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How to set terrifying goals (and then go after them)
At ThinkPlace we try to dream big. You have to when your goal is to work every day to design for a better world.
We've adopted the United Nations 17 Sustainable Goals as our guiding principles. They include lofty aims such a "Zero hunger" and "No poverty".
But when your goals are so big, how do you stay motivated? How do you stay on track?
At a leadership and strategy retreat outside Canberra recently, some of our designers were lucky to get some advice from an expert in thinking big -- Olympic Gold medallist Alicia Coutts.
Coutts is a legend in the pool. At London in 2012 she became one of only three Australians to win five medals at an Olympic Games (the other two being Ian Thorpe and Shane Gould).
At the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi she won five gold medals and was chosen to carry Australia's flag at the closing ceremony.
So when Alicia arrived at the two-day retreat to share some of her experiences she was met with a captive audience, fascinated not just by her accomplishments but by the tools and mindset she used to achieve them.
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Have a clear sense of purpose
For Alicia every swim was a swim for her father – who passed away from cancer when she was just seven.
''My dad always told me I would go to the Olympics one day," she said. "The day my dad passed away I had a race the next day. Everybody told me I didn't need to go but I said: 'I want to race for my dad'. I raced for him that day and won all my races. And then every time I ever raced for him after that I did it for him."
This unwavering sense of purpose gave her a focus she admits was "laser-like". Over a decade of constant sacrifice she never deviated from it. To make an Olympic team for her dad. It was her North Star.
Have a dream that's big enough to scare you
When selected for her first Olympic team in 2008 Coutts was surprised. She was also thrilled just to be there. She made the final but never expected any more than that. Belief came gradually after that as her performances improved. And after swimming encouragingly well at the Pan Pac games in 2010 she went to Delhi a few weeks later and surprised everybody – winning five Commonwealth Games golds. On the final day of those games, in the athlete's dining hall, she sat down with her coach and had just one question on her mind.
"Should we go for it?"
She meant going for Olympic Gold. And that meant setting a target she had never dared countenance before. A target that scared her.
"If you really believe you can win Olympic Gold then everything needs to change," her coach told her. The goalposts had abruptly shifted.
"It wasn't until then that I thought I could win an Olympic medal," she said. "From that moment on my mindset was completely different. I had gone from 'playing to play' to a new mindset of 'playing to win'."
It all starts today.
After a huge meet, athletes are exhausted. They have completed a process they have worked towards for years. In a life where you seldom get a break from the rigours of training and competition this is the one time you can actually take a breather.
Coutts chose something else.
"Once we made that decision to go for it, I started straight away," she says. "I was back in the pool the next morning, working harder, training longer and getting stronger. I added running, I added hundreds of sit-ups and core exercises. The Olympics were years away but I knew that if I wanted to realise this goal that scared me so much I couldn't waste a day."
Success is never static. It moves.
When your circumstances change your goals can change also. But the ferocity with which a champion pursues them will remain.
In late 2014, Coutts fell while playing with her dog and tore the labrum in her shoulder. The injury made swimming extremely painful. It threatened to end her career. Coutts found herself facing a dilemma – she could either have surgery and retire immediately, knowing she had already achieved her goals of reaching an Olympics and winning gold.
Or, she could put off surgery and train through the pain – day after day – swimming more than two million strokes through the physical pain of her injury as she battled to make another games squad.
Of course, she took the second option, but arrived in Rio knowing that success had taken on a different meaning for her.
"I ended up finishing fifth in that race," she says. "But I had not a second of regret about it. I knew I was finishing my career and I just felt so proud that I had fought and fought and finished it the way I wanted to: in the pool, at the Olympics. That felt like winning to me."

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Hove, East Sussex, United Kingdom
About Marcelina amelia
Marcelina is a UK based contemporary artist working with mixed media approaches to print, painting and drawing. She often draws inspirations from her Polish heritage, looking to religious iconography and folk tales, as well as childhood memories, the power of dreams, spirituality, sexuality, and the human condition. According to her Mum, Marcelina started drawing before she could properly speak. She has been featured in publications including Booooooom, Bomb, Art Maze, Create Magazine, Digital Arts, Vogue, Refinery29, The NY Times, Der Spiegel and Ballad Of Magazine. She exhibits work throughout the UK as well as internationally and was a featured artist of the 2017 edition of the London Illustration fair and led a The Big Draw sketch walk for Apple. Marcelina is also a founder of artbrand Mesh Studio. Marcelina says 'I like to play at the tense borders between lust and innocence; joy and sadness; fun and pain. My interest in juxtaposition comes from my origins and fascination with East European culture which was eloquently described by Grayson Perry as 'nowhere else could such horrific grief be met with such fairly-tale romanticism'. 'I tend to utilise nature as a metaphor for everyday feelings and headaches. My recent work also dwells into themes of self acceptance, body positivity, representations of the female sexuality, gender, migration, and society. Although some of the subjects I take on are often quite dark I like to think that there is some humour and light in my finished artwork.'
University: 2008-2011 - University of Westminster, London, UK.
1.1 BA (Hons) degree in Illustration and Visual Communication
Graduated with a First Class Honours.1.1.
Received a Progression Scholarship for consistent high grades and artistic achievements.
2008 – Printmaking and Graphic Design; Schule Für Farbe und Gestaltung - Stuttgart, Germany
Secured a scholarship as part of a European Union Program - Leonardo Da Vinci
Obtained a Europass and a Printmaking and Graphic Design Certificate.
2002 – 2008; Jacek Malczewski School of Fine Art – Czestochowa, Poland.
Earned a distinction in Graphic design and Fine art.
