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Living in space is not just all work and no play.
Astronauts like to have fun, too. If you're going to work on the
space shuttle for a week or two, it is certainly okay to look out
the window, play with your food or tease your crewmates once in
awhile. If you're staying on the International Space Station for
a few months, fun is an essential ingredient to the quality of life.
Astronauts need a break from their busy schedules
when they are orbiting Earth. Days or even months of straight work
is certain to cause stress among space workers. That is why flight
planners on Earth schedule time during each day so astronauts can
relax, exercise and have some fun. Shuttle and station crewmembers
even manage to have fun while working. Experiments in space sometimes
involve ordinary toys and how microgravity affects them.
A popular pastime while orbiting the Earth is simply
looking out the window. Astronauts onboard the space shuttle can
look out the cockpit windows and watch the Earth below or the deep
blackness of space. Inside the International Space Station, crewmembers
have numerous windows they can look out. Astronauts often comment
on their fascination and awe as they look at the Earth spin beneath
them with its multiple shades and textures. Sunsets and sunrises
are also very spectacular, occurring every 45 minutes above the
Earth's atmosphere.
Onboard the space station, crewmembers have many
opportunities to relax and play. Like most people who work full
time, they get weekends off. On any given day, crewmembers can watch
movies, read books, play cards and talk to their families. They
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I hate commuting0 comments Posted by Matt Grover at 10:21 am
..well sometimes it's alright, but certain days suck.
Every 7 seconds0 comments Posted by Matt Grover at 10:14 pm
Y'know, I like the BBC iPlayer, despite it's lack of Mac download support, it fits into my ever evolving viewing lifestyle, more on demand.
I can get home, pick a programme to watch, one that may have been on 5 days ago, but I was busy, and watch it, it's a good concept, which is surprising, cos I think most people thought it was gonna suck. The quality's not bad, on my 13" MacBook or Powermac's 19" CRT it looks ok, and I even plugged the MacBook into a 32" Sony Bravia, and to be fair, once you're sat back in a chair, it's not that much worse than the nasty artifact laden digital standard def.
However, there's issues.
The organisation of it could do with a little improvement, maybe top picks from each category on the front page rather than just 5 or 6 programmes from all that's available.
I haven't explored the whole RSS side of it yet, but then iPlayer appeals more to my impulse viewing side rather than the scheduled series, although if I can RSS an individual series, say The Choir so that I'm alerted to each new episode (much like a podcast) that would be handy I guess, depending on what you've got to handle the RSS at this end.
Downloads, ok still no d/l for Mac (or Linux), cos the Beeb loves Bill too much, but again, I'm not that fussed, this is more impulse, channel surfing, see what's on, and the downloads expire at the same time as everything else afaik, so there's no huge benefit there apart from...
Streaming. Oh good god. When it works, it's brilliant. The other 20 odd hours of the day it's a pain in the arse, especially if you're into a programme that you're watching then about 10 minutes in, it starts stalling, and you get this stupid twirly dots thing pop up EVERY SEVEN SECONDS! (yes I timed it). I don't want to have to shout CUNT at my screen every seven seconds, I'll become a geek with tourettes!
Please BBC for the love of god do something..
According to the iPlayer help page, under the streaming section...
"Why is my programme not playing smoothly?
If your network connection is not consistent, you may experience problems connecting – the video will pause and a circle will spin on your screen. You can check your connection speed at www.speedtest.net.
This link will take you to a website outside bbc.co.uk. The BBC is not responsible for content or software downloaded from external sites.
Check that your connection is not being shared with others that may be downloading or uploading files. Network traffic may also build at certain types of day, so you may wish to try later."
Uhuh. No.
- I did the "speedtest", confirmed I'm running around 2Meg, not great, but it should cope.
- "Network traffic", yes lag exists but..
- "you may wish to try later", no I want to watch the programme now, I'm already watching it later than it was originally broadcast for Christ's sake!
I was gonna post something along these lines to the suggestions message board on their site, however you can only do that between 8am and 10pm, so that'll have to wait until tomorrow lunch or something.
Possible solutions...
- More servers? I'm not sure on how many they have, but I'm sure more would be better, I'm guessing YouTube has a fuck-ton more than the BBC.
- Larger buffer? Yeah, I think this one's a winner, I can wait a few more seconds for my programme to start if it means it won't cocking stop! So A larger buffer would be nice plus..
- Continued buffering while paused? Wait doesn't pretty much every other Flash player out there do this? YES! It appears that the iPlayer doesn't, there's no progress bar that I can see to indicate that it does, so why the cock not? I pause it, go grab a drink, by the time I get back it's well ahead, so even a bit of lag shouldn't affect my viewing pleasure.
Only time will tell I guess (and whether I remember to post a polite version of this on the BBC message board), right now I'm gonna try to finish watching the rest of the programme about people getting it on in Second Life.

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We are now entering the last push for the deadline. Which means there's a lot of work on our plate to polish our level to a degree we are happy with, which seems to be pretty high.
In our last presentation before the final one last Tuesday. We received a lot of helpful feedback and ideas from the tutors and fellow students. The main issue being we need to bring the level more alive with movement, as at the time walking through the level felt like a ghost town.
Most of the props for the level have been finished, so the main task was to tackle the lifeless level. We did this by making loads of little scenes to place throughout the level, such as market stalls, and knocked over pub furniture to imply a fight the night before. The whole point of this is to tell a story, making the level more believable. To tackle the lack of movement in our level without being able to put characters in was tricky. But we decided that making loads of little particle effects will solve it.
I (Dan Hargreaves) was tasked to create bundles of firewood, a terrain texture of wet mud with puddles, a haypile and some flowers.
|3 types of fire wood which can be arranged into large bundles
|Tiling texture of wet mud with foot prints
|3 types of flowers. Although the daffodils have been removed as the don't fit with the season we are aiming for
Dan peacock was tasked to create a variety of meats to add to market stalls, a range of decals to break up the tiling textures and a skybox.
|Various chunks of highly detailed meats to place throughout the level
Dom used the week to make amendments to his boat models, produce a range of farm tools and ropes.
|Selection of farm tools
|Ropes to add more character to the docks
Chelsea made a wide range of market stalls along with a number of small props. She also made a few changes to some of her older models.
|A massive range of market stalls
|A range of posters with related news to the time period for extra authenticity
Luc had the large task of putting all our props together in engine, mainly focusing on the doc area. As well produce the much need movement in our level through particle effects.
|Docks are starting to take shape
Joe used the week to produce a large array of environment clutter and some little scenes to fill out the bland streets.
|A large array of furniture to little the empty streets
Keep an eye on our blog, as were just finishing off the last few bits, then our level will be complete.


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Sept 16 (Reuters) - Traders are betting the Federal Reserve will keep policy easier for longer now that former Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers is out of the running to succeed Ben Bernanke as chairman of the U.S. central bank.
Summers, a former top aide to President Barack Obama, was widely regarded as likely to be more "hawkish" than current Vice Chair Janet Yellen, who was also a candidate and is now deemed the new front-runner. Obama has also said he was considering former Fed vice chair Donald Kohn to succeed Bernanke, whose second term expires in January.
Traders now give a 55 percent probability of the first rate hike in December 2014, and 68 percent chance in January 2015, according to CME Group's Fed Watch, which generates probabilities based on the price of federal funds futures traded at the Chicago Board of Trade. On Friday, traders saw a better-than-even chance of the first increase in October 2014.
Summers' withdrawal on Sunday came in the face of mounting opposition from within Obama's own Democratic Party. On Monday, U.S. short-term interest rate futures rose as traders shifted away from bets on Summers and toward Yellen, seen as a more dovish policymaker.
"Summers was viewed by the market as someone who would remove accommodation more quickly. He was pretty much priced in," said John Brady, a managing director at Chicago-based RJ O'Brien.
"It's the Fed chairman recalibration trade."
Four Democratic senators on the Senate Banking Committee were expected to vote against Summers if he had been nominated by the president.
