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This website project was realized in a very short time, about a week before the event. The main objective is to present the degree projects of Umeå Institute of Design's graduating students.
The students' data was collected in an Access database, and then transferred to MySQL/PHP framework. The main challenge was to refine the visual presentation and navigation of the content under strong time constraints. The website was launched on time at the vernissage of the event, June 3.
50 hours, May-June 2009
Rohan Jaguste, Fredrik Nilbrink, Fredrik Nilsson
The homepage presents the four programs (BA + 3 Masters) with a cropped image of a random project. This relatively simple behavior provides some dynamism in the content and avoid having to choose some projects over others.
A simple four columns view to show the programs, a quick summary and the list of graduating students.
Each program has its own page with text detailing the curriculum and showing information about the corresponding program leader.
On the right, a random banner shows one student project, then a list displays all the names and projects for the batch.
A simple but quite effective matrix to show all the students in one view. Mouse-over reveals student's name and project title, plus highlights all the other students for a particular program. All the interaction is made with Javascript (fast and lightweight).
This page present the student and his/her degree project.
Up to 10 images or videos can be published per student. The four text snippets on the left are linked to the images.
The video player was a bit tricky to implement for IE, but I found a workaround in the end. The difficulty came from having a viewer that supports dynamic images, FLV videos and with javascript controls.
Navigation to previous and next projects is provided with names pulled from the database.


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Recipe from Bonnie Frame of Knoxville, Tenn.
Total Time: 25 min
1 lb ground turkey or ground beef
1 can of tomato soup
1-2 cans pinto or kidney beans
1-2 onions and peppers (green or yellow or red) or mix them up
chili powder
onion powder
garlic powder
1. Brown meat, peppers and onions.
2. After browned, add 1-2 cans of pinto or kidney beans and tomato soup.
3. Continue to cook medium to low heat and serve with mashed potatoes like a volcano.
Servings: 4-6Comments: Its great, tastes good
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This is the story of a young, desperate, rich Negro mother and her children, and her courageous teenage daughter in the south in the 1950's. Maebelle Hawkins, a young, pretty, divorcee, moves to Derriene Crossing with her heart set on finding the perfect husband. When Rufus Poygoode, a well-to-do, good-looking farmer proposes marriage, she feels her life has come full circle. But it is a marriage awash in deception. A few weeks after their union,...


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Inghams Enterprises has yet to find a buyer for Australasia's biggest chicken producer, which owner Bob Ingham put up for sale last July with a price tag reportedly of $A1.4 billion [US1.48 billion].
"We've not agreed to sell the business or got an agreed buyer," Paddy Watts, Inghams financial controller, told BusinessDesk. "We were hoping to have it done by now but it has not got to that stage yet. There's people interested in it. The business will be sold", though it is not going to happen this week. The process had slowed over the Christmas holiday period," he says.
International Financing Review reported on December 21 that private-equity firm Blackstone Group had dropped out of the bidding, leaving possibly one group still showing interest. Reuters reported in November that Chinese agribusiness company New Hope Group was the other firm to proceed to the final round of bidding for the business.
Others to show interest before withdrawing had included Hong Kong-based Affinity Equity Partners, Bain Capital and KKR, while Thailand's CP Foods placed a preliminary bid before withdrawing, Reuters reported.
New Hope has been adding to primary production assets Down Under, and was part of a group with Agria and Ngai Tahu Holdings that teamed up to take a controlling stake in PGG Wrightson, New Zealand's biggest rural services company.
Bob Ingham, who turned 81 last year, hired Investec Bank to manage the sale, which had been expected to take only a few months. He inherited the chicken business from his father in 1953, building an empire that gave him the resources to indulge a passion for horse breeding and training.
Affinity owns Tegel Foods, the biggest chicken producer in New Zealand, and there had been speculation it would have been forced to sell that business, acquired from PEP in 2010 for $A470 million, to satisfy antitrust regulators. Inghams is the No 2 producer in New Zealand as well as the nation's biggest producer of stock feeds.
The New Zealand unit of Inghams posted its annual results this week. Profit in the year ended June 30 about doubled to $22.96 million from $11.2 million. Sales rose about 5% to $336 million.
The results showed the company more than halved its administration costs to about $9 million, though gave no details. Mr Watts says the company would not comment on the results though the New Zealand business was "ticking along fine". The earnings allowed Inghams Enterprises (NZ) to pay a dividend of $12 million, versus zero a year earlier.
It plans to use $50 million of an unsecured loan from its Australian parent to fund a capital return via a share purchase and cancellation, the company says. It gained approval from the Inland revenue Department for the transaction in August.
Inghams employs more than 8,000 people at more than 100 locations across Australia and New Zealand.
Source: The National Business Review Jan 2013


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WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama's historic election in 2008 and his re-election last year proved decisively that race is no longer an insurmountable hurdle to high political office in the U.S.
But the current pool of possible candidates suggests that the next black president will not be taking the oath of office anytime soon.
"In the shadow of Barack Obama, there's not been a lot of growth," Cornell Belcher, a pollster who was involved in the president's 2008 campaign, said. "It is really hard for minorities to get elected at the statewide level, and before you start talking about president, frankly, you have to get elected to statewide office."
The notion of a post-Obama reformation of black politics has not been borne out at the ballot box, as black politicians continue to struggle to win the statewide offices that are the traditional paths to the presidency.
While the election of the first black president marked a significant break from the country's history of racial prejudice, race still matters: The vast majority of black elected officials are put into office by black voters. Even Obama needed large numbers of black and Latino votes to win, particularly last year, when a majority of white voters voted for someone else.
Ashley Bell, a former county official in Georgia who switched from the Democratic to the Republican Party with an eye on a future run for statewide office, said that Obama "did convince a lot of young black politicians that they can aspire to crossover offices. We may not live in a postracial America, but I think we do live in a new era of politics where, on either side of the aisle, everyone knows that a good political candidate is one with crossover appeal, be they white or black or Latino."
While the country's changing demographics will favor political leaders of color in the future, the current landscape remains challenging for minority candidates seeking statewide office, particularly governorships and U.S. Senate seats, the typical steppingstones to presidential bids.
Massachusetts Democrat Deval Patrick, currently is the nation's only black governor, and South Carolina Republican Tim Scott is the only black member of the Senate, having recently been appointed to fill a vacancy.
Patrick, 56, is often mentioned as a potential presidential candidate, but he has said he has no plans to run in 2016. No other black politicians' names have come up on the short list of credible contenders for the next national election.
On the GOP side of the aisle, former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has been mentioned as a possible candidate but has steadfastly denied any interest. Colin Powell, who preceded Rice as President George W. Bush's secretary of state, was once a favored GOP prospect, but he also declined to run.
Most recently, Herman Cain, a black Georgia businessman, was briefly a hit among Republican grassroots activists in the runup to the primaries, but he dropped his candidacy after a woman revealed a longtime extramarital affair and other women accused him of sexual harassment.
Obama's political trajectory was extraordinary for any political figure. He rocketed to the top tier of national politics after a stirring speech at the 2004 Democratic National Convention, where he used his personal story and oratorical skills to call for uniting a country long divided by race and partisan politics. His election that year to the Senate was helped by the implosion of his strongest opponents in the primary and general elections.
Obama was the third African-American to be elected to the Senate since Reconstruction when he won the seat from Illinois seat in 2004; Patrick is only the second black governor elected since that period.
Black politicians seeking to build cross-racial coalitions must make sure they don't alienate black voters with their appeals to white and others. Former Washington, D.C., Mayor Adrian Fenty, a Democrat whose name was often included in the list of black political leaders who, like Obama, crossed the old lines of racial politics, lost his bid for a second term after African-American voters deemed him more concerned with pleasing the city's growing white professional class.
Newark, New Jersey, Mayor Cory Booker, a Democrat whose name is still on the A-list of nouveau black pols, struggled to overcome the skepticism of African-American voters in his first, unsuccessful mayoral campaign.
Booker, a Rhodes Scholar who grew up in Harrington Park, New Jersey, an upscale suburb of Newark, lost in 2002 to longtime former Mayor Sharpe James, who said Booker was "not black enough."
The 43-year-old Booker, now in his second term as mayor, filed papers this month to form a campaign committee for a Senate run in 2014. He also is mentioned as a potential future presidential candidate. Booker's office did not make him available for an interview.
Scott's performance in South Carolina's 2014 Senate race, if he decides to seek a full term, will add to the debate about how much racial politics have changed. Black residents make up 28 percent of South Carolina's population and are solidly Democratic. The state's Republican governor, Nikki Haley, is Indian-American, and both she and the 48-year-old Scott launched their political careers in predominantly white districts.
Artur Davis, a former House member from Alabama, worked hard to present himself as a crossover candidate when he set out to become the first black governor of his state.
But he turned off black voters by distancing himself from Obama and Alabama's black leadership and, failing to pick up significant white support, made a surprisingly poor showing in the Democratic primary.
Davis, who has since joined the Republican Party and moved to Northern Virginia, acknowledged the challenge faced by black politicians striving to break barriers. But he said that each contest is unique.
"Political breakthroughs depend more on the circumstance of one person than some magic alchemy of timing," Davis wrote in an email. "If a black with sufficient political skills, a fundraising base, and a record that appeals to the voters in his or her party emerges, that person will be taken seriously in a way that would not have been possible for my parents' generation."
Davis predicted that "within the Democratic Party, the internal pressure to nominate a white female will be far greater than any impetus to elevate a Deval Patrick or Cory Booker in the near future."
A Hispanic might also have a better shot at the White House before another African-American. There are five Hispanic governors and senators, most of them Republicans, including Republican Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida, who at 41 is being touted as presidential timber.
Many postcivil-rights and Generation X black political leaders have demonstrated the political and cultural dexterity to move up to statewide office, sometimes in states that have very small black populations, such as Colorado, where 4.3 percent of the residents are black.
Two years ago, Kamala Harris, who is of African-American and Indian-American descent, was elected attorney general of California, a first in a statewide race. Blacks make up only 6.6 percent of state's population. She is often talked about as a future gubernatorial candidate.
But in Alabama, where black residents make up 26.5 percent of the population, Davis lost his primary for governor in 2010. Similarly, Thurbert Baker lost in the Democratic gubernatorial primary in Georgia, where nearly a third of the residents are black. Baker had been elected state attorney general three times.
For those who manage to win their party's nominations, general elections have proven to be be extreme long shots.
Johnny DuPree won the Mississippi Democratic primary for governor in 2011, the first African-American to do so in recent history. DuPree, 59, the first black mayor of Hattiesburg, lost to his Republican opponent in the general election by 20 percentage points.
Charles Bullock, a political scientist at the University of Georgia, said black candidates in the South, most of who are Democrats, are disadvantaged as much by their party as by their race.
"Georgia and Alabama don't have any Democrats in statewide office. None," said Bullock said. "If you're running statewide and you're a Democrat, regardless of your ethnicity or your gender, you're going to lose."
More than half of the country's African-Americans live in the South, and continued demographic changes could upend its politics over the next two decades. Several states are projected to have populations mostly comprised of people of color.
Already there are signs. Bullock said that in 1996, whites cast 78 percent of all votes; in 2008, the percentage was down to 64 percent.
Bullock said voter rolls show that whites made up less than 60 percent of registered voters in Georgia last year.
Those nonwhite voters will most likely back Democrats, Bullock said. "Unless the Republicans come up with a broader, more encompassing message, all they will succeed in getting is white voters, but they will ultimately run out of white voters."
"The demographics are changing in favor of minority candidates," said Andrew Kohut of the Pew Research Center. In addition to population growth among Latinos and Asians, Kohut pointed to a generational change in attitudes about race.
"It's simple: Generational demographics really favor minority candidates," he said.