2014 - London Print Studio - London, UK
Intermediate Screen-printing Course
2013 - Print Club London - London, UK
Screen-printing Course
Affordable Art Fair, Hampstead, London with Liberty Gallery 9-12.4.2018
The Other Art Fair presented By Saatchi Art, 22-25.3 Victoria House
WC1A 2QP, London
Hope is strong, 23.02 Skull & Heart gallery at Millenium gallery, Museum of Sheffield, UK
The London Illustration Fair The featured artist of LIF, OXO Tower Wharf, Southbank, London
Stylist Live Event with Of Cabbages and Kings Gallery, Olympia London
Affordable Art Fair Hamburg Nov 16 - Nov 19 Hamburg Messe u. Congress, Germany
Not Today Snake Marcelina Amelia Solo Exhibition, Jam Factory Arts Centre, Oxford
Abstract Expressions - Today at Apple X Marcelina Amelia Talk and Sketch Walk,
Apple Store, Regent Street, London
Affordable Art Fair Nacka Strandsmässan, Stockholm, Sweden
Brighton Print Fair Phoenix Brighton, Brighton
The New York Affordable Art Fair Booth 1.3 Retrospect Galleries, Metropolitan Pavilion, New York, USA
Official Mesh Studio by Marcelina Amelia Of Cabbages And Kings Shop & Gallery
Stoke Newington, London
Art Of Being Out Group Exhibition, D Contemporary Gallery, Mayfair, London
Dziewuchy - Grafika Mito Gallery, Warsaw, Poland
Cass Art X Aoi Illustration Exhibition Wild And Civilised, Cass Art, Islington, London
Wallbeing Spring Exhibition, Burakowska 14, Warsaw, Poland
Be Bold For A Change Adam And Eve Ddb Agency, Bishops Bridge Road, London
Bizarre Bazaar, The Vaults, Waterloo, London
Geffrye Museum Night Market, Hoxton, London
Museum Of London Night Market, Docklands,London
The London Illustration Fair - Oxo Tower Wharf, Southbank, London
On Paper Festival Norwich, Norfolk
Debaser Cultivate At Bsmt Space, Dalston, London
Marcelina Amelia and Jane Sampson Prints at 31 Gallery, Brighton, UK
Brighton Art Fair Brighton Dome Corn Exchange, Brighton
Open Sesame! Group exhibition, Atom Gallery, London
Loop Dreams Group exhibition, Stour Space, Hackney Wick, London
It's The Dogs Group exhibition, Ben Oakley Gallery, London
Flower-Faced Exhibition by Marcelina Amelia of 'Cabbages & Kings Gallery'; Stoke Newington, London
London Lap Exhibition - 'Look Mum no Hands', Mare Street, London
Roasted Gallery - 'Hatch Homerton Screen-prints Display', London
Pre-auction Exhibition, 'Bohema Nowa Sztuka Gallery and Auction House', Warsaw, Poland
Booooooom x Herschel Supply; 'Drawing On The Past' - Burrard Arts Foundation, Vancouver, Canada.
Duszno Zbiornik Kultury - Cracow, Poland
Cultivate Evolved Vyner Street Gallery, London
Somewhere to Summer Of Group - Pop up Gallery, Peckham, London
London Illustration Fair - Hoxton Arches; London
Influence - Lucy Sparrow and Marcelina amelia, Contemporary visual arts exhibition
Marburae Gallery, Macclesfield
Elevated Artfair 7/ Pop Up Gallery Leadenhall Market, London
Knick knacks solo exhibition Centrum Promocji Młodych, Częstochowa Poland
Mad Girl's Love Songs, Window Display - Pop up Solo Show Old Street - London
The Big Egg Hunt presented by Fabergé; took place all over central London (February – April)
Secret Wars- Marcelina vs Hicks Big Egg Hunt x Conde Nast Publications Exhibition' - See Gallery Hackney Wick, London
Monorex Peep Show Designersblock A part of Secret Wars Presentation, part of London Design Festival, Farringdon, London
New Designers , Design Business Centre, London
D&AD New Blood Truman Brewery, Brick Lane London
Graduate Exhibition, P3 Gallery, Baker Street,London , June 2011
Heterogenic Etcetera Gallery, Hackney, London, May 2011


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Astrophysicist and NPR blogger Adam Frank writes about the "sustainability bottleneck" as the state faced by technological civilizations like ours, which have learned how to "intensively harvest" energy, but not how to sustain themselves through the crisis this harvesting sets off. It turns out there may be millions of planets that give rise to life in our galaxy alone. Frank […]
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Sorry, Doll: World's Biggest Barbie Store Closes
The 35,000 square-foot, six-story Mattel merchandising mecca in Shanghai lasted two years, with profits apparently as wobbly as Raggedy Ann's legs. The store was intended to be the centerpiece of Barbie's excursion into Chinese retail, opening on her 50th birthday. It even had a spa and cafe so Mom could drop a few yuan on herself.You had to admire the symmetry, too. As WalletPop pointed out after the store's debut, China produced most of the 100 million Barbie Dolls sold each year, so she might as well have a special place to call home where she's actually born. She made it already as the American dream, a hinged piece of plastic with unrealistic proportions who became the must-have girl toy for more than a half-century.
No such luck in Shanghai. The store had to lower its reported sales expectations three times, according to Bloomberg, not a good sign in a nation where sales climbed an average of 18% in
2010. Barbie lovers stateside probably have nothing to worry about. The Barbie revenues here appear solid, according to reports.
Mattel said in a release that it would continue to market in China, and Barbie herself, dressed in a strapless cocktail number, chirps in English on the store's website, "I have gone on a tour of China!"
But she won't be seen by the fashionable set at the palatial Barbie boutique in Shanghai's Huaihai Road shopping district anymore. Local parents, the AP remarked, are more likely to spend disposable income on lessons rather than dolls.
Unfettered optimism accompanied the store's opening not so many moons ago. A business professor at a Shanghai university said in the WalletPop story, "Mattel is thinking to rebuild the brand image here as a dream, a paradise not only for little girls but for their mothers, too."
One less engagement will leave Barbie with more time to spend at another paradise, perhaps her Malibu Dream House.


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3 First Trimester Pregnancy Symptoms I Thought I Wouldn't Have…But Did.
I thought everyone was exaggerating when they talked about how hard being pregnant is and all the weird shit that happens. I was wrong.
I know. I know everyone says this. I kinda thought they were lying.
I'm a generally healthy person…I eat healthy (sometimes), I exercise (sometimes), I don't smoke or do drugs. I'm also a bit of a productivity freak and need to be "doing something" all the time. That something is often watching parks and rec in my pajamas eating peanut butter from the jar while writing my to-do list in pretty colors… But! I'm usually out of the house all day driving around LA to auditions, (Typical day = drive an hour to audition. Wait an hour. Audition for 3 minutes. Drive two hours home in traffic. Thank god for audiobooks.) going to yoga or on a hike, having lunch with friends, or running errands…normal, albeit slightly obnoxious, actor life.
So at 6 weeks pregnant, when the exhaustion hit me like a freight train, I was mentally unprepared.
