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On my zimbra desktop, all the emails that I marked as junk still come to my inbox. When I had thunderbird, the messages marked as junk are being sent to the junk folder and that folder is being empty after 5 days. Is there anyway in zimbra that can be done. It is very annoying when you have to mark the same emails as junk everyday. I know there is a solution, but I don't know how to go about it.
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Why do you
think people have such an attraction to murder and other crimes?I could go on about
this for a few days, but won't because I want to spare you, and
I still probably wouldn't make much sense. There are probably
20 million reasonsour obsession / repulsion / denial of
our own mortality, morbid curiosity, and so forth. But the big
one is the drama. Murder is dramatic. It's more sensational that
stubbing your toe, and bound to be more emotional on some level
than simple shoplifting. Contrary to the current crop of true
crime paperbacks, murder is inherently interesting.
Who is your
all-time favorite criminal?You ask a question
like insisting a mother select her favorite child. It's hard
to sayit changes depending on whatever I'm reading. Bundy
and Gacy were quite interesting fellows in their ability to get
away with it, and you have to hand it to weirdo Ed Hickman. One
thing I can tell youit's not Manson.
Why do some
women fall in love with known seller killers? What do you think
the attraction is?This is related
to why women fall for drunks, drug addicts, and musiciansthere's
the thrill of the rescue, the naughty, rebellious part, the publicity,
and the fact, as John Waters has pointed out, everyone looks
sexier under indictment. Besides, can you think of a better way
of pissing off your parents?
When did
your fascination with all this murder/crime stuff begin?I've always been
interested in weird, off-beat stuff. I was completely obsessed
with Dan Mannix's Memoirs
of a Sword Swallower when I was 10, reading it repeatedly.
And of course, I have always has a taste for violent, off-beat
fiction. But I was a bit of a latecomer to true crime. I didn't
seriously start collecting true crime until I was in college
in the early '80s and discovered all these great books and crimes
that I'd somehow been missing. Now I'm bored with the whole thing.
The '80s are over, and so is serial killing.
Do you know
any murderers personally?Oddly enough, two
childhood friends grew up to be murderers. One smashed an old
lady's head in with a brick, the other one shot up a shopping
mall. I also knew a murder victima co-worker at a high
school summer job came out on the short end of a murder-suicide.
I'd like to write about this one of these days if I ever get
the time.
How did you
come up with the name of your zine? Was MCBF your first choice?I got the name
from a Fredric Brown mysterygreat writer, good title, even
if it isn't one of his better books. I had a few other ideas
which I've long since forgotten. It has been 11 years, after
all. One I remember as being even better than Murder
Can Be Fun, but I forgot that one before it came time to
do the first issue! You've always got to write this stuff down.
Where do
your topic ideas come from?From my head, of
course. I read a lot (as if you hadn't guessed that already)
and things cook and jell and all of the sudden it pops into my
headsports deaths! Zoo deaths! Naughty children! The idea
is the easy part. As any writer can tell you, ideas are a dime
a dozen, even the good ones. The telling thing lies in the execution.
Would you
like to share some of your researching secrets?I don't have secrets.
I have a collection of 10,000 books, three library cards, and
a paralyzing phobia that I might overlook something. Mostly I
rummage around, digging through old magazines and microfilmed
newspapers. Sometimes you get lucky.
Who is your
favorite fictional detective?I'm not a big fan
of series detectives, probably out of sheer orneriness. But I
must confess to a great fondness of Lawrence Block's Matt Scudder,
especially before he stopped drinking.
Have you
ever come across a hideous crime during your research that you
found too shocking to publish in MCBF?No. As a matter
of fact, I don't find many crimes that shocking.
What advice
can you give someone who is new to the zine world?Do something exactly
how you want to do it, not to be like someone else.
What zines
do you enjoy reading in your spare time? Are there any that inspired
you when you first started MCBF?I'm not too in
touch with the latest, greatest zines these days. I tend to stick
to the tried and true old favorites: Cometbus,
Mystery Date, Sidney
Suppey, Thrift SCORE,
Beer Frame, the various
review zines, etc. I'm still mourning over the demise of Pathetic
Life.
Have you
ever been approached by any mainstream publishers?I've talked to
editors informally, but until I get off my ass and write a book
proposal or some green editor comes a'knockin' waving a large
amount of green, nothing's going to happen.
What is your
opinion of zinesters who sign major book deals?I hope they're
not in it for the money.
Have any
real-life criminals ever tried to contact you to tell their story?Every once in a
while I get letters from prison from these guys who want me to
tell their life story in exchange for half the profits. But I
think they have more money in mind that he $50 I could get them
if I was willing to give 'em 50 percent.
Would you
consider interviewing someone like Charles Manson, the Night
Stalker or the Hillside Stranglers if they asked you to?No. I hate talking
to people, especially those people.
Were there
any TV shows, movies or books that had an impact on you as a
child/teenager?One of my big influences
was a lack of tv. I just could never get into the damned thing
(except for "Leave It to Beaver"). Bookwise, heavy
influences were the aforementioned Mr. Mannix, Alfred Hitchcock,
anthologies, Cornell Woolrich, Harlen Ellison, Fredric Brown,
and dozens of others I can't think of right now. But even at
an early age, my tastes tended towards the obscure, the out-of-print,
and the arcane.
If an award
was given for the murder of the century, which one would come
in first place? Second? Third?I'll pass on this.
I take these questions very seriously, so I'd have to research,
devise a weighting scheme, do the statistics, and come out with
a definitive answer. I don't think I can get it done tonight.
If it were
possible to have a roundtable with 13 famous people, living or
dead, who would they be? Why? Where would this gathering take
place? What type of meal/drinks would you serve?I hate dinner parties,
so I would probably pick 13 famous jerks at random, and slip
them thallium (in honor of Graham Young!) in their pre-meal cocktails.
That way I'd save myself the trouble of cooking for them, too.
Do you believe
in the death penalty?I've done a lot
of research into this topic, and have come to the conclusion
that the death penalty does, in fact, exist. Sorry!
What are
some of the things that you have received through the mail from
your readers? Any threatening mail/items?I get the usual
stuff, mostly: books, records, CDs, zines, catalogs, letters
exhibiting varying degrees of mental disturbance, and (my favorite)
checks! Perhaps the weirdest thing I ever received was a photo
of a very pregnant woman with a rash on her stomach sleeping
in a motel room. No further explanation. That was even stranger
that the sex pictures. I've never gotten any threats, though
the occasional irate letter comes along from time to time. Some
Disney fans just don't get the Disney piece and give me impassioned
defenses of the park.
Have you
ever been hassled by the "authorities" because of your
zine?No, not once.
This interview first appeared in Java Turtle.
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Mountain Field Farm, close to everything yet so far away. Two parcels that make a thirty acre slice of paradise. Wonderful house with combination of log and stucco. All the features of a modern house and the feeling of an older home. Guest house, barn, shop, pool, hot tub, fenced paddocks. You name it this farm has it. Come make it your home.
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View, view, view 38' balcony with direct ocean view from this corner unit. Living room & master bedroom. 38' ocean front balcony.Tile floors. Updated kitchen-grantie counters, double oven, kitchen window and breakfast nook. Balcony off the dining room. Two bedrooms have private balconys. Semiprivate elevator. Building has had major work completed. Priced to sell. Two parking spaces #56 & 49
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John Robb makes an excellent point:
The US is negotiating to launch a coastal security program for Nigeria. Wants access to bases for training and rapid deployment in case of a crisis. More “free” protection for oil companies. We need to find a way to allocate these costs so that they are incorporated into the price of oil. Currently, we spend $4-5 in naval protection for every barrel that is shipped from the Persian Gulf. Nobody pays for it but the American tax payer.
We’re also subsidizing the Europeans and all other net oil importers.
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ZWSOFT Releases ZWCAD 2010 Beta for Evaluation
December 04, 2009
Guangzhou, China: Dec. 4, 2009 - ZWCAD Software Co., Ltd., the leading supplier of CAD platforms, announces the availability of ZWCADTM2010 Beta software for public evaluation. Designed to seamlessly integrate with Windows 7 and communicate with other Windows applications, and now available in 14 languages*, ZWCAD 2010 Beta is ready to take ZWCAD users into the next decade.
In ZWCAD 2010 Beta, there are several major advances in CAD optimization. You’ll work faster and more efficiently because the Memory Optimization with compressed processing and new optimized arithmetic improves the efficiency of commonly-used commands and reduces CPU usage and memory, resulting in greater speed and stability, especially when of dealing with large drawings.
ZWCAD 2010’s newly-developed In-Place MTEXT Editor will help you focus on your design and make your work experience more efficient with new and improved functions for your convenience such as:
• Text Formatting Toolbar to adjust settings to the text style for a multiline text object and set the character and paragraph format of the selected text.
• Paragraph Dialog Box to set the formats of the paragraph (including tab stops, indents, paragraph alignment, paragraph spacing and line spacing).
• Display Options Menu to modify the way of the Text Formatting toolbar and provide additional editing options.
Meanwhile, ZWCAD 2010 Beta has made a lot of improvements in other features, such as Hidden Plot, Render, Refedit, Splinedit, Undo and Hatch. With these improved operations, you can work more smoothly.
Also in ZWCAD 2010 Beta, APIs like Lisp and VBA have been greatly enhanced, with 13 new functions added to the Lisp Vlax and Vlr series. ZWSOFT has added new commands to VBA as well, such as AppendOuterLoop and AppendInnerLoop to increase your proficiency. Another highlight of ZWCAD 2010 Beta APIs is the introduction of ZWSOFT's own runtime extension, ZRX. As the most powerful API (application programming interface) in ZWCAD, ZRX enables developers to migrate their former ARX applications to ZWCAD quickly.
“Even with all the improvements we’ve made, we know we can be better! We want to hear from our customers in order to know what they really need,” said Joh Li, director of ZWSOFT R&D Department. “We encourage our customers to download and test the new ZWCAD 2010 Beta release so that we can bring about an official version with better quality in January, 2010.”
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*ZWCAD 2010 Beta version is available in 14 multilingual versions, including Chinese (Simplified and Traditional), Czech, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Hungarian, Korean, Polish, Russian, Spanish and Turkish.
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Batteries
Battery/Cell Diagram
Batteries are important to our everyday lives and show up in various consumer electronics and appliances, from MP3 players to laptops to our vehicles. Batteries play an important role in our vehicles and are gradually becoming more and more important as they assume energy storage responsibilities from fuel in vehicle propulsion systems.
A battery is a device that stores chemical energy in its active materials and converts it, on demand, into electrical energy by means of an electrochemical reaction. An electrochemical reaction is a chemical reaction involving the transfer of electrons, and it is that reaction which creates electricity. There are three main parts of a battery: the anode, cathode, and electrolyte. The anode is the "fuel" electrode which gives up electrons to the external circuit to create the flow of electrons or electricity. The cathode is the oxidizing electrode which accepts electrons in the external circuit. Finally, the electrolyte carries the electric current, as ions, inside the cell, between the anode and cathode.
Batteries are made up of one or more basic electrochemical units called cells. Cells are usually connected in a series to increase the voltage. For example, two 1.5V AA cells connected in a series make a 3V battery. Batteries or cells are traditionally made from select chemistries that have high energy content.
Lead Acid Batteries
Lead acid batteries are the most prevalent battery chemistry used for vehicle starting and other ancillary power functions. They are also used in other applications such as backup power for utility companies, telecommunications, hospitals, and also, as power sources for golf carts, fork lifts, and other small motorized vehicles.
Nickel-Metal-Hydride
Nickel-Metal-Hydride Battery Pack
Nickel-Metal-Hydride batteries are used in a variety of applications from cell phones, to power tools, to hybrid vehicles. In fact, every hybrid vehicle on the market currently uses Nickel-Metal-Hydride high-voltage batteries in its battery system. Lithium ion batteries appear to be the future of battery chemistries, as they are not only rechargeable, but also relatively lightweight and have a high energy content.
Lithium-ion
Currently, lithium-ion batteries are used in cell phones, laptops, and, soon, their high-voltage counterparts are expected to be the battery chemistry of choice for hybrid and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles because of their performance in cold-weather applications, abuse tolerance, and ability to recharge at high rates.
The electrification of the vehicle is a growing trend. High-voltage batteries that store electric energy are used to help reduce the vehicle's fuel consumption. Traditionally, batteries were used for vehicle ignition, but are now progressing toward powering vehicle propulsion systems. The batteries that are used in vehicle propulsion are much larger, have a higher voltage and are more complex than the batteries that have been used in vehicle ignition.
Click to learn more about Hybrid-Electric Vehicles.
Energy storage technologies, especially batteries, are essential for the development of advanced, fuel-efficient vehicles, which are critical components of the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Energy Strategic Goal: "to protect our national and economic security by promoting a diverse supply and delivery of reliable, affordable, and environmentally sound energy."
The program's vision supports the development of durable and affordable advanced batteries that cover the full range of vehicle applications, from simple starting applications to full-power hybrid electric, all-electric, and fuel cell vehicles.
The Vehicle Technologies Office in Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Department at the DOE and the automotive industry identified several technical barriers associated with energy storage. These include cost, performance, life, and durability. These barriers are being addressed by the DOE's national research laboratories and battery manufacturers.
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such as birds and bats. To understand how to avoid, minimize, and mitigate these impacts in a cost-effective manner, the program has invested in peer-reviewed research for over 15 years, primarily through collaborative partnerships with the wind industry and environmental organizations, such as the National Wind Coordinating Collaborative, the Grassland and Shrub-Steppe Species Collaborative, and the Bats and Wind Energy Cooperative. In May 2009, the program announced nearly $2 million in environmental research grants aimed at reducing the risks to key species and habitats from wind power developments.
The program also works with other federal agencies to develop guidelines that enable developers to meet the statutory, regulatory, and administrative requirements for protecting wildlife, national security, and public safety. For example, the program works with the Department of the Interior to develop wildlife siting guidelines and is involved in interagency efforts to address the potential impacts of operating wind turbines on defense and civilian radar systems.
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Tonga: Handing Over the Stick
by Major Seth Le Leu
They all sat there looking at me. I was The Salvation Army’s community development expert and I had come all the way from London to their village in Tonga, an island kingdom in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.
The chairman of the meeting introduced the topic – the village’s development committee had identified that there was a real need for water. They wanted to know how to solve the problem and what I, on behalf of The Salvation Army, would do to help them.
If, as can happen, the importance of an expert is measured by the distance he or she has travelled to dispense his or her expertise then, in the eyes of the village women, I must have seemed truly amazing. A hush descended as they waited to hear the wisdom that would pour from my lips. They were rather disappointed with my response.
‘What solutions do you see to the water shortage?’ I asked.
No one spoke. They all looked at each other. I could see them thinking, ‘What a stupid expert! He has come all this way and, instead of giving us advice, he wants us to advise him!’
The silence didn’t last long and soon the discussion got very animated as the women explored all the options for solving the water problem. They were able to identify the best solution to the shortage – that is, the solution that would work best in their particular situation.
I was able to then take on their ideas, assist them in gathering information they needed to make the system work and prepare a plan that would help ensure the project’s success. Three years on, the water programme is going well.
In this situation, as the outsider coming in, I did not presume to know anything about the village and its circumstances. I didn’t have knowledge of past failures or successes in water programmes there. As insiders, the local women had one kind of knowledge that was important in good community work – they knew what was possible and what could be made to work. As an outside expert I had another kind of knowledge – I could draw from a wider area of experience and also knew the ways to link the dreams of the community with resources that could make their programme work.
Good community programmes need to start this way. We have moved away from the approach of simply being the teachers, using a big stick to point at a blackboard to show people what they should be doing. Instead, we hand over the stick to the community and ask the local people to point out the solutions to their specific problems.
Our role in development is to put the dreams of the local community at the centre of all we do.
In our community development programmes around the world we use a range of different approaches to what can often appear to be the same problem. In each situation the solution has to be tailored to the community in which it is to happen – local people are the only ones who can identify which programme will work and which won’t.
Another benefit to using this sort of approach is that, when the community has decided the best approach, the programme is the local people’s own idea. They will ensure the programme works properly because they were listened to – their ideas were implemented and their dreams were turned into reality.
An approach we use in community development is to realise that the experience we gain working with one community can actually be a hindrance when we work elsewhere. We can easily see a need and simply choose a solution that has worked before but, when we do this, we have failed to link with a community and find out what it wants – and what it really needs.
Linking to a community is not always easy – it takes time and effort and involves talking to all the groups that could be involved in the programme. Men and women will often see solutions in very different terms, for example. Local leaders and wealthier members of the community can try to influence any development in order to reinforce their positions of power – in the end, the local elite can end up benefiting at the expense of poorest members of the community.
These are dangers that we need to be aware of, and true development involves a process of negotiation so that all participants are involved and they all feel the programme truly belongs to them.
The Tongan example is a timely one – one in six people in the world have no access to clean water. If we in The Salvation Army are to rise to this specific challenge and provide clean water to all the communities where we are at work, we need to ‘hand over the stick’, listen to each community and find out what local people’s solutions and dreams are. We need to be partners and not just providers of a service.
If we can do this then we really can make a long-term difference. | http://www1.salvationarmy.org/ihq/www_sa.nsf/vw-issue/C6861181632AB96A80256E5900510E35?opendocument&id=64BAD7E734AC12CD80256E32005188D1 | 2013-05-18T10:21:43 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
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Brazilian full-back to undergo operation on knee problem
By Patrick Haond. Last Updated: March 17, 2011 9:18am
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Michel Bastos will require surgery, but Lyon hope the full-back will return before the end of the season.
The 27-year-old defender has suffered an injury to his left knee and will be forced to go under the knife in order to repair the damage.
Scans on Monday revealed the full extent of the problem and it has been decided that an operation is now the only option.
Bastos is due to fly back to his native Brazil over the weekend, where he will undergo medical treatment.
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Edilson Thiele, one of the surgeons for the Brazilian national team, will carry out the procedure.
Lyon, who crashed out of the UEFA Champions League to Real Madrid on Wednesday, are disappointed to see a key man sidelined but are confident Bastos will play again this term.
Coach Claude Puel said: "It is an inconvenience.
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Plymouth boss Carl Fletcher has revealed the club are close to securing the signing of Alex MacDonald on a permanent basis.
The Burnley striker has had two loan spells at Home Park, the second of which came to an end at the beginning of December.
And Fletcher has confirmed that the only thing standing in the way of a swoop is finances.
"He wants to come, we want him here. Verbally, it's all done," Fletcher told Plymouth's official website. "We have just to wait on the finances.
"We have got nothing to play with at the moment and we have got to see where we go with that.
"Like any business, you have got to run it properly. With all the trouble we have had over the past few years, there's no point in throwing money about.
"We are a football club with great traditions and we want to be here for hundreds and hundreds of years in the future, so we have got to make sure the finances are done in the right way.
"I'm sure the fans appreciate that and understand."
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Concluding Observations of the Human Rights Committee
, New Zealand, U.N. Doc. CCPR/CO/75/NZL (2002).
Concluding observations of the Human Rights Committee
New Zealand
1. The Committee considered the fourth periodic report of New Zealand (CCPR/C/NZL/2001/4 and HRI/CORE/1/Add.33) at its 2015th and 2016th meetings, held on 9 and 10 July 2001 (see CCPR/C/SR.2015 to 2016) and adopted the following concluding observations at its 2026th meeting (CCPR/C/SR. 2026 ), on 17 July 2002.
A. Introduction
2. The Committee expresses its appreciation to the State party for its excellent report, which contains detailed information on the law and practice relating to the implementation of the Covenant and is in accordance with the Committee's guidelines. However, it regrets the delay since the last report was submitted.
3. The Committee notes with appreciation that the report contains useful information on developments since consideration of the third periodic report as well as responses to the concerns expressed by the Committee in its concluding observations on the previous report. The Committee also welcomes the written responses given to the Committee's written list of questions.
B. Positive aspects
4. The Committee welcomes the examination by the New Zealand Human Rights Commission of all New Zealand Acts, Regulations, government polices and administrative practices with a view to determining their consistency with the anti-discrimination provisions of the Human Rights Act, known as
Consistency 2000
. It further welcomes the audit process undertaken by the Government to identify and resolve the inconsistencies between the Human Rights Act and legislation, regulations, governments polices and practices, known as
Compliance 2001
.
5. The Committee notes with satisfaction that the New Zealand courts take account and are aware of the obligations undertaken by the State party under the Covenant and of the Committee's General Comments in the determination of cases heard by them.
6. The Committee welcomes the enactment of:
a) The Parental Leave and Employment Protection (Paid Parental leave) Amendment Act 2002,
b) The Human Rights Amendment Act 2001,
c) The Employment Relations Act 2000 and
d) The Domestic Violence Act 1995.
7. The Committee welcomes the further progress made in the protection and promotion of the rights of Maori under the Covenant, in particular, the amendments introduced by the Maori Reserved Land Amendment Act which came into force in 1998. In this respect the Committee notes with satisfaction that the Act provides for compensation to be paid to lessors for delay in implementing more frequent rent reviews and for fair annual rents, as well as providing compensation payable to the lessee, largely non-Maori, under certain circumstances. This approach of providing compensation from public funds helps to avoid tensions that might otherwise hamper the recognition of indigenous land and resource rights.
C. Principal subjects of concern and recommendations
8. Article 2, paragraph 2, of the Covenant requires States parties to take such legislative or other measures which may be necessary to give effect to the rights recognized in the Covenant. In this regard the Committee regrets that certain rights guaranteed under the Covenant are not reflected in the Bill of Rights, and that it has no higher status than ordinary legislation. The Committee notes with concern that it is possible, under the terms of the Bill of Rights, to enact legislation incompatible with its provisions and regrets that this appears to have been done in a few cases, thus depriving victims of any remedy under domestic law.
The State party should take appropriate measures to implement all the Covenant rights in domestic law and to ensure that every victim of a violation of Covenant rights has a remedy in accordance with article 2 of the Covenant.
9. The Committee regrets that the State party does not consider it necessary to include in the prohibited grounds of discrimination all the grounds contemplated in the Covenant, in particular, language as a prohibited ground of discrimination, although in New Zealand language has been interpreted as an aspect of race.
The State party should revise its domestic law in order to bring it into full consistency with the provisions of articles 2 and 26 of the Covenant.
10. With regard to the possible impact of the punishment of preventive detention upon article 15 rights in conjunction with other articles of the Covenant, the Committee has received a written answer from the State party after the close of the dialogue. However, the Committee still has some concerns and looks forward to pursuing its dialogue with the State party further on this issue.
The State party should deal fully with this issue in its next periodic report and should inform the Committee of any relevant further developments.
11. The Committee recognises that the security requirements relating to the events of 11 September 2001 have given rise to New Zealand's efforts in taking legislative and other measures to implement Security Council resolution 1373. The Committee, however, expresses its concern that the impact of such measures or changes in policy on New Zealand's obligations under the Covenant may not have been fully considered. The Committee is concerned at possible negative effects of new legislation and practices on asylum-seekers, including by removing the "immigration risk offshore" and in the absence of monitoring measures by New Zealand with regard to the expulsion of those suspected of terrorism to their countries of origin, which, despite representations that their human rights would be respected, could pose risks to the personal safety and lives of the persons expelled (articles 6 and 7 of the Covenant).
