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For 30 years, the MFA Photography, Video and Related Media Department at the School of Visual Arts has been the premiere program for the study of Lens and Screen Arts. Our remarkable graduates have flourished as exhibiting artists, journalists, curators, scholars, and teachers. All the resources of New York City are utilized as an invaluable network that provides creative and professional support for the students throughout their matriculation and long after graduation, as they continue to pursue their goals. There is no other place like it for creative talents.
Mastery of the “vision machines” is the stuff of our professional practice. A new artist is an interlocutor who enables others to create and see. The department continually pushes the boundaries of the techniques, theory, and practice of the new technologies. Emphasis is on the fact that the camera is a multi-disciplinary tool that encompasses science, arts, and the humanities. Today’s students are engaged in the management, creation, and understanding of not just how to produce, but how to interpret the image. They are required to read images through the protocols of different disciplines, as well as create new means to make them.
Critical thinking is necessary for our students to expand their ideas and make notable contributions to both the social and cultural environments. Our students must rethink their own assumptions and engage an enlightened audience, not only visually, but also contextually. The department’s celebrated faculty actively works with students to develop contemporary and responsible creative initiatives, including experimental, narrative or documentary video, installation and conceptual art, tableau, and real-world-witness photography. | 2019-04-19T10:16:14 | http://www.mfaphoto.sva.edu/letter/ |
The new BABS Database provides us with a bit of historical perspective on players. The end-of-season Asset ratings from 2014, 2015 and 2016 have been loaded in, giving us a nice three-year scan that helps provide insight into the 2017 ratings.
Here are several players with interesting scans, along with some commentary. Players are listed in ADP order, more or less.
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The Walter Mangold Trust Fund commenced in 2006 and began to implement its objects in 2007.
From 2007 to 2018, one hundred and sixty-two Study Abroad Scholarships and Walter Mangold Language Scholarships totalling $1,036,100.00 were awarded to Victorian tertiary language students; who travelled on exchange to intensive language programs at universities in Spain, Argentina, Portugal, Chile, Mexico, Columbia, Japan, Indonesia, China,Taiwan and Italy.
From 2006-2018, a total of about $170,000.00 was awarded to the Australian Institute of International Affairs, Victoria to fund twenty-two discrete projects. | 2019-04-22T17:57:16 | http://mangoldtrust.org.au/statistics |
SVU B.Tech Admission 2018 : Sri Venkateswara University inviting on line applications from the eligible applicants for the admission in to the four Year B.Tech Programee providing international collaboration diploma packages. Students who are willing to look at the B.Tech (3 Yrs @ SVU Tirupathi & 1 Year @ Sweden) overseas are here with the aid of informed to undergo the below details like eligibility standards,crucial dates,online application form are given underneath.
Sri Venkateswara University Tirupati has been presenting global collaboration degree programs. Sri Venkateswara University changed into hooked up in 1954, to cater to the instructional needs and aspirations of people of Rayalaseema Region of Andhra Pradesh. After completing 62 years of excellence in coaching, research, extension and outreach sports, the University is accommodating fifty four departments presenting 72 packages. Today S.V.University has 443 Teaching body of workers, 1796 NonTeaching staff and 6880 college students inclusive of research scholars.
Candidates qualified with Intermediate Education (10+2 pattern) performed with the aid of the A.P. Or Telangana Board of Intermediate Education (BIE)/CBSE/ICSE with Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry subjects.
Grades- a minimal requirement of 70% (7/10 scale) within the qualifying examination, i.E. Intermediate (10+2) or equivalent.
Candidates are required to download application shape and Information publication from the website. www.svuniversity.edu.in. The duly stuffed-in software form with sets of enclosures and application processing price of Rs.1,500/- in the shape of DD drawn, in any Nationalized financial institution in choose of “Registrar, SVU” payable at Tirupati, should attain the office of Director, Directorate of admissions, SVUniversity, Tirupati. India or in man or woman with the aid of five.00 pm on or earlier than 10.07.2018. | 2019-04-18T17:15:10 | https://www.meesevats.in/2017/07/svu-btech-admission-sri-venkateswara-university.html |
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The Seven Bridges Cancer Genomics Cloud (CGC) is one of three pilot systems funded by the National Cancer Institute with the aim of co-localizing massive genomics datasets, like The Cancer Genomics Atlas (TCGA), alongside secure and scalable computational resources for analysis.
TCGA comprises multidimensional matched tumor-normal data from over 11,000 patients and 33 cancer types. One of our key aims when designing the CGC was to maximize the impact of TCGA and empower cancer genomics analysis.
With this goal in mind, we developed four guiding principles for building the CGC and other large genomics projects.
TCGA contains over a petabyte of data, which is made available to authorized researchers. However, as TCGA has grown, it has become more difficult to use and to learn from. Downloading the data for local analysis is time-consuming, and storage is expensive. By contrast, CGC users can immediately begin to explore and analyze TCGA data in the cloud. Even better, researchers don’t need to worry about the cost of storing the dataset.
In addition to facilitating access, we have also worked to make understanding TCGA data easier. We have developed a semantic knowledge base with over 140 properties about cases, samples, and files that can be accessed through visual and programmatic queries. Users can also use our case explorer to investigate the data at per-gene or per-disease levels.
Team science is becoming the norm in many research disciplines, and especially in genomics and medical research. Cutting edge projects and insights increasingly come from large consortia and multidisciplinary teams.
The CGC is built for teams, with shared project spaces, collaboration as a default, and fine-grained permission levels for managing access to different parts of the project. As an NIH Trusted Partner, Seven Bridges can authenticate and authorize approved users for access to TCGA data. Once authorized, approved researchers can collaborate with other researchers in a secure and compliant manner.
Reproducibility is a core principle of the scientific method, and each analysis is reproducible and “rememberable” on the CGC by default. Every task is replicable thanks to inbuilt recording of tool version and parameter settings. It’s easy to return to a particular analysis at a later date and understand precisely how output files were generated.
In addition, the CGC has been developed so that workflows are customizable and sharable. Even the most complex workflow is recorded as a simple text file using the Common Workflow Language (CWL) standard, meaning it is easily reproduced and shared.
The impact of TCGA is enhanced by combination with other data and tools. Mindful of this, we have made it easy to add data to the CGC and to easily annotate it so the data can be given meaningful properties for the analysis at-hand.
We have also made available over 200 analysis tools and workflows on the CGC, and we welcome feedback from the community to help us prioritize additional tools. Nonetheless, CGC users are not limited to our curated tools — they can also bring their own tools to the CGC, easily defined using CWL.
To date, more than 500 researchers from across the world have used the CGC to analyze cancer genomics data in a scalable, collaborative, reproducible, and extensible manner. You can join them by creating an account at www.cancergenomicscloud.org. More than one million dollars in compute and storage credits, including support for large collaborative projects, are available to researchers using the CGC.
Once you’ve created an account, watch one of our webinars or check the extensive documentation to get started learning from TCGA data. If you have any questions along the way or suggestions for future improvements, we encourage you to write us at cgc@sbgenomics.com or join us at one of the upcoming seminars, workshops, or meetups.
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A mechanism is described for determining an amount of item that remains in the possession of a consumer for an automatic item subscription system, as well as a subsequent replacement date for that item. The remaining item amount may be determined from a consumption rate that is calculated from a number of factors. In some embodiments, the consumption rate may be based on cluster data or data representing trends related to the underlying item. Consumers may be clustered based on item purchases and a common consumption rate for that consumer cluster may be applied to the consumer. As the consumption rate for an item changes, the replacement date may be dynamically updated to reflect the change in the consumption rate.
1. A computer-implemented method, comprising: receiving an indication that a user is in possession of an item, the item being subscribed to in an automatic subscription system; determining a first consumer group to which the user belongs, the first consumer group being associated with a first consumption rate of the item; determining, based at least in part on the first consumption rate, a renewal interval of the item for the user, the renewal interval being an interval at which the item is to be provisioned to the user; determining, based at least in part on an attribute of the user, a second consumer group to which the user belongs, the second consumer group being associated with a second consumption rate for the item; updating, based at least in part on the second consumption rate, the renewal interval of the item for the user, the renewal interval being updated to reflect an interval at which the item is to be provisioned to the user according to the second consumption rate; causing provisioning of the item to the user at the updated renewal interval.
2. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, further comprising detecting that the user has purchased a second item, and wherein the attribute of the user is a purchase history based at least in part on the purchasing of the second item.
3. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the attribute of the user is a demographic attribute.
4. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the indication that a user is in possession of an item is a purchase of the item by the user.
5. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein provisioning of the item to the user at the updated renewal interval is a presenting an option to have the item shipped to the user.
6. A system comprising: a processor; and a memory including instructions that, when executed with the processor, cause the system to, at least: maintain, for a user and for an item, a first consumer cluster, the consumer cluster being associated with a first consumption rate; maintain a replacement status for the item, the replacement status calculated based at least in part from the first consumption rate associated with the first consumer cluster; determine that a second consumer cluster is more appropriate for the user, the second consumer cluster associated with a second consumption rate; update the replacement status for the item based at least in part on the second consumption rate; and cause presentation, to the user, of the updated replacement status.
7. The system of claim 6, wherein the instructions further cause the system to at least detect that the user has purchased a second item, wherein the determination that the second consumer cluster is more appropriate for the user is made based on the purchase of the second item.
8. The system of claim 6, wherein the replacement status for the item includes an indication of a time remaining before replacement of the item.
9. The system of claim 6, wherein the replacement status for the item includes an indication of the amount of the item of which the user has possession.
10. The system of claim 6, wherein at least one of the first consumption rate and the second consumption rate is determined from a function with respect to time.
11. The system of claim 6, wherein at least one of the first consumption rate and the second consumption rate is chosen from a series of data points, each data point in the series of data points associated with a date.
12. The system of claim 6, wherein at least one of the first consumption rate associated with the first consumer cluster and the second consumption rate associated with the second consumer cluster is an average consumption rate for the members of the respective cluster.
13. The system of claim 6, wherein the instructions further cause the system to at least: receive an indication from a second user associated with the second consumer cluster that the second consumption rate is no longer accurate; update the second consumption rate based on the received indication; and update the replacement status for the item based at least in part on the updated second consumption rate.
14. A non-transitory computer readable storage memory device storing specific computer-executable instructions that, when executed by a processor, cause a computer system to at least: maintain, for a user, a remaining item status for an item; update the remaining item status at periodic intervals, the update comprising: determining a consumption rate associated with the user's consumption of the item; and reducing the remaining item status for the item based at least in part upon the determined consumption rate over the periodic interval; determine, based at least in part on the remaining item status and the determined consumption rate, a renewal date for the item; and cause presentation of at least one of the updated remaining item status or the renewal date for the item to the user.
15. The computer readable storage memory device of claim 14, wherein the consumption rate associated with the user's consumption of the item is a consumption rate common to a cluster into which the user is placed at the time of the update.
16. The computer readable storage memory device of claim 15, wherein the user is placed into a first cluster at the time of a first update and the user is placed into a second cluster at the time of a second update.
17. The computer readable storage memory device of claim 16, wherein the user is placed into at least one of the first cluster and the second cluster based at least in part on an item purchase history.
18. The computer readable storage memory device of claim 14, wherein the renewal date is a shipping date upon which the item is caused to be sent to the user.
19. The computer readable storage memory device of claim 14, wherein the remaining item status is a percentage of the amount of the item remaining, and wherein the consumption rate is an amount of item used over a time period.
20. The computer readable storage memory device of claim 19, wherein the renewal date is determined by multiplying the remaining item status by an inverse of the consumption rate.
As people become more sophisticated users of online services, they are presented with increased functionalities, and are demanding increased convenience and automation. To accommodate this demand, some providers allow users to set up monthly subscriptions for products and services they consume. However, these systems are often difficult to adapt to individual preferences as each uses the subscribed products at different rates. This, in turn, causes inconvenience for some users.
FIG. 10 illustrates an environment in which various embodiments can be implemented.
Techniques described herein include a processor device configured to dynamically assess and update consumption rates for consumers in an item subscription system that may be used to automatically order items with more optimal timing. Specifically, the disclosure is directed to determining a consumption rate that applies to a particular item for a particular consumer within an item subscription system. This consumption rate may be determined from clustering data gathered by a subscription system as well as general trends affecting the underlying consumption rate of the item.
In accordance with at least one embodiment, an item (which could be any product, good, or service, or category of products) may experience higher use during specific times of the year or under certain conditions. For example, the consumption rate of lip balm is typically higher in cold months as more consumers tend to get chapped lips during those months. Additionally, a consumption rate for an item may be affected by a change in the economy, a fad (a temporary increase in popularity for an item), seasonality, an event (such as a snowstorm, sporting event, or earthquake), or any other external market force (factors affecting the consumption of an item that are unrelated to the item itself). These sorts of external market forces may be considered when creating an underlying consumption rate for an item. In general, an underlying consumption rate for an item may be determined from the average use and/or purchases of the item by a broad consumer base. Economic factors may also play a role in determining a consumption rate. For example, some items may be considered inferior goods (good that are consumed more frequently under poor economic conditions) and some items may be considered superior goods (goods that are consumed more frequently under positive economic conditions). Economic trends may affect the consumption rate of those items. Additionally, some consumers that are considered similar enough to be grouped together may share a consumption rate that is common to their group (a common consumption rate). In accordance with at least one embodiment, people may be clustered into like groups to determine a common consumption rate for a group of people. Furthermore, a person may have a particular consumption rate for the item that is outside of the common consumption rate. Furthermore, consumption rates may vary between particular brands, versions, or types of an item.
In some embodiments, a consumer's personal consumption rate for an item may be combined with the underlying item consumption rate and/or a common group consumption rate to create an overall or a more accurate consumption model for that consumer. This consumption model may then be used to more accurately predict when an item will run out for a consumer so that a subscription system may automatically reorder those items on behalf of that consumer. The consumer may also be given a means to indicate that the consumption rate is too high or too low, which may also be utilized by the subscription system to adjust consumption rates and create a more accurate consumption model.
FIG. 1 depicts an illustrative item subscription system 100 as described herein in accordance with at least one embodiment. In FIG. 1, an example user interface 102 is depicted. A user interface may be implemented in a web page displayed in a web browser application, a graphical user interface (GUI) of an application on a user device, or any other suitable means of providing information to a user and/or enabling the user to interact with the subscription system 100. An item subscription system is any system configured to ship one or more items to a consumer automatically at a determined time or on a periodic or semi-periodic basis. In an item subscription system, a consumer (or user) may subscribe to an item by electing to have the item automatically ordered on a periodic basis. In accordance with at least some embodiments, a user may be required to log into an account in order to access the user interface 104 for the subscription system 100 depicted.
In accordance with at least one example, the user interface 102 may include a listing or depiction of at least one item 104 available from an electronic marketplace. The user interface 102 may present a variety of data points or item related information, such as an item price, item availability, an image of the item, a rating for the item, or any other suitable item-related information. In accordance with at least one embodiment, the user interface 104 may display currently available savings offers 106 such as e-coupons or sale prices.
In accordance with at least some embodiments of subscription system 100, the item 104 may be given a renewal rate that represents the rate at which the item 104 should be replaced. In some embodiments, the user interface 102 may present a renewal date, which may be any date upon which a replacement of the item 104 is scheduled to be shipped. The renewal rate may be dependent on a consumption rate and may be dynamically updated upon determining that the consumption rate has changed. A consumption rate is the rate at which an item is being consumed, and may be actual or predicted. In some embodiments, a consumption rate may be expressed as an amount of product used per period of item (i.e., 0.5 per week or 2.8 per month). In at least some embodiments, the renewal rate may have an inverse relationship with the consumption rate. For example, if a consumption rate is 2.0 items consumed per time period, then the renewal rate may be 1/2 or 0.5 time periods (which would indicate that the item needs to be replaced every one half of the time period). In addition, a renewal rate may be capped by an expiration date for the item, as in a renewal date may be the sooner of the expiration date or the date that a consumption rate indicates the product will be gone. For example, if the user has opted to receive an automatic subscription for milk, a replacement may be sent by the expiration date of the previous milk that was purchased whether or not it has been fully consumed. In accordance with at least one embodiment, the user may be presented with a item remaining indicator 108 that depicts the amount of the item that the subscription system has estimated that a user has left based on the consumption rate of the item. As depicted in FIG. 3, the item remaining indicator 108 may be exemplified by a progress bar, but in at least some other embodiments, the item remaining indicator may be a percentage, an expected renewal date, or any other suitable means of indicating to the user a rate of consumption for the item. In addition to depicting an amount of an item that is left, the item remaining indicator 108 may depict an approximation of the amount of useful life left for an item or the amount of battery life left for the item. For example, a durable good may have an average useful life of five years (i.e., the durable good typically needs replacement every five years). However, a particular user may not use the durable good as much as the average user and so his or her consumption rate for that durable good may be lower. In this example, the item remaining indicator 108 would decrease more slowly than it would for the average user and the renewal rate for that user would be lower in that renewals will occur at intervals of greater than five years. In some embodiments, the item remaining indicator may be color coded based on upcoming renewal dates. For example, if the user only has a small amount of the product left, the progress bar may be red in order to draw attention to the item that may need replacement. In accordance with at least one embodiment, the item remaining indicator 108 may be updated by the user. For example, where the item remaining indicator 108 is a progress bar, the user may be given the ability to click on or otherwise select a location within the progress bar to indicate the actual amount of the product that is left. In accordance with at least one embodiment, the item remaining indicator 108 may indicate that the amount of item left is over 100%. For example, the user may receive a replacement item before the current item has been completely used up and may be in possession of more than a whole item. In at least some embodiments, the amount of item left may be a combined total of two or more items, especially where the two items are interchangeable with each other, or one can serve as a substitute for the other. For example, if the user has subscribed to Brand X toothpaste, but later purchases a tube of Brand Y toothpaste, the amount of toothpaste left may be tracked and assigned to whichever brand toothpaste the user is currently subscribed to. For example, since the two brands are both toothpaste, the amount of toothpaste considered to be remaining for the subscription Brand X can take into account the recently purchased Brand Y toothpaste, thus extending the time before a replacement tube of Brand X toothpaste is scheduled for delivery. In at least some embodiments, the subscription system may offer to switch the user's subscription from Brand X to Brand Y when the user is subscribed to Brand X but purchases a similar item in Brand Y.
In some embodiments, the user may be able to suspend consumption of the item. For example, if the user is away from home and not consuming the item, the user may be given the ability to set the consumption rate to zero (or a significantly lower rate) over the time that the user will be away. In some of these embodiments, the user may set a consumption rate to zero for particular items. For example, the user may elect to take certain items with him or her, which would continue to be consumed. In this example, the consumer may set the consumption rate to zero for only the items which are not taken along. Furthermore, the user may also be given the ability to forward items to an alternative address or addresses. For example, if the consumer leaves on a trip and takes along particular items, the consumer may elect to have the replacement for those items sent to him or her on the trip. For example, if the consumer has subscribed to baby formula, the consumer may wish to have the replacement formula sent to a hotel or temporary lodging at which the user is staying. In at least some embodiments, the user may provide a list of addresses and dates at which the user will be at those addresses. In at least some of these embodiments, the subscription system may send the subscribed item to the user at the address at which the user will be when the item arrives.
In accordance with at least some embodiments of subscription system 100, a shipping status indicator 110, 112, or 114 may be presented in addition to the item remaining indicator 108. A shipping status indicator may provide a user with potential shipping information related to the particular item and may be based on the amount of the item that is left as according to the item remaining indicator 108. In accordance with at least one embodiment, the shipping status indicator 110 may indicate that the item is not currently to be shipped to the user because the amount left is over a first threshold (a shipping threshold) according to the item remaining indicator 108. In accordance with at least one embodiment, the shipping status indicator 112 may indicate that the item is to be shipped to the user at any time once the item remaining indicator 108 indicates that the amount of item left is below a shipping threshold level. In accordance with at least one embodiment, the shipping status indicator 114 may indicate that the item is to be shipped to the user immediately once the item remaining indicator 108 indicates that the amount of item left is below a second threshold level.
In accordance with at least some embodiments of subscription system 100, the shipping threshold or other thresholds may be set by the user. Thresholds may be set as general thresholds (i.e., set a shipping threshold of 35% for every item) or they may be set for a particular item or category of items (i.e., set a shipping threshold of 5% for toothpaste). In accordance with at least one embodiment, a user may set multiple thresholds. For example, a user may elect to set a threshold at which to be reminded to check the amount left for an item. In this example, the user may receive an email, text message, or other notification indicating that the subscription system 100 has calculated that the user has a certain amount of item left. The user may then be given the opportunity to provide a corrected estimate of the amount of item left.
In accordance with at least some embodiments of subscription system 100, a user may be given the ability to confirm each order before it is shipped via a confirmation button 116. Alternatively, the user may enroll a particular item into an automatic subscription service via an opt-in button 118. As part of the automatic subscription service, the item 104 may be shipped at any time once the consumption rate reaches the first threshold and immediately once the consumption rate reaches a second threshold (subject to availability of the item). However, while the item remaining indicator 108 is between the first and second threshold, the subscription system 100 may delay shipment of a particular item in order to bundle it with various other items enrolled in the automatic subscription service. For example, if item A falls below the first threshold and is ready to be shipped, the subscription system 100 may determine that item B also needs to be shipped and item C will fall below the shipping threshold within two days. If the subscription system 100 determines that neither item A or item B's item remaining indicator 108 will fall under the second threshold in that time period, the subscription system 100 may delay shipping of each of the items until all three can be sent. By aggregating shipping of items in this fashion, shipping costs may be reduced. Additionally, the subscription system may attempt to take advantage of available sales and coupons. For example, if item A is currently on sale, but that sale will expire just before item A is to be renewed for a user, the subscription system 100 may ship the item early to take advantage of the sale price. In accordance with at least one embodiment, the user may be notified and/or an approval me be sought from the user prior to approving this purchase. Alternatively, the subscription system 100 may purchase the item prior to the expiration of the sale and hold the item until it is to be shipped to the user.
FIG. 2 depicts an illustrative example of a system or architecture 200 in which techniques for calculating a consumer consumption rate for a product may be implemented. In architecture 200, one or more consumers and/or users 202 may utilize user devices 204. In some examples, the user devices 204 may be in communication with a subscription system provider 206 via the network(s) 208, or via other network connections.
The user devices 204 may be any type of computing device such as, but not limited to, a mobile phone, a smart phone, a personal digital assistant (PDA), a laptop computer, a desktop computer, a server computer, a thin-client device, a tablet PC, etc. Additionally, user devices 204 may be any type of wearable technology device, such as a watch, earpiece, glasses, etc. The user device 204 may include one or more processors 210 capable of processing user input. The user device 204 may also include one or more input sensors 212 for receiving user input. As is known in the art, there are a variety of input sensors 212 capable of detecting user input, such as accelerometers, cameras, microphones, etc. The user input obtained by the input sensors may be from a variety of data input types, including, but not limited to, audio data, visual data, or biometric data. Embodiments of the software modules on the user device 204 may be stored and executed from its memory 214, which may include a browser application 216.
In some examples, the network(s) 208 may include any one or a combination of many different types of networks, such as cable networks, the Internet, wireless networks, cellular networks, and other private and/or public networks. While the illustrated example represents the users 202 utilizing the browser application 216 to access information or services over the network(s) 208, the described techniques may equally apply in instances where the users 202 interact with a subscription system provider 206 via the user device 204 over a landline phone, via a kiosk, or in any other manner. It is also noted that the described techniques may apply in other client/server arrangements (e.g., set-top boxes, etc.), as well as in non-client/server arrangements (e.g., locally stored applications, peer to-peer systems, etc.).
As described briefly above, the browser application 216 may allow the users 202 to interact with a subscription system provider 206, such as to store, access, and/or manage data, develop and/or deploy computer applications, and/or host web content. The one or more subscription system(s) 206, perhaps arranged in a cluster of servers or as a server farm, may be configured to host a website (or combination of websites) viewable via the user device 204 or a web browser accessible by a user device 204 via the browser application 216. Although depicted in memory of the user device 204 in this example, in some embodiments the browser application 216 may be hosted at a server. For example, the user device 204 may be a thin client device capable of accessing a browser application 216 remotely. The browser application 216 may be capable of handling requests from many users 202 and serving, in response, various user interfaces that can be rendered at the user device 204 such as, but not limited to, a web site. The browser application 216 may be any type of application or interface that supports user interaction with a website, including those with user interaction, such as social networking sites, electronic retailers, informational sites, blog sites, search engine sites, news and entertainment sites, and so forth. As discussed above, the described techniques can similarly be implemented outside of the browser application 216, such as with other applications running on the user device 204.
The subscription system provider 206 may be any type of computing device such as, but not limited to, a mobile phone, a smart phone, a personal digital assistant (PDA), a laptop computer, a desktop computer, a server computer, a thin-client device, a tablet PC, etc. Additionally, it should be noted that in some embodiments, the subscription system provider 206 may be executed by one more virtual machines implemented in a hosted computing environment. The hosted computing environment may include one or more rapidly provisioned and released computing resources, which computing resources may include computing, networking, and/or storage devices. A hosted computing environment may also be referred to as a cloud-computing environment.
In one illustrative configuration, the subscription system provider 206 may include at least one memory 218 and one or more processing units (or processor(s)) 222. The processor(s) 220 may be implemented as appropriate in hardware, computer-executable instructions, firmware or combinations thereof. Computer-executable instruction or firmware implementations of the processor(s) 220 may include computer-executable or machine executable instructions written in any suitable programming language to perform the various functions described.
The memory 218 may store program instructions that are loadable and executable on the processor(s) 220, as well as data generated during the execution of these programs. Depending on the configuration and type of subscription system provider 206, the memory 218 may be volatile (such as random access memory (RAM)) and/or non-volatile (such as read-only memory (ROM), flash memory, etc.). The subscription system provider 206 may also include additional storage 222, such as either removable storage or non-removable storage including, but not limited to, magnetic storage, optical disks, and/or tape storage. The disk drives and their associated computer-readable media may provide non-volatile storage of computer-readable instructions, data structures, program modules, and other data for the computing devices. In some implementations, the memory 218 may include multiple different types of memory, such as static random access memory (SRAM), dynamic random access memory (DRAM) or ROM. Turning to the contents of the memory 218 in more detail, the memory 218 may include an operating system 224 and one or more application programs or services for implementing the features disclosed herein including at least a module for creating consumer commonality clusters (clustering module 226) and at least a module for predicting item-related consumer consumption models (consumption module 228). The memory 218 may also include consumer data 230, which provides information related to consumers, item consumption rates, and item purchase history. In some embodiments, the consumer data 230 may be stored in a database.
The memory 218 and the additional storage 222, both removable and non-removable, are examples of computer-readable storage media. For example, computer-readable storage media may include volatile or non-volatile, removable or non-removable media implemented in any method or technology for storage of information such as computer-readable instructions, data structures, program modules or other data. As used herein, modules may refer to programming modules executed by computing systems (e.g., processors) that are part of the user device 204 or the subscription system provider 206. The subscription system provider 206 may also contain communications connection(s) 232 that allow the subscription system provider 206 to communicate with a stored database, another computing device or server, user terminals, and/or other devices on the network(s) 208. The subscription system provider 206 may also include input/output (I/O) device(s) and/or ports 234, such as for enabling connection with a keyboard, a mouse, a pen, a voice input device, a touch input device, a display, speakers, a printer, etc.
In accordance with at least one embodiment, the clustering module 226 may be configured to determine, based on data related to a user (e.g., demographic information, item consumption rates, or item purchase history information) , a "cluster" or group of consumers to which the user likely belongs. The clustering module may assign a consumer to a cluster based on item purchases, geographic vicinity, economic similarities, or any other suitable information related to the consumer. This is described in greater detail elsewhere in the disclosure.
In accordance with at least one embodiment, the consumption module 228 may be configured to determine a consumption rate for a particular item, person, or a combination of the two. In accordance with at least one embodiment, the consumption rate for the particular item for the particular person may be a consumption rate that is common to a particular cluster of consumers. In accordance with at least one embodiment, the consumption rate for the particular item for the particular person may be a consumption rate constructed by combining an underlying consumption rate for the item with a common consumption rate for a cluster or group and/or a personal consumption rate. This is described in greater detail elsewhere in the disclosure.
In accordance with at least one embodiment, the consumption module 228 may be configured to estimate a consumption rate from a number of factors. For example, although the rate of item purchases for a consumer is different from the rate at which the consumer consumes the item, they are often correlated in that a consumer is more likely to purchase a replacement item when the old one is empty. Accordingly, item purchases may be used to approximate or estimate a consumption rate. For example, the way in which an underlying consumption rate for an item fluctuates in response to the occurrence of an event can be determined by identifying an average use and/or purchase of the item around the time of the event. In some cases, the purchase of the good may be a lagging indicator of the item's underlying consumption rate. For example, a large number of consumers may purchase lip balm at the beginning of the spring season. This may indicate a higher usage of lip balm in the prior winter season as opposed to a current consumption rate for the spring season.
In accordance with at least some embodiments, the consumption module 228 may be configured to take into account economic factors. For example, if the economy is trending upward, then the consumption rate of items marked as superior goods may be increased accordingly. Furthermore, the subscription system may take into account the elasticity of an item (the increase or decrease in purchases of the item in response to a change in the price of the item). For example, if the price for an item with a high elasticity increases, one should expect purchases of the good to drop. However, the consumption rate of the item would likely remain unchanged in that case.
In accordance with at least one embodiment, people may be clustered into like groups by the clustering module 226 and the consumption module 228 may be configured to determine a common consumption rate for a group of people. In some cases, consumers may be clustered based on demographic information. For example, people who live in a colder area are more likely (on average) to have a higher consumption rate of lip balm than those who live in warm areas. In accordance with at least one embodiment, a common consumption rate for lip balm may take into account how far north a group of consumers lives. Alternatively, customers may be grouped based on item purchases on the basis that people who live under similar conditions often make similar purchases. In accordance with at least one embodiment, changes made by one or more consumers in a clustered group may affect the common consumption rate of the group. Under this schema, there may be no need to analyze the underlying cause of fluctuations in the common consumption rate.
In accordance with at least some embodiments, the consumption module 228 may be configured to determine a personal consumption rate for a particular consumer that is unusual. For example, a person may have a particular consumption rate for the item that is outside of the common consumption rate. For example, a person may be very fond of an item and may consume a larger amount of the product than a typical consumer (even one with similar interests). The personal consumption rate for that item may be adjusted upward. In general, a consumer's personal consumption rate of an item may be determined based on past orders, indicated preferences, indications that the consumption rate is not accurate, or any other suitable factor. For example, the time between purchases of the item may help indicate the rate at which the person is consuming the item. In accordance with at least one embodiment, personal consumption rates may vary according to the particular person as well as seasonality. For example, some consumers may use more dish detergent during the holiday season as those consumers host friends and family. On the other hand, some consumers may use less dish detergent during the holiday season as those consumers are being hosted by friends and family.
Consumer data 230 may be predetermined or it may be dynamically generated. For example, consumption rates and clusters may be updated in real time as input is received. For example, consumers may be added to or removed from various clusters as purchases are made.
Furthermore, consumption rates may vary any time that new data is received. In accordance with at least one embodiment, consumer data 230 may include purchase history data, purchasing trend data, underlying item consumption rates, common consumption rates for clusters of consumers, personal consumption rates for a particular user and/or a particular item, or any other suitable consumer-related information.
Although the clustering module 226, the consumption module 228, and consumer data 230 are depicted in FIG. 2 as being implemented in the memory 218 of the subscription system provider 206, it is envisioned that one or more of the clustering module 226, the consumption module 228, and consumer data 230 could also be implemented in the memory 214 of the user device 204. In some embodiments, a portion of the described subscription system functionality may be performed at either the subscription system provider 206 by the clustering module 226 or the consumption module 228 and/or at the user device 204 by the processor(s) 210. It is intended that this disclosure encompass any combination of these implementations.
FIG. 3 depicts an illustrative user setup display screen 300 for an item subscription system in accordance with at least one embodiment. In FIG. 3, a user is given the ability to provide various criteria when adding a new item 302 to an item subscription system. For example, the user may be given the ability to specify the quantity 304 of the item that is to be shipped in each recurring shipment of the item.