The most recent statement of opposition came from Montana Senator Jon Tester on Friday after markets closed. Tester is a centrist Democrat and his opposition provided a strong signal of the uphill climb a Summers' nomination would have faced.
Summers' decision to withdraw from consideration was welcomed on Wall Street, where analysts said it removed the uncertainty a bitter battle over the Fed chairmanship would have caused. Stocks were trading higher. [.N}
Economists said Yellen would provide greater policy continuity with the Bernanke-led Fed, which has been aggressive in its efforts to bring the U.S. unemployment rate down.
The Fed has held the overnight federal funds rate near zero since December 2008, and has more than tripled its balance sheet to around $3.6 trillion, to lift the economy from recession and foster stronger economic growth.
Fed policymakers begin a two-day meeting on Tuesday to discuss the economic and policy outlook, and are widely expected to slow the pace of their bond-buying stimulus from the current rate of $85 billion a month.
While Fed officials have stressed that any cuts to the program would not lead quickly to a rate hike, traders had increasingly bet on an earlier Fed tightening as anticipation for a reduction in the central bank's bond purchases grew.
If Yellen is not nominated, the move "will be perceived negatively by the markets because it leaves the door open longer on who will succeed Bernanke," said Kevin Giddis, head of fixed income capital markets at Raymond James in Memphis, Tennessee. "In the end, she (Yellen) is the best choice."


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On 18 July 2007, I visited Kumargram, a tea-garden, just a handful of kilometers South of the Bhutan border and a few kilometers West of the Sankosh river, the natural feature which separates the West Bengal Dooars from those of Assam.
Nearby was a disused World War II airstrip amidst a tea-garden. I took the opportunity to rummage around during my lunch-break.
While I was there, I noticed a small tree with leaves and branches coming down to my shoulder height. The leaves were jigsaw shaped; something had been at them. Again and again, I found leaves folded to form narrow open tubes held together with a few strands of a fibre.
In each leaf-tube was the remains of a pupa. The pupas were brown, sometimes with green slimy-looking markings. These pupas were more or less heavily covered with a white powder, which I then thought was that of a fungus. The pupas had holes in them – some had large holes at the head indicating the point of exit of a newly hatched butterfly, others with smaller holes at the sides or on the back, the likely exit point of a newly hatched parasite such as a wasp.
I looked around for the butterfly whose pupas it could be, and almost immediately, I saw a handsome robust skipper with large antenna hooked elegantly and ending in sharp points. The head had fine greenish bristles. The forewings were triangular, held straight back and half-covered by well-rounded hindwings. The hindwings had a thin clear white band which was diffused towards the outer side, the distinctive feature of the butterfly. There were four or five of these handsome skippers, buzzing strongly around the bush and settling for short periods of time on exposed leaves or twigs.
I found one perched low, which allowed me to catch him gently between my thumb and forefinger. Knowing that hesperiids require both UP and UN images, I opened its wings for photography, but the best of efforts could not prevent some smearing off of the scales.
Strangely, the UP was a featureless brown. Later on I referred to Wynter-Blyth and Kunte and concluded that it later as the COMMON BANDED AWL, (Hasora chromus). I also found out that the white powder on the pupas was a characteristic of the subfamily Coeliadinae or the Awls.
The butterfly, when released, showed no inclination of flying off, allowing some excellent shots of it on my hairy arm! When I had had my fill of photographing the skipper, I shooed it off my hand. It then resumed flying around, looking, I thought, for some suitable leaves on which, I presumed, to lay eggs.
Now seeing the dismal pupal casts, I looked around for a wasp which could have been the brood-parasite. I soon saw a small, blue-coloured wasp, buzzing lazily along with legs suspended below it.
This I suspected may be the culprit, but I had no net to catch it and it did not settle for me to get a photograph. Anyway, it could have been flying along there by coincidence. The only way to confirm whether this was the wasp predator is by examining parasites emerging from a pupa or by actually observing a wasp piercing a pupa with its ovipositor. I anyway had no more time to spare and reluctantly left the spot.


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Wear wide brimmed hats, sunglasses, and fabrics that are thin, light-coloured, and breathable and covers the areas of your body that get the most sun.
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It is very important for everyone to have plenty of water during summer season. More so for the kids, as they might sweat out playing in the heat. It flushes out all the toxins from the body and also provides fluidity for the flow of blood.
Image credit: Getty ImagesMake them wear light colored clothes
Light-coloured clothes are considered good in regulating body temperature during summer. Dark clothes tend to absorb heat from the sun, whereas light-coloured clothes reflect heat away from the body, thus keeping the body cool. Choose light-coloured clothes for kids during summer.
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For kids beyond that baby stage, Cokkinides advises parents to plan outdoor activities to avoid peak-sun hours (10 a.m. to 4 p.m.) as much as possible. Sound impossible for your active kids? Make sure you all can get a break from the sun, when needed.
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What better way to cool off in the summer than to go for a swim in the pool or ocean? After a day of play, the cool water will feel so refreshing and cool down the kids who are probably overheated. Water is so relaxing and cooling and kids love to play in the water too.
Image credit: Getty ImagesMake sure kids apply sunscreen
Its important to get your children into the habit of wearing sunscreen when they go into the sun. From an early age, start developing a routine: get them to pay attention to the areas of the body that are most exposed to the sun, like the nose, lips, back of the neck, shoulders, arms, back, knees, and feet.
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September's Foodie Penpal September 30, 2012Posted by ToYourHealth in Public Health.
Tags: Foodie penpal, Veganism
September has been such a whirlwind month at our house so the many treats in this month's foodie penpal box were much appreciated. If you don't yet know, foodie penpals was started exactly one year ago by Lindsay at The Lean Green Bean blog and now has over 1,300 food lovers sending great packages to each other. She'll pair you up with a sender and a receiver and is open to anyone.
This month, Jennifer thoughtfully sent delicious vegan treats. While not everyone in my family sticks to a vegan diet, everyone did ravage the contents of the box!
The two bags of chips were fun for us to try. Since it's been ages since I bought a regular bag of potato chips, these two kinds of Terra chips were a big hit with the kids. I had no qualms about letting them snack on these. They were very tasty and probably the only way the kids would eat beets or sweet potatoes.
This was the second time we have received seaweed snacks. These, being plain, were easier to eat than the super hot wasabi type. The paper-thin (or thinner) sheets of seaweed are great to crumble on a salad, or easy to grab as a quick snack.
There is something in every box I set aside just for me. This combination of Lady Grey tea and ginger thin cookies would give me pause during a hectic day, I thought. Setting the box aside was not enough. I should have hidden it before curious fingers happened upon it. I did get to enjoy my cup of tea with the thins before they were gone, but I'll be on the lookout for another box as I still have quite a bit of the lovely tea. Thank you, Jennifer!
You never know what you'll receive in your foodie penpal box. But it's been a fun way of introducing us to new foods that might not catch my eye in the store, or sampling a bit of local flavor from across the country. Don't forget, you can be a foodie penpal too!
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Despite reports on Friday, Beastie Boys' Adam Yauch is still not 100 percent cancer free.
"While I'm grateful for all the positive energy people are sending my way, reports of my being totally cancer free are exaggerated," Yauch, a.k.a. MCA, said in a statement on their website on Saturday. "I'm continuing treatment, staying optimistic and hoping to be cancer free in the near future."
The rumor began when band mate Michael Diamond, also known as Mike D, reportedly said on BBC Radio 1 that the founding member of their group was "all clear." A spokesman for Diamond told Billboard.com, "Mike did not say that."
Yauch announced to fans via YouTube in June 2009 that the had a tumor in his parotid gland in his neck.
The diagnosis forced the hip-hop trio to cancel a number of shows and push back the date of their new comeback album's release.
"This is something that is very treatable and in most cases they're able to completely get rid of it," Yauch said in 2009. "They caught it early and it's not anywhere else in my body."
Although the condition typically causes problems with eating and swallowing, Yauch said he was thankful it would not affect his voice. He has since turned to a vegan diet and has been trying Eastern medical treatments.