My favorite pregnancy book said it best
"the exhaustion is so intense it's almost liberating, you have no choice."
That is 1 billion percent true.
I thought I would stay a normal human at least for the first few months of pregnancy. Cue hysterical laughter from other moms.
My thought process in the morning started as…
"Ok, so after groceries I'll run to the….I'm asleep."
And later, advanced to …
"Well, that was a delicious breakfast of saltines next to my bed, it's probably time for my mid morning nap…I'm asleep."
And then landed on…
"Give me Cheetos- I'm asleep."
Embrace it. Because once the alien in your stomach starts tap dancing on your cervix? Sleep is a distant memory.
My baby hated bacon from weeks 6-12. Thus, I hated my baby. Ok. I didn't hate him. But I seriously questioned his mental functions and life choices. At 12 weeks on the day…he loved it again. I celebrated by eating half a package in 4 minutes.
How do my pants not fit already and my kid is the size of a fingernail? And dear lord. The gas. It's so….so unpleasant and surprising. It ends up being very good for the rest of the world that you are sleeping all day, at home, far far away from anyone else's olfactory glands.
Even the dogs avoid you.
Luckily, you don't want to eat vegetables at all ever EVER IN THE WORLD KEEP VEGETABLES AWAY FROM ME DEVIL FOOD. So it's less horrific than it could be…cheeto farts are preferable to broccoli farts.
Because, Science.
What first trimester symptoms were you not expecting?
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So agree. Also, I think at some point when all I could eat were cheeseburgers and an occasional hot dog, I cried while staring at my hot dog dinner and Jordan said I was snotting and crying "I just want a salad! I just want to eat avocado again! BUT I CAN'T!!!!!"
Thank god for tacos… cheeseburgers… BAGELS! All the carbs. ALL. OF. THEM!
My eating horrified my husband. I think all the Cheetos is a universal thing. I remember having a break down at work because some jerk said "I thought you were gluten free" and I screamed and cried at them "corn isn't gluten you idiot! Go away!" I actually have celiac 🙁 I almost murdered a teenage boy for bringing in a free sandwich ring and coffee while I was the only one in the office at the time. Legit terrified that kid….
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God has given us the responsibility to honestly confront those who do wrong. For most of us, confrontation is a difficult task. For a few, it's much too easy. I hope you don't delight in finding fault in others. If you do, stop and consider if you do this as a way of overlooking your own faults.
I think God wants us to help others see the truth. You can hold up a mirror to your good friends, and they hopefully will do the same for you.
Help others see their faults but do it with great humility. You're not responsible for the behavior of others, but you are responsible to gently and tactfully point out areas of misbehavior that may cause them to stumble, fall, or lose their way.
Are you avoiding some tough conversations? If you have kids, are you confronting them'and when you do, are you doing it with gentleness and humility? Check yourself. Is your tone respectful? Is your word choice uplifting or condescending? God calls you to show courage by addressing wrong, but remember the goal is always to see the other person restored, not belittled. Help that person turn back to God.


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There are basically two types of pumpkin beers: those that taste like real pumpkin and those that taste like pumpkin pie. The former tend to be more of an acquired taste since they're usually very spicy and earthy, whereas the latter are very sweet and borderline gimmicky. I think Samuel Adams Harvest Pumpkin Ale does an excellent job of walking the line between the styles.
I poured a 12oz bottle into an English pint glass. The color is a pretty shade of mahogany with a slightly ruby red haze. It forms a good-sized, frothy, off-white head which leaves some lacing on the glass and never completely dissipates. It regenerates with a swirl of the glass.
The aroma is exactly what I like in a pumpkin beer: noticeable pumpkin scents with components of spice afterwards (mostly cinnamon and nutmeg). It doesn't smell overly-spiced, which is nice.
When it comes to the Samuel Adams lineup, I find the "real" beer styles are solid but the seasonal/gimmicky brews tend to flop. So when I took my first sip of Harvest Pumpkin Ale I was floored. This beer is pretty much exactly what I look for in a pumpkin brew: sweet pumpkin pie-like flavor up front, satisfying spice in the middle, and a slight hop bitterness on the finish. It's rare a pumpkin beer can be this well-balanced.
As the beer warms, the taste evolves from pie sweetness to a more earthy, organic pure pumpkin flavor. The bitterness increases too, but there's still a tasty sweetness akin to dark chocolate in the aftertaste (which makes for a strange, but pleasant, flavor combination). Although I did find the palate began to weaken and thin out towards the end.
I don't think I've ever described a pumpkin beer as having a creamy texture, but I would say that's true here. The thicker, softer texture helps take some of the edge off the spicy kick. However, Harvest Pumpkin Ale is not what I would consider quaffable, nor is it refreshing as it definitely dries out the mouth. Drinking it slow helps to appreciate the complexity of the palate.
At 5.7% this beer has the perfect potency. Any heavier would make it too intense and any lighter might make it too mild. I think it would work well as an after-dinner beer accompanied by pumpkin pie or bread.
It's a shame that the only way to get Harvest Pumpkin Ale is in the Samuel Adams autumn mix pack (as of this writing). It's possible a lot of craft beer enthusiasts might be denied of such a solid example of the pumpkin beer style.
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Clachaig chalets and lodges enjoy and unrivalled setting in the very heart of Glencoe, Scotland. The views of the Glencoe mountains from the picture windows are literally jaw-dropping. The combination of spectacular setting and luxury self catering accommodation makes these a very popular holiday choice.
Despite being close to the award winning Clachaig Inn – Glencoe, the self catering holiday chalets and lodges enjoy privacy and peace being in their own grounds. However, popping out for a bar meal or a well-earned pint at the end of the day couldn't be more convenient.
Riverbank Holiday Cottages, Glencoe are set in a unique and quiet riverside location amidst extensive gardens. There are 3 cottages set out in a courtyard style, each overlooking the mature oaks that line the banks of the River Coe.
Thoroughly modern self catering accommodation means that facilities such as all bedrooms with en suites comes as standard. Fully fitted kitchens, spacious living areas and viewing decks are also popular features at Riverbank Holiday Cottages, Glencoe.
And for a real treat, enjoy our 5* Hawthorn Cottage. A real home from home, just a 5 minute walk from Glencoe village, and close to the MacDonald Monument.
