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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to identify the risks faced by users of online social networking services (SNSs) in the UK and to develop a typology of risk that can be used to assess regulatory effectiveness.
Design/methodology/approach – An initial investigation of the literature revealed no detailed taxonomies of risk in this area. Existing taxonomies were reviewed and merged with categories identified in a pilot survey and expanded in purposive sample survey directed at the library and information services (LIS) community in the UK.
Findings – Analysis of the relationships between different risk categories yielded a grouping of risks by their consequences. This aligns with one of the objectives of regulation, which is to mitigate risks.
Research limitations/implications – This research offers a tool for evaluation of different modes of regulation of social media.
Practical implications – Awareness of the risks associated with use of online SNSs and wider social media contributes to the work of LIS professionals in their roles as: educators; intermediaries; and users of social media. An understanding of risk also informs the work of policy makers and legislators responsible for regulating access to personal data.
Originality/value – A risk-based view of regulation of personal data on social media has not been attempted in such a comprehensive way before.
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2019-04-23T09:01:00Z
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http://openaccess.city.ac.uk/6228/
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Arts
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Business
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indiatimes
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Jasoda Nath talks to her sister's family on video call.
KOLKATA: Tears flowed freely as 90-year-old Jasoda Nath came face-to-face with the family members of her long-lost sister—whom she had last seen 77 years ago— on a tablet screen.
Sitting at her Kanchrapara home, Jasoda gingerly held the tablet as the video call went through and the screen lit up with the smiling faces of the children and grandchildren of her sister in faraway Tripura. Though she wept with joy at this unusual reunion, she regretted that her sister Renuka Nath was not there. She had passed away in 1990.
The modern video call technology may have allowed Jasoda to see her sister’s family, who were hundreds of kilometers away in Tripura, but a century-old technology — amateur or HAM radio — was instrumental in tracing the family in Tripura.
“My grandmother’s family belonged to Noakhali in Bangladesh and my grandfather was from Chittagong. My grandmother Jasoda was only 13 when they got married and the couple moved to Panagarh in Burdwan as my grandfather worked there,” Jasoda’s grandson Abhishek Nath said.
“My grandmother had a brother and a sister. Her brother died when he was in Class X but she lost contact with her sister after her marriage. Her last information about her sister was through some letters from her father Ramchandra Nath informing her of Renuka’s marriage,” he added.
For the past several years, Jasoda pined for her sister, whom she had last seen 77 years ago while leaving home after marriage. So, her family set about tracing her sister.
They had heard names of places like Hrishyamukh and Belonia, which turned out to be a town in south Tripura. Nearly two years ago, Abhishek’s uncle Subrata Nath tried to get in touch with people from Tripura over social networking sites but got no leads.
“The people we contacted told us that Belonia is a big place and tracking down one family with so few details is like looking for a needle in a haystack. It was then that we read how a man from Tripura had been reunited with his family with the help of amateur radio operators. This was when we got in touch with Ambarish Nag Biswas, secretary, West Bengal Radio Club (WBRC), who was instrumental in helping the man,” Abhishek, a BSc 3 rd year student added.
Nag Biswas knew it was a difficult task but still got in touch with HAMs in south Tripura. A couple of days ago, he got in touch with Jasoda’s family and informed them that a family that matched the description of her sister had been traced to Hrishyamukh.
“There was no photograph or details of the family. There was only a name and the place of origin in Bangladesh. Our friends in Tripura did a wonderful job, tracking every lead and finally arriving at the right address. We set up an appointment with them for Friday and I went to Kanchrapara personally to make the video call. The old woman was overcome with emotion on realizing that she was actually communicating with her sister’s family,” Nag Biswas said.
Jasoda was unable to recognize anybody on the tablet screen as they had never seen them, but memories were jogged as the nonagenarian recounted her memories of Renuka. “It was fascinating. We didn’t even know about them. In fact, a granddaughter of my grandmother’s sister now studies in Kolkata. We took her number and got in touch,” Abhishek said.
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2019-04-20T22:30:40Z
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https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kolkata/hams-help-reunite-90-year-old-with-her-long-lost-sisters-family/articleshow/66662326.cms
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Arts
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News
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wordpress
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Recently I saw “From Van Gogh to Kandinsky” at the MMFA, and a Cézanne painting of apples and pears brought tears to my eyes. No sobs, or any other physical affect, but the water welled up so deeply that it spilled over. I had to blink to clear my vision. It’s not the first time great art has given me a physical reaction.
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2019-04-20T11:10:36Z
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https://yoshiandthepussycats.wordpress.com/tag/cezanne/
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Arts
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Arts
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wordpress
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Mike Kelly at Amherst has compiled a linked list of their Dickinson manuscipt holdings (online images, freely available!!) for those poems that appear in the Norton Anthology of Poetry, 5th ed. Also includes links to manuscripts available from the Boston Public Library.
PDF version of list available on the above page as well.
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2019-04-19T07:37:56Z
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https://ssawwnew.wordpress.com/2013/09/17/emily-dickinson-resource/
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Arts
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Arts
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wordpress
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Volunteers are not paid because they are priceless, not worthless!
It could be hard finding time to volunteer, especially when the time committed does not attract any form of financial remuneration. Amazingly, some youth still dedicates part of their free time to work without financial pay. This summer, LEAP Africa engaged summer interns to assist with some of the projects currently running at LEAP and the experience working with the interns has been amazing. However, it has been mutually beneficial. The interns has the following to say….
Initially, I might have shared the same mindset as my friends; however, my stay at LEAP gave answers to that question. I realized that volunteering makesme happy and proud that someone or some people will indirectly have their lives transformed positively as a result of the tasks I carry out. Secondly, I discovered that volunteering prevents me from having a completely Capitalist paradigm, which would make me think that I must be paid for every thing I do. Volunteering is an act of kindness as well as endurance. In my situation, it is an extreme case of endurance since I have to wake up at 5 am everyday in order to arrive at work on time.
Working at LEAP has made me consider how I can make a change in Nigeria and has helped me realize that my age or status would not be a hindrance while doing so. In addition, my knowledge and awareness have expanded substantially and I now understand the importance of things like networking and communication. Overall, thanks to the people that I have been fortunate to meet with, my experience at LEAP has been wonderful!
I have a problem. I don’t like to ask for money when I have provided no good or service. I’m the kind of person who much prefers being paid for actually doing or providing something. Of course that means when I’m strapped for cash, I don’t feel comfortable asking to borrow money, I’d much rather find a reason to make one pay me, e.g. ” Can I borrow a calculator?” “Sure. For 50 naira” Its such a common phrase from me. I once bought lunch using a lot of 50 naira notes from a lot of people. So when I needed something interesting to do for most of my summer break, I didn’t even fathom the idea that I would not get paid.
Slightly more than a month volunteering at LEAP Africa, I’ve realized that I’m being paid in something much more valuable than money. It sounds like a cliche but I’ve earned knowledge, work experience, a better understanding of formal communication and so much more.
It’s given me a chance to hone skills that were becoming rusty due to disuse: design skills, organizational skills, and discovering and navigating new computer software. I’ve met other teenagers, albeit slightly older than me, that have the same idea and are trying to help in one way or the other. I started my time here at LEAP slightly disgruntled I wouldn’t make any money this summer, but in the time since, I’ve learnt so much and improved in so many areas that if I could go back in time, I would slap myself and tell myself that money just pales in comparison to some things. The greatest thing about that is LEAP has done with me, exactly what it sets out to do with all its programmes: impacted the life of a young person and helped her think about the bigger picture.
Sometimes, one just needs to volunteer and sacrifice something to realize things about themselves they otherwise wouldn’t….And its necessary to help where you can to make Nigeria a better place, even if one can’t see immediate results.
One of the key lessons of life is this: time is precious. Giving up your time can be very difficult, and should be done wisely. But to volunteer is to give up your time to a cause that is important to you.
I could not have chosen a better organisation than LEAP to dedicate some time to this summer. I came into LEAP impressed by its goals and mission, and my time there simply amplified my excitement as I got first-hand experience of the positive impact the organisation is having on lives, both on an individual and societal level.
Volunteering at LEAP has been a very rewarding experience for me, and I would highly encourage anyone interested in LEAP’s work to volunteer; getting involved gives a refined understanding of the organisation’s goals, and allows you to dedicate time and ideas to such a good cause.
“Volunteering is important to me because it promotes personal growth and self esteem. It helps me work on certain skills I will need but it makes me feel satisfied as I get the sense that I have given back to my community.
Volunteering might be tasking, but it definitely is rewarding as evident from our five summer interns.
I leave you with this quote from Nelson Mandela….
Please, I ready wanna b a volunteer help me out. Please. The site is not helping, no information or form to fill on d site.
I want to volunteer in d youth leadership aspect.
Hello Esther, sorry for any inconvenience in joining our volunteer network. Please send us an email at info@leapafrica.org anytime if you are still interesting in volunteering with us.
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2019-04-23T19:25:13Z
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https://leapafrica.wordpress.com/2014/07/18/priceless-not-worthless/
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Arts
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Society
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leftandcenterfod
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What type of pickleball paddle should you choose?
Paddling a kayak can be an experience that is extremely relaxing and satisfying that enriches body, your mind, and soul. A summer evening fall below the tree line in your lake as the stress of a lifestyle melts away when you can revitalize. Not having the proper equipment can turn experience and this setting into a painful and tough excursion. Among the best ways to guarantee a paddling experience is to get a paddle that fits paddling style and your size, and paddle length is an element in paddle performance. Choosing a suitable paddle length can be frustrating and confusing, especially if you are a newcomer or even a paddler. There are various suggestions and rules of thumb that you would need several hands to suit all of them. The point is nothing trumps comfort when it comes to paddle length. If your comfort level doesn’t fit rule of thumb, forget the rule.
Appropriate paddle length more and, begins with body size arm span. The taller you are, the longer your arms will be. The longer your arms are, the longer the paddle must be to have length and the fit. There are lots of ways to get a proper fit, and that I will examine some of the procedures which have worked for my clients and me. Best Pickleball Paddles for spin is a method that works for people that use it. The first step is to find something or a broomstick. This method can be performed by you with a spouse, or alone. A mirror is helpful if you are doing it independently. You will want to hold the broomstick with two hands over your head using a similar grip/stance to holding a paddle. Using your spouse or the mirror, make certain your elbows are bent at approximately 90O angles. Make a mark. Assess the distance between the marks.
This will give you your proper length. You will begin shopping for the kayak paddle. When deciding on paddles to buy, pay attention. Most are right around 20, but might vary. You decided using the broomstick if you choose the style you would like add the amount of the blade into the length of the length. This will provide you with your overall paddle length which should match your size. As you become more experienced with paddling, you might observe that a handle will suit you better keep this in mind for your paddle. This is a technique to determining paddle length, but I find it to be less precise compared to Broomstick Method described previously. To use this procedure, sit on the floor with your back. Measure the distance from the ground to the tip of your nose.
What are the effective nova launcher applications?
With more than 100,000 android applications to pick from, exercising your leading android applications is not any mean accomplishment. Because apple introduced the suggestion of the easily available, easy to use apps, Smartphone control has actually not been such enjoyable. However the issue with apple is that they are a closed subscription. You are both an apple follower young boy and also lady or you are not. With android, all that altered. The thought of Smartphone applications is none longer the apple kingdom’s unique website. Additionally, using the launch of home windows phone 7, the mobile phone application market is expanding. Android apps’ wonder may be the reality the android so is open source. Google even though android applications possess some method to take before they achieve the 280,000 plus applications for apple, there are numerous to select from, and were very smart below, making it possible for the creativity of area designers to radiate through.
As a result the standard trouble is what the top android applications you will certainly want are. Here are my present choices that are cost-free. Weekly I ought to include the warning, that with brand-new releases which might transform. I have likewise experimented with select apps that address a selection of abilities, to make sure that they are a substantial choice from activities, social networking etc, as well as efficiency. I understand this could not be rather interesting with a. This can be a small no brainer for me, when I obey my Gmail account. As a result having instant use countless records and to this is important. Gmail works conveniently, as you may anticipate because android is a Google software program. I have pal circulation, however I really believe that is a hatch phone app which condition adjustments from facebook and also facebook. Read more here https://www.novalauncherprimeapkfree.com.
And also this is some of those interesting, however incredibly beneficial Download and install android apps from Google labs. It browses by images, have a photo after which it will certainly a Google search on the basis of the analysis of this image. Also operates barcodes and or codes these weird monochrome sample items you see. Check out an item, have a picture, and it will supply you with an amazon cost for associated products, or that product. That is highly within the performance location. I have numerous WordPress blogs, which exceptional software application allows me to upgrade my web site right, as well as include web pages and also articles, check feedbacks as well as all see your visitor data, all while resting around the practice. It is basic to switch between them, as well as makes it possible for numerous sites. Okay, I understand that it is another below the performance advertising, but people familiarized with whatever note does, that is an android application variation. Ever before note is similar to an internet note pad, where you are able to conserve notes site bonus and also images.
The best examination is the inside of the material. The within leather will certainly appear as suede whereas the within synthetic has actually a woven generally blurry, usually white product. Consider the random sample. Leather is one product a skin whereas synthetic is a bonding of plastic surface to a material substratum.
Leather is thicker, vinyl is thinner. To come to be familiar, locate something you recognize is natural leather as well as squeeze it to get a benchmark sense of the thickness. Look for flaws conceal marks, pest bites, etc. Leather hides are not perfect across the surface like knots in wood. Plastic has no surface area features as its man made. Look for a repeating pattern. Like wall surface paper, plastic is produced with a details pattern that duplicates itself. Big versus tiny panels Leather is from an animal that has constraints dimensionally, plastic is produced on a roll without limits to size. Grain Pattern If the grain pattern is totally consistent it is most likely plastic. Nature does not produce full uniformity.
Vinyl, Bonded leather, Beast natural leather, ultra suede PU leather. They are made from what utilized to be natural leather waste material that then has a hefty urethane layer on the surface. Split hides. This is the residue of a leather conceal after the Men’s Quality Leather Outdoor Shoes or top grain has actually been split away. Top grain implies the epidermis of the skin is intact. This is essential as the skin is where the toughness of leather comes from.
Several suppliers reduced prices by constructing leather furniture with component natural leather and part vinyl. This is not death mind you, yet a prospective problem along the seam where the leather and also plastic satisfy. Look at it front as well as back. The majority of natural leather suppliers provide the stores samples of the leather they use for precisely this factor. There are several top quality suppliers American Leather, Hancock and Moore, Drexel Heritage, The Sherrill Collection, Leather Craft, Acorns as instances. And also after that there is the extremely high end European manufacturers Roche Buboes, B B Italia, Cassini, Gamma, de Sede.Natuzzi, an Italian producer of natural leather furniture has 3 plants Italy, Brazil as well as China. Just due to the fact that it has an Italian name does not indicate it is made in Italy. Some producers had an impeccable credibility 10 years back. Their items today merely do not gauge up. Do not depend on historic performance alone. The sector is being decimated by affordable international imports. To deal with the onslaught some firms have capitulated as well as relocated their plants to low-cost labor countries and also are currently generating scrap.
The purpose of this paper is to identify various other businesses that have actually faced comparable human resources issues in regards to infotech. With benchmarking different business we can learn how various other business have actually taken care of specific human resources problems associated with information technology, information systems, brand-new technology, and data safety and security. A general analysis has been finished using research on IBM Europe, Ameriprise Financial, Terasen Pipelines, Shaw’s Supermarkets, CS Stars LLC, IBM, WORKSource Inc., and Toshiba America Medical Systems, Inc. This paper likewise includes 8 run-throughs of firms encountering comparable issue to those in the reading.
With the changing world and constant new technology that is offered, managers need to be knowledgeable about the innovation that will certainly raise performance in their firm. Human resource information systems HRIS have actually significantly changed given that it was first introduced at General Electric in the 1950s. HRIS has gone from a fundamental process to convert hands-on details maintaining systems right into computerized systems, to the HRIS systems that are used today. Human resource professionals began to see the possibility of new applications for the computer. The suggestion was to incorporate a number of the various human resource functions. The result was the 3rd generation of the digital HRIS, a feature-rich, broad-based, self-supporting HRIS The 3rd generation took systems much past being plain information repositories and developed devices with which human resource professionals might do much more Byars. Check this out Namely.com to know more.
Many companies have actually seen a need to transform the means Human Resource operations are done in order to keep up with new innovation and also raising numbers of staff members. Terasen Pipelines relocated its head office from Vancouver to Calgary to be closer to the oil and understood a significant growth in staff members. In the past recording maintaining was done theoretically and with spread sheets. Mangers at Terasen recognized that there was a demand to change to a much more digital system and checked out various HRIS suppliers. By making the transfer to a HRIS system, Terasen is able to keep more precise documents and much better prepare for future growth. Another firm that saw the advantages of keeping up with brand-new modern technology is WORKSource Inc. By adding these brand-new programs, WORKSource was able to reduce waste and also expense.
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2019-04-25T21:11:03Z
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http://www.leftandcenterfod.com/
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Arts
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Shopping
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nancybush
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The body lay still under a cold moon. Strangely, almost comically, still. Eyes open, staring into a cold, star-studded sky. Arms flung wide. Head lolling slightly to the right, as if one ear were cocked, listening to the sporadic screech of the winter wind.
Shivering, the woman looked down upon the naked body. He'd deserved to die. She was glad he was dead. There was no remorse inside her for this monster.
Feeling something cold on her face, she was surprised to discover half-frozen tears.
An owl hooted, a lonely sound that shot an icicle of terror into her heart. Time ticked loudly inside her head.
She grabbed his legs and started to drag him across the ground. One of his arms caught on a skinny, bare branch and she jerked hard to free him. Slipping on a patch of ice, she twisted her ankle and bit back a cry of pain. But she didn't stop. She couldn't.
Perspiration broke out on her brow and ran beneath her arms as she relentlessly pulled him after her. Her breath plumed in a stream of white fog behind her. Jaw set, she dragged his body over field stubble and dirt clods frozen hard as iron, stumbling a little for he was twice her size.
There was no way to bury him. The ground was frozen and she hadn't the strength nor the inclination to even try. But there was a storm drain at the far end of this lonely field, and she knew she could roll him down the drainage ditch and stuff his body inside. It would be simple. No one would find him until spring thaw, and maybe not even then. The chances were he'd be entombed in the storm drain forever.
Then she would leave. All of them could leave.
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2019-04-22T09:57:35Z
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https://www.nancybush.net/books/you-dont-know-me
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Arts
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Health
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cbssports
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Clemson_Tigers_College_Football_Playoff_2018_National_Champions_DVD_And_Blu-Ray_Set http://images.fanatics.com/lf http://dmimages.ff.p10/chains/3391840.txt false We are unable to customize this item with the text you have entered. Please try a different entry again. Your current entry cannot be processed due to guidelines for past and present player names. Please create a new entry.
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2019-04-21T10:15:55Z
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http://shop.cbssports.com/CBS_Clemson_Tigers/Clemson_Tigers_College_Football_Playoff_2018_National_Champions_DVD_And_Blu-Ray_Set
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Arts
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Sports
| 0.984881 |
metal-temple
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DRAGONSCLAW are an Australian Power Metal band, with “Prophecy” being their debut release. This album has all the catchy riffs, epic high notes and awesome solos that you’d expect from something of the genre.
This may be a debut, but the members of the band have already got strong musical backgrounds, with two of them (Lavery and Martens) having played in Ronnie James Dio tribute shows across Australia. So to call the band newcomers wouldn’t be entirely accurate, and anyway, “Prophecy” certainly doesn’t feel like a debut album. The songs are tight, the sound is clear, and it’s just all round well put together. Album opener “Darkness Within” starts with your average Power Metal curl-up-your-toes-and-grab-your-balls scream, and then gallops into a furious riff, with awesome rhythm sections and Lavery’s perfectly suited vocals carrying it along. They cite their influences from bands such as KAMELOT and SYMPHONY X, and it shows (in a good way). Lavery takes his vocal inspiration from greats such as Bruce Dickinson and Rob Halford, and going back to the band’s influences, I could definitely hear a bit of Roy Khan in there too.
The musicianship on display here is excellent. The guitar and keyboard solos are consistently awesome, but they don’t take over the entire song. Halfway through the album, something interesting occurs. During “Prophecy Is A Lie”, guess who pops round for a duet? None other than former IRON MAIDEN frontman, Blaze Bayley. It goes just about as well as you’d expect. Blaze goes for a weird Opera type vocal and it’s… strange, to say the least. The only real low point on the album in my opinion, feels completely out of place. It’s a good song otherwise though, with Lavery’s vocals on top form as always, and a guitar solo that is simply stunning. Although saying that, I do have one small criticism. After a while the tracks start to feel a little similar, and almost blend into one another, with no real change in style or tempo.
Overall though, this is a brilliant debut album from a group of very talented musicians. If you’re a Power Metal fan, and you’re looking for nothing more than an excellent album of this genre, then DRAGONSCLAW have got you covered.
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2019-04-22T20:19:13Z
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http://www.metal-temple.com/site/catalogues/entry/reviews/cd_3/d_2/dragonsclaw-prophecy.htm
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Reference
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fanpop
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Bright, punchy and earnest, Webb’s affable sequel is tough to dislike despite its tonal whiplash and clumsy script, which is redeemed bởi Garfield, Stone and DeHaan’s powerhouse trio.
A young buck made testy bởi grief, a rebel without a comb, Garfield nails all bases here. Stare-y eyes melting, he’s winningly earnest; lithe of physique, he delivers in the dust-ups.
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2019-04-25T08:01:02Z
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http://vi.fanpop.com/clubs/andrew-garfield/links
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Arts
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Reference
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freehostia
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A. The Board of Directors for North County Darters Unlimited shall consist of nine (9) active league members at all times, a President, Vice President, Secretary, Treasurer and five (5) Board Members. All Officers and Board Members will serve a two (2) year term. If an officer of the league resigns the remaining board will elect a board member to fill that position until the term is up for re election. If a board member resigns an emergency vote will occur. Nominations will be asked for and a vote will be taken.
B. President: The President shall preside at all meetings. He /she will decide all questions of order.
C. Vice President: The Vice President shall assist the President in maintaining the efficiency of all operations and in the absence of the President shall exercise the duties of the President. The Vice President shall be responsible for the Public Relations of the League. At the end of his / her term of office all pertinent books, papers, records, computer recordings and supplies shall be turned over to his / her successor.
D. Secretary / Statistician: Issue notices of all meetings. Keep accurate minutes and records of such meetings and conduct correspondence of the league. Minutes shall be mailed to all Board Members with notices of all Board Meetings at least two (2) weeks prior to each scheduled meeting. Maintains weekly stats. Record and maintain pertinent information of all current league members in good standing. Keeps all membership information and distributes to all members as needed. At the end of his / her term all pertinent books, papers, records computer recordings and supplies shall be returned to his / her successor.
E. Treasurer: Receive and maintain custody of all funds and financial records, including making deposits, pay required bills approved by the board and keep records of all transactions. He / she shall be required to submit a treasurer’s report at each board meeting and a final statement at the end of the season. Treasurer’s signature shall be one of the three (3) valid signatures on the current checking account, which will require two (2) signatures per check. At the end of his / hers term all pertinent books, papers, records, computer recordings and supplies shall be turned over to his / her successor.
F. Board Members: Shall assist in the organizational process of the league. They will promote Public Relations, new membership and will have an active roll in all aspects of events, ie: blind draws, tournaments and banquets.
G. Sergeant at Arms: A Board Member appointed by the Board to maintain order at board meeting and all functions of N.C.D.U.
H. The Board Members are elected by the league at the Winter Banquet. The Board of Directors will elect the officers of the league at the first board meeting after the Winter Banquet. President, Secretary and Board Members 1 & 2 are elected even years. Vice President, Treasurer and Boar Members 3, 4, & 5 are elected odd years.
I. All Board Members are required to attend the board meeting once a month. The Secretary will notify the board members at least two (2) weeks in advance of the upcoming board meeting. The board meeting will be the fourth Thursday of the month, time and place to be determined by the President, unless it falls on a holiday then the President will determine and alternate meeting.
J. If any member of the board cannot attend a scheduled board meeting he or she must call the Secretary of the league at least twenty-four (24) hours in advance to be excused, unless an emergency has occurred. Any board member missing two (2) consecutive meeting without being excused will be removed from the board.
L. The Grievance Committee: Shall consist of three (3) Board Members to be determined at each organizational board meeting.
M. State Team Director: The State Team Director shall be appointed by the board at the Winter Organizational Board Meeting.
N. The season ends when all of the monies are dispersed at the Banquet Blind Draw.
O. Membership Committee: The Membership Committee shall be two (2) board members appointed at each organizational board meeting.
A. All members of a team must be a registered member of N.C.D.U. A registered member of N.C.D.U. will pay a $35.00 non refundable membership fee. This amount will be used to pay all charges incurred by the league toward running of the league. Players joining the league at any time during the season shall pay the full league fee.
B. All Bars sponsoring a team or teams will pay $60.00 per team per season.
member cannot play in a new season until all monies are paid in full. If a check bounces the member must pay a $32.00 check bouncing fee or what ever the bank charges N.C.D.U. The bar sponsor fees are invoiced by the Treasurer the Monday before packet pick up. The bars have thirty (30) days from the date of the invoice to pay in full. The Treasurer will follow up with the bars.
D. It is required that all members must submit to the league Secretary: name, address, phone number and e-mail address (if they have one). If a member refused to submit this information they will be ineligible to play in the league, due to F.D.A. requirements for league sanctioning. This information is exclusive to the league.
E. The Captains have a mandatory meeting, (Captain’s Meeting), which will be the packet pick up night. At this time new rules will be explained as well as the opportunity to voice their concerns to the board. The first meeting at the beginning of the season, (Membership Meeting), is for members to pay their dues. All members must be paid at this time. The second meeting at the end of the season is an informational meeting to inform members of the upcoming banquet as well as end of season events. There will be a blind draw at both the Membership Meeting and the General Meeting.
A. All league competition is scheduled for Tuesday Night except for those weeks when a recognized National Holiday falls on that day.
B. Starting time for the first match is 8:00 p.m. sharp. A match not underway by 8:15 is subject to forfeit. This 8:15 p.m. limit will be strictly enforced.
A. The playing line up for the single matches must be completed by the team captains by the 8:00 p.m. time limit. The team that is ahead on the current standing sheet shall give line up to the lower placed team. When the single matches are completed, the team captain then completes the line up for the Doubles Cricket matches. When Cricket is complete the team captain then completes the line up for the doubles 501 matches. If teams are tied in the league standings and also for the first night of play, a flip of the coin by the captains at the beginning of the match will determine who will give line up for the entire night’s matches.
B. The submitted line up will be the playing order for the match, with no substitutes or changes (with the exception of the 501 match where one (1) substitution is allowed at the beginning of each game). A substitution must be made before the cork is thrown. Once a player is replaced for another player, they may not return to any 501 game that night. The match will start with the first game of singles 401, and all 401 games will be played followed by for Division 1 only Singles Cricket. The second game will be Doubles Cricket. The final game will be Doubles 501. Each of these matches in each game will be played by the players in the order their names were submitted on the line up sheet. The playing order of all matches will follow the correct numerical sequence, i.e. player number 1 plays opposing player number 1 for the first match, etc. on down the line up sheet.
C. All registered members of a team can be used in any order or any sport on their team’s playing line up, once per match.
D. The Home Team has the prerogative of choosing the boards on which the matches are to be played. If two (2) teams are home on the same night, the decision will be made by a flip of the coin; the winner of the coin toss chooses two (2) consecutive boards.
E. No later than thirty (30) minutes prior to the time for which competition is scheduled, the night’s playing board shall be cleared of play by the management if the establishment so that it will be available for players to warm up. It is also the responsibility of the Home Team Captain to see that the playing area is cleared by the thirty (30) minute time limit. All warm up activity shall be completed by the match starting time. IMPORTANT: After the practice session each player is allowed three (3) rounds nine (9) darts for each practice before a match.
F. Any disputes that arise during the course of play must be settled in a private conference by the team captains only (not the entire team). If an agreement cannot be made, call a board member for a ruling.
Match 1: Eight individual games, the first four (4) are 401 straight on, double out. The second four (4) are American Cricket. Two (2) out of three (3) games in a row they are awarded three (3) points. If the games are win, loss, win, then one (1) point will be awarded for each game played.
Match 2: Two (2) Doubles American Cricket matches per USDA Rules. Two (2) out of three (3) games in a row they are awarded three (3) points. If the games are win, loss, win, then one (1) point will be awarded for each game played.
B. There is a total of thirty-six (36) points for each Tuesday night match.
Match 1: Four (4) individual games, the first two (2)) are 401 straight on, double out. The second two (2)) are American Cricket. Two (2) out of three (3) games in a row they are awarded three (3) points. If the games are win, loss, win, then one (1) point will be awarded for each game played.
B. There is a total of twenty-four (24) points for each Tuesday night match.
Membership is open to all persons twenty-one (21) years of age and older.
A. A team consists of a minimum of four (4), maximum of six (6) players, who will be registered with N.C.D.U. All members will use Steel Tip Darts.
B. Twenty-four (24) Hour Rule: New members can be added the first two (2) week of the season. After the Membership Meeting any team adding a new member the captain of the team must notify the Membership Committee twenty-four (24) hours prior to the night of league play to have them cleared. The new member’s information must be faxed to the Secretary, along with the score sheet, the first night. The new member must pay their dues to the captain the first night of league play. The team captain must give the money to the Treasurer or a Board Member within one (1) week of the member’s first night of league play. If the money is not to the Treasurer or a Board Member within the first week the member will not be able to play and any matches played will be forfeited.
D. All members of a team who are present at a match must be played at least one (1) match. The player has the option of not playing at all, but if they are present it is the duty of the captain to play them at least one (1) match.
E. The Board has the right to add a team to a BYE on the schedule if they feel it will benefit the league. Teams that want to be added must go before the board for approval.
F. Bars must be established by the deadline for new teams (by the organizational board meeting). If a team wants to move to another bar during the season it will be by Board approval. The new bar will be responsible to pay the sponsor fees. There will be no refunds.
G. Returning team will be place in the division they were in last season, except for the last two (2) teams in Division 1 and the first two (2) teams in Division 2.
any new teams that join the league.
with the review of the team and any new teams that join the league.
This will be decided by the board at the Organizational Board Meeting.
The team captain will be notified of the board’s decision.
during the State Team competition.
N.C.D.U., the same requirements to tryout.
Team event the state team members are required to help.
C. All state team members are required to attend all meeting and practices. If for any reason you can not attend you must inform the Captain. Any members that do not fulfill the requirements of the state team will be ineligible to tryout for the following year’s team.
D. If is the responsibility of each state team member to maintain good sportsmanship conduct. The team captain and co captain are responsible to oversee that good sportsmanship is present al all times. Any inappropriate conduct will result in immediate removal from the team and brought to the attention of the Board of Directors for disciplinary action.
E. The Board of Directors governs the state team. The coordinator and captain will report to the board periodically to inform them of any updates to the state team.
A. The visiting team always throws the first cork in a match. There is a cork for each game thereafter. The loser of the game corks first. The winner of the cork begins the game. Any player involved in that match can throw the cork.
B. If the first thrower’s dart for cork lands in the bull and the second thrower’s dart for cork knocks the first one (1) out and also drops, the first thrower’s dart stands and the second thrower shoots for cork again. All ties throw again, this includes when two (2) people throw a double bull, with the order reversed. If a dart sticks in any scoring portion of the board, that counts as the throw. There is no “triple ring rule”.
C. Any changes made to correct mistakes in scoring must be done before the next player throws, otherwise the score will stand as posted.
D. If a player throws out of turn, the opposing team has the option of having the round re thrown or allowing the round to stand as posted.
E. Foot Fouls: (Standing over the toe line) If a player is found to be stepping over the toe line a verbal warning can be given by any member if either team. After the second warning in a given night any subsequent violations will result in that round of darts not being scored and the loss of his / her turn.
F. Coaching of players is allowed only by that player’s own team. The player must step off the line to be coached. Only one (1) member of the player’s team may coach at a time.
G. A player “busts” when their three (3) darts score more than their remaining score. When this occurs, the score remains as it was prior to their throw. The next opposing team player then takes their regular turn.
H. There are no fast finished, such as three (3) in a bed, III, shanghai, etc.
A. The score sheet will be kept and faxed by each captain for every week’s matches. Score sheets must be signed by both team captains. Each team captain is responsible for faxing the score sheet to the Secretary by 6:00 p.m. the Wednesday after the match. If the score sheet is not faxed by 6:00 p.m. Wednesday there will not be any match points or All star points awarded for that night of play and they will not be returned. Each captain must double check both sheets to make sure that the information is consistent on both sheets, team names, date of match and most important totals for match points and all star points match, before both team captains sign the sheets.
B. If a score sheet is not filled out completely and correctly five (5) team points will be deducted. Make sure the team’s name, date, division and circle “home or away” are noted on the score sheet.