The State party is under an obligation to ensure that measures taken to implement security Coincil resoultion 1373 are fully in conformity with the Covenant. The State party is requested to ensure that the definition of terrorism is not a source of abuse and is in conformity with the Covenant. In addition, the State party should maintain its constant practice of observance of the principle of non-refoulement.
12. The Committee is concerned at information that New Zealand permanent residents and, under certain conditions, even some New Zealand citizens need a return visa to re-enter New Zealand, as this may raise issues under article 12, paragraph 4, of the Covenant.
The State party should review its legislation to ensure compliance with article 12, paragraph 4, of the Covenant.
13. The Committee notes with concern that the management of one prison and prison escort services have been contracted to a private company. While welcoming the information that the State party has decided that all prisons will be publicly managed after the expiry of the current contract in July 2005 and that the contractors are expected to respect the United Nations Minimum Standards for the Treatment of Prisoners, it nevertheless remains concerned whether the practice of privatisation in an area concerning important rights of protection of persons deprived of their liberty by the State in practice meets effectively the obligations of the State party under the Covenant and its own accountability for any violations. The Committee further notes that there does not appear to be any effective day to day monitoring mechanisms to ensure that prisoners are treated with humanity and with respect for the inherent dignity of the human person and further benefit from treatment, the essential aim of which is directed to their reformation and social rehabilitation.
The State party should ensure that all persons deprived of their liberty are not deprived of the various rights guaranteed under article 10 of the Covenant.
14. While recognising the positive measures taken by the State party with regard to Maori, including the implementation of their land and resources rights, the Committee continues to be concerned that they remain a disadvantaged group in New Zealand society in the enjoyment of their Covenant rights in all areas of their everyday life.
The State party should continue to reinforce its efforts to ensure the full enjoyment of the Covenant rights by the Maori people.
15. The State party should finalize its review of its reservations relating to article 10 of the Covenant with a view to withdrawing them at the earliest possible date.
16. The State party should disseminate widely the text of its fourth periodic report, the written replies it provided to the list of issues drawn up by the Committee and, in particular, the present concluding observations.
17. The Committee draws the attention of the State party to the guidelines of the Committee on the preparation of reports (CCPR/C/66/GUI/Rev.1). The fifth periodic report should be prepared in accordance with those guidelines, with particular attention paid to the implementation of rights in practice. It should indicate the measures taken to give effect to these concluding observations. The fifth periodic report should be submitted by 1 August 2007.
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Everyone can make a difference in their community
It was Christmas in February last Thursday night in North Augusta as Mr. and Mrs. Claus were honored as the 2012 North Augusta Chamber of Commerce Citizens of the Year.
Well, not literally.
Jim and Carolyn Baggott were introduced by the roles they consistently play in North Augusta's annual Christmas parade and tree-lighting celebrations.
The Baggotts have lived in North Augusta since 1963, and since that time, have served in numerous capacities in and around the city.
They also serve as an inspiration to what kind of difference one can make in the community.
Jim's roles include having served on the Aiken County Planning and Zoning Commission for 18 years, as well as having served for two terms on Aiken County Council and 21 years as a state constable.
Jim also has spent countless hours with the North Augusta Jaycees, of which he was president in 1971.
Carolyn is a North Augusta City Council member, having been first elected in 1991 and re-elected ever since. She is a charter member of the Old Towne Preservation Association and was heavily involved in the development of the Living History Park. Jim and Carolyn have both been active for more than 20 years in activities at the Living History Park as colonial re-enactors.
In a tearful acceptance in front of a large crowd at North Augusta's annual chamber dinner, Jim pointed to his children and grandchildren as an inspiration for his continued community involvement. He said he and his wife could both idly step aside, or at least tone down their high level of involvement in the community and let others take the reigns, but instead, their goal is to help create a better, brighter future for North Augusta. It may not be one that they will see fully realized, but it is one that their families will continue to live and grow up in.
This doesn't mean that everyone should strive to be public servants for decades, like the Baggotts. It doesn't matter how big or small a contribution residents make; all that matters is that North Augusta residents strive to do something to help improve our lovely city.
Getting out and volunteering, supporting the community through fundraisers or even opening your home to foster a homeless animal - these are all things we can do. It may seem to pale in comparison to the lofty accomplishments of Jim and Carolyn Baggott, but it is all for the greater good of North Augusta.
Keynote speaker Rick Grandinetti emphasized the importance of serving others, going as far as to say that it leads to a lifetime's worth of happiness. His final point, which was accompanied by a video of Derek Redmond's memorable run in the 1992 Summer Olympics, was the importance of having one another's back. We, as a community, should be able to also have each other's backs.
We could all benefit from taking a look at what Jim and Carolyn Baggott have done for North Augusta. If we all chipped in a bit, we could help not only make this city great for their children and grandchildren, but our own as well.
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II. The Denton Hall Ghost
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XXVII. The Denton Hall Ghost
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A
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or two after my arrival at Denton Hall, when all around was yet new to me, I had accompanied my friends to a ball given in the neighbourhood, and returned heartily fatigued. At this time I need not blush, nor you smile, when I say that on that evening I had met, for the second time, one with whose destinies my own were doomed to become connected.
1
I think I was sitting upon an antique carved chair, near to the fire, in the room where I slept, busied in arranging my hair, and thinking over some of the events of the day. Whether I had dropped into a half-slumber, I cannot say; but on looking upfor I had my face bent toward the firethere seemed sitting on a similar high-backed chair, on the other side of the ancient tiled fireplace, an old lady, whose air and dress were so remarkable that to this hour they seem as fresh in my memory as they were the day after the vision. She appeared to be dressed in a flowered satin gown, of a cut then out of date. It was peaked and long-waisted. The fabric of the satin had that extreme of glossy stiffness which old fabrics of this kind exhibit. She wore a stomacher. On her wrinkled fingers appeared some rings of great size and seeming value; but, what was most remarkable, she wore also a satin hood of a peculiar shape. It was glossy like the gown, but seemed to be stiffened either by whalebone or some other material. Her age seemed considerable, and the face, though not unpleasant, was somewhat hard and severe and indented with minute wrinkles. I confess that so entirely was my attention engrossed by what was passing in my mind, that, though I felt mightily confused, I was not startled (in the emphatic sense) by the apparition. In fact, I deemed it to be some old lady, perhaps a housekeeper, or dependent in the family, and, therefore, though rather astonished, was by no means frightened by my visitant, supposing me to be awake, which I am convinced was the case, though few persons believe me on this point.
2
My own impression is that I stared somewhat rudely, in the wonder of the moment, at the hard, but lady-like features of my aged visitor. But she left me small time to think, addressing me in a familiar half-whisper and with a constant restless motion of the hand which aged persons, when excited, often exhibit in addressing the young. Well, young lady, said my mysterious companion, and so youve been at yon hall to-night! and highly yeve been delighted there! Yet if you could see as I can see, or could know as I can know, troth! I guess your pleasure would abate. Tis well for you, young lady, peradventure, ye see not with my eyesand at the moment, sure enough, her eyes, which were small, grey, and in no way remarkable, twinkled with a light so severe that the effect was unpleasant in the extreme. Tis well for you and them, she continued, that ye cannot count the cost. Time was when hospitality could be kept in England, and the guest not ruin the master of the feastbut thats all vanished now: pride and povertypride and poverty, young lady, are an ill-matched pair, Heaven kens! My tongue, which had at first almost faltered in its office, now found utterance. By a kind of instinct, I addressed my strange visitant in her own manner and humour. And are we, then, so much poorer than in days of yore? were the words that I spoke. My visitor seemed half startled at the sound of my voice, as at something unaccustomed, and went on, rather answering my question by implication than directly: Twas not all hollowness then, she exclaimed, ceasing somewhat her hollow whisper; the land was then the lords, and that which
seemed, was.
The child, young lady, was not then mortgaged in the cradle, and, mark ye, the bride, when she kneeled at the altar, gave not herself up, body and soul, to be the bondswoman of the Jew, but to be the helpmate of the spouse. The Jew! I exclaimed in surprise, for then I understood not the allusion. Ay, young lady! the Jew, was the rejoinder. Tis plain ye know not who rules. Tis all hollow yonder! all hollow, all hollow! to the very glitter of the side-board, all false! all false! all hollow! Away with such make-believe finery! And here again the hollow voice rose a little, and the dim grey eye glistened. Ye mortgage the very oaks of your ancestorsI saw the planting of them; and now tis all painting, gilding, varnishing and veneering. Houses call ye them? Whited sepulchres, young lady, whited sepulchres. Trust not all that seems to glisten. Fair though it seems, tis but the product of diseaseeven as is the pearl in your hair, young lady, that glitters in the mirror yonder,not more specious than is all,ay, all ye have seen to-night.
3
As my strange visitor pronounced these words, I instinctively turned my gaze to a large old-fashioned mirror that leaned from the wall of the chamber. Twas but for a moment. But when I again turned my head, my visitant was no longer there! I heard plainly, as I turned, the distinct rustle of the silk, as if she had risen and was leaving the room. I seemed distinctly to hear this, together with the quick, short, easy footstep with which females of rank of that period were taught to glide rather than to walk; this I seemed to hear, but of what appeared the antique old lady I saw no more. The suddenness and strangeness of this event for a moment sent the blood back to my heart. Could I have found voice, I should, I think, have screamed, but that was, for a moment, beyond my power. A few seconds recovered me. By a sort of impulse I rushed to the door, outside which I now heard the footsteps of some of the family, when, to my utter astonishment, I found it waslocked! I now recollected that I myself locked it before sitting down.
4
Though somewhat ashamed to give utterance to what I really believed as to this matter, the strange adventure of the night was made a subject of conversation at the breakfast-table next morning. On the words leaving my lips, I saw my host and hostess exchange looks with each other, and soon found that the tale I had to tell was not received with the air which generally meets such relations. I was not repelled by an angry or ill-bred incredulity, or treated as one of diseased fancy, to whom silence is indirectly recommended as the alternative of being laughed at. In short, it was not attempted to be denied or concealed that I was not the first who had been alarmed in a manner, if not exactly similar, yet just as mysterious; that visitors, like myself, had actually given way to these terrors so far as to quit the house in consequence; and that servants were sometimes not to be prevented from sharing in the same contagion. At the same time they told me this, my host and hostess declared that custom and continued residence had long exempted all regular inmates of the mansion from any alarms or terrors. The visitations, whatever they were, seemed to be confined to newcomers, and to them it was by no means a matter of frequent occurrence.
5
In the neighbourhood, I found, this strange story was well known; that the house was regularly set down as haunted all the country round, and that the spirit, or goblin, or whatever it was that was embodied in these appearances, was familiarly known by the name of Silky.
6
At a distance, those to whom I have related my nights adventure have one and all been sceptical, and accounted for the whole by supposing me to have been half asleep, or in a state resembling somnambulism. All I can say is, that my own impressions are directly contrary to this supposition; and that I feel as sure that I saw the figure that sat before me with my bodily eyes, as I am sure I now see you with them. Without affecting to deny that I was somewhat shocked by the adventure, I must repeat that I suffered no unreasonable alarm, nor suffered my fancy to overcome my better spirit of womanhood.
7
I certainly slept no more in that room, and in that to which I removed I had one of the daughters of my hostess as a companion; but I have never, from that hour to this, been convinced that I did not actually encounter something more than is naturalif not an actual being in some other state of existence. My ears have not been deceived, if my eyes werewhich, I repeat, I cannot believe.
8
The warnings so strongly shadowed forth have been too true. The gentleman at whose house I that night was a guest has long since filled an untimely grave! In that splendid hall, since that time, strangers have lorded itand I myself have long since ceased to think of such scenes as I partook of that eveningthe envied object of the attention of one whose virtues have survived the splendid inheritance to which he seemed destined.
9
Whether this be a tale of delusion and superstition, or something more than that, it is, at all events, not without a legend for its foundation. There is some obscure and dark rumour of secrets strangely obtained and enviously betrayed by a rival sister, ending in deprivation of reason and death; and that the betrayer still walks by times in the deserted Hall which she rendered tenantless, always prophetic of disaster to those she encounters. So has it been with me, certainly; and more than me, if those who say it say true. It is many, many years since I saw the scene of this adventure; but I have heard that since that time the same mysterious visitings have more than once been renewed; that midnight curtains have been drawn by an arm clothed in rustling silks; and the same form, clad in dark brocade, has been seen gliding along the dark corridors of that ancient, grey, and time-worn mansion, ever prophetic of death or misfortune.
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Dr. Anne McKernan
Associate Professor of History
School of Arts & Sciences
The College of New Rochelle
Dr. McKernan, tell us a
little about your academic background and your current research
interests.
I am Associate Professor of
History and Director of the International Studies Program. My academic
background spans the gamut from the small liberal arts college to the
huge ‘Big Ten’ university. My B.A. in History is from Marymount
Manhattan College in NYC. Later I took a few graduate courses at
Columbia University before settling on the University of Michigan in
Ann Arbor, Michigan, for both my M.A. and Ph.D. in History. At the UM I
developed a research interest in early industrialization
(protoindustry) and deindustrialization in the context of pre-Famine
Ireland. The Center for European Studies awarded me its
pre-Dissertation Grant to develop my project in Ireland. This
opportunity developed into a two-year research project on site in
London, Dublin and Belfast, Northern Ireland, underwritten by several
fellowships including a Fulbright and British university bursary. So,
from 1982-1984 I lived in Belfast where I was a Research Associate in
Economic and Social History at The Queens University of Belfast, and a
member of the Institute of Irish Studies.
I have a long-standing
interest in Human Rights education that led to a $124,000 grant from
the U.S. Department of Education (Title VI) to the School of Arts and
Sciences for the project entitled “Human Rights as a Catalyst”. As
grant co-director, I oversaw a faculty committee of eleven from
disciplines across the curriculum revise or create fourteen courses
with a human rights lens or focus. In conjunction with the project, a
CNR junior and I participated in the first International Human Rights
Exchange program in Cape Town, South Africa. As a supporter of
experience-based education, I have collaborated to develop a
study/travel course on Contemporary Issues in Native American Society
and worked with the political party Northern Ireland Women’s Coalition
(NIWC) in Belfast during the 1998 Peace Process.
What do you teach here at
CNR?
I teach both survey and upper
division topical courses that focus on Europe, Africa and the World,
either separately or as they interact/ed across time. For example, last
year I taught the “Medieval History” survey with Medieval Spain as the
historical center of a Europe whose indigenous peoples and settlers
were in the process of becoming Europeans. In these centuries Spain
became the site of a rich culture created by the interaction of Romans,
Goths and Arabs. Survey courses that I teach regularly include Africa
the Continent, Reformation and Renaissance, The Rise of Europe, Modern
Britain and Twentieth-century Global Issues. Courses with a topical
approach include Divided Societies: South Africa and Northern Ireland,
Women in the Revolutionary Tradition (French, Russian and Chinese
revolutions), Ireland’s British Problem, Nationalism and The Immigrant
Experience. In addition to these history courses, I participate in the
First-Year Program teaching a section of INS 101 The Self in Context:
Women, College and Society. As a member of the Social Science Division,
I also teach the Junior Reading Seminar and the Senior Research
Seminar, courses that majors need to prepare them for the Senior
Thesis, some of which I mentor.
Why do you think that CNR
is a good College for young women?
Every young woman at this
college is taken seriously and presented with opportunities that will
help her develop her potentialities. She will enhance the knowledge
base and skills she brings with her and develop new competencies and
skills necessary for professional women. As importantly, she will find
“herself,” explore and evaluate those values she takes for granted and
emerge as an educated woman with confidence in herself, respect for
others and a willingness to participate with others in creating better
human spaces.
For young women who expect to
interact with the world community, CNR offers regular visits to UN
briefings on “hot” topics. For example, last year a member of the UNHCR
recently returned from the Sudan briefed us on Darfur, and in December
the Palestinian Observer to the UN will update us on progress toward
creating the state of Palestine. In addition to access to UN services,
students have easy access to the headquarters of such organizations as
Human Rights Watch, Safe Horizon, Amnesty International, Human Rights
First and Breakthrough, where they can intern.
You direct the
International Studies Program here at the College. Tell us about that
program.
The International Studies
Program is an interdisciplinary course of study that offers students
the opportunity to build their knowledge and understanding of the
global community. It is designed for women interested in careers in
government, public service, international business, journalism and
language education to name a few. Based on a core knowledge of
Political Science, Economics and History (12 credits), the major
requires at least 30 credits, competency in a Modern Foreign Language
and a capstone project to be divided between a primary field of
concentration and a secondary field; a major selects these fields from
Business/Economics, History and Political Science. The International
Studies Program sponsors a student chapter of the United Nations
Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM), provides travel grants for
students doing internships with an international organization and
provides visits to the United Nations for briefings every semester as
well as other off-campus opportunities.
Is it possible for
students to major in this area?
International Studies is an
interdisciplinary program that offers both the major and minor.
What students are
attracted to international studies?
Recently I’ve noticed a wider
spectrum of students who choose to major or minor in International
Studies. Until two or three years ago, the typical major who declared
International Studies in her first two semesters was a student with
international experience; she was either an international student or
born abroad. American-born majors usually found the program in their
junior year; International Studies was not one of the traditional
majors that incoming students sought out, that is until about two years
ago. Since then the program has attracted larger numbers of both
U.S.-educated and international students so that the program is
booming.
What has brought about
that shift in American students being interested in International
Studies?
There are
probably several factors that account for the change, one of them, that
some highly motivated American high school students see themselves as
global players; they understand that their destinies are connected with
those of other nations and they want to make a difference.
Where have your students studied overseas?
CNR).
What are some of your
graduates doing today?
Graduates keep in touch; I
count on them to serve on career panels and as mentors to current
students. Their experience ranges widely. Losira Okelo is a Programme
Director for I*EARN, a network of International Education, Cindy
Bastien intends to do international medicine and was accepted into
Upstate Medical School (NY), where she started the M.D. program this
fall. Maya Georgieva completed her M.A. at Columbia University’s School
for International and Public Affairs last spring and is a consultant at
the UN (UNDP); she also does work in international education.
Jacqueline Maxwell, who for years worked for the International Y and
developed the position as liaison to the United Nations, completed her
M.A. at NYU and currently manages 22 projects with budgets totaling $2
million for the City of New York. Some program alums have worked in the
Sister City Program for the Japanese government, in various
international businesses, and at a school of music in Beijing, China.
Other graduates pursue an
advanced degree. Six students who come to mind have graduate degrees
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Hi there, I've just received my Larson kit and very impressed with it and I have a few questions about how I can power it from the general illumination voltage on a pinball table (6.3VAC).
My plan is to mount some LED's underneath the plastic around the ball lock area on the table that 'scan' when the ball is grabbed by the magnet. Activating the scanner at the right time should be easy, a small burglar alarm sensor near the magnet should do the trick but I'm not too sure about how I am going to power it.
The bulbs for the general illumination run at 6.3VAC, am I right in thinking that if I build a rectifier from 4 diodes this would give me too much DC voltage and damage the components. Would adding in some resistors help to stop the damage or would they be likely to fail early.
Another thing I was consider was just doing half wave rectifcation, but by my reckoning this would only give me 2VDC, which I don't think would be enough.
Any ideas?
The microcontroller will work from about 3 to 5.5 V DC, and the LEDs are set up to work at 3 V (via the resistor choice on the PCB ). If you leave the default program on, it should actually work without hazard up to 5 V, even though it's pushing the limits of the chip.
The "obvious" solution is to use a full-wave rectifier (4-diode bridge, with a large cap following), followed by a 3 V regulator. You might also consider using the full wave rectifier with a common silicon diode (1N914, 1N4001, etc) or two in series, as each would drop the voltage by about 0.7 V.
You might also *try* a half-wave rectifier, but be sure to follow it with a large cap, at least 1000 uF.
Registered: 06/15/06 Posts: 1932
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Short version: use a regulator. I don't know how much power the larson will use, but you probably had better start with a TO-220 package, not just one of the little TO92 guys, solely to handle the heat produced when throwing away so much of the incoming voltage (potentially 2x what the larson itself will be using).
Long version:
The issue is that typically when someone says "6.3 volts A.C." they mean RMS voltage.
When you rectify A.C. you get pulsating D.C. with the same peak voltage. (minus 0.7-1.4 volts due to diode losses of one or two diodes in the rectifier current path for each half cycle) In this case, that could be almost 7.5-9volts. (RMS volt multiplied by square_root(2) or about 1.4 times the RMS voltage.) Then when you add a capacitor, it will bring up the bottoms between pulses, but only slightly take off the top of each pulse.
It gets worse. Your input A.C. voltage (from your electric utility) can vary -10% to +20% and still be considered "normal". That variance will be passed thru to your 6.3VAC side and cause it to vary the same percentage. 9volts plus 20% is 10.8volts.
Full-wave vs. half-wave won't make a significant difference, except to make the bottoms lower, longer. It also eliminates one of the diode losses, so the peaks might be even higher. If you have enough capacitors to smooth out those bottoms then the voltage will be nearly the same as the full-wave version because the D.C. pulses still peak at the same or higher voltage.
Do NOT try to just feed the Larson thru a couple of diodes or resistors. It would be best to regulate, but you could probably make a voltage divider work but that requires math and some beefy resistors since they will get quite warm.
A voltage divider requires math. Let's assume the Larson will use 0.1amp and design a voltage divider to provide about 3volts given a 9volt input. First, you will need a 1/3 and 2/3 divider, and without the Larson attached it should be drawing more than 2x the needed current, so lets call it 300ma total. Rtotal = E/I = 9v/0.3a = 30ohms. Since you need 2/3 and 1/3 split you'll need a 10ohm resistor and a 20ohm resistor. They will need to be rated for about 3 watts and will get hot.
Wire the resistors in series across your rectified and filtered D.C. with the 10ohm to ground and the 20ohm to +v (so it goes Gnd---10ohm----20ohm---+Volts). Measure the voltage between the two resistors relative to ground, it should be 1/3 of the total. Assuming it is around 3volts, and well under 5volts, you can power the larson from that point.
Note... Resistors of those exact values will be expensive, but the precise values are not critical. Just keep the two about the same ratio and the total somewhere For example, you could use a 9.6ohm and a 21ohm. This does change the output voltage... If you make the smaller value a bit bigger you will get a higher voltage. Same if you make the larger value a bit smaller. Conversely you will get a smaller voltage if you make the lower value smaller or the higher value larger.
Note... If you make the total resistance higher the resistors will use less power, but also less power will be available for the Larson. If the resistors are too big, the larson will not operate properly. A 10uf or larger capacitor between ground and the resistor midpoint will help.
Now see why I said "use a regulator?"
Registered: 01/20/12 Posts: 6
It turns out that the Larson Scanner requires remarkably little current, about 25 mA on the 'bright' setting and 4 mA on the 'dim' setting, when running at 3V with standard firmware and resistors. (You can run it on a coin cell!)
If you start with 9 V, and use a 3 V regulator, that's 6 V to drop at 25 mA, or 150 mW. Even one of the dinky TO-92 "150 mA" regulators will only go about 20° above ambient at the junction. A zener diode that drops 5-6 V will also be just fine, with current that low. So while sdb's advice is good in general, this *is* a case where you have a bit of leeway.