The group's upcoming album, Hot Sauce Committee, Part 2 is scheduled to be released this spring. Hot Sauce Committee, Part 1 is still infinitely delayed.
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Enjoy these two videos of Christmas music played on a THEREMIN. This isn't a joke or just some sort of weird "air guitar" playing. The theremin is a real instrument (see below for details.)
The theremin (originally know as a aetherphone/etherophone) was one of the earliest electronic instruments. It was invented by a Russian, Léon Theremin, in 1928. It is a very difficult instrument to master, no matter how weird it looks! You may recognize the sound, as it has been used in many movies including , Spellbound, The Red House, The Lost Weekend (All three of which were written by Miklós Rózsa, the composer who pioneered the use of the instrument in Hollywood scores), The Spiral Staircase, The Day the Earth Stood Still, The Thing (From Another World), and The Ten Commandments
Here is what Wikipedia, with rather technical language that I can't follow, had to say about it:
The theremin is almost unique among musical instruments in that it is played without physical contact. The musician stands in front of the instrument and moves his or her hands in the proximity of two metal antennae. The distance from one antenna determines frequency (pitch), and the distance from the other controls amplitude (volume). Most frequently, the right hand controls the pitch and the left controls the volume, although some performers reverse this arrangement. The theremin uses the heterodyne principle to generate an audio signal. The instrument's pitch circuitry includes two radio frequency oscillators. One oscillator operates at a fixed frequency. The frequency of the other oscillator is controlled by the performer's distance from the pitch control antenna. The performer's hand acts as the grounded plate (the performer's body being the connection to ground) of a variable capacitor in an L-C (inductance-capacitance) circuit, which is part of the oscillator and determines its frequency. (Although the capacitance between the performer is on the order of picofarads or even hundreds of femtofarads, the circuit design gives a useful frequency shift.) The difference between the frequencies of the two oscillators at each moment allows the creation of a difference tone in the audio frequency range, resulting in audio signals that are amplified and sent to a loudspeaker.
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One of the new features in the 2014 release of Photoshop CC is the ability to create a bump or normal map from any image.
There are two new menu items in this version of Photoshop available on the tool bar menu, Filter / 3D.
- Generate Bump Map
- Generate Normal Map
What's a Bump Map
Bump mapping is a technique in computer graphics for simulating bumps and wrinkles on the surface of an object.
What's a Normal Map
Normal mapping used to re-detail simplified meshes. Normal mapping, or "Dot3 bump mapping", is a technique used for faking the lighting of bumps and dents – an implementation of Bump mapping. It is used to add details without using more polygons.
To Generate a Bump Map
. Open a JPG in Photoshop (if another file, just flatten it)
. Select menu option Filter / 3D / Generate Bump Map.
. the image will turn into a gray scale image.
. Now save this image on the desktop (in the example below i've called it Bump.jpg).
. Now revert the menu option so that you end up with the original file.
. Create a 3D Extrusion from the image, Menu option 3D/ New 3D Extrusion from Layer
. Once this happens the image will become the font face of the 3D object. To select the object make sure you have the move tool selected 'V' key and click on the 3D object. At this point you should see the navigation options of the cage. Also, open the 3D window as well (as shown below), the 3D window will show the structure of the 3D object, and provide easy access to all faces.
. Click on the Front inflation property (marked yellow) inside the 3D window.
. Open the properties window and navigate to the Bump slider (marked in red below), then click on the bump map texture loader icon (marked in yellow). This will load the previous generated Bump map into the 3D model.
. Choose load texture and point it to the bump map that you created earlier.
This will load the bump map into the bump map channel of the front face of the 3D object.
. Once the file is loaded, you can increase the strength of the bump to show the bump map releif (shown in red). To show the effect i have just used the rotation and dolly navigation tools (marked yellow), to zoom in and rotate the object.
You can do the same with Normal maps using the Generate Normal Map option from the Filter / 3D menu.
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REAL ESTATE- ON THE BLOCK- Just what the... Mill Creek Dr. pad could be a cure-all
Address: 1243 Timberbranch Court
Neighborhood: Mill Creek
Asking: $299,500
Assessment: $262,300
Year Built: 1990
Size: 2,492 fin. sq. ft.
Land: 0.4 acres
Agent: Frances Bernier, RE/MAX Realty Specialists, 434-985-2484
Curb Appeal: 7 out of 10
Open House: Sunday, January 31, 2-4pm
Beloved by Hook readers for his tips and quips, Dr. John Hong and his partner, Dr. Chris Zitnay, are moving to New Jersey and have put their Mill Creek house up for sale. What does Dr. Hook prescribe for a healthy home?
Natural surroundings: The (nearly) half-acre property has been landscaped with retaining walls, walkway, trees, and annuals, and even a fountain. A trellis that keeps a Brown Turkey fig tree from leaning into the doorway also overlooks a vegetable garden they share with a neighbor.
Since pulling weeds isn't enough to get the heart rate up, new owners can head for the woods at the end of the cul-de-sac where they'll find trails linking to the Biscuit Run system and good for biking, jogging, or just a stroll.
When something needs to be done, do it yourself: Although the house was only nine years old when they bought it in 1999, the couple has done a lot of upgrading, making it more energy efficient with a new HVAC system, steel duct work, and low-e argon-filled thermal pane windows. Upstairs sports bamboo floors, and the basement is cozy thanks to new carpeting. A hand-crafted medicine cabinet in the downstairs master suite adds to the homey feel.
There's a new deck and a large finished basement (with a bathroom) suitable for a workroom.
A cozy, kitchen-centered layout: The living/dining/kitchen area has an open floor plan that's perfect for entertaining, with honey beige walls with grass green trim around the window frames and on the window seat. A hanging pot rack over the center kitchen island conveys, and the Kenmore gas range has a power burner in front and simmer burner in back for fool-proof cooking.
Bright colors to stave off winter blues: The paint job gets a little more creative in the living room, where a fiery orange has been rag-rolled over the beige for a warm, rustic look. French doors open to the deck.
Beside the dining room (strange positioning), a second set of French doors adds charm to the master bedroom, an eye-opener in cobalt blue with magenta trim. Since those French doors and multiple windows let in lots of light, heavy-duty blinds are provided for afternoon naps. The small bathroom in the suite has flowery wallpapered walls with magenta accents (shelving, medicine cabinet) and a glassed-in shower.
Upstairs, a terracotta red guest bedroom is joined by a spare room the original owners used as a nursery; it has white walls with a sloped, blue ceiling dotted with wispy white clouds. The upstairs bathroom is light and airy as well— with a skylight installed when the house got a new roof last year.
On the other side of the landing, an office with the same sloped ceiling as the nursery has big windows looking out towards Carter Mountain.
When you step in the front door, relax: Like many professionals, these doctors put in long hours at the job, so their home needs to be rejuvenating. The easy, kitchen-centered layout makes entertaining easy and fun, proximity to hiking trails keeps them in shape, and bright colors kept them upbeat even during the recent http://www.readthehook.com/stories/2010/01/07/COVER-snowstorm-amalg.aspx"> snowpocalypse. But to cap things off, the medicine men put in a hot tub, which also conveys.
All in all, a prescription for comfort and relaxation— or entertaining and exercise— at one of the lowest prices per square foot we've recently seen, this house just might be a cure-all.
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RAYMOND WEIL – Music Maestro""
A few days before the official opening of Baselworld. Like musicians tuning up their most beautiful instruments, RAYMOND WEIL staff is working at a brisk tempo, making the final preparations for what is going to be the musical masterpiece of the year. It is on the occasion of this inescapable watchmaking event, that the family Brand will unveil its new stand…its "music box". The Swiss watchmaker will also present its new film, in which the fusion of music and watchmaking has never been so complete. More than an inspiration, the music becomes a marketing instrument.
