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This course emphasizes learning through practice, building on what students know and the introduction of new ideas, materials, and processes for artistic thinking and experimentation. Students will also learn about the connections between works of art and their historical contexts through a study of Western art history and art from other parts of the world.
A sketchbook will be maintained throughout the course as a notebook, design planning tool as well as a repository for visual information..
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http://timjbutler.weebly.com/grade-10-visual-art-avi-2o.html
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Business English means different things to different people. For many, Business English focuses on the vocabulary used in the universe of commerce, trade, finance, law and international relations.
Most international ESL teaching jobs require a work permit. In most countries, it is impossible to obtain a work permit for a professional ESL teaching position without a university degree and a professional ESL teacher training certificate. Link to TESL Career Training information.
For additional info Call 647 247 3897 or email: info (at) eslincanada (dot) com .
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http://news.eslincanada.com/?m=201602
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Discussion in 'LCD & LED LCD TVs Forum' started by Zdb, Dec 26, 2006.
I'm down to these two. Shading towards the Sharp due to its native resolution. Main use will be DVD's just now, and then the PS3 in Spring. Probably some Sky HD also at some point.
Any reasons for or against, or to confuse me more by adding another option ?
I find it strange that out of all the sets available you have narrowed your choice to a 720 and a 1080 product.
I have not seen a 1080 set than displays an SD feed as well as the best 720 sets.
High resolution does not ensure a better picture and currently the opposite is true for some products.
If you are mainly viewing a 1080 source and intend to sit close enough to see the additional detail then a 1080 set may be a better option for you, otherwise it may be a mistake.
Wholeheartedly agree with Rogerft on this.
Well set the set to 720, its bit late in day to buy a 1366x678 panel IMO, we have now got 1080p not only 1080i panels, esp when cost is as low as this.
99% of n00bs buy a HD Ready TV not knowing it can never show a 1080 pic in true res, they dont get told by shop its only the inputs that gets it the HD Ready cert, look at the total joke of Sammy Slimfit 408 CRT, its a normal SD screen.
from what ive seen of the sharp it produces a great picture with SD.
andrewfee owned the Sharp and Toshiba and he is very trustworthy and found the Toshiba better.
Going by what I have read here the Sharp IMO is the better TV even ignoring the 1080p/1080i 1920x1080 panel, the Tosh had my attention but its being out a while and some peeps here are not happy with it, If you get a Sharp with no banding your set for a good TV, and the 37" are said to not have this issue or rarely.
The current price on the Sharps makes it a no brainer.
I've got the Toshiba and it's a superb TV. Excellent with SD and HD and also has 3 HDMI ports!
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https://www.avforums.com/threads/tosh-37wlt68-vs-sharp-37x1de.445958/
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CLEVELAND, Ga. – A 13-year-old boy who died after being restrained at a state-run camp for troubled youngsters had told counselors he needed his asthma inhaler about an hour before he stopped breathing, records show.
Travis Parker (search) was restrained at the Appalachian Wilderness Camp (search) for roughly 90 minutes on April 20 by counselors who said he was acting belligerently, and during the first 10 or 15 minutes he asked for his inhaler, said a report obtained by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution (search).
However, counselors did not give him the inhaler because a certified emergency medical technician saw no indications such as wheezing that he was having an asthma attack and because the boy had a history of asking for his inhaler when he was being restrained, said the report from the state Department of Human Resources, which runs the camp.
It said Parker went limp and some of the children who witnessed the incident told investigators that counselors commented "He is playing the dead fish game, he's faking," the newspaper reported Saturday.
He died the next day at a hospital. Autopsy results are pending, and the Georgia Bureau of Investigation is looking into the death.
The boy's family expected he "would receive nurturing and support" at the camp, said a family statement. "Instead, sadly it appears the young Travis Parker received brutality and death."
Dena Smith, spokeswoman for the Department of Human Resources, said it was the first camper death at two state camps for children in the juvenile justice system or in mental health programs. She said staff members were put on administrative leave during the investigation.
Dr. Amy Hirsh, of the Peachtree Allergy and Asthma Clinic in Atlanta, would not comment on the incident, but said a child should never be denied an emergency inhaler.
"Untrained medical professionals should not make a judgment call on whether a patient needs his or her rescue inhaler or not. If a child asks for a rescue inhaler, they should be given it immediately without questioning," she said.
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https://www.foxnews.com/story/report-boy-13-asked-for-inhaler-before-death
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wordpress
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I feel like all of my tasks have been revolving around these invitations. I was hoping that by this point they would be mailed out. While prepping to take to the post office, I realized that the flaps were not closing and I needed to come up with a way to make it work. The easy way would have been to put a piece of tape or sticker to hold the flap down. But, we spent so much time working on these invitations, I just couldn’t justify taking that route. Thankfully, I found a fairly simple solution…envelope gum!
This tiny little bottle has enough “gum” for 1000+ envelopes for $5. Basically, all I had to do was put a thin layer on the end of the flap, seal the envelope, dry, and done! Since it is a pretty strong adhesive, I have tons of other crafts I think this would be perfect for.
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https://mzsura.wordpress.com/2011/03/09/envelope-gum-and-weights/
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A part of Hollywood history is now up for sale. The Los Angeles home where Quentin Tarantino filmed one of the most memorable scenes in Pulp Fiction, the cult movie he wrote and directed, is officially on the market for $1,395,000. The three-bed, two-bath house is 1,702 square feet and sits on a lot that runs an expansive 6,880 square feet. Built in 1936, the traditional-style home is modest on the outside, with painted wood paneling and an understated driveway that runs along one side of the home. The kitchen, which featured prominently in the film, appears to have many of the same features as it did back when the 1994 cult classic was filmed: scallop-edged stove hood, all-white cabinets and light peach tiled floors. The rest of the home includes hardwood floors, with built-ins and details like retro-style bathroom sinks still intact.
In Pulp Fiction, the residence belonged to Tarantino’s character Jimmie, and was the spot John Travolta’s character, Vincent, and Samuel L. Jackson’s character, Jules, fled to after Vincent accidentally shot someone in the face. Jimmie, who was irked that Vincent and Jules would bring a dead body to the house when his wife was due home any minute, called upon their boss’s “fixer,” played by Harvey Keitel. Both Vincent and Jules then stripped down and cleaned up; the scene ended with the contract killers standing in Jimmie’s backyard.
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https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/the-pulp-fiction-house-is-on-the-market-for-dollar14-million
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study
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The Cognitive Development in Middle Childhood chapter of this Life Span Developmental Psychology Help and Review course is the simplest way to master an understanding of cognitive development in middle childhood. This chapter uses simple and fun videos that are about five minutes long, plus lesson quizzes and a chapter exam to ensure students learn the essentials of cognitive development in middle childhood.
Verify you're ready by completing the Cognitive Development in Middle Childhood chapter exam.
Be Ready on Test Day: Use the Cognitive Development in Middle Childhood chapter exam to be prepared.
Get Extra Support: Ask our subject-matter experts any question on cognitive development in middle childhood. They're here to help!
This lesson looks at what cognitive impairment in children is, and how it becomes an issue. The reasons why children become or are cognitively impaired - medical condition, accident, genetic cause or due to disease - and how parents can help are detailed.
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https://study.com/academy/topic/cognitive-development-in-middle-childhood-help-and-review.html
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OTTAWA, April 9, 2015 – The Montreal daily newspaper La Presse and two of its journalists are the recipients of the 2015 President’s Award for Media in Architecture, given by The Royal Architectural Institute of Canada (RAIC).
A three-member jury recognized François Cardinal for a two-part series on the new McGill University Health Centre in Montreal. The articles titled Prix Citron and Maintenant, faut vivre avec were published in December 2014. In the first article, he takes a critical look at the design of a major public building and how it became a “failed opportunity,” for the City of Montreal. The second article was a commentary on the reactions of readers to his critique.
The jury also selected Lucie Lavigne for 14 videos on contemporary residential architecture produced in 2013-2014. They appeared online, and onLaPresse+, the digital edition for tablets which delivers print, Web, mobile applications and video–reaching more than 438,000 mobile readers per week.
“The jury was unanimous in recognizing the exceptional efforts made by La Presse in addressing diverse and relevant architectural concerns through its traditional print and groundbreaking electronic platforms and bringing these views to the attention of the public,” said the jury.
“The investigative work of François Cardinal brings forth the importance of architectural and urban-quality criteria in public commissions and large-scale urban projects,” they said. The jury also praised the showcasing of contemporary domestic architecture and architects in Ms. Lavigne’s video reports.
This award recognizes a book, a unique story, article, radio or television piece for its contribution to the wide-spread dissemination of architectural values and ideas.
The award will be presented at the RAIC Festival of Architecture taking place June 3 to 6 in Calgary, in partnership with the Alberta Association of Architects.
The jury members were Edmonton architect Vivian Manasc, PP/ FRAIC, Ottawa architect and urban design consultant Yves Gosselin, AP/FIRAC, and Montreal architect Philippe Lupien, MIRAC.
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https://raic.org/news/raic-announces-winners-president%E2%80%99s-award-media-architecture
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Here are a list of books I have read, reviewed and rated for this blog. They are placed under the star rating I gave them and in alphabetical order by name of the book so you can weed out the bad, and find them easily.
Predatory by Alexandra Ivy, Nina Bangs, Dianne Duvall, Hanna Jayne.
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https://jazminjade.wordpress.com/reviewed-rated/
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Kesha's ongoing legal battle with producer Lukasz Gottwald (a.k.a. Dr. Luke) has suffered another setback, with a New York appeals court ruling today to uphold the 2017 denial of the pop star's attempt to exit her contract with the producer. What's more, the producer is seeking $50 million USD in his defamation suit against the singer.
As The Hollywood Reporter notes, Kesha's countersuit against the producer was rejected in March of last year. At that point, New York Supreme Court Justice Shirley Kornreich agreed with Gottwald's lawyers that the singer should have provided notice of alleged contract breaches, while also ruling that her allegation of the impossibility of her performing under the deals was based on speculation.
An argument for Kornreich's decision could be supported by Kesha's release of full-length Rainbow in August of last year. She's also set to head out on tour alongside Macklemore this summer. However, the decision made today upholds the previous 2017 outcome that denied Kesha's attempt to get out of her contract with Dr. Luke.
"Kesha's proposed amendments are palpably insufficient and devoid of merit," today's decision reads. "Her counterclaim seeking declaratory relief terminating the agreements on the ground of impossibility and impracticability of performance was speculative, contradicted by her own allegations that she had continued performing under the agreements and, as to at least one of the agreements, the impossibility was not produced by an unanticipated event that could not have been foreseen or guarded against."
The decision also orders Kesha "to produce documents" of "communications between her counsel and press agents," as they "do not reflect a discussion of legal strategy relevant to the pending litigation but, rather, a discussion of a public relations strategy, and are not protected under the attorney-client privilege."
You can read today's decision in its entirety here.
Beyond that, The Blast reports that Dr. Luke has filed new court documents in his defamation case against Kesha, demanding $50 million USD in damages. In his claim, the producer states he has already lost work with Katy Perry. She released Witness last year, and it was her first album made without the producer.
Kesha's false accusations have caused tremendous damage to Dr. Luke, his family and his businesses. Kesha's recent court filing misstates and misrepresents an expert accountant's calculations of certain revenue that Mr. Gottwald has lost as a result of Kesha's false accusations. The ultimate amount of Dr. Luke's damages is for a jury to decide.
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http://octoberman.exclaim.ca/music/article/court_rejects_keshas_latest_attempt_to_exit_dr_luke_contract
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Since your reservation is so early at Chef Mickey's, I'd drive directly to Disney's Contemporary Resort for your 7 am breakfast reservation. You will be permitted to park at the resort during your meal. After breakfast, simply move your car over to the general Magic Kingdom parking lot. If you are a Disney resort guest, parking is free. From this parking lot, you can take either a ferry or a monorail to the Magic Kingdom.
Have fun at breakfast and say hi to Mickey for me! Thanks for posting your question to the Moms Panel.
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https://disneyparksmomspanel.disney.go.com/question/breakfast-chef-mickeys-off-magic-kingdom-question-189149/
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^ Will that pave the way for an Innocent adaptation, I wonder?
It's finally time for the next generation of super yuri mahou shoujos!
That's pretty nice. Good to have Nanoha returning to the anime world.
Would somewhat prefer the action you'd get in Force, but this will still have good moments.
The problem with Force, of course, is that we get an idiot male MC slotted in.
I think Innocent would have been better, if for Alicia. ALICIAAAAAAAAA!
In any case, in commemoration!
I think there were other problems with force, but let's not bring that up. This is a time to be happy.
While I do agree, I'm afraid Innocent is a little too much of a "for big fans only" sort of thing.
And don't forget the materials.
Been a while since we had a TV anime for Nanoha, and Vivid makes an excellent choice in that regard.
OH MY GOD I just pulled a Kid Dynomite when I saw this.
Move over, Sailor Moon! Move over, Cardcaptor Sakura! Hell, every magical girl needs to get out of the way. The Nanoha girls are FINALLY coming back after a freaking dinosaur's age!
Hmmm... one unusual thing about Vivid is that unlike the original, A's and StrikerS, this one will be adapting an already running pre-existing work, aka the manga.
Can't wait to see the good Numbers animated. It's been 7 years since the last TV anime.
Makes me wonder how far this is going to go. Especially since ViVid is still ongoing, and has only just recently gained a semblance of plot.
If it does well enough, here's to hoping that we'll get a Force adaptation as well.
Nanoha is back, baby! Seven Arcs is finally doing a new TV anime for Nanoha! I would have preferred a Force anime...but I'll take what I can get.
What's that? A new Nanoha TV anime? Has hell frozen over? I thought it was never going to happen at this rate. Not that I'm complaining. YAY.
Ah well. Vivid was always more awesome in my head than in actuality.
But then again, being able to venerate the Lord of Midchilda once more will be worth it.
We'll probably get a Force anime eventually. For now, I'm happy with what we get.
I haven't read that far into ViVid, but I liked what I read, so I'll be looking forward to this.
Agree. Would not surprised me if it comes a year after Vivid. If Vivid does well rating wise.
Yeah, glad to run with what we've got.
Of course this does have a different feel to it since it is an adaptation. Instead of just running a single story will have to consider how far into the material they want to go.
Damn, is this this best 10th Anniversary present ever!? Man, I'm so glad that Nanoha Vivid will be adapted into a TV Series!
On the other hand, will Seven Arcs pave a way for Nanoha Force adaptation?
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https://forums.animesuki.com/showthread.php?s=9a499db8d6e6fecfa6a61bffbb35deac&t=127716
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"This was actually a great moe. show considering there weren't any real surprises, i know cause i was also there. It happened to be my 53rd moe. show, so if you are interested in getting this show, pay no attention to moe.WANKs review. The Skrunk>Brent Black was pretty sweet."
"Went to this show after a little bit of MSTRKRFT. Complete WANKAGE. Skrunk>Brent Black was perhaps the worst moe. ive ever seen. On a side note, this show was NOT in ATL. It was in a suburb called Fairburn, GA. Way to release this one late, cuz in this case it is NOT better late then never. Put out an MMW soundboard instead, because it would be much more rewarding to the fans."
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https://www.nugs.net/live-download-of-moe.-the-echo-project-atlanta-ga-10-13-2007-mp3-flac-or-online-music-streaming/2245.html
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Myhre, G., F. Stordal, M. Johnsrud, A. Ignatov, M.I. Mishchenko, I.V. Geogdzhayev, D. Tanré, J.-L. Deuzé, P. Goloub, T. Nakajima, A. Higurashi, O. Torres, and B. Holben, 2004: Intercomparison of satellite retrieved aerosol optical depth over the ocean. J. Atmos. Sci. , 61, 499-513, doi:10.1175/1520-0469(2004)061<0499:IOSRAO>2.0.CO;2.
For an 8-month period aerosol optical depth (AOD) is compared, derived over global oceans with five different retrieval algorithms applied to four satellite instruments flown on board three satellite platforms. The Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) was flown on board NOAA-14, the Ocean Color and Temperature Scanner (OCTS) and the Polarization and Directionality of the Earth's Reflectances (POLDER) on board the Advanced Earth Observing Satellite (ADEOS), and the Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer (TOMS) on board the Earth Probe satellites. The aerosol data are presented on the same format and converted to the same wavelength in the comparison and can therefore be a useful tool in validation of global aerosol models, in particular models that can be driven with meteorological data for the November 1996 to June 1997 period studied here. Large uncertainties in the global mean AOD are found. There is at least a factor of 2 difference between the AOD from the retrievals. The largest uncertainties are found in the Southern Hemisphere, and the smallest differences mostly near the continents in the Northern Hemisphere. The largest relative differences are probably caused by differences in cloud screening.
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2019-04-25T03:58:26Z
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https://pubs.giss.nasa.gov/abs/my03000u.html
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Science
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They arrive in Canada by the thousands each year — children who have lived through the trauma and violence of war, family separation and loss. Many struggle in classrooms to fit in, and too many drop out. The University of Winnipeg’s Dr. Jan Stewart is leading a Canadian study aimed at helping these refugee youth navigate school and find meaningful careers.
Almost a quarter of a million newcomers settle in Canada each year – and 6,000 are refugees under the age of 18 (Statistics Canada, 2012).
The three-year study on refugee student integration involves researchers in Winnipeg, Calgary, St. John’s and Charlottetown. They are conducting extensive interviews in the community with organizations that assist refugees, examining current career development and counselling programs, and will hold regional focus groups. The study will also look at how to meet the career development needs of refugee youth and how to help them transition out of school and into the workforce. In Manitoba, Stewart is visiting and meeting with people on the front lines in Winnipeg, Altona, Portage La Prairie, Neepawa, Winkler, and Russell. The University of Winnipeg will host a national consultation with policy makers in 2016 to share results.
The study is funded by the Canadian Education and Research Institute for Counselling (CERIC) and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC).
Dr. Jan Stewart has conducted numerous seminars at national and international conferences on the needs and educational challenges of children who have been affected by conflict, violence, abuse, mental health issues, neglect, and human rights violations. She is the author of The Anger Workout Book for Teens, The STARS Program and The Tough Stuff Series; and a book entitled Supporting Refugee Children: Strategies for Educators (University of Toronto Press). UWinnipeg’s Global College awarded Dr. Stewart the 2010 Marsha Hanan Global Ethics Award.
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https://news-centre.uwinnipeg.ca/all-posts/bridging-two-worlds-helping-refugee-youth-succeed-in-canada/
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Note: Live sports coverage on ABC and FOX will likely result in greater adjustments than usual for the networks in the final nationals.
ABC’s “NBA Saturday Primetime” was off a bit from its season debut last week, but it still helped the network tie for the lead Saturday evening.
The Warriors-Clippers game delivered a 0.8 rating in adults 18-49, pending updates, tying a two-hour “Dateline” and “SNL Vintage” on NBC for the night’s top rating. FOX’s “UFC Fight Night” drew a 0.7, pending updates, and CBS’ “Ransom” posted a 0.4 for the third consecutive episode.
Next article Uncategorized'Vikings': Who will survive the Great Heathen Army's attack on Wessex?
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https://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/daily-ratings/tv-ratings-saturday-jan-28-2017/
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Florida is home to many species of oaks that vary greatly in overall size and form, longevity, and the growing conditions in which they thrive (Figure 1). Oaks grow in a variety of locations, ranging from the sandy, excessively drained soils of the Florida Sand Ridge to the poorly drained soils of alluvial bottoms. Individual oak species are adapted to different growing conditions.
Live oaks can be found throughout Florida under a variety of growing conditions.
There are many reasons landowners with an interest in wildlife should consider establishing or maintaining oaks on their property. The most compelling reason is that they produce acorns, which are an important food source for animals. Species such as white-tailed deer, gray squirrels, fox squirrels, flying squirrels, mice, voles, rabbits, raccoons, opossums, gray foxes, red foxes, wild hogs, wild turkey, bobwhite quail, wood ducks, mallards, woodpeckers, crows, and jays eat acorns (http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/uw292).
Landowners can increase the survival and reproduction of many animal species by providing a steady supply of acorns (Figure 2). This is because acorns become available during the time of year when many other foods are in short supply (fall and winter). The presence of acorns can reduce food stress and increase overall animal well-being, which in turn increases their resistance to disease and parasites. Abundant acorns can reduce the amount of time animals need to search for food, decreasing vulnerability to predators. Large acorn supplies can also decrease the distance of daily animal movements and decrease the likelihood that animals will embark on long distance movements away from your property. The abundance of acorns one year can even affect the reproductive success of animals the following year.
Acorns are a valuable source of food for many species of wildlife.
Another reason landowners might consider planting oaks is to reduce foraging pressure on other plants. In areas where deer browsing of agricultural crops or ornamental plants is problematic, the addition of oaks may reduce the problem by providing animals with an alternative food source.
See Tables 1 and 2 for a list of the oak species of Florida.
When managing oak trees for the purpose of providing benefits to wildlife, it is important to recognize that many differences exist among oak species. First, oaks of different species produce acorns that vary in nutritional quality (http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/uw292). Second, oak species differ in the timing of acorn production, with acorns from trees in the white oak group being available for shorter periods of time than acorns from the red oak group. Third, species differ in the quantity of acorns produced (see Table 3). Finally, only those species that are adapted to the region and to the specific growing conditions of a site will thrive and produce large quantities of acorns. For these reasons it is important that landowners interested in promoting wildlife establish a variety of oak species, with representative trees that produce acorns at different times, and to plant species adapted to the conditions of the site. This will increase the likelihood that food will be available each year, that food will be available for long periods of time within each year, and that food will be available in large quantities.
Landowners and land managers with large acreages should consider retaining or establishing oaks in both bottomland and upland sites. The activity of some wildlife species, such as wood ducks, is restricted to wet lowland areas, and streamside areas in bottomlands are frequently used by many wildlife species as travel corridors. Furthermore, the rich soils characteristic of these areas tend to produce large trees, and large trees can in turn produce large acorn crops for wildlife. On the other hand, species such as squirrels and rabbits are more common in upland sites. Upland areas planted with pine monocultures generally provide limited food sources for wildlife. By providing oaks in upland areas near pine plantations, land managers introduce both food and cover options for animals.
Overall animal species diversity can be increased in an area when acorns are available in both upland and bottomland habitats. By maintaining well-distributed and abundant food and cover sources throughout their property, landowners allow animals to better meet their needs within a relatively small space. This decreases the likelihood that animals will move to adjacent properties.
Choosing the correct oak species for a site is critical to success in establishing oaks (Tables 1 and 2). Some oak species thrive in wet bottomland soils (overcup, swamp chestnut, diamond-leaf, cherrybark, shumard, and willow oak), whereas others are suited to drier, upland soils (blackjack, bluejack, Chapman, turkey, and live oaks), and still others are adapted to both bottomland and upland sites (water, southern red, post oak).
Oaks are relatively difficult to establish by artificial means but readily reproduce from stump or root sprouts. Planting seedlings is more likely to lead to successful establishment of new oaks than is sowing acorns. On dry, upland sites, use containerized planting stock. A key to obtaining good survival with oaks is to use seedlings with large stem diameters (1 inch or greater). Plant seedlings during the winter when the soil is moist. Various browse guards can be used to protect seedlings from injury resulting from animal browsing. A small amount (1/4 cup) of granular fertilizer such as 10-10-10 may be applied around the base of each seedling in early spring. Newly established oaks are sensitive to competition, so if grasses are abundant, prepare the site with an herbicide such as glyphosate (Roundup®, Accord® XRT II) in the growing season before planting. Treat a five-foot-diameter circle and mark the center where the seedling will be planted with a wire flag.
During the establishment period, which may last from 1 to 3 years, the above-ground portions of many planted seedlings tend to die back, sometimes to ground-line, while the root system is developing. This dieback often occurs during periods of dry weather or winter months (in north Florida) and is most common on upland sites. Should dieback occur, new shoots normally emerge from the green stem or root collar, and when the root system is adequate to support top growth, the seedlings will start to grow normally. Oaks grow very slowly when they are young, particularly if they are shaded.
Oaks are generally not shade-tolerant. When establishing oaks in an existing forest, seedlings should be planted where there is adequate sunlight to support their growth. Large openings in the forest canopy (50 feet across or more) caused by natural tree mortality or the intentional cutting of less desirable species make ideal planting sites. In areas where few or no oaks currently exist, establishment of approximately five oaks per acre is recommended to provide food for wildlife. Even with the best care at least five seedlings should be planted for each mature, acorn-producing oak desired, because several may die and several others may never produce large crops of acorns.
Acorn production varies not only among species of oaks, but also among trees within a single species. Healthy oaks with room to grow generally produce more acorns. In areas where oaks are present in greater densities than desired, it is wise to determine which individual trees consistently produce the greatest yield of acorns. Retain these trees and harvest the poor acorn producers. Removing the poor acorn producers will likely increase acorn production in the remaining trees.
The number of acorns a tree produces is influenced by many factors, including weather patterns, soil characteristics, density of overstory trees, the presence of disease and insects, and characteristics of the tree itself, such as age, size, crown area, and genetics. Trees should be monitored for several years to determine which consistently produce high acorn yields. Each year, use binoculars to inspect tree crowns before acorns begin to drop, and classify the trees as either above or below average acorn producers. Mark good acorn producers each year, and target for harvest only those trees that consistently produce below average yields. Individual oaks generally have large crops at irregular intervals, spanning from 2 to 10 years, so it is important to monitor acorn production for a minimum of 3 to 5 years before deciding which trees to harvest.
As a general rule, acorn yields increase as trees age, up until the point in time where portions of the trees begin to die. Also, a greater proportion of large trees produce acorns than small trees. Both of these reasons may tempt landowners to remove smaller, younger trees to hasten the growth and reduce competition for larger, older trees. It is important to remember, however, that some trees of younger age classes will be needed to replace older trees as the older ones die. If all oaks are of the same older age class, there may be a long period of time with low acorn availability when older trees have died and younger trees are not yet producing good crops.
Some oaks respond positively to fertilization, whereas others do not. Fertilization may increase diameter or height growth, and under certain conditions it may increase acorn production. However, the response of individual trees to fertilization is variable, so time and money is probably better spent on other habitat improvements rather than on oak fertilization.