Cool, thanks for the replies. I will sit down and have a proper digest of them later, but first glance I think I'll go with a 4 diode rectifier with a regulator and a couple of caps behind it.
I'm just wrestling with AVR Studio 5 and it's debugging tools, this is all new stuff to me so it's a very steep learning curve.
How about something like this?
That ought to be fine *if* you are not planning to reprogram it. If you are going to reprogram it, you need to be aware that your program may use significantly more current, and should pick a larger regulator, as sdb says, in a TO-220 package.
I've ordered a USBtinyISP from China so at the moment I am waiting for it to turn up. The modifications I plan to the source code are very small, one would be to start up in the lighting configuration I prefer and the other would be to make the LED's scan when a button is pressed (reed switch near the ball lock magnet). I'm not planning to light up any more LED's and I'm going to be using the stock code so I'm hoping the current draw will be similar.
I'll post back in here once I finally get it finished, but I'm getting a bit sidetracked by the Raspberry Pi atm :-)
Ok, so my USBTinyISP has turned up and I've been pleasantly surprised as to how easy it was to get it all hooked up. I've been hacking around with the larson.c code and I've got a few questions about it:
In the section above, what does ILED, MLED and RLED refer to?
I'm a little perplexed by the above code, could someone walk me through it or at least give me some pointers as to what it's doing? Thanks.
> In the section above, what does ILED, MLED and RLED refer to?
Integer, Modulo, Remainder.
The position of the "eye" is modeled to move with resolution 16X that of the actual LEDs. The integer offset says how far over it is, and the modulo shows how much the leading pixel overlaps with the LED that it's at. The "remainder" is how much of the LED brightness is left in the next bin behind the leading LED.
The "eye" consists of FOUR pixels, and so the procedure is repeated for each of the four pixels, to calculate how much overlap they have with the physical LED locations. The net result is that the "eye" appears to smoothly move between pixels, rather than jump between them.
<Hmmm. No mood choice for "geeking out"...>
Not to argue with The Doctor, but this section is not quite that straightforward. There's a file here,, that summarizes the values generated (I asked myself this same question a couple of months ago).
Ignoring 'robotmode' (for the Kraftwerk-inspired neckties), the variable 'position' counts from 0 to 127 and the variable 'direction' toggles between 0 and 1. That gives a cycle of 256 steps (the left-most two columns).
ILED essentially counts up from 0 to 8 (nine LEDs) and back down to 0, with each number occurring 16 times in a row (the ILED column). The numbers 1-7 occur twice in the full cycle; 0 and 8 only once. Position 0, (position == 0, regardless of direction) is a bit of a degenerate case that gives you an extra 0 (at the very beginning, giving 17 occurrences of 0 on wrap-around) and only 15 occurrences of 8, but that doesn't really affect things.
For each count of ILED (16 counts of position), MLED counts up from 0 to 15 and RLED counts down from 15 to 0 (again, position 0 is a one-off).
The loop beginning 'while (j < 5) ' then gives four indices (form 0 to 8) corresponding to the locations of the four LEDs making up the "eye" (the rightmost four columns of the PDF file).
The loop beginning 'while (j < 4)' is where the brightness is set using the indices from the previous loop ('LEDs[eyeLoc[j]]' and so on). Brightness is only used on four of the LEDs, but a fifth index is calculated so that the j+1 index doesn't do something bogus.
Note that the LED at eyeLoc[0] is only incremented by LEDBright[0]*RLED, while the other three are incremented by both LEDBright[j]*RLED and LEDBright[j-1]*MLED (the LED at eyeLoc[4], similarly to eyeLoc[0] only gets one increment: LEDBright[3]*MLED).
To see the calculations (and the intermediate value of 'm' in the first while loop), you can have a look at the live spreadsheet the PDF comes from:.
So, the real question is not what this routine is doing, but rather, what caffeine delivery vector the Mads were using when they came up with it? : - ) I have a the same question for the pulse-width modulation routine at the end of both this code and the menorah code.
Take care,
brad
>Not to argue with The Doctor, but this section is not quite that straightforward.
I was merely trying to provide "some pointers," as requested.
Actually not much caffeine, just a lot of time with pencil and paper.
The "tricky" part of all this is that besides having the movement be smooth and bright, it has to use very little power. The kit runs on batteries, and how long it lasts is one of the most important figures of merit. The Larson Scanner kit hardware supports operation up to 8 MHz, but we've actually clocked the speed down to 512 kHz. This means that the CPU core (not including the LED power) uses only about 0.4 mA instead of about 4 mA. That may not sound like such a big difference, but if you recall that the Larson Scanner kit uses about 25 mA on the 'bright' setting and 4 mA on the 'dim' setting, this means that the low power mode is (in a sense) 90% efficient instead of 50% efficient.
So, if you're wondering why this is all short-integers and bit shifts (instead of graceful floats and div and mod operations), it's all about speed: we're trying to make this thing behave beautifully in a bare minimum of clock cycles. And, for better or worse, that sometimes ends up with code that looks as though it might have been purposefully obfuscated.
One of the things that we did while fine tuning the "eye" movement was to simulate it in Processing (where it's possible to draw true grayscale), using the same code for the eye sweep. There, without having to worry about PWM artifacts or CPU time, we spent some time calibrating the width of the "eye," and the model used for its decay, and (especially) the two endpoints of the "motion."
Cool, thanks for the detailed response, now all I have to do is read it a few times so I can better understand what's going on. My aim is to have the eye 'wraparound', so when the middle of the eye is at the bottom, the dimmer ones are shown up the top, rather than bouncing backward and forward.
It should be a fairly trivial mod but it's certainly making me scratch my head!
So, yeah, this mod is fairly trivial in concept, but there are some wrinkles in practice.
Essentially, you just want to set the eye via modulo 9 arithmetic. That is, the index of the eye (technically, the third of four LEDs in the eye) is set to the remainder of dividing ILED by 9 [recall that ILED is (15 + position) / 16, where the division is integer division done by just shifting the bits four to the right. The Doctor's comments on code efficiency -- one-byte values and bit shifting -- are very well-founded].
Just for review, the first lit LED is ILED + 2 (adjusted to stay in range) and the last lit LED is ILED - 1 (adjusted). In the Larson scanner, ILED goes through 16 positions: this isn't how the code is written, but you can think of it as LED[0]-to-LED[7] in one direction and LED[8]-to-LED[1] in the other direction. Lather, rinse, repeat. (By the way, the addition and subtraction are reversed when the direction changes).
The variable 'position' is a modulo 16 on a counter from 0 to 127 with a direction bit of 0 or 1, so each position is repeated 16 times (8 times at speedlevel 3, where position is incremented twice each time through the loop). This gives 256 steps: 16 steps of 16 counts each -- all nice, neat powers of 2. That's all illustrated in the PDF file I linked to before.
Where things get goofy for the wrap-around version is that ILED now goes through *9* positions: essentially LED[0]-to-LED[8]. Repeat.
Which means that instead of 256 steps (16 * 16), we need 144 steps (16 * 9), so now 'position' counts from 0 to 143. We're not changing direction, so we can throw that bit away, but we still want RLED and MLED to do their counts to set brightness. This is all illustrated in this file:.
So, what we're doing is much simpler: take ILED (position modulo 16) and
* Add 2 for the front LED
* Add 1 for the next LED
* Add 0 for the next LED
* Subtract 1 for the last LED
Each time we do the arithmetic, we check the value and
* If it's less than 0, we add 9
* If it's more than 8, we subtract 9
This is the equivalent of taking each index modulo 9, but you never want to do arithmetic division operations (and modulo depends on division, at least for non-powers-of-2 divisors) if you're at all interested in efficiency.
The result is a recurring sequence of values from 0-8 that we use for the eyeLoc[] array.
I made the changes and totally over-commented the code. Normally, I would've diked out stuff instead of just commenting it out, but I left it in for comparison (diff files are a much better way to go, but I don't know where you're at). It's here:. You'll need to put it in a directory with the larson_14 makefile to install it (I would've put together a zip file, but you never know where those things have been).
A couple of nuances: it looks better at higher speed, and you should probably try it with 'skinnyEye' mode on by holding the button down at power-on.
Enjoy.
Take care,
brad
Registered: 02/27/12 Posts: 10
That's absolutely awesome, thanks Brad! That's exactly what I was looking for and the code is easier to read now it's indented. All that I need to do know is modify it so that the lights run are triggered from a reed switch, and only to run for a few seconds before stopping again. Then all that's left is get a 3V regulator and I'll have this fun little project done!
I've just bought a 5M of SMD 5050 LED's along with some MOSFETs and another Larson scanner kit, hopefully going to make some cool lighting effects!
Thanks again
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Kolomyja and District Belzec Transports (3) and the local population beat and abused them. They were taken to public places where monuments of Soviet personalities had been erected. They were then yoked to the monuments which they were forced to pull down while being beaten. 'New Order', and Jews {perce}. These units were drawn
from: Sipo-SD (Gestapo Kripo etc.), Schutzpolizei (policemen
from Vienna District), and the Prison under the command of Leopold Winkler.
Police Battalion 133 (Police Regiment 24)
Identified Schutzpolizei of Kolomyja who were responsible for mass slaughter of the Jews in this district. They were divided up into two groups: A and B. There was an officer section, a quartermaster section and the police station personnel:
Captains Doppler and Gross
Lt. Hertl and Kleinbauer (check ranks)
Sergeants: Pernek, Kneissl, Hofstetter, Steiner
Corporals: Gallhart, Straka
Constables: Gall, Harko, Kroegner, Layer, Mauritz, Reisenthaler,
Ruprechtsofer, Stanka Schipany, Wittich, Uitz
Katzmann (Lvov), Kruger (Stanislawow), Brandt (Stanislawow)
Kolomyja:
Leideritz (6), Goedds, Weissman, Frost, Volkmann, Rebkoff, Hack,
Petsch, Koenig, Birsch, Schwebe, Hubert, Wahrmann, Schwenker,
Schubert
Winkler (7), jewellery and all furs and woollens, and refusal would be immediate
death. It was accepted that much of this property was pilfered by the operators. jewelry. were prevented from carrying out these executions by the Hungarians. (10)
direct.
Record of 'Actions in Kolomyja' (13)
In the Scheparow Forest Szeparowce, a forest near Kolomea where they were forced to dig deep ditches. In the evening all of them skin.
Ex Schupos Stanka and Straka were the first to break and detail the systematic weekly killing of Jews in Kolomyja in the Scheparowce forest, the cemetery and abattoir. Uitz stated that his police detachment shot over 15.000 Jews in Kolomyja. (18) Pernek tried to hang himself in the prison cell, but later he was so overcome with remorse, he requested pen and paper to record what had happened in Kolomyja and confirmed the forest liquidations and the use of dogs to tear at Jewish throats. (19) An interesting fact emerged that has been discussed elsewhere, was that Lt. Gross refused to participate in killing actions and there had been a row with, Zablotow and Zabie.
The accused Steiner when under interrogation, acted out a typical shooting:
Describing a shooting in the Scheparowce forest, he took his coat off and lay down on the floor as though expecting to be shot in the neck the next minute. When I touched his neck with a pencil, Steiner screamed, "Please, please, don't shoot me." I was embarrassed and asked him what the matter was. "Well," Steiner said, "I was thinking about all that happened in Kolomyja and Schaparowce." (21)
Kleinbauer:
"In the year 1942, I was in command of an 'action' in the Jewish cemetery in Kolomyja when men, women and children were liquidated. Pernek gave the order to the Jews to take all their clothes off and the old to go to the front of the pit. Pernek shouted, "Come on, lie down in the pit here, it doesn't hurt. The quicker you are, the better for you." The order was that the people always lie down on their stomachs in the pit and were then killed by a bullet in their head. I saw the results of the explosive dumdum bullets which shattered the heads of this killed beyond recognition. Again, about 40 persons, elderly men and women were taken to the cemetery. I gave the order for everybody to undress and go into the pit. They had to lie down on the edge, not inside the pit, and were then shot with a bullet in the neck." (23)
"In the Autumn of 1941, the Jews were surrounded in the ghetto, driven to the prison. From there they were marched to the Scheparowce forest about 2 kms. away where they were liquidated by the SD. The Jews had to go naked into a sand pit, lie on their stomachs and were shot in the head by myself. (24) I carried out other liquidations in Jewish cemetery and prison and also outside Kolomyja, in Sabladov, Sniatyn, Ottynia and Hordenka." (25)
Firearms and ammunition used in the majority of the Jewish 'liquidations' in Kolomyja and elsewhere, were Russian. The preferred weapons were the Russian machine pistol, ten shot rifles and machine-guns. disgarded people at no cost to the Reich. This view is supported by events in Horodenka after the first action as we shall see. (27)
At the end of October, 1941, the Judenrat
was ordered by the SD to pay a contribution of 100.000 Reichmarks
and 50 kg of gold. (28) troops of the.
On the 4th April, the same proceedings were repeated in Ghetto 'B' Jews old and unfit for work were taken for transport.omea to the city. (30). (31)
The individual arrests
of Jews continued in the Ghetto. Up to 150 Jews were arrested monthly
and taken to the prison. When the prison was full, the Jews were
taken to the Szepar.
On the 7th September, 1942, all Jewish labourers were ordered again to appear for registration together with their families. The Judenrat had been assured by Michael (Labour Office), that nothing would happen to the Jews on registration. 8000 Jews assembled, most of them young and fit for work. They were surrounded by the SD, Schutzpolizei, auxiliaries, special squads of the Tarnopol Schutzpolizei, Sonderdienst, Ukrainian Police and many German civilians who participated voluntarily. The labourers together with their families were divided into groups according to their place of work. Out of every group a small number of specialists were selected and put to one side, altogether approximately 1600. They were kept in special buildings.
Those Jews not selected, remained standing where they were all day. The Germans abused them, making them do exercises: to stand up, to run, to sit down, and all manner of abusive actions. Those not being quick enough or were not fit, were badly beaten, including pregnant women and children. Those trying to escape were shot dead. Every Jew was searched for valuables. The women had to undergo abusive searches. At 5 pm, under heavy guard, all the Jews were brought to the railway station. They were packed into rail wagons and deported to Belzec. (32)
It is now proposed to outline the Kolomyja Death Transport of the 10th September, 1942, as reported by a Lt. of the Schutzpolizei Reserve Company commander to the commander of the Public Order Police, Lvov, Galicia dated 14th September, 1942:
On the 9th September, Detectives Knackendoerfer and (Kripo) assisted by the SD, entered the Jewish Orphan's Home. The orphanage housed approximately 400 children whose parents had already been murdered. It was located in Ghetto 2, and when this was liquidated it was planned to remove the children into ghetto 1. In the night, before the transfer could take place, Hertl arrived with several Schupo men and shot all the children. The wife of SS-Peter Leideritz was present and assisted in this massacre. (33)
On the 19th September,
3000 Jews from the sub-district of Kolomea were brought to Kolomea railway
station and deported to Belzec. When the train passed Lvov, young
and strong Jews were taken out and sent to the Janowska Camp.
On the 15th October, 1942, Untersturmführer
Gay assisted by CID-Knackendoerfer gave orders to arrest 105
Jews and to bring them to the local slaughter houses. There the
Jews were ordered to lie down and were shot by Gay and Knackendoerfer.
On the 5th November, 1942, all labourers of this Hallerbach group were told to assemble for inspection. They were told that a special commission from Lvov had arrived and had demanded that all work had to be completed by the 1.3.43. Most of the Jewish labourers being assured that at least until the end of the year they would be safe obeyed the order.
The group was surrounded by the SD commanded by Hallerbach. They were taken to the prison and all their property was taken away from them. On the same day the Ghetto was searched. Many Jews were killed and others were brought to the prison. A part of the Ghetto was set on fire and many Jews were killed. The Jews in the prison were deported to Belzec.
Once the liquidation of the Kolomea ghetto had been completed,
the whole process was repeated. Jews living in adjacent towns and
villages were driven into the Kolomea ghetto to undergo selections,
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Eighteen-month-old Liesl Nelson giggles as her mother propels her through the water at the Lawrence Indoor Aquatic Center. Nearby, her 3-year-old brother, Finn, jumps into his dad’s arms from the side of the pool.
These kids look like fish, well, in water. And that’s by design. Heidi and Ben Nelson decided early on they wanted their children to be around water as infants.
“I’m not that avid of a swimmer, but I like my children to be more comfortable in the water,” Heidi Nelson says. “I’d say it was about 50/50 safety and to be interested in swimming.”
Above, Ben and Heidi Nelson balance their children, 18-month-old Liesl and 3-year-old Finn, on a floating stump at the Lawrence Indoor Aquatic Center. The Nelsons started both of their children in swimming lessons when they were 6 months old.
Early lessons
For information on children’s swimming classes through Lawrence Parks and Recreation, visit. org/lprd/aquatics/ classes.
The American Academy of Pediatrics last year recommended children as young as 1 year old take swimming lessons. The previous recommendation was 4 years old.
“Not everyone should go out and get their children swimming lessons immediately,” says Dr. Jeffrey Weiss of Phoenix Children’s Hospital, who wrote the pediatrics organization’s policy. “But there may be some beneficial effect.”
The Consumer Product Safety Commission estimates nearly 300 children younger than 5 die each year from drowning. On top of that, the agency says, 3,200 young children visit hospital emergency rooms each year because of near-drownings. Weiss says lessons can be a way to reduce the chances of drownings.
Lawrence Parks and Recreation offers swimming lessons for children as young as 6 months. Those Parent/Child Classes gave Liesl and Finn Nelson their introduction to the pool.
Becky Childers, assistant aquatics supervisor for LPRD, says she’s seen children as young as 9 weeks at the pool.
“The sooner you can get your child used to the water, the better,” Childers says. “Learning to swim is a lifelong skill. We want children to love the water, but also respect the water and be safe in the water.”
The Parent/Child Class involves kicking, blowing bubbles and floating on both the front and back. Participants play games and sing songs. Aquatot class, for children ages 3 and 4, focuses on the fundamentals of freestyle swimming and floating.
“With the infants, you hear a lot of shrieking and some crying,” Childers says. “You will see a lot of splashing with their little legs kicking in the water. Some of the toddlers may be a little more unsure of the water at first, but by the end of the class, they cry because they have to get out and go home.”
She says for children who are fearful of the water, a few trips to the pool usually alleviate that fear.
Of course, safety is a concern, even with parents holding their children. Childers recommends swimming diapers for children who aren’t potty trained. And she says children at the outdoor pool who are wearing suntan lotion can be quite slippery, so parents have to take extra precautions when carrying their kids.
Heidi Nelson says she enrolls her children in every class she can. They usually go to the Indoor Aquatic Center, though they’ll venture downtown to the outdoor pool this summer.
She says, from her observations, parents who act comfortable in the water are more likely to have children who are comfortable in the water.
“We’ve always enjoyed it. We have so much fun with them laughing,” Nelson says. “They’re really comfortable in the water now. I can’t imagine them not taking classes because they love it so. | http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2011/may/30/water-baby-pool-classes-now-recommended-even-young/ | 2013-05-18T10:35:59 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
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Kansas Women's Basketball vs. Washburn (Exhibition)
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Familiar herself with just how difficult it can be to recover from an anterior cruciate ligament tear, Kansas University senior point guard Angel Goodrich had some simple advice for her teammate, Carolyn Davis, before the women’s basketball team’s season-opening exhibition Sunday against Washburn.
“Just go out there and play,” Goodrich told Davis, who was suiting up for the first time since tearing her left ACL on Feb. 12. “Don’t even think about it.”
Davis, the Jayhawks’ senior forward from Houston, though limited to 15 minutes of playing time, ran the Allen Fieldhouse floor, posted up and rebounded without a worry in the Jahyawks’ 57-35 victory.
“From jump I was just ready to,” said Davis, who produced eight points, eight rebounds and two steals despite watching the second half from the bench. “I wasn’t thinking about my knee. I wasn’t thinking about anything but just playing the game.”
Though the 6-foot-3 Davis expects to wear a brace on her left knee for most, if not all, of the upcoming season, she now feels used to the device she initially loathed.
Davis began the game in the starting lineup, and though she passed the ball out of the post on her first touch and missed the first jumper she took from the top of the key, she converted four of her next seven shot attempts. Davis faced up on the left block and went to the rim for a lay-up to give KU a 2-0 lead. She later went glass on a fadeaway from the right block to tie the game at 4. Her next bucket came after posting up in the paint with the shot clock winding down at the 15:39 mark of the first half. Finally, she scored an easy basket on the left baseline following a nifty Goodrich pass, putting KU up 14-10 with 11:34 left until halftime.
The forward’s performance pleased Kansas coach Bonnie Henrickson, who said Davis has shown progress throughout the past eight weeks, since returning to regular basketball activities.
“That’s as good as she’s looked,” Henrickson said of her star post player’s performance against NCAA Div. II Washburn.
Goodrich, who suffered a pair of ACL tears in her first two years at Kansas, said it was good to see Davis back in uniform.
“I know the excitement of getting to step out on the court for the first time in six months,” said Goodrich, who had 11 points and team highs of six assists and six steals. “It’s a great feeling. It’s so exciting, and we were excited for her.”
Henrickson didn’t feel as inspired by the play of a couple of other KU forwards. After sophomores Bunny Williams, who started, and Chelsea Gardner, who started the second half in place of Davis, combined to shoot 1-for-11, the coach said both needed to do more work early in the post.
“Chelsea and Bunny are better than that,” Henrickson said, “and they’ve got to be better than that.”
Sophomore guard Natalie Knight tied Goodrich with a team-high 11 points. Sophomore Asia Boyd scored eight points off the bench, while senior guard Monica Engelman and junior substitute forward Tania Jackson contributed six points apiece. Gardner finished with five on 1-for-7 shooting.
Henrickson said the KU medical staff will continue to monitor Davis’ progress, but a timetable for her playing normal minutes couldn’t be predicted.
The Jayhawks’ second and final exhibition against Fort Hays State will tip off at 2 p.m.. | http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2012/oct/28/ku-women-win-exhibition-opener-57-35/ | 2013-05-18T10:14:12 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [
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Anonymizer Profiled
April 12, 2007 by Daron Babin
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Lance Cottrell of Anonymizer,acts as a trusted intermediary between its users and the Web sites they are viewing, talks with Greg Niland during Search Engine Strategies in New York.
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July 27, 2006 by Daron Babin
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With SES San Jose 2006 looming, we hear from one of the industrys regulars, Thomas Bindle, on how to sell the worthiness of attendance for multiple tradeshows.
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Lyrics: Robert Hunter
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A suite of songs written by Robert Hunter. He gives the following introduction in "Box Of Rain":
"The idea for Amagamalin Street occurred to me while leaning against a building on Fifth Avenue. I was in one of those ego-flattened mindframes that visit my West Coast psyche when confronted by Manhattan.The songs in the suite are:
I began thinking about the values people must assign to themselves, and believe in despite all the evidence, in order to cope with the giganticism of Metropolis. I saw a drunk on the other side of the street making a show of himself - and I began inventing his story. I had a pencil but no paper - not a problem in New York; I picked up a handbill in the gutter for a show at the Apollo, and began to write on the back of it." | http://www3.clearlight.com/~acsa/songfile/AMAGSUIT.HTM | 2013-05-18T10:22:11 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
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CEDAR FALLS — Mark Hendrickson didn’t have to go out of his way to praise the Northern Iowa football team after the Panthers won, 38-10, over Hendrickson’s Western Illinois University team.