A. A Standing Sheet and Cover Sheet will be faxed or e-mailed to each team member by Saturday, 8:00 p.m. following the match. It is the responsibility of the team captain to print, read and bring the standings and cover sheet to the next night of match play and inform their team of the happenings of N.C.D.U.
A. First Place plays the Second Place team at the First Place’s home bar.
B. Third Place plays the Fourth Place team at the Third Place’s home bar.
C. Fifth Place plays the Sixth Place team at the Fifth Place’s home bar.
There will be no postponements. Take this into consideration when you make up your team. Make sure you will have players for each match. You can have up to six (6) players.
There will be no all stars thrown for byes. The definition of a bye is when there is no team scheduled to shoot against an existing team. The only exception is during a position round. If a team is scheduled to shoot against the bye they will be awarded twelve (12) points. The members of that team have the option of shooting for all star points in accordance with the forfeiture rule.
A. A forfeit will be declared for failure of a team to attend a scheduled match. The entire thirty-six (36) points for Division 1, twenty-four (24) points for Division 2 will be awarded to the team attending. A team must have two (2) players showing up for a schedules match and will be allowed to play as many games as possible without duplicating within the individual matched, and will forfeit the respective number of points for each match not played. With regard to doubles, the team with eth lesser number of players shall have the option of playing these matches; however, they will miss one (1) turn each for each missing player in each round of play, i.e. a team playing against a team with lesser players would play turn for turn per number of players against the opposition. The doubles matches would have the light team throwing once against the full team throwing twice. If the light team does not desire to play one (1) person against two (2) in the doubles matches, (at the sole discretion of the light team) that particular double match is declared a forfeit.
B. A forfeit consists of a missed match during either half of the season.
C. If two (2) consecutive forfeitures occur then that team is considered eliminated. The all star points earned will stand. The teams that have not played the eliminated team will be allowed to throw for all star points. The team has two (2) weeks after the scheduled match was to be played to do this. All star points must be witnessed by a board member of an opposing team captain.
D. The points of the teams that have played the eliminated team will be removed and there will be no points given to teams that haven’t played the eliminated team. The spot of the eliminated team now becomes a “bye”.
A. The captain of a team may file a protest for any irregularity in a match. The opposing team captain must be notified at the time of the protest that the match from that point on is being played under protest. The match shall then be played to its conclusion. The protest must be written and faxed with the score sheet and a board member (list of board members is in the packet) must be notified by 8:00 p.m. Wednesday. Determination by the board will be made within fourteen (14) days at a special call board meeting. The captains are urged to attend. The decision of the board will be final.
B. A protest may be posted by the opposing team for the use of an unregistered player. The use of an unregistered player will result in the entire match being forfeited. It is a team’s responsibility to accept the penalty of playing short if they can not field a full team of registered players.
C. All members of a team who are present at a match must play at least one (1) match.
A. If at the end of the season a tie exists between teams, the Secretary will go back and check the records for the matches played of those team’s head to head matches. The team with the most total points will be awarded the highest standing. If there is still a tie after this, a complete play-off will be held the Tuesday after league play ends. This only pertains to teams finishing in the top three (3) places in any division.
B. In cases of ties in the All Stars, High In or High Out, all players will receive an award.
A. Trophies shall be awarded to sponsoring bars and the individual members of the first, second and third place teams in all divisions. In the event a sponsoring bar is no longer in business at the end of the season, the bar where the team finished the season will get the trophy.
1. Round in Cricket (three (3) darts per round) computed on the following: The only scores that count here are the score that actually go on the score board. For example, if a triple 18 is hit but the player only needs 1 – 18 to close, then only 1 would count towards a round in Cricket, unless the other two can be used for scoring.
2. High scores (95 and over) in “01” including doubling in or out.
3. High In (doubling in, in any “01” game) scores will be kept for the entire season and a trophy will be awarded for the highest score for each division. A high score over 95 would, in addition, be added to the all star points section of the score sheet. For example, if a player scores 152 doubling in, that 152 would be listed under the all star points section of the score sheet on the line marked “140 to 159” and also on the line where it states “high in”.
4. High out (doubling out, in a “01” game) scores will be kept for the entire season and a trophy awarded for the highest score, men’s and ladies’.
6. A trophy will be awarded for a 180 in a “01” game.
7. A trophy will be awarded for 6 Bulls in Cricket.
8. A trophy will be awarded fir the first three (3) places on the all star list for each division, men’s and ladies’.
NOTE: You can not combine all star points and add them together.
B. In the event that a player is not matched up to a player from the opposing team the player would be awarded the forfeited game and has the option of throwing for all stars. The amount of darts to be thrown is as follows: 30 darts for 401, 30 darts for cricket and 30 darts for 501.
C. All star points count in forfeited games up until such time the forfeiture becomes a bye. All stars must be witnessed by an opposing team captain or a board member.
At the end of the season there is the N.C.D.U. Championship Cup Match. This match consists of the four (4) teams in each division competing for the bragging rights of the cup. Format is as follows: This is for both divisions. The first night, the first place team plays the fourth place team. The second place team plays the third place team. The regular league format will be followed. A flip of the coin will determine who gives line up in the first set of single matches. The team that is ahead after the first set of single matches gives line up for the rest of the night. The second night, the winners from the first round play each other, format is the same as league play. The first and second place teams have the home team advantage. If both teams are from the same bar a flip of the coin by a board member will determine who the home team is. Both captains must attend the flip of the coin. If the team captain does not attend then the board member will decide where the teams play. Any discrepancies will be decided by the board and the board’s decision is final. The winners from the second night will have the bragging rights of being N.C.D.U. Champions and will receive the N.C.D.U. Championship Cup to be displayed in their home bar for the entire upcoming season. If there is a tie ant the end of any match 1 game of 1001 double in, double out, 4 on 4 will be played. Winner takes the nights match.
At the end of each season there is a banquet. During the banquet a banquet draw will be held. All paid members of finishing season are eligible.
The Banquet Draw will be formatted as follows: If there is at least 50% participation from Division 1 then those players shall be seeded and teamed up with a Division 2 player, which will be drawn at random. Determining who will be seeded will be determined by at least three (3) board members. If there is less than 50% from Division 1 then all members shall be drawn at random.
All restructuring will be done by the board.
A. Good sportsmanship shall prevail during all N.C.D.U. matches. Attempts to distract an opponent while he / she are shooting will not be tolerated. Complaints may result in the board taking disciplinary action. If so requested by the thrower, all spectators must align themselves out of his / her line vision, behind the thrower’s position at the line. Heckling or other harassment is strictly forbidden. It is the home team’s responsibility to maintain the best order during league play and the captains are totally responsible for the actions of their team members.
B. Any person or persons who willfully or intentionally disrupt a match, and bar, or the workings of N.C.D.U. will NOT be tolerated. The offender(s) will be suspended from one (1) to three (3) matches, or from one (1) to two (2) seasons plus current season depending on the severity of the offense. The penalty will be assessed by the Board of Directors and will not be affected by a change in the board members. Reinstatement will be by a board majority vote.
A. The Board of Directors of N.C.D.U. reserves the right to either completely suspend a member’s player privileges or to place them on probation, any member of the league against whom complaints have been received. The probationary period would be determined by the board of directors, at the end of this period if no additional complaints have been received the probations then would be terminated. The complaints would have to be determined by the board to be valid before this action would be taken. Should additional complaints be received by the board during the probationary period, and should those complaints be determined valid, the board reserved the right to suspend such a member’s right to play in the league., in addition to his other membership privileges in the league. It is hoped that all persons participating in the league either as players of sponsors will assist in attaining the league’s overall goal, the enjoyment, betterment and promotion of the game of darts in N.C.D.U.
B. Any member in violation of any rule, the board has the right to give written notice in the form of a “Compliance Notice”. The member will have a time limit to resolve this violation.
A. All players shall dress in accordance with the rules of the bar in which they are playing. Remember, you are also representing N.C.D.U.
A. 401: Scoring begins immediately upon the first dart thrown (no doubles needed). That dart, together with darts thrown thereafter shall be counted for score, subtracting from the 401 points. Each time there after the darts are thrown and counted for score and subtracted from the total until an out is reached, where doubling out can be achieved. To finish, a player’s last thrown dart must land in a double which would reduce the remaining score to exactly zero (0). For example, a score of thirty-two (32) remaining results in the last dart thrown at double sixteen (16).
B. 501: To begin scoring 501, a player must land a dart in the outer (double) ring of the board. That dart together with the other darts thrown after, shall be counted for score, subtracting from the 501 points. Each time a dart is thrown the score is subtracted from the total until an out is reached. To finish, a player’s last thrown dart must land in a double which would reduce the remaining score to zero (0). See example above.
C. USDA AMERICA CRICKET: Only the number 20 through and including 15 and the bulls are used. The object is to close (hit that number three (3) times either by three (3) singles, a double and a single or a triple) each of the numbers 20 through and including the bulls. In the event that number is hit four (4) times or more, the team doing this is awarded the score. This scoring only applies is the opposing team has not closed that number. If the opposing team is ahead in points, the point deficit must be made up by scoring numbers that the opposing team has not closed. Closing all numbers is not enough if you are behind in points. The point deficit must be made up. Bulls count as twenty-five (25) points for a single, and fifty (50) points for a double.
1. All league competition, including tournaments and play offs, shall be conducted on a Standard English bristle twenty (20) point clock faced dart board. The board shall be of good quality and not worn or dim. The Board of Directors has the right to require a participating bar to purchase a board of suitable quality. If the request is not granted by the bar, the board has the right to put the bar’s teams at another location until the request is granted.
2. Dart Boards shall be placed 5’8” from the floor to the center of the bull, with the 20 bed at the top center and the 20 bed shall be dark colored.
3. The foul line will be 7’9 ¼” from the surface of the board measured along the floor to the foul line, and will be 9’7 3/8” from the bull diagonally to the foul line.
4. All league played dart boards shall be firmly anchored in excellent playing condition and well illuminated, preferable by iridescent lighting.
5. A scoring surface, i.e., chalkboards, chalk, dry erase board, and dry erase markers must be provided by the bar and kept in good condition. The score board must be located in such a position that the score may be easily read by players and spectators.
6. If the equipment in a bar is not up to standards the bar will be given a compliance notice and will have thirty 930) days to correct the problems. After that period it will be brought up to the board fot further actions.
7. In order for a bar to have more than two (2) teams it must have four (4) dart boards permanently hung.
1. No later than thirty (30) minutes prior to the time for which the competition is scheduled, the night’s playing board will be cleared of play by management of the bar so that it will be available for player warm up.
1. The sponsor is to pay a fee of $60.00 per team, per season for their sponsorship. This must be paid by the third week of play in the season. The check should be made out to N.C.D.U.
The management at the location of the match will be responsible for supplying and maintaining the league play dart boards, chalk, chalkboards, dry erase markers and boards, good lighting and foul lines.
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2019-04-22T04:23:17Z
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http://ncdu.freehostia.com/joomla_1.5.9/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=64:rule-book&catid=31:general
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animenewsnetwork
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Pop Team Epic creator Bkub Okawa returned from his short-lived Twitter ban in time for the release of his newest comic, Konya wa Neko-chan . The manga's first volume, with an anime-eyed cat on the cover front and center, was released on Friday.
Konya wa Neko-chan is a four-panel comic starring a variety of felines from strong-spirited kitties to selfish and even angry cats. The wrap around band of the first volume includes comments by Honey & Clover and March comes in like a lion manga creator Chika Umino's beloved cat Bun-chan.
Konya wa Neko-chan is serialized in Kodansha's Morning Two magazine and on the magazine's official website. Okawa launched the series in February 2017.
Cats seem like a favored pet for manga creators and a few have dedicated their time and ink to talk about them. Morning Two magazine released a cat-centric issue last year as did Big Comic Spirits. Cat characters even have their own magazine, Nyankomedia. If you're looking for cat manga available in English, you can check out She and Her Cat based on the work by Makoto Shinkai, Kanata Konami's Chi's Sweet Home and FukuFuku: Kitten Tales, or Junji Ito's Cat Diary: Yon & Mu..
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2019-04-26T12:12:01Z
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https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interest/2018-06-22/pop-team-epic-creator-cat-hijinks-manga-gets-1st-volume/.133290
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Five students, five majors, one team--they are the "purple" team in a recent toy product design class.
Andy Carlson's field is mechanical engineering. Mac Cameron's is physics. Claire Rydeen is in biomedical engineering to create medical devices. Arya Adiartha works in sustainable design. And Matt Munson aims to become an architect.
A big reason they all took the class was the prototyping, a key design practice that's becoming ever more efficient thanks to the 3D printers and laser cutters and other new tools in the Digital Fabrication Lab.
Andy: When designing a new product, it is important to make models to see how it will work and what it might look like. These "prototypes" don't always resemble the finished product. However, they allow us to find problems and make the product better before it's put in the store.
Claire: What you visualize in your mind can materialize much differently. And being able to hold and move and see the actual object forces you to improve and build upon your original idea.
Matt: Prototyping allows my ideas to materialize into physical things, often with limitations and challenges. Prototypes are a useful way of communicating ideas in more depth because the group then has a model to discuss.
The team's first 2D sketches, by Arya Ardiartha.
Andy: The 3D printer allows us to quickly and cheaply make a physical model with all the detail and complexity of the final form. These "printed" parts can even be functional to see how an idea will work.
Mac: 3D printers allow pretty much any customized plastic piece to be just a-drawing-and-a-click away. This allows us to build and actually test pieces so they fit correctly. Ideas cannot be stopped by imprecise cuts or lack of skills on machinery anymore.
Claire: If I think of something that requires circles, normally I'd be tracing circles on a cup and cutting them out with an Xacto knife. Now I can use a laser cutter, which cuts out extremely fine, perfect circles that show exactly what I had in mind.
Arya: You have to consider a lot of things before 3D printing, such as how to position or print the item to ensure the least amount of material is used. It makes you think more practically and efficiently in designing things.
Claire: Prototyping is huge in the medical device industry. Being able to create physical prototypes allows engineers to convey their idea to physicians to see what human factors need to be considered when designing the device.
Andy: Most large companies now own their own 3D printers and use them to demonstrate concepts or convey ideas. Physical prototypes are always more impressive than digital renderings and can influence a client's or manager's opinion of new ideas which could make or break the product.
The "purple" team with its 3D printouts of toy components: (l-r) Matt Munson, Mac Cameron, Claire Rydeen, Andy Carlson, Arya Adiartha. Photo by Patrick O’Leary.
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2019-04-21T08:15:02Z
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https://cse.umn.edu/college/feature-stories/prototype-test-repeat
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Naqoyqatsi is the long awaited third film in the Qatsi trilogy, which director Godfrey Reggio began in the early 1980s.
The Qatsi movies are feature-length, non-narrative films. They consist only of stunning visuals and heavy music from minimalist composer Phillip Glass. And yet, what keeps them from merely being 90-minute experiments is that each movie has form and structure. They show that film can be composed and arranged like music, instead of telling a story like a book.
If you’ve never seen one, go see Naqoyqatsi or rent one of the other two (Koyaanisqatsi and Powaqqatsi are the predecessors) for an amazing experience.
The messages in the films’ titles have never been completely convincing, but they do provide food for thought and a launchpad for starting a conversation about the films. Naqoyqatsi is no different. Although there are moments where “war-life” makes sense as a title, the film doesn’t necessarily make its case throughout the duration.
In fact, it is the little one-liners in the film — and not the overriding themes — that are the most noteworthy in reference to the title. One scene shows two sprinters in slow-motion. Their faces are contorted in the exertion of competition. Both runners are wearing jerseys that say “USA” and “Goodwill Games.” It’s ironic that an event in the name of “Goodwill” could inspire such fierce competition. It’s even more ironic that both runners are on the same team.
The beauty of the Qatsi movies is that you don’t have to buy into the message to appreciate them. They can be viewed as pure composition and form — film as music. They are symphonies made of images and sound, and not just sound alone.
Naqoyqatsi sets itself apart by being darker than the other two, both literally and metaphorically. Where the other films had footage shot in bright daylight, Naqoyqatsi almost exclusively uses footage that has been run through a computer. Landscapes and people are shown in negative or with solarization filters, the result being a world that never sees the sun.
It also is the first film in the trilogy to use images created specifically for the film. (For example, zeroes and ones form a three-dimensional wormhole through which the “camera” flies.) This is a mixed blessing. It frees Reggio to make his visual points more directly, but by using those tricks it feels like he’s cheating. At least in the previous films, the message was backed up by “evidence” from the real world. Whether you believed life was out of balance, the visual case was built from photographs of the world, and not from digital pixels.
Reggio adopts a convention that seems to have sprung from a mistake, rather than deliberate design. Every person that appears in Naqoyqatsi — there is footage of soldiers, of babies, of athletes and movie stars — appears flattened. Everyone is fatter and pudgier than they should be. I happen to know that there is an adjustment to be made when converting video to computer displays, without which images can appear flattened. Was this a mistake that Reggio later justified as artistic vision? Combined with some of the borderline Luddite images in the film (a mushroom cloud cuts to a computer keyboard), the squished people make me wonder if Reggio doesn’t understand the computer technology he was forced to use in order to make Naqoyqatsi.
After 25 minutes of skepticism, I was finally won over by Naqoyqatsi. The music and images became too engrossing. The musical structure started to coalesce into something recognizable, and I was again enjoying a Qatsi.
I still say that Naqoyqatsi is the weakest of the three films, but I reserve the right to change my mind after I see it again, which I can’t wait to do.
It also deserves a recommendation, particularly for fans of the series, or for anyone who can’t imagine what a non-narrative film might look like.
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2019-04-24T04:12:29Z
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https://www.moviehabit.com/review.php?story=naq_bm03
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Computers
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This article attempts to explore the relevance of the public sphere, conceptualized by Jürgen Habermas, in the Chinese context. The author focuses on the case of Learning Light (Xuedeng), one of the most reputable fukans, or newspaper supplements, of the May Fourth era (1915–1926), arguing that fukan served a very Habermasian function, in terms of its independence from power intervention and its inclusiveness of incorporating voices across political and social strata. Through examining the leadership of Zhang Dongsun, editor in chief of Learning Light, as well as the public opinions published in this fukan, the author also discovers that, in constructing China’s public sphere, both the left and moderate intellectuals of the May Fourth era used conscious effort and shared the same moral courage, although their roles were quite different: The left was more prominent as passionate and idealist spiritual leaders shining in the center of the historic stage, whereas in comparison, the moderates acted as pragmatic and rational organizers, ensuring a benevolent environment for the stage.
Gao, Nuan (2017) "Building Fukan as a Chinese Public Sphere: Zhang Dongsun and Learning Light," Journal of the Indiana Academy of the Social Sciences: Vol. 20 : Iss. 1 , Article 6.
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2019-04-21T23:59:34Z
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https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/jiass/vol20/iss1/6/
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Reference
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This non-partisan, highly interactive presentation is designed to fully engage first time voters of the 2016 election, not only by encouraging them to exercise their voting rights, but also by empowering them to talk about the main issues at stake!
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Cory Monteith was shooting heroin and downing champagne in his hotel room on the night of his death ... this according to the final coroner's report obtained by TMZ.
The "Glee" star was discovered alone in his hotel room in Vancouver, Canada on July 13 shortly after noon.
When responders arrived to the scene, they discovered a "spoon with drug residue and a used hypodermic needle."
They also found 2 empty champagne bottles and glasses.
The coroner lists Monteith's official cause of death as "mixed drug toxicity, involving intravenous heroin use combined with the ingestion of alcohol."
The report also notes that Cory "had a history of illicit drug use with intermittent periods of rehabilitation and of abstinence from drugs."
The coroner suggests that Cory's tolerance for substance abuse may have been lower than usual because he had stopped using since a rehab stint in April.
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Doctors turn to driving cabs and waiting tables after immigration. An innovative program helped Somali doctors regain their licenses—until funding was eliminated.
The issue isn’t if Michele Bachmann “judges” gays. The issue is her zealous advocacy of laws that strips individual rights based on her personal religious views of homosexuality.
Incisive, deep-thinking media critic Jack Shafer was recently laid off by Slate—but not before American Journalism Review captured him in a revealing profile.
Could Muammar Qaddafi be hiding in...New Jersey?
Here’s an odd couple: The Kama Sutra and The Adventures of Sherlock Homes are the most popular e-books downloaded from Project Gutenberg.
Dorm room essentials now include a high-tech spitball gun, crazy synth guitar, and self-cooling beer pong table.
Have trouble remembering the difference between a macchiato and a mochaccino? Or an au lait and a latte? This handy infographic clears things up (sort of).
An expectant mother braves the Russian hospital system and lives to tell the tale.
Swiss comedian Ursus Wehrli turns tidiness into art.
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"Section 1. The bird known as the Western Meadow Lark, Sturnella-Neglecta (Audubon) as preferred by a referendum vote of Montana school children, shall be designated and declared to be the official bird of the State of Montana."
The following information is excerpted from the Montana Code Annotated , Title 1, Chapter 1, Section 1-1-504.
1-1-504. State bird. The bird known as the western meadowlark, Sturnella neglecta (Audubon), as preferred by a referendum vote of Montana school children, shall be designated and declared to be the official bird of the state of Montana.
History: En. Sec. 1, Ch. 149, L. 1931; re-en. Sec. 530.1, R.C.M. 1935; R.C.M. 1947, 19-116.
Birds Of Montana: Field Guide: by Stan Tekiela.
The Lewis & Clark Expedition: Montana's First Bird Inventory Through the Eyes of Lewis and Clark: by Kenneth C. Walcheck.
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Changing up its massive loyalty program was one of the reasons Starbucks' comp sales dropped in Q3. The stock is down since, which has created an entry point for this long-term growth story.
Starbucks (NASDAQ:SBUX) announced an update to its loyalty program and mobile app in April that moved from a per-visit reward system to an amount-spent system. Critics took to social media in the weeks after the new program to complain, but most analysts agreed that the long-term impact of the change would be flat to positive. However, when fiscal year Q3 earnings came in with lower-than-expected comparable sales, the loyalty program change was partially blamed.
Starbucks' mobile app has long been deemed one of the reasons Starbucks has been so successful in the last decade thanks to improvements like maps to find Starbucks locations, partnerships with companies like Spotify to have a better in-app experience, and pre-pay mobile ordering for quicker service. Starbucks' loyalty program grew 18% year over year in the most recent quarter, to 12.3 million active members. Starbucks' mobile app now accounts for around a quarter of all Starbucks transactions, and consumers had about $1.5 billion stored on their member cards as of the quarterly filing.
Starbucks' loyalty program used to give customers one "star" for each transaction, regardless of how much money was spent during that transaction, and after 12 stars, the member could get a free item. The updated version moves to an amount-spent system, giving two stars for every dollar spent, now needing 125 stars to get a free item. Understandably, there was some instant backlash from the low-spend consumers who now need to make more purchases to get their reward.
However, for most people who order more than just a single plain coffee, the difference ranges from minuscule to actually meaning more rewards than before. This new system will not only reward those customers who spend more, it also has the added benefits of making lines in stores shorter (as people before were breaking orders into separate transactions to try and get more stars) as well as making it easier for Starbucks to run promotions such as "double star days."
While some have called the loyalty program change a "misstep," the long-term benefits are clear and are likely to lead to increased sales and margins over time as it focuses on higher-worth customers, speeds up lines in stores, and allows for greater flexibility with promotions. The move has likely shed a few of Starbucks' lower-value customers this year, but long term, it should lead to gains overall.
Starbucks' Q3 earnings were reported in July, showing 4% comparable sales growth. However, it was the first time in 25 consecutive quarters that Starbucks' comparable-store sales growth was below 5% year over year. Further, the comp sales were below expectations, and the stock sold off as a result of concerns that Starbucks' growth is slowing.
During the earnings call, CEO Howard Schultz said the new loyalty program was partially to blame for the drop in comp sales, not because of customers leaving Starbucks over the change, but because of the timing of promoting the new loyalty program at the same as a summer Frappuccino promotion. Because the summer Frappuccino program was such a strong performer in the past, the timing hurt this year's comp sales. This short-term misstep is likely to be corrected with future sales comp growth.
In fact, Schultz said the loyalty program itself was already performing well. "We are already seeing the percentage of tender from Starbucks Rewards U.S. customers rise to 33% in Q3, up three full points from last year, continuing an established pattern in which revenue growth from Rewards customers typically outpaces revenue growth from non-Rewards customers."
This creates a buying opportunity because Starbuck's stock is down about 12% since the launch of the new loyalty program in April, even though for Q3, Starbucks reported a 7% rise in total revenue and a 24% rise in earnings per share. While the market is worried about the efficacy of the new loyalty program, and Starbucks' overall growth potential, the early signs of success of the new program show a good chance for renewed comp growth above expectations in Q4 and full-year 2016, and more growth going forward.
The stock still isn't necessarily cheap, at around 30 times earnings, but the lull the stock has been in after Q3 earnings and the loyalty program issues could make for an attractive entry point if comp sales start to tick back upward in the coming quarters. Longbow Research agrees and rated Starbucks stock a buy on Sept. 21 with a price estimate of $71, a potential 30% upside.
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Dr. Gelles is an internationally known expert in domestic violence and child welfare. He was influential in the passage of the Adoption and Safe Families Act of 1997. Dr. Gelles is the author of the highly influential book, The Violent Home, which was the first systematic investigation to provide empirical data on domestic violence. His more recent books, The Book of David: How Preserving Families Can Cost Children's Lives and Intimate Violence in Families, Third Edition, have also made a significant impact in the study of child welfare and family violence. He is the author of 24 books and more than 100 articles, chapters and papers. Most recently, Dr. Gelles co-authored Current Controversies on Family Violence (2005) with M. Cavanaugh and D. Loseke. He is currently in the process of co-authoring another text, Intimate Violence and Abuse in Families.
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Christian B. Miller, Character and Moral Psychology, Oxford University Press, 2014, 269pp., $55.00 (hbk), ISBN 9780199674367.
Christian Miller's book, together with its companion volume, Moral Character (2013), is among the most substantial -- and among the very best -- contributions to the virtue ethics and situationism debate. The main issues have been familiar to psychologists since the 1960's, and have occasionally made appearances in philosophy (Alston 1975; Flanagan 1991), but philosophical discussion heated up in the early 2000s, as philosophers began debating character skepticism. While there is enough interesting material in the book to justify multiple reviews, we will focus on Miller's relation to this debate.
This emphasis results in more omission than inclusion. Most regrettably, to concentrate on the philosophical debate is to neglect Miller's significant contributions to discussion of personality in psychology. Miller offers insightful critique of Walter Mischel's Cognitive Affective Personality System model, which has occasionally been appropriated by philosophers seeking to develop empirically informed defenses of virtue ethics (e.g., Snow 2010), and also provides probing discussion of the Big Five model, which is probably the dominant approach in contemporary personality psychology. But Miller, unlike many empirically involved philosophers working on character, is not a situationist critic of personality; indeed, he pointedly questions situationist approaches to personality (or situationist refusals to approach personality).
Character skepticism targets the contemporary tradition of virtue ethics, a family of views, frequently classical in origin, resurgent over the past 50 years or so. Skeptics argue that the virtue ethical understanding of character -- consisting in global traits effecting cross-situationally consistent behavior -- is undermined by a large body of findings in social psychology's situationist tradition (combined with convergent strains of evidence from other fields, such as personality and cognitive psychology). Put simply, the skeptical claim is that people don't often behave as consistently as familiar theories of character would have us expect, which is supposed to imply that global traits are not widely instantiated in actual human populations.
One response is to contend, as defenders of philosophical positions often do, that the skeptics misfire, and assert that the virtue ethics tradition is not committed to global traits (e.g., Hurka 2006). Since Miller, like us, construes the debate as one concerning global traits, we will not here discuss the interpretive issues engendered by the "misfire" rejoinder. Another response, dubbed the "dodge" by Alfano (2013: 62-64), is to interpret virtue theory as primarily normative, and largely devoid of empirical content. On this expedient, talk of virtue is evaluative talk, which can fulfill its role whether or not the psychological structures it depicts are instantiated in actual human beings. That this is a perspicuous understanding of important strains in philosophical (and everyday) thinking on character, or an independently appealing approach to philosophical ethics, is disputable; certainly, "psychological realism" is often treated as a desiderata for ethical theories in general (e.g., Flanagan 1991; Besser-Jones 2014), and virtue-ethical theories in particular.
In any event, it's not the strategy Miller adopts. Rather than dodging, he's confronting: Miller addresses the empirical challenge head on, with an authoritative accounting of evidence the character skeptics themselves rely on. The resulting view is both interesting and unusual. Miller is not, as might be expected for a critic of situationism, a defender of virtue ethics; he argues that traditional virtue and vices are largely absent from the human population. But like many proponents of virtue ethics, Miller insists, contra the character skeptics, that human behavior is frequently ordered by global character traits that effect cross-situationally consistent behavior.
According to Miller (2014: 195), there is a type of global trait that most people possess, which he calls mixed. Mixed traits are neither virtues nor vices, because they do not reliably dispose the possessor to good or bad behavior in every situation (Miller 2014: 207-209). Rather than having virtues or vices, the vast majority of people possess such traits as mixed aggression traits, mixed helping traits, mixed cheating traits, and so on -- traits that sometimes issue in behavior conforming to the behavior type featured in their names, and other times not. But these traits are supposed to be operative across a wide range of situations, and therefore deserve to be termed global. Thus, while Miller argues for a globalist theory of character, he remains a skeptic about virtue and vice; although global traits are widely instantiated, evaluatively consistent virtues and vices aren't.
Miller (2013; 2014) offers detailed consideration of the various psychological experiments that have been exploited by the skeptics, but unlike some opponents of character skepticism, he does not disregard or debunk this extensive literature. He does, however, deny that this literature tells for the sort of behavioral inconsistency the skeptics get on about. Making use of a distinction made prominent by Mischel and colleagues (Mischel and Shoda 1995; Shoda 1999), Miller (2014: 54-55) argues that the appearance of pervasive behavioral inconsistency results from overfocusing on nominal features of situations (e.g., low levels of light), rather than psychological features of situations (e.g., the subject's mood). For Miller, the psychological features facilitate the expression of mixed traits; activation or inhibition of mixed traits by psychological features of the situation effects orderly patterns of morally relevant behavior, such as those involving helping and failing to help.
If behavior is understood this way, Miller says, apparent inconsistency resolves. For example, suppose a person consistently helps in situations when they are in a good mood and consistently doesn't help when in a bad mood. When behavior is categorized by reference to nominal situations, say those where there is a social norm mandating helping, behavioral inconsistency is mistakenly attributed to people with mood-dependent helpfulness. While these people are not globally helpful, so the story goes, they are globally mood-dependent-helpful. For Miller, mixed traits are an empirically supported species of global trait that is widely instantiated in the population (Miller 2014: 195, 200).
Miller's position appears well equipped to handle much of the skepticism leveled at global character traits. But matters complicate when we consider just how many enhancers and inhibitors may be at work in a single mixed trait. Consider the example of someone alleviating guilt by helping others, which is a component of their mixed helping trait. All else being equal, helping while guilty is supposed to be consistent across a wide-variety of situations. But it is doubtful that all else will often be equal. On Miller's (2013: 183) own description, there are many additional psychological factors beyond guilt that need to be accounted for, such as emotions, beliefs, and desires. When all of these factors are considered, it looks as though the relevant admixture of inhibitors and enhancers effecting any instance of helping behavior will approach the singular, meaning that behavior again looks highly situationally specific, just the circumstance the skeptics were crowing about.
In situation s, say, x amount of guilt, y amount of embarrassment, z amount of anger (to name only three), plus beliefs and desires related to s-like situations, generally results in behavior b. Is it reasonable to expect that the same psychological mixture will congeal in different situations? After all, any circumstance may be supposed to involve some indefinitely large number of psychological features, some of which may be unique (or approaching unique), and these various features may figure in some indefinitely large number of combinations, which may themselves be unique (or approaching unique). Why suppose the psychological features and their combinations will repeat, or repeat with anything like the regularity needed to effect behavioral consistency?
You're in a good mood today, but will you ever again be in a good mood because it is the day you were awarded tenure in your first job? You were in a bad mood last fall, but will you ever again be in a bad mood because it's the day the Democrats got hammered in the 2014 midterm elections? If many psychological situations matter to mixed traits, and their appearance and combination in any given life cannot readily be expected to be highly reliable, it becomes rather difficult to see how mixed traits can, absent a highly fortuitous confluence of circumstances, be expected to secure cross-situationally consistent behavior -- which problematizes thinking of them as global traits.
This circumstance may seem to put Miller in an awkward position regarding an important desideratum in theory choice; ceteris paribus, simpler theories are preferred over more complex ones. How simplicity ought be understood is, of course, the subject of much discussion (see Dacey, in preparation; Mackonis 2013). But mixed traits, considering the numerousness of their situational inputs, psychological processes, and behavioral outputs, are anything but simple. Still, we don't think Miller need be embarrassed on this score; human psychology is complex, and a complex theory may be the only sort fit to secure empirical adequacy.