Most native oaks do not begin producing significant acorn crops until they reach about 20 years of age. Therefore, oak management should be viewed as a long-term investment in habitat improvement for wildlife. Sawtooth oak (Quercus acutissima), a non-native species originally from Asia, was once recommended to landowners interested in increasing mast availability in the southeastern United States because it produces acorns at a much younger age than most oak species native to the region. However, given the short period of availability of acorns from this exotic species and the multitude of native oak species available in Florida, planting a variety of native species of oaks is considered a superior alternative to planting sawtooth oaks.
Byrd, N. A. and H. L. Holbrook. (1974). How to improve forest game habitat. Forest Management Bulletin. USDA Forest Service, 1720 Peachtree Road, NW, Atlanta, GA 30309. 6 pp.
McShea, W. J., and Healy, W. H. (2002). Oak Forest Ecosystems: Ecology and Management for Wildlife. John Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, MD.
Name, distribution, and habitat characteristics for species in the white oak group.
Name, distribution, and habitat characteristics for species in the red oak group.
Expected acorn yields of several species of oaks with different diameters. Diameter at breast height (DBH) is measured in inches, basal area (BA) in square feet, and acorn yields in pounds (after being air dried). Adapted from Byrd and Holbrook (1974).
1 Diameter at breast height (DBH) is the tree diameter at 4.5 feet from the ground, used to measure tree size.
2 Basal area (BA) is the cross-sectional area of stems at 4.5 feet from the ground, used to measure tree density.
This document is WEC249, one of a series of the Department of Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, UF/IFAS Extension. Original publication date August 2008. Revised April 2014. Reviewed June 2017. Visit the EDIS website at http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu.
Holly K. Ober, associate professor and Extension specialist, Department of Wildlife Ecology and Conservation; and Patrick J. Minogue, assistant professor and Extension specialist, School of Forest Resources and Conservation; UF/IFAS North Florida Research and Education Center, Quincy, FL 32351.
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Nissan’s new all-electric LEAF is getting mixed reviews, with some new owners complaining the car doesn’t give them ample warning when it’s about to run out of power, according to an MSNBC.com report.
the Leaf suddenly paring back the estimates of its range in the middle of a trip, ending in a brief “turtle” mode — marked by an orange turtle icon on the Leaf’s dash — followed by the car shutting down to prevent battery damage.
Around downtown the range is down to 8 miles (still plenty to get home, which was by then 5 miles away). At the ship-canal bridge it went into turtle, I barely got off the freeway. 2 Mile from home and after about half the distance it told I would have from the airport, i.e. 13 actual miles driven, it went dead. I actually managed to drive 400 yards in turtle mode. 10:30 pm, wife and screaming kids in the car (which was blocking the right lane of a busy road), just came back from the east coast, cars zooming by and honking, several near misses.
The 24-kilowatt hour lithium-ion battery packed beneath the floor can provide a maximum range of 100 miles on a single charge. But that depends on what options the driver is running, the road conditions, speeds, and the weather.
This, of course, will be less of a problem when there are more charging stations publicly available for a quick top-off.
To help ease “range anxiety,” city and state leaders are trying to build out a network of fast-charging public stations where drivers can top off if needed. In addition to the EV project, Seattle received a $500,000 federal grant to install 50 charging stations on city properties. Twenty-six will be installed next year, with the first one at the Seattle Municipal Tower. King County also plans to install 200 charging stations at transit park-and-rides, van pool sites, and motor pool lots.
The Leaf’s navigation system can direct you to the nearest charging station. To plug in, you pop a hood in front. All Leaf models are equipped to plug in to Level 2 240-volt charging stations, which take about 8 hours to restore full battery power. As part of the federally-funded EV Project, about 1,000 free 240-volt home-charging stations will be provided to Nissan Leaf owners selected to participate.
For more, you can read about seattlepi.com’s test-drive of the Nissan Leaf.
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https://blog.seattlepi.com/transportation/2011/03/21/empty-some-nissan-leaf-owners-report-getting-stranded-msnbc/
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Social media is ruining childhood?
At the beginning the agree was winning, but the post the disagree took the cake and won the debate. For me I disagreed to the argument like many others in the class, and this ways due to what was talked about in the debate that the person that has the social media account is responsible factor and is the person that should be blamed if wrongdoing is done by them on the account. Technology as of right now doesn’t have a mind of its own and the account of the social media can’t take on a life of its own like a south park episode, so the person that controls the account has to be held accountable to their actions on the account. To have a social media account the person has to be mature about what the put online cause once it goes up on the web it can’t be taken down fully.
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We picked up this on the wires a couple of days ago and have been massaging our Yamaha contacts to get more information on it. But so far, there’s nothing doing – we’ve only been told that it’s “at the conceptual stage�. However, if you attend the Siggraph show in LA you will see it on display – if you do, please drop us a line. It’s great news that there’s still a desire to push technology forward in terms of interface and instrument design, we’re jolly excited.
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https://sonicstate.com/news/2005/08/03/yamahas-brand-new-prototype-thing-a-me-jig/
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Bangert, U., Pierce, W., Ramasse, Q.M.et al.,, Nano Letters 13 (2013), pp. 4902-4907.
Pan, C.-T., Hinks, J.A., Ramasse, Q.M., Greaves, G., Bangert, U., Donnelly, S.E. and Haigh, S.J. Submitted (2014).
Susi, T., Kotakoski, J., Kepaptsoglou, D., Mangler, C., Lovejoy, T.C., Krivanek, O.L., Zan, R., Bangert, U., Ayala, P., Meyer, J.C. and Ramasse, Q.M. Submitted (2014).
Ramasse, Q.M., Seabourne, C.R., Kepaptsoglou, D.M., et al., Nano Letters 13 (2013), 4989-4985.
Hage, F.S., Ramasse, Q.M., Kepaptsoglou, D.M., et al., Physical Review B 88 (2013), 155408.
Hage, F.S., Kepaptsoglou, D.M., Seabourne, C.R., et al., Nanoscale 6 (2014), p. 1833-1839.
SuperSTEM is funded by the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC).
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https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/microscopy-and-microanalysis/article/atombyatom-stem-investigation-of-defect-engineering-in-graphene/B49DB9C4CAD13F0C0C46C037D2082118
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Sam Raimi Moving on to World of Warcraft Film Next?
I'm sure we'll be hearing much more about from the fallout of yesterday's news that rocked Hollywood and it seems those left behind are moving on. Ain't It Cool News is reporting that Sam Raimi could be moving on to direct Warcraft: Rise of the Lich King now that he's not directing Spider-Man 4.
We announced Raimi's involvement in the film last July, but it wasn't clear when he would direct the film. Here's an excerpt from the site's article.
Well, I chatted with someone that knows - and I feel confident in saying that the next film we'll see from Raimi is going to be Warcraft... which after Avatar, the concept of world building that particular universe could be astonishing - especially in 3D - especially after what Cameron just unleashed upon the globe. World creating Science Fiction & Fantasy... done by visionary filmmakers ... well, it is a premium. We got The Hobbit coming, looks like an Avatar 2... but the word I hear is that today - the phone lines were burning between a certain legendary locale and Raimi's folks about firing up the furnaces to forge the weapons of war.
The "legendary locale" they're referring to could mean Legendary Pictures, which is on board producing the Warcraft film.
We'll be sure to keep you posted on any and all developments with Raimi's Warcraft|+|Warcraft: Rise of the Lich King} film as soon as we have more information.
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https://movieweb.com/sam-raimi-moving-on-to-world-of-warcraft-film-next/
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The Canadian rapper is smiling in the stands as Serena claims victory over Camila Giorgi and earns her place in the semifinals.
AceShowbiz - Rapper Drake has proved he still has love for his ex Serena Williams by cheering on the tennis superstar at Wimbledon on Tuesday, July 10.
The God's Plan hitmaker was romantically linked to Serena back in 2011 and again in 2015, when he last sat courtside at the top London tournament to support the sports icon as she secured her sixth U.K. championship win and her 21st major title.
This week, after his surprise set at the U.K.'s Wireless Festival on Sunday, July 08, Drake was back at Wimbledon as he attended Serena's quarterfinal match against Italy's Camila Giorgi.
Drake was photographed smiling in the stands as Serena came back from losing the first set to claim victory over Giorgi, earning her place in the semifinals.
Williams is back in action at Wimbledon following a hiatus from the tennis circuit after becoming a mother last year (17).
Serena and Drake have been friendly for some time, and even sparked rumours of an engagement three years ago - claims William's representative shot down.
"Serena Williams and Drake are not engaged," the spokesperson told GossipCop.com at the time. "They are simply longtime friends."
The star athlete went on to marry Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian last year (17). They are parents to 10-month-old daughter Alexis Olympia.
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Copyright 1998 by Margaret O'Neill Adams.
Data files constitute most of the electronic records currently accessioned into the National Archives. They come from the use of data processing technologies, tools that have supported the running of government and business throughout the 20th century. The West has dominated the data or information processing industry from the beginning of the century, through the epoch of the Cold War, to the present. Note 1 It follows then that data processing applications supported a wide range of U.S. federal government programs related to the Cold War and that the electronic records that remain from computer-based data processing are valuable primary source material for this epoch. Further, electronic records series include technical documentation for their respective data files, adding to the corpus of primary sources.
Information is recorded in data processing records as coded alphabetic or numeric characters, or some combination of such values, sometimes interspersed with literal textual fields. Most frequently, this form of electronic records is not suited to traditional "reading" by a researcher, not only because the records consist of digital bytes, but also because they do not represent narrative material. However, technical documentation describes the structure of the records, identifies the values of any coded data elements, and includes other information necessary for using the electronic data. Sometimes there is additional contextual or supplementary information. Most technical documentation for electronic records from the Cold War era is eye-readable textual material, usually on paper or microfiche, that may offer evidence or perspective not readily accessible in any other records.
The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) has had a program for electronic records (formerly called machine-readable records) since 1969. At present, the Center for Electronic Records is the unit in NARA with custodial responsibilities for this records type. The Center's program does not include retrospective conversion of eye-readable paper documents into a digital format. NARA has a digitization project underway, known as the Electronic Access Project (EAP), but the Center has no programmatic relationship to the EAP.
Most of the electronic records in the Center's holdings have been created since the 1960s, when the U.S. federal government adopted mainframe computer technology for data processing. However, the Center's holdings also include data files and their technical documentation from the earliest pre-mainframe days of the Cold War. Some of these are records that agencies originally created on punched cards. In most such cases, the creating agencies migrated the punched card records they needed to an electronic format when they adopted newer technologies than the card tabulation equipment used in the first 60 years of applied data processing. By the time agencies transferred these records to NARA, they were in digital files and came to be called electronic records. Since those early days of computer-based data processing, the universe of electronic records has expanded to include many different kinds of electronic records, but data files were the first kind.
A more recent category of electronic records, familiar to anyone who uses a personal computer, is the kind we create with office automation utilities or tools like word-processing or e-mail or other messaging systems. They generally resemble traditional archival records, i.e., documents, in ways that electronic data records do not. Most electronic records created with office automation store free form text and are human-readable and comprehensible when displayed or printed. This explains, at least in part, why contemporary historians, archivists, journalists, lawyers, and judges are preoccupied by the challenges of preserving for posterity the essential evidence created with office automation. While this attention is warranted, it would be unfortunate if it obscured the research value of electronic data records.
To date, electronic records from office automation applications have not been transferred to NARA in substantial volume because their creators are still using them or because they are too new. While we anticipate receiving a variety of the newer kinds of electronic records series in the near future, we have very few such series at present, and they are not the focus of NARA's current electronic records custodial activities. Thus this paper does not discuss them.
While data files are the earliest form of electronic records, they continue to be produced and used by agencies of the U.S. federal government -- and by governments, businesses, institutions, and organizations everywhere. The computerization of information in the 20th century makes retention of, access to, retrieval from, or analysis of data possible in ways that simply were not practical when data were recorded on clay tablets, in manuscript formats, or in modern types of paper records. Data recorded on all those media tended to be voluminous and expendable. Punched cards added to the volume, and few people appreciated their documentary value for secondary analysis. So most federal data records series from the punched card era that agencies did not migrate to digital formats were not appraised as having long term value. Electronic data files are the descendants of punched card files, albeit in a format that makes the issue of volume relatively moot. Given their lineage, however, it has taken a while for many people to recognize the long-term value of this post-World War II form of documentary material. Fortunately, some understood. As a result NARA now preserves a significant body of electronic records from the early application of computer-based data processing in governmental programs, including hundreds of files related to the Cold War.
Technical documentation from opinion polls provides a different form of evidence and can tell its own story, independent of the responses or their analysis. NARA has a significant body of electronic data files and their documentation from polls gathered throughout the world in Cold War-related research by the Department of Defense and by the United States Information Agency (USIA). NARA's textual (paper) records also preserve case files and/or reports of the official government analyses of poll data, often products of the very same polls for which NARA preserves the original individual responses in an electronic format.
Some of the earliest opinion polling undertaken on behalf of the U.S. government predates the Cold War. Among the documentary materials of this activity are records of the Army Research Branch from a project that encompassed well over 200 surveys of the opinions of U.S. military personnel during and at the end of World War II. They are collectively known as "The American Soldier in World War II." Note 5 Some of the questions posed in these surveys are prescient in using terminology that a few years later would be considered reflective of Cold War thinking. One series of 15 polls with electronic records in NARA's holdings, taken between June 1944 and August 1945, queried soldiers concerning a variety of issues related to the post-war world. In the technical documentation for a survey of 2981 enlisted men in the European Theater interviewed in August 1945, just after the news of victory over Japan, we find a simple question like: "How do you think we will get along with Russia after the war?" Immediately following, the question was repeated, substituting Britain for Russia. A bit further into each interview, the soldiers were asked whether they agreed or disagreed with statements like, "Russia is more interested in dominating or controlling the world than she is in building a truly democratic world. Britain is more interested..."
In this case the technical documentation includes a distribution of the frequency of each category of response to each question. From it we learn, for example, that 32 percent of the soldiers responded to the first question above by choosing the statement "we will disagree about some things [with the British] but manage to get along," while 24 percent indicated the same expectations for future relations with Russia. More positively, 41 percent of the soldiers disagreed with the second statement, that Russia was more interested in dominating the world than in building a truly democratic world, while 45 percent disagreed with this statement as applied to the British. Note 6 Researchers interested in analyzing these responses by controlling for individual characteristics that might have influenced the soldiers' responses, or in comparing the relationship of these responses to others, can acquire copies of the complete data files and analyze the records, for as long as they wish, using whatever computing hardware and software they have available for their work.
Electronic records preserved at NARA also reflect the uses of data processing technology for basic record-keeping on the administration of foreign military sales, assistance, and direct defense expenditures and receipts throughout the world during the Cold War, and on the "prime" contracts awarded by the Department of Defense during this period. All are in Record Group 330, Records of the Office of the Secretary of Defense. They include Foreign Military Sales, Item Detail and Case Report Systems files, FYs 1950-1986. These data record sales of military equipment and services by the U.S. to allied and friendly foreign countries under the terms of the Foreign Military Assistance Sales Act, as amended. Data for FYs 1950-1963 are combined, but after that the records of the Master Item Detail file appear to be on an item sold basis. There are over 300,000 records in the file; among the data elements are identification of the country and the values of the items sold.
A related series comes from the Military Assistance Program. A single file, known as the Master Program/Delivery Detail file for FYs 1950-1986, records military assistance by the U.S. to friendly foreign countries, in accordance with the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, as amended. Approximately 160,000 records identify the country to which the U.S. gave loans and grants for specific military equipment and/or training to senior military officers in the U.S., and detail about the loan or grant. As with the foreign military sales data, military assistance data for FYs 1950-1963 are cumulative.
The third series are the data known as the International [military] Balance of Payments (IBOP) for FYs 1960-1985. The Department of Defense compiled more than 160,000 IBOP records in order to report to the Bureau of Economic Analysis, Department of Commerce, and to the Department of the Treasury on the outlays for goods and services purchased abroad under all U.S. defense programs by the Military Departments and the Defense Agencies. There are six categories of expenditures. One of them captures information on U.S. payments for the commonly funded NATO infrastructure program. Each record identifies the U.S. military service involved, the recipient country, and the goods or services and their dollar value.
Military Prime Contracts Files cover contracts valued at $10,000 or more awarded by the Department of Defense FYs 1966-1975, and the Defense Contract Awards Data System records similar information beginning in FY 1976 for contracts valued at $25,000 or more. Each of the above series uses some data elements in common with one or more of the other series, or has a code serving as a cross reference. Therefore, taken together or individually, all of these electronic records series, initially created to serve an administrative function, represent valuable primary documentation for any researcher seeking to analyze the economics, as well as policy aspects of U.S. military sales, assistance, direct expenditures and contracts during the Cold War.
NARA's electronic records also include an example of a large-scale database system that served to abstract and catalog major collections of textual material in the U.S. Agency for International Development (AID). AID's Development Information System dates from 1976, but includes records on documents and projects from FY 1950 through mid-1989. Its databases form an institutional memory for the development assistance projects and programs AID has supported worldwide.
Electronic records at NARA document another engagement of the U.S. military during the Cold War, the 1983 military action on the island of Grenada. The combined forces of the U.S. military and of the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States found roughly 35,000 pounds of what they considered to be documentary evidence of the activities of the Grenadian government and New Jewel party leaders. It was brought to the U.S., where the Defense Intelligence Agency microfiched it and created an electronic index to the microfiche. While the U.S. returned the "captured documents" to Grenada, NARA preserves the electronic index and the microfiche in R.G. 307, Records of the Defense Intelligence Agency.
All of the electronic records related to the Cold War discussed above came from a remarkable number of programs within the Department of Defense and from two then-independent foreign policy-related agencies, USIA and AID. However, the impact of the Cold War on the U.S. government and society was more pervasive than the above selection of electronic records suggests. It affected U.S. federal record-keeping in subtle and surprising variety, well beyond the series discussed so far. Thus we turn to describing a few of the electronic records series at NARA that offer evidence of some of the non-defense, non-foreign policy facets of the Cold War.
Since the end of World War I, the U.S. government has kept rosters on scientific and technical personnel to use in the event of a national emergency. Shortly after the National Science Foundation (NSF) was established in 1950, at the beginning of the Cold War, NSF became responsible for producing the registers and expanded their scope. They approached this task systematically, relying on data processing and collaborating with professional scientific associations nationwide. NARA now preserves the electronic National Register of Scientific and Technical Personnel for 1954, 1958 and biennially through 1970; and the National Engineers Register for 1964, 1967, and 1969, in R.G. 307, Records of the National Science Foundation. They offer insight into scientific manpower planning during some of the Cold War.
As we have discussed, government and the general society have been using computers and predecessor tabulating machines to facilitate recordkeeping throughout the 20th century, especially in the past four decades. Thus fewer and fewer mid- to late 20th century historical subjects can be comprehensively researched without at some point involving analysis of relevant electronic data records. This essay is selective rather than comprehensive in suggesting the scope of federal electronic data records on Cold War topics that NARA preserves. Researchers who utilize any of the electronic primary source material we have described have an opportunity to discover for themselves the conclusions to be drawn from analysis of the records. In the course of their discovery, they may also gain new perspectives on the evolving relationship of technology and the historical record.
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Advancements in computational geometry have had wide influence in practical design fields. However, existing 3D modeling software often serves as a low-level implementer of instructions from users, which requires both expertise in modeling and experience in design. In my work, I have developed computational design tools to expand the possibilities for digital design of physically realizable products. I will describe my primary contributions in fabrication-oriented design and its applications to a variety of tasks. I’ll conclude by discussing how computational design tools can assist users in making design decisions.
Xiaoting Zhang is a postdoctoral researcher in Computer Science at Boston University. She received her Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering and Automation from The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Her history also includes a stint as a researcher at Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences. The goal of her research is to develop computational design tools for customization. Her current research revolves around shape modeling and optimization for digital manufacturing.
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"Toward a Theory of Whistleblowing Intentions: A Benefit-to-Cost Differ" by Mark Keil, Amrit Tiwana et al.
In order to rescue information technology (IT) projects when they go awry, it is critical to understand the factors that affect bad news reporting. Whistleblowing theory holds promise in this regard and a number of salient factors that may influence whistleblowing intentions have been identified. However, an integrative theory that explains how they influence whistleblowing intentions has been conspicuously absent. In this research, we introduce and test a middle-range theory of whistleblowing that can explain how and why a variety of factors may influence an individual's whistleblowing intentions. Drawing on the social information processing perspective, we propose that individuals holistically weigh the perceived “benefit-to-cost differential” and that this mediates the relationship between whistleblowing factors and whistleblowing intentions. Tests using data collected from 159 experienced IT project managers largely support our theoretical perspective, in which the central explanatory variable (benefit-to-cost differential) significantly mediates a majority of the proposed relationships. Implications of these findings for research and practice are discussed.
Keil, Mark, et al. "Toward a Theory of Whistleblowing Intentions: A Benefit-to-Cost Differential Perspective*." Decision Sciences 41.4 (2010): 787-812.
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"New Times Call for New Passwords"
"New Times Call for New Passwords" (2008). News Releases. 1702.
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https://ecommons.udayton.edu/news_rls/1702/
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This entry was posted in Copyright © 2008 - 2020 Ryan Ngala's Poems™ | STN® Poetry™. All Rights Reserved., Copyright © 2012 - 2016 STN® Poetry™. All Rights Reserved.. Bookmark the permalink.
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https://stnpoetry.wordpress.com/2017/12/19/national-anthem-protest-ryan-ngala/
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You know, who tells the stories of a culture really governs human behaviour,” he said. ‘It used to be the parent, the school, the church, the community. Now it’s a handful of global conglomerates that have nothing to tell, but a great deal to sell.
The whole problem with news on television comes down to this: all the words uttered in an hour of news coverage could be printed on a page of a newspaper. And the world cannot be understood in one page.
This is a separate entry for Neil Postman resources and material.
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2019-04-21T06:25:36Z
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https://soundmission.wordpress.com/tag/media-ecology/
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Hey guys, click on the link and you'll listen to a voice clip.
I want you to tell me if the girl who's speaking has an Asian accent.
Maybe you find a different accent. Just tell me what you think.
No, does it sound like it?
:? Don't know. Some Asians I know sound like White or Black people talking, and some just sound ESL. And I still don't know what an Asian accent is supposed to sound like, so no opinion, I guess.
Well, do you remember when your family moved to the US? How did you guys sound when you started to learn English? Didn't you guys sound Asian speaking in English?
I'm sure you've heard some of your cousins speaking like that.
Actually no. We sounded like Vietnamese with bad English. My cousins sound like people who are born here with no accent or California accent if you're defining it in teachnical term. My cousin's wife came here when she was two years old, but sometimes she still has that Chinese accent, which she pronounce some words really Chinesy. My cousin's friend was born in the States, but she has a strong Chinese accent when she's mad. Otherwise, she has American accent. So, what kinda Asian accent are you asking about? the born here one or the ESL one? :?
And why do you need to know, J.?
Who's she? And who's that someone? I'm really curious now.
It sounds Asian to me. And to make sure I gave it to Chris. He said it sounds like Hong Kong accent. Now your turn.
Why the media is removed ?
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https://www.englishclub.com/esl-forums/viewtopic.php?f=125&t=37988&p=280733
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The beloved cast of Jersey Shore Family Vacation returns to MTV when season two of the reality show kicks off on Thursday. But before we get to see all the drama unfold in back-to-back episodes, the network released a chaos-filled trailer to hold us over.
According to MTV, "this season is the wildest one yet," and we believe it! In the sneak peek teaser, Ronnie Ortiz-Magro's complicated, on-and-off relationship with Jen Harley continues to play out, and at one point, the mother of his 4-month-old daughter calls him a "f**king psychopath."
"There's no one that does relationship drama better than Ronnie," Vinny Guadagnino exclaims in the clip.
Relationship drama aside, there's also plenty of fist pumping, twerking, drinking, fighting and a cameo from Angelina Pivarnick as the crew parties hard in Las Vegas before their return to their home turf, Seaside Heights.
"We totally have not grown up," JWoww dishes. "We're living our best lives in our 30s, as 12-year-olds."
The Jersey Shore Family Vacation season two premiere airs Thursday at 8 p.m. ET/PT on MTV. In the meantime, watch the video below to hear what the cast told ET when we exclusively chatted with them earlier this year.
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2019-04-24T08:46:52Z
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https://www.etonline.com/jersey-shore-family-vacation-promises-wildest-season-yet-watch-the-part-2-trailer-108422
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This week was more self directed, and were asked to light three scenes from a Shakespeare play. This involved reading through the scenes and deciding on lighting cues, which lights needed to be rigged and where, the colours which could be used and also any gobos or other effects.
We had the opportunity this week to have a look at how successful our gobos were. We were set a task in the first week where we had to design a gobo under a group theme, draw it onto AutoCAD or Illustrator, and then give it to Mick to be laser cut. In this Fridays session I put my gobo into the gobo holder and tested it out against the screen. our group decided to do a ’50s Wallpaper’ theme and so I was quite impressed with the result.
Our second task for the day was setting a scene, and my group was given ‘sunlight into a bedroom’. This was quite handy as I had made some shutters for our actual set in the week, and so we were able to use that with a soft yellow light. We quickly created a bed out of chairs and rigged the lantern onto the stand behind the shutters so the light filtered through and it looked quite realistic. The gel we chose was quite yellowy and so it looked like the sun setting in the early evening of a summers day.
We were also asked to bring a copy of an ‘Old Master’ to the session in order for us to recreate the lighting within the picture. This is the one we chose, and we recreated it by directing a Pinspot into a lantern which we found, and having red under lighting for Jesus.
The other groups also did their recreations of Old Masters and it was interesting to see the transition from an image to actual real-life lighting.
This week in the lighting session we were divided into groups; working at height with Adam and looking at coloured lighting with Shane. The first half of the day I was looking at gels and how they can change the colour of the light. I was surprised at the amount of different colours there were, and also that the gels were actually made out of special material which doesn’t catch fire when subjected to high temperatures. We were also shown inside Shane’s office which holds all the electrical systems for the lights.
