walking trails leading from the parking areas.
The delicate arch is the most famous of all in this park and it is the iconic symbol found on just about every book, brochure, and guide ever written about Arches National Park. On my first trip, last December, I and my husband hiked through the 3 miles round trip trail though at that time I was suffering from severe back pain. I believe the excitement of the moment helped me to get through it all when I think about it now. There is no shade which makes the hike difficult in summer and so all are advised to take at least a liter of water with them.I also suffer from height phobia but I managed to climb through the slickrocks and gravel paths enjoying the terrific views below.
Stopping to rest in between the hike..
The first half-mile is a wide, well-defined trail. We followed the marks of the trail all along. But as we reached the top the path was very snowy and narrow and I was gripped by sudden fear of height. I screamed at my husband for taking me there but quickly calmed down and decided to continue.
It was a real challenge for me to go through the narrow snowy path by the side of the cliff which is just about 200 yards.
The arch is not visible till the last step but the very first view of it is truly spectacular. It leaves a strong impact on you which make the hike worthwhile.
The breathtaking view of the arch erased away my fear of height and I started enjoying the grandness of this iconic structure.
The immense size of Delicate Arch is not immediately noticeable; it only becomes apparent when someone walks closer to the formation. The view of the La Sal Mountains as the backdrop adds majesty to the scene.
There is a shorter Delicate Arch Viewpoint Trail for those who can’t make the longer hike but from that trail you can only see the arch from across the canyon. However, the true grandeur of the delicate arch can only be appreciated by standing right under the massive arch.
From the Delicate Arch turnoff, the Park road travels past Fiery Furnace and Skyline Arch to end at the Devils Garden trailhead. The devil’s garden trail is the second most popular destination in the Arches.
We could not make to this part of the park due to time restrictions but hope to make it some other time in the future.
The hundreds of photos that I clicked there help me relive the enchanting moment and brings back the desire to go back again.
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Departing Afghan President Hamid Karzai sought to explain why he has been such a harsh critic of the 12-year American war effort in Afghanistan.
The following are key excerpts from comments Afghan President Hamid Karzai made in a March 1 interview with The Washington Post. Karzai met for more than an hour in his office in the presidential palace with Kevin Sieff, the Afghanistan bureau chief, and Douglas Jehl, the foreign editor.
“Well, I’m not going to characterize it or describe it as against or for Afghanistan — that the U.S. knows better. I’m going to characterize it as not having the right policy or the right approach — not behaving like a partner with us. So it’s a matter of policy, not a matter of judgment of their inner thinking.
Read highlights from Afghan president Hamid Karzai’s interviews in which he talks about the tension between the United States and Afghanistan.
“My message there is very clear. The American president has said they are not here for Afghanistan. So it’s not the American blood shed for the Afghanistan or the American resources spent for Afghanistan. If you go to President Obama’s speeches, he repeatedly says that he’s here for the sake of American interests, for the safety of America, for the security of America — that they are here in Afghanistan helping Afghanistan in order to help America. Therefore, it’s not for us — it’s for a cause that America holds dear.
“And in order to help that cause — the American cause of security and prosperity — the United States came here in 2001 to Afghanistan, and the Afghan people received them with open arms. And we succeeded initially. So it’s not for us — it’s for the U.S. security and for the Western interests.
“If you pay attention to the statements of U.S. officials and leaders, they say ‘America’s war, America’s war,’ they never say Afghanistan’s war. So the purpose was American, and for that American purpose, or larger Western purpose, they came to Afghanistan. We the Afghans found common ground in that purpose.
“The common ground was that both of us wanted to be free of terrorism and extremism and to be secure and stable. Now, part of that was achieved for us, the other part was not. And the part that was most important was not achieved, which was security for the Afghan people and protection of Afghan life. And that’s where I have disagreed and that’s where I continue to disagree and raise my voice.
“My role, as for any other president, is to ensure that the elections are done well, and that after the elections the country’s president is elected through a ballot that’s accepted by the Afghan people and that Afghanistan is secure and stable. And that I will continue to work for.
“The only thing I’ve said publicly is that I love my brother, he’s a great man, he’s a very deserving person, and I am seeing now that he has support as well, considerable support. . . . But because I’m afraid that his presence would call those who want to interfere in Afghan elections — those who want to, if they wanted to spoil it, they would have an element to use, to exploit, for that reason — I’ve told him no, and that’s what I also told this morning to people who came to urge me to not prevent him, that I have done unfortunately. That’s rather an interference, because I am denying the right of a citizen of Afghanistan to run for office, but I have to do it for the larger, bigger interest of Afghanistan.
“This is not done to receive the good will of the Taliban. This is done to bring justice to people who have been imprisoned without a reason, who are mostly Afghan citizens from Afghan villages, who were taken during night raids, who the Afghan judicial system has not found guilty, who the Afghan intelligence have no report on, no intelligence on. This is justice, justice for the Afghan people, and I believe, firmly, that Bagram has in a very serious way violated the rights of the Afghan people. The existence of that prison is a very unfortunate thing for Afghanistan, and has thrown a very serious difficulty at our relationship with America. . . .
“When the U.S. insisted on having the freedom to go and launch operations [as a condition of the agreement over a post-2014 troop presence], I said ‘Why — why do you need to go after Afghan villages after you have the BSA?’ This was one of the most serious issues in discussing the BSA. . . .
“They said [the reason would be] if there is al-Qaeda. I asked, ‘What do you mean by al- Qaeda? Do you mean a large number of people, of individuals, of groups?’ They said probably less than 100. Actually, our national security adviser told us they were actually talking about a number of people between 35 to 40, 45. So if that’s the number, then they’re no threat to us or to the United States. . . .
“Well, Afghanistan is a lot better than it was 10 years ago. Life has improved considerably here. A lot of Afghans are doing very, very well, which is great. Our institutions are growing, our democracy is growing, you see our press and the freedoms that we have.
“Part of it was the work of the Afghan government, part of it was my own work, with dedication toward democracy and the freedom of the press, and human rights and all of that. Part of it was definitely the contribution of America and the countries helping us, for which we are grateful.
Why does the Taliban remain so strong as a fighting force?
“I think I earlier said that the strategy was wrong, that it causes all the problems that we have, and the continuation or perpetuation of insecurity or conflict if we call it. . . . I believe there is no war to be fought in Afghanistan. I believe that much of the conflict is a creation in which the Afghans suffer, and I want to undo that creation by insisting on the launch of the peace process.
“The United States came here to fight extremism and terrorism and al-Qaeda. The Afghan people found common cause with it. And that cause was there for some time, and then it began to weaken and eventually disappear, because of casualties, because of lack of attention to sanctuaries, because of conducting the war in Afghan villages where this fight wasn’t to be found.
“What I’ve told the American government, the U.S. president and others, repeatedly, is: Let’s have a relationship of a tenant in the second floor of a house. That the family down there that has rented a room to you stays within its culture, within its religious practice, within its daily labor and earning of bread and butter. That you have a second entrance to the second floor of the house, that you have your business there, that you have your binoculars watching out of the windows towards the outside, but that you never interfere or cause discomfort or harm to the family downstairs.
“The worst of it was when I went to visit a little girl in the French hospital who had no face, who was 41 / 2 years old, who had no face, completely blown off from the chin up to the eyes. She was blinded — her eyes were there but were blinded. Her arm was also not there. And she had lost the whole family, the entire family, 14 of them, in the bombing in Kunar. And that day . . . [note: there is a 39-second pause as Karzai struggles with his emotions] . . . that day, I wished she were dead and not alive, so she could be buried with her parents and brothers and sisters.
And the loss of Afghan soldiers, the Afghan people as a whole, our soldiers, our troops, the Taliban are Afghans too. All Afghans died, in a war that’s not ours.
“There are lots of other stories, lots of other events. Extremely hard for me to accept. . . .
“I went to Washington and I carried that picture with me. It was a picture of a night raid where an extremely poor family — it’s night and it’s dark in that picture, a frightened, weak, afraid woman sitting there with two or three children around them — and the hand of the man lying there. . . . And this frightened family, looking into nothing, just gazing, with fright and fear. And I took that picture to the president of the United States , and I said, ‘President, this is what I’m trying to end, the intimidation of Afghan families at night, in the name of fighting the Taliban.’ . . .
“No, that stopped when the sanctuaries were not paid attention to.
“Foreign assistance brought an expensive way of life to Afghanistan. We will have to end this expensive way of life with or without the presence of the international community here, with or without the presence of the BSA here, with or without the strategic partnership agreement between us and America and others. This way of life is not sustainable. Afghanistan has to live by its means.
“Now if on top of that, there is an assistance to us, good enough. But if not, a poor family has to find ways to live by its means, and to work hard to do better. This has been a concern as well, and for a long time we’ve been discussing — discussing, discussing — with America the huge salaries they have brought, this luxury that we cannot afford.
“The ANSF for now is needed for Afghanistan at the level as it is, but as we move forward, definitely Afghanistan will have to rethink the size of its forces, the structure of its forces, whether we should go back to a drafting system, the system of service to this country, as we did before, whether we should have a combination of conscription and volunteers. . . . These are all things that we have discussed.
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How Can You Achieve Work-Life Balance In Today's Competitive Work Culture?
What are some good tips for achieving work-life balance in today's competitive work culture? originally appeared on Quora: the place to gain and share knowledge, empowering people to learn from others and better understand the world.