On this view, the relevant benchmark for consistency is not an evaluative norm, but the psychology of the individual actor.
Is this the kind of consistency character-based ethical theories seek? Or is it rather too easy to come by? Indeed, within the mixed trait framework, it's hard to see what acting inconsistently would look like. With so many enhancers and inhibitors at play for each trait, there will always be some combination of psychological factors construable as one or another mixed trait.
Consider the familiar thought that people sometimes act "out of character." All parties to the debate would likely admit that most people do not act in accordance with their character, whatever form it may take, 100% of the time. But on the mixed trait framework, one can explain any behavior as being in-character -- in some mixed character, that is. The person who fails to act helpfully in circumstances where they have always done so previously can be said to be acting in character after all; on the mixed trait framework, there may be a novel psychological situation such that, were we aware of it, we would expect the behavior that was observed. For example, suppose Sara has been observed consistently being helpful when in a good mood, and consistently unhelpful when in a bad mood, but is then seen being consistently helpful even in situations where her mood is especially foul. Say it turns out that Sara's helpfulness has been significantly enhanced by the presence of her co-workers at a new job, where she is trying to foster friendship with a new peer group (and no additional helpfulness is observed elsewhere). The psychological situation causing this newly observed helpfulness could just be taken as a new feature of her mixed helpfulness trait, rather than a significant departure from her character.
The general point is that to talk of consistency simpliciter isn't a helpful notion; to be informative, consistency must be identified relative to some standard. The worry we've just been articulating is that every pattern of behavior is consistent relative to some standard, but many of these consistencies may be uninformative or trivial. The run of behaviors a, d, g, h, j p, p, f, a is consistent relative to the disposition (or family of dispositions) to produce just that run of behaviors -- call it disposition ADGHJPPFA, but we've learned relatively little of interest about a person when we learn of such regularities.
This, of course, raises the question of what consistencies are the interesting ones. Presently, there's no need to answer this question; the important point here is that if one is interested in one sort of consistency, one won't necessarily be satisfied by finding consistency of another kind. Take a very simple mixed trait having to do with honesty: interval honesty. Greg is possessed of interval honesty, which means that, like an athlete alternating periods of exertion and recovery, when Greg avails himself of an opportunity to exercise honesty, he needs to "sit out" the next opportunity; Greg has psychological resources sufficient only to exercise honesty in every other honesty relevant situation. If we let h stand for honest behavior, and d stand for dishonest behavior, Greg's honesty relevant behavior will look, quite uniformly, like this: hdhdhdhdhdhdhd.
This, you might think, deserves to be called a kind of consistency; it is, as Miller might put it, behavior indicative of a global mixed trait. The consistency, of course, is relative to psychological situations: ones where Greg is morally exhausted and ones where he is not. What about nominal situations? There's some evidence that people's attributive standards for honesty are rather demanding (Gidron et al. 1993); to earn the title of honesty, you have to be honest on some tolerably high percentage of the occasions where honesty is called for. That's not Greg, who is honest only half the time it's appropriate. (If you think that's a "tolerably high percentage," imagine attaching it to a friend. Better not turn your back!) The general point is that identifying psychological consistency does not secure nominal consistency (Doris 2002: 76-85). Miller won't object to this, of course; his mixed traits are characterized by psychological consistency, not nominal consistency.
But virtue ethicists -- and we think, many others -- are unlikely to be so sanguine. Again, talk of virtue is evaluative talk, referencing evaluative standards, and it is plausibly thought that these standards have to do with nominal consistency. Being virtuous, like being a professional, involves doing your best work when you don't particularly feel like it; if there's a virtue of honesty, Greg, with his reliable tendency to moral failure and recovery, certainly doesn't have it. That is, the standard of consistency relevant for the virtue of honesty evidently involves nominal situations.
Matters may be different with different traits. A person doesn't lose the title of charity because they pass on opportunities to give when they judge the cause unworthy; perhaps the attribution of charity requires consistent giving (within a person's means) to causes the person judges to be worthwhile. If that's true, specification of psychological situations is integral to understanding how charitable a person is. But however this gets sorted out, it needs to get sorted out in a way that limits individual latitude: the skinflint who finds no cause worthy isn't charitable. Which is just to say what we've been saying: nominal situations matter, too.
None of this need concern Miller; his understanding of traits is best construed as revisionary, and he doesn't need to be defending familiar examples of traits. Nor, perhaps, will Miller unduly fret our complaints about uninformativeness. In the first instance, his mixed-trait framework is offered as a descriptively adequate account of character. Descriptive adequacy be should not necessarily be expected to secure an explanatory desideratum like informativeness; the best theory of character, like the best theory of the cosmos, might not be readily understandable without extended examination, or even formal instruction. But this is not, of course, to say that it is false. Miller's theory is systematic and empirically well supported; this doesn't mean it is easy.
Neither is descriptive adequacy undermined if the descriptions in question fail to conform with some evaluative standard, such as those associated with the virtues; that the descriptive and evaluative don't always pull together is the commonest of commonplaces. Miller, as we've said, should not be cast as a defender of virtue ethics (pace Annas 2011: 173n8), but as defending a conception of character traits that is a major departure from the understandings presupposed by such theories. Indeed, Miller (2014: 210) describes his view has presenting a challenge to virtue ethics. Might the lesson of Miller's excellent book be that to move in the direction of a psychologically realistic understanding of traits is to depart from the moral psychology of character that has hitherto animated virtue ethics?
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We're also sorry to neglect Miller's (2014: 227 ff.) views on cultivating virtues, which will interest moral philosophers.
Anscombe (1958) is conventionally regarded as the locus classicus.
We firmly counsel against characterizing the issue as whether or not character traits exist. Character theorists and character skeptics typically agree that traits exist; the question concerns how traits are best construed (Doris 2005, forthcoming).
For some skeptics, this descriptive claim is paired with a normative claim to the effect that notions of character and virtue predicated on global trait constructs are ethically infelicitous, and should be eliminated from, or minimized in, ethical thought.
Indeed, local trait theory (Doris 2002; Upton 2009), which also makes empirical adequacy paramount, may also fail standards of simplicity.
Miller (2013: 20n38) briefly notes this worry; he suggests that mixed trait theory allows for inconsistency in terms of conflict between an actor's conscious and unconscious psychological states. We'd like to hear more, since a mixed trait could be specified in terms of just such a conflict: e.g., a mixed aggression trait where the possessor is aggressive when experiencing a conflict between conscious deference and unconscious resentment and passive when the conflict is between conscious resentment and unconscious deference.
For some of Miller's discussion of these issues, in particular with respect to mixed helping traits, see Miller (2013: 180-199).
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For years, one of the most common, if not infamous, expressions on the streets of urban America has been “stop snitching,” which has evolved from a warning among those who mistrust the authorities to a mentality that threatens innocent people who witness violent crimes and major felonies, and establishes street cred just for avoiding cooperation with police under any circumstances.
But DJ Star (Troi Torain), who is one half of the morning crew on the long-controversial Star & Buc Wild show on WPHI-FM (100.3) in Philadelphia, is determined to change that regardless of what the streets say or what it does to his reputation in hip-hop. He’s bringing out a “Start Snitchin’” campaign in response to an overt rash of violent homicides in his town over the past few years. He spoke with NewsFeed after his show to explain why he wants people to report crime and cooperate with police, despite threats that “snitches get stitches” permeating hip-hop culture.
Where did all of this come from? Why do you want people to snitch?
We actually started “Start Snitching” back in 1998 when we were on the public-access Manhattan Neighborhood Network. We’ve always been outspoken and we pride ourselves on being blueprints from the streets, so it came about from when we were just talking about the senseless shootings taking place in Crown Heights (Brooklyn) where I lived for a decade. It picked up momentum in 2002 when we were hosting the morning show on Hot 97 (WQHT-FM, New York).
We got the sad news of the shooting of some young people and it was just graphic, the next day there was video footage of two teenagers shooting into a crowd at a club. We read these stories and almost become immune. So that’s what it was, man. There’s a certain mentality that must be dealt with, to stop young people and make them think. And I don’t like the culture of hip-hop being blamed. That’s another reason I’m standing up.
But how are people going to take this? “Stop snitching” is something ingrained in street culture at this point. What will people say to you for twisting the street status quo?
I couldn’t care less. I choose to stand up. I’m a man of a certain age and I’ve seen a lot. I’ve survived the crack wars and there comes a point in a person’s life where you let people know you have a moral compass. Sadly, there is a groundswell of ignorance and if you subscribe to it you will always live in fear and be subjected to that mindstate.
You, however, are no stranger to controversy yourself. So what’s the response been with the Star & Buc Wild show having such a wild reputation?
It’s been very well-received. If you look on our Twitter page, if you look at some of our blogs, it’s nice to see people who say it’s about time people stood for the cause. Even Russell Simmons on his Twitter page says he supports this. You also have to think that by todays’ standards, everybody’s a snitch. If you’re on YouTube and you’re holding money to the camera that you made illegally, or you’re showing guns, you’re snitching on yourself. So I’m not concerned on any level about what people are saying. This is where I stand.
Well what about people who don’t snitch for intrinsically preventive reasons? You know, the ones who fear catching a beatdown, or worse?
You have to break down snitching. We’re talking about senseless homicides, I’m not talking about someone who sold a bag of weed. I don’t know if you know about Philly, but there are 1.4 million people here. Since January we’re looking at 170 murders and we’re only in July. That surpasses the whole year of 2010 with 162 homicides. So I can’t worry about people who don’t want to speak up for fear of retribution. I look at other communities that police themselves and they have a cohesive understanding that certain things are just morally unacceptable. There has to be an understanding in the cities and suburbs that, hey, it’s not going to be tolerated.
What’s next for “Start Snitchin’”? Are you planning to move it forward? Maybe take it nationwide?
I’m doing what I think can be done within my responsibilities at (parent company) Radio-One. I have to fulfill my obligations, and I’m thankful they have given me the opportunity to launch this initiative. What ever comes out of this, I’m up to the task. So that’s what this is, man. It’s going against the grain. It’s not new. I don’t think anyone’s been more vulgar or aggressive than myself out of the urban world. So this lets people know there’s more to me than what we’ve been known for in the past.
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http://newsfeed.time.com/2011/07/12/qa-philadelphia-radio-dj-wants-you-to-start-snitching-and-stop-crime/print/
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Looking for movie tickets? Enter your location to see which movie theaters are playing So Proudly We Hail near you.
Three dedicated Army nurses stationed at Bataan experience the brutality of World War II firsthand.
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2019-04-24T12:48:23Z
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https://www.fandango.com/so-proudly-we-hail-107462/movie-overview
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st-andrews
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In the BSc Honours in Medicine we integrate a sound knowledge of the scientific basis of medicine within a professional, clinical context. This approach produces graduates who not only understand medicine but also recognise the important contribution that science and scientific research make to the practice of modern medicine.
In addition the School offers a number of postgraduate programmes.
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2019-04-21T17:03:06Z
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http://medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk/
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sinden
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I have exciting news today: I am getting married!
Now, hold your horses. You can't come to the wedding because it's tomorrow and I am getting married to someone famous: Hilary Hahn.
Maybe you've heard of her. She's a violinist. Anyway, she really likes organ music. And she is a brilliant photographer, just like me. Who knew?
Update, Dec. 10, 2004: Hilary and I have just been divorced. I for one take solace in the fact that our marriage lasted (slightly) longer than some other musicians.
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2019-04-22T12:31:34Z
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http://blog.sinden.org/2004/12/im-getting-married.html
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Wallace, Jonathan (1981) "Litigating an International Oil Dispute," NYLS Journal of International and Comparative Law: Vol. 2 : Iss. 2 , Article 4.
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2019-04-18T20:48:13Z
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https://digitalcommons.nyls.edu/journal_of_international_and_comparative_law/vol2/iss2/4/
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Problem-solving involves being "stuck." If a task does not puzzle us at all, then it is not a problem; it is an exercise. Sometimes it is appropriate to congratulate a student for being stuckit means the student has tackled a worthwhile challenge and gotten to a meaningful point.
One way to get stuck is to ask questions that are beyond our background to solve or are not entirely clear. Progress can also halt when we are unable to determine what knowledge would be useful to apply at a particular point. The most common form of "stuck-ness" faced by students stems from their failure to identify the obstacle to their progress. They are stuck because they believe that being stuck is an amorphous and hopeless situation. Teachers and mentors need to help students understand that there are many specific ways to be stuck, and that, for each barrier, there are associated methods for becoming unstuck. The challenge, when stuck, is determining why one is stuck.
When students ask questions, the usual response should also be a question. First, you might ask if they can clearly state what they are seeking to determine, or if they can figure out why they are stuck at that stage in the process. Often, students stop in the middle of a task but do not try to characterize what has occurred that has stopped them in their efforts. Encouraging them to identify the cause of their "stuckness" (e.g., "I have too many variables," "I dont see any pattern in this sequence") is frequently all they need in order to focus on, and resolve, their difficulty. As you ask them these questions, also make explicit what you are doing and why: You are asking them the questions you would ask yourself in a comparable position. Encourage them to set up their own internal dialogue in which they continually ask themselves, "What do I know?", "What do I need to know?", and "What techniques do I have for bridging the gap?"
On numerous occasions, students have come for extra help because they were stuck with a multi-step problem. After showing me the first step, they would freeze. I ask them, "OK, what do you do next?" They do one more step and, once more, stop. I repeat my question, and they do one more step until the problem is solved. They thought I was being helpful, yet I point out that all I did was prompt them to continue. I encourage them to take over that job themselves and remind them that uncertainty should not be allowed to lead to paralysis.
Students will become more comfortable "talking to themselves" if they see the teacher doing likewise. When students ask a question that you cannot answer immediately, try working on it in front of the class. Outline your intuitions about what the answer might be and how a solution might be reached. Try a method and, if it fails, backtrack and start new pathways. This work should be accompanied by the questions you ask yourself each time a next step is encountered (e.g., "Is it time to factor and why?" "Would a graph of this equation help?" "Should I add any segments to this diagram?"). Teachers must be willing to give students these types of apprenticeship experiences. Mathematics students need to see what it looks like to do real mathematics.
Teachers sometimes perceive students as trying to "trip up" the teacher with questions the teacher cannot answer. These students are usually more curious than malicious in their intent and are a font of opportunities for modeling problem-solving. Of course, you may not be able to figure out a solution right away. Thats even better! Take some time at home, share the question with your colleagues or the project mentor, and/or read up on the topic. Demonstrate for the class what persistence and research are really like. If you find such an approach nerve-wracking, then imagine how our students, who are in far less control of their own learning, feel when we subject them to tests and lengthy projects.
A goal for a research course or strand is for students to learn how to discover new information. Toward that end, teachers need to ask more questions than they answer. However, students need not discover every new fact or skill they need to know. Sometimes, students may be missing one bit of knowledge that would allow them to proceed. In this context, they will really appreciate (and thus be more likely to remember) that information when you explain it to them. In other situations, students may ask questions that they lack the mathematical tools to analyze. In such a case, coaching should involve sparing them a fruitless search. You can direct them toward literature that will enlighten them, or tell them they have asked a deep and nifty question and then teach them about an effective approach to the problem. Helping students have an appreciation for the breadth of the many branches of mathematics may also be facilitated by less Socratic responses.
I am more confident about my math now. Im willing to say what I think is right and back it up with proof, probably because I find it easier to have reasons that back up my thinking. One thing Ive learned this year is to be more skeptical of things and to figure them out myself rather than take someone elses word for it. One thing that helped me be more confident was the fact that, no matter if we were right or wrong, you would ask, "Why?" and we had better have a reason. Another thing was that you would never tell us the answer. No matter if the test was over or the problem set handed in, you would still only give us hints so that we could figure it out ourselves. You always believed that we could figure it out ourselves, so we did.
A common feature of difficult problems is that the initial information is ambiguous or incomplete. Problem-solvers often make assumptions about a setting that they do not realize they are making. These assumptions may be unwarranted or may represent one possible interpretation of a problem that is not fully defined. In either case, teachers should help the student think about the information or properties that the student assumed applied. This metacognition is crucial but not simple. The background we bring to a problem is not always explicit in our thinking. Asking students to state what they know and to explain how they know it can be a first step in clarifying their reasoning.
What many students do not realize is that "thinking about something" is an active process. Thinking should involve questioning intuitions, monitoring reasoning, checking definitions and computations, modifying methods and testing cases, planning strategies, comparing results with expectations, or communicating a clear description of the work. For example, information can be represented in different forms. Thinking about a formula might be aided by trying to put the relationship into words. A set of specific numbers might be more revealingly studied through a graph. Thinking requires repeated forays into new representations and transformations of an idea until a useful perspective is discovered. Try to make these activities apparent to the students when they exhibit them and to emphasize that what they just did is what we mean by "Think about it!"
" For example, they may realize that they do not know how to find the value for an unknown (in which case, they can refer to various equation-solving techniques). Naming the problem will often suggest a reasonable next step. Any hints offered should be process-oriented ("You seem to need to organize your data in order to look for patterns"). Students may be more comfortable writing about their process or talking through their difficulties. A research log (see Keeping a Research Logbook in the Introduction to Research in the Classroom section) can serve as a diary in which students record their questions and responses.
Does any of the given information seem extraneous? Can I determine whether it truly is?
Is there enough information? Have I added, or should I add, any information to the setting?
Are there parts of the problem (words or symbols) that I do not understand and need to learn more about?
Can I explain what an answer to this problem would look like (a number? method? shape?)?
Can I create an example that meets the conditions?
What different representations can I try in order to clarify the relationships between the elements of my problem?
Can I make it abstract (and also more generalized) by introducing variables?
Can I make it concrete by finding specific examples (which might be numeric, algebraic, or geometric)?
Can I organize the information in some useful way (e.g., in ordered pairs or a table)?
What information do I need to know in order to proceed? What techniques or theorems connect what I already know with what I need to know?
Are there any patterns, structures, and/or behaviors that are similar to those in settings I have previously studied?
Does this problem simply lack mathematical appeal for me (e.g., it seems too arbitrary or inelegant)? Sometimes it takes time to be immersed in a problem before its charms become apparent and sometimes a problem simply lacks those charms. These are, of course, quite personal mathematical matters. If choosing a more appealing problem is an option, then consider doing so.
Leaving students stuck but armed with the above questions is an important stage in developing their persistence and intuitions. Which question is most significant? Which method should be applied? We only gain skill in making such decisions with practice. Good instincts come with experience, and students need to be given the time to gain that experience. Encourage them to work on a problem for a day or two and then take a break if they remain stuck. Our brains are wonderful parallel processors and will often continue mulling over a problem while we attend to other matters, sometimes notifying us (as we do the dishes or take a walk) when a breakthrough has been made.
These "Aha!" moments are wonderful. They will occur when students have the chance to revisit a problem. Let kids lose a little focus on the main goal of a problem as they explore a related digression. Make sure they do return to the main task eventually and see if any new insights have surfaced in the meantime. The occurrence of "Aha!" moments is a good assessment of both teacher and student success in meeting the goals of a research experience.
If a problem is not yielding any productive results, students should consider solving a related problem (see Creating New Problems from Old Ones in Problem Posing). Ideally, solution of this new problem will inform work on the original question. However, it is not always predictable when ideas will transfer well. The most common and effective related problem is a simpler version of the original (see Simplifying a Problem in Examples, Patterns, and Conjectures.
Checking ones work is another great way to get stuck. Often, we have a result and are feeling pretty good, but then we check our solution or reconsider our proof and realize that something has gone awry. Students know this phenomenon and work hard to avoid it by assuming flawless thinking on their own part. The end of an effort is a sad time to find out that you have not reached the end after all. One way to help students accept the challenge of producing more robustly reasoned work is to help them incorporate checking as an ongoing, not just after-the-fact, activity. In other words, checking should become inseparable from the broader research process. When students do uncover a false finding, they should once more be earnestly congratulated. The more such habits are highlighted, the more they will be repeated.
Adopting a skeptical stance toward ones own work is the most efficient way to learn. Failure to verify conclusions leads to the same mistakes being made repeatedly. When students catch their own mistake and seek to understand the misunderstanding that led to the error, they are much less likely to make the mistake again. If we work hard to point out every logical flaw, students will continue to sit back, relax, and let us do the hard work. Checking is part of the internal dialogue that students must make part of their mathematical habits.
As a mathematical coach, the teacher has countless difficult decisions to make. Knowing how and when to help our students get stuck and unstuck requires many understandings, most important of which is knowledge of each student and where the student is in her development as a mathematician. If students are to respond productively to being stuck, self-confidence is essential. They need to be able to bring us their anxieties, questions, and ramblings. In response, we have to be cheerleaders, good listeners who can pose good questions, and mentors who can offer opinions about fruitful directions to follow.
This knowledge of our students also affects how we seek and communicate information. One student confessed to a teacher, at the end of months of meetings, that she dreaded the meetings because she knew she would be asked questions that she could not answer. The questions were the right ones for her to consider, but she needed to hear that she was not expected to have instantaneous responses. A written list that she could gradually consult would have conveyed a better message. In this case, the immediacy of the spoken exchange required additional explanation. Throughout the research process, we must be completely open about what each stage should provide for our students. What is appropriate at one point in the process may not be effective if a student does not understand how to respond to new information.
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2019-04-19T17:20:56Z
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http://www2.edc.org/makingmath/handbook/teacher/StuckAndUnstuck/StuckAndUnstuck.asp
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usatoday
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From newborns to too-cute toddlers, these celebrity kids are melting our hearts (and our Instagram feeds). So to help brighten your day, we've rounded up the most adorable, must-see photos of celeb babies from this week.
Celebrity baby pictures are blowing up our Instagram feeds this week, and we couldn't be happier!
From newborns to too-cute toddlers, these celeb kids are melting our hearts and making us feel like the heart eyes emoji.
So to help brighten your day, we've rounded up the most adorable, must-see photos of celeb babies from this week.
Khloe Kardashian's newborn is beaming in this picture. "You don’t know this yet but you’re my best friend for all eternity!" the new mother captioned the photo.
We can't get enough of this video of Chrissy Teigen and John Legend's newborn Miles (who looks just like his dad!).
North may have just turned five, but she's still a baby in her mother, Kim Kardashian's eyes.
"My baby North, you were so small here! You will always be my baby," Kardashian captioned the throwback photo.
The actress celebrated son Hayes turning 7 months old with a sweet picture of the two of them.
"My guy," she captioned the photo.
Let’s do this Brisbane!!! 1/7 tonight!
Pink's son Jameson, 1, is with her in Australia this week. "Let’s do this Brisbane!!!" she captioned the photo of her and her baby in what appears to be a dressing room.
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2019-04-21T01:12:28Z
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https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/entertainthis/2018/08/14/khloe-kardashian-chrissy-teigen-and-other-celebrities-post-adorable-baby-pics/985110002/
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smugmug
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In preparation for Purim, Bet class students, assisted by their parents, made Purim masks from an assortment of materials. This was followed by a demnstration of using mismatched bright colors and patterns of clothing to create a homemade clown costume for Purim." The great pictures and smiling faces behind the masks tell it all.
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2019-04-19T15:28:51Z
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https://merrickjewishcentre.smugmug.com/Bet-Class-Purim-Masks/i-HXcwMjZ
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cf
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Web servers frequently need some type of maintenance in order to operate at peak efficiency. This chapter will look at some maintenance tasks that can be performed by Perl programs. You will see some ways that your server keeps track of who visits and what Web pages are accessed on your site. You will also see some ways to automatically generate a site index, a what's new document, and user feedback about a Web page.
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2019-04-18T18:34:46Z
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https://users.cs.cf.ac.uk/Dave.Marshall/PERL/node239.html
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Arts
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Computers
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oregonlive
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Posted on December 19, 2015. Brought to you by superpages.
Richey's Tire Factory is located at the address 10512 Se Mill Plain Blvd in Vancouver, Washington 98664. They can be contacted via phone at (360) 256-0440 for pricing, hours and directions.
I had a good experience when I came in to get my tire patched. It was early on a Sunday when I realized that I had a flat tire. I originally had planned to go to Sears to get it done, but it doesn't open until a little later. Thankfully Richey's was open earlier than Sears. The job was completed and have no complaints!
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The only place to go where they will be straight up honest with you and do everything they can to help you. Customer for life. I won't go anywhere else.
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2019-04-22T08:48:13Z
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https://businessfinder.oregonlive.com/richeys-tire-factory-cascade-park-store-vancouver-wa-vancouver-wa.html
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Business
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wordpress
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The author includes info on how to write different fonts, along with sheets on which to practice + trace the fonts. I, unfortunately, was not able to take advantage of those pages, since I read a library copy, but it looks very helpful. Mrs. Luiz also recommends some of her favorite tools for hand-lettering, which was good information to have (except now I have one more thing to spend money on… 😛 ).
From the title, I was hoping that there would be some kind of Christian emphasis, but that is not the case. However, I still really liked it and I definitely recommend this book to anyone who is interested in learning more about hand-lettering.
I love handlettering and crafting and I have this book too! It’s a great book to get started in hand lettering and has many prompts and projects to get started on or if you are ever in a creative rut.
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2019-04-26T08:39:48Z
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https://greatbooksforgodsgirls.wordpress.com/2018/08/27/lettering-with-purpose-by-brittany-luiz/
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Arts
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The add-in supports export of 3D model geometry from Revit to Unity allowing users to have the first person 3D shooter game like experience while using Revit created model as the 3D environment.
Export of 3D model geometry with materials and textures from Revit to Walk-Through-3D.
Manipulation of the resulting 3D model in a similar fashion to a 3D first-person shooter game.
Support of textures along with an ability to apply weather effects.
Generation of a standalone executable package to view the exported Revit model in a three-dimensional representation that requires neither Autodesk Revit nor Unity installations.
Support of HTC® Vive virtual reality headset and controllers.
Support for Intel® RealSense™ camera.
Please download Unity 2017.1.1 or newer to use data export feature.
Walk-Through-3D is compatible with Revit 2017-2019.
Walk-Through-3D™ for Autodesk ® Revit® 4.0 adds next features: data export to the Unity editor.
Walk-Through-3D is definitaly a great app. In my case I have used it in my revit project and created the walk-through. However I wanted to put this walk-through in my web application to show it's capabilities. Guess what, I couldn't. Because it is creating an exe file + Data directory which is not possible to upload to the web server for the reasons you know. I then wanted to upload it to You Tube which again was not possible. The only way I thought was to convert it to a video format. But again this was not possible. Any suggestions ?
Great app. Is it possible to import point clouds?
Hi Raimo, thank you for your interest in Walk-Through-3D for Autodesk Revit. Your feedback is valuable for us. In case if you meant meshes import, than it is not possible.
Hi Olivia, thank you for your interest in Walk-Through-3D for Autodesk Revit. Currently this add-in is compatible only with English version of Autodesk Revit. Other possible reasons of the issue with passage through windows and doors: 1) Categories are not assigned to Window or Door. 2) Height is a window or door is less than "height of hero" parameter which equals to 6 feet (1828.8 mm). For now that parameter has fixed value and cannot be customized. If above doesn’t help, then please contact support@amcbridge.com and provide scenario for reproducing this issue with screenshots, test model, Revit version, OS version and type (32-bit/64-bit).
Hi Olivia, thank you for your interest in Walk-Through-3D for Autodesk Revit. Currently this add-in is compatible only with English version of Autodesk Revit. Other possible reasons of the issue with passage through windows and doors: 1) Categories are not assigned to Window or Door. 2) Height is a window or door is less than "height of hero" parameter which equals to 6 feet (1828.8 mm). For now that parameter has fixed value and cannot be customized. If above doesn’t help, then please contact support@amcbridge.com and provide scenario for reproducing this issue with screenshots, test model, Revit version, OS version and type (32-bit/64-bit).
Hi Andrei, thank you for your interest in Walk-Through-3D for Autodesk Revit add-in. Currently it can be used with HTC Vive only.
Chould obj name have id from revit?
If obj name have id from revit，user can connect bim information,that will be ge greater app not just for vr!
Hi zl zl, thank you for your interest in Walk-Through-3D for Autodesk Revit add-in. Your feedback is valuable for us. Currently that functionality is not available, but it will be taken into consideration while planning future releases.
No words.....Amazing app....one of the best app that to FREE app...Hatsoff all the TEam.
It's working. But when I put some lamps (exam M_Street Light in Revit family). They don't light up. Help me!
Hi Thai, thank you for your interest in Walk-Through-3D for Autodesk Revit add-in. Please try to follow these steps to fix lightings: 1) Open model with lamp that don’t light and double click on it to edit family 2) Click on light source (it should be yellow web on the display area) and click “Light Source Definition” button on “Modify | Light Source” tab 3) Set “Emit from Shape” value to circle 4) Click “OK” button 5) Click “Load into Project” button and overwrite the existing version. If above doesn't help, please contact support@amcbridge.com.
Hi Thai, thank you for your interest in Walk-Through-3D for Autodesk Revit add-in. Please try to follow these steps to fix lightings: 1) Open model with lamp that don’t light and double click on it to edit family 2) Click on light source (it should be yellow web on the display area) and click “Light Source Definition” button on “Modify | Light Source” tab 3) Set “Emit from Shape” value to circle 4) Click “OK” button 5) Click “Load into Project” button and overwrite the existing version. If above doesn't help, please contact support@amcbridge.com.
Hello i would give the tool a 5 star but cant because of z-fighting which destroys immersion.
is there a simple way to reduce Z-Fighting before i export the project ? Or another solution?
Great app - Does it work with WMR devices?
Hi Gary, thank you for your interest in Walk-Through-3D add-in for Autodesk Revit. Currently that functionality is not supported, but it will be taken into consideration while planning future releases.
I'm having difficult using the HTC controllers to move around the model, the headset works and controllers are visible in the VR space however using the track pads does not move around the model space.
Hi Paul, thank you for your interest in Walk-Through-3D add-in for Autodesk Revit. The issue with controllers is known. We are working on resolving that issue and new version with a fix is going to be available in the nearest future. Please send your contact information to support@amcbridge.com and we will inform you once new version is available.
Hi Paul, thank you for your interest in Walk-Through-3D add-in for Autodesk Revit. The issue with controllers is known. We are working on resolving that issue and new version with a fix is going to be available in the nearest future. Please send your contact information to support@amcbridge.com and we will inform you once new version is available.
Hi Arrow, thank you for your interest in Walk-Through-3D™ for Autodesk® Revit add-in. Please contact support@amcbridge.com and provide steps to reproduce the issue with screenshots, Walk-Through-3D™ for Autodesk® Revit version, Autodesk Revit version, OS version and type (32-bit/64-bit).
Hi Arrow, thank you for your interest in Walk-Through-3D™ for Autodesk® Revit add-in. Please contact support@amcbridge.com and provide steps to reproduce the issue with screenshots, Walk-Through-3D™ for Autodesk® Revit version, Autodesk Revit version, OS version and type (32-bit/64-bit).
Is that possible that you provide monsters and guns, like they are in FPS games? It would be great experience to walk around already known architecture with the design team and have some fun, like in the game. During the game we could watch advantage and disadvanteges of the map (architecture). Regards.
Hi Wojtek, thank you for your interest in Walk-Through-3D™ for Autodesk® Revit add-in. Thank you for sharing the ideas on how to improve the add-in. The proposed idea will be taken into consideration while planning future releases.
Hi Wojtek, thank you for your interest in Walk-Through-3D™ for Autodesk® Revit add-in. Thank you for sharing the ideas on how to improve the add-in. The proposed idea will be taken into consideration while planning future releases.
Worked seamlessly as promoted. Would be great to be able to modify the created files directly in Unity and/or have some more options within the app, such as changing wall/floor colours.
Hi John, thank you for your interest in Walk-Through-3D™ for Autodesk® Revit add-in. The proposed idea about adding an ability to change colors will be taken into consideration while planning future releases. The export to unity feature is planned to be implemented in future releases.
Hi John, thank you for your interest in Walk-Through-3D™ for Autodesk® Revit add-in. The proposed idea about adding an ability to change colors will be taken into consideration while planning future releases. The export to unity feature is planned to be implemented in future releases.
Thank you for the great app. Please consider adding teleport and export to unity features.
Hi Juliya, thank you for your interest in Walk-Through-3D™ for Autodesk® Revit add-in. The teleportation feature is available in 3.1.0.0 version of the add-in. Please download the latest version of the add-in from Autodesk App Store. The export to unity feature is planned to be implemented in future releases.
Hi Juliya, thank you for your interest in Walk-Through-3D™ for Autodesk® Revit add-in. The teleportation feature is available in 3.1.0.0 version of the add-in. Please download the latest version of the add-in from Autodesk App Store. The export to unity feature is planned to be implemented in future releases.
Hi Christian, thank you for your interest in Walk-Through-3D for Autodesk Revit add-in. Your feedback is valuable for us. The proposed ideas will be taken into consideration while planning future releases.
Great idea, great realization, great app. For fast real time preview it's super easy and fast, for more serious usage needs a little bit more options and polish. Thanks!