Arivonie – Lochside Cottage, Glencoe is an extended and converted former croft cottage located at Tighphuirt, just outside Glencoe village on the shores of Loch Leven, ideal for a self catering holiday.
This modernised, detached family home, with its own private gardens and driveway, enjoys open views across Loch Leven to the Callart Hills. The stone and slate fireplace and the beamed ceiling of the lounge capture some of the atmosphere of a traditional Highland home.
Quarry Cottages, Ballachulish take their name from the once world famous Ballachulish Slate Quarry. These cottages enjoy open views across the Shinty park and a stunning mountain backdrop in an ideal village location. Comfort and convenience come as standard, with the Co-op, pub, restaurant and coffee shop all just minutes away, not forgetting the gentle walks through the old quarry and along the loch foreshore.
These self catering holiday cottages are a superb base for your holiday in Scotland.


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Alexander on Tomorrow's State of the Union Address: "Real Answer" to Income Inequality Is to Liberate Free Enterprise System from "Big, Wet Blanket" of Obama Regulations
Posted on January 27, 2014
Tennessee Lt. Gov. Ron Ramsey will be Alexander's guest
WASHINGTON, Jan. 27 – U.S. Senator Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) today said he hopes President Obama will offer "real answers" to the issue of income inequality in his State of the Union speech on Tuesday.
Alexander said, "The first real answer to income inequality is to liberate the free enterprise system to create more good jobs, and that's harder to do with the big, wet blanket of Obama administration regulations causing employers to reduce the number of jobs. During this year alone, Obamacare will cancel millions more health care policies and add new costs to employers that will cause the destruction of a great many jobs.
"The second real answer to income inequality is to give parents more freedom to choose a better school for their child. I'll introduce legislation to do just that tomorrow."
Alexander also announced that Tennessee Lt. Gov. Ron Ramsey will accompany him to the president's address, as well as to a private dinner for senators and spouses in the U.S. Capitol prior to the speech.
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Eisteddfod Troupes
The Dance Central Eisteddfod Troupes are about becoming the best dancer you can be, embracing your individuality and empowering you to realize your full potential. Our culture of positive attitudes, and mutual respect along with great sportsmanship are key values to flourishing in the troupe program.
What is Eisteddfod?
The Eisteddfod originated as a Welsh festival and competition of the performing arts and has roots that go as far back as the 12th century. Since then, regional, national, and international competitions have continued to be held the world over. In Australia, Eisteddfods have been in existence since the late 19th century.
What to expect at DC
Our troupes receive continuous technical and performance training by the most talented and experienced teachers, choreographers and mentors from Canberra.
Dance Central also regularly brings in special guest choreographers from around Australia and the world to work exclusively with our troupes and teachers. This creates opportunities to learn from the best in the industry.
Our Eisteddfod program consists of a unique training program of over 8 hours a week. Troupes compete in Jazz, Lyrical, Ballet, and Contemporary in three classes: Over 16's, Under 14's, and Under 12's.
If you wish to be part of the amazing Eisteddfod Troupes in Canberra, contact us. It might just change your life forever!


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The Imperial Riding Diamonds whip is the perfect whip for those who like a touch of bling! It is made from a Fibreglass/Polyester material making it lightweight and has a lovely holographic handle that beautifully offsets the rhinestone detailing.
Length: 120 cm
Colour: Silver
Lisa's notes: These lovely whips make an ideal whip for riders who are looking for an economic riding/dressage whip or as a spare if you are forever losing or breaking them which appear to be a common problem in most yards!! We love the holographic handle and how the rhinestone colouring matches with the shaft of each whip and know this would be much appreciated as a gift for anyone out there!


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7 Symptoms of Heart Attack
You've no doubt seen movies or television shows in which a character clutches his or her chest for a moment and then collapses because of a heart attack. Or maybe you've actually seen someone experience such an event—or suffered a heart attack yourself. If so, it's possible that your symptoms … Read More


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The Hope House Treatment Plan Philosophy
Philosophy of Care
At The Hope House, our philosophy is treating the whole person. Our clients will receive unrivaled integrated and holistic care as expected from luxury residential treatment facilities.
We have two, Fully Licensed by the State of Arizona, Luxurious Residential Behavioral Health Facilities located in the Beautiful Desert of North Scottsdale/Cave Creek. This location was selected due to the unique nature of the geographic area.
The Hope House offers systematic structure which most suffering from the disease of addiction lack, balanced with supervised contact with other individuals in and outside of recovery. It is essential that the client have contact with the outside world, otherwise he/she will not be prepared for real life situations.
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08 September 2011
By Kari Williamson
The batteries have been developed to provide energy storage for residential/community solar PV schemes for customers wishing to operate independently of utility supplies.
Synerion systems are designed to 'time-shift' power generated during peak production times – during the middle of the day for solar energy – to peak demand times, mainly during the evening.
This could enhance the value of solar PV systems as a larger proportion of the electricity produced can be consumed locally, so that only surplus energy is fed back into the grid.
Also on show is Intensium Max, a containerized megawatt scale Li-ion energy storage solution said to make renewable energy generation predictable and grid compatible.
It is a ready-to-install containerised storage solution that provides a complete, fully integrated energy storage system at the megawatt scale comprising Li-ion battery modules, power management and control interfaces, air conditioning and safety devices, Saft says.
Intensium Max can smooth intermittent renewable energy generation and reduce ramp rates, as well as helping to manage power flows within medium voltage grids, making solar energy more predictable and manageable.
For off-grid solar PV installations, Saft is show-casing its Sunica.plus batteries and Smart VHT Ni-MH modules.
Furthermore, the energy storage company is offering its new, high energy, Evolion Li-ion telecom battery for solar PV powered telecom sites.
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The Diabetes & Nutrition Outpatient Services program at San Angelo Community Medical Center offers detailed training and guidance for diabetes self-management, including evaluation of insulin pump and continuous glucose management system (CGMS) user effectiveness. Nutritional assessment and recommendations for change are available for a variety of diagnoses substantially affected by our lifestyles.
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Black Rose Labour
Black Rose is a social and organising space for the Labour Party's libertarian socialists, as well as a campaign group that aims to democratise the party and push its policy platform in a socialist direction. In the wake of an additional five years of hard-right government, we want to promote and organise extra-parliamentary and non-electoral work among the membership. Our strength will come not from Parliament or from a leader above, but from our collective endeavour.