In accordance with at least one embodiment, a user may be given the ability to provide threshold criteria for each item added to the subscription system. Thresholds may be set with respect to consumption rates in that the threshold is reached when a certain amount or useful life is left for a product. For example, the user may indicate that a replacement product should be sent to him once he has only 10% of the product left. In at least some embodiments, the user is able to identity a first threshold that represents the earliest that an item may be shipped, which will be referred to as a first shipping threshold 306 for the purposes of this disclosure. The user may also specify a threshold at which the product should immediately be shipped, which will be referred to as an immediate shipping threshold 308 for the purposes of this disclosure. In accordance with at least one embodiment, a user may be provided with the ability to specify one or more additional thresholds 310 associated with various actions. In accordance with at least one embodiment, the subscription system may provide threshold recommendations 312 for the user, which may be based on a consumption rate and/or an average shipping time. For example, if the average shipping time for item A is one week and the consumption rate of item A is one month (one of item A is consumed every 30 days), then the subscription system may recommend immediate shipping once the item is at 23.3% (seven days divided by 30 days) so that the consumer is likely to receive the replacement item A just as he or she runs out. In this example, the subscription system may also recommend a shipping threshold of 40% so that item A may be shipped any time that the consumer has less than 40% of the product left. In accordance with at least one embodiment, a user may also provide additional criteria 314 for the subscription system. For example, in a subscription system, the user may request that the system obtain permission before purchasing any products that have substantially increased in price. This gives the consumer the ability to review the purchase prior to shipping as well as providing the user with the opportunity to switch products. In accordance with at least some embodiments, the user may be given the ability to provide one set of thresholds that apply to each item in the subscription system for that user.
In typical item subscription systems, the system or its consumers tend to schedule item renewals at particular times of the month. For example, most consumers elect to refill items at the beginning or end of the month. This often results in demand spikes around those times that can cause fulfillment issues (i.e., issues in purchasing, warehousing, delivery, etc.). One advantage of the current disclosure is that it eliminates or at least reduces these demand spikes since each consumer is being sent renewals at a different rate. In particular, each item is renewed for a consumer based on the amount of the item they have left and the rate at which they consume the item, which results in different renewal dates for each consumer. In accordance with at least one embodiment, an item may be shipped to a consumer at any time that the consumption rate indicates that the amount of the item left is between the first shipping threshold and the immediate shipping threshold. The subscription system may be configured to minimize the number of shipments made to a consumer in order to reduce shipping costs and improve efficiency. Furthermore, this aggregation of shipping is more environmentally friendly (because it decreases packaging) and creates a more pleasant customer experience, as the consumer is likely to be more satisfied receiving a single package as opposed to multiple packages. To do this, the subscription system may aggregate several items into a single shipment. In accordance with at least one embodiment, shipments may be sent in response to an item reaching the immediate shipping threshold and may be aggregated to include all items below the first shipping threshold. For example, when a first item A reaches an immediate shipping threshold, a shipment may be filled for the consumer that contains item A along with any other items for which the consumption rate indicates that the amount of the item left is below the first shipping threshold. The subscription system may identify a number of items that are currently, or will soon be, below the first shipping threshold for shipment to a consumer. In accordance with at least some embodiments, the subscription system may be configured to create a shipping schedule that minimizes the number of shipments necessary to ship the subscribed items based on current consumption rates for those items. In accordance with at least some embodiments, the items may be selected for aggregated shipping based on a number of item attributes including size, weight, shipping requirements, and/or any other suitable attribute. For example, a number of items that need to be refrigerated during shipping may be aggregated into a single shipment when they are each ready to be shipped. Although this example highlights an embodiment in which a user is given the ability to set various thresholds, one or more thresholds may be set by the subscription system.
FIG. 4 depicts an illustrative example of consumer clustering based on item purchases that may be modeled by a clustering module in accordance with at least one embodiment. A clustering module capable of creating this model may be an example implementation of a clustering module 226 as depicted in FIG. 2. In FIG. 4, an item 402 (or item category) is depicted as being purchased by a number of consumers 404. Various items 406, 408, and 410 are also depicted as having been purchased by some of the consumers 404. In FIG. 4, straight lines between consumers and items represent consumer purchases of the item by the connected consumer. In this example, several clusters, or groupings, of consumers may be created for the purposes of calculating similar consumption models. For example, clusters 412, 414, and 416 are depicted as groupings of consumers that have purchased items (or item categories) 406, 408, and 410 respectively in addition to the item 402. In accordance with at least some embodiments, clusters may overlap (as depicted in FIG. 4). In accordance with at least some embodiments, a new cluster may be created where the clusters would normally overlap. For example, consumer 418 may be included in both cluster 412 and cluster 414. Alternatively, consumer 418 may belong to a separate cluster that includes the consumers that have purchased both items 406 and 408.
In accordance with at least one embodiment, a cluster may be used to group a number of consumers with similar interests and/or needs. These clusters may then be utilized to create a common consumption rate for an item 402 being purchased. When attempting to calculate a consumption rate for a particular item and for a particular consumer, cluster data can be used to extrapolate consumption rate data from other consumers in the cluster. For example, consider a scenario in which a particular consumer purchases dish detergent around the holiday season. The subscription system may not be able to determine a consumption rate from this purchase by itself, as some consumers may use more dish detergent during the holiday season as they host friends and family and some consumers may use less dish detergent during the holiday season as they are being hosted by friends and family. However, if the particular consumer's item purchases also include a ham, a turkey, a tofurky, a turducken or any other item that would fit into a category of a holiday main dish, then the consumer may be hosting. In this example, the consumer may be clustered with other consumers making the same purchases, each of which is more likely to have a higher consumption rate. Alternatively, item purchases may be more subtle than a main dish purchase. For example, the system may detect an increase in napkin purchases or an increase in household cleaning supplies in general (that may be associated with entertaining additional guests). In accordance with at least one embodiment, the subscription system may instead receive another indication from the consumer that an item is being consumed. For example, the consumer may adjust his or her consumption rate of napkins by indicating that he or she is almost out. These are a few examples that may indicate a higher consumption rate for this particular consumer for dish detergent. Alternatively, the consumer may have purchased a side dish, transportable food storage containers, or other items that are commonly purchased by consumers that are being hosted. The consumer may then be clustered according to these item purchases (with others who have made them) to determine a consumption rate for the particular consumer for dish detergent. By way of a second illustrative example, consider a scenario in which a consumer purchases a bottle of shampoo. The system may also detect that the person has purchased products intended for men as well as products intended for women. The system may then determine that this consumer account is used by multiple parties and the consumer may be clustered with other aggregated household accounts, which may result in a higher consumption rate for the purchased shampoo on the basis that at least two people are consuming it.
In accordance with at least one embodiment, consumer clusters may change as consumers are added to or removed from a cluster and a consumption rate for a particular item may be dynamically adjusted. For example, a consumer may be a host for one event and might be hosted in several others. In some embodiments, the clustering module may attempt to fit each consumer into only one cluster at a time for a particular item. For example, the clustering module may cluster the consumer based on only his or her most recent item purchases. In embodiments in which a single consumer is clustered into multiple clusters, a consumption rate for a particular item may be a product of multiple common consumption rates for each of the clusters. For example, each of the clusters' consumption rates for a particular item may be weighted in accordance with how well a consumer fits into the group.
In accordance with at least one embodiment, the consumption rate for a consumer for a particular item may be the common consumption rate of the cluster to which the consumer currently belongs. In some those embodiments, any change in consumption detected with respect to the individual consumer may be imputed to the entire cluster. For example, a consumer that is clustered into cluster A with respect to item A may indicate (i.e., via the user interface 102 of FIG. 1) that he or she has more or less of item A left than is indicated by the subscription system. In this scenario, the common consumption rate of cluster A may be adjusted in response to that indication with respect to item A.
FIG. 5 depicts illustrative examples of various consumption rates 500, including an underlying item consumption rate, a common consumption rate for a cluster of consumers, and an overall consumption rate. In accordance with at least some embodiments, an underlying item consumption rate 502 may be stored as a function with respect to time in timeline 504. In accordance with at least some embodiments, an underlying item consumption rate 502 may be represented by a series of data points 506. In accordance with at least one embodiment, an underlying item consumption rate 502 may be stored as a singular value. In accordance with at least some embodiments, the underlying consumption rate of an item may be stable (unchanging) for a period of time, such as a month or a season. In some of these embodiments, the underlying consumption rate may be represented as a different stable value for each period of time. For example, usage of particular lipstick colors is often seasonal in nature. Accordingly, a "fall color" lipstick may have a high consumption rate in the fall season as it is being used daily and a very low consumption rate in winter, spring and summer. In this example, a subscription system may assign the same high consumption rate to the lipstick throughout the fall season and may assign the same low consumption rate throughout the rest of the year. A subscription system may utilize a number of techniques for determining a consumption rate for a particular item. For example, the provider of the subscription system may use sales of the item from past years, data extrapolated from current and recent sales, data from market focus groups, or any other suitable source of consumption information. In addition, there may be a number of leading indicators that the provider of the subscription system may use. For example, a popular magazine may advertise a particular fashion, for which the subscription system may predict a gain in popularity (and subsequently a higher consumption rate).
In accordance with at least one embodiment, an underlying item consumption rate 502 may be stored as a singular value (as opposed to a function or a series of data points) which is dynamically adjusted in response to receiving new data. For example, the subscription system may detect a higher number of sales for the item, which may also indicate that the item is being consumed at a faster rate, and may update underlying item consumption rate 502 for that item. In at least some of these embodiments, the subscription system may determine the amount of an item that is left by first determining the amount of the item that has been used based on past underlying item consumption rates for the item. The subscription system may then determine a renewal date by applying the current underlying item consumption rate 502 to the amount of the item that is left. In accordance with at least some embodiments, the underlying item consumption rate 502 may be the current consumption rate of the item determined as a product of item sales over the subscription system's entire customer base or some portion thereof. For example, if 1000 of item A are purchased per month by 500 different consumers, then the underlying item consumption rate may be estimated for item A to be 2.0 per month (using an assumption that purchases are correlated with consumption). In accordance with at least one embodiment, the subscription system may calculate the current underlying item consumption rate based on recent sales data. For example, at time T.sub.1, the subscription system may determine that 1000 of item A were purchased in the last 30 days by 500 different consumers. The subscription system may set the underlying item consumption rate at 2.0. At time T.sub.2, the subscription system may determine that only 900 of item A were purchased in the last 30 days by 550 different consumers. The subscription system may then adjust the underlying item consumption rate to be 1.64. The time interval between times T.sub.1 and T.sub.2 may be any size (e.g., a day, a minute, a second, etc.). Any change in the underlying consumption rate may dynamically propagate new renewal dates for each consumer who has subscribed to the item. In the current scenario, an underlying item consumption rate being adjusted from 2.0 to 1.64 may result in a renewal date for that item that is farther in the future.
In accordance with at least some embodiments, a common consumption rate 508 for a cluster of consumers may be stored as a function with respect to time in timeline 510. In accordance with at least some embodiments, a common consumption rate 508 may be represented by a series of data points 512. In accordance with at least one embodiment, a common consumption rate 508 may be stored as a singular value that may be adjusted dynamically. In accordance with at least one embodiment, the common consumption rate 508 may be presented relative to an average consumer 514. For example, a common consumption rate 508 of 0.2 may indicate that this consumer is consuming 0.2 more of the item per time period than an average consumer. A common consumption rate 508 may also be negative. For example, a common consumption rate 508 of -0.2 may indicate that this consumer is consuming 0.2 less of the item per time period than an average consumer. In these embodiments, the common consumption rate 508 may be combined with an underlying item consumption rate 502 to construct an overall consumption rate 516 (as depicted as a function with respect to time in timeline 518) for each consumer in the cluster of consumers for the item.
In accordance with at least one embodiment, the common consumption rate 508 may be stored as a singular value (as opposed to a function or a series of data points) which is dynamically adjusted in response to receiving new data. For example, the subscription system may detect a higher number of sales for the item in a cluster of consumers, which may also indicate that the item is being consumed at a faster rate by those consumers, and may update the common consumption rate 508 for the cluster of consumers for that item. The common consumption rate 508 may be adjusted each time that a particular consumer in the cluster indicates that the current consumption rate is off. For example, a particular consumer may update a consumption rate indicator to notify the subscription system that he or she has more or less of an item left than is currently shown. In this scenario, the subscription system may adjust the common consumption rate 508 of at least one cluster in which the particular consumer has been grouped.
In accordance with at least one embodiment, the overall consumption 516 may be calculated to include the underlying item consumption data as well as the common consumption rate for a cluster. For example, the subscription system may determine that 1000 of item A are purchased per month by 500 different consumers who are in a cluster. The subscription system may further estimate the overall consumption 516 for the clustered consumers and for item A to be 2.0 per month. One skilled in the art would recognize that this sort of calculation may eliminate the need to calculate an underlying item consumption rate 502 and a common consumption rate 508 separately.
In accordance with at least one embodiment, consumption rate information may be used in a variety of ways. In some embodiments, purchase recommendations or pricing recommendations may take into account consumption rate data. For example, one brand of a particular item may last longer (on average) than other brands in that product category. In this scenario, the subscription system may provide a recommendation to a potential consumer who is considering purchasing a product from the category along the lines of "brand X typically lasts Y longer on average than other brands." By way of a second example, a pricing model may be implemented in which a higher price is recommended for products that typically last longer than products that do not last as long.
FIG. 6 depicts an illustrative example of a dynamically altered consumption rate for a particular item over a period of time in accordance with at least one embodiment. In some embodiments, a consumption rate for a consumer for a particular item may be dynamically adjusted based on current cluster data. For example, as a consumer makes item purchases, he or she is added to or removed from various clusters. Consumption rates may or may not also take into account an underlying consumption rate of a particular item. In FIG. 6, timeline 600 is provided to illustrate dynamic adjustments in the consumption rate for a particular individual as items are purchased. In particular, the timeline relates to a consumption rate for item 602. In timeline 600, item 602 is purchased by a consumer at time T.sub.0. An initial consumption rate 604 is provided for the consumer. In accordance with at least one embodiment, the initial consumption rate may be a default consumption rate or the underlying consumption rate of the item 602. This may be the case when no purchase history is available for a particular consumer.
In accordance with at least one embodiment, additional items may be purchased by the consumer that will have an effect upon the consumption rate. For example, item 606 may be purchased at time T.sub.1. Upon making the purchase of item 606, a clustering module may identify a cluster in which the consumer belongs along with a corresponding consumption rate 608 for that cluster for item 602. The subscription system may then calculate the amount of product that is left and apply the new consumption rate to the future use of the product for the purpose of determining renewal dates.
In this example, the amount of item 602 that has been used at time T.sub.1 can be approximated by taking the integral of the function representing the consumption rate, f(x), with respect to time. In other words, the amount of item 602 used at time T.sub.1 may be approximated by the area under the consumption rate curve, or shaded area 610. In accordance with at least one embodiment, an amount of product used could also be approximated by summing a series of data points. It also stands to reason that the amount of item 602 that is left at any given time can be calculated as the amount purchased at time T.sub.0 minus the amount used.
In accordance with at least one embodiment, the amount of product left may be adjusted periodically. For example, the amount of product left may be adjusted hourly, daily, on a millisecond basis, or each time that a consumption rate is determined or adjusted. By way of specific example, which is intended to be non-limiting, consider the scenario in which the subscription system has determined that there is 90% of item A left on day one. Assume that the current consumption rate is 5.0 of item A per month (30 days) and the amount of product left is updated daily (every 24 hours). On day two, assuming that the consumption rate remains unchanged, the subscription system may update the item to indicate that there is 73% of item A left. This can be determined by taking the original amount (0.9) minus the consumption rate (5.0) multiplied by the time interval (1/30). By way of further example, the amount of item left, along with the current consumption rate, may be used to identify a potential date upon which the consumer is expected to run out of the item. One way to do this is to use the renewal rate (or the inverse of the consumption rate) multiplied by the percentage of product left. Extending the above example, one could multiply 73% by 6 (30/5) to determine that the item is expected to run out in 4.4 days. Although this example is presented, one skilled in the art will recognize that there are a number of ways to approximate an amount of an item that is remaining and/or the time that it will take to fully deplete the item.
In accordance with at least one embodiment, a number of items can be purchased by the consumer that may affect the consumption rate of item 602 for that consumer. For example, the user may purchase item 612 at time T.sub.2 and item 614 at time T.sub.3. In each occurrence, the consumption rate for item 602 may be adjusted to match a common consumption rate for a new cluster in which the consumer now fits, such as consumption rates 616 and 618, which are assigned at times T.sub.2 and T.sub.3 respectively. In accordance with at least one embodiment, the consumption rate 616 may be common to a cluster of consumers that have each purchased items 612, 606, and 602. Alternatively, consumption rate 616 may be common to a cluster of consumers that has only purchases of items 612 and 602 in common. In accordance with at least one embodiment, the consumption rate 618 may be common to a cluster of consumers that have each purchased items 614, 612, 606, and 602. Alternatively, consumption rate 616 may be common to a cluster of consumers that has purchased any combination of items 614, 612, 606 and 602.
FIG. 7 is a flowchart depicting aspects of an example method for determining renewal dates for a subscribed item in accordance with at least one embodiment. Some or all of the process 700 (or any other processes described herein, or variations and/or combinations thereof) may be performed under the control of one or more computer systems configured with executable instructions and may be implemented as code (e.g., executable instructions, one or more computer programs or one or more applications) executing collectively on one or more processors, by hardware or combinations thereof. In accordance with at least one embodiment, the process 700 of FIG. 7 may be performed by at least the one or more subscription system providers 206 shown in FIG. 2. The code may be stored on a computer-readable storage medium, for example, in the form of a computer program including a plurality of instructions executable by one or more processors. The computer-readable storage medium may be non-transitory.
The process 700 may begin at 702 when a request is received by a consumer to add an item to their subscribed items. In accordance with at least one embodiment, the consumer may select the item from an online marketplace and elect to opt into an automatic fulfillment program for the item. The consumer may be given an initial consumption rate for that item, which may be based on the consumer's current purchase history. For example, at 704, the subscription system may determine whether the consumer has a relevant purchase history, and if so, whether that consumer should be clustered with another group of consumers for the purpose of determining a consumption rate for the item. If the consumer has made relevant purchases in the past, then the subscription system may cluster the consumer with similar consumers based on his or her purchase history at 706. In accordance with at least one embodiment, a common consumption rate for the cluster may be provided as an initial consumption rate for the consumer for that item. If the consumer has not made relevant purchases, those purchases are not recent, or the consumer does not otherwise fit within a cluster, then the subscription system may assign a default consumption rate for the consumer for that item at 708. A default consumption rate may be the underlying consumption rate for the item.
Once an initial consumption rate has been determined for the consumer for the item, a renewal date may be determined by the subscription system at 710. In at least some embodiments, the subscription system may determine a renewal rate. In these embodiments, a renewal date may be determined based on average shipping times and the renewal rate. For example, if the renewal rate indicates that the item should be renewed three weeks from the current date and the average shipping time is one week, then the renewal date may be set for two weeks from the current date. In at least some embodiments, a renewal date may be selected by the subscription system to minimize the number of shipments sent to the consumer or to maximize the use of coupons or other sale prices. In some of these embodiments, a threshold may be provided such that the item may be renewed at any time that the determine amount of item left falls below the provided threshold. In some of these embodiments, a second threshold may also be provided such that the item may be renewed immediately once the determine amount of item left falls below the provided second threshold.
In accordance with at least one embodiment, the consumption rate may be updated at some point before the renewal data is reached. For example, the consumer may make a purchase that causes the subscription system to include the consumer in a different cluster (with a different consumption rate) than he or she was in previously. Alternatively, the item purchase history that was used to cluster the consumer may become outdated and the consumer may be removed from that cluster. In at least some embodiments, the consumer may provide an indication that the amount of item left that is indicated by the subscription system is wrong. In these embodiments, the amount of item left may be updated by the subscription system and the consumption rate may be updated. If the subscription system detects an update to relevant consumer data at 712, then it may adjust the consumption rate at 714 accordingly. Once the consumption rate has been adjusted (either by the subscription system or the consumer), the renewal dates may be dynamically updated. If no data updates are detected at 712 by the subscription system by the renewal date, then the item is shipped on that date at 716. In at least some embodiments, authorization may be requested from the consumer prior to shipping the item at 716. For example, the consumer may be presented with a notification that the item is ready to be shipped and request for authorization at some point in time prior to or on the renewal date. In these embodiments, the item may not be shipped without the consumer's authorization.
FIG. 8 is a flow diagram depicting aspects of an example method for dynamically adjusting a replacement status for a subscribed item in accordance with at least one embodiment. In accordance with at least one embodiment, the process 800 of FIG. 8 may be performed by at least the one or more subscription system providers 206 shown in FIG. 2. The code may be stored on a computer-readable storage medium, for example, in the form of a computer program including a plurality of instructions executable by one or more processors. The computer-readable storage medium may be non-transitory.
The process 800 may begin at 802 when an indication is received that a user is in possession of an item. In one example, the user may purchase an item from an electronic marketplace. In another example, the user may provide an indication to a subscription service that he or she has X amount of the item, where X is a percentage or quantity. Once the subscription system is able to determine that the user has the item, it may assign a consumption rate at 804 and/or a replacement status at 806. For example, the subscription system may assign a default or initial consumption rate at which the item is predicted to be consumed. Based on this initial consumption rate, the subscription system may calculate an amount left of the product or a date on which the item will need to be replaced.
In accordance with at least one embodiment, the subscription system may receive an indication that the consumption rate has changed at 808. For example, the underlying consumption rate of the item may have been affected by an external market, such as a change in the economy, a fad, a seasonality, or an event. Alternatively, the consumer may have been re-clustered based on updated information related to the consumer. The new cluster into which the consumer has been placed may have a different consumption rate than the previous cluster in which the consumer had been placed. Once a change is detected in the consumption rate, the maintained consumption rate as well as the replacement status may be updated at 810. A change in the consumption rate may be triggered by the subscription system or by the consumer via a user interface, such as user interface 102 depicted in FIG. 1. The updated replacement status may be presented to the consumer at 812. The replacement status may appear as a pending shipment date, progress bar, or another suitable indication of a future item replacement.
FIG. 9 is a flow diagram depicting aspects of an example method for determining consumption rates for a subscribed item based on consumer clusters in accordance with at least one embodiment. Some or all of the process 900 (or any other processes described herein, or variations and/or combinations thereof) may be performed under the control of one or more computer systems configured with executable instructions and may be implemented as code (e.g., executable instructions, one or more computer programs or one or more applications) executing collectively on one or more processors, by hardware or combinations thereof. In accordance with at least one embodiment, the process 900 of FIG. 9 may be performed by at least the one or more subscription system providers 206 shown in FIG. 2. The code may be stored on a computer-readable storage medium, for example, in the form of a computer program including a plurality of instructions executable by one or more processors. The computer-readable storage medium may be non-transitory.
The process 900 may begin at 902 when an indication is received that a user is in possession of an item. In one example, the user may purchase an item from an electronic marketplace. In another example, the user may provide an indication to a subscription service that he or she has the item. Once the subscription system is able to determine that the user has the item, it may maintain or store cluster information for the consumer at 904. For example, the user may have been associated with a cluster based on demographic attributes of the user, item purchase history, or any other suitable user-related attribute. In some embodiments, the cluster may share a common consumption rate for the item that has been calculated based on the consumption of the item by members of the cluster. Additionally, a replacement status may be maintained or stored by the subscription system at 906. The replacement status may be calculated based on the common consumption rate of the cluster to which the user belongs.
In some embodiments, the subscription system may determine that a second cluster is more appropriate for the user than the one to which he or she is currently assigned. This might be triggered by an item purchase, a change in demographics (such as the user moving to another location), or the receipt of updated information. In these embodiments, the common consumption rate of the new cluster may replace the existing stored consumption rate at 908. In addition, the replacement status information may be updated based on the new consumption rate at 910. Once the replacement status information has been updated, it may be presented to the user at 912. The replacement status may appear as a pending shipment date, progress bar, or another suitable indication of a future item replacement.
FIG. 10 illustrates aspects of an example environment 1000 for implementing aspects in accordance with various embodiments. As will be appreciated, although a Web-based environment is used for purposes of explanation, different environments may be used, as appropriate, to implement various embodiments. The environment includes an electronic client device 1002, which can include any appropriate device operable to send and receive requests, messages or information over an appropriate network 1004 and convey information back to a user of the device. Examples of such client devices include personal computers, cell phones, handheld messaging devices, laptop computers, set-top boxes, personal data assistants, electronic book readers and the like. The network can include any appropriate network, including an intranet, the Internet, a cellular network, a local area network or any other such network or combination thereof. Components used for such a system can depend at least in part upon the type of network and/or environment selected. Protocols and components for communicating via such a network are well known and will not be discussed herein in detail. Communication over the network can be enabled by wired or wireless connections and combinations thereof. In this example, the network includes the Internet, as the environment includes a Web server 1006 for receiving requests and serving content in response thereto, although for other networks an alternative device serving a similar purpose could be used as would be apparent to one of ordinary skill in the art.
The illustrative environment includes at least one application server 1008 and a data store 1010. It should be understood that there can be several application servers, layers, or other elements, processes or components, which may be chained or otherwise configured, which can interact to perform tasks such as obtaining data from an appropriate data store. As used herein the term "data store" refers to any device or combination of devices capable of storing, accessing and retrieving data, which may include any combination and number of data servers, databases, data storage devices and data storage media, in any standard, distributed or clustered environment. The application server can include any appropriate hardware and software for integrating with the data store as needed to execute aspects of one or more applications for the client device, handling a majority of the data access and business logic for an application. The application server provides access control services in cooperation with the data store and is able to generate content such as text, graphics, audio and/or video to be transferred to the user, which may be served to the user by the Web server in the form of HyperText Markup Language ("HTML"), Extensible Markup Language ("XML") or another appropriate structured language in this example. The handling of all requests and responses, as well as the delivery of content between the client device 1002 and the application server 1008, can be handled by the Web server. It should be understood that the Web and application servers are not required and are merely example components, as structured code discussed herein can be executed on any appropriate device or host machine as discussed elsewhere herein.
The data store 1010 can include several separate data tables, databases or other data storage mechanisms and media for storing data relating to a particular aspect. For example, the data store illustrated includes mechanisms for storing production data 1012 and user information 1016, which can be used to serve content for the production side. The data store also is shown to include a mechanism for storing log data 1014, which can be used for reporting, analysis or other such purposes. It should be understood that there can be many other aspects that may need to be stored in the data store, such as for page image information and to access right information, which can be stored in any of the above listed mechanisms as appropriate or in additional mechanisms in the data store 1010. The data store 1010 is operable, through logic associated therewith, to receive instructions from the application server 1008 and obtain, update or otherwise process data in response thereto. In one example, a user might submit a search request for a certain type of item. In this case, the data store might access the user information to verify the identity of the user and can access the catalog detail information to obtain information about items of that type. The information then can be returned to the user, such as in a results listing on a Web page that the user is able to view via a browser on the user device 1002. Information for a particular item of interest can be viewed in a dedicated page or window of the browser.
The environment in one embodiment is a distributed computing environment utilizing several computer systems and components that are interconnected via communication links, using one or more computer networks or direct connections. However, it will be appreciated by those of ordinary skill in the art that such a system could operate equally well in a system having fewer or a greater number of components than are illustrated in FIG. 10. Thus, the depiction of the system 1000 in FIG. 10 should be taken as being illustrative in nature and not limiting to the scope of the disclosure.
Most embodiments utilize at least one network that would be familiar to those skilled in the art for supporting communications using any of a variety of commercially-available protocols, such as Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol ("TCP/IP"), Open System Interconnection ("OSI"), File Transfer Protocol ("FTP"), Universal Plug and Play ("UpnP"), Network File System ("NFS"), Common Internet File System ("CIFS") and AppleTalk. The network can be, for example, a local area network, a wide-area network, a virtual private network, the Internet, an intranet, an extranet, a public switched telephone network, an infrared network, a wireless network and any combination thereof.
In embodiments utilizing a Web server, the Web server can run any of a variety of server or mid-tier applications, including Hypertext Transfer Protocol ("HTTP") servers, FTP servers, Common Gateway Interface ("CGI") servers, data servers, Java servers and business application servers. The server(s) also may be capable of executing programs or scripts in response requests from user devices, such as by executing one or more Web applications that may be implemented as one or more scripts or programs written in any programming language, such as Java.RTM., C, C# or C++, or any scripting language, such as Perl, Python or TCL, as well as combinations thereof. The server(s) may also include database servers, including without limitation those commercially available from Oracle.RTM., Microsoft.RTM., Sybase.RTM. and IBM.RTM..
The environment can include a variety of data stores and other memory and storage media as discussed above. These can reside in a variety of locations, such as on a storage medium local to (and/or resident in) one or more of the computers or remote from any or all of the computers across the network. In a particular set of embodiments, the information may reside in a storage-area network ("SAN") familiar to those skilled in the art. Similarly, any necessary files for performing the functions attributed to the computers, servers or other network devices may be stored locally and/or remotely, as appropriate. Where a system includes computerized devices, each such device can include hardware elements that may be electrically coupled via a bus, the elements including, for example, at least one central processing unit ("CPU"), at least one input device (e.g., a mouse, keyboard, controller, touch screen or keypad) and at least one output device (e.g., a display device, printer or speaker). Such a system may also include one or more storage devices, such as disk drives, optical storage devices and solid-state storage devices such as random access memory ("RAM") or read-only memory ("ROM"), as well as removable media devices, memory cards, flash cards, etc.
Such devices also can include a computer-readable storage media reader, a communications device (e.g., a modem, a network card (wireless or wired), an infrared communication device, etc.) and working memory as described above. The computer-readable storage media reader can be connected with, or configured to receive, a computer-readable storage medium, representing remote, local, fixed and/or removable storage devices as well as storage media for temporarily and/or more permanently containing, storing, transmitting and retrieving computer-readable information. The system and various devices also typically will include a number of software applications, modules, services or other elements located within at least one working memory device, including an operating system and application programs, such as a client application or Web browser. It should be appreciated that alternate embodiments may have numerous variations from that described above. For example, customized hardware might also be used and/or particular elements might be implemented in hardware, software (including portable software, such as applets) or both. Further, connection to other computing devices such as network input/output devices may be employed.
Storage media and computer readable media for containing code, or portions of code, can include any appropriate media known or used in the art, including storage media and communication media, such as but not limited to volatile and non-volatile, removable and non-removable media implemented in any method or technology for storage and/or transmission of information such as computer readable instructions, data structures, program modules or other data, including RAM, ROM, Electrically Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory ("EEPROM"), flash memory or other memory technology, Compact Disc Read-Only Memory ("CD-ROM"), digital versatile disk (DVD) or other optical storage, magnetic cassettes, magnetic tape, magnetic disk storage or other magnetic storage devices or any other medium which can be used to store the desired information and which can be accessed by the a system device. Based on the disclosure and teachings provided herein, a person of ordinary skill in the art will appreciate other ways and/or methods to implement the various embodiments.
The use of the terms "a" and "an" and "the" and similar referents in the context of describing the disclosed embodiments (especially in the context of the following claims) are to be construed to cover both the singular and the plural, unless otherwise indicated herein or clearly contradicted by context. The terms "comprising," "having," "including," and "containing" are to be construed as open-ended terms (i.e., meaning "including, but not limited to,") unless otherwise noted. The term "connected" is to be construed as partly or wholly contained within, attached to, or joined together, even if there is something intervening. Recitation of ranges of values herein are merely intended to serve as a shorthand method of referring individually to each separate value falling within the range, unless otherwise indicated herein and each separate value is incorporated into the specification as if it were individually recited herein. All methods described herein can be performed in any suitable order unless otherwise indicated herein or otherwise clearly contradicted by context. The use of any and all examples, or exemplary language (e.g., "such as") provided herein, is intended merely to better illuminate embodiments of the disclosure and does not pose a limitation on the scope of the disclosure unless otherwise claimed. No language in the specification should be construed as indicating any non-claimed element as essential to the practice of the disclosure.
Disjunctive language such as the phrase "at least one of X, Y, or Z," unless specifically stated otherwise, is intended to be understood within the context as used in general to present that an item, term, etc., may be either X, Y, or Z, or any combination thereof (e.g., X, Y, and/or Z). Thus, such disjunctive language is not generally intended to, and should not, imply that certain embodiments require at least one of X, at least one of Y, or at least one of Z to each be present. | 2019-04-21T14:43:19 | http://patents.com/us-20160275424.html |
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Below are 10 cool beauty facts and tips that might interest you, browse the list and let us know in the comments which one was your favorite.
Do you know about those unpleasant pimples that appear shortly before some important event and you do not know how to get rid of them? Take some toothpaste and apply it to the acne. Leave it for an hour and rinse.
There are many health risks due to excessive body weight: high blood pressure, cancer, diabetes, sleep issues and heart disease.
It is very important to remove makeup before sleep because it might cause eyelash loss.
Did you know that 80% of women are struggling because of excessive exposure to sunlight? In fact, even a few minutes in the sun without proper protection can cause wrinkles, scabies and even skin cancer. For best protection, use a cream with a protective factor.