I was slightly apprehensive for working at height, even though I don’t actually have a fear of heights. The scaffolding tower looked quite daunting when you stood underneath it however once I’d actually got to the top it was alright. It was slightly confusing knowing where to put your hands, especially when opening the trap doors, but Adam talked me through it so I was okay.
I found the ladder even more daunting, especially as it shook a lot when other people climbed it. Nonetheless I climbed to the top and touched the lighting bars so I was quite proud of that. We were also given a brief introduction to the lighting desk by Adam.
For the next four weeks of the VTP module, we are looking at lighting, the different types of lantern, how to rig the lights, and how to create an effective lantern design. In our first session we looked at gobos and what effects they can create. We looked at the difference between metal gobos and cardboard ones, and where they can be used. The cardboard ones can’t be used in certain lanterns which cast a lot of heat as they could potentially catch fire.
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2019-04-23T20:46:26Z
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https://cleightheatredesign.wordpress.com/category/lighting/
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How would you describe your style? Easy, avant-garde.
What is one item of clothing that you find yourself constantly wearing? My oversized Marni tops, always.
What is currently on your iPod? Pictures of my kids, Disney videos, Jay-Z and west coast hip-hop.
Who is your favorite designer? Maria Cornejo, Marni and Opening Ceremony.
What was the last thing you bought? Sushi from Blue RIbbon Sushi and scallops at the Mondrian Hotel.
What are you wearing? Maria Cornejo dress and shoes.
Name: Nicole Age: 35 Describe your style: Well, I haven’t defined my summer look yet, but I like easy separates with a combination of vintage and modern. What's your summer song? "Free Falling" by Tom Petty. Last year my summer band was Stevie Nicks, this year it’s Tom Petty. What is your #1 beauty product? Kiehl’s SPF 25, Nars Blush and cherry Chapstick. How do you like your eggs? Over easy. Who is your top by? It’s by Seneca Rising.
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2019-04-24T04:48:47Z
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https://fashionista.com/2011/08/street-style-jennifer-is-an-easy-avant-garde-mom
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TEAMSOC21 builds upon previous successful projects!
INNOSOC project closely followed SUSCOMTEC in the field of organization and program. The consortium applied for IP (Intensive Program) with 11 EU partner universities. The main coordinator was FER (Faculty of electrical engineering and computing) in Zagreb (Croatia). The intensive workshop was first year (2016) held in Zagreb , followed by Valencia (Spain) in second year (2017). Similarly to SUSCOMTEC, INNOSOC completed successfully with around 60 students and 20 lecturers participating from all the 11 partners every year, implying 9 different countries. However, the concept of the INNOSOC project is more ambitious than idea we had behind the SUSCOMTEC project, due to new Erasmus+ framework which does not include just Intensive Programs, but supporting activities such as creation of new open access lecturing material as well.
Based on ESM experiences, the consortium applied for an IP (Intensive Program) with 14 EU partner universities plus 1 from Russia. The main coordinator was UPV (Universidad Politécnica de Valencia) in Valencia (Spain) and the new proposal was proposed for 3 years. These 3 IP events were hold in Valencia (Spain) in 2012, Debrecen (Hungary) in 2013 and Sofia (Bulgaria) in 2014 and the main topic was sustainability in ICT. All the 3 events were a complete success, with around 60 students and 20 lecturers participating from all the 14 partners every year, implying 9 different countries. It implied to design a schedule not only with technical contents, but also multicultural activities. And, additionally, the 3 SUSCOMTEC events included also visits to the host cities and visits to companies related with ICT and located close to the host university.
ESMs took place in period 2004-2010 and had full or partial funding by the EU. The first two ESMs were located in Gyor (2004) and in Saint Petersburg (2005). Afterwards, ESMs in Leipzig (“Next Generations Network” (2006)), Lille (“Optical Telecommunications and Mobile Telecommunications” (2007)) and Zilina (“Optical Telecommunications and Mobile Telecommunications” (2008)) took place. The programme was implemented without EU grant in Sofia (“Optical Telecommunications” (2009)) and in Gyor (“Telecommunication and ICT management” (2010)), while in 2011 a shortened student programme was implemented in Opatija (Croatia).
The TEAMSOC21 project uses good practices and experiences from the INNOSOC (Innovative ICT Solutions for the Societal Challenges) and the SUSOMTEC (Intercultural knowledge transfer in engineering for a sustainable global ICT community) project for setting up a transnational multidisciplinary intensive study program in the field of innovations based on information and communication technology targeting societal challenges defined by Europe 2020 and Horizon 2020 programs. However, the concept of the TEAMSOC21 project is, in contrast to INNOSOC and SUSCOMTEC, oriented towards evermore popular concept of startup companies.
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2019-04-19T01:03:32Z
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http://sociallab.fer.hr/teamsoc21/past-experiences/
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Computers
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What do you want from a browser: lightning speed, a lean interface, or a host of innovative features? Safari can satisfy all these requirements. Most PC users likely know of this browser as Mac-only, but there's a Windows version as well, and version 4 of it is good enough that you may want to switch from your current browser.
Safari 4 offers innovative features such as Top Sites, shown here.
Like Opera and Chrome, Safari 4 is exceedingly fast. On all the sites I visited, it seemed to bring up pages more quickly than either Internet Explorer or Firefox. But there's more to the browser than just speed; it has some nifty features as well. Probably the biggest addition to Safari in its newest incarnation is Top Sites. When you open a new tab, a page opens that displays thumbnails of the sites you visit most frequently, and they're displayed (with Apple's usual flair for style) in 3D fashion. If any of the pages have been updated since you last visited, you'll see a blue star in its corner.
Another notable Safari feature is Cover Flow, which lets you browse through your history list and bookmarked sites visually, letting you see previews of the sites as you go through them. It works in much the same way that you flip through your album art in iTunes. Also useful is the ability to search through your history list or bookmarks. You can also tear off tabs and launch them in their own browser windows by dragging them, and you can recombine windows in a similar way.
That's not to say everything is perfect in Safari browser. For one thing, the text for the titles of tabs is extremely thin and can be difficult to read. More annoying is that when you install Safari the Home button is not visible by default. To turn make it visible, click the icon of a gear on the upper-right hand side of the screen, select Customize Toolbar, and from the screen that appears, drag the Home button to your toolbar. The same holds for getting access to some other features, such as your history list--in the default installation, the button for accessing your history list is not displayed. You can tell Safari to display that button as well, in the same way you make it display the Home button.
These are small quibbles, though. If you're looking for a very fast browser with several innovative features, Safari is worth a try.
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2019-04-18T23:17:33Z
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https://www.pcworld.com/article/172425/Safari_4.html
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Home
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Our licensed massage therapists specialize in relaxation and treatment-specific massage, and can modify the session to meet your specific needs. If you are also receiving physical therapy or athletic training, they will work closely with your therapist(s) to provide you with collaborative and comprehensive care. Our massage services are offered in a quiet, rejuvenating environment with soft lighting, music, and a heated table to maximize your relaxation and comfort.
Massage therapy is offered in 30-, 45- and 60-minute appointments and costs $30, $45, and $60, respectively.
Massage therapy is located on the second floor of the health center, in the Physical Therapy Clinic. To make an appointment call 541-346-4401 or stop by the clinic.
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2019-04-19T20:44:12Z
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https://health.uoregon.edu/massage
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Health
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This article describes the issues that are fixed in Cumulative Update 1 for Microsoft Visual Studio Team Foundation Server (TFS) 2012 Update 1 and the latest Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 Update package.
This update is only targeted for the Team Foundation Server Application Tier, it does not have to be run on stand-alone build servers, remote SharePoint servers, or proxy servers.
If you have already installed the latest Visual Studio 2012 Update package, you do not have to install this cumulative update.
A user who uses Web Access can move to the collection. However, there are no projects listed.
When a user clicks Browse in Web Access, he or she cannot see any team projects listed.
A user cannot see any projects listed in the Connect to TFS dialog box in Visual Studio.
A user may be able to browse to the URL of the team project directly in his or her browser and be able to use the project, because the problem is with the Catalog permissions.
Note This issue may occur for a user who is a member of the Team Project Administrators group.
TF50632: An error occurred removing the group member.
The server ID was changed by using the TFSConfig ChangeServerId command.
A collection database was migrated to another computer.
The same collection was attached multiple times during a procedure such as cloning.
In these scenarios, permissions may no longer work on collection level groups. For example, an administrator cannot view build definitions or build process templates.
A severe decrease in performance in TFS 2012 may occur after TFS 2012 Update 1 is installed for large installations that use complex group memberships. This issue may occur because of missing the scale fix for the prc_ReadGroupMembership procedure.
Identity sync jobs may fail repeatedly and may potentially affect performance. This issue may be manifested in the job history table. There, many NullReferenceException exceptions are displayed for identity sync jobs.
TF14044: The identity with type 'Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Identity' and identifier <id> could not be found.
Work items may include NULL values in the Warehouse for fields that represent people. One such field is the Assigned To field.
Some reports may display incorrect data. For example, a bug status report may show all bugs as unassigned because NULL values end up in the Analysis Services cube.
Users who are valid members of a collection can see newly created collections in Team Foundation Server even though they have no access to those collections. No other data from the collection is exposed.
Note Administrators still have access to the newly created collections in the team projects. Also, if a collection is created after you apply Update 1 but before you apply this cumulative update, it will remain visible to other members.
Assume that you attach a team project collection to a server that has TFS 2012 Update 1 installed. You try to remove a user from a group, or remove a group from another group. In this situation, an exception occurs, and the operation fails.
You remove a user from a team project connection group, and you make sure that the user has no other membership in the connection.
Note There are some artifacts in the connection that were created by the user.
You detach the connection, and then you attach it to a server has TFS 2012 Update 1 installed.
You add the user to certain groups, and you make sure that the same user has some active memberships on the server.
You try to view an artifact (for example, a changeset) that was previously created by that user.
TF14045: The identity <identity id> is not a recognized identity.
Note This update prevents this issue occurring in the future. However, if you have already attached a collection to a TFS 2012 Update 1 server and experience this issue, contact Microsoft Customer Support Services.
Note Both of the packages can resolve your problem.
Download the latest release of Visual Studio 2012 Update package now.
To apply this update, you must have Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2012 Update 1 installed.
You have to restart the computer after you apply this update if the affected files are being used or are locked during installation. We recommend that you exit all related applications before you install this update.
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2019-04-21T05:10:19Z
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https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/2803625/cumulative-update-1-for-visual-studio-team-foundation-server-2012-upda
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Reference
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You bastards, I AM sending you what I think, at that moment, is my best work.
Do I read it a week after I’ve sent it out and think, “Holy crap, what was I thinking?” Sometimes.
Do I get your rejection back and think, “But this is the best work I’ve ever done and you STILL won’t take it?” Sometimes.
Do I get your rejection back and think, “Hm, well, I think you were right about that”? Sometimes.
The big question is how do we know when our work is at its best. How do we develop within ourselves an adept critical eye.
No, really, that’s a question. Please tell me: How do I develop within myself an adept critical eye?
Again, not to pound this point, but, well, to pound this point, time is a wonderful filter.
If only I would listen to myself and not get overexcited by a new piece and start sending it out in the first blush of blind optimism.
Once I do look at the poem again, I should also question myself harder. What do I mean here? This is all very fine sounding, but is it more than sound and fancy? Have I dug deep enough into the initiating impulse behind this poem? Do I even remember what I thought I was writing toward? If I’ve forgotten, what, then, presents itself to me in this poem, and is it interesting? Does energy spark and fade throughout the poem? Inquire of that movement: why does it shift, how can I make the whole thing spark and arc? Inquire of every stinking word. Does it belong, does it add, does it move, does it shimmer, does it hold water?
Ugh, with such big questions, I fear I may never open up the Hold It! folder again. Wasn’t it easier just to love the poem and ship it out and take the rejections as they came?
I tend to let my longer pieces “marinate” a while (weeks or months), while shorter ones seem more likely to be finished earlier. And I, too, find the “best work” demand ridiculous. We never send out our worst work, do we?
As usual, you have your finger on the poet’s pulse.
Your partial answer to your own question sounds feasible and sensible. Mostly, I applaud you for getting on the ball and submitting work; I find the process tedious. Also, I find I second-guess myself. Is this poem really really good? Is it ready to send out to the world? Do I believe in it, or am I just sending it out because it seems like something people would enjoy reading? Am I over-thinking this submission and the whole submission process?
Kinda, yeah. Much to be said for sending out soon and then, if the poem returns, placing it on hold for a re-examination.
And not kicking yourself for thinking it was good enough to submit–because you never know. Sometimes, it is.
Ah, one rejection doth not a flawed poem indicate. But sometimes the hideously slow response rates of most places do provide that much-needed fresh perspective. I’m with you, though, regarding the wearisome task of sending work out. I do it spasmodically, for sure.
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2019-04-20T15:07:57Z
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https://marilynonaroll.wordpress.com/2019/01/14/how-do-i-know-or-learning-to-assess-our-own-work/
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Growing Block House; Ti Kwen Paradi; Expandable Home; The Home by Haiti.
The earthquake in Haiti last year provided evidence of the devastating consequences of poorly made architecture. On the one-year anniversary of the quake, a gathering was devoted to raising funds for building housing for Haitians, presenting four design prototypes that are sustainable and inexpensive to build.
She led the formation of a new subcommittee, Haiti Housing Collaborative, which issued a call for temporary-to-permanent housing designs. The brief was to design rural housing that Haitians can build themselves, is inexpensive, and employs vernacular materials and styles. Unlike a conventional competition, a jury reviewed approximately 150 submissions from around the world, and chose 12 of the most promising designs. Those designers were then invited to a charrette at the Center for Architecture on 01.08.11 when the designers and jurors collaborated to determine four final designs, combining the best ideas out of the original 12.
New housing in the four designs will be built with funding from donors, and Haitians will be trained in the construction techniques. Each house will cost around $1,000 to $5,000 to construct, including the cost of the local labor, Ehsan said. Manfred St. Julien, founder of Future Pace Design and a member of the Haiti Housing Collaborative subcommittee, explained some logistics of the initiative. “Every penny we collect in this effort, 100% goes to these homes and these communities,” he said, adding that the process will be kept transparent through information posted at http://www.haitihousingcollaborative.org/.
Richard R. Gonzalez, LEED AP, one of the jurors, presented the four designs. Many feature the use of bamboo and gabions of recycled rubble for the foundations, as materials available locally. The designs offer an array of strategies for promoting a sense of community while offering privacy to individual households. In one design, for example, private spaces for individual families surround common spaces such as a semi-enclosed living room and a kitchen. This has the effect of “reinforcing the idea of the Haitian household, that it’s not just one family. It could be multiple families living within these units,” Gonzalez explained. In another design, houses (which are expandable if a family grows over time) surround a central quad with a vegetable garden.
Lisa Delgado is a freelance journalist who has written for Oculus, The Architect’s Newspaper, Architectural Record, Blueprint, and Wired, among other publications.
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2019-04-20T01:02:11Z
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https://www.aiany.org/news/design-ideas-converge-on-haiti/
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Vixen and Blitzen and all his reindeer's pulling on the rein.
So hang your stockings and say your pray'rs, 'cos Santa Claus comes to-night.
He's got a bag that's filled with toys, for the boys and girls again.
Hear those sleigh bells, jingle, jangle; oh, what a beautiful sight.
So jump in bed, and cover your head, 'cos Santa Claus comes to-night.
He doesn't care if you're rich or poor; he loves you just the same.
Santa Claus knows we're all good children; that makes everything right.
So fill your hearts with Christmas cheer, 'cos Santa Claus comes to-night.
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2019-04-22T00:58:05Z
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https://wolfcanyonmusic.wordpress.com/guitar-grooves/here-comes-santa-claus/
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sohh
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Grammy-winning rapper T.I. isn’t here for the rumors – whether good or bad. The King of the South has come forward to shut down hype about his VH1 reality TV series coming back.
Tip went to Instagram Tuesday (July 10) to quickly shut down buzz about “Family Hustle” returning.
This week, a report emerged about Tip and his wife Tiny’s popular series making a low-key comeback.
In March 2017, Tiny acknowledged their show’s epic run.
Days prior, reports surfaced about VH1 ending “The Family Hustle” after one more season.
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2019-04-25T12:10:43Z
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https://www.sohh.com/t-i-shuts-down-rumors-about-his-reality-tv-show-coming-back-family-hustle-on-ice-until-further-notice/
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MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A smoke alarm helped a woman and her eight children escape a house fire in the 200 block of Parkdale Thursday morning, according to the Memphis Fire Department.
According to the report, fire crews responded to the scene around 7 a.m.
The one story home was up in flames by the time first responders arrived.
The house did have a smoke alarm, which helped the woman and eight children escape the safely before fire crews arrived.
The home and two vehicles had smoke, fire and water damage.
A preliminary investigation determined the fire was caused by a malfunction with a dryer.
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2019-04-21T17:08:11Z
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https://wreg.com/2018/04/19/smoke-alarm-saves-woman-8-children-from-whitehaven-house-fire/
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livejournal
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Once I've waded through the mislabeled crap on SCA-East, of course. Change your subject lines, people!
Poll #295724 what to do?
go plop myself in front of the TV and continue stitching Wolfie's Tunic?
go into the workroom and do the alterations on Sis's dress?
go plop myself in front of the TV and draw the pattern for Dad's tunic?
go into the workroom and cut out and sew the best man's tunic?
I say anything that involves the comfy space in front of the TV and working on something for the Much Loved and Wellspring of Good Lovin's Wolfie is the way to yank yourself out of apathy!
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2019-04-20T00:21:32Z
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https://tashabear.livejournal.com/151493.html
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rue-morgue
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After winning raves, rants and lots of discussion surrounding its big-screen play, Luca Guadagnino’s remake of SUSPIRIA is coming to home formats in January. Read on for the full info and cover art.
The original “EVIL DEAD” is coming in 4K!
Sam Raimi’s THE EVIL DEAD will be sharper, darker and redder than ever when it makes its 4K debut later this year. Read on for the info and cover.
Fresh from terrifying audiences in theaters, Ari Aster’s breakout horror feature HEREDITARY comes to home video in September; read on for the complete specs, cover art and new trailer.
Sadly, there will be no more ASH VS. EVIL DEAD (unless another network picks it up now that Starz has dropped it), but you can relive the insane third and last season on various media this summer.
Director Stuart Gordon and screenwriter Dennis Paoli took their third dive into the world of H.P. Lovecraft with DAGON, and it’s now coming to Blu-ray as part of Lionsgate Home Entertainment’s Vestron Video Collector’s Series. Read on for the full info and cover art.
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2019-04-24T23:03:40Z
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https://rue-morgue.com/tag/lionsgate-home-entertainment/
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wordpress
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Take a look at the information here then decide for yourself.
Shaklee in the White house.
It’s very important when choosing a Shaklee distributor to partner / sponsor with, that you find the best!
What makes one distributor or “team” of distributors better than another.
The Shaklee corporation has been around for over 55 years; and over that time they have had a lot of time to test and create superb health products. Shaklee is a company that you should expect, and want excellence in service as well. Below are some of the qualities and characteristics of a good distributor that a buyer or future shaklee rep would and should expect from a current Shaklee distributor.
1. Are they properly trained? In other words, if they don’t have an answer to a question or concern, they need to be able to have the ability and inclination to get assistance. The goal is to properly equip the new business builder to “run with the ball”. Pride should a non-issue for the Shaklee distributor. Answers should be at their fingertips (such as a phone call away). A quick call or two should suffice in order to supply you the answer you need to promote your business.
2. Are they motivated and committed to providing what you need? A good distributor or team of distributors will make a huge effort to help ensure that your business gets off to a great start; and of course, without pestering to the point of turning into a menace. When you want or need help, your shaklee business partner should be there to support you as much as possible. In fact, helping you to succeed is in his or her best interest.
3. Do do they have teaching skills or do they have the marketing tools to teach? A good Shaklee distributor will ask relevant questions and listen to your answers in order to help improve their service to you. And in turn help you improve your services to your customers and any new Shaklee distributors you may recruit. A good distributor should not just teach, but should also listen to learn how he can best serve you.
4. Is the distributor influential? The distributor should constantly and consistently work on acquiring good leadership qualities and develop into an active leading role, leading other consumers and/or Shaklee distributors in building their business.
If you are serious about building a substantial income and want to do so helping other people than do not hesitate contact us so you can learn how we can help you get started the most effective way. Let us help you get on the fast track to financial success by becoming a Shaklee-distributor with our team.
The thing that makes us different here at HomeBizCentral.org and GuideToGreen.com is that we are a “Team” of Shaklee distributors that work together to support each other, Build the business and support our members.
help our team to get business leads.
Take some time, review our sites, then contact us to join our amazing team!
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2019-04-24T17:58:51Z
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https://homebizcentralorg.wordpress.com/tag/fundraising-2/
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Business
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abruckner
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Every month, I will offer a recording from the Bruckner Archive. I will accept requests but I cannot guarantee that I can supply all requested recordings. These downloads are offered free-of-charge and are for information and study purposes only.
October 2016: Symphony No. 1 / Jacob Sustaita / Sam Houston State University Orchestra / A US Premiere!
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2019-04-22T10:07:29Z
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https://www.abruckner.com/downloads/downloadofthemonth/
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bbc
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Thousands of London firefighters are to start voting on whether to take industrial action in a row over new contracts.
The dispute centres on plans to scrap current working hours and force fire crews to sign new contracts.
The London Fire Brigade Union said it will ballot about 6,000 members in the capital on action short of a strike.
The London Fire Brigade described the ballot as "totally unnecessary" and said it hoped action would be averted.
The brigade announced earlier this month it was starting consultations on terminating existing employment contracts and re-engaging firefighters on new start and finishing times to shifts.
Matt Wrack, the FBU's general secretary, said: "It's a great shame that London firefighters have to consider industrial action, but they won't tolerate attempts to threaten or intimidate them.
"The proposal to end the contracts of all London firefighters is the most disgraceful thing I have ever seen in the fire service."
He added: "The people who are taking these decisions about cutting the service and reducing night-time fire cover in London have not the first idea what firefighting is all about."
London Fire Brigade Commissioner Ron Dobson said: "This is totally unnecessary.
"These changes are about doing all that we possibly can with existing resources to make Londoners safe."
He added: "It is hoped that talks will result in a conclusion to this long-term issue that will avoid the need to terminate current contracts or for any form of industrial action."
The ballot result is due on 17 September, with any action likely to start from 24 September.
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2019-04-26T16:38:24Z
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-11106607
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thegearpage
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Discussion in 'Pedal Effects Gear Emporium Archive' started by KoolThing, Apr 14, 2016.
I JUST picked these up, but it turns out the AC power option isn't going to work with my new Nano+ configuration, so I'm going in another direction.
I don't think it will work with my power supply, either.
It works with the power supply I'm selling. The problem is that only a handful of power supplies will fit under a PT Nano, which is what I'm using now. The Bad Cat will also work with any regular DC power supply that has a courtesy outlet, like the PP2+, using the included adapter.
Just wanted to chime in on the Black Cat. I picked one up here the other day. It is hands down the best vibe I've EVER played, and quite possibly a top five favorite pedals I've ever owned. So happy with it. Sounds sooooo goood!
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2019-04-21T17:05:28Z
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https://www.thegearpage.net/board/index.php?threads/cioks-ac-rider-power-supply-black-cat-vibe.1694696/
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To see the photos that accompanied this article click here.
Gerome Ragni and James Rado, the pair responsible for the show os the sixties, Hair, for which they wrote the book and lyrics, are known to the hip community around the world as Jerry (sic) and Jim, and look like they've lived the roles that they created for themselves.
Ragni, whose exploding reddish-brown locks may have started a new world trend, was pre-Hair, basically an actor. He appeared on Broadway in Hamlet with Richard Burton and off-Broadway in Viet Rock, The Knack, and Hang Down Your Head And Die. Off-off Broadway he was one of the early members of the Cafe La mama troupe. he noted recently, "We started writing Hair because we were both actors and we were tired of the kind of plays we were in. The same one-dimensional characters, the conventional entrances and exits. We didn't want to 'act' these plays. We wanted to 'be' on stage."
Rado, whose blond hair is now a year and a half longer than when he first joined forces with Ragni, also now sports a mustache, was also on and off Broadway. On, he was in The Lion In Winter and in Luther. Off he did The Knack, The Infantry, and Hang Down Your Head And Die. He explained about Hair, "We weren't the first who thought of the idea of 'being' on the stage. We used to act and when we'd leave the theater, we'd go back to a scene that had nothing to do with the stage, the kids on the East Side. We wanted to show this on a stage."
"If we do another play on Broadway," adds Rado, "we want to do it a different way, apart from the traditional way of doing things."
The tradition they have to break may well be their very own, using the phenomenal success of Hair as a barometer.
Now, in the twenty-seven months since revolutionizing the American musical theater, Ragni and Rado, along with Galt MacDermot have proceeded to make Hair a household word internationally. Their creation is currently represented around the world by twelve companies including five in the United States.
The original cast recording of the show has long since become a million seller and , having established a landmark stage and recording event in the 1960's, Ragni, Rado, and MacDermot now stride boldly into the new decade with a unique new album, DisinHAIRited, which presents more music from the creators of the original show featuring past and present members of the cast.
Copyright Hit Parader Magazine. All rights reserved.
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2019-04-20T05:05:46Z
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http://www.michaelbutler.com/hair/holding/articles/HairArticles/HitParade8-70.html
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Anyone with a smartphone knows the Internet's latest obsession is the Google Arts & Culture app, which matches your selfie to a painting in museum collections that you (supposedly) look like. It's been easy to laugh at some of the resemblances — but we stopped laughing after one St. Louis woman was matched with a painting of (wait for it) her own great-grandmother.
Kate Stewart was having fun with her six-year-old daughter last weekend when they decided to try the app while making silly faces. Oddly enough, it was then that a painting of Stewart's own great-grandmother, Emma in the Purple Dress, popped up as a match.
Stewart tells us that her great-grandfather on her mother's side was noted painter George Bellows, a realist known for his depictions of New York City in the early 20th century. Featured in museums across the country, he's particularly known for his boxing paintings — though he has some pop culture placements, too. "His paintings pop up a lot in movies," Stewart says, mentioning Bye Bye Birdie among others.
