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Originally Posted by The Bad Guy
Did that. It will not work with the new Iphone. I purchased adapters to try to get the one we had to work, no dice.
I have a couple of those Belkin FM transmitters. They run around 20-30 bucks and work fine. That's an easier/cheaper solution.
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http://www.chiefsplanet.com/BB/showpost.php?p=9170900&postcount=9
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PowerColor ATI Radeon X1550 ReviewDesja -
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From what we all witnessed, we can clearly see that the PowerColor X1550 can play some of the games with playable framerates. On the other hand, most of them were unplayable; one second you are walking, the next you are dead. If a player were to lower the graphics this card could handle it but what fun would that be? These benchmarks are in place to stress test the card and they did their job but the card did not. Although, I would say the PowerColor X1550 is way ahead of the good ol’ Voodoo 1 series, though I wouldn’t suggest it for any serious gamer.
If you are the type of gamer that likes to hop on the computer to play Solitaire, watch a DVD or just surf the net, this card will perform without a hiccup. With its dual monitor support, it is great for someone that multitasks. The fact that it still supports VGA has a low price, it is a good card for budget PC builders. It will still play some games, but resolutions and eye candy will need to be set below what any true gamer would like to see. Playing the latest games is definitely a no-go, but for a child's first computer, this card would not be a bad start.
- VGA Support (For Some)
- Low Power Consumption
- Doesn't Support Dual DVI
- Framerates on Newer Games Unplayable at High Resolutions
- Extremely Underpowered for Gaming
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http://www.overclockersclub.com/reviews/powercolor_ati_radeon_x1550_/12.htm
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September 12, 2012 by Bryan Peace
Good morning! The new Battlefield 3 DLC came out for premium members yesterday so I spent a little time playing that then I had dreams of tanks & guns all night long. This is the perfect track to wake up to. The weather is cool and nice, the sun is bright, the cats are staring at me and I’m late to work. Go on over to the Follow Me fb page and give them a like!
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Australian shares are off to a strong start this financial year amid bets that further gains will be driven by earnings growth and increased market confidence.
The market benchmark S&P/ASX 200 Index closed 0.66 per cent, or 35.7 points, higher on Thursday at 5491.1 points, the first time the market has made consecutive gains since June 10.
The day’s gains reflect further appetite for the riskier asset class, and come as the price of iron ore climbed higher, but the Australian dollar lost ground after the Reserve Bank of Australia governor called time out on gains in the currency by attempting to talk it down for the first time this financial year.
The best performing sector on Thursday was resources, while utilities made the least gains. The big four banks all improved.
Commonwealth Bank of Australia increased despite an early drop when it released a statement on the recent financial planning advice controversy. It finished the day rising 0.78 per cent to $81.55, while Westpac Banking Corporation lifted 0.94 per cent to $34.19. Australia and New Zealand Banking Group rose 0.75 per cent to $33.65, and National Australia Bank ticked up 0.39 per cent to $33.31.
Telstra Corporation rose 0.96 per cent at $5.28.
Australian retail figures fell by 0.5 per cent, compared with unchanged market expectations, while building and construction improved substantially more than forecast. The Australian Bureau of Statistics' building approvals rose 9.9 per cent in May on a seasonally adjusted basis compared to 3.1 per cent forecast.
“The RBA has policy ammunition to fire, but the economy has to weaken. You would have to see retail figures slump further, consumer confidence and capex [capital expenditure] fall,” said Perpetual head of investment markets research Matt Sherwood.
The biggest food and liquor sellers improved. Woolworths was up 0.03 per cent to $36.11, while Wesfarmers, owner of Coles, rose 0.47 per cent to $42.86.
Building firm WorleyParsons was the best performing stock of the day up 6.28 per cent, to $18.61, after Bank of America Merrill Lynch upgraded it to “buy”, expecting it to deliver on profit expectations, and as it is trading 20 per cent below its 10-year trend price.
Mr Sherwood said that Australian sharemarket performance last year was driven by valuations growth, rather than earning growth. In contrast, “financial year 2014 will be the year of earnings recovery,” he said.
“Bull markets do not end at average valuations, bull markets end at extreme valuations. Put simply, the market is not at those levels at the moment,” Mr Sherwood said.
The spot price for iron ore, landed in China, gained modestly to $US94.70 a tonne.
In a speech on Thursday, RBA governor Glenn Stevens, said “we think that investors are under-estimating the likelihood of a significant fall in the Australian dollar at some point”. The dollar dropped half a cent on the governor's intervention.
“The Australian dollar is important at signalling policy domestically,” said Karara Capital investment manager Rohan Walsh.
Mr Walsh said that if the US economy can stabilise at a 3 per cent growth rate, it will be supportive of a lower dollar and better prospects for local companies.
BHP Billiton gained 1.03 per cent to $37.23, main rival Rio Tinto improved 0.73 per cent to $62.45, while iron ore miner Fortescue Metals Group performed well off the improved iron ore price, lifting 5.23 per cent to $4.63.
Australia’s biggest oil producer Woodside Petroleum came off 0.07 per cent to $41.62 as Brent crude oil fell to $US110.94 a barrel.
The spot price of gold fell to $US1322.44 per ounce. Australia’s biggest gold producer, Newcrest Mining, lifted 2.22 per cent to $11.03
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http://www.theage.com.au/business/markets/shares-off-to-a-flyer-in-new-financial-year-20140703-zsv54.html
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Westminster native headed to Super Bowl
A West-Oak High School Alum is heading to the Super Bowl. Westminster native Andy Lee is the punter for the San Francisco 49ers and is regarded one of the best at his position in all of football. The 49ers punched a ticket to Super Bowl 47 in New Orleans on Sunday after defeating Atlanta 28-24 in the NFC title game. Coach Jim Harbaugh will face his brother John, whose Baltimore Ravens won the AFC title with a 28-13 win over the New England Patriots.
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http://www.wgog.com/westminster-native-headed-to-super-bowl/
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Active Directory, Authentication
Using the data warehouse directly (i.e., "live" and not via a static report someone else creates) requires that Carleton's network know who you are. This requires, at present, a login on a Windows machine, either on campus or off campus via a VPN.
If you are logged into a Windows machine on Carleton's network either on campus or from off campus via a VPN, you have performed what is called a domain login. If you have performed a domain login, the network knows who you are and you can therefore access the data warehouse - create reports, pivot tables, refresh data - and do it transparently, without an additional login.
This functionality is not currently available to Mac users - a situation that we may find a workaround for in the future.
An additional complicating factor for Mac users is that, even if we enable domain logins there, accessing the data warehouse also requires an operating system that supports connecting to Microsoft SQL Server (both the relational database and Analysis Services cubes). It also requires reporting and data manipulation tools that can leverage the connectivity provided by the operating system, or that provide this connectivity themselves. Translated into plain English: Apple computers and software lack this necessary infrastructure and are therefore cannot access the data warehouse directly.
We are currently evaluating a product called SharePoint, which will offer partial ways around all these problem.
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http://apps.carleton.edu/dw/using/connect/ADNotes/
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New Delhi, July 21: Popular DJ-VJ Nikhil Chinapa has collaborated with e-commerce website Koovs to launch his exclusive menswear line. The collection is inspired by Chinapa’s love for music.
“I’m very pleased to see how this collaboration with the design team at koovs.com has turned out. Music is, without question, the most essential part of my life and the clothes we’ve put together are an extension of what I feel about the music I love,” Chinapa said in a statement.
The DJ, credited for being one of the pioneers of the country’s Electronic Dance Music (EDM) scene, will unveil his range in early September this year.
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http://www.india.com/showbiz/nikhil-chinapa-to-launch-menswear-line-teams-up-with-koovs-99811/
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Definition of astringed
imp. & p. p. - of Astringe
The word "astringed" uses 9 letters: A D E G I N R S T.
Direct anagrams of astringed:
Words formed by adding one letter before or after astringed (in bold), or to adeginrst in any order:
a - tragedians e - denigrates n - integrands o - designator w - stewarding
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The word "distemperate" uses 12 letters: A D E E E I M P R S T T.
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Adding one letter to distemperate does not form any other word in this word list.Words within distemperate not shown as it has more than seven letters.
All words formed from distemperate by changing one letter
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Finding the right career involves more than guesswork. You need to know which jobs
are in-demand, what they pay, and how they match to your interests and strengths.
Let's get started.
A college degree can help increase your lifetime income. Visit the U.S. Department
of Labor website and see for yourself how degrees add up.
Interested in working at SBCTC or a college?
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Harrypottercus Motiviaticus! These Harry Potter should get your Harry Potter weekend started off right!
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Him & Her Neon Bundle
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Saturday, September 20, 2008
I'm back. And I have less vengeance
So the review on Y2CL was a bust for two reasons.
First: it's a lagfest. To read any portion of that comic takes forever because they have crappy servers and way too many adds.
Second: I felt really bad about it. First, my tone was just incredibly condescending. Second, here's an excerpt: Not only is it intolerant, racist, insensitive, objectified women, constantly makes lowbrow toilet and sex humor, but the characters are less than utterly flat. They transcend the plane of boring, flat, unrounded, cliche, and scarecrow characters. They literally make no sense at all. These characters actually score negative on a characterization scale, and that's not making an insult. There's no 'rubric' column for something this utterly pathetic. The 'latest' update was somewhat amusing, so I thought this would be an amusing satire comic like xkcd. I was very wrong. Go to any page (I've only been through the first 40) and you'll see it. But on top of that, the page is so laggy due to miserable servers and loading pages with ads. he skips logic completely and treats fillers as canon, though I'm not sure if the storyline is supposed to have any logical backing since it features a naked fairy princess that seems to love the MC despite his constant jacking off with friends. Y2CL, which I would like you to remember stands for "Y2 Christ Light", alternates between utterly failing to produce a storyline (or any form of clarity, for that matter), and making nonsensical one-shots that make seemingly less sense. I pity the poor soul who ever lies eyes on Y2 Christ Heavy. Or normal for that matter. The comic is the epitome of low-brow "humor" that probably encourages the authors to keep their identities anonymous to prevent the mass suicide of their families.
Suffice to say I wasn't pleased, and I thought if I posted an entire review of that, especially one at an author's request, I'd only be beating a dead horse. The comic puts out some legitimately funny material in their later comics (much, much later), but anything involving its convoluted storyline should be kept away from at all costs. Their one-shots are pretty good though.
Alright, Alright. I'll bugger off this coil of thought and get working on that next review. Sigh. Burned most of the day reading that slow comic. v.v
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http://readmycomplaints.blogspot.com/2008/09/im-back-and-i-have-less-of-vengeance.html
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Governor Randall S. Kroszner
Minority Depository Institutions National Conference, Chicago, Illinois
July 17, 2008
Federal Reserve's Initiatives to Support Minority-Owned Institutions and Expand Consumer Protection
Good morning. I am delighted to be here to participate in today's discussion about how we can work together to foster and preserve the strength and vitality of minority depository institutions. These institutions serve essential roles. Most important, they extend credit--which is essential to economic development and progress--to businesses and individuals in neighborhoods that otherwise may not have ready access to loans. They also foster a spirit of entrepreneurship in their communities, offer customized financial literacy education, and create products and services that address their clients' particular needs. Taken together, such activities help entrepreneurs and emerging small businesses develop and create employment, encourage the prudent and productive use of credit, and ensure more-vibrant communities and a better quality of life.
In my remarks this morning, I will focus on two important Federal Reserve initiatives. First, I will update you on our new Partnership for Progress program, which is designed to foster and support minority-owned and de novo depository institutions. Second, I plan to discuss the recent finalization of significant Federal Reserve rules implementing certain provisions of the Home Ownership and Equity Protection Act.
Partnership for Progress
Following my promise at last year's interagency conference in Miami, I am excited to announce that we have made good on our pledge to design a proactive training and technical assistance program for minority depository institutions. Our initiative, known as the Partnership for Progress, was launched nationwide on June 18. The innovative outreach and technical assistance program seeks to help minority-owned and de novo institutions confront their unique challenges, cultivate safe and sound practices, and compete more effectively in today's marketplace through a combination of one-on-one guidance, targeted workshops, and an extensive web-based resource and information center.
As locally focused institutions that have deep contacts with financial professionals in their regions, the Reserve Banks have been able to ensure that we tailor the Partnership for Progress program as closely as possible to the specific needs of the institutions participating as well as the customers they serve. This program illustrates the advantages of the Federal Reserve System's unique decentralized geographical structure, which consists of the Board of Governors in Washington, D.C., and the twelve Reserve Banks that each represent a different region of the country. We also consulted with a number of executives from minority depository institutions to better understand the unique challenges that minority-owned depositories confront in raising capital, managing risks, and attracting the right talent. This process has been invaluable in helping us to target our efforts and to focus on designing a program that the minority depository institutions have told us is most crucial to them.
In recent months, I have had an opportunity to see firsthand the challenges that communities are facing in various parts of the country, which has underscored to me the importance of programs like Partnership for Progress. I have met with local community groups, bankers, housing advocates, counseling agencies, and state and local government officials in many cities, including Atlanta, Boston, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Las Vegas, Miami, Minneapolis, and Philadelphia. As I planned for my participation in this conference, one example stood out. While in Atlanta, I visited a predominantly African-American community. In this community that spanned several miles, there were a number of vacant homes, conditions mirroring those that I have seen in other neighborhoods. However, what was different in this case, and quite disappointing, was that not a single financial institution was within view. This lack of local financial institution presence is a problem that is not unique to African-American communities. Indeed, this absence occurs far too frequently in predominantly minority communities. Our new program is intended to enhance the vital role that minority-owned institutions can play in making financial services more available and in providing access to credit in historically underserved communities.
At the core of our program, we have implemented a series of web-based modules designed to assist banks in addressing three distinctive development stages: (1) starting a bank, (2) managing its transition from a start-up to an established bank, and (3) building shareholder value once a bank has been established on a sound footing. These easy-to-use modules are presented on the program's dedicated website--http://www.fedpartnership.gov/--and are available for your review and use at any time.
The first module of the program, "Starting a Bank," provides useful guidance on the factors that must be considered in chartering a new bank. It includes background information that details regulatory capital requirements, discusses the steps required to file an application, and explains the responsibilities of a bank's board of directors. The module has video narratives of some of the key topics to provide additional insights into, for instance, the strategic importance of strong capital for all financial institutions. Since the program was launched, "Start a Bank" has been among the most popular pages on the website.
The second module, "Managing Transition," focuses on the benefits that a bank can derive from well-planned growth. Because maintaining competitive products and services is a very important aspect of managing growth, we have included a video clip on how minority depository institutions can use the natural branding inherent in their mission to stay ahead of the competition and differentiate themselves. This module provides some examples of approaches and strategies to establishing a bank that have been successfully followed by other new institutions to achieve stable and profitable performance.
The third and final module, "Growing Shareholder Value," is designed to help more-mature institutions achieve an even stronger financial footing and improve shareholder value. This module addresses key topics, such as corporate governance and performance measurement, that can help to ensure that management remains on target with the overall goals of the organization. Given that most minority depository institutions are at this stage of life-cycle development, we expect the topics in this segment, such as "Demographic Analysis," "New Product Implementation," and "Outsourcing and Vendor Management," to be particularly useful.
We expect minority institutions will use the program to help them navigate three of the most challenging periods in the life cycle of any financial institution. I expect that the program, which draws on insights from economics, accounting, finance, and regulatory compliance, will become a valuable resource for institutions at different stages of their development. In order to further expand the support that we can offer to these institutions, the Federal Reserve also plans to conduct periodic training sessions for interested participants that will address topics of particular concern and relevance to minority depositories and their bank holding companies.
We also have designated Partnership for Progress contacts in each of the twelve Reserve Bank districts and at the Board to answer questions and coordinate assistance for institutions requesting guidance.1 I hope that you will consider contacting us for support or to provide additional suggestions for improving this evolving program. We are pleased with the initial feedback we have received since the program's launch and will continue to fine-tune and enhance the program over time. In that respect, we look forward to continuing to work with you to make this exciting program even more effective.
Home Ownership and Equity Protection Act
I would now like to turn to important new consumer protections that the Federal Reserve Board adopted earlier this week. These new rules, which implement HOEPA, were put into place to protect consumers and to help prevent a recurrence of the problems that we are now facing. The current wave of foreclosures is taking a very real toll on families and their communities, no place more so than in predominantly minority communities, where subprime loans were particularly common.
The U.S. mortgage market has seen rapid innovation in recent years. Changes, such as automated underwriting models, the evolution of the secondary markets, and specialization, have had many positive effects. Some changes in practices, however, have not been so salutary. Abusive loans that strip borrowers' equity or cause them to lose their homes should not be tolerated. Too many homeowners and communities are suffering today because of these practices, and the Federal Reserve Board's rules will better protect consumers while preserving their access to credit as they make some of the most important financial decisions of their lives.
Last December, the Board proposed changes using our authority under the Home Ownership and Equity Protection Act. In formulating that proposal, the Board sought a wide range of input and information through hearings and meetings throughout the country. In response, we received, and considered, over 4,500 comment letters sent to us from community groups, industry participants, consumer advocates, and other interested individuals. We engaged in outreach to commenters to get clarification of their concerns and weigh competing viewpoints. We gathered available data and conducted updated analyses. We undertook on-the-ground consumer testing, which has proven to be an invaluable tool for us in determining policy effectiveness, to gauge the practical effects of one of the proposed rules on individual consumers. Listening carefully to the commenters, collecting and analyzing data, and undertaking consumer testing, I believe, have led to more-effective and improved final rules.
Our goal throughout this process has been to protect borrowers from practices that are unfair or deceptive and to preserve the availability of credit from responsible mortgage lenders.
These rules expand upon interagency guidance issued last year on subprime loans. That guidance, however, only focused on certain specific subprime products, hybrid adjustable-rate mortgages, such as so called 2/28s and 3/27s, and only applied to federally supervised institutions. Our rules now apply much more broadly to cover all higher-priced mortgages, including virtually all closed-end subprime loans secured by a consumer's principal dwelling, and to all mortgage originators. These rules also cover a broad range of issues:
- lenders' assessment of consumers' ability to repay loans,
- lending with little or no documentation of income,
- prepayment penalties,
- escrow accounts for property taxes and insurance,
- mortgage servicing practices,
- coercion of appraisers,
- misleading or deceptive advertising practices, and
- disclosure of Truth-in-Lending cost disclosures early enough to help consumers shop for a mortgage.
I'd now like to focus in more detail on some key features of this wide-ranging set of rules and discuss a few of the most important changes that we have made since our proposal this past December because I think they are illustrative of how we approached these issues.
On one issue, loan affordability, we proposed a rule that would have required a lender to make sure that a borrower could afford the monthly payments before a loan is made. This step sounds like common sense, but unfortunately, as some loan originators pushed off more and more of the risk to investors, they made increasingly riskier loans to people who simply could not afford them. So we proposed a rule to address that problem, and it spelled out how a lender should assess this ability to repay, building on the earlier interagency guidance on subprime loans. Lenders would have violated the proposed rule if they engaged in a pattern or practice of making loans without considering consumers' repayment ability.
During the public notice period, we received a number of comments on the "pattern or practice" element of the proposed rule, and we conducted further outreach to both consumer advocates and industry participants. Many advocates objected to this heavy burden of proof, calling into question the effectiveness of the intended consumer protection. Some mortgage lenders, however, suggested that the "pattern or practice" provision did not provide a safe harbor that would ensure compliance and that their procedures for compliance would, by necessity, be equally robust under either version of the rule. At the end of the day, we agreed that this provision would have limited the intended effectiveness of the rule and that removing it, along with clarifying other requirements, would not impede the availability of credit to borrowers. Accordingly, the final rule establishes a lender's responsibility to assess a borrower's ability to repay on every loan originated, effectively giving wronged consumers a private right of action without demonstrating that their case was part of a broader pattern.
In addition, the new rule requires that the lender take into account future, predictable changes in payments in determining repayment ability. A lender complies, in part, by assessing repayment ability based on the highest scheduled payment in the first seven years of the loan. For example, on a 5-1 ARM with a payment for the first five years based on a discounted interest rate, the lender would use the scheduled payment in the sixth and seventh years, which is based on the fully indexed rate.
Another element of our proposal that received many comments was a rule limiting prepayment penalties. On the one hand, numerous commenters argued that prepayment penalties can result in lower interest rates paid by the borrower. Although there are exceptions I will mention in a moment, a number of studies have found that loans with prepayment penalties carry lower rates or annual percentage rates (APRs) than loans without prepayment penalties having similar credit risk characteristics.2 On the other hand, the rate benefit was called into question by many, who asserted that prepayment penalties may lock borrowers into unaffordable loans, particularly adjustable-rate loans whose payments may change dramatically. Prepayment penalties were also criticized because of the way they reinforce another potentially abusive practice--yield spread premiums, or YSPs. Some lenders' rate sheets show that mortgage brokers can earn bigger YSPs, which are essentially commissions, by increasing consumers' interest rates, and the biggest increases are allowed only if a loan contains a prepayment penalty.
After an exhaustive analysis of the issue and all available data, the Board concluded that the costs and benefits of prepayment penalty provisions on higher-priced mortgages depend, to an important extent, on the structure of the loan. It has been common in the subprime market to structure loans to have a short expected life span. This aim has been achieved by building in a significant payment increase just a few years after loan consummation. With respect to subprime loans designed to have shorter life spans, the injuries from prepayment provisions are potentially the most serious as well as the most difficult for a reasonable consumer to avoid. Moreover, according to research, the rate reduction for a prepayment penalty provision on such short-lived loans is smaller and, in absolute terms, quite limited. For these loans, therefore, the Board concluded that the injuries caused by prepayment penalty provisions outweigh their benefits, and we did ban them for these loans--specifically, loans in which the principal-and-interest payment can change within the first four years.
With respect to subprime loans structured to have longer expected life spans, however, the Board concluded that the potential for harm from prepayment penalties is lower relative to potential benefits, warranting restrictions but not a ban. Our analyses indicate that for fixed-rate loans, borrowers can obtain meaningful interest-rate reductions on loans that contain provisions for prepayment penalties, and performance on these loans has typically been superior. These factors generally reduce the negative impact of prepayment penalties, so for these loans, we added a restriction limiting the length of the prepayment penalty period to no more than two years.
Another change has to do with how we define the loans that we most want to cover. Our principal goal was to cover the vast bulk of the subprime market, where most of the problems have been and where consumers may need the most protection. The challenge is that there is no one accepted definition of what makes a loan "subprime."
We anticipated, and received, a number of comments about this problem and sought solutions. We looked at available sources of data on mortgage rates and concluded that the best source for our purposes is a survey called the Primary Mortgage Market Survey®, published by Freddie Mac. The Federal Reserve will publish our own index, called the "average prime offer rate," that will be based on Freddie's survey and other market data, and if we need to adjust the index over time, we can. We will still cover nearly all of the subprime market plus a sizable fraction of the so-called Alt-A market, as we intended with our initial proposal, but the new approach will do so in a more accurate and consistent way, and therefore better ensure that we protect at-risk consumers without impinging on the prime market.
Protecting borrowers with responsible underwriting standards can also provide a broader benefit of enhancing the integrity and proper functioning of the mortgage market by increasing investor confidence. Ensuring that ability to repay by underwriting and documenting income, for example, can help to reduce investor uncertainty about the performance of mortgage-backed securities. Effective consumer protection thus can produce a complementary benefit for consumers by helping to revive mortgage funding markets and potentially improving credit availability.
Finally, I'd like to highlight one other change that shows how hard it can sometimes be to craft solutions that work. In December, we proposed a rule that we hoped would address some of the problems posed by YSPs. The heart of the rule involved an agreement that the broker and borrower would sign early on that would spell out the broker's compensation and how they are paid.
As the public comment period was under way, we began consumer testing to see how this process would actually work. We engaged a firm that specializes in this testing and conducted a rapid round of tests this spring with individual consumers. The firm developed and tested a form in which the broker would agree to total compensation and make certain disclosures that we thought would help consumers make informed decisions. Throughout the testing, revisions were made to the form in an effort to improve comprehension. The testing revealed two problems.
The first problem is that many participants believed, after reading the disclosure, that the broker would be obliged to find them the lowest interest rate and best terms available, which is not true. The second problem was that many participants came to believe that working through a broker would cost them more than working directly with a lender, which is not necessarily true either. The firm tried to correct these misunderstandings, but no matter what it did to change the language, the forms continued to confuse consumers more than inform them.
Our consumer testing led us to the conclusion that our approach was not serving its intent--that is, to better inform consumers. We are continuing to try to find an approach that would be effective, but we did not want to hold up all the other consumer protections while we worked on it. As a result, we decided to withdraw the proposed provision on mortgage broker compensation, and we will continue to explore other approaches as part of the ongoing update of our mortgage rules already under way. Some may have preferred that we stick with our proposal, but creating a rule that informed consumers in theory, but only served to confuse them in practice, would have helped no one.
In closing, I would like to underscore the Federal Reserve's commitment to preserving and supporting minority depository institutions. I look forward to continuing our constructive dialogue on finding the best and most practical ways to address the challenges that these banks confront. I am confident that we will be successful in ensuring that these companies remain strong and continue to provide critical financial support to their communities.
I also want to stress that finalizing our HOEPA rules does not represent the end of our efforts to improve transparency and consumer protections in mortgage lending. We will continue to work diligently to determine how best to address the issue of yield spread premiums. Further, we will collaborate with our partner agencies to enforce these rules and to monitor their impact on the market to ensure that they are effective in achieving their goals of protecting borrowers from abusive practices and preserving the availability of credit from responsible mortgage lenders.
2. Chris Mayer, Tomasz Piskorski, and Alexei Tchistyi (2008), "The Inefficiency of Refinancing: Why Prepayment Penalties Are Good for Risky Borrowers (357 KB PDF)," ; Gregory Elliehausen, Michael E. Staten, and Jevgenijs Steinbuks (2008), "The Effect of Prepayment Penalties on the Pricing of Subprime Mortgages," Journal of Economics and Business, vol. 60 (Jan.-Feb.), pp. 33-46; Michael LaCour-Little (2007), "Prepayment Penalties in Residential Mortgage Contracts: A Cost-Benefit Analysis," unpublished paper, January; Richard F. DeMong and James E. Burroughs, (2005), "Prepayment Fees Lead to Lower Interest Rates (64 KB PDF)," ; but see Keith S. Ernst (2005), "Borrowers Gain No Interest Rate Benefits from Prepayment Penalties on Subprime Mortgages," research report, (Durham, NC: Center for Responsible Lending, January), http://www.responsiblelending.org/pdfs/rr005-PPP_Interest_Rate-0105.pdf. Return to text
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If pinup models turn you on, vintage panties must be one of your weaknesses. Millions of men around the world love to see a woman wearing vintage panties. While the term “vintage” is often used loosely in the lingerie world, this style of panties is a throwback to the days of pinup models wearing panties in photo shoots. Most often, the vintage panties found in stores are not truly vintage and are newly manufactured. There are a few stores throughout the world, however, which sell authentic vintage panties and vintage panty collectors often flock to these locations to find gently used vintage panties.
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NY Acting Markets: Cabaret
Myer, who books acts for the small, hospitable Don't Tell Mama, mentions the names of entertainers he's worked with who have advanced to other arenas, including Billy Porter, Jonathan Larsen (composer-author of "Rent"), Ray Jessel (about to hit Broadway in the Michael Feinstein–Dame Edna show "All About Me"), and Tom Lenk ("Buffy the Vampire Slayer"). Lenk came to New York to audition for the Broadway musical "Rock of Ages" and called Myer for a slot at Don't Tell Mama. He didn't want the show's producers to just see him audition, Myer says; Lenk wanted them to see his show: "He wanted to be seen in cabaret. He set aside a table for those very producers." He got the role.
But do producers and casting directors come to cabaret as a matter of course? "There's no way I can make a single generalization," Myer says, but "even if one was fortunate enough to work regularly, most people are typecast, pigeonholed. Only in cabaret is it your own view. This is a gift."
"I'm always looking at who's doing cabaret," says New York casting director Bernard Telsey ("Rent" and many other Broadway shows). "Every now and then someone in the office goes." But if performers "are doing cabaret," he adds, "we figure they must sing. Knowing that makes me want to see them in an audition room."
Says Tara Rubin, of Tara Rubin Casting ("Billy Elliot," "Mary Poppins," "The Producers"), "In all honesty, I don't really think of cabaret as a way to get to know performers…. But I see how it might be. You can hear an artist sing a variety of material. You can become more familiar with that personality." Thinking it over further, she says, "We do attend new-songwriter showcases. We go to Joe's Pub and Ars Nova. So I can't say the express purpose is to see new artists, but we end up doing it by attending."
Thomas Honeck, who books the Duplex Cabaret Theatre, where newcomers are welcome, is another yea-sayer. Cabaret is "a wonderful way for people who haven't been able to generate work from the audition process to get work from another end," he says. He warns, however, that a hopeful must have "realistic goals," not "stars in their eyes and think they're going to pack the house every night and sell out." He also suggests that four or five people putting together a showcase often has more appeal for "casting directors, who are always very busy." And CDs are "far more accessible than agents," he points out. "And they can get you work."
Aside from checking the casting notices in Back Stage, how does a performer get a cabaret gig? "A great deal of it is word of mouth," says Honeck. "People who have played the Duplex recommend it to their friends. A person may come to a show and decide that they want to do one of their own. We work a lot with composers, and they are constantly bringing new performers to the space, many of which end up doing their own show. The Duplex has always been a place for beginnings, a launching pad or workout room, so I'll give most people a shot to see what they can do. Finding new people is half the fun of the job." He adds that he also seeks performers and composers at the New York International Fringe Festival and the New York Musical Theater Festival and may invite them down to do a show.