With smartphones and laptops, there is often an unspoken expectation that you have to be involved with work even when you aren’t there. Many jobs require this type of commitment, but it doesn’t mean that you have to sacrifice your personal and family life in the process.
There are many tips and actions you can take to maintain a work-life balance. When you take a new job, or your current job requirements change ask if you are expected to work outside of business hours. Make sure that you are aware of the expectation of your employer. Know this information before committing to the new job or position.
You have to work on the balance between work and your outside life so that you stay healthy. If you aren’t mentally, emotionally, and physically healthy, you can’t succeed at your job. Schedule medical, dental, and vision appointments without canceling them.
Be sure to schedule vacations, long weekends, and take mental health days. Having these on your calendar will help you to have something to look forward to, especially during a stressful week.
When you are home, leave your phone in the room versus attaching it to your hand after hours. This forces you not to spend time looking at emails. Let go of the idea that you have to be doing something at all times especially at home.
Sometimes you may have to work at home. You need to set guidelines to follow. For example, don’t start working immediately when you arrive home. Make time to relax or spend with your family. Designate a specific time that you will work later. Identify an hour or two after you relax so you can get your work done. Have a start and end time to your work at home.
In a competitive workforce, there will be someone who works faster and more hours than you do. However, to sustain a balanced life, you need to have realistic expectations of yourself both personally and professionally. Let go of your perfectionistic thinking and be realistic in what you can accomplish in the day.
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The inner doorway rolled open, and DuQuesne found himself staring down the barrel of what appeared to be an old-fashioned but no doubt highly functional tripod-mounted machine gun.
The blue eyes behind the sights of the gun relaxed. "Thank God it's you, D… Marc," Gabrielle Wolfe said in her soft Southern drawl, swinging the gun to point in a safer direction and stepping away. "Where's the others?"
"Didn't get my ping?" he asked, then answered himself "Of course not; I entered during one of the closed cycles and it didn't take me long to get here."
Carl nodded. "It's still about 20 minutes before we'd be checking for the update. Thanks for that last one."
"Those weren't updates, they were 'wish you were here' postcards and 'still alive' pings." He glanced over at Cussler. "No one picked up on the scam, Tom, just like we thought."
"I'm glad. Not that most of us could have gotten away with it."
DuQuesne shrugged. "Admittedly, it takes a lot of training to be able to make sure no one's looking, or misdirect them, so that I could deploy one of the miniature RF nodes. I was most worried about Orphan; couldn't be sure he didn't have better senses, or some gadgetry I hadn't noticed. That's why I had a delay set up on them so they wouldn't radiate until after we'd left. Worked, though." DuQuesne chuckled. "He may be an alien, but you should've seen how totally flummoxed he was by the fact that I could be absolutely sure I'd come back to the right place, in a couple of seconds. He couldn't figure it at all."
Tom grinned widely. DuQuesne didn't blame him; it had been Tom and Carl who'd come up with the idea of making, not nanotech devices – which for some reason failed outside of living bodies – but truly ancient RF repeater/sensor nodes using nothing more advanced than late 20th or early 21st century integrated circuits, miniature sensors, power harvesting, and low-power transmitters. Several dozen of the centimeter-square devices had been hidden at various points in and around his clothing, and he'd deployed them at intervals and locations that would insure uninterrupted relaying. One of the others had had to come out and arrange for the inner doors to open at intervals, of course, but once the nodes had become active they could provide a map to each successive location.
DuQuesne was sure that such devices were common in the Arena – espionage being as popular as it must be – but the combination of their quick adoption of the technology and his ability to deploy it unseen had been the key to effective use. The latter was of course the reason he'd pressured even Carl Edlund into keeping the existence of the nodes secret from Ariane and Simon. Had they known he was deploying these devices, they might have given it away inadvertently. By being unaware of it themselves, even their body language could reveal nothing.
"Where's Ariane and Dr. Sandrisson?" demanded Steve.
"They stayed behind to keep the pot stirred. They should be safe enough for now. Look, let a guy get settled, gimme a few minutes to breathe, and I'll tell you about it."
He didn't let them rush him; he wanted to make sure he went through the sequence of events, and the implications of those events, carefully and clearly. Once he'd gotten himself lunch – having been brought by Orphan and the others to the Inner Gateway after breakfast and discussion – DuQuesne brought the others up to speed.
The story – with numerous interruptions and questions – took quite a while. But finally he was done. "So that's where we sit. I've got all this on record, I can dump it to main storage or anyone's headware who wants the whole thing. But that's the summary."
The others were silent for several minutes. He could see they were all trying to absorb the impact of the full scale of the Arena – and the magnitude of the tasks facing them. Finally Gabrielle sat up briskly. "Well, let's not sit here doing nothing, time's a-wasting. So our next step here is that 'Outer Gateway' you mentioned before, right?"
"You got it," DuQuesne agreed, smiling at her straightforward manner. "We go see what's outside and if it's got stuff we can use. If what Orphan says is true – and I don't have any reason to doubt it – we have liveable biosphere of some kind out there. Figuring out what kind, how liveable, and how we can best make use of it, that's going to require some of us go out there and take a look."
"Well, then," Gabrielle said firmly, "it's clear that you'll have to take me."
"No, I'd think you want me," Carl objected.
"We're talking about new lifeforms and what we can survive on, and exactly how much do you know about biology?"
"We're talking about exploring and getting information – and living to tell about it. That's sensors and combat."
The diminuitive blonde smiled innocently up at Carl. "Honey, you want to try two falls out of three with me?"
"Enough," DuQuesne said, and the two immediately went silent. "I can appreciate that you've all been bored and getting pretty itchy under the collar. And I also appreciate that two of you are enthusiastic enough to want to come with me." He glanced at Steve and Tom. "And that some of you would like nothing less until after someone else has scouted it out."
Steve shrugged. "Hey, I'm no coward, but I'm also not a fighter or a rugged explorer type. I'm curious, but that's not really a unique or useful trait."
"My position too, basically," said Tom. "Someone has to keep things running here anyway."
"Which is of course the crucial point," DuQuesne agreed. He glanced apologetically at Gabrielle. "Dr. Wolfe, in no way do I doubt your capability or your willingness. However…"
"… You are going to be telling me why you're taking Carl instead of me," she finished with a sigh.
"Yes. You're the doctor. That makes you in some ways the most crucial member of the crew; the longer we stay here – especially given the specifically dangerous conditions imposed on us by this 'Arena' – the more likely it is that some of us are going to get hurt, possibly very badly. Given that, it would be criminally irresponsible of me – or any of us – to permit you to be exposed to any more danger than we can reasonably avoid." He held up a hand to forestall an argument. "I am not saying we have to wrap you up in insulation and store you inside a box like a precious artifact; the fact is that with only seven functioning members of the team, we can't afford to have anyone who isn't kept busy most of the time. But you are not, and will not, be taking point on any serious exploration endeavors."
She nodded; he could see that she was severely disappointed, but couldn't argue the logic of the situation. "All right, Marc, you're right. Damnation."
"However," he said, smiling apologetically, "I do intend for you to come with us to the Outer Gateway and be standing by. If we run into something out there, I don't want to have to drag Carl – or worse, him have to drag me – back through a kilometer and a half of corridor just to get him to medical assistance."
"Well now," she said, more cheerfully, "that's a whole heckuva lot better than nothing. I'll at least get to take a peek out the front door and see the sky you were talking about."
Carl was already sorting through equipment that had been fabbed up. "We'll be going tomorrow?"
"I see no reason to delay. I'd go today, but I think we should take some time in examining what we will need to bring with us and thinking the potential scenarios through. I am not expecting to spend days outside without reporting back, of course – I want to scout areas no more than a few kilometers or so from the Gateway, enough to get a feel for the area accessible to us in the immediate future, and see what we can do with it."
Tom grunted. "In that case, I think I'd better start the old AIWish going on making some hiking and climbing gear in your sizes."
"And some radio relay beacons, and backup weapons. And given that we have no idea what type of environment it's going to be, you'll need to make stuff suitable for anything from Hawaii to Antarctica. We'll drag it all up and then after we pop the door we'll choose the gear most suited for the environment. We can always recycle the rest later."
"Just don't forget the most important stuff," Carl said emphatically. "Trail mix."
It's tough to prepare for a journey that could be to ANYWHERE, really.
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CBSSports.com Shop - Everything Sports! Score your new SMU Mustangs Car Decals at the Official Store of CBS Sports. Buy your officially licensed Southern Methodist University Auto Decal from CBS Sports Store and have your order shipped quick for a low flat rate.
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Who Votes Early In-Person in Cuyahoga County?
Salling, Mark J. PhD, GISP and Gleeson, Robert, "Who Votes Early In-Person in Cuyahoga County?" (2016). Urban Publications. 0 1 2 3 1401.
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Summer certainly is heating up! Heating up enough to make you want to play "quiet time" in the shade and air conditioning more than wanting to take the family for a swim! Even though the heat can be overwhelming during summer months, that doesn’t mean you can’t enjoy them! What summer activities has your family been busy with? When I was back in Chicago with my family, we went to Wrigley Field (Go Cubs!), my dad and I read in the backyard and we celebrated the Fourth of July with a family BBQ, complete with fireworks. We think July is also HOT with some terrific books, too. Let’s see what’s going on in the world of Middle Grade books!