On a night when the Panthers clicked, the Leathernecks clunked.
Penalties. Turnovers. Mental mistakes.
When you’re playing the No. 2 team in Football Championship Subdivision play, the worst thing you can do is pile up the mistakes.
“Certainly the better team won the game,” Hendrickson said.
The numbers show that the Leathernecks did some good things.
• They had 15 first downs, UNI had 19.
• They had 312 yards, UNI had 417.
• They led in time of possession, 30:21 to 29:39.
But those numbers hide the mistakes the Leathernecks made.
Take, for example, the first quarter. Western Illinois had the ball for 10:24 and had 104 yards of offense, compared to 49 for the Panthers. But UNI led 14-0, converting a blocked punt into a possession that led to one score and an interception that led to a another TD.
UNI’s Tirrell Sinkfield didn’t have much trouble getting to Michael Shroble before he could get his first punt of the game away. That gave the Panthers the ball at the Western Illinois 12.
“They play the older way (of punting),” said UNI coach Mark Farley, whose team, like so many these days, use the punt formation where three players form a blocking wedge in front of the punter. “There are some flaws in that you can exploit.”
The interception was also set up by the Panthers’ ability to break down the Western Illinois line. The pass was tipped by a rushing lineman, and Jordan Smith grabbed it out of the air.
“We got some pressure inside and got our hands up,” Farley said.
When the Panthers weren’t creating opportunities, the Leathernecks handed them chances.
On the play before the interception, the Leathernecks had a fourth-and-3 situation when running back Caulton Ray flinched before the snap, drawing a false start penalty.
After the interception, the Leathernecks stopped UNI quarterback Tirrell Rennie for what would have been a 2-yard gain to set up a third-and-10 situation. But linebacker Mike Garoppolo was called for a face-mask penalty, and the Panthers had a first down.
Another false-start penalty on the Leathernecks’ next possession helped stall that drive.
Western Illinois was penalized six times for 47 yards.
“The penalties were disappointing,” Hendrickson said, adding that he didn’t want to make any additional comment.
All of the mistakes added up to a disappointing loss for the Leathernecks, who fell to 1-3.
HUDSON HURT
Quarterback Josh Hudson left the game early in the third quarter with an injury to his left leg and did not return.
Hendrickson said the initial word was that Hudson had suffered a “bruise.”
Wil Lunt finished the game, going 11-of-20 for 110 yards.
“I think Wil did an excellent job, given the situation,” Hendrickson said.
Lunt led the Leathernecks to their only touchdown, but the offense squandered a chance to get points in the third quarter.
The Leathernecks had a first-and-goal at the UNI 3-yard line. On the first play, Ray was thrown for a three-yard loss. Lunt then threw three incomplete passes, and the Leathernecks came away with no points.
Hudson was the quarterback when Western Illinois missed another chance to get a touchdown. Down 14-0, the Leathernecks had second-and-goal from the 2, but Bryce Flowers was stopped on back-to-back runs, and Western Illinois had to settle for a Pat Smith 20-yard field goal.
BY THE NUMBERS
Ray had 18 carries for 79 yards. … Terriun Crump had eight catches for 131 yards. Crump now has 95 receptions for his career for 1,525 yards, ranking eighth on the school’s all-time list in both categories.
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2400 E. Hartford Ave.
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Phone: (414) 229-2665
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In the Phonetics Lab, we study the articulatory and acoustic characteristics of speech production. In particular, we are interested in how young children produce speech sounds as compared to adults, and what that tells us about the development of the phonological system in English-learning children. We use converging evidence from several sources including experimental speech production data, longitudinal speech corpora, and ultrasound recordings of tongue movements during the articulation of speech sounds. | http://www3.uwm.edu/chs/academics/comm_sci_disorders/facilities_labs_clinics_centers/phonetics_lab.cfm | 2013-05-18T10:32:31 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [
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Friday, February 22, 2013
Time: 4:30pm
Location: Architecture and Urban Planning Building 170
“Research NOW: Using a Wide Range of Data Points as the Basis of Good Design” presentation by Joe Valerio, UWM/SARUP Associate Professor 1974-85; Randy Mattheis, UWM/SARUP BSAS 1984; Matt Dumich, UWM/SARUP MArch 2003. For more information about this speaker’s visit, contact Associate Dean for External Affairs Gil Snyder.. Each summer two students will receive a scholarship for two months. The program is called “The Future of the Future.” Over four years, each summer will focus on a different typology; beginning with The Future of Work, followed by The Future of Learning, the Future of Pleasure, and finally the Future of Urban Living. | http://www3.uwm.edu/sarup/news/lectures/researchnowdatapoints.cfm | 2013-05-18T10:13:33 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
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Hello Guys, WOW!! it's been 100 years today..
One of the things I have collected over the years are old newspaper with world events..
Some facts:; GMT−3). destitute; many families, particularly those of crew members from Southampton, lost their primary bread-winners. wreck, folk songs, films, exhibits and memorials.
I love old newspapers the illustrations I think are wonderful..
I just love the old ads in them
Fashions of the day
Look you could even buy Havana Cuban cigars 100 years ago..
Wished I could still get these shoes for only $2.40
"The Unsinkable Molly Brown"
Margaret Tobin Brown. A lifelong advocate of human rights, Margaret was also a prominent figure following the Ludlow Massacre in Trinidad, Colorado, in April 1914, a significant landmark in the history of labor rights in the United States.ine,."
Until next time from my mountain to yours,
Hugs and smiles Gloria
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I love the history lessons I get when I come here, Gloria. Can you believe 100 years? Wow! I love all those old ads, too...and all the old graphics. Thanks for all the history here. xo Diana
This was SO interesting to read, Gloria. I never tire of hearing the story of the Titanic told from different points of view. It was fun looking at your vintage newspapers. The prices make me laugh! Thanks for a great post and hope that all is well and good with you!! :)
XO,
Jane
Enjoyed the reminder of Molly Brown's part in the Titanic. She is a big part of Colorado's history - The Molly Brown house in Denver is a great tour. And, of course, she died destitute just up the road 50 or so miles from where I live. Interesting story. Sally
I just got done watching the musical Unsinkable Molly Brown. I have old newspapers...but none that old. My dad would have been 2!n I saw the exhibit years ago...it is amazing!
I loved seeing the ads in the old newspaper, Gloria! The prices on the furniture were amazing. I'm watching the tv show of Titanic right now. Hope you are doing well!
Hugs, Sue
Hi Gloria. You have some great articles. We watched the Titanic movie tonight. It's a story that leaves a great impression. If you remember in one of my posts, I said that we had to take up 5 layers of carpet in the Cottage. Under one of the layers was a newspaper ad for ladies undergarments out of a Cornwall, England newspaper..Happy Sunday..Judy
I have always been fascinated with the story of the Titanic. Thank you for sharing your newspaper. I think it is also cool that it is from our local St. Louis Post Dispatch! I was hoping to see the name of businesses in the ads that may or may not still be around here! I have saved some newspapers from events that have happened for others to enjoy when I am gone (space shuttle explosion, great flood, my kids birth date). Have a great day!
Ms. Molly Brown was born in Hannibal, mo. as was Mark Twain. Her home there is now a museum, she was of very little means at that time. Her and Johnny Brown struck it rick with gold and she went up in the world. Her live experiences sure came in handy when the boat started to sink. She was a remarkable lady. This boat has proven to be un- sinkable, as even though it went down that night is has managed to live on and always will.It is a subject we never get tired of. I can see from your collections you are like many others, very much taken by that story. So sad, yet so interesting, romantic and exciting. It was good to see your post Ms. Gloria and also good to see you are doing much better since you Butt Lift adventure. love and Sissy Kisses. Richard from My Old Historic House.
I hope you are doing well. Glad to see you posting ever so often.
I have seen the movie Titanic enjoyed it very much. Your post added much interesting insights into the sinking. Have a blessed Sunday. Madeline
What an interesting story, Gloria, and how wonderful that you own a copy of the newspaper...Christine
Hi Gloria! :)
What a sad thing that was. Unfortunately my daughter and her husband took me to see the film right after he passed away. NOT a film to see at such a time, I'm afraid. It is still hard for me to watch..so I don't.
I still remember the Andrea Doria that sank when I was in high school. Do you remember that? You were probably still too young.
It was horrifying.
Hugs to you, my friend. I hope you are feeling ok.
What a wonderful piece of history! Theres something about the Titanic and those times that is truly magical! :)
Hugs,
Always enjoy reading your bits of history Gloria and so glad to see you posting. Hope you are feeling better these days friend. Come over to Colorado for some rest and relaxation- I will treat you like a queen!
bee blessed
mary
Hi Gloria...just checking in on you. Hope all is well!:-)
What a fascinating article about Margaret Brown. I love this post, Gloria. I loved reading those old ads. I laughed when I saw the Coke ad said it was as good for you as water. NOT! It gives me chills every time I think about the Titanic and all those people who didn't make it. Over the last few day, I've heard about so many acts of heroism that took place on the ship via the news and radio programs.
Hi Sis...
Wanted to come by to say hello and see what you've been up to.
I sooo enjoyed your post on the Titanic. Love, love, LOVE the old newspaper with it's photos and drawings of the Titanic...and all the olden ads! Those were GREAT...and sooo interesting! I have to tell you that Russell is totally enamered with the Titanic and all of it's history. Since it was the 100th anniversary of it's sinking, I bet we've watched every program on TV about the Titanic. Some were interesting...and some lost me...when it got down to all the "peticulars". Hehe! It was such a sad day though. Truly tragic!
I also loved reading about Molly Brown. I didn't realize that she had stayed on board to help all the survivors. She was quite the lady! We watched the old movie about Molly Brown not to long ago....where Debby Reynolds played Molly Brown. I loved it! Still like the old movies! Hehe! Anyway...sure enjoyed this post, dear friend! I hope that all is going well with you guys!
Love ya,
Chari
This really is wonderful article ! I simply love’d it !
Good Evening Sweet Gloria...
What a beautiful share. I love all the history surrounding the Titanic. It is hard to believe that it has been 100 years. (I would have loved dressing up and being a part of that celebration on the ship. When I read about that and saw the photos of some of the ones dressed up, I just thought what a wonderful time. I have always loved that era of dress.)
Thank you for sharing dear friend. I hope that you are doing well. Thank you for sharing the paper clippings and the prices. LOL...Can you imagine ever getting a pair of shoes for that price? WOW...
Have a glorious weekend dear friend. Many hugs and much love, Sherry
Hi Sis...
Just read your sweet note and came right over! Girl, we DID drink some coffee out on that veranda..didn't we! Hehe!
Sooo glad that you had a good time with the home tour! Sounds like great fun!
Just coming by to say hello! Love ya, Sis!
Chari
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North America might get Unchained Blades sequel but not until 3DS version launches
Is Unchained Blades EXXIV a thing you folks want? If so, you're going to have to wait. While the sequel to Unchained Blades is currently in development for Japan, it's still not confirmed for North America. In fact, the 3DS version of the dungeon crawler is XSEED's priority as far as the west is concerned.
"We're still struggling to get the original out on 3DS first," stated the publisher on Facebook. "After that's finally out the door (hopefully Decemmber), then maybe we can start thinking about the sequel."
The first Unchained Blades is currently available on the PSP. GameZone's own Stephanie Carmichael reviewed the game, citing some neat ideas that ultimately didn't meet their full potential.
Want to talk about indie games, Kirby, or cheap pizza? Follow me on Twitter @dr_davidsanchez. | http://wwww.gamezone.com/news/2012/11/28/north-america-might-get-unchained-blades-sequel-but-not-until-3ds-version-launches | 2013-05-18T10:12:51 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Foo Fighters (photo: Robyn Beck/AFP/Getty Images)
Year after year after year I recall going to work the Monday following the GRAMMYs and talking about how once again, alt-rock was snubbed, yet again. But this year, I feel like we had some bright spots worth talking about. Foo Fighters, Adele, Skrillex and Bon Iver made me feel like our voices are at last being heard. (Although Adele is now considered a world-wide sensation, she was first embraced by alt-rock radio.)
[lastfm link_type="artist_info"]Foo Fighters[/lastfm] taking home a whopping five GRAMMYs is pretty frickin’ huge.
As the band accepted the award for Best Rock Performance, Dave had this to say before they dimmed the lights on him;
“To me this award means a lot because it shows that the human element of making music is what’s most important. (placing his hand on his heart) and what goes on here (pointing at his head). Long live rock `n’ roll!”
Now, I think a lot of people are confused by Dave’s comments since less than a hour later he was playing side by side with Deadmau5, a DJ/Producer that creates all of his music on the computer. Regardless, this year’s awards felt fresher than they have in years. I’m glad they paired the two on stage.
NOTABLE CATEGORIES
Record of the Year
- WINNER “Rolling In The Deep” – Adele
- “Holocene” – Bon Iver
- “Grenade” – Bruno Mars
- “The Cave” – Mumford & Sons
- “Firework” – Katy Perry
Album of the Year
- WINNER “21″ – Adele
- “Wasting Light” – Foo Fighters
- “Born This Way” – Lady Gaga
- “Doo-Wops & Hooligans” – Bruno Mars
- “Loud” – Rihanna
Adele (Photo by Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images)
Song of the Year
- “All Of The Lights” – Kanye West, Rihanna, Kid Cudi & Fergie
- “The Cave” – Mumford & Sons
- “Grenade” – Bruno Mars
- “Holocene” – Bon Iver
- WINNER “Rolling in the Deep” – Adele
Best Rock Performance
- “Every Teardrop Is A Waterfall” – Coldplay
- “Down By The Water” – The Decemberists
- WINNER “Walk” – Foo Fighters
- “The Cave” – Mumford & Sons
- “Lotus Flower” – Radiohead
Best Hard Rock/Metal Performance
- “On The Backs Of Angels” – Dream Theater
- WINNER “White Limo” – Foo Fighters
- “Curl Of The Burl” – Mastodon
- “Public Enemy No. 1″ – Megadeth
- “Blood In My Eyes” – Sum 41
Best Rock Song
- “The Cave” – Mumford & Sons
- “Down By The Water” – The Decemberists
- “Every Teardrop Is A Waterfall” – Coldplay
- “Lotus Flower” – Radiohead
- WINNER “Walk” – Foo Fighters
Sonny Moore aka Skrillex (photo: Robyn Beck/AFP/Getty Images)
Best Dance/Electronica Album
- “Zonoscope” – Cut/Copy
- “4×4=12″ – Deadmau5
- “Nothing But The Beat” – David Guetta
- “Body Talk, Pt. 3″ – Robyn
- WINNER “Scary Monsters And Nice Sprites” – Skrillex
Best Short Form Music Video
- WINNER
- WINNER “Foo Fighters: Back And Forth” – Foo Fighters
- ”Talihina Sky: The Story Of Kings Of Leon” – Kings Of Leon
- ”Beats, Rhymes & Life: The Travels Of A Tribe Called Quest” – A Tribe Called Quest
- ”Nine Types Of Light” – TV On The Radio | http://wxrt.cbslocal.com/2012/02/13/foo-fighters-adele-bon-iver-skrillex-alt-rock-takes-a-bite-out-of-grammys/ | 2013-05-18T10:53:57 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [
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FROM: Dr Rotwang!
TO: Xbow Vs Buddha Readers
RE: That Thing We Talked About
LADIES AND GENNELMENS:
Here follows a collection of interesting tidbits that don't warrant a full post or which I at least keep forgetting to write about in full. You know how it is -- my brain's like a milk jug full of spinning marbles.
- Few days back, in a comment RE: "Why Is The Buddha Cluthching His Gut?", trollsmyth asked: "PS - Got a link to that article on fairies?" No, trollsmyth, I don't. It was originally published in Ken Hite's "Suppressed Transmission" column on the Pyramid e-zine; I have the first volume of the dead-tree version and read the essay there. 'Course, if you're a Pyramid subscriber...
- Ran Ghostbusters last night for our Annual Halloween Game. Went OK, but nothin' great; mostly it was good to have Kyle, John, Phil & Erin back together with us all at the same time. Looking over Ghostbusters again so soon after futzing about with Risus, I can totally see the resemblance, as it were. Makes me curious what, exactly, about Ghostbusters inspired what, exactly, about Risus.
- We bought some candy for the game, including some gummi body parts. The ear does NOT look like an ear. It looks like...well, I'll scan one in and post a link later.
- Kudos to whatever crazy fool programmed The Movie Channel yesterday. Forbidden Zone at Noon on a Sunday? You magnificent bastard. I taped it!
- So...there's a commercial running here in the US which uses a cover of "We're Not Gonna Take It" by Twisted Sister...to sell birth control. Yes! In modern America, a grrrl-power cover of THE Teen Boy Rebellion Anthem of the 1980s sells family planning to 20-something girls. Strike from your mind the image of a 14-year-old boy in muscle shirt and mullet; that's over. DOUBLE-WHAMMY PSYCHOLOGICAL DISCORD PUNCH: The pill is called "Yaz". As in, "Upstairs At Eric's" Yaz. "In England They called Them 'Yazoo' " Yaz. Vince And Alison Yaz. I...it...my brain...
- I'm wrapping up the D6 Space game I've been running at Avalon (my FLGS). One session remains; after that I'll be running shorter, 2-3-session games with non-d20 products. Not to hate on d20, just to expand the visibility of other games. First up: Hollow Earth Expedition.
- Okay, done.
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This unification enables the construction of an interface that achieves elegance, simplicity and power. Allowing graphic objects and internal computational objects to be manipulated through an integrated interface can provide a conceptual scaffolding for novices to enter into programming.
KEYWORDS: programming environments, objects, direct manipulation, visual object-oriented programming, agents, rules
The Vivarium project has generated some earlier software environments: Agar [13] and Playground [4]. In these systems the computational realization of an agent was something of a cross between a rule and a process. These previous efforts concentrated on simulating the environment, the specification of agents for the animate objects, and the interaction between the creatures and their environment. LiveWorld is an effort to improve upon these systems in several ways: first, by providing a flexible and powerful object system and interface, and second by incorporating a more developed notion of a computational agent, along with a theory of how such agents may be created and debugged. This paper deals only with the first of these goals.
The motivating simulation domain for these systems was animal behavior, but the larger goal was always to find fruitful new models for programming in general. Many other systems may be described in terms of objects with autonomous but interacting behaviors; i.e., video games, MUDs, and virtual worlds in general. I've coined the term animate system to refer to this class of environment consisting of multiple reactive objects.
Creating animate systems requires manipulating many different kinds of objects (worlds, actors, agents, and sensors, for instance). These must be accessible, manipulable, extensible, and combinable by the user. Yet we don't want to overwhelm novices with complexity. LiveWorld's solution is to use a novel object system, Framer [6], which permits objects to be viewed and manipulated at varying levels of detail. Complex objects may be treated as black boxes by beginning users, while more advanced users can open them up to see and change the parts inside. To accomplish this, all levels of parts are made out of the same basic structure, the frame.
The design values of LiveWorld include:
* tangibility -objects should be concrete, accessible to the senses, and capable of direct manipulation.
* reactivity - objects should be aware and capable of reacting to each other. The programs that drive objects should be running all the time, so that user interaction can trigger object behavior.
* improvisation - it should be easy to explore new possibilities by making incremental modifications to existing objects.
* learnability - the system should provide "conceptual scaffolding" that allows the learning of new skills to be rooted in existing skills.
Figure 1: A simple world with two graphic objects. Note that theater, stage, cast, objects, and slots are all realized from the basic frame/box.
The graphic counterpart to the frame is the box. From the user's perspective these two constructs are identical, i.e., it is possible for "the user to act as if the representation were the thing itself" [7, p97] for all components of the system. LiveWorld represents Framer's hierarchical structure by means of spatial containment.
Figure 1 illustrates a simple LiveWorld construction. Frame names are indicated in boldface, so x is an annotation of my-turtle, which is in turn an annotation of cast. Frame values follow the name, so the value of the x annotation is 24. Boxes may be open or closed, with this state being controlled by a handle in the shape of a triangle (styled after the hierarchical folder display in the Macintosh Finder [1]). A closed box displays only its name and value, while an open box will display the contained annotations, the prototype (in a recessed box in the lower-right) and a resize handle.
This is quite different from traditional object systems, where classes, slots and objects are very different sorts of entities. This unification permits LiveWorld to have a simple and uniform interface.
In addition to providing a simplification of traditional constructs, frames make it easy to build advanced programming constructs that are difficult or impossible to realize in conventional object systems. These include facets, demons, dependency networks, and histories. It also makes it easy to use frames to represent information about frames. For instance, display information for frame boxes is stored in (normally invisible) frame annotations to each displayed frame (%box-position, for instance). If you display these frames, they get their own display annotations, recur-sively.
It should be noted that LiveWorld and Framer are recursive only in the sense that the basic frame structure is defined recursively, and most functions that deal with it call themselves recursively to work their way up or down the frame hierarchy. It does not imply that a frame can contain itself.
The advantages of prototype-based programming are simplicity and concreteness. It eliminates a whole set of objects (class descriptors) from the environment, and simplifies the specification of inherited properties. In a sense it is specification by example. For example, the properties of elephants might be defined by a prototypical elephant (Clyde) who has color gray and mass heavy. Properties of Clyde become defaults for the spinoffs, so all elephants will be gray and heavy unless their default is overridden, as in the case of pink elephants. With prototypes, the specification of defaults and exceptions are done in exactly the same way, that is, simply by specifying concrete properties of objects.
There are some indications that mental representation of categories makes use of prototypes [9]. Whether this translates into any cognitive advantage for prototype-based computer languages is open to question. What prototypes do accomplish for programming is to smooth out the development process, by easing the transition from experimentation to system-building.
The system provides a graphics library of basic actors. These include shapes and text-actors, pictures, and turtles. The library itself is a theater and new objects are created by using the standard cloning commands, so there is no need for specialized palette objects.
The link between graphic and non-graphic objects may help novices who are experienced users of direct manipulation interfaces make the transition to programming, both by showing them a different view of their actions and by permitting them to interact with computational objects in a familiar way.
Figure 2: simple-world after dropping a sensor into the turtle and opening it. The sensor displays as a translucent range overlay; and recomputes its value as the objects move.
One interesting feature of LiveWorld is immediate redisplay of inherited values. For instance, if a graphic object is cloned, and then the original is resized, both the original and the clone will be updated interactively. This is a powerful illustration of inheritance and may have pedagogical value. On the other hand, it can cause surprises for users who aren't aware that values are being inherited.
By default, cloning is shallow. This means that if a frame with contained frame structure is cloned, only the top-level frame is copied. For most internal frames (i.e. those used as slots) this is adequate, since the slot values in the original will be accessible in the new one. But in some cases, internal objects must be copied. For instance, in Figure 2, if a clone of turtle is made, the slots xpos, ypos, and heading don't need to be copied (and aren't), but sensor must and will be, since the new turtle ought to have eyes of its own. Frames specify for themselves if they need to be copied when their container is copied. The frames that need to be copied are generally those that specify local sub-parts like sensors, or generate side-effects like animas (described below).