She also says Bellows was a "devout family man" and loved painting portraits of his family, including his wife, Emma, who later proved to be Stewart's match. The couple had a brownstone in New York as well as a country home near Woodstock, where Bellows was part of the artist community.
Bellows died young in 1925 from appendicitis, but his wife was a fierce protector of his legacy.
"She was a ballsy, awesome, strong-willed person," Stewart says. She wasn't into formality, either: Stewart says when Emma died, her ashes were sprinkled in peony bushes in New York.
Despite the Bellows legacy in her family, Stewart says she looks more like her dad and didn't think about possibly matching an image by her great-grandfather. But apparently a change in lighting helped the family painting pop up — and then gave Stewart the chance to try it again with a not-so-goofy photo of herself, as pictured above.
Want to try the Google Arts & Culture app for yourself? You can find it on Google Play and in the Apple Store. A match with a painting of your relative not guaranteed.
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2019-04-22T20:33:43Z
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https://www.riverfronttimes.com/artsblog/2018/01/19/google-arts-app-matches-st-louis-woman-with-portrait-of-her-own-grandmother?mode=print
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32 pages : colour photographs ; 26 cm.
Includes index.Summary: These informative and interesting titles answer the big questions about the world today. Children can understand topical issues from a factual and practical view, examining the world around us from a range of perspectives. Prepare your young readers for tomorrow with Topics Today. Racism is not a new topic - but it is an important one. What is race? How do we talk about race without hurting people? How is racism harmful - and how can we stop it? Find out in this topical title.
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2019-04-19T15:20:21Z
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http://find.lib.uts.edu.au/search?R=OPAC_b4186174
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Love this game on the Switch, so I bought it here too. Excited to see another high quality puzzle game on iOS. If you enjoy challenging puzzle games in the vein of “The Witness” or “Snakebird”, you’ll very likely enjoy this one. Puzzles are difficult without feeling arbitrary, with each one feeling tidy and self-contained. The entire game is built upon a spare few mechanics, and it really wrings as much content as possible from them.
Each one leads to sort of an “aha!” moment when you figure it out. I appreciate that each puzzle is built around a central idea or theme, and that once you grasp that idea, the puzzle becomes easy. Too often the difficulty of a puzzle is artificially inflated through a challenging means of execution.
Speaking of which, the touch-based controls work much better than I would have expected. One addition I would like to see is the ability to cancel the drawing of a movement path. Also, it’s icon text on home screen gets truncated. I could see it being shortened to “PPP” or even just “PushPipe” heck I dunno.
With the freezing bug fixed I’ve now completed every puzzle in the game (not spoiling anything, but there’s a nice surprise after level 50).
With good spatial awareness the puzzles are not as hard as they may seem at first, but due to the diversity of solutions from puzzle to puzzle they are all fun to solve and are minimally repetitive. I only wish there was more content, as well as some “beyond expert” puzzles. That being said, this is the best puzzle game on iOS.
I was expecting a lot more for this. It’s ok, but too challenging straight off the bat and hard to get into. There aren’t very many levels so not much motivation to keep going. Definitely a let down.
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2019-04-18T18:42:37Z
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https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/pipe-push-paradise/id1442420788?mt=8
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The National Retail Federation has found that nowadays 36% of shoppers say the most important factor in deciding where they shop is the sales and discounts a store or business offers.
90 per cent of UK consumers now confess to using coupons regularly to save money.
The consumer appetite for redeeming money-off coupons has increased dramatically and 90 per cent of UK consumers now confess to using coupons regularly to save money.
Valassis, a coupon and voucher services provider say that by using coupons, ‘shoppers save on average £5.70 each per month’ which ‘amounts to a massive total of £2.3billion a year – the amount the UK spends each year on online groceries’.
With regards to email marketing, the use of the word “Coupon” has been proven to (in several studies) drive high open rates. But as well as increasing opens, they’re (coupons and vouchers) also a great way to build engagement, trust and loyalty.
Before you send a coupon campaign to your entire email database you should test different offers and discounts with smaller segments of your list to determine which is most likely to return the best result.
Try playing around with the wording of your offer and altering the % off that you’re rewarding recipients with. After all, if you find that redemption doesn’t vary much between a 10% off coupon and a 30% off one, then you may as well save your business some money and stick with 10%. Click here for dotMailer’s guide to split testing.
Just like you can personalise an email introduction with a recipient’s first name, if your data allows it then you should consider personalising your voucher or coupon too. Depending on the data that your list holds, you could include a recipient’s name, their local city, store and/or even a suggested purchase (based on their previous purchase history with you).
Don’t forget about measuring and tracking. Drill down into your data to discover which offers are the most popular and establish which channel or particular email it was that put a particular voucher in front of a recipient who purchased.
Have you used coupons to promote your business? Whether you’ve used them in email or across other channels, we’d love to hear your experiences and tips.
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2019-04-23T17:49:52Z
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https://blog.dotdigital.com/a-guide-to-creating-successful-coupon-based-email-camapigns-our-top-tips/
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The European Union's greenhouse gas (GHG) inventory report, compiled by the European Environment Agency (EEA), shows that emissions have not only continued their downward trend in 2008, but have also picked up pace. The EU-27's emissions stood 11.3 % below their 1990 levels, while EU-15 achieved a reduction of 6.9 % compared to Kyoto base-year levels.
The combination of high coal and carbon prices accompanied by a drop in natural gas prices in 2008 induced heat and electricity producers to replace more polluting coal by gas and as a result, reduce their GHG emissions. The use of biomass and other renewable sources (wind and hydroelectric power) has also increased significantly in 2008. The economic recession, which started during the second half of the year, also contributed to emission reductions from several sectors including the manufacturing and construction, and road transport sectors. Road transport emissions were also affected by high oil prices, the continued decline in gasoline consumption and a reversal of the upward trend in diesel sales.
The annual reductions for EU-15 and EU-27 revealed in the inventory report fall within the brackets of the 2008 preliminary estimates, published by the Agency in August 2009.
The EU-27's emissions have been declining steadily since 2003 to reach 4 940 billion tonnes CO2 equivalents in 2008. Compared to the 2007 emissions, this represents a reduction of 99 million tonnes or 2 %. With the 2008 emissions 11.3 % below its 1990 levels, EU-27 has already achieved more than half of its unilateral reduction target of 20 % by 2020 through domestic emission reductions alone.
In this first year of the Kyoto Protocol's commitment period, EU-15 cut its emissions by 76 million tonnes CO2 equivalents, corresponding to a drop of 1.9 % from 2007. This brought the EU-15 emissions 6.9 %, or 295 million tonnes, below Kyoto base-year levels, already in 2008, not accounting for carbon sinks and the use of Kyoto flexible mechanisms.
For the first time since 1992, emissions from international aviation and maritime transport fell in EU-27, partly due to the economic recession. These two sectors account for about 5.9 % of total greenhouse gas emissions in EU-27 but are not accounted for in relation to measuring progress towards Kyoto targets.
Spain accounted for one third of the net reduction in EU-27, mainly due to a substantial replacement of coal by natural gas and a sharp decline in gasoline consumption in road transport, complemented by an increase in renewable energy generation.
The EU Emission Trading Scheme (EU ETS) covered 43 % of total EU-27 greenhouse gas emissions in 2008. In 2008, emission levels under the EU ETS were about 3 % lower than 2007 levels. The recently published 2009 EU ETS data, reveal that verified emissions in 2009 decreased by 11.6 % compared to 2008 levels, and reflects the impact of the economic recession.
At the end of the summer 2010, the Agency will publish preliminary estimates for the 2009 total EU emissions. This will be followed in the autumn by more comprehensive reports analysing emission trends, policy effectiveness and progress towards meeting the Kyoto and other EU emission targets.
The EEA report 'Annual European Union greenhouse gas inventory 1990–2008 and inventory report 2010' was submitted to the Secretariat of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) as the European Union’s official submission. The report was prepared on behalf of the European Commission (DG CLIMA) by the European Environment Agency (EEA) and its European Topic Centre for Air and Climate Change (ETC/ACC), with substantial input by the Joint Research Centre (JRC) and Eurostat.
The UNFCCC, with 194 Parties, is the parent treaty of the 1997 Kyoto Protocol. The ultimate objective is to achieve stabilization of greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that would prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system.
EU-27: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, the United Kingdom.
EU-15: Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, the United Kingdom.
Why did greenhouse gas emissions fall in the EU in 2008?
Annual European Union greenhouse gas inventory 1990 – 2008 and inventory report 2010 This report is the annual submission of the greenhouse gas inventory of the European Union to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Kyoto Protocol. It presents greenhouse gas emissions between 1990 and 2008 for EU-27, EU-15, individual Member States and economic sector.
For references, please go to https://www.eea.europa.eu/media/newsreleases/eu-greenhouse-gas-emissions-more or scan the QR code.
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https://www.eea.europa.eu/media/newsreleases/eu-greenhouse-gas-emissions-more
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The ongoing battle in all areas of the tech sector has focused on the conundrum of simplicity versus complexity. The central question being, whether or not a professional application needs to be complex by its very nature. We’ve seen this in the Final Cut Pro X arguments and we will see it again with the new Mac Pro. Clearly everything Apple has been doing for many years, is to enhance the user experience by hiding some of the complexity under the hood.
This recently has come home to me in several ways. First, when Apple launched Final Cut Pro X a little over two years ago, some of my acquaintances on the Pro Apps team made this comment in regard to the streamlining of user settings compared with FCP 7. They pointed out that they would no longer need to field those tech support calls from confused users. Although I’ve always found this versatility useful in FCP 7, I do recognize that what they were saying was quite true, as the myriad of user format options was overwhelming for nearly all beginning and casual users. By streamlining this, FCP X allows users to quickly dive in and start editing – with the added benefit of lower support costs for Apple.
I recently had my 2009 Mac Pro repaired at a local Apple Store. This took a longer-than-normal amount of time and towards the end, I was calling the Geniuses every other day to find out what the hold-up was. In those conversations, the tech on more than one occasion noted how complex the Mac Pro towers are and how long it takes to run the proper diagnostics in order to truly isolate and repair a hard-to-define issue. In the end, the repair was well done and they were more than fair. In fact, the final bill was so low that I’ve come to realize the Genius Bar service simply can’t be a profit center for Apple. It is, in fact, part of Apple’s holistic approach to the customer experience. From a corporate point-of-view, this means that pressure has to be on quick repair and lower operating costs. Under this concept, wholesale board swaps – even when it amounts to using a bazooka to kill an ant – are far cheaper than component-level electronics repair. With that philosophy, the design inherent in an iMac or new Mac Pro, is bound to yield rewards for Apple in the cost of operating its Genius Bar repair service.
Another variation of this is software. As part of the repair, certain components were replaced that tie into how software, like plug-ins, is serialized to a particular machine. In essence, my machine was now internally viewed by some of the licensing as a different computer. To clean up some of these issues – and to do an upgrade to Mavericks – I opted for a completely clean installation of the OS, coupled with re-installation of all applications and re-authorization of all necessary software and plug-ins. No migration. It’s the sort of thing that can do wonders for your machine’s performance, but it’s also something everyone avoids. This took two-and-a-half days. As I went through this process, the easiest part by far, was re-installation of any Apple application. Not only was this simple, thanks to the App Store, but some of the older apps that were installed from discs, were then subsequently upgraded to App Store versions. The second easiest was Adobe using Creative Cloud. Again, log-in and download the applications you want to use. Among the plug-ins, FxFactory (and their associated partners) was easy, because they, too, have adopted an App Store-style model.
If you look out at the greater world of computing, the macho-tech experience of dealing with towers, peripherals, add-ons and more is waning for all but the most complex set-ups. Naturally, if you are going from a large investment in these add-ons to a new Mac Pro with Thunderbolt, you are going to need to buy some adapters, docks, etc. to see you through the interim transition. But look around you. The reliance on such peripherals is the exception and not the rule. Most users are on laptops. If they have a tower, it’s probably not much more that the stock set-up. Mac users have migrated to all-in-one iMacs. Tablets are everywhere. I almost never take my laptop on the road anymore, unless I need it for actual production. My iPad is more than adequate. All of this means that for the vast majority of users – including pros with demanding requirements – the hardware is fading into the background, because simpler solutions are powerful enough to get the job done.
My dad used to repair TVs. He worked through an era when component-level troubleshooting gave way to circuit board/module swaps. While the pieces might have been more expensive, the cost in labor was less for complex problems. Fast forward to today and there probably isn’t a single flat panel that we buy, which has much if any ability to be repaired. Computers are following that same path and so is software.
This will scare many. I used to write simple autoexec.bat files in the DOS days. These let me create a menu page with a table of contents for the applications I used. Typing in the number of the application from that list would launch the software and when done, would exit back to this menu page. I certainly have no need, nor interest in doing that with any modern OS. It was a skill set based on the needs of a cruder technology, but is now as obsolete as setting up a 2” Quad VTR. Tinkering with your computer or software falls into the same realm as shade-tree auto repair. You can do it on a ’57 Chevy, but you certainly can’t do it on any modern automobile. To some this may have seemed like fun. To me, I’d rather get on about with the business of using the software/hardware to achieve results.
Just a quick reminder that the Southeast Creative Summit is just around the corner. I’ll be involved as part of the upcoming Southeast Creative Summit in Atlanta, October 25-27. It’s a jam-packed agenda put together by the good folks at the Atlanta Cutters Post Production User Group. This will be a solid weekend of workshops, sessions and presentations, complete with Saturday nights’ Atlanta Creative Ball social event. All located at the Sheraton Atlanta Hotel. The workshops cover a wide range of topics, including editing, color correction, sound design and the business of post production.
The holiday times mean many things to different people. For some, it’s a religious festival. For others, a time of reflection and to concentrate more on family. As many have said, it’s a time of giving. Along those lines, a solution for many that is more in keeping with the sentiments of the season, is to give to a favored charity rather than putting more items under the tree.
A few years back I edited a documentary entitled, “Blindsided” – about a teenager (Jared) who had gone blind from a little-known disease – Leber’s Hereditary Optic Neuropathy (LHON). The documentary has aired a number of times in the subsequent years on HBO and HBO Family, but for me it struck a special chord. As an editor, colorist and writer, eyesight is especially valuable and it’s hard to imagine living without it.
The research into the disease is moving into an important phase and is in need of additional funding. If this post equally strikes a chord in your heart and you are able to make a contribution, then I’m sure they would appreciate your support.
Click this link to learn more about LHON.
Over the past 24 hours, this blog crossed over the 1,000,000-views-mark since its start in March of 2008. Quite a few of you have commented to me during this time about how helpful you find a lot of these posts. I appreciate the feedback and thanks for the comments. I’m certainly glad that these musings are useful as you navigate the confusion that often surrounds post production. From its inception this blog has served as a repository for things that I write elsewhere, as well as additional thoughts, ideas and tips that are best presented in this forum. And I intend to continue along those same lines. Here’s wishing you the best for the upcoming Thanksgiving and the holiday season. Cheers!
This is a quick housekeeping note. If you follow this blog on an iPad, you already know that some WordPress-hosted sites, such as this one, use an alternative format for mobile devices, like the iPad. The Home page displays a small grouping of headers for the latest posts. When you click on one, it loads an optimized screen in the foreground. That was working fine in iOS4, but apparently for now is broken in the iOS5 version of Safari. The first post selected will flash, but still load, however, subsequent selections never load.
I recommend the following solution if this happens on your iPad. At the bottom of the Home page is a toggle to View iPad Site or View Standard Site. Select View Standard Site. Safari will remember this setting when you return to the blog. Since the theme I use employs a page width and column structure that is a bit awkward on iPads, use the Safari Reader function. Select a post from the sidebar and when it loads, click the READER button in the URL bar. That post will open in a format that’s easy to read on the iPad.
Producer + Editor = Preditor. It’s a word that seems to generate derision from many traditional, professional editors. The concept that one person can and should handle all of the aspects of post is characterized as a “jack-of-all-trades and a master of none”. While that may be true, it doesn’t change the fact that many news operations, reality TV shops and broadcast creative services departments are adopting the model. That’s based on the concept that producers and editors can merge job skills and that the combined role can be handled by a single individual.
What is often described as a “professional editor” is really a concept that only applies to Hollywood, unionized workplaces or to the short slice of time when linear videotape editing was the norm. During the 1970s – 1990s, video post production was handled in very expensive edit suites. The editors originally came out of the engineering ranks and were considered more technical than creative, since part of their job was making sure that broadcast standards were met.
This evolved and attitudes changed around the introduction of Avid’s original nonlinear systems. These early units were quite expensive, so although the editor roles were creative, the business model didn’t change much from the linear operations. With the entry of Apple Final Cut Pro, the last decade or so has been viewed by many as a “race to the bottom”. The tools are cheaper than ever and it is perceived that no specialized skills are needed to operate the editor’s toolkit.
If you look at this outside of the scope of major film productions or those three decades and go back to the way standard small-to-medium market film production was handled before the ‘70s, you will see that the concept of a preditor actually predates the modern video world. In fact, most filmmakers would have been considered preditors. In the days when every commercial, corporate film (then called “industrials”), news story or documentary was shot and posted on film, it was quite common for the cinematographer, editor, director and producer to be the same person. They required a lab for some of the finishing services, but by and large, one person – or a very small team – handled many of the roles.
Many TV stations had an in-house “special projects” producer, who was often a one-man-band filmmaker doing small feature pieces or investigative journalism. The days of a news reporter/photographer driving around with a Canon Scoopic or Bolex 16mm film camera on the front seat are not that far removed from the modern video journalist shooting with a small handheld video camera and cutting a story with FCP on his laptop. I see this model proliferating throughout the video production world. I would suggest the concept of the “traditional professional” is in decline – to be replaced in larger numbers by the “new professional”. That’s who Apple and Adobe are servicing in the development of Final Cut Studio and the Creative Suite. Clearly it’s the focus of Final Cut Pro X.
Avid, Autodesk and Quantel are still trying to hang on to the old definitions and make their margins on the niche that is still working in that space. The larger fortunes are in addressing the needs of the “new professional” – the preditor. After all, if you define “professional” by the delivery of the end product (documentaries, broadcast news, sports, commercials) – rather than by the number of years a person has worked in a specialized position – then is the person who put it together any less professional than an experienced, seasoned pro?
This is even true in the feature film world. The Coen brothers have received several nominations for best editing Oscars. I’d bet they don’t view their knowledge of Final Cut as being at the same level as a so-called “professional” editor who might be an expert in manipulating the software. Yet, I doubt anyone would consider them as anything other than film professionals and talented editors.
Clearly my heart is on the side of the seasoned pro and I do think that in many cases that editor will deliver a better product. But in the end, I’ve seen enough compelling pieces edited by less skilled individuals who had a great vision. I suppose you can call that “good enough”, though I contend that’s really the wrong way to look at it.
So in this new model, what sort of technical skills should a person have? What advice is there for people about to enter college, are now in a college program or early in their career? First, I would offer that many college “digital media” programs are probably a better starting point than the more traditional “film programs”. Of course, that’s not a blanket statement, as many schools are adjusting their curriculum to stay relevant.
A model I see popping up a lot is that of a hands-on producer who shoots his or her own projects. Typically this is with HDSLR, P2 or XDCAM camcorders. The editing tool of choice is Final Cut – although in many instances, FCP is only used for a basic rough cut for the base layer of video. Then the project is actually finished in After Effects. You would think that Motion with FCP or Premiere Pro with After Effects would be the better choices. Although true, many shops decided on FCP a while back and Premiere Pro has yet to achieve similar street credibility as a professional editing tool. Likewise, Motion never gained the sort of commercial success that After Effects has.
Producing – Learn everything you can about project organization, budgeting, directing talent and, in general, running an efficient location shoot or studio set.
Production/camera – Learn to be a one-man-band on location and in the studio. If you have a crew – great. But, you personally need to understand lighting, sound and the basics of cinematography. With the new file-based technology, this includes camera-specific data wrangling functions, whether that’s RED, P2 or something else.
Editing – Learn Final Cut Pro and Final Cut Studio inside and out. Don’t stop at editing. Make sure you know how to use Color for grading and Soundtrack Pro for mixing. Make sure you extend that learning to Final Cut Pro X. Don’t limited your skills to this one tool. Schedule learning excursions to Avid Media Composer, Adobe Premiere Pro, Grass Valley EDIUS and others.
Finishing/graphics – Since After Effects is the tool of choice for many, you really need to understand how this application works and how to get from FCP (or another NLE) to AE and back.
Encoding/delivery – This is the last stage and more delivery is file-based than ever before. You no longer have a duplication technician or VTR operator to fall back on. It’s just you. So this means you need to understand how to encode for the web, DVD, Blu-ray and various other client deliverables.
Whether you view the “new video professional” as the modern preditor or the filmmaker of five decades ago, it’s the same basic concept. What was old is new again. No need to complain. Time to learn, adapt and grow! Or get out of the business and run an ice cream truck!
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basenotes
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There are 11 reviews of Monsieur.
Very bitter opening, then very smoky. Full incense nose that goes green towars vetiver. Beautiful for the incense amateurs.
Sleek and swift, this Monsieur has one simple goal it seems – to offer a polished sweet cedar scent for our times. Synthetic woody aromachemicals are of course a given in such a scenario, but this single-minded creation does deliver on a welcoming woody scent, all warm hairy chest and tender embrace, with a sympathetic supporting cast of smoke, resins, even oudy overtones playing with the essential friendly good nature of the cedar. Executed with finesse, it seems to adjust to the wearer’s skin, creating a tailored layer of honest woody goodness, which is fulfilling when one pays attention to it and unobtrusive when going about one’s business. ‘Let be’ and ‘be well’, it seems to say – important messages, especially for frantic urbanites. A light spiciness – hints of saffron and black pepper – emerges in the late stages.
The trail it leaves is annoyingly less accomplished – much more obviously synthetic than what the wearer experiences for themselves.
Very woody, and somewhat green. Reminds me taking a historical tour through a 1700's colonial house or building that has the original wood furniture still in the room. I also get hints of the smell at the opening of a cave, must be the oakmoss.
Monsieur is constructed with all manner of woody notes, along with, according to the marketing spiel, the freshness of water. It's obviously intended to invoke the great outdoors.
Put simply, for me the woodiness is too great and there is a lack of balance. After about six hours the spicyness of the patchouli and incense starts to come through, and at this stage Monsieur takes on a different character and improves no end. Sadly, it is at this same point that the scent starts to die away and so the better, later stages are far too fleeting in duration. Better results could have been achieved by earlier development and probably some accords to offset the many arboreal components.
This line has been a consistent let-down for me, and Monsieur is no different. This scent is clearly seeking to modernize a dated aesthetic — that of an ‘80s masculine. To a degree, it’s successful, but the end result isn’t very cohesive.
There’s a lot going on here, but what’s most dominant is myrrh rendered slightly gourmand and caramelic. There’s a dirty patchouli in it, and there’s a fair amount of saffron-esque spice to produce a warming effect. Aside from that, it’s resins and unspecified synth woods — specifically cedar, and even more specifically, a ghastly amount of Iso E.
There’s nothing truly hideous about it, but it doesn’t really do anything to elevate itself beyond other warm, semi-sweet synthetic wood scents. In fact, I get a negative space-effect from it in that I could imagine it with a great rum note, or even a good, tarry smoke component, but what that signals for me is that this scent is lacking any real flare of its own. I’m underwhelmed by Monsieur, but at least it’s consistent as I find the whole collection to be underwhelming. If you’re looking to see what Guillaume can do, skip Huitieme Art and Phaedon, and just stick with Parfumerie Generale instead as that’s where all his solid ideas seem to end up.
There are no member images of Monsieur yet. Why not be the first?
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2019-04-20T15:03:47Z
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http://www.basenotes.net/ID26139902.html
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Coming next year to PS4, Xbox One and PC, Naruto to Boruto: Shinobi Strikers is a team-based online battler that files the many ninja of the Naruto-verse into four categories: attack, ranged, defense and healer—AKA rogue, wizard, warrior and cleric. Don’t worry, all of them kick and punch.
Naruto to Boruto: Shinobi Strikers is a big departure from the Ninja Storm series, trading story-rich one-on-one 3D fighting for four-on-four team battles in large open arenas. Competitive modes see two teams of four players each competing to unlock and attack massive bosses or capturing flags. Cooperative missions have players working together to complete various goals.
It’s basically a hero brawler. It sounds a little Battleborn-ish to me.
Before players can be born into battle, they’ll have to pick a character. Will they be a speedy, high-damage attacker?
A less-sturdy ninja assaulting their enemies with powerful long-range abilities?
Or will they support their team through healing ninja arts?
Check out the new trailer for the game for a look at the classes in action, as well as an overview of the various game modes.
It’s nice to see Bandai Namco trying something new with Naruto. I would have rather seen it get the 2D fighter treatment a la Dragon Ball FighterZ or another exploration-heavy fighting RPG, but it’ll still be a nice break between those torrential Ninja Storms.
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2019-04-21T19:41:00Z
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https://kotaku.com/the-new-naruto-game-is-all-about-class-based-online-nin-1796877173
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Games
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miami
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First-year law students now have a unique summer clerkship opportunity that combines a traditional law firm clerkship with experience working at an in-house corporate law department. Twin Cities Diversity in Practice is a collaboration of law firms and corporate law departments seeking to enhance the diversity of the legal profession. Our mission is to attract, recruit, advance and retain attorneys of color in the Minneapolis and St. Paul community.
This program connects top legal employers with talented 1L students of color. Students will have the opportunity to work at one of the nation’s best law firms. As part of the law firm clerkship, the students will spend one “rotation” (typically 3 to 4 weeks) working in the law department of a major corporation. Not only will the clerk get valuable legal training essential for success at most law firms, the clerk will gain “real world” insights into the fast-paced environment of a corporate law department.
Applications will be accepted by participating firms starting December 1, 2014. Deadline for applying is January 16, 2015. Students are encouraged to apply before winter break.
For additional information and details, please visit the website.
Categorized under: 1L Info, Diversity, General Announcements, Resources, Summer Opportunities, Uncategorized.