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Thursday June 30 2011
Paticipants were sent supportive messages for six months
Motivational text messages sent to smokers’ mobile phones can double their chances of giving up tobacco, reported The Guardian.
The story is based on a large UK study that looked at whether a six-month programme of supportive text messages could help smokers quit. It compared a group who received positive messages to another group who were given details of other support programmes. At six months, those receiving texts were twice as likely to quit, with a quitting rate of 10.7% compared to the other group’s rate of 4.9%.
This large, well-designed study took several steps to ensure the accuracy of its results. For example, saliva tests were used to verify how accurately people had reported their non-smoking and, in their analyses, the researchers counted people who dropped out of the study as failing to quit. While the quit rate was relatively low in both groups, the researchers say it was comparable to the number of people who succeed using other forms of help, such as counselling.
As a relatively cheap intervention that could reach large numbers of people, text messaging is potentially cost effective, an issue the authors will address in a forthcoming study. The trial did not directly compare text messaging with other methods for quitting smoking, such as nicotine replacement therapy or behavioural support, so text messaging still needs to be assessed in relation to existing treatments.
Where did the story come from?
The study was carried out by researchers from London School of Hygiene and Tropical medicine, the University of Auckland in New Zealand, and the George Institute at the University of Sydney in Australia. It was funded by the UK Medical Research Council, Cancer Research UK and the Primary Care Research Networks. The study was published in the peer-reviewed medical journal The Lancet.
Generally, the media reported the story accurately. The BBC included comments from independent experts.
What kind of research was this?
This randomised controlled trial (RCT) looked at whether motivational text messages could help people give up smoking. It assessed the effect of the messages on smoking habits at six months. Studies with an RCT design compare a treatment against another treatment, a placebo or no treatment. This study compared the quitting rates in a group who received motivational text messages and another who received occasional non-motivational text messages (the control group). An RCT is considered the best type of study to determine the effectiveness of a treatment.
Many RCTs are double blinded. This means that neither participants nor researchers know to which group the participants were allocated. This resolves the problem that knowing which group they belonged to could affect the results, either consciously or unconsciously. However, the nature of the treatment being tested means that this is not always possible. For example, in this study, it would not have been possible to conceal from participants whether they were receiving the intervention or were in the control group. However, this trial was single blinded as the researchers were not told which participants were in which group.
The researchers say that mobile phone technology has the potential to provide personalised stop-smoking support. Motivational messages and methods to change people’s behaviour, which are used in face-to-face stop-smoking services, can be modified for delivery through mobile phones. Content can also be tailored to address the age, sex and ethnic group of each quitter. Given the widespread ownership of mobile phones, they believe that fully automated stop-smoking support can be delivered to large numbers of people at low cost.
The researcher say that although this type of programme has been shown to increase self-reported smoking abstinence at six weeks, the extent to which these early benefits can be maintained in the longer term needs further investigation. They also point out that some previous studies have not used chemical tests to verify whether participants truly stopped smoking, which might give a better indication of quitting rates.
What did the research involve?
Researchers gathered 11,914 potential participants using advertisements for their trial. To be eligible, participants had to be smokers aged 16 or older who were willing to attempt to quit in the next month and owned a mobile phone. In total, 5,800 volunteers were found to be eligible and entered the trial.
Between 2007 and 2009, they were randomly assigned to either a mobile phone text-messaging stop-smoking programme called txt2stop, or to a control group that received text messages unrelated to quitting. Randomisation was carried out using an independent telephone randomisation system, which also balanced the groups based on their sex, age, educational level and level of nicotine addiction. The system automatically sent the participants motivational or non-motivational texts according to their allocated group. Researchers involved in the trial did not know which participants were allocated to which group, unless the participants told them. All participants were free to take part in other stop-smoking programmes.
People in the group receiving the text-messaging programme were asked to set a quit date within two weeks of being assigned to the group. They received five text messages a day for the first five weeks, and then three a week for the next 26 weeks. These included messages to encourage motivation and behaviour change, encouraging them to persevere with their attempts to quit, such as an introductory message on their chosen quit date: “This is it! ... TODAY is the start of being QUIT forever, you can do it!” The text support group could also send a request for a “lapse text” if they smoked, which read: “Don’t feel bad or guilty if you’ve slipped ... Slip-ups can be a normal part of the quitting process.”
By texting the word “crave”, quitters could receive instant messages to distract and support them and they could also text each other for support.
The programme was also personalised based on information gathered at the start of the study, sending a selection of texts to address each smoker’s concerns related to quitting, such as potential weight gain. In total, participants had access to a core programme of 186 messages and a further database of 713 personalised messages. Participants in the intervention group were also given top-up vouchers towards phone credit.
Control group participants received short, simple, fortnightly messages relating to the importance of trial participation but not encouraging them to quit. All participants were also offered relevant helpline numbers.
Researchers gathered data from participants on whether they had quit smoking, defined as no more than five cigarettes smoked in the past week at four weeks, and no more than five cigarettes smoked at six months of follow-up. This was done through a website or by telephone. The researchers verified self-reported quitting at six months with a postal saliva test that tested for levels of cotinine, a substance produced in the body as a result of nicotine breakdown, which can be used to distinguish smokers from non-smokers. Those who said they had given up but whose test showed they were still smokers were counted as smokers in the analysis.
The researchers used validated statistical methods to look at the potential effect of the text-messaging programme. They looked at the effects of the intervention by age (split into people over or under 35 years old), level of nicotine addiction, employment status, receipt of a mobile phone top-up voucher and use of other stop-smoking treatments.
What were the basic results?
The randomisation process allocated 2,915 smokers to the txt2stop intervention and 2,885 to the control group. Eight people were excluded because they were randomised more than once. Results were available for 5,524 (95%) participants.
Researchers found that at six months, 10.7% of those on the txt2stop programme had stopped smoking, compared to 4.9% of those in the control group, with results verified by saliva tests. This equated to a more-than-double rate of quitting for those in the intervention group (relative risk [RR] 2.20, 95% confidence interval [CI] 1.80 to 2.68). The absolute difference was 5.8%, meaning about six extra people in every hundred people offered the motivational texts would stay off cigarettes at six months compared to those not receiving the texts.
Similar results were obtained when participants that were “lost to follow-up” were treated as smokers.
The intervention had similar results in both younger and older smokers and in all socioeconomic groups. Biochemical results showed that more than a quarter of participants who self-reported quitting were smokers. There was no evidence of any difference between the two groups in the use of existing smoking support services.
How did the researchers interpret the results?
The researchers say that the txt2stop programme significantly improved stop-smoking rates at six months and should be considered for inclusion in smoking cessation services.
This large study had several strengths, such as using reliable methods for randomisation and ensuring that staff and researchers had no foreknowledge of how treatment was allocated. Results were calculated for both the 95% of participants who completed the study and the full set of participants, counting any participants who were not followed up as smokers. Reports of quitting smoking were verified using saliva tests, which helps increase the accuracy of estimated quitting rates.
However, as with any study, it had some limitations:
- Occasionally, participant told study staff which group they were in, the knowledge of which could have influenced the results.
- It was not possible to mask participants to the treatment they were allocated to. The authors say that, in particular, this could have reduced motivation in the non-treatment group as they would have known they were not getting the intervention. The researchers say that they tried to minimise this by offering contact details for existing stop-smoking services.
- The biochemical tests used are not 100% accurate.
- The non-text group were not asked to nominate a date to stop smoking. If they had, it may have given them a specific goal to aim for, which might have affected their chances of quitting successfully.
Overall, this large, well-conducted trial suggests that text message programmes offering support for stopping smoking could be a valuable addition to smoking cessation services. The researchers plan to publish details of how the content of the test messages might fit into current theories of how to change behaviour, as well as further economic analysis of the cost of the intervention. These are both important questions as the treatment will need to be assessed in relation to existing stop-smoking services.
Analysis by Bazian.
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On Earth Dr. Phlox and Hoshi are attacked by aliens, who kidnap Phlox. Captain Archer vows to find him. Reed tries to access the satellite logs, but suddenly gets in contact with a person he seems to know. He orders him to acknowledge his past and works against Archer. T'Pol mind melds with Hoshi and they both find out Rigellians were responsible for the kidnapping. Archer orders Enterprise to follow their trail, not bringing Trip along. He transferred to the Columbia, where some of the crew find him difficult to work with. Trip dreams about T'Pol and strangely she seems to have the same dream. Meanwhile Phlox finds himself amongst Klingons. They want him to find a cure for a lethal virus that has the potential to wipe out the entire population of the Empire.- Written by Arnoud Tiele (firstname.lastname@example.org)
On 27 November 2154, the chief-engineer Trip says goodbye to the Enterprise crew to work with Captain Hernandez on its sister ship, Columbia. Meanwhile in San Francisco, Dr. Phlox and Hoshi are attacked by three aliens after having dinner, and Phlox is kidnapped. Archer asks Reed to investigate any trace of transporter activity in the area. When Reed checks the satellite logs, he is contacted by an acquaintance who schedules a meeting with him. Trip uses his experience to keep the scheduled launch date of Columbia, and Hernandez questions why he quit his position on the Enterprise. Archer convinces T'Pol to perform a mind melding with Hoshi and they discover that the abductors were Klingons. They seek the Rigelian cargo ship that transported Phlox, but find only debris. Meanwhile Phlox is brought to a Klingon laboratory to work with Dr. Antaak, researching an antidote to a deadly virus created from a Kinglon experimen. When the Enterprise is attacked by four mutant Klingons that sabotage the ship, Captain Archer discovers that Reed is not telling the truth and he loses his faith in his lieutenant. The subroutines Klingon planted in Enterprise system affect the reactor and the Enterprise needs to keep more than warp 5 to avoid the explosion of the reactor and only Trip is capable to purge the viral subroutines.- Written by Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
While Enterprise is at Earth, Phlox is abducted by the Klingons and forced to research a cure for a virus destined to wipe out the race. Reed is tapped by a secret agency and ordered to betray Archer. Trip transfers to the Columbia.- Written by Meribor
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Medical devices, such as glucometers, often use software to show, compare, store and analyze the data that they collect.
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- specialty thermometers
- weight scales
Additionally, we have created these types of medical device software:
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- patient portals
- physician portals
- remote monitoring data repository
overview of medical device software
Medical devices, such as glucometers, often use software to show, compare, store and analyze the data for patients and healthcare providers on a PC or mobile phone. This data is a key component of disease management, and telemedicine/connected health.
The goal of using medical devices to capture and transmit their data to healthcare providers is to bridge the huge time and data gap between office visits. This way, healthcare providers can intervene before someone becomes seriously ill and needs hospitalization. Studies have shown that it is much easier (and less expensive) to keep someone well than to help them after they are ill.
Also, this medical device data is useful in the healthcare provider’s electronic medical record for that patient, so that it can be found easily in the future. We work with medical device manufacturers to develop software to simplify the integration between their devices and electronic medical records. For healthcare providers, we have helped them integrate information from specific medical devices into their existing data repositories or have helped them create a new data repository to manage that data.
When our software is included as part of a device, we follow the FDA processes to create the medical device software and its associated 510k documentation to make it easy for our customers to get it approved. We have created documentation templates to make the FDA 510k device software approval process as simple as possible.
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Evidence of China’s worse-than-expected slowdown has been piling up in the recent months. Perhaps it is still hard for many to believe this, but China is already on its way towards deflation, just like what we have started talking about earlier this year.
We have already highlighted a couple of structural issues that is deflationary, and why some of inflationary structural factors such as demographics are not relevant.
In short, the over-investment over the past many years, and particularly in the years after the financial crisis, has created massive over-capacity across the economy that no one is really able to quantify.
We are also aware of the over-capacity and inventory build-up in various sectors like coal and steel.
We have also just learnt that steel industry profits have fallen by 96.7% in the first four months of the year compared to the same period a year ago as demand falls and inventory build-up force producers to cut prices (demand is so weak that some producers are forced to sell pigs instead).
Many of these are pointing to deflation, not inflation. Not to mention the actual CPI figures which are already in negative territory on a month-on-month basis. In short, deflation is already here for China, even though it only looks pretty mild at the moment.
Source: National Bureau of Statistics
We have already noted, on the other hand, that the Chinese government has already started their attempt to reflate the economy with some of the measures look downright desperate. For instance, we don’t really get the point of encouraging private sector investment in previously banned industries could be of any help as far as GDP growth is concerned, not to mention that the private sector is clearly deleveraging, thus we don’t see why the private sector would be really keen.
Monetary policy in the forms of interest rate cuts and reduction of reserve requirement ratio, while should work in “normal” time, may not work now as debt deflation means the demand for loans going forward will be weak. Stimulating consumption is not an easy task as it has been shown time and again that you really can’t force people to spend.
We do know that with a paper currency that the country has control over its issuance (that is if the PBOC ends the soft peg with the US dollar to allow for maximum independence of monetary policy on one hand while opening the capital account on the other), the government cannot run out of money. And as long as the government is willing to throw as much money into the money as necessary, it is at least theoretically possible for the government generate growth as it wishes (in local currency terms), never mind the negative impact on the currency, which has been falling against the US dollar, and will continue to depreciate if massive stimulus is on the table.
We also know that in an environment of debt deflation, it is rather hard to generate inflation simply by creating money by the central bank (of course, one might argue that no central banks who are facing deleveraging have ever printed large enough amount of money to create enough inflation after the financial crisis).
Throwing as much money as necessary for the sake of maintaining economic growth is not always politically possible elsewhere in the planet (think about the lunatics of the Republican Party in the United States).
For China, this is how the government can throw as much money as possible into the problem, assuming that no one is going to oppose it.
1. Force banks to lend
We have talked about this absurd option for a long time, and it seems like they are up to their old tricks once more. But lend to whom?
2. Local governments and state-owned enterprises to borrow
As the private sector deleverages, there are only policy-driven entities that can take up the slack, and that means local governments and state-owned companies. Because banks are also largely state-owned in China, the combined result would actually be similar to US government increases spending to stimulate the economy while increase borrowing. Again, because the government cannot theoretically run out of money, the government can, at least theoretically, throw as much money as necessary.
3. Build more pointless stuff
Just invest in whatever. Ten more Burj Khalifa, twenty more New York city replica, whatever. Just build something, so suppliers get paid and their overcapacity is now used, while the workers get paid to consume.
4. Bad debts? Where?
Just pretend there’s none, ok? Hide them somewhere.
5. Problem solved
The last time the Chinese government did it, the size of the package was RMB4 trillion. In reality, net new loans to non-financial companies in 2009 alone amounted to more than RMB7 trillion, and another RMB4.8 trillion or so was lent in 2010 to non-financial companies, not to mention that money supply has already been doubled. Of course, we have no idea what these figures would look like without the stimulus, or we can’t be sure about the actual lending that is directly associated with the stimulus, but the actual amount of money being thrown at the economy was probably closer to RMB8 trillion, rather than RMB4 trillion.
In the eyes of the world excluding China, the RMB4 trillion stimulus on paper (or the RMB8 trillion stimulus in substance) appears to be the phenomenal success. Not only did it well surpass that 8% growth target, but also almost as if China saved the world economy. Within China, the stimulus has been largely regarded as a mistake. Perhaps this is why the consensus currently believes that the coming stimulus will not be of the size of RMB4 trillion, because the last stimulus is now regarded as unnecessarily large.
This is mainly because of inflation that followed the massive fiscal and monetary stimulus, and because of the real estate bubble which makes new homes largely unaffordable to average workers. Worse still, in the eyes of average Chinese, the money being thrown into the problem benefit none other than real estate developers and corrupt officials, who are the winners for inflation and booming real estate prices. Indeed, as said previously, these corrupt elites who rule China are most concerned not about inflation, but lack of inflation.
Without massive fiscal and monetary stimulus which enabled some of the most outrageous investment projects, corrupt officials and connected businessmen would have no chance to pocket huge amount of money in the process, and without inflation and persistently low interest rates, not only would these investment projects be impossible, it would also mean that corrupt elites of China could not have hoped to put money into the real estate market can pocket even more money.
China currently has a massive amount of debt in private sector as well as the public sector. It is in the government’s interest to inflate the debt away. However, the problem of the Chinese economy has grown even larger over the past few years when the economy was on steroid. With debt deflation in sight, even more money has to be thrown into the problem for the sake of maintaining GDP growth and to generate sufficient level of inflation to make debt servicing easier (and for corrupt elites to pocket more money).
Also consider the huge risks from Europe which could turn out to be disastrous. In that scenario, the kind of money necessary to reflate the Chinese economy will not be RMB4 trillion. It will probably be closer to RMB10 trillion (on paper).
But then, if the previous RMB4 trillion stimulus was regarded as a mistake, will it make sense to try an RMB10 trillion one?
This article originally appeared here: China in deflation, and how to reflate it at all
Also sprach Analyst - World & China Economy, Global Finance, Real Estate
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At this point in Toby Keith’s career, he is most associated with a tough guy, ultra-masculine persona that he is usually all too happy to perpetuate. So, it is always a pleasant treat when he slows things down and reminds us that he actually has one of the better voices in contemporary country music. Furthermore, his strong vocals naturally wrap around a ballad better than many of his more ballad heavy peers, which is well demonstrated in his latest single, the jazz style “Cryin’ for Me (Wayman’s Song)”.
As the parenthetical note suggests, “Cryin’ for Me” is a tribute to one of Keith’s very close friends, basketball star and jazz Bassist, Wayman Tisdale who died after losing his battle with cancer. Backed by a gentle jazz style production, including prominent saxophone (Dave Koz), the song opens with a recording of Wayman’s outgoing voice message, which is later effectively referenced:
“I got up and dialed your number and your voice came on the line;
That old familiar message I heard a thousand times.
It said, ‘Sorry that I missed you leave a message and God bless.’
I know you think I’m crazy, but I had to hear your voice, I guess.”
Instead of the typical generalities that are often in songs about the loss of loved ones, some of the lyrics of “Cryin’ for Me” are an insider’s look at the man about whom Keith is singing. Nevertheless, Keith’s palpable emotion is enough to make this song relatable to all who have lost. In one of the rare occasions that Keith abandons his typical macho swagger to expose himself in a more vulnerable way, we are privileged to experience a sensitive performance for a departed friend, as he acknowledges the truth that accompanies death for all of us: “I’m not cryin’ ‘cause I feel so sorry for you;/I’m Cryin’ for me.”
Written by Toby Keith
Listen: Toby Keith, Cryin’ for Me
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In the UFC 155 main event, Junior Dos Santos set out to defend his Heavyweight title against Cain Velasquez. Cain Velasquez had other plans, however, and outworked JDS in their 25 minute fight.
he main event of UFC 155 featured the heavyweight title fight between Junior Dos Santos and Cain Velasquez.. Cain came out hyper aggressive. He pressured Dos Santos and forced the issue with a takedown, but JDS got right back up. Dos Santos landed a good right hand as Cain came forward. A left hand landed again as Cain moved inside. Velasquez just dove for takedowns, but JDS made him pay the price. Cain dropped Dos Santos with a left and jumped on his back throwing punches. The round ended with Cain battering JDS with punches from back side control.
Cain opened up the second with a quick takedown. Everything the champ tried, Velaquez countered with apparent ease. Two minutes left in the second and Cain got another trip. Cain grabbed for an armbar but couldn't keep control. Dos Santos was gassed and Cain never stopped working. Complete dominance in the second round by the challenger.
JDS opened the 3rd round trying to maintain distance, but Cain still got a takedown in the first minute. Dos Santos performed better, but Cain still never let off him. Constantly landed shots from the clinch. Cain went for a trip going into the last minute but Junior defended with a whizzer. Big uppercut by junior but Cain looked unfazed.
Junior looked better opening the fourth round than in any of the previous. He gave up a takedown but jumped right back up. Cain tried to work the clinch. Big punches from Cain hurt Junior. This became an official war of attrition in the fourth round. Despite taking heavy body shots, Cain was relentless. His pace was too much for JDS. The final round was much like the fourth. Junior did his best to maintain distance bu constantly found himself defending Cain's clinch. Halfway through the 5th, Cain got a takedown . Junior got back up but spent the rest of the round defending.
Cain Velasquez won the Heavyweight championship with a unanimous decision (50-45, 50-43, 50-44) over Junior Dos Santos
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The problem with using rhetoric as a weapon in the international arena is that even if governments decide to rein in their words, individuals might not comply. Thus the latest wrench in China-Japan relations comes courtesy of author Naoki Hyakuta. Hyakuta, who is currently a governor of the NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corporation), made comments denying the Nanjing Massacre, one of the most inflammatory historical legacies left over from Japan’s invasion of China during World War II.
According to The Asahi Shimbun, Hyakuta made his remarks in a February 3 speech, while campaigning for Toshio Tamogami, a right-wing candidate for Tokyo governor. In his speech, Hyakuta presented views of World War II generally in line with a far right-wing stance that absolves Japan of responsibility. “In 1938, Chiang Kai-shek tried to publicize Japan’s responsibility for the Nanking Massacre, but the nations of the world ignored him. Why? Because it never happened,” Hyakuta said. He also posited that the Tokyo war crimes trials were a sham “conducted to cover up those [U.S.] atrocities,” referring to the fire-bombing of Tokyo and the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Hyakuta did admit that “during wars, some military personnel may have done cruel acts” but he quickly added “that is not something only the Japanese have done.” He also argued, “There is no reason to teach such things to children who are still in compulsory education. I want to first teach children what a wonderful nation Japan is.”Enjoying this article? Click here to subscribe for full access. Just $5 a month.
While Hyakuta is allowed to participate in political activities as a private citizen, critics used his controversial stance to critique the NHK in general, or even Japan’s government at large. The NHK was already under scrutiny for comments made just last week by new NHK Chairman Katsuto Momii. Momii indicated that he would like the broadcaster to align its programming with the government’s stance on territorial disputes. He also downplayed the issue of “comfort women,” saying that all countries at the time had used similar practices. The public backlash in that instance was quick — NHK reported that it received over 12,000 comments, most of which were negative, about Momii’s remarks from the public. Hyakuta’s remarks, coming so close on the heels of Momii’s gaffe, only provide more ammunition to NHK’s critics.
China’s media has also called NHK’s credibility into question. Xinhua reported on a response to Hyakuta’s comments in the Nanjing-based Xinhua Daily. The article argued that, due to Hyakuta’s position at NHK, “how can people be convinced that the Japanese media are taking an objective and just stance toward history?”
In addition, though he was speaking as a private citizen, China has interpreted Hyakuta’s remarks as closely in line with the Japanese government’s grand strategy to “whitewash history.” Due to the ongoing Chinese New Year holiday, the Chinese Foreign Ministry is not holding its regular daily press conferences. However, the Foreign Ministry felt the issue was important enough to merit a response from spokesman Hong Lei who released a statement. Hong called the remarks “a blatant challenge to international justice and human conscience.” He added, “Such erroneous behavior follows those of the Japanese leader who tries to reverse the history.”
Chinese media agree that Hyakuta was simply following Abe’s lead. The Xinhua Daily report argued that “although Hyakuta’s speech was claimed to be ‘personal opinion,’ it came in perfect unison with the moves of the Abe administration, as the denial of the massacre is just like the acts of revising textbooks, rewriting the pacifist constitution and the visit to the Yasukuni shrine.” The article added that “Hyakuta’s fallacy itself deserves no comment, but the repeated reference of the cliché by Japanese right-wing forces needs to be observed with high vigilance.”
Chinese media was not alone in noting connections between Hyakuta and the government at large. The Asahi Shimbun noted that Hyakuta had been “handpicked by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe” to serve as NHK governor. Abe may now be regretting that choice. Denying the Nanjing Massacre is probably the easiest way to raise Chinese ire, and the last thing Japan needed was for tensions between Tokyo and Beijing to rise another notch.
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http://thediplomat.com/2014/02/nhk-governor-nanjing-massacre-never-happened/
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By Paul Carton
Co-written by Mike Wrobel
There are signs of improvement within certain pockets of the restaurant industry but the pace of overall growth has slowed, according to two recent ChangeWave consumer surveys.
There were, however, a handful of standout winners.
First, as reported to our ChangeWave Research Network Members on June 30th, Starbucks (NASDAQ:SBUX) exhibited "by far the biggest improvement of any coffee shop or restaurant surveyed."
Nearly a month later on July 21st, Starbucks released their earnings and easily blew past Street expectations. As MarketWatch reported, "Starbucks swung to a fiscal third-quarter profit from a year-earlier loss, and showed that its store traffic is improving even as the recession drags on."
Upon the announcement Starbucks immediately rose almost 20% – yet one more example of a ChangeWave survey uncovering the trend weeks ahead of the Street.
Other Winning Restaurant Chains
Outside the coffee realm, there were additional restaurant winners. We asked respondents which individual restaurant chains they'd be spending more and less money at over the next 90 days – and compared the results with the findings from our previous survey.
Six restaurants stood out from the pack in terms of where consumers will be spending more money vs. less money over the next 90 days:
In terms of restaurant categories, high end casual restaurants (+12) and moderate casual restaurants (+11) are experiencing the largest increases going forward. And in a reversal, every category is looking up except for fast food restaurants (-1), suggesting consumers are beginning to "trade up" when it comes to dining out.
Other findings include:
- A greater percentage of consumers say they'll be dining at more expensive restaurants going forward (4%; up 3 pts).
- There's been a significant increase in the percentage of consumers who expect to dine out More Frequently over the next 90 days (14%; up 8 pts).
- Still, overall only 10% of respondents say they'll be spending more at restaurants going forward, while 37% say they'll be spending less – both unchanged from May.
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http://seekingalpha.com/article/154112-starbucks-improves-as-restaurants-slowly-regain-their-appetite
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Public urged to stay on trails following death of 19-year-old man from Clarenville area
A helicopter hovers over police and fire officials Sunday afternoon during the search for a 19-year-old man from the Clarenville area who fell to his death while hiking on Signal Hill earlier Sunday. — Photo by Keith Gosse/The Telegram
In light of the weekend’s tragic events, local authorities are pleading with people to exercise caution when using the trails around Signal Hill.
A young man fell to his death at about 12 p.m. Sunday off the national historic site’s North Head Trail.
In a joint news conference Monday the RNC and the St. John’s Regional Fire Department reiterated their long-standing mantra of asking people to stick to the trail systems and to resist the temptation of wandering off the beaten path.
“The issue with the walking trail on Signal Hill is the same with all the trails on the east coast. There’s all kinds of signs up. Everybody recommends that the general public stick to the trails,” said Jack Hickey, deputy chief of the regional fire department.
The area around Signal Hill can be particularly treacherous because it’s open and exposed ground, Hickey added.
RNC Const. Suzanne FitzGerald said events like those on Sunday only highlight the need to take precautions when hiking.
“This is just an incredible tragedy. It’s a very unfortunate incident,” she said.
“If anyone can take anything from it to prevent something like this from happening again (it would be) ... stay on those trails, be aware of your environment and also any impending weather conditions ... and never go hiking alone,” said FitzGerald.
Parks Canada, which administers and maintains Signal Hill, also offered its condolences Monday.
“I was there yesterday (Sunday) and it really is a gut wrenching experience for us, as well. Our condolences go out to the family and friends of this young fella,” said Glenn Keough, with Parks Canada.
“When things like this happen it really is a punch in the gut,” he added.
Keough also asked the public to be aware of the signage around the hill’s trails, which are there for good reason.
But beyond the warnings, authorities had few new details to add to their account of Sunday’s events.
However, FitzGerald did reveal that the deceased man was 19 and from the Clarenville area.
The police will not be releasing any further details, she added.
“We’re not going to be releasing the identity of the deceased male. That’s just for the family members. It’s an incredible tragedy and they’re dealing with a great deal right now, so we’ll leave those details alone,” FitzGerald said.
In total, rescuers spent about eight hours at Signal Hill on Sunday.
The man was first reported to have fallen at 12 p.m. He was walking with a male companion.
A team from the high angle rescue unit was the first over the 350-foot cliff face to look for him but they couldn’t locate him.
A Universal Helicopter was brought in to scan the cliff and potentially lower rescuers down but the wind proved too strong for that manoeuvre. But the chopper crew did spot the man on the rocks below at about 2:30 p.m.
A paramedic was again lowered down the rock face and it was then determined that the man had died.
His family was notified of his death at about 4 p.m.
His body was lowered to the water and carried via small rescue craft to a waiting Canadian Coast Guard vessel and taken to shore.
The RNC major crime unit is continuing to investigate how the man fell over the edge.
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http://www.thetelegram.com/News/Local/2011-11-08/article-2798964/Warnings-issued-following-hiking-death/1
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Flamefish - Apogon maculatus
Species Name: Apogon maculatus
Synonym: Monoprion maculates, Apogon maculatus
Common Names: Flamefish
Family: Apogonidae (Cardinalfishes)
Order: Perciformes (Perch-likes)
Class: Actinopterygii (Ray-finned Fishes)
Max. Size: 11.1 cm / 4.4 inches
Environment: Marine reef
Origin: Northwest, Southwest and Western Central Atlantic
Company: Apogon maculates (Flamefish) is suitable for a reef setup.
Aquarium Setup: Apogon maculates (Flamefish) will tolerate a few tens of ppm of nitrate, but little or no ammonia or nitrite. Strive to keep all these levels as low as possible. You must create a place in the aquarium where your Flamefish can hide in the dark during the day. This fish have a preference for lower temperatures, but 72-78 degrees Fahrenheit is fine. Brisk filtration is highly appreciated.