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Rode Owasippie for the first time since it's been reopened, only got the 8 mile loop in because it was gettting too late for the 11 mile. However my GPS watch listed the trail as being 7.3 miles, does my watch not calculate all the twist and turns or have others experienced this? Nothing huge just wondering.
So glad to have such a wonderful trail here along the shoreline. I only hope the relationship between the Scouts (Chicago Council) and the WMMBA continues to grow. The possibilities out there is endless (approx 5,000 acres of land). Also a big shout out to Randy Knapp for all your work and dedication!
I would encourage everyone to go out help support this effort and see this trail for yourself (get your passes at www.ooec.org). The more interest we get the better our relationship becomes with the Scouts. Daily Passes $10 per car (max 4 people) or Yearly Pass for $60.


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How to Ace Your Thanksgiving Appetizers
While a perfectly roasted, golden brown turkey may be the indisputable star of the Thanksgiving meal, common co-stars like stuffing, mashed potatoes, cranberry sauce, green beans and other favorites also receive rave reviews. And then there are the desserts....
While a perfectly roasted, golden brown turkey may be the indisputable star of the Thanksgiving meal, common co-stars like stuffing, mashed potatoes, cranberry sauce, green beans and other favorites also receive rave reviews. And then there are the desserts. From apple pie to pumpkin cheesecake, these perennial picks are sure to send guests home with a smile.
But one meal component is often overlooked every year on the third Thursday of November: Appetizers. But it doesn't have to be that way. Read on for five tips aimed at helping your appetizers make a delicious first impression this Thanksgiving.
1. Stick with Simple
You don't have to put out an army of appetizers to sufficiently entice the eye and amp up appetites. Choosing one or two simple yet scrumptious snacks is just as crowd-pleasing as sending out a spread featuring a dozen different offerings. Reigning in the appetizer portion of the meal can also free you to focus on the main course...and maybe even have a bit of time for socializing, too.
2. Think Light
While giving your guests something tasty to munch on helps kick off the festivities in style, serving too many or heavy appetizers ultimately risks detracting from the meal. Finger foods are a clever compromise: Guests will enjoy noshing on them without spoiling their appetites before the turkey's even left the oven.
3. Make Them Make-Ahead
Your oven, stovetop, and even microwave are likely to be filled with your Thanksgiving turkey and all of the sides. Embracing make-ahead appetizers can help you avoid adding to holiday space issues. From chips and dips to breads and spreads, your guests will love these fuss-free offerings while you'll love the minimal work involved on the big day.
Several easy yet elegant Thanksgiving appetizer options which can be prepared in advance? Cheese plates, relish trays, mixed nuts, and variations on the always-popular Caprese salad.
4. Mix Things Up
Just because your Thanksgiving dinner is a sit-down meal doesn't mean your event has to have a stodgy or stuffy feel to it. One way to get people mingling? Set up appetizer tasting stations. This encourages your guests to interact before the dinner bell rings. This also gets them out of the kitchen while you're finishing up the meal.
5. Have Them at the Ready
More likely than not, arriving guests will be peckish. Having at least an appetizer ready to go as guests arrive is the hospitable thing to do. After all, many will have traveled a ways and won't have loaded up on a big meal before setting out. Offering a snack from the onset can prevent feelings of peckishness.
And don't forget libations. Having wine or a signature cocktail chilled and/or ready to be poured is one of the best ways to ensure that your gathering has a festive feel from the get-go. The Kitchn's Sparkling Apple Cider Sangria pitcher drink can be mixed up in in mere minutes and is seasonally spot-on.
One thing your Thanksgiving appetizers should not be? Stressful. Remember, while food is an important part of the gathering, the holiday is ultimately about giving thanks. In other words, your guests won't be counting how many appetizers you served and whether they're worthy, but will instead be grateful for the opportunity to gather together united by your hospitality. Register with Cilantro today for more help aimed at making your holidays happy days.


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The authors' premise is that we approach parenting with a lot of instincts that are actually just culturally-based practices. In fact, there is a slew of scientific research explaining how these "instincts" are actually false and harmful, but somehow no one is paying attention to the facts. These authors use the science we're all ignoring to challenge our parenting methods and debunk our assumptions. So enlightening!
Some of their critiques of common parenting practices came as no surprise to me, but even so, it was refreshing to understand the Why and How. Other critiques were brand new and gave me pause. Just to give you an idea, here are a few concepts I gleaned (interpreted with all my biases and therefore not at all scientific, so don't quote me).
*Parents feel that arguing with their teens is a bad thing, but it doesn't seem to bother teens that much. Also, teen arguing is actually a healthy sign of respect and shouldn't be perceived as a threat to the parent-child relationship.
*Adults are motivated by praise; children not so much. In fact, praise unmotivates children.
*Observing healthy conflict has no negative effect on children as long as they also see the resolution. In fact, kids need to observe conflict and reconciliation. So don't start an argument with your spouse in front of the kids and then finish it in private. Put it out there.
*For adults, playtime is a way to relax and rejuvenate; for children, it is crucial to their development.
*Aggression is not necessarily bad and empathy is not necessarily good.
*It's pointless to do IQ testing on children before the second grade and yet we do it on a regular basis (sometimes as early as 9 months) and then lock children into (or out of) gifted programs.
*White parents don't teach their children about race because they hope their kids won't notice it. This is false. The window of opportunity when children are most receptive to learning about the equality of all races begins to close in early elementary school, so talk early and talk often.
*When children are consistently sleep-deprived (and children are, across the board, getting an hour less of sleep then they should be), it does irreversible brain damage.
But the idea that struck me as the most intriguing has to do with how children learn to talk. (Apparently there is a big push to get kids to talk earlier? I did not know this, or if I did, I've forgotten. All I remember about my kids learning to talk is being kind of happy when my kids couldn't talk because, once they learned, I had competition.) In order to get kids to talk earlier, parents might do things such as make their babies watch language videos, speak to them in two languages, or keep up a running commentary of everything that's going on.
None of this works. You know what does? Responding to the child. If parents notice what the child is looking at something and then name it, or if they respond to their child's babbling with physical affection, their child's language learning increases with leaps and bounds. In other words, kids learn language best when they initiate the learning process and the adults follow their lead and respond accordingly.