A new stand…a "music box"
The biggest solid wood cello in the world…this is what visitors will discover as they get close to the watchmaker's stand. This 9 meter high violin, made up of 59 components – its assembly required over 2000 hours of manual work – is more than a musical instrument; it symbolizes RAYMOND WEIL's passion for music that has always been the source of its inspiration. "Our watchmaking Company has been involved with music, ever since its foundation. The only thing that was missing was a stand that reflected this…our music box", confides Elie Bernheim, Director of RAYMOND WEIL Genève. An 8-meter high tree, more precisely a magnolia, stands imposingly opposite the entrance. As a natural element of this structure, it represents the Brand's loyalty towards its clients.
Thus, this "music box" with its uncluttered lines, constructed from noble materials, wood and aluminum, will provide, as it does each year, the climax to the Company's symphony, for more than one week. In Hall 1.0, the "Hall of Dreams", among the big watch brands, RAYMOND WEIL will stand out as a leading light, with its 360m2 ground floor surface area.
A new Brand film
From the moment Baselworld opens, visitors will have the chance to discover the new RAYMOND WEIL film. The Brand will take advantage of having all its partners in its music box, in order to present to them its film,
Techniques, aesthetics and loads of emotions: watchmaking and music have so much in common. A homage to that which has always inspired the Swiss Watchmaker, the new film, Precision is my Inspiration, evokes the creation of two masterpieces, the one watchmaking and the other musical – in two universes intimately bound together.
Throughout this film, RAYMOND WEIL confirms its deep attachment to music and illustrates its expertise and know-how: the care that goes into the conceptions, the design and the construction of each watch, is melodiously translated into images. In this way, the Brand portrays the emotional journey intertwined in the process of the creation of a watch or a musical masterpiece.
Precision is my Inspiration, both RAYMOND WEIL's slogan and the name of its new film, expresses the Brand's universe. Inspiration is what is found at the basis of each work of art; precision is the indispensable condition required for achieving excellence.
"Music" marketing
More than a film around a new product, Precision is my Inspiration is designed to inspire the audience, to educate it and convey a message to it. For a long time, RAYMOND WEIL has been demonstrating its skill in playing with different social media, and communicating with its consumers, and now wishes to offer them more than a glimpse of its new timepieces. The film is at the heart of a multi-channel campaign, through which the Brand wishes to unveil its new approach.
The Music that was yesterday's source of inspiration, today becomes the vehicle of the values, the know-how and enthusiasm of the music loving watchmaker – to the extent that it becomes an integral part of the Company's marketing. From here on, Elie Bernheim talks of "music" marketing, a concept that allows him to speak both to his partners and his clients at the same time.
Thus, with a new stand resembling a cello, a publicity campaign that highlights its time-pieces playing from music scores and a new film inspired by music, the RAYMOND WEIL Brand has never been more coherent. It is positioning itself as a true Maestro of watchmaking.


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NANGALE, Tanzania — Only about half the dogs Anna Czupryna is studying in Tanzania have names. Dogs are different here. They are foragers and night watchmen who are treated more like livestock than pets.
But when the dogs of north-central Tanzania do get named, their owners tend to go big. Simba, Swahili for "lion," "is probably the top name," she says, "followed by Bush. There are a lot of Obamas. A lot of Saddams and Osamas, too."
Czupryna, 31, has loved dogs since she was a girl growing up on Chicago's Northwest Side, spending summers among animals in the Polish villages where her parents grew up.
As a teenager, she started working at the Portage Park Animal Hospital in her neighborhood. As an adult, she volunteered at the Lincoln Park Zoo. When she entered graduate school and it came time to pick a doctoral project, she zeroed in on the zoo's rabies vaccination work on dogs in the Tanzanian villages that border the Serengeti National Park.
"What do these dogs eat? What is pup survival like? What do they do on a daily basis?" she says. "I just was curious. I just wanted to know."
Now Czupryna ("choo-PREE-nuh") spends four months a year in an Africa tourists never see, learning everything she can about the dogs in four rural villages, including Nangale and Sanungu, just southwest of the famous park. Her project — comparing two dog populations that receive the vaccinations with two that do not — is an important cog in the zoo's Serengeti Health Initiative, itself a vital part of the burgeoning global fight against rabies.
For three years in a row she's lived this hard life.
The distances between her villages are long. Grant money was scarce this year, so Czupryna stretches her own scant savings, eating the Tanzanian staple chipsi mayai — a plain omelet and fried potatoes — almost every night. She brushes her teeth with bottled water and often takes "bucket showers," which means a big pail of water and a scoop. Sometimes the water is warm.
The climate is so hot and dusty that clean clothes are almost beside the point. For her days doing field research, Czupryna has a Monday-Wednesday outfit and then a Thursday-Saturday outfit. Each one consists of a gray T-shirt and earth-tone cargo pants to hide the dirt.
The days begin at sunup and often end close to midnight, in a room closed against the mosquitoes that can bring malaria. There, she processes canine fecal samples to bring to Chicago for further study. During the country's frequent power outages, she brings her laboratory outdoors, using the battery of the zoo's beat-up Land Rover to run her centrifuge.
It's important and invigorating work, she says.
She is documenting a dog population that hasn't been studied in such detail before. The information will be vital when dog vaccination programs become, she hopes, widespread in Africa and Asia and health officials decide to go after rabies full-throttle to prevent an estimated 70,000 deaths annually.
"The Serengeti is, in some respects, a pretty saturated patch," says Joel Brown, the University of Illinois at Chicago biology professor who is Czupryna's co-doctoral adviser. "(Scientists) can tell you the life expectancy of the wildebeest, of over 20 different predator species. They can't tell you the life expectancy of domestic dogs.
"The dogs were basically a foci that might bite somebody and transmit rabies. Dogs were the center of this research." But before Czupryna, he continues, "nobody was actually asking the dogs."
She is also helping people who have little. These villages are so poor that children clamor for an empty plastic water bottle. The going day rate to hire an elected village leader to help with Czupryna's dog demographic study is 7,000 Tanzanian shillings, about $4.35.
Their hardship, she says, leaves her even more impressed by the cooperation of the people whose dogs she studies.
"Can you imagine doing this in Chicago," Czupryna asks, "knocking on some owner's door, 'Hey, I want to tattoo your dog. I want to collect its poo. And then there's a six-page questionnaire'?"
'I just loved animals'
After her annual visits to their homes, she imagines them saying, "'I'm not sure why she cares about these dogs so much. Must be a crazy muzungu thing.'"
"Muzungu" is Swahili for foreigner, and over the years it has come to mean, more specifically, "white foreigner." But it doesn't seem to be used as a pejorative: At Tanzanian airports you can buy T-shirts that say "Muzungu" on the front.
As the Land Rover leaves Nangale on this October day, Czupryna explains over the rattle of the diesel engine and the thump of rutted roads that she is closely tracking over 1,000 dogs, keeping tabs on mortality, birth rates, stress levels, general health and more. The results will let health officials know if, for instance, a rabies vaccination program results in there being many more dogs to vaccinate.
She presented preliminary data at a London conference for dog researchers in September. The population, she is finding, does not change dramatically if vaccinated, but overall the dogs of these villages are short-lived, with only about two-thirds of adults surviving from one year to the next. The primary causes of death are anorexia, an inability to find enough food, and predation, mostly from hyenas.
When she visits a Nangale household where one of her dogs has given birth, she spends a good 20 minutes bending and twisting to get a photo and a decent look into the cubbyhole it's in.
"Data point!" she says about the new additions.
Czupryna graduated Resurrection High School and DePaul University, where she received a biology degree.
"I just loved animals. I wanted to be a veterinarian. I wanted to be a teacher," she says. "When I read all the (Jane) Goodall books, I wanted to be a chimp researcher."
Dogs were the constant, though.
Her father, Edward, recalls her, as a teenager, drawing up a work sheet to hold him to a promise. Her parents had said no to a dog throughout her childhood because they thought their apartment in the three-flat they owned was too small — but she could have one when she could take care of it.
Her presentation convinced her parents to yield. Now, in Tanzania when she gets back to her modest guest house at the end of a day in the field, Czupryna sees that dog. She turns on her laptop — electric company or generator permitting — and is greeted by a screen-filling image of a German shepherd.