Every human body needs fat to live. Fat is needed for healthy functioning and biological processes. The funny fact is that the human body has about 50 billion ounces of fat cells, more than there people in the world.
Do you know that you can solve the unpleasant breath by eating candies without sugar? So, the next time you want a fresh breath, take a candy without sugar.
Smoking affects your skin! Smoking causes early aging of the skin, wrinkles, decreases vitamin A levels and skin moisture, and the color of your skin becomes uneven. In addition, oxygen is reduced by smoking and the wounds on the face regenerate slower.
Did you know that tea is the most effective in burns? Sunburn can surprise you after just one day on the beach, and we all know how painful it is. Thick bath in strong black tea helps with pain and swelling of the bladder.
Stop washing your face with soap every morning because it is not good for your skin. It will drain all fats and oil from your skin. Your skin will become dry, thin and without any hydration. | 2019-04-25T06:23:42 | https://theawesomedaily.com/10-super-interesting-beauty-facts-and-tips/ |
i disagree, it's not tastefully done. But then again,that's american comedy for you! i'd give it three stars instead of four.
I don't understand how much tasteful one can do comedy of this kind. I would say the jokes were delivered the way they were supposed to be at the time they were supposed to be delivered.
I've seen this movie, and I appreciated the fact that the writers didn't so much as shy away from the crude jokes as embraced them fully and made the jokes their own. | 2019-04-21T02:08:43 | http://www.dacouchtomato.com/2008/08/you-dont-mess-with-zohan.html |
Doodle on your own pillowcase! Without getting in loads of trouble from whoever does the washing.
Draw, doodle and colour in both sides - then just wash and start again. There is a ornate frame on one side for masterpieces and a memo pad on the other for important to do lists or maybe a haiku. Never forget that amazing dream or inspired idea again. Don't tell anyone, but there is a hidden extra ‘notepad’ tucked inside for secret messages.
Can be a tangible way of helping worriers to put problems 'to bed' before turning out the light with an emptied head ("write it down, and then deal with it in the morning").
10 colour pens are included. Pillowcase is 100% cotton. Wash at 40 degrees (dry naturally).
Product dimensions:75 x 50cm /20 x 30"
A unique gift to personalise. Great fun on sleepovers. Quirky enough to even please the tricky teen market. A present that can help them express themselves and get creative.
Made from 100% cotton. Washable pens that provide your little artist / poet/ revolutionary with a fresh canvas after every wash. An entertaining and useful present. | 2019-04-20T03:11:49 | https://www.afteralice.co.uk/collections/literacy-numeracy-toys/products/doddle-pillowcase |
Today I sat in a coffee shop in Central London opposite a good looking man in his early 40s, smartly dressed even down to his matching bumble bee tie, socks and accompanying silk hanky in his breast pocket. But instead of having a sense of energy and eagerness to take the world on, he had instead a demeanour of defeat. He looked as though he had the weight of the world on his shoulders. He looked miserable and I felt sorry for him.
But watching him prompted what I want to talk about today.
Thinking about this man, whatever is going on with him personally, as he walked through his office door after his coffee, did he take light or gloom into the workplace? If he took gloom in, some might say he’s not to blame if he was worrying about something.
But let’s think about that for a minute. Energy creates more energy. Gloom creates more gloom. And it’s hard to be an energetic optimistic person when you are alongside someone who is really gloomy, or negative. It’s also hard to stay in an organisation when each day the dominant atmosphere is one of gloom or despondency, rather than optimism and energy. And what builds businesses and helps develop organisations? Energy or gloom? Light or dark?
Many would say I should be sympathetic to someone in my work environment who is gloomy; that we all have gloomy days and that’s okay as life can’t be smiles all of the time. They are right and to a degree, I am sympathetic and understanding. However, we each have a responsibility in life towards others. On a gloomy day, we have a choice about what we will present to the world as we walk through the door. We can choose to bring energy in and to share our energy with others, or we can choose to bring the gloom in and in so doing, drain some of the positive energy of others we meet.
The ‘glass half empty’ people around us often argue that pessimism is not a choice, but something preordained for them. But that is NOT correct. I have seen plenty of people present a positive face to the room, despite feeling under the weather or being seriously ill and plenty of people bring the sunshine in, despite dealing with very complex or stressful issues outside of work. We can each choose our attitude. We can each choose how we act each day. We can choose to be positive or we can choose to sink into negativity. We can choose to smile or we can choose to scowl. My view is that we have choices. In fact, far more choices than many would have us believe.
As an educator, the big question for me is, who is out there educating people about the fact that they do have choices and responsibilities towards others? Or is it all left to social media? Thought of the day posts and the occasional self-help book? And critically, who has the confidence to throw people out of the workplace, if they make life miserable for others by being difficult or negative? I’ve done it, but would you?
We live in a ‘blame’ and ‘victim’ society, very much created over the past 20 years by a legal profession that has by and large lost its vision, integrity and understanding of its critical role in supporting, rather than destroying the fabric of our community. When individual rights are always placed higher than community rights when winning the case, or maximising the fees is more important than being honest or fair, then difficulties are always going to arise. In my view, this delightful ‘blame’ and ‘victim’ society has, in equal measure, been created by the political pen pushers who put process, procedure and risk aversion above the long-term needs and welfare of citizens. We live in a society where playing the victim is the norm, when something doesn’t go the way we would like it to.
I acknowledge that my own HR profession must also shoulder some of the blame. For often, without question, it praises the ‘sage’ risk-averse advice of its lawyers and implements yet more process and procedure with barely a murmur. How I wish those in my profession would more often stand up to be counted, rather than wimp out at the slightest sign of controversy or conflict and stop this embarrassing habit of kowtowing to the nearest lawyer as though somehow that will raise their status.
But returning to education, our education process is so geared to qualifications and developing the skills to do the job, that sometimes life education gets missed out. An employer teaching staff about personal responsibility and about our choices in life is usually not one of the priorities of the training budget! But perhaps it ought to be.
For surely life isn’t just being ‘done’ to us, instead life is ours to pursue if only we can grasp the fact that we are in control, we choose and our decisions, actions and their consequences are ours alone. I would love to put this on the training agenda at work. Would you?
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What an excellent article! I absolutley agree with you – Thanks Helen for this. We in HR should speak up, be bold, stop hiding behind policies and procedures and challenge when it is right to do so and also use every opportunity to educate colleagues about what it really means to be responsible – with rights also comes responsibilities. | 2019-04-19T12:33:48 | https://www.jaluch.co.uk/are-you-the-light-or-the-dark-in-your-workplace/ |
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One trend that I'm seeing a ton of for this Fall/Winter is military inspired details. I have to admit I'm not immune. I love classic peacoats, brass buttons & buckles and tall, flat boots. There are jackets and capes at every price point - from $89.50 at Delias to $150 - $325 at Urban Outfitters (when did UO get so expensive!?). I'm in love with the Kate Moss for TopShop cape but unless I win the lottery, I'm afraid I won't be sporting it any time soon. There is an amazing little jacket ending on Ebay today. I'm betting it goes for a pretty penny. Agathe from StyleBytes seems to have found the perfect one (she even added her own military patches) that she cleverly wears with girly dresses. Since none of these lovely items are in my budget, I think my nod to the military trend will come in the form of these leg warmers with brass snaps. I think they would look great peeking out of the top of my boots.
This is actually my raincoat but since it never rains here I never get a chance to wear it. So I guess you could say for Halloween I've dressed up like someone who hopes it rains soon.
I guess I'm feeling a bit gothy with Halloween right around the corner. No dress up party for me this year. You'd think people in Hollywood would be crazy for Halloween, but I've found the opposite to be true. I think people here consider themselves somehow above it all. Oh well. Anyway, I thought I'd share one of my secrets with you. I'm not one of those girls that feels comfortable walking around in a super short skirt where every passing breeze could be the one that shows all your stuff to the world. The answer? One of these from American Apparel. It's like a little pair of shorts built into a tiny little skirt. It acts as a slip and keeps my dress from riding up when I walk and I never have to worry about having a Marilyn Monroe moment. I have one on right now!
I am so confounded about Cheap Monday jeans. I bought a pair last year when they came in to the store where I work. I'd seen them on many of the street fashion blogs and was really excited to try them out. I got a pair in dark black in my usual size. They seemed stiff but I figured a wash or two would help. To my dismay, no matter how many times I wore and washed them, they remained so stiff and uncomfortable I couldn't wait to take them off at the end of the day. If it's possible for a pair of jeans to make you feel claustrophobic, these jeans did just that. I ended up selling them on EBay.
I guess my memory of how much I hated them is wearing off because I'm beginning to reconsider them. Blame it on the Scandinavians. I love the way the jeans look in these photos. Super skinny with high waists, they look good with boots or flats, with shirt tucked in or left hanging out.
Now that the jeans are readily available at Urban Outfitters I'm really tempted to give them another shot. Maybe mine were just stiff because I bought the dark black rinse. Maybe the lighter ones would be softer. Maybe I just need to wash them with some fabric softener. Maybe I'm crazy for even considering it.
on the iPod: Travis "The Boy With No Name"
I had a completely different outfit picked out this morning but at the last second I decided I just wanted to be comfortable today. So, I ended up pulling out all my favorites: favorite jeans, shirt, boots, scarf - and then just threw on the vest to mix it up a bit. That seems to be happening a lot lately.
There's a new batch of goodies in the store today. Loads of Fall sweaters and cute 80's dress. More to come. I'm going to try to post some shoes and boots this weekend. I wish there were more hours in a day!
I used to feel like I was the target audience for Nylon magazine. In the past year or so I think they've either switched audiences or I've begun to grown out of it. Either way, I still really enjoy most of their fashion editorials. For instance, this month's take on Annie Hall in Central Park. I like the mix of boyish vests and oxfords with girlier bow blouses and knee socks. And who wouldn't want to spend Fall in Central Park?
For the past two days I've witnessed some of the most spectacular sunrises I've ever seen. The sky has been so colorful that the sunlight coming in our apartment has been bright orange. The smoke is so thick on the horizon from all the surrounding fires that it looks like some kind of atomic sunrise. I'll be glad when it finally clears.
on the iPod: Band of Horses "Cease to Begin"
These shoes are one of the things I kept from my thrifting trip back home. I normally would not wear white shoes, but I was inspired by all the white-shoe-wearing over on Moderniteter. Other than that, there's not too much exciting going on with this ensemble. I had to throw in the towel this morning. That's it! I give in! Mother Nature, you win. It's 92 and I cannot wear tights and boots today. | 2019-04-24T02:14:49 | https://sallyjanevintage.blogspot.com/2007/10/ |
The most painful part of developing with electronics is knowing your success is fleeting. Eventually, all parts must die, or at least fade away into irrelevance. But there’s something you can do about it. Obsolescence management can guide you through this difficult process.
Here’s a rundown of the dying process in electronics, plus how the manufacturer makes it a little less -- or more -- painful.
Sadly, electronic components are becoming obsolete faster than ever before. Why?
Did that last point give you pause?
Until 10-15 years ago, the electronic components industry was driven by automotive companies. Today, it’s all about cellphones. If a parts manufacturer can get its chip put into an iPhone design, there’s a whole lot of money coming its way.
Parts makers assume that modern consumers are constantly in the market for the “next new thing.” So makers of components for consumer tech often don’t bother to make anything that’ll last long. Today, the average life cycle of a new integrated circuit is under 2 years. Irritating, no?
These tech problems annoy us all, but humans are procrastinators by nature. We tend to let things slip from our minds until they become huge headaches.
Here’s what happens: A part goes obsolete, so brokers go out and buy stock in it. They want their profit while it lasts. As the chip or other component gets rarer, they raise the price.
Here’s another unpleasant scenario: Your part goes obsolete, and you’re desperate because you didn’t prepare. Since obsolete parts tend to end up in the black and gray markets, you may end up with a counterfeit component. If you place a fake component in your product unknowingly, it could stop working or, even worse, blow up in the field -- resulting in a huge monetary setback or even loss of life.
End-of-Life (also called Product Discontinuation) -- the part is no longer going to be useful and no longer supported. You’re in the dark here as to when the last purchase order or delivery can be made -- if any.
Last Time Buy -- These notifications actually confirm the final date that the factory will accept purchase orders. This at least gives you time for a final bulk purchase before the maker discontinues the part.
Product Change Notifications (PCNs) -- These relay updates to software, function, factory location, raw material specifications, and process/quality improvements. Getting a PCN doesn’t guarantee your part is going obsolete so much as it warns that upcoming changes could impact your product. Always get samples of the replacement part so your team can test its ability to carry out your design.
Your contractor never told you -- Are you sourcing components yourself or using a contract electronics manufacturer to find them for you? In most cases, contracting that out is to your advantage. If you take this route, your contracted provider should directly get notifications from the original maker. Before you sign on with a contracted electronic services provider, it’s wise to ask how they manage these kinds of supply chain issues.
Catalog distributor -- Buying parts from a catalog? The supplier might not get notifications directly from the end manufacturer.
Bad office communication -- Your parts marker may have sent the notifications to an employee in another department at your company. The maker may have even sent word to someone who doesn’t even work at your office anymore.
Gray market -- Did you buy from the gray market? Your source is unlikely to receive any help from the end manufacturer.
Your manufacturer suddenly drops dead -- Whether they send prior notification or not, your supplier can still decide, “We’re done,” and literally stop production that day. Maybe the factory doesn’t think it’s worth it to deal with a smaller-volume run by that point. Maybe it’s another reason. Either way, you’re at their mercy.
Fight for Your Product’s Life!
While obsolescence is often out of your control, there’s plenty you can do on your own to fight other electronic component shortages.
And one final thought on shortages specific to obsolescence: It pays to work with a contract manufacturer that has an engineering arm. The contractor who’s putting together your circuit board can be your savior when it comes to a lot of these problems, actually. Many well-rounded providers offer life-cycle analysis and other obsolescence management services as part of their electronic manufacturing services.
So don’t leave your product for dead -- stretch its life out with these strategies and revive your supply chain! | 2019-04-18T23:18:10 | https://blog.matric.com/basics-of-obsolescence-management-for-electronics |
Use of the Richway Amethyst-Tourmaline Pillow has therapeutic significance because it helps to deliver the energetic frequencies from the Biomat in proper physiological alignment while you relax or sleep. At the same time the pillow keeps the head cool, a practice recommended by Chinese Medicine, while the rest of the body is heating up. Resting flat on your back while using the pillow yields the best cervical alignment and overall energy flow benefits.
The crystal filled zippered case can be removed and used as a body wrap for chest, stomach, arms and legs to assist in relief of many ailments. It is especially nice on long airplane flights to help circulation in the legs and body while seated for so long.
Allows the rest of the body to receive higher temperatures when used with the BioMat.
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Your opportunity awaits for one of the most desirable townhouse communities in White Lake, Wheatherstone! An entertainer?s & gardener's dream condo with a trex deck overlooking a private yard and beautiful perennial landscaped gardens. You can choose a maintenance free lifestyle or indulge yourself in a master gardeners labor of love. This END UNIT allows for loads of natural light w/ additional windows added during construction. Attractive 1st floor open concept living btwn kit, dining & living rooms. Upstairs will find master suite, 2nd bed, full bath & loft. Master offers cathedral ceilings, walk-in closet, vanity & bathroom. Unfinished basement awaits your finishing touches. Recent updates includes hot water heater, reverse osmosis, refrigerator & added insulation. HOA dues include water! 1 year Home Warranty included. Convenient location close to schools, parks, golf courses and all sports Union Lake. THIS CONDO MAY QUALIFY FOR UP TO $1,100 IN LENDER CREDITS TO THE BUYER! | 2019-04-25T12:02:44 | https://www.buyeastsidehomes.com/homes/1385-Waverly-Dr/White-Lake/MI/48386/92303048/ |
After nearly three decades of living, working and going to school in this country, I finally took the oath of citizenship earlier this year. To my great astonishment, my parents were not far behind. What took us so long? Why had we waited until this past year to apply for citizenship? | 2019-04-26T12:15:48 | http://nwasianweekly.com/2008/10/page/4/ |
Prerequisites: 3 credit hours in Religion or permission of instructor.
The prophets of the Bible fascinate the contemporary world. This course evaluates prophecy throughout the ancient Near Eastern world to understand biblical prophecy in its ancient cultural context. A survey of biblical prophetic texts, traditional religious interpretations, and recent academic research clarifies the historical impact of biblical prophecy.
Transfer Equivalents: Look up 86:373 in the BU Course Transfer Database. | 2019-04-25T00:27:25 | https://moodle.brandonu.ca/course/info.php?id=452 |
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Thomas Meadowcroft is an australian composer and musician living in Berlin where he has been based since 1998.
Thomas Meadowcroft's music has been described as 'reaching an inexpressible purity' (Le Monde), 'nerve torture' (Süddeutsche Zeitung) and 'dreamy post-rock' (New York Times). It has on occasion involved the use of foreign or found objects (power tools, canned laughter, recordings of automobiles and BBQ areas etc.) as well as video projections (weather forecasts for the Mediterranean Sea, stills from childrens' books).
As an electric organ player he has performed solo concerts and he performs regularly with australian percussionist Steve Heather and keyboardist Boris Hauf (Vienna/London) with the Band "The Understated Brown".
He has also worked in collaboration with, among others, the Munich-based theatre company "Hunger und Seide", Canadian video artist Peter Sabat, filmmaker Romeo Grünfelder, and New York based cellist Alex Waterman.
His new solo-project is called Birdcage Tombola and is a solo, pop music project for voice, keyboards, canned strings, and electronic noodling. He uses separate speakers for each string part when playing live to produce a rich spatialised sound of discounted, canned strings. | 2019-04-19T06:47:50 | https://ausland.berlin/thomas-meadowcroft |
Tarry Tavern in Tarrytown seems to be having a hard time getting off the ground.
Grae Noons, the former sous chef from Tarry Lodge, is now also gone from Tarry Tavern. He had taken over the kitchen Greg Vernick, a former chef for Jean-Georges, left.
Owner Henry Cabral says that neither chef would “cater to the Westchester crowd” or adjust issues that needed to be fixed, such as portion sizes and degree of doneness.
I’ll post more photos of the food later this week. In the meantime, Cabral says he’s holding back on the reservations and he’s looking for another chef.
Henry Cabral’s notion of good service is scary. He YELLED at our party last night when we asked to speak to someone (he was working the floor as a server) and blamed us for the fact that, after 45 minutes, no entrees had arrived. We will never go back. Spend your money wisely and go elsewhere.
I had a great HVRW meal at Tarry Tavern on Tuesday. So much so that I convinced a co-worker to change her plans to eat at Red Hat the next night and went there with some friends, instead (and I told her to ask for the server we had, who was excellent). Long story short, they were never given the Restaurant Week menu (they were RW newbies and did not know to ask, and the server we had was off that night) and only realized it after I said something the next day (she did acknowledge that the bill was higher than expected but did not say anything). She called the restaurant to complain and were told “we only give the restaurant week menu on request”. Very poor form. They had a great RW menu, lots of stuff from their normal menu, and ruin it with something stupid like this. They did have a male server from behind the bad, not sure if it was Henry.
OOPS — make that “behind the BAR” at the end.
We were there tonight for Mother’s Day and the service, food and hospitality from the top, Henry, all the way thru the staff was terrific even after a very long day. We really enjoyed the interesting combinations put on the plates. Try the roasted potato gnocchi appetizer and the strawberry cheesecake. Thank you for a terrific night out. We will return soon. Tarry Tavern is also doing a class for WCC in the Fall. http://www.sunywcc.edu. Can’t wait. | 2019-04-26T11:41:27 | http://food.lohudblogs.com/2010/08/17/tarry-tavern-in-tarrytown-is-down-another-chef/ |
Australia is already feeling the pinch of economic and carbon transitions underway as the world inches closer to a climate agreement in Paris in December, 2015.
Our Prime Minister has backed coal as a path of human prosperity right at the moment when coal is rapidly becoming anaethema due to the toxic affect of coal on human health (See CAHA: Coal and Health in the Hunter: Lessons from one valley for the world) and greenhouse gas pollution causing climate change.
A report just released by Environment Victoria found that the social and health costs of coal in Victoria amounted to about $3.7 billion each year. Tom Arup and Adam Morton at the Age report on The hidden cost of the Hazelwood coal power plant. There is so much in cost being born by the taxpayer, while companies like GDF Suez, Energy Australia and AGL Energy rake in the profits, yet we can’t manage to close a redundant, dirty, aging coal plant like Hazelwood.
To stave off transitional changes Abbott has endeavoured, and succeeded, in undermining Australia’s renewable energy sector that has seen a plunge in investment to near zero and loss of jobs, just as the rest of the world expands renewables production faster than ‘expert’ growth predictions.
The abolition of the carbon tax has allowed energy generators to squeeze more profit out of their aging coal fired generators at the expense of soaring greenhouse gas emissions.
The USA – China climate deal has meant China is already acting to cap usage of coal, both to address the huge pollution problems and the social unrest that has been engendered, and the carbon pollution threat to increasing world temperatures.
This is not good news for Australia’s expanding coal export industry. The Baird NSW State Government approved 1.366 tonnes of new coal mines in the six months before the NSW election. It is doubtful if they will all go ahead, and those that do will be at risk of becoming stranded assets due to the structural changes in coal demand due to climate change and it’s health impacts.
The reduced steel production in China has also hit iron ore exports. The present mining boom is over,and we failed to capitalise on it by establishing a sovereign wealth fund, although such was opposed by the IPA along with carbon pricing and mining tax. Very short sighted.
The collapse of Australian mining export revenues has clearly caused budget problems for Treasurer Joe Hockey, but instead of seeking to structurally address these issues in a reasonable manner, he used the May 2014 budget to disenfranchise and reduce payments for some of those on the lowest incomes in Australia as well as slashing the Foreign Affairs budget by more than $11 billion.
We dearly need the carbon tax restored and the estimated $7 billion in revenue that would bring in, as well as slashing the $10 billion in Federal Government subsidies to fossil fuels each year, neither of which are on the agenda of the present government.
Australia was not one of the 32 countries that made the 31 March deadline submission of its post 2020 targets to the UNFCCC. But on 28th March a public consultations process was announced on Australia’s post-2020 emissions reduction target. Submissions close 3pm AEST Friday 24 April 2015.
Australia’s current emissions reduction target is 5 per cent on 2000 levels by 2020, although we still have a commitment under the UNFCCC to a range up to 25 per cent if certain conditions are met.
Other Nations have already lodged questions about Australia’s low ambitions and how it will meet it’s commitments through the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate change (UNFCCC) process.
A question from the European Union asked for information on how the anticipated mitigation potential of the Emissions Reduction Fund (ERF) could meet the more ambitous 15 per cent and 25 per cent targets that are part of our commitment range already made?
Foreign Affairs Minister Julie Bishop has resolutely stuck to this low level of ambition at the Climate summit in New York in September, 2014 where she was shunned. More recently she evaded a question on climate change and the risk to security when she attended Obama’s 6th State of the Union (SOTU) Speech in January 2015.
Our 5 per cent target is plainly inadequate when compared to what other nations are already undertaking. The Climate Change Authority in March, 2014 recommended that the conditions had been met to lift our 2020 targets to 15 per cent on 2000 levels. The Authority indicated that post-2020 domestic emission reduction targets of between 40% and 60% by 2030 would be required.
The Climate Institute recommended to the Climate Change Authority that Australian emissions reduction goals be 40 per cent below 2000 levels by 2025 and net zero emissions between 2040 and 2050.
Lenore Taylor in The Guardian highlights that the discussion paper does not even mention the 2C goal, first decided at Copenhagen in 2009 and confirmed at Cancun in 2010. But the issues paper does mention a scenario that could result in almost 4C global warming.
Congrats Switzerland: #climate emissions cut by 50% on 1990 levels by 2030. https://t.co/TPC5KS7LGN How much Australia @JulieBishopMP?
Overnight Europe announced an emissions reduction target of 40% by 2030 on 1990 levels http://t.co/qIjxPXOr2u Paris here we come!
While the world is ramping up commitment to take action in reducing greenhouse gas emissions, Australia has just funded climate contrarian Bjorn Lomborg $4 million over the next four years to establish an Australian Consensus Centre at the University of Western Australia.
@takvera great analysis and overview. I think Lomborg's sophistry will be key for Australia's inaction at Cop21. Might be strategy.
It is likely the Abbott Government will attempt to use the work of Lomborg’s consensus centre to down play the necessity to mitigate climate change and to argue that Australia should have special consideration due to our heavy reliance on coal for electricity generation. Australia had a special consideration clause – it was even called the Australia clause – under the Kyoto Protocol, over land use and deforrestation emissions which made it much easier for us to meet our commitments.
This time round we might find other nations won’t be so generous to allow any ‘special consideration’.
So what target do you think Australia should aim for? Read the white paper and make your Submission by 3pm AEST Friday 24 April 2015.
Update: Submission deadline has now been extended to 1st May. John Englart prepared an 8 page formal submission on behalf of Climate Action Moreland.
John Englart and his teenage daughter will be travelling to Paris to report on the United Nations COP21 climate talks (including for Nofibs), and in particular what role Australia plays in those negotiations. Over $1400 was successfully raised from 20 backers through crowdfunding to help meet their living costs while covering the climate talks. | 2019-04-25T14:07:23 | https://nofibs.com.au/what-should-australias-post-2020-climate-targets-be-asks-takvera-auspol/ |
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Fairness: This concern is extensively discovered within the literature, suggesting the expansion in low-cost non-public education could also be exacerbating or perpetuating already current inequalities in growing international locations, between urban and rural populations, decrease- and better-earnings households, and between girls and boys.
Naturally, we are often fully unaware of our mapping processes. The Soros Basis 39 offers many alternatives for students from central Asia and eastern Europe. Arrange and administer the Schools of Conscience Consortium to encourage mutual assist for implementing these proposals. | 2019-04-18T16:46:34 | http://www.genios64.com/tag/people |
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How lucky are we to be part of something so much larger than ourselves!?
It is an amazing honor to be here tonight, ritualizing, making real, this commitment to care for one another as a community. I have wanted to be a rabbi since I was a kid, maybe 10 or 11. But never, beyond my wildest dreams, did I imagine that I would get to serve a community as creative, as spiritually and politically radical, as full of skill, passion and presence as Kol Tzedek. A community where I can fully and truly be myself. Tonight is a blessing beyond words.
Thank you to Rabbi Benay Lappe, Rabbi Deborah Waxman and Rabbi Sharon Cohen Anisfeld for your inspiring leadership and living Torah. Thank you to the Kol Tzedek Board, the Search Committee, the founding members, the Fundraising and Installation committees, with special shout outs to Noga, Rachel, Elana and Lula for finding the holy in every detail! Thank you to Brenda for the amazing Tallit clip, and to Jessi for her soulful song. Thank you to everyone who joined this year. Thank you to everyone, which I think it is everyone, who made a contribution of time and money. Thank you to the Kol Tzedek staff, Rabbi Michelle, Scott and Kari. Thank you to our community organizing partners and fellow clergy of heart and conscience. Thank you to my extended family for your love and support. Thank you Shosh, Naim and Zeev for dreaming up this life and journeying with me. And thank you Rabbi Lauren - for the courage to step into the waters and dream up this sacred community. Thank you for your trust and your confidence. I surely stand on your shoulders here tonight. I am honored to place myself in your lineage.
Just moments ago I received the Kol Tzedek Torah from Rabbi Lauren. In so doing, I commit to continuing to transmit Torah at Kol Tzedek.
I commit to being generous with my heart and cautious with my judgments.
I commit to cultivating a culture of learning and to make Judaism accessible to students, scholars and seekers of all stripes.
I commit to treating Jewish tradition with care, to take it seriously and hold it accountable so that it remains relevant and just.
Tonight I receive not just the written Torah, the sacred scroll, ink letters pressed on parchment. But also the oral Torah, the traditions and stories that define us. The the ongoing commitment to uncovering wisdom that can support personal and spiritual transformation. The belief in a concept of the Divine that has at least 70 names; a God whose preferred gender pronouns are “Is Was Will Be.” A force for transformation that agitates, inspires and supports our own longing to become.
And perhaps most importantly, it is the Torah of this community that I am specifically honored to receive. The Torah of your lives. The Torah of healing and justice; the Torah of survival and sobriety; the Torah of complexity and compassion.
Ever since I first interviewed for this position, I have been searching for just the right metaphor for our community. An image to aspire towards. And as it turns out, the image I want to offer comes as a resolution to a story about two rabbis who disagree about the nature of ritual purity. So much so, that they feared it might cause a person to question the wisdom of Torah altogether. To which the rabbis respond, 'Make yourself a heart of many rooms, and enter into it the words of those who declare a matter impure, and those who declare it pure."
In response to a great debate about the nature of truth and authority, the ancient sages encourage us to embrace complexity and contradiction, to increase our capacity for compassion and connection. To be a student of Torah, says this text, is to expand the horizon of your heart.
Make yourself a Heart of Many Rooms.
This describes my greatest aspirations for us as Kol Tzedek.
We are a community of artists and organizers, teachers and healers. We are critical thinkers and cultural workers. We are strong-willed survivors and the inheritors of a tradition that encourages us to ask a lot of questions. And we have decided to bind our lives together in sacred community. And at the center of our community is this heart of many rooms. A heart resilient enough to contain the brokenness is that is always part of our longing to be whole. A heart trustworthy of our vulnerability. A heart flexible and strong enough to pursue justice and compassion, righteousness and mercy all in one beat.
We as individuals and as a community are growing and changing. And together we can hold fast to the nostalgia and the excitement. There are rooms for study and rooms for organizing. There are rooms for dancing and rooms for grieving. There are rooms for micro-communities and sub-committees, all contained within one sacred heart.
And isn’t this exactly what we have been doing here at the Calvary Center for Community and Culture too. A building that declares Black Lives Matter with the taglines of four different communities of faith. A building that is home to three churches, a synagogue and a masjid. A building that supports youth leadership, community theater, international musicians, martial arts, social services and neighborhood gatherings. Calvary is in its essence the neighborhood heart of many rooms. And it calls us to our own purpose.
To co-house with complexity, to remember that generosity births abundance, to seek interdependence, to build multi-racial, multi-faith, cross-class alliances. To experience the divinity in each and every person we encounter.
Yet the rabbis teach: “Make yourself a heart of many rooms.” And so tonight I also want to extend this teaching to myself as your rabbi. Tonight I commit myself to you as a heart of many rooms. To being your teacher and your pastor, your advocate and your organizer.
According to our ritual calendar, in just a few weeks we will arrive at Mt Sinai preparing to receive the Torah on Shavuot. At the foot of the mountain the Israelites accept the Torah saying: Na’aseh v’Nishma, we will do and then we will understand. We too are called to decide on this side of the mountain that we will stick around. And I hope you do, because from what I know of the past 9 months, this community is too beautiful to miss.
I have found God’s grace in 70 community members packed into a sweaty classroom for the Black Lives Matter Study group. I have found God’s grace in our circle dancing well past the final shofar blast of neilah. The grief gathering on election day. The joint Hanukkah and Christmas service. The Multi-faith Solidarity gathering for Inauguration Day following by Praying in the streets at the Women’s March. At Let My People Sing, more than once! I felt God’s grace saying kaddish at the Mt. Carmel cemetery, standing shoulder to shoulder with our Muslim and Quaker cousins, resisting Islamophobia and anti-semitism. Our Klezmer blow out Purim party fundraiser. Baby namings and B’nei mitzvah on the regular. And shabbat services and learning, filled with warmth and song, always greeting me like a loyal friend.
I have found God’s grace more in the past 9 months than I ever could have dreamed and for that I am deeply grateful and endlessly excited about what’s to come.
May we as a community go from strength to strength! | 2019-04-26T12:28:14 | http://www.kol-tzedek.org/heart-rooms.html |
Minneapolis — July 26, 2018 — Outsell, which offers the only AI-driven marketing automation platform for the automotive industry, announced today that auto dealers’ pressing need to improve and measure the impact of digital marketing programs helped it drive significant growth in new dealer group business, and expansions with existing customers.
Financially, Q2 was another solid quarter for Outsell, with bookings ahead of plan. Direct revenue growth for the first half of 2018 grew 43% over the same period last year, and the average deal size during the first half of 2018 was 36% higher than it was for 2017. | 2019-04-26T01:45:05 | http://www.dealermarketing.com/dealer-demand-for-ai-powered-marketing-solutions-helps-outsell-drive-strong-bookings-and-revenue-growth/ |
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See more Imagine Crafts Tools. | 2019-04-26T14:32:44 | https://www.createforless.com/Imagine-Crafts-Tools-Empty-Spray-Bottle-2oz/pid247291.aspx |
not much to say lately.
i have become the worst e-mailer ever. if i owe you an e-mail, i'm sorry. i'm working on it.
also, go see the royal tenenbaums. funny funny. | 2019-04-22T22:41:11 | https://www.dramabug.net/2002/02/boring_10.html |
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The pavlova is a quintessential Aussie dessert that is said to have been inspired by the Russian ballet dancer Anna Pavlova after a chef saw her perform on her world tour in 1926. A good pavlova has a beautiful high, crisp crust and a soft, pillowy marshmallow inside. It is one of my favourite summer desserts, especially when topped with seasonal fruit.