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Dinner Tonight: Penne with Tuna and Spicy Mustard Recipe
Your source for quick recipe every single week day.
It's often said that a work of great design is complete only when there's nothing to add, and nothing to take away. Without taking cooking too seriously, I'd say this is true of recipes as well.
More often than not, a great dish will either surprise you with an unexpected addition, or more often, by removing what doesn't need to be there. Sometimes it's both. And that's true of this gem from Patricia Wells' recent book Salad as a Meal.
I've had and enjoyed recipes with pasta and tuna before, including, of course, the famous Tuna Casserole. But this recipe is my favorite of all of them. Wells uses the oil from the tuna (making it essential to buy good-quality stuff packed in olive oil) mixed with spicy whole-grain mustard. She calls for Piment d'Espelette mustard, though a whole-grained mustard will suit just fine.
Either way, it sort of melts into the dish leaving behind tiny orbs of spiciness that cling to the noodles. It's the best three-ingredient dish I've eaten in a long time, though I did cheat and add a little chopped parsley. If only for the picture.
- Yield:4
- Active time: 5
- Total time:15
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- 3/4 pound penne pasta
- 2 5-ounce cans best-quality tuna packed in olive oil
- 2 tablespoons whole-grained mustard, or more to taste
- 2 tablespoons chopped parsley (optional)
Bring a large pot of salted water to boil. Cook the penne until al dente, reserving 1 cup of pasta water before draining.
In the meantime, drain the tuna, reserving the oil. Break up the tuna pieces and set aside. In a large skillet, heat the tuna canning oil with the mustard over low heat until just warmed through.
Add the drained pasta to the skillet and toss well to combine. Add a small amount of pasta water as necessary to create a sauce that clings to the noodles; low heat may be needed to evaporate some water and bind everything together. Toss in the chopped parsley, if using, and serve.
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I love the simplicity and hope of this message. Happy Easter to you and your loved ones.
Happy Easter
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AMKreationsApril 24, 2011 at 6:23 am
Happy Easter to you too Amy! Thanks for sharing!
DebbieApril 24, 2011 at 1:02 pm
Thank you for this message and a lovely easter for you too!!

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DJ RoseApril 24, 2011 at 8:12 pm
I love this one. Thanks for sharing. It was a perfect cap on a beautiful Easter Sunday.
JulieApril 24, 2011 at 11:10 pm
Thanks for sharing that. A beautiful end to a wonderful day.
JudyApril 25, 2011 at 7:23 am
Thanks for sharing this. Happy Easter to you and your family.
Evelene SApril 25, 2011 at 7:50 pm
Thanks for sharing this, I had to work on Easter and came home and went to bed so today-Monday I am looking at this and feeling the spirit.
gApril 25, 2011 at 9:48 pm
Yes, I saw this one several weeks ago and love it! I used it in my Sharing Time lesson yesterday and the kids (well, most of them, anyway) were so quiet and attentive. I get choked up every time. Thank you.


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It is with considerable regret that I have now removed this from our downloads section. At 137MB it is rather huge, and analysis of our site stats tell me that downloads of this movie are responsible for chewing up more bandwidth than the rest of the site put together.
I'm sorry about this, but I could see a bill for extra bandwidth looming if I didn't drop this download.
FootnoteThe mpg file is still on my server and I have the original disk still. If anyone is really desperate to get a copy I can probably manage to either set up a temporary ftp account or to post them a copy on CD.
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Group relamping's labor costs are about 30 percent lower, according to Reliant Energy Retail Holdings, LLC's Energy Savings Center.
Group relamping offers cost savings when compared with spot relamping, according to an article featured on the Energy Savings Center website of Reliant Energy Retail Holdings, LLC, which provides electricity and energy services to retail customers across Texas and is part of NRG Energy.
"There are a variety of reasons to practice group relamping, in which a set of lamps is replaced at a scheduled time, rather than spot relamping, in which lamps are only replaced when they burn out. Most of these reasons apply to fluorescent and high-intensity discharge (HID) lamps rather than incandescents, which have much shorter lifetimes," the utility says in its online article about the comparison. It displays a cost comparison chart and lists these reasons for the cost savings:


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(AP) -- Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced Monday that he was able to tweak a deal to privatize the city's parking meters that has proven to be a national embarrassment even as he acknowledged that the city is stuck for the next 71 years with a contract he inherited and despises.
"We cannot make this bad deal go away and make it into a good one," the mayor said at a City Hall news conference of the $1.15 billion, 75-year deal reached in 2008 by predecessor Richard M. Daley that led to Chicago having the most expensive parking in the country. "But I think we did make it a little less bad for the next seven decades."
Emanuel, who called his proposal an effort to "make a little lemonade out of a big lemon," said he was able to secure from Chicago Parking Meters LLC an agreement to stop charging for parking in the city's residential neighborhoods on Sundays. But to get that concession, Emanuel had to give one: Metered parking hours will be extended an hour until 10 p.m., as well as an additional three hours in the trendy near North Side.
Emanuel has been embroiled in a battle over tens of millions of dollars Chicago Parking Meters LLC has contended the city owes for revenue lost when streets are closed for festivals and other reasons.
On Monday, he said the company has agreed to settle for much less than it has demanded. Under the agreement, the city will settle invoices totaling $49 million for a two-year period that ended March 31 for a total of $8.9 million. The difference of about $20 million a year will total more than $1 billion over the life of the contract, Emanuel said.
"I literally have millions of dollars of unpaid bills sitting on my desk that I have refused to pay," the mayor said. "The company now knows that I'm a different type of mayor, this is a different administration and Chicago has a different way of doing business."
The mayor said he will submit the proposal to the City Council, which must approve it to go into effect.
Chicago residents said the tradeoff won't help them much, but they don't blame the current mayor.
"It's going to make things even more of a frustration," said marketing executive Brian Hull, 30, envisioning feeding a meter during a late night party.
"It's good and bad," said trader Pat Skelton, 54. "If I want to come down and eat, I'm going to pay more, but if my son comes over (to visit him in Wrigleyville) he won't have to worry about (paying on Sunday)."
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Both men said the mayor was trying to make the best of a bad situation he inherited.
And for all his tough talk, Emanuel admitted Monday this was the best he could do with a poorly negotiated deal that never should have been struck. It left Chicago with the most expensive meter parking in the United States
-- $6.50 an hour in the downtown business district. And, perhaps worst of all, the city has already spent all but a fraction of the $1.15 billion that was supposed to last decades.
"We spent all of the money so we can't buy ourselves out of this deal," Emanuel said.
The company, which leases the city's 36,000 metered spaces, said it was pleased with the mayor's proposal.
"In the best interests of the people of Chicago, CPM collaborated with the administration and believes that our willingness to work with the City demonstrates our desire to provide the most efficient and technologically advanced parking meter system possible for the City of Chicago," the company said Monday in a statement.
Conspicuously absent Monday was any mention of Daley. Emanuel, while taking the City Council to task for voting to approve the deal in just three days, did not mention Daley by name during his statement. He left the press briefing room without taking questions.
Daley has defended the deal, saying that had he not made it, Chicago would have been forced to raise taxes and eliminate many services.
Daley was traveling on Monday, according to his law office, and could not be reached for comment.
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Sunday is winding down, and I have been back in Nova Scotia for four whole days. Jet lag still has me in its clutches, but today saw a major breakthrough: because I took a half an Ambien at 3:30 a.m. (a apocalyptic measure on my part), I only slept till noon, rather than till 3 p.m. Progress is progress.
If I can just get back on some sort of a normal schedule, the week to come will be all about prepping for the fall semester and getting the house ready for visitors from the States (hurrah!). But since I currently spend many, many more waking hours in the dark than in the sunlight, I am living an oddly hermetic life. Good news for my watching and reading. Bad news for all the work that needs to be done.
Yesterday, my cable company unexpectedly and abruptly added AMC to my line up. Praise the television gods. So now I have access to Mad Men and Rubicon and all the other delights of the upcoming AMC-makes-a-play-to-be-the-next-HBO season. Meanwhile, I have been catching up with The Pillars of the Earth, which is chock-a-block with spectacular actors, but has a general air of halfheartedness. Everyone seems slightly uncomfortable - avoiding touching their elaborate wigs and dealing gingerly with their rather diminutive broadswords.
And I finally caught the last episode of the first season of Treme, which was slow and elegiac and underscored the fact that this is a show about place more than any other television show I can remember. It is the city of New Orleans that has a drama, a conflict, an arc of development, more than any of the characters, who are just going through their normal (albeit post-cataclysmic) lives. Because of this, it is perfectly suited the the long format of television, while being utterly unlike the plot- and character-heavy conventions of television that I know and love. It is fascinating.
How have I lived 'til now in ignorance of Pamplamoose? Their videos are like what would happen if Michel Gondry (on a calm day) took to making YouTube videos for indie singer-songwriters in somebody's parents' den. And if they had all somehow offended a hedge-witch, who placed a curse (a curse that was actually a blessing, naturally) upon them, condemning them to a lifetime of covers.
First, a classic:
But then, a song to spawn a million brilliant covers:
Notice how when she actually "puts her hands up" about three-quarters of the way through the song, she does it in a sort of "well, what are you going to do? I know, I know..." gesture. Love it.
And I couldn't let the week go by without sharing this other piece of retro wit that refuses to be evicted from my brain space (be wary of adult language here):
On the airplanes coming home (I had two long-haul flights, Honolulu to Los Angeles to Newark) and one short one (Newark to Halifax), I got a fair amount of reading done, finishing off Kathryn Miller Haines's mouthy mystery of wartime New York, The War Against Miss Winter, on the first flight and John Marsden's The Dead of Night on the second. The heroine of Haines's novel is an aspiring actress on a forties Broadway that is overburdened with women and rather short on men, so she takes a side job as the assistant to a private eye. But then one day she shows up to work to find her boss dead...
The Dead of Night is the second in Marsden's series about a dystopian Australia, which an unnamed nation has invaded and is brutally colonizing. The novel follows a group of teenagers who happened to be on a camping trip in the bush during the invasion, and who now feel like the only guerrilla resistance to the obliteration of everything they once loved. It is an unusually detailed, practical approach to the question of war, and exactly what it is that teenagers are capable and willing to do for love of the abstract conception of country and the wrenchingly absent idea of community.
When I got home, I immediately devoured the second volume of the fascinating manga Ooku: The Inner Chambers. More on that here.
I am in the middle of three books right now. First, George Elliot Clarke's searing, furious, Nova Scotian poetry cycle, Blue, which I have come back to along with my Haligonian home. Next, The Masque of the Black Tulip, which Lauren Willig wrote while finishing her doctorate in history and plowing her way through law school. This makes me think that I could be doing a lot more with my days if I woke up before noon. It is a double tale of a modern graduate student, pursuing a rich archive for her dissertation research in the house of an unusually attractive aristocrat, and the group of anti-Napoleonic spies who are the subjects of that archive. The third book is another Nova Scotian epic - Anne-Marie MacDonald's Fall on your Knees - which swept me up in its world immediately and convinced me (a few dozen pages in) that nothing good will ever happen to any of its characters. Sigh.
Off I go to post this while there are still a few moments left in this Sunday, although many hours before I get tired.... Happy Sunday, Saloners.


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While it is true that haze has not killed many directly, an atmosphere obscured by the suspension of these fine particles can have many other direct and indirect socio-economic consequences on society.
Most obviously, a society will face problems with physical mobility. Due to the haze, visibility drops, and the air quality drops, giving it a singing smell. This discourages people from leaving their homes. This is especially so if the haze comes swiftly and unexpectedly like the one Singapore experienced during the 2013 June holidays. However, this is just the tip of the iceberg. Environment related issues may seem like an inherent harm, but these issues can bring about greater ills in society as well.
Most tangibly, health problems arise. Especially when those with breathing problems like asthma and chronic bronchitis leave their homes without the proper precaution like the N95 masks, the perils of the haze are exacerbated. In worse cases like the haze in the South-East Asian region of 1997, a plane collided into a mountainside of Medan, killing all 256 passengers – this was attributed to poor visibility that is coupled with the haze.
This then leads to hospital bed crunches. In the case of Singapore, in the short span of a week or so, the National University Hospital (NUH) has seen a 10% increase in patients, and this caused a lack of beds considering the dengue spike prior to the haze episode. Certainly, experiencing these illnesses affects society's quality of living in general.
Down the line, government expenditure on healthcare rises consequentially for the public is unsatisfied with the lack of beds due to the spike in health-related cases. Recognising that budget is limited and that we cannot "have the cake and eat it", this health expenditure comes at an opportunity cost – it would mean less spending on other areas like housing or transport. These are all the indirect consequences of the haze that one cannot physically experience.
Besides health, social interaction is compromised as well – most directly people cannot attend go outdoors to meet friends or engage in personal activities like exercise. This may seem very much minor, but these small things add up to alter the way of life of the community for the worse. It is also worth noting that the extension of the haze is proportional to the limits placed on the choices of the people.
That's not all there is to the haze – on top of health-related issues, there are economic consequences as well. Most obviously, tourism drops. Hotel rooms, travel groups and flights are cancelled, bringing tangible economic losses that, once again, are proportional to the duration of the haze. However, more insidiously is the impact on economic work in and of itself. People are less willing to go outdoors to work, more likely to call in sick, and more likely to give excuses, legitimate or not. This is pernicious not because of the pure number of hours lost, but that coupled with the fact that it is a sudden occurrence – the 30 hours lost, for instance, is not spread evenly over the entire year, but rather is concentrated in that one week. This deals great blows to businesses not only in terms of unexpected drops in revenue, but also to their reputation – people see them as less reliable. As a corollary of this, Small-Medium Enterprises (SMEs) lose out because they depend very much on a solid, constant customer support, rather than pure quality-based attraction of customers.
Certainly, the haze problem, usually existent in SEA, has and will continue to cause the above social and economic problems, direct and indirectly, in the short term and long term.