It is a sad sight: Just before coming back to Tanzania this year, she had to have the dog put down, at age 13.
His name was Athos, Czupryna says, after the most mature and noble of French writer Alexandre Dumas' "Three Musketeers."
Right fit for the job
If Czupryna had built a life destined to lead to the work she is doing in Africa, it would probably look a lot like the one she's lived.
She learned about animals working at the veterinarian's office in her home neighborhood and, later, at the zoo, where she signed on as a volunteer docent.
"I did the seal talk a couple of times, and I did the chimp training talk," she says. "My favorite, though, was the African Journey," the zoo's name for its collection of animals from the continent.
Her meticulousness was honed preparing construction bids with her father, a teacher in Poland who's built a high-end home renovation business in Chicago. And in writing long memos.
"Anytime she leaves and we have to take care of her pets, there's always a 20-page manual," says her brother Rob, an accountant.
"It's a book," says her mother, Jozefa.
Czupryna's ease in foreign cultures could trace to her summers in Poland, 13 in a row. Or a summer abroad during college doing field research in Kenya, just to the north of Tanzania. Or a more recent trip to Argentina where, her parents say, she traveled 14 hours across the country by bus to meet a long-lost cousin.
"You kind of compartmentalize where home is," Czupryna says.
Her facility with language comes not just from listening to Rosetta Stone Swahili recordings before her first Tanzania visit, but from throwing herself into learning the languages — Swahili and Sukuma — once in-country.
She grew up bilingual, English and Polish, plus enough Spanish to serve as a translator sometimes at the animal hospital, and a little Japanese, too.
And her friendly but commanding manner among strangers, she says, probably comes from the two post-collegiate years she spent teaching science at St. Scholastica Academy, a Catholic girls high school in the West Rogers Park neighborhood, before deciding she really wanted to work with animals.
Says Czupryna, "The interconnectedness of the whole thing is quite amazing to me."
"She comes pretty much pre-adapted, pre-trained," says Brown, who shares the job of overseeing Czupryna's doctoral work with Lincoln Park Zoo conservation Vice President Lisa Faust, who earned her own doctorate under Brown's tutelage. "I say, 'Look, I have no idea if anything in life happens for a purpose, but a life well-lived in hindsight will look as if everything happened for a purpose.' And you (can) spot that hallmark in Anna."
In his years supervising researchers, he has encountered three types of people, he says.
Some let a foreign place and its hardships sap their energy. Some grit their teeth and get the job done. "And then there are some, and Anna falls into this category," Brown says, "where you learn to accept the place on its terms, to see the advantages and the opportunities, where you actually draw energy from the place, the entire ambience."
More draining has been the struggle to pay for it. Czupryna wants to come back next fall because the work needs another field season.
But although she starts writing proposals for research grants almost the minute she returns, usually in mid-December, to Chicago, where she has a home near Harlem and Foster avenues, she was able to win only a couple of small ones for 2012.
The zoo helps. Chunde Bigambo, its Tanzanian assistant project manager, spends the field season as Czupryna's research partner, driver, cultural ambassador and, in her words, "big brother." The vehicle, its fuel and her $2200 in research permits also come out of Lincoln Park Zoo's Tanzania budget.
But daily living and travel are Czupryna's responsibility. Her earnings at the animal hospital and as a teaching assistant at UIC don't leave a lot in savings. So she talks about returning to Tanzania in the conditional.
"Anna has chosen to select a very independent project," Brown says. "That creates financing on pins and needles."
'Hard slog' abroad
The Land Rover is stopped on the street in Bariadi, the regional capital where Czupryna and Bigambo keep rooms and have set up their field office. A man approaches the window, exchanges greetings with the researchers in the Sukuma language and hands her a package.
She lights up as she unwraps it.
Inside are photos of her with her family — mom, dad, two brothers — that she left on a wall in a previous guest house.
Their absence had been on her mind. "Now I can hang these up," she says, "and now I can really call the hotel home."
A catalog of other items she misses: lettuce, cheese, chocolate — specifically the Chocolate Thunder from Down Under dessert at Outback Steakhouse. Deep-dish pizza. Christmas music.
"I haven't had Thanksgiving in three years," she says. (Later, in a November email, she'll write, "I think we are just going to have a chipsi mayai Turkey Day, which is fine. I'm really excited to get home to Chicago for Christmas, though.")
Living in Tanzania can frustrate even the hardiest visitors. Its fluid sense of time, where appointments are often approximations, can be especially hard on Czupryna, who, for all her adaptability, is also a planner and, in her words, "a bit of a control freak."
She has a limited time in the country and 405 households she has to visit. Anything, a flat tire, rain washing out a road, a local helper who misses a meeting, can throw her schedule off.
But there are many charms, too: "Finally landed in Serengeti," she posted on Twitter in late August (@AnnaSerengeti), "after not one, not two, but rather THREE landing attempts due to giraffe on the runway!" Czupryna almost seems more at home in the grit and grime during her field-research days — talking with people, squatting in the dirt, dangling their dogs from a hand-held scale, to the delight of the children — than during several days spent at the research house the zoo rents in the middle of the Serengeti park. She uses the time to fill out expense reports and log in photographs of dogs and wildlife, but she always seems ready to get going again.
The house, scruffy like an overused ski lodge, is very different from the hotels elsewhere in the park, where $300 a night is a bargain. You don't walk outside, for fear of becoming lunch. A lioness and her two cubs live in the kopje, or rock outcropping, next to the house.
Two years ago, Czupryna was working in the kitchen when she heard a noise from the living room. She had let her guard down and left the front door open, and a male baboon took advantage of the opportunity to get inside; Czupryna remembered to make herself as big and loud as possible, and, luckily, the ape sauntered back outdoors.
The refrigerator, aged and broken, has become additional shelf space. Critters discovered the tomatoes Czupryna and Bigambo brought from the Bariadi market, ruining half of them. And electricity is guaranteed only three hours per night, when park authorities run the generator and everybody rushes to recharge camera batteries, cellphones and laptops.
But this night, there are treats. Felix Lankester, the British expatriate who, until recently, was Lincoln Park Zoo's project manager in Tanzania and will continue working with the Serengeti Health Initiative in his new post at Washington State University, has flown in with cheese, sausages and samosas.
As they prepare the comparatively lavish dinner, Lankester quizzes Czupryna about the boyfriend she had back home the last time he talked to her. The words are indistinct but, clearly, the news is not good. Being gone four months a year, living sort of like a touring musician, Czupryna says later, is not easy on the love life.
"It's an incredibly hard slog," Lankester says. "You have to be very dedicated and very patient and prepared to live in the rural communities for long periods of time.
"She's dedicated to the dogs. She loves dogs. But she's also a good scientist, and she's got great enthusiasm to learn more about demography. She's interested, and she likes being out here."
Gifts given and received
It is early afternoon at the Sanungu Primary School, where 1,312 children learn in cinder-block buildings that form a "C" around a central yard. The classrooms have dirt floors, and only kids in the equivalent of seventh grade and above get desks.
A teacher with good English skills insists on showing visitors from Chicago a classroom. "Excellent," one of the visitors says, trying to be polite.
"This is the environment for learning in our school," the teacher says. "It is not excellent." Czupryna and Bigambo are here to lead an open-air school assembly. They take turns speaking, in Sukuma, about rabies — what it is, how to treat it and the importance of bringing dogs in for the annual vaccination days that the Lincoln Park Zoo team conducts in Sanungu and other villages.
Take the message to the children, the theory goes, because, in Tanzania, they are in charge of a family's dogs.
The school visit is not part of Czupryna's research, but it does help make her known in the community and ease her entry into homes. Whenever possible, she will veer off from collecting dog data to help the team out on vaccination days.
"We vaccinated 348 dogs in Nangale village today!" read a mid-September tweet.
When the talk is done, she and Bigambo distribute gifts: two pencils per student, the girls accepting them with a curtsy. The captains of the boys and girls soccer teams are called forward and Czupryna hands each a special soccer ball she has brought from the United States: Designed for developing countries, they won't deflate.