Food: Apogon maculates (Flame fish) feed on benth crustaceans, small fishes, zoobenthos and mobile invertebrates. In aquariums they will appriciate a diet of small fishes, shrimps and other fresh and frozen meaty foods. You can also train them to eat frozen processed foods. Dry prepared foods, such as pellets and flakes, are unable to provide your Flamefish with enough nutritions.
Breeding: We have no information about how to breed Apogon maculates (Flame fish) in aquariums.
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Woolworths, which is now seeking a turnaround CEO after profits fell flat, has lost its place as Australia’s most valuable brand.
The latest Brand Finance Global 500 shows Woolworths still one of the eight local companies to make the list, but after falling 14% in value over the last 12 month to $US7.755 billion, the retailer is now behind Telstra, which increased by 23% to $10.707 billion.
Here are the eight Australian brands to make it to the global 500:
“With sales expecting to slow at faster rates than rivals, the biggest challenge to Woolworths and other supermarket operators is coming from the German discount chain Aldi,” says Mark Crowe, Brand Finance Australia managing director.
“This threat is exacerbated by weak brand perceptions that has resulted in a downgrade in Woolworths brand rating to AA.”
Telstra, which climbed 35 places to be ranked 110 in the Global 500, is now Australia’s number one brand despite increasing competition, mainly in mobile.
“It is testimony to Telstra’s continued brand strength which has driven a 23% increase in value despite only a 3.6% increase in revenue,” says Crowe.
The big four Australian banks occupy third to seventh places in the local list.
ANZ has been the big performer, moving to third from fourth, with a brand valued at $7,458 billion, up 12% on the previous year.
“ANZ has regained the number one bank rating through increased brand strength especially in terms of brand equity,” says Crowe.
Coles, owned by Wesfarmers and the big competitor to Woolworths, dropped one place to seventh and saw its brand value eroded by 17% to $4.826 billion.
Brand value is determined using factors including familiarity, loyalty, promotion, marketing investment, staff satisfaction and corporate reputation.
Brand Finance calculates a value a company would be willing to pay to license its brand as if it did not own it. This approach involves estimating future revenue and calculating a royalty rate to be charged for the use of the brand.
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http://www.businessinsider.com.au/telstra-is-now-australias-most-valuable-brand-overtaking-woolworths-2016-2
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|A Face From My Past by TheHub [Reviews - 4] |
A strange man has arrived in Cardiff through The Rift and has triggered lost memories of Jack's. Pieces of it form together to relive the truth of what happened to him all those years ago. A truth that shocks him as it is nothing like he expected.
Torchwood - All Ages - General - Character, Study, General
Characters: Gwen Cooper, Ianto Jones, Jack Harkness, Other Character(s), Owen Harper, Suzie Costello, Toshiko Sato
Published: 2006.10.21 - Updated: 2006.10.21 - Chapters: 1 - Completed: No - Word Count: 184
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Understanding the difference between an unhelpful and vague question, and asking questions that are targeted and specific.
How to Ask Questions the Right Way
I think it’s impossible to ask "what is Software Testing?" without also focusing on "how to ask the right questions". It’s entirely possible to push buttons and "ham fist" our way to problems, but are those problems significant? Do they really matter to the end user or the stakeholders? They may, they may not. The problem is that, if we report a lot of "unimportant bugs", or if we ask "insubstantial questions" regularly, our knowledge and efforts will often be dismissed, or at the least given lower priority.
Because we are asking the wrong questions. More accurately, we are asking questions in an ineffective way.
The recommendations listed below come from a site that is dedicated to helping answer questions on various hacker forums.
Note: Hacker in this case means anyone that works with code and tries to make changes, modifications and enhancements to see what those changes do. This is not to be confused with a "Cracker" who works to disrupt services, steal information or break into systems for fun or dishonest profit. From the site:
"So, while it isn’t necessary to already be technically competent to get attention from us, it is necessary to demonstrate the kind of attitude that leads to competence — alert, thoughtful, observant, willing to be an active partner in developing a solution."
Testers need to approach problems or issues in the same way.
Before You Ask
Let’s approach this from the aspect of "before you start testing". What are some things you might want to make sure that you know?
You may want to make sure you are aware of industry standards or what other organizations who make similar software are doing.
You may want to understand alternative ways of doing things that makes sense in that particular world. Testing a photo editor will be much more focused and understandable if you understand actual photographic techniques. In testing, we refer to this as having "domain knowledge", or at least an understanding of where the area we are going to test exist.
How can we be sure we are asking the right questions?
1. Try to find an answer by searching (internal) the existing documents, specs, issue tracking system, or (external) forums that deal with this kind of application(s).
2. Try to find an answer by searching the Web.
3. Try to find an answer by reading the product manual (if there is one).
4. Try to find an answer by reading a FAQ (if one exists).
5. Try to find an answer by inspection or experimentation.
6. Try to find an answer by asking a skilled friend.
7. Try to find an answer by reading the source code (if you have that skill and have access to it).
When you ask your question (whether it be a product or a person), display the fact that you have done these things first. Better yet, display what you have learned from doing these things. Include things like "I searched google and could not find an answer based on [words used]. . . " This helps set the parameters that others will understand.
Take your time.
Do not expect to be able to solve a complicated problem with a few seconds of searching.
Read and understand. Give the problem some thought before approaching experts (or before testing or reporting bugs). Trust us, they will be able to tell from your questions how much reading and thinking you did, and will be more willing to help if you come prepared.
Prepare your question. Think it through. Hasty-sounding questions get hasty answers or none at all.
Beware of asking the wrong question or one based on faulty assumptions. You will earn an answer (from a product under test or from an expert), if you earn it, by asking a substantial, interesting, and thought-provoking question.
When asking individuals for clarification, make it clear you are able and willing to help in the process of developing the solution.
“Would someone provide a pointer?”
“What is my example missing?”
“What should I have checked?”
Are more likely to get answered than
“Please post the exact procedure I should use.”
By doing the former, you are making it clear that you’re truly willing to complete the process if someone can just point you in the right direction.
Examples of Good/Bad Questions (from previous site)
Good and Bad Questions
The following text is almost verbatim from the above referenced site. Let’s discuss if we want to change them or present them as is. I think with proper attribution, we can present them as is, as I think the tone of the questions and responses are good.
These are questions about the same problem, one asked in a stupid way and one in a smart way.
Stupid: Where can I find out stuff about the Foonly Flurbamatic?
This question just begs for a response of "RTFM" or "STFW" as a reply. These stand for "Read the [Expletive Deleted] Manual" or "Search the [Expletive Deleted] Web". For this course, I’ll instead use the much kinder, albeit still slightly sarcastic acronym "LMGT". This stands for "Let Me Google That", which gets the same message across. Developers help those who help themselves, and you will get a variation on these types of responses if you ask a question based on something you could have easily looked up yourself.
Smart: I used Google to try to find “Foonly Flurbamatic 2600” on the Web, but I got no useful hits. Can I get a pointer to programming information on this device?
This one has already done the LMGT step, and has come up empty handed. This simple step alone will change the responses the tester gets, because they have invested some of their time and energy to learn about the product.
Stupid: I can’t get the code from project foo to compile. Why is it broken?
This question is placing the blame on someone else. While that may be the case, it’s bad form to automatically assume that someone else has done something wrong. It also shows a lack of humility, and the developers in question will respond in kind.
Smart: The code from project foo doesn’t compile under Nulix version 6.2. I’ve read the FAQ, but it doesn’t have anything in it about Nulix-related problems. Here’s a transcript of my compilation attempt; is it something I did?
Notice the difference in tone. The first thing to see is that they have specified the steps they have already taken, their experience with looking at the FAQ, and most importantly, not assuming that the problem is external to them (i.e. they are not blaming other people, but asking if they have missed something).
Stupid: I’m having problems with my motherboard. Can anybody help?
The first thing to notice about this question is. . . what? More like a lot of whats. What type of motherboard? How is it installed? What CPU or RAM are you using? What CMOS? And a bunch of other questions that we would have to ask just to get to the point of being able to answer even a small part of the possibilities. Most won’t even bother, and will likely just ignore the question.
Smart: I tried X, Y, and Z on the S2464 motherboard. When that didn’t work, I tried A, B, and C. Note the curious symptom when I tried C. Obviously the florbish is grommicking, but the results aren’t what one might expect. What are the usual causes of grommicking on Athlon MP motherboards? Anybody got ideas for more tests I can run to pin down the problem?
This is good overall protocol whenever dealing with an issue of any kind. In fact, the above question would make for a good bug entry all by itself (more on bug reporting later).
The reason this set of questions will likely get attention is that the tester has applied a problem-solving approach to the issues they are seeing. They have reported what they tried to do to make it work, and has also made a guess as to what the problem might be. They may be wrong, but it shows the programmer that they are working towards isolating the issues and understanding the problem.
Additionally, instead of saying “Give me an answer”, the tester is asking “Please help me figure out what additional diagnostics I can run to understand the problem”
How To Ask Questions The Smart Way
Copyright © 2001, 2006 Eric S. Raymond, Rick Moen
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http://www.ck12.org/book/What-is-Testing/section/3.0/
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Detectives from the Homicide and Major Enquiries Team are investigating after police attended a house on Manor Drive, Bingley, yesterday morning following a phone call expressing concern for a woman there.
Police found the body of a 24-year-old woman.
More top news
James Wright has the late weather forecast
Proposals to demolish hundreds of affordable homes in Immingham have left tenants worried about where they might end up living.
The partner of a Huddersfield man missing for eight years has spoken about trying to move on after a judge ruled that he is dead.
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http://www.itv.com/news/calendar/update/2012-03-01/body-find/
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Subject: Re: Memory secrets for the Qube 2?
To: Rich Lafferty <firstname.lastname@example.org>
From: lasse <email@example.com>
Date: 07/24/2003 16:59:21
Maybe there are different qube2 revisions with different memoryspecs,
Or i'm the biggest nerd who's got way to much stuff at home?
Heh... i'm a bigger fan of the second theory...
i had 6 or 8 simms lying.. but ofcourse.. most 8mb to 16mb...
if anyone wants THOSE, say hey... i'm not using them anyway.. but i tested
them in my qube2.. works.
On Thu, 24 Jul 2003, Rich Lafferty wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 09:48:47AM +0200, lasse <firstname.lastname@example.org> wrote:
> > Ahumm... i ripped memory form my really old p90 machine... works like a
> > charm.
> > don't by new stuff when you can use old discarded FREE modules...
> > i'm sure someone you know has them just lying around...
> It would be very rare to find 72-pin 3.3v EDO simms lying around. If
> they were common, there wouldn't be a supply problem in the first place.
> Not all Qubes required 3.3v RAM, though, but the Qube 2 did. Perhaps
> you have a Qube which runs on generic RAM.
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NORWALK, Ohio - Notes from round 2 qualifying in Top Alcohol Funny Car at the NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series, North Central Division, B'laster Cavalcade of Stars presented by Budweiser listing lane, driver name, elapsed time/top speed this round, position in order following run, best prior elapsed time/speed, and position in order prior to run:
Right Lane: Tony Bogolo Runs 5.963/238.09, Now #6; No Prior Run
4:06 p.m. Cassie Simonton is on the bump spot at 9.325.
Bogolo's car broke in the water yesterday. This run was straight and smooth, though a bit off the competitive pace. That bumps Simonton, putting Fred Tigges is on the bump spot at 7.739.
Left Lane: Paul Noakes Runs 5.849/252.61, Now #7; No Prior Run
Right Lane: Brian Harvanek Runs 5.814/248.43, Now #6; No Prior Run
Noakes first pass in a new car netted him no time because the car went right and took out a timing reflector. Harvanek did not make a qualifying attempt yesterday.
Both cars went right down the groove and both got into the field, bumping Tigges and John Hart. Now Tony Bogolo is on the bump spot at 5.963.
Left Lane: Cassie Simonton Runs 10.089/140.02, Now #11; Best prior run: 9.325/110.64, Was #11
Right Lane: Fred Tigges Runs 16.512/117.53, Now #10; Best prior run: 7.739/123.31, Was #10
Both cars were loaded for bear and both smoked the tires immediately.
Left Lane: John Hart Runs 11.988/98.48, Now #9; Best prior run: 6.321/238.26, Was #9
Right Lane: Chris Foster Runs 5.635/256.36, Now #2; Best prior run: 5.742/254.33, Was #3
Will Hanna, Foster's crew chief, was the reason for last night's unplanned delay as the ambulance transported him to the hospital to get a wayward Dzus fastener removed from his leg. The projectile was launched from the waterbox by the spinning tires of a car making a burnout, embedding itself in Hanna's leg. He's okay and he's back out at the track today, standing clear of the water box.
Foster made a nice pass, improving a full tenth of a second from last night's run. Hart didn't fare as well, his right rear wheel spinning in some fluid, driving his car toward the centerline. He lifted, hit the throttle again, went right again, and gave it up as a bad idea.
Left Lane: Andy Bohl Runs 6.589/244.87, Now #5; Best prior run: 5.813/249.58, Was #5
Right Lane: Ray Drew No Time, Now #3; Best prior run: 5.665/259.81, Was #3
Drew's car did not fire and was towed to the return road.
Bohl launched, shook, spun, pedaled, then continued.
Left Lane: John Anderika Runs 13.206/53.13, Now #4; Best prior run: 5.760/253.47, Was #4
Right Lane: Fred Hagen Runs 13.583/83.44, Now #1; Best prior run: 5.537/258.47, Was #1
Again both cars smoked the tires immediately. Hagan lifted. Anderika tried to pedal and regain traction, but did not succeed.
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http://www.dragracecentral.com/DRCStory.asp?ID=249950&Filter=Year2012
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Madagascar - Movie Synopsis & Plot
Alex the Lion (Stiller) is the king of the urban jungle, the main attraction at New York's Central Park Zoo. He and his best friends Marty the Zebra (Rock), Melman the Giraffe (Schwimmer) and Gloria the Hippo (Pinkett Smith) have lived their entire lives in blissful captivity, with regular meals provided and an admiring public to adore them.
Not content to leave well enough alone, Marty allows his curiosity to get the better of him and, with the help of some prodigious penguins, makes his escape to explore the world he's been missing. Alex, Melman and Gloria go after him, but before they can go wild in the streets, they are captured, crated and put on a ship to Africa... to be ultimately set free.
When those plotting penguins sabotage the ship, Alex, Marty, Melman and Gloria find themselves washed ashore on the exotic island of Madagascar. Now, these native New Yorkers have to figure out how to survive in the wild and discover the true meaning of the phrase "It's a jungle out there."
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http://www.filmjabber.com/movie-synopsis/madagascar.html
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We like to think that we live in the light, or as the current phrase goes — “it’s all good ” — when in reality everything really seems to happen in the dark where angels are wrestled with. This came forcibly to mind when I caught the San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra’s Restless Dreams concert on the June 13th at San Francisco’s Old First Church. The program — 8 pieces by 8 composers–also bore out music director Mark Alburger’s from the stage quip that it was Haydn’s “Farewell” Symphony in reverse — instruments were added instead of subtracted as it progressed. Restless Dreams also appeared to go from meditation to conflict, or light to dark.
Philip Freihofner’s Obelisk, which the composer wrote over a long period and “finalized” for this concert, could be described as meditative and/or minimalist in gesture. We tend to think that only loud pieces are powerful , but Freihofner’s soft one, which Rova Saxophone Quartet’s Steve Adams played, backed by a repeating figure on synth with passion and point, hit home. Lisa Scola Prosek’s Voodoo Storm, performed clarinettist Rachel Condry, trumpeter Eduard Prosek, cellist Juan Mejia, and pianist Scola Prosek was delicate and expressive, with subtle yet highly individualized part writing — Condry giving way to Eduard Prosek and vice versa — and it ended, in mid phrase, as so much in life does. Read the rest of this entry »
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It’s sometimes said that composers are either German or French, and American vanguard one Frederic Rzewski, with his much vaunted admiration for Beethoven, is clearly on the German side. But how could he not be when some of his composition teachers like Dallapiccola and Babbitt forsook a flowing lyric line for a jagged dramatic one, whose aim is not to seduce the ear, but to wow with intellectual rigor? But that doesn’t mean that Rzewski’s work is insincere, or lacks power — it has that in spades — but that it tends to be aimed at the mind and not the heart. It’s often confrontational, too. But that’s a good thing because any real musical interaction, like any real human one, has a built in confrontational element, and confrontations help us grow.
Rzewski’s 1976 solo piano piece The People United Will Never Be Defeated (El Pueblo Unido Jamas Sera Vencido) is certainly a work in which he confronted the musical possibilities of all kinds of things that had been appearing in his output until then. He was 38 at the time he wrote it and his discoveries here power lots of his subsequent work. I t’s as much as a watershed piece for him as Glass’ massive ensemble work Music In 12 Parts (1971-74) was for him. It’s also a kind of compendium of rhythmic, harmonic and coloristic approaches to Chilean composer Sergio Ortega’s song for Salvador Allende on which it’s based. There are 6 variation sets of 6 each plus a coda, and Rzewski seems to use every possible pianistic device in it. Read the rest of this entry »
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Some people like to think that music is always somehow about something… usually them. My bad love affair, the world will never understand me, much less remember me. And lots of music — from the troubadours with their songs of courtly love to the meditations and dramas of the romantics to the skitterings and upheavals of the New Vienna School — have been a kind of narrative of this beleaguered self, or if you will, the audience’s identification with the composer’s ups and downs. But the New York School of Earle Brown (1926-2002), Christian Wolff (1936- ), John Cage (1912 -1992), and Morton Feldman (1926-1987) threw this book out the window. Like the abstract expressionist painters with whom they were friendly, they believed in the concept of art as abstraction, not a representation of something external. They wanted their listeners to experience music as sound unmoored from any story frame, an event in and of itself. Morton Feldman made a career out this approach and his focus on the specifics of sound was his calling card.
FOR JOHN CAGE (1982), which violinist Graeme Jennings, late of the Arditti Quartet, and and Christopher Jones performed here in mid-September as part of the sfSound Series, has all the stylistic hallmarks of his late work. It’s ultra soft – down to ppp – has an evenness of color, and its duration –78 miniutes– is roughly the same as a Bruckner or Mahler symphony, or the Beethoven 9th. But what happens in that time frame is an entirely different story.
Feldman isn’t after a logical dialectical continuity but an ahistorical present, and this can make his music, with its fragmentary gestures, seem odd, or even empty. But Jennings and Jones made that lack of “content “ convincing, and urgent. A slow steady sequence of quietly inflected piano chords sounded as if they were going somewhere, and Jenning’s playing of Feldman’s circumscribed violin gestures — cells, simple, spaced chords, harmonics -– was equally acute. And I don’t think it’s a stretch to say that the composer achieved a kind of Brechtian alienation effect/affect by having the violinist use a leather mute, and the pianist play with the damper pedal half depressed so that the music appeared to disappear as it was being heard.
Classic masters like Brahms meditated on the past in the solo movements of his violin sonatas, but that past existed within a kind of narrative frame, whereas here only a present past survived. Feldman’s music is both annoying –- when will it change, and where will it end ? –- and transcendent, and Jennings and Jones came down squarely on the side of the latter. And the music seemed to gain much of its poetry from the place where it was played. A big mirrored dance rehearsal studio, with a spic and span Steinway grand where each sound had its tenuous, and all too fleeting life.
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We take so much for granted – the sun will go down , the sun will come up – that we never seem to realize that some day it won’t be there or we won’t be here to see it. Same thing is true of friends you could always count on. So when I got an e-mail from my composer-conductor friend Gerhard Samuel’s companion, Achim Nicklis, that Gerhard had passed away a few weeks ago, I was shocked. Sure, I sensed he wasn’t well – repeated e-mails saying he’d changed his address indicated as much. – but the sad fact remains. He’s not here anymore.
One comes to know a person through what they say, or don’t say, do, or don’t do, and if that person’s an artist one gets to know them through their work. I first encountered Gary’s music when I was driving my sister Kathi’s car in Belmont Shore, Long Beach, and was so moved when I heard the La Salle Quartet perform his String Quartet # 1 (1978) on the radio, that I stopped the car until it was over. But isn’t that what art’s supposed to do, and isn’t its awareness meant to make us more aware?
Other pieces had just as much impact. There was his original and very touching “gloss ” on Mondeverdi, Looking at Orpheus Looking (1971), which he wrote for the Oakland Symphony when he was its extra innovative music director, Requiem for Survivors and suddenly it’s evening (1974), which he composed as a memorial piece for his Oakland successor, Calvin Simmons, when he was Mehta’s assistant conductor at the LA Philharmonic; the chamber piece, Nocturne on an Impossible Dream (1980), which he wrote with his mother in mind; the 1998 chamber work with tenor and saxophone solo, Hyacinth From Apollo, to a poem by his frequent collaborator, Jack Larson, who was the original TV Jimmy Olsen; and the 1994 Transformations for chamber string orchestra and solo violin. And though these were all completely different in style and expressive intent, they couldn’t have been more of a piece with who Gerhard was – passionate, charming as all get out, refined, yet always full of surprises.
Like that September evening in 1998 – the 19th, to be precise – when Tony Gualtieri and I presented him on KUSF-FM’s 3-hour Classical Salon, and he, during the time his music was playing, seemed completely at sea, and I said “ Don’t worry, “ as Tony looked across the room at us from “ Studio A”, to our perch at the little table which was “Studio B”, and then when our mikes went on rose to the occasion like the pro he always was. Which reminds me of a story he told me of what happened when he was conducting one of the Stravinsky ballets. The composer was backstage, hand cupped to his ear, listening intently as his wife, Vera, said “Why’s he doing that? He’s heard it a million times!” And Gerhard said “ Because he wants to hear it again!” which was a lot like him too– completely in the present, where everything is.
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My dear late best friend Danny Cariaga, classical music critic extraordinaire of the Los Angeles Times, once observed that people went to Wagner’s operas when they were new because they had more time. But now, with the onslaught of e-mails, IMs, cells with text messaging, to say nothing of headsets, call waiting, call forwarding, numeric pagers and the like, time seems fractured beyond repair. Are we really that far gone? And if so how can we get back to the unalterable truths of life, like love and death?
These questions came to mind when I caught The Met’s penultimate performance of Philip Glass’ 1979 opera Satyagraha on Monday 28th April. One of its subjects is time itself, and Glass’ mature music has always played with our perceptions of it. How long is short, and how short is long? Glass’ exquisite and utterly involving 3-act meditation on Gandhi – its subtitle is “M.K. Gandhi in South Africa (1893 – 1914)” – shows how he transformed himself from an ordinary barrister thrown off a train into one of the most seminal spiritual and political figures of the last century whose ideas continue to reverberate. A tall order, for sure, but one that co-director designers Phelim McDermott and Juilan Crouch’s Improbable Theatre made incredibly vivid and tremendously moving.
Glass and his scenarist Constance De Jong, assembled their libretto from the Hindu holy book The Bhagavad-Gita (“Song of the Lord“), and the verses they culled from it pinpoint what Satyagraha is really about — self-mastery in the service of spiritual growth. Gandhi developed his non-violent passive resistance movement, satyagraha — it roughly translates as “truth force”, or even “the force of love” –during his work in South Africa, which Glass’ opera dramatizes in seven highly allusive and mysterious scenes. The composer cites his absorption in the Khatikali theatre of Kerala , South India, and the extended and abruptly short mosaic-like approaches in Brecht plays like Galileo, and ,of course, his with Robert Wilson, Einstein on the Beach (1975), as inspirations for Satyagraha though a “Western“ source, or point of reference, is Stravinsky’s from Sophocles via Danielou and Cocteau’s opera-oratorio Oedipus Rex (1926-27) though their aim, like the ancients, was to provoke pity through terror. Glass’ aim is entirely different. His music and its staging strive to educate the audience in the most non-didactic way to what Gandhi and his followers were all about. And he and his collaborators here do this through slowly evolving sonic and visual images which provoke, distance – the Brecht, Lehrstuck and Stravinsky neo-classic tactic – and enthrall.
Much has been made of Glass’ supposedly “simple “ music, as if his “poverty of means” translated into poverty of effect, and affect, but nothing could be further from the truth. Of course he fashions each scene as a series of ground basses or chaconnes, but his imagination is in full flower here, even through this is his first orchestral piece since his Juilliard days (1958-1962). And it really does show how he’s bent his pit band of 3 flutes, 3 oboes, 3 clarinets, 1 bass clarinet, 2 bassoons, strings 1 and 2, violas, cellos, and double basses, and a Kurzweil synthesizer, to his own deeply expressive ends.. Act 1’s opening scene, The Kuru Field of Justice, unfolded from its 2+3, 2+3, 2+3, 2+2… rhythmic structure, like a steadily opening flower, with Gandhi (tenor Richard Croft), in barrister suit and briefcase at the lip of center stage, being set upon – his valise rifled by the supers – as his solo’s joined by that of mythological figures Prince Arjuna, in blue face ( tenor Bradley Garvin ), and in Indian cap and white tunic pants Lord Krishna (bass Richard Bernstein), while warring parties, representing the internecine conflict of the Kuru clan, in Victorian and Indian dress, face off, and larger than life papier mache puppets, do battle.
(Paragraph revised per Walter’s comment) The succeeding scene – Tolstoy Farm (1910) was just as imaginatively realized, as Gandhi, his wife Kasturbai (mezzo Maria Zicak), Gandhi’s German secretary Miss Schlesen (soprano Rachelle Durkin) , Mrs Naidoo (soprano Ellie Dehn); and Improbable’s co-workers built Gandhi’s ashram in miniature.A nd nowhere could Gandhi’s and Glass’simplicity of means be shown to more effect than in the long – 60 plus minutes, though 31 minutes in Christopher Keene’s CBS LP set – stretch of Act 3’s single scene, Newcastle March (1913) where the composer’s “limited means “ – roughly three themes / harmonies — seemed to burrow into the listeners’ psyches/hearts, until all was “released” at the final but not so final cadence/chord.
Glass’ music has always trafficked in the down to earth and the mystical, and Satyagraha provides both as 2sides of the same coin. And it’s not for nothing that the third, and concluding scene of Act ii, Protesttextural, harmonic, and yes, melodic variety than all of Satyagraha combined The Met’s forces rose to its challenges as true “athletes of the spirit”, proving that it shares deep yet deeply contrasting familial resemblances to its other siblings in Glass’ portrait trilgy – Einstein, and Akhnaten (1983). And that his spectacularly moving 2005 opera of John Coetzee’s 1980 Waiting for the Barbarians – which Orange Mountain Music will release this June – continues even more difficult explorations of the human condition. ‘ A man lost in a cruel and stupid dream / But still I keep walking / Walking. “ Improbable’s production differed in many respects from the Bruce Ferden led – he’s sadly dead from AIDS in 1993 – version of the David Poutney/Robert Israel 1980 Netherlands Opera production which I caught twice – and once with Danny Cariaga – at the SF Opera in 1989. And its immersion in themes of social injustice – will they ever solved – continued in Glass’ SF Opera commission, Appomattox, which bowed here last November. What happened – and this went on in the mind, body, and dare we forget it – heart? – can only be sketched here.
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The world has always been violent, hence the classical desire to restrain the beast within. But is this kind of art enough when the world seems to spin out of control more and more each day, with headlines soaked in blood, and anger and distrust every way you turn? Should art address disjunction/disconnection, or should it act like Bocaccio, who entertained his guests with stories while the plague raged outside his door?
These are essential questions, and The San Francisco Ballet’s four- work Program 5, which I caught Saturday evening 15 March at the Opera House, seemed whether consciously or not, to be asking them. And all the music here was either modern or contemporary.
Brit choreographer Christopher Wheeldon’s Pas de Deux from After the Rain (2005), uses Arvo Part’s 1978 violin/ piano duo “Spiegel im Spiegel “, as its score, which was played here live by Roy Malan, and Bruce McGraw. Composed just after Part parted company with serialism, it’s not as interesting or as fresh as some of his 80’s and 90’s work which can be quite striking, and sometimes very affecting too. Sure, you can read it as meditative, or “spiritual”, but music that’s performed in the theatre had better have some dramatic juice, and Part’s piece didn’t. And Wheeldon’s dance for the alienated/struggling couple – Sarah Van Patten and Pierre-Francois Villanoba – made it sound like a kind of decorous décor. But the dancers brought lots of nuance to their parts which often depended on very slow lifts.
Wheeldon’s Carousel (A Dance), which was first performed in Richard Rodgers’ centennial year–2002–at Lincoln Center, was an hommage to this wonderful composer. And while the choreographer studiously avoided using anything that smacked of Broadway, what he came up with was obvious – having the dancers move in a circle like a slowly gyrating carousel, or letting them become carousel horses with poles attached to an non-existent top – and trite. Recent revivals of Rodgers’ 1945 musical have apparently stayed closer to the dark tone of Ferenc Molnar’s play Lilom, which Hammerstein based his book on. But Wheeldon’s dance wasn’t the least bit dark, though Mark Stanley’s expert lighting was. The choreographer’s use of vernacular movement made it look contemporary, but in his heart of hearts he seems to be a let’s be a polite at all times classicist. Still, the 24 strong corps, who’d performed it six hours before, and soloists Dores Andre and Joan Boada, made it look almost effortless.
A similar lack of connection to the musical material at hand undermined Helgi Tomasson’s 2008 dance – this was its premiere – to Rachmaninov’s 1934 Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini. Why any choreographer would deliberately ignore this score’s variation structure is anybody’s guess, but this one defiantly did. Either the music inspires, or it doesn’t, and if it doesn’t what’s the point? Tomasson’s setting was so blandly unimaginative – ditto Martin Pakledinaz’s scenic and costume design – that I kept wishing I could see the orchestra, but my friend and I were parked on the ground floor. Music director Martin West and his band gave a serviceable and streamlined modern take on the score, with no string portamenti to give it extra expressivity. But piano soloist Roy Bogas, whose teacher Rosina Lhevinne exemplified the Russian romantic style, used rubato at several points to give it rhythmic variety, just as Rachmaninov did when he played this piece.