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2019-04-20T10:30:43Z
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https://cdo.law.miami.edu/?p=6978
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Business
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kennesaw
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A book of poems. This book was a finalist in the New Women's Voices Chapbook Competition.
Sadre-Orafai, Jenny. Weed Over Flower. Georgetown, KY: Finishing Line Press. 2005. Print.
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2019-04-26T04:27:13Z
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https://digitalcommons.kennesaw.edu/facpubs/187/
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roadsideamerica
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Practically on Yankee turf, this the furthest north of three Dukes of Hazzard store/mini-museums run by Ben "Cooter" Jones from the TV series. Formerly in Sperryville.
5 mi. west of town, north side of Rt 211/US 340 at Rt 615.
Free museum of the Dukes of Hazard memorabilia.
This is the furthest north -- closest to Yankee territory -- of several Dukes of Hazzard store/mini-museums run by Ben "Cooter" Jones from the TV series.
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2019-04-23T05:52:38Z
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https://www.roadsideamerica.com/tip/48896
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MinneBar is an (un)conference aimed at getting those in Minnesota’s tech and design communities together to discuss topics that interest them. This spring’s event was held Saturday the 22nd of May at the Best Buy headquarters in Richfield, MN. Registration from 7:30 to 9am and sessions from 9-5:30. Light Breakfast and lunch provided. After party of complimentary snacks and beverages (Beer & Wine).
This is Minnesota’s barcamp – an (un)conference where you are the leaders of the discussions and sessions. If you are interested in a topic just sign up to lead a discussion and like-minded folks will seek you out.
Networking these days? It's all about checking out the iPads!
Ivan preps for the day!
Patrick Rhone spends a couple of buck for his iPad holders!
A $3 business card holder props his iPad up!
#Minnebar leaders kick off the day!
What @MyklRoventine does during his day job!
JJ Parker develops Passion for Products!
For a building full of development geeks, at least a couple of marketing gurus slipped in! I’m talking about you, Curt Prins and you, JJ Parker!! Also, that pizza lunch actually was for 1,000 geeks, up from last fall’s 600 attendees.
5:45 pm: Happy Hour at Last!
Best giggle of the morning? The bathroom line was NOT at the Women’s Room door: it was at the Men’s!!
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2019-04-26T03:41:55Z
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https://kayroseland.wordpress.com/2010/05/26/600-geeks-learning-shareology-minnebar/
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Computers
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jazziz
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Thanksgiving is a time to be grateful for the good things in our lives. If you’re anything like us, that means family, friends, food and, of course, classic jazz. On that note, our Thanksgiving playlist has the music to keep your Thanksgiving dinner swinging from the first appetizer to the final dessert, with plenty of turkey, stuffing and gravy in between.
Lastly, let everyone know you’re grateful to know them with Dave Brubeck’s “Thank You” and Bill Evans’ tender “Goodbye.” It’s all there — plus lots more — in our JAZZIZ Occasions: Thanksgiving Playlist.
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2019-04-23T02:48:06Z
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https://www.jazziz.com/jazziz-occasions-thanksgiving-playlist/
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Since we started doing our annual report on uninsured children six years ago, the slightly higher overall rate for children living in rural areas has caught my eye. As a researcher, I always want to learn more about the populations that have higher uninsured rates. This year, with funding from the Pritzker Children’s Initiative, my colleagues and I had a chance to do so.
Today, Georgetown University’s Center for Children and Families is launching a new Rural Health Policy Project with the release of our 46-state report “Medicaid in Small Towns and Rural America: A Lifeline for Children, Families and Communities.” (It’s 46 states because a handful of states don’t have geographic areas defined as rural.) The report is the culmination of months of extensive analysis by a team of researchers here at Georgetown and the University of North Carolina NC Rural Health Research Program.
The report provides a state-by-state breakdown of Medicaid coverage and uninsured rates for children and adults over time for small towns and rural areas. In addition, some very cool interactive maps featuring county-level information will be published on our website – check them out here!
Medicaid plays a larger role in providing health coverage to families living in small towns and rural communities than it does in metropolitan areas, a trend that is particularly striking among children. About 45 percent of children in small towns and rural areas rely on Medicaid for their coverage, compared to 38 percent in metro areas. In 14 states, more than half of the children outside of metro areas receive health benefits from Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP). The vast majority of these children are covered by Medicaid.
The Affordable Care Act’s Medicaid expansion is having an even more dramatic positive impact for people living in small towns and rural areas than in urban areas. Between 2008/09 to 2014/15, the rate of uninsured adults in states that accepted the Medicaid expansion decreased 11 percentage points in non-metro areas. This is larger than the decrease in metropolitan areas of expansion states (9 percentage points) and larger than the decrease in small towns and rural areas in states that did not accept the expansion (6 percentage points).
For children, the data show a clear link between increases in Medicaid coverage and decreases in the rate of uninsured kids in small towns and rural areas. The uninsured rate for children in small towns and rural areas declined by 3 percentage points nationally during the time period examined. Nevada had the largest decline in the rate of uninsured children – a 14 percentage point drop — in small towns and rural areas (Colorado, New Mexico, Oregon and South Carolina also had declines of at least 8 percentage points). Texas had the largest decline in the number of uninsured children, with 52,000 kids in small towns and rural areas gaining health coverage.
One of the reasons that rural areas and small towns rely on Medicaid more is because the overall poverty rates are higher and the types of jobs there, such as agriculture or small businesses, are less likely to offer insurance.
The declining number of uninsured children and adults found in our research, especially in small towns and rural areas, is striking. It means that more people are protected from financial risk when they need health care services and that children and adults are able to access the primary and preventive care they need. Research is clear that children who are insured by Medicaid have better health outcomes, do better in school, and ultimately have better economic prospects.
And while the impact of the ACA’s Medicaid expansion is very clear for adults, for children this is not just an ACA story. The improvements achieved for children are the result of years of bipartisan effort through both Medicaid and CHIP to reduce the number of uninsured kids. The good news is that rural areas and small towns have not been left out from this national success story.
The bad news of course is that this success is threatened by the massive cuts to Medicaid and CHIP that are now under consideration by Congress as I have blogged about elsewhere. As the data in the report makes clear, small towns and rural areas would be especially hard hit by cuts to Medicaid.
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2019-04-23T14:45:08Z
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https://ccf.georgetown.edu/2017/06/06/medicaid-is-increasingly-important-for-kids-and-families-in-small-towns-and-rural-communities/
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National Geographic Animal Jam. Explore, Discover & Have Fun Today!
What Animal Has the Softest Fur?
What Kind of Animal Is a Minx?
What Is Llama Hair Called?
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2019-04-21T14:21:28Z
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https://www.reference.com/web?q=Animals+that+Jump&qo=contentPageRelatedSearch&o=600605&l=dir
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I love the natural geologic designs in the walls of this space. Juxtaposed with ancient human handiwork is interesting as well. Great capture!
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2019-04-26T06:01:05Z
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https://www.pbase.com/mansour_mouasher/image/147227605
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harpersbazaar
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Oscar de la Renta drew inspiration from Picasso for his Cruise collection. This dramatic one-shoulder navy and white polka dot draped gown is perfectly complemented by the red lip.
For more from the season, see our Resort 2012 roundup.
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2019-04-25T00:38:57Z
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https://www.harpersbazaar.com/fashion/fashion-week/a7003/look-of-the-day-oscar-resort-2012-051711/
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The InsideOut trivet is a great piece for people who want to maximize their design touch throughout their home. The attractive, arty piece of course fulfills the markedly boring function of keeping tables and countertops safe from the heat of kettles and hot dishes, but it also adds a pop of creativity where there isn't any normally.
Trivets aren't typically much to look at. Considering that their entire purpose is in being covered by hot objects, most designers don't see much value in making them look like anything worthwhile. However, the InsideOut trivet shows that there's still fun to be had. The trivet is long enough to protrude from under whatever its supporting, and it's even funky enough to leave out as a centerpiece at any time (regardless of the temperature of dishes).
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2019-04-26T05:08:30Z
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https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/insideout-trivet
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Lesser Yellowlegs near Fraser Island?
This is a brief description of what I saw. Unfortunately the bird did not hang about for long. We were driving south on Fraser Island ocean beach at approx 10:15 AM on Monday the 22nd of Sep. We logged the position at approx. 1.8k's north of Happy Valley. Later GPS sightings were taken as 25 degrees 19 minutes 55 seconds South. 153 degrees 12 minutes 56 seconds East. Checking out birds as we drove south at approx. 30 to 40 kph a pair of waders were seen close together by the wave edge. The larger bird of the two was definitely different to anything seen previously on the beach. This persuaded me to stop and back up, noticing with my naked eye (I was driving) that the smaller bird was a Red capped Plover and the larger a Tringa species. On reflection the larger of the two was approx. one and a half times the size of the Red-capped Plover. My initial thought before using bins was Redshank. This idea was quickly dispelled by both my friend, over on holiday from UK, and myself after looking through binoculars. The most obvious feature of the bird was it's brilliant yellow legs. Other ID marks observed in the short time available were: The slim shape of the bird typical of Tringa sandpipers.
The reasonably long straight bill.
The overall dark almost black plumage on mantle, scapulars, head, neck, breast with white spotting. The call made by the bird, identical to how it is described in Morcombe. The bird was first observed for about 20 seconds before it flew and landed again within 20 metres. The bird was observed again from a distance of about 10 metres for about one minute before unfortunately the bird flew directly west over the dunes without any indication it was going to return. The above information was sufficient to enable me to identify a Lesser Yellowlegs in breeding plumage. Subsequent visits to the beach on the following two consecutive days proved fruitless, leading me to think the bird had not long arrived from the Americas, only resting long enough to replenish its strength before continuing its journey for more suitable habitat. This is purely information supplied based on what I saw. At this point in time no attempt has been made to justify why other species were not considered. This info is purely to enable other birders to be aware and on the look out for this bird which could turn up on the west coast of Fraser or any suitable habitat on the corresponding Queensland coast.
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2019-04-23T02:15:52Z
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http://bioacoustics.cse.unsw.edu.au/archives/html/birding-aus/2003-09/msg00494.html
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Species: Ilex cassine L. var. myrtifolia (Walter)Sarg.
Plant Notes: This taxon is interfertile and introgresses with I. cassine var. cassine (Wunderlin & Poppleton 1977).
Citation ILEX CASSINE Linnaeus, var. MYRTIFOLIA (Walter) Sargent, Gard. & Forest 2: 616. 1889.
Type: SOUTH CAROLINA: Berkeley Co.: Francis Marion National Forest, 1.6 mi. N of Honey Hill, 27 Aug 1967, Bozeman 11368 (neotype: GH; isoneotypes: MICH, NCU, NY). Neotypified by D. B. Ward, J. Bot. Res. Inst. Texas 2: 479. 2008.
Ilex cassine subsp. myrtifolia Ilex cassine Linnaeus, subsp. myrtifolia (Walter) E. Murray, Kalmia 13: 8. 1983. BASIONYM: Ilex myrtifolia Walter 1788.
Ilex cassine var. parvifolia Ilex cassine Linnaeus, var. parvifolia C. K. Schneider, Handb. Laubholzk. 2: 160. 1907, nom. illegit. BASIONYM: Ilex dahoon Walter, var. parvifolia K. Koch 1869, nom. illegit.; Ilex dahoon Walter, var. myrtifolia (Walter) Chapman 1860; Ilex myrtifolia Walter 1788.
Ilex dahoon var. myrtifolia Ilex dahoon Walter, var. myrtifolia (Walter) Chapman, Fl. South. U.S. 269. 1860. BASIONYM: Ilex myrtifolia Walter 1788.
Ilex dahoon var. parvifolia Ilex dahoon Walter, var. parvifolia K. Koch, Dendrologie 2(1): 225. 1869, nom. illegit. BASIONYM: Ilex dahoon Walter, var. myrtifolia (Walter) Chapman 1860; Ilex myrtifolia Walter 1788.
Ilex myrtifolia Ilex myrtifolia Walter, Fl. Carol. 241. 1788. TYPE: SOUTH CAROLINA: Berkeley Co.: Francis Marion National Forest, 1.6 mi. N of Honey Hill, 27 Aug 1967, Bozeman 11368 (neotype: GH; isoneotypes: MICH, NCU, NY). Neotypified by D. B. Ward, J. Bot. Res. Inst. Texas 2: 479. 2008.
Ilex myrtifolia forma lowei Ilex myrtifolia Walter, forma lowei S. F. Blake, Rhodora 26: 231. 1924. TYPE: GEORGIA: Appling Co.: Baxley, Nov 1923, Lowe s.n. (holotype: US; isotypes: A, GH, NY).
Ilex rosmarinifolia Ilex rosmarinifolia Lamarck, Tabl. Encycl. 1: 356. 1792.
USA Florida 15 Oct 1947 F. Ruff s.n.
USA Florida Alachua Co. 24 May 1930 M. Mulvania s.n.
USA Mississippi Jackson Co. 16 Aug 1952 J. D. Ray, Jr. s.n.
USA Alabama Baldwin Co. 16 May 1971 A. M. Evans 46184 Field lable no. 46184.
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2019-04-21T21:00:16Z
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http://www.florida.plantatlas.usf.edu/Plant.aspx?id=809
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knoxnews
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Tennessee’s basketball coaching history has been hit and miss. Pouncing when tried-and-true veteran Rick Barnes became available in 2015.
Now that the second most popular college sport is nearing its zenith, we’re not hearing a peep from the national audience about SEC fatigue.
The ACC grabbed three of the four No. 1 seeds in the men’s NCAA basketball tournament bracket. A Catholic school in the Northwest got the other.
But that’s OK. SEC basketball has a presence in March Madness these days. And Tennessee’s resurgence is symbolic of it.
Just three years ago – 2016 – the 14-member SEC managed a mere three slots in the 68-team bracket. Likewise, for 2014, 2013 and 2009.
All that money, resources and fan passion – and three lousy bids. Yeah, just a football league, at least south of Lexington. When’s the spring game?
Happily for basketball fans, that’s changed. The SEC landed five teams in the 2017 bracket, eight in 2018 and seven this year.
Part of the credit goes to increased emphasis on hoops from the SEC office: exposure, scheduling advice, etc. A bigger factor is coaching.
Tennessee’s basketball coaching history has been hit and miss. Pouncing when tried-and-true veteran Rick Barnes became available in 2015 turned out to be an impetus for lifting the Vols out of the post-Bruce Pearl doldrums.
Speaking of Pearl, check out Auburn’s rebirth. He’s led the Tigers to a regular-season co-championship, an SEC tournament title – and denied UT each of the above. More important, he ended a 15-year drought of NCAA bids in 2018 and again this year.
Mississippi State seemed an odd fit for another proven commodity, Ben Howland. But he’s recruited well and got the Bulldogs back to the tournament for the first time since 2009.
Kentucky’s history speaks for itself. Still, you’ve got to admit John Calipari has kept the ball rolling.
Ole Miss could count on Andy Kennedy for 20 wins but wanted to see what else was out there. Kermit Davis, another veteran, was named SEC coach of the year and got the Rebels into the bracket in his maiden voyage.
Frank Martin is an odd case. After his success at Kansas State, I thought he’d rock it at South Carolina. He did in 2017. The Gamecocks, who hadn’t won an NCAA tourney game since 1973, waltzed to the Final Four. That, however, is Martin’s only bid in Columbia.
Mike White hasn’t sustained Billy Donovan-level success at Florida but he keeps the Gators in the bracket.
Will Wade has worked a strong-a-- wonder at LSU. Exactly how he might have done it has attracted a bit of attention. He’s done the best coaching I’ve seen at LSU in a while – I’ll give him that. But whether he coaches another game remains to be seen.
Cuonzo Martin has been too snake-bit by injuries to get a full grade yet. All told, Mizzou has missed five of the past six tournaments.
Texas A&M, like Missouri, had a better postseason presence in the Big 12 than since joining the SEC. Sweet 16s in 2016 and 2018 weren’t enough to keep Billy Kennedy employed.
Avery Johnson at Alabama and Bryce Drew at Vanderbilt have both signed marquee recruits but haven’t produced sparkling results. Mike Anderson at Arkansas fits that same category. The Razorbacks have missed five of the past eight tournaments on his watch and eight of 11 overall.
Finally, there’s Georgia. The Bulldogs have appeared in but two of the past 10 tournaments and haven’t won an NCAA game since 2002. They weren’t very good this year under new coach Tom Crean.
But I’m betting Crean turns out to be another one of those good hires and that Georgia will join the SEC hoops surge before long.
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2019-04-22T01:10:40Z
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https://www.knoxnews.com/story/sports/college/university-of-tennessee/mens-basketball/2019/03/27/ncaa-tournament-sec-coaches-basketball-force-rick-barnes-bruce-pearl/3213449002/
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time
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The Press: Did Horace Turn?
The idea of printing fiction in a newspaper is not new. W. L. George and his kindred penmen have long prospered in the back lots and less respectable areas of journalism. But to bring fiction out onto the very facade of newspaperdom, and rear it as a fake skyscraper among the tall columns of front page news, is an operation of some daring. It took place last week.
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2019-04-21T04:44:51Z
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http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,717781,00.html
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vcu
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A contemporary novel spanning thirteen years in the lives of an Indiana family. A boy enters abusive relationships with men in the belief he does not deserve love, a woman abandons her only son because of her alcoholism, a gay father learns to navigate the line between his personal life and that of being a parent. A story in which a family learns to grow, to mature, to forgive their past mistakes and exorcise the demons that haunt them.
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2019-04-25T04:36:49Z
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https://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/3800/
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Arts
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wwltv
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NEW ORLEANS — It was a bit cold, but clear and an otherwise awesome day for a Mardi Gras celebration and the city of New Orleans took advantage of it at every turn.
From crowds of bawdy revelers in the Marigny and the French Quarter to the family celebrations on St. Charles Avenue, in Metairie, Houma and the northshore to the Skull and Bones Krewe that start the day and the Mardi Gras Indians who traverse throughout it, it was a fabulous day.
There were costumes aplenty, many magnificent in their colors and adornments. The most popular costume - by far - were of blind or disabled NFL referees, a nod to the city's belief that the New Orleans Saints were deprived of a berth in the Super Bowl when no call was made on an obvious pass interference, that the NFL later admitted should have been made.
Despite the temperatures, which started the day just above freezing and which peaked under 50 degrees, the crowds turned out en masse.
RELATED: The 2019 Bourbon Street Awards!
Another crowd favorite is Pete Fountain's Half-Fast Walking Group. The clarinetist died in 2016 but the walking group that he led for years still meets at Commander's Palace restaurant and walks along the parade route ahead of the parades.
Then the Zulu Social Aid & Pleasure Club parade along the city's famed St. Charles Avenue followed by the Rex Parade. Zulu's practice of wearing black makeup during its parade has drawn attention and criticism after news that two Virginia politicians wore blackface heightened attention nationally to the issue.
Zulu issued a statement in February saying their parade costumes bear no resemblance to those worn by "blackface" minstrel performers at the turn of the century and that their costumes are designed to honor garments worn by South African Zulu warriors.
Kailyn's was accompanied by the Golden Band from Tigerland, LSU's marching band, during her ride on Mardi Gras day. It was also the first time that the Golden Band has paraded with Zulu.
Tuesday's Rex parade is also expected to feature a stop at "The Rex House," despite a fire that heavily damaged the historic mansion. The home along St. Charles Avenue has been an important stop along the Rex parade route since 1907, and the Rex king usually stops at the house during the parade.
This year's Carnival season also has featured numerous jabs at the NFL and its commissioner Roger Goodell, over the now-infamous "no-call" that came during the Jan. 20 NFC Championship game between the Los Angeles Rams and the New Orleans Saints.
One parade featured a walking group called the "Robbin Refs" who wore referee outfits and black masks. On the back of their uniforms? A photo of Goodell with a red clown nose. TheKrewe d'Etat parade featured a float called "Willful Blindness" with a blind referee on the front holding a cane. Many parades have also featured yellow penalty flags as throws.
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2019-04-19T06:29:09Z
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https://www.wwltv.com/article/entertainment/events/mardi-gras/new-orleans-celebrates-mardi-gras/289-8ac7e090-b00d-4e46-a35e-7d3534c4c4af
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jrank
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Name is accented on second syllable; born 1951, in Miles City, MT; Education: University of Montana, B.A. (with high honors). Politics: Democrat. Religion: Episcopalian.
Agent—Paige Gillies, 231 Judd Rd., Easton, CT 06612-1025.
Children's book illustrator. Chico Chism Chicago Blues Band, bass player.
Debbie Driscoll, Three Two One Day, Simon and Schuster (New York, NY), 1994.
Tony Geiss, My Little Teddy Bear: A Jewelry Book, Random House (New York, NY), 1994.
Natalie Standiford, Brave Maddie Egg, Random House (New York, NY), 1995.
Margaret Yatsevitch Phinney, Will You Play with Us?, Mondo (Greenvale, NY), 1995.
Ellen Weiss and Mel Friedman, The Plug at the Bottom of the Lake: And Other Wacky Camp Stories, HarperCollins (New York, NY), 1996.
Ellen Weiss and Mel Friedman, The Flying Substitute, HarperCollins (New York, NY), 1996.
Allan Trusell-Cullen, No Singing Today, Mondo (Greenvale, NY), 1996.
Linda Tracey Brandon, The Little Flower Girl, Random House (New York, NY), 1997.
Alice Lyne, A, My Name Is . . . , Whispering Coyote Press (Boston, MA), 1997.
A Poem a Day (poetry anthology), Scholastic (New York, NY), 1997.
JoAnn Vandine, Play Ball, Mondo (Greenvale, NY), 1997.
Sharon Dennis Wyeth, Tomboy Trouble, Random House (New York, NY), 1998.
Patricia Reilly Giff, Kidnap at the Catfish Cafe (first book in "Minnie and Max" series), Viking (New York, NY), 1998.
Patricia Reilly Giff, Mary Moon Is Missing (second book in "Minnie and Max" series), Viking (New York, NY), 1998.
Stuart J. Murphy, The Penny Pot, HarperCollins (New York, NY), 1998.
Sheila Kelly Welch, Little Prince Know-It-All, Golden Books (New York, NY), 1998.
Over the River and Through the Wood (musical board book), HarperCollins (New York, NY), 1998.
Margaret Holtschlag and Carol Trojanowski, Button Crafts, Random House (New York, NY), 1999.
Bettina Lang, The Royal Diner, Scholastic (New York, NY), 1999.
Phillis Gershator, Tiny and Bigman, Marshall Cavendish (New York, NY), 1999.
Sarah Albee, Cool School, Golden Books (New York, NY), 1999.
Stuart J. Murphy, Spunky Monkeys on Parade, HarperCollins (New York, NY), 1999.
B. G. Hennessy, One Little, Two Little, Three Little Pilgrims, Viking (New York, NY), 1999.
P. J. Petersen, I Hate Weddings, Dutton (New York, NY), 2000.
Joan Holub, Light the Candles: A Hanukkah Lift-the-Flap Book, Puffin (New York, NY), 2000.
Gloria Whelan, Welcome to Starvation Lake, Random House (New York, NY), 2000.
My First Action Rhymes (anthology of songs and rhymes), HarperCollins (New York, NY), 2000.
Mary Ann Hoberman, The Two Sillies, Harcourt/Gulliver (San Diego, CA), 2000.
Stuart J. Murphy, Shark Swimathon, HarperCollins (New York, NY), 2001.
Gloria Whelan, Rich and Famous in Starvation Lake, Random House (New York, NY), 2001.
Joan Holub, Pizza That We Made, Viking/Puffin (New York, NY), 2001.
Bob Hartman, Granny Mae's Christmas Play, Augsburg (Minneapolis, MN), 2001.
Marsha Hayles, He Saves the Day, Putnam (New York, NY), 2001.
Gloria Whelan, Are There Bears in Starvation Lake?, Random House (New York, NY), 2002.
Patricia Rae Wolff, A New Improved Santa, Orchard (New York, NY), 2002.
Teresa Bateman, The Princesses Have a Ball, Albert Whitman (Morton Grove, IL), 2002.
Gloria Whelan, A Haunted House in Starvation Lake, Random House (New York, NY), 2003.
Craig Kee Strete, The Rattlesnake Who Went to School, Putnam (New York, NY), 2004.
Robert Lopshire, Big Max and the Mystery of the Missing Giraffe, HarperCollins (New York, NY), 2004.
Daisy, HarperCollins (New York, NY), 1997.
Heather, HarperCollins (New York, NY), 1997.
Rose, HarperCollins (New York, NY), 1997.
Violet, HarperCollins (New York, NY), 1997.
Illustrations for Larry the Lion, written by Barbara Abercrombie, for Margaret K. McElderry Books (New York, NY), publication expected in 2005.
Lynne W. Cravath, the illustrator of numerous books for children, finds inspiration for her art all around her. "I have a friend who says that all my characters are just myriad little self-portraits of myself," she once told SATA. "In a sense, that's probably true. We can only paint what we know, and we paint the world the way we want to see it. As an illustrator, exposure to all types of people and events in the world around you is very important, along with a good sense of humor. Watching people—their characteristics, clothing, etc.—I carry around a sketchbook at all times and try not to be too obvious about scribbling down a stranger's best and worst features. Animals seem more oblivious to it."
Cravath continued, "All our experiences feed our art. I play the bass in a blues band, and then in the morning, I'm a mom with two kids. I love to travel and talk to people wherever I go." She has also drawn inspiration from other artists, such as Ludwig Bemelmans, who created Madeline, and Charlotte Voake. Her preferred medium is gouache. Its advantages, she once told SATA, include rich color and versatility—"you can make it very opaque, or you can add water or acrylic medium to make it transparent." What's more, she added, "It's a very forgiving medium. If you make a mistake, you can lift it out or paint over it." She sometimes works in other media, such as pen and ink.