Very solid add-on for schematic phase demonstrations. I wish it more accurately handled the materials that are applied in Revit when converting though.
As an Engineering Student currently working on M.Sc. thesis about thermal/structual visualization and analysis using Unity3D, I think this plugin sets a great example of unity's protential. thanks! Looking forward to work with you oneday.
I Love it so much and its really usefull and super easy to use. I just wish that they had the lighting from the lamps and a zoom out buttom, that would just make this app perfect!!! I hope it will come in the future, but its great so far to look around and make sure the installation is placed just right.
Hi Nina, thank you for your interest in Walk-Throught-3D for Autodesk Revit. Your feedback is valuable for us. The proposed idea will be taken into consideration while planning future releases.
Great App, i Need a help?
Is this walkthroughs can able to the Private company website?
Hi Sandeep, thank you for your interest in Walk-Through-3D for Rhino. Your feedback is valuable for us. Could you please clarify what do you mean?
This is a very quick way to transfer 3D and VR information but both on the HTC Vive and in the desktop environment I seem to be way too short when I leave fly mode. Needs a setting for eye level and a proper calibration with the Vive. Otherwise great tool!
Hi Alexander, thank you for your interest in Walk-Through-3D add-in for Autodesk Revit. Your feedback is valuable for us. Please contact support@amcbridge.com and provide scenario to reproduce the issue with screenshots.
Being able to export our model to Unity 5 after opening in Unity to Revit would make it even better, but It's still a great app.
This will be great when you can export the project to Unity... short of that please add the ability export to Google Cardboard for ios and android. Then this will be really useful.
Hi Mike, thank you for your interest in Unity for Autodesk Revit add-in. Your feedback is valuable for us. The proposed ideas will be taken into consideration while planning future releases.
Great way for architects to get started with VR, good work !!!
Hi Martin, thank you for your interest in Unity for Autodesk Revit add-in. You feedback is valuable for us!
Very nice app. Simple one click, great for reviewing the design. Would love to be able to select the sporn location, is this possible?
This app does exactly what it says on the tin. However, it would make a big difference in VR if there was a teleportation movement mechanic for people that suffer from motion sickness. Everyone I showed this to in the HTC Vive did not like the artificial or "controller" based method of moving. Teleportation is what we use in most projects so until it is implemented, I will not be able to use this plugin unfortunately.
Hi, thank you for your interest in Unity for Autodesk Revit add-in. Your feedback is valuable for us. The proposed idea about adding teleportation will be taken into consideration while planning future releases.
Hi Tony Charbonnier, thank you for your interest in Unity for Autodesk Revit. Currently this add-in is compatible only with English version of Autodesk Revit. Other possible reasons of the issue with passage through windows and doors: 1) Categories are not assigned to Window or Door. 2) Height is a window or door is less than "height of hero" parameter which equals to 6 feet (1828.8 mm). For now that parameter has fixed value and cannot be customized. If above doesn’t help, then please contact support@amcbridge.com and provide scenario for reproducing this issue with screenshots, test model, Revit version, OS version and type (32-bit/64-bit).
Hi Tony Charbonnier, thank you for your interest in Unity for Autodesk Revit. Currently this add-in is compatible only with English version of Autodesk Revit. Other possible reasons of the issue with passage through windows and doors: 1) Categories are not assigned to Window or Door. 2) Height is a window or door is less than "height of hero" parameter which equals to 6 feet (1828.8 mm). For now that parameter has fixed value and cannot be customized. If above doesn’t help, then please contact support@amcbridge.com and provide scenario for reproducing this issue with screenshots, test model, Revit version, OS version and type (32-bit/64-bit).
Perfect, just what Revit needed!
Hi Pontus Jakobsson, thank you for your interest in Unity for Autodesk Revit. Your feedback is valuable for us!
Hi David Amaya Gonzalez, thank you for your interest in Unity for Autodesk Revit. Currently that functionality is not available, but it will be taken into consideration while planning future releases.
Works like a charm. Makes revit to VR very easy. I do have 1 question: How does lighting work? i have put in some lamps but they do emit some light but not enough to light up the room.
Hi Aryen Jacobs, thank you for your interest in Unity for Autodesk Revit. Currently default brightness value is used for all lightings and there is no way to customize it. Please do not hesitate to contact us on support@amcbridge.com to share your ideas how to enhance Unity for Autodesk Revit.
Hi, first of all thank you very much for this great app ! It could be very interesting to be able to open the scene into Unity to modify stuff and parameters (like physics and interaction). Is there any way to import 3D model with physics building's into Unity ?
Hi Pscl Jnthn, thank you for your interest in Unity for Autodesk Revit. Your feedback is valuable for us! Currently using Unity for Autodesk Revit you can export 3D model geometry with materials and textures from Revit directly to Unity for Autodesk Revit. But the export of 3D model from Revit to Unity project is not supported. Please do not hesitate to contact us on support@amcbridge.com to share your ideas how to enhance Unity for Autodesk Revit.
Can i open it with unity and modify on the scene ?
Hi Ahmed, currently using Unity for Autodesk Revit you can export 3D model geometry with materials and textures from Revit directly to Unity for Autodesk Revit. But the export of 3D model from Revit to Unity project is not supported. Please do not hesitate to contact us on support@amcbridge.com to share your ideas how to enhance Unity for Autodesk Revit.
4 Stars for the best "1 click" Revit to Unity plugin/solution. 5 stars when you add the edit in unity option! Thanks for a great plugin!
Hi Jacobus, thank you for your interest in Unity for Autodesk Revit. Your feedback is valuable for us! Please do not hesitate to contact us on support@amcbridge.com to share your ideas how to enhance Unity for Autodesk Revit.
is there anyway that we can adjust the materials after export? And is it possible to send this file so they can also view or is it just on the local machine?
The latest version is sooo much better ! Great job ! In just a few minutes you can walk or fly around your model for inspection or presentation. Can't wait for future releases.
Hi Brian, thank you for your interest in Unity for Autodesk Revit. Your feedback is valuable for us!
We have been doing CAD/Revit to Unity for over a year now and I just came across this add in. I have just tested it with small sections of buildings and it works great. It would be nice to be able to get the Unity file so I can edit that as needed.
Hi Erik, currently using Unity for Autodesk Revit you can export 3D model geometry with materials and textures from Revit directly to Unity for Autodesk Revit. But the export of 3D model from Revit to Unity project is not supported. Please do not hesitate to contact us on support@amcbridge.com to share your ideas how to enhance Unity for Autodesk Revit.
Hi Erik, currently using Unity for Autodesk Revit you can export 3D model geometry with materials and textures from Revit directly to Unity for Autodesk Revit. But the export of 3D model from Revit to Unity project is not supported. Please do not hesitate to contact us on support@amcbridge.com to share your ideas how to enhance Unity for Autodesk Revit.
Great app, thanks! I also can not pass through windows and doors. Category assigned correctly.
Hi Victor, please contact support@amcbridge.com with a test model and clarify which process leads to crash.
This app is a great idea as I have manually converted Revit models to Unity and it is not a simple process. Unfortunately after every export Revit appears to be frozen, it does not say not responding but I cannot click anything in Revit. Also most the models I try export wont load in the viewer after (either stuck loading or load into nothing). I have only got one model to work which was great but would be a great tool if it worked all the time.
Hi Bryce Cromar. First of all regarding your issue with frozen Revit. The possible reason here is that Unity for Autodesk® Revit® dialog (a dialog where you select a folder for saving exported files) is not closed. Please try to minimize Unity for Autodesk® Revit® window and close Unity for Autodesk® Revit® dialog for selection of a folder to save files. Regarding your issue with models. The possible reason here is that every resulting 3D model (in Unity for Autodesk® Revit®) should be saved in new folder. If above doesn’t help, then please clarify the following and contact us on support@amcbridge.com: - scenario for reproducing this issue with screenshots; - Revit version; - OS version and type (32-bit/64-bit).
It was great now for walk-throughs but would like to have the revit model exported into unity and ready to work on it further.
Hi Sai Meghasyam K. Thank you for your interest in Unity for Autodesk® Revit®. Export Revit model into Unity project will be implemented in future releases.
Hi Sai Meghasyam K. Thank you for your interest in Unity for Autodesk® Revit®. Export Revit model into Unity project will be implemented in future releases.
Good day! Dear support please can you tell me how to implement the ability to pass through the Windows and doors!
Hi Andrey Gaga! Unity for Autodesk Revit supports walking through windows and doors only if they have a value of category as “Window” or “Door”.
Hi Andrey Gaga! Unity for Autodesk Revit supports walking through windows and doors only if they have a value of category as “Window” or “Door”.
Good potential but not yet functional.
I really like this app for being able to give you a look inside of your designs. I like to use it to double check the feel in side my buildings. The time that it worked it was very useful. Unfortunately there's just too much working against this app. If you want to exit to continue modelling in revit you can not re-enter without restarting revit. While it could be a great asset in the design process this app is just too inefficient to be part of a workflow. But more importantly the app regularly (1 in 5 times for me) becomes buggy and won't operate. Once this happens the only way to get it to work again is to uninstall and reinstall. As mentioned above, even after installation it would become 'buggy' again within the hour. I'd really love for this app to be developed further, it was very useful the few times that it worked and I think it has alot of promised. But at the moment it's definitely not worth the considerable hassle of operating it. Honestly I'm a bit surprised Autodesk even released it in this state.
Hi Catherine Mcbride, thank you for your interest in Unity for Autodesk® Revit®. It was not release by Autodesk, but it’s a ‘technology preview’ released by AMC Bridge. If you have ideas how it can be improved please share your ideas and write us on support@amcbridge.com. If you or your clients are interested in an expert custom development, then we'd be happy to discuss the needs.
Hi Catherine Mcbride, thank you for your interest in Unity for Autodesk® Revit®. It was not release by Autodesk, but it’s a ‘technology preview’ released by AMC Bridge. If you have ideas how it can be improved please share your ideas and write us on support@amcbridge.com. If you or your clients are interested in an expert custom development, then we'd be happy to discuss the needs.
Great app, quick export, extremely easy interface/navigation. Still haven't figured out how to pass trough doors and windows, except turning off the category before export. Love this app.
Hi Marco Bonazza, thank you for your interest in Unity for Autodesk® Revit®. We can walk through windows and doors only if they have a value or category as Window or Door.
Hi Jack Wang, thank you for your interest in Unity for Autodesk® Revit® . If you have ideas how to enhance our product please share your ideas and write us.
Fly mode doesn't work, would like to see exported Unity project for further work. Export with textures - respect.
Hi Nikolay Gerasimov, please contact support@amcbridge.com.
"Unity for Autodesk® Revit®" - I love this game!
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2019-04-22T00:57:24Z
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https://apps.autodesk.com/RVT/cs/Detail/Index?id=8504039956372146040&appLang=en&os=Win64
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Christmas Sampler Series 3: Bringing Good Cheer [G1569] - $12.00 : Yarn Tree, Your wholesale source for cross stitch supplies.
Cross stitch pattern by Blackbird Designs. Look at these beautiful wild flowers! In the middle of the design, the alphabet is stitched towards the top, along with the numbers 1-0. Below the alphabet & numbers is a planter of flowers with two birds standing near the flowers. A wild flower border is stitched around the perimeter of this design. "Merry Christmas," is stitched below the wild flowers. Stitch count is 127W x 183H.
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2019-04-22T20:16:14Z
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http://www.yarntree.com/cross-stitch/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=83_1889_1921&products_id=17585
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Moon AF, Xu Y, Woody SM, Krahn JM, Linhardt RJ, Liu, J. & PEDERSEN, L.C. (2012) Dissecting the substrate recognition of 3-O-sulfotransferase for the biosynthesis of anticoagulant heparin. Proc Natl Acad Sci U.S.A. 109:5265-70 (2012).
Bebenek, K., PEDERSEN, L.C. & Kunkel, T.A. Replication infidelity via a mismatch with Watson-Crick geometry. Proc Natl Acad Sci U.S.A. 108:1862-7 (2011).
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2019-04-22T03:04:18Z
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https://www.niehs.nih.gov/research/atniehs/labs/gisbl/pi/cxc/publications/index.cfm
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Fabulous Dishes for Everyday. Sharing tasty food & beverages recipes.
, a classic Tuscan soup made with white beans and bread. Hearty, vegan, and delicious.
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2019-04-25T14:00:50Z
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https://recipes365blog.wordpress.com/2015/12/13/chickpea-ribollita/
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A few years ago, Paul Reiche and his team of game developers in Northern California were given a purple dragon and asked to make something cool with it.
They were being asked to make a new game about Spyro the Dragon, an old PlayStation favorite created by a different group of California developers who had gone on to make Ratchet & Clank games and first-person shooters.
Spyro had been fading. Once a leading mascot for video games, he'd lost his appeal. Tastes had changed since the 90's, and purple dragons started to seem as cool as purple dinosaurs. Reiche and his team tried making Spyro look cooler.
They tried "aging him up". It didn't work.
"We found that there's a place where you leave Spyro's charm behind," Reiche told me. Reiche's team needed a new idea.
That's when Paul Reiche, video game designer since 1980, a man who says he rebelled against his hippie parents by creating his own Dungeons & Dragons books and selling them for profit, remembered his idea about toys.
"I'd been thinking for a while about this idea of bringing toys to life," he said.
Reiche is a professional nerd. He's got the resume to prove it. Thirty years ago, he worked at TSR on Dungeons and Dragons projects (that amateur work paid off). He helped write that pen and paper game's Deities & Demigods book, worked on Gamma World, labored for the company that became long-defunct PC game development studio Epyx, made two of the first games for current giant Electronic Arts, Archon and Mail Order Monsters. He co-created the loopy, beloved space combat game Star Control.
When he gets old and retires, he'd like to travel far to visit friends, to play D&D with them.
But before he retires, maybe he'll be the man who helped make toys come to life.
If he pulls it off, he'll do it with the help of the enormous Activision Blizzard corporation, the machine behind Call of Duty games as well as the studios responsible for World of Warcraft and Diablo. He'll do it with Skylanders, a video game that could easily be mistaken for a 21st-century version of those old cartoons about toys that were, really, just half-hour commercials for toys.
To think of Skylanders as just a cynical product of men in suits would be to get the game wrong. It would miss the hope Reiche has for video games to stop pulling kids away from toys and help them love them again.
"I wanted to reinvigorate toys, because I see the magic of toys has dropped." Reiche said during a recent interview with Kotaku. " Younger and younger kids are losing interest in toys…. Video games are so powerful and engaging and fun that toys don't typically compete with your average kid. But I believe there is a place for toys."
Skylanders is a toy line, a bunch of video games and the other big holiday product from Activision this season. It will look to the casual onlooker as a line of some 30 statues of cute, colorful collectible warriors, all of whom can stand on an electronic device called the Portal of Power that appears to zap a virtual version of themselves into whichever Skylanders game the Portal is connected to. To Eric Hirshberg, CEO of Activision, the whole thing is "a new set of characters, a new mythology" for kids to love and parents to buy.
Skylanders is already pajamas and lunchboxes. It's a Wii game, an Xbox 360 game, a PlayStation 3 game, a 3DS game, an interactive world on the Internet and, soon, a game on mobile phones. "It's kind of like on day one, it has has as many pieces to it as many franchises have after seven years," said Hirshberg, who, like Reiche, talked to Kotaku about Skylanders at a launch event in a massive New York City event space a few weeks ago. The men each answered questions as best they could, when not being vocally over-matched by an announcer shouting to the hundred or so children invited to play Skylanders upstairs: "Who wants to get their face painted?" and, since a pro basketball player was paid to be there, "Hey, boys and girls, look, it's Amare Stoudemire!"
Skylanders is an executive's dream. There is just so much to sell. Each of the figures contains a chip that records a Skylander player's progress with that character. If you put the Skylander Stump Smash on the Portal and fight him up to level 4 and make him wear the party hat in the WIi version of the game, the figure will "remember" that and then be at level 4 and wear the party hat if he's put on a Portal hooked up to the 3DS game or the 360 one or the web world. The physical toy stores the digital version's progress.
If the Skylanders player is using Stump Smash in the game but comes across a part of the level that can't be accessed by a leaf Skylander but can be by a tech Skylander, then that player can swap the proper figure onto the Portal and keep playing. If they don't own a tech one, well, time to go to the store and buy one.
Reiche thought up the basics for Skylanders and has been working on it with his team at Toys for Bob for a few years. After they dropped the aged-up Spyro project, they were doing this. They got a big push from Hirshberg's top people at Activision who said they wanted an idea that would be a hit. "We believe you need to knock it out of the park and make a top-five game, " Reiche remembers them saying. Not a top-five kids' game. "They want a top-five selling game. Period."
The Toys for Bob team reacted to pressure by being as ambitious as Reiche, in his 30 year career, had ever dared to be. They crafted the basic Portal and figure tech. They demoed it for the Activison crew. The figure went on the Portal and emerged, virtually, in the game. "It kind of triggers something in you," Reiche said. "I think, in my sort of philosophical brain, it triggers what you expect in toys. Kids expect toys to come to life, and in their imaginations, they do. So what they're seeing there is just the realization in a video game of something they expect to happen." The inner kids at Activision got it. Green light.
There are other toys that hook up to video games and virtual worlds. They are mostly made by toy companies, and Reiche laughs them off. "They make a very nice toy and a truly dreadful interactive experience," he said.
In the weeks since the release of Skylanders it's become clear that the Skylanders games are anything but a dreadful interactive experience. They've been warmly received by reviewers and players of both the console versions, which were made by Toys for Bob and the 3DS version, which was made by the well-regarded studio Vicarious Visions. The magic of the statue-to-game connection has proved to be the linking of one toy to not just one game but the ability for that toy to instantly re-emerge, retaining all of its stats and virtual accoutrements, in a second and third copy or version of the game. As Hirshberg hoped, the "toy then becomes precious" to the person who owns it.
Skylanders could have become a simple, crass shill. The base game, which costs $60-$70 comes with three figures which, collectively, do not represent all the different character factions needed to access each part of the game. "There were discussions along the way of 'Should we allow the game to be finished with just the starter set?'" Reiche said. "And there were voices saying 'no.' And I was like, 'uh-uh.' Not only would I not go for it. Nintendo wouldn't allow you to put out a game you couldn't complete." The team even decided to let players finish the game with just one figure.
The developers did include, throughout their game, what look like commercials for toys that the players don't yet own. A player can find an item relevant to one of those un-owned figures and watch an attractive, short video showing the new figure's character in action. But that doesn't reduce the game to being a glorified commercial for toys, Hirshberg said. "I would say that in our very branded, very digital world I think you could make that same comment about a lot of things," he said. "I think you could say that NBA games are commercials for shoes and logo-wear. To a certain extent that's how the world works. In terms of our approach to he game, we're committed to delivering a tremendous value with the starter pack. With the starter pack, which comes with three characters, you can complete the whole game, defeat Kaos, from start to finish, never have to buy anything else." He believes the toys, sold for $8 apiece, are comparable to action figures that have no game to communicate with.
Reiche's dream of a rebirth for toys has become a commercial product, one he seems pleased with. His concerns aren't the evolution of the Skylanders to a product line. It's just getting Skylanders to be the dream toys he'd like them to be. Take those virtual character upgrades in the current games. If you put a hat on your character, that doesn't show up on the toy. "What you want is, 'I'm going to put a cool tattoo on my character and it appears there.' It's possible. A few years ago it was impossible to do what we're doing today. The sky's the limit."
A few weeks since the big New York City event, Hirshberg describes Skylanders as still being mid-launch. He's not ready to say how well the games are selling—whether they've hit Top 5 status or not—but he's angling for the series to get "a ton of momentum as 'the' gift for the holiday."
Reiche, not ready for D&D in a retirement home, has his own dreams, too. "I want to see more stuff like this," he said in New York. "What I hope is that, a year or two from now, a kid goes into the store expecting the toy car or the robot that he gets is going to come to life. I bet you they have to."
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2019-04-21T05:29:56Z
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https://kotaku.com/the-man-who-wants-to-re-invent-toys-before-video-games-5857232
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PITTSBURGH (March 19, 2019) … Gelsy Torres-Oviedo, assistant professor of bioengineering at the University of Pittsburgh, was awarded the Society for the Neural Control of Movement’s 2019 Early Career Award. She will be presented the award at the NCM Annual Meeting on April 23-27, 2019 in Toyama, Japan.
NCM’s Early Career Award recognizes outstanding contributions by scientists who have significantly advanced the understanding of the neural control of movement within 10 years of receiving their doctoral degree. The recipient is chosen by NCM’s board and will have the opportunity to present a lecture at the annual meeting.
Prof. Torres-Oviedo is the second recipient of this competitive award for junior faculty members, which receives close to 100 nominations annually. She leads the Sensorimotor Learning Laboratory in the Swanson School of Engineering where her research group investigates the ability of the human motor system to adapt walking patterns and learn new movements upon sustained changes in the environment.
She will present a talk titled, “Sensorimotor adaptation studies to advance neurorehabilitation after stroke,” where she will discuss her work related to the generalization of movements from trained to untrained situations.
Prof. Torres-Oviedo will receive travel support to the meeting, accommodation at the conference hotel, complimentary conference registration, an engraved plaque, and a $500 award.
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2019-04-21T20:37:31Z
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https://www.engineering.pitt.edu/News/2019/Torres-Oviedo-NCM/
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Latest post Mon, Aug 31 2015 4:14 PM by Marianna. 1 replies.
Real Industry's Face-to-Face sessions put you in front of experts in the media technology industry, no matter where you are in the world.
To go along with this week's Software Engineering course, we're joined by Beau Silver, a software engineer at Avid and a sound designer at Makey Makey. He holds a Master's degree from Stanford in computer music and a Bachelor's from the University of Miami in music engineering. He currently lives in Capitola, California and enjoys surfing, drinking tea and mindful spontaneity.
In our live Q&A via Google Hangout, you will be able to ask Beau anything: whether it's what kind of jobs exist in software engineering and how to get them, best practices for becoming a great coder, the process behind building the world-renowned Pro Tools software, or how his career got started. The floor is open to you!
Beau will be offering one lucky participant (picked at random) a new copy of Avid Media Composer Software (download only) and support / upgrades for a year. $1299 MSRP value! Media Composer is the most proven video editing software in the industry, trusted by professional editors in every segment of movie making, television, broadcast, and streaming media. Designed to handle high volumes of disparate file-based media, Media Composer delivers accelerated high-res and HD workflows, real-time collaboration, and powerful media management, eliminating time-consuming tasks so you can focus on telling a great story.
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2019-04-23T22:44:02Z
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http://community.avid.com/forums/t/135355.aspx
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Residents of New Orleans were starting to see the impact of Hurricane Isaac on their power supply, with a few scattered outages both in the metropolitan area and in coastal parishes, said a spokesman for Entergy.
The company’s crews were responding to outages as long as weather permits, spokesman Philip Allison said, but will stand down once winds reach 30 to 35 miles per hour.
According to the company’s online outage map, there are 1,800 Entergy customers without power in Louisiana, with most of those in the southeastern tip of the state.
The National Hurricane Center said reconnaissance data indicate Isaac has become a hurricane. The storm is expected to make contact with southern Louisiana’s coastline Tuesday evening.
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2019-04-24T08:41:12Z
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https://blogs.wsj.com/dispatch/2012/08/28/power-outages-hit-some-new-orleans-residents/
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Kidz Field Child care offers safe, welcoming care in a home atmosphere. Our staff will provide physical and social training for your beloved child/children under supervision of a Montessori teacher with more than 17 years experience, We take care of your children from infant to 13 years old (preschool age and after school). Your child will be loved, nurtured and taught as an individual.
Kidz Field is a clean, germs free home daycare with a lovely family atmosphere.
We provide a home away from home for your precious child with warm and nutritious food.
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2019-04-18T12:35:02Z
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https://kidzfieldchildcare.wordpress.com/
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"Ultracool dwarfs" are the very smallest, coldest stars in the Universe. Some of them aren't even massive enough to power themselves with hydrogen fusion in their cores, making them technically "brown dwarfs" rather than stars, destined to slowly cool off for the rest of the Universe's lifetime. These stars are not capable of generating magnetic fields the same way that our Sun does, and conventional wisdom used to be that they would display only weak signs of magnetism.
That changed in 2001 when our group observed the brown dwarf LP 944-20 and discovered bursts of radio emission, a telltale sign of vigorous magnetic activity. Since then, we have conducted a long-running campaign to search for more magnetically-active ultracool dwarfs and understand how they work, using a wide range of observatories including the Very Large Array, Chandra , Swift, and Magellan. Our work has revealed many puzzling effects and helped show that in many cases these objects have emission more reminiscent of Earth's aurora than the Sun's flares. Not only are the basic physics of these processes poorly-understood, but they also impact our understanding of the stellar formation and evolution, weather and chemistry in these stars' atmospheres, and the habitability of exoplanets.
Artist's rendition of auroral emission from a brown dwarf.
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2019-04-24T00:44:49Z
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https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/research/oir/ultracool-stellar-magnetism
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Place of publication: Meritt, B.D. "The Inscriptions," Hesperia 3 (1934) 6-7, no. 7; B.D. Meritt, "Greek Inscriptions," Hesperia 5 (1936) 414-416, no. 12; A.G. Woodhead. The Athenian Agora XVI (Princeton 1997) no. 124.
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2019-04-19T20:19:44Z
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http://drc.ohiolink.edu/handle/2374.OX/815
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Neonatal candidiasis among extremely low birth weight infants: risk factors, mortality rates, and neurodevelopmental outcomes at 18 to 22 months.
BACKGROUND: Neonatal candidiasis is associated with substantial morbidity and mortality rates. Neurodevelopmental follow-up data for a large multicenter cohort have not been reported. METHODS: Data were collected prospectively for neonates born at <1000 g at National Institute of Child Health and Human Development-sponsored Neonatal Research Network sites between September 1, 1998, and December 31, 2001. Uniform follow-up evaluations, including assessments of mental and motor development with the Bayley Scales of Infant Development II, were completed for all survivors at corrected ages of 18 to 22 months. We evaluated risk factors for the development of neonatal candidiasis, responses to antifungal therapy, and the association between candidiasis and subsequent morbidity and death. RESULTS: The cohort consisted of 4579 infants; 320 of 4579 (7%) developed candidiasis; 307 of 320 had Candida isolated from blood, 27 of 320 had Candida isolated from cerebrospinal fluid, and 13 (48%) of 27 of those with meningitis had negative blood cultures. In multivariate analysis of risk factors on day of life 3, birth weight, cephalosporins, gender, and lack of enteral feeding were associated with development of candidiasis. After diagnosis, most neonates had multiple positive cultures despite antifungal therapy, and 10% of neonates had candidemia for > or =14 days. Death or neurodevelopmental impairment (NDI) was observed for 73% of extremely low birth weight infants who developed candidiasis. Death and NDI rates were greater for infants who had delayed removal or replacement of central catheters (>1 day after initiation of antifungal therapy), compared with infants whose catheters were removed or replaced promptly. CONCLUSIONS: Blood cultures were negative for approximately one half of the infants with Candida meningitis. Persistent candidiasis was common. Delayed catheter removal was associated with increased death and NDI rates.
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2019-04-18T16:33:30Z
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https://scholars.duke.edu/display/pub678987
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"To establish credibility in providing quality education, training, certification, and professional consultation to Iowa's fire service and other emergency responders in a manner that reflects commitment, integrity, and contributes to the reduction of morbidity, mortality, and property loss from fire and other hazards."
The Fire Service Training Bureau is Iowa’s designated state fire academy, training Iowa’s firefighters since 1923. The Bureau provides quality training and education for Iowa’s fire and emergency services.
The Fire Service Training Bureau is committed to meeting the needs of Iowa's fire service by emphasizing up-to-date, recognized training, partnerships with the community college districts, as well as in-house training opportunities.
Promote safety in all aspects of fire and emergency service training and response.
Provide and coordinate training ranging from basic skills to more advanced specialized topics.
Offer professional certification through a program accredited by the International Fire Service Accreditation Congress (IFSAC) and the National Board on Fire Service Professional Qualifications (ProBoard).
Act as the statewide point of contact and coordination for federal fire programs.
Provide a leadership role in developing and implementing new techniques and technologies in firefighting and emergency response.
Distribute training materials through the Iowa Fire Service Bookstore.
Provide research, technical assistance, and support.
Educational materials are always available by direct mail order services at the Fire Service Training Bureau.
Purchases may be made with credit cards, checks, cash, or charged to fire departments.
All proceeds from the purchase of educational materials from the IFSB stay in the Iowa fire service so that the benefit of guidance and information about firefighter safety, effective fire prevention and protection, and many other services may continue to be provided to individuals and fire departments.
Look for the Iowa Fire Service Bookstore at the State and Regional Fire Schools and receive a 10% discount on the purchase of any books.
Nomination letters should be sent to the Fire Service Training Bureau, attention Governor's Award Committee.
The Beginning: In 1923, a group of fire fighters came to Iowa State College and asked for educational assistance to improve their fire fighting and fire prevention skills. In 1925, the college’s response was the First Annual Iowa State Fire School. That event marked the beginning of state-level fire service education and training in the United States.
This first fire school, titled “First Short Course for Firemen” (1925) provided four days of training. Topics included fire prevention, fire fighting, and first aid. The program was developed by the fire service, under the supervision of the Engineering Extension Department of Iowa State College.
Over the years, Fire Service Extension changed to the Fire Service Institute, a component of Iowa State University Extension. The annual fire schools continued to grow. The Institute offered many basic and advanced fire service training programs.
The Transition: In 2000, at the request of several state fire service associations, legislation was drafted to remove the Institute from Iowa State University, and relocate it with the Department of Public Safety. The Governor signed house File 2492 during the legislative session, and the transfer of responsibilities occurred July 1, 2000. The Institute was dissolved, and the Fire Service Training Bureau was created within the Division of State Fire Marshal.
While the responsibility and budget was transferred immediately to the Division of State Fire Marshal, the physical location of the Bureau continues in the Fire Service Education building on the Iowa State University campus. The Bureau has arranged to remain in this building until June 30, 2010.
Proponents of the legislation believed transferring the responsibility of statewide fire service training to the Division of State Fire Marshal would give the new Bureau a higher priority for increased funding opportunities needed to ensure quality training and education. Iowa State University Extension also supported the move, stating they wanted what was best for the fire service and the citizens of Iowa, and that this is what the fire service wanted.
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2019-04-26T14:04:58Z
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http://www.dps.state.ia.us/fm/fstb/
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I really like the new format. It seems much more intuitive and easier on the eyes. 🙂 I can’t wait to see the Mummy movie; my boyfriend and I watched The Mummy’s Return in preparation while everyone else was waiting for Breaking Dawn.
Back to school prices make me want to cry! Everything’s so expensive, it’s ridiculous!
Love the new look! The new header is gorgeous (I’ve always had a thing for rainbows).
I can’t wait to see the new Mummy movie. I loved the first two — I could identify with Evelyn so very easily in the first film. I worked in a library, and if my library had been configured in the same way, there most definitely would have been a domino-like chain reaction of falling bookshelves at some point!
I haven’t read any of the Twilight books yet either. I got the first three for my birthday, the first week of July, and was expecting to have them read by now so I’d be all set for Breaking Dawn. The TBR pile had other ideas though! Last night I thought about starting Twilight, but I want to finish a couple more ARCs before I start another book for myself.
I’m going to join the crowd and say I really love the new layout and theme! It seems much easier to read.
I haven’t read any of the Twilight books either. After the plethora of bad reviews Breaking Dawn is getting, I’m not sure I want to. I might wait and see if they turn up for cheap in my favorite used bookstore first.
Glad the text box trick worked for you! I think I liked the old format better, but I love the new header photo. Quote of the Day is a great idea as well.
I just read the interview with Adrienne Ehlert Bashista. I have a friend who adopted a Japanese baby last year and it’s been interesting to hear about the process from her. Nice look, btw.
Love the new look! I also have been toying with the idea of a quote of the day. There are so many out there to use. Glad to see you really enjoyed the Mummy movie. Kids and I just saw it and didn’t care for it as much as the original 2. I just posted about it today.
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2019-04-18T14:31:21Z
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https://thekoolaidmom.wordpress.com/2008/08/03/tss-mummies-mishka-and-more/
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With Intel rumored to be backing the company, OrCam's glasses frame-mounted camera could help the blind - and create new categories of hardware products.
An Israeli-developed device to help the visually-impaired "see" contains technology that could end up powering a new category of wearable devices, according to Erez Naaman, VP of engineering at OrCam.
The Israeli startup, barely two years old, has created the first commercially available system to enable blind and visually-impaired people to navigate their surroundings.
The OrCam system is promising enough that it has reportedly solicited an investment from Intel's venture capital organization.
OrCam's technology uses cameras, algorithms, and audio to provide what Naaman described as "the next best thing to being able to see clearly". As it's not a medical device, OrCam does not require implants, unlike similar systems developed in the US.