Neither rhythmic variety nor textural subtlety figured in either music or dance in Wayne McGregor’s Eden/Eden, which the Stuttgart Ballet premiered in that city last year, and I think its point of origin says a lot about the final product. The Germans. after all, have never been big on giving their audiences unalloyed pleasure, but beating them up with “important “ messages, and this piece certainly tried to be important.
Charles Balfour’s lighting made everything look deadly earnest, and McGregor’s choreography for nine, emphasized angularity, and a kind of physical dysfunction which had to be meaningful. Steve Reich’s aggressively monochromatic score sounded like the snare drum tattoos in Bolero on auto pilot. But what does one expect from a composer – what’s happened to this once vital artist? — who sits down with his wife and collaborator on this piece, vid artist Beryl Korot, to choose the most significant technological events of the 20th century, form THREE TALES (2002), of which this, Dolly, is the last? Dolly is of course the sheep cloned in 1997, and Reich and Korot’s talking heads, from MIT and Oxford – mercifully absent here – go on and on about this issue. The composer even dragged out a quote from Genesis – “ And G-d placed him in the garden of Eden, to keep it and to serve it, “ to give it mythical stature, and McGregor seemed to buy it.
A white tree of the knowledge of good and evil descended from the flies, and some of the dancers came and went via a lift in the stage. McGregor and his game dancers produced some striking and even nightmarish images. But a piece that starts in the head, and stays there, can’t be anything but dead on arrival. Guest conductor Gary Sheldon and his musicians produced harsh, overly amplified, and badly mixed sounds, which assaulted the ear. Eden/Eden failed to say anything fresh, and will, I think, date quickly “like yesterday’s mashed potaotoes” in Dorothy Fields and Jerome Kern’s song “ A Fine Romance.“ When you’re on you’re on, and when you’re not, you’re not.
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Things happen when you pay attention. Resemblances line up, and disjunctions jar. These things certainly happened when I caught Word for Word’s theatricalization of James Baldwin’s Harlem-set story Sonny’s Blues, and Spain’s flamenco group Son De La Frontera on successive nights in San Francisco last weekend. Word for Word used every possible dramatic device, including fine actors, to make each syllable of the story come alive while the Spanish musicians produced a thoroughly non-verbal experience though there was lots of singing.
The paradox was that both performances — even the wall to wall words of Sonny’s Blues — delivered language-free meanings, and that, whether we’re aware of it or not, art is always a fundamental emotional experience, even with words. And — it should get us where we live. Flamenco provides one of the rawest, purest, and most sophisticated musico-dramatic experiences on the planet. And the 6-member Son De La Frontera, presented by The Bay Area Flamenco Partnership at The Yerba Buena Center for The Arts Theater Saturday 1 March, are masters of this ancient form, which began in India with the gypsies who crossed North Africa, and settled in Spain’s Andalucia, where flamenco flourished in the intermingled soil of its Islamic, Jewish (Sephardic), and Christian cultures. Son De La Frontera delivered it clearly, honestly,and without regret. Virgil Thomson once declared that composers did everything but speak the language of the heart. But these Spaniards, who paid tribute to composer-guitarist Diego Del Gastor (1908-1973) here, certainly did. And their music, which comes from Del Gastor’s, made the divided chambers of the heart visceral, and incredibly real.
The two-hour, no break concert began with a guitar solo, a martinete, by Gastor’s nephew, Juan Del Gastor. The martinete is a kind of not-in-any-set meter improv, and Del Gastor’s was ripe with subtle yet powerful touches and myriad colors, like a dream of Spain’s fairest flower. Things got obviously more intense when guitarists Raul Rodriguez and Paco De Amparo took the stage with singer Moi De Moron, and the compas, or rhythm section provided by him — handclapping on the palmas, or the sordas — and Manuel Flores, and Pepe Torres, who also danced. Rodriquez and De Amparo’s unisons and solos were a harmonic and coloristic anchor to the intricate polyrhythms of the other three musicians, especially the phenomenally fancy footwork, or taconero, by Torres, who had tons of that essential flamenco ingredient, duende, and whose turning, lurching, and jumping was powerfully controlled, the scarlet back of his black vest the only note of color in the show.
Flamenco has a rich vocabulary of differently accented 12 count (beat) rhythms which form the basis of the buleria, the solea, which were stunningly played, sung and danced here. The group also gave knockout performances of the fiesta, cantina, sevillana, as well as the 4 count (beat) tanguillo, and tango. Flamenco is about all the basic passions of love, hate, abandonment, fear, despair, and revenge. It gets them down as no other art form can, and doesn’t make them pretty. But this brutal, in the best sense of the word, form lets them sing. And I was reminded of the late great Spanish mezzo Rocio Jurado, who sang on the soundtrack of Carlos Saura’s 1985 film of De Falla’s El Amor Brujo, when listening to Moi de Moron. You don’t have to know or even “hear” the words to feel whats he’s saying. It doesn’t get any better, or more real than this.
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Dance is always about music, and music is, more often than not, about dance. But how does dance animate music, and music animate dance? This seemed to be the central question when I caught Program 1 of the San Francisco Ballet’s 75th anniversary season at the War Memorial Opera House February 9th. Classical ballet and modern dance sometimes plays against and even ignores the music’s rhythmic structure which would never happen in the deservedly popular Dancing With The Stars. But we rightly or wrongly cut the highbrow forms a bit more slack.
Virgil Thomson’s music for SF Ballet’s founding choreographer Lew Christensen’s Filling Station (1938) brought these thoughts center stage. And though the composer has defined his score as a collection of waltzes, tangos, a fugue, a Big Apple, a hold up, a chase, and a funeral, one was barely aware of these disparate forms. Instead, what caught the ear and eye was the happy disjunction between these elements, not their literalness. But that’s odd when you consider how this ballet, to a story by Lincoln Kirstein, is routinely described as a pop piece.
Well, maybe, but one which uses vernacular movement — way before the Judson Church crowd did it — in still fresh, even startling ways. The moves for James Sofranko’s filling station attendant Mac were exaggerated but somewhat naturalistic too. But the gestures Christensen devised for the other dancers, like the hilariously bombed Rich Girl Erin McNulty, tended to be more stylized, as Thomson’s music shifted gears — jubilant one moment, deadly serious the next — as in his viola-dominated tango for her, which didn’t make rational, but emotional sense. Thomson was always a subtle and sly composer, and his clever but utterly sincere moves were on full display here, and. Martin West’s orchestra made the music go on many levels. Thomson once told me that everybody’s after freshness and this score couldn’t have been more fresh, and perfectly modern because of that.
Modernist choreographers have tried their hand at setting dances on Bach’s music, with Balanchine’s Concerto Barocco being one of the most famous. SF Ballet Artistic Director Helgi Tomasson, who’s sometimes been too much of a Balanchine acolyte, seemed to break free of the master in his 7 For Eight (200 ), to music from Bach keyboard concertos composed between 1729 and 1741, and the music’s mathematical lucidity and calmly ordered sequences seemed to make him go further and deeper than he usually does.
Bach is regularly advertised as peerless and one certainly felt that here in Tomasson’s 7 sequences for 8 dancers which were as contained and deeply expressive as the music, with 3 duos alternating with 1 trio, 1 quartets, and 1 solo.
Company star Joan Boada shone, but so did all the other dancers here who negotiated Tomasson’s from a classical vocabulary moves with both elegance and gravity. David Finn’s subtly modulated lighting scheme of mostly bluish greys and off blacks made the stage pictures both beautiful and highly suggestive ,which the costumes by Sandra Woodall — who dressed Kronos years ago — unobtrusively complemented The expert piano soloist here was Michael McGraw.
Would that Balanchine’s 1967 mostly general dance, Diamonds, from Jewels, were as successful or interesting as the two dances which preceded it. Instead it came off as a kind of white on white version of Balanchine’s hommage to Sousa; The Stars and Stripes, with the stage almost always full of the 32 member corps executing endless formations and deformations with lots of chandelier-like port-a-bras, which though meant to look elegant ended up being cloying, with 4 of the 5 movements of Tchaikovksy’s 3rd Symphony serving as the score. Balanchine was as much as an entertainer as a high art guy–his long association with Stravinsky– but this just seemed like admirably danced fluff. Martin West’s pit band accompanied with effortless grace,well-judged tempos, and transparent ensemble throughout. And in none of the 3 pieces did he ever encourage his orchestra to push. This is a deservedly acclaimed company with a very fine orchestra.
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Human behavior’s funny. The more we try to change the more we don’t seem able to. Are we cursed to repeat the same mistakes in our private lives — with lovers, friends — as well as in our public ones? Are we genetically condemned to disjunction, discord, and war, like Sisyphus trying to keep that enormous rock from crushing him each day? Philip Glass’ SF Opera commission, APPOMATTOX, which world premiered 5 October, and which I caught 16 October, seems to accept these things as givens. Its ostensible subject is Robert E. Lee’s surrender to U.S. Grant at Appomattox Court House, Virginia, on 9 April 1865, and its subsequent impact. But its central question seems to be how can we change history if we can’t even change ourselves?
These are weighty questions, and Glass’ music addresses them with seriousness and point. The opening figure for double basses and wind mixtures is immediately affecting. Then Julia Dent Grant (soprano Rhoslyn Jones) emerges from a backlit alcove in Riccardo Hernandez’s umbrous metal set, her posture contained, “The spring campaign ___ In four short years I have grown to dread those words … ” She joins four other women — Mary Custis Lee (soprano Elza van den Heever), her daughter Julia Agnes (soprano Ji Young Yang), Mary Todd Lincoln (soprano Heidi Melton), and her black seamstress Elizabeth Keckley (mezzo Kendall Gladen) — in an almost Baroque lament on the sorrows of war — ” never before has so much blood been drained … Let this be the last time.. ” The women who stand behind their men and keep it all together are, of course, the unsung heroines of any war, and Glass’ immediate focus on them, signals this piece’s unwavering depth.
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Americans like to sit on their hands. Even when they’re telling the truth you have to worry. Are you trying to take something from me, steal my identity, assault my assiduously guarded self-image? I may be feeling something, but you’ll have to read between the lines. God forbid I should tell you what and why, and if I do it will likely be too late. These curious thoughts came to mind when I caught Lebanese oud master-composer-singer Marcel Khalife and his ensemble for the second time — the first was at New York’s Town Hall in 2004 — at San Francisco’s Herbst Theater.
Why? Because Khalife’s music goes straight to the heart, and never holds back, much less apologize for what it feels. Which isn’t to downplay its appeal to the mind. But its principal goal is to connect with the heart, and hearts and minds and bodies were certainly reached in this concert. Artists are people, after all, and wouldn’t you rather spend time with someone who can express than with someone who can’t?
The American media likes to portray Arabs as unlettered savages, but that’s hardly the truth. Arabic music, after all, is one of the oldest, richest traditions on the planet, and Khalife has devoted his life to expanding and deepening these traditions. With about 80 maqamat, or scale /modes, this music is complex, sophisticated, and highly expressive. Khalife drew on these riches in his latest nearly hour long ensemble piece, Taqasim, where he was joined by his son, Bachar, on Arabic percussion, and guest bassist Mark Helias. Taqasim means improvisation, and this three-part piece is an instrumental evocation of Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish’s work, which Khalife has set many times. It centers on the mid-lower range of the oud, and bass, with discreet, but colorful contributions from Arabic percussion like riqq ( tambourine ), and assorted drums. Lines coalesce and vanish, drones give way to unisons, the bass is sometimes played like a drum. The dream of Al-Andalus comes and goes.
Another, perhaps pan-Arabic, dream also seemed to be conjured, in further largely Darwish settings, which Khalife sang on the second half of the program — the primeval My Mother, with its wonderfully built contributions from Khalife’s other son, Rami, on piano, and the very famous Passport, which had an even more brilliantly structured and stylistically varied solo from him. The nearly packed house was also big on audience participation — a Khalife concert specialty — and yet another indication that Arabs aren’t wont to sit on their hands. I Walk (lyric, Samih el-Qassim ), which is a kind of hymn of defiance and solidarity, got a call and response treatment from the balcony and main floor, while the closing O Fisherman, Haila, Haila ( lyrics by Khalife’s Al-Mayadine ensemble ), had a thick driving intensity from piano — hammered chords — Khalife pere, Helias, and Bachar Khalife’s Arabic bass drum.
We in the West like to think that music is principally melody and harmony, though its wellspring has always been rhythm, which is something that Arabic music has never forgotten. Western musicians — and especially American ones — can learn lots from this music. And it isn’t afraid to communicate, and touch the heart, on the deepest possible level. Khalife is the first Arab to ever win the UNESCO Artist For Peace Award, and it’s easy to see why.His San Francisco stop is but one of many on his Taqasim Tour.
Michael McDonagh is a San Francisco-based poet and writer on the arts, whose poems have appeared in several places, including Stanford’s Mantis 3: Poetry and Performance, which ran 3 of the 6 poems Lisa Scola Prosek set as the song cycle, Miniature Portraits. He has done two poem-picture books with SF-based painter Gary Bukovnik, and has wriitten 2 pieces for the theatre — Touch and Go,and Sight Unseen. McDonagh is a staff writer on the arts for the SF-based BAY AREA REPORTER. He is the sole writer for www.alexnorthmusic.com; and contributes to www.classical-music-review.org, www.21st-centurymusic.com; New Music Connoisseur; and www.sfcv.org.
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I never owned the original Tor because I’m not a cock ring kind of girl and my husband never was impressed by them either. We were, however, given the Lelo Bo to review a few years ago and while it was seen as an improvement upon the ubiquitous jelly/TPR stretchy, sticky watch-battery jobs the Lelo Bo was underwhelming. The vibrations were surface-buzzy and moderate at best. The design was a bit cumbersome on the Bo: To turn it off and on, you had to slide the hard plastic vibrating portion. This wasn’t easy and had the unfortunate side effect of occasionally clamping a pubic hair in. Ouch, to say the least. From what I can see, the Tor model 1 no longer required the vibrating portion to slide for it to be turned on. It had buttons on the side but then pushing one of them meant that it dislodged the movable portion. The other purpose of the movable bit was to conceal the charging jack. Bo and Tor came in a unique and neat little case just big enough to hold the ring, be able to close the lid and have it plugged it to charge (if you set it up in there just right – it was often tricky to get everything lined up “just so”). The Tor II that I have now does away with that plastic case and instead you get the standard Lelo satin drawstring bag. That is a little bit disappointing because the case offered a unique element – the cock ring could be charging while covered up and protected, and then it had a protective yet small case that was great for travel. Of course if you planned on using this for more than 2 sessions then you would have to bring the charger with you on your trip but for an overnight getaway it was perfect.
Comparing the Lelo Cock Rings: Bo vs Tor vs Tor II
Lelo made a lot of improvements in the design of the Tor II over previous versions. Every complaint I’ve had or read about (almost) was addressed. More power, yes. Finally getting in line with the rest of their products and made in body-safe silicone? Yes (albeit to its detriment). The plus and minus power buttons are still located on either side of the vibrating portion and do require a little finesse to push. More effort than I think I’d want to deal with, frankly. The design of the ring itself at its core hasn’t changed – it’s still wide and not really made to work with a clitoris (unless you change your sex position and leave out thrusting) but the vibrations are vastly improved. On the site, the copy says “TOR 2 is the world’s first waterproof and rechargeable couples’ ring, boasting 100% more powerful vibrations than any product of its kind.” Any product of its kind? What does that mean? That’s a pretty bold statement to make; are they trying to get you to believe it’s more powerful than any cock ring in existence? Or just any “luxury” rechargeable cock ring? Or, as it says on another section ” 100% MORE POWER THAN BEFORE”. Ok, now we’re getting to something quantitative and realistic. Yes I can confirm that the Tor 2 is at least twice as powerful as the Tor 1 or Bo cock rings. If we were to have sex in a position where my clitoris was in contact with the vibrator portion 95% of the time then this vibration strength could be enough to get me to orgasm if I gave it time and had no other distractions. It’s definitely the most powerful vibrating cock ring I’ve tried, but I’ve tried very few of them so I don’t feel qualified to agree that it is “100% more powerful than any product of its kind”. It doesn’t look like it would be waterproof since there is no cover to the charging jack but it is indeed waterproof.
The deal-breaker on the Lelo Tor II?
It is too tight for my husband – in fact we couldn’t even get it on him. He is by no means porn-star huge but he is probably considered thicker than average (I haven’t measured him recently but I believe he’s around 1.6-1.75″ – eta: scratch that, we measured, hehe. He’s not perfectly round like a dildo, more oval-shaped so my estimate was actually right. Circumference would be more telling but I didn’t have that tool on me at the time). Lelo clearly needs to take lessons from companies like Tantus and find a softer, stretchier silicone. There is no way in hell that this cock ring will ever be used around both cock and balls, which many men find to be helpful in delaying orgasm. The guy would have to be shaved and possess a thin cock and great hand strength. Otherwise, an average-endowed man who genuinely likes a good deal of constriction at the base of his penis might like this. The photos below show the Bo (in dark blue, shown first in each set) compared to the Tor II in terms of constriction around my fingers. The final photo shows the red marks left on my fingers from the Tor II; also note how red my fingers are overall in the photo showing the constriction of the Tor II.
Care to try this, still? I highly recommend that you keep a small pair of EMT safety shears on hand in case things get dicey and you can’t remove it from him and his erection will not subside – after all, the way a cock ring works is by restricting the blood flow, it keeps the blood in the penis so if it is extreme enough it might prevent his erection from subsiding irregardless of arousal. I will also caution you to not dare wear this cock ring for more than 30 minutes absolute tops. When I told my contact at Lelo that the silicone was nice except for the tightness factor, Lelo claimed that their test group had no issues with the tightness factor. If that statement by them is true then their test group was not very diverse in penis size.
So far, this cock ring is relegated to “comparison drawer”: The drawer in my office where I keep sex toys that I never use, but like to keep around when I want to compare something to it in the future . I suppose that this could be used if you wanted to turn your favorite dildo into a possible dual-stimulator toy but that’s a bit of a stretch (no pun intended). This is indeed made of a pure silicone and it passed the silicone purity flame test; it also passed the silicone lube test with some Wet brand Synergy lube, but please cautiously patch-test with your own favorite, high-quality silicone lube before using it during play.
UPDATE: June 2014: I’d been told that this run was their first run, and they knew it was too tight so they changed it. Here’s someone showing that they were able to get the Tor II around their knuckles and hand and onto their wrist (which if her chubby wrist is anything like mine, is about 7-8″ circumference). This certainly does look bigger than the one I have!!!
— DeAnn Cope (@allthepassion) June 13, 2014
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- DESCRIPTION -
- This wall cabinet in white has an elegant crown molded top.. It has two decorative louvered doors that offer ample storage, keep your toiletries hidden and add style to your bathroom. It offers great functionality with one adjustable interior shelf, and has features like chrome finished knobs that allow for easy open and closing.
- This cabinet comes with assembly and hanging hardware, including chrome oval-shaped door knobs. Door magnet and hinges are pre-installed.
- Shelf Dimensions: 15-Inch Depth x 17-Inch Width
- Shelf Weight Capacity: 10 Pounds with properly installed anchors
- Assembly instructions are included in three languages: English, Spanish French with a clear diagram.
- Care Instructions: Wipe clean using soft cloth with warm water.
- 1 Year Limited Manufacturer Warranty
*Additional discounts can be applied to this item. See checkout for details. Clearance, doorbusters, hot buys, overstock and temporary price cut items are not eligible for discounts.
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by Doug K.
The Slone Wall Cabinet from Elegant Home Fashions, is a do-everything dynamo for your bathroom space. Let's start with how it looks. With its two shutter doors painted white, it’s a clean and stylish addition to a room that requires both those things. The crown-molded top piece and louvered doors look good, but they also offer ample storage and privacy behind them. This cabinet is a great place to keep your towels and toiletries, and hanging on the wall it saves valuable space in smaller bathrooms. You'll love the flexibility of the adjustable interior shelf and the chrome finished knobs that make it stylish and easy to open.
You'll like this cabinet
for its storage. But you'll love it for being so beautiful every time you enter the room.
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At the beginning of this month we wrote about how the Department of Homeland Security and ICE had placed an order for 450 million bullets over a 5 year period. [All I wanna do is bang bang bang 450 million times.] We noted at the time that this figure was just shy of the combined populations of the United States, Canada and Mexico.
A chain letter regarding the bullet order has been circulating around the internet, and it made a similar observation, that the DHS was buying enough bullets for every man, woman, and child in the United States. Politifact looked in to the chain letter's claim, and while it confirmed the purchase (the original source was the bullet manufacturer's press release, so it's pretty credible), it took issue with the e-mail's suggestion that the order was in preparation of massive civil unrest. [Politifact]
A commenter on our original piece noted that training could consume a huge number of bullets. And, that's exactly what Politifact discovered. Over the course of a year that includes basic firearms training, a federal law enforcement officer will go through about 1,000 bullets (and presumably fewer in subsequent years). The Department of Homeland Security has 216,000 employees, 135,000 of whom carry firearms. The numbers do match with what the DHS might need for training, so nothing to see here, carry on.
Well, unless you think that 135,000 armed DHS officers is a lot. The armed portion of DHS is large enough to make it the 37th largest active duty military in the world. Bigger than Venezuela's 115,000, Jordan's 111,000, and almost twice as large as Canada's 68,000. And that's comparing just armed DHS officers to the entire active duty military, brass and bureaucrats included. If you take all of DHS, it comes in at #25, larger than the UK's 198,000.
It's larger than Iraq's 192,000 and Israel's 177,000, and you can bet that Iraq and Israel's militaries are much more involved in homeland security than the DHS is. Not just their own, either. Iraq and Israel's militaries likely do more for American homeland security than the DHS does.
In terms of spending, DHS's $55.1 billion annual budget would make it the 6th largest military in the world. The only nations that would be bigger are the United States, China, Russia, the UK and France.
Forget having a bullet for every man, woman, and child in the United States, DHS has $177.74 per year for each of us. There's 1 DHS employee for about every 1,500 Americans. Instead of the joke of security theater that goes on in the airports, each night of the week each DHS employee should take out 1-2 families to Cheesecake Factory, buy everyone an appetizer, entree, and dessert, give them a $100 bill and ask them to please not blow up any airplanes. Air travel would be quicker and more pleasant, we wouldn't increase the risk of terrorist attacks one iota, and the nation would save about $8.6 billion a year.
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|Publication number||US6766329 B1|
|Application number||US 09/494,716|
|Publication date||Jul 20, 2004|
|Filing date||Jan 31, 2000|
|Priority date||Jan 31, 2000|
|Also published as||US7519617, US20040267795|
|Publication number||09494716, 494716, US 6766329 B1, US 6766329B1, US-B1-6766329, US6766329 B1, US6766329B1|
|Inventors||Andrew L. Nicholson|
|Original Assignee||Microsoft Corporation|
|Export Citation||BiBTeX, EndNote, RefMan|
|Patent Citations (10), Non-Patent Citations (1), Referenced by (26), Classifications (14), Legal Events (5)|
|External Links: USPTO, USPTO Assignment, Espacenet|
This invention relates generally to a system for organizing information and in particular to a dynamic personalized information organizer.
Organization of information is a very personal thing. Countless studies have shown that people think and organize data differently. An article by Vannevar Bush, entitled “As We May Think”, published in the July 1945 issue of Atlantic Monthly describes how people associate information, and made a prediction of a machine for managing information based on an extension of what was known at the time. Mr. Bush wrote that the human mind operates by association. With one item in its grasp, it snaps instantly to the next that is suggested by the association of thoughts, in accordance with some intricate web of trails carried by the cells of the brain. It has other characteristics, of course; trails that are not frequently followed are prone to fade, items are not fully permanent, memory is transitory. Yet the speed of action, the intricacy of trails, the detail of mental pictures, is awe-inspiring beyond all else in nature.
Mr. Bush then proposed a futuristic device which is a mechanized private file and library called a memex. He describes a memex as a device in which an individual stores all his books, records, and communications, and which is mechanized so that it may be consulted with exceeding a speed and flexibility. It consists of a desk, and while it can presumably be operated from a distance, it is primarily the piece of furniture at which he works. On the top are slanting translucent screens, on which material can be projected for convenient reading. There is a keyboard, and sets of buttons and levers. Otherwise it looks like an ordinary desk.
Mr. Bush envisioned encyclopedias with a ready made mesh of associative trails running through them. This vision of the future predicts many of the navigational features of the Internet. He even describes the ability to insert comments, either linking it into a main trail or joining it by a side trail to a particular item. However, it describes a futuristic system where the user has their own copy of the all the information in order to properly catalog and associate it.
This points out several problems with existing computer systems and ways of organizing information. Constricting oneself to the organization of information by another can be very frustrating and result in slower use and assimilation of the information.
There are many ways of organizing information in known computer systems. One of the first ways of organizing information involves giving human readable names to addressable files which contain anything from computer programs to documents and images. The names may even be related to each other in a hierarchical manner, commonly known as a directory tree. Using a directory tree, programmers may place new programs in a directory under a “programs” directory to make them somewhat organized and easier to maintain. Users may then personalize the manner in which their information is stored by perhaps placing all their documents in a “my documents” directory with subdirectories for different categories of documents and other information the user wants to be able to find again.
One problem with this kind of organizational structure is that it is difficult to change the organization of the information. Many times programs have to be located in a certain directory for them to even operate. Further, the organization of much of the information is done by someone else. Each individual user may have a different desired way of organizing their own information. It is very difficult to personalize the organization of information using the existing ways of organizing information. It usually involves the user having their own copy of the information, leading to much duplication and little assurance that such copy is up to date. Further, as new information is developed, each user must then fit it into their personal organization infrastructure. Another problem is that the user must either have a specific organization that they use and remember well enough to know where to find a particular document or other copy of information. Some systems provide varying forms of indirect referencing, such as allowing the creation of shortcuts, which give the user the impression that the information is actually where they want it to be. These are very limited in their ability to actually provide a dynamic organizational structure that a user may desire.
The Internet and the world wide web provide a new layer of organization, allowing some form of organization among information contained in multiple computer systems coupled together by a network. Uniform resource locators (URLs) allow addressability of the information from any point on the network. Hypertext links are embedded in documents and other information to provide users the ability to jump to another document located anywhere on the web. These links are very beneficial. However, they always reflect someone else's organization of the information that is embedded in the information itself. It is common experience for people to start searching the web for information on one topic, and find themselves immersed in a completely different topic in a very short time.
Further prior ways to organize information on computer systems comprises the use of relational databases, where information can be categorized and sorted or searched by subject, author, and many other fields. This is similar to the card catalogs long used by libraries. It provides no ability to personalize the organization, other than by creating new fields which can be entered and then used to sort or search the data. Relationships between the entries in the database can be defined by the use of relational algebra. This, however, does not provide the ability to specify relationships beyond those algebraic relationships provided by the database. When a relational database is built, the expressions that can be built are normally fixed. The database may only be modified by a limited set of relational expressions. It can't be extended without extending the database. Also, it can't take data into it that does not fit as a value of some expression that the database allows to be modeled. Not only is the actual organization of the data limited by the available set of relationships, so is the appearance or view of the data (and the view of the organization of the data). Views and Organizations of data are interrelated. Typically data has to be organized according to some pre-defined system of relationships and users are limited to a corresponding vocabulary.
There is a need for a system which allows a user to create their own organization of information without having to have their own copy of all the information. There is a need to have the ability to create such an organization independent from other organizations of the information. There is a further need to be able to organize information without changing the information so that each user can have their own organization.
Dynamic and personalized organization of information on a computer system is enabled by use of associations. An association provides addresses, referred to as a trigger and a target, between two or more entities. It may also specify a relationship or organizational structure between them in addition to a temporal order implied by the trigger and target notation. The association may also specify a tool or module which can be used to interpret the organizational structure. Associations allow users to create independent, dynamic personalized organizations of information without having to have a copy of the all the information in their own personal storage, or having to modify the information. This can be done independent of preexisting organizations of the information to provide an organization of the information which is optimized for their own use. The personalized organization can also be shared with other users.
In one aspect of the invention, the trigger comprises a navigation map ID, which essentially points to an entry in a navigation map containing metadata identifying one or more targets. In essence, the navigation map represents them as a module, such as an educational course containing multiple entities. These entities for such a course might contain a lecture, text corresponding to the lecture, an example, and a series of questions and exercises to help consolidate the learning experience. By using associations, the module may be easily modified for individual students. This is accomplished by use of an assessment following completion of the module. Based on results of the assessment, other background entities may be integrated into a sequence of entities in a next module to create a customized set of associations identifying a customized module for each individual student.
Such a set of associations can also be implemented by adding metadata tags to the data and then searching for the appropriate values. However, this requires anticipating as many possible searches as may be eventually desired and authoring the appropriate metadata. Associations allow an author to create arbitrary organizations and a subsequent author (such as an instructor) to update them at any time without having to have a complete understanding of metadata and search techniques. Attempting to update metadata could result in breaking some other aspect of the system's expected behavior.
An application used to manage the modules, or the computer system running the application may implicitly create the associations. Further, user interfaces, such as a graphical user interface may be used by a user to explicitly create associations. In one version of the invention, icons representing the entities may be dragged and dropped onto other entities to identify the trigger and target.