At the households she visits for her study, she hit upon another kind of gift she could give. After she finishes each session of dog inquiry, she poses the whole family together for a photo. Often, the families insist that she be in the picture.
Using "the magical bus driver system," as she calls it — a network of drivers like the one that delivered the recovered photos of her family — she'll send a CD off to a city to get prints made. And when those prints come back, she presents the portraits to the families.
"In these parts," she explains, "a lot of people, if they've had their picture taken, they've never actually seen that picture later."
Czupryna gets a gift of her own in November.
The zoo, after planning its budget for the vaccination project in coming years, lets her know it is going to hire her to help run it. It means she can return next year and finish her research, and it means a break in her anxiety about money.
"What a relief!" she says via email.
She'll be able to apply her research to vaccination planning and give up her teaching assistantship, leaving her time to start writing her doctoral thesis.
Included in the data she has gathered for the thesis are the names people have given their dogs. And in those lists exists another kind of gift Czupryna has received. Along with the Simbas and the Obamas, there are now dogs in Tanzania named Anna.
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Last week, the Planck satellite observed the Crab Nebula, also known as M1 from Messier's catalogue, and Tau A to radio astronomers. The Crab Nebula is one of the brightest objects in the sky at radio and sub-mm wavelengths, and is used by many astronomers to calibrate their instruments. It is the remnants of a star which underwent a violent and catastrophic explosion at the end of its life, an event known as a supernova. The Crab Nebula is associated with one of the few supernovae which was observed, as it was seen by Chinese and Arab astronomers in 1054.
After the supernova, the outer layers of the star were scattered widely into a huge cloud of gas, which we now see as a nebula, and is frequently observed by amateur and professional astronomers. The core of the star ended up as a pulsar, a rapidly rotating, magnetised neutron star. However, it is the surrounding nebula that Planck is interested in. The nebula is around 13 lightyears across, which is around 10,000 times larger than our solar system (depending on where you define the edge). It is also relatively close in astonomical terms, at about 6 lightyears distance, and so is also relatively large in terms of astronomical objects see from Earth. It is around 7 arcminutes across, which is 7/60th of a degree, or about 1/4 the diameter of the full moon as seen from Earth. The smallest of Planck's beams on the sky is 5 arcminutes and the largest 30 arcminutes, so to the majority of Planck's detectors the Crab Nebula will have appeared as a "point source" – a single blip in the data. However, it is so bright that it would still be very obvious.
Because the central pulsar is magnetised, the Crab Nebula is permeated by a magnetic field. This causes any electrons in the nebula, of which there are many, to spiral around the magnetic field lines and emit radiation known as synchrotron radiation. This radiation, which is brightest at radio wavelengths, but still very strong at Planck frequencies, is polarised, which makes the Crab an ideal object for calibrating the polarisation-sensitive detectors on Planck. Many experiments have observed its polarised radiation, including the SCUBA instrument on the JCMT on Hawaii, which observed it at 350GHz (a wavelength of 850 microns). One of the properties of synchrotron radiation is that it varies in a fairly predictable way with frequency, so it is possible to tell from an observation at one frequency what it will look like at another.
The data will take time to analyse, but will be ingested into the Planck database and used to help calibrate its instruments. The Crab Nebula is not the only calibration source, but is the best single source in the sky for calibrating the polarisation angles. Other non-polarised sources include the planets in our own solar system, particularly Jupiter, which are very bright at Planck's frequencies as well as to the naked eye.


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Shallotte Festivals
The Annual North Carolina Oyster Festival offering a fun mixture of new activities and old favorites that are certain to entertain the entire family!
People come from far and wide to visit the Oyster Festival, a favorite festival to anyone who has been.
The coastal waters of Brunswick County provide an abundance of the marine mollusks each year bringing over 30,000 people to Ocean Isle Beach to celebrate the tasty treat.
The North Carolina Oyster Festival will feature live entertainment, arts and crafts, vendors, festival food, NC Oyster Festival Road Race, NC Oyster Festival Tennis Tournament, Surf Contest, a girls Beauty Pageant, a kid's areas, the Oyster Shucking Championship, and an Oyster Stew Cook-off.
Wilmington's Riverfest is celebrated in October and runs from the foot of Market Street to Cape Fear Community College. Currently drawing nearly a quarter-million people, Riverfest began in 1979 as a modest two-day event and has expanded to three fun and food-packed days.
Riverfest has about 200 craft and food vendors plus fireworks, entertainment on two stages, the Great Waiters Wine Race, Run the River 8K Race, various exhibits and a children's area. Additional Riverfest activities include skateboard competitions, street dance, wakeboard competition and a musical Battle on the River by a number of bands, a film festival, and Art in the Garden tours of gorgeous private and public gardens enhanced by art and music.
During Riverfest, the Invasion of the Pirates is a kind of festival within a festival, beginning with the arrival of the "pirate ship" on Friday evening, followed by the Pirates Ball. On Saturday, kids can participate in a treasure hunt and pirate costume contest.
Sunset at Sunset Festival at Sunset Beach, NC.
Sunset at Sunset begins at 10:00 near the Ingram Planetarium. Last year over 4,000 people attended!
The Sunset at Sunset event is fabulous! Great vendors, spectacular events, great music and tons of fun for everyone are in the plans. Also included is the 5K Beach Run/Fitness Walk for Adults and a Children's Fun Run.
At Holden Beach over the last full weekend in October, "NC Festival by the Sea" is hosted by the Holden Beach Merchants Association.
This 2 day event is kicked off with a parade down the Holden Beach causeway. This is the only day of the year that you can walk across the Holden Beach bridge and each year several hundred take that high altitude stroll to stake out the perfect spot to view the parade.
Arts and Crafts vendors are open from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm on Sat. and 9:00 am to 4:00 pm on Sun.
You'll want to plan to be onsite for at least a couple of meals and a snack or two, just to sample a tiny portion of the food on hand.
For the competitive sort, there is a horsehoe tournament and a sandcastle building contest.
Children enjoy face painting, huge kites flying overhead and the children's rides and amusements.
There is live musical entertainment both days at Holden Beach's new Pavilion.
The event began with vendors selling their wares under the Holden Beach Bridge. Started in the 1980s, the Springtime festival called "Days at the Docks" hosts over 50 arts and crafts vendors and a dozen food vendors.
Days at the Docks is free to the public with free parking and free live entertainment all day. This year there will be a King Mackerel and Flounder Fishing Tournament with cash prizes. Also new this year, there will be a Cornhole Tournament in addition to the traditional Horse Shoe Tournament. For the kids, there will be inflatable rides, huge kites flying overhead and a free children's area with games and face painting.
Around 3 pm (depending on the tides), the world famous "Bopple Race" takes place. Buy your "Bopples" from any merchant prior to or at the festival for a dollar. The Holden Beach Mayor and commissioners toss the "Bopples" from the atop the Holden Beach bridge and the currents carry them toward the designated finish line. If your Bopple is first or second to cross the finish line, you win a handsome prize. What's a "Bopple?" Sorry, you'll have to attend to find that out.
The Azalea Festival is a celebration of Wilmington's outstanding artwork, gardens, culture and rich history during its five days of entertainment including: a parade, street fair, circus, concerts, pageantry, and all that is Southern.
Since its inception in 1948, the Festival has blossomed into an extended weekend celebration that attracts more than 300,000 people. The Festival is a non-profit civic organization and this year is sponsored in substantial part by its five (5) major sponsors: Progress Energy, Velocity Solutions, Inc., Wachovia Bank, the Hilton Wilmington Riverside, and Coastal Beverage.
For more than 50 years, the folks of Southeastern North Carolina have been throwing the best party in the South and you're invited! There's something for everyone among our community's rich array of artwork, gardens, history and culture. Come join the fun!
Event Include the Azalea 5k/Walk/Run, the Queen's Coronation, the concert featuring Kenny Loggins, the Circus, Art Show, Cape Fear Garden Club Azalea Tour, the Street Fair, parade, coin show, boxing match, the historic home show and so much more!