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venue: Briana's parent's home, Bowdoinham, ME
ceremony: Days Ferry Congregational Church, Woolwich, Maine
caterer: Jennifer Bannis, 111 Maine
florist: Emily Carter
band: Wavelength
cake: European Bakery
gown: Alvina Valenta, Madeline's Daughter
invitations: Letterpress of Cirencester
honeymoon: Cape Cod
When I first saw Briana's family home in Bowdoinham, where the reception would take place, I said "She is one lucky girl to have grown up here!" The home is placed on about thirty acres and is surrounded by fields and trees. There was a perfect spot for the tent and nearby areas for leisurely wandering during cocktail hour. Briana's father told me that getting the property ready for such an affair was a year long process in itself, but it looked effortless.
I found Briana upstairs about to start applying her makeup. I also found out during this time that the officiant at the the church had forbid any photos being taken at the ceremony besides during the processional and recessional. I was upset to hear this news, as this part of the day is what it's really all about. Briana and Ben were ok with it so I was glad it didn't put a damper on their day.
Briana, Ben, and I did get to have a laugh soon after as we were doing some portraits nearby. A very sweet woman offered to let us use her property, which had a nice view of the water. She walked back to her house and then as we were shooting she reappeared with a container and proceeded to shower Briana and Ben with handfuls of rice! Multiple times! They were good sports about it but Ben and I did have to spend some time afterwards picking the small bits out of Briana's hair.
Briana's family home turned out to indeed be the perfect spot for their reception. Kids played badminton, guests wandered about with glasses of wine, and Briana and Ben were truly glowing.
How they met, in Briana's words:
Ben and I met in New York City on New Year's Eve 2007. He was visiting our mutual friend, Ed, from London. Ben initially impressed as being very handsome, friendly, and exuberant, and was also clearly a gentleman.
Soon after we met, I was required to work in our London office for a month. Ed re-introduced us over email to ensure that I had some friends to spend time with while I was there. We spent our free time during that month as companions: cycling, having dinner with friends and ice skating in London. Soon our mutual attraction became clear.
Several months later, I was asked to move to London indefinitely for work. I seized the opportunity. Four years ago, almost to the day, I packed up my beloved studio apartment in Brooklyn Heights and flew across the Atlantic. I touched down in Heathrow to a life which promised adventure and new experiences.


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We stay on the marsh side and there is a long dock reaching out into the marsh. It provides a great setting to watch the dramatic and continuous ebb and flow of the tide. There are two high and two low tides and the marsh is always filling or emptying.
When it empties the fiddler crabs take over the mudflats and seem to scurry in waves across the pluff mud. And when walking along the dock at low tide, one is always aware of the smacking sound emanating from the marsh. Now I've trudged the marshes of South Louisiana and I lived on Hilton Head Island for a short spell and the popping/smacking sound has always been a part of the marsh.
I am at a loss to figure where I filed that sound away — who or what I attributed it to. But for some reason on this trip, perhaps because we spent so much time trudging back and forth on the dock — to get in the kayaks, for the girls to go crabbing, and/or to take a peek at the perseids — the popping got under my skin.
I'm sure you pogie-boot wearing, skin-so-soft smearing, clam digging aficionados of all things marshy know what causes that sound. But I had to research it — and I am so glad I did. That ubiquitous marsh popping sound comes from a small crustacean — the bigclaw snapping shrimp or pistol shrimp in the family Alpheidae. Snapping shrimp are worldwide in distribution. There are more than 600 species. They are common in our neck of the woods from Chesapeake Bay down to Florida and the Gulf of Mexico.
Alpheus heterochaelis is the largest and one of the most common bigclaw snapping shrimp of the Southeast. It grows to about 2 inches in total length. And the claw that it is named for may be half it's body size. This asymmetrical critter may be right-clawed or left-clawed, with the opposite appendage being "normal" with typical pincers. Like most arthropods, if the pistol shrimp loses an appendage it can regrow it. If this shrimp should lose its mega claw the other pincer will grow into its namesake, and the new appendage will be typical.
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The snapping shrimp's big claw has two parts. Like the hammer of a pistol, one part cocks at a right angle. The other half is fixed. When the hammer is released it snaps into a niche in the fixed part of the claw. It was thought at one time that this snapping action created the popping sound, but the truth is way cooler. The hammer falling into the niche shoots out a small stream of water at speeds up to 60 miles an hour. As the liquid moves faster the pressure inside decreases and air bubbles form, as the stream slows down, the pressure increases and the air bubbles implode creating the popping noise. The entire process, from the snapping of the claw to the bursting of the bubble, takes about 300 microseconds. It produces a short (10 nanoseconds) intense flash called sonoluminescence as temperatures in the collapsing bubble reach about 4,700 degrees Celsius — nearly the temperature of the surface of the sun. The "shot" is used for hunting and is powerful enough to stun passing crabs and/or kill small fish.
Snapping shrimp are often found in large colonies in reefs in the ocean. Their snapping is so loud that it can interfere with sonar and other underwater communications. It is one of the major sources of noise in the ocean, rivaling the sounds emitted from beluga and sperm whales.