The navigation map also contains metadata or information representative of the entire module, such as the name of the module, identification of the teaching assistant, the teaching assistant's email, telephone and office, and time requirements for the entire module. Further metadata representative of the module may also be created and stored in this data structure.
A further aspect of the invention involves the ability to use associations to indicate that a relationship exists without explicitly identifying the relationship. This provides an enhanced ability over databases that use predefined relational algebraic expressions to indicate a relationship between data elements. By using an association, a relationship may be simply said to exist, without the use of such relational algebra to precisely describe the relationship. This provides much more freedom in defining such ad-hoc relationships without the limitations present in relational databases.
Multiple associations from a single trigger are created in a further aspect of the invention. One trigger to an arbitrary number of targets is provided by a combination of tables supported by a relational database. A first table, referred to as a navigation table, serves as a trigger for the relationship, and also contains the metadata for multiple targets and optionally for individual associations. The navigation table or nav map contains an ID, which is contained in a second table of associations. This second table contains multiple targets corresponding to the ID of the nav map, and may also contain individual association metadata. By use of the two tables, a second level of indirection is provided, and duplication of metadata is avoided. The insertion of entities, such as the addition of an introduction into one of the modules discussed above is simplified over the single target association model in that only a single table needs to be modified rather than modifying and moving metadata in a string of associations.
Further characteristics of the associations comprise parameters that establish conditional relationships between pieces of information. These conditional relationships establish conditions for the appropriateness of the relationship based on a context in which the information is currently being used. Associations may be data structures such as objects or interrelated records in a relational database which are separate from the information or data that they associate. A document may appear in several locations in the organization that are representative of the various ways that the document is accessed and used, but only a single copy of the document need exist.
While the basic associations engine may support some built-in kinds of relationships, it's power lies in the ability to store arbitrary relationships and delegate interpretation of the relationship to some other entity whose identity is stored with the relationship.
Housekeeping information referred to as metadata contains information about the organizational structure provided by the associations. It includes an identification of the creator, the date each association was created, a lifetime of the association and access permissions specifying who can have access to the association. This housekeeping information has a variety of uses, including use in determining the appropriateness of the association for conditional relationships.
Several tools are provided that assist in the creation, management and usage of the organizational structures. Some of the tools include a create tool, which allows easy creation of associations independent from other organizations of the information. A find tool is used to find associations between information. A remove tool is used to remove a particular organizational structure.
A view tool is used to create an appropriate view of the association that represents the relationship between pieces of information identified by the association. A navigate tool is used to determine what to do when a user selects an association, such as simply navigating to another piece of information, or actually manipulating both pieces of information to provide a new piece of information.
An association manager creates associations dynamically based on use patterns. The association manager may create a link between two web pages when they are frequently accessed one after the other. A “next” button may be associated with the page that is usually accessed next. In browsers, the next button is only used when a user has gone back to a page previously viewed. By anticipating the organization of the user, the next button is now associated with the most likely path the user would follow.
FIG. 1 is a block diagram representation of the hardware and operating environment in conjunction with which embodiments of the invention may be practiced.
FIG. 2 is a block representation of two pieces of information organized by use of a separate data structure.
FIG. 3 is a block representation of a data structure used to associate pieces of information.
FIG. 4 is a flowchart of a create tool used to create the data structure of FIG. 3.
FIG. 5 is a flowchart of view tool used to create a visual representation of an association between pieces of information.
FIG. 6 is a flowchart of a navigate tool which interprets an association.
FIG. 7 is a flowchart illustrating the use of associations in the organization of notes related to a piece of information.
FIG. 8 is a flowchart showing the use of associations in the organization of serially constructed documents.
FIG. 9 is a flowchart illustrating the use of associations in the organization of compound document or information store.
FIG. 10 is a flowchart of a module for automatically creating associations based on usage characteristics.
FIG. 11 is a block diagram of data structures used to manage multiway associations of entities.
FIG. 12 is a block diagram showing associations created to modify an educational module based on an assessment of understanding of a previous module.
In the following detailed description of exemplary embodiments of the invention, reference is made to the accompanying drawings which form a part hereof, and in which is shown by way of illustration specific exemplary embodiments in which the invention may be practiced. These embodiments are described in sufficient detail to enable those skilled in the art to practice the invention, and it is to be understood that other embodiments may be utilized and that logical, mechanical, electrical and other changes may be made without departing from the spirit or scope of the present invention. The following detailed description is, therefore, not to be taken in a limiting sense, and the scope of the present invention is defined only by the appended claims.
The detailed description is divided into four sections. In the first section, the hardware and the operating environment in conjunction with which embodiments of the invention may be practiced are described. In the second section, an overview of associations between pieces of information is presented. In the third section, multiple tools for creating and using associations are described. A fourth section describes applications of associations to pieces of different types of information. Finally, in the fourth section, a conclusion of the detailed description is provided.
FIG. 1 provides a brief, general description of a suitable computing environment in which the invention may be implemented. The invention will hereinafter be described in the general context of computer-executable program modules containing instructions executed by a personal computer (PC). Program modules include routines, programs, objects, components, data structures, etc. that perform particular tasks or implement particular abstract data types. Those skilled in the art will appreciate that the invention may be practiced with other computer-system configurations, including hand-held devices, multiprocessor systems, microprocessor-based progranmmable consumer electronics, network PCs, minicomputers, mainframe computers, and the like which have multimedia capabilities. The invention may also be practiced in distributed computing environments where tasks are performed by remote processing devices linked through a communications network. In a distributed computing environment, program modules may be located in both local and remote memory storage devices.
FIG. 1 shows a general-purpose computing device in the form of a conventional personal computer 20, which includes processing unit 21, system memory 22, and system bus 23 that couples the system memory and other system components to processing unit 21. System bus 23 may be any of several types, including a memory bus or memory controller, a peripheral bus, and a local bus, and may use any of a variety of bus structures. System memory 22 includes read-only memory (ROM) 24 and random-access memory (RAM) 25. A basic input/output system (BIOS) 26, stored in ROM 24, contains the basic routines that transfer information between components of personal computer 20. BIOS 24 also contains start-up routines for the system. Personal computer 20 further includes hard disk drive 27 for reading from and writing to a hard disk (not shown), magnetic disk drive 28 for reading from and writing to a removable magnetic disk 29, and optical disk drive 30 for reading from and writing to a removable optical disk 31 such as a CD-ROM or other optical medium. Hard disk drive 27, magnetic disk drive 28, and optical disk drive 30 are connected to system bus 23 by a hard-disk drive interface 32, a magnetic-disk drive interface 33, and an optical-drive interface 34, respectively. The drives and their associated computer-readable media provide nonvolatile storage of computer-readable instructions, data structures, program modules and other data for personal computer 20. Although the exemplary environment described herein employs a hard disk, a removable magnetic disk 29 and a removable optical disk 31, those skilled in the art will appreciate that other types of computer-readable media which can store data accessible by a computer may also be used in the exemplary operating environment. Such media may include magnetic cassettes, flash-memory cards, digital versatile disks, Bernoulli cartridges, RAMs, ROMs, and the like.
Program modules may be stored on the hard disk, magnetic disk 29, optical disk 31, ROM 24 and RAM 25. Program modules may include operating system 35, one or more application programs 36, other program modules 37, and program data 38. A user may enter commands and information into personal computer 20 through input devices such as a keyboard 40 and a pointing device 42. Other input devices (not shown) may include a microphone, joystick, game pad, satellite dish, scanner, or the like. These and other input devices are often connected to the processing unit 21 through a serial-port interface 46 coupled to system bus 23; but they may be connected through other interfaces not shown in FIG. 1, such as a parallel port, a game port, or a universal serial bus (USB). A monitor 47 or other display device also connects to system bus 23 via an interface such as a video adapter 48. In addition to the monitor, personal computers typically include other peripheral output devices (not shown) such as speakers and printers.
Personal computer 20 may operate in a networked environment using logical connections to one or more remote computers such as remote computer 49. Remote computer 49 may be another personal computer, a server, a router, a network PC, a peer device, or other common network node. It typically includes many or all of the components described above in connection with personal computer 20; however, only a storage device 50 is illustrated in FIG. 1. The logical connections depicted in FIG. 1 include local-area network (LAN) 51 and a wide-area network (WAN) 52. Such networking environments are commonplace in offices, enterprise-wide computer networks, intranets and the Internet.
When placed in a LAN networking environment, PC 20 connects to local network 51 through a network interface or adapter 53. When used in a WAN networking environment such as the Internet, PC 20 typically includes modem 54 or other means for establishing communications over network 52. Modem 54 may be internal or external to PC 20, and connects to system bus 23 via serial-port interface 46. In a networked environment, program modules, such as those comprising Microsoft® Word which are depicted as residing within 20 or portions thereof may be stored in remote storage device 50. Of course, the network connections shown are illustrative, and other means of establishing a communications link between the computers may be substituted.
Software may be designed using many different methods, including object oriented programming methods. C++ and Java are two examples of common object oriented computer programming languages that provide functionality associated with object oriented programming. Object oriented programming methods provide a means to encapsulate data members (variables) and member functions (methods) that operate on that data into a single entity called a class. Object oriented programming methods also provide a means to create new classes based on existing classes.
An object is an instance of a class. The data members of an object are attributes that are stored inside the computer memory, and the methods are executable computer code that act upon this data, along with potentially providing other services. The notion of an object is exploited in the present invention in that certain aspects of the invention are implemented as objects in one embodiment.
An interface is a group of related functions that are organized into a named unit. Each interface may be uniquely identified by some identifier. Interfaces have no instantiation, that is, an interface is a definition only without the executable code needed to implement the methods which are specified by the interface. An object may support an interface by providing executable code for the methods specified by the interface. The executable code supplied by the object must comply with the definitions specified by the interface. The object may also provide additional methods. Those skilled in the art will recognize that interfaces are not limited to use in or by an object oriented programming environment.
The hardware and operating environment in conjunction with which embodiments of the invention may be practiced has been described. The computer in conjunction with which embodiments of the invention may be practiced may be a conventional computer, a distributed computer, or any other type of computer; the invention is not so limited. Such a computer typically includes one or more processing units as its processor, and a computer-readable medium such as a memory. The computer may also include a communications device such as a network adapter or a modem, so that it is able to communicatively couple to other computers, such as servers and the internet which contain vast stores of addressable information. One form of computer readable media comprises a carrier wave, one which programs may be transferred between computers.
In this section of the detailed description, an overview of the invention, according to one embodiment of the invention, is provided. Those of ordinary skill within the art will appreciate, however, that the invention is not limited to this specific embodiment. The overview is presented in conjunction with FIG. 2 and FIG. 3.
In FIG. 2, a trigger data element or entity 210 is associated with a target data element 212 by means of an association structure 214. The association structure 214 contains at least an address of data element 210 and data element 212 and information regarding the organization or relationship between the two data elements. There is no need to specify the actual relationship between the entities. An order is implicit in that the trigger points at the target. Otherwise, the relationship may be completely arbitrary. The association can result in the creation of another data element, or means of constructing a data element 216, which comprises both the trigger and target, and also the association 214. This data element 216 is also shown as acting as a trigger data element which is related to a further data element 220 by the use of a further association structure 222. Association structure 222 contains an address of data element 216 and an address identifying data element 220 and the organization or relationship between the two data elements. Again, the relationship may be just the implicit order of reference, of may actually comprise a table of information describing the relationship as will be discussed with respect to FIG. 3. Using multiple layers of associations which are independent of the actual data elements to which they relate allows users to create an independent and personalized organization of addressable data elements regardless of where the data elements reside. There is no need to bring all the data into personally addressable storage in order to maintain the organization since the association identifies where the data resides. The data, or entities so organized may be brought into local storage when needed for viewing or other processing.
The use of association structures permits a user to create a dynamic navigation path between data that is separate and independent from any other imposed organization of the data. Thus, the user is free to organize the data in a way that makes the most sense to the user. Associations may be used to associate multiple layers of data, including already associated data as shown above.
Associations and their metadata can be partially explained using a file system analogy. The directories (or folders) in a file system allow a user to place arbitrary elements in a folder without specifying their relationship other than the fact that they are in the same folder. However, typically file systems store very limited metadata. In a system-of associations, directory entries would be associations and would have metadata about the association rather than the metadata for the file. Furthermore, since the association is itself a high-level object in the system, the association would have all the security attributes of a file. The most basic set of metadata on an association comprises attributes of files in file systems and may further contain information about the relationship. The typical file system is very limited in it's ability to manage metadata. Since the metadata for a file is stored in the directory entry (rather then with the file), creating a “link” in the file system to allow the file to appear in another directory creates a problem with finding the original metadata for the file. A system of associations works best if the metadata for an object is accessible from that object independent of the navigable path taken to access the object.
In view of the present invention, it would be possible to build a computer file system that exhibits the facilities of a system of associations. In essence, each user would have their own dynamic organizations and views of the data stored in the file system. Associations as a file system directly solve problems that have been encountered. Many web documents have “dependent files”. These are files necessary to fully render the web document but are separate from the base document. The base document, being for instance, in html, contains the encoding of the relationships between the base document and the dependent files. Using traditional file systems, the base document is stored as html in a directory, and the dependent files are stored in a subdirectory with the same base name (e.g., dependent files of foobar.html are stored in the directory foobar). Only by understanding this convention can an application access the information properly, whereas with associations it would be an intrinsic service of the system and the relationships would be extracted and made explicit. A block representation of multiple associations is shown in FIG. 3 generally at 310. Associations may take the form of a data structure, such as an object, file, or as a row in a relational database which 310 is deemed to represent. The representation is shown in a relational database format with a row 312 of headings describing parameters contained in each of the columns of the database. Each row contains multiple fields containing values for the parameters which define an association structure. A target parameter 314 contains an address, such as a uniform resource locator (URL) which identifies an addressable data element or entity which is to be associated with another data element, whose address is contained in a trigger field 316. The addresses are URLs in one embodiment, which identify trigger or target data elements or information such as web pages, documents, and even a portion within a document if addressable. The address may also be local to the computer itself, such as a real address, a virtual address or an indirect reference. It is only important that the address clearly identify a piece of data or information clearly to underlying mechanisms that can find the referenced data.
A view field 318 identifies mechanisms to interpret the organizational structure defined by the association. It may comprise a pointer to program code or method to be used to navigate and view the target referenced by the association. It may also indicate code that combines the trigger and target, or even adds them to already viewed information.
A relationship field 320 contains parameter values that identify how a trigger and target are related. In one embodiment, the relationship may be specified as REL_LINK where the relationship is a link to a page on the Internet or elsewhere. It implies that a browser would be used to view the page. Another example comprises a REL_PAGENOTE relationship, which indicates that the relationship is a note on a document or page of a course text that contains user notes related to that portion of the text. The relationship helps define how the association is represented to the user. If it is REL_LINK, the association may be represented as a portion of highlighted text. In the case of a REL_PAGENOTE relationship, it may be represented as an icon in the margin of the text. Several other types of relationships will be readily apparent to those skilled in the art. For example, in a threaded discussion, the representation may be the first sentence of each of the discussion contributions in a list.
A conditional field 322 contains representations of conditions that need to be satisfied in order for the association to be shown to a user, or performed. Examples might include a date by which a target is to be made available, where the target includes answers to an educational test, which is the trigger. The condition is not true until the date of the test has passed. The conditional field could also reference any number of conditions which are easily programmable and could be quite complicated.
A creator field 324 identifies a creator of the association. This is useful in tracking personalized organizations of information. To find all the associations created by an individual, one need simply sort the associations by creator. This allows one to share associations with others, so one can get access to another organization of the information. In this manner, several different unique organizations can be created and used without modification to the underlying information.
A date created field 330 is used to identify the date that an association was created. It can then be used to maintain the associations, perhaps by pruning associations that are older than a predetermined date.
An access field 338 is used to provide information on access to information as well as specifying what a user can do with the data, including permissions. It can specify individual users, groups of users, general levels of users, as well as the permission to modify, read or write to the information.
A live field 342 is used to provide some means for specifying how long an association should exist. Much as the human brain forgets information that has not been accessed in quite some time, this field can provide similar least recently used information to an association manager. The field can also be used to specify that information is fundamental, and the association or path to it should remain despite not being used in quite some time.
Several tools are used to help create and manage associations. Some are used by users, and others by the computer system based on user input. This section describes several of the tools and how they are used with respect to associations.
FIG. 4 shows the flow of a tool used to create a data structure as shown in FIG. 3. When an association is to be formed, the tool starts at 410, and then receives target and trigger addresses at 420. A view relationship may then be specified at 430. Other parameters are then reviewed at 440 to determine their values, and are added to the data structure. Users may be provided with an interface allowing them to select values for the parameters both on creation and upon editing existing associations. Many of the parameters may have default values, such as creator and date. Others may have sets of potential values which may be displayed to the user for selection. The tool may also be used by other programs to create associations at 450. Upon creation of the association, control is returned at 460.
FIG. 5 illustrates the flow of a tool used to create a visual representation of an association between two pieces of information, starting at 510. At 515, navigation to a unit of information (T) is shown. At 520, associations for a trigger (T) are found, such as by referring to a data structure as shown in FIG. 3. Viewable targets (AV) are then selected at 525, and both the trigger and viewable targets are passed to a view engine at 530. Control is returned at 535.
FIG. 6 shows the flow of a tool or set of tools used to interpret associations and provide navigation. The tool starts at 610, and the system is set to a current location, a default, or other well known location (T) at 615. A user may already be in the system as indicated at 620. Flow then proceeds from either 615 or 620 to 625, where a “Navigate” command is received. Upon receiving the “Navigate” command, associations for a Trigger (T) are found at 630 from the data structure. Navigable targets (An) are then selected at 635. If the number of members in set (An) is zero at 638, an error condition is noted at 640 because there is nothing to navigate to, and control is returned at 642. If the number of navigable targets is one, as indicated at 645, a view of the selected navigable target is generated at 655 and control is returned at 660. If there are more than one target in the set (An), then a view is created of the set of navigable targets and selection is requested at 650. Alternatively, a heuristic is used to select the navigable target, and the view of the selected target is generated at 655.
FIG. 7 is a flowchart illustrating the use of associations in the organization of notes related to a piece of information. Starting at 710, a unit of information is navigated to and viewed at 715. At 720, a user issues an “Add Note” or “Add Comment” command. Data corresponding to the note or comment is added, along with reference detail at 725. Note entry is then completed at 730, and a note object is stored at 735. An association is then created at 740 between the original unit of information and the note object as a viewable note. The trigger is the original information, and the note is the target. As previously indicated, the data structure is used to track the association.
FIG. 8 shows the use of associations in the organization of serially constructed documents. Starting at 810, a document is opened and edited at 815. A save command may be issued at 820. The changes to the document are then packaged as an object at 825 and then stored at 830. At 835, an association between the original document and the new changes object is created as viewable changes. Control is returned at 840.
FIG. 9 is a flow chart showing the use of associations in the organization of a compound document or information store starting at 905. A first workgroup member creates a base document (B) or information store at 910, and saves it at 915. Control is then returned at 920. A second workgroup member then creates a non-base document (N). At 930, the non-base document is updated within the context of the base document. A save command is issued at 935. At 940, a compound document object (C) is created and saved. An association is then created at 945 between C and B as a visual Panel. At decision block 950, it is determined whether N is independent of B. If yes, an association is created between C and N as a viewable Pane2 at 960. If not, an association between B and N as a viewable in-pane at 955. Control is returned at 970.
A flowchart shown in FIG. 10 depicts a module for automatically creating associations based on usage characteristics. Flow starts at 1005. A user may then navigate and view a unit of information (U) at 1010. A “Navigate with user input” command results in the direct entry of location that the user explicitly selects from available navigable associations (N). If an association does not already exist at 1020, an association between U and N is created as navigable at 1025. If it does already exist at 1020, or has been created at 1025, the navigable association between U and N is increased as a user preference. A count may be used to measure the preference relative to other preferences if desired. The count may decay with time, or simply related to counts in other navigable associations. Following increasing of the user preference for the association, the new location identified is provided for viewing at 1035. Control is then returned at 1040.
A logical representation of one method of performing multiway association is shown in FIG. 11 generally at 1110. A trigger entity 1115 points to multiple targets through use of an association 1120. The association may contain metadata 1130 relating to the association between trigger 1115 and the first target 1135. In a multiway association, an arbitrary number of targets may be associated as indicated at 1136 and 1137. To keep track of them, and for navigating between them, a navigation table 1140 is provided. The navigation table is pointed to by association 1120. The navigation table points to an association table 1150 by use of a nav ID 1155. The nav ID points to a column of nav IDs 1160 in the association table 1150, each of which is part of a row containing targets 1165 corresponding to each nav ID. Several rows may have the same nav ID, with different targets represented in the second column. This provides the ability to have a multiway association without requiring a separate association for each logical association. Further, the navigation table 1140 contains metadata related to the multiway associations as opposed to individual associations. If the entities in such a multiway association comprise a series of parts or entities of an educational module, the metadata might contain information such as the course number, teaching assistant and other information related to the entities as a combination. This can result in a savings in storage space, and provides a cleaner and easier to update data structure. The multi-way association is an implementation convenience or optimization. As long as all the metadata for all members of a set of associations is identical, they may be compressed into a single association. The multi-way association uses a flag or other cardinal value to identify the target as being a collection of target identifiers. The target value is used to hash into a table of targets to find the targets of the multi-way association. The only difference between this method of multi-way association and the regular association is where the metadata is stored relative to the target identifier.
An example of a portion of an educational course is shown in FIG. 12 generally at 1210. Two educational modules are shown, each containing multiple entities or sections of the course which perhaps contain information such as a lecture, text material, exercises, or other instructional material. The first modules comprises entities 1212, 1214, 1216, 1218, 1220, and an assessment entity 1222. The entities are connected by lines with arrows, representing logical associations between them as previously described. The associations may be either direct one to one associations as first described, or of a multiway association, using a navigation table and association table as desired. Assessment entity 1222 may be a test, or other exercise designed to test the understanding of the student trying to learn the module. As indicated, a score of 60% to 80% correct indicates a passing grade, letting the student proceed to the next module. However, it also indicates that there may have been several sections or entities of the module that were not as well understood as desired.
A normal progression through module two would entail progressing through entities 1234, 1238, 1242 and 1244. However, based on the assessment, several remedial entities related to material not well understood may be easily added into the sequence of entities. Remedial content entities 1230 and 1232 are first presented to the student, followed by module two entity 1234, and then by remedial entity 1236 before finishing straight through the original organization of module two content. Again, the lines and arrows are representative of associations that have been made based on the assessment score. Such modules may be implicitly created by an application designed to present the content of the educational modules, simply by breaking the assessment into sections corresponding to remedial content and having a predetermined order of insertion into module two for such content where the assessment indicates that the content was not understood. An alternative way to create associations with the remedial content and the content of the second module is to have a teaching assistant or professor explicitly create the associations to provide an individualized customization of the content for the student.
Note that this becomes a new method of writing programs. Typically this kind of application would involve specific program code to interpret the results of the assessment and hardwire the instructional path for the student. Using the conditional associations the author specifies the relationships between the data (in a simple, intuitive, and largely ad-hoc manner) and a generic program engine interprets the relationships on the fly to deliver the desired behavior. Further, personalized behaviors are made available by altering the data without altering the program code. Using the extension capability of the ad-hoc relationship interpreters, sophisticated authors can still create “code” that interprets the relationships. The nature of the “code” is not limited to our current notion of how we write programs today so it is possible to develop a tool that makes authoring the “code” extremely simple. The “code” is run and simply returns the “next” navigable location.
All students in the same class may start with the same map of the course content. Synchronization constructs are not required where an association is created that has no place to go in a users map. For example, the answers to a test should not be viewable to anyone other than the professor or instructor. An association may be created for a note, created with an editor, may also have access permissions which may be modified by the creator. The system takes the association and adds it to the other people's maps. An email has just been effectively sent without using an email system. Receivers of the “email” can add notes and in essence create a threaded discussion. Someone might make a note on a note. They are always organized. An N way association can also be used to represent a threaded discussion. Logically, N way associations can be represented by using multiple two way associations. Multiway associations provide an optimization that allows efficient transformations.
The view relationship is something that identifies the function used to create a presentation of the trigger and the target together. In the threaded discussion model, the topic, and first sentence of each of the messages or notes may be displayed.
Several other methods of implicit customization may be used as desired. Further, explicit creation of associations may be performed using graphical user interfaces, where entities are represented by icons. To create the association, a target is simply dragged onto a trigger. This will invoke an association method, which will create the mapping required to identify the target from a trigger, and also prompt for entry of metadata for storage in tables using an underlying relational database. Associations may also be created by invoking the association method directly, and then specifying the trigger and target and metadata in either a prompted or fill in a table manner. Either such methods are easily implementable by one skilled in the art.
Associations may also be used to: “Show me everything that I think is related to John Foobar” or even “Given what I've been doing, get me the information related to John Foobar that is most likely to be interesting to me now”. For example, if calldowns on beta program participants are being done, a calldown program might be launched and start off at the first person in a list needed to be called. Clicking a next button causes automatic dialing of and connecting to that person. A status update dialog box may also be popped up. Clicking the next button again (same button) causes the system to jump to the record for the next person to be called. Also, if anything was entered in the dialog, the status is updated appropriately so that person does or does not show up again during this calldown (as well as saving the status information). This provides a so-called “intuitive” interface that does what a user expects, regardless of how the buttons are labeled or anything else. The most intuitive and easy-to-use interface only needs one button—“next”. Most user interfaces are hard to use because searching through available menus to find a button that most closely resembles a desired action can be tedious. A first-order solution is to filter available options to the system's best guess about what you might want to do next based on past usage, and then present such options to the user. A further example of the use of associations in providing educational materials involves a professor who has new content in location X. The professor can insert it, and all organizations get dynamically updated. Text may be highlighted, and an association may be created. The association may be represented by a next button, or in the case of highlighting, a variable may be set that indicates highlighting is not desired. But, at another point, highlighting may be turned on.
A piece of email may also reference back to highlighted text. It could be a note or anything desired. Now the sense has been created that a user is navigating through, the student may see a box with a question mark. Now, when a reply is created, another association is created between a new email, and the original email.
Associations also allow the creations of multiple views of all the different data. Having an inbox would be a different view. An inbox would be a different way of looking at the information space. Replies or threaded discussions can then be associated.
A system for providing dynamic and personalized organization of information has been described. Although specific embodiments have been illustrated and described herein, it will be appreciated by those of ordinary skill in the art that any arrangement which is calculated to achieve the same purpose may be substituted for the specific embodiments shown. This application is intended to cover any adaptations or variations of the present invention. Therefore, it is manifestly intended that this invention be limited only by the following claims and equivalents thereof.
In computer science, data and functions are two fundamental ideas. The present invention adds organization as a separable element. The organization is taken out of the data. The organization in effect becomes the associations that may be stored and processed independently of the data. By just sending an association (an organization of the data) the receiver can get all the data and understand how to process the data. This is counterintuitive because users tend to organize data to obtain the most efficient function. However, if multiple different functions are to be applied to the data, then it makes great sense to separate the organization of the data.
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BoundAlive Releases New Music Video For "Relive"
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"BE STRONG IN THE LORD"
"Be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might." To be strong in the Lord is to be sure of ourselves because we are sure of the Principle of life which manifests Itself through us.
We wrestle not against outward things but against inward ideas and beliefs. The power of darkness is the power of false belief and superstition. If a man can change his inner concept his whole life will be changed. All cause is from within, all effect is forever without.
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Stevens presents 'Sleepy Hollow'
WEIRTON - Stevens Puppets will present "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" at 1 p.m. Oct. 5 at the Mary H. Weir Public Library's downstairs activity room.
Puppeteer Greg Genna will perform a silly, unfrightening version of the Washington Irving classic. Lanky schoolmaster Ichabod Crane sings, dances and falls in love with Katrina Van Tassel. Her father, Baltus, and village goof Brom Bones attempt to run Ichabod off with stories of the Headless Horseman. The story was adapted by Martin Stevens and Daniel Raynor and is appropriate for all ages. Stevens Puppets have been performing with traditional wooden marionettes for 80 years. The event is free and open to the public.
Weirton Area Museum set to
host Hometown Team exhibit
WEIRTON - The Weirton Area Museum and Cultural Center will host a meeting on its upcoming Hometown Teams exhibit at 6 p.m. Thursday at the museum located at 3149 Main Street.
The museum will be one of six West Virginia facilities to host the traveling Smithsonian Institution exhibit. It will be on exhibit at the Weirton museum in August and September 2014.
The museum will be planning its local companion exhibits and associated speaking events. Those wanting to help or who have potential display items are asked to attend or contact President Dennis Jones at (304) 479-7266.
WEIRTON - The Veterans of Foreign Wars Auxiliary 2716 will host a dinner Oct. 5 at the VFW located at 3435 Main Street.
Dinner will be held from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.; a $500 lottery will be held at 7 p.m.; and a disc jockey will play music from 7 p.m. to midnight. Dinner includes rigatoni with sauce and meatballs, tossed salad, bread and a dessert. The cost is $7. Tickets are available by visiting the VFW or calling (304) 748-9674.
Church holding rummage sale
WEIRTON - St. Thomas Episcopal Church will hold a fall rummage sale from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Oct. 11 and 9 a.m. to noon Oct. 12.
The church will hold a holiday bazaar Nov. 16, including crafts, a soup and sale lunch and bake sale.
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This an excerpt from the Thailand Virtual Tour.
See Archives October 2009 for the entire tour.
Day 16: Tak Bat
It’s 6am. It’s predawn. Why would anyone be boarding a small van to go to a fitness park at this hour? No, we’re not going to run a marathon or even a 10K, not even a 5K. We’re on a mission.