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When Nixon's secret tapes of his White House conversations were released under duress as part of the machinations of Watergate, the phrase, "expletive deleted" from the typwritten transcripts entered the language. Nixon's chat was not always of an elevated nature.
There is a blog on the NYTimes Opinionator page about a contest to redesign (yet again) the suburbs, this time of Long Island. What struck me most about this post was the comments: they are vehement, often violent, and I have never seen so many editorial deletions of inappropriate comments. Apparently, feelings about urban design run pretty high. And I am a frequent reader of climate-change blogs, where emotions are not exactly, shall we say, cool.
One line of thought was that the entire idea was a crock. The suburbs are hell. They should be razed completely. Tax auto use to the skies and force those jerks to take mass transit.
Another was that NYC life has become impossible for middle-class people with families, so why do you hate us so much?
Plans of all sorts abound, from utopian to totalitarian. Everyone has the solution. Everyone should be happy to live in the suburbs that I design.
Confusion over the very nature of terms is fundamental. Manhattan is an American anomaly. Many local suburbs are as dense as cities elsewhere in the USA. Most people who live in American cities live in regions that would at least look suburban to New Yorkers.
Sprawl is evil. Suburbs are evil. Cities are virtuous. People in the suburbs live soulless, isolated lives. As if you can't be terribly lonely and bored in the midst of a crowd in Bryant Park.
For another post on the topic of urbanist-ideological ranting, visit here: Facing the Reality of Sprawl.


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Instawork is the best place for hospitality workers to find temporary jobs on-demand. From Michelin-star restaurants to small coffee shops, Instawork makes it easy for bartenders, cooks, servers, dishwashers and other experienced hospitality workers to find work at local businesses and earn up to $30/hr on a flexible schedule. No interviews or paper resumes. Just book the gig in the app and show up to do the work. Se habla español.
A prep cook's role refers to a back of house worker whose primary responsibility is to set up the job site for success.
Prep Cook responsibilities:
Washes, peels, chops, dices, slices, dresses food items and cooks items as required.
Prepares a variety of cold meats, such as cracking or removing the shell from seafood, slicing cold menu items including pastries or sandwiches and garnishes accordingly.
Responsible for the efficient and economical utilization of all products and by-products to keep a low food cost.
Ensures the highest possible standards of guest service are provided and listens and responds to guest and employee concerns and questions
Responsible for fast and clean servicing of all menu items to the servers.
Ensures each order sent out is uniform and consistent, practices portion control and strives to control waste.
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By Libby Lewis, CNN
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(CNN) – When it comes to how people react in disaster situations, be it the recent tornadoes in the Southeast or the killer tornado that hit Joplin, Missouri in 2011, some people just don't listen.
It happened with Hurricane Katrina. It happened with Hurricane Sandy.
Thousands of people who were told to evacuate – DIDN'T.
So, what were they thinking?
Geographer Susan Cutter makes a living examining the answers to questions like that.
She's based at the University of South Carolina.
Was it because people didn't take Sandy seriously after the over-hype with Hurricane Irene the year before? Or because they didn't have family or friends to escape to? Because they waited too long – after public transportation shut down?
Or maybe it was because they had a cat or a dog?
[1:10] "Because you can't take your pets to a public shelter. Pets are part of the family and for elderly they ARE the family, right?" Cutter says.
She says these questions are important to answer. And she says they will be, with studies of Hurricane Sandy.
[1:26] "The top-down military model, 'I tell you to evacuate and you leave,' doesn't work anymore. Because people are making their own judgments. So the best approach is to recognize how people may make decisions – how they may behave in evacuations – and develop plans that accommodate that."
Listen to our full story to hear some of the lessons learned from studying how people made decisions during the Joplin tornado.
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They should fine people for driving for frivolous reasons in bad winter weather.
Sometimes it's a matter of finances – especially for things like hurricanes. Sometimes it's simple logistics. If we leave for a hurricane evacuation and it doesn't hit (as is often the case), we're out a substantial portion of the budget. In some areas, by the time they call for an evacuation, evacuation routes are clogged (on the Gulf Coast, the highways become a parking lot). Out of 7 evacuations, we took 3 hits. One did damage. Two were downgraded to tropical storms on landfall. The last time we tried to evacuate, we sat on the highway less than 10 miles from the house for over an hour before turning back and riding it out. Somewhere, we have a T-shirt that says "We survived Hurricane Elena – twice." So it's not a simple matter of "It's going to hit on the X in 36 hours." More like "It might hit between D and V sometime tomorrow."
Duh,.. Hurricanes?? LOL 15 ft storm surge? HA! I am going to ride it out and hold up the walls of my house against the 125 MPH Winds, I will just tie the Dog to the top of the tree!! Shooters with assult weapons ( mostly stolen ), let's make a law banning everyone from owning guns that way the bad guys can still have theirs even if they are being imported by drug lords in other countries. People don't hunt with assault rifles ban them, BREAKING NEWS!! They don't hunt with hand guns either! Give me a pass port, I'm leaving!
Americans are the STUPIDEST AND LAZIEST people who are on earth right now.
Let the stupid people be stupid. Hopefully in time they will all disappear and this will help with the overpopulation problem.
Another massive , record breaking snowfall. So many people suffering and so much damage inflicted from yet another cold weather disaster. This only highlights the onset of a new, world wide climate change phenomenon, "Global cooling." But fortunately there is a solution: a massive tax increase on leftists. Al Gore, we're gonna get our money back.
If you ignore orders to evacuate, you should be responsible for your actions. I should not have to spend my tax dollars getting you out of trouble when the resources could and should be earmarked for other relief efforts.
If you stay, you pay.
Telling Americans not to be stupid is like telling a dog not to bark.
Almost as stüpid as your misspelled name
Surprisingly, my dog will stop barking if I tell her to. You must not know anything about dogs. Or Americans.
Why don't people listen to weather warnings? Could it be because they see hysterical pregnant women on the Weather Channel and common sense tells them not to listen to them?
During hurricane Wilma – my kids, (bull halsey, covey isle and vida, dogs) were told to evacuate. I could go – the dogs could not. I respect the Mexican army for having our best interest at heart. I had to leave my kids – did so with high mattresses and plenty of fresh food and water. But, I did evacuate. My doing so allowed for the army to take take care of those needing more service than I. Did it make me crazy to do so...yes. Was it the right decision...Yes. Staying behind during an evacuation notice is selfish and thoughtless. Not only do you compromise your own safety – but, the safety of caregivers. Trust these folks to understand the dangers involved. I should have moved the kids sooner. Thank goodness for the professionalism of the Mexican Army in evacuating us when they had the opportunity.
You don't deserve to own and pets.
Wow – a post from someone with common sense! Yay! lolol
What the heck weather channel are you watching??
But natural selection in nature's way of weeding out the stupid ones, ESPECIALLY during and after natural disasters. If you feel compelled to touch your tongue to a down power line then maybe you were not meant to survive and pass on the Stupid Gene to future generations.
That's a good rationale for allowing downed wires to stay in place – or even just to seed some around to cull the populace.
New Orleans was issued a mandatory evacuation less than 24 hours before the storm hit the city...you can't evacuate a major city like New Orleans in less than a day, takes more time than that
Yeah, and Mayor Ray Nagin blamed FEMA for that, even though FEMA has nothing to do with evacuations. That was his and the governor's responsibility. I'm not trying to say FEMA did a good job, as they sure in hell didn't, but some of the things they did get blamed for were not within their domain. I'm surprised Mr. Nagin didn't try and blame the hurricane itself on FEMA and "The Man".
It was only for his "chocolate" NO folks...
Evacuate??? They didn't want a 'certain people' to evacuate – they wanted elimination – it's funny when people say FEMA failed – they were just doing as ordered – if that was a bunch of 'white peoples' on those roofs you would have seen tons more helicopters & boats working frantically to save them – just my opinion but tell me I'm wrong!!
you are wrong.