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MIAMI — Rep. Connie Mack, R-Fla., walked into a room full of supporters, American flags, and Romney for President placards at this afternoon's grand opening of the GOP's Miami Victory Office.
After pledging allegiance to the flag of the United States, Mack took the floor where he took some swipes at President Obama and the Democratic senator from Florida, Bill Nelson.
"You know, Sen. Nelson is a lockstep liberal with Barack Obama," said Mack, the heavy favorite to win the Aug. 14th GOP Senate primary. He'd face Nelson in a general election. "When Barack Obama needed to pass the health-care law he turned to his friend in the Senate Bill Nelson, and Bill Nelson was there to help him. When he wanted to pass their stimulus bill, he turned to his friend Bill Nelson, and Bill Nelson was there to help him. When he wanted to make sure that the Keystone XL pipeline wasn't built, he got on the phone and called his friend Bill Nelson, and Bill Nelson stood with the president instead of the American people." Handicapping a potential veep shortlist
He added, "So we're gonna make sure the people in the state of Florida know that with Senator Nelson you have a lockstep liberal who believes in government. With me, with Gov. Romney, you have someone that believes in you. You'll have a government that believes it's the individual that makes this country great not government and not bureaucracies."
Following his speech, Mack had an enthusiastic response for a reporter who asked for his thoughts on the other Florida senator, Marco Rubio, a Republican, possibly being Romney's choice for vice president.
"Are you kidding?" Mack said. "Sen. Rubio would be great! And for all of us in Florida, we recognize that if Sen. Rubio is on the ticket it's good for America it's good for the state of Florida. It almost ensures that Sen. Nelson will be retired after this time. So I'm hopeful."Who would be the strongest running mate for Mitt Romney?
And in case the press and his supporters hadn't heard him the first time, he added, "I keep saying I think Marco Rubio would be fantastic, and I hope that he's picked."
The last question Mack received was whether he felt Romney's trip abroad was a success.
"It's nice to see such a contrast between the failures of the Obama administration and what Mitt Romney stands for and believes in," Mack said, "the strength of his character, so I'm thankful that Romney is showing America what a true leader looks like."
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The Great New York Fancy-Pants Fried Chicken Roundup
Think of New York's greatest foods, and your mind might leap to pizza, or bagels, or a huge pastrami sandwich. But fried chicken?
New York has never been a first-class fried chicken town, but these days, it's popping up on more high-end menus than pork belly. And though we've eaten our fair share, we hadn't done an exhaustive survey. Until now. With Momofuku and Locanda Verde birds still fresh and crisp in our minds, we set out to find the city's best fancy-pants fried chicken: newcomers, old standards, specials, and all.
What qualifies as fancy-pants? Any fried chicken at a chef-driven restaurant, costing more that $15.
In ranking it all, we looked at the following criteria--in each category, giving the plate between one (worst) and five (best) Serious Clucks:
- Skin and batter: Was it crisp and crunchy? Did the batter and the skin become one? Was the exterior light, or did the batter and the crust overwhelm everything else?
- White meat: Was it tender? Was it juicy? Did it have any discernible chicken flavor?
- Dark meat: Again, is it tender and juicy? It's easier to get the thigh and the drumstick moist and juicy because there's a lot more internal fat in those parts of the chicken--but is it cooked through to the bone? Often, even carefully cooked fried chicken is bloody at the thigh bone. This should not be.
- Spiciness: Was the chicken well-seasoned? Enough salt? Enough pepper? What other spices were discernible in the crust? Did the spice mixture work together as a whole?
- Sides: What was included on the plate? Worth eating?
- Price-Value Proposition: Was it a good deal considering the quality of the food, the care that went into cooking it, and the setting you ate it in?
Possible perfect score: 30 Serious Clucks.
Our top eleven birds, and the title of The Best Fancy-Pants Fried Chicken In New York, after the jump.
Blue Ribbon Brasserie
Skin and batter: 5 clucks. This is no daintily fried chicken--the crust crackles and crunches and seems to have a life of its own. It's a mouthful to get through, but in a good way. It's the kind of crust so good you keep gnawing on the bones when the chicken is gone, in hopes of getting one more morsel of fried goodness. This is a crust for the ages.
White meat: 5 clucks. Amazingly tender, for white meat, with a deep chicken flavor that I associate more with roasted chicken than fried.
Dark meat: 4.5 clucks. Fatty, tasty, cooked through, but without the real on-the-bone richness of the very best chicken.
Spiciness: 4 clucks. A little too well-spiced, particularly where the paprika is concerned. In some cases, you take a bite and think "Wow, that tastes like... paprika." Other than those spice-saturated spots, dead-on.
Sides: 4 clucks. Garlicy greens and super-creamy mashed potatoes.
Price to Value: 3 clucks. Blue Ribbon is a lovely SoHo restaurant, with attentive servers and flattering lighting and individual loaves of crusty French bread. Of course it'll charge more than Rack 'n Soul. But $25.99 for four pieces of chicken and (admittedly tasty) mashed potatoes and greens? Yikes. If it weren't so good, it'd be much harder to swallow.
Total: 25.5 clucks
Blue Ribbon Brasserie: 97 Sullivan Street (map); 212-274-0404
Blue Ribbon Sushi
Skin and batter: 5 clucks. Extremely light and crisp Asian-style Panko batter coated the chicken in a way that rendered the skin invisible.
White meat: 3.5 clucks. Reasonably moist but not at all juicy.
Dark meat: 4.5 clucks. Perfectly cooked and juicy enough.
Spiciness: 4 clucks. The spice rub seemed to be dominated by paprika. Just sweet enough jalapeno honey dipping sauce packed a real punch.
Sides: 2 clucks. No sides except for a bed of shredded lettuce. A nice little bowl of chicken fried rice would have hit the spot.
Price to Value: 3 clucks. $24.50 for a small high-quality half-bird is still pretty steep.
Total: 22 clucks
Blue Ribbon Sushi: 308 West 58th Street (map); 212-397-0404
Skin and batter: 4 clucks. Nice crunch with great big fried bubbles.
White meat: 3.5 clucks. They brine the bird, which definitely helps the moisture levels, but it's still not as juicy as it could be.
Dark meat: 5 clucks. Moist in a well-balanced way. As in, juicy but didn't leave your hands drippy.
Spiciness: 3.5 clucks. A good salt factor, like most of the food here. Though some of that taste could have been lingering in my mouth from the boiled peanuts amuse bouche.
Sides: 5 clucks. Buttery (as in, Popeyes-style good buttery) biscuits and a white bean salad.
Price to Value: 5 clucks. The half-chicken portion ($16) takes up practically the whole platter. A mighty fine deal.
Total: 26 clucks
Egg: 135 North 5th Street, Brooklyn (map); 718-302-5151
Buttermilk Channel
Skin and batter: 3.5 clucks. Is there such thing as too crispy? I felt like I was going to break my teeth gnawing into that thick, dark skin. But hey, at least it wasn't soggy?
White meat: 3.5 clucks. Not straight-up dry, but bordering on dry. If you used the balsamic-maple syrup dipping sauce (served on the side for the cheddar waffles) maybe that would help, but that doesn't seem like the right thing to do.
Dark meat: 4.5 clucks. Nicely moist, the way dark meat should be.
Spiciness: 4 clucks. Peppery enough to see the flecks but it still felt a tad underseasoned.
Sides: 4 clucks. A tasty cheddar waffle (it's hard to argue with cheese, flour, and butter) and cole slaw, which was somewhere in between creamy and vinegary.
Price to Value: 3.5 clucks. The half-chicken portion ($18) was a generous size, but for only decent fancypants fried chicken, seemed a little steep.
Total: 23 clucks
Buttermilk Channel: 524 Court St, Brooklyn (map); 718-852-8490
Walter Foods
Skin and batter: 3.5 clucks. Good balance; crust was light and crispy (not hard-crunchy) and didn't overwhelm the chicken, but it fell off a bit more easily than I would've liked.
White meat: 4 clucks. Satisfyingly tender and juicy.
Dark meat: 3.5 clucks. Cooked through and also juicy.
Spiciness: 3.5 clucks. Well-seasoned, but otherwise unremarkable.
Sides: 3.5 clucks. A generous mound of chunky mashed potatoes with scallions. A bit bland, but the scallions were a plus. I liked the spicy honey more, if that counts as a side.
Price to Value: 4 clucks. $16 for four large pieces of good fried chicken and mashed potatoes in a pleasant, laid-back setting isn't bad.
Total: 22 clucks
Walter Foods: 253 Grand Street, Brooklyn (map); 718-387-8783
Blue Smoke
Skin and batter: 4.5 clucks. I know Blue Smoke Executive Chef Kenny Callaghan was trying to emulate the lacquered sheath-like crust I led him to at Gus's World-Famous Fried Chicken in Mason, TN. He doesn't quite get there, but damn, this is a fine crispy and crunchy crust that sheathes the chicken beautifully.
White meat: 4 clucks. Moist, not at all dry, but I didn't see any juices running down my mouth when I took a bite of the breast.
Dark meat: 4.5 clucks. Juicy, well-cooked thigh and drumstick with no blood near the bones.
Spiciness: 5 clucks. Just the right spice mix as far as I'm concerned: salt and pepper applied judiciously but forcefully.
Sides: 4.5 clucks. Excellent mashed potatoes with gravy and a good, solid, but not quite flaky enough biscuit.
Price to Value: 4.5 clucks. $18.95 is a fair price for this plate of chicken, mashed potatoes, and biscuit.
Total: 27 clucks
Blue Smoke: 116 East 27th Street (map); 212-447-7733
Clinton Street Baking Co.
Skin and batter: 4 clucks. Flaky and crisp, the skin and batter holding together, but thin and somewhat scant in parts.
White meat: 5 clucks. So clearly five clucks that a few former five-clucks got knocked down a notch. Tremendously juicy and well-seasoned all the way through. "We brine our chicken in buttermilk before frying," chef and owner Neil Kleinberg told us. It shows.
Dark meat: 4 clucks. Equally tasty, but a bit too juicy--soaking through the crust.
Spiciness: 4 clucks. Salted and peppered, with hints of garlic and thyme, but none packed a particular flavor punch.
Sides: 5 clucks. A generous loaf of crusty jalapeño cornbread, plus coleslaw, and Clinton Street's incredible mini-biscuits.
Price to Value: 4.5 clucks. $17 isn't that cheap, but for four sizable pieces of chicken plus the plentiful sides, it's not a bad deal.
Total: 26.5 clucks
Clinton Street Baking Co.: 4 Clinton Street (map); 646-602-6263
Momofuku Noodle Bar
Skin and batter: 5 clucks. The crust and batter on both the Korean-style fried chicken and the Southern-fried chicken was super-crunchy. No complaints on exterior textures at all.
White meat: 5 clucks. Tender, juicy, easy to scarf right down.
Dark meat: 5 clucks. Cooked through and fatty in just the right way.
Spiciness: 4 clucks. Southern-style chicken was certainly well-seasoned, but I found the Old Bay unnecessary.
Sides: 5 clucks. Vegetables, pancakes, a multitude of exciting sauces--obviously an unusual Asian-style array of side dishes.
Price to Value: 4 clucks. You have to spring for the package--and good luck getting in--but $50 gets four people the equivalent of a whole chicken and sides. Good deal!
Total: 28 clucks
Momofuku Noodle Bar: 171 First Avenue (map); 212-777-7773; by advance reservation only
Related: Momofuku Noodle Bar's Fried Chicken Dinner
Brooklyn Bowl
Skin and batter: 4 clucks. Light, ultra-crispy, and very dark.
White meat: 3.5 clucks. A little dry.
Dark meat: 4 clucks. Thigh cooked all the way through and juicy enough.
Spiciness: 3 clucks. Too much Old Bay. It dominated my taste buds.
Sides: 5 clucks. Solid mashed potatoes with gravy, unusual collards with bacon and honey, and white bread.
Price to Value: 3 clucks. $18 for a half chicken with the above-mentioned sides in a bowling alley seems a bit high.
Total: 22.5 clucks
Brooklyn Bowl: 61 Wythe Avenue, Brooklyn (map); 718-963-3369
Related: Brooklyn Bowl: Can Bowling Alley Food Be Finger-Lickin' Good?
Locanda Verde
Skin and batter: 3.5 clucks. Certainly light, but man, did I miss me some crispy crunchiness.
White meat: 5 clucks. Moist, strong chicken-y flavor, which is unusual in white meat.
Dark meat: 4.5 clucks. Juicy, not stringy at all.
Spiciness: 4 clucks. Plenty salty through and through.
Sides: 5 clucks. Delicious thick-cut Char No. 4 bacon and beans to start, biscuits from heaven, simple piece of steamed sweet corn, tasty greens, and light cucumber and tomato salad... oh yeah, and an amazing piece of nectarine-plum pie for dessert.
Price to Value: 3 clucks. $38 gets you a lot of food (see above, it's easily enough for two), but then again $38 is a lot of money to pay for a fried chicken dinner. Plus, you also have to pay an additional $3 cover charge for the band.
Total: 25 clucks
Locanda Verde: 377 Greenwich Street (map); 212-925-3797; by advance reservation only
Related: Locanda Verde: Come for the Fried Chicken, But Stay for the Pie
And the Winner Is... The Redhead
Skin and batter: 5 clucks. Just the right about of crunch, not too thick or too thin, this is what serious fried chicken is all about.
White meat: 5 clucks. Tender and juicy, it's the best white meat can hope to be.
Dark meat: 5 clucks. Serious fried chicken lovers know dark meat is where it's at. Perfectly cooked, all the way to the bone.
Spiciness: 5 clucks. The most well-seasoned chicken we tasted, inside and out. This is one savory piece of chicken.
Sides: 3.5 clucks. Served with a spinach, strawberry, and almond salad, and corn bread. Fine accompaniments, worthy of the stomach space.
Price to Value: 5 clucks. Worth the price of admission. $17.
Total: 28.5 clucks
The Redhead: 349 East 13th Street (map); 212-533-6212
So the Levine-beloved, Bruni-approved Redhead walks away with our title of the Best Fancy-Pants Fried Chicken in New York. But there's plenty of good eating at all the places above. What do you think, serious eaters? What's your favorite fancy fried chicken?
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With the Volvo FH, we started with a blank page. Then we designed every line and component from scratch for a truck that embodies safety.
We know what's going on out there. We know what accidents look like. That's why we do so many extra tests that are not called for by legislation.
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With night mode, drivers have the option of instantly switching off all unnecessary dashboard backlights with the press of a button. The result is less glare in the driver's field of vision, and fewer distractions from reflections in the windscreen and side mirrors. It is best suited to long-haul drivers when driving at night, and when reversing and manoeuvring in tough weather conditions or complex environments, such as when connecting or disconnecting trailers.
Every Volvo FH has a large skylight that doubles as an escape hatch. It also gives a bright, airy cab – helping you stay alert and focused on the road.
Around half of all fatalities in trucks could be avoided through use of a seatbelt – a fact worth remembering next time you hit the road.