Which sounds like good evidence in favor of self-directed learning, yes? When children—or adults, for that matter—initiate their own learning, learning happens so much more efficiently and effectively. Our role as parents is not to lecture our kids, or flood them with information, but rather to observe them closely and then respond at their level. This is so simple it feels stupid, but it works.
To be fair, I don't think the authors once mentioned homeschooling, but I felt that many of the concepts affirmed the practice. For example, take this paragraph on page 194 regarding children and socialization (a question that homeschoolers field with exhausting regularity). For more punch, I suggest reading it out loud.
We thought that aggressiveness was the reaction to peer rejection, so we have painstakingly attempted to eliminate peer rejection from the childhood experience. In its place is elaborately orchestrated peer interaction. We've created the play date phenomenon, while ladening older kids' schedules with after-school activities. We've segregated children by age—building separate playgrounds for the youngest children, and stratifying classes and teams. Unwittingly, we've put children into an echo chamber. Today's average middle schooler has a phenomenal 299 peer interactions a day. The average teen spends sixty hours a week surrounded by a peer group (and only sixteen hours a week surrounded by adults). This has created the perfect atmosphere for a different strain of aggression-virus to breed—one fed not by peer rejection, but fed by the need for peer status and social ranking. The more time peers spend together, the stronger this compulsion is to rank high, resulting in the hostility of one-upmanship. All those lessons about sharing and consideration can hardly compete. We wonder why it takes twenty years to teach a child how to conduct himself in polite society—overlooking the fact that we've essentially left our children to socialize themselves.
This same time, years previous: the quotidian (5.5.14), fence, not what we're used to, the quotidian (5.6.13), so far today, my boy, rhubarb chicken and mushroom chicken, rhubarb cream pie, I have nothing to say, the bike question revisited, naked pita chips, pounding the pulpit, and baked macaroni and cheese.


text: Still trying to learn how to navigate this whole broken family holidays thing. The past two years my babies have spent Christmas with their dad. While it's been a bit of a bummer for me, I do have them most of the year. So I know that for them, any time they get to see him is so incredibly special. For these past two somewhat lonely years, instead of wallowing I've opened Christmas morning sessions. It's actually become my new favorite tradition! I get to document wonderful memories for some very wonderful families. This family was an absolute joy to photograph. They were so kind and generous, and so enthusiastic about the holiday. Being invited into their home to see how they do Christmas really made the day so much easier on me.


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Plastic Bag Myths: Fact or Fiction
1. Degrade in Landfill Myth (see section on Degrade in Landfill)
Fiction: Bags should degrade in landfill and not last thousands of years.
Fact: No. In a properly engineered landfill, nothing is meant to degrade. No bag – reusable or conventional plastic shopping bag – will decompose in landfill. which actually helps the environment by not producing dangerous greenhouse gases like methane.
This myth is based on a common misunderstanding of the purpose of landfills and how they work. Modern landfills are engineered to entomb waste and prevent decomposition, which creates harmful greenhouse gases like methane and carbon dioxide.
Even so, there is still some anaerobic decay causing fugitive emissions. In Canada, according to Environment Canada, landfills are still responsible for 20% of national methane emissions. Methane is a greenhouse gas that is 21 times more potent than carbon dioxide, in terms of its global warming potential (GWP).
2. The Litter Myth (see section on Litter)
Fiction: In Canada, plastic shopping bags are a serious litter problem.
Fact: No. Plastic shopping bags represent a fraction of 1% of all litter.
While litter may be a serious problem in some countries, plastic shopping bags are not considered a litter problem in Canada. In Canada, plastic shopping bags are a miniscule component of the municipal litter stream.
Litter audit data from major Canadian municipalities shows that plastic shopping bags are less than 1% of litter. The City of Toronto 2012 Litter Audit shows that plastic shopping bags were 0.8% of the entire litter stream.
Focus on the less than 1% of plastic bag litter does not address the other 99% of litter. Litter is a people problem, not a litter problem. Even if you removed all plastic shopping bag litter, 99 % of the litter would still be a problem.
3. Are Bags a Large Part of the Waste Stream? (see section on Degrade in Landfill Myth)
Fiction: Plastic shopping bags are a large part of the waste stream and landfill.
Fact: No. There are a number of diversion strategies used by municipalities based on the 3Rs to divert bags from the waste stream. Plastic bags generally comprise less than 1% of landfill. In Toronto, they represent 0.6% of the waste stream.
Municipal waste audits show that plastic shopping bags are a not a large part of landfill or the waste entering municipal waste systems. Because they are so lightweight, plastic bags represent a very small fraction of landfill – less than 1%.
The 2006 Waste Audit for the City of Toronto, for example, shows that plastic shopping bags are only 0.6% of the City's waste stream, with even less ending up in landfill because 15% of those available after reuse in the City's green bin organics program (44% of bags are reused to recycle organics). are recycled in the blue bin.
Canadians have a strong commitment to reuse and recycling which helps to divert many of the bags from the waste stream. Recycling rates in other provinces like BC and Atlantic Canada divert even more bags because they are based on take-back to retail programs.
4. Bags are Only a Convenience, not a Necessity (see section on Single Use)
Fiction: Plastic shopping bags are just a convenience for impulse shopping and are not necessary.
Fact: Conventional plastic shopping bags are not just a convenience, but a necessity. Plastic shopping bags are multi-use/multi-purpose bags with a shorter life. They are used not just as carry bags for groceries, but are essential – reused to help manage household and pet waste.
They are not just a convenience to carry groceries, but a necessity playing an important role to facilitate impulse purchases and for the management of household and pet waste; and in Toronto, organics collection. They have very high alternate use rate in Ontario of 59.1% (Ontario MOE (data).
A move to reusable bags will not eliminate the need for shorter-life bags. Householders will have to supplement their use of reusable bags with a paper or kitchen catcher type bags for household and pet waste. In Ireland, the virtual elimination of plastic bags because of a high bag tax, led to a 77% increase in the purchase of kitchen catchers which contain up to 76% more plastic than conventional plastic bags and a 21% increase in plastics consumed. The fact they are a necessity is reinforced by Decima Research which shows that 76% of Canadians would purchase kitchen catchers if plastic shopping bags are not available at retail check outs.
5. Are Reusable Bags Greener? (see section on Reusables are Greener)
Fiction: Reusables are "greener". They are better for the environment than conventional plastic shopping bags.