Preheat the oven to 180°C. Line a large tray with baking paper and trace a circle around the bottom of an 18cm cake tin (or other round object of the desired size). Turn the baking paper over (so it is pencil side down).
Using the circle on the baking paper as your guide, spoon the pavlova mixture onto the tray and shape.
Cook at 180°C for about 8 minutes and then reduce heat to 90°C and cook for another 45 minutes. Turn the oven off and leave the pavlova to cool in the oven for at least an hour, to prevent collapsing.
When fully cool and you’re ready to serve it (keep the meringue free of toppings until right before serving), gently spread the thickened cream over the top and decorate with fruit.
Recipe from my lovely Grandmother, Margaret Payne. | 2019-04-19T21:20:55 | https://bakerholicsanonymous.com/2017/01/29/pavlova/ |
Enjoy the hotel’s recreational facilities, including fitness center, outdoor pool, table tennis, before retiring to your room for a well-deserved rest. Facilities like 24-hour front desk, facilities for disabled guests, express check-in/check-out, luggage storage, airport transfer are readily available for you to enjoy. Rated 9.3 out of 10 by 2 reviewers, guests absolutely loved this hotel and thought it was exceptionally good! An up-market 4 star rated accommodation with an unspecified number of rooms spread over an unspecified number of floors. The hotel offers guests a range of services and amenities designed to provide comfort and convenience. Ideally located in the prime touristic area of Kamari, Rose Bay Hotel promises a relaxing and wonderful visit. Each guestroom is elegantly furnished and equipped with handy amenities. Nightly rates start at around USD108. Rose Bay Hotel is an excellent choice from which to explore Santorini or to simply relax and rejuvenate. | 2019-04-24T13:03:22 | http://santorinicavehotel.com/rose-bay-hotel-p-o-box-11/ |
The pure, essential lines evoke a space that is both abstract and metaphysical and immerged in green. Secco Sistemi created the structure – 4 eight-meter long beams – in the shiny, elegant material of stainless steel. The metal reflects and amplifies the colors and light of the woods around it, almost as if it were only highlighting its own shadow on the grass in the clearing. The attention paid to the constructive detail plays a decisive role in the effectiveness of the work: with the perfect equilibrium of the few elements, the craftsmanship is impeccable.
Entitled Freespace, the 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale focuses on the relationship between architecture and open, free, public space. With 63 national participants, this is the first time the Holy See has a pavilion on the island of San Giorgio. The theme portrayed in the sacred space was developed by 10 internationally renowned architects, who created their own personal vision along a path through the woods, which opens up onto the lagoon.
With the 1920 Asplund Chapel in the Stockholm cemetery as their starting point, the designers’ freedom is expressed with original, evocative results. Their individual contributions are characterized by their choice of the materials and figures. Wood, stone, ceramic, and metal; a curtain (Foster, Berman), a primitive hut (Fujimori, Forets e Prats), an observatory in the woods (Espinola, Godsell), a refuge (Radic), ruins (Souto de Moura), a sculpture (Cellini, Juacaba). | 2019-04-26T07:53:39 | https://www.seccosistemi.com/en/news/venice-architecture-biennale-2018-holy-see-pavilion |
Chocolate Hunting in Montmartre at Vintage Hostel Paris Gare du Nord. Look for bunnies & eggs. And… eat it!!!! Yummy! | 2019-04-20T02:55:31 | http://hiphophostels.com/fr/evenements/chocolate-hunting-montmartre/ |
We were successfully involved in the UK standardisation of the international standard assessment of emotional intelligence: the BarOn Emotional Quotient Inventory.
The Inventory is published by MHS Inc, based in Toronto, Canada; Buffalo, USA and Newbury, UK. It is widely used in the USA to measure emotional and social competence.
The project was led by Sophia Papachronopoulou-Botassi. Now BarOn EQ-i can be used with confidence in the UK, enabling organizations and their employees to achieve higher performance in daily tasks by maximizing strong areas and targeting areas for improvement.
"Within a short period of time participants were contacted, sent the assessment and results collected, enabling us to provide UK norms for our Emotional Intelligence tool. This was an efficient and very accommodating service, with constant and consistent contact! "
This standardisation highlights The Psychometrics Centre's ability to organise large scale data collection exercises efficiently and quickly. | 2019-04-21T09:09:49 | https://www.psychometrics.cam.ac.uk/client-showcase/mhs-inc |
Computer and information analysis scientists research and resolve complicated problems in computing. In an earlier experience with a similar state of affairs the vendor replaced the test engine light itself for a cool $500. Total OBD & EU Audo Diagnostics TOAD device reset the test engine mild, which enabled me to determine whether my original hunch was appropriate or if something else was the matter with the automobile, in which case the test engine light would come back on.
The abacus was initially used for arithmetic duties. The Roman abacus was developed from gadgets utilized in Babylonia as early as 2400 BC. Since then, many different types of reckoning boards or tables have been invented. In a medieval European counting house , a checkered fabric can be placed on a desk, and markers moved around on it in response to sure guidelines, as an aid to calculating sums of cash.
These are the latest, excessive-profile developments within the discipline of encrypting ransomware. Nevertheless it’s a reasonably safe wager they won’t be the final. This class of malware continues to evolve and change into extra refined and more insidious. It has crossed the brink of being a billion-dollar business; that success will entice increasingly criminals who’re lured by the promise of simple cash. Our prospects for future employment stay secure!
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We will possible create (and to an enormous extent already have) hardware/software that do very specialized advanced duties – for instance, drive a automotive. Nevertheless, even when I drive a automobile, most of what I do is unconscious. Recently my consciousness is much more centered on listening to Warren Zevon whereas I commute to work and the actions of driving are virtually automatic. A lot of what the human mind does just isn’t conscious. | 2019-04-23T21:52:48 | http://quickfreeiphone.com/how-to-uninstall-nexdef-on-mac-or-laptop-2.html |
I was at the Interbike tradeshow for the bike industry this past September and learned about a new bike helmet technology that reduces the force of common low speed impacts. With all of the recent news about how concussions and even sub-concussive level forces can impact brain function, I thought this might be worth sharing for all of you that ride bikes or have kids that ride bikes.
Both of my kids play club soccer and it's been REALLY eye-opening about how long kids with concussions are now required to abstain from activities posing potential risk of additional head impacts after an initial concussion. One of my son's soccer teammates sat out from playing after receiving a concussion for about 5 months on doctor's orders. What's particularly concerning to me is that repeated impacts of even a sub-concussive level may have long-term health effects (though the science on this is far from settled). One example of a study that came up with evidence of this was a study that found functional cognitive impairment in high school football players that had not experienced clinically-diagnosed concussions: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20883154. In this study, researcher found that the players with the most impaired visual memory skills were actually not those that had experienced concussions but rather the players which, in the preceding week, had experienced a large number of subconcussive hits - around 150 hits - mostly in the 40 to 80 g range. The Purdue researchers suspect that these players experienced neurological trauma arising from repeated, sub-concussive head collision events, each of which likely produces sub-clinical stress on neural tissue in the brain.
Existing bicycle helmet crash tests focus mainly on reducing the risk of skull fractures from high speed impacts, but increasing the density of helmet foams to reduce the risk of skull fractures in higher speed crashes actually reduces effectiveness at reducing forces from lower speed crashes. The density of bike helmet foam necessary to meet current crash standards is more firm than ideal to adequately absorb the impact from lower speed crashes at a level that would cause concussions. Adding a softer helmet layer to existing bike helmet designs would be one way tohelp slow down the acceleration of the head in these lower speed crashes.
One of the new technologies that I was really excited to find at the Interbike bike industry trade show this past September was 6D Helmets' Omni-Directional Suspension (ODS) technology that helps reduce forces transmitted in low speed impacts. 6D's technology adds a layer of rubber bumpers between two foam layers to reduce impact speed and force (see attached picture). The NFL chose 6D and its ODS technology to beone of 5 finalists chosen out of 125 entries in the NFL's Head Health Challenge III (https://ninesights.ninesigma.com/web/head-health/challenge-3-winners) to discover, design & develop advanced materials that better absorb or dissipate impact. I was so impressed that I got a 6D bike helmet for myself and will get them for my family as well.
6D's Omni-Directional Suspension reduces and delays the force transmitted in low speed impacts.
Some great new components from Praxis Works. First up is their new 1x Wave chain ring. This has a Left-Right tooth orientation they claim will create less noise & drag than a standard narrow-wide ring. It comes in SRAM Direct Mount as well as 104 & 94 BCD sizes.
Also new from Praxis Works are their Lyft carbon cranks. The cranks weigh 454 grams with a Direct Mount chain ring. As we have come to expect from Praxis Works, their new crank will fit a wide range of bottom bracket standards including BSA Threaded, BB30, PF30, BB90, BB92 bottom brackets. The Lyft crankset will be available by December 2016.
Giro has introduced a new version of their Empire ACC and Republic LX shoes for road and casual use that are 100% reflective! These look to be a great option for road riding or commuting in night time or low light conditions.
Ergon have added a new version of their GE1 grip designed for wide handlebars. The new version has a softer rubber compound that is extra grippy in both wet & dry conditions. We'll look to get a pair to add to our current grips comparison test that also includes the ODI Ruffian, ODI Elite Pro, Chromag SquareWave & Ergon GA2 grips.
Ergon are also introducing their new IP3 Solestar insole intended to improve both comfort and power transfer. The IP3 uses a nylon structure to create a solid structure for the foot. The IP3 will be offered in 6 sizes.
New seatposts and drop bars from Thomson.
Kool-Stop showed new aluminum cooling fins with a replaceable brake pad design that allows standard Kool-Stop pads to be used as replacement.
So my visit with 6D was originally intended as a 5 minute social call as one of my customers had just ordered a 6D Helmet and they had emailed me asking me to fill out a dealer application to complete the sale. To make a long story short, two hours later in the 6D booth, not only did I buy the helmet for my customer, but I also decided to buy a 6D helmet for myself, three 6D helmets for my wife & kids, and a full line of 6D full-face and half-shell demo helmets for customer sizing.
There are two types of impact forces that can be mitigated in addition to the high speed impact forces that all certified bike helmets are designed to reduce.
The first is the rotational component of an impact. The well-publicized MIPS ( Multi-directional Impact Protection System) technology is focused on reducing this type of rotational force generated in crashes in which a helmet does not slide smoothly along the ground and rotates the head due to friction between the helmet liner and the head. Pointy aero road helmet designs certainly do have the potential to stick to the ground in crashes, but more rounded helmet shapes help to reduce sliding resistance. Also, the presence of hair reduces the stickiness of a helmet liner against a head. Providing some rotational freedom is probably not bad for a helmet to provide, but there is another type of impact force that has recently come to light that is well worth considering as well.
The other type of impact force that can cause brain injury are lower speed linear impact forces of a level that can cause either concussion or sub-concussive level impacts to the brain. Recent research (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2995699/) has shown that long-term brain damage can occur due to concussion-level or repeated sub-concussive level impacts. This is what the NFL has now acknowledged after seeing chronic traumatic encephalopathy ('CTE') in 90 out of 94 deceased NFL players (http://www.cnn.com/2016/03/15/health/nfl-cte-link/) and what was seen in BMX legend Dave Mirra's brain after his death (http://www.espn.com/action/story/_/id/15614274/bmx-legend-dave-mirra-diagnosed-cte).
To date, bike helmet crash tests are still focused on mitigating the chance of skull fractures from higher speed impacts. To mitigate the higher impact forces mandated by crash tests, the EPS foam used in most helmets needs to be of a sufficiently high density. However, this higher density foam fails to provide much force reduction for lower speed impacts. Most bike helmets still do not do much to reduce the forces transmitted to the brain from lower speed impacts of the type that do happen frequently in mountain biking.
Low speed linear impact forces: ODS reduces the linear impact force transferred to the brain in lower speed crashes in a way that most standard EPS bike helmets do not.
Rotational Forces: Like MIPS, ODS's design absorbs some of the rotational force from an impact.
High speed linear impact forces: With 2 layers of EPS foam ODX still provides highly effective reduction of the forces transmitted to the brain from high speed impacts.
6D does this with their ODS technology by adding elastomer (essentially tuned rubber) dampers between two layers of EPS foam that reduce lower speed impact forces and absorb rotational forces without any compromise to the helmets' ability to reduce forces transmitted in higher speed crashes.
The SplitRail is a new hitch rack from RockyMounts that is a legitimate competitor to the Thule T2 Pro and Kuat NV hitch racks.
There have been some interesting articles in recent years on various chain lubes' ability to reduce drag.
Here's another review (http://biketestreviews.com/the-last-word-on-chain-lubrication/)that acknowledges that paraffin does indeed produce low friction for chains but not running a paraffin wax lubed chain in a straight line tends to shear the paraffin wax out from between the plates, pins and rollers fairly quickly so that all “lubrication” is gone, whereas a wet-lube will flow back into the chain once load and deflection have eased.
From my experience, I would agree with this assessment of paraffin especially for use in wet weather. It works great for a short amount of time, but requires extensive work frequently to resoak a chain in paraffin as paraffin lubed chains tend to get noisy pretty quickly. In terms of bike maintenance, I'm kind of a set-it-and-forget-it type of guy so using paraffin was far too fussy for me along with paraffin lubed chains easily getting rusty in wet weather.
I'm planning an upcoming test of chain lubes with a focus on durability. As chains on mountain bikes are subject to conditions that are often less than ideal (dirt, dust, water, etc.), my thought is that the durability of a chain lube is far more important than the absolute amount of friction reduction that it provides. Having the longest relube interval before a chain gets noisy might be one of the most important considerations for me.
In addition to what I think might be the two lubes with some of the best real-world effectiveness, perhaps adding motor oil might be also be a good inclusion to see if relatively cheap motor oil is a good substitute to far more expensive bike lube.
Thoughts? Interested in participating in the tests? Email me at jeff@dirtmerchantbikes.com.
I got the chance to ride the SR Suntour Auron fork. Though the length of my ride wasn’t conducive to a head-to-head comparison vs the Rock Shox Pike fork, my initial impression is that the Auron fork is quite stiff and is perhaps stiffer than a Rock Shox Pike fork, which is itself not a noodle of a fork.
The TRS+ Cassette is all about range. Using a 2 piece assembly, we were able to offer a 9 tooth cog on the high end, and a 44 tooth(11sp) or 42 tooth (10sp) on the low end. The back assembly is machined from aluminum and includes either three or two gears depending on which speed setup you’re using. This locks onto a SRAM XD driver body. The remaining eight gears lock on using a chain whip. The front cluster is the same between both the 10- and 11-speed cassettes though the back cluster changes. We use a smaller cluster made from heat-treated steel which is then machined to achieve the lightest weight possible. Regardless of how strong our alloy parts are, they’ll wear faster that your steel assembly. That’s why we’re offering the aluminum cogs separately, so you can replace what’s needed without wasting perfectly good steel and money. Plus, the steel parts are identical for 10 and 11speed cassettes, so if you decide to upgrade your drivetrain, all you need to do is swap the aluminum assembly.
Primary Uses: Enduro and freeride.
Range: 10 speed 9-42, 11 speed 9-44.
Required freehub: SRAM XD™ Driver.
Weight: 320g (10sp), 300g (11sp). | 2019-04-21T20:06:19 | https://www.dirtmerchantbikes.com/special-events/category/Other+Products |
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I am a journalist turned filmmaker turned bridge player. I learned the art of telling visual stories as a writer for Fortune magazine and started making documentaries a decade ago, about the same time I discovered bridge.
The film is available for screenings worldwide. Please email me at pare.jackie914@gmail.com if you're interested in arranging something. Also, it would be great to have it broadcast abroad. Does anyone have tv contacts?
you're right! Thanks for pointing that out. I must have had bridge "hands" in my brain!
Eventually, yes, but first we are planning to screen it both here and abroad. If anyone is interested in booking a screening, please let me know.
New Documentary About Bridge — ACES & KNAVES!
Hi Bruce, "Knave" as in unscrupulous person. "Ace" as in all the good guys!
Thanks, Brad! Feeling is mutual. Sorry I missed seeing you being thrown into the pool after winning the Spingold. We have to get that on film next time! | 2019-04-19T00:31:51 | http://bridgewinners.com/profile/jackie-pare/ |
The chemotherapy used to treat lung cancer causes febrile neutropenia in 10 to 40% of patients. Although most episodes are of undetermined origin, an infectious etiology can be suspected in 30% of cases. In view of the scarcity of data on lung cancer patients with febrile neutropenia, we performed a retrospective study of the microbiological characteristics of cases recorded in three medical centers in the Picardy region of northern France.
We analyzed the medical records of lung cancer patients with neutropenia (neutrophil count < 500/mm3) and fever (temperature > 38.3°C).
The study included 87 lung cancer patients with febrile neutropenia (mean age: 64.2). Two thirds of the patients had metastases and half had poor performance status. Thirty-three of the 87 cases were microbiologically documented. Gram-negative bacteria (mainly enterobacteriaceae from the urinary and digestive tracts) were identified in 59% of these cases. Staphylococcus species (mainly S. aureus) accounted for a high proportion of the identified Gram-positive bacteria. Bacteremia accounted for 60% of the microbiologically documented cases of fever. 23% of the blood cultures were positive. 14% of the infections were probably hospital-acquired and 14% were caused by multidrug-resistant strains. The overall mortality rate at day 30 was 33% and the infection-related mortality rate was 16.1%. Treatment with antibiotics was successful in 82.8% of cases. In a multivariate analysis, predictive factors for treatment failure were age >60 and thrombocytopenia < 20000/mm3.
Gram-negative species were the most frequently identified bacteria in lung cancer patients with febrile neutropenia. Despite the success of antibiotic treatment and a low-risk neutropenic patient group, mortality is high in this particular population.
Lung cancer is the most frequent and severe cancer in France. In 2000, the incidence was 52.2 per 100,000 inhabitants per year . Although lung cancer mainly affects male, middle-aged smokers, the recent increase in the number of female smokers is changing these data . The choice of treatment depends on the lung cancer's histological characteristics. When chemotherapy is used, neutropenia (i.e. a neutrophil count < 500/mm3) of variable severity and duration occurs in 10 to 40% of patients (depending on the type of chemotherapy) [3, 4]. In solid tumors, neutropenia usually lasts for less than 7 days. However, the condition can be complicated by fever (a body temperature of over 38.3°C once an hour or over 38°C twice an hour) in 8 to 15% of cases and is thus referred to as febrile neutropenia [5, 6]. Microbiological evidence is found in only 30% of patients with neutropenic fever. Indeed, approximately 60% of patients with febrile neutropenia have neither clinical signs nor microbiological evidence of infection .
Prior to the 1980s, neutropenic fever was due to Gram-negative bacteria (e.g. Escherichia coli, Klebsiella sp, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, etc.) in 70% of cases [8, 9]. Since then, the proportion of Gram-positive bacteria has risen, with Staphylococcus epidermidis being found more frequently than Staphylococcus aureus .
Lung cancer patients are characterized by the frequent presence of Pseudomonas aeruginosa in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, together with age-related comorbidities, aggressive tumors and rapid clinical degradation.
Markman and Abeloff (1983) studied the infectious complications of chemotherapy (with cyclophosphamide, doxorubicin and etoposide) in 71 patients with small-cell carcinoma . Although 90% of cases were complicated by febrile neutropenia, an etiology was determined in only 20% of the latter. The following bacteria were found: Escherichia coli (n = 3), Streptococcus viridans (n = 2), Pseudomonas aeruginosa (n = 2), Bacillus sp. (n = 2), Staphylococcus aureus (n = 1), Candida sp. (n = 1), Enterococcus sp. (n = 1) and one anaerobic Gram-negative bacillus. None of these cases of febrile neutropenia resulted in death.
Two other studies in lung cancer patients examined the outcomes of antibiotic therapy rather than the microbiological characteristics of the condition [12, 13]. No statistically significant differences were found.
Here, we performed a retrospective, descriptive, multicenter study of the microbiological characteristics of febrile neutropenia in lung cancer patients hospitalized in three medical centers in the Picardy region of northern France. The study's primary objective was to determine risk factors for antibiotic treatment failure.
We included adult lung cancer patients (i.e. aged 18 or over) having undergone chemotherapy (of whatever type) between January 2000 and July 2006 in three medical centers in the Picardy region. Patients had to have displayed concomitant neutropenia (i.e. a neutrophil count < 500/mm3) and fever (a body temperature > 38.3°C once an hour or over 38°C twice an hour). Access to the patients' medical records was provided by the medical centers' health informatics departments.
We excluded patients who had already experienced an episode of febrile neutropenia prior to study entry, patients with cancers other than lung cancer, cases of fever without neutropenia, cases of neutropenia without fever and cases of fever with a clearly non-infectious etiology.
Data was recorded in a pre-determined questionnaire. Febrile episodes were classified according to Hughes' criteria as being microbiologically documented, clinically documented or of undetermined origin. The success of antibiotic therapy was defined according to Kern's criteria: no fever for 3 successive days, the absence of clinical signs or the eradication of an identified pathogen. The death of a patient meeting these criteria was not considered to be a treatment failure . The last criterion for success was the lack of recurrence within 7 days of the end of antibiotic therapy. We calculated the "first-line antibiotic treatment failure rate" (i.e. failure of the first-line antibiotic prescribed) and the "overall antibiotic treatment success rate" (i.e. a successful outcome when one or more antibiotics had been prescribed).
We also recorded the presence of the following severity criteria on admission: systolic blood pressure < 90 mmHg, blood oxygen partial pressure < 60 mmHg, disseminated intravascular coagulation, confusion, cardiac failure, blood transfusion for hemorrhage, kidney failure and admission to the intensive care unit .
Data were gathered in compliance with the principles of the Declaration of Helsinki and then anonymized. No patient consent was needed because of the confidential nature of this study, which was approved by the independent ethics committee at Saint-Quentin Medical Center.
Statistical analysis was performed with Excel® 2000 (Microsoft EMEA, Courtaboeuf, France) and SPSS (SPSS Inc., Chicago, IL) software. Quantitative variables were expressed as the mean ± standard deviation and qualitative variables were expressed as the frequency and percentage. Univariate, comparative analyses were performed by using Fisher's exact test (for qualitative variables) and the Mann-Whitney test (for quantitative variables). The threshold for statistical significance was set to p < 0.05. Multivariate analyses were performed by using logistic regression.
Over the study period, 646 patients were treated for lung cancer. Ninety-three of these patients (14%) fulfilled the inclusion criteria (i.e. hospitalized for febrile neutropenia) and 6 were excluded (2 cases of fever with a non-infectious etiology, 3 patients with incomplete data and 1 patient enrolled twice). Details are shown in Figure 1 and 87 episodes were analyzed. The study population (mean age: 64.2 ± 9.6) was generally comprised of male (male/female ratio: 8:1) smokers (95%, n = 83). Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease was recorded in 53.5% of cases (n = 46) (for details, see Table 1). Half of these patients had poor performance status and 14% had been hospitalized prior to the episode of febrile neutropenia.
COPD = Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, FEV1 = Forced Expiratory Volume in first second, No = number.
Almost two thirds of the patients had metastatic cancer when they were diagnosed with febrile neutropenia (62% in all, including brain metastases in 14% and metastases at more than two sites in 20%). Thirty-one percent of the non-metastatic patients were non-operable and 28.7% (n = 25) of patients had also been treated with radiotherapy (data not shown). Eighty patients (92%) had an implantable venous access system and 15 patients (17%) had undergone two or more cycles of chemotherapy.
Thirteen percent of the patients had febrile neutropenia (87 out of 646). Sixteen events were excluded because they did not correspond to the patient's first ever occurrence of febrile neutropenia. The mean duration of neutropenia was 4.4 ± 2.4 days (range: 1-11) and 10% of the episodes lasted more than 8 days.
The fever was classified as being of undetermined origin in 46% of cases (n = 40), clinically documented in 45% of cases (n = 39) (including 14 (16%) with no microbiology documentation) and microbiologically documented in 38% of cases (n = 33). Three quarters of the microbiologically documented cases (n = 25 out of 33) were also clinically documented. The clinically documented infections were classified as follows: 21 lower respiratory tract infections (53%), 9 digestive infections (23%), 3 catheter infections (8%), 3 skin infections (8%), 2 urinary tract infections and one upper respiratory tract infection.
Of the 33 patients with identified pathogens, 7 (21.2%) had two different bacterial infections and one had 3. Most of the identified germs were Gram-negative bacteria (n = 24; 59%) and most of the latter were Enterobacteriaceae (especially Escherichia coli) (n = 11 out of 16). Most of the Gram-positive bacteria (n = 17) were Staphylococcus sp. (above all S. aureus; n = 6 out of 9). Details are shown in Table 2. Neither Gram-positive cocci nor Gram-negative bacilli were associated with mortality (p = 0.43 and p = 1, respectively). However, infection with Gram-negative bacilli was significantly associated with first-line antibiotic treatment failure in cases of microbiologically documented fever (9 out of 21 successes vs. 10 out of 12 failures; p = 0.02).
Gram-negative bacilli predominated in both monomicrobial and polymicrobial infections. There were 13 Gram-negative monomicrobial infections and 11 Gram-positive monomicrobial infections. One diagnosis was made on the basis of serum antibodies against an intracellular bacterium, Chlamydia pneumoniae. In polymicrobial infections, combinations of several different Gram-negative bacteria were found in 4 cases. Combinations of several different Gram-positive species and combinations of Gram-negative and Gram-positive species were found in 2 cases each. However, we decided not to include four other doubtful combinations in which one of the bacteria was non-pathogenic and was not isolated from the same body site as the identified pathogenic species.
Multidrug-resistant bacteria (i.e. those resistant to two or more antibiotic families, including beta-lactams) were identified in 6 of the 41 infections (14.6%). Six of the 33 patients (18%) were infected with multidrug resistant bacteria. All S. pneumoniae were penicillin non-susceptible (n = 2) and almost half of all Staphylococcus sp. were methicillin-resistant (n = 4 out of 9). One of the two Pseudomonas aeruginosa isolates was ceftazidime-resistant and the only Sphingomonas paucimobilis isolate was found to be multidrug-resistant. There were no vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus isolates and no gentamycin-intermediate-susceptible S. aureus isolates. According to the antibiotic susceptibility profile, 24% of patients (n = 8) would have needed glycopeptides or cephaloridine.
The isolates were mainly urinary and digestive tract germs (46%, n = 19), followed by cutaneous (22%, n = 9) and respiratory (20%, n = 8) germs (for details, see Table 3). Blood cultures were the most frequently positive samples (23%; 20 positive blood cultures out of 81 samples) and yielded 24 of the 45 germs (including 9 E. coli, 4 S. aureus and 4 Streptococcus sp isolates), since 4 patients had polymicrobial bacteremia. The origin of the bacteremia could be identified in half the cases, since 13 of the 20 cases of bacteremia were associated with clinical signs. The other samples collected for bacteriological testing were sputum (n = 9), urine (n = 3), stools (n = 4), skin (n = 5) and others (n = 5). A positive blood culture was not a risk factor for mortality (p = 0.8).
Repartition of germ according to their tropism.
All three centers applied the same antibiotic treatment guidelines. The first-line treatment was either amoxicillin/clavulanic acid or a combination of cephalosporin and ciprofloxacin. The concordance between the guidelines and actual prescriptions was 65%; the discordances consisted of adjunction of an aminoglycoside in 41% of cases and use of a glycopeptide in 6% of cases. The outcome was favorable in most cases; the overall antibiotic therapy success rate was 82.8%. The first-line treatment was effective in 72.4% of cases (63 out of 87) but fell to 63.6% (n = 21 out of 33) in microbiologically documented episodes. Furthermore, the outcome of first-line treatment was in line with the in vitro susceptibility results in 84.8% of cases (28 out of 33). The median time interval between treatment initiation and apyrexia was 2 days (range: 1-12).
The mortality rate was 15% at day 7 and 33% at day 30, whereas the infection-related mortality rate was 16.1%. Ten of the 14 deceased patients (71%) had at least one severity criterion on admission.
In a univariate analysis, the predictive factors for first-line antibiotic treatment failure were as follows: age>60, WHO score >2, thrombocytopenia below 20,000/mm3, undetermined origin, mismatch between microbiological results and antibiotic treatment and, lastly, hospital-acquired infections. The latter three factors did not have a significant impact on the overall success of antibiotic treatment (Table 4).
Predictive factors of first-line antibiotic treatment failure.
COPD = Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, CRP = C-reactive protein, FEV1 = Forced Expiratory Volume in first second, G-CSF = Granulocyte colony-stimulating factor, No = number.
A multivariate analysis revealed that three factors were predictive of first-line antibiotic treatment failure: age>60 (p = 0.011), thrombocytopenia <20,000/mm3 (p < 0.01) and WHO score >2 (p = 0.012). The first two factors were also correlated with the overall failure of antibiotic treatment.
As expected, our population was typical of hospitalized lung cancer patients and primarily comprised elderly male smokers in poor general health (WHO score >2). The recent increase in the number of female smokers in France did not appear to have impacted on the present study. Likewise, the patients' prognoses were very poor, with a 33% overall mortality rate (half of which was due to febrile neutropenia) on day 30. In comparison with other studies, the mortality rate was high but may be explained by the fact that our study population was particularly severely affected: 60% had metastases and 31% were non-operable [14, 16].
Surprisingly, most of the identified bacteria were germs of the urinary and digestive tracts (rather than respiratory germs) and were predominantly detected by blood culture. In contrast, the clinically documented infections were mostly due to respiratory germs (53%, vs. 23% for digestive tract infections). These findings suggest that respiratory germs rarely cause bacteremia. Fifteen percent of the infections were multidrug-resistant and only 14% were hospital-acquired infections; these are low values for a population which is frequently hospitalized. However, multidrug-resistance and hospital-acquired infection did not appear to have a significant impact on the overall failure rate antibiotic treatment in our multivariate analysis, which identified only age >60 and thrombocytopenia < 20000/mm3 as factors. The presence of thrombocytopenia as a risk factor for treatment failure probably reflects the hemotoxicity of chemotherapy. As expected, a univariate analysis revealed that inappropriate antibiotic treatment was a risk factor for first-line treatment failure. However, the relatively low frequency of inappropriate treatment in our study (14% of all patients and 36.4% of the cases of microbiologically documented fever) did not prompt us to change our guidelines on antimicrobial treatment. Our guidelines did not include anti-pseudomonal penicillin or cabapenem contrary as Hughes et al. propose for high risk patients . However our patients were on the border between low and high risk patients. According to the same criteria, our patients had mostly those 4 following criteria for low risk patient: duration of neutropenia less than 7 days, resolution of neutropenia expected in <10 days, no neurological or mental changes, no appearance of illness (40%); in addition, according to the scoring index, most of our patients are in the 20-22 points range. In a very similar population, Rikimaru et al. observed that febrile neutropenia occurred more frequently in patients with poor performance status .
The present study had a number of limitations. Firstly, the data were non-exhaustive because of the exclusion of non-hospitalized patients. However, the proportion of cases with febrile neutropenia in our study (13%) is the same as that found by Cullen et al. in a prospective, UK study of patients with solid tumors (cancers and lymphoma). It may be that hospitalization of this type of patient is more frequent in France than in the UK. Secondly, bacteriological samples (especially urine and sputum samples) could have been contaminated and the pathogenic classification of any isolated germs was left to the attending physician in each case. Hence, there may have been confusion bias. Thirdly, this was a retrospective study, with all the weaknesses associated with this type of study design. However, in order to limit selection bias, we selected all consecutive hospitalized lung cancer patients and then excluded those lacking fever and neutropenia. Some patients may have been misclassified. Hence, all medical records charts were carefully reviewed by one of the authors (E.P.) according to pre-established criteria and were classified independently of the initially reported laboratory results.
The febrile neutropenia mortality rate observed here (16%) is greater than the value reported in a similar study (3%). This disparity may be due to the severity of our patients' disease.
As mentioned above, our results revealed a greater proportion of cases with fever of undetermined origin (46%) than those with microbiologically documented fever (38%) and clinically documented fever (16%). However, this difference has been found in other populations. Furthermore, fever of undetermined origin has a better prognosis [14, 18, 19].