We need to arrive before the tak bat or early morning procession of Buddhist monks from their temple. This ritual is the daily opportunity for people, local residents and foreign visitors alike, to offer alms to the orange-robed monks. The monks have no worldly possessions and rely on the generosity of others for their needs. These offerings are the only food and drink they will receive for the entire day.
The monks walk single file down the sidewalk in one direction, stopping when signaled by those offering alms. The owners of Window of Thailand have once again worked overtime, preparing dozens of food bundles for us to give to the monks. They briefly described the thoughtful selection of home cooked foodstuffs contained in each. It cleared demonstrated their care and compassion for others.
Since women are prohibited from direct contact with the male monks, we were instructed to carefully place our small wrapped packages into the center of the recipient’s food bowl. We would then kneel to receive their blessing in unison.
Once they were finished chanting, they would continue on in formation to the next person or persons, eventually returning along the same route back to the temple.
I zoomed in and framed a perfect shot of a simple and elegant bowl just as the young monk turned and started to walk away. Just a moment too late. At first, I was going to discard it. It was not the still photo I had intended to take. It still intrigues me as an unintentional “action” shot.
You may call it blurry. Tell me what YOU think.
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According to police, 54-year-old Tim Smith died this morning. He was shot in the head sometime after 6 p.m. Police on the scene said that he was taken to Huntsville Hospital with life-threatening injuries and undergoing emergency surgery.
No arrests have been made in the case. Police said they had a description of the suspect at the shooting scene.
This is the third homicide in the city of Huntsville since Jan. 1.
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The Animation Picture Co. has bought an original script titled Zombie Pet Shop to develop as a stereoscopic 3D feature film, Variety reports.
The original script by E.L. Katz concerns a pug dog named Joey who seeks an antidote for a zombie virus that has turned the pets and humans in a mall into zombies..
Producing the film will be Animation Picture Co’s John Davis, Brian Manis, Ash Shah, Dan Chuba and Mark A.Z. Dippe. Katz is co-producing with Jeremy Platt, who helped develop the project.
The Animation Picture Co., based in Sherman Oaks, Calif., has provided special effects and animation for such projects as Garfield Gets Real, Garfield’s Pet Force and S. Darko.
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The Force cooler looks quite impressive, well for a chipset cooler anyway. There is no comparison between the stock cooler and the Force's copper base and 29 fins.
The retail package includes all necessary components in order to install the Force cooler.
Consult your motherboard's manual in order to find which chipset is the main one. Usually, it is quite easy to spot. On our ASUS motherboard, the NForce4 is located just away from the processor, on the corner formed by the RAM and VGA card sockets.
If you uninstall the stock cooler, you will then see the main chipset, which in our case was the NForce4.
First, you'll have to remove the motherboard from the PC case, since you have pass two of the long screws from the behind, as shown below:
From the upper side of the motherboard, secure the screws with the nuts. There is no need to over tighten, hand tight will do, so there's no need to use a tool here.
Normally, you should use two washers between the board and the nut. The bottom washer is non-metallic and the top is metallic.
But it may not always be possible with some motherboards, as in the case of the MSI motherboard we tried. As you can see below, there is not enough space for the washers to sit properly, and could do more damage than good here, especially if the metal washer is used. In this case, you would probably only use the non-metallic washer, cutting it so that it doesn't find on any surrounding components.
Don't forget to peel off the transparent protective strip from the copper base before installing it onto the chipset.
Put some thermal compound on the chipset. Included with the Force cooler, is a rectangular piece of spongy material which sits on the outskirts of the chipset as shown below. We believe this is there to help keep the cooler's base at an even distance from the top surface of the chipset although it is so soft, that it can hardly offer any real resistance.
Place the Force cooler onto the chipset and use the appropriate parts to fasten it, as shown below.
Don't forget to connect the fan's power cable to the motherboard.
The Force is now in place and looks quite impressive.
Its dimensions shouldn't extend beyond the motherboard, while it can be positioned at just about any angle, depending on available space and best fit. You shouldn't have any problems, no matter the motherboard, but check first to make sure since there's no way we can test the installation with every available motherboard.
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Johannesburg - Lions kicking coach Carlos Spencer says his team are not yet worried about the knockout stages of the Currie Cup, and are only focusing on their Absa Currie Cup match against the Leopards in Potchefstroom on Friday night.
"We're a week by week team, so we know we are in for a tough one this week and the last thing we want is a hiccup against the Leopards," said the former All Black flyhalf.
With the Lions at the top of the log, five points clear of Western Province after nine games, and the Leopards languishing in bottom spot, the visitors will look to bag a full five points from the match.
Spencer stressed his side could not afford to take a semi-final qualification for granted and would need to keep improving.
"We're a long way from that. We've got to win another four or five games and that's our main focus," he said.
"We will focus on the Leopards and get it out the way, then we'll move to the Bulls (for next week's clash) come Monday.
"The semi-finals and the finals are a long way away, and we've got a lot of rugby before then."
Despite the newly promoted Leopards struggling in the premier division, Spencer insisted the hosts would present a challenge.
"The boys are still excited. We're sort of, not quite, halfway through the second round.
"It's a tough one away this week against the Leopards in Potch, and they're starting to play some good rugby, so they'll be a difficult side to beat."
After the Leopards game, the Lions face a difficult run-in to the playoffs, with clashes against the Blue Bulls, Free State Cheetahs, Western Province and the Sharks.
"After this week, we have the big four, so it only gets tougher from here," Spencer said.
One of the revelations for the Lions this season has been the performance of flyhalf Elton Janties, and while Spencer applauded the 21-year-old pivot for his efforts, he admitted they were still trying to improve his game.
"His goalkicking has got better as the season has gone on, and his decision making too," he said.
"It's something that can always be improved, though, along with (scrumhalf) Michael Bondesio.
"He's (Jantjies) come back with a bit of a spark this season, and loves taking the ball to the line.
"He loves being a threat, not only on attack, but on defence - he doesn't mind making tackles.
"We're very happy with how he's gone with the Lions this year and what he can do for us in the future."
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I hope the weekend is being good to you! In Portugal, the sun is out again but I stayed home, reading books, eating pizza, watching movies, doing the stuff that I don't have time to during the week :)
Today I decided to share with you some ideas to make you homes more fashion, I have to thank Lauren Conrad for the ideas.
I'm obsessed with her, from wardrobe to make up she helps you in everything. Since it's Sunday and most people stay home on the sofa doing nothing, grab somethings around the house and make cute pillows, flower arrangements.....
Go to Lauren's blog and share your handcrafts ;) Lauren Conrad
P.s. share pictures of how your experience turned out
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Charlene runs eWillow.com. A few months ago she emailed me about advertising on my site and we started getting to know each other over email... Turns out that it is INDEED a very small world! She is friends with my brother in law's (the one from the radio) sister... a little bit about her:
"Born and raised not far from the Jersey shore, Charlene and her family moved to Jupiter, Florida the day after her high school graduation. She attended Brigham Young University and Florida Atlantic University, graduating with a bachelor's degree in Communications. During her college years, she met her husband, Neil, and began a successful career as a high-fashion runway model. After the birth of Charlene's second daughter, she gave up modeling to focus on her children and her new love of crafting. Charlene combined her love of fashion with her love of creating to build a successful business designing and making doll clothing. Her interest in stamping began when she sought to include professional-looking handmade tags with her creations." I have really enjoyed getting ot know her better the last few months, if you get a chance ask her how she knows Donny Osmond! (another good story!!!)
Charlene has generoulsy offered to giveaway for Polkadot Chair readers! She is giving away either: a $30 Shopping Spree on her site !! OR a 3 months store subscription! (if you've been on the fence about starting your own shop this could be a great reason to start!!)
an item for sale on eWillow"Charlene envisioned one site that would provide those who love stamping and paper crafting a single resource for all of their needs. Whether someone had products they wanted to buy or sell, ideas they wanted to share, discussions they wanted to participate in, or was just looking to connect with friends who share that same love of papercrafting, Charlene envisioned one place online. Charlene's vision became eWillow.com." eWillow.com is a site where you can buy AND sell hand made papercrafted items! and get this... starting VERY soon they will aslo feature Jewelry designers!!! (so if you are a jewelry designer looking for a great sales platform, drop them a line.
more cute stuff!!
how cute!! as you can tell I have France on the brain!!
1- Simply leave a comment on this post, what's your favorite item listed on eWillow now??? 2- Visit Charlene's blog and subscribe & leave a separate comment to let me know you did.(she's got some AWESOME paper crafting ideas on there)
check out this cool "Euro wallet" she featured last week on her blog!Giveaway runs until Sunday Feb. 28th at Midnight Eastern!!! With a winner announced Monday!
THIS GIVEAWAY IS CLOSED!!
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BM# 74: Week 3/ Day 3 Theme: Thalis/ Spreads Dish: Hyderabadi Vegetarian Thali For the final day of this week’s BM under Thalis & Spreads, I have a delectable Hyderabadi Vegetarian Thali. This spread is inspired from Vaishali’s Hyderabadi thali, but mine has about 5 dishes less than hers. Vaishali is the queen of creating amazing thalis/…
BM# 72: Week 2/ Day 1 Theme: Festival Special Dish: Sankranthi — Kadamba Saadam My theme for this week’s BM is ‘Festival Special‘. Valli wants us to make something special for the festivals celebrated in January. I’m going to be posting 3 dishes for 3 different festivals. Starting off with Kadamba Saadam, a Sankranthi special…
BM# 71: Week 1/ Day 1 Theme: One Pot Dishes Dish: Achari Vegetable Pulao We are starting a new month of Blogging Marathon today and my theme for this week is ‘One Pot Dishes‘. Who doesn’t like one pot meals, they are easy to make, very convenient and only 1 dish to clean. For the first day…
Mixed Vegetable Paniyaram/ Ponganalu are made with either idli batter or dosa batter and mixed vegetables. These can be served for breakfast or snack with chutney.
Recipe to make popular Gujarati mixed vegetable dish Oondhiyu/ Undhiyu. Veggies are stuffed with yummy coconut-peanut stuffing and then pressure cooked to perfection. Served with pooris and shrikhand — this is one delightful meal that is sure to please anyone.
Recipe to make Jaipuri Vegetable Pulao. Colorful, delicious and easy to make. This is a great dish to make on a busy weeknight or to serve at a fancy party.
Recipe to make popular Indo-Chinese Hakka noodles with lots of vegetables and fried tofu.
Recipe to make Bengali Mishti Pulao with mixed vegetables. An easy to make rice dish that is aromatic and delicious.
Charchari aka Chorchori aka Chochchori is a simple everyday dish made in Bengali households. It is an easy to make mixed vegetable dish that is healthy & delicious. It can be served with rice and dal for a filling and comforting meal.
Recipe to make creamy and delicious mixed vegetable curry with coconut milk and freshly ground spice paste. Yummy to serve with both rice and roti.
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http://www.cookshideout.com/category/mixed-vegetable
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I often find my facebook page littered with posts and apps that automatically report how long or how fast one of my friends ran the 5k where, for some reason, they paid $100 to get sprayed with an assortment of colored paint at the finish line under the false impression it was all for a good cause. Or worse yet, the act of running was done simply for exercise and they thought their 500 Internet friends would like an update about how many calories they burned. I’ve never been impressed with their numbers or their bragging, for lack of a better word, and as far as I’m concerned these people have replaced non-drinkers on the unworthy pedestal of people I cannot trust.
Then there are tennis players who strike me as odd…and little else. Read the rest of this entry »
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ELK Studios may have only released a few slots to date but what they offer is quality – their latest game is no exception with Poltava Flames of War their best title yet.
With 5 reels and 40 paylines, Poltava Flames of War can be played on all compatible devices from 20p per spin. Based on the war between the Swedish army and Peter the Great, the game is set in 1709 and has an epic feel to it. Symbols on the reels include cavalry, artillery and infantry and as well as the Bonus Lion and Poltava wild.
If you get a full combat art (4 infantry, artillery or cavalry symbols) covering the 1st reel entirely, you will trigger the Marching Reels feature. Here you get free respins with troops advancing stepwise to the right. As long as new identical combat arm symbols appear, you will carry on getting respins.
3 Bonus Lion symbols on the 3 middle reels will transform them into sticky wilds and activate the Flames of War Free Spins feature – you will get 3 free spins but Lion symbols are sticky. Every new Lion symbol also remains sticky and increases your free spins number.
With wins of up to 1,800 times your stake, this is a high variance game which is the best ELK Studios slot to date – for full details and to play for free, check out the Poltava Flames of War slot review. You can also watch the game in action below via the official YouTube trailer:
Poltava Flames of War is available to play right now at LeoVegas Casino – they have slots from Play ‘N Go, IGT, NextGen Gaming, Push Gaming, Microgaming, WMS, Barcrest, Quickspin and many others. New releases include Play ‘N Go’s Book of Dead and NetEnt’s Theme Park: Tickets of Fortune.
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Do you have any naked walls that are crying out for some interesting, colorful artwork? Is your art budget too small to buy an original from a hip, up and coming artist?
Do you even HAVE an art budget?
But I do know some young, up and coming artists whose masterpieces are the perfect accents for my walls… my kids.
This wall in our foyer displays two of my children’s third grade interpretations of a Van Gogh classic. (no, I don’t know the name of the classic, you should be impressed that I could spell Van Gogh).
The small white sticker in the lower right hand corner of the top painting is from the school art show–my son won a first place ribbon! (Sorry, HAD to slip that in…)
This pencil drawing of a tennis shoe was done by my oldest daughter. It is hanging in our bonus room/rec room above the garage. The room has a sports theme, so the shoe is perfect.
My kids created these under the watchful eyes of their very talented art teachers, but even small children can create “abstract” art , just give them paint or oil pastels that coordinate with your decor and let them go!
These pieces of art reflect our casual family style and are great conversation starters when we have visitors to our home. And that… Works for Me! Check out more Works for Me Wednesday ideas here.
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Textures of sound, light, and ideas
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The right sound track. Photos and graphics that match both feel and energy level. Words carefully chosen to inform and inspire. Blending music, visuals, and ideas into a seamless whole is our passion.
True creativity starts with original thinking. Bright ideas only come to those with an adventuresome imagination and unconventional mindset. That’s why we like to explore new creative territory.
Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.
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Thursday, January 7, 2016
Baby Soren 2016!
This is a very special post because in a past life, Jackie was a unicorn. And now, she's had a baby. It's Rob's baby too and he's also special because he's married to a unicorn. And now he has a half-unicorn baby. If you're confused it has to be because you haven't met Jackie. If you'd met her, you'd understand. Let me help you.
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http://theclous.blogspot.com/2016/01/baby-soren-2016.html
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By Mark Halliday, head of Airwave, Omnicom Media Group APAC
I write this on the eve of my one-year anniversary as head of Airwave at my agency. I came bounding over to Singapore 12 months ago full of optimism that I was moving to the single most interesting part of the world for mobile communications. I still genuinely think that’s the case but I’ve been surprised that mobile is not as developed as I thought it would have been.
Asia-Pacific has 56 percent of the world’s mobile phones, 52 percent of the world’s smartphones, and consumers spend more than two hours on mobile and tablet devices each day, yet media investment is painfully low on the medium people look at more than 150 times a day!
In the U.K., I would often cite Asia as being the most progressive continent when it came to mobile behaviors. I distinctly remember telling my clients how we were "five years behind Japan," warning retail clients to be prepared for the mobile revolution - 10 million Japanese consumers buying goods via the mobile wallet every month can’t be wrong. Also, at least pre-iPhone, all the innovative mobile devices seemed to come out of Asia. (I absolutely loved my Sony Ericsson W800 and LG Chocolate!)
I arrived optimistic but nervous that there would be a lot to learn from mobile-mad Asian consumers. I was going to be living in a country with 148 percent mobile phone penetration. I thought I was one of the odd ones in London because I had two mobile phones but now I was moving to a country where the majority of people had two phones – would I have to get three to justify my position as a mobile professional?
The reality has been a little different but I’m seeing evolution every day. The most surprising thing about Asia, or at least Southeast Asia, is that marketers are noticeably more traditional in their approach. It’s genuinely surprising how small a slice of the media pie is carved out for digital, in this region. This is especially evident when looking at the number of digital specialists on the client side.
When I first arrived, I was surprised by the appetite for building apps and the flurry of questions on mobile trends. I received more app briefs in my first five weeks than I did in five years in London. It’s a theme that I have noticed throughout my first year and is one of the problems of working in such a rapidly evolving area like mobile – everybody is desperate to do the new shiny thing. There have been a number of false dawns with mobile but the medium is taking up more and more column inches, which in turn is putting pressure on our clients and planning teams to be seen to be innovative by constantly trying the new things, sometimes at the detriment of understanding what has been working and producing results. Brands are barely out of diapers when it comes to mobile, yet they’re trying to run before they can walk.
There are certainly parallels with brands from Europe and U.S. over the last five years – clients experimenting with mobile to get comfortable with a new medium, seeing the positive impact and then ramping up their spend. The key difference is that brands in Asia can benefit from more advanced technology and they have experts with years of experience to guide them on their mobile journeys. Even if they are running in diapers, there’s much less risk of falling over.
The incredibly positive thing is that there’s a real appetite for trying mobile formats. I cannot think of many of our clients that have not experimented with mobile, or who are not working toward, or implementing fully fledged mobile strategies. Spend is increasing quickly and brands are gaining more confidence with mobile technology – I’ve even seen the phrase "mobile-first" appear on a few briefs.
We are on the verge of very exciting times for mobile in APAC. The phenomenal uptake of social messaging apps; the meteoric rise in m-commerce sales in places like China; the growth in middle classes in huge countries like India and Indonesia; and the influx of cheaper smartphones all mean than we are embarking on an era with digital citizens who see mobile as the primary means of accessing the Internet. In the West, mobile communications developed out of the shadow of desktop expertise. In Asia, we have an opportunity to be the pioneers in mobile.
To persist with the maturity metaphor, we’re approaching our teenage years – some markets still have their childish innocence, while others are experimenting with new things, their voices are starting to break and what they have to say is challenging and progressive.
My advice to brands in this region would be to embrace the fact that many countries are now mobile-first. Digital strategies can (and in many cases should) place mobile at the heart of communications. If mobile is considered at the early stages of strategic planning, then our work and effectiveness will be much more powerful than trying to find a role for mobile in the overall mix.
We are beginning to realize the potential of mobile in this region and it really won’t be long before Asia becomes the mentor for the rest of the world in the art of mobile communications.
This article was originally posted on: http://www.clickz.com/clickz/column/2333914/asia-approaching-adolescence-in-mobile
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http://www.airwaveapac.com/news/2014/3/18/asia-approaching-adolescence-in-mobile
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Welcome to ASHINAGA UGANDA
Ashinaga is an International NGO in Uganda, East Africa, which provide psycho-social and educational support to children
who have lost one or both parents as a result of HIV/AIDS.
Thank you very much for your support in 2014.
We all hope that you will have a wonderful year of 2015.
“Terakoya Happy Movie” launched!
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http://ashinaga-uganda.org/
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It’s a familiar scenario for every parent: The little ones will play with absolutely anything they can get their hands on. They’ll get into the pots and pans, tinker with the vacuum cleaner, and turn the walls into an artist’s canvas. But young design label NOtoys from Amsterdam has at least come up with a solution for the latter: The owners Diane and Joachim, who are parents themselves, design children’s furniture that can be drawn and painted on. The Any-mal series, consisting of a table and a stool, re-defines the concept of ‘functionality’ and encourages creative expression. In addition to the surfaces for drawing, the individual elements can be used as a table or bench, or cleverly integrated into imaginative children’s play. Whoever needs a bit of inspiration can check the website for creative drawing patterns. Here the old adage applies: There’s no such thing as impossible! Such a creative idea well-deserves our WE LOVE!
Here’s the web-shop.
Pictures: © 2011 – 2013 NOtoys
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Disclaimer: The opinions in this blog are not to be taken as recommendations to buy or sell any of the securities mentioned. If you choose to invest, you are doing it at your own risk.
Friday, March 14, 2014
DOUBLE BOTTOM IN PLACE
Going back to the comment of 1/24/14, HLSS chart has formed a "double bottom". Now we face the next test, can the stock price (closing yesterday at 21.30) rise above the 50 DMA? Should HLSS close above 21.35 in the next three trading days, we can expect a jump in price. Meanwhile, those who got in earlier can enjoy an 8.5% dividend with the next monthly distribution of .15/share scheduled for 3/27/14.
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I recently read The Wikiman’s ‘The curse of ‘oh, we already did that’’ and he made some good points about trying things again when they’ve failed before.
As part of my Masters I wrote my dissertation on the use of Web 2.0 tools by Libraries and during this I spoke to our Site Librarian about tools such as Facebook, to find out we used to have one before I started, but no one was interested. This year we tried again. I’m not sure whether we just haven’t promoted it adequately or if people just aren’t interested but it’s not doing very well at all (the only ‘likes’ we have are from Library staff!) but honestly I’m not going to let it put me off. We’re planning on completely re-doing our website in the next twelve months and this will include a new content management system – I’m hoping that a plugin for Facebook will be a bit easier to embed than with the current CMS, which should drive more traffic towards it.
The Wikiman also talked a bit about Lean – there’s no distinct definition but it’s a way of looking at your processes and asking ‘can you make it more efficient?’ We recently did this with a few processes in our Library and I like the changes that have been made. We looked at our registration process first: we had different forms for different types of users; now we have one. OK, so there are some boxes that aren’t relevant to everyone, but it’s better than interrogating new members. Another change was that for NHS registrations we now sign up to NHS Athens on their behalf. Yes, it’s added a few minutes to the time it takes to process the registration form, but we’re saving hours troubleshooting the process over the phone when we can’t see the screen to point out the problem (assuming of course they’re seeing what I think they’re seeing!) Obviously our Athens users statistics have gone up, but our usage statistics are also going up too so these accounts are being used, when previously they might not have registered at all.
One of the reasons we did it was to save staff time. Typically this eventually leads to the question, ‘if we end up saving a lot of time, will my job be at risk?’ Firstly, we haven’t saved that much time, a few minutes a day each – but the idea of us doing this was to free up our time for other things. Various possibilities are floating round for long term plans including an instant messaging support service (which our university partners offer on their own websites) and just generally being in the library helping people (instead of sitting in the office processing registration forms) but they are things we just don’t have time for at present.
If you get a chance I recommend reading the Wikiman’s article – he had a rather nice example of asking ‘yeah, but WHY though?’ in the penultimate paragraph!
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A six-pack of new and returning Canuck productions will be making their way to Family Channel and Playhouse Disney Canada, as announced at the Banff World Television Festival, currently underway.
Among the new series for FC are 13 x half-hour comedy series Angel on Campus from Temple Street Productions and Baxter from Shaftesbury Films. The duo joins returning series Connor Undercover from Heroic Film Company/Shaftesbury Films (second season, 26 x half-hours) and Overruled! from Shaftesbury (third season, 13 x half-hours).
On the preschool side, Playhouse Disney Canada has also commissioned a pair of new 13-ep animated series, each comprising two 11-minute segments – Stella and Sam from Radical Sheep Productions and Justin Time from Guru Studio. New seasons of The Secret World of Benjamin Bear from Amberwood Entertainment and Franny’s Feet from Decode Entertainment are also part of the mix.
Late this summer and fall will see the start of production on all the series in Toronto, with broadcast debuts slated for 2010 and 2011.
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Malik Yoba has taken the blogger that spread rumors that he suffers from substance abuse to task. The Empire actor found that the source of the gossip was popular celebrity news site The Inquisitr, and demanded an apology and full retraction.
Yoba first told TMZ that the rumors were completely false and that the parties that started them would be held accountable. He added that Empire boss Lee Daniels had his back as the rumors picked up steam on the blogosphere.
Hours later, The Inquisitr published a full retraction on its website. "Stories previously published, within the last week at the Inquisitr, had attributed to unfounded rumors regarding actor Malik Yoba and his departure from the popular show, Empire," the blog wrote. "While no Inquisitr writer was responsible for generating said rumors, which alleged substance abuse, the Inquisitr’s management and editorial staff would like to officially retract these stories in full and apologize to Mr. Yoba for any duress he may have endured as a result of these reports."
Score one for Malik.
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Award-winning and best-selling author/illustrator/graphic novelist LeUyen Pham will deliver her lecture “Wandering Wonderland: An Immigrant’s Story Told Through Books,” on Thursday, March 5, 2015. Pham’s work includes a delightful variety of picture books, from the Orbis Pictus honor The Boy Who Loved Math by Deborah Heiligman and the Freckleface Strawberry books by Julianne Moore to her own stories Big Sister, Little Sister and A Piece of Cake; illustrations for the New York Times best-seller The Princess in Black by Shannon and Dean Hale and the Scott O’Dell Award winner Bo at Ballard Creek by Kirkpatrick Hill; and a range of graphic novels with Jordan Mechner and Alex Puvilland, including Prince of Persia, Solomon’s Thieves, and Templar. For this, the third annual Butler Lecture, Pham is literally “drawing” on her own childhood, producing a series of comic panels that explore her earliest experiences with particular books for children.
The lecture will take place at 6 p.m., followed by a reception with refreshments and a book sale and signing; it is free and open to the public, though registration is required. This an evening not to be missed.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Under a blazing sun a drained Mardy Fish walked onto the court in front of thousands of adoring fans, raised his hands, smiled and waved goodbye to the U.S. Open and a career following a second-round loss.
For those suffering from severe anxiety disorders, who at times struggle just to leave their home, it is probably the last place they would want to be, but Fish tried to soak up the moment as he signed off on his own terms.
"It's tough to say because I don't feel that great just from the match," the 33-yer-old American said after his 2-6 6-3 1-6 7-5 6-3 loss to Spain's Feliciano Lopez. "So it takes a little bit away, I don't know (how I feel).
"I mean, it will probably sink in a little bit later when I start feeling a little bit better."
Fish, who suffers from a severe anxiety disorder, played in only four events since returning to the ATP Tour in March after an 18-month layoff but he went down swinging in his Flushing Meadows swan song and nearly pulled off an impressive upset of the 18th-seeded Spaniard.
In this defeat, however, there was a distinct sense of triumph hanging over Louis Armstrong Stadium, as Fish refused to give into a disease that disrupted the latter stages of his promising career to pen his own ending.
"I have worked hard to try to get back," said Fish, who reached a career-best number seven in the rankings. "Obviously I'm not in as good of shape as I used to be a few years ago.
"I gave it everything I had; that was all I had.
"I wanted this to be -- this one specifically to be the last one. I probably would have chosen this one as my last one regardless if I didn't have any issues with my health in the past couple of years just because this is the biggest one and the most fun and the one that you want to go out on.
"It's a really nice memory to have on my final match. Obviously not the last set, but my final match."
Four years ago, Fish was appearing at the season-ending ATP Tour finals and sitting seventh in the world rankings. He was the number one American at the peak of his career when his life began to unravel as anxiety took control.
At the 2012 U.S. Open he suffered a panic attack while playing Frenchman Gilles Simon, the pressure to win becoming increasingly unbearable and debilitating.
"Expectations changed and pressure was a lot higher and a lot more on myself and from others," said Fish, a winner of six ATP titles and over $7 million in prize money. "That's how it all happened. That's how it all came. Expectations changed.
"There was a lot more pressure on myself to play well at every event, every week.
"That was the position that I wanted to be in, you know, the top American, top 10 in the world, and, you know, sort of a marked man.
"It was too much for me to handle."
Fish's 13th and final appearance at the U.S. Open made a brave statement, letting those who also suffer from anxiety disorders know that they can be controlled.
Those are the victories that Fish will play for going forward as he attempts to shed light on a disease that millions silently suffer from.
"I put my head on my pillow every night -- I'm very comfortable knowing how hard I have worked in the later stages of my career," said Fish. "Just at peace personally.
"I'm bummed that obviously my career didn't end the past few years the way I had imagined. But it is what it is, and you try to make the best of your situation obviously.
"We are trained as tennis players from a very young age to not show weakness. I was very good at that throughout my career.
"So I'm sort of out front with that part of my life because it helps me a lot when I talk about it. Makes me feel better when I talk about it.
"I want to help people that have gone through it and try to be a role model for people that are deep into some bad times, that they can get out of it, because I was there. They can conquer it."
Editing by Frank Pingue
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It’s going to be an unforgettable evening of music dance and theatre that touches the soul as Darey Art Alade a.k.a Darey unveils Love Like a Movie Concert, a theatrical concert for valentine, produced with style as an exhibition of performance varieties.
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“He’s Beautiful” or “You’re Beautiful” is currently showing on ABS-CBN. It was shown here on SBS last year and was very popular with the younger audience. I haven’t seen the show but I’m planning to when I retire. LOL
I love Jang Geun Suk since he was a part of one of the most enjoyable Korean dramas I’d recently seen. He was in “Beethoven Virus” playing the part of a police officer who could play the trumpet. I watched that drama because of Kim Myung Min, who IMO is one of the best actors in Korea.
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Special guests in the scheduled fan meeting is A.N.JELL from “He’s Beautiful”/”You’re Beautiful”. I might as well drop by the venue if I don’t have anything better to do. Korea University is only three stations away anyway.
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Every year in November I get an email from my sister asking for me and my mom to start making our Christmas lists and for us to get our significant others to make up their lists as well. Now I know that a lot of people stop doing this when they get older or some people may think that it is greedy to have a list when you are older to give to our family. But to me, it saves a lot of time trying to think of gifts for a lot of people.