On June 23rd, the first Kids’ Comics Revolution! Comic Awards were announced at a ceremony during the Kids Read Comics Festival in Ann Arbor, Michigan. What’s really cool about this award is that although the nominees were selected by a committee of teachers, librarians and retailers, KIDS voted to decide the winners! At the ceremony, those winners received trophies made of LEGOS provided by the Ann Arbor District Library, which was really clever. AND they had some really silly categories. LUNCH LADY AND THE PICTURE DAY PERIL by Jarrett J. Krosoczka won Favorite Graphic Novel (Humor), and Lunch Lady also won Favorite Comic Book Hero as well as Best Hair in Comics. DIARY OF A WIMPY KID: THE THIRD WHEEL by Jeff Kinney won Favorite Comic/Novel Hybird, and Jeff Kinney also won Favorite Cartoonist/Author. And there’s much more! You and the little ones can view all of the winners and a hilarious picture recap by clicking here.
Speaking of Diary of a Wimpy Kid, how excited are the kids you know for Wimpy Kid 8??? Well, the book isn't coming out until November 5th, BUT we'll all get a look at the cover on August 8th! Yup! And the question of the day is what the COLOR will be. To satisfy any questions little inquiring minds may have, head over to the Wimpy Kid website for them to ask the crystal ball questions. It's SUPER cool --- there are questions they can choose from, or they can write their own! Click here to try to get some Diary of a Wimpy Kid answers!
Summer is the perfect time to get hooked on a new series, don’t you agree? For those who know kids who LOVE getting scared silly, here’s a new series and a contest for them! In honor of the release of the first book in James Preller's new Scary Tales series, HOME SWEET HORROR --- where Liam Finn, his dad and sister have just moved into a new house, which is haunted by Bloody Mary --- we have a special contest. Five readers will have the opportunity to win a copy of this horror story. To enter, please fill out this form by Monday, August 12th at noon ET.
And for another new series….Gordon Korman’s THE HYPNOTISTS is about Jackson Opus, who has always been persuasive, but he doesn't know that he's descended from the two most powerful hypnotist bloodlines on the planet. He's excited to be accepted into a special program at the Sentia Institute --- but when he realizes he's in over his head, Jackson will have to find a way to use his powers to save his friends, his parents and his government.
While we love sharing NEW series titles with you and your family, we also like marking a special moment for a beloved one. So with that, we bring GREAT news for fans of Mary Pope Osborne’s Magic Tree House series! The 50th book in the series, HURRY UP, HOUDINI! is coming out on July 23rd and features Jack and Annie meeting legendary magician Harry Houdini. And if your children haven’t experienced these adventures through time and history yet, you should go find a copy of ANY of the books in the series and get hooked on it together!
Do your kids think it's a good idea to dig through the sofa to find spare change? Three friends do in WHAT WE FOUND IN THE SOFA AND HOW IT SAVED THE WORLD by Henry Clark, and they find more than nickels and dimes; they find a rare zucchini-colored crayon. Little do they know that this crayon will launch them into the middle of a plot to conquer the world! Will they be able to save the planet?
Can a friendship last amid wartime tensions in 1812? In SALT: A Story of Friendship in a Time of War by Helen Frost, Anikwa and James spend their days exploring together in the forests of the Indiana Territory. Anikwa is a member of the Miami tribe, and James’ family members are traders who have ties to the Miami community as well as to the American soldiers in the fort. Now tensions are rising as the British and American armies prepare for battle and Native Americans from surrounding tribes protect their homeland. James and Anikwa must decide where their deepest loyalties lie.
This adventure actually reminds me a lot of the classic Disney movie The Great Mouse Detective…mostly because it’s a story from the perspective of mice and is set in London --- and I sure LOVED that movie when I was younger! In Richard Peck’s THE MOUSE WITH THE QUESTION MARK TAIL, the smallest mouse in London’s Royal Mews is such a mystery, he doesn’t even have a name…or know who his parents are. After his Aunt Marigod sends him off to the Royal Mews Mouse Academy, he runs off, looking high and low to find out who he is and who he might become.
And here's another animal adventure. Kathi Appelt’s THE TRUE BLUE SCOUTS OF SUGAR MAN SWAMP follows raccoon brothers Bingo and J’miah, who are newest recruits of the Official Sugar Man Swamp Scouts. The opportunity to serve the Sugar Man --- the massive creature who delights in delicious sugar cane and magnanimously rules over the swamp --- is an honor, and also a big responsibility, since the rest of the swamp critters rely heavily on the intel of these hardworking Scouts.
In Tom McNeal’s FAR FAR AWAY, Jeremy Johnson Johnson once admitted he's able to hear voices, and the townspeople of Never Better have treated him like an outsider since. But the truth is, Jeremy can hear voices. Or, specifically, one voice: the voice of the ghost of Jacob Grimm, one half of the infamous writing duo, The Brothers Grimm. We featured our review of this fairy tale based novel in our last newsletter, but now we have an interview with Tom McNeal! Learn how he found his inspiration, what he loves most about fairy tales and what he’s working on next.
For those of you who have younger kids and still love reading stories together out loud as a family, we have a new feature for you! Now, we have a monthly roundup of picture books called "New Picture Books," where we pick our favorite picture books that are coming out that month. Cool, huh? Click here to see July's New Picture Books! BULLY by Laura Vaccaro Seeger is an office favorite!
With The Smurfs 2 coming to theaters on July 31st, there is plenty of time to revisit the stories that started it all! If your kiddies haven’t read The Smurfs graphic novels by world-renowned cartoonist, Peyo, we really think you should take a look at them. Especially now that the entire collection is available! Click here to check out the series!
Even though it is HOT outside, I hope your family can stay cool in local bookstores, libraries or any other air conditioned spot you may find to use your summer time to read!
Jackson Opus has always been persuasive, but he doesn't know that he's descended from the two most powerful hypnotist bloodlines on the planet. He's excited to be accepted into a special program at the Sentia Institute --- but when he realizes he's in over his head, Jackson will have to find a way to use his powers to save his friends, his parents, and his government. Reviewed by Benjamin Boche.
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When River, Freak and Fiona discover a mysterious sofa sitting at their bus stop, their search for loose change produces a rare zucchini-colored crayon. Little do they know this peculiar treasure is about to launch them into the middle of a plot to conquer the world! With the help of an eccentric neighbor, an artificially intelligent domino, a DNA-analyzing tray, two hot air balloons and a cat named Mucus, they just might be able to save the planet. Reviewed by Sarah Rachel Egelman.
It’s 1812, and Anikwa and James spend their days exploring together in the forests of the Indiana Territory. Anikwa is a member of the Miami tribe, and James’ family members are traders who have ties to the Miami community as well as to the American soldiers in the fort. Now tensions are rising as the British and American armies prepare for battle and Native Americans from surrounding tribe protect their homeland. James and Anikwa must decide where their deepest loyalties lie. Reviewed by Christine M. Irvin.
The smallest mouse in London’s Royal Mews is such a little mystery that he hasn't even a name. And who were his parents? His Aunt Marigold, Head Needlemouse, sews him a uniform and sends him off to be educated at the Royal Mews Mouse Academy. There he's called "Mouse Minor" (though it's not quite a name), and he doesn't make a success of school. Soon he's running for his life, looking high and low through the grand precincts of Buckingham Palace to find out who he is and who he might become. Reviewed by Terry Miller Shannon.
Raccoon brothers Bingo and J’miah are the newest recruits of the Official Sugar Man Swamp Scouts. The opportunity to serve the Sugar Man --- the massive creature who delights in delicious sugar cane and magnanimously rules over the swamp --- is an honor, and also a big responsibility, since the rest of the swamp critters rely heavily on the intel of these hardworking Scouts. Reviewed by Norah Piehl.
In honor of the release of the first book in James Preller's new Scary Tales series, HOME SWEET HORROR --- where Liam Finn, his dad and sister have just moved into a new house, which is haunted by Bloody Mary--- we have a special contest. Five readers will have the opportunity to win a copy of this horror story. To enter, please fill out this form by Monday, August 12th at noon ET.
In this interview, Tom McNeal shares his inspiration for this unique ghost story, what he likes most about fairy tales and what he's working on next!
Click here to visit our series feature.
July's roundup of New Picture Books features BULLY by Laura Vaccaro Seeger, in which Bully doesn't have a kind word for any of his friends. When the other animals ask him to play, he responds in the way he's been taught: Chicken! Slow poke! You stink!; Hyewon Yum's THIS IS OUR HOUSE, which follows a family through seasons and generations, from the early days of immigration to the times that made their house into a home; and THE CASE OF THE MISSING DONUT written by Alison McGhee and illustrated by Isabel Roxas, where after a few nibbles, a donut disappears, but the sheriff and his deputy dog are on the case to find the missing donuts!
Click here to visit July's New Picture Books feature.
Beat the heat, and head over to an air-conditioned movie theater this July to see The Smurfs 2! This movie sequel features the voice of Neil Patrick Harris (yay!) and of course, those little blue creatures that you absolutely adore. Will the evil wizard Gargamel succeed in harnessing the all-powerful, magical Smurf-essence?
The evil wizard Gargamel creates a couple of mischievous Smurf-like creatures called the Naughties that he hopes will let him harness the all-powerful, magical Smurf-essence. But when he discovers that only a real Smurf can give him what he wants --- and only a secret spell that Smurfette knows can turn the Naughties into real Smurfs --- Gargamel kidnaps Smurfette and brings her to Paris, where he has been winning the adoration of millions as the world's greatest sorcerer. It's up to Papa, Clumsy, Grouchy and Vanity to return to our world, reunite with their human friends Patrick and Grace Winslow, and rescue her! Will Smurfette, who has always felt different from the other Smurfs, find a new connection with the Naughties Vexi and Hackus --- or will the Smurfs convince her that their love for her is True Blue?