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I don't see any ability to put routes into it.
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3.) make sure the inside hosts don't get natted when communication with the outside hosts (aka no nat rule)NAT is enabled on the Belkin router. Could you explain this more because I thought I needed to keep NAT turned on to protect the inside computers from internet hacks.
I'm no expert, but what may be happening is the packets from the 192.168.1/24 network goes to the belkin, then out to the external WAN side, which then has no idea how to route to 192.168.80/24 subnet, since it is a private address.


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Paris Brocante
A visit to Paris is never complete without experiencing a classic Parisian flea market. Brocante is the French word for flea market and Paris is filled with them. Designer Jordan Ferney of Oh Happy Day is having her very own personal sale of some great vintage finds. I have featured a few that I would love to own. If you live in Paris, you could the lucky one to snatch up these unique pieces during the month of April. To view more items, visit her Paris Brocante website.


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Most penguins have their own built-in wetsuits, but not this little guy! This 10-year-old Humboldt penguin lives at the Jurong Bird Park in Singapore, and has been losing his feathers since last year. To keep him warm and protected, he wears customized wetsuits! This isn't the first time we've seen a Humboldt penguin in a wetsuit, but this guy's condition seems to be lasting longer than usual. The suits are also supposed to encourage feather growth and prevent new feathers from falling out, so here's hoping he's on the mend. Click through for more cute photos of our featherless friend.