OrCam's product consists of a camera attached to a glasses frame. The camera sees objects, shapes, sizes, words, or anything else around a user, analyzes the image, and tells users what they are 'seeing'.
Using their finger, users point in the direction of the object they want to 'see', and the system instantly announces what it's seen. As a result, a visually-impaired OrCam user could use the system to cross the street, just by pointing at a traffic light and waiting for the system to announce "green light". In a supermarket, users can pick up product and the device will tell them what it is, even reading off the ingredients. The system can read all manner of text: all a user has to do is point to words in a newspaper, book, restaurant menu, or other printed material, and OrCam will read back what they are looking at.
"It's not even a 3D camera," said Naaman. "The system recognizes words, remembers faces and locations, landmarks, describes shapes, and other features that are read back to users, letting them navigate situations successfully."
Besides being first to market, OrCam's system is also a lot cheaper than rivals' with an initial cost of $2,500.
As a solution for the visually-impaired, OrCam holds a lot of promise — but that technology could be put to other uses as well, especially in the up and coming wearable technology space.
It's for OrCam's potential in that space that Intel Capital reportedly invested $6m in the company recently, according to very reliable sources (the $6m was part of an overall $21m that OrCam raised over the past months, the sources said). Neither OrCam nor Israel's Intel spokesperson would confirm the investment.
But, said an Intel spokesperson, OrCam is a good example of wearable tech – and Intel was very interested in developing products using sensors, video cameras, and intelligent algorithms that could be used in wearable devices.
"Intel is running a major event called Make It Wearable, in which developers are presenting new ideas and products using sensor technology," the spokesperson said. One of the five finalists in the first round, for example, called Wisdom Tooth, is a device that is inserted into the mouth and keeps track of a user's oral hygiene; another, called Lovey, lets users keep track of their level of engagement with children, reminding them when they need to read their kids a story, and so on.
With its video and audio technology as well as its database and algorithm components, OrCam would seem to be a natural for wearable tech – and Naaman agrees.
"We have some ideas about other devices which I can't share," said Naaman – but he promised that they would be "game changers" when they came out. "The devices based on our technology are likely to be very different than anything available right now."
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2019-04-21T00:16:47Z
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https://www.zdnet.com/article/orcams-vision-system-for-visually-impaired-paves-the-way-for-new-wearables/
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FROM being bullied at school to an eight-month prison spell and a battle with depression at university, it's been a long and often difficult journey to where Paris is today. She recently pulled out of appearing on Celebrity Big Brother but will be seen on Celebrity Island.
From a chippy in Ramsbottom to fashion icon... what became of Agyness Deyn?
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2019-04-24T08:18:32Z
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https://www.thesun.co.uk/topic/vogue/
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In the present study the flow field near the orifice of a plane wall jet is in focus. Two main flow regions may be distinguished in the wall-jet, i.e. a free shear layer away from the wall and a boundary layer close to the surface. In both of these layers streamwise coherent structures are detected by means of smoke visualization and hot-wire measurements. The structures, which occur naturally, have different spanwise scales and emerge at different distance from the nozzle. Effects of the flow velocity, upstream perturbations and acoustic excitation on the generation and characteristics of the streamwise disturbances are investigated and especially the interaction between the two layers is studied. In order to resolve the complex 3D flow by means of hot-wires a system for accurate automated traversing and data acquisition has been developed. It was found that the value of outlet velocity and the frequency of Kelvin-Helmholts rolls have a clear influence on the size of the structures. Higher outlet velocities and higher frequencies of triggered two-dimensional roll-ups lead the size of longitudinal structures to decrease.
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2019-04-25T02:14:41Z
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https://research.chalmers.se/publication/22756
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Lupita Tovar is Hollywood royalty, a woman of beauty and charm, wit and intelligence, warmth and enthusiasm. In Lupita Tovar "The Sweetheart of Mexico" , author Pancho Kohner shares the fascinating accounts of her life, deftly capturing his mother's voice and personality. Reading her memoir is like having a chat with Lupita, a natural storyteller, in her living room. She is the eternal enchantress.
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2019-04-19T10:24:22Z
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https://www.xlibris.com/bookstore/bookdetail.aspx?bookid=SKU-0077047037
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As of August 1, 2016, Autodesk is transitioning to a subscription-based licensing model similar to other large software developers like Adobe. The new licensing can be confusing to manage. To help, Autodesk has released an eBook to get you up and running. It contains helpful tips and detailed step-by-step instructions.
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2019-04-21T20:02:05Z
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https://themadcadder.blogs.com/my_weblog/2016/05/index.html
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If you're stuck in Alone in the Dark 3, ask your fellow GameFAQs members for help.
Sharpen your spurs and polish your six-shooter. You're Edward Carnby back in action in the wildest Western epic this side of the grave!
You've been summoned to Hill Century Studios' latest movie set: a two-bit ghost town by the name of Slaughter Gulch. The film crew's been kidnapped, and only your sharp shooting and even sharper sleuthing can save the heroine, Emily Hartwood.
Enjoy up to 70 hours of gameplay piecing together this dusty puzzle and breaking the grip of the town's curse. Every cobwebbed corner holds a new clue, but be warned: you'll find no friends in the trigger-happy souls who drift across your path like so much tumbleweed.
So saddle up and get ready to ride into the shadowy unknown, but hold on tight... you can't imagine how wild the west can get.
How to fix read error when installing AITD3?
Get more Alone in the Dark 3 news at GameSpot.
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2019-04-24T22:42:23Z
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https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/pc/565051-alone-in-the-dark-3
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It is the highest representative body of students. It consists of elected representatives from each of the courses of the undergraduate degrees and postgraduate studies and student representatives to the Centre Board and the Senate. Their functions range from allocating budgets for sports and cultural activities to propose measures considered necessary to defend the rights and interests of students. There is an office of the representatives council in each centre.
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2019-04-20T06:43:28Z
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https://www.uv.es/uvweb/ontinyent-campus/en/campus/student-council-1285926244368.html
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Part of the US Muslim Engagement Project.
Summaries and proceedings of a conference. Download the report here.
Response to 'Muslim Students in NYC': Do the Numbers Tell the Whole Story?
It is a movie! For real! Masha'allah!
Here's an interesting article from the Washington Post on a Saudi cleric who is trying to put the spirit back into Ramadan. Interesting and more representative than the wackos calling for the death of TV station owners.
Good resource for MLTs and understanding what the network is aiming to create now.
MLT Moushumi Khan has an opinion piece on Geert Wilders' film "Fitna."
MLT Irshad Manji recently appeared in the New York Times talking about her approach to Islam.
We have a Facebook page, so become a fan.
One of our MLTs, Debbie Almontaser, is back in the national news. She appeared over a year ago for her involvement with an Arabic language school in New York. We're going to be tracking news coverage for the immediate future in this post. If you see anything relevant, please post in comments, or email us.
Why do people freak out about bearded men praying?
I wouldn't pray on a plane, but I understand why people do. I was on plan into NY last night and there were a whole bunch of Catholics were praying. So why do only bearded men get singled out?
BTW, I know the issue is one of regulation compliance in this instance, but still, it strikes me as being that if he weren't being overtly non-Christian religious, it wouldn't be the issue it is. And yes, I believe both anti-semitism and islamophobia are the same poison in the well.
Via Laila Lalami I found this beautiful poem. Isn't it nice to know what a Muslim really means by "revenge?"
It goes back to the beginning. Why do non-Muslims get this, but Muslims don't?
I don't think I've posted about this before, but if I have, it bears repeating.
Yeh Hum Naheen is a music video from Pakistan about Muslims denouncing terrorism, it means "this is not us." Video clips below.
My friend Asma Hasan is blogging at Glamour Magazine about the presidential election. Do check her out, but as she says, she's a Republican, and I am most assuredly not, so don't be surprised if you read very different things over there. Enjoy!
A Muslim woman ruler before the 20th century. It's amazing how much we've regressed.
Click through and read the description.
A Mystical Journey - Sufi Music and other Expressions of Devotion from the Muslim World is a Golden Jubilee International Programme featuring artists from Algeria, Bosnia, Iran, Pakistan, Tajikistan and Syria performing music from various Sufi and other esoteric traditions of Islam. A Mystical Journey seeks to express the rich diversity of devotional expressions in Islam reflecting different geographies, languages and traditions. Though different in form, these acts of devotion are common in their peaceful search for the divine and represent the pluralistic traditions and mystical unity among different communities of interpretation within the Muslim world.
Today is the Prophet Muhammad's (PBUH) birthday. Most Muslim celebrate this day to acknowledge that God sent us a message, a messenger, and a role-model. The day is used to remind us of God's blessings and our struggle to live up to the highest ideals of the faith. Eid Mubarak.
Read the Savage Minds post and follow links.
Newsweek has a special issue on Islam in America. Here's the primary link.
Also of note is week-long blog of Muslims speaking out here. The mission statement is interesting because it claims it wants to give voice to the Muslim American community.
Keep going back and reading. Seems like a good project.
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2019-04-23T04:56:08Z
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https://asmasociety.typepad.com/mlt/
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« How have critics responded to my book?
This entry was posted on February 3, 2018, 1:34 am and is filed under Uncategorized. You can follow any responses to this entry through RSS 2.0. Both comments and pings are currently closed.
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2019-04-24T19:08:14Z
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http://blogs.brown.edu/rcheit/2018/02/03/the-disgraceful-discounting-of-a-larry-nassar-victim/
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This week is the theme of TITANIC. It’s such a tragic event in history. This theme isn’t about the film, although you can use this as the basis for your postcard.
I’ve found a lot of ephemera on pinterest to make my collaged postcard to (hopefully) inspire you.
please make your postcard 6 x 4 inches in size. I have seen some index cards that are this size so feel free to show these as well if you enjoy altering those.
all you need to do to enter is… upload your photo somewhere on the internet where we can come and visit and admire your work. then leave a comment with the link to your postcard. That’s it ….
Thanks to Hazel for hosting this challenge.and thank you all for joining in.
The wonderfully talented Hazel is back as hostess this week. Hazel has chosen the theme of ASIAN/ORIENTAL.
please follow the theme and make your postcard 6 x 4 inches in size.
Thanks to Anne for challenging us. thanks for joining in this week’s challenge.
This week, Anne is joining us as hostess with the mostest and she’s chosen the theme of GINGHAM.
Would be lovely to have you join in with us… our only ‘rule’ is to make your postcard 6 x 4 inches in size and to follow the theme of course!
big thanks to Amber for hosting and thank you all for your support and for joining in.
This week, Amber (my daughter) is hosting SPA. You can see Amber’s entry here or on her facebook.
if you would like to join in please follow the theme and make your postcard 6 x 4 inches in size.
any and all mediums are welcome.
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2019-04-22T07:02:35Z
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https://sundaypostcardart.wordpress.com/2016/06/
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Halloween, plus the Nanowrimo word count begins!
If you look closely, you’ll see the references to Doctor Who. Warning: spoilers! Next year, we’re hoping to make a weeping angel and then the year after that, a full TARDIS. Our yard will look like Angels Take Manhattan one day.
The end of Halloween means the beginning of Nanowrimo! I’m at a little over 800 words for the day so far, and I’m using this blog post as a tool of procrastination. Ok, back to the novel!
This entry was posted in NaNoWriMo and tagged doctor who, halloween, nanowrimo, writing by Cheryl A. Warner. Bookmark the permalink.
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2019-04-21T02:21:27Z
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https://cherylwarner.wordpress.com/2013/11/01/halloween-plus-the-nanowrimo-word-count-begins/
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Britain's hereditary peers no longer have the right to sit and vote on the affairs of the nation, but they do have the right sit at the card table and play bridge. They exercise that right occasionally and field a representative team. When they played against a group of Cambridge University graduates this year, the diagramed deal was a focus of attention. It was reported in The Mail by David Bird, long one of the world's top bridge writers.
North, Graham Osborne, was in a difficult position when West opened one spade. He could have taken a shot at five clubs, but he had no idea whether that was the right level. A takeout double would misrepresent his hand, and so would an unusual two no-trump to show the minor suits. He decided to risk an overcall of two clubs, obviously a substantial underbid. With a highly distributional hand, the bidding seldom ends.
South might well have bid two no-trump but cautiously passed. North was alarmed when Lord Grantley as West appeared to be considering a pass. That should have been the choice for several reasons. If East, Lord Skelmersdale, had some spades, he must be very weak, since he had not raised. And if East had some hearts he must be very weak, since he had not contributed a negative double. There were a lot of diamonds somewhere, and whether they were in the East hand or the North-South hands, it would pay West to fold his tent. It is always risky to balance when the balancer has an unbid short suit.
West nevertheless bid two hearts and was horrified by the outcome. North announced four no-trump, which was not Blackwood. It was a rare technical move indicating a powerful hand with long clubs and a secondary diamond suit.
South, Francis Hinden, deciding that he had exactly the right hand for six diamonds, bid it. North carried on to seven diamonds, assuming that his partner held a good diamond suit headed by the ace. In that event there would be no losers.
A heart was led, depriving dummy of an entry, and South failed to find the way to overcome the bad minor-suit breaks. But he could have done so. After winning with the heart ace, he led to the diamond ace and uncovered the 4-0 division. He should then have played a club to the ace and continued with the king.
Now South can lead club winners from dummy, and East is helpless. Sooner or later, his trumps are neutralized.
So West's risky decision to balance was vindicated. It gained 270 total points. But his partner probably pointed out that it nearly cost 1970.
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2019-04-23T20:18:42Z
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https://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/10/arts/bridge-a-bad-decision-turns-good-and-a-good-bid-goes-down.html
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The genetic control of inflorescence architecture is a key aspect for plant developmental biology, for biotechnology and for breeding strategies, being directly related to crop yield and yield stability, both characters of great economic importance. Inflorescence architecture depends on two characters: 1) the position where floral meristems are initiated and 2) the activity of the inflorescence meristems. While Arabidopsis has a simple inflorescence, where flowers are directly formed in the primary inflorescence stem, most legumes possess a typical compound inflorescence, where flowers are not formed in the primary stem, but in lateral secondary inflorescences (I2). Our main objective is to elucidate the genetic networks controlling inflorescence architecture and to understand how changes in these networks contribute to generate diversity of plant forms. One of our research lines study the development of the legume compound inflorescence. Our results have allowed us to identify novel meristem identity regulators and to propose a genetic model that explains how meristems of the legume inflorescence are specified. However, very little is known about the genetic control of the activity of the legume inflorescence meristems and how the number of flowers per inflorescence is determined. We have recently initiated a study to identify and characterize a gene that controls the number of flowers per I2 in chickpea. In the seminar, I will present and discuss our latest results on how the identity and activity of the meristems of the legume inflorescence are controlled.
Francisco Madueño leads the Inflorescence Architecture lab at the Instituto de Biología Molecular and Celular de Plantas (IBMCP) in Valencia, Spain. He obtained a PhD in Biological Sciences working on nitrogen assimilation in cyanobacteria under Migel G Gerrero supervision's, in 1987, at the Dpt of Biochemistry of Seville University (Spain). Then he did three years postdoctoral work with John C Gray at the Botany School of Cambridge University (UK), where he worked on import of proteins to chloroplast, and three additional years with José M Martinez-Zapater at the INIA (Madrid, Spain), working on the genetic control of flowering time in Arabidopsis, before he got his current position. The main aims of his research are to elucidate the developmental networks controlling plant and inflorescence architecture and to understand how changes in these networks contribute to generate diversity of plant forms; for this purpose he uses Arabidopsis and legumes (mainly pea and Medicago) as model systems.
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2019-04-21T12:37:11Z
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https://biology.anu.edu.au/news-events/ps-seminar-genetic-network-regulating-development-compound-inflorescence-legumes
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Facing a challenge akin to solving a 1,000-piece jigsaw puzzle while blindfolded—and without touching the pieces—many structural biochemists thought it would be impossible to determine the atomic structure of a massive cellular machine called the nuclear pore complex (NPC), which is vital for cell survival.
But after 10 years of attacking the problem, a team led by André Hoelz, assistant professor of chemistry, recently solved almost a third of the puzzle. The approach his team developed to do so also promises to speed completion of the remainder.
In an article published online February 12 by Science Express, Hoelz and his colleagues describe the structure of a significant portion of the NPC, which is made up of many copies of about 34 different proteins, perhaps 1,000 proteins in all and a total of 10 million atoms. In eukaryotic cells (those with a membrane-bound nucleus), the NPC forms a transport channel in the nuclear membrane. The NPC serves as a gatekeeper, essentially deciding which proteins and other molecules are permitted to pass into and out of the nucleus. The survival of cells is dependent upon the accuracy of these decisions.
Understanding the structure of the NPC could lead to new classes of cancer drugs as well as antiviral medicines. "The NPC is a huge target of viruses," Hoelz says. Indeed, pathogens such as HIV and Ebola subvert the NPC as a way to take control of cells, rendering them incapable of functioning normally. Figuring out just how the NPC works might enable the design of new drugs to block such intruders.
"This is an incredibly important structure to study," he says, "but because it is so large and complex, people thought it was crazy to work on it. But 10 years ago, we hypothesized that we could solve the atomic structure with a divide-and-conquer approach—basically breaking the task into manageable parts—and we've shown that for a major section of the NPC, this actually worked."
To map the structure of the NPC, Hoelz relied primarily on X-ray crystallography, which involves shining X-rays on a crystallized sample and using detectors to analyze the pattern of rays reflected off the atoms in the crystal.
It is particularly challenging to obtain X-ray diffraction images of the intact NPC for several reasons, including that the NPC is both enormous (about 30 times larger than the ribosome, a large cellular component whose structure wasn't solved until the year 2000) and complex (with as many as 1,000 individual pieces, each composed of several smaller sections). In addition, the NPC is flexible, with many moving parts, making it difficult to capture in individual snapshots at the atomic level, as X-ray crystallography aims to do. Finally, despite being enormous compared to other cellular components, the NPC is still vanishingly small (only 120 nanometers wide, or about 1/900th the thickness of a dollar bill), and its highly flexible nature prohibits structure determination with current X-ray crystallography methods.
To overcome those obstacles, Hoelz and his team chose to determine the structure of the coat nucleoporin complex (CNC)—one of the two main complexes that make up the NPC—rather than tackling the whole structure at once (in total the NPC is composed of six subcomplexes, two major ones and four smaller ones, see illustration). He enlisted the support of study coauthor Anthony Kossiakoff of the University of Chicago, who helped to develop the engineered antibodies needed to essentially "superglue" the samples into place to form an ordered crystalline lattice so they could be properly imaged. The X-ray diffraction data used for structure determination was collected at the General Medical Sciences and National Cancer Institutes Structural Biology Beamline at the Argonne National Laboratory.
With the help of Caltech's Molecular Observatory—a facility, developed with support from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, that includes a completely automated X-ray beamline at the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory that can be controlled remotely from Caltech—Hoelz's team refined the antibody adhesives required to generate the best crystalline samples. This process alone took two years to get exactly right.
Hoelz and his team were able to determine the precise size, shape, and the position of all atoms of the CNC, and also its location within the entire NPC.
The CNC is not the first component of the NPC to be fully characterized, but it is by far the largest. Hoelz says that once the other major component—known as the adaptor–channel nucleoporin complex—and the four smaller subcomplexes are mapped, the NPC's structure will be fully understood.
The CNC that Hoelz and his team evaluated comes from baker's yeast—a commonly used research organism—but the CNC structure is the right size and shape to dock with the NPC of a human cell. "It fits inside like a hand in a glove," Hoelz says. "That's significant because it is a very strong indication that the architecture of the NPC in both are probably the same and that the machinery is so important that evolution has not changed it in a billion years."
Being able to successfully determine the structure of the CNC makes mapping the remainder of the NPC an easier proposition. "It's like climbing Mount Everest. Knowing you can do it lowers the bar, so you know you can now climb K2 and all these other mountains," says Hoelz, who is convinced that the entire NPC will be characterized soon. "It will happen. I don't know if it will be in five or 10 or 20 years, but I'm sure it will happen in my lifetime. We will have an atomic model of the entire nuclear pore."
Still, he adds, "My dream actually goes much farther. I don't really want to have a static image of the pore. What I really would like—and this is where people look at me with a bit of a smile on their face, like they're laughing a little bit—is to get an image of how the pore is moving, how the machine actually works. The pore is not a static hole, it can open up like the iris of a camera to let something through that's much bigger. How does it do it?"
To understand that machine in motion, he adds, "you don't just need one snapshot, you need multiple snapshots. But once you have one, you can infer the other ones much quicker, so that's the ultimate goal. That's the dream."
Along with Hoelz, additional Caltech authors on the paper, "Architecture of the Nuclear Pore Complex Coat," include postdoctoral scholars Tobias Stuwe and Ana R. Correia, and graduate student Daniel H. Lin. Coauthors from the University of Chicago Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology include Anthony Kossiakoff, Marcin Paduch and Vincent Lu. The work was supported by Caltech startup funds, the Albert Wyrick V Scholar Award of the V Foundation for Cancer Research, the 54th Mallinckrodt Scholar Award of the Edward Mallinckrodt, Jr. Foundation, and a Kimmel Scholar Award of the Sidney Kimmel Foundation for Cancer Research.
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2019-04-21T03:26:52Z
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https://media.caltech.edu/about/news/caltech-biochemist-sheds-light-structure-key-cellular-gatekeeper-45681
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War in Afghanistan News reports provided by ISAF Joint Command. Operations are reported in the following provinces: Helmand, Farah, Nangarhar, Khost, Ghazni and Kandahar.
Highlighting operations.......Afghan and coalition forces captured a Taliban facilitator who provided improvised explosive device material for the Dec. 5 attack on Forward Operating Base Lighting during a security operation in Khost province yesterday and also captured another Taliban leader who is directly associated with the Dec. 18 suicide vehicle-borne improvised attack in Kandahar City during a deliberate clearing operation in Kandahar province yesterday.
An Afghan National Security and International Security Assistance Force patrol targeted a Taliban leader during an operation in Nad ‘Ali District, Helmand province yesterday.
The Taliban leader is a prominent improvised explosive device expert and facilitator who also threatens and disciplines local Afghans who work with ISAF.
After Afghan forces performed a call-out to give the occupants of the target compound a chance to exit the area peacefully, they began clearing the buildings in the compound. During the search, one woman and five children were separated and protected.
As the patrol prepared to enter one of the buildings, a man attempted to engage the force with a handgun and was killed. Another man picked up the discarded handgun and ignored calls in Dari and Pashto to drop the weapon. He posed a threat to the patrol and was killed.
One man was detained during the operation and taken by Afghan authorities for processing and further questioning.
Afghan and coalition forces detained a Taliban leader along with one suspected insurgent during a multi-compound security operation in Farah province yesterday.
The Taliban leader previously conducted attacks against Afghan and coalition forces in Khak-e Safayd District. Due to numerous Taliban leadership losses in the district last year from Afghan and coalition force operations, he recently moved to Bakwah District to launch attacks.
A security force followed intelligence reports to a compound in Bakwah District to search for the senior leader. Afghan forces conducted the callout for all occupants to exit the compound peacefully before conducting a search. After initial questioning at the scene, the security force detained the Taliban leader along with one other suspected insurgent.
A second security force targeted a separate compound also in Bakwah District. Before the security force could begin to secure the area, armed insurgents shot at the force. The security force returned fire resulting in one insurgent being killed. The security force followed a second armed man to the compound where Afghan forces called for all occupants to exit peacefully before the security force cleared and secured the compound.
The security force saw the armed insurgent run into a room where he barricaded himself. After several attempts, the security force escalated their call-out procedures before entering the room resulting in one armed insurgent being killed.
The security force protected the women and children for the duration of the operation.
Afghan and coalition forces captured a Taliban weapons facilitator for the Chaparhar District during a security operation in Nangarhar province yesterday.
The detained Taliban weapons facilitator is responsible for supplying weapons and improvised explosive devices for attacks against coalition forces and government officials in Jalalabad, Chaparhar and Pachir wa Agam Districts.
Recent reporting indicates he and another insurgent had planned to conduct an attack at an Afghan school in Wardak province. There are no reports that the attack occurred.
Security forces followed leads to the target location in Khugyani District, where Afghan forces called for all occupants to exit the buildings peacefully before conducting a search. The targeted insurgent self-identified himself to the security team at which time he was detained. An additional suspected insurgent was also detained after initial questioning at the scene.
Afghan and coalition forces captured a Taliban facilitator who provided improvised explosive device material for the Dec. 5 attack on Forward Operating Base Lighting during a security operation in Khost province yesterday.
The detained Taliban facilitator primarily operates in Paktiya province and travels to Kabul, Logar and Khost to provide Taliban with supplies to carry out attacks against Afghan and coalition forces. He is also associated with the Kabul attack network.
Security forces followed leads to the target location in Terayzai District, where Afghan forces called for all occupants to exit the buildings peacefully before conducting a search. The targeted insurgent and three additional suspected insurgents were detained after initial questioning at the scene.
Afghan and coalition forces targeted a senior Haqqani Network leader operating in the Terayzai district detaining several suspected insurgents.
The Haqqani Network leader facilitates the movement of improvised explosive device materials and coordinates IED emplacement in Terayzai district. He has direct contact with Pakistan-based Haqqani Network leaders.
Security forces followed intelligence reports to a compound in Sabari district to search for the Haqqani Network leader. Afghan forces called for all occupants to exit the compounds peacefully before the security force cleared and secured the compound. After initial questioning at the scene, the security force detained several suspected insurgents.
The security forces protected women and children and did not fire their weapons.
Afghan and coalition forces targeted the Taliban leader for Muqer District detaining one suspected insurgent during a joint security operation.
The Taliban leader for Muqer District has direct connections with Taliban leadership and shadow governors in the area. He was also involved with the complex suicide attack in Kabul City Dec. 19 that killed four Afghan National Army soldiers and wounded several Afghan National Security Forces personnel.
Security forces followed leads to a series of buildings in the Muqer District. Afghan forces called for all occupants to exit the buildings peacefully before conducting a search of the compound. One suspected insurgent was detained after initial questioning.
Afghan and coalition forces captured a Taliban leader who is directly associated with the Dec. 18 suicide vehicle-borne improvised attack in Kandahar City during a deliberate clearing operation in Kandahar province yesterday.
The detained Taliban leader is responsible for supplying insurgents and planning attacks against Afghan and coalition forces in the province.
Security forces followed leads to the target compound in Dand District, where Afghan forces called for all occupants to exit the buildings peacefully before conducting a search. The targeted Taliban leader was detained after initial questioning at the scene.
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2019-04-24T12:09:28Z
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https://waronterrornews.typepad.com/home/2011/01/war-in-afghanistan-news-03-jan-2011.html
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Arts
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News
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whyy
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When legislators formulated the Affordable Care Act, a 2.3 percent tax on medical devices was added to raise revenue. But industry leaders have pushed back, and many lawmakers are now reconsidering.
Speaking at a rally in Philadelphia on Tuesday, Caroll Neubauer, chairman and CEO of B. Braun Medical Inc., said the tax on medical devices was responsible for cutting more than 30,000 industry jobs over two years. He implored Congress to repeal the tax.
“Please do the right thing for our industry, the American economy, and foremost for our patients,” he said.
The House and Senate each have introduced bills to repeal the tax this year, with bipartisan co-sponsors including U.S. Sens. Pat Toomey and Bob Casey from Pennsylvania.
“To think that we tax alcohol and tobacco to discourage use while we simultaneously are now taxing medical device[s] doesn’t really make a lot of sense,” said first-term U.S. Rep. Ryan Costello of Pennsylvania at the rally.
Despite growing support, a recent nonpartisan report from the Congressional Research Service estimated employment and output to be reduced by just 0.2 percent.
“I think the concern is almost entirely unjustified,” said Henry Aaron, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution.
He noted the tax is not levied on exports, and because most medical devices are purchased through insurance, it’s unlikely a small increase in price would harm sales.
The tax is applied to products such as X-ray machines and surgical implants, but not to retail items such as contact lenses, wheelchairs, or hearing aids.
Over 10 years, the tax is expected to pull in net revenue of nearly $30 billion. If repealed, Aaron said, lawmakers would have to find another way of generating those funds.
Tauyna English contributed to this report.
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2019-04-26T06:13:55Z
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https://whyy.org/articles/medical-device-industry-increases-pressure-for-repealing-us-sales-tax/
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Arts
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Health
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lunarpages
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Quality plugins for WordPress websites are more than simple, useful codes written to fill in temporary feature needs. A WordPress plugin can add a social component to a blog or business and have a serious, quantifiable effect; they can enable global content sharing, build loyal communities and even make the smallest of websites a viable commerce center. So choosing the right plugin and knowing how to make that choice is quite important.
WordPress plugin expert Brian Lis says the key is to choose only a few plugins that fit your needs. Standard plugins can run for free and premium versions vary in price, but all are implemented in the same way a mobile app is: You download the plugins to your hardware, file them in your content directory and then activate them. The best WordPress plugins — often the premium ones — are consistently updated by their engineers and are easy to troubleshoot because of their large, collaborative user base.
Premium WordPress plugins perform reliably and minimize problems, such as website downturn, that can come with running a site. Functions such as defining “security vulnerabilities, conflicts, and increased load times,” are most important, because they prevent system crashing. It’s ironic, then, that certain plugin combinations will cause a site to crash, especially when developers use too many of them at the same time.
The factors that go into load times can be varied and include what type of server or provider you use, whether your site is multimedia heavy or uses slow caching or whether it is connected to a content-delivery network. It might also be a signal that the website is coded poorly. In any case, a select combination of premium and standard plugins that work well together and offer serious benefits, like security and reduced load times, while unsexy, are more important than checking off every box of possible site functionality.
Before adding plugins, businesses should back up all files. Plugin failure rates are at 1 percent, but that tiny percentage can cause serious damage to the infrastructure.
Hackers can brute-force their way into WordPress software because it allows unlimited login attempts. The best way to prevent this is by locking the number of attempts, and this plugin does it cleanly and efficiently. Users have noted the great customer service.
This is a fully featured suite of great plugin applications. The software offers extensions that help both small and large businesses provide a variety of product options, including shipping choices, recurring payments, CSV product importing, one-page checkout and even a deep suite of marketing features.
Managing forms is a breeze using this plugin. You can create order forms with pricing fields, add PayPal for add-ons, create configurable entry lists, and a lot more. It’s also easy to customize any form, including CSS column layouts.
WishList Member is an awesome membership curator that can grow with your site. If you’re a major blogger who wants to offer a few paid articles in between tons of free content, you can offer free, trial or paid memberships, or you can create member upgrade levels for each of paid post.
You need to back up your whole system on a server, but your content also needs backup. WordPress Backup to Dropbox takes your files and SQL database and sends them to your Dropbox account folder (subscription required). The plugin uses the OAuth (authorization standard), so your account details are secure.
A lot of people use Google Analytics, and this is the best plugin incorporating it. According to load-speed analysts, this tracking software is swift. It also comes with a wide variety of customizable demo options, such as categories for page views per user.
A customizable plugin that makes icons easy to see on a webpage is also one of the most popular. With two different choices for styling (including Skyscraper, which incorporates commenting data), it nicely features the big networks, including Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, Tumblr, LinkedIn, Digg and StumbleUpon.
Despite the many ways plugins can help, it’s important to temper expectations. Lis says the difference between hugely successful sites and modest ones comes down to execution of content, not necessarily plugin use.
The best sites “have meaningful content followed by a community of advocates for that website,” he says.
Website owners with modest budgets can easily build out a site with plugins for analytics managers, file trackers, SEO enhancers, XML sitemaps, social sharing, social feeds and graphics software.
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2019-04-25T00:49:05Z
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https://lunarpages.com/choosing-the-right-wordpress-plugins-for-your-site/
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Arts
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Shopping
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multichannel
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Verizon Communications will cease analog transmission of local broadcast stations to FiOS TV subscribers in New Jersey on June 2, as the telco continues its commitment to convert to all-digital operation.
The company previously announced similar analog shutoffs in New York and Massachusetts.
Verizon last year told the Federal Communications Commission it would eliminate analog channels prior to the Feb. 17, 2009, switchover to all-digital over-the-air TV broadcasts, in order to receive a temporary waiver of the FCC’s ban on set-tops with integrated security.
Verizon had provided the analog simulcasts to let subscribers watch local TV broadcasts without using a set-top box.
To continue to receive service on analog television sets, FiOS TV customers will need to install a Verizon-supplied set-top box. Only TVs with a built-in digital QAM tuner will not need a set-top box to receive programming.
Verizon will provide customers one Motorola DCT700 box at no charge; each additional DCT700 is $3.99 per month. The box doesn’t provide access to FiOS TV’s advanced services such as video-on-demand and on-screen programming guide.
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2019-04-24T22:41:28Z
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https://www.multichannel.com/news/verizon-fios-tv-goes-all-digital-jersey-270356
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Arts
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Business
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bgsu
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The windows below are embedded google slide presentations. Click or use the arrows to advance the slide. Press F11 or click the full screen icon to the right of the slide number to enlarge the presentation.