Fact: Not necessarily. All bags have environmental impacts and it depends on the bag, how it is used, and most importantly, how often it is used. Reusables are not quite as green as most people think.
Reusable bags or longer-life bags are not necessarily greener, unless they are reused many times and as frequently as intended. On a life cycle basis, stronger, heavier bags made to last longer, no matter what material they are made from, will have a greater environmental impact because they use more resources in their production.
A complicating factor is that reusables are not recyclable in Canada, which weakens their environmental effectiveness. Because reusables are often made of multiple materials, to add strength and durability, the bags must be deconstructed in the recycling process. This makes recycling time intensive and cost-prohibitive, and it means that the bags end up in landfill at the end of their life.
Conventional plastic shopping bags,- on the other hand, are highly recyclable in Canada because there is a strong recycling network across the country. Recycling rates are quite high in most provinces.?
Are reusable bags greener than conventional plastic bags? The answer to this question centres on the function of each type of bag: whether they are multi-purpose versus longer-life bags.
Almost all bags are reusable; even the conventional plastic shopping bag has a reuse rate of between 40-60% in Canada.
Reusables are designed to have a longer life and one purpose, as a carry bag. These longer-life bags offer real potential to reduce the need for conventional shorter-life plastic bags to carry groceries, but they would never be used to manage household waste. Consumers still have to purchase lighter-weight plastic bags to supplement their use of reusables.?
Conventional plastic shopping bags, on the other hand, are multi-purpose/multi-use bags and are designed for shorter life. They are used to carry groceries, offer convenience for impulse purchases, and are a necessity -- reused to manage household, organics and pet waste.
The use of reusables will not eliminate the need for conventional plastic bags or reduce the number of plastic bags householders use to manage their waste in the grey or green bins.
6. Is Paper Better than Plastic? (see section on Paper versus Plastic Bags)
Fiction: Many believe that paper bags are more environmentally friendly than plastic bags because they are made from a renewable resource, can biodegrade, and are recyclable.
Fact: Plastic shopping bags outperform paper bags environmentally – on manufacturing, on reuse, and on solid waste volume and generation.
Study after study shows that conventional plastic bags are better for the environment because they have a much lower carbon footprint than paper bags.
Life Cycle Assessments (LCA's) also show that the manufacture of paper grocery bags has a heavier environmental impact than the manufacture of plastic shopping bags. According to the Scottish Government 2005 Report on Plastic Shopping Bags, the manufacture of paper bags consumes four times more water than the manufacture of plastic bags; paper generates three times more greenhouse gases; and almost three times more solid waste than plastic bags.
The most significant and immediate impact of a switch from plastic to paper is the impact on municipal solid waste streams—the additional volume and tonnage from paper grocery bags which are heavier than plastic. The typical plastic shopping bag weighs eight grams, while the Kraft paper bag weighs 55 grams.
This means that paper generates seven times more waste and increases recycling costs seven-fold. It also generates significantly more greenhouse gases because of the increased number of trucks needed to transport and recover the bags.
7. Is Banning Bags Better for the Environment? (see section on Bans Don't Work)
Fiction: Banning plastic shopping bags works. They totally eliminate plastic bags from the marketplace. Bans have no negative environmental consequences and will solve an array of environmental concerns.
Fact: No. Most bans fail for a variety of reasons, but the main reason is that they most often do not have the popular support of the local population who then find ways to avoid the ban. Other 3 R reduction strategies are far more effective; in particular, voluntary reduction, reuse and recycling programs in changing consumer behaviour.
A scan of bans around the world shows that bans don't work. They don't deliver an environmental benefit, a social benefit, or a jobs benefit. Other reduction strategies are far more effective in reducing the use of conventional plastic shopping bags, particularly when they offer consumers choice and are voluntary.
Bans work under the auspices of different strategies. Although advertised as a ban, some governments have only imposed changes at the manufacturing level on how the bags are made - a change in gauge/thickness or in materials used. The bag has been supposedly banned, but is still on the market. Italy, France and Mexico City have bag "bans" that are based on a move to compostable plastic or bioplastics. China, India and most African nations have specified a thicker gauge, a minimum thickness for the bags. In all cases, plastic bags are still on the market just modified in some way.
The main reason for the failure of bans is that bans are top-down directives that usually lack the support of the local population. In some countries, local populations cannot afford the alternatives. In those cases, avoidance strategies are employed by residents even when there is a strong enforcement regime, which is rare (e.g. India, China, South Africa, Somalia, Mexico City, Tanzania).
In the end, it comes down to a collective commitment to product stewardship - the 3 Rs (reduce, reuse, recycle) by the population and retailers, and voluntary initiatives to see any real change in bag usage and consumer behaviour. In Canada, for instance, bans have not been seen as necessary because of a strong commitment to product stewardship principles -- reduce, reuse, recycle. As well, bags are not a serious litter problem.
Bans to reduce litter often have little impact. Plastic shopping bags are such a small part of the litter and waste streams that their total elimination will have no appreciable impact on overall litter reduction.
From an environmental perspective, limiting consumer choice on bags not only does not work, but has a number of unintended negative consequences—"disbenefits", according a former UK Minister of the Environment. Bag bans often result in higher resource use, more waste, more greenhouse gases, and higher municipal waste costs.
A good example is Taiwan, which rescinded a ban on plastic shopping bags in their quick service food sector because it had the unintended consequence of creating a massive increase in waste as retailers switched to paper bags. Taiwan rescinded its bag ban in 2006 in favour of recycling
8. Are Bags Made in Canada? (see section Made in Canada)
Fiction: 90% of the plastic bags used in Canadian grocery stores are not made in Canada, but China.
Fact: No. 90% of the plastic bags used by Canadian grocery stores are made locally.
Plastic bag manufacturing is a vibrant business in Canada employing thousands of Canadians, There is a large concentration of family-run, plastic bag manufacturing companies in Ontario, with 50% located in the Toronto area and 50% in smaller communities across the province.
This is the same in the United States, where the industry reports that 72.5% of plastic shopping bags are made in the U.S. and not off-shore.
However, 90% of reusable bags are made off-shore in countries like China.
9. Are Bags Recycled in Canada? (see section on Recycling)
Fiction: Plastic shopping bags are not recycled in Canada, or have very low recycling rates.