Click here to view our Books on Screen feature!
July's roundup of Cool & New Books includes Hilary McKay's BINNY FOR SHORT, which follows Binny whose life was perfect at age eight, but then her dad dies and her dog is given away --- then everything changes again when she's 11; THE MOUSE WITH THE QUESTION MARK TAIL by Richard Peck, where the smallest mouse in London's Royal Mews is such a mystery that he doesn't even have a name, and soon he's on the run trying to find out who he is and who he might become; and RUNT by Nora Raleigh Baskin, which points out how bullies and victims are all in the perspective, from sibling rivalries to mean girl antics.
Click here to see July's Cool & New Books roundup.
July's roundup of New in Paperback titles includes THE LAST DRAGONSLAYER by Jasper Fforde, which follows 15 year-old Jennifer Strange who works at an employment agency for magicians, but it's hard to stay in business when magic is drying up; Rick Riordan's THE SEA OF MONSTERS: Percy Jackson & the Olympians, Book Two, in which Percy Jackson finds his seventh-grade school year unnervingly quiet, but it doesn't stay that way for long; and GAME CHANGERS by Mike Lupica, where Ben McBain desperately wants to be starting quarterback on his school's team, but while he has heart, he doesn't have the size and arm strength Shawn O'Brien does --- however, Shawn has a secret Ben has promised not to tell.
Click here to see July’s New in Paperback roundup.
With signature nostalgia, Scott O’Dell Award–winning graphic novelist Matt Phelan visualizes a bygone era with lustrous color, dynamic lines, and flawless dramatic pacing. Reviewed by Emma Kantor.
Twelve-year-old Quentin never asked to be the Heartbreak Messenger. The valuable communication service he offers is simple: He delivers breakup messages. At first, Quentin’s entrepreneurial brainchild is surprisingly successful, which is great, because he suspects his mom, who works as a car mechanic, is worried about money. But as he interacts with clients, message recipients, and his best friend, Abigail, it doesn’t take long for him to wonder if his own heart will remain intact. Reviewed by Benjamin Boche.
The Cruisers are in trouble---again. The freedom of expression they've enjoyed by publishing their own school newspaper, THE CRUISER, has spread all the way to England, where kids from a school "across the pond" are now contributors to their own school's most talked-about publication. When photos start to go alongside the articles written by kids, things get suspicious. Reviewed by Shelby H., Teen Board member.
Scientists have a reputation for being focused on their work—and maybe even dull. But take another look. Did you know that it’s believed Galileo was scolded by the Roman Inquisition for sassing his mom? That Isaac Newton loved to examine soap bubbles? That Albert Einstein loved to collect joke books, and that geneticist Barbara McClintock wore a Groucho Marx disguise in public? Reviewed by Sarah Rachel Egelman.
Noble is a knight with a heart that's true and, well, noble. With his not-so-trusty sword, Smite, he fights his way through a vicious, unfriendly landscape, sure (or at least, he thinks he's sure) that one day he'll defeat the bad guys (whoever they are) and win the heart (at least he guesses that's the idea) of a beautiful princess. Then one day Rufus comes along and turns his world upside down. Reviewed by Carly Silver.
The kooky residents of Ratbridge are clamoring for the miracle medicine Black Jollop, but a shortage calls for action. The Nautical Laundry, the famed rat-pirate vessel, must journey afar to gather the medicine’s secret ingredient. But things aren’t what they seem…and soon the ship is under attack. Reviewed by Sheena Kowalski.
When she was eight, Binny’s life was perfect: She had her father’s wonderful stories and Max, the best dog ever. But after her father’s sudden death, money is tight, and Aunty Violet decides to give Max away—he is just too big for their cramped new life. Binny knows she can’t get her dad back, but she never stops missing Max, or trying to find him. Then, when she’s eleven, everything changes again. Reviewed by Norah Piehl.
Blue Gadsby’s twin sister, Iris, died three years ago and her family has never been the same. Her histrionic older sister, Flora, changes her hair color daily; her younger siblings, Jasmine and Twig, are completely obsessed with their pet rats; and both of her parents spend weeks away from home---and each other. Reviewed by Benjamin Boche.
The adventures of Brooklyn boy Hank Wolowitz and his invisible --- but not imaginary --- friend continue with THE WHOOPIE PIE WAR, the third book in the Invisible Inkling series by Emily Jenkins. A truck selling ice-cream whoopie pies sets up right in front of the ice-cream shop belonging to Hank’s family, and it’s taking away all the shop’s business. They’ll do whatever it takes to beat the whoopie pie truck—unicorn costumes, extreme kindness, an army of supervillains. Reviewed by Norah Piehl.
They call themselves SYLO and they are a secret branch of the U.S. Navy. SYLO’s commander, Captain Granger, informs Pemberwick residents that the island has been hit by a lethal virus and must be quarantined. Now Pemberwick is cut off from the outside world. Reviewed by Benjamin Boche.
Welcome. Take a seat. Buckle up, nice and tight. We’ve got a story to tell. But be warned. I SCREAM, YOU SCREAM! isn’t just any tale. This is a Scary Tale. Meet Sam Carver, an ordinary kid with a very special ticket in her pocket. This ticket will send her and her new friend Andy on a most unusual ride --- one that will leave them screaming for more. Reviewed by Sheena Kowalski.
Something sinister lurks in the woods outside of Slade. Gabe has seen it, or he thinks he has---a shadow standing at the tree line, watching Gabe's house with faintly glowing eyes. Reviewed by Cyndie Stetsen.
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Comedian Kathy Griffin joined "Extra" host Mario Lopez at The Grove to talk about today's hot Hollywood topics, including “American Idol,” the Kardashians and the "Twilight" saga.
Find out what Kathy thinks about Mariah Carey's new judging gig, if Kim and Kanye are going to make it, and how Kristen Stewart should have handled her recent affair with director Rupert Sanders.
To see the eight-time Emmy-nominated actress on tour, go to KathyGriffin.net.
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The University of Colorado Boulder Computer Science graduate program is one of the top ranked programs in the U.S. News & World Report Best Graduate Schools issue among public universities. Students receive a strong education and conduct groundbreaking tier-one research. We have 50+ faculty members conducting fundamental and applied research in artificial intelligence, robotics, computational biology, human centered computing, numerical & scientific computing, programming languages, software engineering, systems and networking and theory of computing.
Boulder is also home to research and development operations for many large companies and four federal research labs: the National Center for Atmospheric Research, the National Institute for Standards and Technology, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory.
Recent doctoral and master’s graduates accepted employment at companies including, but not limited to, the following: Microsoft, Apple, Google, Facebook, Twitter, Cisco, Raytheon, HP, NASA, Amazon, Sandia National Laboratories, Northrop Grumman and Seagate. Many of our graduating PhD students also enter careers in academia.
For more information, visit the Computer Science website.
When coming across an algorithmic problem, how do we think about how hard it is? Beyond just how much time or memory it takes, computational complexity offers a plethora of concepts for understanding this fundamental question. This leads to the appropriate choice of algorithm for the job, the development of new algorithms, and understanding the role of algorithmic complexity in natural settings such as biology and physics.
Covers two-level and multilevel minimization, optimization via expert systems, algebraic and Boolean decomposition, layout methodologies, state assignment, encoding and minimization, silicon compilation.
Recommended: Prerequisites ECEN 2703 and general proficiency in discrete mathematics and programming.
Studies design, analysis and implementation of computer graphics techniques. Topics include interactive techniques, 2D and 3D viewing, clipping, segmentation, translation, rotation and projection. Involves removal of hidden edges, shading and color. Knowledge of basic linear algebra is required.
Studies design, analysis and implementation of advanced computer graphics techniques. Topics include shaders, using the GPU for high performance computing, graphics programming on embedded devices such as mobile phones; advanced graphics techniques such as ray tracing.
Requisites: Requires prerequisite course of CSCI 5229 (minimum grade B). Restricted to graduate students only.
Explores the "great works" of computer science through intensive reading and discussion. Readings include works by Babbage, Turing, Von Neumann, Goedel, Shannon and Minsky, among others. Does not count toward breadth requirement for Computer Science MS/ME degree.
Covers the primary problem solving strategies, methods and tools needed for data-intensive programs using large collections of computers typically called "warehouse scale" or "data-center scale" computers. Examines methods and algorithms for processing data-intensive applications, methods for deploying and managing large collections of computers in an on-demand infrastructure and issues of large-scale computer system design.
Discuss basic convex analysis (convex sets, functions and optimization problems), optimization theory (linear, quadratic, semidefinite and geometric programming; optimality conditions and duality theory), some optimization algorithms (descent methods and interior-point methods), basic applications (in signal processing, control, communications, networks, statistics, machine learning, circuit design and mechanical engineering, etc.), and some advanced topics (distributed decomposition, exact convex relaxation, parsimonious recovery).
Focuses on design and implementation of network programs and systems, including topics in network protocols, file transfer, client-server computing, remote procedure call and other contemporary network system design and programming techniques. Familiarity with C and Unix is required.
Exposes students to current research topics in the field of robotics and provides hands-on experience in solving a grand challenge program.
Recommended: Prerequisite CSCI 3302 or instructor consent required.