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2019-04-26T05:53:12Z
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https://www.bgsu.edu/research/rna/help/tutorials.html
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Reference
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For all emphases, students, including transfers, must complete at least 15 credit hours with the UCCS English department and at least 18 upper-division (3000+ level) credit hours. English majors must complete all required English courses with grades of C- or better.
All English majors are required to submit an assessment determined by emphasis prior to graduation.
All English majors are assigned an advisor within the department; please see details under “Contacts” on the English department website: http://www.uccs.edu/~english/.
All English majors must register for and attend a mandatory English department workshop in their first year at UCCS. The workshop is typically held at the beginning of fall and spring semesters. Please see the English department website for information on how to register for the workshop.
Statements of curricular requirements for a Colorado teaching certificate in English may be obtained from the College of Education. Students planning to teach should also confer with a member of the College of Education faculty about the Teacher Education Program. Since requirements for Education and English make a very tight schedule, students should be fully informed as to both departmental and certification requirements by the beginning of the sophomore year.
Students who wish to apply an online course taken outside UCCS towards their English major must secure written permission from the English department chair or designated advisor.
To graduate with departmental honors in English, a student must have a 3.75 GPA in the major, and a 3.5 GPA overall.
Students demonstrate the ability to write clearly, cogently, and thoughtfully.
Students demonstrate language control including grammar, mechanics and syntax.
Students demonstrate awareness of multiple theories of literacy.
Students demonstrate analysis of texts through close & critical reading using multiple theoretical lenses.
Students demonstrate the ability to interpret a range of texts representing diversity, various genres and historical contexts.
Students demonstrate the ability to find appropriate primary and secondary research materials, apply them in writing to support own arguments, and correctly cite sources.
Complete 6 hours of ENGL elective courses to meet total and upper-division requirements.
Complete two of the following courses, including one British and one American.
Complete one course from the following list. Must be taken in residence.
To be able to interpret a range of literary texts representing cultural diversity, various genres, and historical contexts.
To be able to analyze literary texts through the skills of close reading, the context of literary histories, and the lenses of literary criticism and theory.
To be able to write cogent, clear, thoughtful essays that demonstrate the student’s control over grammar and mechanics.
To be able to use electronic and traditional methods of research effectively.
Complete 6 credit hours from the following categories, and 12 credit hours of any other English courses to fulfill the total hours requirement.
One of these courses must be on a topic pre-1800.
PTW majors satisfy the Composition requirement by taking ENGL 1310 and either ENGL 2080 or ENGL 2090. These courses do not count toward the 45 hours of English courses required for the major.
Take one of the following courses.
Take three of the following courses.
Take two of the following courses.
Students must take the following course. See PTW Director for details.
Students identify and name the elements of a given rhetorical situation.
Students apply rhetorical theories to a wide range of situations for analytical and productive purposes.
Students evaluate their own or others’ rhetorical choices in light of anticipated consequences.
Students understand how genres shape arguments.
Students demonstrate an understanding of the various components of the writing process, including invention, drafting, revision, and editing.
Students demonstrate knowledge of the peer-review process and the variety of roles possible within it.
Students demonstrate knowledge of various approaches to the teaching of writing.
Students can compose in a variety of genres.
Students organize their written texts in ways that are responsive to the rhetorical situation.
Students show coherence and cohesion in their written discourse.
Students consider, apply, and control stylistic options (prose style, figurative language, voice, register, tone, word choice, etc.).
Students recognize and self-edit errors in syntax, grammar, usage, punctuation, mechanics, and • spelling in written discourse.
Students peer-review each other’s work.
Students consciously synthesize and integrate insights from one writing project and course into another.
Students demonstrate awareness of their own writing process.
Students can articulate their particular area(s) of interest within rhetoric and writing.
Complete 15 credit hours of ENGL elective courses to meet total and upper-division requirements.
Take one of the following courses (that you have not already taken). ENGL 4860 may be repeated for this requirement with the permission of the department chair.
Complete the Senior Assessment-Rhetoric & Writing.
Complete 3 credit hours of English elective courses to meet total and upper-division requirements.
Take one course from each of the following areas.
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2019-04-24T06:55:18Z
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http://catalog.uccs.edu/preview_program.php?catoid=14&poid=2718
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Arts
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Arts
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unl
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"Ogallala Quadrangle, Nebraska-Keith Co. 7.5 Minute Series (Topographic" by Robert F. Diffendal Jr.
Copyright 1975 R.F. Diffendal, Jr.
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2019-04-18T20:39:38Z
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https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/diffendal/53/
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Arts
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Arts
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dvdtalk
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I'll begin this review with a confession: I didn't care much for 1995's original Jumanji. Despite the presence of the talented Robin Williams, I thought the film - with all its rampaging rhinos, deadly spiders, and knife-throwing monkeys - was far too scary and violent for its PG (that's right, not even a PG-13!) rating and wasn't all that appealing. However, when the trailers for this 2017 update of Jumanji came out (officially titled Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle, and appropriately rated PG-13 this time around although less scary), I thought the creators had come up with a creative update to the original and was looking forward to seeing if they had pulled it off. The good news is that this new Jumanji is one of the rare reboots/sequels that surpasses the original. It's nothing deep or groundbreaking, but it knows what it wants to be and has a blast doing it.
The film - directed by Jake Kasdan (yes, he's the son of acclaimed director and screenwriter Lawrence) - begins with a prologue that takes place in 1996, a year after the events of the first film. Teenager Alex (Nick Jonas) has come across the original Jumanji game - but even in the mid-90s, kids aren't interested in board games anymore, so he just throws it up on the shelf in his bedroom. Overnight, however, the board game has transformed itself into a video cartridge - and when Alex puts it into his game system, strange things begin to happen.
The movie then jumps forward in time 20 years and we're introduced to the main characters of our story. There's nerd Spencer (Alex Wolff), his friend "Fridge" (Ser'Darius Blain), the self-absorbed Bethany (Madison Iseman), and the shy and insecure Martha (Morgan Turner), who all attend the same high school. Without giving too much of the plot away, all four of these students wind up in detention for one reason or another and stumble across the Jumanji videogame system. Spencer hooks it up and the four choose players from a menu list to play. Not long afterwards, they find themselves being sucked into the game and transported to a jungle environment.
This won't be spoiler territory for anyone who has seen a trailer for the movie, but the four kids now inhabit the characters they have chosen: Spencer is Dr. Smolder Bravestone (Dwayne Johnson); "Fridge" is "Mouse" Finbar (Kevin Hart); Bethany becomes male Professor Shelly Oberon (Jack Black); and Martha turns into "man-killer" Ruby Roundhouse (Karen Gillan). Like actual videogame characters, each one of them comes with their skills and weaknesses (Finbar's weakness is particularly amusing and, sadly, ruined in all trailers for the film), and each also comes with three lives - meaning viewers of the movie will get to watch each character's demise at least once through the course of the film...only to have them come back into the game.
The movie's storyline follows a typical videogame plot: Our heroes have to recover a missing jewel and return it to its proper place in the jungle, all while solving various puzzles or battling it out with numerous bad guys and/or jungle animals. What makes the story so entertaining is that each one of the actors is both self-aware and playing against type since they're essentially the teenagers we met at the beginning of our story trapped inside other bodies. So we have "The Rock" dazzled by his own muscular body and ability to "smolder" when addressing someone; Kevin Hart making disparaging comments about his own height; Jack Black playing a girl trapped in a man's body (and yes, they go "there" in case you're wondering); and Karen Gillan having to learn how to flirt with men because the teenage Martha using her body has never seen herself as attractive.
If there's a character that doesn't work, its the fact that the screenplay has decided to throw in a villain (which would qualify as the "big boss" by videogame standards) in Van Pelt (Bobby Cannavale), who was also a villain in the original movie, although this version is quite different. Cannavale - who is a good actor - gets little more to do here than chew the scenery, but thankfully he isn't in the movie enough to ruin the fun that is being had elsewhere.
With all the laughs going on, Jumanji still has some heart at its center - offering a strong message for kids and adults alike about being comfortable in one's own body. And when each of our characters come down to having only one life left to play with, there's a wonderful little speech by Kevin Hart's character about how one life is all we're given in this world and we have to make it the best life that we can. There's a few other surprises in the film as well - including an additional character our foursome runs into that probably isn't hard to figure out, but I'll stay mum on for those who want to keep some of Jumanji's fun for their big-screen experience.
After so many attempts by Hollywood to make a successful "videogame" movie based on a popular existing licensed product, Jumanji manages to accomplish being the best videogame movie ever without actually being based on a videogame. It's a surprise gift at the tail-end of 2017 that turns out to be one of my favorite films of the whole year. Go see it - you'll have a blast.
Order "Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle" now!
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2019-04-25T08:23:20Z
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https://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/72679/jumanji-welcome-to-the-jungle/
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Arts
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Kids
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finefurnituremaker
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I’m not normally one of those people who will stop and listen to a charity salesperson. I know the charities I like to help, and I know where to find them. It might seem a bit rough on those earnest folk looking to raise a few quid, no no doubt for a good cause, but there you have it. I don’t think I’m alone.
But today I found myself happily listening to the story behind the work of the Woodland Trust. Moreover, I was sufficiently impressed to bite the bullet and become a paid-up member, along with Jonathan and the sprogs.
Fortunately, most people recognise that cabinetmakers are usually pretty good at keeping their environmental impact low. Our furniture is made to last 20-200 years (antiques of the future and all that), so we don’t exactly subscribe to the consumerist, planned obsolescence, pile it high, sell it cheap, capitalist orthodoxy!
Saying that, we can always do more – particularly for people who enjoy using native timbers. Helping to contribute to the maintenance of our treasured forests and woodlands seems like a good idea. Our small monthly contribution equates to the planting of a couple of trees, and 24 trees a year is loads more than we use in our furniture!
OK, I know I’m way oversimplifying it, but at some very basic level it’s just common sense to give a little back to a natural system that has provided us with so much delight over the last decade or so.
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2019-04-24T18:34:39Z
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https://finefurnituremaker.com/news-blog/seeing-woods-trees/
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Arts
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Business
| 0.85758 |
mmcomics
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Thank you for your interest in M & M Comic Service. We have been serving collectors like yourself since 1984. We have happy customers in every state in the USA and all over the world. Our customers enjoy award winning service, ultra-secure packaging and great discounts. Our goal as your comic service is to save you money and ensure that you're a happy customer.
Click on the links below for more information about M&M Comics.
If you have any questions, send us an email at service@mmcomics.com or call us at: 830-438-6131.
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2019-04-19T01:58:39Z
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https://www.mmcomics.com/index.php?route=information/information&information_id=4
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Arts
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Business
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proboards
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A garage where you can install and service auto gas systems. There are two in the area, but I go to this one because I suspect the other one ripped me off once. Besides, this one`s owner (the grey-haired man) goes to church.
Tinsmiths have less and less work. Instead of elaborate repairs, it is easier to use spare parts from scrap metal store.
This is the one where I always take my car - its owner is a natural born mechanic. He did things which other places in Krakow weren`t able to cope with. Although 11 years ago he made a blunder which cost me towing far from home, that was the time when he learnt my complicated car which was a rarity then.
Besides, he is Christian, doesn`t cheat and rip off clients.
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2019-04-19T07:21:51Z
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http://polandsite.proboards.com/thread/2108/repairing-car
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Arts
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Business
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cbsnews
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Just over a year after launching his Wikia Search engine, Wikipedia Founder Jimmy Wales is closing it down, citing the economy. Wikia Search attempted to duplicate Wikipedia's success by allowing users to edit and suggest search results for different queries. It promised to insert transparency and a "human touch" in a market devoid of both. But according to the site's own numbers, the experiment never took off. Queries are actually down since Wales re-launched Wikia Search last June, and the number of monthly contributions has also fallen sharply.
In an interview with CNET, Wales says that the economy has made him "reassess everything" and "do what we need to do to get to profitability." Two employees will lose their jobs. Eventually, Wales says, he will return to the project.
That's not to say that Wikia Search was completely fleeting. Since its launch, mainstream search engines have adopted some of Wikia Search's features. SearchWiki, which Google (NSDQ: GOOG) launched in November, lets users customize Google search results by re-ranking them, editing them, or even deleting selected results. But unlike Wikia Search, those changes are only visible to the user who changes them. A Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) Research project called U Rank also lets users re-rank and annotate results, which they can then share with friends. But the company has said there are no current plans to incorporate it into Live Search.
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2019-04-20T22:53:46Z
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https://www.cbsnews.com/news/wikipedia-founder-kills-user-generated-search-engine/
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Arts
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Business
| 0.795443 |
nottingham
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Nuclear weapons’ defenders claim that they lower the risk of war, at the price of devastation if war breaks out. But sooner or later, on a realist analysis, catastrophic nuclear war is almost sure to come. Nuclear deterrence thus buys us a better chance of dying in bed, while each post-holocaust generation will have to pick up the pieces. If the nuclear optimists are wrong, hoping to spread or perpetuate nuclear deterrence is foolish. But if they are right, it is exploitative. Like big cars and cheap flights, nuclear deterrence benefits us at the expense of future generations. States that do not already have the bomb should not get it. Britain and France should consider disarmament, while Russia and the United States should slash their arsenals. Minimum deterrence should be equally stable, but most nuclear optimists, being neorealists who hold that war will continue, should want deep cuts even if it is not.
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2019-04-24T21:04:23Z
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http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/1382/
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Arts
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Reference
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gov
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Successful competitive solicitation processes for the goods and services that the Province buys rely on multiple qualified vendors participating. But how can ministries be sure that these vendors know about their opportunities, and want to respond with quality submissions? Effective marketing, clear solicitation documents, mechanisms for answering vendor questions, processes that anticipate vendor concerns, multiple options to submit, and sufficient time to respond all will help.
Having numerous qualified vendors respond to the Province’s solicitations benefits the Province, as it helps to ensure that the successful bidder / proponent / respondent is offering good value. It also benefits the vendor community, as clear information helps them to make informed decisions about which opportunities are worth the time to participate.
When planning for any solicitation process, ministries should consider the opportunity from the vendors’ perspective. In other words, what do vendors need to know in order to write an effective submission for this opportunity? By doing this, ministries are more likely to receive quality submissions from qualified bidders / proponents / respondents, resulting in a more streamlined and effective evaluation and award process.
The following information is provided as guidance only; if in doubt as to whether or not these strategies would be effective for a specific solicitation, contact the ministry’s Procurement Specialist.
Advertising an opportunity to vendors can be challenging; ministries will want as many qualified vendors as possible knowing about their opportunity. Competitive solicitations for goods valued at or above $10,000 and services opportunities valued at or above $75,000 must be advertised on BC Bid (see the Core Policy and Procedures Manual (CPPM) sections 6.3.2.b.3 and 6.3.2.c.4), unless a supply arrangement is already in place (see CPPM 6.3.2.a.1 and the Goods and Services Catalogue), or the opportunity is being restricted to a pre-qualification list that was created through a Request for Qualifications posted on BC Bid.
However, ministries may choose to advertise their opportunities in other media in addition to BC Bid, particularly if the industry doesn’t usually refer to BC Bid for opportunities. If there is any concern that BC Bid alone will not be sufficient, ministries may want to consider asking industry associations to inform their membership, and/or contacting their Government Communications and Public Engagement unit to discuss potential stakeholder outreach and advertising options. Email distribution lists may also be used, but ministries should include any vendor known who might be interested, rather than just a select few vendors.
Bidders / proponents / respondents will be responding to the information contained in the solicitation document, including any addenda. The solicitation process should not be unfairly biased towards those bidders / proponents / respondents who can make the best guesses on what the solicitation document is asking, or those who have worked with the ministry before and therefore know what is expected.
Refer to Prepare Solicitation Documents and Mandatory and Weighted Criteria as well as the videos "Mandatory Criteria" and "Desirable Requirements (i.e. Weighted Criteria)" for more information on how to create a clear solicitation document.
No matter how clear or concise the solicitation document may be, anticipate that vendors will have questions. A fair and transparent methodology needs to be described that allows the Province to answer these questions.
There are two recommended options for answering vendor questions: written addenda and bidders’ / proponents’ / respondents’ meetings. All solicitation processes should allow for addenda, and some may also include the meeting. See Vendor Relationships and the video "Communicating with Vendors" for more information.
All solicitation documents require a named government contact and his/her contact information (e.g. an email address and fax number). The solicitation document should state that all questions should be directed towards the named contact, as information from other sources cannot be relied upon.
Vendor questions are an excellent opportunity for the ministry to discover issues with the solicitation document that were not evident prior to its release. Encouraging questions gives the ministry the opportunity to clarify any issues or concerns that vendors may have, and ultimately improve the quality of the solicitation itself. A high-quality solicitation document, in turn, will assist in developing clear evaluation criteria (see Submission Evaluations for more information).
Vendors should be encouraged to submit any questions in writing; phone calls are not desirable. If a phone call takes place on an open solicitation, there may be a perception of unfair treatment as the vendor phoning may have received information not provided to anyone else. If such a perception exists, the Province likely will not be able to prove exactly what was said to whom. Even if the exact conversation is later posted as an addendum for all interested vendors, the one vendor who phoned received that information before anyone else did. Therefore, phone numbers should not be provided in the solicitation document, unless the number is a generic number (not one used by an evaluator) that can be used for such things as confirming receipt of a submission.
Vendors should submit their questions in writing, either via email or fax. Addenda should be posted or distributed that includes both the question(s) asked and the ministry’s answer(s). Unless the solicitation has been directed to select vendors (i.e. the opportunity is under $75,000 for services and $10,000 for goods, or has been restricted to a pre-qualification list), all addenda should be posted on BC Bid (see Amend Opportunities).
Ministries may receive questions on any aspect of the solicitation document, including requests for changing mandatory requirements. However, mandatory requirements should not be changed without a compelling reason that benefits all bidders / proponents / respondents rather than just one. For example, a request that the closing date be extended due to the availability of one vendor’s key staff is usually not sufficient reason to make such a change. However, this same request due to an industry-wide conference being held the same week that the solicitation closes may have more merit as it impacts more than one vendor.
Ministries may decide to answer each question as it comes in, or to wait in order to answer multiple questions at once. However, remember the time that vendors will need to consider the information contained in the addenda and to adjust their submissions accordingly. Addenda should not be posted just before closing, as this may not allow the time needed for these adjustments. However, if an important question is received or the ministry becomes aware of new information close to the closing date that requires a detailed response and/or may significantly impact submissions, issuing an addendum and extending the closing date to give bidders / proponents / respondents more time to incorporate this new information is advisable.
Many of the interested vendors may not have participated in a competitive procurement before, and would benefit from basic instructions on how to respond.
If a meeting is planned, it should be clearly identified on the solicitation document, including the date, time and location. Ministries should plan up to two hours for the meeting, although many will end earlier.
Vendor attendance at bidders’ / proponents’ / respondents’ meetings is usually optional. However, ministries may designate this meeting as a mandatory requirement, meaning that only those vendors who had a representative present are eligible to participate in the solicitation. Be cautious if considering this approach, as it may be that only one vendor attends, which has the effect of eliminating competition.
The meeting should be documented, either through a verbatim transcript or minutes, and and this document should be posted as an addendum to the solicitation. Interested vendors should be encouraged to submit questions in advance of the meeting, particularly if the questions are complex or if the vendor wishes to remain anonymous. If the meeting includes a site visit, ministries should record the questions asked during the tour and repeat them in the follow-up meeting to ensure they are captured in the transcript or minutes.
The transcript is preferred over minutes, as it provides an accurate and complete document of what was said at the meeting. Minutes are condensed overviews that may not capture all points important to a vendor. The Province has an arrangement in the Goods and Services Catalogue for recording and transcription services.
Sometimes, a ministry may be able to anticipate vendor concerns while drafting the solicitation document. How to address these anticipated concerns will depend on what is anticipated; there is no “one size fits all” approach.
Price influencing outcomes: For opportunities where the highest scoring submission(s) will be successful, vendors may be concerned that the ministry might be harder in its scoring for those submissions that cost more in order to give a greater advantage to a lower-cost solution. If this perception may exist, consider the two-envelope system for submissions. In the two-envelope system, proponents / respondents package their submission in two separate envelopes or files. One envelope or file contains only the pricing proposed and any related information (e.g. budgets, if applicable), whereas the other contains everything else that will be evaluated. When evaluating submissions, evaluators do not open or look at the pricing information until after everything else has been evaluated. In this manner, it is not possible to have price influence any other evaluation elements.
Vendor involvement: Sometimes, a ministry may not have the internal expertise to sufficiently understand what’s available in the marketplace. In this case, it can be very tempting to connect with a vendor that the ministry has worked with in the past to obtain information that may later be used in the solicitation process. However, this may create an unfair advantage for this vendor, as they had an opportunity that others did not have to provide input into what the ministry ultimately decides to buy. It may even put the vendor in a conflict of interest, where the unfairness is sufficiently great to exclude that vendor from participating in the solicitation. Instead of directly reaching out to one known vendor, consider the strategies that can be found in Market Research and Notifications, such as a Request for Information.
Vendor experience: Many solicitations have an incumbent contractor who is currently providing or has previously provided the goods and/or services, and is also eligible to participate in the solicitation. Other vendors may perceive this to mean that the ministry would prefer to award the new contract to the incumbent. To avoid this perception, consider strategies such as naming the incumbent and clearly stating that they are eligible to participate (shows transparency of the process), releasing all information that the incumbent would have that may helpful to develop submissions, and structuring the solicitation so that a vendor with similar experience in another jurisdiction or ministry or with a similar product is equally able to be successful.
Past relationship with a vendor: If the ministry had a relationship with one or more vendors who are likely to respond to the solicitation, this could create a perception of unfairness - either for or against those vendors - depending on the nature of the relationship. Consider these relationships when determining who should be making the final purchasing decision (e.g. the make-up of the evaluation team). It may be prudent to exclude certain people from a decision-making role in order to avoid any later perceptions of an unfair process. Ministries should also disclose any previous relevant relationships with potential proponents / respondents in the solicitation, in order to ensure the transparency of the process.
Changes to submissions: Once a bidder / proponent / respondent has delivered their submission, they have the option to make changes, provided that these changes are made before the closing date and time. For example, a bidder / proponent / respondent could add information to their submission, replace portions of their submission with new information, or withdraw their submission altogether. Refer to the video “Proposal Changes and RFP Questions” for more information.
Restrictive process: Some vendors may perceive a solicitation document as being unnecessarily restrictive in order to favour a specific vendor or product. These vendors may have alternative solutions that could effectively meet the ministry’s needs but that do not meet the specifications in the solicitation. To avoid this situation, requirements and specifications should focus on the business needs of the ministry rather than on specific products or vendors.
Solicitation documents need to identify how bidders / proponents / respondents are to deliver their submissions. This is usually associated with a mandatory requirement, meaning that the Province can only accept submissions that arrive in accordance with the instructions given.
Ministries may choose to allow only one methodology for delivering submissions. However, having multiple options to choose from can be quite convenient for the bidders / proponents / respondents. Ministries who choose just one option for submission should carefully consider their reasons for this, and should be prepared to answer questions on why more options aren’t available.
If multiple options are allowed for delivery, the Province should have no preference for one option over another.
Hand or courier delivery: If allowing this option, specify the number of copies required of each submission. Ministries may also find it convenient to ask for an electronic copy on DVD, CD or USB stick. However, keep in mind the bidder’s / proponent’s / respondent’s cost of photocopying and delivering their submissions, as well as the extra time needed for those who are in remote areas or further from the closing location. Ministries should also ensure that the closing location is accessible to couriers and bidders / proponents / respondents to drop off their submissions.
NOTE: Submissions mailed through Canada Post may be diverted to a central location and then to the address indicated. This may cause an unexpected delay that results in a late submission to the closing location.
e-Bidding: Vendors registered for e-Bidding in BC Bid can send their submissions through BC Bid for those opportunities that are posted on BC Bid and allow it. This can be very convenient for the bidders / proponents / respondents, as they do not incur photocopy or delivery charges. It can also be convenient for the ministry, as the submissions can be emailed to all evaluators, and evaluators can electronically search for specific information in submissions. In addition, BC Bid will inform both the vendor and the ministry if a submission is sent late. The e-Bidding service costs vendors $150 per year.
Fax: Except where expressly prohibited, faxed submissions are an option, but ministries should consider the likely length of the submissions. The more pages expected in each submission, the higher the risks can be in allowing faxes. Faxing may work very well for price-based solicitations, which generally result in small submissions even if the solicitation document is large. Fax is not recommended for larger submissions, as issues may occur with a busy signal (noting that many submissions may be delivered in last hour) or with faxes that cross the closing time (i.e. some pages arrive on time, but not all).
NOTE: the corporate templates for the Request for Proposals, Short-form Request for Proposals, and Invitation to Quote for Services do not allow for faxed submissions. If using one of these corporate templates and allowing faxed submissions, edits to the template will be required in order to avoid conflicting instructions. Contact the ministry’s Procurement Specialist or Legal Services Branch for assistance prior to making these edits.
Email: Submitting bids / proposals / responses via email is an option, noting that many risks are associated with this approach. In particular, emailed submissions should not be considered if a large number of submissions are expected. Refer to the Accepting Emailed Submissions for more information.
Policy states that the response time must be sufficient to allow interested vendors a reasonable opportunity to compete (see CPPM 6.3.2.a.8). But what does “sufficient” mean? Refer to the Sufficient Time Posting Guidelines before posting an opportunity to learn what timelines are recommended, and the potential consequences of posting for a shorter period.
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2019-04-23T22:56:32Z
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https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/governments/services-for-government/bc-bid-resources/how-to-buy-services/procurement-process/pre-award/prepare-solicitation-documents/strategies-to-receive-quality-submissions
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The Reasons Why Israel's Military Is In Such A Tough Fight : Parallels Israel's military has been the dominant Middle East force since the 1967 war. Yet for the third time in a decade, the army is bogged down in a protracted fight with Islamist militants.
Israeli troops come out of the Gaza Strip on Friday following combat operations in the territory. Israel's military is the strongest in the Middle East, but has waged a series of protracted fights in recent years without winning clear-cut victories.
Ever since its sweeping victory in the Six-Day War of 1967, Israel has been regarded as the dominant military power in the Middle East. No Arab state has risked a full-fledged war in decades, and few question the conventional wisdom that Israel would swiftly defeat any national army in a traditional, head-to-head confrontation.
Yet for the third time in the past decade, Israel's powerful military finds itself in a protracted, messy fight with a small, elusive, Islamist group and has been unable to score a quick and decisive victory.
The current bloodletting between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip is nearly three weeks old and Israel has pounded the Palestinian territory, leaving more than 800 Palestinians dead, most of them civilians. Yet Israel has not halted the Hamas rockets and is still working to destroy a tunnel network it's cited as the main reason for the operation.
Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal, speaking from his exile base in Qatar, said Hamas fighters have "destroyed the idea that the Israeli army is invincible."
Mashaal is hardly a neutral observer. Still, Hamas slugged it out with Israel for three weeks in December 2008-January 2009 and is demonstrating now that it has recovered to fight again on the same terms.
And back in 2006, Hezbollah fought Israel for 34 days in southern Lebanon before a cease-fire was declared. Israel delivered a ferocious blow and its northern border has been largely quiet since then. However, Hezbollah only grew stronger in the aftermath, becoming the dominant force in Lebanon and remaining a potential threat to Israel.
So why has Israel been frustrated repeatedly in these battles?
A Palestinian runs through an area damaged in an Israeli airstrike in Gaza City on Thursday. The Israeli military has unleashed a major air and ground campaign in the fighting that's nearly three weeks old, but Hamas continues to fight back with rocket fire.
Hamas And Hezbollah Now Fight More Like Armies: Both Islamist groups emerged in the 1980s and initially carried out individual attacks, such as car bombs and suicide attacks. But they evolved into forces that now resemble traditional armies, while retaining many of their guerrilla tactics.
Both groups have thousands of trained fighters and large stockpiles of weapons that have allowed them to wage sustained battles in the face of a major Israeli assaults.
Shlomi Eldar, an Israeli television reporter who has covered the Palestinians for years, wrote that after Israel withdrew its military from the Gaza Strip in 2005, Hamas "underwent a strategic change:"
"From small terror cells, it developed into a real army. Hamas became an organization of uniform wearers whose daily pursuit was military; they were trained according to the doctrine of a recruited army. They underwent weapons training and developed excellent military skills, together with religious indoctrination to strengthen their faith and adherence to the jihadist cause. Thus, in effect, Hamas created the first Palestinian army."
Israeli army flares illuminate the sky above the Gaza Strip on July 18. After waging an air campaign initially, Israel has sent ground troops into the territory.
When Hamas first fired rockets from northern Gaza into southern Israel in the early 2000s, the weapons were crude, homemade contraptions that barely made it across the border. Hamas sometimes cut down streetlight poles to use as launching tubes. Not surprisingly, the rockets were so inaccurate they sometimes missed Israel altogether and landed in the Mediterranean Sea.
Compare that to now: Hamas had an estimated 9,000 rockets going into the current round of fighting, including some from Iran that can reach Tel Aviv, some 40 miles up the Mediterranean coast from Gaza. One rocket landed Tuesday near the country's main airport outside Tel Aviv, and U.S. and European airlines briefly stopped flying to Israel.
Different Definitions Of Winning And Losing: The Israelis are looking for a comprehensive victory that permanently weakens its opponents politically and military. In contrast, Hamas and Hezbollah have sought to show they are leading the resistance to Israel and can fight the much stronger enemy to a draw.
By these definitions, some analysts say that Hamas and Hezbollah can win by not losing and Israel loses by not winning.
"No matter how and when the conflict between Hamas and Israel ends, two things are certain," writes Ariel Ilan Roth in Foreign Affairs. "The first is that Israel will be able to claim a tactical victory. The second is that it will have suffered a strategic defeat. Wars are fought to realign politics in a way that benefits the victor and is detrimental to the loser. But the Israelis have lost sight of this distinction."
In this round, as in previous fights, the casualties and the destruction are overwhelmingly on the Arab side. But after past conflicts, Hamas and Hezbollah held parades to celebrate.
The Israeli public, meanwhile, engaged in soul-searching debates as to why the military didn't achieve more. It's already happening this time around.
"Angst over the highest military toll since the 2006 Lebanon war now mixes with a cocktail of emotions: on one hand, a strong current of determination to press on with efforts to end the rocket fire from Gaza; on the other, the sinking feeling that a quagmire is at hand," Dan Perry and Aron Heller of the AP wrote this week.
Luring Israeli Ground Forces Into The Fight: Israel attacked Gaza from the sky, but didn't deliver a knockout blow. So once again, it has ended up sending in large numbers of ground troops, exposing them to ambushes in congested towns and cities.
"Israel needs to go in on the ground to achieve its objectives — but ground operations can lead to Israeli casualties that actually undermine its deterrence," wrote Daniel Byman in Foreign Policy.
Israel has suffered more than 30 deaths, almost all of them soldiers, compared to the more than 800 Palestinian dead.
"That said, it's still a significant number for Israel, and Hamas can claim it is making Israel pay in blood," Byman added.
Also, it's no secret that Israel does not want to keep its ground troops exposed for extended periods as it did previously. The Israeli military occupied Gaza for nearly four decades before leaving in 2005 and was in southern Lebanon for nearly two decades before pulling out in 2000.
International Criticism: All Israeli military operations are closely scrutinized and the government must weigh any military gains against the intense international criticism that it faces. The military achievements often prove temporary at best, while the political fallout can last indefinitely.
Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has always been a deep skeptic of peace talks with the Palestinians. Some critics say Netanyahu is using the fighting to undermine the recent unity deal between Hamas, which rules Gaza, and Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas, the top figure in the West Bank.
But the fighting has put Israel back in the international spotlight and reignited debate over Israel's strict controls on Gaza, where it limits the flow of people and goods going in and out of the territory.
To date, the fighting has not produced clear advantage for either side, and that points to the prospect of another round in the future.
"Even if the latest fighting yields months of peace, Israelis assume that they will have to again strike at Hamas, and perhaps even Hezbollah," according to Byman, a Georgetown University professor who has written extensively on Israel's military. "Israel feels compelled to act on a regular basis to ensure its deterrence achieves at least the partial results of limiting the wars and making them less frequent. So even if the latest fighting in Gaza ends soon, it won't be the last round."
On Saturday, a humanitarian cease-fire lasting 12 hours could begin in Gaza and the truce would allow Palestinian civilians to get food and aid where it's needed, officials say. Hamas says it has agreed to a temporary peace and Israeli media are reporting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has also approved the plan.