After a frame is cloned it must be installed (dropped) somewhere. Frames can have a fits-within slot that specifies what sort of object the frame may be dropped into; the interface will only allow the object to be dropped appropriately (i.e., sensors can only be dropped into actors). Frames can have install methods which allows them to specify side-effects that happen as a result of being dropped.
Framer only offers single inheritance, but because slots are objects in their own right it is often possible to simulate the effects of inheriting from multiple objects. For instance, if we have a turtle (which can inherit only from the prototypical turtle) and we want to add behavior that defines a mass and forces acting upon it, we can copy in the appropriate slots from the prototypical physical object (i.e., mass, gravity-agent). Effectively, the turtle can inherit properties from several objects.
Actions contain code written in Lisp extended with primitives for Framer and for message-passing (see Fig. 4 for an example). Future versions will also support actions programmed in other languages (such as Logo or an English-like scripting language). It's relatively easy to support multiple languages by making language interpretation an object property. In Lisp, messages are sent to objects through the ask primitive. The Ask menu lists the available messages for the selected object and serves both as documentation and interface.
Agents are specialized actions that arrange to be run repeatedly by virtue of containing an anima object (see below). A typical agent consists of a conditional that tests a sensor and conditionally takes an action (by sending a message). A variety of schemes exist to permit agents to control each other; these are beyond the scope of this paper. Further development will allow the specification of networks of agents, handling conflicts between agents, and support for agents with explicit goals.
LiveWorld provides a library of actions and agents. Beginning users can create animated creatures by cloning objects out of this library. The objects also provide a starting point and templates for more advanced users who are ready to start programming. The transitions between these stages (copying, modifying, and finally creating agents from scratch) are relatively smooth, with each stage providing scaffolding for learning the next.
Figure 3: Customizing a frame in order to define buttons.
Click tables inherit like anything else, so this technique may be used to define specialized objects such as buttons (see Figure 3). Here, an action object is specialized to have a different appearance (via the %border-width slot) and a special action to take on an ordinary mouse click (it will send itself a :act message). The button object can then be cloned and the clones given code of their own to define their action, as is done with the thrust button.
The image of LiveWorld is that there are many objects, many agents, and many actions going on at once. Objects are not controlled through a central locus, but determine their own actions. Ideally, every part of the system should be constantly aware, monitoring its conditions and reacting to it.
LiveWorld supports concurrency by enabling objects to be called in the background. The interface to this capability is through objects called animas, which repeatedly send a message to their containing frame. Animas may be turned on and off individually, or en masse. Inheritance may be used to control a group of animas.
Animas illustrate a classic tradeoff in object-oriented design. Animas are add-in objects which enable any containing object to become an agent or process. The alternative would be to make animacy a property of the containing agent itself. The advantage of this second approach is simplicity, since it results in fewer objects and object types. The anima solution, however, has the advantages of modularity in that a specific ability is encapsulated in a specific kind of object, and that object can be included anywhere); and of providing an interface or affordance to the user for adding or removing animacy. LiveWorld's hierarchical object system permits a compromise between these solutions. Since animas can be hidden in higher-level objects and automatically inherited, the user can ignore the fact of their existence at first, and discover them later when ready to "open the hood" of an agent.
Animas are normally running in the background, and it is common for the user to be making changes to the world or to code while other activities are going on. For instance, in the klinokinesis example below, you can move the food patch that the turtle is tracking and watch it adapt. This serves to lower the barriers between running and coding.
In the present implementation, animas are called in a round-robin fashion. This is adequate for most examples, but does not really qualify as true pseudo-parallelism. A facility to support pseudo-parallelism by performing all side-effects in parallel has been constructed and is undergoing evaluation. Framer's recursive annotation facility helps here, since it permits the system to store intermediate values locally.
Figure 4: The actors for the klinokinesis example. The turtle has two agents: one makes it go forward at a constant rate, the other makes it turn a random amount that depends on the food concentration gradient. The value of the last-distance slot is also computed by an internal agent (not shown).
Figure 5: The stage for the cast in figure 4. The turtle started from the point at the lower-left and found its way by "smell" to the food patch at the upper right
In general, there is a tension between simple, powerful, and general constructs and the interface goal of making specific structures for specific tasks. Take object palettes in a traditional program: because they are special objects, they may easily be given special properties such as floating or a special appearance. LiveWorld, though, has been carefully designed so that no special palette objects are necessary! We have achieved simplicity, but at the cost of being able to easily specialize the design of specific elements.
There are many unresolved issues revolving around the deletion and modification of prototypes. Framer by default does not allow the deletion of an object with spinoffs. The interface encourages loose patterns of cloning, but this can cause problems as dependencies are created which make later modification difficult. I have experimented with a modified delete function that permits deleting an object with spinoffs, by copying the slots of the prototype into the spinoffs. This preserves the characteristic of the spinoffs but loses type information.
User testing of the system is planned; some issues to be investigated are the learnability of the object system; whether the availability of all objects in graphic form is empowering or confusing, and whether the particular forms of conceptual scaffolding actually provide greater learnability.
In contrast, LiveWorld boxes are full-fledged objects, and the interface presents them as such. Boxes are dragged and copied with the mouse rather than with keyboard editing commands. Where the interface of Boxer is rooted in text editing (it is in fact based on the Emacs text editor), the interface of LiveWorld is rooted in object-oriented graphics. Both systems extend their root metaphor by allowing for recursive containment.
The advantages of LiveWorld's interface style over Boxer's is in implementing inheritance and a more modern interface (mouse-based rather than text-based) with better integration of graphics. The advantages of Boxer's style are that its textual metaphor makes it natural to impose an order over the items in a box, and it may be more accessible to some users with a textual orientation.
Self has an exploratory graphic interface [2] which, while having some commonality with that of LiveWorld, is exploring essentially different issues. For instance, both systems emphasize animation, but use it in very different ways. The Self interface animates its object representations (akin to LiveWorld's boxes) in a fashion that makes them seem real to the user, but this animation is outside the realm of the user's control. LiveWorld is more concerned with allowing the user to control the animation of graphic objects, leaving the more abstract, structural representation of objects unanimated.
ARK is another environment with goals similar to that of LiveWorld. In this case the commonality is in providing a lively, reactive feel, and in integrating graphic objects with computational objects. Other shared properties include prototypes (ARK's prototypes work more like those of Self), step methods to drive concurrent objects, and a special limbo state (called MetaReality in ARK) for objects in transition.
Both ARK and Rehearsal World, as well as many other visual environments, rely on a separation of user levels. Components are built by sophisticated users, generally outside of the visual environment, while more naive users are allowed to connect these components together graphically but not to open them up or modify them. LiveWorld, on the other hand, tries hard to make every object openable and accessible.
The fact that all objects are presented graphically by default, that is, without the cognitive overhead of having to request their display in an inspector, is a subtle yet powerful change in the way that the programmer relates to objects. In LiveWorld, every object and every slot is an affordance for action as well as a prototype for improvised modifications.
2. Chang, B.-W. and Ungar, D. Animation: From Cartoons to the User Interface. In Proceedings of UIST `93. (November 3-5, Atlanta, Georgia), 1993, pp. 45-56.
3. diSessa, A.A. and Abelson, H. Boxer: A Reconstructible Computational Medium. Communications of the ACM 29, 9, 1986, 859-868.
4. Fenton, J. and Beck, K. Playground: An Object Oriented Simulation System with Agent Rules for Children of All Ages. In Proceedings of OOPSLA `89. 1989, pp. 123-137.
5. Finzer, W. and Gould, L. Programming by Rehearsal. Xerox Palo Alto Research Center Research Report SCL-84-1, 1984.
6. Haase, K., Framer. Unpublished software. 1992.
7. Hutchins, E.L., Hollan, J.D., and Norman, D.A., Direct Manipulation Interfaces, in User Centered System Design, D.A. Norman and S.W. Draper, Editor. 1986, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates: Hillsdale NJ.
8. Kay, A. Vivarium Papers. Unpublished essays, 1990.
9. Lakoff, G. Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1987.
10. Lieberman, H. Using Prototypical Objects to Implement Shared Behavior in Object Oriented Systems. In Proceedings of First ACM Conference on Object Oriented Programming Systems, Languages & Application., 1986.
11. Minsky, M. Society of Mind. Simon & Schuster, New York, 1987.
12. Smith, R. Experiences with the Alternate Reality Kit: An Example of the Tension Between Literalism and Magic. In Proceedings of SIGCHI+GI'87: Human Factors in Computing Systems. Toronto), 1987, pp. 61-67.
13. Travers, M., Animal Construction Kits, in Artificial Life: SFI Series in the Sciences of Complexity, C. Langton, Editor. 1988, Addison-Wesley, Reading, Massachusetts, pp. 421-442.
14. Ungar, D. and Smith, R.B. Self: The Power of Simplicity. In Proceedings of OOPSLA `87. (October 4-8. 1987, Orlando, Florida), 1987, pp. 227-241. | http://xenia.media.mit.edu/~mt/papers/chi94/chi94.html | 2013-05-18T10:21:31 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
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Yonkers, NY --- Tobago Cays (Jim Pantaleano) tuned in the fastest local mile of the season through the snowflakes Saturday night, winning Yonkers Raceway's $35,000 Open Handicap Pace.
In what turned out to be a two-speed number, Tobago Cays--from post position No. 5--yielded to Electrofire (Brian Sears) before a 27-second open quarter-mile.
After a :55.2 intermission and a gapped-out octet, Nob Hill High (Eric Goodell) moved from fifth. He had a lot of work to do going toward the 1:23.4 three-quarters, with Electrofire taking a length-and-a-half lead into the lane.
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Jake Owen, ‘Endless Summer’ – Album Review
The very nature of the EP lends itself more to an artist’s most faithful supporters than middling fans looking for an entry point into a new style or sound. Jake Owen‘s ‘Endless ‘Summer Jam’ and ‘Pass ‘Steal My Kisses’ is a clever choice by Owen, and he handles it with cool confidence. ‘Surefire Feeling’ steers the party toward a serious to close the album (sort of a buzz kill), but if you have it on repeat, the fun begins again with ‘Summer Jam.’
The songs on ‘Endless Summer’ won’t make an impact beyond October unless Owen releases ‘Steal My Kisses’ as a single, which would be bold. His most loyal followers have already bought the EP. The rest of us would be best served sampling from one of his previous full-lengths in an effort to get to know this singer.
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In a submission to the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, ERSA highlights how the Government’s decision to terminate previous welfare to work contracts during the 2011 to make way for the Work Programme led to unprecedented complexity and uncertainty across the sector about the potential application of TUPE rules. This led to significantly increased costs to both primes and subcontractors and is likely to have led to some potential subcontractors deciding not to take on contracts.
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This edition of Computers in Classrooms is mainly concerned with the forthcoming BETT show. If you’re not in the UK, don’t worry: many of the points raised in the BETT-related documents available (see below) will be relevant anyway. The guide to getting the best out of BETT contains advice which could apply to other conferences too, and the trends and reflections review will also be interesting I think. But in any case, normal service will be resumed in the next issue, which is already shaping up nicely!
Tom Cooper, who died in late December 2011, was the Strategic Leader ICT at Lewisham Local Authority, in London. Tom was that rare breed: someone who was passionate about improving kids’ life chances, particularly through the use of technology in education, extremely knowledgeable, yet at the same time very modest. When he gave a talk, the audience very quickly became aware that here was someone who knew what they were talking about, and was taking practical steps to change things for the better.
On a personal level Tom had a great sense of humour and conversations with him were never dull, and people will miss his daily photos of Isis, his beloved dog, from Greenwich Park, announced through Twitter.
To read others’ comments about him, read Tom’s Facebook page.
Tom died shortly after being diagnosed with stomach cancer. His funeral takes place on 12th January.
An article in a recent McKinsey Report, entitled Sizing up the Internet’s Economic Impact, is very interesting. The authors write that if the internet is measured as a global industry unto itself, it contributes more to Gross Domestic Product than do education, agriculture or utilities. Moreover, small and medium-sized enterprises that use web 2.0 technologies such as blogs an social networking are growing more quickly and more widely than companies that do not use such technologies. In other words, internet use, especially using web 2.0, is associated with success.
However, and this is where it becomes relevant to education I think, the authors point out that their findings do not say anything about the direction of causation. That is, we don’t know whether use of the internet leads to bigger success, or whether the most successful companies are the ones most likely to use the internet.
In education, it’s easy to see how using the internet could increase a school’s success. But I wonder if there is also not a high probability that the more successful a school is, the more it will embrace educational technology in general, and the internet and web 2.0 in particular.
When I took up the role of ICT adviser back in 1998, one of the most difficult questions to tackle was the one by Headteachers of successful schools, as measured by the usual means: “Why should I do any of this? Our results are already brilliant.”
But I think I have noticed a definite change in attitude now: good schools are the ones which realise that these days they have to embrace and integrate technology and web 2.0 into what they do.
You may find these articles useful in this context:.
If you or your students would like to write a guest article about BETT for this newsletter and/or the ICT in Education website, please contact me. In addition or instead of that, I’m open to writing guest articles for your blog if you have one. Mike Lane, Teacher.. | http://ymlp.com/zTT5HW | 2013-05-18T10:40:20 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
The Board of Directors is assisted by an Advisory Committee. The Advisory Committee is composed of experienced non-profit advisors and members of the general YNPN membership.
The Advisory Committee as a whole serves as the governance committee for the Board of Directors. The Committee ensures effective Board processes, structure and roles, including by-laws reviews, strategic planning, and evaluation. The Committee also provides feedback on programming, membership recruitment and other organizational practices.
Jason A. Huff, MBA
Director of Development, St. John’s Mercy Hospital (Washington, Missouri)
Jason Huff serves as the Director of Development for the St. John’s Mercy Hospital in Washington, Missouri. In this role, Jason oversees the Hospital’s Foundation and Auxiliary and serves as a member of the Hospital’s executive leadership team. Prior to being named director in 2010, Jason served as Corporate Relations Manager for the St. John’s Mercy Foundation, providing leadership to the Foundation’s corporate fundraising efforts in both St. Louis and Washington. Jason has spent his entire career in the non-profit sector, including positions in higher education and social services. He is vice president of membership for the Greater St. Louis Regional Chapter of the Association of Fundraising Professionals. Jason earned his master’s of business administration and bachelors of arts in business management at Webster University. Jason and his wife, Melanie, have three young boys, ages 10, 8 and 3. They reside in Fenton, Missouri.
Reena Hajat Carroll, MSW Executive Director, The Diversity Awareness Partnership
Prior to working with the Diversity Awareness Partnership, she was the Interim Executive Director of the Interfaith Partnership/Faith Beyond Walls. Hajat holds a masters degree in social work from Washington University's George Warren Brown School of Social Work with an emphasis on social and economic development. Currently, she serves on several boards in the St. Louis community, including Washington University’s Brown School of Social Work Almuni Board, the Living Insights Center, Children’s Hospital Community Advisory Board, and the Young Non-Profit Professional’s Advisory Board. Prior to moving to St. Louis more then six years ago, she lived in Los Angeles and Chicago, where she gained valuable experience working with youth and community organizations. Reena is also the recipient of the St. Louis Business Journal’s Inclusive Leader Award, Bank of America’s Local Hero Award, and the Brown School of Social Work’s Distinguished Alumni Award.
David GonzalezVice President, Resource Development, The United Way of Greater St. Louis
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Dan serves on the board of Habitat for Humanity St. Charles, and the Incarnate Word Foundation. Previously, he worked at Habitat for Humanity St. Louis where he was director of operations. Dan is licensed to practice law in both Missouri and Illinois. | http://ynpnstl.org/about/advisory | 2013-05-18T10:32:02 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
JEFFERSON VALLEY, N.Y. – The Yorktown farmers market begins its winter season Jan. 12 inside the Jefferson Valley Mall, said Karen Symington Muendell, the owner of Maize Market Management.
“We had people asking us if we were going to move inside for the winter, because in Westchester there are only a handful of winter markets,” Muendell said.
The market will be held every Saturday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. until May 11. The market will be in the center court near the mall's main entrance.
Muendell said the mall was initially looked at to host the summer market, but she decided instead to host it at the Yorktown Heights Fire Department headquarters.
“I told the mall I would like to come back and perhaps talk about a winter market if the summer market was successful, which it was,” she said.
Muendell, who lives in the Lakeland Central School District part of Yorktown, said residents from her area barely knew about the summer market. She hopes the mall’s central location will help attract residents from all the hamlets to the winter market.
Muendell has six vendors locked up for the winter season, but said more could be added. The wide variety of vendors will sell baked goods, produce, bread, nuts, soaps and more.
“Center court is much smaller than the field we have in the summer, so I kind of had to hand-select the vendors that could go in and get the best products,” she said.
The current vendors are Do Re Me Farms, Gaia's Breath Farms, Meredith's Country Bakery, Merriweather's, Maura and Nuccia, and Tierra Farm. Learn more about the vendors on Maize's website.
A win win win.
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Hope this can bring some vibrancy and renewed traffic to the Mall as well, which right now has more than its fair share of vacancies.
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YORKTOWN, N.Y. -- Yorktown resident Evan Bray officially announced Monday he will seek the Democratic endorsement for Town Board in the upcoming November election.
Bray moved to Mohegan Lake in 2010 with his wife and believes his background as a building and zoning code inspector in New York City would bring a “fresh perspective” to the council. His interest in politics was sparked by his personal dealings with the zoning and planning board, as well as the 2012 dispute over the proposed Costco Wholesale Club.
"I just came to a realization with my background I had some intelligent things to add,” said Bray, a fervent follower of Yorktown news. “I just thought I should get involved instead of getting snarky in the comments.“
Bray said he will draw from his 12 years in New York City to make Yorktown’s government more "usable." He said average residents have a difficult time dealing with departments and boards when it comes to building something as small as a fence.
"It’s not a broken system but there’s definitely room for improvement," he said.
Both the Democratic and Republican town committees will endorse two candidates to run for seats held by Vishnu Patel (D) and Terrence Murphy (R). Patel will seek re-election, though Murphy has not publicly announced his intentions.
“Political labels at this level are nominal,” Bray said. “I'm not entering the race run 'against' any particular board member. I feel that I have a skill set not offered by any of the other candidates.”
Bray was born and raised in Canon City, Colo. and moved to New York City in 1996 to attend Cooper Union, where he received a bachelor’s degree in architecture. He has three children and a fourth on the way.
He said he acknowledges that his relatively new residency in Yorktown and lack of political background could hurt him in the eyes of voters.
“I certainly think I won’t get past 'hello' with some people because I don’t have Yorktown roots,” he said.
Bray is keeping expectations tempered but is running because he and his neighbors "deserve better," he said.
“I don't always agree with the board or its positions and believe all of the current members are decent people trying to do the right thing," he said. "I do believe that my fresh perspective and strong professional background uniquely qualify me to serve the people of Yorktown.”
Mr. Bray, Read an article the other day about you and beavers. I thought that your idea of letting the beavers win and thus flooding the roadway was a stupid idea? Have you got anymore bright ideas? If you do, you should certainly keep them to yourself. There is an old saying , "it is better to be thought a fool than opening your mouth and proving it ". I do certainly hope you don't get elected, we will be all riding in horse and wagon with your ideas. (wink)
Route 202 looks like crap now with the empty buildings and unsold properties. Are they widening the road to speed us through the eyesore?
Best of luck Mr. Bray...
The failing septic systems need to be addressed by sewering more homes before adding new homes with sewers.
Truth, where have you been for the last 20 years? Susan Siegel has been fighting for the "unsewered" for at least that long . For all her efforts, nothing has been done. I don't blame her. She is a fighter . Do you have an suggestions on getting those with septic's, sewers?
Good luck Bray....the following items need to be addressed.
Garages turned into illegal apartments.
Fences on ppls' properties...it's so not neighborly when your neighbor has a Fortress fence surrounding the property. Code enforcement does nothing.
Code enforcement - the house on Broad street near Brookside school should have never been built that way. Again, no code enforcement and zoning.
Let's hope Murphy doesn't run again...I can't take him standing in front of the supermarket telling everyone taxes are too high and using the same campaign speech and rhetoric for all his campaigns, and even the same photo.
YorktownVoter, good fences make good neighbors. Prov. It is easier to be friendly with your neighbor if neither of you trespasses upon the other's property or privacy.
Thanks. Those issues are right up my alley. I think administrative code enforcement could be more consistent and assertive across town and, if done right, generate a modest revenue stream. No shame in enforcing existing, valid codes.
Mr Bray, please remind the readers where you stand on Costco again.
I am of the position that the proposed 150K+ big box store and gas station proposal runs contrary to the guidance given in the Comprehensive Plan for this specific area, the Bear Mountain Triangle.
Well that goes contrary to the majority of Yorktowner's, doesn't it? You will be just like those people on the old planing boards that cost Yorktown taxpayers, like me, a ton of money because Yorktown was deemed unfriendly to business. Do the taxpayers a favor, please look to run in another town. We need business here in Yorktown, and many of us aren't as well off as you. Just a thought.
Can you cite a referendum a majority of YT is for Costco or is that just your opinion?
You are making a bold assumption about my finances which is way off base. I wish you were right.
Well it was just an assumption on my part because Costco would bring money into the already overpriced school system. With that in mind, I guessed you don't need any help in paying these high school tax bills. I'm on a fixed income and I do need the help. As far as I know most of the people that I have spoken to, want Costco here in Yorktown. Maybe I have been speaking to the wrong people?
Unfortunately I pay into the Lakeland School District, not Yorktown Central so my tax bill stays the same regardless of whether it gets approved or not. I couldn't agree more that taxes and spending need to be reigned in. I just don't believe that Costco is the answer.
But is certainly isn't part of the problem, is it? Maybe if the lake;land school district got some of the money, you might change your mind?
I think it's time for a new person with a fresh perspective on what Yorktown should be. I like the idea that Mr. Bray wants the Yorktown gov't to be usable, it's needed. It always seems impossible to get things done and they completely ignore Mohegan Lake, the side with Walmart and strawberry rd. The town had enough nerve to say they don't have anything slated like repairs, for that area for another 10 years! We pay Yorktown taxes on strawberry rd, we'd like to get some of their help too. I think Mr. Bray may be able to help us. I hope so :-)
LOL okay then.
I know my odds of success are long, but I think it's worth a go. Can you expound on your LOL?.
I appreciate the candor. And I know one person on a board of 5 can't unilaterally implement change. Luckily we have a lot of good people who volunteer their time and expertise. I think of Ray Arnold, and the like. People who volunteer their time and expertise so selflessly. I think some of these people, along with myself, can positively affect change in the building/zoning/permitting processes of Yorktown.. | http://yorktown.dailyvoice.com/politics/yorktown-council-candidate-bray-seeks-user-friendly-government | 2013-05-18T11:01:56 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Several organizations in Ossining and Peekskill were among the recipients to receive grants from ArtsWestchester.
The ArtsWestchester’s Board of Trustee’s recently announced the awards of more than $41,000 in Arts Alive grants to 35 local arts organizations, artists and projects.
“These programs make the arts easily accessible to hundreds of people, by bringing neighbors together for a common experience,” said ArtsWestchester CEO Janet Langsam. “The grants truly help foster a sense of community.”