Cravath's illustrations have graced a wide variety of stories, including three by Stuart J. Murphy: The Penny Pot, Spunky Monkeys on Parade, and Shark Swimathon. The Penny Pot, aimed at helping children learn to count, shows a little girl collecting pennies so she can accumulate enough money to have her face painted at the school festival. In this book, "Cravath's colorful cartoon illustrations match the story's playful tone," commented Lauren Peterson in Booklist, while School Library Journal reviewer Marty Abbott Goodman praised Cravath's use of "life-size, authentic-looking coins" and "multiethnic children" in her paintings. Spunky Monkeys on Parade teaches children about counting by twos, threes, fours, and so forth, with pictures of "vividly costumed, energetically parading" monkeys, reported Booklist contributor Ellen Mandel. Every one of the illustrations, according to School Library Journal's Anne Knickerbocker, "suggests plenty of movement and excitement." Shark Swimathon, meanwhile, gives a lesson in subtraction as a team of sharks tries to swim seventy-five laps to raise money to attend swimming camp. The laps they complete every day are subtracted from the total. Cravath portrays the sharks outfitted with book bags and bathing suits in her "bright cartoons," wrote Melinda Piehler in School Library Journal. The illustrations, added Catherine Andronik in Booklist, are full of "amusing details" that make each shark distinctive.
History and intercultural cooperation are the lessons of One Little, Two Little, Three Little Pilgrims, written by B. G. Hennessy. It uses the familiar rhyme (usually about Indians) to show the activities of young Pilgrim settlers in North America and Wampanoag Indian children as they prepare a dinner to celebrate the harvest—the celebration now known as Thanksgiving. Cravath's illustrations are full of "authentic detail," remarked Booklist's Peterson, who pointed out that Cravath includes notes on her research. School Library Journal commentator Adele Greenlee observed that Cravath's pictures "create a playful mood." Another culture, that of the West Indies, provides the setting for Tiny and Bigman. Phillis Gershator tells a story of a large, strong woman, Miss Tiny, who is capable of great physical feats but intimidating to men; she finds love, however, with a slim little man named Mr. Bigman. They defy traditional gender roles—he cooks, she does carpentry—and become a happily married couple and eventually parents, with Tiny protecting their house during a hurricane so their baby will have a home. Cravath's paintings are "exuberant" and "a lively portrayal of Caribbean life," noted Shelle Rosenfeld in Booklist. A Publishers Weekly reviewer, meanwhile, described the illustrations as "bold and cheery."
Cravath has also lent her talents to a pair of mysteries by Patricia Reilly Giff, Kidnap at the Catfish Cafe and Mary Moon Is Missing. The central character is youthful detective Minnie, an orphan who is cared for by her older brother, Catfish Cafe owner Orlando. With the help of Max, her black cat, Minnie sets about solving mysteries. Kidnap at the Catfish Cafe takes Minnie through several sleuthing assignments, while Mary Moon Is Missing focuses on the hunt for a prize pigeon who has been stolen just before a big race. Cravath illustrates both books with pen-and-ink drawings. In School Library Journal, Janie Schomberg called Mary Moon Is Missing "lively," observing that Cravath's illustrations "add to the enjoyment."
Adventures of the imagination make up the story of He Saves the Day by Marsha Hayles. A little boy imagines himself performing all sorts of heroic deeds as he plays with various toys—an airplane, a car, and many others. Eventually, though, he needs his mother to save him. "The exuberant art creates both the reality (a summer backyard scene) and the flights of fancy," commented Martha Topol in School Library Journal. Cravath "does a good job" of showing how toys "can launch greater imaginative leaps," added a Kirkus Reviews contributor.
Another action-filled story is The Princesses Have a Ball by Teresa Bateman. This new take on the story of the twelve dancing princesses reveals that the princesses have worn out their shoes so incredibly quickly not by dancing but by playing basketball, an activity they fear their father, the king, would not condone. But a cobbler makes them appropriate athletic shoes, and the king enjoys the girls' games so much he agrees to be their referee. Cravath's illustrations have "amusing anachronistic features" and "just the right look," remarked Bina Williams in School Library Journal. What's more, the "animated illustrations . . . tell the story visually for prereaders," noted Lauren Peterson in Booklist. And a Publishers Weekly reviewer praised Cravath for her "shots from odd angles and cute visuals for the grown-ups."
Booklist, December 15, 1998, Lauren Peterson, review of The Penny Pot, p. 753; September 1, 1999, Lauren Peterson, review of One Little, Two Little, Three Little Pilgrims, p. 148; October 15, 1999, Shelle Rosenfeld, review of Tiny and Bigman, p. 452; December 1, 1999, Ellen Mandel, review of Spunky Monkeys on Parade, p. 708; February 1, 2001, Catherine Andronik, review of Shark Swimathon, p. 1058; November 1, 2002, Lauren Peterson, review of The Princesses Have a Ball, p. 504.
Kirkus Reviews, February 15, 2002, review of He Saves the Day, p. 258.
Publishers Weekly, October 11, 1999, review of Tiny and Bigman, p. 75; July 15, 2002, review of The Princesses Have a Ball, p. 74.
School Library Journal, December, 1998, Marty Abbott Goodman, review of The Penny Pot, pp. 111-112; January, 1999, Janie Schomberg, review of Mary Moon Is Missing, p. 88; September, 1999, Adele Greenlee, review of One Little, Two Little, Three Little Pilgrims, p. 183; December, 1999, Anne Knickerbocker, review of Spunky Monkeys on Parade, p. 108; March, 2001, Melinda Piehler, review of Shark Swimathon, p. 239; April, 2002, Martha Topol, review of He Saves the Day, p. 110; December, 2002, Bina Williams, review of The Princesses Have a Ball, p. 84.
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Recovering biblical literacy in the church.
Jay Leno knew he had the perfect comedy routine. Roving through the audience of his late-night talk show, Leno asked people how much they knew about the Bible. "Name one of the Ten Commandments," he asked. A hand went up: "God helps those who help themselves?" Leno went on: "Name one of the apostles." No answer. But when he asked his audience to name the four Beatles, the names "George, Paul, John, and Ringo" flew from the crowd.
Last year I was listening to a speech on the radio given by a candidate for governor in Nevada. He wanted to propose a new tax on the gambling industry but did not want to give the impression that he was against Nevada's most powerful and lucrative industry. Appealing to biblical authority, he announced: "I want to be like King David in the Bible. He didn't kill Goliath, he just hurt him a little."
Obviously, we live in a postbiblical era where general knowledge of the Bible cannot be assumed. As a book, the Bible has been removed from the reading lists of students so that they can barely recognize metaphors from great novels written before 1950. A professor from the University of Wisconsin told me about speaking to a seminar of highly motivated, intellectually keen students who did not recognize literary references to "Jonah" or "the prodigal son." She was forced to "decode" these cryptic images so that the students could see the underlying themes of the books they analyzed.
We may lament the neglect of the Bible in popular culture and secular education, but we can understand it. But what about the church? What about the evangelical church? If it is true that biblical illiteracy is commonplace in secular culture at large, there is ample evidence that points to similar trends in our churches.
This article is from the August 9 1999 issue.
Was the Messiah a Vegetarian?
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You can use the following URL to test the Secure Delete functionality with a PlayReady client.
The client has to be PlayReady 4.0 minimum, and support that functionality.
One example of such a client is the Edge browser in Windows 10 Fall Creators Update, running an EME application that calls the EME remove() function.
See the EME specification here for more details: https://www.w3.org/TR/encrypted-media/ .
// App creates a persistent license session.
// App loads the persistent license session using the SessionId previously acquired.
// with the Secure Delete challenge.
// App feeds back the Secure Delete response retrieved from the server.
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RDF International School is a newly formed boarding institution situated in Dapeng, Shenzhen. In 2017, RDF took strides to establish athletic programs by creating competitive volleyball, basketball, and soccer teams. The next year, the Eagles were accepted into the Shenzhen International School Athletic Conference as full members for both Middle School and High School. Our goal is to provide quality athletic opportunities for all students at RDF International School .
Friday Jan. 25: What a week for the teams at RDF. HS Boys basketball capped off their season with a home win against Merchiston in a friendly. On Thursday, the MS Volleyball teams were in action against league opponents SIS and SWIS. Both boys and girls finished with one win each and really improved their skill. They will play again on Feb. 25 at GOS. RDF Athletics are about to begin the Spring Season. HS options include Soccer, Track & Field, Tennis, and Badminton while MS students can participate in Track & Field and Basketball. We are excited for these new sports and look forward to supporting our eagles after the Spring Festival!
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Together, Schneider Electric and Cisco can now offer IT global channel partners and system integrators access to several new reference designs for HyperFlex™ deployments that can be used as-is or be customized to meet specific micro data center needs. These solutions have been pre-engineered to seamlessly join APC and Cisco equipment for solutions that are pre-integrated, remotely monitorable, and physically secure.
"For IT channel partners and system integrators, a fully integrated micro data center solution from Schneider Electric and Cisco saves valuable rack-and-stack floor space and time, and these reference designs provide peace of mind that they will be getting a fully optimized solution," said John Knorr, VP, Global IT Channel Alliances, Schneider Electric. "We're fully dedicated to the relationship with Cisco and offering the latest innovative solutions to our customers."
"Cisco looks forward to more collaboration with Schneider Electric," said Vijay Venugopal, Sr. Director, HyperFlex Product Management, Cisco. "As the needs for edge compute continue to evolve and the marketplace demands plug-and-play solutions that put the specific needs of the customer front and center, new solutions like this micro data center solution with Cisco HyperFlex Edge will be key for success."
"We are delighted to collaborate with Schneider Electric and Cisco to extend this innovative edge computing offering to our channel partner community," said Stephen Nolan, SVP, Endpoint Solutions, Europe, at Tech Data. "We are focused on strengthening our portfolio with a compelling range of hyperconverged pre-integrated solutions to enable our partners to accelerate their businesses in this ecosystem."
EcoStruxure is Schneider Electric's open, interoperable, IoT-enabled system architecture and platform. EcoStruxure delivers enhanced value around safety, reliability, efficiency, sustainability, and connectivity for customers. EcoStruxure leverages advancements in IoT, mobility, sensing, cloud, analytics, and cybersecurity to deliver Innovation at Every Level. This includes Connected Products, Edge Control, and Apps, Analytics & Services. EcoStruxure has been deployed in 480,000+ sites, with the support of 20,000+ system integrators and developers, connecting over 1.6 million assets under management through 40+ digital services.
Cisco HyperFlex is a fully engineered HCI solution built on the Cisco UCS platform that enables customers to extend the power and simplicity of HCI Anywhere - from core data centers to the edges of their operations with consistent policy enforcement and software as a service (SaaS) systems management through Cisco Intersight. HyperFlex Edge solutions are specifically designed as an enterprise-class edge platform to meet the unique requirements of multi-site, distributed computing at global scale in branch offices and remote sites and enable new IoT and intelligent services at the edge.
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https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/schneider-electric-combines-physical-infrastructure-with-ciscos-hyperflex-edge-for-new-micro-data-center-options-300824021.html
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An excellent article that explains recent applications of topology in math, physics and engineering at the undergraduate level, featuring research at Princeton.
Title: "Welcome to the Weird Mathematical World of Topology"
September 2018: Edwin Chung was awarded the Yan Huo *94 Fellowship for excellence in research.
Jeff Thompson, assistant professor of electrical engineering, together with postdoctoral researcher Alan Dibos and graduate students Mouktik Raha and Christopher Phenicie, has published the first reported observation of photoluminescence from a single erbium ion.
Two groups—one led by Jason Petta of Princeton University11. X. Mi et al., Nature (in press).
M.A. Mueed award American Physical Society's "2018 Richard L. Greene Dissertation Award"
M.A. Mueed, who graduated from Prof. Shayegan's group, was awarded the American Physical Society’s “2018 Richard L.
Nature Physics - "Quantum gas microscopy of an attractive Fermi–Hubbard system"
Science Magazine - "Spin-imbalance in a 2D Fermi-Hubbard system"
The interplay of strong interactions and magnetic fields gives rise to unusual forms of superconductivity and magnetism in quantum many-body systems. Here, we present an experimental study of the two-dimensional Fermi-Hubbard model—a paradigm for strongly correlated fermions on a lattice—in the presence of a Zeeman field and varying doping.
Three Princeton Engineering members were among six researchers from Princeton University named as 2017 Sloan Research Fellows.
Neereja Sundaresan, a Ph.D. student in electrical engineering, is one of four students who have been named winners of the Porter Ogden Jacobus Fellowship, Princeton University's top honor for graduate students.
Nematic quantum fluids with wavefunctions that break the underlying crystalline symmetry can form in interacting electronic systems. We examine the quantum Hall states that arise in high magnetic fields from multiple anisotropic hole pockets on the Bi(111) surface.
The room-filling machinery looks diabolical, clicking and whirring with wires running all over the place. Perched at a computer terminal linking him to the mysterious instrument is Jeff Thompson, a new faculty member in Princeton's Department of Electrical Engineering.
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A week ago Jerry Seinfeld's old pal Michael Richards helped tease season five of Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee. It was a hilarious clip rooted in the antics of Cosmo Kramer, but it didn't really tell us anything about what to expect from CCGC.
That changes now, as this new trailer tells us who we'll see in the upcoming season. Jimmy Fallon, Kevin Hart, Fred Armisen, Amy Schumer, Miranda Sings, and Ali Wentworth will all make appearances. Fallon even boasts that his is the best episode yet of Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee.
We have a feeling someone would take issue with that.
Peep season five on its Nov. 6 premiere.
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Thank you to Wouter and sjcourchesne (aka our very own Seanet Project Coordinator!) for their answers suggesting Birds A & B are both Herring Gulls. As a couple veteran Dead Bird Quiz “experts”, I proceeded to pick up my copy of the Field Guide to Beached Birds of the Southeastern United States ( https://seanetters.wordpress.com/shop/beached-bird-guides/) and opened to the section on gull identification (pages 91-103) to cross-examine their answers.
Based on the wind chord alone (measured as 45 cm, please excuse my error in the original blog in which I stated the wind chord to be 45 mm!) , this bird falls in the range of Herring Gull and outside the reported wind chord ranges for other likely candidates ( e.g. Laughing Gull, Bonaparte’s Gull and Ring-Billed Gull). As for Adult or juvenile, the black band on the tail feathers is indicative of a juvenile ( or possibly a sub-adult, but the bird has been scavenged and we only have a ventral view). Note: Adults have all white tail rectrices.
Based on the wind chord alone (measured as 43 cm, once again-please excuse my error in the original blog in which I stated the wind chord to be 43 mm!), this bird falls in the range of Herring Gull and outside the reported wind chord ranges for other likely candidates ( e.g. Laughing Gull, Bonaparte’s Gull and Ring-Billed Gull). This dorsal view shows a grayish back coloration, some brown speckling and darker bill (Adults have yellow bills). This plumage is indicative of a sub-adult (likely aged 2-3 years).
Well, there you have it. I too agree with Wouter and sjcourchesne that Birds A & B are Herring Gulls! Thanks to all that read and pondered this Dead Bird Quiz. Until our next Dead Bird Quiz……….
Bird A: found on Massachusetts beach in May 2016.
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The children and I took a walk today. I had to stop at the bank, and Grace had designs on a treat from Starbucks. We did both of those things, and on the way I got a reminder.
I stopped to take the above photo of some pruned rose bushes. I haven’t unloaded photos from my camera or backed up my computer in a while, so there was only 20 available shots on my camera. As soon as I had it out, Sam was asking to use it.
I said no, and promised that next time we’d bring his camera. He was really disappointed and I realized that I was being ridiculous. What is the point of taking my children for a walk and saying no to the way my son wants to enjoy that walk?
I love his eye. He takes such care choosing his subjects and framing his shots. I am pretty ashamed of myself for coming so close to keeping him from these photographs.
From now on, I will try harder to say yes.
I don’t know why it’s so hard to remember to say “yes” but it really is. I get so caught up in my own plans, and these bright young minds sometimes have a different view and it’s not that “yes” or “no” is wrong, just different than my expectation for the next step in our day. I’m trying really hard for yeses lately, too.
I agree that my initial reaction is often to say no as well. Why? I think a lot of us do that and none of us seem to know why.
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Through Immortal Shadows Singing now available for pre-order!
I'm very pleased to announce that Through Immortal Shadows Singing, my epic novella in poetry, is now available for preorder from Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and many other retailers!
And by epic, I do mean epic - the 170 pages do include a table of contents and things like that, but this is about 167 pages of poetry.
Maligned for her beauty, cursed for her role in causing a war, she has rarely been given her chance to tell her tale. Now Helen of Troy's voice breaks free, offering a new vision in this epic lyrical sequence that follows her journey from Sparta to Troy, from earth to hell, and back. A stunning debut novella from Mari Ness, THROUGH IMMORTAL SHADOWS SINGING will transform your view of Helen and the Trojan War, in a soaring poem of love and war, healing and pain, hatred and triumph.
The Huntsmen was one of those stories that I wrote because the general concept wouldn't stop nagging at me: how did the princess of the original tale, collected by the Grimm brothers back in the early 19th century, manage to find eleven women who looked just like her? (It was only after I finished the story that I remembered that the majority of people at the time had no access to corrective lenses, so many people would have been too nearsighted to tell the difference.) And why go to so much effort just to get an unfaithful lover back?
I was so focused on those questions that I more or less ignored the other oddity of the tale - the sudden, never explained entrance of a talking lion. But as I shuffled the lion to the side, he started nagging at me too.
It's an example of how very often, when writing one story, another one appears. At least in my case.
You may, perhaps, be feeling a touch of darkness just now, of despair, of grief.
Feelings, alas, that many watermaidens and snowmaidens understand all too well.
Most, of course, are solitary sorts, keeping themselves hidden in their rivers and springs and ponds, hiding from mortals and fairies alike. A few have even, by choice or coercion, spent their lives half-frozen behind snow and ice, a condition that, however cold and uncomfortable, keeps their hearts secure from pain. Others live only through a single rainfall, a life too swift, too ephemeral, for sorrow or joy.
But even the most solitary watermaiden may find herself grieving over the loss of a nearby tree, or the disappearance of a favorite owl. Even the most frozen snowmaiden may hear a crack in the ice surrounding her, and for a moment – just a moment – think of pain, or feel despair. And those who have spent thousands of years hiding in the depths of their lakes, can tell you of long dark nights, when they wondered if they would ever see light dance through their waters again. Others sing of lost friends, of lost loves, of moonlit evenings they must not forget.
And those a little less solitary, a little closer to mortals – their sorrows can be even sharper. Many have watched as their homes are threatened, or sobbed as fewer and fewer birds arrived each year. Others have dared to talk to mortals, and even more – something that can bring joy or pain.
After all, watermaidens can fall in love, even if they are made of water.
And today, by decree fee, the Official Day of Watermaidens, is a day for remembering those sorrows, those fears, those despairs.
A day where the shimmer on the water you see, out of the corner of your eye, might be no more than a shimmer or a flash of light. Or where a twirling mist might be just an ordinary mist. The water shaking in your glass nothing more than a nearby breeze.
Or it might be a watermaiden, letting you know that she understands.
Watermaidens Day is the brainchild of folklorist Nin Harris. As always, I'm just borrowing it for fun.
The inaugural issue of Umbel & Panicle is out, and with it, my poem "The Stained Oak Leaves."
Thank you y gracias, everyone, for all of the messages of sympathy, both here and on Twitter and email.
I still keep expecting to see him, either following me to the kitchen or bathroom or living room, or curled up/flopped against me, or trying to sneak a little paw onto the computer keyboard hoping I wouldn't notice.
Hard to believe one small animal can leave such a hole.
My family found my first cat through a want ad, when we were looking for a cat who could help with the mouse problem. That cat was more than successful, and always superior to the family she graciously agreed to share living space with. My second cat was a rescue from the streets of Miami; I'd hit the point where I wanted the cat, and I'd asked friends to keep an ear out for any cats in need of a home, and there was Tasha in all of her not-exactly-friendly neuroticism, convinced, post joining me, that I was the only worthwhile human being on earth. The Grey One was another kitten found by friends, that I got after Tasha died, leaving the Little One distraught.
The Little One was different.
He was a tiny ball of mud that barely looked like a kitten when he found me. I washed him and considered what to do with him - I already had Tasha who did not regard other living creatures with favor and certainly was not interested in sharing her human with another cat. And yet. He was so incredibly adorable and loud and adorable - and he'd followed ME. He'd picked me. I decided that I couldn't give him up.
Even if it meant no peace in the household for a couple of years.
It turned out to be one of the best decisions I ever made.
I gave him a nicely evil name, Asmodean, since he'd wormed his way into the household, and an internet pseudonym, the Little One, since he was a very small kitten. Right from the beginning, he was more of a dog than a cat - he followed me around like a puppy, played fetch, and was incredibly friendly - some critics said overly friendly - to anyone who entered. He had an underappreciated habit of just sitting on people when not headbutting them.
He also loved to play, and jump, and leap - I've never seen another cat make some of the jumps that he did, which had the tendency to startle visitors and board games. And one - only one - bad habit; he was convinced, despite all protests to the contrary, that computer and laptop keyboards were designed to be cat beds. As I explained once, years back, one of my pet peeves as a writer was how much time I had to spend removing him from the keyboard. He added a good ten pages of random letters and symbols to my Tor.com post on Toy Story just last week.
His first bad moment came when Tasha died. She may have hated him, but he loved her, and also, I realized, he'd never been alone. He did not like being alone at all. So I acquired the Grey One and told him that she was his kitten. They took me literally; I've sometimes been allowed to pet the Grey One, but she was always his cat, not mine.
When I got sick, he was the best thing ever.
He knew something was wrong when I first moved up here, and got quiet and even friendlier, if possible - I think he was afraid that I would leave him behind. Despite his usual vocal objections to car rides, he was completely silent on the way up. The moment we let him out of his carrier, he went for me, and stayed beside me. He didn't quite have the Grey One's unusual gift for knowing exactly when my blood pressure dropped, but he did know that he could get on top of me, and I could scratch his chin, and that was important knowledge. He rarely left me alone for an instant, and I needed that.
I was up in Columbus when we moved to this house According to my brother, he freaked out and headed straight for a cabinet as everything was moved out of the apartment. He was the last thing to leave, primarily because he didn't want to leave the cabinet - I think because he was afraid he would never see me again. When I came to the house a few days later, he went NUTS and clung to me for the next several days.
And that was our interaction for the next several years. He slept with me, watched TV with me, leaned against me or slept on me or slept near me when I wrote or read, listened to every telephone conversation. He sat at the window, watching me leave on the trike or in someone else's car, waiting for me to return.
He did start to slow down, just a little. He stopped leaping to the top of the bookshelves - something he used to be able to do from the floor, and could still do from the TV stand, and did a few times after we arrived here. As he started having a few problems jumping to the my bed, which is a bit high - he could make it, but he kinda had to claw the arrival - I got him a set of little kitty stairs, which he liked. He could still jump on the couch, and did that without a problem. In the past year or so, he tended to stay on my bed a little bit more. But every time I thought, ok, he's slowing down, he'd surprise me by jumping to the window, or dashing through the hallway, or indulging in his loud, raspy, purrs. When he made it to the age of 17 this fall, I thought that I was going to be lucky enough to have him for a few more years.
Yesterday morning, he was at the windowsill, watching the cardinals. Late yesterday afternoon, his back legs visibly gave out. He struggled for a bit. An hour or so later, he was back to walking, and paced the hallway, but he seemed a bit confused and disoriented. He stared at the litter box for a bit, and then - very unusually - refused it (though he used the easily cleaned tile floor.) Then he seemed better and came back to the bedroom. I brought him some tuna fish, and it took him a moment to realize what it was, and eat it. He wandered a bit more, but kept stopping and staring at corners, or looking confused.
I probably should have taken him to the vet right then, but....I don't drive, and we don't have a 24 hour vet that I can reach via mobility scooter or trike. He seemed to recover a bit in the evening; I had him on my lap as we watched Flash and Legends of Tomorrow. But he was also incredibly quiet. Much later, I found him in between the TV stand and the wall, head on the speaker, the other cat watching him. I picked him up and he flopped against my chest immediately.
I don't think either one of us slept well - I know I didn't. At about 4 am, he started seizing. He got better after I held him again. I managed a bit more sleep. By the time I woke, he was seizing again.
He was in bad shape when we reached the vet.
We didn't even have time to put him to sleep. He died while I was slowly rocking him, wrapped in a towel, back and forth, wrapped in a towel. I'm not sure he even knew I was there, but I hope he did.
He was the hands down best cat I've ever had, more than a cat, a friend.
The Grey One is sleeping curled up in the sun, nearby. She's been watching me off and on since I got back. I think she thinks I can still bring him home.
I want to fill this with funny memories, but my heart is too full right now.
Bye, little cat. You will be so, so missed.
And now that I think that everything due out this year is out, time for the obligatory end-of-year round up post.
For the second year in a row, my most popular work seems to have been in non-fiction, specifically the Disney Read-Watch over at Tor.com, which wrapped up this year with a post on Moana. No word yet on whether I'll be covering future Disney feature length animated films - my best guess is maybe - but I will be going ahead with two other Tor.com series.
Those posts ended up eating considerably more time than I'd expected, but still, although this was (apart from those posts) not a good year for writing, it was a decent year for publication: nine short stories, four flash fiction pieces, and seven poems.
The Middle Child's Practical Guide to Surviving a Fairy Tale, Fireside, May 2016.
Cat Play, Metaphorosis, January 2016.
"Mistletoe and Copper," in An Alphabet of Embers, Stone Bird Press, July 2016, available from Barnes and Noble and Amazon.
Coffee, Love and Leaves,, Capricious SF, July 2016.
Dragonbone, Daily Science Fiction, July 2016.
The Cat Signal, Daily Science Fiction, August 2016.
"The Game," in Clowns: The Unlikely Coulrophobia Remix, January 2016 available at Barnes and Noble or Amazon. The one story on this list loosely based - very loosely based - on real events.
Nine Songs, in Daily Science Fiction, August 2016.
Souls, in Daily Science Fiction, October 2016.
Hundreds, in Daily Science Fiction, December 2016.
"The Heart of the Flame," in Fae Visions of the Mediterranean, May 2016. Possibly the least read piece I published this year, in an anthology that I think deserved a lot more attention, fortunately still available at Amazon and Barnes and Noble.