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2019-04-26T07:27:11Z
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https://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2014/07/24/334893877/the-reasons-why-israels-military-is-in-such-a-tough-fight?utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=hezbollah
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'Monaghan Fair'. Frank McPeake. Male singer with spoken introduction. 'General Munroe'. Frank McPeake. Male singer with spoken introduction. 'Lament for Willie'. John McLaverty. Male singer with spoken introduction. 'The Greasy Cook'. John McLaverty. Male singer with spoken introduction. 'Maid of the House (first version)'. John Maguire. Tin whistle reel. 'Maid of the House (second version)'. John Maguire. Tin whistle reel. 'Lovely Nancy'. John Maguire. Tin whistle jig. 'First House In Connaught'. John Maguire. Tin whistle reel. 'Flowers of Limerick'. Sean ? Maguire. Fiddle solo reel extract. 'Boys of Lee Fife'. John Maguire. Tin whistle reel. 'Roaring Mary'. John Maguire. Tin whistle reel, short discussion of the piece afterwards. 'Lady Margaret, first version.'. Charles Boyle. Solo male singer with short spoken introduction, and further detail of the history of the song afterwards. 'Lady Margaret, second version.'. Charles Boyle. Solo male singer. 'Greenwood Laddie'. Charles Boyle. Solo male singer. 'Ca Raibh Tu Ar Feadh An Lae? (Where Have You Been?)'. Charles Boyle. Solo male singer. Short introduction discussing the piece. Gaelic version of 'Lord Randall'. 'Will You Go Lassie Go'. Frank McPeake. Uillean pipes and solo male singer. Followed by conversation about the song, learnt from an uncle of Frank McPeake, and on singing while playing the pipes. 'Grave of Wolfe Tone'. Frank McPeake. Male singer and uillean pipes. Short discussion afterwards about the song. 'Jug of Punch'. Frank McPeake. Male singer and uillean pipes with chorus. 'Saint Kevin of Glendalough'. Sean O'Boyle. Male singer with chorus. 'The Galway Girl'. John McLaverty. Male singer.
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2019-04-20T01:49:04Z
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https://sounds.bl.uk/World-and-traditional-music/Peter-Kennedy-Collection/025M-C0604X0556XX-0001V0
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2019-04-20T00:19:31Z
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https://alumni.harvard.edu/giving/stocks-matching-gifts
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The following are frequently asked questions about the Ph.D. in International Business program at SNHU.
Is Southern New Hampshire University accredited?
SNHU is accredited by the New England Commission of Higher Education, which means that your degree carries with it international recognition.
This program is for individuals who want to earn a Ph.D. with a focus on doctoral-level scholarship in international business and research. Applicants are expected to hold a Master’s degree and may come from a variety of related fields. The full-time, campus-based program is designed for domestic and international students who wish to engage in learning alongside faculty as full-time students. The executive low-residency program is designed to support professionals who wish to further develop their ability to provide leadership within their organization or field while working full-time. At this time, the executive low-residency program is only available to domestic United States students. International students interested in the Ph.D. in International Business are encouraged to apply as a full-time residency student.
Application deadlines are April 30 for the Fall term and November 30 for the Spring term. Applications received in full after the deadline may be considered for admission into the program on a case-by-case basis.
Test scores are required for immediate acceptance. Prospective students can be offered conditional acceptance without test scores, converting to full acceptance upon successful demonstration of academic ability.
Due to the nature of the program, transfer credits are not accepted.
Yes, financial aid is available if a student is taking three (3) credits or more per term. A graduate student must be accepted to our program to be eligible for financial aid.
Note: International applicants must provide documentation of their ability to meet the costs of the program. These costs are indicated on the I-20 form. The costs may appear to be somewhat higher than the total of tuition and room and board because they also include such general expenses as health insurance, textbooks, pocket money, etc.
What areas of specialization are available?
Within the program, there are opportunities to focus on specific topics of personal and professional interest. Examples include fields such as Business Analytics, Finance, Marketing, or Supply Chain Management.
What is the dissertation and colloquium process like?
After successfully completing comprehensive exams, students enroll each term in the doctoral dissertation colloquium. The dissertation is based on a student's research and is expected to contribute to his or her area of study. Each student has a dissertation committee, normally consisting of a minimum of four faculty members.
Doctoral colloquiums provide a forum for students to discuss their dissertation research and help monitor their progress in completing their dissertations. Once a student completes the research and the final draft and receives approval, he or she will give an oral presentation. A student must receive approval from all members of their dissertation committee in order to successfully complete the doctoral program.
The program can be completed in three years. This includes the completion of the required course of study, comprehensive exams, and the dissertation.
What is the structure of the classes based on the format I choose?
Full-time: Classes meet at night and may be scheduled during daytime periods. All classes are structured to meet face-to-face with faculty members of Southern New Hampshire University who hold a terminal degree.
Executive Low-residency: Students participate in class meetings held once a month on weekends during the Fall and Spring academic terms. These classes are facilitated on campus; and students located throughout the country are welcome to attend remotely. Students are required to attend a week-long summer residency each year they are in the program.
Low-residency means on-site, face-to-face meeting times are kept to a minimum. This format is specifically designed to accommodate students who wish to earn their Ph.D. while they work full time. By emphasizing online coursework, it’s a perfect fit for students trying to balance professional, familial, or personal commitments.
Students and faculty mentors design an area of specialization related to business fields such as Business Analytics, Finance, Marketing, or Supply Chain Management. Upon successful completion of coursework, students must take a comprehensive exams and complete a dissertation. The time allotted for preparation for comprehensive exam and finalization of dissertation work vary from student to student, and may add some time to the overall duration.
How many classes may students take a semester?
During most academic terms, students in this doctoral program will take two to three 3-credit courses. After the successful completion of comprehensive exams, students enroll in dissertation colloquium courses each term.
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2019-04-24T23:58:20Z
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https://www.snhu.edu/campus-majors/doctoral/phd-in-international-business/phd-in-international-business-frequently-asked-questions
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I think this is a very cool thing to do with kids. I especially love the rocks sculpture. I feel like it is trying to tell a story.
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2019-04-24T01:56:29Z
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https://farbel.livejournal.com/62742.html
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Gen. Robert E. Lee stood erect, arms crossed over his chest, as his statue was ousted from its prominent 133-year perch in the heart of New Orleans.
Just after dawn, workers in masks and protective vests had converged around Lee Circle, a traffic roundabout between the city's bustling central business district and the wealthy Garden District neighborhood of antebellum mansions.
With hammers, chisels and ropes, they slowly prepared to dismantle the 16½-foot, three-ton bronze statue of the icon of the "Lost Cause of the Confederacy" from its lofty 60-foot tall marble column.
Before long, the event took on the aura of a block party as residents settled in with lawn chairs, parasols, even mimosas. Some strutted and shimmied as a boombox blasted James Brown's 1968 classic, "Say It Loud — I'm Black and I'm Proud" and Public Enemy's 1990 anthem, "Fight the Power."
On Friday evening, a crane finally lifted Lee off his pedestal. A crowd of hundreds cheered, blew horns and sung "na na na na, na na na na, hey, hey, hey, goodbye" as the statue was lowered into a truck.
"Power to the People!" a protester chanted from a megaphone.
The towering sculpture of Lee, dedicated with great fanfare in 1884, was one of the first Confederate monuments erected in the South and the last of four contentious Civil War-related structures slated for removal by the historic Southern city.
Mayor Mitch Landrieu said Friday the Confederacy was on the wrong side of humanity.
"These statues are not just stone and metal," Landrieu said in a special address on the monuments. "They are not just innocent remembrances of a benign history. These monuments celebrate a fictional, sanitized Confederacy, ignoring the death, ignoring the enslavement, ignoring the terror that it actually stood for."
Not everyone agrees the monuments should be removed, with opponents saying they are part of history.
More than 150 years after the end of the Civil War — as fringe white nationalist groups have gained newfound prominence and activists with Black Lives Matter and other groups have stepped up to protest injustice — New Orleans is one of a string of Deep South cities and institutions moving to purge their public squares and streets of Confederate monuments.
About 700 Confederate-inspired monuments and statues remain on public property across the nation, with the majority dedicated or built before 1950, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center. While public scrutiny of such memorials has intensified since white supremacist Dylann Roof's June 2015 massacre of nine black churchgoers in Charleston, S.C., the act of removing them is fraught with logistical, legal and ideological hurdles.
Relocating massive marble, bronze and granite monuments can cost tens and even hundreds of thousand dollars, money that some cash-strapped communities can ill afford. In many cases, cities and counties also face bitter resistance and lawsuits from historical groups and descendants of soldiers who accuse them of erasing history and disrespecting those who lost their lives fighting for the Confederacy.
Bitter disputes have erupted on New Orleans streets in recent weeks as the city has proceeded with its deeply contested plan to take down an equestrian statue of Confederate Gen. P.G.T. Beauregard and a bronze sculpture of Confederate President Jefferson Davis. The Battle of Liberty Place obelisk, a marble monument that celebrates the 1874 uprising of a white supremacist militia against Louisiana's Reconstruction state government, came down in April.
"It's a sad day for Louisiana history," the state's Republican Lt. Gov. Billy Nungesser said in an interview Friday. "People come to Louisiana for our rich culture and our history. Some of it is unpleasant, but it is history. You're not going to right a wrong by taking down a monument."
Many Louisianans, Nungesser said, would prefer to put up plaques offering a fuller, more contextualized history of the sculptures, many of which still feature plaques that glorify white supremacist interpretations of history, or erect alternative statues paying tribute to historical black leaders.
"Do we take down the Washington monument because he had slaves? Do we tear down the White House? It was built with slaves!" Nungesser said. "No one believes this will help race relations."
Many Southern communities that have wanted to take down controversial monuments in recent years have found their efforts stall as they've struggled to find final resting places for symbols that many condemn as offensive.
Officials in Gainesville, Fla., and St. Louis have resolved to remove public Confederate monuments only to fail to find museums willing to house them. Officials in St. Louis this week set up a GoFundMe page to raise $25,000 to remove a monument and place it in storage.
New Orleans' removal of four of its prominent sculptures marks a significant moment in the South's history, a determination to challenge longstanding white supremacist symbols, said Martin Blatt, director of public history at Northeastern University and a former president of the National Council on Public History.
"All this debate and the controversy points to a history that we still badly need to confront and unearth and interrogate," Blatt said.
He said he favored the idea of grouping the monuments at a new site, away from highly visible public space, and offering new context and interpretation.
The New Orleans movement to relocate some of the city's most visible and controversial Confederate monuments began in earnest in 2015, shortly after the Charleston massacre, when Landrieu and the city council declared they were "public nuisances" that did not reflect the city's diversity or full history.
The process was delayed for nearly two years by a succession of lawsuits from historic preservation groups and monument supporters. The original contractor hired by the city backed out after his employees received death threats and his car was set on fire. Workers dismantled the last three monuments in the cover of darkness, protecting themselves with masks and protective vests.
In contrast, the city announced the removal of the fourth statue, of Lee, in advance.
Throughout the years, the Lee monument has served as a focal point for Civil War reunions and a host of civic celebrations. In 1891, it was a gathering spot for the mob responsible for the largest mass lynching in American history: the killing of 11 Italian American men for their alleged role in the murder of the city's police chief, David Hennessy.
The ultimate fate of the Jim Crow-era sculptures is uncertain. The city has stated the monuments will remain in storage until officials find a museum or facility where they can be displayed in proper context.
On Thursday, Landrieu's office said in a statement that it had received offers from public and private institutions to take individual monuments and would solicit proposals only from governmental entities and nonprofit groups.
"This should guarantee that wherever the statues end up, they are interpreted as they should be: as historical artifacts from a time when white Southerners believed it was acceptable to memorialize a lost cause interpretation of the Civil War and ignore the historical record," said Blain Roberts, a professor of history at Fresno State, who is working on a book about the memory of slavery.
Yet questions linger about how far New Orleans and other Southern cities will go on to memorialize the Civil War and the historic legacy of slavery.
New Orleans officials have announced that Lee's statue will be replaced by a water feature and public art, while a U.S. flag will be placed at the site of the Davis statue. The City Park Improvement Assn. will help decide what replaces the Beauregard statue.
"Putting the American flag in the spot where the Davis statue stood is fine, but I would urge the city to do more," Roberts said. "Whatever replaces the removed statues should acknowledge the historical facts that those statues were designed to suppress: that enslaved labor generated the wealth of white New Orleanians, and that defending slavery was the reason they and other white Southerners seceded from the Union and fought the Civil War."
New Orleans' removal of the monuments has prompted Louisiana lawmakers to work to enact a law that would make it harder for cities to take down Confederate monuments from public property. Four Southern states — South Carolina, Georgia, Mississippi and Tennessee — have passed similar preservation acts that block local municipalities from removing or altering historic war monuments.
On Monday, members of Louisiana's Legislative Black Caucus walked out as the state's Republican-dominated House passed a bill that would ban the removal of public military memorials. The next day, they said the bill revealed a "deep-rooted belief in white supremacy."
Malcolm Suber, an adjunct professor at Southern University at New Orleans and organizer of Take 'Em Down NOLA, said the next big battle will be to remove an equestrian statue of Andrew Jackson, the seventh president of the United States, from a prominent spot in Jackson Square in the city's historic French Quarter.
"Millions of tourists have taken photos of that statue without realizing the character of the man," Suber said, noting the Tennessee native was a major slaveholder. "If Harriet Tubman can replace Andrew Jackson on the $20 bill, certainly we can do the same. We want to wipe the slate clean."
4:40 p.m.: This article was updated with the statue's removal and other details.
11:10 a.m.: This article was updated with additional details from the scene and comments.
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https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-new-orleans-general-lee-20170519-story.html
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An introduction to the language; the courses provide a foundation for reading the ancient authors.
Accelerated introduction to the language; provides a foundation for reading the ancient authors.
Review of grammar; readings in classical authors. P-Greek 112 or equivalent.
Review of grammar in the context of reading classical authors. P - 113 or equivalent.
Selections from the dialogues of Plato or other Attic prose. P-Greek 153 or equivalent.
Selections from the Iliad and the Odyssey or from didactic and lyric poetry. P - Greek 211 or equivalent.
Greek Readings. (1.5h or 3h) Designed to meet individual needs and interests. Course may be repeated for a total of six credit hours. P—POI.
Intensive work in morphology and syntax, with practice in composition and stylistic analysis of selected readings. P—GRK 211 or equivalent.
Selections from the Greek New Testament. P—GRK 211 or equivalent.
Close study of a selected tragedy or tragedies. P—GRK 211 or equivalent.
Close study of a selected comedy or comedies of Aristophanes or Menander. P—GRK 211 or equivalent.
Directed research for honors paper. P-POD.
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https://bulletin.wfu.edu/courses-az/grk/
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I think it’s reasonable to assume both candidates misrepresented each others record and positions. Welcome to politics. But I think Palin hitting the “memorable” nail on the head gave her an edge over Biden’s much drier performance.
Lastly, I think Governor Palin did manage to keep Senator Biden on the defensive.
I found myself impressed by her composure and rhetoric in a moment of extreme pressure and exposure to the public (particularly since she has been shed in a very negative light for the past few weeks in the press). Also, Palin has a very likable personality. She speaks in a conversational tone that can relate to the average American, and uses cute phrases such as “gosh darnit” that may appeal to certain people.
Can’t you just see her meeting with someone like Putin, smacking him on the arm and saying, “Doggone it, Vladimir - there ya go again?” She could make Bush’s groping of Angela Merkel look like the epitome of stiff upper lip diplomacy.
There was no single devastating moment. But the contrast was striking. She had nothing substantive to say on a whole host of issues — e.g., the constitutional role of the VP and McCain’s tax on employer-provided health benefits. It was all sound bites and snark. Those are fun for a while, but the reality soon became clear that she’s out of her league. I mean, she flatly ignored how many questions posed?
Biden pointed out that John McCain has called for deregulation on countless occasions and even favors letting the free market take over the health care industry. Ifill asked Palin if she wanted to respond and Palin said, “I would like to respond about the tax increase….” and proceeded to do so. After Biden pressed the point that deregulation was one of the major causes of the market meltdown, Ifill asked Palin again if she wanted to respond, and Palin said: “I’m still on the tax thing…” even refusing to engage in the debate at hand saying: “I may not answer the questions that either the moderator or you want to hear, but I’m going to talk straight to the American people and let them know my track record…” Her only response to McCain’s history of support for deregulation was to say that McCain has called for strict rules and cited his support for tougher laws on the tobacco industry and work on campaign refinance reform, neither having anything to do with the economic crisis.
Had Ifill been overly aggressive in pointing this out, we’d instead be hearing about how Ifill attacked Palin during the debate for avoiding questions. Most people aren’t stupid and they know when someone’s dodging a question and can read their body language when someone’s staring at notecards and reciting something that’s got nothing to do with Ifill’s question. Criticizing Ifill for not actively pointing this out during the debate, I think, underestimates (barely) the intelligence of an average, undecided debate viewer. Had Ifill interjected, the story would’ve been: Palin exceeded expectations and usually knew what she was talking about, but occasionally was chided by the moderator for straying off topic, maverick that she is! Instead, the story is: Palin exceeded expectations but sometimes avoided issues and gave unrelated answers on questions that Biden showcased the depth of his knowledge. There’s only room for two characters in a story about a debate, and I’d much rather it be about Biden and Palin than Ifill and Palin.
I won’t lambast her position on the causes of climate change, though she is demonstrably wrong. My point is simple logic: How can you “affect the impacts” if you aren’t willing to consider the causes? This is not about differences of opinion. It’s about coherence and rational argument. Without this, there is no basis for constructive problem-solving.
She actually said nothing at all, other than displaying a considerable lack of knowledge of what the constitution actually says about the office of Vice President. Her personal pronouns need a little work; who is the “we” that will “do what is best” etc? To paraphrase Joe Biden that, ladies and gentlemen, is babbling.
Biden’s response about being a single parent, particularly a single father, essentially beat Sarah Palin and the GOP at their own game. Accuse him of play-acting all you want; I’m not about to question a man’s grief, no matter what side of the aisle he’s on. But beyond that, this one moment may have won over woman voters more than anything the Obama-Biden campaign has done so far. More than “oh my God, he cried!” it shows women that Biden understands what it’s like to be a parent, and he understands how hard it can be to make ends meet, especially in the wake of tragedy. This was the most effective moment in his attempt to connect with the middle class, and Palin’s response didn’t help her.
And that’s great for Little Leagues– hell, I was that kid– but when it comes to a grown woman who could potentially be the President of the United States in less than four months, all this lowered expectations cheerleading is pathetic, condescending, and let’s face it, sexist. Any man who got up on stage and so obviously dodged questions he hadn’t studied for, stuck so closely to rudimentary talking points, and whose goal was clearly not to communicate but to survive would have been torn apart.
If you want to find an alternative to “lowered expectations cheerleading,” try the blogosphere. Of course that, too, offers up many forms of sexism.
Let’s face it, the guys have had (literally) thousands of years… and while they have done well making tall buildings and gas guzzling V-8 automobile engines, they have pretty much failed in the economic and world peace department. I’m all for letting the gals have a shot. Even if their political leanings don’t exactly jibe with your own, they can hardly do any worse than 230+ years of testosterone inspired policy.
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http://ballotvox.prx.org/archives/672/vice-presidential-debate.html
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I often want to get information about an MKV file, usually to find out if it has one or more subtitle tracks. MKVToolNix is my toolset of choice for this. Automation of this process turned out to be relatively straight forward with PowerShell (naturally!) and one of their tools, mkvinfo.
A word of warning. We’re using ‘Prayer Based Parsing’. If a future revision of mkvinfo changes the format of output, there’s a good chance our script will cease to work. I’m pretty certain more RegEx aware gurus will be able to tighten the parsing a bit to lessen the chance of this, but it’s still something to think about.
Looking at the code, ‘FullName’ is defined as an alias for Path in the cmdlet, to allow the use of pipeline output from cmdlets such as Get-ChildItem. That way, track information from multiple files can be obtained quite simply.
Also remember to change the path in the code below to where your mkvinfo.exe file exists.
An example, also showing how we can combine it with Get-ChildItem is below.
In the next post, we’ll make use of another MKVToolnix tool and PowerShell to allow us to extract subtitle files from MKV files.
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2019-04-22T03:00:46Z
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https://invokepowershell.wordpress.com/category/audiovisual/
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Despite celebrating its 100th birthday in 2017, the Converse Chuck Taylor All Star remains as popular as ever. The humble Chuck has solidified itself as a footwear icon through its presence in film, music and fashion – an impact which Converse have explored through their 'Forever Chuck' video series. Now the brand have released the crescendo of the campaign, a visual collage by Karim Huu Do exploring why people wear Chucks. The film features an all-star cast – including the likes of Sean Pablo, Winnie Harlow, Vince Staples and Keith Ape. Check out the full film below.
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https://www.sneakerfreaker.com/articles/converse-debuts-forever-chuck-film-featuring-star-cast/
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브룩다이커 (Cephalophus brookei)는 영양의 일종이다. 라이베리아와 시에라리온 그리고 코트디부아르 전역에 분포한다. 오길비다이커의 아종으로 간주했었지만 현재는 별도의 종으로 격상되었다.
↑ 가 나 “Mammal Species of the World”. 《google.com》.
↑ WILSON, DE, REEDER, DM eds. (2005). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference . (2005). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. 3ª ed. 3rd ed. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, Maryland, 2.142 pp. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, Maryland, 2142 pp. 2 vol. 2 vol.
이 문서는 2018년 8월 1일 (수) 19:14에 마지막으로 편집되었습니다.
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2019-04-23T17:58:17Z
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https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%B8%8C%EB%A3%A9%EB%8B%A4%EC%9D%B4%EC%BB%A4
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CINL Brain Core is an arm of the Civitan International Neuroimaging Laboratory. The original "Visual Brain Core" was made possible by a generous grant from UAB's HSF/GEF grant program. Given that our resources ended up being used by a broader base of users than just vision researchers, we've dropped the "visual" from our name. Also, we're continuing our work in collaboration with UAB's Civitan International Neuroimaging Lab, and so we're officially the CINL Brain Core now.
Our mission is to help produce high quality, cutting edge research examining the visual brain. To achieve this, we will help investigators overcome some common barriers to performing high quality vision research, and provide forums to discuss new ideas and research techniques.
Monday, 10:00 am - noon, Civitan International Research Center, Second floor outside room 210.
Ravi Tripathi, MS: Computer Systems Specialist. Consultation on high performance computing and algorithm issues.
Thursday, 10:00 am - noon, Edge of Chaos in Lister Hill Library.
Mark Bolding, Ph.D. will discuss MR physics related questions. Ravi Tripathi, MS: Computer Systems Specialist. Consultation on high performance computing and algorithm issues.
Brain Core seminar series includes high level speakers usually from outside UAB. Every second Friday at noon in CIRC 120. We will discuss new ideas and techniques in brain imaging. During other fridays at noon in CIRC 120, we have Neuroimaging Journal Club. The Neuroimaging journal club is for UAB and Auburn researchers to share their work, or journal articles of their interest with our neuroimaging community. Information about this colloquium is here: CINL page .
The CINL Brain Core is supported by users. For this reason, we ask that you include use of the Brain Core resources in the budget of your upcoming grants. Quotations from previous proposals are provided here: Grant Proposal Language.
Click here, or alternatively, send an email to listserv@listserv.uab.edu with the email body as sub cinl-notice. After which you’ll receive an email to confirm your email address.
After confirming your email address, you would start receiving cancellation emails from others on the list as well as be able to send your own notifications .
Here is a partial list of manuscripts that have resulted from CINL and Visual Brain Core resources.
Neuroimaging journal Club. Shared across campuses via GoToMeeting.
This page was last modified on 13 March 2019, at 16:10.
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2019-04-23T20:28:07Z
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https://docs.uabgrid.uab.edu/themegarden/Brain_Core
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A complete overhaul, he said, wasn’t the original intent.
“I was trying to identify the best players who would give us the best future, and sometimes you have to pay a price for that,” Tallon said.
Kulikov is the final holdover from the previous management team. He was drafted by Randy Sexton in 2009.
Matthias and Markstrom were either acquired or drafted by Jacques Martin.
Just weeks after taking the reins of the Panthers, Tallon asked players whether they wanted to be part of the rebuild. Some weren’t so keen on the idea, so Tallon traded them away.
In his first four years, Tallon traded the likes of Nathan Horton, Keith Ballard, Kris Versteeg, Marcel Goc and Mike Weaver, and he let Stephen Weiss walk away during free agency.
Kulikov, now in his sixth season with the Panthers, said he has gotten used to having a new team every year. The Panthers have also had plenty of coaching turnover.
“Every year is a new year, and many have been completely new from coaches to the players,” said Kulikov, who is on his fourth coach with the Panthers.
The Canucks are planning to honor Luongo with a highlight video during one of the first stoppages in play on Thursday night.
Luongo spent parts of eight seasons with the Canucks after being traded to Vancouver by the Panthers in 2006.
Sports network TSN, whom Luongo did some work for this past spring, was also putting together a top-10 special featuring Luongo’s Vancouver highlights.
▪ Everyone was on the ice Wednesday, as the Panthers get closer and closer to being completely healthy.
Even Shawn Thornton, who has been out for a month with a groin injury, got in a long on-ice workout. Thornton isn’t expected to play until the Panthers return home, at the least.
“Everyone is pretty much coming back,” Gallant said.
▪ Vincent Trocheck was fined $2,000 by the NHL on Wednesday for embellishing his fall when he was tripped by Washington’s Mike Green on Sunday.
The penalty gave the Panthers a 5-on-3 chance, and Trocheck was skewered by Green and Washington coach Barry Trotz in postgame comments.
When/where: 10 p.m.; Rogers Arena, Vancouver, British Columbia.
Noteworthy: The Panthers have won two of the past three meetings with the Canucks, including a shootout victory in Vancouver.
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2019-04-20T20:20:34Z
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https://www.miamiherald.com/sports/nhl/florida-panthers/article5585997.html
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This story takes place in Murwillumbah, New South Wales. The house my mother and step father owned, was an old doctor's place built in the late twenties. It was a nice enough house - three bedrooms, two dunnies, a large kitchen/dining area and a living room. Though I didn't live with my parents, I visited them when I could. At this stage, I had two weird things happen to me but those other stories for other times. My mum told me that she kept seeing a little old woman standing at the bottom of her bed looking rather peeved off at something. There was one room in the house that would creep me out...there was something about it. Anyway, it was Christmas Eve 1988, and I was up from Sydney. I had just come back from a party, but I wasn't drunk. It was 1am when I crawled in to bed, and wasn't asleep for more than a half hour when something hit my feet. It felt like someone hitting me with a walking stick. I woke up and found myself looking at a little old man dressed in tartan, like a golfer would wear, pointing with his stick as if he was telling me to go. Then he turned and faded into the woodwork with me shouting, "Hey, don't go, I wanna talk to you!" I told my mum the next morning and she nodded her head. "Yeah, I've seen him every now and then," she said. Sometimes I would see shadows like someone walking by the glass pane across the kitchen, but there would be no one there. Like I said: nice house, weird vibes.
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2019-04-21T16:37:06Z
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http://cluricaun.tripod.com/story054.htm
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Just because something’s recycled doesn’t mean it has to look cheap or ugly, says the founder of Carmina Campus, a new line of totes, computer sleeves, and iPad covers made from reclaimed materials. Then again, she’s a Fendi. The youngest daughter of Anna, one of five Fendi sisters who transformed the family business into an international brand, Ilaria Venturini Fendi is using her clan’s artisanal approach to refashion castoff supplies into objects of exuberance and desire. Produced in Africa through the UN-sanctioned Ethical Fashion Programme, the line marries fine tailoring with leftover fabrics (including reclaimed safari tents, military blankets, and leather swatches) to reflect Venturini Fendi’s aspirations for a better world.
Venturini Fendi didn’t just grow up surrounded by luxurious furs and leathers in the Fendi atelier; her father, Giulio Venturini, also took her on frequent trips to the country, where he imparted his passion for animals and the environment. After some time on an organic farm in Rome, Venturini Fendi decided to reclaim her family birthright— and change some lives in the process.
“The idea is that the word ‘ethical’ should no longer apply to just a niche,” Venturini Fendi says.
Now available in such high-end fashion hubs as 10 Corso Como in Milan and the Dover Street Market in London, Carmina Campus sends a message that sustainable can be lustable. But the line is also an outlet for activism. Its “STOP FGM” collection, for instance, campaigns against the practice of female genial mutilation, with a portion of proceeds earmarked for charity.
“The idea is that the word ‘ethical’ should no longer apply to just a niche,” Venturini Fendi says in a press release. “The entire fashion system could and should take up certain parameters, making the distinction pointless.” Such a revolution would require an overhaul of everything we know about the industry, but then again, she has generations of Fendi DNA behind her.
This isn't new. Carmina Campus has been around for quite a while. It's just a new line for 10 Corso Como. She's been doing work with the ITC for a few years.
Very nice project.I love the bag with the big rosette.
Just because something's recycled doesn't mean it has to look cheap or ugly, says the founder of Carmina Campus, a new line of totes, computer sleeves, and iPad covers made from reclaimed materials. Then again, she's a Fendi. The youngest daughter of Anna, one of five Fendi sisters who transformed the family business into an international brand, Ilaria Venturini Fendi is using her clan's artisanal approach to refashion castoff supplies into objects of exuberance and desire. Produced in Africa through the UN-sanctioned Ethical Fashion Programme, the line marries fine tailoring with leftover fabrics (including reclaimed safari tents, military blankets, and leather swatches) to reflect Venturini Fendi's aspirations for a better world.
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2019-04-18T12:51:04Z
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https://inhabitat.com/ecouterre/carmina-campus-flaunts-fendis-greener-side-with-african-made-eco-fashion/
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To explore the topic of typography and symbolism, I have decided to do more visual research. The artworks of Victor Koen that basically represent an illustrated alphabet, where the objects are transformed into letters and letters into toys, have helped me to develop the next stage of my investigation (Viktorkoen.com., 2016).
To start with, what I like about his project, is that it is visible how symbolic signs (of war, science and future) can make the meaning of the words be obvious without necessity to read. It feels that intertwined relationship of culture and identity has been depicted through design in this case (Farahani et al, 2016). This observation has given me an idea to explore the origins of typography, focusing on what it used to mean with regard to history and and how this meaning around the type has been developed.
Mahmoudi Farahani, L., Motamed, B. and Jamei, E. (2016). Persian Gardens: Meanings, Symbolism, and Design. Landscape Online, [online] pp.1-19. Available at: http://www.landscapeonline.de/wp-content/uploads/DOI103097-LO201646.pdf [Accessed 25 Sep. 2016].
Viktorkoen.com. (2016). ViktorKoen.com – HOME. [online] Available at: http://www.viktorkoen.com [Accessed 25 Sep. 2016].
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2019-04-18T19:09:13Z
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https://knyazevasite.wordpress.com/2016/09/25/viktor-koen-toyphabet-2006/
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spellcheck
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I should like very much to see you, and talk all over at length, but fear to invite you to my own bower for fear of suspicion; but i trust you will soon come boldly, and face my whole family.
At some unnatural hour of the morning the dairyman had caused the yawning chimney-corner to be whitened, and the brick hearth reddened, and a blazing yellow damask blower to be hung across the arch in place of the old grimy blue cotton one with a black sprig pattern which had formerly done duty there.
He has in his keeping my daughter's dower of four hundred roman crowns.
The brave warriors cower shivering under some shelter at the sound of my voice.
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2019-04-26T15:38:47Z
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http://www.spellcheck.net/misspelled-words/lwoer
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Registers a Service Fabric application type.
The Register-ServiceFabricApplicationType cmdlet registers a Service Fabric application type. Read more about Service Fabric application deployment.
The application package can exist in a relative location in the image store or can be an sfpkg file previously uploaded to an external location.
When using store relative path, the application package must exist in the image store. The package can be copied to the image store with Copy-ServiceFabricApplicationPackage.
When using an sfpkg file from an external store, the provision must provide the download URI to where the sfpkg was previously uploaded, as well as the application type information. The sfpkg file is a zip that contains the initial application package and has the extension ".sfpkg". Inside the zip, the application package can be compressed or uncompressed. The compression of the application package inside the zip is done at code, package, and data packages.
To create an sfpkg, start with a folder that contains the original application package. If needed, compress the package with Copy-ServiceFabricApplicationPackage with switches -CompressPackage and -SkipCopy. Then, use an utility to zip the folder with the extension ".sfpkg". For example, use ZipFile.CreateFromDirectory on the application package folder.
After you register an application type, you can use the New-ServiceFabricApplication cmdlet to create an application instance. Use the Start-ServiceFabricApplicationUpgrade cmdlet to upgrade an existing application.
When the application type with the specified version is not needed anymore, you can unregister it using Unregister-ServiceFabricApplicationType cmdlet.
PS C:\> Copy-ServiceFabricApplicationPackage -ApplicationPackagePath "c:\work\PersistentToDoListService" -ImageStoreConnectionString "file:C:\SfDevCluster\Data\ImageStoreShare" -ApplicationPackagePathInImageStore "PersistentToDoListService"
PS C:\> Register-ServiceFabricApplicationType -ApplicationPathInImageStore "PersistentToDoListService"
Copy-ServiceFabricApplicationPackage copies the application package found in the "c:\work\PersistentToDoListService" folder to the image store. The package is copied at the relative path "PersistentToDoListService" in image store.