In Ossining, the grantees included Collegium Westchester’s 2013 concerts, Ossining Public Library’s Keeping Native American Art and Culture Alive and Westchester Collaborative Theater’s 2013 staged reading and performance series.
In Peekskill, awards were given to Antonia Arts’ Seniors on the Move and Journey to Oz, Cross Cultural Connection’s Pro Am ensemble, Andrea Elam’s program, Contact! Improvisation through Dance and Music, Peekskill Arts Alliance’s Open Studios and Lana U’s Peekskill What Matters mural.
Also in Peekskill, artist Barbara Galazzo in partnership with Peekskill High School, received an Arts Partners Challenge Grant to create a permanent mosaic installation while exploring the art of Antonio Gaudi and Spanish culture. | http://yorktown.lohudblogs.com/2013/03/06/ossining-peekskill-among-recipients-of-artswestchester-grants/ | 2013-05-18T10:53:36 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [
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After having quit some months before, my life had returned to one where I have the obligatory cigarette now and again. I had chosen to take this particular smoke break alone on the porch during the low-key birthday celebrations of one of my best friends. It was the middle of the afternoon and muggier than most people would have liked it to be, myself included. Lost in thought, allowed my mind to wander into the past and future until I heard a string of obscenities coming from my left. Looking up, I could see a mustached gentleman looking angrily in my direction with his wife several feet behind. Anytime I saw her I could not help but think that she looked sad and, despite years of aggressive drug abuse, remained surprisingly attractive. He, however, looked like all of our dad’s looked during the nineteen-seventies: a little creepy.
His parade of cursing led him back into the house and upstairs. I finished my cigarette and returned inside. For a while, everything seemed benign and we had no reason to worry, but that all changed when he came back outside full of angry vigor. It started with more swearing and quickly incorporated throwing trash at other trash. It almost seemed comical but his profanities became focused at her as he began to hit the property itself with bottles and cans. Becoming slightly worried about the Suzuki I had parked against the house and the well-being of his wife’s face, I exited the building to better survey the situation. At this point, the police had already been called. When the first squad car rolled up, he approached me and asked what was going on. Standing near my motorcycle, I pointed at what should have been obvious and suggested he explore the situation himself as another car pulled up and the trash hurler’s adult fit throwing hit full swing. He was getting rather vehement and was definitely not happy to see the police. He expressed this by backing quickly inside under a shield of unintelligible verbal rage and locking the door to his upstairs apartment.
Meanwhile, the birthday celebrations had morphed weirdly into documenting this experience on video and getting keys to the apartment so that the police would not need to break down any more doors than absolutely necessary. I remained outside as several more police officers descended on the house and neighbors began taking a keen interest in what would happen next. At this point, there were roughly six officers on the scene. They asked us a few questions, assembled near the door and swiftly made their way up. You could hear arguing and slamming upstairs and it quickly became apparent that he had locked himself in some out of the way part of the house. After several minutes of loud talking, there was more banging and I went around the side of the house with the birthday boy’s brother. There was more banging and yelling and then something I didn’t expect.
Very little can prepare you to for a shirtless and shoeless man to jump through a second story window. There was a moment of quiet and then the crash of a human body flying through a once solid pane of glass. He landed on his side, slid on the grass, rolled around and got up without really missing a beat. Then he hightailed it through the back yard and over some bushes. For a moment I considered chasing him because I believed all six of the officers were still inside the apartment that he had so impressively exited, but they closed the gap quicker than I thought and surrounded him at a nearby intersection. As our videographer made his way quickly outside, the stymied protagonist began screaming frantically at his wife and, for a moment I felt sorry for him, I felt sorry for her and I even felt a little sorry for myself. This was their life and that was her husband standing in the middle of the street surrounded by law enforcement and acting like a crazed animal. I was just so confused how they could stay together for so long under such terrible circumstances and abuse while infinitely better pairings fail due to fickleness, laziness or fear. I didn’t understand what made that man wake up and decide to act that way or what kind of woman would willingly choose to remain with a person like that. It was terrible and after feeling nothing for an hour, I felt truly awful. I looked around at my friends and their expressions ranged from horror to elation. Then they used a taser on him and I felt a lot better.
No person will ever be capable of writing anything that could be so perfect and real as what I saw. Seeing someone get zapped by the police on the internet is already pretty great but bearing witness to it in person is just indescribably wonderful. First of all, they told him that they were going to do it about seven times while he paced around topless and bare foot, yelling indiscriminately. I also realized that, at some point, he had to have consciously removed his shirt and shoes after being chased upstairs by the police but before he decided to jump through the window. What was his plan? I can only imagine him barricaded in the bathroom and undressing while saying to himself, “I think this is the right thing to do in this situation.”
But all of his planning and running and yelling became irrelevant when the police sent enough electrical current through his body to disrupt any voluntary muscle control he had left. Being super high and crazy had made him a fairly impressive adversary before, but it did little to assist him here and he popped and locked himself straight onto the ground after the initial jolt. By five-thirty, the only evidence that was left of such great showmanship and artistry was a bent door frame, some broken glass and the looks on all our faces. All and all, it was a pretty good start for a birthday party. The cake was good too.
Artist’s Rendition of the Man Himself in Under Four Minutes:
Nicotine gum. I’m back on the train and, I find, that the train is not so bad. Perhaps, as a light smoker, I am lucky.
It would seem that I just need reasons not to smoke.
Dude, you just can’t make this stuff up! Real life in action. Love your storytelling. Can’t stop laughing. ~Heather
Thank you. Keep coming back and tell your friends.
Likewise, I have actually been recommending your page to my more socially responsible friends.
I love it. It’s true what they say – real life is stranger than fiction.
Love your artwork so much!!
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This is totally inappropriate. But seriously funny!
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Today- September 1st is the absolute LAST DAY :)
When:
September 14th (Wednesday) 6:00 pm- midnight
(but you don't have to stay till midnight- it's just how long we can stay)
(but you don't have to stay till midnight- it's just how long we can stay)
Where:
Herriman City office Building
(13011 S Pioneer Street, Herriman)
Herriman City office Building
(13011 S Pioneer Street, Herriman)
What:
(the best part!) :)
(the best part!) :)
PUMPKIN PATCH
These are tall! The tallest is 19" and the smallest is about15"
Cost: $15
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AUTUMN BLESSINGS
Cost: $10
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BOO
There will not be paper options this time!
If you want a different paper than what I did, you will need to bring your own
(if you do want your own- please please indicate that on your order!)
Cost: $15
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Orders and money are due by Sept 1st
- but the earlier the better-
- but the earlier the better-
(these crafts have a lot of prep this time)
Everyone is welcome, I live in the south end of the Salt Lake County if you want to join us!
What your money pays for: I do make a, the rental for the room, and a few other misc things, and my TIME! :)
If you are interested in kits being mailed to you:!!!
90 comments:
I want to do the pumpkins but can you tell me the dementions and i will go the store and have them cut. Can you tell me how much the rest would be to have it sent to me thanks
Nicole
Let me know as soon as you solidify the date. I would love to join you this time if it works with my schedule!
Maria, I would like one of each (all 3 please). Also the date 21 0r 22 works for me. I will be out of town on the other dates. Thanks
Could your crafts get any cuter? I ask that every time, and yet they DO!!! :) You're amazing. I would like one of each please. Thank ya!
I would love the pumpkins and the Boo. I would like them mailed to me so If you could let me know the dementions and how much it would cost for the rest as well. I am also curious to weather you provide all the supplies needed. I LOVE your blog and I'm so glad I found it.
britkerr@gmail.com
Thanks again Maria, for sharing your talents with us! I would like the Pumpkin Patch and the Boo! Perfect.
I would like one of each please. I'll drop the money off. Thanks!
JoyLyn
I want a BOO
Mandi Smith
:)
I would like a Pumpkin Patch and a Boo please. Thanks, and any Wed. night works great for me!
I would love a pumpkin patch please. I will bring money this week.
Those pumpkins are adorable! Let me know about the date and I'll be there! Oh, and when is the money due?
I want the pumpkins and the boo! But, I don't live close, so I would have to have them mailed! What would be the cost?
Alisa
alisamn at gmail dot com
I would like to make the pumpkins - SO cute! Please let me know what I need to do to get payment to you, as I'm in NM. Thanks!
(iliketoquilt at hotmail dot com)
I want the pumpkin patch and Boo. They are so cute! Thanks
pumpkins and boo please
I'll do pumpkins and boo. So cute!
Dixie
Boo for me!
I want a BOO sign.
I want Boo, Pumpkins, & Family
Thanks! Courtney
I want pumpkin patch
I'd like the Pumpkin Patch. Thanks. Sarah
I want pumpkin patch and boo!!
Thx
Kim Crossman
I would like the Boo and pumpkin patch. I will be in SLC on Saturday can I pick them up then? Thanks Sam
jcolovich2@msn.com
can i please do the pumpkin patch. I can drop the money by next week if that works for you.
thanks!
--emily
I want a pumpkin patch and a Boo.
Thanks.
Katie S.
i would like a Boo kit mailed to me , please let me know how to proceed
I'd like a pumkin patch and boo kit mailed to me. Let me know whats next thanks.
I would like a Boo kit and would need it mailed to me. Please let me know what the next step is. Thanks!
Pumpkins and boo.
I commented earlier about the boo sign and pumpkin patch my email is mjmlaws@msn.com THanks
i want the pumpkin patch and boo. my email is bambi52_2000@yahoo.com how do i get the money to you?! thanks! barbara
I forgot to leave my email address for the boo kit. my email is emgpkg@gmail.com
Thanks!
Maria-
I would like the Boo please!! I live up here in Idaho but would it be ok if I just come pick it up at your house instead of shipping it up to me? I am down there enough! I will mail you your money:)
Thanks:)
Marci
Ok, miss maria, I would like you to ship me 2 of the 'boo' kits (in 1 box!) and the stuff for the tall pumpkins. I love them!! I'm so excited to get started on a fun fall project! Thanks! You should have my email, but just in case: jesicajm@msn.com Let me know what I owe you and I'll get it right out in the mail. Love ya, Jes
1 Boo for me please.
Me too, Me too! Hope you guys are well! email is tangles2many@yahoo.com. Mailed of course because we are in Nash..haha. Tell the hubby my hubby says hello!
Sorry! Forgot to give you my email address! mousie1247@hotmail.com
Hi Maria! I would like to order a boo and pumpkins. I will need them mailed (will go to home depot for wood to be cut for pumpkins)my email is jaxlibferg@live.com, also not to add to your plate, but last year you mentioned posting a tutorial on how to do the tombstones.I've found a website but would feel better about following your instructions. thx much Libby
Hi Maria - I would love to do the Pumpkin Patch and will bring the money to you this week. Thanks so much - they're all super cute!
Maria - I would like to do the Pumpkin Patch and also 2 each of the pumpkin and the ghost from the Boo project (but no "B") - so 4 at $5 each plus the $15 for the Pumpkin Patch. Thanks, Sara
Hi, I would like a Boo kit mailed, and the dimensions and parts to the pumpkins. Is it too late? Let me know how I can pay you. I am in Oregon. So cute! chelseagcooper at gmail
I want the pumpkin patch and boo. I live nearby-let me know how to get the money to you. Thanks-Tracy furnessfam@comcast.net
Hello!
I'd like the Boo and Pumpkin Patch (maybe two Boo's, I'll check with a friend and let you know.) I'll need them both mailed to me (I live in Wyoming), so how much is the Pumpkin Patch without the wood?
Thanks,
Emma
emmalucya@gmail.com
Hi,
I'd like to please order the 'Boo' letters and the Pumpkin Patch. I will need both mailed. Can you let me know how much the Pumpkin Patch is without the wood?
Thank you!
LeAnne
everydaycelebrate (at) gmail (dot) com
I need another order of pumpkin patch and boo!! Thx
I would like a pumpkin patch please, what is the best way to get pmt to you, THanks!
I'd like a pumpkin patch. Cute! I'll send an email to ask about payment information... Thanks!
I'd like to get the BOO letters. Thanks Maria!!
I know I posted my order, somewhere, but I don't see it here, so here it is again! Pumpkins and boo for me please! And if you find a font you like, I'm up for the other ... ;0)
Heidi Saunders wants the pumpkin patch. Thanks!
Can I please get the pumpkin patch and the BOO?
Also, my sis in law would like the BOO kit and the pumpkin supplies minus the wood. I can pick up the supplies so they don't need to be shipped. Thanks!
So cute! I would like 2 of the Boo's and 2 pumpkin patches. I will run the money to you tomorrow (Wed. the 31st). Thanks! -Becky Bowen
I would like 4 of the pumpkin patch =) Super cute!! I will drop off the money to you tomorrow.
I would like the big Pumpkin Patch and I will come make it on craft night; Super Cute!!! Thanks:)I will drop the money off on your door step today.
I would like 2 pumpkin patches and 1 Boo. Thanks!
Becky Rosevear
I would like one pumpkin patch, two autumn blessings, and two boos. Thanks, will drop money off tomorrow. Thanks-Peggy tanner (Becky Bowen's mother)
Maria, here's my three orders :)
CARYN: 1 pumpkin patch
1 autumn blessings
1 boo
JODY: 1 pumpkin patch
1 boo
1 family(with all BLACK
vinyl)
LINDA: 1 pumpkin patch
1 autumn blessings
Thank you so much!!
I need to add another pumpkin patch to my order so that would make two of each fall craft. Thanks-Peggy Tanner
I would like one pumpkin patch and my sister Richan would like a pumpkin patch also.
Thanks for doing this Maria.
Richel
Hey there, would love to get those dimensions of the pumpkins. I love them and live in Portland so I can't come to your craft night:( Boo...
Sorry-Pumpkin Dimensions please... cblake (at) northwestgem (dot) com.
Thanks!
I would love to do the pumpkin patch one please :)
~Amie
I will do two pumpkins and two Boo's! I'm so excited!!! - Shandy
I have two friends wanting one Boo and pumpkin set. So a total of 4 for me! Thanks!!
Hi Maria -
Can i also get a BOO?
(I already signed up earlier for the pumpkin)
I'll have JoyLyn bring you $30 for me when she brings her money.
Thanks!
I would like to do a pumpkin patch. Thanks -Becky Coates (Olivia's sister)
Posting for Cristy...BOO & pumpkins. THANKS!!!
Hi! I am placing my order to do the pumpkin patch. Thanks so much for putting these crafts together.
Priscilla Gale (michelle's friend). :)
I have 2 orders:
1st: Just the words/letters and embellishments for the pumpkin patch and autumn blessings, no wood, just dimensions.
2nd: Just the words/letters and embellishments for the pumpkin patch and autumn blessings, no wood, just dimensions. And the BOO.
Thank you, just let me know when I can pick it up and how much it'll be so can get the money for the 2nd order. Ü Jill Corley
Don't kill me but I am just now telling you that I want to do the tall pumpkins. I will get money to Olivia as soon as I can! Thanks!
Oh and this is her sister Karalee
Maria,
I know it is past the deadline...I totally spaced it. If you have any extra or if someone cancelled I would like the tall pumpkins and the Boo sign. Let me know. I tried calling you this morning but it just rang. I can get the money to you today if you have extra.
Thanks,
Chandra Mahoney
Pumpkins please.
Maria...I am so sorry I'm late, but I'm going to sneak in...thanks! I will bring the money in the morning...Thank you! I want the pumpkin patch one.
Nikki Eddleman
Just saw this....so cute! I live in CA, but I would love the pumpkin wood dimensions and what did you use for stems? christinelockhart@verizon.net
These are all so cute! I'll have to watch for another craft night of yours, I live close enough I could come. And all of your stuff is a.dor.able! I just featured your adorable pumpkin patch over on my blog.
Just wondering if you had any leftovers. A friend and I just saw this today and really want the Boo(x2) and pumpkin patch stuff. We live in ID but would love to have some shipped if you had any extras. Thanks!
I know it is past the deadline, but I was wondering if I could get a pumpkin patch kit mailed to me? I can get my own wood, but would need the other stuff. Thanks!
If you're still willing, I'd love to get a craft set of "BOO" and the accessories for the pumpkins. I'll have the wood cut for the pumpkins at the hardware store. I'm in Ohio so would need to pay to have them shipped also. :)
My email is chirpandbuzz@Yahoo.com if you can let me know how to pay!
Thanks so much,
Jessica
I love the Boo!! Wish I could still order, but will definitely keep you in mind for other holiday signs!
I also wanted to let you know I featured the Boo set on my blog today. Feel free to grab a button :)
Hi I just found your blog...Do you still do the crafts? If so I would like 2 BOO's!
mcfaddenhm@upmc.edu
thanks
We want to make the pumpkins for our super Saturday. Can we still order the stems from you? If not where can I buy them?
Thanks
I just found these on Pinterest. I put a fence up this summer and the leftover posts worked perfectly. I had orange paint left over too:) I spent $4 at the dollar store for some wire and twine but recreated these and they are so ADORABLE! Thank you for your inspiration:)
Blessings,
Tiffany
Raisingthegangourway.com
Hey I was wondering do you sell your pumpkins or boos? I would love to purchase.
thanks
Tori
Just found your blog tonight! LOVE!! I'm up here in lonely Wyoming without a craft store in sight :(... is it way too late to order from you? I LOVE the boo! Also, I can cut the wood, but could I just buy the Autumn Blessing vinyl still and how much would it cost?
I didn't mark "email me future comments" so I'm leaving another comment so I can mark it so I can hear back from you :) thanks! and sorry for my stupidity!
I didn't know if you still had those BOO supplies and were shipping them out. They are so cute and I think I might be able to find a friend who would split shipping. Let me know if they are still available! Thanks so much!!
So Cute! I blog over at This Thursday I will be posting a round up of handmade pumpkins. I plan to include this project with a link to your tutorial. Please let me know if you are not OK with that. Great work! | http://youcraftmeup.blogspot.com/2011/08/fall-craft-night.html?showComment=1315368772380 | 2013-05-18T10:53:54 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
My fabric arrived and I quickly ran to Target, picked up $3.99 mini blinds and turned them into this! Voila.
(i'll post a daytime pic in the morning )
My bedroom has taken on changes over the last 3 years.
This was when I first moved in, faux velvet Ross drapes that were so wrong for the room, and the rod was out of place for this pic
One night I got the urge to attempt to rearrange our tiny master.
And I did.
I managed to move everything by myself, including the 4 post queen size bed. It now sits on the other wall and opens up the window a bit. I switched the room in exactly 20 minutes. I work fast, and i look ugly doing it. :)
ETA: HERE was the post I did for the dining room roman's. link in there i believe for the instructions.
I keep 4 of the blind slats in mine, and yes you can take the roman shade all the way to the top.
6 comments:
What a cute idea! How did you attach the fabric to the mini blinds? Fabic glue?
Fabrictac Glue is the only way to go
Love the idea! I am confused on how you got the fold to lay right. My assumption is that you glued the fabric on the top and the bottom of the mini blind. Right? So how to you get the fabric to lay right when you open and close the blinds? Do you always have to leave it at that length?
Where did you get the green curtains? They would match my bedroom perfectly!!!!
your roman shades look great!
I have been following your blog for awhile but never posted.
The roman shade looks awesome. I love the fabric you chose.
Where did you get the green fabric for the former curtains? I'm desperately looking for that kind of fabric for my bedroom curtains but can't find anything nice. But yours are really pretty!!!
Hey gals. The green curtains I made. Fabric is from Joanns...waverly green fretwork :) | http://youpaidmorethanme.blogspot.com/2010/12/romans-are-hung.html | 2013-05-18T10:53:04 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Assorted thoughts
* I went by the Rose Bowl today. Still have never been to a game there, but as a college football junkie, what a great place even to go look at. It’s a beautiful setting, and to know all the history there… Someday I’ll go to the game. Someday.
* ESPN.com has a poll up asking whether the suspensions of Amare Stoudemire and Boris Diaw are fair. How can they not be? The rule is clear. Leave the bench, at all, you get suspended. Don’t want to get suspended? Well, don’t leave the bench. This is entirely on those two guys. They screwed up, and they cost their team. I’m pulling for the Suns in that series, but even so, it’s hard to feel too bad for them.
* Not a good move to push back the World Series and lengthen the LCS, IMO. Of course, there’s the obvious weather issue, as the later you push things back the worse the weather gets. And the down time between the LCS and World Series will not help keep interest up. But more than that, I have a competitive problem with it. The postseason already rewards the top half of a roster too much. Adding the extra day to the LCS makes it even more about your top 2-3 starters, and makes the postseason less a true test of how good a team is from top to bottom.
Want to have the WS start later? How about going to seven-game Division Series? Want to start the WS on a Wednesday? How about ending the regular season earlier, maybe by adding some doubleheaders or even knocking a few games off the schedule, and start it the previous Wednesday to what they will be doing.
-M.
What’s interesting to about the Stoudemire/Diaw suspension story is that, according to the ESPN.com story you link to, Tim Duncan and Bruce Bowen left the bench in the first half of Game 4 and didn’t get suspended. According to the story, Elson’s foul on James Jones wasn’t considered an altercation but Horry’s foul on Nash was.
I didn’t see either of the plays, so I don’t know what happened, but I’m not sure how this makes sense. If Duncan and Bowen left the bench, shouldn’t they be suspended, too?
If the names “Duncan” and “Nash” hadn’t been involved, would the league really have gotten involved the way it did? How about if it was a regular season game with Duncan and Nash?
The suspensions of Stoudemire and Diaw are correct according to the letter of the law.
The law however is about as stupid as it gets. True, the NBA has a PR nightmare due to players like Jackson and Artest, and in order to combat it they feel like they have to have strong rules/penalties. This is true to a certain extent.
If a player is going to stand on top of his car, shooting a gun in the air, that needs to have a strong penalty. If a player is going to beat his wife and run into the stands to start a fight, that deserves an extremely strong penalty. Players doing things that are outrageous and “thuggish” deserve harsh penalties. And this is why I have a problem with this rule.
These reactions were nothing heinous, nor were they outrageous or “thuggish”. As a matter of fact, a good argument can be made that these are good family values.
Would anyone stand to see their little brother get pushed around (or endure enough punishment that the offense warranted a two game suspension from the playoffs)? No. It’s not like Stoudemire went in throwing haymakers. He stood up for his teammate, and as we all know, teams are like families.
So the rules have done the opposite of what they are supposed to do. Instead of punishing the problem and cleaning up the NBA, they have weakened the playoffs and furthered soiled the NBA’s reputation.
Until you have a commissioner that is willing to deal with problems like a man and stop trying to hide behind rules that he himself has set up to **** attention away from himself, this league will be horrible. And, until you have a commissioner that has played basketball and understands that teammates are going to stick up for their teammates, this league will continue to distance itself from the common fan.
In short David Stern is a complete idiot and I hate him with a passion. Much like Selig, the only thing he can correctly do is bring money to the owners. So, I doubt we see the end of him and his incompetent rule anytime soon.