They had legions of busses ready to move the ghe tto folks out of the city. They had prepared for people who couldn't afford to leave the city, and those people still declined. The reason given by many of them was that they hadn't been given their welfare checks yet, so they weren't leaving. It's easy to look back and say that someone was at fault or that they "couldn't leave," but the fact is that they could. It was actually pretty well organized. The aftermath- the intense urban flooding that lingered- was something that simply hadn't been encountered before. it took a couple of days to implement a new plan for getting the city back under control.
I sympathize with the pet owner sitaution; that would be really hard, especially with a long history of false alarms. Telling the kids "Sugar has to stay here, and might die, because they won't let her into the gym," is not a conversation I'd like to initiate, and kids can make you do a lot of stupid stuff.
Everyone else? We NEED a little natural selection put back into the world. Today the "un-fittest" multiply the fastest, and we do everything possible to encourage them and keep them alive (do we really need to print "do not eat" on that little back of chemicals that comes in the bottom of the BluRay player box?).
I'm honestly a little surprised that a majority of people throwing out labels like "stupid" don't even attempt to mention the fact they understand that some people either have nowhere to go or no way to get there. In some cases they don't even have enough money to get out. But please, allude to how smart you are while asking that rescue teams forget about those who were told to leave but didn't.
In the case of a tornado, you should shelter in place if possible. Running around to get to a shelter in a tornado is not safe usually. Right now, we are getting ready for an ice storm. Does not look like it will amount to much but we have drinking water drawn and the wood stove fired up, along with two cords of wood hauled in last week from the woods. We live on a hilll at about 700 feet above sea level. Not worried about floods. We don't have hurricanes here. But we do have blizzards, ice and tornadoes. I was cloud watching the entire Sunday that Joplin got hit; it was obvious something bad was going to happen somewhere. A couple of years before, it was us, with seven people killed in a rural part of Camden County. That's why we have a bolt-down steel and concrete shelter in the back of our garage. (It's bolted to the concrete floor and is outfitted with chairs, blankets, some supplies and lanterns. Anyone can have one of those; no need to go underground although underground is best probably.
I think if someone refuses to evacuate they should pay a Stupid Tax on top of the "stupid tax" they are already essentially paying for staying put. $100? Heck, we'd not be in debt as a country if this were the case. As others have remarked, you can replace material possessions but you can't replace a life lost.
It's not even the money. It's the fact that a brave fireman or policeman or helicopter pilot ends up risking his life to save a worthless dummy who thought they knew better and then has to be rescued from the roof of their hovel.
Pets were allowed in public shelters in New York City.
Have to admit...I would not leave my pets behind to go to a shelter. Just couldn't....
I don't think you'll get an argument with that. There is always an exception.
Natural disasters are no joke. I cant play with my life like that. I leave. The material can be replaced my life and loved ones cant.
If you stay when you are asked to leave, you also waive the right to be rescued. Our rescue teams put their lives on the line everyday and do not need to rescue your sorry ass when you fail to leave the area.
A good number of those who do not evacuate do so because they are prepared and don't need any "rescue" from you.
I would counter that a greater number of them are stubborn and/or stupid. I saw a lot of people plucked from their roofs during Hurricane Katrina who didn't look at all prepared.
Krenzny, I doubt JMAX's comment was directed toward the "little old man" that lives alone. He said "stupid", not "helpless". Quit reading more into the comment than was written. The majority of people that decide to stay put in a disaster situation are not making wise decisions. But, because they decide to go against the better judgment of first respeonders and authorities it cost LOTS of money of fix their DUMB pigheadedness. I agree; hand them the bill afterward and make them pay it. "Little old men and women", and those who are unable to help themselves aside.
Thank you..indeed the chronologically gifteds do not count..although, I will say this..if the fire and rescue or national guard comes to help the elderly vacate and then they choose not to..that is a whole other ball or wax I think.
Not everyone has a root celler. Heck I hardly know anyone that does around here (panhandle flordia). Tornados don't give you much notice like a Hurricane does. You hunker down and hope it doesn't hit you.
I'll admit, if there is a storm warning I go out on the porch and look for it. I have had storm spotter training years ago. We have a shelter in the house and we do go in it. Most recently in March when a storm tore up our nearly new roof and the siding on the house. Our dogs go into the shelter with us but if the cat is hiding, he is on his own. The local fire department has a drawing of our house, showing where the shelter is in case the house is damaged bad enough we cannot get out on our own.
There will ALWAYS be natural disasters, at any given moment throughout the year in any part of the country. Don't ever assume you'll have ample time to gather up your most prized possesions, load them up in the family truckster and head on down the road! You'll be lucky if you have a few precious minutes to grab your family/pets and run like hell to higher ground! Laziness is not an excuse! Love your family and increase your chance for survival by preparing and practicing ahead of time for whatever natural disaster is common in your part of world. Also, please go to the store now and buy and install fresh batteries for those smoke/CO2 detectors too!
Really sad
I strongly believe if you have been ordered to evacuate and you choose to stay and now have to be rescued..you should also be charged for the cost of that rescue and finding a place to stay is your own responsibility now..you just can't fix stupid.
Tell that to a little old man who lives alone, has no family near and doesn't drive. They are going to take their walker and start walking to the nearest shelter to avoid your fine. No, they are going to grab their cat and hide in the closet until someone remembers them.
Hopefully thats when caring people remember their elderly neighbors and check on them or assist them to evacuate


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Web Sites
Both a source and a tool
As a source, web sites are varied and numerous. Some web sites are good; some are worthless.
As a tool, some web sites provide access to other types of information. The library's web site, for example, is such a web site.
You instructor may say, "Find four sources, but don't use web sites." That means you can't use the web as a source, but you can use it as a tool to locate articles in library databases, e-books, and e-reference articles, for example.
The list of uses for Web sites is nearly endless, but the following are specific uses related to research:
- quickly skim your topic
- access library databases
- search book catalogs
- find current, up-to-minute information
- use specialized search tools, like usa.gov
- find information about companies
- find local, state and federal government information
- find expert opinions
- find popular opinions
- access a variety of media sources
- find groups and organizations
- use social networking and collaborative tools
- use web-based personal organization tools
- Bookmark your library's web site so you can access good research tools quickly.
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LONDON (Reuters) - The global manufacturing sector's slump eased in November as output rose for the first time in five months, a business survey showed on Monday.
JPMorgan's Global Manufacturing PMI, published in conjunction with financial data company Markit, rose to 49.7 in November from 48.8 in October.
November was its best reading since June but still slightly below the 50 mark that divides growth from contraction.
The October reading was revised from 49.2 published last month because the survey methodology now uses Markit's own PMI for U.S. manufacturing, rather than the ISM survey, which is now only used for the data before February 2010.
"Global manufacturing appears to be lifting into the year's end," said David Hensley, director of global economics coordination at JPMorgan.
"Survey indexes of output, new orders and employment continue to improve, albeit from low levels, while the rate of finished goods inventory accumulation is indicated to be quite low."
Chinese manufacturing output grew last month for the first time in more than a year but a surprise contraction in U.S. factory activity tempered optimism about the health of the world economy, according to the PMIs by country on Monday.


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FAR Scotland Meeting 15 July 2013 - Presentation David Caffall, Chief Executive AIC
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Climate Change Act 2008
Like the UK, many other countries are proceeding with national legislation to tackle climate change.
But greenhouse gas emissions have global consequences, regardless of where they come from. Tackling climate change therefore requires coordinated action by nations around the world. The UK and the EU are party to international legislation that aims to achieve this.
This is our fifth statutory report to Parliament on progress towards meeting carbon budgets. In it we consider the latest data on emissions and their drivers, and we assess progress developing new policies which are required in order to reduce emissions. The report includes assessment at the level of the economy, the non-traded and traded sectors, the key emitting sectors and the devolved administrations.
Introduction and key messages
1. Agricultural emissions: trends and drivers
2. Progress against indicators
3. Incentives to reduce agricultural emissions – the policy framework
4. Land use, land use change and forestry
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