Surveys computational and mathematical modeling to illuminate biological processes. Students work together to learn to build and analyze models using a variety of numerical tools, tackle meaningful biological problems, and communicate effectively across disciplines. Specific topics: Langevin dynamics of protein folding, agent-based models, finite difference models of organismal growth, stochastic and deterministic cellular automata game of life, models of behavior.
Recommended: Prerequisite comfort with mathematics and/or programming experience, and more advanced understanding (upper undergraduate level) of any relevant discipline.
Provides students with the tools to be successful technical co-founders of their own startups. Explores the initial stages of founding a startup, including team formation, idea validation, pivoting and pitching, while employing an iterative methodology. Student teams will develop a minimum viable product, pitch their final startup concept and be evaluated on product/market fit. CS coding concepts relevant for startups, including potentially cloud programming, mobile programming and agile software engineering, will be taught. Does not satisfy breadth requirement.
Follows CSCI 5340. In the second semester of this entrepreneurial project capstone, student teams will seek to find market traction for a high-fidelity Minimum Viable Product (MVP), software and/or hardware, that they will develop as part of their startup project. Teams will further learn to incorporate principles of marketing, business finance and legal issues into the business model for their startup concept. Does not satisfy breadth requirement.
Requisites: Requires a prerequisite course of CSCI 5340 (minimum grade B). Restricted to graduate students only.
Examines modern techniques for analyzing and modeling the structure and dynamics of complex networks. Focuses on statistical algorithms and methods, and emphasizes model interpretability and understanding the processes that generate real data. Applications are drawn from computational biology and computational social science. No biological or social science training is required.
Recommended: Prerequisites CSCI 3104 and APPM 3570.
Introduces core concepts in cybersecurity including confidentiality, integrity, authentication, risk management, and adversarial thinking. The concepts will be applied to both traditional information technology (IT) systems and cyber physical systems (CPS). At the conclusion of the course, students should have a solid foundation in cybersecurity and hands-on experience.
Requisites: Requires prerequisite CSCI 3753 or CSCI 4273 (both minimum grade C-). Restricted to graduate students only.
Teaches basic exploit design and development through hands-on experimentation and testing. Uses a controlled environment to give students a "playground" in which to test penetration skills that are normally not allowed on live networks.
Addresses practical issues in the design, implementation and analysis of modern information retrieval systems. The major focus is on Web-based applications including ad hoc retrieval, classification, and clustering. Introduces the use of open source retrieval systems, standard evaluation metrics and gold-standard evaluation collections.
Explores the principles and emergent properties of collective dynamics through computational modeling and theory. Focuses on multi-agent systems using insights from biology, like the self-assemblage of cells and insect colony behavior. Topics include designing swarm intelligence, networked agents, cellular computing and self-assembly, optimization, synchronization, and evolutionary computation. Uses cross-discipline research developments to practice applied techniques. Biology background is not required.
Recommended: Prerequisite CSCI 2270 and basic knowledge of programming.
Reviews regular expressions and finite automata. Studies Turing machines and equivalent models of computation, the Chomsky hierarchy, context-free grammars, push-down automata, and computability.
Explores chaotic dynamics theoretically and through computer simulations. Covers the standard computational and analytical tools used in nonlinear dynamics and concludes with an overview of leading-edge chaos research. Topics include time and phase-space dynamics, surfaces of section, bifurcation diagrams, fractal dimension and Lyapunov exponents.
An applied analysis and design class addressing the use of object-oriented techniques. Topics include domain modeling, use cases, architectural design and modeling notations. Students apply the techniques in analysis and design projects.
Techniques for algorithm design, analysis of correctness and efficiency; divide and conquer, dynamic programming, probabilistic methods, advanced data structures, graph algorithms, etc. Lower bounds, NP-completeness, intractability.
Recommended: Prerequisite CSCI 2270 or equivalent.
Introduces basic data mining concepts and techniques for discovering interesting patterns hidden in large-scale data sets, focusing on issues relating to effectiveness and efficiency. Topics covered include data preprocessing, data warehouse, association, classification, clustering, and mining specific data types such as time-series, social networks, multimedia, and Web data.
Explore the algorithms that have been developed to assemble and analyze genome sequencing data. Genome sequencing produces vast and complex data that are intractable without efficient algorithms. This course covers the core data structures and algorithms which form the basis for research in topics ranging from evolution to the cause and treatment of many diseases, including cancer. Topics include string matching, indexing, compression, and succinct data structures. No prior knowledge of biology, DNA, or genetics is required.
Recommended: Prerequisite basic understanding of complexity analysis, core algorithms (for example, sort) and data structures (for example, graphs).
Introduces the principles and techniques for compiling high-level programming languages to assembly code. Topics include parsing, instruction selection, register allocation, and compiling high-level features such as polymorphism, first-class functions, and objects. Students will build a complete compiler for a simple language.
Recommended: Prerequisites CSCI 3155 and CSCI 2400 or ECEN 3350.
Considers concepts common to a variety of programming languages--how they are described (both formally and informally) and how they are implemented. Provides a firm basis for comprehending new languages and gives insight into the relationship between languages and machines.
Recommended: Prerequisite CSCI 3155 or instructor consent required.
Applies engineering principles to phases of software product development, project planning, requirements definition, design, implementation, validation and maintenance. Emphasizes practical methods for communicating and verifying definitions and designs: prototyping, inspections and modeling. Includes relation to RTS and object-oriented programming.
Recommended: Prerequisites CSCI 1300 and CSCI 2270 or instructor consent required.
Intended to create a foundation for operating systems research or advanced professional practice. Examines the design and implementation of a number of research and commercial operating systems and their components, system organization and structure, threads, communication and synchronization, virtual memory, distribution, file systems, security and authentication, availability and Internet services.
Requisites: Requires prerequisite course of CSCI 2400 and CSCI 3753 (all minimum grade C). Restricted to graduate students only.
Introduces computing systems, software and methods used to solve large-scale problems in science and engineering. Students use high-performance workstations and a supercomputer. First course in a two-semester sequence.
Provides a broad-scope treatment of important concepts in the design and implementation of high-performance computer systems. Discusses important issues in the pipelining of a machine and the design of cache memory systems. Also studies current and historically important computer architectures.
Recommended: Prerequisite CSCI 4593 or instructor consent required.
Highlights computer arithmetic, solution of linear systems, least-squares approximations, nonlinear algebraic equations, interpolation, and quadrature.
Recommended: Prerequisites CSCI 3656 and three semesters of calculus or equivalent.
Presents topics and techniques critical to the management of software product development, including estimating, planning, quality, tracking, reporting, team organization, people management and legal issues. Gives special attention to problems unique to software projects.
Recommended: Prerequisites ECEN 4583 and CSCI 5548 and CSCI 4318 or equivalent industrial experience.
Trains students to build computer systems that learn from experience. Includes the three main subfields: supervised learning, reinforcement learning and unsupervised learning. Emphasizes practical and theoretical understanding of the most widely used algorithms (neural networks, decision trees, support vector machines, Q-learning). Covers connections to data mining and statistical modeling. A strong foundation in probability, statistics, multivariate calculus, and linear algebra is highly recommended.
Requisites: Requires prereq courses of CSCI 3104 and CSCI 2820 or APPM 3310 or MATH 2130 or CSCI 3022 or APPM 4570 or APPM 3570 or STAT 4250 or MATH 3510 or CVEN 3227 or ECEN 3810 or ECON 3818 or MCEN 4120 (all min grade B). Restricted to Graduate Students Only.
Focuses on discretization techniques such as finite difference, finite element and finite volume methods, and parallel solution algorithms such as Krylov subspace methods, domain decomposition and multilevel methods.
Requisites: Requires prerequisite course of CSCI 2820 or CSCI 3656 (minimum grade B). Restricted to graduate students only.
Offers direct and iterative solutions of linear systems. Also covers eigen value and eigenvector calculations, error analysis, and reduction by orthogonal transformation. A sound knowledge of basic linear algebra, experience with numerical computation, and programming experience is required.
Presents algorithms, simplex and modifications. Examines theory-duality and complementary slackness. Involves network flow algorithms. Introduces integer programming.
Examines systems that span multiple autonomous computers. Topics include system structuring techniques, scalability, heterogeneity, fault tolerance, load sharing, distributed file and information systems, naming, directory services, resource discovery, resource and network management, security, privacy, ethics and social issues.
Recommended: Prerequisite CSCI 5573 or a course in computer networks.
Explores context-free languages: pumping lemma and variants, closure properties, and decision properties. Involves parsing algorithms, including general and special languages, e.g., LR. Additional topics chosen by instructor.
Recommended: Prerequisite CSCI 5444 or instructor consent required.
Explores algorithms that can extract information about the world from images or sequences of images. Topics covered include: imaging models and camera calibration, early vision (filters, edges, texture, stereo, optical flow), mid-level vision (segmentation, tracking), vision-based control and object recognition.
Recommended: Prerequisite probability, multivariate calculus and linear algebra.
Presents a broad range of system measurement and modeling techniques, emphasizing applications to computer systems. Topics include system measurement, work load characterization and analysis of data; design of experiments; simulation; and queuing theory and queuing network models.
Gives students hands-on experience applying data science techniques and machine learning algorithms to real-world problems. Students work in small teams on internal challenges, many of which will be sponsored by local companies and organizations and will represent the university in larger teams for external challenges at the national and global level, such as those hosted by Kaggle. Students will be expected to participate in both internal and external challenges, attend meetings and present short presentations to the group when appropriate. Instructor consent required.