The 4 stars is supposed to be “shift”
Apparently I forgot a letter
As The Herd guy on ESPN noted, the letter of the law is deeply ambiguous and enforcement is utterly interpretive and discretionaty… the definition of altercation is uncertain, the definition of vicinity is uncertain and there’s another word in the rule that’s also vague… letter of the law, my *^$. | http://yourenotagolfer.mlblogs.com/2007/05/15/assorted-thoughts/?like=1&source=post_flair&_wpnonce=843d76250c | 2013-05-18T10:21:43 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
New Orleans' youth are some of the most at-risk and underserved in the nation. According to the Annie E. Casey Foundation's 2011 Kids Count report, 34 percent of the children in New Orleans live in poverty, compared to the national average of 20 percent. The Cowen Institute at Tulane University reports that 15 percent of teenagers in Orleans parish between the ages of 16-19 are not in school and are not working. Youth in New Orleans are two times more likely to live in poverty and drop out of school without a high school diploma than youth elsewhere in Louisiana and four times more likely than youth living in other parts of the United States. This education failure is reflected city-wide, as more than half of New Orleans' schools have 85 percent of their students reading below grade level. According to the Louisiana Community and Technical College System (LCTCS), nearly 40,000 adults in Orleans parish do not have a high school diploma.
According to a report put out of the Bureau of Justice Assistance in March 2011, over 50 percent of convicted murderers in New Orleans were 23 years or younger and a majority (56 percent) were noted as having no gainful employment. The same report indicated that 92 percent of homicide victims and 99 percent of perpetrators were black. Further, Louisiana's teen-death rate has risen by 11 percent since 2000 and nearly half (46 percent) of teen homicide victims in Louisiana reside in New Orleans.
Four of YEP's community-based sites are located in the Central City neighborhood of New Orleans, which is one of the most violent and poorest areas in the city. Fewer than 20 percent of Central City youth live with both parents; 25 percent of children live with a caretaker other than a parent; and the homicide rate in Central City is four times greater than the city average (the city's murder rate was ten times the national average in 2012). The 2010 Census indicated that 49.8 percent of Central City residents lived in poverty, compared to 27.9 percent of residents in New Orleans and 12.4 percent nationally. Seventy-nine percent of residents living in Central City report being afraid of crime in their community; and according to a 2007 study by the New Orleans Metropolitan Crime Commission, residents of the neighborhood cite murder, the drug trade, and a lack of productive youth activities as the greatest stressors they face. Additionally, Walter L. Cohen High School, the only Central City high school, had a dismal 17.9 percent graduation rate in 2009 and employment and income statistics reflect this educational failure. Fifty-three percent of Central City adults were unemployed in 2009 and the neighborhood has a median household income of $18,114. | http://youthempowermentproject.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=33&Itemid=50 | 2013-05-18T10:52:58 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Click on the image to watch Rick and I discuss the accuracy of China’s data.
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Chinese Premier WEN Jiabao visited Italy after the EU/China summit that took place this week. Wen had been to Greece earlier as China is looking for assets in the battered peripheral economies of the EU. Are the Chinese sovereign wealth funds truly interested in European troubled assets or merely attempting to buy some good will so as to break up a possible unified action by the developed nations against the renminbi? The Chinese are in Italy and making some noise about buying Italian companies to ensure a place in the European economies.. | http://yragharris.com/tag/pmi/ | 2013-05-18T10:22:22 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Badr Shakir Al-Sayyab
Two images permeate the poetry of Badr Shakir Al-Sayyab (1926-1964): the child of six, in the rural environs of Jaykour, a small village near Basra in southern Iraq, calling desperately for his mother who, unbeknown to him, has died; and the grown man, ailing in exile by the shore of the Arabian Gulf, pining nostalgically for his homeland, which seems much further away to him than it really is. Both correspond to real-life experiences of the poet‘s. The eldest child of a date grower and shepherd, Shakir Abdul-Jabbar Al-Sayyab, Badr lost his mother, Shakir’s cousin Karima, in 1932; she died prematurely while giving birth to her fourth child, a girl who did not survive. And it was during his miserable confinement to hospital in Kuwait and elsewhere that the poet’s verses took on the trademark, impassioned — some say excessive — nostalgic tone. Often homeland and mother are evoked in unison, or as two aspects of the same — irrevocable — sense of security. In a belated elegy for Al-Sayyab, Syrian poet Mohamed Al-Maghout referred ironically to this dual obsession of the poet’s in the context of reflecting on Arab cultural and political demise — wrapping the traffic light in a headscarf and calling it “Mother”, building the model of a country out of empty matchboxes and rubbish to call it “Homeland”.
Al-Maghout’s poem is not the only tribute to Al-Sayyab in modern literature. Universally recognised as one of the pioneers of the free poetry movement, Al-Sayyab is also widely credited with being among the most traditional of free poets, displaying a profound command of the metrical rules governing Arabic verse and an easy familiarity with even the most difficult idiosyncrasies of the classical tongue. For a long time he thought of poetry as an aspect of the struggle for national liberation, and whatever innovations were to be introduced should never be allowed to impinge on the essence of the endeavour — the search for a liberated identity governed by equality and justice. The influence of European literature on Al-Sayyab thus remained superficial. His true sources remain the folk songs and fairy tales his later poems increasingly evoked, accompanied by the cadences of the vernacular he grew up speaking and the insurgent energy of national struggle. His virtues go beyond technical facility, however, for the energy and the emotional charge of his poems often transcend their nominal subjects, and his imagery — at times almost Imagist in precision and intensity — ranks among the most powerful in the poetry of any language. Perhaps the tragedy with which his life was beset reflected a genius too pure for the political turmoils in which he was to find himself entangled — a genius not for petty intrigues and power struggles but for grand and transcendent themes.
Soon after Karima’s death, Shakir found another wife and moved out — to the distress of his father. The poet subsequently lived at his grandparents’ — his paternal grandmother, whose affection is said to have replaced his mother’s, figures as the source of imaginative, sometimes frightening fairy tales about epic heros and djinn. Following the first few years of school in the neighbouring village of Bab Soliman, Al-Sayyab was forced to go further, attending the Mahmoudia School in Abul-Khasib, a small town that also figures in many of his poems: it was from a classroom window that he first spied the beautiful, unattainable daughter of Al-Chalabi, a prosperous landowner, beyond the opposite house’s shanashil (a kind of latticework window comparable to a mashrabiya ) — to which the title poem of his last diwan, Shanashil Ibnat Al-Chalabi, refers. This was probably also his earliest encounter with class differences; no sooner had it occurred, at any rate, than Al-Sayyab’s poetic facility began to flower — first in the vernacular, then in standard Arabic. Before settling with his maternal grandparents in Basra to attend secondary school — this difficult move took place in 1938 — Al-Sayyab presided over a literary magazine produced and distributed by his schoolmates. It was named, not surprisingly, after the palm-studded village he was never to forget, and to which he returned periodically throughout the duration of his secondary education. Jaykour was not only his birthplace, but the home of his first love, Wafiqa, one of his many cousins.
In 1941, having paradoxically opted for the science rather than arts pre-university course despite standing out in Arabic language and literature, Al-Sayyab began writing poetry regularly. (Much of this early work, written in the traditional meters of the canonical aroud, was collected and published posthumously). Interaction with fellow students with literary inclinations, notably Khaled Al-Shawwaf, was to contribute to his artistic growth. Al-Sayyab’s insurgent political awareness flowered in the same year, following the execution by the British of the leaders of the anti-colonial Rashid Ali Al-Kilani Movement of April-May. At this point it is worth recalling the nationalist atmosphere in which Al-Sayyab grew up: his uncle Abdel-Qader, the poet’s closest relation and fellow communist activist, had been a member of the underground Al-Hizb Al- Ladini (the Non-Religious Party), and on the walls of his grandparents’ house Abdul-Jabbar hung pictures of Saad Zaghlul, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk and other leaders of the liberation struggle. At the same time as Al-Sayyab reacted emotionally to the executions, writing poetry in response, his grandfather was in financial straits, having fallen prey to the usury and exploitation Abdel-Qader denigrated in the newspapers; this gave him an added, personal incentive. In his last year of secondary school, Al-Sayyab’s lyricism began to mature into the expression of an individual response to the world — the emotional and political dimensions of existence. The long-postponed move to Baghdad was preceded by the second major grief in his life: his beloved grandmother’s death.
For the provincial innocent, Baghdad was a world apart, and one for which the young poet had fearfully yearned for a long time before arriving there as an Arabic student at Dar Al- Mu’allimin in 1943; he selected the faculty in question because it provided education free of charge. Literary and political life submerged the emergent talent: after Najui Al-Ubaidi published one of his poems in the newspaper he edited, Al- Ittihad, his poetry spread in literary circles, and before too long he was well-known. Transferring from the Arabic to the English department of Dar Al-Mu’allimin, he made the acquaintance of Nazik Al-Mala’ika, the first Arab poet to free verse from the formulaic rules of aroud, employing the individual taf’ila as the basis for metric composition. By 1946, when this meeting occurred, he was a member of the communist party; his first experience of detention occurred in that year. Despite being a reticent participant in the Allied-Nazi debate then surging through the intellectual life of the capital, he engaged fully with ongoing political turmoils until his graduation in 1948, when his first collection of taf’ila poems, Azhar Dhabila (Withered Flowers), appeared. He was appointed as a secondary-school English teacher, and it was then that he began to feel the brunt of urban isolation — living in a hotel, with few connections (he was one of three communists resident in Baghdad at the time), and leading a frustrated love life, finding solace in his periodic stays in Jaykour — a habit he had not given up since his days as an adolescent in Basra.
Jaykour. The political involvements that were to have a terminally abrasive effect on his body and mind remained, at heart, visions of utopia rooted in the atmosphere of Jaykour, especially of a time prior to his mother’s premature death. He may have displayed obstinacy and even, occasionally, aggressiveness, but his motivation was largely that of the bereft child dreaming of security — financial, political and family security. Likewise Al- Sayyab’s love life was doomed from the start: he returned to Jaykour one day to find Wafiqa married. Subsequent relations with liberated women remained superficial, and Al-Moumis Al-Amya a (The Blind Prostitute), one of his four long poems, bears testimony to the painful revulsion his observation of urban prostitutes induced in him. It was in the late 1940s that such a tragic sense of self was beginning to register, along with a commitment to engaged literature — a subject that was to preoccupy him till the end of his life. Already it was too late to conceive of life along any other lines.
Another change of government, in 1949, saw Al-Sayyab imprisoned again; the Nouri Al-Said regime specifically targeted communists. Al-Sayyab was banned from teaching for the next decade. Among the jobs he undertook in Basra following a quiet few months in Jaykour were date taster and oil company employee. In 1950, the year his second collection, Asatir (Myths), appeared, he moved back to Baghdad, working as a free-lance journalist until he found a job as an employee of the Ministry of Imports. He continued to engage with literary and political life nonetheless, and the many interesting developments surrounding him — persistent calls for the nationalisation of Iraqi oil, Al-Said’s resignation and, following a poem in which Al-Sayyab predicted the event with uncanny precision, the wide-ranging Baghdad protests of 1952 — went on stimulating his writing, albeit in progressively less direct ways. When the army came to power and a new series of political arrests began, Al-Sayyab had the foresight to flee to Iran and onto Kuwait, where homesickness caught up with him, producing, among other poems, Gharibun ala Al-Khalij (Stranger to the Gulf), the poem to which Al-Maghout was to make his ironic references. Al-Sayyab thus arrived in Kuwait in 1953, only to return to Baghdad six months later in the wake of King Faisal’s reinstitution. This time, evidently intent on settling down once and for all, he rented a house and invited one of his aunts to live with him. In 1955 he married the sister of his uncle Abdel-Qader’s wife, a young woman from Abul- Khasib, who bore him a little girl, Ghaidaa, the next year.
With his activism waning — disagreements with the party through the 1950s, the time when he wrote his four long poems, had led to Al-Sayyab absolving himself of political responsibility — his poetry acquired a contemplative tone, his lyricism emerging as a powerful force in its own right, unencumbered by a specific political agenda. Yet he remained sufficiently engaged to be imprisoned for a week following the publication of several of his poetic translations in 1955. He was one of three Iraqi participants at the Conference of Arab Writers held in Damascus in September 1956. He soon became the prophet of the 14 July 1958 Revolution, displaying remarkable prescience — it was in this period that he wrote his best-known poem, Unshoudat Al-Matar (Rainsong) — and following the Revolution resigned from the Ministry of Imports to work as an English teacher once again, this time in the Ministry of Education..
Following attempts to appease Abdul-Karim Qasem, the leader who abolished the monarchy only to pit contending political factions against each other, he retrieved his job in 1960, the year his third collection of poems, named after Unshoudat Al-Matar, appeared. His physical as well as psychological health failing him, Al-Sayyab eventually gave up what little comfort he had attained — evidently at the expense of his peace of mind — and relocated to Basra in search of a quiet life, where, despite another, by now completely ludicrous arrest, he obtained a position in the Iraqi Port Administration almost immediately.
His health went from bad to worse, and following a brief visit to Jaykour Al-Sayyab’s poetry centred increasingly on the theme of death, with the djinn girls of his childhood reappearing before him in frightening form. He attended another literary conference in Rome, and spent some time in Beirut arranging the publication of his work and making the acquaintance of Arab poets he had not met. His magazine allegiances had shifted from Al-Aadab to Shi’r, and now, following a brief stint with Hiwar, he went back to Al-Aadab. Al-Sayyab’s illness eventually took him back to Kuwait, where for six months he suffered from paralysis and intense depression.. By 1971, however, a statue of the poet was installed in one of Basra’s main squares.
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Comeback Attempt Falls Short in Five-Game Loss to Butler
Youngstown -- The Youngstown State volleyball team (10-11, 4-6 Horizon League) trailed two-games-to-one and forced a fifth game but the Penguins' comeback attempt and winning streak were both snapped after a 33-31, 24-30, 20-30, 32-30, 16-18 loss to Butler (10-11, 4-6 Horizon League) on Saturday afternoon at the Beeghly Center.
Senior Jessica Fraley posted her 12th double-double of the season with 19 kills and 15 digs while Ebony Barbosa and Ruth Boscaljon each tallied 13 kills. Barbosa registered a double-double with 13 digs and Boscaljon tallied seven blocks.
Sophomore Allison Heinz added 10 kills and junior Karla Everhart recorded a double-double with 56 assists and 18 digs. Everhart also notched seven kills and three blocks.
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Unique in More Ways Than One – Bourbon & Branch
Bourbon & Branch, Wilson & Wilson, Rickhouse, Local Edition, Swig, The Tradition are all part of the growing empire that is Future/Destination Bars. And they’re not done yet.
Jayson Wilde is bar manager at Bourbon & Branch. The space is actually a multitude of rooms wrapped into one, some private, some public via password entry, all with a unique and cool speakeasy vibe.
“We wanted to bring bartending back to what is what intended to be. For our customers to have a good time and enjoy some great cocktails,” Wilde said. “So we have a lot of classic cocktails and some contemporary ones that we created on our own. Bars should be about having fun and that’s what we aim to do.”
Bourbon & Branch is split into The Library, which is open for walk-ins (the password never change, it’s books) and a private area where reservations are accepted. The bar also accommodates larger private parties. There are no signs, guests just walk up, ring a doorbell and give the hostess their password. It takes a few minutes to get adjusted to the dim lighting in the bar, which definitely adds its own unique appeal. For those who have made reservations, a table awaits along with a unique cocktail experience.
“Our menu is pretty expansive. We wanted to cover all sorts of classics from different eras while also highlighting some of our own unique creations,” Wilde said. “We want people to have a memorable experience so we make sure they understand that the cocktail-making process is time-consuming. This is really all about sitting back and enjoying some great cocktails with friends.”
In other words, Bourbon & Branch is probably not the place to order a rum and coke or vodka cranberry. Along with an amazing list of cocktails, there is also a wide array of spirits on the menu. Depending on the spirit, there is a tasting menu as well. Some may view the reservation policy, password and house rules as strange, elitist or too uppity. But Wilde said it all adds to the appeal of the bar.
“We patterned Bourbon & Branch after Milk & Honey in New York. We wanted that destination spot where people could enjoy great cocktails and the company of others in a classic, speakeasy setting,” he said. “Sure, we get plenty of tourists and visitors who have heard of the spot. But we also get a ton of people from the neighborhood and regulars as well. This is about making things fun and providing a unique setting for some great cocktails.”
Even after their latest opening (The Tradition), Wilde said they are continually looking to expand and to other markets as well. “You’re going to get a unique experience at each of the bars. Rickhouse is more typical of a regular neighborhood bar, Local Edition will have live music along with a massive space, Wilson & Wilson has a restaurant feel with a tasting menu for our cocktails and The Tradition has eight different menus featuring different types of bars and cocktails,” said Wilde. “We continue to push ourselves to bigger and better things.”
For cocktail enthusiasts, Bourbon & Branch is a must-do on the growing list of bars in San Francisco. Unique, fun, hip all mixed with amazing cocktails makes for a truly memorable experience. Bourbon & Branch is located at 501 Jones Street. Wilson & Wilson is in the same building and Tradition is right across the street on Jones as well.
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- May 28, 2010 09:12 PM (GMT)
Here are my goals for this summer. ^^
99 Strength ------> ACHIEVED!
99 Attack
99 Firemaking
65 Slayer
70 Prayer
35 Herblore
Cassandra
- May 28, 2010 09:53 PM (GMT)
yay first to comment :D
good luck Di :) (yn)
we can get 70 prayer together maybe?
Shun
- May 29, 2010 03:04 AM (GMT)
Need to make money first. =o
Here are my goals for this summer. ^^
99/99 Strength ------> ACHIEVED!
89/99 Attack
80/99 Firemaking
45/65 Slayer
55/70 Prayer
4/35 Herblore
Shun
- June 8, 2010 02:48 PM (GMT)
Need to make money first. =o
Here are my goals for this summer. ^^
99/99 Strength ------> ACHIEVED!
94/99 Attack
80/99 Firemaking
46/65 Slayer
60/70 Prayer
7/35 Herblore
Shun
- June 9, 2010 12:28 PM (GMT)
99/99 Strength ------> ACHIEVED!
95/99 Attack
80/99 Firemaking
46/65 Slayer
60/70 Prayer
7/35 Herblore
hennet303
- June 9, 2010 06:12 PM (GMT)
I'd say work on att first to get the bones on something to help get the prayer which can also help make the money to do Herb and FM is just cut trees
Guest
- June 9, 2010 06:40 PM (GMT)
she is already getting attack but i think shes killing spiders >.>. she could just kill drags for the bones and not have to buy dbones ^^.
Shun
- June 9, 2010 07:50 PM (GMT)
I'm killing Dagganoths which are decent money and good XP. I already have 81k Maple logs that have been sitting in the bank since 4 months back because I was too lazy to burn them. :P
I sell off the drops that I get from the Dagganoths. This cash will be used for Prayer. ^^
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Sophia Cunnington
- January 1, 2008 09:36 PM (GMT)
Sophia poised herself, took a deep breath, and hurled an attack spell across the room towards Phoebe, "Flipendo!!" ( -13)
Status: 0
Phoebe Anima
- January 1, 2008 09:59 PM (GMT)
Phoebe, ready for Sophia's attack, flicked her wand in response, brushing her blonde hair out of her face. "Protego!" (+8)
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Actions: 1
Status: -5
Sophia Cunnington
- January 2, 2008 03:17 AM (GMT)
Sophia frowned. Her first spell didn't seem to affect Phoebe much. Maybe she could knock her wand away, "Expelliarmus!" (-4/+4)
Status: +4
Phoebe Anima
- January 3, 2008 12:22 AM (GMT)
Phoebe's wand was ripped from her hands and she squealed, diving after it. It rolled to the ground a few meters away and she scrambled after it as though she had no time to grab it. Finally she got it, stood up and cast her own spell. "Fervensio Mantos!" (-5/+5)
ooc;
Actions: 2
Status: -4
Sophia Cunnington
- January 4, 2008 12:30 AM (GMT)
Sophia flourished her wand and cast a protective spell, "Texi tectum!" ( +8 ) She turned invisible for but a moment; and the spell brushed right past her.
Status: + 7
Phoebe Anima
- January 5, 2008 07:02 PM (GMT)
Phoebe grunted and aimed her next spell at Sophia with as much force as she could muster. "Turbo!" (-14)
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Status: -4
Actions: 3
Professor Andrew Drew
- January 6, 2008 08:50 PM (GMT)
"The time is up!" He turned towards Sophia, "you didn't react quickly enough. Better luck next time."
"Phoebe, nice work on the Turbo! You're going on to the next round."
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My dirty little secret as a developer is that I’ve been an Android user for the past 2 years. I finally upgraded this week to an iPhone. I can’t begin to describe how much better the experience it is!
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Where the hell have I been?
I always the “sorry I haven’t posted a blog in a while” posts, but this is one. This blog is largely dedicated to iOS development bits that come across, and in short I haven’t been doing a whole lot of iOS lately.
I’ve been spending my time working with Drupal to craft web services for Mindgrub’s ongoing project. It feels odd to be back in the PHP world again and especially strange to be working on Drupal. In light of what I’ve been working with lately, I’ve got a couple of things I’m planning to work on for this site soon:
- Wrangling Drupal to expose services for use with iOS, or literally anything else. Drupal is nice, but I find the lack of documentation for what I perceive as very simple things frustrating but it’s very common and very popular. There may certainly come the day when you might be asked to connect to Drupal as part of an iOS development project. I plan to outline creating a content types module in code as well as services to feed your iOS app.
- A practical guide to RestKit. RestKit is in active development, so a lot is changing every day. That makes most of the tutorials on the web a little out of date. I plan to write a guide to using RestKit where you have an existing iOS app with an existing CoreData model in place.
One of my goals for the year was to branch out a bit. I’m not sure that PHP and Drupal are exactly where I wanted to go, but onward nonetheless. years resolutions anyway? Why not 6-month resolutions? Or monthly resolutions? Monthly resolutions in agile sprints? Maybe I’m onto something . . .
Most of the stuff I put up here is highly technical in nature. Tutorials on how to do this or that in iOS or XCode. I was tempted to go technical on this one too. A rambling list of technologies I’ve worked with. Another xxxKit.framework I intend to plod around with.
Boring. Who cares.
That in itself isn’t really interesting to anyone (not even me really). So in a different direction I’m taking stock of what I’m good at, what I’m not good at, and what I want to be better at on a very general level. I think these could apply to anyone working as developer whether working on an indie project (as many people reading iDevBlogADay probably are) or working on client work (as I do).
Things I’m Good At:
Watching the details – It came to me in an epiphany this year. Strangely. I am a detail oriented person. I was never the kid with a clean room. I never meticulously organized my closet by color. I never had the border-line OCD, must-organize-everything kind of personality. I still don’t. On some level I separate ordinary details from Details That Matter.
At any rate, I have a penchant for the details when it comes to my work. I like this. I love this. I used to be envious of the detail oriented folk. I’m pleased to count myself among them in some regard. I think this is necessary for people who work as developers. Your job is detail oriented. “The computer will only do exactly what you tell it”, my dad used to say. To a fault. I take pride in the craftsmanship of my work. I always have. 2012 will be no different.