In the present study, microbiologically documented fever was more likely to involve Gram-negative bacteria than Gram-positive bacteria. Furthermore, Gram-negative infections had a worse prognosis for antibiotic treatment than Gram-positive infections did. In contrast to our present results, Cordonnier et al. reported that Gram-positive cocci were predominant. However, a few studies in lung cancer patients have yielded similarly discordant results: Markman and Berghams mainly found Gram-negative bacteria, whereas Matsui and Niho mainly found Gram-positive bacteria [11–13, 20]. However, the study populations were somewhat different (Table 5). These disparities do not appear to be time-related (as Oppenheim has suggested for hematologic patients). The high proportion of Gram-negative bacteria could be explained by the absence of aracytin use and antifungal/antimicrobial decontamination (known to facilitate Gram-positive bacterial infections). Furthermore, only three infections were related to a central intravenous catheter (used in 92% of patients), which are known to be primarily due to Gram-positive bacteria. In view of these differences, the results of the above-mentioned studies should be interpreted with a degree of caution and should probably not be generalized to other centers (at least not without knowing more about the microbiological results in each center) but could be extended to lung cancer patients.
Characteristics of infections in patients with lung cancer: review.
Klastersky et al. reported on a huge cohort of 2142 patients with febrile neutropenia, of whom 164 had lung cancer . The aim of the latter study was to compare the severity of disease in bacteremic and non-bacteremic patients. The mortality rate was 8% in the small subgroup of lung cancer patients and the data were not analyzed further.
Kern reported that 20% of the infections were multidrug-resistant (versus 14.6% in the present study), with an antibiotic treatment failure rate of 22% (versus 18.2% here) . The mortality rate due to infection was 2.5% (versus 16% here) and the overall mortality rate at day 30 was 5% (versus 33% here). Of course, Kern's study population differed from ours and was considered to be at low risk of infection.
The present study emphasized two important points. Firstly, the microbiological profile of febrile neutropenia does not differ greatly from that seen in other types of neutropenia. Respiratory germs are less predominant than S. aureus and enterobacteriaceae and lung infection is not a prognostic factor (since only age and performance status were predictive of antibiotic treatment failure). Secondly, our results highlight the progression of the infection; the higher mortality rate was due more to the patients' fragility than the nature of the germs or the presence of multidrug resistance. Extremely broad-spectrum antibiotic therapy is not always necessary but treatment must take account of the patient's frailty and the presence of respiratory germs.
In order to circumvent the limitations of retrospective studies and avoid selection bias, it would be useful to perform the same type of study on a prospective basis and include non-hospitalized patients.
The authors would like to thank all the people who contributed to the project. The study did not receive any particular funding.
JPL wrote the manuscript, EP carried over the data from medical records, FXL helped to design the study and performed the statistical analysis, HB, EL and MB provided patients from Saint Quentin, PD provided patients from Chauny, VJ provided patients from Amiens, JLS and CD conceived the study and helped to design and manage it, YD conceived the study, helped to design and manage it and helped to draft the manuscript. All authors read and approved the final manuscript. | 2019-04-22T06:19:29 | https://bmcinfectdis.biomedcentral.com.preview-live.oscarjournals.springer.com/articles/10.1186/1471-2334-11-183 |
The Apprentice 2017 returns this week. The Apprentice UK 2017 is the 13th season of The Apprentice on the BBC fronted by Sir Lord Alan Sugar. Its a TV show that acts as a huge job interview for entrepreneurs and business minding contest to make you CRINGE so hard that it might induce a MIGRAINE!
The Apprentice 2017 hits screens on Wednesday 4 October for the thirteenth series series. Lord Sugar is once again joined by advisors Baroness Karren Brady and Claude Littner as they put 18 brand new candidates through their paces to secure his £250k investment in their business plan.
One again, the BBC One series will follow Lord Sugar’s potential business partners as they set out to prove their business skills are ready for any challenge in the fight to the final boardroom.
This year, the series has attracted applicants from a range of business sectors – from fashion and construction to floristry and engineering – who will have to adapt quickly to work as a team and avoid the boardroom firing.
With tasks including creating a range of burgers, branding and selling robots, to planning a premium corporate experience at a sports event and running a doggy day care, the candidates will be tested outside their comfort zones to truly showcase their business know-how.
The selection process will throw the candidates into tasks that are bigger than ever, as Lord Sugar challenges the candidates to prove to him they would be able to grow a business in today’s tough climate.
“We’re in strange times now, with Brexit. But be under no illusion, in this process I’m the one who decides who’s going to remain and I’m the one who decides who’s going to leave – simple as that,” Lord Sugar says. | 2019-04-23T14:15:36 | https://mrhairybrit.com/2017/10/04/the-apprentice-uk-2017-cringing-so-hard-youll-get-a-migraine/ |
Between the church and the Sacred Heart library. Come up the steps facing the parking lot, and ring the bell.
After Masses - all are welcome! | 2019-04-19T05:05:02 | https://parishofsacredheart.org/events/hospitality-sunday-2 |
At 1.40pm, 2.20pm and 3.00pm, Becky Musto, actress and storyteller, will enchant audiences with her interactive and imaginative performances.
1.50pm Dr Diana Leitch from the Catalyst Museum will talk about salt and the Periodic Table of Elements (2019 is UNESCO’s Year of the Periodic Table).
2.40pm MP Fiona Bruce talks about being a Christian in a public square and asks what difference can one make? | 2019-04-18T10:18:02 | http://www.knutsfordtimes.com/knutsford-news/14035/free-salt-sunday-event-at-lion-salt-works-this-may/ |
Manchester United Foundation has relaunched its social media initiative, #UnitedandMe, for the 2017/18 season, with the release of Hannah's story.
Following the success of last year’s campaign, during which fans were introduced to a number of inspirational young people whose lives have been impacted by the Foundation, the new season kicks off with #UnitedandHannah, sharing the story of a 19-year-old powerchair footballer.
Hannah has cerebral palsy and started playing powerchair football in 2012, after her condition left her unable to play on her feet. She recently joined the newly-formed Manchester United Powerchair Team, launched in partnership with the pre-existing Sale United club.
Powerchair football consists of a team of four players using specialised electric wheelchairs with a large front bumper to control and hit an oversized, heavy football to score goals. The sport is rapidly rising in popularity, credited to the fact it offers opportunities for all abilities.
Through Manchester United Foundation, Hannah and her team have received various experiences. They were invited to the recent legends match between Manchester United and Barcelona Legends, and they even had a special guest join them for training one day: first-team defender Eric Bailly.
“Being part of the club has really helped me in many ways,” she continues. “I have gained more wheelchair control, which I am able to use in everyday situations, and I have more confidence in my own abilities. I have learnt to be part of a team and have made friends with people who have similar disabilities and of a similar age who have the same interests and enjoy nights out.
You can find out more about #UnitedandMe by following Manchester United Foundation on social media and looking out for the hashtag or at www.mufoundation.org/UnitedandMe.
My favourite thing about powerchair football is just being able to play football on a level playing field where disability isn’t a barrier. | 2019-04-26T06:08:04 | http://www.mufoundation.org/en/News/2017/10/UnitedandHannah |
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Our marketing program is a unique action plan, which encompasses many areas of property promotion.
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As a commitment to the communities in which we serve, Media Realty believes the flow of information should be free-flowing.
Media Realty understands the importance of finding and leasing to tenants who only show the proper credentials. | 2019-04-21T10:44:19 | https://mediarealty.net/services/ |
Tabi socks Size 43 to 46 - Featuring Fusuma Gara print.
Sneaker type Japanese tabi socks featuring Fusuma Gara print.
Available in 5 colors: black, blue, grey, navy blue or white.
Get your feet some comfort by wearing Japanese tabi split toe socks. Great for everyday use as well at home. A must have with flip flops or round-toe shoes. | 2019-04-25T11:43:06 | https://www.japonmania.com/en/men-unisex-tabi/6154-tabi-fusuma.html |
In our hearts we know living in / from fear isn’t serving our best selves, and yet it serves a purpose. It protects us from getting hurt again. From failure, let down, judgement, abandonment… just to name a few. I’ll let you fill in your own blank….. What are you protecting yourself from?
When we make a difference to one person, no matter how small it may seem at first, the impact can be felt far and wide, like ripples of a stone thrown in the water. | 2019-04-23T04:59:17 | https://www.liferesults.org/blog/category/Leadership |
Support your team in Akron Zips apparel and Merchandise from Vintage Brand. The Akron Zips Shop at VintageBrand.com is the ultimate destination for die-hard Akron Zips fans and Alumni, so freshen up your fan gear with retro Akron Zips T-Shirts, Hats and Gifts. Celebrate the history of college sports with Akron Zips Football Gear and Akron Zips merchandise for baseball, basketball, softball, soccer, volleyball and more. Find unique sports gifts like drinkware, mugs, magnets, coasters, wall art, canvas, posters, puzzles, cutting boards and Akron Zips gifts for all fans and alumni. Our Akron Zips store offers vintage merchandise from drinkware to home decor, so check out a variety of accessories at Vintage Brand in addition to Akron Zips Apparel.
Sports apparel and fan gear are no joke for Akron Zips fans, and the same goes for their cherished team gear. Be sure to keep you and your fellow Akron Zips supporters decked out in vintage Akron Zips T-Shirts, Hats, Drinkware, Wall Art, Posters, Socks, and more. Score a retro Akron Zips T-Shirt, Hat and unique gifts for any Akron Zips fan or alumni. Check out the site for new retro Akron Zips fan gear and Akron Zips gifts throughout the season here at Vintage Brand. | 2019-04-19T00:54:08 | https://vintagebrand.com/l/college/t/akron-zips |
What Does A New SAT Mean for Higher Education?
The recent changes made to the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT), play a significant role in altering admissions to universities and colleges. The changes drastically altered the exam format, and fail to implement common systems to evaluate the results. In order to protect an exam which plays a primary role in college admissions, it is necessary to implement a score conversion system and regulations to closely review the exam on a frequent basis. | 2019-04-23T14:24:31 | https://cornellrooseveltinstitute.org/analyst/kiara-butler |
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A Hitter Planner grid that sorts the 30 teams based on the attractiveness of their next week’s games (available Friday-Monday) and a rolling next 7 days’ worth of games. There are counts by team for how many Home/Away and LHP/RHP games. But the most helpful part of the grid is the value assigned to each MLB team’s offense based on three variables: # of Games, Park Factor (index of runs scored in park by an average offense) and Pitcher Factor (index of opposing starting pitchers’ average WHIP neutralized by the pitcher’s home park). These factors are combined to create a single index for each team. So for the week of September 1st, the Padres and Rangers are the top offenses at a 120 index (20% better than the average offense) thanks to weak opposing pitchers (107 index), favorable parks (Padres have a 104 index – aided by 3 days in Colorado), and 7 games for the week. Colorado is at a 112 despite 6 home games as their combined Park and Pitcher Factor of 121 is adjusted down to 112 because they play 1 less game than most teams.
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The U.S. Senate race on the Republican side has been labeled a three-candidate competition, with former Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore out in front, followed by U.S. Rep. Mo Brooks and incumbent Luther Strange. Political observers have their doubts about Pittman and Brinson overcoming the odds. “I have to say that I think it is too late for either Pittman or Brinson to greatly elevate their standing in current polls,” said William Stewart, professor emeritus of political science at the University of Alabama.
On July 7 and 8, the Alabama Blues Project had the pleasure of collaborating with the University of Alabama’s College of Continuing Studies and School of Music to put on the inaugural Alabama Blues Weekend. Students from all over west Alabama had the opportunity to participate in classes with top blues musicians, learn about marketing and social media, and make music in a state-of-the-art recording studio. Community members were able to observe these classes and performances, and learned about the history of the blues in Alabama along the way.
The University of Alabama, along with the standard degrees offered at most universities, also offers students a chance to design their own degree. How cool is that? New College Life Track is a program that offers specialty courses with more in-depth curriculum to cater to students’ specialties. Joining us now, Dr. Scott Jones and Dr. Margaret Purcell with more information.
Since George Balanchine stamped the modern “Nutcracker” template in 1954, the magic moment of a Christmas tree sprouting like an enchanted beanstalk draws oohs and aahs. It symbolizes the transition from holiday festivities into dreams, and for the time when a girl tiptoes up to the edge of womanhood … from non-dancing first-act characters, to Clara and Fritz, to the second act’s featured dancers, who range in age from Polichinelles, Mother Ginger’s small children, up to major roles filled by Tuscaloosa and University of Alabama dancers.
The total solar eclipse being called the “Great American Eclipse” will pass through 14 states from Oregon to South Carolina on August 21. Though eclipses are not rare per se, it’s uncommon for a total solar eclipse to sweep across the third most populous country in the world … But there is one safe time during the eclipse: the main event. When the moon is blocking the sun completely, the danger of the retina burning is absent. “The main thing is if you can see any of the surface of the sun directly, don’t look,” says William Keel, a University of Alabama astronomer. “During totality, look. That’s what you’re there for,” he says, explaining that those who are in the eclipse’s path of totality can remove their glasses once the moon is completely blocking, or eclipsing, the sun.
“This is not an alternative history. This is reality,” says historian Joshua Rothman. Industry vets are hesitant to (publicly) judge so soon, but what makes the premise so controversial is “that it threatens to erase the actual history,” says activist Bree Newsome … University of Alabama history chair Joshua Rothman, who specializes in studying race and American slavery, says that most historians today believe that enslaved people played a significant role in their own emancipation. “As soon as the chance for real freedom presented itself, they were on it,” he says.
Since President Trump has been making Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ life miserable recently, we wondered: Is it too late for Sessions to get his old job back as U.S. senator from Alabama? … Under Alabama law, in order to win by a write-in election, voters would have to spell his name correctly on ballots. In 1986, after losing the Democratic gubernatorial primary, Charles Graddick attempted to launch a write-in campaign but withdrew after concluding his name was too hard to spell, said Bill Stewart, professor emeritus of politics at the University of Alabama. Stewart said since Sessions is so well-known and easy to spell, it shouldn’t be an issue.
A tall, dark figure and his horse, immortalized in bronze, stand in newly renamed Emancipation Park, overlooking gardens filled with flowers. The statue of Confederate General Robert E Lee has been in the central Virginia city of Charlottesville almost 100 years, stoically watching over the community. But possibly not for much longer … One of the turning points that touched off the trend was the murder of nine black churchgoers in Charleston, South Carolina in 2015, historian Lesley Gordon said. . . . Despite a public outcry over the city’s approval of the event, Gordon, chairwoman of southern history at the University of Alabama, said that while the KKK and its message of white supremacy are “abhorrent,” they have the right to express their views in public. “At the same time, it needs to be recognized just what they are advocating and why,” Gordon said. | 2019-04-21T06:46:09 | http://as.ua.edu/2017/07/31/as-in-the-news-july-23-29-2017/ |
Welcome to The Present Finder Hall of Fame! Our definitive Top 100 list of must have presents.
This is where you will find the latest additions to the range as well as gifts which have stood the test of time to become Present Finder classics.
We hope you will take the time to thoroughly explore the full range of gifts available on our site. However, if time is tight then this is the section to dig into! We are sure you will find at least one gift here for everyone on that present list. | 2019-04-25T04:06:43 | https://www.thepresentfinder.co.uk/dept/top-100-gifts_d04175.htm |
Here is a link to a sample letter in PDF format.
I live near the Lytton land in or near the town of Windsor, Sonoma County, California. I will be very negatively impacted if HR 597 moves land into trust for the Lytton.
Rep. Jeff Denham is not my representative. He does not represent my district. His district is 150 miles away. He has received +$80,000 in contributions from the Lytton.
This bill is a Carcieri-fix for the Lytton. They already have an open 2009 Bureau of Indian Affairs application. The Lytton were not a tribe in 1934, per Carcieri v. Salazar, the Department of the Interior lacks the authority to put their land into trust.
This bill would enable the Lytton to flout local zoning. The housing listed on this bill is non-compliant. Their documented plans for large commercial development (200 room hotel, 200,000 case a year winery) are not even mentioned in the bill.
The 2016 Congressional Report 114-633 for H.R. 2538 states that “the Natural Resources Committee has received a relatively large number of communications from the residents of Windsor, California in opposition to the bill.” I still oppose HR 2538 and HR597.
Please listen to my concerns and do not approve HR597.
A poll conducted by Probolsky Research from Newport Beach CA regarding Windsor residents’ opinion on Lytton Rancheria Homelands Act of 2017 was recently completed. Here is a link to the Complete Document.
For details see the Recommended Books page.
Our Windsor City Council are not representing our community in that they are making decisions without our input. They have had 15 closed door meetings with the Lytton’s in order to make a deal with them regarding our community, all without a discussion with the citizens. We elected them. We are their constituents. They work for us.
A couple of things jump out from these excerpts. One is that that “The Lytton Band of Pomo Indians…appears to have been invented in order to open a bingo hall.”. Another is section points out that in 1990, the Lytton’s had 20 members. Yet in 2005, they claimed to have 275.
Mitchell on Lytton Click on blue link to the left to read the chapter.
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Myth: Having a sovereign nation in Windsor is inevitable. There is nothing anyone can do about it.
3) The fact that they already have a 9.5-acre reservation in San Pablo, and their homeland, according to the Attorney General Kamala Harris, should now be considered Contra Costa County.
Here is just a small portion of the beautiful land, trees and views we are fighting to keep.
Jared Huffman Letter to Councilman Foppoli – More Misinformation!
Jared Huffman continues to spread misinformation about the Lytton project. Please click the graphic below to read his letter and our annotated version of it. | 2019-04-22T16:12:18 | http://www.citizensforwindsor.com/ |
Just heard there's a new MAME beta been released.
Updated the STATS page to reflect recent changes. Kept yesterday's table alongside the new one.
Added the new games from MAME 0.33 beta 5 to the big summary table.
moonal2 "Moon Alien Part 2"
moonal2b "Moon Alien Part 2 (alternate)"
Made a new page showing how many high scores people have. Currently JoustGod is in the lead, from TAB and some bloke called Zwaxy. Click HERE to take a look. It's also available by clicking "Stats" at the top of the screen.
Fixed the 10 million Galaga recording by Steve Krogman. I renamed the file to include the version of MAME in the link, but not on the web site. Or something. Anyway - it should be downloadable again now. Oh, and threadnet.com seems to have been suffering a little recently, but looks like it's working again.
Added a new Galaga recording from Steve Krogman - this time he tops the 10 million mark on Galaga (with fast fire hack), using the fast firing version of the ROMs. The zip archive includes a couple of screen shots, too. Watch out for RSI, man!
Uploaded a few more recordings. I didn't receive many recently though.
BeeJay asked me to stir up some Galaga related trouble - he's right on your tails, guys!
JoustGod has started including the version of MAME used to make a recording in the filename. It makes the file names pretty long, but isn't that just what we love so much about Windows? It would be a good idea if everyone started using the same filename format in future.
Added another of Brian Thompson's graphics.
Added the new games from MAME 0.33 beta 4 to the big summary table.
Added some graphics to the page, which were created by Brian Thompson. Thanks a lot, Brian!
Received more score confirmations from the ever-busy BeeJay. He's raised a couple of queries: JoustGod's Quantum recording only scored 48,100 (not 50,080) and KRA's Yiear only scored 133,200 (not 244,100). If anyone can get them to score the right scores, please let me know how!
The 'links frame' at the top of the screen was getting too wide on my browser, so I took all the game names (Kaos, Fairy Land, etc) and replaced them with a new 'Games' page, which links to each of the separate driver pages.
Renamed the diffs page to versions and added MAME DOS binaries for versions 0.30 and 0.31. People have been emailing me saying that some of the .inp files won't play back. The problem is that in some cases you need to use an older version of the MAME program. Go to the versions page if you're having difficulties playing any recording back, and if that fixes the problem, please tell me, so that I can make a note of which versions of MAME can play back which recordings. Thanks!
Got a bit better at Shinobi and improved my score some more. Got a few of the 'secret' 20,000 point bonuses for not firing.
Removed quite a lot of the ??? marks, thanks to the efforts of BeeJay and Steve Krogman validating that the replays in question get the stated score. Thanks guys.
Not a lot. Made a new patch file, for converting MAME 0.31 sources to MAME 0.33 beta 3 sources (since BeeJay was asking about it) and answered a whole plethora of email about why recordings won't play back any more (it's because you need version 0.30 of the MAME binary to play back anthing that was recorded with version 0.30 of the MAME binary.
Added the new games from MAME 0.33 beta 3 to the big summary table.
MAME 0.33 beta 3 is released. I made diffs from MAME 0.33 beta 2 and made a page for diffs, since Gridle's Diff Page seems to have stopped using diffs, in preference for whole files (739k as opposed to 228k).
Started looking at ROMs for Fairy Land Story with a view to making a MAME driver for it. Click to see progress (what the is of it).
Added a request from Pete Ashdown for help on Blaster. | 2019-04-19T19:23:02 | http://replay.marpirc.net/news.cgi?mode=show_news&max=244 |
Ready to toast to the New Year? How do you do it? You’ll need enough sparkling wine!
The demand for this delicious bubbly has increased with the arrival of the holidays, and especially for toasting to the new year – for the first time in 2015 the amount of exports has exceeded the value of one billion euro. On a national level, data show that after seven years of reductions sales have taken a positive turn. In numbers, about 52 million of bottles will be uncorked on New Year's Eve, registering an increase of 4% compared to last year's sales. Furthermore, Coldiretti, could not stress enough, how, on an international level, this has never happened before: everybody is crazy for bubbles.
Sales of Prosecco have increased by 48% in Great Britain and by 22% in the United States. The two countries respectively rank first and second outlet markets, followed by Germany where sales have increased by 5%. A great surprise is that demand has increased also in France, a country known for its nationalistic choices, especially at the dining table. So Prosecco has found a way also in the birth country of Champagne!
If we have to classify the Italian sparkling wines that are most exported in the world Prosecco comes first, and is followed by Asti Spumante (a DOCG white, slightly sparkling wine made in southeastern Piedmont from the Moscato Bianco grape. Asti is sweet and low in alcohol, and is mostly served with dessert), Trento DOC (a white or rose bubbly made in Trentino. Its characteristics are a delicate, rich bouquet, a dry, smooth, rounded and elegant flavor, and a straw-yellow color) and Franciacorta (a DOCG sparkling wine made following scrupulous criteria from the region of Brescia in Lombardy). The international success of all these wines is a step forward for Italian wines in the dethroning of Champagne as the world's favorite bubbly. Indeed Coldiretti is saying that 2016 will be welcomed by more flutes of Italian bubbly than of Champagne.
But we don't have only good news regarding Prosecco as with the increase of its popularity there is also the surfacing of a new issue: fake Prosecco. The problem of Italian sounding products is not new and bottles of Kressecco and Meer-Secco are made in Germany as well as in Russia and South America. Back in March Coldiretti announced that Crimea was responsible for producing a bubbly pretending to be Italian. “Roberto Moncalvo, Coldiretti president, said such counterfeiting cost Italy as many as 300,000 jobs, which could be created if fake Italian products are combated with international support. “The true enemies abroad are the low-cost imitations of national (Italian) foods that don’t have any ties with the production system of the country,” he said.” The issue gets even more serious if Italian-style products made abroad outnumber those exported from Italy. This is the fight of many, led by the Italian Trade Commission, which organizes seminars and lectures to educate consumers.
So let's toast to 2016, and in order to make a good toast we don't need only Prosecco but also some inspiring words, a call to action, that will bring everyone together. | 2019-04-23T18:44:32 | http://www.iitaly.org/node/39822 |
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It was an exciting season for the MINI JCW Team. Not only did they earn their first win at the world famous Daytona International Speedway. They also had an amazing 1-2 finish at Watkins Glen. The team was in contention at virtually every track coming up just short of a few more victories. | 2019-04-26T06:28:06 | http://miniracefan.com/2017/10/13/final-2017-ctsc-point-standings/ |
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The Real Estate market in Montenegro is right now probably the fastest growing property market in the world. In only three years, the prices are almost tripled and thousand of Montenegro real estate buyers had bought their holiday villa, stone house, flat, land with plot to build their own house or commercial property. Montenegro Real Estate market exploded in 2006 - huge interest of foreign buyers produced a bit of a chaotic situation: Huge discrepancies in property prices, a whole slew of new and very often unprofessional real estate agencies, even more agents without any experience or formal knowledge. The foreign companies, mainly from UK and Russia also started their real estate business in Montenegro. The property prices for investitors are still attractive, so it is expected that the rising interest curve in Montenegrin properties won't lessen anytime soon.
The main property byers in Montenegro come from Russia, UK and Ireland. There is a rising trend of interest in Germany and France as well. UK buyers are either investirors looking for profit or people that fell in love with this beautiful country and decided to buy their own holiday villa along the coast. Russian property buyers are increasingly interested in properties around Sveti Stefan and Budva.
Why Such interest in Montenegro Properties?
- From a tourist point of view Montenegro have a great location. European countries are close - not too close to diminish the enjoyment of traveling far away but not too far to make that enjoyment an troubling and exhausting experience.
- The past has gone and future seems bright. Montenegro looks upon European Union, the official currency is Euro, many laws are already adjusted to fit the EU legislations. The result are obvious: Tourism economy is growing at incredible rates, foreign investments are doubling each year and Montenegro real estate market is as lively as it could be. Montenegro got it independance in May 2006 so the potential investors relieved from a doubts that neighbouring Serbian unresolved Kosovo problem might have an impact to their investment.
- Montenegro has a great yet not utilized opportunities to profit upon its fantastic nature, national parks, very pure and unspoiled water with sandy beaches, great mountains with ski resorts and mild climate. Montenegro is self proclaimed as an Ecological State. What is more important though is that Montenegrin goverment does work on it and shows ability to keep up to promises about keeping Montenegro ecological and unspoiled place.
- For foreigners it is easy to enter Montenegro, buy property, invest in business.. You will be welcomed in Montenegro. There are few things to be aware - please other sections for more information.
- There are other reasons that make investing in Montenegro Real Estates clever move. It does not take a genious to predict that property prices will go up for quite some time. The general investment climate in Montenegro is very positive. The crime rate is very low and Montenegro is not densely populated. Infact, Montenegro has only about 650.000 population. While this may not be good for some businisses types it is only and all good when it comes to tourism and property market.
Where to invest in Montenegro real estate?
- Bay of Kotor is quiet, calm and relaxing. It is filled with old fisherman settlements where local way of life has not been changed for hundreds of years. A lot of old stone houses, even many ruins can be found in bay of Kotor. Some settlements are built almost exclusively on mediteranean style, with houses along the water line. There is no open view at the endless sea but the sight is often stunning, from both sides of bay. The bay starts with Tivat and ends with Herceg Novi, near the border with Croatia. The heart of Kotor Bay is accordingly to its name the town of Kotor, which is one unvoidable to give visit to when you visit Montenegro. But, the interest for properties are equally strong and sometimes stronger for other, smaller settlements along the bay: Prcanj, Perast, Morinj and many others (check other pages for more info on them). The bay of Kotor is not an distinctly touristic region, it does not have sandy beaches, many hotels and speciffic "summer rush" that can be seen in Budva for instance. Although the touristic component of Kotor Bay is growing the beauty of it lies in its peaceful nature with great scenery and relaxing way of life.
Budva, along with its neighburing Sveti Stefan and Petrovac is another main point when talking about Montenegro real estate. It greatly represents what growing tourism in Montenegro is all about, sandy beaches and beautiful scenery with sight at Adriatic sea. Budva and especially Sveti Stefan were well known touristic plaaces even before an interest had grown for Montenegro in western world. However, it doesen't take anything off Budva, it quicky adapted to accomodate the needs for modern tourists which now took off the lead from domestic tourists (in Montenegro they call tourists from Serbia domestic even though they are separated countries now). The property market is extremly vibrant, houses, holiday villas and land is being bought. There is huge interest of foreign investitors for buying a land in Budva area with a motive to build a house or villa and sell out latter or use it as a rental property. However, Montenegrin laws still do not allow non-montenegrin citizens to buy a land so a firm has to be opened first (likewise in Croatia). The new laws soon to be released are allowing foreign citizens to buy land without any restrictions and when it happent it is expected that even more interest will be generated.
As much as we talk about Montenegro Coast and its properties we must not forget the fantastic opportunities that continental and rural parts of Montenegro has to offer. First off, Skadar Lake (Skadarsko Lake or in domestic language Skadarsko Jezero), one of the most beautiful natural and preserved lakes one can find. Skadar Lake is split with border between Montenegro and Albania. It is still uncertain will and how a permissions will be given for building up a property in this areas. Maybe not. But some old stone houses can be found and we have no doubts that anything that is for sale will be sold in a short time to come. Then, there is Zabljak , a mountain touristic place with which already becomes an interesting point for property buyers. The mountain Durmitor as whole is beautifull in its wildness. Piva lake (Pivsko Jezero), Kolasin, Lovcen.. just some of names that might be worth to check out. For most part, those are undeveloped areas (maybe exept Zabljak and few others) but with great potential for investment. | 2019-04-19T00:20:52 | http://www.montenegro-real-estate.org/ |
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View Poll Results: So, what do you love more?
I'd like to know your thoughts on which is better to you, which do you use and what are your experiences with OpenOffice.org and KOffice?
When i was on windows (just about month ago) i used OpenOffice.org and it was great and i was satisfied. However, now i use Mandrake 10 Community and it runs pretty slow, i'd say really too slow. And while i am aware that community edition is just like a preview or beta so it might not be the top thing and it might cause troubles and performance issues i found that KOffice on the other hand runs so much faster, better and smoother.
So, my current pick is KOffice. And i like it's looks better than OOo. But it also seems to have more components, now adding even more.
open office is freaking awesome.
There is no compatibility issues with anything between openoffice and microsoftoffice so everything is perfect for uni etc.
It astounds me that an open source project can be as powerful and feature rich as OOo is. There is no MS Word 6.0/97/2000/xp file that I have had trouble opening.
I agree that I've never had compatiblity issues with MS, except with macros. Once the oo team perfects VBA, I think it'll beat out MS for sure! Then the lawsuits will start poping up by the masses, after all... It seems to be the only way MS can remain the monopoly (certainly not by fair competetion!).
OpenOffice for me. I try to stick to DE-agnostic apps whenever possible, since I switch desktop environments and window managers daily.
I really like OO. I tried KOffice a while ago and found it to be okay but i really liked OO much better. OO seemed to have more features than KOffice. I will give KOffice another look though.
Heh.. 100% OpenOffice.org.. well, the picture is clear as crystal.
It actually seems like i am the only one here who actually "implied" that i like KOffice more, but the truth is that i havent's really tried it much yet. I just noticed how fast it loads and nice it looks and though that, well, it must be better for linux based usage.
However, me too likes OOo very much, it's only that it's soo slow on my Lignux MDK10CE that i sometimes can't stand it. Eternity before it loads and than it tickles all the time..
Why is that? Is my ****** 750Mhz AMD Duron machine just too weak for it or it's because i use MDK Community instead of Official? | 2019-04-21T03:10:44 | http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/applications/14897-openoffice-org-vs-koffice.html |
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China manufacturers listings of baby joggers in B2BChinaSources.com for global buyers. High quality and quality assurance. Baby joggers supplied by Chinese manufacturers with the most competitive prices and superb quality. Listings will lead you right to crucial data such as company brief introduction business type, main products, target market, contact information, certifications and more.
Baby Joggers made by creditable manufacturers and you are welcome to Add Your Products Here to attract more potential clients if you happen to be doing business in the same field. | 2019-04-20T07:27:49 | http://www.b2bchinasources.com/China-Manufacturers-17850/Baby-Joggers.html |
The Air Force Historical Support Division is part of the Air Force History and Museums Program and is located in Washington, DC at Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling.
AFHSD is primarily the historical research and book writing element of the Air Force History program. Historians at AFHSD also provide historical information, analysis and perspective to Air Force leaders and their staffs to support planning, policy development and decision making.
See the TITLES listing above under "Books" for a full listing of our publications.
The US Air Force in Southeast Asia and the Vietnam War. A Narrative Chronology: Vol. I: The Early Years through 1959. By Kenneth H. Williams, 2019.
The USAAF inserts an OSS team into Vietnam in 1945 to work with the leadership of the Viet Minh, to prepare a guerrilla force to harass Japanese troops in the region. Picture includes Ho Chi Minh and Vo Nguyen Giap.
USAF C-119s taking off from a base in Vietnam in the Spring of 1954. The USAF planes were loaned to the French and had French markings, but were maintained by USAF mechanics.
A loaned USAF plane is being repainted with French markings for use of the French in 1954 Indochina war.
A USAF C-119 undergoes repairs in Vietnam during the Indochina War. The planes were loaned to the French, maintained by USAF personnel, and flown by the French and US civilians.