Provides an advanced treatment of basic database concepts.
Introduces a set of modeling techniques that have become a mainstay of modern artificial intelligence, cognitive science and machine learning research. These models provide essential tools for interpreting the statistical structure of large data sets and for explaining how intelligent agents analyze the vast amount of experience that accumulates through interactions with an unfamiliar environment.
Recommended: Prerequisite undergraduate course in probability and statistics.
Explores the field of natural language processing as it is concerned with the theoretical and practical issues that arise in getting computers to perform useful and interesting tasks with natural language. Covers the problems of understanding complex language phenomena and building practical programs.
Develops the skills and practices necessary to apply user-centered approaches to software requirements analysis, and the design and evaluation of computer applications.
Explores input and interaction techniques, with an emphasis on universal design and alternative interfaces. Students will explore traditional input methods such as keyboard and mouse input, and alternative techniques such as voice and eye gaze. Students will conduct performance evaluations of existing techniques, and prototype new interaction methods. Students will design technologies to support people with varying abilities and disabilities.
Requisites: Requires prerequisite of CSCI 3002 or CSCI 5839 (all require minimum grade of B). Restricted to graduate students only.
Covers techniques for modeling, design and verification of Cyber-Physical Systems and application domains including automotive systems, robotics and medical devices. Modeling topics include timed systems, differential equations, switched systems, hybrid dynamical systems. Verification topics: reachability and stability verification. Temporal specifications. Synthesis of controllers. Applications: automotive systems, medical devices.
Requisites: Requires prerequisite course of CSCI 3434 or ECEN 3300 (minimum grade C). Restricted to graduate students only.
Provides opportunities for independent study at the master's level.
Requisites: Restricted to Computer Science (CSEN) graduate students or Computer Science Concurrent Degree majors only.
Examines interdisciplinary field of human-computer interaction through a comprehensive content and historical survey. Considers new trajectories of inquiry and how the field merges with others. "Social computing" is emphasized as a central topic. Students across disciplines will find the course foundational for understanding human-centered technology matters, including computer scientists; social scientists; and business and media arts students.
Introduces modern approaches to machine learning using neural networks. Neural nets, popular in the early 1990s, have undergone a resurgence due to significant advances in computing power and the availability of very large data sets. Now rechristened 'deep learning', the field has produced state-of-the-art results in a range of artificial intelligence problems, including vision, speech and natural language processing.
Studies recent advances in human-computer interaction through critical analysis of influential papers and self-guided research. Examines new paradigms in input, output, and visualization for technology design and interaction. Considers innovative methods to assess various population design and technological needs. Studies in computer-related fields, social science, business, media arts and communications benefit learning about human-centered computing research.
Instructs new Ph.D students in Computer Science how to obtain a Ph.D and how to become an effective member of the computer science research community. Makes students aware of formal requirements, educational objectives, and research themes. Provides evaluative criteria and guidelines for all objectives to be achieved.
Studies methods to protect information, and the ability to process and move information, from theft, misuse, tampering, destruction and unauthorized access. Introduces foundational topics of computer and network security, including security models, cryptopgraphy and authentication protocols.
Requisites: Requires prerequisite course of CSCI 5273 (minimum grade B). Restricted to graduate students only.
Introduction to automatic speech recognition and understanding, conversational agents, dialogue systems, and speech synthesis/text-to-speech. Topics include the noisy channel model, Hidden Markov Models, A* and Viterbi decoding, language modeling (N-grams, entropy), concatenative synthesis, text normalization, dialogue and conversation modeling.
Recommended: Prerequisites CSCI 5832 or LING 5200 or instructor consent required.
Interdisciplinary introduction to cognitive science, examining ideas from cognitive psychology, philosophy, education, and linguistics via computational modeling and psychological experimentation. Includes philosophy of mind; learning; categorization; vision and mental imagery; consciousness; problem solving; decision making, and game-theory; language processing; connectionism. No background in Computer Science will be presumed.
Topics include matching and network flows, matroids, computational geometry, parallel computation (PRAM, hypercube, mesh). Also includes Vlsi, database theory, distributed computation, cryptography, robotics, scheduling, probabilistic algorithms, approximation algorithms, average case, and amortized analysis, time permitting.
Requisites: Requires prerequisite course of CSCI 5454 (minimum grade B). Restricted to graduate students only.
Covers advanced theoretical and practical topics in machine learning and latest developments in the field. Students conduct original research, either applied or theoretical, and present their results.
Recommended: Prerequisite CSCI 5622 or instructor consent required.
Covers computational methods for constrained optimization. Topics include basic theory, methods for quadratic programming, active set strategies for linear constraints, and penalty and successive quadratic programming methods for nonlinearly constrained problems.
Requisites: Requires prerequisite course of CSCI 5606 (minimum grade B). Restricted to graduate students only.
Students seeking the master of engineering degree must complete a creative investigation project, including a written report, supervised by a member of the graduate faculty. Department enforced prerequisite: completion of 21 hours towards the ME degree.
Requisites: Restricted to graduate student Computer Sciences (CSEN) students only.
Provides an overview of current research topics in computational biology and health informatics, with a focus on research conducted on campus. Each week students will attend an on-campus seminar or a presentation by an on-campus research group. Prepares students to participate in a research project.
For students who need to be registered for the purpose of taking the master's comprehensive exam and who are not otherwise registered. Credit does not count toward degree requirements.
Covers research topics of current interest in computer science that do not fall into a standard subarea.
Topics selected by instructor. Possible topics are system design, measurement and evaluation, simulation, mathematical modeling, and parallelism.
Requisites: Requires prerequisite course of CSCI 5573 (minimum grade B). Restricted to graduate students only.
Topics selected by instructor. Possible topics are syntax, semantics, metacompilers, compiler design, and translator writing systems. Department consent required.
Topics selected by instructor. Possible topics are online systems, multiprocessing, microprogramming, architecture, data communications, and computing networks. Department consent required.
Selected topics of current interest in theory of computation.
Topics selected by instructor. Possible topics are numerical linear algebra, solution of differential equations, nonlinear algebra and optimization, data fitting, linear and nonlinear programming, and solution of large problems. Department consent required.
Topics vary from year to year. Possible topics include human and machine vision, signal and speech processing, artificial life, mathematical foundations of connectionism, and computational learning theory.
Independent, interdisciplinary research project in cognitive science for advanced graduate students pursuing a joint PhD in an approved core discipline and cognitive science. Research projects integrate at least two areas within the cognitive sciences: psychology, computer science, linguistics, education, philosophy. Students need commitments from two mentors for their project.
Requisites: Requires a prerequisite course of CSCI 6402 or EDUC 6504 or LING 6200 or PHIL 6310 or PSYC 6200 (minimum grade B). Restricted to graduate students only.
Independent, interdisciplinary research project in cognitive science for advanced graduate students pursuing a joint Ph.D in an approved core discipline and cognitive science. Research projects integrate at least two areas within the cognitive sciences: psychology, computer science, linguistics, education, philosophy. Students need commitments from two mentors for their project.
Requisites: Requires a prerequisite course of LING 7415 or PSYC 7415 or CSCI 7412 or EDUC 6506 (minimum grade B). Restricted to graduate students only.
Studies topics such as distributed databases, database interfaces, data models, database theory, and performance measurement in depth.
Requisites: Requires prerequisite course of CSCI 5817 (minimum grade B). Restricted to graduate students only.
Reading of interdisciplinary innovative theories and methodologies of cognitive science. Students participate in the ICS Distinguished Speakers series that hosts internationally recognized cognitive scientists who share and discuss their current research. Session discussions include analysis of leading edge and controversial new approaches in cognitive science.
Studies selected topics of current interest in software engineering. Department consent required.
Investigates some specialized field of computer science. Approved and supervised by faculty members.
Repeatable: Repeatable for up to 30.00 total credit hours. Allows multiple enrollment in term.
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2019-04-19T14:25:51Z
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https://catalog.colorado.edu/graduate/colleges-schools/engineering-applied-science/programs-study/computer-science/
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Alchemy Systems will host its annual food and workplace safety conference on September 13 – 15, 2016 in Austin, Texas, at the Hyatt Regency Hotel. This year’s theme is Unlocking the Potential of Your Frontline with a focus on engaging frontline workers and supervisors to drive positive safety cultures and lowering risk.
The three-day conference is a must-attend event for food safety and workplace safety professionals and will offer attendees the opportunity to learn best practices from world-class companies, network with hundreds of their peers, and get the latest on upcoming regulatory changes.
The conference keynote speaker will be Captain David Marquet, former nuclear submarine commander for the Unites States Navy. He is the author of Turn the Ship Around! A True Story of Turning Followers Into Leaders, a fascinating inside look at how the lowest performing submarine in the U.S. fleet rose to become its highest.
“We are really excited to bring together industry experts from JBS, Tyson Foods, Red Diamond, Aryzta, Golden State Foods, C&S Wholesalers, Safeway/Albertsons, Seaboard Foods and many others to share their perspectives,” says Jeff Eastman, CEO of Alchemy Systems. In addition, leaders from SQF, BRC and the former head of OSHA will provide updates on the changing regulatory landscape. And risk, audit, and legal experts will share their recent experiences with food and workplace safety incidents.