"Madrepore," in Spelling the Hours, July 2016. Arguably the second least read piece I published this year, this is part of another project deserving of attention: a chapbook of poems celebrating women scientists. It's available from Amazon.
Ice/Shadow in Strange Horizons, December 2016, the hands down trickiest poem to write this year and probably the one the I was proudest of, though I'm also deeply fond of "The Heart of the Flame" for purely personal reasons.
The second part of my short story, "The Huntsmen," a retelling of "The Twelve Huntsmen," a tale originally collected by the Brothers Grimm in the early 19th century, is now up at Truancy.
As a kid, I loved the story because it featured girls Doing Things - cross dressing, tricking lions, hunting, tricking adults - all great stuff. It took me years to realize just how weird the story is, even apart from the cross-dressing, and to find myself asking questions. A lot of questions. Which turned into several short stories, including this one, with at least one more coming up in Daily Science Fiction next year.
Also up today, a new poem from me, Ice, up at Strange Horizons.
I advise clicking on the poem after reading it.
The latest in my series of flash fairy tales, "Hundreds," just went up at Daily Science Fiction. Enjoy!
A tiny new poem from me, up at Mythic Delirium today: After Midnight.
Another tiny story from me up at Daily Science Fiction today. It won't take too long to read, promise.
Sometimes I try to write introspective stories, or important stories, or stories focused on the beauty and power of language.
Now up at Daily Science Fiction, Nine Songs, my little slipstream story about, well, Nine Songs. My titles tend to be fairly literal.
And also now available, one of the rare poems where I plunged into marine biology, sorta, "Madrepore," in Spelling the Hours: Poetry Celebrating the Forgotten Others of Science and Technology. The poem is about Anna Thynne, a 19th century marine biologist who, among other things, studied reproduction in stony corals, and also was one of the first to develop salt water aquaria capable of keeping stony corals alive.
The overall collection, as the title says, celebrates other mostly forgotten scientists.
The story of the Pied Piper, in all its versions, has always haunted me.
My latest little short story, Dragonbone, is up at Daily Science Fiction.
An Alphabet of Embers, with my fairy tale "Mistletoe and Copper," is finally out.
The anthology has already received quite a bit of praise from early reviewers, and also includes works by Nisi Shawl, Zen Cho, Yoon Ha Lee, Kari Sperring and Amal El-Mohtar. I received an early copy, and found that it's a book that is probably best sipped and read in small doses - easy enough since the pieces are all very short, between 500 to 1500 words. I'm biased, of course, but it's a lovely anthology to be part of.
My latest poem, "At the Center," just popped up at Kaleidotrope.net.
Also out today, the anthology Fae Visions of the Mediterranean, which contains my poem, "The Heart of the Flame," set in Sicily.
The rest of the anthology contains work by Maria Grech Ganado, Claude Lalumiere, and many others. It's a beautiful anthology, and I'm pleased to be part of it.
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Whether it is essential or not, the food computer project also provides a powerful platform to educate people about food and climate issues and an exciting opportunity to take the free and open source philosophy into many more places in our local communities. The Zurich group has already received expressions of interest from a diverse group including professionals, researchers, students, hackers, sustainability activists and free software developers.
If you are in Switzerland, check the meetings on MIT forum – Zurich group.
One final thing to contemplate: if you are not hacking your own food supply, who is? Looking forward to fresh food directly from ETH Zurich!
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Lightroom’s suite of editing tools is not as comprehensive as its big brother Photoshop But the program does offer a host of options for fixing photos that cover most of the corrections you are likely to need on a daily basis. You can, of course, use Lightroom for basic operations like adjusting white balance, changing exposure, and converting images to black and white. But there are much more advanced features as well, such as the Spot Removal Tool.
This tool is a quick and easy way to remove blemishes and imperfections. It doesn’t have the same level of depth and customization as similar options in Photoshop, but with a little practice, it should suffice for most situations in which you are likely to need it.
To access the Spot Removal tool, first, click on the Develop module and then press the Q button (the keyboard shortcut). Or you can click on the circle icon with a small arrow pointing to the right just below the histogram at the top of the panel on the right-hand side.
Once you are in the Spot Removal panel it might be tempting to start clicking away at every spot and blemish on your images. But understanding some of the options available to you will help you use the tool more effectively and result in better edits.
The Spot Removal tool has two main options, Clone and Heal. Each of these has three sliders that you can change: Size, Feather, and Opacity. Before getting into the differences between cloning and healing, let’s take a look at the three options they have in common.
This changes, as you might have guessed, how big the edit is going to be. Larger sizes are suited for bigger edits, while pinpoint accuracy can be obtained by making the tool as small as you need it to be.
You might be tempted to slide left and right to change these values, and that certainly works just fine. But you can also type precise numbers between 0-100 or just scroll up and down using the mouse wheel to see the brush automatically grow and shrink until you get it to where you want. You can also use the square brackets [ and ] on the keyboard to adjust the brush size.
This slider lets you control how gradually the Clone or Heal edits are implemented. Sliding all the way to 100 means your edits will gradually fade out near the edge of the tool. A value of zero indicates that there will be no feathering whatsoever.
This will result in a harsh edge around your edits that will be easy to spot so I don’t usually recommend it. Instead, try for a value of around 50 and adjust it to your taste. Similar to the Size parameter you can adjust this with the mouse by holding [shift] and scrolling up and down, which I find much easier to use than the slider.
The opacity is a way for you to specify how transparent your edits will be. A setting of 100 is totally opaque and nothing will show through, whereas lower values will lessen the overall impact of the tool.
There might be instances in which you don’t want to completely remove a spot or blemish but mask over or fade it just a little, and in that case, set an opacity of 25 or 50 (this works well for portrait retouching, lightening circles under eyes and wrinkles without completely removing them).
Hearkening back to the earlier days of Photoshop, the Clone tool is one of the most often-utilized features for beginning or even more advanced photographers who want to tidy up their pictures. The basic function is pretty straightforward since all it does at a fundamental level is copy, or clone, one part of a picture and put it on top of another part. This is great for situations with textures, patterns, or colors that are highly similar or where duplicating one portion would not be easy to detect.
This picture of a squirrel (below) has a stick on the right-hand side that I would like to remove. The Clone tool is a good way to do it. To fix something like this you can either shrink the tool so it’s small and brush it over the imperfection or increase the size to be much larger and click just once.
Each situation is going to call for a different type of edit but in general, I like to use a larger brush and click once because it usually results in edits that aren’t as visible in the final result.
This image is fine, but it would be great if that stick protruding up on the right side could be removed.
Lightroom tries its best to get your initial clone edit just right by taking what it thinks is a sample of a similar portion of your image. But as you can see below it doesn’t always work.
Lightroom’s initial attempt with the Clone tool was less than ideal. You can clearly see a circle of in-focus grass where the stick used to be.
You don’t have to be content with the initial results though, as Lightroom lets you refine and tweak the cloning options until you’re satisfied.
There is an Overlay setting for the Clone tool. It is a white circle indicating the location from which the Clone Tool is selecting to copy. As well there is another circle showing you where it is being pasted. In the lower-left portion of the Develop module is a tiny little option picker that says “Tool Overlay” with four choices: Auto, Always, Selected, and Never. My personal preference is to go with “Never” and use the “H” key to show and hide the Tool Overlay as I need it.
As you use the Spot Healing tool you will see little gray circles pop up all over your image, which shows you the places where you have edited your image. If you don’t see these tiny pins press “H” to show them, and then click on one to show the white circles showing you where the edits are being taken from and applied. You can see an example of this in the image below.
Press the H key to show and hide the Tool Overlay. Then grab the source that is being copied and drag it to another part of your image that blends in better with the surroundings of the blemish to be cloned out.
Once you see where Lightroom is grabbing the part of your image that it’s using to fix a blemish, it’s easy to fine-tune it to get the results you are looking for. Use your cursor to drag the bright circle around the image until you find a spot that would be better-suited for filling in the blemish. You can also adjust the sliders while you have your editing point selected to see in real-time what happens when you change things like size, feather, and opacity.
I wouldn’t say it’s impossible to tell that this photo has been edited, but most casual viewers would likely never know.
One issue that you might encounter when using the Spot Removal Tool is that it’s not always easy to see where the spots in your picture are actually located. Fortunately, Lightroom has an option that can help you in this regard.
If you click the “Visualize Spots” button in the lower-left corner of the Develop module (make sure the Spot Removal tool is selected), you will see a black-and-white version of your image with areas of high contrast highlighted. If you do not see this option, activate your toolbar by pressing T on the keyboard.
You can also simply press the A key to activate the Visualize Spots view. Use the slider to fine-tune the amount of contrast visible, and doing so will show you where some of the imperfections are located that you might have missed.
Some of the spots on the above image are easy to see, but others are visible only upon closer inspection. Snuffing out all the blemishes, which are really dust on the front of my camera lens, would be a time-consuming process without the Visualize Spots option enabled. Doing so makes it easy to see every mote and speck that I need to fix with the Spot Healing tool.
The finished image, after some clicking and editing, is much improved. I even decided to leave in the streak of lens flare on the left side because I liked the effect, you could remove it if you wanted to by using the same tools.
While similar to the Clone tool, the Healing brush operates in a slightly different way. It takes textures and tones from a source portion of your image and blends it with the area you want to fix. It’s not a direct 1:1 copy of the source, like the Clone tool, and as such it creates results that are often a little more refined and effective in terms of removing problems and blemishes.
The Heal tool has the same options as the Clone tool (Size, Feather, and Opacity) but because the nature of the tool is somewhat different. The Opacity doesn’t function in exactly the way you might expect. It still adjusts how much of the source spot is stamped onto the blemish you want to remove but because it’s blending textures, colors, and patterns even a 100 value of Opacity means that you won’t see quite the same results as the Clone tool.
To fix a picture using the Heal tool, click on any spot you want to remove (or click and drag if it’s more than just a single spot) and Lightroom takes care of the rest. If the spot is not fixed to your liking, press H to show the Tool Overlays and edit as you see fit by dragging the source that is being copied and adjusting the Size, Feather, and Opacity.
Note: One other thing you can do with the Lightroom Spot Removal tool is to draw a line or shape. Your cloning area is not just limited to a circle anymore as it once was in LR.
The picture below shows the result of using the Heal tool to remove about a dozen blemishes and imperfections on a photo of some mushrooms. All this was done in under five minutes using only the Heal tool, and it illustrates how simple and effective this type of editing can be.
I often use the Lightroom Spot Removal Tool to fix little things in my images, but for real in-depth editing, you might want to turn to Photoshop. There you can really dig in with layers and the advanced editing tools that program offers.
For most photographers, whether professional or casual, the options in Lightroom will usually suffice. That’s what I find myself using almost every time I need to tweak a picture. Give it a try and you might be surprised at what it can do for you too.
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Several large regimes have hinted they’ll be looking more favorably on bitcoin, leading to record prices for the digital currency.
According to Coindesk’s Bitcoin Price Index, the average price of bitcoin hit $1,839.23 on Thursday after starting the day’s trade session at $1,732.13. That jump of more than $100 follows the historical achievement Tuesday of bitcoin breaking $1,700 for the first time.
What’s driving this mega surge? Recent comments and developments from officials in the US, Japan, and Russia, according to CNBC.
Though the price of the digital currency had already been steadily mounting, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis President Neel Kashkari spoke favorably of the blockchain technology Tuesday before the record price increase of bitcoin.
The blockchain is a digital, public ledger on which bitcoin transactions are recorded. Some proponents of the technology say its implications go beyond disrupting government currencies, threatening the status quo in global finance altogether as well as insurance markets and even governments themselves.
Last week, Russia announced that bitcoin would be legal by 2019, Cointelegraph reported. And in March, Japan legalized bitcoin for payments, which led to more purchases of the cryptocurrency with yen.
Back in the US, the infamous Winklevoss twins, Cameron and Tyler, are waiting to hear back from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission as it reviews its original decision to reject a proposal for an exchange-traded fund, or ETF, that facilitates the entry of large institutional investors into the bitcoin market, CNBC reported.
This week isn’t over yet, and already since Monday the market capitalization of bitcoin has surged more than $3 billion to $29.53 billion, CNBC reported.
Meanwhile, in the bitcoin community, there is controversy pending over how changes could be made to the blockchain technology, which has been slowing amid a backlog issue. Some people are calling for a “hard fork,” in which two separate bitcoin currencies would operate, though no concrete solution has been proposed yet.
So how are state regimes positioning themselves in relation to bitcoin and blockchain technologies?
On January 20, 2016, People’s Bank of China (PBoC) released an announcement on its website about its digital currency conference. At the conference, the PBoC urged its digital currency team to speed up effort and release its own digital currency quickly. Similarly, Bank of England, Bank of Canada, and some other central banks also expressed similar intentions to or claimed that they had considered issuing their own digital currencies. Since its creation, Bitcoin and other digital currencies have inspired the issuance of many private-issued and denationalized digital currencies. Now, it looks like that the central bank-issued digital currency is also becoming a global trend.
“Replacing the genuine by releasing a copycat,” Yue writes, “this is certainly not the first time that a government has done such a thing.” For many regimes, the best case scenario here is to take regulatory control of cryptocurrencies while using the perceived convenience and strength of cryptocurrencies to help the regimes abolish physical cash once and for all.
The key to overcoming the problems in these central institutions [i.e., in state institutions] is the block chain. Because, with the block chain, for the first time, we no longer need these central institutions for settlement, or for guaranteeing the value of coins, or for land titling. All of these functions can be replaced by a transparent public ledger that is safe from tampering, and which can make value and ownership clear and open for everyone. This is information that is decentralized, and is not controlled by any central organization. We don’t need central institutions to control or protect this information anymore. Using the block chain, we can disrupt all these systems — and much more, too — and the institutions behind them. In turn, this spreads decision-making and the use of knowledge to a much larger number of people and institutions. The advantages of decentralization that are already being employed in private companies can then be felt society-wide.
But, just because you no longer need state institutions doesn’t mean you won’t get them.
If Neel Kashkari is thinking about the blockchain, we can all be fairly sure that it’s not for purposes of maximizing freedom.
We’ve already seen that central banks are attempting to co-opt digital currencies. the fact that the Japanese and Russian regimes have voiced some support for the use of bitcoin is hardly a surrender on their part, but likely a part of the regimes’ efforts to figure out how they will take control of a new technology. After all, neither of these regimes are particularly notable for thier laissez-faire leanings.
But can the regimes succeed, or will the technology pass them by?
Many boosters for bitcoin and the blockchain often seem to assume that the bright minds behind these technologies will never help the state undermine them. History usually tells us exactly the opposite.
Many of my friends think of the state as stupid, and therefore an easy foe for determined dissidents to defeat. I have a different view.
For one thing, the state has always had ready resort to those with cutting-edge expertise in the private sector, from the days when it hired Eli Whitney to manufacture muskets with interchangeable parts to our own time, when it hires Oracle, Microsoft, and a host of other high-tech companies to help it spy on us. History has shown that no task is so revolting and criminal that the state cannot attract private contractors to carry it out.
It’s helpful to remember the state has relatively limitless funds, weapons, and prisons with which to “entice” the world’s best and the brightest to give states a helping hand.
This is a moment many China watchers have been waiting for — it just didn’t come how, when, or why they thought it would.
The money machine is China’s state-run banking sector. Through loans, the banks pumped cash into the economy at an unprecedented rate — as the rest of the world watched and worried. The International Monetary Fund harped on China’s debt for years, and across Wall Street, money managers have often gotten slaughtered betting on China’s demise (in one way or another) as debt climbed to 280% of GDP.
China’s leadership seemed to not hear these concerns until recently, when officials did something very strange: Party leaders got together to tell apparatchiks down the chain that they needn’t worry about hitting growth targets.
To understand how it’s ever so slowly falling apart, we have to understand how the Chinese economy held together in the first place.
But it also created an imbalance between the increasing amount of yuan in circulation and the steadiness of the currency’s value that “will only continue to grow if the CNY does not weaken materially and China’s financial sector continues to expand at double-digit rates,” Chu wrote (emphasis ours).
Now, keep in mind that a double-digit expansion of the banking sector is something of a jog considering what China’s used to.
“Total banking sector assets in China will increase [by 30 trillion yuan] to [228 trillion yuan] in 2016 alone, and another [100 trillion yuan] will be added to this by 2020 if the banking sector grows at 10% per annum, which, we would note, would be the lowest growth rate on record,” Chu wrote.
And despite the fact that China’s leaders have tried to tell the world that the yuan is now fixed against a basket of currencies, not just the dollar, it doesn’t matter. We still live in a dollar world.
Now instead of growth, the Chinese government’s main concern is keeping capital in the country. To do so, it has instituted several capital controls for individuals and corporations, but, of course, there are always ways to get around things like that.
Plus, holding the yuan steady comes at a cost. The Chinese government is spending its foreign-exchange reserves to prop up the currency. Right now it’s holding about $3 trillion, but Chu sees this working for only the next two quarters. A more permanent solution must be found.
So the government also has to think about attracting money to the country, and that’s where the gears of this great money-making machine start to ever so slowly grind down.
The flow of yuan around the country would tighten, cooling the property market. This is important. Property-market growth is part of what turned 2016’s rocky start into a net positive year for China.
“Liquidity and market risk vulnerabilities in the financial sector will be more on display,” Chu wrote. In other words, some of the hands that distributed yuan around China would be impaired, taking a toll on the country’s heavily indebted corporations.
This is why the Chinese government is being forced to prepare its people, and the world, for a slowdown. For the world, this ultimately means deflation — a force it has been fighting since the start of the financial crisis — as the yuan declines and other countries try to keep up (or down). All China can do in the meantime is what it’s doing right now: fixing the yuan higher, no matter what the dollar does.
“I do think that it’s likely to be supported by the Fed raising rates again, but I really doubt that the dollar [index] is going to make it above 120,” Jeff “Bond King” Gundlach of DoubleLine Capital predicted in his most recent monthly investment outlook presentation.
That, of course, would take pressure off the yuan and help with outflows. But this wouldn’t stop this process; it would only slow it. No matter what happens, the Chinese economy is building up dangerous debt levels that must be dealt with, and China has acknowledged that the economy’s growth will slow. The imbalance between the yuan in circulation and its value remains, and that in and of itself will push the yuan’s value down.
“One thing that is increasingly clear to us is that the world’s largest source of monetary easing since 2008 won’t be passing through in the way it has been, whether that is from a closing of the gates on outflows or a fall in the purchasing power of Chinese companies and individuals through a weakening of the exchange rate,” Chu wrote.
Second, this will happen incredibly slowly. The catastrophic credit event that Wall Street’s wildest minds have wondered about is unlikely to happen. The Chinese government has control over too much of its economy and can pull and push levers such as interest rates and manipulate the money supply however it likes.
Either way, it isn’t entirely a mystery where we’ll go. What’s more unprecedented is how we’ll get there.
The first thing you need to know is that the rest of the world has borrowed a lot of dollars the last eight years. About $4 trillion, to be exact. Since 2008, dollar loans to non-bank borrowers outside the United States have gone from $6 trillion to almost $10 trillion, with emerging marketsmaking up the majority of that increase. Their dollar debts, according to the Bank for International Settlements, have actually more than doubled during this time from $1.7 trillion to $4.5 trillion. And that makes them particularly vulnerable to the vicissitudes of the currency markets. Think about it like this. If you borrow in dollars but earn most of your money in something other than the dollar, then your debts will get harder to pay back any time the dollar increases in value — which it really has the last two and a half years. Indeed, on a trade-weighted basis, the dollar has shot up 26 percent against a broad basket of currencies since the middle of 2014.
That should only continue under President Trump. Why? Well, the Federal Reserve’s latest minutes show that it thinks Trump’s tax cuts, if they happen, will force it to raise rates faster than it thought it would just a few months ago. Otherwise, the Fed worries, the economy might start to overheat a little. So that means our interest rates should be even higher compared to the rest of the world’s than they already are, which, in turn, should push the dollar up even more than it has already gone.
It’s hard to say when, but at some point emerging market borrowers are going to have trouble paying back their dollar debts if the dollar keeps going up — especially if we put up tariffs that make it harder for them to earn dollars in the first place. A country like Brazil, which is currently mired in its greatest recession since the 1930s and has borrowed the second-most dollars of any emerging market, might have to choose between an even worse economic crisis and a financial crisis. That is, it could keep propping up its currency at the cost of growth, or it could let it fall against the dollar and see its borrowers default.
Even China might not be immune. It has the ugly combination of the highest dollar debt in the developing world and a currency that has been sliding against the greenback for over a year now. In the worst case, it might have to bail out a bunch of borrowers who can’t handle the combination of a stronger dollar, a slightly weaker economy and tariffs that take away some of their export markets.
It wouldn’t be that different from the Latin American debt crisis in the early 1980s. Then, like now, poorer countries had gone on a dollar borrowing binge. And then, like now, a surging dollar made those debts harder to pay off — until they couldn’t be. That not only sent those countries into a lost decade, but also almost brought down the American banks that had lent them so much money.
Although it’s not just Brazil and China that might cause some sort of crisis. It’s us too. That’s not, though, because the dollar might get too strong, but rather that the mortgage market might get too crazy. Trump, you see, has said that “it’s so hard to get mortgages nowadays” that we need to get rid of the post-financial crisis rules restricting them.
This is one place where he agrees with GOP orthodoxy. Against all evidence, conservatives have insisted that it wasn’t Wall Street, but really the government that caused the housing bubble — basically Reagan über alles — and have been looking for ways to neuter the newly created Consumer Financial Protection Bureau as a result.
The problem, of course, is that going back to a Wild West mortgage market only invites the kind of abuses we saw 10 years ago, particularly when there’s pent-up demand for new housing that could easily turn into a bubble.
Past, in other words, really might be prologue. Trumponomics might just be Bushonomics on steroids. A financial crisis waiting to happen.
I don’t trade currencies, but the US dollar trade is currently a screaming long. Loos[er] fiscal policy, thanks to the Trumpster and a tighter monetary policy, thanks to the Bond market and Yellen not down-talking a basis point raise and you have all the makings of a serious move in the US dollar.
There are constant bank runs. The bond markets panic, and governments along its southern perimeter need bail-outs every few years. Unemployment has sky-rocketed and growth remains sluggish, no matter how many hundreds of billions of printed money the European Central Bank throws at the economy.
We are all tediously aware of how the euro-zone has been a financial disaster. But it is now starting to become clear that it is a social disaster as well. What often gets lost in the discussion of growth rates, bail-outs and banking harmonisation is that the eurozone is turning into a poverty machine.
As its economy stagnates, millions of people are falling into genuine hardship. Whether it is measured on a relative or absolute basis, rates of poverty have soared across Europe, with the worst results found in the area covered by the single currency.
There could not be a more shocking indictment of the currency’s failure, or a more potent reminder that living standards will only improve once the euro is either radically reformed or taken apart.
Eurostat, the statistical agency of the European Union, has published its latest findings on the numbers of people “at risk of poverty or social exclusion”, comparing 2008 and 2015. Across the 28 members, five countries saw really significant rises compared with the year of the financial crash. In Greece, 35.7pc of people now fall into that category, compared with 28.1pc back in 2008, a rise of 7.6 percentage points. Cyprus was up by 5.6 points, with 28.7pc of people now categorised as poor. Spain was up 4.8 points, Italy up 3.2 points and even Luxembourg, hardly known for being at risk of deprivation, up three points at 18.5pc.
It was not so bleak everywhere. In Poland, the poverty rate went down from 30.5pc to over 23pc. In Romania, Bulgaria, and Latvia, there were large falls compared to the 2008 figures – in Romania for example the percentage was down by seven points to 37pc.
What was the difference between the countries where poverty went up dramatically, and those where it went down? You guessed it. The largest increases were all countries within the single currency. But the decreases were all in countries outside it.
It gets worse. “At risk of poverty” is defined as living on less than 60pc of the national median income. But that median income has itself fallen over the last seven years, because most countries inside the eurozone have yet to recover from the crash. In Greece, the median income has dropped from 10,800 euros a year to 7,500 now. In Spain it has not been quite so dramatic, but median income has still gone down from 13,996 euros a year to 13,352. In reality, people are getting both relatively and absolutely poorer.
There are other measures that make that clear as well. Across the EU, 8pc of people are defined as “severely materially deprived”, which means that they lack access to what most civilised societies regards as basic necessities – if you tick four out of nine boxes, which include not being able to afford to heat your home, eat meat or fish or a similar protein at least every other day, or pay for a phone, then you fall into that category.
Strikingly, several eurozone countries are now starting to lead on those measures. Greece, inevitably, is rising fast, with 22pc of the population now falling into that category, compared with only 11pc back in 2008. In Italy, a country that was as prosperous as any in the world two decades ago, a shocking 11pc of the population are now “materially deprived” compared with 7.5pc seven years ago. In Spain the rate has doubled, and in Cyprus it is up by more than 50pc.
And yet if you look at countries outside the single currency, that rate is either broadly stable, as it is in the UK for example, or else falling at a respectable rate – in fast-growing Poland, for example, the numbers suffering “material deprivation” has halved in the last seven years, and, at 7.5pc, is now a lot less than it is in Italy.
That matters. The EU set itself a target of significantly reducing the key measures of poverty by 2020. It is failing miserably. Even worse, it is becoming clear that one of its own main policies, the creation of the euro, and the botched, half-hearted rescue packages that have just about held the thing together, are largely responsible.
It is hard to think of any other plausible explanation for the stark difference between poverty rates for the countries inside and outside the eurozone. Why should Greece and Spain be doing so much worse than anywhere in Eastern Europe? Or why Italy should be doing so much worse than Britain, when the two countries were at broadly similar levels of wealth in the Nineties? (Indeed, the Italians actually overtook us for a while in GDP per capita.) Even a traditionally very successful economy such as the Netherlands, which has not been caught up in any kind of financial crisis, has seen big increases in both relative and absolute poverty.
In fact, it is not very hard to work out what has happened. First, a dysfunctional currency system has choked off economic growth, driving unemployment up to previously unbelievable levels. After countries went bankrupt and had to be bailed out, the EU, along with the ECB and the IMF, imposed austerity packages that slashed welfare systems and cut pensions. It is not surprising poverty is increasing under those conditions.