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Have you wondered what it takes to make your school safer and more accepting for LGBTQ students?
Has your GSA done the Day of Silence every year and the teachers in your school still don't stop students from using anti-LGBT slurs in class?
Are you out of ideas on how your GSA can educate other students on why it's such a problem to say, "That's so gay"?
If you answered yes to any of these questions, then you need an Anti-Slur Campaign!
But wait, what's a campaign?
A campaign is a long-term planned out effort to reach a goal using lots of different and creative ways to get to that goal. An Anti-Slur campaign involves various ways (or tactics) to change your school and stop slurs from being used. GSA Network staff can visit your GSA and help you plan your campaign for the year. We even bring pizza! Just contact your local staff and we'll schedule a training at your school!
To get a better idea of what an Anti-Slur Campaign is, how it works and what tactics you can use, we asked some GSAs that are doing Anti-Slur Campaigns this year to share their ideas and experiences and answer some of the common questions people ask about Anti-Slur Campaigns.
Why is your GSA organizing an Anti-Slur Campaign?
• My GSA is organizing an Anti-Slur Campaign because there is a lot of homophobic and transphobic language on campus. These terms discriminate against the LGBTQ and ally community by saying that being straight is better than being gay. "Damn straight" is used at school to describe something good or positive, while "that's so gay" refers to something that people don't like or thought was stupid. I want to teach my school that "gay" is not a synonym for "stupid"!
– Claudia Chen, GSA President Temple City High
• My GSA is organizing an Anti-Slur Campaign because the students at school use the slurs all too often and don't have any idea of the kind of hurt they are spreading in our school. Our goal is to have the student body understand the hurtful power behind the slurs and whom they are affecting. With education, they can stop and think before they speak, so they can really understand what each slur they are using means. We want the student body to have a better understanding of the LGBT community and know that we aren't backing down.
– Krista Blevins, GSA President Yucca Valley High
• We are troubled by the recent suicides and are looking to prevent any tragic events happening in our school. That is why we are starting an Anti-Slur Campaign that will make a lasting change in the climate of my school to decrease and minimize the use of offensive slurs against LGBT people. We want to break past people's idea of what the traditional form of bullying is and show that it comes in all forms and to look out for it, because you may not even realize it's happening.
– Emily Coffin, GSA Co-President Saugus High
What specific tactics are you using in your GSA's Anti-Slur Campaign?
• The Anti-Slur Campaign is starting through our weeklong Take it Back Ally Week. There will be daily announcements of the statistics on how much LGBT students are harassed so that everyone in the school knows what a big problem this. We are also passing out ally pledge cards and we have set up a banner in which students who are fully committed to a safer school for all students can sign! We are following this peer education with training for all staff members on Nov. 9th to inform them on how to stop slurs used inside and outside of the classroom, as well as what the law says they have to do.
– Krista Blevins, GSA President Yucca Valley High
• My GSA is conducting a school climate survey as our first step because even though our school is incredibly open minded and accepting, we still feel like there is improvement to be made. There are problems with slurs and homophobia at my school. We want to change that. By having our school do a climate survey, we can get an idea of how the student body feels about our campus' climate and what GSA and the school can do to ensure that everybody feels comfortable enough to be who they are without fear of being bullied or teased. After all of our efforts, we were able to gather nearly 2,000 surveys. We plan on publishing the results of the survey in our school newspaper, bulletin, and possibly even in the Culver City newspaper. We will also deliver the results to the Culver City School Board members and ask them to work with the GSA to make our school safer. We want to use the results to target specific problems that may exist on campus, such as not having a place where students may go for LGBTQ related resources and counseling, or even including more LGBTQ information in our core classes like history or English.
– Carmen Jovel, GSA President Culver City High
GSA Vice President Niko Walker and GSA President Carmen Jovel collected nearly 2,000 surveys.
• My GSA is doing a presentation to our teachers that will use personal stories and education about the laws that protect LGBTQ students. I will share my own personal story of harassment that a lot of them weren't aware happened on our campus. By using my own experiences to start the training, we are connecting with the teachers emotionally and opening their minds to the fact that this is a real issue. It is our hope to create a more accepting environment and more awareness of what LGBTQ youth are going through in Glendora.
– Isaiah Baiseri, GSA President Glendora High
How can you use one-day events in your GSA's Anti-Slur Campaign?
• We organized a big turnout for the national Spirit Day to remember all those teens that had committed suicide because they were bullied so much for being LGBT. We used Facebook to spread the word and let people know what we were doing and why were doing it. We all wore purple in their memory and we got that school involved as well. So many people learned about the bullying against LGBT people and what they can do to stop it through Spirit Day. Before we organized the day, most of my school thought it wasn't a big deal to be LGBT, but now they know better.
– Hugo Meza, GSA President Littlerock High School
• A GSA can use the Day of Silence to raise awareness of LGBT issues. By attracting attention through the silent protest of the day, you are making awareness of the issues faced by LGBTQ youth. This awareness can lead you to get students, teachers and administrators as new supporters to help you stop slurs. It can be a great way to end your Anti-Slur campaign. If you start in the beginning of the year, train your teachers, use creative posters to spread the word, make sure your school is following the law, and use fun tactics like guerrilla theater to educate your peers in a new way, you can end your successful campaign with a great Day of Silence that shows how much your school is against LGBTQ slurs.
– Isaiah Baiseri, GSA President Glendora High
What helped you plan and organize doing the school climate survey?
• The help and cooperation of our school administrators and teachers, as well as that of the GSA members, helped us plan and organize the school climate survey. In addition, the fact that our school is so diverse and accepting also made the task possible. However, if it had not been for the ideas on the GSA Network website, none of this would have been possible.
– Carmen Jovel, GSA President Culver City High
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In a survey by the Cycle Show of women attending the Show, the fairer sex found fans of cycling the most attractive from a list of typically male sporting pursuits.From Cycling News Wednesday round up. Via Cycle Blog.
Cycling came out as the top choice of hobby for prospective partners with 36% of respondents voting in its favour; beating the number one male hobbies of football (17%) and rugby (14%).
The women questioned revealed that not only are they more happy for prospective partners to spend time cycling when not spending time with them, but also that they are equally positive about the idea of cycling as a romantic experience. 44% of those questioned chose a bike ride as their top first date activity. Football fans faired less well, with only 17% of respondents choosing a trip to the football as their ideal first date.
Cyclists were also frequently described as 'kind', 'considerate' and 'intelligent' whereas the majority of women questioned felt that football fans were typically 'aggressive', 'selfish' and 'proud.'
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Employment Solicitor
- Employer
- JMC Legal recruitment
- Location
- England, Hertfordshire, Stevenage
- Salary
- £45000 - £60000 per annum + Negotiable + Excellent Benefits
- Closing date
- 6 Sep 2019
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- Practice area
- Employment
- 3 years, 4 years, 5 years, 6 years
Are you looking for an opportunity at a practice which I deem to be one of the most entrepreneurial firms in the UK?
This is a unique opportunity with a firm with a track record of success. This firm has grown considerably in the last five years, due to acquisitions and several strategic heavyweight hires. If you are seeking a real springboard for progression in a modern, dynamic and forward-thinking firm that truly stands out from the crowd, then read on.
The firm
They have experienced huge growth in recent years, with the hire of some of the industries most talented and well-respected Lawyers. They have a heritage spanning over 200 years, built on solid foundations, however, what they have achieved in the last ten years is extremely impressive and unheard of.
They have the backing of a £Billion fund which has identified the direction and vision of the firm is one of which they have partnered with to excel their growth. You will find a strong management team which has invested in systems which have allowed staff to become streamlined and have several accolades of back office ways of working which proudly place them ahead of firms even ranked in the top 10.
Their culture is one of positivity, enthusiasm and focused around the people that work there. They nurture legal talent and provide a career structure which is based on merit, without the usual confusing application process and box-ticking exercise, there are no glass ceilings here at all, with no earning limits and pointless pay grades which reward on a level of experience rather than taking into account the individual and the value they add to the firm.
They house Lawyers who with their infrastructure, bill over £1million with little in the way of Secretarial support. You will find an entrepreneurial culture and set trends, just recently they were approached by two International Top 20 firms who wanted to seek advice on how they manage client payments and cash flow just so efficiently.
As an experienced Recruiter, upon getting to know the firm, I feel they are truly unique, and I find their story, vision, and ways of working refreshing. They have room and continued plans to continue to grow, although they set the benchmark understandably high hiring people that do not only fit technically, cultural fit being of the utmost importance. What stood out to me, is their positive, friendly and team orientated approach.
The role
The firm is seeking to hire an Employment Solicitor into their Stevenage, Hertfordshire office.
Employment is one of the firms busiest and fastest growing departments, the team in Essex is thriving. You will work alongside a highly experienced team dealing with a top-quality caseload. The work will be varied, and client base is varied and includes names such as Aldi, Vodafone, and many other well-known household names, the caseload will be both contentious and non-contentious, claimant and respondent work.
- You will be an Employment Solicitor with 3-6 years PQE
- You should have a strong technical knowledge
- Excellent communication skills and the ability to build strong client relationships is key
- Salary is above market rate and negotiable depending on your level of experience, plus an excellent bonus structure.
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All good things must come to an end. When looking at the post-New Year Humpday schedule, defeat was inevitable, dare I say, invited. Names that shake the hallowed halls of professional Halo dotted our horizon. Instead, we lost to a team led by a guy who refers to himself as Lord and a bunch of Halo LARPers, the Praetoria Guards – how embarrassing.
Other Lords from lore:
Lord BritishLord of the DanceLittle Lord Fauntleroy
Lord of the Flies
Count Dooku
BungieNew0001 – Save usFrankie – No codeThug Larz – "Frank, Luke, stop fighting"TJ Scoot – "durr durr durr"
Praetoria Guards
PraetoriaGuards is a Halo fansite with a rich community and judging from our limited and horrifically unfun interaction with them, they are a kind-hearted group of merciless and coldblooded jerks who will cheat at every chance. They also frequently hurt puppies.
LordGideon – DouchelordSmackafield – Stand-byEisen Feuer – CheaterDobko – Tried to call in an AirstrikeDarkKnight DS – Is not BatmanJatsu – Huh?KilaM0Mjaro – Nothing negative to say, her name is hilarious. Heroic Odysseus – If you're so heroic why didn't they let you play in the games that count?
Game 1
One Flag CTF on High GroundTone of Game: An unassuming youth enjoying a video game in the company of an amorous golden retriever.
Well we already know the outcome, so here's what happened: Praetoria Guard apparently plays together quite regularly, where Joe, Frankie, Lars and I play together once a week for usually three games. Three games that up until now we've won the majority of. I don't know how they did it but they used the exact same strategy in both of their rounds and in both cases scored like prom night. Try not to laugh to hard when you watch the film and see what they did to us.
It wasn't an entirely bottomless pit, though. Somehow Frankie escaped their base on our first offensive effort with the flag, but that triumph was exposed for the sad falsehood that it was when they rebuffed us pretty effortlessly on our second attempt. It's almost like they let us score during the first game. We were just a yarnball to these kitties.Final Score: 2-1 Praetoria Guard Wins(Watch the strategery here)
Game 2
Team Slayer on GuardianTone of Game: muted
Picture says it all. Deduce what thou wilst.
Final Score: 50-36 PG wins :( (Just follow Frank in the film.)
Game 3
Tower of Power on SpireTone of Game: Zany
Defeated, with our heads in our hands, we agreed to play the third round. We gave them party leadership and tried a Forged environment with a Forged Gametype. We played the LordGideon-created Tower of Power on Spire. Tower of Power is a variation of One Flag CTF where the Flag carrier turns yellow ("for visibility" explains Gideon) and is more affected by gravity, resulting in lower jump heights. What makes Tower of Power really shine, however, is the custom Forge map, Spire.
The flag is located on an elevated platform that Gideon forged roughly half way up the towering spires on the "UNSC Cruiser in the sky" side of the map. To shorten Sandtrap's otherwise overwhelming length for infantry, he placed a series of teleporters that shorten run distances and effectively shrink the map. A single Hornet is available to both the offense and defense (placed near the Banshee spawn) and the attacking squad has a Scorpion at their disposal. To counter the presence of the Scorpion and vehicles in general both teams have a bunch of weapons at their disposal, Spartan Lasers, missile pods and anti-infantry measures, like spire-topping mounted turrets and a Sniper Rifle, suspended on an elevated platform below the spire.
Assaulting the Flag is a vertical endeavor and at first glance it looks like the defenders have every advantage, but a cache of ranged weapons at the attackers' disposal give them a counter to each of the defenders' tools.
The game was a blast and Gideon joined our side after Frank's Internet got wonky (again). We've included a link to LordGideon's file share below, if you're logged into Bungie.net you can tell your 360 to download the map file "Spire" and the gametype "Tower of Power" from his File Share.
Final Score: 2-0 Bungie WinsDownload the filmDownload the Map/Game Variant (the goodies are at the bottom of LordGideon's fileshare)
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A 4v4 mix of Double EXP Slayer and Objective gametypes on a whole mess of your own community created maps.
Category: Double EXP Weekend
Max Party: 8
Max Team Size: 4
Heroic/Mythic Map Packs Required
Updated 12/03/2009
Tags: Halo 3
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Fix your -blam!-, Bungle!
So, yeah, This week's Double EXP Weekend is running a little behind. I blame Ninja 0n Fire. (He tells me that some fairly large updates are being deployed and as a result, we'll likely not see the Double EXP Weekend go live until tomorrow, or, *gulp* "later").
When it is ready to go, we'll let you know.
Tags: Halo 3, Emotional Support
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Feet first into awesome.
Looks like ubald unleashed another render over at HBO. This one's a WIP and part of a much larger collection that will ultimately serve as a webcomic. But you should check it out now.
ubald: Halo Rendered Comic
Tags: Halo 3: ODST
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Faux Chief.
This week's Steve's getting all Batman on some Scarab carapace.
Chronicles of ODS Steve: Faux Chief (#81)
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You know the deal.
Anoj didn't submit his latest entry to Comm Chatter, but they gang at HBO picked up the slack. Besides, even without Anoj's familiar wordplay, we all know what this video's about anyway. There's like ten kills. You can submit your own for next week if you're astute enough to figure out how to make it happen.
Top 10 Halo 3 Kills on The Pit: Episode 59
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Tired of Rube Goldberg machines in advertising yet? Sorry, here's another. But after you finish your long sigh, you might actually enjoy this one.
A month from now, it will be 10 years since Wieden + Kennedy released its "Cog" spot for Honda. But the Rube Goldberg idea can still be compelling now and again, particularly when the advertiser can lay some kind of metaphorical claim to mirroring how such machines work—i.e., not very efficiently but with a higher purpose in mind.
In Panera's case, this means taking the longer road to making its food, and indulging in detours along the way. For example, it uses harder-to-find ingredients like antibiotic-free chicken; it bakes fresh bread from fresh dough in every one of its bakery cafés; and it donates leftover food to charity. These could be seen as inefficiencies—a Rube Goldberg way of doing business—but the result is a better-quality product, and as it turns out, a more delightful commercial.
Panera's agency, Cramer-Krasselt, hired 1stAveMachine to build the Rube Goldberg device—a wise choice, given that production company's extensive experience in making quirky devices for commercials (many of them for Google). 1stAveMachine built this device in a circle, which is itself a metaphor for Panera's daily routine—it ends, and then begins anew the next morning.
"What we're trying to do here is illustrate the cyclical nature of a day in the life of Panera," 1stAveMachine co-director Bob Partington says in the revealing behind-the-scenes video (also posted below). "A Rube Goldberg device is a cause and effect, like a chain-reaction device. And the idea is, all these little things in this circle represent all the difficult decisions and the hard road that Panera takes in creating this really great product."
There is also, of course, the more obvious connection between a Rube Goldberg machine and Panera's product—both are handmade, or "artisanal," if you like. "We thought that by doing it with artisans and embracing their craftsmanship, we were somehow also embracing the style of the brand," says co-director Antonio Balseiro.
Even if you think that's overly conceptualized, there's also the plain fact that Rube Goldberg machines are just fun to watch—whatever you're selling. If nothing else, that's why we'll surely see plenty more of them in the future.
Client: Panera
Agency: Cramer-Krasselt
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Gavino07 wrote:God Dag,
Sorry for the english, but I am obsessed with Norway and Norwegians. I would like to know who would like to play with me and other interested Americans. I would also create games that only Americans and Norwegians would play in. I have one game where i have me and two other norwegians. It took me a couple of days to find these Norwegians that would join. To make things easier. Vaer sa snill, to those who are interested in playing me and my clan of Americans, write to me your names. Tusen Takk.
I am part Norwegian and i am proud.
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Old Home Day
1638 - Town of Hampton - 1960
22 Exeter Road
Built in 1763 by William Smith and his wife Deliverance. Sold by the Smith's in 1789 to "Daniel Philbrick, his son Jonathan and his son's wife Esther." Sold by William Philbrick in 1943 to Carl M. and Gertrude N. Lougee, the present (1960) owners.
The location at 22 Exeter Road was originally known as "Wigwam Row" receiving its name from Indian Wigwams built in the declivity of the hill where it slopes down in a Southwesterly direction toward the meadows. The high ground above was covered with dense forest and therefore a spot more sheltered from the cold winds and storms of winter could hardly be found.
Exeter Road was built at a very early period, and originally was simply an Indian Trail through the woods. Tradition has it that this road was laid out by a bear: the story being that Bruin made a night raid on the settlement near "Wigwam Row" and that men going in pursuit the next morning followed its tracks in the light snow to its watering place at Squamscott Falls and built the road accordingly. This they say accounts for its crookedness.
James Philbrick, grandfather of Daniel was a mariner and engaged in much town business as Selectman, Surveyor, lot-layer, etc. From 1690-1700, his books show him to have been trading considerably between Martha's Vineyard and Hampton in lumber, wood, hides, spices, molasses, iron and wooden ware, cloths, cutlery and other merchandise. He was once taken on the high seas by a French privateer, which captured his vessel as a prize. A storm arising, he guided his captors to safe harborage, and in gratitude, they gave him back his vessel. During the storm, he begged them to spare an old Bible they were about to throw overboard. This they did. (The Bible was published in 1583.)
The original Hampton Philbrick -- Thomas Philbrick came to Hampton at an unknown date, but he died in Hampton in 1667 as his will was proved on the 8th of October in that year.