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2019-04-19T15:34:34Z
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https://www.prweb.com/releases/2016/07/prweb13577671.htm
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Business
| 0.975257 |
strath
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An investigation was carried out concerning the effect of preferential dissolution on the erosion-corrosion for a chromium steel in 1mol/L NaOH. Preliminary tests using a potentiodynamic technique were performed in order to establish the presence of preferential dissolution in the alkali solution with and without the alumina particles at different rotation speeds. For purposes of quantifying the observed phenomena a potentiostatic mass loss method was also used. The results show that the active peaks occur at potential between +0.4 and +0.5V on the polarization curves, which indicates that there is a preferential dissolution for chromium steel under erosion-corrosion conditions and the ferrite phase acts as a sacrificial anode in favor of (Fe,Cr)7C3 phase. Addition of particles can promote the preferential dissolution at different rotation speeds. The combined effects of erosion-corrosion results in total mass loss rates to be greater than the sum effects of each process taken alone, thus showing a strong synergism between erosion and corrosion due to preferential dissolution.
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2019-04-24T20:24:36Z
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https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/6283/
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Arts
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typepad
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These new wiki and blog based platforms are an example of the promise of Web 2.0. They introduce a whole new way to build collaborative, interactive, web ready applications that can be hosted "in the cloud" or inside the firewall.
Platform shifts happen every 10 to 15 years. We may be witnessing the start of a new platform shift with Web 2.0 style blog and wiki platforms.
i hesitate to call what we do a platform yet. It is hard to think of a startup that started and remained as a platform. Instead we are focusing on being a killer application first. Apps that gain widespread adoption become attractive for others to develop upon, and if managed right, become platforms.
That said, Don is right that we are at the beginning of a platform shift. Wikis and Blogs have from their very beginning afforded open source and open APIs. They make great containers for orchestrating web services to form composite applications, or for being mashed up elsewhere. And more importantly, they are collaboration and communication tools that demand and enable redesign of applications. Not just slapping them on a web page.
How can more people be empowered to do such redesigns, for print and for the web?
Gabe at Techmeme created Mini versions of his meme trackers for mobile users. Just add /mini to the end of the URL of your favorite Memeorandum site or /miniriver for an extended version.
This of course, is going straight into my list of links and notes in Miki, the mobile wiki. All web apps should have mobile versions like this.
There is a recursive irony in the public debate about the Generic Attribution Provision proposed before the Open Source Initiative.
In blogspace, David Berlind raises the red flag broadly and narrowly on vendors and projects calling themselves open source without using an OSI approved license or having their license certified. In fact, there is no trademark on "open source." The commercial open source vendors David identifies broadly and narrowly in his second post are not breaking any rules or undermining the community. This doesn't mean David's flag is moot, there is an underlying confusion in the market he is bringing to light.
There are clear incentives for companies and projects to seek to be OSI Certified, because it is a trademark. Trademark is the the one body of intellectual property law that largely supports innovation with relative Freedom -- and trademark is attribution. Open Source projects that have followed the process and gained certification have earned something. It is a process that is inevitably burdensome and risky, as is any process, especially subject to an open community. But because it is difficult, no matter how helpful those involved, it garners meaning. The certification mark means something, a signal of trust, relative efficiency to the noise of the market, acceptance in the bazzar backed by conversations that others can join.
The recursive irony is that Socialtext seeks certification attributable to OSI for a license that includes attribution. The OSI Certified badge will be proudly displayed. A signal that we are playing by the rules of the open source community and by doing so contribute value to the community.
For the Socialtext community, to be part of it must mean something. Those that preceded you must have done something. Being spawned and rooted by a commercial open source company must mean more than a value proposition that attracts. Leadership means more than creating something on your own and citizenry means being a part of an inevitably larger whole. People participate through social contracts. Agreements build upon agreements to constitute a body made of bodies. We think that the Socialtext Public License attribution provision will compound community value as the OSI Certified badge does, and will not stifle innovation as the Creative Commons attribution provision has proven.
Some companies may not choose or be able to attain the value of the OSI Certification mark. They can use the term "open source" to describe their offerings, but it is of less value to be part of the non-standard part of the market.
I already find the license-discuss mailing list full of noise, engaged in personality conflicts and not deliberating the approval in question. Partially this is because of the mailing list as a tool, which is lacking the attribution affordance of hypertext, and the emphasis of identity of contributors without persistence leading to personal flame-wars, the babel problem revisited, lack of memory, permanent addressability and all the things new tools have moved past. The conversation even spiraled into notions of an explicit reputation system outside of certification (the horrors, for goodness sake move this to a blog or wiki and let the community imply judgment). Oh, wait, this is not about our tool, but tooling the machines of the future.
Part of the future is being prototyped in gaming. As it always has been, play is always innovation at some level. But at the massive level, part of the future is playing itself out today.
My last post took an unexplored tangent off of Raph Koster's insight into Second Life's Copybot, exploring the arbitrage opportunity when content production costs are increasing, but it was too generic. See Raph's comment and his deeper thoughts on the future of content. He clarifies that he thought rising production costs applies to the content industry, not end users. I'd say that platforms will emerge for end users to have their day.
Second Life is actually the closest to this, which makes it interesting. Can you imagine an end user demanding a VCR that doesn't copy, but only plays? Or wanting a CDROM that doesn't burn? Perhaps when the tools of production are evenly distributed, but the culture doesn't follow.
Part of what I guess is happening in SL is distorted rates of change. See, I remember when I first met Raph at Supernova and he said something to the effect of, "we gamers are evolving faster than you n00bs." People believed intellectual property rule of law was established, and then the game changed. Only the Marxists would be happy with this.
Or the people, like Raph, that realize that the physics have changed. Better yet, that there are no closed systems.
Joi first for me and most naturally realized that MMORGs don't adapt to the real world enough. The business is still perceived as a content business with a captive audience. Where users are not content generators, but accumulators. SL, to Philip Rosendale's credit, breaks this mold where content is pre-dominantly generated by users. It also breaks the mold of embracing an open economy with other economies. But how much of the mold is broken?
The former could be broken more. Where is the standard that allows me to create a 3D representation of a character or object that is portable across worlds, even if rendered and with different attributes? Where is the accessible scripting language, the HTML of worlds?
A long time coming. While I believe Virtual Worlds will eventually be part of the web, not just the internet, the walled gardens are profitable and defensible in absence of alternatives.
The current view is due to capital costs, in a hit or miss business that harkens to Hollywood, content production is in the hands of vendors. I hope SL gets through this successfully, because at the level editing level, they enable a user-generated alternative. In fact, they have their first SL Millionaire. Wonder how she would play with inevitable erosion of digital property rights. Is she creating experiences, or just playing a spot market amidst DRM countermeasures?
If you want to see the future of content creation, a controversial glimpse of it is in this documentary. In it, the entrepreneur who manages a gold farming venture that resembles a college dorm (until his PayPal account connection is terminated) provides the insight that it is simply a service business that transcends distance and privilege.
Warcraft makes user-generated content globally accessible. And despite efforts to the contrary, the result is a service industry in support of the game. Second Life affords a role, but favors a different kind of player that relates to other players.
These are only two datapoints that could make up a rich ecology. But today the ecology is not there. There is an ecology of shared experiences with gaming, and a far greater potential with non-gamers. And most game design provides negative incentives for what is outside worlds.
Sometimes I wonder if anything like the Web will happen again. It was a glorious triumph that such interop and culture happened before it was taken disruptively. Today almost every game acts as though it has its own monopoly in its own world. But I have to think that users have had a taste of how things should work, even if not rich in experience, and even with the limitations of how portable identity, relationships and content are in the web today. And the next disruption could force worlds to collide.
Raph Koster applies the impact of CopyBot on SecondLife's intellectual property economy as a broad lesson for the industry.
In the last decades, we have seen the content business have to adapt to a frightening new reality: The cost to create a minute of content has risen exponentially, but the fair market value of a minute of content has plummeted. In our brave new world of digital assets and user contributions, we tend to forget that this will be hitting not just media companies in the pocketbook, but also all those Web users who are merrily uploading their creations to platforms that by their very nature are fundamentally defenseless against copying.
While I believe this is generally true, there are notable exceptions for more open systems. And all systems trend towards open. The gaming industry is bifurcating into content creation and game engines. A split driven both by the cost of content creation, but mostly the complexity and cost of creating the game engines that power it. SecondLife is one of the most open virtual worlds, but the tools for creating content within it are still limited. Especially when compared with the diversity and accessibility of our standards-based web.
How? Well, its made of people, silly.
In more closed virtual worlds, such as World of Warcraft, content creation is largely the burden of the toolmaker. And copying is expressly forbidden. So what happens? The arbitrage condition is so strong that people are applied to the problem. Chinese gold farmers are human CopyBots.
Bruce Perens calls web applications with attribution provisions "badgeware." Somehow this seems familiar.
The original quotation comes from the 1948 film The Treasure of the Sierra Madre with Humphrey Bogart. One of the most memorable scenes in the movie is where a Mexican bandit leader (Gold Hat, played by Alfonso Bedoya) is trying to convince Fred C. Dobbs (played by Bogart) and company that they are the Federales.
Dobbs: "If you're the police, where are your badges?"
Gold Hat: "Badges!? We ain't got no badges. We don't need no badges! I don't have to show you any stinking badges!!"
I hereby issue the Gold Hat challenge. Find me a mashup of open source applications (not infrastructure) with attribution requirements that adversely constrain the interface and I'll send you a legal copy of the Treasure of Sierra Madre.