Register-ServiceFabricApplicationType command registers the application type found in the relative path "PersistentToDoListService".
Copy-ServiceFabricApplicationPackage copies the application package found in the "c:\work\PersistentToDoListService" folder to the image store. The application package is copied at the relative path "PersistentToDoListService" in image store. The cmdlet uses compression to reduce the package size.
Register-ServiceFabricApplicationType command registers the application type found in the relative path "PersistentToDoListService". Register is done async, and it returns as soon as the command is accepted by the cluster.
Get-ServiceFabricApplicationType gets the application types registered in the cluster. Each application type includes the registration status. The cmdlet can be used to determine when the registration completes.
Copy-ServiceFabricApplicationPackage copies the application package found in the "c:\work\PersistentToDoListService" folder to the image store, at the "PersistentToDoListService" image store relative location. Since the initial package is very large, the command compress it and includes a higher timeout to allow enough time for copy.
Register-ServiceFabricApplicationType command registers the application type found in the relative path "PersistentToDoListService". The command includes a higher timeout to allow work to finish even if the application package is large.
Registers the application package found at the specified URI. The application package must have been previously uploaded at that location and must allow READ access. Since the package may be large, the command specifies a large provision timeout.
Registers the application package found at the specified URI. The application package must have been previously uploaded at that location and must allow READ access. Because -Async is specified, the command returns as soon as the cluster accepts it. Get-ServiceFabricApplicationType gets the application types registered in the cluster that match the filter. Each application type includes the registration status. The cmdlet can be used to follow the registration progress and to determine when the registration completes.
PS C:\> Copy-ServiceFabricApplicationPackage -ApplicationPackagePath "c:\work\PersistentToDoListService"
[Copy-ServiceFabricApplicationPackage](./Copy-ServiceFabricApplicationPackage.md) copies the application package found in the "c:\work\PersistentToDoListService" folder to the image store. The package is copied at the relative path "PersistentToDoListService" in image store.
[Register-ServiceFabricApplicationType](./Register-ServiceFabricApplicationType.md) command registers the application type found in the relative path "PersistentToDoListService" and deletes the application package "PersistentToDoListService" in the image store after successfully registering the application type. Deleting the application package from the image store after [Register-ServiceFabricApplicationType](./Register-ServiceFabricApplicationType.md) command is recommended because it removes the temporary package as soon as it's not needed, which ensures that disk space is not consumed unnecessarily.
Represents the path to the sfpkg application package from where the application package can be downloaded using HTTP or HTTPS protocols. The package must have been previously uploaded to this external location. The URI must allow READ access so Service Fabric can download the file. The sfpkg file is a zip that contains the initial application package. Inside the zip, the application package can be compressed or uncompressed. The compression of the application package inside the zip is done at code, package, and data packages. This compression can be achieved using Copy-ServiceFabricApplicationPackage with switch -CompressPackage. The sfpkg file must have the extension ".sfpkg".
Specifies the relative path of the application type package in the image store. This path was specified by the Copy-ServiceFabricApplicationPackage cmdlet when the application package was copied to the image store.
Specifies the application type name, as it is defined in the application manifest. The application type name and the application type version uniquely identify the application type. This is needed when provisioning an sfpkg from an external store.
Specifies the application type version, as it was defined in the application manifest. The application type name and the application type version uniquely identify the application type. This is needed when provisioning an sfpkg application package file from an external store.
Determines the cleanup policy of the application package used for registering the application type. If not cleaned up, the application packages consume disk space and can lead to failures. This parameter specifies how to manage the application package after successfully registering the application type (successful provision).
When set to Automatic, Service Fabric runtime determines when to perform application package cleanup. Current runtime implementation deletes the application package after successfully registering the application type. If registration fails, then the application package is not deleted from the image store.
When set to Manual, the application package is not deleted from the image store and the users have to explicitly call Remove-ServiceFabricApplicationPackage cmdlet to remove it from the image store.
A Service Fabric cluster is configured with a clean up policy. To use the cluster's policy, specify Default option. The cluster config CleanupApplicationPackageOnProvisionSuccess under Management section determines how the cleanup should occur. If set to true, the application packages are automatically deleted by the service fabric runtime after successful provision. If set to false, the application package is not deleted from the image store. The default value of this cluster config have been set to false up to v6.4, but there are plans to set it to true for future releases.
The command returns as soon as the registration request is accepted by the cluster. Use the Get-ServiceFabricApplicationType command to query the status of the registration request. Using this switch avoids having to provide large -TimeoutSec values when registering large application packages.
This cmdlet returns the status of the operation as a string.
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Description "37 [age] ; Gunsmith ; 600 [value of real estate owned] ; 100 [value of personal estate] ; Kentucky [place of birth]."
Source Includes data from the 1870 Census Population Schedules, Paris Post Office, Lamar County, Texas, Series: M593, Roll: 1594, p. 194 (stamped), p. 24 (handwritten), entry 176.
Artisan or Artist Triplet, W. D.
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This year I toddled off for my holidays in early July. I rather innocently termed this break my ‘summer’ holiday, as it happened to fall at a time of year when the earth’s axial tilt during its annual orbit of the sun produced longer daylight hours and historically higher average temperatures.
Sadly, I decided to go to West Wales and the number of sun-kissed days was minimal to say the very least. My overriding memory was sitting on the open deck of the Skomer ferry, in shorts and a gortex jacket, head pulled down inside the collar, breathing into my chest in a fruitless attempt to keep warm in the heaviest rain I have ever experienced.
Looks like I chose the wrong summer month to take a beach holiday, I should have booked October!
For the past three days I have spent each lunchtime and afternoon with picnic, daughter and snorkel on Exmouth beach, making the most of the splendid sunshine; temperatures into the high twenties and more time spent splashing about in the waves chasing sandeels than the rest of the year put together!
Indeed, much of East Devon had the same idea as me and the beach at Exmouth more closely resembled the Monaco Riviera, than good old England! People lay strewn across the beach, the sun beat down and baked the golden sand and the air was filled with a din of engines that sounded like a Grand Prix was being held around the Pole Sand; The only grit in my Indian Summer sandwich.
With heatwaves an all-too transient phenomenon in high summer, let alone October, everything was put on hold at home as the beach shelter was dragged out from under the stairs, picnic box dusted down and filled with portable offerings, and the swimmers dug out from the back of the drawer. This was too good to miss.
Unlike the summer, where water temperatures are several degrees cooler and a normally warm air temperate exasperates this difference, my two-year old daughter was comfortable in the water for far longer than her dad and we spent most of the afternoon wading about in the rockpools on Maer Rocks looking for creatures. Bit of a busman’s holiday for me as I do exactly this activity as a core part of my ranger work 9-5, but I do it because I love it and to see my own child enthralled by a beadlet anemone and giggling hysterically at a hermit crab made for a perfect day.
The heatwave was also good enough to coincide with some of the lowest tides of the Autumn too. This meant lower parts of the shore were accessible for a few hours and new pools and kelp beds were within reach. In Ellie’s eyes we hit the jackpot when I turned a rock and beneath it lay three small common starfish. Each was about 5 centimeters across and we studied them for so long, the tide began to rise before I could persuade my daughter to return hers under a crevice and go back to the rug to warm up!
While she huddled under a towel with Mum, I put on my snorkel and short wetsuit (typical boy, I feel the chill) and dashed back in to watch the incoming tide from underwater. This is something I have been meaning to do all year, and the Autumn is definitely the time of year to experience this thrill.
I first went for a bit of a drift, riding the strong current down the beach over kelp beds dotted with golden sandy banks. Even on an incoming tide, the current of the exiting Exe is hard to subdue. Pale sand gobies sat prominently on the sun-dappled sand in small groups, heads raised as they pushed themselves up on their pectoral fins. As long as I didn’t make a swimming stroke I could drift overhead without them shooting off. A flounder spotted my approach and flapped-up a cloud to disguise its escape, however by moving very gently, I was able to find it again lurking under a stout kelp frond. Its two bulging eyes circled about wildly, to get a fix on me, before I let go of the kelp and I carried on along my leisurely drift.
Looking directly ahead, shoals of sandeels and smaller silver fish, possibly young whiting, darted on the edge of visibility in the clear water. To get anywhere near these fast moving fish I needed to paddle strongly and I was enjoying being carried along too much to bother with all that effort! All this took place in water no deeper than 4 or five feet, often considerably shallower. There’s no point going deeper than this, as the interesting stuff to see, within range of water clarity this close to the estuary mouth is in the shallows.
I turned and front-crawled my way back up the beach against the current to my start point just off Maer Rocks and held on to a large Lamanaria kelp to fix myself in position. While doing this, I likened myself to a big grey seal, settling myself in position for an afternoon snooze. However, compared to the seal, I was a wallowing lummox.
As the tide rose, so sand gobies flitted about on the seabed below me, nodding and posturing to each other as they dashed over the sediments in search of food. Hermit crabs trundled along the edge of the rock next to me, not venturing too far out into the open, lest they were spotted by a passing cuttlefish. I stayed there as long as I could, the sandeels remaining stubbornly on the periphery of view, before running back up the beach to share my experience with the family.
If the last 7 years as a ranger has taught me anything, its that you have to seize the moment when wildlife watching, and this weekend was certainly a case in point. Now, where did I put those dust sheets and paint roller… back on with the DIY!
Where to begin? Firstly, a quick apology for the hiatus of last week, a sheer volume of events through the week and the previous three weekends meant that I was unable to meet the copy deadline and sadly missed our weekly wildlife rendez-vous.
However, the upshot of all these events is an amazing collection of unusual wildlife sightings, all shared with families and friends throughout the district. And the good news for me is that many of the participants had smart phones or cameras (how charmingly retro) with them and happily shared the picture prizes.
Most recently a grey and mizzly morning rockpooling at Sidmouth’s Jacobs Ladder beach turned up not one, not two, or indeed three, but four amazing arthropods. Sea spiders. I remember first encountering these gangly little creatures in a marine zoology unit of my degree course, they are so strange that once met they will never been forgotten.
Easily overlooked as a piece of algae, sea spiders are weird creatures!
Despite being called spiders, and belonging to the arthropod group, these animals are not arachnids and their eight-legged resemblance to the terrestrial and aquatic true spiders is purely chance. The odd thing about sea spiders is that they have no respiratory system, instead they make use of their high surface area to volume ratio to allow passive gaseous exchange to provide oxygen. This means that they must have extremely clean skin, and indeed their exoskeleton is unusual in being sterile, something which many scientists are interested in studying; being able to find out how they maintain bacteria-free skin in the sea could have huge benefits for shipping.
Sea spiders in our waters tend to be found in rockpools, hanging on to tiny tree-like algae, on which they hunt for tiny anemone prey. However, they are not found often, in seven years rockpooling the East Devon coast with schools and families, I have only found one before now. On thursday morning we found four!
Last weekend was Escot’s annual “Messing about on the River” event, a feast of old-fashioned netting for sticklebacks and eels, while Alan Bruford indulges in a spot of gold panning with families. We smile and nod enthusiastically, but know this is merely a ruse to satisfy Mr B’s appetite for getting muddy!
A good haul of fish were caught by Jim and myself, including young brown trout, which the river Tale has been praised for this year. Amongst the bullheads, stone loaches, sticklebacks and eels were two fish which looked like eels. On closer inspection they had no eyes, pores rather than gills and no complex fins. These weren’t fish, but the larvae of a fishy-type animal called a Lamprey; these were ammocoete larvae!
Lamprey were once common and prized for the table, indeed King Henry I was so fond of the meal he contracted food poisoning ascribed to consuming “a surfeit of lampreys”. They have become far less common since 1069, though and this was the first time I had seen one of these animals! Lamprey are put in a group alongside fish, rather than being a true fish, and apart from having a free-living large larva they are very different to fish in a number of ways.
Firstly they have no jaw, just a round mouth covered in amazing rows of sharp teeth. They live for many years as larvae, before heading off to sea to grow into adulthood. They are the most primitive vertebrate and all animals with backbones are thought to have evolved from a lamprey common ancestor, which means us!
Finally the previous weekend saw a mammoth natural history survey of the Axe Estuary Wetlands, with a variety of experts assisting us with a BioBlitz! The Field Studies Base provided our HQ for the day, while experts spent the day rootling and tootling about the wetlands identifying their particular groups.
We have reams of records now to show for the efforts, all of which will be added to what we know about the site and help in our efforts to improve them for biodiversity into the future. A first for Devon in 60 years was discovered with the discovery of a larval 13-spot ladybird by ladybird expert Richard Comont. This rare ladybird dies out in Britain each year and is thought to recolonise from the continent. A breeding colony in Stafford Marsh would indeed be a turn up for the books!
Richard also found the poster child for the day, by discovering a fabulous puss moth caterpillar in the accompanying photo. This larva of the white fluffy puss moth (puss as in kitten rather than putrified mucus!) looks like it should live in the tropics, and it is seldom seen here despite being quite common.
The thing is, even though they are lime green with a pink face, purple back and two red tendril tails, they spend their time feeding in willow, sallow or poplar trees and are normally well out of sight. These caterpillars were feeding on a willow sculpted maze constructed on the wetlands and played amongst by hundreds of children this year. All the while we were unaware of the presence of this wonderful caterpillar. After we spotted these two the maze was given further scrutiny whereupon poplar hawkmoth and eyed hawkmoth caterpillars were found too!
Its amazing what is there, living under your nose, if you just stop a while to look!
Last week I was stationed on the beach at Orcombe Point for the day, while classes from Withycombe Raleigh and Bassets Farm Primary Schools joined me for a super-quick exploration of the seashore. During the course of a 20 minute workshop, I was not expecting anything particularly unusual to appear, but how wrong I was.
As an October introduction to coastal wildlife, we kept warmly to the strand line and looked for shells, after all, the myriad of different shells to be found on the beach all have clues to their ecology hidden amongst them. And its a lot more comfortable than standing in a rockpool all day in the late Autumn!
Quite a few shore crab shells were found, some cast skins and some dead and smelly crabs. But then someone handed me this handsome fellow – a large hermit crab cast: exceptional!
Tough-as-boots shore crabs will shed their shells which can persist in the immediate area for weeks in calm weather. However hermit crabs have a much more delicate shell and, because of this, are far less frequently seen as casts. The abdominal section of this cast was not present, this is far too flimsy to survive washing ashore. However the legs, armoured claws and thorax carapace were all present and correct.
Spontaneity is everything when dealing with education in the natural world, no amount of planning would have prepared me for finding this species in the activity I was leading, but the group spent a valuable session comparing the two species of crab for similarities, differences and discussions about crustaceans ensued.
We were even able to sit these shells alongside the stony excrescence of a barnacle and attempt to see connections between these two distant relatives!
The autumnal sunshine blazed through the day, making this one of the warmest beach visits I have carried out at any time in the year, perhaps it would have been bearable in the water after all?
If you have a spare hour or two this weekend, why not head down to the beach and explore the strandline for sea creatures? Every one of the 300 or so 6-10 year olds who joined me last week was thrilled to be out on the sand in the sun, and I know they could have stayed and played all day!
As well as visiting the seafront beach, I would urge all of you to spend time admiring the view over the estuary in the next few months too. The brent geese are back and there’s plenty to look out for.
Local photographer Beryl Ladd sent me this photo of a dark-bellied brent goose on the estuary, which seems to have a set of rings. I will look into which organisation are running a brent goose ringing scheme and report back when I find out more.
Ringing is a means by which ornithologists can gather data about bird ecology and behaviour. Because all birds of the same species look largely identical to our eyes, giving an individual an identity can reveal an enormous amount about the bird and the species. Large birds, such as geese and swans can carry relatively large rings which are visible from distance with a good pair of binoculars. This means that identification can be made of individuals while they are alive and maps created, tracking their movement.
Smaller birds carry a tiny metal band on their legs with a serial number, which if found on a dead bird, should be reported to the British Trust for Ornithology, the organisation which administers UK bird ringing.
Statistics about length of life, distance travelled and even total distance travelled in a bird’s lifetime have been revealed thanks to the efforts of bird ringers around the world. For example, for many gardens in the region, their ‘resident’ garden blackbird may well be replaced by a European interloper this winter as our bird numbers are augmented by influxes of species from the continent.
More news to follow as I uncover it.
Sometimes in the course of my rangering duties, pretty often in fact, I have cause to feel very lucky indeed. Last monday was just one such moment.
I joined a team of enthusiastic foodies and fishermen on a Catch & Cook event, organised by Dart’s Farm. What a superb day, which showcased our local coast and countryside to its fullest.
The day started early with a hearty breakfast, before we trooped down to Exmouth Docks to get on board the Rose Ann for our day on the waves. The weather was superb, a blissfully sunny September morning with the promise of more sun to come. It was a day which put many of the August school holiday weeks to shame. In fact, by the end of our seven hours at sea I had caught plenty of sun as well as fish!
We met Mike and John on board, and set off for the hour’s motoring to the area we were to fish that day. It just so happened that the reef was due south of Seaton, which meant for the first hour we sailed blissfully past the entire East Devon coastline. And didn’t it look magnificent? I don’t get to see it from this angle very often, and by only looking upon the Jurassic Coast from land or a beach, you miss the point considerably.
We were about five or six miles off-shore, bouncing along at about 18 knots, and this provided a constantly changing backdrop of cliff colour, shape and activity. The cliffs rippled past like a sinuous wave, with each valley cutting its own cleft to the sea. Leaving the Exe we passed the Otter and Sid valleys, Branscombe vale shot back towards the West, before the Axe cut its way into view. In this time we had travelled past 120 million years of geology and spent the day fishing within site of all three eras. Perhaps this fact was a little lost of my fellow fishermen, and I didn’t want to get on my soapbox, they were here to enjoy themselves!
Once over the wreck we were issued with our reels and Ugly Sticks – strange name for a fishing rod, I never did ask why they were so called – and John made his way around the boat getting people ready to drop a line. I was politely last, waiting patiently for the weight to be loaded onto the simple rig and get my hook baited.
Its important to point out now my life history of fishing, it wont take long. When I was 12 my grandmother bought me so much tackle, rod, reel, video: the lot. A complete course fishing outfit. I was wide-eyed with excitement when I opened it Christmas morning, before spending many fruitless hours at Cheddar reservoir fishing for pike, perch, rudd, anything! A year later I had given up with not so much as a nibble. And that is pretty much how it has always been with me and fishing. I bought a beach caster and mackerel feathers a few years ago and had one evening on Budleigh beach when I landed three shimmering beauties, but otherwise I had similar luck to my childhood days. I am not much of a fisherman.
Today was set to be different though! I dropped my line over the side and, on its way down, the bait was snaffled by a modest sized pollack. I was totally chuffed to have broken the day’s duck and from there I landed two black bream (one was the size of a dustbin lid)and a large(ish) bass. Despite feeling a bit queezy through most of the day, the hours sped past and I couldn’t believe it was already time to head back to land and receive our masterclass in fish preparation from Dave Kurley at the Fish Shed.
The first fish of the day!
I know Dave from filming the award-winning Think Deep last summer, and he is a mine of information and a natural raconteur when it comes to fish. Everyone got stuck in, filleting, gutting and scaling the fish, while Dave gave the technical low-down on why some fish are left guts in and some have to be gutted as soon as landed. He even showed us how to fillet a flatfish, although i am not sure how many of us will be brave enough to attempt that with a £30 turbot any time soon!
The whole day was a celebration of what we have here. Right here on our doorstep. The distinctly French scene of fresh fish being prepared in front of an enthusiastic audience in the open air, was only betrayed by the accents and pots of tea on the tables. The vivid red cliffs were our wallpaper for a day on the bright, brilliant blue sea. The evening meal recipe… well, ok that was French but grilled fish with a simple burre blanc is surely the best way to appreciate four different and toe-curlingly fresh fish, isn’t it?
It reminded me, strangely, of my time living in London. It wasn’t until the last week before I moved to Exeter that I let my guard down and allowed myself to do the ‘touristy’ things. Here we were indulging in a day of fishing, which (for the complete ham-fisted novice) could not be bettered anywhere on earth!
Sure, apart from the fish there was a disappointing lack of dolphins, and a single guillemot, nine gannets and a skua was nice but not what I would have been looking for on a pelagic birdwatching cruise. But the event shed a beautiful autumn light on this part of the world and confirmed to me why so many people love to come here for their holidays. We are so lucky to call this home.
Increasingly people are emailing me photographs of wildlife they see while out and about in East Devon, sometimes for identification, sometimes for comment and often simply for my delight. It’s a lovely position to be in and I warmly encourage anyone to do the same.
A regular photographer and emailer sent me her photos of a grey seal seen in the upper Exe estuary near the confluence with the Clyst and it spawned the germ of an idea for this column.
Marine mammals, whether they are dolphins, whales or seals, always seem to raise excitement in people. I can see why. These animals, which share so many features with ourselves, they need to breath air and suckle their young on milk, however they manage to thrive in an environment so different to the one we are used to.
Totally pelagic species, that is to say animals which spend their entire time at sea, have come up with clever ways to sleep whilst swimming along. Dolphins for example are able to switch half their brain off at a time and cruise along on auto-pilot with the other half. This ability means they don’t drown when they doze, a distinct advantage!
Seals on the other hand, inhabit that halfway world between the open oceans and land. While they are comfortable diving for fish to depths of 70 metres with dives of up to 300 metres recorded, they still return to land to pup and are often seen sleeping out of the water in a characteristic banana shape. Seals also have the ability to sleep underwater, stopping breathing for up to 20 minutes snooze-time, and wrapping themselves in kelp to ensure they don’t drift off physically as well as metaphorically.
It is often a surprise to people that we can see seals along the East Devon coast, and that the Exe Estuary is a particularly good place to see one or two at any time of year.
The species of seal we encounter in East Devon is more frequently the Grey Seal, rather than the Common or Harbour Seal. While common seals are far from common in this part of the world, they have the largest distribution of any true seal and populate most seaboards in the northern hemisphere.
Grey Seals are only found in three distinct populations. The main population is found along the Eastern shores of Canada and North America, there is an isolated population in the Baltic sea and finally there is our friend here from the Eastern Atlantic. Greys can be identified by their long Roman nose, and nostrils which are almost parallel vertical slits, unlike the common seal’s cute ‘v’ shaped button nose.
The types of fish eaten by Grey Seals varies enormously, depending on season and location and all medium size fish, the occasional seabird and shellfish are known to grace the menu of the animal. An animal of this size, chomping away on specimen fish brings them inevitably into conflict with people who want to catch fish, namely fishermen. However they are quite rightly afforded special protection in the UK by the 1970 Conservation of Seals Act, brought in to protect them from persecution.
Grey seals pup on secluded beaches between September and November, called rookeries. Females give birth to a single white pup which feeds on rich milk and quickly gains weight at about 1.5 kilos a day. There are many reasons why fast development is necessary, as the female carries out all parenting herself, with bulls having very little to do with the process. As the weaning process begins, the females will mate with one or more males in preparation for the following year. The females then leave the pups, and the rest of the development takes place fuelled by the blubber layer. Having piled on the pounds, the pups shed their white downy fur after about a month, replaced by adult hair and a thick layer of blubber which will keep them warm as they learn to fish for themselves.
This lovely photo of a female grey seal gives a good idea of what to look out for if you are not lucky enough to spy one hauled out and banana-ing. The eyes are placed high on the head, so that only a small percentage of the animal is exposed when looking around.
*Although my favourite is: What is the largest animal that can single-handedly digest cellulose? Answer: Woodlice. All larger animals utilise symbiotic bacteria in the stomach to breakdown the tough fibrous material.
I’ll have a P please, Bob.
Sometimes nature can produce truly incredible instances. As this is a column which strives to bring you eyebrow-raising wildlife facts, I turned my attention across the Atlantic to allow me license to pen the dreadful title of this week’s article.
A man whose emphysema took a drastic turn for the worse with a collapsed lung, was mightily relived when Massachusetts doctors confirmed a pea plant had sprouted in his lung and caused the collapse. It is thought that a raw pea popped down the wrong tube and ended up in his lung rather than his stomach. In this warm, moist environment the pea decided to have a go at growing! Next thing you know, a blocked bronchus leads to a collapsed lung and the poor chap is fearing the worst. With the pea removed, Mr Sveden has confirmed that the incident will not dampen his appetite for the leguminous vegetable.
Last week saw the beginning of the East Devon coastal festival. A rather grand title for what is in effect, me spending time on the beach reveling in our fabulous marine wildlife! As ever, the best creatures were not found by me, but by the families enjoying the beach exploring the pools.
A positive constellation of starfish wrecked in the lower rockpools, confirmed thoughts from earlier in 2010, that this is indeed a starfish year. Further spawning this summer is leading to weakened common starfish being swept ashore in a swooning lethargy. A sorry sight, but confirmation that populations below the waves are in fine fettle.
The third little cuttle I have ever seen in Devon was fished out of a large pool, once again at Chit rocks in Sidmouth. These cephalopod molluscs are more closely related to slugs and snails but have advanced intelligence and identifiable emotional behaviour. Perturbed at being caught in a shrimp net and placed in a flat white tray, the cuttlefish shot about under jet propulsion, its skin flashing colour from pale white to dark chocolate, however no ink was released so perhaps the little fellow had jettisoned this when it was netted.
It is always a tear to put these fascinating little creatures back in the water, but they are simply too clever to keep in a stressful plastic tray for any period of time. As soon as everyone nearby had got a look at the little cuttle, back into a quiet corner of the rockpools it went, hopefully none the worse for its encounter.
The fish in question is a tompot blenny, a common sight for scuba divers and a not uncommon fish off our coast, but a rarity in the intertidal fringe of the beach. A family who had been rockpooling at Sidmouth and came over to get their bucketful identified made my day when, low-and-behold, their bucket contained a tompot!
At first (and this is a trap I’ve fallen into with bird identification too) I overlooked it as a large and well fed shanny. Impressive, but all too frequently seen. Its not that I am a pessimist, quite the opposite, but I simply wasn’t expecting to see this species in a castleated red bucket. At first it was the large and continuous dorsal fin which made my internal ID key twitch. Being out of the water the frilly appendages on its head were flattened and hard to see, but as I realised what the fish was, I dipped it back into the water and there, on the top of its head, appeared two antler-like fringes.
I corrected my first assumed identification immediately and was a babbling mess of excitement as I explained to the appropriately named Marriner family what they had found. This for me is the best thing about rockpooling, when compared to other forms of wildlife exploration. When it comes to birds, you really do have to be a seasoned birder, well versed in all the common species, before you can hope to find those illusive rarities. Sure, the unexpected stroke of luck is always possible – like the legendary nutcracker in a little old lady’s garden – but more often than not, its the same people which turn up the goodies.
In the rockpools however, all bets are off. The playingfield is leveled and everyone has an equal chance of finding the little cuttle or tompot blenny to get the pulse racing. I thanked Jason and his children so much for crossing the beach to find me, and a second thanks here in print is fully justified, I doubt that fish will be bettered this summer… or will it?
For more information on the East Devon coastal festival visit eastdevon.gov.uk/countryside or call 01395 517557.
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From Chocowinity,go east on #33 to Clay Bottom School Rd.,to Cotton Patch Rd., to 62 Crisp Landing Rd.
I was going to my blueberry patch to get some ripe berries.There sat this baby bird and refused to move. I ran and got my camera.
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2019-04-25T10:29:31Z
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The thesis traces the conditions of possibility for what we came to understand as ‘non-representational’ approaches to performing critique. In assessing different theatrical practitioners in Britain (in the form of case studies) that have challenged a politically prescriptive theatre, the thesis elaborates upon ideologically ‘incomplete’ ways of performing, in order to rethink the staging of critical practice beyond its subjection to mimesis, abstract significations and transcendental politics. Ways of rethinking theatre as a space in which politics is not transcendentally transmitted, but rather emerges within the performance-event, as well as questions of spectators’ emancipation from systems of power that have rendered them passive and immobile watchers of a spectacle are examined and challenged. In doing so, the research resonates with many ongoing discussions about the function and performance of critique, placing questions of spectatorship, de-objectification and representation at the heart of its analysis.
Considering political theatre as a plateau on which critique can be actualised as a ‘becoming’ in the ‘here and now’ of the event, the thesis explores the question of non-representational performance along three broad theoretical axes. First, it unfolds and critically exposes the limits of interactivity within performance practices, by considering dialogical processes of performing not as ends-in- themselves, but as starting points of challenging the problem of representation in political theatre. Secondly, the thesis examines ‘incomplete’ and fragmentary performances, suggesting that non-representational approaches to theatre are, in effect, a critique of teleological outcomes and determinate meanings; therefore, theatrical incompleteness is theorised as a tool of critical practices that become non-representational. Thirdly, in destabilising the problematic opposition between conditioning the spectator as object or subject, the thesis argues that the power relations in performance need to be destratified and transformed into productive variations, as a way to endorse a politics of presence in political theatre.
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2019-04-20T20:16:59Z
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More than 700,000 Iowans live in a child care desert. See how your part of the state fares.
More than 700,000 Iowans live in a child care desert.
The liberal-leaning Center for American Progress defines a child care desert as any census tract with more than 50 children younger than age 5 that has no child care providers or has more than three times as many children as it has licensed child care slots.
Across the state, 23 percent of Iowans live in a child care desert. The rate jumps to 35 percent for rural Iowans.
In total, the Iowa Women's Foundation estimates the state is short some 350,000 child care slots.
"It's a crisis," Iowa Women's Foundation executive director Dawn Oliver Wiand told the Des Moines Register for a recent story examining Iowa's rural childcare shortage.
More: Iowa families can't find child care, leaving parents out of the workforce. Many can't afford it, either.
Advocates say child care access is limited across all corners of the state.
This map shows the ratio of children younger than age 5 compared with the number of licensed child care slots.
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2019-04-22T04:17:58Z
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Batteries twice as powerful as those currently available may finally herald the breakthrough of electric cars. Developing such batteries is the goal of a European, DTU-led research project based on advanced materials research.
Technologically speaking, all the necessary systems for an electric car are in place—save one. This is the opinion of Poul Norby, Senior Researcher at DTU Energy, the Department of Energy Conversion and Storage.
The aim of the research project is to improve batteries so that electric cars can drive further on a single charge—and to reduce battery charging time. Photo: Joachim Rode.
Currently, the dominant rechargeable batteries on the market are lithium-ion-based. Lithium is the lightest metal and it has a low reduction potential, which means that it is possible to achieve a high voltage in the smallest possible battery unit—in technical jargon—an electrochemical cell. A single cell in a lithium-ion battery can generate a maximum voltage of 4 volts. This is much higher than with other concepts. The cells are placed in series to achieve the desired voltage, which is typically higher than 200 volts in electric cars. The higher the voltage in the individual cell, the fewer cells needed, and the cheaper and lighter the final battery.
Theoretically, it is possible to increase the voltage of a lithium-ion battery cell to about 5 volts—in other words, by a significant margin.
“If we succeed in significantly improving the batteries, it will be enough to secure a major breakthrough for electric cars,” says Poul Norby, adding that this is easier said than done.
“The big difference between lithium-ion batteries and the previous concepts for rechargeable batteries is that the electrolyte—that is to say, the medium through which the ions move during charging or discharge—is organic. On the one hand, this is good news because the organic electrolytes allow you to use higher voltages. On the other hand, there is an increased risk of adverse reactions, which at best means that the battery simply dies—or at worst that it causes a fire or other type of safety hazard.The higher the voltage and the more energy in the system, the greater the risk of adverse reactions. We are therefore focusing on how to keep the system stable when increasing the voltage level in lithium-ion batteries,” explains Poul Norby.
Among other things, it is interesting to see what happens in the interfaces between key elements of a battery—for example, between the positive pole (the cathode) and the electrolyte or between the negative pole (anode) and the electrolyte. In the best batteries, special conditions occur in the interfaces, thus protecting against degradation of the material. The researchers hope to find a way to improve the processes further—or at the very least ensure that the positive properties are retained—even when the voltage level is increased.
The European project is called Hi-C, where 'Hi' stands for High, while the ‘C’ is the unit representing how quickly you can draw power from a battery. 1 C is the power of a full discharge of a battery in the course of an hour. Among other things, researchers are studying processes in the batteries as they occur. This can be done using powerful X-ray sources known as synchrotrons. Several other techniques are also being used, among them electron microscopy and computer modelling.
“We are optimistic about finding ways of making lithium-ion batteries more efficient without compromising safety,” says Poul Norby.
The researchers, however, are also interested in completely different types of batteries—specifically other lithium battery concepts including lithium-sulphur and lithium-air—as well as other materials.
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According to Niels Buus Kristensen, Head of Department at DTU Transport and a member of the Danish government’s climate advisory committee, electric vehicles hold the key to a transport sector independent of fossil fuels.
"Electric vehicle of the future"
Associate Professor Esben Larsen from DTU Electrical Engineering shares his thoughts on how electric vehicles will develop in the future.
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Associate professor from DTU Transport, Stefan Lindhard Mabit’s assessment of the importance of economic factors for the spread and development of electric vehicles.
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