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I am looking for a way to automatically analyse a large quantity of message board posts along with each posts' username. The idea would be to match up the writing styles of each username to identify people who post using multiple accounts.
If anyone could give me some pointers in the right direction on what types of algorithms exist to do something like this I would be very grateful. I am presuming the algorithm might look at things like types of sentence constructs and semantics, but I am not sure exactly where to start researching this.
Many thanks in advance,


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C六 / d6-7-8 apps and wireframes. See the talk page in re the broken or decommissioned links.
In these domains I distinguish two base configurations of this which are articulated in numerous concrete domains:
- pm-lets supports the domain principalsonly.organd
- sameboats based apps supporting a variety of not necessarily related domains.
With a few exception most of below are historical and offline.
A full basis for a PaaS/SaaS for a Buffalo telematics vendor. stt.mop.biz contains the supported GMRV code but ii continues the development of the PaaS/SaaS as a generic production under the aegis of SPLEG (Software Product Line Engineering) for AI. Create an account in this latter site and I will get a message from it, if you've also messaged me I'll promote the account for access to the rich active content.
Update 2015-0915: Recent checks indicate GMRV is having problems managing the considerable assets I created for them, web in general maybe. The drupal site is still working but the measures I put in place to make it fast (like the generalization still is) are not working and it looks like something else must be broken because it takes minutes to get a front page load, should take ms like stt.mop does. Looks like they may have also had some problems with transferring the brochure site from the original vendor or something but the improved version I did is still fine from the same server as the drupal app is running on.
Update 2016-0915: These, including my instances are long gone, elements survive in the completely repurposed SPLEG (Software Product Line Engineering Generics) site and some relevant interaction in re the PEMS wiki article are on my talk page there.
- principalsonly.org (C六書/dn)
A long standing intent but not seriously developed beforel 2012, is meant to be the reference app for CLiu. The concept is a LETS (or a GETS if you will since a LETS on the web is inherently global) market with an initial focus on IT jobbing. Starts out with a drupal refactoring of the combined function an old cgi script for a freelancer site (freelancers 2.9 which I am not redistributing) and a derivative of the Symfony jobeet tutorial adapted for CLiu .
Deer Traders(d6)
had relatively little to do with this but first production level d site (d6) I had hands on. Don't laugh. 2017: I guess they folded a few years back, cervid semen was the line of biz.
- { active.companions } (C六/d7)
A venture where I was offered I think 5 or 10 then 50% equity. May revive this as a PM (Public Market) app.
- {shewrites.com} (C六/d6-7).
A standalone version of a womens writing site currently on Ning. The plug was pulled on its development in the first week. Maybe developed further (and converted to d7) then pitched to pry them away from Ning
- {SDS: Education Financing Vertical} (C六/d7)
Concept self-explanatory from commissioning domain: "studentdirectscholarship.org", next step for a venture which prior to this had a superficial flat PHP app with nothing behind it. Link is to staging, has the early d8 derived Symfony stuff merged into the regular d7 Symfony module. A continuing venture started in '07, my involvement was about 6 months in '12.
- { DACLIPS } (C六書/d8)
Support site for a generic data acquisition system.
- These are dead, unchanging, but may be used to test or sumthin.
- {coopixz.com} (C六/d7)
A hot-or-not concept as shown in young clients hand drawings. Primary value in continuing this is that there is a module that matches the clients idea, even having the same name. Will move into the app category when a minimal C六 app around the current state of that Tournament module for the hot or not concept is developed. The developers 3 part video shows that the raw material makes this a canonical toy case pf drupal app development, i.e. of turning disembodied and feckless function mass into a (in this case only part way to) a cohering app.
Another thing I want to do here is adapt a CZG theme to drupal. So intend to turn that one into a front page for the site and a skin over the tournament/match/bracket function.
- GSIB' a support site for a generic NSIS based Windows installer builder package (originally for Gamestreamer) (d6).
- { DTBSNS } originally a conceptual prototype based on the MIT SIMILE timeline widget¹ Essentially the same as what became the FB timeline, albeit with a radically different capitalization. (d6).
[¶ that was here moved to discussion page]
¹ Drupal Timeline Based Social Networking System. Exploitation of DTBSNS itself as such, other than for the pædogogic and development purpose used here is restricted by a prior agreement. All above that aren't my internal apps are similarly bespoke.