There are things that I will get someone because I know that they will enjoy it and it will be meaningful to them, but there are times when I don’t have a clue what to get them and having a list is super helpful! I’m actually pretty much done my Christmas shopping now, I just have a few more things to pick up this weekend 😉
I thought I might share what is on my wish list with you guys and maybe this will inspire your gifts for someone else!
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Jawbone was among the first companies to break into the casual fitness tracker market, along with Fitbit and Nike. The original UP fitness tracker was stylish and didn't scream I'M A FITNESS FANATIC like some on the market.
However the band lacked Bluetooth connectivity and only worked with Apple devices. The band also lacked a display, meaning there was no way for you to see at a glance how close to meeting your daily goals you were - or just to see what time it was.
These drawbacks meant the UP lacked widespread appeal.
Two years later Jawbone is back with the updated UP24 which it is hoping will build on the success of the first and appeal to a much wider audience.
Trying to tell the difference between the original UP and the UP24 visually is difficult. The new band uses the same design languages as the first and the bands' outward appearances are virtually identical.
The UP24 comes in black (Onyx) or red (Persimmon) varieties and uses the same textured rubber covering as the original. The band also features a clasp-less design, meaning you need to choose carefully between the small, medium or large options when buying the smart band.
The UP24 is lightweight (19g/22g/23g for small, medium or large) and the inherent bendiness of the band means it fit my wrist comfortably without me being constantly aware that I was wearing it.
The band is water resistant so there is no need to take it off in the shower, though Jawbone suggests not to submerge it meaning swimming is probably out of the question.
The band is also durable, surviving multiple games of football during my testing.
And this is potentially one of the biggest attractions of the band. It is stylish and comfortable meaning you never feel like you want to take it off.
UP24: Battery and Bluetooth
The quoted battery life of seven days also lived up to promise. The original UP uses a 3.5mm headphone jack housed under the metallic end of the band. The UP24 uses a 2.5mm connection for charging, though data transfer is now done via Bluetooth.
The addition of Bluetooth is the biggest improvement made by Jawbone with the UP24. It means you can sync your data wirelessly with your smartphone or tablet rather than having to plug it into a headphone jack.
The UP24 uses Bluetooth Smart meaning it can constantly connect with your smartphone to monitor your activity throughout the day, allowing it to give you vibrating alerts when you have been idle for too long (the frequency of which you can manage from the app).
UP24: Display (or lack of it)
If the addition of Bluetooth is the biggest plus for the new band, the failure to add a display is the biggest disappointment.
I can understand Jawbone not wanting to sully the simplicity of the UP24 design, as well as saving battery life, but the hassle of having to get your smarpthone out of your pocket, unlock it, and fire up the Jawbone app just to see how close to your daily target you are is really frustrating.
If I had the choice, I would rather recharge my UP24 every four or five days and have a display.
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The result is a report which gives you various pieces of information about your night's sleep, including how long it took you to get to sleep, how long you slept for and how much deep and light sleep you get.
The band also acts as an alarm clock, vibrating silently at the set time. Initially this is a bit of a shock to the system, but once you are used to it, it is a brilliant feature and means your partner won't be annoyed with your alarm going off multiple times.
There is no snooze option but you can set up to four different alarm times, each of which can be turned off with a quick press of the band's button.
The band also knows when the best time to nudge you awake is, and you can set a time window for the alarm, so the UP24 can wake you up when you are in lighter sleep rather than deep sleep.
UP24: App for Android and iOS
As well as adding features to the wristband, Jawbone has updated its apps, which is now available on Android as well as iOS. The app allows you to easily sync your UP24, and having set up an account (or signed in with an existing one) you are good to go.
It's a lot simpler just using your smartphone to do all this, though there is a desktop app available too.
The new app is bright and colourful and the default view (right) gives you a snapshot of your day so far, including sleep and activity.
It also offers up tailored pieces of advice to keep you motivated - for example I got "Using your phone just before bed decreases chance of good night's sleep" which was pretty much on-the-money. There is also a scrollable activity log and the ability to manually log everything you eat.
This final feature is extensive (you can just scan barcodes of food you are eating to automatically input nutritional value) and in-depth, but having tried it for a few days I simply gave up as most of the predefined food is US-centric and I just couldn't be bothered.
The UP24 seems like a band that would appeal to a casual user more than someone fanatical about monitoring their activity and eating habits so I imagine most people won't ever use this feature.
UP24: The Competition - Nike, Fitbit etc
The UP24 is no longer one of just a few fitness trackers on the market. As well as the continued competition from Fitbit and Nike, companies like Garmin, Sony, LG and Samsung are now all getting in on the growing trend for tracking our daily movements.
The biggest challenge however remains to come from established players like Nike and Fitbit. The latter launched the Fitibt Force last year in the US, but has since had to remove it from the market following complaints of skin irritation.
When it does come back on the market, both it and Nike's revamped Fuelband SE will feature displays which the UP24 lacks, somehting which could put off a lot of potential buyers.
UP24: Value and Verdict
At £130, the UP24 is certainly not cheap - there are less expensive options out there from Sony and Garmin - but its premium design and build quality elevate it above a lot of the competition.
The UP24 is extremely comfortable and is stylish enough to not obviously look like a fitness tracker. The addition of Bluetooth is a huge step forward; the redesigned app is easy to use and the need to charge it just once a week is a big benefit.
But, and it's a big BUT, the lack of a display will immediately rule it out for a lot of people as it means you still need to unlock your phone to see your progress.
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The Spain midfielder has failed to recover from the pelvic injury which kept him out of the weekend win over Athletic Bilbao, while the French defender has a calf problem
Coach Tito Vilanova claimed in his press conference on Tuesday that no decision would be taken on Busquets' inclusion in the squad until after training on Wednesday but it seems his hand has been forced early after the Spain midfielder was left out of the matchday squad, along with defender Abidal.
"Sergio Busquets and Eric Abidal will not feature in tomorrow’s match," a statement on the club's official website confirmed.
"The midfielder has not recovered from the [pelvic] injury that kept him from playing against Athletic [Bilbao] this weekend, while the Frenchman has picked up a calf injury."
Barca are already without fellow defenders Javier Mascherano and Carles Puyol ahead of the clash at Camp Nou, while full-back Jordi Alba is suspended after picking up a yellow card in the first leg in Munich.
Bayern hold a 4-0 aggregate lead heading into Wednesday's clash in Catalunya, which kicks off at 19.45BST.
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Hypersenstivity to lidocaine
years ago i got problems with my tooth.i felt terrible pain and noticed abscess started forming on my palate.i sought dental advise and my dentist tried to get the tooth extracted,but after injecting lidocaine on my gum and several attempts to get rid of the bad tooth,i have experienced severe pain which resulted my dentist to stop the procedure.after coming home in just an hour,i started to shiver,sweat profusely,felt terrible cold,and had muscle weakness.i was brought to emergency department and later diagnosed to have hypersensitivity to lidocaine,and was even put on oxygen for an hour due to shortness of breath.few years after,i have been tested again for lidocaine hypersensitivity prior to tooth extraction(same old bad tooth),and just a couple of minutes after skin testing has been done,a big bulge formed and the procedure did not push thru..until now,i still have problems of my tooth being not extracted as no dentist would do the procedure due to this problem...any advise?..thank you.
If you have a documented true allergy to lidocaine, there are other local anesthetics that you should have skin testing for. It is important to not use an anesthetic from a multidose vial that contains preservatives as this may be an issue. Also, you should be tested with local anesthetics that do not and do contain epinephrine, as this also has an additive included.If there are no local anesthetics that you can tolerate, then general anesthesia is your only option.
Steven I Ganzberg, SB, DMD, MS
Formerly, Clinical Professor of Dentistry
College of Dentistry
The Ohio State University
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Puerto Vallarta: Old and New Adventures (Part Two)
by Linda Milks
No trip to Puerto Vallarta would be complete without experiencing its amazing cuisine. Not only can you enjoy the traditional tacos and enchiladas of the area, but Puerto Vallarta is truly a food lover’s paradise. It is a region full of gourmet restaurants where the chefs use traditional Mexican spices and recipes but have tweaked them to add their own innovative takes on the traditional. Our group of culinary writers explored a variety of exceptional dining venues.
Special Places to Eat
Our hotel, Marriott CasaMagna, wowed us with a special dinner on the point of the property where many weddings take place. We were surrounded by water on all sides and tropical breezes encouraged the palm trees to sway as a greeting to this beautiful spot. Our meal consisted of a “Six Course Menu around Mexico,” a gastronomic tour of Mexico, starting with Tlayuda, a mini-quesadilla with pre-Hispanic roots from Oaxaca.
This was followed by a Lime Soup from Yucatan, Crab Enchiladas from Veracruz, an Avocado Sorbet from Michoacan, Skirt Steak Borchette from Sonora, and a delicious dessert of Corn Bread with a Chiapas Coffee Sauce. A tequila pairing accompanied this creative meal. I enjoyed this meal so much that I am planning to prepare it for my gourmet dinner club the next time I host it.
Café des Artistes is the setting for unique Mexican art inside a contemporary restaurant. Chef Thierry Blouet, head of Gourmet Festival International, sets the stage as a gregarious and charming host renowned for his creativity and passionate style. An example of his unique style was displayed in the amuse bouche of pineapple and orange foam over ceviche. Our main course was Confitted and Roasted Duck Leg with sautéed potatoes, baby fennel, and chilhaucle mole. The dessert tray we savored at the conclusion of this fabulous meal was the most spectacular and elaborate dessert presentation I have ever seen.
Arrecifes Seafood and Steakhouse, the Westin Resort & Spa Puerto Vallarta restaurant, was the outdoor pergola setting for a dinner divided into seven chapters, each accompanied by a Mexican wine. Dishes ranged from Beef Carpaccio with Arugula, to Wild Mushroom Risotto with Black Truffle, to Braised Short Rib with Molasses Sauce. We enjoyed sipping our layered Sangrias atop a rock wall bordering the ocean, the perfect setting for a Puerto Vallarta dinner. Fireworks on the beach completed the magical evening.
One of the newest and most interesting restaurants in Puerto Vallarta is Tintoque. Chef Joel Ornelas and staff prepared an artistic dinner amid a casual, contemporary environment. Chef Ornelas, a talented young chef, takes local recipes from his grandmother’s days and reinvents them with advanced techniques. Not to be missed is the Camaron Frito—shrimp coated with sesame seeds in a chipotle emulsion. Another dish loved by all was Sea Bass served with Smoked Pineapple Puree accompanied by a Celery Salad and Guajillo Pepper Salsa. We understood why Chef Ornelas is considered to be an expert at such a young age as we watched him and his team precisely plating each serving.
Our last morning was spent on Vallarta Food Tours' Original Downtown Vallarta Tour. This three-hour food tasting and cultural walking tour offers a local's view into Mexican culture through its delicious and intricate cuisine, rich history, and stunning architecture.
We experienced off-the-beaten path eateries comprised of taco stands with regional delicacies from places like El Guero and Mole Rosa as well as Robles Birria Tacos (a slow-cooked meat stew served on tortillas). We saw fresh produce stands as well as local vendors preparing tortillas and peeling the agave leaves.
Where to Stay
I highly recommend the Marriott CasaMagna in Puerto Vallarta. From the moment you walk through the open-air doors, there is a sense of relaxation and tranquility. The architecture is luxuriously casual with a beautiful infinity pool. Spa treatments are available and the hotel is set among the Sierra Madre Mountains right on a pristine sandy beach. The service was never disappointing—from checking into the hotel to meals and concierge service. Bus service runs right in front of the hotel.
Rooms are filled with comfortable beds with fine linens and spotless marble bathrooms. Breakfast at the CasaMagna will set you up to tour or enjoy the pool for the rest of the day. A multitude of stations await you with every imaginable Mexican breakfast dish as well as traditional American fare and fresh fruit, juices, and pastries.
To make reservations, use the following website: http://www.marriott.com/hotels/travel/pvrmx-casamagna-marriott-puerto-vallarta-resort-and-spa/
Special Events Not to Miss
The Ceviche and Aguachile Festival was held in January, 2017. This annual event is renowned for its international cuisine and flavors, and showcased the two most traditional dishes of Puerto Vallarta. This event is family-oriented with raffles and prizes as well as live music. Entry was free with restaurants offering tastes at around 15 pesos each. Some of the participating restaurants this past January were Restaurant Mauricios, Mariscos El Guero, Tuna Azul, and LaMara Fresh Seafood. Find information about next year's festival on Facebook at: https://www.facebook.com/Festival-del-Ceviche-y-Aguachile-PV-932499220174557/
Mexico's Festival Gourmet, held annually for 10 days every November, will be from November 12-November 20, 2017. Interested parties are encouraged to buy tickets early because culinary events sell out quickly.
Cocktail parties, progressive dinners, cooking demonstrations, theme nights and gourmet buffets take place in the region's best restaurants, including Café des Artistes in Puerto Vallarta, Nicksan in Nuevo Vallarta, and Emiliano in Tepic.
If you can't decide where to eat, book tickets for a Gourmet Safari. The progressive dinner includes transportation between restaurants for each course, with paired Mexican wines and drinks. You can buy tickets at: http://www.festivalgourmet.com/en/
Puerto Vallarta offers so much fun, sun, and great food in a romantic and friendly atmosphere with the feeling of traveling to an exotic destination. Remember, this was the place where John Huston filmed “The Night of the Iguana,” starring Liz Taylor and Richard Burton, because of its beauty and because the two were drawn to this enchanting place to vacation. Puerto Vallarta continues to draw stars such as Brad Pitt, Demi Moore, and Orlando Bloom to name a few. Why not follow in their footsteps and enjoy this magical spot.
To read Part One of this article, go to this link: http://life-uncorked.com/travel/puerto-vallarta-old-and-new-adventures-part-one
Photos by Linda Milks.
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Over 55 we become more forgetful. Apparently ageing can slow reaction time and the retrieval of information from memory, requiring a few more seconds. Or longer in the summer heat and year-end.
I had just finished the shopping and was unpacking the groceries at home when I looked for my list of Things to Do before Christmas. Where was my bag? Back to the boot. Nothing. Could it be possible that I left it in the shopping trolley?
Yes. Distracted by things I hadn't yet done, I left it in full view of the entire parking lot.
My first thoughts were not about the cash or credit card. Not even my mobile. It was about the dread of posing for yet another driver's licence photo. (I look as if I'm about to burst out crying in my present one. I was told not to smile and to close my mouth. This is difficult as I have allergies and I'm a mouth breather.)
I parked near my trolley but it was empty. I rushed into the shopping centre. I didn't have to ask. There stood my large tan bag, slightly crumpled, on the customer care table.
"Oh, it's mine," I exclaimed. "I can't believe I left in in the trolley and that someone actually brought it here!"
"Don't worry," said the smiling shop assistant, dressed in a red Happy Christmas outfit, "my mum's not from here and she's always misplacing things and we keep telling here that it's a good thing she lives in Australia now."
With that she passed me my bag. "Check if everything's there." From credits cards to shopping lists and the borealis bracelet from the Salvos (to add sparkle on Christmas day), all was in place.
So although Sydney was on tornado alert yesterday and Adelaide is having a heatwave of over 40 degrees predicted this week, what is a given in Australia are the people. I have found the average Australian in the street to be totally honest. All of my friends have had forgotten items returned. Wallets and mobiles dutifully handed in to relevant authorities.
A friend had the police call and say they had his wallet. He would have to fetch it in person as they could identify him from his driver's licence (without a driver's licence it's almost as if you have no identity and I think it must be problematic for citizens who can't or won't drive). My friend was identified and allowed to check the contents. "Try to remember your wallet next time!" said the friendly cop.
I remember taking off my late mother's signet ring at work. Large medical facility, lots of people in and out. I had washed my hands, applied cream and forgotten the ring. Next day, there it was on the counter. Untouched.
Of this I am sure -- we can weather storms and heatwaves, but how would we cope without the integrity of our citizens? Australia's a great place to live. Especially for the over 55s. Now I must quickly read the instructions on how to set up my solar led Christmas lights. Has anyone seen my glasses?Suggest a correction
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Dig out your unwanted treasures and head down to UK Aware 09 (www.ukaware.com) this April (17-18th) at London Olympia Two where daisygreenmagazine.co.uk, the online ethical woman's magazine, is hosting the biggest ever Swishing event.
Men and women from all over the UK will be heading to the west London event on 17th and 18th April to swap their redundant clothes and accessories with others. The idea of Swishing involves a group of people getting together to swap gorgeous clothes and party at the same time with only one rule: everyone must bring at least one good quality, clean item of clothing, or an accessory, that they'd feel proud to hand on.
Nicola Alexander, Founder of daisygreenmagazine.co.uk, says: "Swishing is a great way for ethically minded people to follow fashion with a clear conscience. With the increase in bargain fashion stores, we have become very wasteful - buying items of clothing for a single season. With Swishing you can refresh your wardrobe on a regular basis, without having to spend a penny. Also, you have the piece of mind that, that dress you haven't worn for ages could be another's style find of the season and will have a new lease of life instead of being crammed at the back of your wardrobe."
Nicola will be running the Swishing events at UK Aware with daisygreenmagazine.co.uk contributor, Lupe Castro, an ethical stylist who will be on hand both days to offer her top Swishing tips.
Nicola continues, "Lupe and I have run a number of Swishing events together and we have so much fun - we usually get so much cool vintage stuff that there is rarely anything left over. Although Swishing events are usually just women, for this event we would also like to invite any fashion conscious and ethically conscious men to join in as well."
There will be a morning and afternoon event on each day, where 'Swishers' will be given a time to drop off time their goodies and given a token, they will then have time to browse before the Swishing begins. If you don't have any unwanted clothes, but are keen to see what other's have to offer, then you can still come along and simply pay for anything that takes your fancy. Anything left over at the end of the event will be given to TRAID (Textile Recycling for Aid and International Development), a charity working to protect the environment and fight global poverty through its clothes recycling as well as educational and campaigning activities in the UK.
To get involved in the biggest Swishing event, head down to UK Aware at London Olympia Two on 17th and 18th April, with your unwanted goodies. Visit www.ukaware.com or www.daisygreenmagazine.co.uk for more information.
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Rondle Lee, 87, died, Saturday, March 25, 2017 at St. Joseph East, Lexington. He was born March 17, 1930 in Campton to the late Vicia and Noah Sr. Lee.
Survivors include. wife, Alma R. Lee; sons: Anthony (Deborah) Lee, Jeffrey (Deborah) Lee and Glyn Rogers Jr; daughters: Dianna K. (Caleph) Todd; brothers: Matthew Lee, Samuel Lee, Gloyd Lee, and Jerry Lee; sisters: Tammy Snyder, Wilma Faye Stokley, Mattie Wasson, Glenda Taylor, Louise Merion, Charolette Sparks, and Bonnie Derickson; 6 grandchildren, 8 great-grandchildren and several loving nieces and nephews. He was proceeded in death by his parents Noah and Vicia Lee, daughter Sharon Jane Lee, and two brothers Noah Lee Jr. and Gary Lee.
Services were held Wednesday, March 29, at Davis & Davis Funeral Home with Reverend Ben Liston and Reverend Max Molihan. Burial was in Kennon Cemetery with Caleb M. Todd, Derrick Rogers, Bryan Rogers, Colin Rate, Larry Epperson and Glyn Rogers Jr. serving as pallbearers. Davis & Davis Funeral Home in charge of arrangements. www.ddfh.net
Mary McGuire, 59, of Stanton, died Monday, March 27, 2017. She was born July 21, 1957 in Jackson, KY to the Late Brice and Elizabeth Howard. She was a homemaker.
She is survived by one son, Clifford Vaughn , and his wife Jennifer of Missouri; three daughters, Tracy Bond and husband Lloyd of Olive Hill, Angela Vaughn of Mt. Sterling, Tina Knipp of Stanton; twelve grandchildren, three great grandchildren, one brother, Brice Howard of Florence, KY; two sisters Maudie Jones of Mt. Sterling and Stella Curtis of Winchester. She was preceded in death by her parents Brice and Elizabeth Howard, two daughters Sabrina Vaughn, Deanna Vaughn and a brother, Robert Howard.
Funeral services were held Friday, March 31, 2017 at the Grayson Funeral Home Chapel with Sis. Diane Harrison officiating. Grayson Funeral Home was in charge of services.
William “Billy” Everett Mize, 57, died Saturday, March 25, 2017 at UK Hospital, Lexington. He was born March 28, 1959 in Lexington to Velina Hatton and the late William Everett Mize.
Survivors include, mother, Velina (Nathan) Combs Hatton; sons: William Andrew Mize and Josh McIntosh; brothers: Richard Wayne Mize and Bobby Joe Mize; step-brothers: Bob Davis, Grover Hatton, Gary Hatton, George Hatton, and Byron Welch; grandchildren, Sophia Morris; several nieces and nephews.
Services were held Tuesday, March 28, at Davis & Davis Funeral Home with Reverend Bobby Courtney. Burial was in Combs Cemetery with Anthony Hawkins, Bobby Mize, Ricky Mize, Bob Davis, Levi Roe and Charles Stamper Jr serving as pallbearers. Honorary pallbearers: Mark Hawkins, Garland Philippe, Leah Cox, Rhonda Casey, and Joey Casey. Davis & Davis Funeral Home in charge of arrangements. www.ddfh.net
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Christmas tree cupcakes. Decorate your simple chocolate cupcakes into cute little Christmas trees with help from pretzels, icing and colorful sprinkles.
From Facebook - "A Blissful Nest" page 12/2015 "Food presentation is everything! Fabulous idea for a party."
Objective: Students will create a color wheel using one point perspective, accurate color placement and value CA Art Standards...
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Publix DIY Christmas Tree Napkins
Dahlhart Lane: How to make Paper Clay
Make a Silicone Mold from Silicone Sealant - super easy and a LOT cheaper than buying mold making supplies
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Huzzah, I present to ye all, a short film exploring potential terrors and trauma that the infernal insect known as the hornet can inflict. Be warned, as you yourself may potentially endure what is featured in this video.
For something with 0 voice acting that was amazing. Well done! It wasn't short, you have a great animating skill, and this took some serious effort to make. You matched the music with the action really well, the audio wasn't to loud, and you did a good job picking out the right audio. I really enjoyed it, hope to see more.
Thanks man, though the next one may not be exactly as long so it doesn't take over a year to make.
After being exiled, the mysterious "Valdoros" must contend with home invaders
Tape One of a pixel animated Horror anthology series.
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Discussion in 'Nintendo Wii Gaming' started by ChrisWii123, Apr 1, 2007.
i say legend of zelda: Twilight Princess is the best right now.:yesnod: anyone else think so?
Wow, so many threads about this...
LOZ: Twilight Princess
no kidding about the too many threads
i didnt wanna be the B*TCH today ill let someone else do it, thanks homer
It does seem to be an intresting thread though.
But... I'm always the one to do it.
i think LOZ:TP....i just finished it today LOL!!
Godfather imo, Godfather is key.
loz or trama center
Zelda TP, every game on the wii is amazing though.
I feel wierd saying this because everyone elses answers are Legend of Zelda Twilight Princess and Godfather. I personally like Rayman Raving Rabbids!
thats a good game, i usually play it with a lot of freinds.i already beat that game.:thumbsup:
I'd say LoZ, because I haven't played the godfather yet...
I'm looking forward to it, though.
zelda for now, im just about to get ssx blur, then rent godfather, vanguard, and prince of persia through my free trials.
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Naturally I woul like to thank all those who helped me through this particularly challenging time.
So I thought I’d mention a few names:
Dr E Pereira – who carried out the operation, so very expertly. I understand he was head-hunted by the Atkinson Morley from the John Radcliffe in Oxford as the former wants to become the UK centre for this sort of thing.
Dr D Paviour – my Consultant Neurologist at the AM. Who put me up for this after my first visit and who’s help is ongoing
Dr S Stapleton – One of the senior neurosurgeons in the UK. A thoroughly decent and nice chap. Who by co-incidence I knew from previous occasions as my last house, in Ockham, I bought from him. He was operating in another Theatre the same day and came in several times to check up on me
Dr P Marazzi – My old GP when I lived in ~ Ockham. Who to say he is a very keen photographer would be a somewhat massive understatement. When he knew I was having this procedure was very keen to photograph it (on his day off – something of a busmans holiday). It was nice and resassurring to have a ‘friendly’ face there. Photo’s later
Dr G Warner – my ‘usual’ consultant, who first diagnosed my Parkinson’s all those years ago and then sent me along to the AM to see how else they could help
All of them lovely men
Of course there are many, many others. But more of them later
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This is the only place I have ever been to in West Seattle but it is certainly a winner. Doug showed us a great time and stuffed us full of outstanding beer and delicious appetizers. If you are in the area I suggest stopping buy and if you aren’t hop on that #22 bus and get down!
Stopped in here with my GF while looking for places to live in Burien. I was pleasantly surprised by how nice, clean and big the bar was. They had about 20 of their beers on tap and the ones I had were very good. We also got some wings which were tasty. The service was great and the girls were very helpful explaining the area.
Nena (20) Seattle, Washington | August 26, 2009| Updated March 1, 2010
The interior of this place has a really warm, comfortable feel to it. It can get a little loud in the evening on weekends, however. They rotate their own beer offerings often and also bring in some good guest taps. I like a great deal of their beer. Not everything’s a hit, but there’s usually something good or awesome available. The food has always been reasonably priced and delicious, and the service friendly. Love the stout ice cream.
Elliott Bay brews their own and doesn’t bottle it so stop by to sample their excellent brews. Brewmaster Doug always has several hoppy beers on rotation, as well as a good selection of rotating taps from local breweries. The food is never-miss pub style. Service is friendly and genuine. It’s a little loud when it’s packed with friends and family gatherings (nearly every night), but somehow that only adds to the friendly neighborhood ambiance.
Nearby construction makes parking a little iffy, but this is a nice find. Wood everywhere makes the place feel warm. Long bar as you enter with a large selection on tap. Flights available. The food was above average and well priced. Will go back again.
Ahh, yes. I had me the anniversary beer in celebration of signing my lease two blocks away. The place has the W. Seattle laid back vibe to it. Good people and good food. I had the ahi tuna sandwich, which was great. I’m excited to be living next to this place as I see my self becoming a regular.
We showed up at the height of the noon rush, and signed in on the waiting list with some worry about the wait. Turns out that the staff is quick and efficient the food was great, and there were some very nice beers in the sampler. My wife was happy to find Lindeman’s Framboise on tap, and the in-laws went for Heineken in bottles.
after4ever (322) Mukilteo, Washington | April 16, 2006| Updated September 3, 2007
Good pub grub in an area that needs it. Nice house-made beers, usually well-chosen guest taps as well. Food is solid. Service is pretty flaky at times; it’s not a hurry-up spot for an efficiently timed meal. Husky Deli across the street makes a natural dessert stop afterward.
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Heat oven to 350° F. Spray nonstick cookie sheet with cooking spray. Place walnuts in food processor or blender. Cover and process, using quick on-and-off motions, until walnuts are consistency of coarse meal. Mix 1/2 cup of the ground walnuts and the remaining ingredients except egg whites in large bowl. Stir in egg whites thoroughly until stiff dough forms.
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, 70, formerly of Montpelier, and more recently of Fla., died Nov. 30. Born in 1929 in Montpelier, he was the son of Henri and Irma LaBonte Garand. He served in the Army. He worked at Union Carbide/Eveready Battery. Survivors include his wife, Ruth Ann (Streeter) Garand; five sons, David, Richard, Steven, Peter an Thomas; one daughter, Linda Garand; three stepchildren; a brother; several grandchildren and step-grandchildren. He was predeceased by his first wife, Patricia Cook Garand, in 1983.
, 71, formerly of Randolph and more recently of Weare, N.H., died Nov. 27. Born in 1928 in Randolph, he was the son of John and Regina (Poirer) Anderson. He graduated from Randolph High School. In 1956, he married Sonja Kraus, who died in 1975. In 1977, he married Marion Gross, who died in 1987. In 1992, he married Phyllis Menard. He had served in the Army during WWII and was a car salesman for John Alexander in So. Royalton and later a real estate salesman and operated Anderson's Mobile Home Park in Braintree. Survivors include his wife; five stepdaughters, Donna Goodrich, Terry Menard, Sandra Hillman, Marie Menard and Peggy Preve; three stepsons, Michael Menard, Gene Menard and Jack Menard; 15 step-grandchildren; three step-great-grandchildren.
, 72, formerly of Montpelier, died Dec. 4. He was born in 1927 in Portland, Maine. He had lived in Montpelier and he retired as Administrator of Human Resources for Rock of Ages. He served in the Navy from 1045-46 and the Air Force from 1955-1963. Survivors include his wife, Mary A. Marsh; two daughters, Mary A. Arruda and Marcia L. Dunn; one step-daughter, Caradawn Mitulski; one son, Michael G. Marsh; three sisters; seven grandchildren; one great-grandchild.
, 74, formerly of Barre, died Dec. 6. Born in 1923 in Barre, she was the daughter of John and Flora (Murphy) Averill. She grew up in Montpelier and graduated from Montpelier High School. Survivors include her husband, Charles Parker; three sons, James, Charles II and Martin; nine grandchildren; four great-grandchildren; three nephews.
, 71, of Waterbury, died Dec. 9. Born in 1928 in Burlington, she was the daughter of Thomas and Blanche (Morse) McDevitt. She graduated from the former Waterbury High School and in 1968, married Merton Rathburn. She was employed as a teller at the former Bank of Waterbury and the Chittenden Bank in Montpelier. She later worked for the National Life Company, retiring in 1989. Survivors include her husband; two daughters, Tammy McGinn and Sandy Kallstrom; two sons, Marc Metayer and Barry Metayer; 13 grandchildren.