Making a plan – 2012 was one of my first forays in developing a real, honest-to-god software engineering plan. I thought I’d nailed it. Turns out I was about 75% of the way there (the gaps really showed up during development). Regardless the parts that were planned well went off without much of a hitch and came in under-time against the project plan. This is something I want to expand upon in 2012. You’d be amazed what you can figure out ahead of time before you write one line of code. Every 15 minute interval spent mulling over a problem before you start will save probably hours in development when the same problem inevitably comes up. As mine and Mindgrub’s projects grow ever larger this will become increasingly more important.
Things I Suck At (and want to improve upon):
Automating the mundane – Shame on me as a developer, but there’s a lot of things for which I don’t have automation in place. Simple stuff. Dumb stuff. Stupid stuff I still do manually like pushing a build to test flight or setting up a UITableView. I think there’s a couple reasons I haven’t delved into this more.
- Time is not always on my side, in that the pressure to just get the client work out the door is high to where I don’t think I’ll have time to find/write a script or an automator action or make an XCode template. Usually by the time I notice that I should have automated it I’m already 75% done with the task.
- Fear of the tools – What if automator jacks the upload to testflight? What if the deployment script fails? Dumb fear. Paranoia. I need to get over this one.
- Lack of knowledge – In no way can I count myself as a bash guru. I couldn’t write a Perl script to save my life. Granted automator is a huge help here. In some ways you can put this under “fear of the tools”
Not sure if there’s an easy solution here. First would be to learn the tools: automator, a little bash. I think I’ll leave Perl until 2013. I also have a mind to make a slew of Xcode templates to use with my development team as it always seems there’s a bunch of things we have to add to any UIViewController. Third for me is to try out tools and scripts that get posted to various places like HackerNews and Twitter, see what other folks are doing and try to adopt them into my and my team’s workflow.
Branch Out – I’ve been working with iOS almost exclusively in 2011. It’s great and I love it but I’ve been feeling the need to branch out lately. I believe it’s important especially in the current job market to be versatile as a developer. Learning new programming languages will make you better at whichever language you use everyday. Learning new frameworks will make you think differently about the frameworks you already use. And if you don’t learn anything new, technology will pass you by. For 2012 I want to get a release of a cocoa app. While it’s still objective-c, there’s a lot of nuanced differences between the two. I’ve got a couple of ideas rattling around, just gotta get up and get going on one.
Making every moment count – I feel like I need a little more get up and go in my life. Not that I’m lazy. Far from it. But I want to make more of my free time that I have. That doesn’t necessarily mean more work or side projects but more about getting the feeling that I’m getting most out of every minute. This year I want to work on paring down distractions and focus more on important things.
So, maybe this process was a little more cathartic than I thought looking at the tone of the post from the top to the bottom. At any rate I want to wish those few regular readers and folks from iDevBlogADay a great new year. Happy Coding! | http://zearfoss.wordpress.com/category/other/ | 2013-05-18T11:02:37 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Date of situation: 1873.
Shows: Parts of Alabama, Louisiana, Arkansas, and Tennessee.
Relief shown by hachures.
Prime meridians: Greenwich and Washington.
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In upper right corner: "no. XXIX."
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Guj Cong to hold state-wide protests over fishing
Ahmedabad: Demanding Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi's resignation over the allotment of contracts worth Rs 400 crore in the fisheries department, state Congress Monday said it would organise protests across the state from Thursday on the issue.
Gujarat Congress chief Arjun Modhwadia gave this information in a statement issued here.
Accusing the BJP government of snatching people's rights and indulging in corruption amounting to over Rs 1 lakh crore in 17 different cases, Modhwadia alleged, "On the one hand, Modi has named his campaign yatra in the name of Swami Vivekananda, on the other, he is spreading lies."
"The ruling party should in fact take out a 'Yatra of Shame'," he added.
"State ministers don't have any decision-making powers. The allotment of contracts in the Rs 400 crore fisheries scam was done with Modi's permission," he said..
Gujarat governor Kamla Beniwal has given her consent for prosecution of Solanki in the scam.
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Kolkata ranks 7th highest in climate change in coming decades
Kolkata: Kolkata is a climate vulnerable city and according to a study ranked seventh in the global list of cities facing the highest climate change in the coming decades, British Deputy High Commissioner (Eastern India), Sanjay Wadhwani said Thursday.
"We know that climate change will impact business and the Kolkata economy in sectors such as buildings, power, water and energy supply," Wadhwani said, announcing the launch of a study by the Centre for Low Carbon Futures (CLCF) and Jadavpur University.
Backed by the British Deputy High Commission, the study 'The Economis of a Low Carbon Kolkata as part of the 10 Climate Smart Cities' would be conducted in the Kolkata Metropolitan Area ?nd would help identify relevant policies to attract investment.
The KMA was chosen for the study because it is one of the 10 largest cities in the world and is growing at a rapid rate.
Jadavpur University Professor Joyashree Roy said the programme would create a global network of cities representing different climates and states of development and reflecting varied approaches to green growth and concerns relating to climate change mitigation and adaptation.
"We will identify the projects for reducing carbon emissions and green growth. We will also suggest cost effective ways for implementation of those projects," Roy said.
West Bengal Pollution Control Board (WBPCB) Chairman Binay K Datta said, "We will have to streamline issues and areas before making a bigger plan for energy conservation.
"One-third of the water supply in the city is wasted because of silly reasons like pipe leakage, we need to plug such loopholes," he said.
"Even transport, we need more of elevated and underground metros to stop too much dependency on fuel-based transport," he said.
He added that even housing projects needed to be designed in a way that lights and other electricity-based connections are wisely used.
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These hooks are so useful and very versatile. They can go many places that you wouldn't want to pound a nail into. I have never put something on one of the hooks that it didn't hold. Another awesome feature to the Command hook is if you change your mind and don't want the hook in that specific location the glue strip comes off without damaging the surface it's stuck to.
I have them all over the house:
- inside my kitchen cabinet to hang my pot holders
- on the back of the bathroom door to hang my towels
- on the fridge to hang my apron
- on the front door to hang my wreath
- in my craft room to hang my scissors, templates and hand punches
and I look forward to seeing how many more ways I can use them as I get each room in my house organized this year.
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I've thought about buying these before...thanks for letting me know that they work!
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That seemed a little unrealistic. The way Asheville handled the matter (confiscating all food with people with political connections getting more) seemed right on the money. It seemed entirely unlikely that within 3 months of the grid going down that a cannibal army would scour the land eating everybody in their way. Look at Somalia. They've had chronic food shortages. Where are the cannibal armies? Certainly there's civil unrest, pirates, and warlords, but no posse of rump-eaters.
Anyway, overall, it was a good book.
Well, I don't know. In Somalia, international organizations and other countries have been shipping them food for decades. The warlords sieze the food to keep their own armies fed. But if those shipments stopped? Who knows what would happen..
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So, I admit to avoiding my own blog lately. It's not surprising after the last three posts about losing so many loved ones. This year has not been too kind to me and mine, and I guess I needed time to get my head together after all the sadness. Things are beginning to take an upward turn at last, perhaps because I am once again entering the month of me.
If you don't know me or are new to this blog, let me explain that I was born on October the 18th, 1969, and since I turned forty (last year), I decreed it time to be selfish and take an entire month to celebrate my birth. After forty years, we all deserve much more than just one lousy day. I say live it up while we still have our health. Last year's month of me was the best part of the year thanks to my dear friends who celebrated in style with me at Shakori Hills where Donna the Buffalo, the best band in the world, serenaded me, and I won't even tempt to top that this year. I am going for another Donna concert with friends this coming weekend,of course, but then I'm missing Shakori all together and opting for a week at the beach because it sounds like heaven right about now. I will be busily hunting beach glass, or laying like a barnacle on my blanket in the sand.
Anyway, just in time for the month of me, the wonderful news has hit the stands that I am to be one of the eleven women honored by the Academy of Women this year for outstanding contributions in the category of the arts. I was completely floored. So just a couple of days after my 41st birthday, I will have to stand up in front of the Central Virginia community and give an acceptance speech. There is, indeed, always a down side to every great thing. Still, they only want said speech to last five minutes...whew. The dinner and awards ceremony information can be found in the News and Advance article. Click the green Academy of Women link above for more info. The proceeds raised from the dinner will go to the YWCA of Central Virginia, whose motto is "eliminating racism, empowering women." So, come on out to help me celebrate the night and the other ten women who are being honored, and help an excellent cause in the process.
So, what other good news can I share? I am still working diligently on my graduate project and the painting and writing for this is moving right along. It seems to be flowing out of me these days. Of course, this leaves little time for anything else, like writing blogs and submitting new poetry and short stories to publishers, or calling, writing, and generally responding to invitations from my friends. I've even had to turn down or put off several excellent job and volunteer opportunities for worthy causes. There are just not enough hours in my day. I hope everyone will forgive me.
I did manage to squeeze out enough time to get my art entered into some shows over the summer. Thanks to my studio mate Terri, who reminded me of dates, kept me focused, and even picked up my art for me while I was away for school, I was able to take second place for my dragonfly photo in the Rockbridge Regional Show in July. I showed at Kaliedascope a few weeks ago, also. Thanks to all the friends and clients who came by to support me at the show.
Next, there will be three of my photos and two paintings inspired by my years living in Morelia, Mexico showing this month at the Bowen Center for the Arts in Bedford, Virginia for their "Latin American Show." If you are in the area, the show opens next Friday, October 8th and runs through the middle of November. Also, Art on 12th, where I have my studio, will be open to the public on Sunday, November 14th from 1:30-4 pm. We are located above the new Art Box on the corner of 12th and Grace St. in downtown Lynchburg. Come on by, enjoy snacks and conversation and see what all the fabulous artists in the building are working on.
So, that gives you a little taste of the positive side of my life, plus a a little taste of my art. Thought it might brighten up your days. Have a great month of me! | http://zooleft.blogspot.com/2010_10_01_archive.html | 2013-05-18T10:41:51 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [
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Yes, Please!
I have always fed my dogs Science Diet dog food, having gotten a tip about it from my friend Wenirs when as an adult I got my first puppy, Daisy, a Springer spaniel. Daisy loved Science Diet and wolfed her portions so fast that we ended up having to put rocks in her bowl just to slow her down - otherwise, she would whoops on the carpet (always on the carpet, never on the easily cleaned bare floor) shortly after.
My next dog Tillie, also a Springer, was very fond of poultry (she was a bird dog, after all, and "pointed" the Thanksgiving turkey each year). Chica, a lovable mutt who strayed into my heart one day was thrilled with any food I gave her, almost pathetically grateful for having found a good home. They both got mostly Science Diet and they ate it with gusto.
Then came Cora. She did me the courtesy of sniffing her bowl of dry Science Diet before turning away.
No, thank you.
So, I added a little water, something that worked like a champ with all my other dogs.
Well, acceptable, perhaps, but not great. After two days of lackluster appetite, she turned resolutely away from that, too. Cousin J-Yah has a yellow lab, Mia, and J-Yah mixes just a little chicken broth with the dog food to whet Mia's appetite. So, I went to my cupboard and tried that:
"Now you're talking!"
She happily crunches her way through SD, but only when mixed with chicken broth.
This evening, looking for a quick and easy dinner after a day of errands, chores and catering to My Beloved who has wrenched his knee, I decided to fry some bacon for fried egg sandwiches. Guess who showed up the instant the bacon package came out of the fridge? She hung around all during the cooking, gazing hopefully from the pan to me and back to the pan. I've been wondering what mix of breeds I have gotten in Cora. Clearly, there's border collie or perhaps Australian shepherd in there, with a bit of some bird dog (she intently watches all birds she encounters) but now I see clearly that what I have is an American Bacon Hound, not a particularly rare breed, but very lovable.
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I was thinking that her coloring looked a wee bit like Australian shepherd. Oh, and my cats will eat Science Diet if forced to but they don't really like it. Their preference is Pet Promise.
Smart pooch, smart pooch.
Biggles
ALL dogs are Bacon Hounds.
Nice story.
Bacon bits! Bacon bits! THAT's what's for dinner. Delightful story and I can hardly wait to meet her.
She must have some cat in her too, my girls LOVE the bacon.
Oh, and apply some bacon to the wrenched knee - it makes everything better *giggles*
Cora seems adorable.
Kailyn, I have a lead on a different food, Merrick, so maybe that will work...
Biggles, picky pooch, picky pooch.
Cookiecrumb, thanks.
Nancy, she can hardly wait to meet you, too!
Morgan, great idea about the knee! I laughed out loud.
Anna, yes, she has been to the Sarah Bernhardt School of Acting and graduated summa cum laude. Her major was "Adorable."
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Spring flowers – snowdrop
By: zaveqna
tags: blue, flowers, light, snowdrops, spring, white
This is a better look of a snowdrop from the “spring flowers” series (here and here).! :)
Coming home to see this after a long day just puts my eyes at ease. I really love the “fresh” colors here. Very well done.
Stunning shot, great angle … well done!
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Sunday night, I’d been reading Elizabeth Falkner’s Demolition Desserts (I’ve borrowed a copy twice now from my library) before bed and saw this carrot cake: Karrot Keiki. Given Elizabeth Falkner’s ways, it is carrot cake reinvented into something elegant and simple: according to the description in the book, “carrot caketons, cream cheese-currant-walnut balls, pear sesame salad, and sesame vinaigrette. Almost like a little salad, but in dessert form.
Now here comes the whim: while looking at it, I noticed that the cake/caketons didn’t require that many ingredients. And I had all the ingredients on hand, except for the wheat flour that I would easily substitute with something else to make it gluten-free. Yes, I woke up that Monday morning with an extra spring in my step, knowing I was on a.
The second batch, I thought, was more successful. Using brown rice flour and only a scant amount of the walnut flour just for flavour, they came out a lot better. This is the recipe that I’m featuring in this entry today.
It’s the perfect carrot muffin: soft, moist, and not too sweet. Depending on what you’re in the mood for, with a little frosting, they’re turned into easy cupcakes. (Unfortunately, I ate all that was left of the frosting, so I didn’t have any to frost at least one of these for the photo shoot!) So far, I’ve just been eating them as muffins (from the second batch) and they’re great for breakfast or a snack when you’re feeling peckish.
The original recipe called for baking powder (1/2 teaspoon) in addition to the baking soda, but I just used the baking soda. Although we don’t strictly follow SCD anymore, we still don’t use baking powder – for no reason except that we haven’t got back to using it.
If you prefer to make a cake instead of muffins or cupcakes, Elizabeth Falkner’s recipe specifies a 4 1/2 by 8 1/2 by 2 3/4-inch loaf pan or a similarly sized 1-pound loaf pan. In her recipe, the cake is cut into cubes (“caketons”) for the presentation.
I threw in a small of walnut flour to the batter in the second batch after I’d mixed all the other ingredients, which I’ve listed in the ingredients list as an estimated guess. (Maybe I’ll shoot a video soon just to show how much I throw in.) I made more – this time a double recipe -last night for breakfast this morning but forgot to add the walnut flour to the batter, so I just sprinkled small amounts of it on the tops before putting them in the oven. This way, the walnut flour can easily be mixed into the batter of each liner or can be left sprinkled on top, as I left last night’s.
(Please let me know if this slideshow works, it’s a new feature on WordPress. It seems a bit faulty still, off and on.)
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This recipe is linked to Gluten-Free Wednesdays.
Makes 6 muffins/cupcakes
Adapted from Elizabeth Falkner’s Demolition Desserts
Ingredients:
1/8 cup grapeseed oil
1/4 cup honey
1 egg
1 1/2 cups peeled, shredded carrot (about 2 large carrots)
1/4 cup + 2 tbsp brown rice flour
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
1/4 tsp salt
Sprinkle of walnut flour, about 1/8 cup
Method:
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Muffins in the morning, with ground walnuts topping.
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What Are you Working On?
Senior Molly McCurdy has been working in Special Collections for her entire time at Wake Forest. She is so good at what she does for us, we save only the very best (most tedious and complicated) projects for her. Currently, Molly is finishing the CRMF (Church Record Microfilm) project that we launched about two years ago. The project consists of tracking down paper work and databases for over 1,000 churches from a variety of locations (including the often vilified Procite database), synthesizing the materials into Archivists’ Toolkit, exporting the EAD, and publishing the EAD in WakeSpace. The workflow is meandering at best, and the materials she has to work with are inconsistent and confusing. Molly does not let this deter her and approaches this project with enthusiasm and determination. Stay tuned for the soon-to-be-announced completion of the CRMF project! Thanks to Molly and all of our student assistants for their hard work! | http://zsr.wfu.edu/special/blog/category/what-are-you-working-on/ | 2013-05-18T10:13:18 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
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I am still amazed that another year has passed by! And the new year is now already a week old! How time flies!
How did you spend your new year’s eve? We hosted a small dinner at our place with some friends, my husband cooked – as usual – and it was good! We were fortunate to catch the ferry to town just in time to watch the fireworks at the pier. Actually, we didn’t know that it was one of the venues to watch the fireworks but when we arrived we saw many people have gathered there so we stayed put. I didn’t bring my camera with me, but I managed to tried the video feature on my iPhone (thanks to my younger brother who gifted me this nifty gadget!). Enjoy:
To see the complete firework display from across the harbor, check this out – it’s pretty impressive!
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Here is a pack of 12 fantastic FireWorks Papers to scrap the memories! They are delightfully rich, festive and elegant! Great to scrap various special occasions with fireworks in the picture: New Year’s Eve, Chinese New Year, 4th of July, Disneyland visits – to name a few. Now you are ready to scrap those new year’s eve party pictures ;)
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5 Meetup Groups match “Zumba Dance Fitness” near Las Vegas, NV
Zumba is a Latin-inspired, easy-to-follow calorie-burning, dance fitness-party. Feel the music and let loose!!!!!
This group is for ladies who are interested in having fun while pursuing various fitness activities. I don't know anyone who wants to try all the fun exercise options there are for women in the Las Vegas area so I want to make some new friends. I want this group to be open to women of all ages, shapes, sizes and fitness levels. While most of the Meetups will be fitness related I will try to host some other fun events where we can bond and develop real friendships. I want everyone in the group t ….
If you're new to Zumba or you really want to take that Zumba class at your gym but are embarrass you might "stand out" because you don't know the moves. No worries :) Come join us in a safe, totally fun atmosphere. No dance experience needed. Really... You will be transformed into Zumba dancing star. We've seen this happen over and over. Past students will start a class by saying "I can't dance and I feel I look silly when I try." and leave with: "That was so simple and easy to follow, when is t …
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I'm Miss Tina:) Health & Fitness Coach, Personal Trainer, Zumba & Bootcamp Instructor located here in Fabulous Las Vegas!!!!!! *~*♥Let's Get Fabulous & Fit Together♥*~* Come join me for Zumba or Turbo Dance Class!!! I teach a very high intense 45-60min Dance Fitness Class incorporating a little bit of SASS! Prepare to sweat and burn up to 800 calories depending on your intensity and fitness level. You will leave my classes feeling refreshed and invigorated! Come try it out! Your FIRST class is …
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The inevitable case … of the worst case scenarioMonday, March 24th, 2008
I). Yeah, you know what I’m talking about. MSWCS is a common affliction of those newly diagnosed or in limbo. Your brain immediately fires up the WCS lobe and now the worst things that MS can do to you are not only a possibility, but practically a given. In a wheelchair. With no bowel or bladder control. Blind. Deaf. Can’t swallow. Can’t talk. An absent brain. And you are so numb you can only feel your nose, which itches all the time. But you can’t scratch it because you can’t move your arms. Oh yeah, and your health insurance got cancelled, your family put you in a budget nursing home, and your dog was adopted by a Mr. Vick.. | http://00634ca.netsolhost.com/blog/?m=200803 | 2013-05-18T10:52:39 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
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Woman Attacks Store Clerk ‘Vampire-Style’
. At least that’s what Denver police encountered on November 7th.
An unidentified woman entered a convenience store last Monday night to pick up some Fritos and bite some strangers. After groping and biting an unsuspecting customer, the woman then took out her vampire frustrations out on a defenseless store clerk. Mesmerized by the woman’s look and cheese puff stained fingertips, the clerk was helpless as the woman reached across the counter and bit into her…hoodie. She left a rather pesky black and blue mark. Quick tip for all aspiring vamps — the jugular needs to be fully exposed in order for you to bite THROUGH the skin. Don’t ask how we know.
Surprisingly enough, the Denver police are baffled by this case considering they have “no pattern of vampires in the area” unlike Transylvania and Bon Temps, Louisiana, which are hotbeds of vampire activity.
Police are suggesting that citizens stock up on holy water, crucifixes, garlic cloves, and Bela Lugosi films.
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Tatoo Artists Revenge Could Cost Him $100,000
A tattoo artist from Dayton, Ohio is facing a $100,000 lawsuit from his ex girlfriend, who says the artist intentionally gave her an embarrassing tattoo, allegedly for revenge. The ex, Rossie Brovent first tried to have Ryan Fitzgerald arrested on assault charges, but that wouldn’t stand up, since she had signed a release form before getting the artwork done, which said the design was “at the artist’s discretion.”
According to a report, Ryan had found out that Rossie had cheated on him with a long-time friend of his, but instead of confronting her about it, he decided revenge would be sweeter. So, when Rossie asked him to do a large tattoo of a scene from Narnia, Ryan had a better idea. Rossie alleges that Ryan got her drunk on wine and tequila shots, so he could get her to sign the consent form that relieves him of any liability. With document in hand, Ryan instead of tattooing the scene she was expecting, gave her a rather large tattoo of a steaming pile of excrement, complete with flies buzzing around it.
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Snoop Dogg Gets Banned From Another Country — Tha Wire
He’s one of Hip-Hops most loveable artists, however he’s had his share of issues getting into certain countries. Now, the Dogg Father could add another one to his growing list.
In 2006, Snoop Dogg and his entourage were involved in a brawl with airport officials at London Heathrow Airport. Snoop and his crew maintained their innocence and even filed suit. Sighting that airport officials started everything. As is turns out, he was absolutely right. As a matter of fact he won the case after surveillance footage proved police were the aggressors. Then the following year in 2007, officials in the land down under banned him from entering their country due to his criminal record. That stood for a hot minute, eventually they reversed the decision and hooked Snoop up with a work visa.
50 Cent is gearing up to drop his highly anticipated album Street King Immortal and I got all the details. Plus, he and his new partner Floyd Mayweather are already doing business with their new company TMT Promotions. Get the skinny now with Tha Wire below.
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‘Snow White and the Huntsman 2′ Ditches Kristen Stewart, May Spin-Off Chris Hemsworth
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This comes from The Hollywood Reporter, who note that though Stewart is definitely off the project, director Rupert Sanders may stay at the helm of the sequel. This news hits at the same time that Deadline Hollywood is reporting that Universal acquired the novel ’90 Church: The True Story of the Narcotics Squad From Hell’ for Sanders to helm, which may be his ticket off the sequel.
With Koepp out and the original film tarnished (and as THR also speculates), the sequel to ‘Snow White’ is probably dead. The numbers aren’t so great that audiences are clamoring for a follow-up, but because Universal has Hemsworth under contract for a sequel and because he was one of the stars of the year’s biggest film, they’re likely trying to see if they can salvage something. Don’t be surprised if this is the last we hear of a ‘Huntsman’ sequel.
UPDATE: Universal Fires Back! | http://1280ksli.com/snow-white-and-the-huntsman-sequel/ | 2013-05-18T10:21:08 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [
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