Principal USAF/VNAF airfields in Vietnam up to 1965.
The story of how the United States became entangled in Southeast Asia is a long and complicated one, and the U.S. Air Force (USAF) was a part of the equation at every step. The USAAF/USAF was flying in the region from 1942 through the collapse of the U.S.-supported government in Saigon in 1975. This chronology seeks to document, and to honor the service and sacrifice of, U.S. airmen for the full span of U.S. involvement. It ranges beyond strictly Air Force topics to provide a framework of context for why U.S. service members deployed to the region. Much of the context is not as far removed from the USAF as it might first appear, as any time senior leaders discussed potential U.S. military involvement in Southeast Asia throughout the 1950's, nearly all scenarios prominently featured air assets of the USAF and/or carrier-based U.S. Navy (USN) aircraft. | 2019-04-18T19:14:20 | https://www.afhistory.af.mil/ |
GILS can help you find public information resources throughout the U.S. Federal Government. GILS records identify these resources, describe the information available from these resources, and provide assistance in obtaining the actual information from these resources.
Who Can Benefit From Using GILS?
GILS can benefit anyone who is searching for information from the Federal government, or anyone who helps others search for such information. Searches can be performed directly from your workstation using the Internet and other electronic means to visit any of the dozens of U.S. Federal GILS sites.
What Will You Find in a GILS Record?
- What information is available and why it was created.
- How the information is made available for your use.
- Who to contact for further information.
- In some cases, a direct electronic link to the information itself is provided.
How Do You Access GILS?
This site contains the GILS records for 25 Federal agencies, additional records designed to serve as pathways to information sources in all Cabinet-Level and major independent Federal agencies, and pointer records with links to other U.S. Federal GILS sites.
- It can also be reached by telneting to swais.access.gpo.gov or dialing in to (202) 512-1661 (log in as guest).
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retrieval. GILS efforts are also being implemented at the individual State level, by other nations, and by international organizations.
How Can You Get More Information About GILS?
Specific information regarding individual agency GILS sites should be addressed to the developers of the site. An example of this would be to contact the GPO Access User Support Team via e-mail (gpoaccess@gpo.gov) or phone (202-512-1530) for information on the GPO Access GILS site. | 2019-04-22T04:55:00 | https://www.ntsb.gov/GILS/Pages/FAQ.aspx |
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A great set of baby bedding with the name. The bed linen is a super nice quality from Hugo Kragh Design Zelection.
The sheets with the name is the Fairies in girlie colors in plaid on the back.
Baby bedding is a good idea as maternity gift or christening.
Baby Bedding name is personal and exclusive.
We embroider the baby's name in bedding and possibly. date of birth.
Checked in pink and white, small flowers and fairies in pink and purple.
Wash at 40 degrees with fabrics in the same color.
Beautiful Baby bedding is a great gift for a baby boy or a baby girl if you are looking for the perfect personalised baby gift for a newborn baby. | 2019-04-25T12:20:27 | https://petitepeople.com/products/baby-bedding-with-name-girl-fairies |
Swift codes, which are also known as BIC codes, are used for International Wire Transfers. Compared to routing numbers which allow you to make wire transfers domestically, Swift codes are used for incoming international fund transfers. In order to make or receive an international wire transfer to BANCOFAR S.A., you'll need the appropriate Swift code..
Important: BIC codes for BANCOFAR S.A. are only used for international wire transfer payments. | 2019-04-22T22:02:06 | https://swifty.codes/bank/bancofar-s-a/ |
Want to start your panel discussion with a bang? With drama? With emotion? Or, switch gears using a video snippet – a quick, short video clip that reinforces the panel’s key message. A minute or less is about right (aka a “video snippet”); otherwise, you risk losing your audience’s attention.
For example, I once saw a panel moderator use a video clip of legendary golfer Tiger Woods chipping into the hole from the rough grass—and it barely dropped in—as a metaphor for hitting your goal against all odds. It took all of fifteen seconds and captivated the audience. The moderator then used that metaphor to start the discussion among the panelists.
So where do you get these short video snippets?
YouTube. A ton of engaging videos can be found at this site with the implied consent of the copyright holder to redistribute the video. That means you can re-use the video in your presentation—as long as it is still posted on the site.
So check the site each time you plan to use the clip; the license terminates within a “commercially reasonable amount of time” once the work is removed from the website.
Movie/TV Clips. Most audiences perk up when you use a short video clip from a popular movie. Again, be advised, when you use a video in a public meeting or training environment (regardless of whether you are a profit or a nonprofit organization), it is considered a public performance and requires the consent of the original copyright holder or its agent.
To obtain information, permission, and/or purchase rights to use movie clips, contact Motion Picture Licensing Corporation (www.mplc.com) or Audio Cine Films Inc. (www.acf-film.com).
Your Own. As you are doing research for your panel, take your video camera and film the audience in action at an earlier event, interview rising stars or celebrities around the topic, or dig up some interesting visuals. Splice the best of the best into one short video.
Purchase Clips. You can purchase video clips that announce breaks, open or close a session, or provide a lighthearted moment. Typically, when you purchase the video, you also purchase the legal right to use it in a public setting.
Custom Video. Plenty of resources are available to customize video into your presentation. It gets a bit pricey, so practice due diligence and do a dry run of how you are going to use the clip(s) before you actually commission the production.
You too can use a video snippet to start your panel or to switch gears during your powerful panel discussion. | 2019-04-26T13:57:23 | https://powerfulpanels.com/how-to-use-attention-grabbing-video-snippets-during-a-panel-discussion-2/ |
C R B Construction Ltd, Other construction work involving special trades, listed under "Other Construction Work Involving Special Trades" category, is located at Kiln Lane Uckfield East Sussex , TN22 5UE, United Kingdom and can be reached by (01825) 750224 phone number. C R B Construction Ltd has currently 0 reviews.
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Situated in a great position on this attractive modern residential development, this architecturally elegant detached house offers spacious family accommodation.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Situated in a great position on this attractive modern residential development, this architecturally elegant detached house offers family accommodation of central Entrance Hall, very spacious Lounge, well fitted and again very spacious Kitchen/Dining Room, ground floor WC, Master Bedroom with stunning En-suite, three further Bedrooms and very smart Bathroom, neat and attractive gardens parking and Garage.
LOCATION The property is situated a short distance from Newport town centre. Newport is an attractive and historic market town, with a vibrant centre of stylish, independent shops offering designer and High Street brands, art and crafts, books, jewellery, gifts, home ware as well as a butchers. Newport Country Market is an indoor hall packed with home-made goods and products. There are also Waitrose and Aldi supermarkets. 9 miles away Telford Shopping Centre has more than 160 stores and in Stafford, The Guildhall Shopping Centre, including Stafford Market Hall, has more than 40 stores.
GROUND FLOOR WC With pedestal wash hand basin, low level wc, radiator and ceramic tiled flooring.
KITCHEN/DINING ROOM: 18' 3" x 12' 4", narrowing to 10' 1" (5.56m x 3.76m) With a range of modern units comprising wall cupboards, base cupboards and drawers incorporating dishwasher and automatic washing machine, utensil storage drawers, work surfaces, integral fridge freezer, Hotpoint double oven and grill, boiler cupboard housing Potterton gas central heating boiler, five burner gas hob, stainless steel extractor hood, inset spotlights, ceramic tiled flooring, two double radiators and windows on two sides.
LOUNGE: 18' 3", extending to 20' 10" into bay x 14' 0 " (5.56m x 4.27m) With two radiators, laminate oak effect flooring, useful under stairs storage cupboard and feature French doors with glazed side panels overlooking the garden.
ENSUITE With double width shower cubicle having mains shower and glazed sliding doors, wash hand basin, low level wc, tiling to floor and walls, inset spotlights, extractor fan and electric shaver socket.
BEDROOM TWO: 11' 1" x 9' 9" (3.38m x 2.97m) With radiator and windows on two sides.
BEDROOM THREE: 11' 1" x 8' 4" (3.38m x 2.54m) With radiator and window overlooking the garden.
BEDROOM FOUR: 8' 3" x 8' 0" (2.51m x 2.44m) With radiator and overlooking the front of the property.
FAMILY BATHROOM With panel bath having glazed shower screen and mains shower over, low level wc, wash hand basin, tiling to floor and walls, heated towel rail/radiator and inset spotlighting.
OUTSIDE To the front of the property there is a long wide lawned garden with attractive shrub planting and display bedding and this continues around the side of the property where there is a further lawn, long driveway providing parking for approximately three cars and side gate leading to the garden.
GARAGE: 17' 9" x 9' 0" (5.41m x 2.74m) With metal up and over door, concrete floor and partial eaves storage.
ENERGY PERFORMANCE RATING The Energy Efficiency Rating for this property is B. The full energy performance certificate (EPC) is available for this property upon request.
SERVICES We are advised that all mains services are available. Barbers have not tested any apparatus, equipment, fittings, etc., or services to this property so cannot confirm that they are in working order or fit for the purpose. A buyer is recommended to obtain confirmation from their Surveyor or Solicitor.
DIRECTIONS From Newport High Street head towards Lower Bar and at the mini roundabout turn left onto B5062/Edgmond Road, then left into Stone Bridge where the property is located on the right hand side, marked by our For Sale board. | 2019-04-22T06:39:19 | https://www.barbers-online.co.uk/property-details/101056058182/stone-bridge-1 |
Sitting and relaxing there on a Sunday with my 5 String playing a Medley of Blue Grass and getting ready for another Hectic week working with my 2 sons in Building Blue Barons & Axis Point Heat Exchangers.
I could not find Banjo Tablature anywhere for this song, so I Learned this song in a few days by "Ear"
Mason William's "Classical Gas" written and composed in 1967 Still practicing not an easy song to learn on the Banjo. Still need to practice timing.
Earlier times just learning the Banjo.
I learned this song in a few days. Looked all over for Banjo Tab, but could not find it so I learned it by ear.
Starts out with a E minor followed by G, D, C, Bar A, C & B7. Upper part of the neck gets a little bit tricky. Still need to practice timing. | 2019-04-21T04:30:14 | http://www.bluebaroncarpetcleaningmachines.com/banjo.html |
Interiors at your home mirror your personality. The decoration ideas for your interior show your inner nature likes and dislikes. If you love warm colors an energetic aura, you will find the below listed Boho Chic Decor designs specially designed for you. Different patterns, bold colors, classic furniture, artistic assets and other organic elements are the main factors of Boho chic decors. You can incorporate vintage styles in Boho décor designs. There are also special décor ideas that integrate the hippy style of Boho décor designs with the modern interior. You can show off your collection of artistic paintings or sculptures in these décor designs. It is necessary to balance the bold and vintage look of Boho décor design with comfort and convenience. You can get best one from the below stack.
Boho style mix and match the colors of elements in the décor to give an eye catchy environment. Here the designer has used the smoothening colors like white, sky blue and baby pink. The plant adds the calmness to the place.
This among the list of Boho Chic Decor designs has the luxurious fabrics giving charm to space.
You can have such a lovely bedroom decor with the boho decor designs. Spread such colors in your bedroom to make it a loving personal space.
Turn your room into one of the adorable Boho Chic Decor designs by using layers of different print. In this design, the mirror has petals of different patterns and unique frames on the wall.
Design the peaceful corner of your house with such interesting design idea. You can have classic black and white sketches on the wall and a leopard print chair.
Keep such small but sweet bed in your bedroom with the best comfy feel. Decorate bed with lots of patterned cushions and enlighten the room with string lights.
Get inspirations from this bedroom décor idea incorporating different textures in off white color and add a pinch of pink color with the texture on the wall.
You can also design your favorite place with minimum elements like few frames, a simple cozy sofa and tea table decorated with a beautiful plant.
Handmade carpets are just enough to decorate your place to make them look intimate and fascinating.
Boho Chic Decor designs are particularly based on artistic elements combined creatively for a pleasant interior. These pastille chairs are one of such creative elements of boho décor.
You can have such rustic look at your own place despite the location of your house. With a cozy sofa and rustic furniture, you can complete the décor.
Your porch can become the best place to relax with such simple sitting arrangement with few cushions of different patterns.
Arrange your bathtub in the corner having a fascinating color like sky blue. Choose to compliment color for textured tiles like in this picture.
Floor pillows are comfortable as well as attractive for the room decoration. You can arrange these floor pillows to give your room boho look.
Lamps of vibrant color, comfortable sofa having different patterned cushions and an iron chair painted black can be arranged to get such boho décor for the living room.
You can create magical boho décor for your bedroom with simple DIY of the wall pieces and other craft. Use warm colors to make it more attractive.
With the classic colors of furniture and wall texture of raw brick, you can get classic nook at your home to distress your daily worries.
You can use simply of white color for the complete interior with the touch of boho artistic wall piece. Such type of décor is stylish, peaceful and relaxing.
If you are running out of space for book storage in your house, you can incorporate the book storage in the living area itself. Complete the interior with artistic boho elements.
Living room of your house can be turned impressive with such eclectic décor. Different colors, handmade carpet, and patterns of the cushion will do it for you.
Boho Chic Decor designs let you turn your space into a unique one. You can have such floor pillows of varied shapes and patterns spread over the space to make it look unique.
You can feel like a royal family with a boho decoration idea for your bedroom. Use luxurious fabrics for curtains, bed sheets, and blankets. Complete the bedroom decoration with big side lamps.
Arrange transparent chairs of different colors to give boho décor appearance to your dining table. It can make your meal more interesting.
Transform your contemporary bedroom design with such modern look. You can use boho décor for such transformation.
If you have special love for nature you can design such special corner at your home with transparent glasses and comfy bed. Décor it in boho style with multiple pattern cushions.
You can create such pleasant ambiance at your home with the comfortable simple chair, a tea table, and royal carpet. You can place your achievements or memories on the wall as your collection.
Using such warm colors in bedroom enhance love between partners and create the perfect ambiance to romance. Try such decoration for your bedroom.
Have interesting meal each day with such boho decoration on your dining. Chandelier of different colors is simply adorable.
Use furniture of different colors complementing each other to create boho inspired living room decoration. You can also use pillows to enhance the overall appearance of the area.
Boho Chic Decor designs mainly focus on decorating with creative art pieces. Hammock of unique shape and style give this study room impressive look. Round book shelf adds to its look.
Old stuff like the trunks can add to the boho look of your place. A comfortable hammock of luxurious fabric can be hung in the room to relax.
The striped fabric of sofas in warm colors gives energy. A simple classic wooden chair complements this décor. Some floor pillows and attractive lamps are too adorable here.
Artistically designed chairs for the dining are the best choice to try Boho Chic Decor designs. You can have funky colors to the gadgets in the dining room as well.
Add freshness to your living area by following Boho Chic Decor designs ideas. Pastel color furniture with an artistic wall piece is perfect for the décor.
Experiment as many patterns and color as you want with cushions, with the carpet and with the frames on the wall.
With the Boho Chic Decor designs, you can completely personalize your space with different elements. Furniture of varied colors, creative wall frame and unique shape of lamps complete this living room décor.
You can keep it simple and comfortable with monochrome rustic white décor. Use cozy pillows and sofa sets for the corner.
A winter look can be given to your living area by keeping a cute sheep sculpture there. You should keep it effortless with the furniture used.
Design your living room with vintage furniture and use colors in pillows and carpets to give it a bohemian decoration look.
Teenagers love the funky splash of colors all over their bedroom. Use this décor idea to design teen’s bedroom of your house. Keep the drawers patterned with different patterns. You can also use colorful fabrics on the ceilings and curtains. Geometric cushions will help in enhancing the overall appearance of the room.
Let your home look full of life with the most interesting Boho Chic Décor designs. You can keep your cool collection of items in these décor ideas so that the world can see and appreciate it. Bohemians have the special and unique sense of style and interiors. You can get that style at your own space with the above ideas. Select the décor ideas from the above list to get it done at your place and enjoy the Boho décor. | 2019-04-19T15:28:52 | https://www.homeartmania.com/boho-chic-decor-designs/ |
LP-4B is a multi-functional lipo meter that will measure the voltage of each cell of your lithium pack and condition the pack. LP-4B will balance the battery pack based on the cell with the lowest voltage.
LP-4B balances the pack with up to a maximum current of 150mAH and the balancing function is activated manually by pressing the button on the LP-4B.
An example of using the Tahmazo LP-4B lipo meter and balancer. If the difference in the cell voltage between the highest and lowest cell is more than 0.03v after usage, it will suggest an unbalanced battery pack. This condition will result in a less than optimal performance when using the pack. | 2019-04-23T10:52:49 | http://tahmazo.com/products/catalogue/10/183 |
You heard that correctly! It snowed here in Texas!!! We didn’t get a whole lot but enough for my school to delay until 10:00. A lot of schools around here canceled due to ice. This is as very rare occasion for our part of the world. I’m celebrating my late start by linking up with Literacy Spark for a $1 linky party TODAY only!
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The 100th day of school is right around the corner! Hooray! We made it to the 100th Day features 8 math activities, a mini booklet, book markers, ideas and so much more. My description still says 2013 but I PROMISE YOU this will get a HUGE update this weekend! Grab it while you can for only $1!!!!
Up next is my Pattern Block Cards for Repeating and Additive Patterns. Last year I found it difficult to find resources teaching this concept. I have the cards laminated and placed on a ring for one of our math centers. The love them!
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These lidded vases, which can also be used as glass jars, are designed so that you can stick flowers through the lid and create charming floral arrangements. Now there are candle holders in the same style. The light plays beautifully through the pattern. Set them on your summer table with the vase to create a fantastic atmosphere for a dinner party. | 2019-04-22T14:49:41 | https://www.a-simple-mess.com/webshop/interior/candle-holders/product/a-simple-mess-kathrina-tealight-holder-dia--10-x-15-5-cm-brass |
How to open file with DMX-INFO extension?
The DMX-INFO file extension belongs to the category Misc Files. The extended name of this file format is DriverMax Driver Information File. Below is a list of programs that support files with this extension. Just download one of them, then double click on the DMX-INFO file, which did not want to open and manually select the program installed by default. The DMX-INFO file should open now without any problem.
It can also happen that, despite the installation of one of the following programs, your DMX-INFO file will still return an error when you try to run it. In such a case, refer to the next part of our article, where we present solutions to most problems that may occur when you try to work with the new file extension, which is the DMX-INFO.
Right-click the DMX-INFO file that we want to open, then clicking the option "Open with"
In this case, the solution may be to find another copy of the DMX-INFO file, to ask for another copy of it (if you got it from another person), or to try to download it again from the internet.
In this case, you must associate the DMX-INFO file with the application either by selecting the application (information here) or manually (information here).
The application for supporting the DMX-INFO file has not been entirely installed.
Your computer does not have sufficient resources to the currently open the DMX-INFO file.
We install all the drivers that are needed to run the application that supports the DMX-INFO file.
Most of the items on the registry concerning the DMX-INFO file are added automatically during installation of the program/application. In some situations, the user himself has to create a new registry entry, and type in the appropriate value. This method can be used to associate a file type with an existing application. Then locate the ProgID of the application in the registry. To access the Windows registry editor - click "Start", type "regedit", and then press ENTER.
To associate the DMX-INFO file type with the new application, you must define the ProgID for a particular application and if you want to get information on defining a new ProgID, you should see the program identifiers. For information about file extensions and its associations with applications look in the key HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT .
Have you ever got a file that you could not open? Probably the situation was that it had an extension not used before on your computer, e.g. DMX-INFO. Such a situation could also take place with other extensions, but it always ended the same - giving you a headache when determining which program should be used to properly open the file.
Typically, Windows has the appropriate software to open the DMX-INFO file or just preview its contents. Often, however, there is no such software, and then we need to identify what kind of file it is, and download the appropriate software to support it. | 2019-04-24T20:43:38 | http://www.hotfe.org/misc-files/dmx-info-file-extension |
A new series on Ovation tracks the staging of a "Swan Lake" starring plus-size women.
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Traditional English kitchens are a combination of modernity and tradition. Pastel colors of furniture and walls make the interior of British kitchen warm and cozy. Porcelain figurines, decorative vases, flowers or napkins play an important role in the numerous additions. The English style can be successfully combine different types of patterns: stripes, flowers and boxes.
White stylized furniture will add subtlety and airiness. Richly decorated with furniture fronts make it so arranged kitchen is stylish and elegant.
Chair with chic upholstery and gold decor emphasizes the elegance of the English style. Pastel walls are the perfect backdrop to expose paintings and other decorations. | 2019-04-25T22:24:11 | http://www.ideasforinterior.com/traditional-english-kitchens/ |
Ergonomic-related injuries continue to disable employees and decrease productivity in the workplace. In an effort to combat this problem, CAP has aligned with DoD and other federal agencies to offer prevention solutions and accommodation services through its Work-Life Wellness Program (WLWP). This program encourages preventative measures for work-related repetitive stress injuries, such as tendonitis, epicondylitis, or carpal tunnel syndrome and back injuries sustained while working in a physical capacity that exceeds normal job requirements.
Although CAP is not able to procure any assistive technologies for preventive measures, WLWP is a proactive program through which we educate our customers on prevention of the repetitive stress injuries that can result from improper ergonomic configuration. This strategy can diminish the severity of ergonomic-related injuries or eliminate the need for accommodation altogether. | 2019-04-20T16:42:11 | https://www.cap.mil/Programs/Employment/WorkLifeWellness.aspx |
SBRotator4 is here to add native rotation to the iPhone/iPod and give you a rotating SpringBoard! No need to be jealous of iPad rotating when you flip your device, anymore!
SBRotator 4 has received several improvements compared to older versions and works great on iOS 4.x! It rotates your whole SpringBoard, not just icons independently. It also rotates some of non-rotating apps, like Settings, YouTube, Phone and more.
SBRotator 4 offers different icon layouts for each orientation. It lets you have 4x4 icons in portrait but 3x6 or 2x8 in landscape and so on. It also rotates App Switcher (multitasking bar) to match SpringBoard's orientation.
Several rotation options are included, animation options, icon layout options, icon sizing options to fit your icons better in landscape etc.
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Saltier than any ocean, surrounded by a scrubby desert, and inhospitable to nearly all kinds of plant and animal life, the Dead Sea is actually a lake, although hardly a typical one.
The Dead Sea is a hypersaline lake located in a hyperarid region at the lowest place on Earth (~430 meters below sea level) between Israel and Jordan, about 80 kilometers from the eastern coast of the Mediterranean Sea. Each evening during summer, sea breezes from the Mediterranean waft over its surface and die down again by sunup.
This locale makes the Dead Sea a uniquely interesting research subject for scientists studying the evaporation of water over lakes. With other lakes, it is nearly impossible to extricate the individual effects of solar radiation (or sunlight) and wind speed on evaporation since the weather tends to be windy and sunny at the same time of day and both tend to be lacking at the same time of night.
Here Lensky et al. use a reliable technique called the eddy covariance system to measure the diurnal course of the evaporation rate. With these measurements, the role of solar radiation and wind speed could be treated as separate entities, so that when these two phenomena occur at different times of day—as they do over the Dead Sea, which is windy and dark at night but calm and sunny during the day—it is possible to determine their individual impacts on evaporation.
Using eddy covariance systems, the researchers collected data at the Dead Sea, as well as two freshwater bodies in northern Israel, the Eshkol Reservoir and Lake Kinneret, in the middle of summer. Since the latter two sites are physically closer to the Mediterranean Sea, the sea breeze reaches them at different times of day, providing a helpful comparison. The researchers incorporated these data into a comparative framework of the rates of evaporation at all three sites over a 24-hour average (over periods of a few days in summer).
In the Dead Sea, they found that the rate of evaporation peaks during the day just a few hours after solar radiation peaks. At night, there is another evaporation peak at the same time as the wind speed peak. The rate of evaporation is lowest at both sunrise and sunset.
Alternatively, the Eshkol Reservoir and Lake Kinneret had just one evaporation peak, in the afternoon, which coincides with the Mediterranean Sea’s breeze reaching their shores. The researchers attributed this single, midafternoon evaporation peak to the fact that both the wind speed and solar radiation peaks happen around the same time.
Citation: Witman, S. (2018), Dead Sea provides unique insights on water evaporation, Eos, 99, https://doi.org/10.1029/2018EO094039. Published on 09 March 2018. | 2019-04-22T06:59:00 | https://eos.org/research-spotlights/dead-sea-provides-unique-insights-on-water-evaporation |
This institution of an automatic appropriation for debt was largely unopposed because the measure was needed in order to maintain capacity to borrow at reasonable rates, and in order to save Congress the trouble of passing a specific bill every year. Thus, for many years this was the only federal spending that was put on what a later age might call “automatic pilot” [Gordon, 1995].
Our budget thus, with Section 31(B) in place, is under an “automatic pilot” which prioritizes loan repayments rather than social or economic services, with our helpless Congress scrambling to allocate what meager is left after paying our debts.
This provision is responsible for the fact that for all post-EDSA governments, from 1986 to 2008, debt service for interest payments alone already averaged around 25.72% of the national government budget. Moreover, from 1986 to 1996 and 1999 to 2008, interest payment allocation exceeded education spending, despite the provision in the Philippine Constitution, Article XIV, Section 5.5, stating that education is supposed to receive the highest budgetary allocation.
There are other challenges. Former Senior Commissioner of the Commission on Audit (CoA) Bartolome C. Fernandez Jr., who crafted during his time COA Resolution No. 89-44 (adopted Sept. 7, 1989) which is COA’s official position on the Section 26(B) of EO 292 amid doubts as to the continued applicability and effectivity of PD 1177 (Sec. 31) vis-à-vis the constitutional injunction that “No money shall be paid out of the Treasury except in pursuance of an appropriation made by law” which “shall originate exclusively in the House of Representatives” (Sec. 29(1) and Sec. 24, Art. VI, 1987 Constitution).
Fernandez believes that “was deemed inconsistent with the 1987 Constitution pursuant to its Transitory Provision to the effect that only those decrees and other executive issuances ‘not inconsistent with this (1987) Constitution shall remain operative until amended, repealed or revoked (Sec. 3, Art. XVIII).’ The inconsistency was demonstrated by the fact that PD 1177 was issued by President Marcos alone and not enacted by Congress and, hence, was not an appropriation law within the contemplation of the Constitution; that it did not originate from the House of Representatives or undergo the legislative process of appropriation mandated by the Constitution; and that being an executive issuance under a regime of authoritarianism, it was promulgated without the consent of the sovereign people. Given such inconsistency, the COA concluded that PD 1177 ceased to be operative after the ratification of the 1987 Constitution.” [Inquirer, 2010].
Bills repealing or amending the automatic appropriations provision or Section 26(B) of the Revised Administrative Code of 1987 has been re-filed by many representatives in the 14th Congress, but failed to advance . These bills include HB00179 by Rep. Juan Edgardo M. Angara, HB00329 by Appropriations Committee Chairperson Rep. Edcel Lagman, HB01115 by Bayan Muna Rep. Satur Ocampo, HB01134 by Gabriela Rep. Liza Maza, HB01721 by Rep. Ma Rachel J. Arenas, HB03284 by Rep. Rufus Rodriguez, and HB04426 by Rep. Narciso Santiago III. During the House deliberations on HB 2454 (2008 GAB), there has been a consensus between Minority Leader Rep. Ronaldo Zamora and Lagman to support the repeal of the provision.
In May 2009, FDC President and Rep. Walden Bello filed HR01509 urging the House to fast track the passage of appropriate bills calling for the repeal and/or amendment of the automatic appropriations provision so as to pave way for a moratorium on the payment of external debts so the country can effectively deal with the economic and climate crises. The proposal, however, has been pending on the Committee on Rules since December 2009.
For the Senate, Sen. Pia Cayetano (who just won a second-term after the 2010 elections) and Senate Minority Leader Aquilino “Nene” Q. Pimentel, Jr. (PDP-Laban) during the 2008 budget deliberations called for the repeal of the automatic appropriations, which was re-echoed by the media. Cayetano also filed Senate Resolution 235 to review the provision. Bills explicitly repealing the provision like SB1558 by Sen. Jinggoy P. Ejercito-Estrada and SB1591 by Sen. Antonio “Sonny” F. Trillanes IV were also filed in the 14th Congress.
• PhP 15.9 billion corresponding to savings as a result of the appreciation of the peso with the exchange rate recomputed at PhP 41 to a dollar from a high assumption of PhP 48: $1 in the NEP ( National Expenditure Program) or a PhP 7 differential (savings of PhP 2.272 billion is generated for every peso appreciation); The FDC research cluster provided the figure (included in all scenarios on savings from PhP 48: $1 to PhP 38: $1).
• PhP 5 billion in premature allocations for interest payments for program loans and bond issuances still in the pipeline.
• Support to priority social programs – savings generated in excess of PhP 25.9 billion from interest on foreign loans due to peso appreciation — priority requirements for education and health. Also, based on the Bicameral Conference Summary Report, the PhP 25.9 billion debt service cuts were used for augmenting the appropriations for health, education, agriculture, social welfare, infrastructure, local governance , justice and judiciary , labor and employment, energization, environment, and public safety and security, among others.
The proposal was vetoed by then President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo. The presidential veto was justified on the following grounds: (1) automatic appropriation for debt service is allowed by law and has been declared constitutional; (2) the prohibition on disbursement of funds for interest payments on loans challenged as fraudulent, wasteful and/or useless is an encroachment on the constitutional guarantee of non-impairment of contracts; and (3) the government’s credit standing needs to be preserved and protected.
• Gordon, John Steele (1995, November). The Federal Debt: And how it grew, grew, and grew. American Heritage Magazine, Volume 46, Issue 7.
• Krishnakumar, Anita S. (2005). In Defense of the Debt Limit Statute. President and Fellows of Harvard College Harvard Journal on Legislation (JOL) – Volume 42, Number 1, Winter 2005.
• Fernandez Jr., Bartolome C. (2010, September 24). Debt servicing violates 1987 Constitution. Philippine Daily Inquirer (Letter to the Editor). | 2019-04-22T17:00:47 | https://renatomabunga.wordpress.com/2012/01/27/from-the-network-briefer-on-the-automatic-debt-servicing-provision/ |
When invite to a party time come you ll need idea to attract people with awesome invitation. This populer invite to a party contain 16 fantastic ideas for your DIY Party creation.
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The holidays can be stressful between weather turning sour, relatives reheating some bad blood, and just about anything the involves traveling in the snow. So when you’re fighting through the holiday scrum and you find yourself with a wardrobe problem, you may just throw up your hands in defeat. Don’t worry, holiday warrior, we’re here to help with some advice on how to solve common winter clothing ailments.
My party suit has become a bit tight. What can I fix quickly?
Having endured Thanksgiving, you may find your suit a little snugger than it was, especially if you don’t wear it often. Don’t worry, New Year’s resolutions will take care of the little extra to love, but in the meantime, get yourself to a tailor.
When it comes to letting out clothes, a lot depends on how much material is inside to actually let out (what tailors call “seam allowance”). Trousers are the easiest things to alter – a tailor can let out your waist a couple of inches and change the hem quickly and cheaply. The bad news is if your jacket has gotten tougher to button. You can let out the waist if there’s enough material, but the job can run you somewhere between $50 and $100.
For more info, see our posts on common alterations, how much alterations typically cost, and the nitty gritty details of letting out clothes.
My friend invited me to an “ugly sweater party.” How can I go without looking, y’know, ugly?
Your friend is a monster because ugly sweater parties are the absolute worst and should be stopped. But I guess that will have to wait to next year. Instead of focusing on “ugly” as in embroidered reindeers, go for something just more ostentatiously wintery. Coming to the party in a Fair Isle or Apres Ski style sweater will assure everyone you got the memo and you won’t need to rummage through a Goodwill to prove it.
I have an emergency holiday stain, what can I do?
The holidays are a time of revelry and you should approach them with the proper abandon, but sometimes one too many eggnogs lead to some pretty nasty stains. If you’ve stained something special, you’ll want to bring it to a professional. We frequently recommend Rave FabriCARE in Arizona because they’re the best garment cleaner we know of (and they’ll take mail-ins). Most local dry cleaners, frankly, aren’t that great.
If it’s something you’re willing to take a chance on, however, you’ll want to identify whether you have a water- or oil-based stains. Water-based stains can often be solved with a quick trip to the bathroom. Use some hand soap and pull, don’t scrub, until the stain is lifted as best as you can get. The laundry machine can take care of the rest later. If you’re really worried about it, pre-soak the garment overnight in some OxiClean before you wash it. Jesse has a great guide on how to do so, and America’s Test Kitchen explains why OxiClean is better than other pre-treatment cleaners.
Oil-based stains, however, should be taken to a dry cleaner. Washing can just otherwise set in the damage. The best you can do in these cases is to gently blot out the stain with a cotton napkin as soon as it happens (again, never wipe or scrub) and find a dry cleaner you trust.