, 91, of Northfield, died Dec. 12. Born in 1908 in West Rutland, she was the daughter of John and Josephine (Carlson) Gustafson, originally of Sweden. She graduated from the Jewish Maternity Hospital Training Program in New York City, specializing in obstetrics and pediatrics. In 1932, she married Eric Stromgren, who died in 1968. She was active in the Shepherd of the Hills Lutheran Church in Montpelier. Survivors include one son, Carl Eric Stromgren; a daughter, Martha Morris; three grandsons; many nieces, nephews, great nieces and nephews.
, 70, of Montpelier, died Dec. 11. Born in 1929 in Springfield, Mass., he was the son of Russell and Anna (Jones) Farnsworth. He graduated from Burlington High School and received a bachelor's degree and a master's degree from the University of Vermont. In 1952, he married Doris Brown, who died in 1974. In 1975, he married Ester Havens Cook. He taught mathematics at Montpelier High School and served in the Army. He was a member of Christ Church (Episcopal). Survivors include his wife; a son, David; a daughter, Norma Farnsworth; two step-daughters, Sally Cook and Anne Adams; two step-sons, William Cook; one sister; nine grandchildren.
, 69, of Randolph Center, died Dec. 11. Born in 1930 in Long Island, N.Y., she was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Mackovich. She was educated in New York schools. In 1950, she married William F. Dimmick, who died in 1986. She worked for many years at Eastern Airlines in Miami, Fla. She was a member of the Baptist Fellowship in Randolph. Survivors include her brother-in-law, Russell Dimmick and his family.
, 70, of Berlin, died Dec. 9. Born in 1929 in Essex Fells, N.J., to Harold and Gladys Reindel. He graduated from Union College with a BA. In 1952, he married Helen Jean Miller. He was a software developer for Univac/Unisys, retiring in 1984. After retirement he started his second career, a ceramics studio/kiln. He was a member of St. Luke's Presbyterian Church in Minn., Paoli Presbyterian Church in PA and Bethany United Church of Christ in Montpelier. Survivors include his wife, Helen Jean; five sons, Bill, Tom, Karl, Harold and Andrew; 12 grandchildren; one great-grandchild.
, 84, of Northfield, died Dec. 10. Born in 1915 in Roxbury, he was the son of Carlos and Grace (Henderson) Shaw. He was a handyman and mason in the Waitsfield area, provided elder care services and operated a chicken farm. Survivors include several nieces and nephews.
, 85, of Northfield, died Dec. 7. He was born to Italian immigrants, Teresa and Gerardo in 1914 in East Providence, R.I. He moved to Northfield in 1996. He had operated Cute's Shoe Repair in East Providence, retiring in 1979. In 1935, he married Margaret Hutchinson, who died in 1988. He was a member of Haven Methodist Church in East. Providence. Survivors include two children, Nancy Grasso and Christina Riley; two sons, Gerry and Peter; four brothers.
, 69, of So. Barre, died Dec. 4. Born in 1930 in Jackson Heights, N.Y., he was the son of Peter and Celia Pasotti. He graduated from Adelphi University and also the Masters and Ph.D programs at Columbia University in New York City with a doctorate in philosophy. In 1994, he married Susan Gillhouse McKnight. He was a statistician for the former Brooklyn Dodgers baseball team, a professor of philosophy at Adelphi University and the New York University of New York City. He served in the Army Signal Corps and was affiliated with Barre Congregational Church. Survivors include his wife; a daughter, Daphne Bishop; two stepsons, Garrison Smith, Blake McKnight.
, 98, of Barre, died Dec. 7. Born in 1901 in So. Paris, Maine, she was the son of Katherine Ellis and Rev. Thomas Jefferson Ramsdell. She spent her childhood in Maine and graduated from Northfield School for Girls. She also attended Presbyterian Hospital School of Nursing in NYC. In 1930, she married Benjamin Naylor, who died in 1974. She was a member of Trinity United Methodist Church. Survivors include a sister, Ruth Elfstom; five children, Miriam Wilska, Robert Naylor, Ralph Naylor, Benjamin Naylor and Paula Naylor; 11 grandchildren; 12 great-grandchildren; two great-great-grandchildren; many nieces and nephews.
, 85, formerly of Hardwick, died Dec. 8. Born in 1914 in Hardwick, he was the son of John Mitchell and Florence Corolett. In 1950, he married Norma McCuin. He was employed by Eastern Magnesia Talc Mine and served in the Army Air Corps. Survivors include his wife; a son, John Jr.; two daughters, Kathy Smith and Margo Griggs; four grandchildren.
, 88, of Barre, died Dec. 7. Born in 1911 in Montpelier, she was the daughter of Julian and Maria Luisa (Gomez) Cobo. She attended both Montpelier and Barre schools. In 1939, she married Neale MacKenzie, who died in 1981. She had worked in the medical office of Dr. Cornelius Granai and later at Central Vermont Hospital. She was a member of the Barre Congregational Church. Survivors include a daughter, Marcia Pauly; two sons, Allan and Steven; eight grandchildren; two great-grandchildren; one sister; cousins.
, 79, of Randolph, died Dec. 4. Born in 1920 in Papa, Hungary, he was the son of Janos and Zofia (Nemet) Kardos. He was educated in Calvinist Gymnasium Piarista in Hungary and the Hungarian Military Academy in Budapest. He married Berta Frater. He served in the Hungarian Air Force during WWII. In 1956, he came to N.J. and in 1981, moved to Randolph and purchased the George Billingham's laundromat. Survivors include his wife; a son, Janos; a brother; three grandchildren; six great-grandchildren.
, 72, of Berlin, died Dec. 4. Born in 1927 in Calais, he was the son of John Sr. and Gladys LaPan. He attended Calais schools. He married Margaret Demers, who died in 1991. He was a maintenance foreman at National Life Insurance Company in Montpelier and served in the Navy. Survivors include two sons, Gary and Timothy; three daughters, Donna Chapin, Darlene Chapin Badger and Ann Marie Chapin Preman; his mother; two brothers; 11 grandchildren; eight great-grandchildren.
, 33, of Montpelier, died Dec. 2. Born in 1966 in Washington, D.C., he moved to Montpelier in 1976. He graduated from Lyndon Institute, earned his associates degree in Civil Engineering from Northeastern University and his licensure as a Professional Engineer. He was a structural engineer. In 1988, he married Laurie Mollitor. Survivors include his wife and son; two sisters; his mother Jean and his father, Ramon; aunts, uncles, cousins and extended family.
, 73, formerly of Barre, died Nov. 22. Born in 1926 in Barre, he was the son of Morton and Alice Martin. He graduated from Spaulding High School. He served with the Army Air Corps, retiring after 25 years. Survivors include his wife, Willie Martin; two sons, David and Robert; one daughter, Cindy Wiggins; three sisters; several grandchildren; nieces and nephews.
71, formerly of Montpelier, died Dec. 14. Born in 1928 in Montpelier, he was the son of Edith Peck Stafford and Roland I. Stafford. He graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy. He served with the Army with the 11th Airborne Division in Japan. IN 1948, he married Arlene Lewis. He graduated from Johnson State College with a bachelor's degree in education and began his teaching career at Colchester Junior High School and moved on to St. Albans Bellows Free Academy, retiring in 1993. He received numerous academic degrees including a Masters in Education from the University of Vermont, a Masters in Geology from the University of Oklahoma and extended course work at Columbia University in New York City. Survivors include his wife; three children, Joan Nye, Karla Kane and Scott Stafford; two granddaughters.
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Madhubala 5th August 2013 Written Episode, Madhubala 5th August 2013 Written Update
Madhu opens the card and its a pic of her with RK at the hosp with a cross mark on RKs face..! She reads the words ’24 hours’ on the envelop and is panic stricken! She quickly hides the card…and dials the hosp number! The receptionist informs that RK has been discharged 2 hours back and has gotten bail too..! She asks where is he and she says.. no idea! Madhu tries RKs number but its out of coverage..! Madhu worries about RK and rushes down the stairs..! She is blabbering nothing can happen to RK..! Paddo asks the matter? Madhu says dunno where RK is…She says.. he has been discharged and gotten bail too..! She says he started 2 hours back but hasnt reached home yet..! Dips wonders why so much time to reach home? Paddo reassuers saying may be stuck in traffic! She asks to call
RK says. .Biwi ..jab kuch samaj na aaye to samjho RK aa gaya..! RK comes and Madhu is stunned and relieve seeing him and walks to meet him..! Dips smiles seeing him! Madhu is dizzy and faints and RK hold her..! Radha rushes to help but RK stops..! RK asks to call Doc..! He picks Madhu up and rushes to bedroom..!
Madhu wakes up and finds RK sitting by her side..! She says RK? RK says no dream.. he is here.. indias biggest superstar n so close that she can touch! RK says.. she is more talented than him . .he did the film n she took credit! Madhu watches as if in daze! RK says told Bittu not to tell Madhu when bail was given to surpsrise her but she cahnged climax.. fainted..! RK says.. he was in court.. to sign papers..! Madhu hugs RK..! RK hugs her bakc.! RK says if there is awar for shedding tear.. no one can beat Madhu ..bahut shiddat se aur ddil se roti ho… even if happiness or sadness! RK says.. cry allowed for happienss only! RK says.. the person she cries for..is gona be with her for life..! RK says new lawyer is good..! Madhu is slent..! RK asks why so quiet? He says no one can separate them…n they will fight togther in future n win too! Madhu says RK.. n RK says what?
Madhus cell rings n RK goes to receive..! Madhu is panic stricken..! No one answer o the other side.. of the phone..! RK says seems the guy doesnt like his voice..! RK ask sMadhu the matter? Madhu stammers n says.. since morning getting blank calls.. dunno whop it is? RK says only two people like to do this.. either some lover..male/female! RK says.. he broke all lovers heart the day he married her. .n is it some lover of hers? Madhu stamemrs n RK says joking..! RK asks what was she saying ? Madhu says.. very scared.. that some storm will come n destroy all . .n she is trying to save her world but..! RK says ..no storm can shake her feet..till she accepts defeat n surrenders.. n when Rishbala are together darne ki kya baat hai? Madhu says have to say something..! She tries but moby rings again..!
Madhu goes to check nRK goes to get fresh..! Madhu says hello n Sultan says if tummy full of love .. present the reality to RK ..ask for divorce..! Sultan asks if mood changed? IF yes ..dun think …coz.. his mood hasnt.. ! He says if she does not separate from RK .. he wont take time to separate RKs life from him! Sultan says.. till he is in her arms. .he wont hurt..but when he comes for shoot or party ..then he will handle him! Sultan tells her not to tell RK that he called.. nsays ..only 12 hours left.. spend.. with RK n then .. after separating from RK ..end him ..! Sultan cuts call ..! Madhu is scared..! RK comes and pats on Madhus shoulder n she is scared! RK asks ur lover called n Madhu says bank called about new account RK has opened.. n call cut..! RK says.. let it be.. tell what u wanna tell? Madhu recollects Sultans warning n is quiet..1 She says.. dunno how long to live like this in shadwo of fear.. today he is with him .. n tomorrow if his bail is cancelle ! RK says all will be well .. lawyer will handle.. ! Madhu says.. cant say fo rsure.. she says..he is not understanding! RK says. .what is wrong? Tehy are together n will stay! Madhu pushes his hand away n says.. why dun u understand if anythnig happend to him then …! Madhu leaves from there.. saying getting food! RK is confused..!
Madhu is cutting veggies in kitchen n recollects Sultans warning.. ! Radha comes n sees water boiling n asks Madhu if all si well? Madhu is in a daze ..! Radha says.. she knows.. Rishu is in pain.. n Madhu says not to worry all is well ..! Radha says ..she is a mom ..so cant stay in peace..! She ruse not being able to see RK properly! Madhu says ..why saying so? Radha says.. she din. .n says.. will she get Rishu> Madhu says making halwa for RK..with gazar..! Radha says make of suzi ..he likes suzi halwa.. ! Madhu says.. know how to make but how much sweet to add? If she can help? Radha agrees to guide..!
RK asks Bittu if he wil ltake cash or chequ to stop irritating him..! Bittu says only 4 hours needed for patching..! RK says next week! Bittu says. .its very important.. if he again n RK says go back to jail n pic stuck? RK says.. keep faith in God .. he will do soething bad.! Bittu says dun mean that! RK says he jsut got back but hno one is happy .. seems all want him to go back to jail..1 Bittu says dun say so!
Radha is making suzi halwa.. with Madhus help ..n Madhu is about to add badam n she says add kashmish! MAdhu says.. weird habit.. dun like badam n Radha says she is same..!
Radha says undersstand that she is making Radha cook the halwa..! Madhu says. if she remembers.. that she had said once.. that never leave RKs side..! She asks Radha to promise that she wont leave RKs side..! She asks in future .. RK will need her the most.. ..her love.. her support ..! She asks if Radha will support RK? Will never leave RK? Radha asks ..why is she thinking so? She is RKs biggest strength and sh has to be with RK for life..! Madhu is quiet and in tears.. n then says.. even then… a mothesr love and blessing only Radha can give..! Madhu puts halwa in a bowl and asks Radha to take i tto RK ! Radha hesitates! Madhu insists..! She wipes Radhas tears and says go..! Radha goes to RK ..!
Precap — RK fumes seeing Radha n tells to Bittu she is not my mom ..she is MKs wife.. who instead of telling her son the truth ..chose to keep alive MKs lies..! RK says if she had told RK the truth.. he wouldnt have been this destroyed and Sultan would not have been in their life! He rues that then he wouldnt have killed Sultan..!.
Update Credit to: Armu4eva
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It’s now the end of September, and clearly we’ve all survived the enhanced campaigns transition. As the dust continues to settle, now is a good time to take a look at what this change has meant for the industry.
Kenshoo clients have had some great results in the post-migration era. As discussed during our webinar with Bon Mercado from Google, one of our lead-driven clients was able to reduce its average cost-per-click by 11% while driving more incremental traffic. One consumer packaged goods (CPG) advertiser saw a 329% increase in mobile and tablet traffic. Kenshoo’s in-house search campaigns had stellar results as conversions increased while both cost-per-click and cost-per-acquisition dropped.
Previously, advertisers had to manage three individual campaigns to direct traffic to mobile, tablet, and desktop devices. Now they are left with one. This has some great advantages. For example, keyword expansion immediately affects all devices. Additionally, bid management can be done more quickly since there are fewer bids to set.
Although the new account structure means that advertisers have fewer total keywords to manage, the way that keywords relate to each other has fundamentally changed. Due to the introduction of the mobile bid adjustment (MBA)—which gives Google advertisers the ability to change bids to smart phones in relation to desktop and tablet bids—all of the keywords in a campaign or ad group are dependent on each other. Because of this fundamental change, the optimal adjustment for one keyword is not necessarily optimal for others.
With so many moving parts, bid management can easily become an overwhelming task to get right. Since we first got wind of enhanced campaigns, Kenshoo made solving this challenge a top priority. We have introduced bid policies that are capable of optimizing not just the keyword bids, but also the mobile bid adjustments at the ad group level.
Our algorithms are able to determine the proper mix of keyword bids and mobile bid adjustments to produce the optimal overall result. This is accomplished by simultaneously analyzing the performance of the individual keywords on desktop and their aggregated ad group performance on mobile. Since the effective mobile bids are affected by two pieces—desktop bid and mobile bid adjustment—it’s important to set both at the same time when optimizing. Failing to do so can mean sub-optimal results and overspending.
To date, Kenshoo has optimized the mobile bid adjustments for nearly 9 million ad groups!
At the end of the day, advertisers all want the same thing regardless of device… the best results. At Kenshoo, that’s our goal. And, so far, so good!
How are you faring with enhanced campaigns, or, as they’re now called, campaigns?
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http://kenshoo.com/the-enhanced-campaign-era-brings-new-efficiencies-and-complexities/
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Pasta and Trees
This is an easy cheesy dinner that will be loved by all mac and cheese fans.
- 1 pound broccoli tops
- Salt and pepper to taste
- 1 pound pasta, such as penne, cavatappi, elbows or medium shells
- 1 tablespoon extra virgin olive oil (EVOO)
- 2 tablespoons butter, cut up
- 1 cup grated parmesan, Parmigiano Reggiano or Romano cheese
Have a grown-up helper (GH) put a big pot of water on to boil for the pasta.
Separate the broccoli into small “trees” by pulling them apart. Ask your GH to trim off the woody stems of the trees so you can break them up more easily.
Put the trees into a pot and have your GH add enough water just to cover the tops. The GH should bring the water to a boil and add four pinches of salt to the water. You can count for them.
Cook the broccoli for five minutes and have the GH drain it.
When the pasta water boils, have the GH put four more pinches of salt into the pot and add the pasta.
Cook the pasta to al dente (that’s Italian for “done but still with a bite to it”), according to the package instructions.
Put the EVOO and butter into a big bowl.
Ask the GH to add the hot drained pasta and broccoli to the bowl.
Add the cheese to the bowl and stir it all up until the butter melts and the cheese mixes in. Add a little salt and pepper and taste the pasta to see how the seasoning is.
This is a great recipe for kids and the whole family from Yum-o! It’s good AND good for you. For more information about Yum-o! go to the Yum-o! website.
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http://www.rachaelray.com/recipe/pasta-and-trees/
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Our Nextcloud instance needs to use mod_php instead of mod_fpm or mod_fcgi so that it can copy large files to Samba shares. I'm not using the official CentOS 5.4 PHP repo because Nextcloud needs PHP 5.5 or higher. Instead I'm using Remi's PHP 7 repo.
From Nextcloud support:
How fast is the connection between your server and the SMB storage?
Official support (and test) is only for mod_php. There are often some issues with mod_fcgid and I can't tell you if there are some general restrictions or if it's just have to figure out a good setup (in contrast to mod_php or nginx, there is no example config to start from).
Is there a way for me to do this?
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https://www.virtualmin.com/node/45276
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PARIS (Reuters) - A French group has called for a large demonstration in Paris this weekend to show solidarity with tens of thousands of youth protesters demonstrating against austerity programs in Spain.
Eyes will be on France this week when President Nicolas Sarkozy hosts world leaders in the seaside town of Deauville for a meeting of the Group of Eight industrialized countries. Such meetings are often the target of anti-globalization protests.
In Spain, tens of thousands of demonstrators, angry over unemployment and austerity measures, packed Madrid's Puerta del Sol square all last week ahead of local elections, overshadowing the last few days of campaigning. The ruling Socialists suffered a major loss at the polls on Sunday. [nLDE74M02A]
Solidarity with "los indignados" (the indignant) in Madrid has already inspired several dozen French youths to spend nights camped out at the Place de la Bastille, the Paris square where a jail was torn down during the 1789 French Revolution.
Protesters say demonstrations spreading this year through the Arab world have crossed the Mediterranean. They describe the fight in Spain as a European struggle against governments who favor the interests of financial institutions.
"They take money, we'll take the street," a French group named after the Spanish "Real Democracy Now" movement said on its website. "We're being strangled by these austerity plans that are multiplying throughout Europe."
Youth unemployment in France, at about 20 percent, is well below Spain's level of 45 percent, but opinion polls suggest the French are angry at sliding purchasing power as stagnant wages fail to keep up with inflation.
Reporting by Alexandria Sage and Gerard Bon; Editing by Catherine Bremer
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20 July 2011
it's safe to come back now....
I promise not to bludgeon you with
a horrific version
of Mr. Simon's perfect song....
I think I'll play around a bit....
with my camera,
let me just say that
I live in the southern part of the USA...
it is hot out there right now..
It is absolutely true what they say about
"mad dogs and englishmen"
no one who grew up here,
as I did,
would ever think of hangin' out in this heat.
Tomorrow it is supposed to be over 101 degrees.
Now, I don't want to offend those who live in the southwest,
I know it's hot there....
take a mild day in Phoenix, like 95 degrees.....
and add that southern killer
humidity....say, 80% for starters...
I am talkin knee-crawlin,
well, you get the picture,
I went early this morning to
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Mitsubishi plans to get a little outdoorsy at this year's Geneva Motor Show, where it will debut two matching Geoseek concepts. The L200 Geoseek pickup and ASX Geoseek crossover wear equipment and styling inspired by the great outdoors and will bring a hint of fresh air and wide open spaces into the auto-packed Palexpo convention center.
When we first saw the orange highlights of the L200 Geoseek, it brought to mind another brightly accented pickup concept – the Dacia Duster Oroch. The Geoseek isn't as drastic a conversion as that 2014 concept or the Renault Alaskan that followed in 2015, but it does share a similar sense of adventure and vibrancy.
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Equipment modifications on each new Geoseek concept are quite modest and include the front skid plate, gear basket on the roof and revised grille. The bright-orange accents draw attention to functional components like the fog lamps, wheels and mirrors.
The two pearl grey-painted models share many of the same features, but the L200 gets roof rail-connected handholds and lights, while the ASX includes LED fog lamps. The orange accents also vary a little by model. The black interiors include orange highlights, mesh seat panels and suede-like side bolster fabric.
Mitsubishi will reveal the Geoseek concepts at the Geneva Motor Show next week, where it will also hold the European premiere of the eX Concept.
Source: MitsubishiView gallery - 3 images
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http://newatlas.com/mitsubishi-geoseek-concepts/42035/
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Marijuana: Why Is the State Trying So Hard to Shut Down Private Caregivers?
Medical marijuana patient numbers in Colorado have flattened out over the past few months, settling at around 116,000 people despite the submission of more than 2,700 new-patient applications during the past few months. In September, there were 115,710 patients on the registry; in October, the number was 117,239 -- but enrollment for November was back at 116,216.
Also clear from the stats are the small number of people who use private caregivers -- a big focus of the state's enforcement efforts.
The high-water mark came in June 2011, when the registry had 128,698 patients. But new rules and regulations that went into effect the following month resulted in the number of patients dropping to just 88,872 by that October. The total has been slowly climbing back since then.
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Newly released statistics from the state also show that the number of medical patients who designate either a private caregiver or a medical marijuana dispensary as their primary grower has dropped as well -- from 46 percent in October to just 44 percent in November, a decline of nearly 2,800 people. Since there's no further breakdown in the figures, it's hard to tell if the drop is due to patients increasingly growing their own and avoiding signing on with a dispensary, or if the recent crackdown on state-legal caregivers by the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment has caused caregivers and patients to shy away from registering.
We asked the CDPHE to break down those numbers further for us, and they show that about 40 percent of patients (46,928) have signed up a center as their primary grower while only 3.9 percent (4,642) signed up with a private caregiver. The remaining 64,646 patients did not sign anyone up as a caregiver (though they are still able to legally grow for themselves, as well as purchase cannabis from a medical marijuana dispensary).
A Colorado medical cannabis registry card.
The numbers also show that the state health department has devoted a disproportionately large amount of time trying to shut down private caregivers in the state. After all, they only serve a statistically tiny percentage of people on the registry -- not to mention the fact that any Colorado resident 21 and up can grow for themselves at this point.
Two significant areas did see growth from October to November: The number of women on the registry increased by about 800 -- raising the total percentage of women on the registry to more than 36 percent -- and the number of minors also grew, from 444 kids under eighteen in October to 455 as of the end of November.
Medical marijuana purchases in November declined along with the patient population. According to sales figures extrapolated from state tax data, there was $26,636,965 worth of medical pot sold in Colorado in November, down $5.37 million from October's medical sales. Recreational sales were also down from October to November, but the gulf wasn't nearly as wide, with only a $371,966 difference between the two months.
In November, the state received $772,472 in medical marijuana taxes and $5.174 million in recreational taxes, including about $1.36 million in excise taxes on sales from grows to dispensaries that go directly to a state school construction fund. In total last year, $8,360,430 in excise taxes went to the construction fund (wholesale distributors only began operations in October). While sales were down across the board in November, the state stayed busy with licensing, and the collected fees for recreational dispensary applications more than doubled, from $372,222 in October to $816,900 in November.
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Every day we are hearing at least ten or twenty new application name from the mouths of our children. At first we tried to learn what they are but as the time passed we gave up and thought we are now old enough the follow their pace. However, do you really think that all of these applications are safe for your children? Actually most of them are not! Teenagers always find a way to misuse and abuse them. That is why we need to have an eye on their online activities. Mobile spying programs are the best ways for families to be aware of their children’s online actions.
However, if you do not want to use these kinds of applications for now until you are sure about something is going wrong, there some things which you can do for the safety of your children. Mobile applications are actually an industry for programmer to make some money from it. Therefore, they put some features to applications which the user can use it after he or she makes the payment. Be aware of these kinds of applications and never ever let your children to buy anything without consulting you.
When they ask a permission to buy a feature now this will be your turn. You can get all the information from your children, for instance, what this application is for, what the feature will provide to them, why they need it while they can still using the application for free and so on. Do not hesitate to ask these questions to your children and try to understand their purpose.
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The 135,000 square foot sports and recreation facility integrates green building principles through the use of daylight harvesting, photo-sensor informed lighting controls, on-site storm water management, recycled materials, and a “cool” roof. We linked up with New York Principal and Daylighting Leader, Hayden McKay, to get the daylighting scoop.
What made this project or experience special to you and your team?
It is an indoor sports venue where the desire was to have it naturally lighted throughout the day, which differs from our usual sports project.
Describe an energy challenge and how was it met.
The building was oriented toward the ocean view and breezes, which was not optimal for daylight or sun control.
Describe a design challenge and how was it achieved.
The large ocean view window was originally on the SW end of the building. We recommended moving it to the East side so that shading would be needed for less times of the year. We also added clerestory windows and lightshelves, so the natural light would reflect onto interior surfaces, and reduce the contrast from the windows and skylights.
How did HLB’s daylighting services give value to the project?
We worked with the team at the earliest stages of design to incorporate sun control and fenestration that integrated beautifully with the architecture and the design intent. Studies help with the design of sun control so that the sun would not hit the athletic track and event areas, but would allow the maximum amount of daylight to energize the grand scale of the event arena.
Were there budget constraints and how were they met?
This project was designed and bid before LED’s were a viable source, so multiple rows of fluorescent lighting were used to create 5 continuous zones of lighting. This enabled multiple levels of low-cost, high quality daylight harvesting and an indirect setting for nighttime social events. A secondary system of HID high-bays is available for high-intensity competitions in the evenings or overcast days, but used sparingly.
Were there controls, custom fixtures, commissioning, or daylighting scope for HLB?
In addition to the daylighting and electric lighting design, HLB provided full design, zoning and specification of lighting controls and daylight harvesting, final commissioning, solar shading design and coordination of automated shading controls. The Track and Field Arena is controlled by multiple presets that start with natural light and adds the electrical lighting needed for each individual function and competition level.
What were the project’s goals regarding lighting?
There were functional requirements for the competition level lighting for City and State athletic events.
How were these goals achieved?
The use of low-glare daylight for the primary source in all above-grade spaces, supplemented by a very flexible but low-cost electrical lighting system. Industrial luminaires were used in fun ways, and in sync with the architect’s bold color palette, such as the directional arrows pointing the way in the underground warm-up track.
Are there any best practices that we have learned through this project?
Some long delays in the start of construction showed the wisdom of design intent reports, lighting and daylighting control intent narrative, and performance specifications, since some of the specified products were no longer made once the project was under construction.
“My favorite part of this project was being involved early enough in the design to have an impact on the design of fenestration, and working with the architects to develop a building with high quality daylight and views, that provide the athletes a strong connection to nature and the ocean from dawn to dusk.”
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BBC director general Mark Thompson said it woud be the 'last time the BBC will be able to make this level of savings without a substantial loss of services or quality or both'.Credit: By Coffee Lover on Flickr. Some rights reserved.
A public consultation was launched today by the BBC Trust after reviewing a series of proposals from BBC management, produced in response to the licence fee agreement of 2010.
According to a report outlining the measures, published today following a nine-month long consultation with staff called 'Delivering Quality First', the final number of job losses "will depend on several factors".
"The jobs will not be lost in one go but across the next five years and, as always, we will seek wherever possible to implement the reductions through turnover, redeployment and voluntary redundancy.
"These job losses are over and above any remaining post closures in the current efficiency programme".
Commenting on the plans, director general Mark Thompson said it would be the "last time the BBC will be able to make this level of savings without a substantial loss of services or quality or both."
Following the new licence fee agreement, the BBC has also taken on funding for the World Service, S4C and BBC Monitoring. Hundreds of job cuts were announced at the World Service following this agreement, and more than 50 within BBC Monitoring.
The proposals set out by the BBC executive and published today cover both the "back office functions" of the broadcaster, content and programme-making, and the "structure, genres and investment in individual channels and services".
In a statement director general Mark Thompson said: "This is a plan which puts quality and creativity first. It's a plan for a smaller BBC, but a BBC which uses its resources more effectively and collaboratively to deliver a full range of services to the public.
"The plan meets the savings target we agreed in last year's licence-fee settlement, but also identifies nearly £150m per year to invest in new high quality output and in the platforms and services of the future.
"But it is a plan which also means stretching efficiencies and significant job losses. It's my judgement that this is the last time the BBC will be able to make this level of savings without a substantial loss of services or quality or both."
Lord Patten, chairman of the BBC Trust, added that the broadcaster had "a tough and challenging new licence fee settlement" but added that "it should still be possible to run an outstanding broadcaster on £3.5bn a year".
"The Trust's view has been clear from the start of this process - the BBC must look to run itself as efficiently as possible before we consider cutting services. Over half of the savings announced today will come from changes to operations, but there will need to be some changes to services, and we now need to test BBC management's proposals for this.
"We agree with the direction that the Director-General has taken, but we want to hear what the public think, as it is ultimately their BBC."
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