Badgeware is oh so catchy and cute. But the underlying issue is attribution is an incentive for innovation with freedom, or a burdensome constraint. And if the deputizing body functions. I'm with Bogart on this one, you are either one of the Federales, or not.
Don't Bogart that cert from me, pass it over, my friend.
When going through the process of opening Socialtext, we need to choose a license that is a fit for a commercial open source company. Commercial open source strikes the balance between freedom and profit motive, and the license you choose becomes a contract not just for the company, but a community.
The decision to open is easier for vendors than it was just a few years ago because of the common practice of Mozilla Public License-based licenses by companies such as SugarCRM, Zimbra, Alfresco, Scalix and about 10 others. MPL is the most popular OSI license and it allows for extensions (MPL section 6.1 says "However, You may include an additional document offering the additional rights described in Section 3.5." Section 3.5 ensure that the modifications must apply equally to every developer or contributor.).
Good thing too, because in my humble opinion no other licenses are a fit for commercial open source web applications.
Attribution: We believe that attribution provides positive incentives for creativity and innovation, as witnessed by the success of Creative Commons attribution licenses. Trademark is attribution. We require the display of the project's mark within the UI, not just the code, with a link back to the community that contributes to it.
Network Use: Delivering an application over HTTP should the same as compiling, burning and distributing on a CD. If you distribute over the network, you should share your contributions with the community. See this wiki page for more details.
Trademark Use: Section 6.3 says that if you make a modification to the license, you cannot use Mozilla trademarks within the license. So we called it Socialtext Public License, but we can reference MPL publicly or in the license expressly to point out the first two differences between SPL and MPL.
We put SPL out into the world after a lot of research and conversation, but decided to be open to granting more liberal rights in the future if demanded by the community. More importantly, while SPL is consistent with the Open Source Definition, we firmly believe in the mission of the Open Source Initiative and desire to submit to their process for sake of license proliferation.
While it is inside baseball for some, David Berlind has a very well researched post that asks, are companies using MPL extensions are abusing the term Open Source? I've spoken with David about this several times. I think his article provides a balanced view of those who believe the licenses are OSI compliant and those who do not. I'd also like to highlight OSI board member Danese Cooper's blog post on attribution.
But unfortunately I haven't had a chance to talk with David in a little while, as I would have highlighted that Socialtext submitted a memo to the OSI board for consideration on November 14th -- proposing a Generic Attribution Provision. I've shared the attribution memo on a wiki page, where you can find additional background information on the issue and the proposal to resolve it through a standard attribution clause that OSI could certify for any OSI license. This structure would be similar to how Creative Commons enables attribution as an option.
Congrats to Ray King for getting $1M for AboutUs, a wiki-powered index of the web. One step closer towards Wikipedia eats Google.
If you haven't tried the AboutUs domain directory, it mashes up all kind of information about a given website and lets anyone build upon it.
Dan Bricklin just put up a new screencast of wikiCalc that shows off some of the features in the same release that will become SocialCalc.
The screencast shows the latest version. (The last one was done in June.) In addition to the normal run through of the product features shown in the last screencast, this one has a short introduction that positions the product and adds a few minutes of demonstrations of the work flow, Live View functionality, embedding on other web pages, etc. For example, it shows viewing a consolidated report, clicking on a link to a divisional report, logging in to view that page, clicking "Edit This Page" on that report, making a change, and then viewing the updated consolidated values. It also shows using a normal web page with a form to call up another page with an embedded spreadsheet that includes calculations that are based on values provided by the form.
TechCrunch reports the big new trend is for companies like Sun and Dell to hold their press conferences in SecondLife. To further advance the state of the art, the next Socialtext press conference will be held in World of Warcraft.
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2019-04-25T18:51:02Z
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https://ross.typepad.com/blog/2006/11/index.html
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THE ELECTRON IMPACT DISSOCIATION OF SOME MOLECULES OF ENVIRONMENTAL INTEREST.
Dept. of Physics. Paper copy at Leddy Library: Theses & Major Papers - Basement, West Bldg. / Call Number: Thesis1978 .A466. Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 39-08, Section: B, page: 3886. Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Windsor (Canada), 1978.
ALLCOCK, GEOFFREY., "THE ELECTRON IMPACT DISSOCIATION OF SOME MOLECULES OF ENVIRONMENTAL INTEREST." (1978). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 3977.
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2019-04-22T16:05:50Z
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https://scholar.uwindsor.ca/etd/3977/
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Arts
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Science
| 0.987857 |
georgetown
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Tragedy after tragedy has drawn the nation’s attention towards gun violence. Yet the murder of 20 school children in Newtown, CT has done more to drive the national dialogue on gun control than any preceding mass shooting, not to mention the endemic murderous violence that plagues city streets day in and out. President Obama has responded by calling on Congress to (1) close background check loopholes; (2) ban assault weapons and high-capacity magazines; and (3) improve mental health services. All of these measures are necessary to curb gun violence. Yet, in a nation with more firearms per capita than anywhere in the world, they are not sufficient.
Violence is depicted and even glorified in the media; law enforcement lacks the ability to track stolen or illegally traded arms; and the National Instant Criminal Background Check System is vastly deficient (and not always consulted before a sale). The public health threat of firearms—whether through inner-city violence, mass murders, suicides, or inadvertent firearm discharges—is tremendous, and reasonable firearm restrictions are both critical and in high public demand. Yet Congress has stalled comprehensive gun safety legislation for years (e.g., mandatory trigger locks, fingerprint and tracking technology, training requirements, limits on mass sales). Moreover, President Obama’s renewed call for change does not touch on these strategies. In short, federal, state, and city officials lack the basic tools needed to detect, prevent, and punish firearm related crime. Before Newtown becomes another sound bite, it must inspire the greatest bipartisan courage to at least stem the mass shootings and street killings that our newly found individual right to bear arms has made so prevalent.
Record, Katherine L. and Gostin, Lawrence O., "A Systematic Plan for Firearms Law Reform" (2013). Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works. 1182.
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2019-04-22T02:29:04Z
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https://scholarship.law.georgetown.edu/facpub/1182/
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Arts
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Kids
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unibo
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Marketization is a process occurring in many transitional economies as countries seek to adjust their legal systems to facilitate broader market participation while expanding global trade. This essay sets out one way of understanding this process by focusing on the relationship among, law, markets, and marketization. It identifies and explains basic legal requirements for marketization and links these to a need to transform legal thinking by integrating a greater understanding of economics into both law and public policy.
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2019-04-22T16:52:40Z
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https://bolognalawreview.unibo.it/article/view/6356
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ucc
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This is a composite cross, made from fragments of two different crosses. The base measures 1m high and 1.5m x 1.35m. The shaft measures 2.65 high and 63cm x 44 cm in thickness.
This is a close up of one panel of the north west face of the composite cross at Clones, Co. Monaghan. This panel NW2 depicts a New Testament scene. John 2: the Marriage Feast at Cana.
The Marriage Feast at Cana. New Testament. John 2.
This panel has two layers of figures the top part has 3 figures while the bottom part has 4 figures.
96th Annual Report of the Commissioners of Public Works in Ireland 1st, , Dublin (1929) .
Calvert, J.A., The Early Development of Irish High Crosses and their relationship to Scottish Sculpture in the ninth and tenth centuries , University of California, Berkeley (1978) Ph.D, .
Edwards, N., , ‘An Early group of Crosses from the Kingdom of Ossory’. In Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland (1983) 113, 5-46.
Harbison, Peter, , ‘On some possible sources of Irish High Cross Decoration’. In Festschrift zum 50jahrigen bestehen des vorgeschichtlichen seminars Marburg. Marburger Studien zur vor- und frühgeschichtlichen I (1977) 283-297.
Frey, O.-H., Festschrift zum 50jahrigen bestehen des vorgeschichtlichen seminars Marburg. Marburger Studien zur vor- und frühgeschichtlichen I 1st, , Gladenbach (1977) .
Henry, F., La Sculpture irlandaise pendant les douze premiers siècles de l'ère chrétienne 1st, , Paris (1933) .
Henry, F., Irish Art during the Viking Invasions (800-1020 A.D.) 1st, , London (1967) .
Kuhn, W., Die Ikonographie der Hochzeit zu Kana von den anfangen bis zum XIV. Jahrhundert 1st, , Freiburg i. Br. (1955) .
Wakeman, W.F., , ‘On the Ecclesiastical Antiquities of Cluain-Eois, now Clones, County of Monaghan’. In Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland (1874/75) 13, 327-340.
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2019-04-22T01:06:12Z
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http://publish.ucc.ie/doi/tandi/Clones1-N143
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Arts
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Arts
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llew
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If the pressure inside the pipes is too low the water’s stream may be too insufficient to use it. If you are not happy about the low pressure of the water in your washbasin or shower, a trained plumbing professional can easily fix it. Weak evacuation of water may be caused by low pressure inside the pipes which can only be fixed by a licensed skilled plumbing engineer We offer to problem solve headaches with low pressure and high pressure in the pipes in less than 20 minutes.
If the pressure inside a plastic tube is too high and the steel pipe itself has cracks it may end up in a leakage.
The boiler may not be working properly owing to low pressure, as a consequence, it is not improbable to be a hint of something more serious like a leak in the system. To alter the stream of the water just it is better turn the knob to substitute the pressure inside the hose.
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2019-04-25T18:32:33Z
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https://llew.co.uk/5508-106797-low-pressure-greenwich-se9.htm
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