In the financial markets, there is an endless focus on the state of the banking system within the eurozone, on rising budget deficits, and on the risk of deflation and the havoc it might play on asset prices. But in the end, the financial crisis does not matter that much. It can be fixed with bail-outs and by printing more money. Even if it can’t, it just means some banks and investment funds will be worse off.
But the fact that poverty levels are rising so fast in what were prosperous countries is shocking. There is no sign of that rise slowing down – indeed, in countries such as Greece and Italy, it is accelerating. What were once dirt-poor countries, such as Bulgaria, or middle income countries like Poland, are fast over-taking what used to be developed Europe.
Not being able to afford a phone, or to eat meat three times a week, is no fun. But thanks to the euro that is now the fate of millions of Europeans – and it will not change until the currency is taken apart.
If Trump were to win the Presidency, Wall St have come up with their sure-fire trade, short the peso.
Of course, being flagged in advance, means that if events come to pass, the trade will be long gone.
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2019-04-26T02:07:29Z
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https://leduc998.wordpress.com/category/currency/
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Business
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indiatimes
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What sort of an impact does tourism have on Singapore’s GDP? And how many leisure tourists from India make it to Singapore every year?
The tourism sector currently contributes 4% to Singapore’s GDP. Tourism plays an essential role in reinforcing Singapore’s status as a vibrant global city that is a magnet for capital, businesses and talent. It also enhances the quality and diversity of leisure options for local residents and helps create a living environment that Singaporeans can be proud to call home.
We are encouraged by the strong tourism sector performance in 2016. Despite challenges such as weaker economic performances in some of our top source markets and a Zika virus outbreak in Singapore, we managed to attract more quality visitors to contribute to our economy. We welcomed 16.4 million visitors in 2016, which was a 7.7% growth in International Visitor Arrivals (IVA) over 2015.
For 2016, the top markets in terms of absolute growth in visitor arrivals were China (+36%), Indonesia (+6%), and India (+8%). India also overtook Australia to become Singapore’s fourth largest source market for visitor arrivals, with more than a million visitors (1,097,186) visiting our shores.
What is the current profile of Indian tourists to Singapore?
Singapore has always been a family-friendly destination. In recent years, we have seen an increase in early-career millennial travellers. They add Singapore’s exciting experiences and varied offerings to their travel itinerary, be it enjoying our vibrant nightlife, walking around our neighbourhoods to have a taste of how Singaporeans live or checking out our multi-faceted dining scene. Singapore also continues to be a top cruise destination for the Indian travellers. India is the largest source market for Singapore cruise holidays, growing by 29% year-on-year in 2016.
Do you have an overarching global theme driving your marketing initiatives?
While various regional offices maintain the key gist of Singapore being a global city packed with world-class experiences to provide visitors an all-in-one holiday, our marketing initiatives are localised. For India, STB has worked on initiatives ranging from branded content to strategic partnerships and new product offerings.
Branded content such as the romantic comedy ‘Badrinath Ki Dulhania’, a collaboration with Dharma Productions and SilkAir (regional wing of the Singapore Airlines), and ‘Dear Zindagi’ reached out to both Tier 1 and 2 audiences and successfully showcased an updated image of Singapore with its dynamic blend of rich heritage, diverse cultures and innovative modernity.
Another initiative we launched last year was “3 celebrations, 1 city” which invited Indian tourists to celebrate Deepavali, Christmas and Chinese New Year in Singapore. Attractive deals, complimentary experiences and special companion fare along with Singapore Airlines was leveraged through this campaign.
Considering tourism has fragmented into people who travel for food, art, adventure, history etc, which of these segments do you believe Singapore addresses the best?
Two major segments we have reached out to in a targeted fashion are women travellers and Cruisegoers.
Being able to shop, dine, let your hair down and party in a safe environment makes Singapore a popular choice for women, whether for that first solo trip, a quick weekend getaway or an unforgettable bachelorette party. We have partnered with women’s magazine Femina to reach out to the women’s audience, with VJ Anusha Dandekar showcasing our many lifestyle offerings.
On the cruise front, we also work closely with our partners to ensure a seamless end-to-end experience. We have collaborated with publications such as Lonely Planet and on-ground attractions to strengthen awareness of many options one has pre- and post-cruise. We are also working to educate and spread awareness of Singapore’s status as a cruise hub within the travel industry.
What would you say has been the biggest shift in the way Singapore is marketed as a tourist destination between now and a decade ago?
We have moved from destination marketing to experiential marketing, with a strong focus on digital and mobile, snack-sized entertainment, real-time storytelling, user-generated content.
We leverage the voices of key influencers to showcase our destination. Whether it is a blogger, a writer or videographer, we ride on their ability to speak to different audiences in an authentic manner.
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2019-04-25T09:44:43Z
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https://brandequity.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/marketing/we-have-moved-from-destination-marketing-to-experiential-marketing-singapore-tourism-boards-gb-srithar/57784541
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roadsidescholar
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I am off to the ArtWalk Ravenswood this weekend. Ravenswood is a street here in the city of Chicago that is a manufacturing corridor. It is studded with buildings that many artists have studios in, and this weekend 150 of them are opening their spaces to the public.
I’ll report back to you on the wonderful things I find tomorrow and Monday. Until then I wish you a good weekend – yay!
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2019-04-18T21:01:31Z
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http://www.roadsidescholar.com/2008/10/03/artwalk-ravenswood/
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Arts
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socket
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This fiberhood was one of Socket's first residential fiber areas in Boonville. Homes in the area now enjoy access to high-speed fiber-optic internet from a local provider they know and trust.
Sign up today for free fiber line installation!
Fiber is now available in the Woodland Park Drive area! Installation fees are being waived for a limited time. Sign up online or call 1-800-SOCKET-3 to learn more.
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2019-04-24T09:52:49Z
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https://www.socket.net/fiberhood/woodland
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askmen
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Batman Dubai-Edition To The Rescue?
You name it. The Dubai Police has everything from the Lamborghini Aventador, Bugatti Veyrons, the McLaren MP4-12C to the Audi R8 V10. Now, adding on to the list of expensive automobiles owned by the Dubai Police department is the new uber-cool Hoverbike.
Produced by Hoversurf, a California-based company, the Hoverbike is a combination of a motorcycle and a quadcopter. With four horizontally placed electric propeller fans below the motorcycle, the automobile can only be driven by one rider using a pair of joysticks. Remarkably, it can remain off the ground for about 25- 40 minutes at an altitude of 16 feet, with an approximate speed of 60 miles per hour. And, the best part is that you don’t need a licence to fly the craft because it’s exempt from FAA regulations.
In a statement, the company shared, “Dubai Police are now being trained to fly Hoversurf's first production unit Hoverbike after taking delivery from the Watsonville, California-based tech firm in October.” By 2020, you'll see the Dubai police zoom through traffic in mid-air. How cool would that be!
And, if you have $150,000 (approx. INR 10 million) to spare, you can get one right here.
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2019-04-22T20:20:59Z
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https://in.askmen.com/auto/1120924/article/dubai-polices-new-hoverbike-is-straight-out-of-batman
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Arts
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Shopping
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webwire
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Because no two consumers are alike, smartphone needs are also very different. The new moto g7 series includes the features that matter most to a very important three-letter word - Y. O. U.
That’s why Motorola is launching four versions of our best-selling smartphone yet -- with better cameras, battery life, processing speed and maximized displays.
Designed to take your best pictures ever and keep up with your fast pace life, the new moto g7 plus is all about class leading camera technology and responsive performance. A little movement or poor lighting conditions are no match for the 16 MP dual camera system with optical image stabilization. Plus, new camera software and AI helps you shoot like a pro with amazing features like Smart Composition and Auto-Smile capture. You’ll never have to worry about missing a great shot thanks to the all-day battery with 27W TurboPower charging for 12 hours of power in only 15 minutes.1,2 Combined with the Qualcomm® Snapdragon™ 636 Mobile Platform, you have the fastest moto g ever. Its new u-design, 6.2" Max Vision display gives you an immersive content experience with Full HD+ resolution, amplified by Dolby AudioTM crystal clear stereo speakers.
The moto g7 plus is available today in Brazil and Mexico. The moto g7 plus will be available from mid-February throughout Europe. It will roll out over the coming months in Australia and in other countries in Latin America with a starting MSRP of 299.99€ EUR. For full information and specifications, visit our website.
Capturing, creating, and sharing creative content has never been easier thanks to the new moto g7. Videos and images come to life on its u-design, 6.2" Max Vision Full HD+ display. The 12 MP dual camera system is equipped with blur effects, Spot Color, Auto Smile Capture and Google LensTM so you can unleash your creativity and interact with the world around you. 50% faster than the previous generation, the moto g7 can tackle your most intensive creative tasks thanks to a super responsive Snapdragon™ 632 Mobile Platform.3 TurboPower charging and an all-day battery, help you power through even the longest creative sessions.2 And with an upgraded, contoured Gorilla Glass design, it looks as great as it performs.
A new edition to the moto g family, the moto g7 power was designed to address the number one consumer pain point when it comes to smartphones: battery life. We designed the moto g7 power with a industry leading 5000 mAh battery, so you can work and play for 60 hours on a single charge.2,6 When you do need to refuel, get hours of power in just minutes with TurboPowerTM charging, so you can get back to doing what you love.2 Enjoy ultrawide views on the stunning 6.2" Max Vision HD+ display and put all that battery life to work enjoying your favorite movies, videos and games. The moto g7 power is supported by a powerful Snapdragon™ 632 Mobile Platform that responds quickly to everything you do.
The moto g7 power is available today in Brazil and Mexico. The moto g7 power will be available from mid-February throughout Europe. It will roll out over the coming weeks in India and the coming month in various countries in Asia Pacific, Latin America and North America with a starting MSRP of $249 USD. For full information and specifications, visit our website.
Don’t let its small size fool you. The moto g7 play is a performance powerhouse that leaves lag time behind. With a Snapdragon™ 632 Mobile Platform, the moto g7 play is 60% (110 % in U.S.) faster than the previous generation.4,5 It’s compact design boasts an ultrawide 5.7" Max Vision HD+ display with a 19:9 aspect ratio that brings expansive entertainment to the palm of your hand. And, if a once in a lifetime moment comes, you won’t miss capturing it thanks to the 13 MP rear camera with PDAF and zero shutter lag, which focuses on your subject in the blink of an eye.
The moto g7 play is available today in Brazil and Mexico. The moto g7 play will be available from mid-February throughout Europe. It will roll out over the coming month in various countries in Latin America and North America with a starting MSRP of $199 USD. For full information and specifications, visit our website.
The newest generation of moto g smartphones come equipped with exclusive Moto Experiences that make using your smartphone easier and more enjoyable. Newly redesigned One Button Nav replaces navigation buttons with one simple on-screen bar. Combined with AndroidTM 9.0 Pie, every swipe, tap, and hold works even better than before. We’ve also made Three Finger Screenshot even better, so you can now take screenshots longer than your screen and edit them right then and there. Combined with all of your favorite Moto Experiences like Quick Capture, Fast Flashlight and Attentive Display, using your smartphone has never been easier.
The new moto g7 power will be released in the U.S. starting this spring with subsequent availability at T-Mobile, Metro by T-Mobile, Verizon Wireless, Cricket Wireless (moto g7 supra), Consumer Cellular, Republic Wireless, Ting and Xfinity Mobile, and will be universally unlocked at Best Buy, B&H Photo, Walmart and on Amazon.com.
MOTOROLA, Stylized M Logo, MOTO and the MOTO family of marks are trademarks of Motorola Trademark Holdings, LLC. Android is a trademark of Google LLC. Dolby, Dolby Audio, and the double-D symbol are trademarks of Dolby Laboratories. Qualcomm and Snapdragon are trademarks of Qualcomm Incorporated, registered in the United States and other countries. Qualcomm Snapdragon is a product of Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. and/or its subsidiaries. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. © 2019 Motorola Mobility LLC. All rights reserved.
1 For LATAM moto g7 plus 11 hours of power in just 15 minutes of charging. For LATAM moto g7 power receives 55 hours of power on a single charge.
2All battery life claims are approximate and based on the median user tested across a mixed use profile (which includes both usage and standby time) under optimal network conditions. Actual battery performance will vary and depends on many factors including signal strength, network and device settings, temperature, battery condition, and usage patterns.
3 For ROW, Performance comparison between moto g7 and moto g6, Antutu overall benchmark scores of 108,237 and 71,790 respectively.
4 For NA, 110 % faster than before. Performance comparison between moto g7 play and moto g6 play, Antutu overall benchmark scores of 93,103 and 43,613 respectively.
5 For ROW, Performance comparison between moto g7 play and moto g6 play, Antutu overall benchmark scores of 93,775 and 58,117 respectively.
6 For NA, moto g7 power up to 3 days of battery life. All battery life claims are approximate and based on the median user tested across a mixed use profile (which includes both usage and standby time) under optimal network conditions. Actual battery performance will vary and depends on many factors including signal strength, network and device settings, temperature, battery condition, and usage patterns.
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2019-04-24T10:13:25Z
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https://www.webwire.com/ViewPressRel.asp?aId=235517
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Arts
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Games
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ign
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Moooooo! Mooooo! Yes, that's the sound coming out of 3DO's offices these days as they milk that poor Heroes of Might and Magic cow yet again with the second Heroes Chronicles, Conquest of the Underworld. If you didn't like the Heroes of Might and Magic series, you can stop reading right now. There's nothing really new about these Chronicles games. If you're a fan of the Heroes series these Chronicles are mildly enjoyable, sort of like the pleasure you get from watching sitcom reruns that you've seen several times already.
Conquest of the Underworld is the second of four of these short, one campaign Heroes games. This games use the Heroes of Might and Magic 3 turn-based strategy game as their basis and consist of eight linked scenarios that make up a story driven campaign. In Conquest you play as Tarnum, a now dead barbarian king who has returned as a knight. He's been summoned back by a queen who asks him to descend into the underworld so that he can rescue the soul of the queen's deceased father who was kidnapped from heaven. Adding to the dramatic tension (in theory) is the testy little fact that Tarnum was slain by a man whose soul he's being asked to rescue. Shakespeare it ain't, but it's interesting enough to make you want to get to the next scenario to read a bit more of the story.
Like the first Chronicle, Underworld is a bit easier than Heroes 3. 3DO and developer New World Computing are hoping that these Chronicles can serve as entry-level games to entice new players to try the Heroes series. In that regard they're not a bad idea, especially if you can find them priced on sale for $15 ¿ they have a $19.95 MSRP. They don't include multiplayer options, extra scenarios, a scenario editor, and random scenarios as does Heroes 3, however. So a far better deal is to buy the latest Heroes 3 repackaging. For $29.95 you can grab the newly released Heroes of Might & Magic III Complete which contains the original game: Restoration of Erathia, the expansion pack: Armageddon's Blade and the stand-alone/expansion: The Shadow of Death. There's probably between 100 and 200 hours of gameplay here, along with an editor for making your own scenarios, a random map generator, and multiplayer options.
Underworld does do some things right, though. Tarnum's experience level gains and items carry over from scenario to scenario, and you can take two of his best heroes along to the next scenario also. Tarnum can also find the six parts of a powerful artifact to assemble it, which will make things a bit easier for Tarnum. The scenarios are well designed and interesting too.
So what's the tacit recommendation of this review? Is this a worthwhile purchase? If you're a big fan of the series and don't mind paying $15-20 for eight new scenarios, it's a good buy. You get fun, well-designed scenarios that hang together well due to the mildly interesting story. The real irony is that if you've never touched the Heroes series, 3DO is hoping that you'll try these Chronicles, yet a far better deal is to buy the latest version of the complete game. It would be a bit easier to be enthusiastic about these Chronicles if 3DO had included a bit more value, like a handful of standalone scenarios. My recommendation for new players is to download the Heroes 3 demo, try it, and if you like it, get Heroes of Might & Magic III Complete and bypass these Chronicles for now. Given 3DO's proclivity for yanking the udders of this series, you can bet that at some point next year all four Chronicles will be packaged together at a reduced price. If you listen closely, you can hear that cow mooing.
8 Graphics You either love or hate the Heroes of Might and Magic graphics. They have a sort of storybook charm about them, but they're certainly not cutting edge.
6 Sound You get some nice orchestral music. It's a rather relaxing game, soundwise.
8 Gameplay It's Heroes 3. How can that be bad?
3 Lasting Appeal Too short, no multiplayer, really nothing new.
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2019-04-26T00:49:55Z
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https://www.ign.com/articles/2000/11/28/heroes-chronicles-conquest-of-the-underworld
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Computers
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azcentral
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A product's profit margin tells you how much the product sells for above the actual cost of the product itself. Put another way, it reveals how much of the selling price is "markup." This invaluable metric determines which products in a company's line are bringing in the most revenue relative to their cost.
To calculate profit margin at the product level, start with the selling price of the item -- what you charge customers for it. Now subtract the cost of the product to you -- how much it cost you to obtain it or produce it. The resulting figure is your gross profit on the item. Divide the gross profit by the selling price, and the result is the product's gross profit margin, usually called just profit margin.
Profit margins are typically expressed as percentages. Say you own a shoe store, and you sell a particular pair of sneakers for $65. If those sneakers cost you $40 a pair to obtain, your gross profit on each pair is $25. Your profit margin is $25 divided by $65 -- 0.3846, or 38.46 percent. For each dollar in revenue you get for those shoes, you earn 38.46 cents in gross profit.
Where the profit-margin calculation gets tricky is in deciding what counts as a cost. In general, you include only the direct costs incurred in making or obtaining a product. For example, the cost of the sneakers would include the raw materials that went into them, the wages of the workers who put them together and the costs of running the machines used to make them. Other costs not directly associated with production -- salaries for managers, for example, or advertising or office supplies -- wouldn't be included. Similarly, if you sell shoes that you buy from a distributor, your cost would include the wholesale price, plus shipping and handling costs, but not other store overhead costs.
Gross profit margins can also be calculated company-wide. That calculation involves dividing the combined gross profit on all products by total sales revenue. The company-wide gross margin gives you a sense of how efficiently the company is running and how it stacks up against its competitors. And by comparing individual products' margins to the overall company figure, managers can also find their "winners" and "losers" -- items in their product line that are returning bigger or smaller profits than others. When speaking company-wide, the term "profit margin" by itself refers not to gross margins but rather to how much of each dollar in revenue remains as after-tax profit.
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2019-04-22T18:36:15Z
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https://yourbusiness.azcentral.com/products-profit-margin-4653.html
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Business
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President Bush and French President Nicolas Sarkozy saluted the thaw in the French-American relationship on Wednesday, finding common ground on Afghanistan and Iran -- two of the most troublesome foreign-policy challenges -- and suggesting they even agreed on Iraq, the bete noire of Washington's dealings with Paris.
On a wind-swept lawn of George Washington's Mount Vernon plantation, the two presidents gushed about each other and the improved state of U.S.-French ties, using language that might have been dismissed as diplomatic hyperbole had relations not grown so sour after the United States invaded Iraq in 2003.
"I get the distinct sense that it is France that has been welcomed so warmly, with so much friendship, so much love," Sarkozy said. "When I say that the French people love the American people, that is the truth and nothing but the truth."
Bush, only slightly less effusive, said to his guest: "You've impressed a lot of people here on your journey. You bring a lot of energy, enthusiasm for your lob, love of your country, and a strong set of universal values in your heart."
He singled out Sarkozy's support in Afghanistan, where he is maintaining the French military deployment in the fight against the Taliban and Al Qaeda. "I can't thank the president enough for his willingness to stand with young democracies as they struggle against extremists and radicals," Bush said.
The unmentioned shadow over the meetings was Jacques Chirac, who was president of France when, as Bush pointed out, the French supported the U.N. Security Council resolution used to justify the U.S. invasion of Iraq but did not support the military operation.
"It's clear that you're a man who does what he says he's going to do," Bush said to Sarkozy. "It's the kind of fellow I like to deal with."
They shared dinner Tuesday night at the White House, and lunch of Chesapeake Bay crab and seared rockfish in the Mount Vernon greenhouse on Wednesday. Portable heaters masked by potted ferns were placed on their stage for the outdoor news conference to fend off the November chill, but they showed up nonetheless in nearly identical blue topcoats.
Even the setting chosen by the White House, unusual for diplomatic talks, symbolized the new warmth: George Washington relied heavily on the military contributions of a young Frenchman, the Marquis de Lafayette, during the American Revolution.
From then, jump forward to Wednesday, when Bush and Sarkozy could have been reading from a shared script.
The French president said it was "unacceptable that Iran should have at any point a nuclear weapon" and said their lengthy discussion about Iran "showed exactly how convergent our views were."
And he sounded much like Bush when he said that France wanted "a united Iraq . . . a democratic Iraq . . . a diverse Iraq," and one at peace and able to govern itself.
Sarkozy arrived at Mount Vernon after addressing a joint session of Congress -- where four years ago members railed against French opposition to the war in Iraq. Speaking in French, Sarkozy noted that Lafayette was the first foreign dignitary to address Congress. In an ode to the enduring U.S.-French friendship, he lauded America's values, its commitment to Europe during the World Wars and its role as an exemplar of freedom.
He also called on the United States to move to the front of the fight against climate change. "Those who love the country of wide-open spaces, of national parks and nature protected, nature reserves, expect America to stand alongside Europe in leading -- I repeat, leading -- the fight against global warming that threatens the destruction of our planet."
Underscoring his message of a bedrock friendship that should survive occasional disagreements, Sarkozy concluded, "I want to be your friend, your ally, your partner. But I wish to be a friend who stands on his own two feet."
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2019-04-24T12:21:37Z
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https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-nov-08-na-sarkozy8-story.html
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Arts
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Reference
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expose
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Here is another BBC sessions release on the Band of Joy label, with one unreleased track and several earlier versions of arrangements which became live staples of the band during the group's heyday. "City Hermit" is the only one of three unreleased tracks recovered and included from the band's first session in 1970. It's very much in the same vein as the first album material: heavy organ passages with simple lyrical content. "Way of Life" is a track from the In a Glass House album from 1973 which doesn't hold up well. It is clear the band was having some difficulty in translating some studio material to live performance in this attempt, but it's still quite listenable. Some pretty weird guitar parts from Gary Green in there! An early arrangement of the three-plus song medley from Octopus is revealing in that you can visualize the approach the band (mostly Kerry Minnear, keyboard mastermind/arranger) was utilizing to segue tracks together. Interjected into this entertaining hodgepodge is an engaging acoustic guitar intro for "Boys in the Band" (later dropped in the live version to be replaced by "Acquiring the Taste") and also the recorder trio performing "Yankee Doodle." Most of the remainder of the tracks come from the band's peak creative period: The Power and the Glory and Free Hand, all of which are outstanding slightly alternate versions. Keyboard textures are different than from studio versions too: instrument of choice is different in switching parts from organ to synth, piano to organ etc.; the guitar playing is a bit more aggressive and edgy which was also one of Gary Green's strengths. Sleeve notes are by international fan club president Geir Hasnes, who must be singled out as key researcher/fan of note to try bring this project together. I'd like to shake his hand for perseverance in making it happen, since dealing with the BBC can be such a bureaucratic nightmare especially when trying to appeal to the "tadpole in the ocean" mentality. For the limited audience, it's very rewarding to still be able to appreciate the quirky works of bygone era.
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2019-04-20T08:13:46Z
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http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/gentle-giant-out-of-the-woods-the-bbc-sessions-4.html
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I found the children’s Christmas book section at a store. And then under that is the Christmas Cake we bought at Baskin Robbins.
Well, today was not only my last school day, but also my big friend-going-away-party. It was a lot of fun. Yeah. I know. What original word choice. I got a whole bunch of cards (Around 50 cards, actually) and I’d say about 40-50 people showed up at the party. I also got a plate of cookies, some biscuit cookies, some chocolates and a bag full of brownies, which I shared with my World History Class.
That’s not all the people who came, it’s just the people I got group photos with.
Oh yes and I told Kayla I would give her a shoutout in my blog. Hi Kayla.
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2019-04-20T21:02:09Z
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https://colininjapan.wordpress.com/category/festivities/
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sinica
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Citation Ng, H.H. and D.J. Siebert, 2004. A new species of the catfish genus Akysis (Siluriformes: Akysidae) from southern Borneo. Zootaxa 733:1-8.
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2019-04-18T20:20:24Z
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http://fishbase.sinica.edu.tw/References/FBRefSummary.php?ID=52919&database=FB
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Arts
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Science
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yale
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I'll be honest: I find this course difficult to describe. Will you learn about linear regression? Of course, although you shouldn't be starting from ground zero. Will you learn how to use R for linear regression? Of course, but that in itself isn't very ambitious; after all, dozens of software packages provide tools for linear regression. I don't want you to leave the course feeling that you have learned about a limited set of tools, allowing you to do only certain types of analyses. I want you to feel prepared to face the unexpected, equipped with a set of skills enabling you to adapt to the inevitable surprises of data analysis. When faced with a fresh challenge, I want you to think, "I may not know the answer, but I bet I can figure it out." Someday, I want you to think, "that was one of the most practically useful courses I had at Yale."
Along the way, we'll learn about computer programming, algorithms, data structures, probability, statistics, simulation, numerical techniques, optimization, graphical methods, and computational efficiency. You should be able to think critically about data, use graphical and numerical summaries, apply standard statistical inference procedures (when appropriate) and draw conclusions from such analyses. But most importantly, you should be willing to break out of the box and conduct new, innovative analyses of problems when standard analyses may not be appropriate.
This course will be computationally intensive, and there is no substitute for getting your hands dirty. I expect to make my share of mistakes this semester (some intentional, some not), and we'll learn from them together. In data analysis, I believe you learn as much (and sometimes more) when things "don't work" than when they go as planned. You have succeeded when you can figure out why something doesn't work (or why some analysis isn't appropriate) and deduce an appropriate course of action as a result. You must be willing to try out new things and to make mistakes -- you can't break the computer (at least, it won't go up in smoke), and the sky won't fall. Seek to understand the mistakes, and move onward.
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2019-04-22T16:38:09Z
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http://www.stat.yale.edu/~jay/661.html
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Arts
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Computers
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