How do I avoid looking like a bum when traveling this season?
Traveling is probably on your holiday docket, and it’s possible you’ll be heading straight from transit to your engagement. Prepare with the solid travel outfit of an OCBD, a textured sweater, and a pair of wool or corduroy trousers. If you’re flying, wear your loafers or chukka boots to get out of that TSA line quickly. If you’re not sure the formality of the engagement, bring a navy sport coat or brown tweed jacket. A good sport coat in a basic color will look great for almost any occasion. If you’re going to be a guest somewhere, consider bringing along a Tide-to-Go pen – they can be a great way to take care of emergency stains (water-based ones, anyway).
We also have some posts on how to travel for the holidays, suggestions on what you may want to pack, and travel tips from eight stylish men who travel frequently for work.
I have no idea of the dress code for the event I’m invited to. What can I wear to look appropriate no matter what?
If you’re not sure of the dress code, it’s hard to go wrong with a sport coat and some tailored trousers. Add an informal tie or a pocket square, but maybe not both. If you think the event is more low-key, you can dress down the tailored jacket with some jeans. Sport coats don’t always look right with denim, but it’s doable if the clothes are cut in a certain way. See the photo above from last year’s Drake’s lookbook for inspiration.
If you need more outfit suggestions, we have a full guide on how you can dress for the holidays. It covers almost any occasion, and spans everything from sport coats to dress outerwear to casual ensembles.
I have a busy week of holiday parties between coworkers, family, and friends. What can I do to avoid wearing the same thing for all of them, but not drive myself nuts in outfit decision making?
Pick one thing that can work for all outfits, such as a blazer or sweater, and design all your outfits around that (navy sport coats are tremendously useful in this regard because you can wear them often without anyone really noticing). It takes some of the guesswork out and your outfits will be different enough to avoid being bored. For example, let’s say you have a favorite holiday cardigan. Try it done up with a coat and some trousers, or down with denim and boots. You should have enough variation to see you through the week’s blitz of shindigs.
My mom got me a present of a, uh, questionable piece of fashion. How can I respectfully address the matter?
Your mother carried you in her womb for nine months and this is how you repay her? Kidding, kidding. If your family knows you’re into clothing, then they’ll probably think some clothing is a good gift, not knowing how you obsess over the details. Be calm and courteous, try it on, say it “doesn’t quite fit right,” and ask for that gift receipt. Holiday returns are nothing to be ashamed of. But really, unless it’s something actually offensive, just keep it as a sign of love if not a sign of your personal taste (shoutout to the plum sweater in my closet still with the tags on from last Christmas). | 2019-04-20T22:45:14 | https://putthison.com/how-to-handle-the-holidays-in-style-the-holidays/ |
Arshag Fetvadjian was one of the most versatile Armenian artists in modern times. Besides paintings, frescoes, and graphic works, he made designs for theatrical performances, dance halls, paper money, and stamps. He also worked on architectural projects and redecorated churches. He also wrote articles on issues of Armenian architecture, European painting, theater, and culture in general.
Fetvadjian was born on October 1, 1866, in the port of Trebizond. He completed his studies at the local Armenian school, and then he entered the newly opened Imperial School of Fine Arts in Constantinople (1882). He was one of its first graduates in 1887. From 1887 to 1891 he studied at the San Luca Accademia of Rome with the famous Italian painter, Cesare Maccari. In his last year of study, he participated in the national exhibition of Italian painters at the Palazzo d’Arte of Rome.
He moved to Vienna in 1891, where he worked as an independent artist for four years. In 1895 he moved to St. Petersburg, where he became a member of the Society of Russian Watercolor Painters. He was gradually accepted as the premier Armenian painter in watercolor. He participated in collective exhibitions in Russia, as well as in individual exhibitions in the Caucasus (Batum, Tilis, Pyatigors, and Baku) between 1899 and 1902.
Between 1900 and 1920, Fetvadjian traveled annually to Eastern Armenia and painted pictures of churches and castles, fortress walls and civic buildings, as well as portraits of Armenian women in traditional costume. The results of his hard work were 30 large-scale watercolors, depicting Ani and its surrounding monuments, and 1500 pencil drawings of decorations of churches and khachkars. This documentation was very important, as little had been photographed at the time, and many of those monuments do not exist anymore. The same happened with many samples of national costumes worn by Armenian women.
Fetvadjian returned to Vienna in 1906 and published 15 color postcards with pictures of Ani and 10 postcards of his most celebrated oil paintings. He showed his pictures of Ani for the first time in his individual exhibition of 1908 in Tiflis. He was commissioned to decorate the Kamoyants Surp Kevork church of Tiflis, which had been restored from 1900-1908 (it would be destroyed by the Soviet Georgian government in the 1930s), and several other churches.
He made his final visit to Ani in 1917, accompanying Russian scholar Nikolai Marr and a group of Armenian scholars. In 1918 he was in Etchmiadzin painting Armenian refugee women.
The government of the Republic of Armenia commissioned Fetvadjian to design the stamps and the banknotes of the new country. His designs used national symbols, like Ararat, a village woman, etcetera. In 1919 he was authorized to print the stamps in France and the banknotes in Great Britain. However, they reached the country in November 1920, when the Soviet regime was about to be established, and were never put into circulation.
In 1920-1921 Fetvadjian offered exhibitions of his works in Paris and London, which earned the appreciation of the French and British press. In 1922 he settled in the United States, hoping to obtain financial help to publish his works. He gave exhibitions at Columbia University, Chicago University, and Princeton University. An ad-hoc committee was formed to raise funds, however, was dissolved after a year, due to the indifference and cold treatment by the Armenian community.
Manuel Der Manuelian, a consul of the Republic of Armenia in the United States, who lived in Boston, helped Fetvadjian move to Boston, where he lived modestly for the rest of his life. He continued his participation in various exhibitions in Boston and New York. He was commissioned to carve a table and altar for St. Illuminator’s Cathedral of New York, along with an altar painting representing the Virgin and the Child that has remained there until this day.
In 1947 Fetvadjian was invited by the government of Soviet Armenia to return to Armenia. However, amid preparations, the artist passed away in Medford, Massachusetts, on October 7, 1947. His ashes, together with his paintings and archives, were taken to the homeland, where his ashes were buried in Yerevan. His paintings are displayed in the permanent exhibition of the National Gallery of Armenia, and other paintings are in various European and American museums and private collections. | 2019-04-22T10:12:17 | http://thisweekinarmenianhistory.blogspot.com/2015/10/birth-of-arshag-fetvadjian-october-1.html |
Are you a video game player? Are you a child of the "80s"(or even 70s...;-) )?
There was a time when building any type of video game required Flash.
Nowadays the stage is set for powerful HTML5 and WebGL gaming!
Here are 10 of our favorite games which run in all modern browsers and are build only with web technologies. | 2019-04-21T16:16:40 | https://www.ma-no.org/en/content/index_10-addictive-retro-video-games-recreated-with-html5-js-amp-css_2267.php |
Chronic pain is most widely defined as “any pain that persists for three months or more.” Millions of Americans suffer from chronic pain every day, and some of the current treatments available may actually be causing additional harm or prolonged suffering. One of the most common treatment methods, the prescribing of opioid medications such as Vicodin and OxyContin, can have undesirable side effects and lead to addiction. In his book CONQUER CHRONIC PAIN: An Innovative Mind-Body Approach (Hazelden; November 3, 2015; $15.95; Original Trade Paperback), Peter Przekop, DO, PhD, provides healthy alternatives to treating chronic pain.
Dr. Przekop suggests that chronic pain is actually a disease in the brain and not only affects the brain, mind, and body but actually becomes part of the individual. Through his research, he discovered that people who could not cope with stress and who internalized emotions had an increased risk of becoming chronically ill. In addition, Dr. Przekop reveals that past negative experiences can hinder the healing process. The author also offers important information regarding the structure of the brain, how the mind is different from the brain, how the mind works, and how chronic pain alters brain functions.
This groundbreaking book also includes eighteen exercises specifically designed to help conquer chronic pain, including mindful movement–a schema exercise that helps us understand how our mind processes information—and clearing adversity, which helps us to clear negative energy that is locked inside, creating adversity.
CONQUER CHRONIC PAIN helps us to better understand chronic pain by explaining its causes and effects on the mind and body, reveals how a person’s coping strategies determine his or her ability to handle pain, and provides the exercises and information to assist in conquering chronic pain.
The Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation is a force of healing and hope for individuals, families and communities affected by addiction to alcohol and other drugs. It is the nation’s largest nonprofit treatment provider, with a legacy that began in 1949 and includes the 1982 founding of the Betty Ford Center. With 16 sites in California, Minnesota, Oregon, Illinois, New York, Florida, Massachusetts, Colorado and Texas, the Foundation offers prevention and recovery solutions nationwide and across the entire continuum of care for youth and adults. | 2019-04-20T10:38:04 | https://www.clairemckinneypr.com/conquer-chronic-pain-by-peter-przekop-do-phd/ |
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I've been thinking for a while on a presentation format of key ideas of ABR that will be of the most educational value. Apparently it's not as easy as it sounds. There are quite a few challenges.
That's why I decided to try this new format -- taking a single case and illustrate the universal truths for any child with a brain injury. I started from a spastic quadriplegic case as the most typical for us -- but, sure, there will be other types as well: flaccid; athetoid; hemiplegic etc.
I hope this avenue will work better -- but obviously the ultimate judges are the 'collective you' : I'll only know whether this avenue is worth pursuing further if you give me the feedback through your comments and mails.
Altogether -- there are 28 videos (10 min to 30 min long) -- 1 General Progress Overview; 3 x 1 = Progress overviews for each of the domains: Sitting, Hand Function; Crawling; and another 4-5 videos per domain covering the transitions from the initial condition before ABR and then the changes every several months. All in all -- the period covered is 24 months.
I've learned from my mistakes (somewhat :-)) -- and I am not going to dump them all on you at once.
Right now you can watch 6 videos -- Motor Development Progress overview (Quadriplegic Cerebral Palsy Boy Case Study) and 5 more videos zooming into the domain of sitting as the core representation of weight-bearing progress.
I am starting with the first one: Motor Development Progress Overview - Quadriplegic Cerebral Palsy Child GMFCS 5 -- I will be posting the other ones with regular intervals and with extra comments.
I hope that avenue will prove educational and I am looking forwards for your response. | 2019-04-22T21:55:24 | https://blyum.typepad.com/on_abr_and_beyond/2009/10/motor-development-through-abr-quadriplegic-cerebral-palsy-boy-case-study.html |
The invention provides a display device with which a user's view is not completely interrupted by an image that is displayed artificially and of which optical system is easy in design. In addition, the invention provides a telecommunication system capable of providing additional visual information by the use of the display device. According to the invention, an image can be displayed while securing a user's view by using a light emitting device that can display an image and transmit light as a display device. Specifically, a pair of electrodes included in a light emitting element is formed to transmit light so as to transmit the outside light. By crossing a visual axis of a user and a pixel portion of the light emitting device, both of the outside light and the light emitted from the pixel portion can enter into the eyeballs of a user.
The present invention relates to a display device using light emitting elements, and to a telecommunication system using the display device.
A goggle display device has the characteristics of portability that enable the use of the device while it is worn by a user, and it has the advantage of providing visual information in any place without tying up user's hands. A goggle display device is sometimes called a face mounted display or a head mounted display. As for a goggle display device that is in practical use at present, there is the one that displays an image by using a liquid crystal display device (LCD).
Besides the goggle display device using a liquid crystal display device, a goggle display device that can display an image by using a self-luminous light emitting device is proposed in recent years. A light emitting device using light emitting elements emits light by itself, therefore, it has high visibility and requires no backlight unlike a liquid crystal display device, which makes it possible to have a less complex optical system. Thus, it is suitable for the downsizing of a goggle display device. In addition, it is proposed that a goggle display device that can provide a visual image to a user by writing an image directly to his retinas with laser light and the like is proposed, without the use of a liquid crystal display device or a light emitting device.
As described above, goggle display devices in various modes are proposed, such as the one using a light emitting device and the one that directly writes an image to the retinas of a user as well as the goggle display device using a liquid crystal display device. However, each of the aforementioned goggle display devices has a problem in that a user's view is interrupted by the use of the very device.
That is, in the case of the goggle display device using a liquid crystal display device or a light emitting device, a user is prohibited from seeing the surrounding scenery within his view in an area where an image is displayed by the liquid crystal display device or the light emitting device. Therefore, the user's movement is restricted, which makes it difficult to take the advantage of the goggle display device that ensures the free use of user's hands.
Even in a goggle display device that directly writes an image to the retinas of a user, it is difficult for him to sense his surrounding scenery as light in the portion of the retinas to which an image is written. Therefore, it is difficult for the user to see the surrounding scenery within his view in the area where the image is displayed. Further, in the goggle display device that directly writes an image to the retinas of a user, a green laser diode, which is one of the three primary colors of light has not been put into practical use yet. Therefore, it is difficult to display a full color image by this device.
It is considered to be possible for a user to recognize an image that is artificially displayed by a goggle display device and his surrounding scenery at the same time by exercising ingenuity on the optical system of the goggle display device. In this case, however, high-level techniques are required in the design phase of the optical system.
In addition, navigation systems that display information on the present position of an object obtained by the use of a GPS (Global Positioning System) are advancing remarkably in recent years. Among them, a car navigation system has been in practical use over decades, and is in widespread use currently. However, a conventional navigation system typified by the car navigation system has a problem in that it is difficult for a user to be cautious of the surrounding environment around him when looking downward to watch the display device.
In the case where this navigation system is applied to a goggle display device, in particular, a user cannot see the surrounding scenery that overlaps with the area where an image is displayed by the goggle display device. Accordingly, it is not suitable for the use under the circumstance that requires to pay attention to the surroundings. In addition, even when information is obtained by the navigation system, the goggle display device has to be taken off when a user wants to see the surrounding circumstances or move. Therefore, it is required to be taken on/off frequently, which leads to the low usability. Thus, it has been difficult to find a merit in the application of the navigation system to the goggle display device.
In view of the foregoing problems, the invention provides a goggle display device with which a user's view is not completely interrupted by an image that is displayed artificially and of which optical system is easy in design. In addition, the invention provides a telecommunication system capable of providing additional visual information by the use of the goggle display device.
According to the invention, an image can be displayed while securing a user's view by using a light emitting device that can display an image and transmit light as a goggle display device. Specifically, in the invention, a pair of electrodes of a light emitting element is formed to transmit light so as to transmit the outside light. By crossing a visual axis of a user with a pixel portion of the light emitting device, both of the outside light and the light emitted from the pixel portion can be injected into the eyeballs of the user.
That is, the goggle display device of the invention includes a light emitting device having a pixel portion in which a light emitting element is disposed in each pixel and a supporting portion used for a user to wear the light emitting device. A pair of electrodes of the light emitting element transmits light. The supporting portion allows the light emitting device to be fixed on the position at which a user's visual axis can cross the pixel portion. The goggle display device of the invention may further include an optical system that brings the light passing through the pixel portion and the light emitted from the light emitting device into focus on the retinas of a user.
An OLED (Organic Light Emitting Diode) that is one of the light emitting elements includes two electrodes of an anode and a cathode and a layer including an electroluminescent material (hereinafter referred to as an electroluminescent layer) that can obtain luminescence (Electroluminescence) when an electric field is applied thereto.
In addition, the invention can provide a telecommunication system in which a navigation system is applied to the goggle display device of the invention. According to the telecommunication system of the invention, a user can receive the positional information of an object that is obtained by a GPS, and can also receive the information on the object that is obtained from the positional information from the goggle display device, while seeing his surrounding scenery. It should be noted that the goggle display device denotes a display device that is worn a light emitting device on the head of a user.
According to the invention, a goggle display device can be provided, which allows a user to recognize an image displayed artificially and his surrounding scenery at the same time without making an optical system complex. Accordingly, the user can be cautious about the surrounding circumstances of himself more easily in using the goggle display device, which significantly enhances the usability of the goggle display device. In addition, by using the goggle display device of the invention having the aforementioned structure, the aforementioned telecommunication system can be realized.
According to the telecommunication system of the invention, it is possible that an image of an object and an image including the information on the object are superimposed to be displayed at the same time. Accordingly, it becomes easier to check the object with the information on the object. In addition, since the surrounding scenery can be seen without taking off the goggle display device, it is not required that the goggle display device is taken on/off frequently when using the telecommunication system. Thus, the usability can be significantly enhanced.
FIGS. 1A and 1B illustrate an oblique perspective view and a cross sectional view of the goggle display device of the invention respectively.
FIG. 2 illustrates an oblique perspective view of the goggle display device of the invention.
FIGS. 3A and 3B illustrate a diagram showing a module of a light emitting device used in the goggle display device of the invention and a block diagram of the module respectively.
FIG. 4 illustrates an enlarged view of a pixel portion.
FIGS. 5A and 5B each illustrates a structure of a light emitting element.
FIGS. 6A to 6C each illustrates a schematic view of a signal flow according to one mode of the telecommunication system of the invention.
FIG. 7 illustrates a positional relationship between an optical system, a panel, and an eyeball.
FIGS. 8A to 8C each illustrates an embodiment of the telecommunication system of the invention.
FIG. 9 illustrates a cross sectional diagram of a pixel included in a light emitting device.
FIGS. 10A to 10C each illustrates a circuit diagram of a pixel included in a light emitting device.
FIGS. 11A and 11B each illustrates a block diagram of a light emitting device.
FIGS. 12A and 12B each illustrates an oblique perspective view of a panel mounting an IC chip.
FIG. 1A shows an oblique perspective view of the goggle display device of the invention as one mode. Reference numeral 101 denotes a light emitting device. Two light emitting devices 101 are provided for a right eye and a left eye in the goggle display device shown in FIG. 1A. It should be noted that the number of the light emitting devices that are used in the goggle display device of the invention is not limited to this. Only one light emitting device may be provided for one eye, or one light emitting device that can be seen by both eyes may be provided as well.
Each of the light emitting devices 101 includes a pixel portion 103 in which a plurality of light emitting elements are formed. The goggle display device of the invention includes supporting portions 102 a and 102 b used for a user to wear the light emitting devices 101 so that the pixel portion 103 crosses the visual axis of the user. It should be noted that FIG. 1A shows the supporting portions 102 a and 102 b for fixing the light emitting devices 101 on the head and ears of a user, however, the invention is not limited to this. The supporting portions may be of a type that fixes the light emitting devices 101 on the head, or of a type that fixes the light emitting devices 101 on the body other than the head of a user.
In addition, in FIG. 1A, the light emitting devices 101 are incorporated in a housing 104. The housing 104 has a structure in which a portion that overlaps with the pixel portion 103 transmits light. It should be noted that the goggle display device of the invention is not necessarily required to have a housing for incorporating the light emitting devices, and the light emitting devices may be exposed to the outside.
The goggle display device of the invention may include a microphone or a converter that generates sound wave in response to a current. In FIG. 1A, the goggle display device having an earphone 108 is shown as an example. The operation of the light emitting devices may be controlled by a remote control or an operating switch that is provided in the goggle display device.
The goggle display device shown in FIG. 1A may have an optical system that brings the light passing through the pixel portion and the light emitted from the light emitting devices into focus on the retinas of a user. By using the aforementioned optical system, it is possible for the eyes of a user to recognize his surrounding scenery and an image that is displayed artificially by the goggle display device at the same time.
In order to show the positional relationship among the light emitting device 101, an optical system, and a visual axis of a user more clearly, FIG. 1B shows a cross sectional view in the case where the goggle display device shown in FIG. 1A includes an optical system. In FIG. 1B, reference numeral 106 denotes a visual axis extending from an eyeball 107 of a user to an object. FIG. 1B shows a mode in which two optical systems 105 a and 105 b are provided, and the visual axis 106 crosses the optical system 105 a, the light emitting device 101, and the optical system 105 b in this order from the closest side to the eyeball 107 of the user.
FIG. 1B shows a case where two optical systems 105 a and 105 b are provided, however, the invention is not limited to this. It is also possible that only one of the optical systems 105 a and 105 b is provided. In addition, the optical system is not necessarily provided in the invention. FIG. 2 shows an oblique perspective view of a goggle display device without an optical system. In FIG. 2, reference numeral 201 denotes a light emitting device that is incorporated in a housing 204. Reference numeral 202 denotes a supporting portion. By providing no optical system for taking the focus as in the goggle display device shown in FIG. 2, the goggle display device can be downsized and the cost thereof can be reduced.
Now, a configuration of a light emitting device that is used in the goggle display device of the invention is described. It should be noted that the light emitting device includes either mode of a panel in which a pixel portion is provided or a module in which an IC is mounted on the panel. FIG. 3A shows a top plan view of a light emitting device that corresponds to the module.
The light emitting device shown in FIG. 3A includes a panel 300 and a printed wiring board 301 mounted to the panel 300. On the panel 300, a pixel portion 302 in which a light emitting element is disposed in each pixel, a scan line driver circuit 303 for selecting a pixel in the pixel portion 302, and a signal line driver circuit 304 for supplying a video signal to the selected pixel.
It should be noted that FIG. 3A shows an example in which the scan line driver circuit 303 and the signal line driver circuit 304 are formed on the same substrate as the pixel portion 302, however, the invention is not limited to this. It is also possible that a part of or the whole of the scan line driver circuit 303 and the signal line driver circuit 304 is formed on a different substrate, and then mounted to the panel 300. In this case, TAB or COG bonding may be used for the mounting.
Over the printed wiring board 301, various circuits for generating signals or power supply voltages to be supplied to the panel 300 are mounted. It should be noted that in the case of using a goggle display device in the telecommunication system of the invention, the module of the aforementioned light emitting device may be mounted with a transmitter/receiver circuit for processing various signals that are transmitted/received with an antenna, an arithmetic circuit for calculating the positional information by using a GPS signal that has been processed in the transmitter/receiver circuit, a memory for storing the processed GPS signal and the positional information as data, and the like.
FIG. 3A shows various circuits mounted on the printed wiring board 301 in the case where a goggle display device is used in the telecommunication system of the invention. Specifically, a controller 305, a CPU 306 including an arithmetic circuit, a memory 307, a power supply circuit 308, and a transmitter/receiver circuit 309 are mounted as well as other elements such as a resistor, a buffer, and a capacitor. It should be noted that various circuits mounted on the panel 300 are not limited to the aforementioned combination. In addition, among the circuits shown in FIG. 3A, the controller 305, the CPU 306, the memory 307, the power supply circuit 308, and the like may be formed on the panel 300.
It should be noted that the panel 300 is connected to the printed wiring board 301 through an FPC 316, however, the mode of the light emitting device of the invention is not limited to this. For example, various circuits for controlling the operation of the panel 300 may be mounted directly onto the panel 300 by COG bonding.
Power supply voltages and various signals are supplied to the printed wiring board 301 through an interface (I/F) portion 310 for the printed wiring board, in which a plurality of input terminals is disposed. In addition, an antenna port 311 for transmitting/receiving signals to/from an antenna is provided on the printed wiring board 301.
In the printed wiring board 301, in some cases, a power supply voltage and a signal are interrupted by a noise, or a rising edge of a signal is delayed due to a capacitance formed between lead wirings or a resistance of a wiring itself. Such interruption of a power supply voltage and a signal by a noise, and a delay in the rising edge of a signal can be prevented by providing various elements such as a capacitor element and a buffer on the printed wiring board 301.
FIG. 3B shows a block diagram of the module shown in FIG. 3A.
In this embodiment, the memory 307 includes a VRAM 312, a DRAM 313, a flash memory 314, and the like. The VRAM 312 and the DRAM 313 store image data to be displayed on the panel, and the flash memory 314 stores various programs.
The power supply circuit 308 generates power supply voltages to be supplied to the panel 300, the controller 305, the CPU 306, the memory 307, and the transmitter/receiver circuit 309. Depending on the specification of the panel 300, the power supply circuit 308 is provided with a current source.
A signal (control signal) for controlling the operation of the panel 300 is inputted to the goggle display device with a remote control or an operating switch. Specifically, the control signal is transferred to the CPU 306 mounted on the printed wiring board 301 through the interface 310. The CPU 306 can transform image data stored in the VRAM 312 or the DRAM 313 into a predetermined format in accordance with the control signal, which is subsequently transferred to the controller 305.
The controller 305 performs data processing to a signal including the image data transferred from the CPU 306 in accordance with the specification of the panel 300, and then supplies it to the panel 300. The controller 305 generates an Hsync signal, a Vsync signal, a clock signal CLK, an alternating voltage (AC Cont), and a switch signal L/R based on the power supply voltage inputted from the power supply circuit 308 and various signals inputted from the CPU, and then supplies them to the panel 300.
The transmitter/receiver circuit 309 processes a signal that is transmitted/received as a radio wave in an antenna 315, and specifically, it includes a high-frequency circuit such as an isolator, a bandpass filter, a VCO (Voltage Controlled Oscillator), an LPF (Low Pass Filter), a coupler, and a balun.
FIG. 4 shows an enlarged view of a pixel portion of a light emitting device that is used in the goggle display device of the invention. In FIG. 4, reference numeral 401 denotes a pixel portion in which a plurality of pixels 402 are disposed. Each of the pixels 402 includes a light emitting element, and the light emitting element uses a light transmissive electrode as an anode and a cathode. Accordingly, light passes through the pixel 402 as shown by an arrow, whereby a state where a far side of the pixel portion 401 is seen through is obtained. Light emitted from a light emitting element is emitted to both sides of the pixel portion 401.
Next, structure of a light emitting element is described with reference to FIGS. 5A and 5B. FIG. 5A schematically shows an element structure of the light emitting element of the invention.
The light emitting element shown in FIG. 5A includes a substrate 500, over which a first electrode (anode) 501, an electroluminescent layer 502, and a second electrode (cathode) 503 are formed in sequence. It should be noted that various layers or semiconductor elements are provided between the substrate 500 and the first electrode 501 in practice.
The first electrode 501 corresponds to an anode, therefore, it is desirably formed of a conductive material having a high work function. For example, a conductive material using light transmissive oxide (conductive material containing light transmissive oxide) such as indium tin oxide (ITO), zinc oxide (ZnO), indium zinc oxide (IZO), gallium-doped zinc oxide (GZO), indium tin oxide containing silicon oxide (ITSO) may be used as the first electrode 501. Alternatively, TiN, ZrN, Ti, W, Ni, Pt, Cr, Ag, Al, or the like may be formed with an enough thickness to transmit light (around 5 nm to 30 nm) to be used as the first electrode 501. In this case, however, the first electrode 501 may be laminated with a conductive film formed of a conductive material containing light transmissive oxide in order to lower sheet resistance.
The second electrode 503 corresponds to a cathode, therefore, it is desirably formed of a conductive material having a low work function. For example, a metal having a low work function, an alloy, an electrically conductive compound, or mixture of them with an enough thickness to transmit light may be used as the second electrode 503. Specifically, the second electrode 503 may be formed by using an alkaline metal such as Li and Cs, an alkaline earth metal such as Mg, Ca and Sr, an alloy containing these metals (such as Mg:Ag and Al:Li), or an rare earth metal such as Yb and Er with a thickness of around 5 nm to 30 nm. In the case of providing a fifth layer 508 that functions as an electron injection layer, Al, a conductive material containing light transmissive oxide, and the like may be used as the second electrode 503. However, in the case of a material such as Al that does not transmit light, it is formed to have an enough thickness to transmit light. It should be noted that in the case of forming the second electrode 503 with a thickness of around 5 nm to 30 nm, it is possible that a light transmissive conductive layer is formed on the second electrode 503 by using a conductive material containing light transmissive oxide in order to lower sheet resistance of the second electrode 503.
By allowing the first electrode 501 and the second electrode 503 to transmit light, the light emitting element can transmit the outside light.
The electroluminescent layer 502 is formed of a plurality of layers, which can be classified into a hole injection layer, a hole transporting layer, a light emitting layer, an electron transporting layer, an electron injection layer, and the like in view of the carrier transport property. There is no strict distinction between the hole injection layer and the hole transporting layer, and both of their characteristics are of a particular significance in the hole transportability (hole mobility). It is distinguished for convenience that a layer in contact with the anode is referred to as the hole injection layer and a layer in contact with the hole injection layer is referred to as the hole transporting layer. It is the same with the electron transporting layer and the electron injection layer. A layer in contact with the cathode is referred to as the electron injection layer and a layer in contact with the electron injection layer is referred to as the electron transporting layer. In some cases, the light emitting layer is combined with the electron transporting layer, and it is referred to as a light transmissive electron transporting layer. Shown in FIG. 5A is an example where the electroluminescent layer 502 includes first to fifth layers 504 to 508. The first to fifth layers 504 to 508 are laminated in this order from the first electrode 501 to the second electrode 503.
The first layer 504 functions as a hole injection layer, therefore, a material that has hole transportability, relatively low ionization potential, and high hole injectability is desirably used. It can roughly be classified into metal oxide, a low molecular weight organic compound, and a high molecular weight organic compound. As for the metal oxide, for example, vanadium oxide, molybdenum oxide, ruthenium oxide, aluminium oxide, and the like can be used. As for the low molecular weight organic compound, for example, starburst amine typified by m-MTDATA, metallophthalocyanine typified by copper phthalocyanine (abbreviated to Cu-Pc), phthalocyanine (abbreviated to H2-Pc), 2,3-dioxyethylene thiophene derivative, and the like can be used. Alternatively, a film in which a low molecular weight organic compound and the aforementioned metal oxide are codeposited may be used. As for the high molecular weight organic compound, for example, high molecule such as polyaniline (abbreviated to PAni), polyvinylcarbazole (abbreviated to PVK), and polythiophene derivative can be used. Alternatively, polyethylene dioxythiophene (abbreviated to PEDOT) as one of the polythiophene derivative doped with polystyrenesulphonic (abbreviated to PSS) may be used. In addition, benzoxazole derivative may be used in combination with one or more of TCQn, FeCl3, C60, and F4TCNQ.
The second layer 505 functions as a hole transporting layer, therefore, a known material having high hole transportability and low crystallinity is desirably used. Specifically, an aromatic amine-based compound (namely, the one having benzene ring-nitrogen bonds) is suitable. For example, there are 4,4′-bis[N-(3-methylphenyl)-N-phenyl-amino]-biphenyl (TPD), and its derivative: 4,4′-bis[N-(1-naphthyl)-N-phenyl-amino]-biphenyl (a-NPD), and the like. Alternatively, 4,4′,4″-tris(N,N-diphenyl-amino)-triphenylamine (TDATA), or a starburst aromatic amine compound such as MTDATA can be used. In addition, 4,4′-4″-tris(N-carbazolyl)triphenylamine (abbreviated to TCTA) may be used. In addition, a high molecular weight material such as poly(vinyl carbazole) exhibiting good hole transportability can be used.
The third layer 506 functions as a light emitting layer, therefore, a material having high ionization potential and a large bandgap is desirably used. Specifically, a metal complex such as tris(8-quinolinolato)aluminum (Alq3), tris(4-methyl-8-quinolinolato)aluminum (Almq3), bis(10-hydroxybenzo[η]-quinolinato)beryllium (BeBq2), bis(2-methyl-8-quinolinolate)-(4-hydroxy-biphenylyl)aluminum (BAlq), bis[2-(2-hydroxyphenyl)-benzoxazolato]zinc (Zn(BOX)2), and bis[2-(2-hydroxyphenyl)-benzothiazolato]zinc (Zn(BTZ)2) can be used. Alternatively, various fluorescent pigments can be used, such as a coumarin derivative, a quinacridone derivative, rubrene, 4,4-dicyanomethylene, a 1-pyrone derivative, a stilbene derivative, and various condensed aromatic compounds. In addition, a phosphorescent material such as a platinum octaethylporphyrin complex, a tris(phenyl pyridine) iridium complex, and a tris(benzylidene acetonate) phenanthrene europium complex can be used as well.
As a host material used for the third layer 506, a hole transporting material or an electron transporting material typified by the aforementioned examples can be used. Alternatively, a bipolar material such as 4,4′-N,N′-dicarbazolyl-biphenyl (abbreviated to CBP) can be used.
The fourth layer 507 functions as an electron transporting layer, therefore, a material having a high electron transportability is desirably used. Specifically, a metal complex having quinoline skeleton or benzoquinoline skeleton typified by Alq3 or a mixed ligand complex thereof can be used. In particular, a metal complex such as Alq3, Almq3, BeBq2, BAlq, Zn(BOX)2, and Zn(BTZ)2 can be used. Furthermore, other than the metal complex, an oxadiazole derivative such as 2-(4-biphenylyl)-5-(4-tert-butylphenyl)-1,3,4-oxadiazole (PBD) and 1,3-bis[5-(p-tert-butylphenyl)-1,3,4-oxadiazole-2-yl]benzene (OXD-7), a triazole derivative such as 3-(4-tert-butylphenyl)-4-phenyl-5-(4-biphenylyl)-1,2,4-triazole (TAZ), and 3-(4-tert-butylphenyl)-4-(4-ethylphenyl)-5-(4-biphenylyl)-1,2,4-triazole (p-EtTAZ), an imidazole derivative such as TPBI, and a phenanthroline derivative such as bathophenanthroline (BPhen) and bathocuproine (BCP) can be used for the electron transporting material.
The fifth layer 508 functions as an electron injection layer, therefore, a material having high electron injectability is desirably used. Specifically, an ultra thin film formed of an insulator such as alkaline metal halide typified by LiF and CsF, alkaline earth halide typified by CaF2, and an alkaline metal oxide typified by Li2O are frequently used. Alternatively, an alkaline metal complex such as lithium acetylacetonate (abbreviated to Li(acac)) and 8-quinolinolato-lithium (abbreviated to Liq) is also effective. In addition, the fifth layer 508 may include metal oxide such as molybdenum oxide (MoOx), vanadium oxide (VOx), ruthenium oxide (RuOx), tungsten oxide (WOx) or benzoxazole derivative, and or one or more of an alkaline metal, an alkaline earth metal and a transition metal.
According to the light emitting element having the aforementioned structure, by applying a voltage between the first electrode 501 and the second electrode 503 and supplying a forward bias current to the electroluminescent layer 502, light can be emitted from the third layer 506 to the first electrode 501 side and the second electrode 503 side. It should be noted that the electroluminescent layer 502 does not necessarily include the first to fifth layers. According to the invention, it is required to have at least the third layer 506 that functions as a light emitting layer. In addition, light emission is not limited to the one from the third layer 506, and it can be obtained from the layer other than the third layer 506 according to a combination of materials used for the first to fifth layers. In addition, a hole blocking layer may be provided between the third layer 506 and the fourth layer 507.
It should be noted that depending on a color, a phosphorescent material may be preferably used than a fluorescent material since a drive voltage can be lowered, leading to enhance reliability. Then, in the case of performing a full color display using light emitting elements corresponding to the three primary colors, it is possible that degradation levels among the light emitting elements for three colors have few variations by combining a light emitting element using a fluorescent material and a light emitting element using a phosphorescent material.
FIG. 5A shows a structure of a light emitting element in which the first electrode 501 is closer to the substrate 500 than the second electrode 503, however, according to the invention, the second electrode 503 may be formed to be closer to the substrate 500 than the first electrode 501. In this case, the second electrode 503 is formed over the substrate 500 as shown in FIG. 5B, the electroluminescent layer 502 is formed on the second electrode 503, and the first electrode 501 is formed on the electroluminescent layer 502. The first to fifth layers 504 to 508 included in the electroluminescent layer 502 are laminated in this order from the second electrode 503 to the first electrode 501. In FIG. 5B, those shown in FIG. 5A are given the same reference numerals. In FIG. 5B, in practice, various layers, semiconductor elements, or the like are provided between the substrate 500 and the second electrode 503.
Now, the telecommunication system of the invention is described.
A goggle display device used in the telecommunication system of the invention has a light emitting device, an antenna for transmitting/receiving signals, a receiver circuit for receiving and processing GPS signals that are transmitted from a GPS satellite, and an arithmetic circuit for calculating positional information such as the latitude and the longitude by using the GPS signals. Besides the aforementioned means, a transmitter/receiver circuit for processing various signals other than GPS signals may be provided in the goggle display device. It should be noted that the transmitter/receiver circuit may be combined with the aforementioned receiver circuit as long as it is capable of processing the GPS signals. The goggle display device of the invention may have a means for detecting the direction in which the goggle display device faces by detecting the orientation with a direction sensor, gyrocompass, and the like.
FIG. 6A schematically shows a signal flow according to one mode of the telecommunication system of the invention. In FIG. 6A, reference numeral 601 denotes a goggle display device of the invention, 602 denotes a moving object (shown as an example here is a car), 603 denote GPS satellites, 604 denotes a wireless base station, and 605 denotes a database, and 606 denotes a telecommunication satellite.
The goggle display device 601 receives GPS signals from a plurality of GPS satellites 603, and calculates positional information by using the GPS signals. The calculated positional information of the goggle display device 601 is transmitted to the wireless base station 604 through the telecommunication satellite 606. It should be noted that transmittance/reception of signals between the goggle display device 601 and the wireless base station 604 is carried out through the telecommunication satellite 606 in FIG. 6A, however, the invention is not limited to this structure. It may be carried out directly with the wireless base station 604 or through an antenna disposed on the ground.
Meanwhile, the moving object 602 receives GPS signals from the plurality of GPS satellites 603 in the similar manner to the goggle display device 601, and calculates positional information by using the GPS signals. The calculated positional information of the moving object 602 is transmitted to the wireless base station 604 through the telecommunication satellite 606. It should be noted that the transmission path of the positional information to the wireless base station 604 is not limited to this.
In the wireless base station 604, various information on the positional information is pulled up from the database 605 by using the received positional information of the goggle display device 601. It should be noted that the information that is obtained from the positional information of the goggle display device 601 may be the one obtained through Internet, not the one stored in the database 605 in advance. The information on the positional information includes, for example, buildings, roads, climates, and the like around the goggle display device 601. Alternatively, in the wireless base station 604, various information on the positional information may be pulled up from the database 605 by using the received positional information of the moving object 602. In addition, the positional information is shown as an example of the information calculated by using the GPS signals in FIG. 6A, however, according to the invention, the information calculated by using the GPS signals is not limited to this. In case that the information such as environmental information, which fluctuates in real time, is obtained through Internet or the like, the new information can be stored in the database.
The wireless base station 604 transmits the pulled-up information on the positional information and the positional information of the moving object 602 to the goggle display device 601. The goggle display device 601 displays the received information on the light emitting device.
According to the positional information of the goggle display device 601, a user can obtain the positional information of himself and the information on it. Further, by adding the information on the moving object 602, it is possible to obtain the information on the moving object 602 that is around the user, which leads to avoid the dangerous situation.
It should be noted that FIG. 6A shows an example where the goggle display device 601 displays both of the positional information of the moving object 602 and the information on the positional information pulled up from the database 605, however, not both of the information is always required. FIG. 6B schematically shows a signal flow according to one mode of the communicating system of the invention in the case where the positional information of the moving object 602 is not received, but only the information on the positional information of the goggle display device 601 is used.
In FIG. 6B, the goggle display device 601 can receive only the information on the positional information of the goggle display device from the wireless base station 604, and display it. It should be noted that according to the invention, the goggle display device may receive only the positional information of the moving object 602, not the information on the positional information of the goggle display device, unlike FIGS. 6A and 6B.
In addition, according to the telecommunication system of the invention, the positional information may be transmitted/received directly between the goggle display device 601 and the moving object 602. FIG. 6C schematically shows a signal flow according to one mode of the telecommunication system of the invention in the case of directly transmitting/receiving mutual positional information between the goggle display device 601 and the moving object 602. In FIG. 6C, the goggle display device 601 and the moving object 602 obtain the respective positional information by using GPS signals obtained from the GPS satellite 603. The goggle display device 601 receives the positional information of the moving object 602 and displays both of the positional information of the goggle display device itself and the positional information of the moving object 602 on the light emitting device. It should be noted that the positional information of the goggle display device 601 may be transmitted to the moving object 602 as well.
It should also be noted that FIG. 6C shows the case where the goggle display device 601 receives the positional information of the moving object 602, however, the information obtained from the moving object 602 is not limited to the positional information. For example, the presence of the moving object 602 may be identified directly by using a sensor such as the one using an infrared ray. In this case, the moving object 602 may be a still object. By using an infrared sensor and the like, one's eyesight can be reinforced such that he can easily recognize the presence of the moving object 602 even in the night.
In this embodiment, specific configuration of on optical system used in the goggle display device of the invention is described.
An optical system used in the goggle display device of the invention is classified into a first optical system provided between a panel and an eyeball of a user, and a second optical system provided across the panel from the eyeball. FIG. 7 shows a positional relationship between an eyeball 701 of a user, a first optical system 702, a panel 703, and a second optical system 704 in the direction of a visual axis.
In FIG. 7, a convex lens 705 is used as the first optical system 702. In addition, two convex lenses 706 and 707 are used as the second optical system 704. The outside light entering the convex lens 706 passes through the convex lens 707, the panel 703, and the convex lens 705 in this order, and finally enters the eyeball 701. The convex lens 706 is focused on a point between the convex lens 706 and the convex lens 707 while the convex lens 707 is focused on the panel 703. The light entering a crystal lens 708 of the eyeball 701 from the convex lens 705 is desirably brought into focus on a retina 709 of the eyeball 701.
By bringing the outside light into focus on the panel 703 in this manner, the outside light and the light emitted from the panel 703 can both be brought into focus on the retina 709. Accordingly, a user can clearly recognize the surrounding scenery and an image displayed on the panel at the same time.
It should be noted that an optical system is not necessarily provided according to the invention. Alternatively, only the first optical system 702 may be used in order to give priority to the clarity of an image displayed on the panel 703 over the clarity of the surrounding scenery.
In this embodiment, one embodiment of the telecommunication system of the invention is described specifically.
In the case where the goggle display device of the invention has a means for detecting the direction in which the goggle display device faces, the directional information of the goggle display device itself can be obtained in addition to the positional information thereof. When the positional information and the directional information of the goggle display device are utilized in order to specify an area that is located in the direction in which the goggle display device faces, and check it with a database, information on the area such as the one on buildings within the area, the address of the area, and the like can be obtained.
It is assumed that a goggle display device 801 faces a certain direction at a specific point as shown in FIG. 8A. The goggle display device 801 calculates the positional information of the point such as the latitude and the longitude by using a GPS signal from a GPS satellite 802. The goggle display device 801 specifies the direction in which it faces by using a direction sensor typified by a compass, gyrocompass, and the like.
The goggle display device 801 specifies an area that is located in the direction in which the goggle display device 801 faces by using the positional information and the directional information of the goggle display device itself. FIG. 8B schematically shows the position of the goggle display device 801 and an area 803 that is located in the direction in which the goggle display device faces.
The goggle display device 801 transmits/receives signals to/from a wireless base station through a telecommunication satellite, an antenna, and the like, and pulls up the information on the area from a database, so that it can display the information on a light emitting device as shown in FIG. 8C. At this time, a user can see both the information on the area and the area that are superimposed, therefore, it is possible for him to check the area or an object that is present in the area with the information on the area easily.
It should be noted that the goggle display device 801 specifies an area that is located in the direction in which the goggle display device 801 faces in this embodiment, however, the invention is not limited to this structure. For example, it is possible that the positional information and the directional information of the goggle display device 801 are transmitted to the wireless base station, whereby these two pieces of information are checked with the information stored in the database in order to specify the area.
In this embodiment, more specific configuration of a light emitting device that is used in the goggle display device of the invention is described.
FIG. 9 shows one mode of a cross sectional view of a pixel in the light emitting device of the invention. In FIG. 9, TFTs 901 to 903 and light emitting elements 904 to 906 are formed over a substrate 900. The TFT 901 controls a current supply to the light emitting element 904. The TFT 902 controls a current supply to the light emitting element 905. Similarly, the TFT 903 controls a current supply to the light emitting element 906.
Reference numeral 907 denotes a light transmissive covering material for sealing the light emitting elements 904 to 906. The covering material 907 may be provided with a color filter.
The light emitting element 904 includes an anode 913 electrically connected to the TFT 901, an electroluminescent layer 914 formed on the anode 913, and a cathode 915 formed on the electroluminescent layer 914. The overlapped portion of the anode 913, the electroluminescent layer 914, and the cathode 915 corresponds to the light emitting element 904.
The light emitting element 905 includes an anode 916 electrically connected to the TFT 902, an electroluminescent layer 917 formed on the anode 916, and the cathode 915 formed on the electroluminescent layer 917. The overlapped portion of the anode 916, the electroluminescent layer 917, and the cathode 915 corresponds to the light emitting element 905.
The light emitting element 906 includes an anode 918 electrically connected to the TFT 903, an electroluminescent layer 919 formed on the anode 918, and the cathode 915 formed on the electroluminescent layer 919. The overlapped portion of the anode 918, the electroluminescent layer 919, and the cathode 915 corresponds to the light emitting element 906.
It should be noted that the electroluminescent layers 914, 917 and 919 that are different in contained electroluminescent material or element structure are used for pixels corresponding to each color in FIG. 9, however, the invention is not limited to this. It is only required that electroluminescent layers that are different in contained electroluminescent material or element structure are used at least in the pixels corresponding to two colors.
According to the invention, the anodes 913, 916 and 918 and the cathode 915 transmit light. Light from the light emitting elements 904, 905 and 906 can be emitted to the sides of the anodes 913, 916 and 918 and the cathode 915.
It should be noted that the anode is formed closer to the substrate 900 than the cathode in FIG. 9, however, the invention is not limited to this. Alternatively, the cathode may be formed closer to the substrate 900 than the anode. In this case, however, the cathode is separately formed for each pixel whereas the anode is used in common.
In this embodiment, a top gate TFT is used as the TFT for supplying a current to the light emitting element, however, a bottom gate transistor may be used as well. In addition, a polycrystalline semiconductor, a microcrystalline semiconductor (semi-amorphous semiconductor), an amorphous semiconductor, and the like may be used as the TFT.
FIGS. 10A to 10C each shows a circuit diagram of a pixel of a light emitting device used in the goggle display device of the invention. FIG. 10A shows an equivalent circuit diagram of a pixel including a signal line 6114, power supply lines 6115 and 6117, a scan line 6116, a light emitting element 6113, a TFT 6110 for controlling an input of a video signal to the pixel, a TFT 6111 for controlling a current value flowing between both electrodes of the light emitting element 6113, and a capacitor 6112 for holding the gate-source voltage of the TFT 6111. It should be noted that FIG. 10A shows the capacitor 6112, however, it may not be provided in the case where it can be substituted by the gate capacitance of the TFT 6111 or other parasitic capacitance.
FIG. 10B shows the pixel circuit shown in FIG. 10A, which is additionally disposed with a TFT 6118 and a scan line 6119. The TFT 6118 enables to obtain a state in which no current flows into the light emitting element 6113, therefore, a lighting period can start concurrently with or immediately after a writing period without awaiting the completion of signal writing to all the pixels. Accordingly, a duty ratio can be enhanced, and moving images in particular can be displayed favorably.
FIG. 10C shows the pixel circuit shown in FIG. 10B, which is additionally disposed with a TFT 6125 and a wiring 6126. According to the configuration, the gate electrode of the TFT 6125 is connected to the wiring 6126 that is held at a constant potential, thereby fixing the potential at the gate electrode so that the TFT 6125 operates in a saturation region. The gate electrode of the TFT 6111 that is connected in series to the TFT 6125 and operates in a linear region is inputted with a video signal that transmits information on the emission or non-emission of the pixel through the TFT 6110. The source-drain voltage of the TFT 6111 that operates in a linear region has a small value, therefore, a slight change in the gate-source voltage of the TFT 6111 does not have effects on the current value flowing into the light emitting element 6113. Accordingly, the current value flowing into the light emitting element 6113 is determined by the TFT 6125 that operates in a saturation region. According to the invention having the aforementioned configuration, image quality can be enhanced by improving luminance variations of the light emitting element 6113 derived from the characteristic variations of the TFT 6125. It should be noted that a channel length L1 and a channel width W1 of the TFT 6125, and a channel length L1 and a channel width W2 of the TFT 6111 desirably satisfy the relation: L1/W1:L2/W2=5 to 6000:1. In addition, each of the TFTs is desirably of the same conductivity type in view of the manufacturing process. Further, the TFT 6125 may be a depletion mode TFT as well as an enhancement mode TFT.
A light emitting device formed by using the invention may employ either of an analog video signal and a digital video signal. A voltage applied to a light emitting element may be constant or a current flowing into the light emitting element may be constant. The former one in which a voltage applied to a light emitting element is constant is referred to as a constant voltage drive while the latter one in which a current flowing into the light emitting element is constant is referred to as a constant current drive. According to the constant current drive, a constant current flows independently of the changes in resistance of a light emitting element. This embodiment can be freely implemented in combination with the aforementioned embodiment mode and embodiments.
In this embodiment, driver circuits of a light emitting device used in the goggle display device of the invention are described. FIG. 11A shows a block diagram of a light emitting device of this embodiment. The light emitting device shown in FIG. 11A includes a pixel portion 1101 in which a plurality of pixels each provided with a light emitting element are disposed, a scan line driver circuit 1102 for selecting each pixel, and a signal line driver circuit 1103 for controlling an input of a video signal to the selected pixel.
In FIG. 11A, the signal line driver circuit 1103 includes a shift register 1104, a level shifter 1105, and a buffer 1106. A clock signal (CLK), a start pulse signal (SP), and a switch signal (L/R) are inputted to the shift register 1104. When the clock signal (CLK) and the start pulse signal (SP) are inputted to the shift register 1104, a timing signal is generated therein, which is then inputted to the level shifter 1105. The order in which pulses of the timing signal appear is switched according to the switch signal (L/R).
The timing signal is modulated in its pulse level in the level shifter 1105, and then inputted to the buffer 1106. In the buffer 1106, a video signal is sampled in synchronization with the pulse of the inputted timing signal, and then it is inputted to the pixel portion 1101 through a signal line.
Now, configuration of the scan line driver circuit 1102 is described. The scan line driver circuit 1102 includes a shift register 1107 and a buffer 1108. It may include a level shifter if necessary. When a clock signal CLK and a start pulse signal SP are inputted to the shift register 1107 of the scan line driver circuit 1102, a selection signal is generated. The generated selection signal is buffer amplified in the buffer 1108, and then supplied to a corresponding scan line. The scan line is connected to gates of transistors of one line of pixels. Since transistors of one line of pixels are required to be turned ON at once, the buffer 1108 is required to be capable of flowing a large current.
It should be noted that instead of the shift registers 1104 and 1107, an alternative circuit capable of selecting a signal line such as a decoder circuit may be used.
FIG. 11B shows a block diagram of a light emitting device of this embodiment, which is different from FIG. 11A. The light emitting device shown in FIG. 11B includes a pixel portion 1111 in which a plurality of pixels each provided with a light emitting element are disposed, a scan line driver circuit 1112 for selecting each pixel, and a signal line driver circuit 1113 for controlling an input of a video signal to the selected pixel.
In FIG. 11B, the signal line driver circuit 1113 includes a shift register 1114, a latch A1115, and a latch B1116. A clock signal (CLK), a start pulse signal (SP), and a switch signal (L/R) are inputted to the shift register 1114. When the clock signal (CLK) and the start pulse signal (SP) are inputted to the shift register 1114, a timing signal is generated therein. The order in which pulses of the timing signal appear is switched according to the switch signal (L/R). The generated timing signal is inputted to the latch A1115 on the first stage in sequence. When the timing signal is inputted to the latch A1115, a video signal is written to and held in the latch A1115 in sequence in synchronization with the pulse of the timing signal. It should be noted that a video signal is inputted to the latch A1115 in sequence in this embodiment, however, the invention is not limited to this. It is also possible that the latch A1115 having a plurality of stages is divided into several groups, and a video signal is inputted to each group in parallel, namely a division drive is performed. It should be noted that the number of groups for this case is called the number of division. In the case of dividing the latch into four groups for example, the division drive is carried out with four divided groups.
A period through which video signal writings to all the stages of the latch A1115 are completed is referred to as a line period. The line period in practice may include a horizontal fry-back period in addition to the line period.
When one line period is completed, a latch signal is supplied to the latch B1116 on the second stage, and video signals held in the latch A1115 are written to and held in the latch B1116 all at once in synchronization with the latch signal. The latch A1115 that has transferred the video signals to the latch B1116 is once again written with a next video signal in sequence in synchronization with the timing signal from the shift register 1114. During this second line period, the video signal that is written to and held in the latch B1116 is inputted to the pixel portion 1111 through a signal line.
It should be noted that instead of the shift register 1114, an alternative circuit capable of selecting a signal line such as a decoder circuit may be used.
In this embodiment, one embodiment of a connecting method of a light emitting device and an IC is described.
FIGS. 12A and 12B each shows a view in which an IC in a chip form (IC chip) is mounted on a substrate formed with a pixel portion. In FIG. 12A, a pixel portion 6002 and a scan line driver circuit 6003 are formed over a substrate 6001. A signal line driver circuit formed by using an IC chip 6004 is mounted on the substrate 6001. Specifically, the signal line driver circuit formed by using the IC chip 6004 is attached to the substrate 6001, and electrically connected to the pixel portion 6002. Reference numeral 6005 denotes an FPC, through which power supply potentials, various signals, and the like are supplied to the pixel portion 6002, the scan line driver circuit 6003, and the signal line driver circuit formed by using the IC chip 6004.
In FIG. 12B, a pixel portion 6102 and a scan line driver circuit 6103 are formed over a substrate 6101. A signal line driver circuit formed by using an IC chip 6104 is mounted on an FPC 6105 that is mounted on the substrate 6101. Power supply potentials, various signals, and the like are supplied through the FPC 6105 to the pixel portion 6102, the scan line driver circuit 6103, and the signal line driver circuit formed by using the IC chip 6104.
The mounting method of the IC chip is not particularly limited. Any known method such as COG method, wire bonding, and TAB can be used. The mounting position of the IC chip is not limited to the one shown in FIG. 12A or 12B as long as an electrical connection is enabled. In FIGS. 12A and 12B, only the signal line driver circuit is formed by using an IC chip, however, the scan line driver circuit may be formed by using an IC chip, or alternatively, a controller, a CPU, a memory, and the like may be formed by using an IC chip to be mounted. In addition, not the whole the signal line driver circuit or scan line driver circuit, but a part thereof may be formed by using an IC chip.
It should be noted that in a light emitting device that is mounted with a driver circuit as an IC chip, a transistor used in a pixel portion is not limited to a TFT formed of an amorphous semiconductor film such as amorphous silicon. It may be a TFT formed of a microcrystalline semiconductor film or a polycrystalline semiconductor film. It may also be a transistor formed by using single crystalline silicon or a transistor using an SOI. Alternatively, a transistor using an organic semiconductor or a carbon nanotube may be used. By separately forming an integrated circuit such as a driver circuit by using an IC chip to be mounted, the yield can be increased as compared to the case of forming all the circuits and a pixel portion on a common substrate, which enables the process optimization to be carried out easily in accordance with the characteristics of each circuit.
wherein the light emitting device which displays the information about the outside area is located on the user's visual axis when the user's visual axis is directed toward the outside area.
wherein the display device is configured to permit the outside area to be viewed by the user through the first electrode and the second electrode.
4. The display device according to claim 2, wherein the positional information comprises a latitude and a longitude.
5. The display device according to claim 2 further comprising a memory for storing a processed GPS signal and the positional information as data.
6. The display device according to claim 3 further comprising a memory for storing a processed GPS signal and a positional information as data.
7. The display device according to claim 1, wherein the light emitting device is interposed between the first optical system and the second optical system.
wherein the outside light is received by the user's eyes through the first convex lens while the electroluminescent layer emits light.
10. The display device according to claim 2, wherein the outside light reaches the display device directly, without going through an optical system.
11. The display device according to claim 3, wherein the outside light reaches the display device directly, without going through an optical system.
12. The display device according to claim 1, wherein the first transistor, the second transistor, the third transistor, and the fourth transistor have a same conductivity type.
13. The display device according to claim 2, wherein the first transistor, the second transistor, the third transistor, and the fourth transistor have a same conductivity type.
14. The display device according to claim 3, wherein the first transistor, the second transistor, the third transistor, and the fourth transistor have a same conductivity type.
15. The display device according to claim 1, wherein a ratio of a channel length to a channel width of the third transistor is 5 or more.
16. The display device according to claim 2, wherein a ratio of a channel length to a channel width of the third transistor is 5 or more.
17. The display device according to claim 3, wherein a ratio of a channel length to a channel width of the third transistor is 5 or more.
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and lots more, with lots more to come. | 2019-04-25T06:58:41 | http://dominium.maksw.com/2017/05/10/the-evolutionary-boid-part-four/ |
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Chou 1 Light Drum Pendant. Cielo One Light Pendant from 10. Creativo the Chou lamp is available in four table Lzf Chou 1 Light Drum Pendant and four pendant versions. Swirl 1 Light Novelty Pendant. Rated out of stars. Ceiling lights drum pendants 1 floor lamps flush mounts 1 linear suspension multi light. Items 1 0 of. Drum Chandelier Pendant Lamp Chandelier Shades Pendant Lighting. CHOU SPA Designer Suspended lights from lzf all information. Creativo the Chou lamp is available in four table sizes and four pendant versions. Chou 1 Light Drum Pendant brings in a vibrant design.
The Warehouse of Tiffanys 1 Light Drum Pendant. | 2019-04-20T06:10:57 | https://6076.info/lzf-chou-1-light-drum-pendant-bulb-type-e26-base-finish-yellow-size-small.html |
The progress in gene-therapy and DNA vaccination leads to a growing demand of therapeutic applicable plasmid DNA (pDNA). To guarantee the supply for the clinical trials and finally for the market new pDNA production processes, which meet all regulatory requirements, have to be developed. Conventional small scale techniques can not easily be transferred to the manufacturing scale (technical reasons and safety considerations). We developed a generic large scale process for highly purified plasmids “free” of bacterial contaminants which works without enzymes, detergents (except SDS during the cell lysis) and organic solvents.
Most commonly plasmids are manufactured by fermentation of E. coli. In the cells several isoforms of the plasmid are generated: supercoiled (sc), open circular (oc) and linear as well as dimeric forms. After alkaline lysis plasmids are accompanied in solution by genomic DNA (gDNA), RNA, proteins and other cell compounds . In addition to these impurities, the plasmid isoforms have to be separated efficiently in order to get a final product containing > 95 % of ccc form . Chromatographic resins used in biotechnology are usually designed for the separation of polypeptides, providing only low capacity for polynucleotides (< 1 mg/mL).
In this work we present an optimised purification step for large scale purification of therapeutic applicable pDNA, based on an alternative chromatography resin (CIM Convective Interaction Media®).
Production and downstream processing in biotechnology requires fast and accurate control of each step in the process. Liquid chromatography of biopolymers on so-called soft supports is typically slow, often causing significant product degradation. One way of improving these boundary conditions in liquid chromatography is the use of monolithic adsorbents. The basis for fast separations with such media is a reduced mass transfer resistance owing to the fact that pore diffusion is practically non-existent. Chromatography with compact, porous units such as monolithic columns is being used increasingly for analytical and preparative separations of biopolymers with apparent molecular mass ranging from several thousand to up to several million.
This paper describes the use of a CIM® Convective Interaction Media for fast purification of plasmid DNA as well as for the concentration of viruses. Plasmid DNAs are circular duplex DNA molecules that are maintained stable as episomal genetic information within bacteria. They play an important role in gene technology - they are used for applications such as transformation, sequencing, transfection studies, etc. These applications require satisfactory purity of used plasmid DNA. For purification of plasmid DNA from Escherichia coli, monolithic units as anion-exchangers (CIM® DEAE and QA disks) were used. Separation of RNA from DNA as well as concentration of plasmid DNA were performed on the same disks.
All the methods for concentration of viruses, in general, are expensive, time-consuming and they are frequently not very successful. Therefore an attempt to bind viruses on an anion exchanger (CIM® DEAE disk) and elute bound virions in small volume (concentration) was done. As a model virus, measles was chosen. Using CIM® DEAE disk concentration of the measles viruses was successfully performed in less than 10 minutes.
Production and down-stream processing in biotechnology requires fast and accurate control of each step in the process. Liquid chromatography of biopolymers on so-called soft supports is typically slow, often causing significant product degradation. One way of improving these boundary conditions in liquid chromatography is the use of monolithic adsorbents. The basis for fast separations with such media is a reduced mass transfer resistance owing to the fact that pore diffusion is practically non-existent. Chromatography with compact, porous units such as monolithic columns is being used increasingly for analytical and preparative separations of biopolymers with apparent molecular mass ranging from several thousand to up to several million.
This paper describes the use of a CIM® Convective Interaction Media for fast purification of plasmid DNA as well as for the concentration of viruses.
Plasmid DNAs are circular duplex DNA molecules that are maintained stable as episomal genetic information within bacteria. They play an important role in gene technology - they are used for applications such as transformation, sequencing, transfection studies, etc. These applications require satisfactory purity of used plasmid DNA. For purification of plasmid DNA from Escherichia coli, monolithic units as anion-exchangers (CIM® DEAE and QA disks) were used. Separation of RNA from DNA as well as concentration of plasmid DNA were performed on the same disks. | 2019-04-26T00:51:12 | https://www.biaseparations.com/en/library/posters?tag=pdna |
Google or Facebook Ads for Your Print Business?
Both Google and Facebook can be used to find new customers online; however, there are important differences between the two. Advertising on both may not be the right decision for your print business. It all depends on who you are trying to target and what your advertising goals are. Most of the time at Snagaprint, we find that Google AdWords is the best option for print service providers because print customers know what they are searching for and have a high intent to buy. However, there are certain instances where Facebook ads are also appropriate.
PPC (pay-per-click) is the most popular form of online advertising. And for good reason, too: it’s the most profitable. With Google Search Ads’ PPC campaigns you can target users who are already looking for a solution to their problems on Google! That’s where you swoop in and save the day. Over the years, however, PPC campaigns have become increasingly more complex. Running effective PPC campaigns now requires a considerable amount of skill and technical knowledge. Google AdWords can be a powerful tool for businesses in the print industry, because when prospects are searching for “business cards” or “printing services near me,” you can be right there to help solve their problems.
When it comes to the granularity of targeting options for your new customers, Facebook is unmatched. Need to target all 27-32 year-old female homeowners who work in advertising, has a degree in physics, an affinity for cats and the TV show Friends, and owns an iPhone 8 Plus? No problem. Because of this granularity, Facebook is notorious for having the potential for sky-high ROAS/ROI and is the go-to channel if your goal is to acquire more users for you business. While Google helps businesses find new customers using keywords, Facebook helps customers/users find new businesses based on their own interests and individual traits.
A common misconception about Google AdWords is that whoever spends the most money wins. However, Google rewards advertisers who use relevant, quality ad copy regardless of how much you spend. This is why it is critical to audit your online ad spending to make sure you aren’t making mistakes that are damaging your ROI. If you’re already running Google ads, we offer complimentary Google Ads Audits. Our team will take a deep dive into every facet of your search marketing from your bidding strategies, account structure, targeting methods, ad copy, to your landing pages and sales funnel. We’ll provide you with actionable insights at every step of the way, which are yours to keep, 100% free of charge.
Every year, Google handles more than 1.2 trillion web searches. No other competing search engine can match the reach offered by Google. Every year, that’s 1.2 trillion problems looking to be solved (even if the problem is that people need pictures of cats). Customers are searching for printing services in your local market, and if you’re not advertising on Google or optimizing your website for search engines, it’s likely you’re missing out on valuable business.
Google ad campaigns are text-based; however, it’s possible for you to use one of the many customization options that Google provides. Two great options for print companies are location targeting, for focusing on your local print market, and social proofing, for displaying your customer reviews and testimonials. Google’s custom ad features can help make your business stand out on search results.
Facebook has over 1.55 billion active users, and allows its advertisers to target them very specifically, which can lead to massive ROI. Facebook allows advertisers to target users based on the details they provide on their accounts, as well as based on the content that they most often consume. Facebook can be a powerful tool for print companies if you have a very specific ideal customer profile or you are trying to market a new product with a narrowed target niche.
The main edge that Facebook has over Google in advertising is visuals. Whereas Google PPC is text-based, Facebook ads may boast images, videos, and other visual content to pop out on users’ Facebook news feeds. This provides an opportunity to showcase your print shop’s previous work, or even a video tour of your printing facility. Strong visuals can help to humanize the advertising/sales process and put a face to your printing brand.
Both Google and Facebook are very powerful digital marketing channels; however, which one is right for you will ultimately depend on your business’ specific goals and products. For a free consultation on which is right for you, contact us here. We’d be happy to set up a call with you and our marketing team to figure out which digital marketing solution is best for your business. Our goal is to help you increase sales with the highest ROI possible!
Digital marketing for the printing industry. Simplified. Snagaprint makes it easy and affordable to build new revenue streams for your commercial printing business.
Snagaprint was created on the idea of connecting the pillars of the printing industry to help transform the way consumers discover, shop and buy printing services. | 2019-04-24T20:41:51 | https://snagaprint.com/google-vs-facebook/ |
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