Fact: Recycling rates for plastic shopping bags are very high across the country. Canadians are deeply committed to recycling and the bags are recycled and remanufactured locally into new bags, outdoor furniture, water pipes, flooring, office supplies and plastic lumber.
Canada has a strong national network of recyclers for plastic shopping bags – large and small. The large players are Merlin in Western Canada, EFS in Ontario, RCM Group in Quebec, and Inteplast in Atlantic Canada. 32% of the bags are recycled in BC and Alberta; 36% in Ontario and rates are even higher in the Atlantic Provinces.
The bags are recycled through a combination of blue box systems, take-back-to-retail and bag-to-bag programs. Canadians have been innovators and technology leaders in this area. The bags in Canada are recycled and remanufactured locally creating valuable green manufacturing jobs. Canadians – consumers and retailers – have a strong commitment to product stewardship with retailers recycling close to 50% of the bags distributed and the rest is recycled through municipalities.
Toronto's Western Beach's boardwalk is a plastic lumber boardwalk, made from 32 million recycled plastic shopping bags.
10. Are Bags Really Just "Single-Use"? (see section on Single Use)?
Fiction: Conventional plastic shopping bags provided by grocery and convenience stores are "single-use", used only once as a carry-out bag.
Fact: No. Conventional plastic bags are multi-purpose and multi-use. They meet all sorts of daily requirements, and are a necessity for managing household and pet waste. ?
There really is no such thing as a single use plastic shopping bag. The conventional plastic shopping bag is a multi-use/multi-purpose bag, with a shorter life than a bag-for-life or reusable. Canadians are highly committed to responsible use, and the bags have high reuse and recycling rates coast to coast. In fact, 40-60% of conventional plastic bags are reused at least once.
Beyond their use as a tote to transport groceries, plastic shopping bags serve an important secondary purpose to help manage household and pet waste, and in some municipalities like Toronto, to recycle organics.
The term "single-use" does not reflect the reality of market usage patterns or the attitudes and preferences of Canadians. Conventional bags, not used for household garbage, are recycled in blue box and take-back to retail programs (B.C. and Alberta -32%, Ontario -35.7%, Atlantic Canada – as high as 50%). Recycled bags are remanufactured into new bags, plastic lumber, water pipes, outdoor furniture, and office supplies, here in Canada.
11. The Made From Oil Myth (see section on Oil Myth)
Fiction: Canada's plastic shopping bags are made from oil, are a waste of oil, and oil is a non-renewable resource.
Fact: In Canada, plastic shopping bags are primarily made from a by-product of natural gas production, ethane.
Polyethylene bags are made out of ethane, a component of natural gas. Ethane is extracted to lower the BTU value of the gas in order to meet pipeline and gas utility specifications and so that the natural gas doesn't burn too hot when used as fuel in our homes or businesses. The ethane is converted, and its BTU value is "frozen" into a solid form (polyethylene) using a catalytic process to make a plastic shopping bag.


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Recently a 27 crore movie was made in Malayalam. Anyone would agree that this movie cannot be made for less than 3.5 crore. According to the latest reports, HBO is in talks to buy this movie for 18 crore. Already this movie has made 16 crores plus business from Kerala. The Hindi and Tamil version data is not out yet. Also we have not added the money paid by Moser Baer for DVD/Blue Ray rights.
So think of the profits, the producer of the movie is going to make. Think of how many movies he could make in the future.Forget the money made for a moment. Do you think the story of this great Malayali would have been told, if our myopic associations had their way? Do you think international audience would know about Pazhassi Raja.
Instead of repeating the arguments, let us ask a few questions. Now that the producer has made so much money, he might want to make a few big budget movies as well to differentiate his movies from a TV serial. Our associations won't let him do it. So he has to make a Tamil or Telugu movie. That is a loss for Malayalam Cinema. Even at the risk of repeating ad nauseum – If he is making a Tamil or Telugu movie, guess who will get employment?.


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McCormick Construction has completed renovations of the Westwood One campus in Culver City, California, a 45,000-square-foot radio broadcast facility.
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Cumulus Media recently acquired Westwood One, which added sports, news, talk, music and programming services enabling Cumulus to provide a wider variety of options to approximately 10,000 US radio stations, in addition to other media and international platforms.
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text: Using a microscope that combines standard through-the-lens viewing with scatterfield imaging techniques, researchers have accurately measured silicon wafer features 30 times smaller than the wavelength of light. The achievement highlights how scattered light, once disregarded, contains a wealth of accessible optical information. The study was a part of a National Institute of Standards and Technology effort to supply measurement tools that enable the semiconductor industry to continue doubling the number of devices on a chip about every two years, and to help other industries make products with nanoscale features. An illustration of how tiny changes in wavy images scattered from lines in a gridlike array can be reconstructed when paired with advanced optical and computational techniques. Lines are 15 nm wide, 30 times smaller than the wavelength of light used to measure them. Images courtesy of Bryan Barnes/NIST. NIST researchers reported that measurements of the etched lines — as thin as 16 nm — on a wafer fabricated by R&D institute Sematech in Austin, Texas, were accurate to 1 nm. With the technique, they identified variations in feature dimensions amounting to differences of a few atoms. Measurements were confirmed with an atomic force microscope, which achieves subnanometer resolution but is considered too slow for on-line quality control measurements. Combined with earlier results, the researchers wrote, the optical approach solves a problem facing chip makers and others seeking to commercialize nanotechnology by offering a way to nondestructively measure nanoscale structures with subnanometer sensitivity without sacrificing high throughput. Optical microscopes can't identify features smaller than the wavelength of light (around 450 nm), at least not in the crisp detail necessary for accurate measurements. However, light does scatter when it strikes subwavelength features and patterned arrangements of such features. The pattern depicts estimated uncertainties in the experimental data. Coloring corresponds to the magnitude of the variance for specific data points. "Historically, we would ignore this scattered light because it did not yield sufficient resolution," said Richard Silver, a NIST physicist who led the scatterfield imaging effort. "Now we know it contains helpful information that provides signatures telling us something about where the light came from." Silver and colleagues methodically illuminated a sample with polarized light from different angles. From this collection of scattered light — which appears to the untrained eye as a sea of wiggly lines &dmash; team extracted characteristics of the bounced lightwaves to, in aggregate, reveal the geometry of features on the specimen. Light-scattering data are gathered in slices, which together image the volume of scattered light above and into the sample. The slices are analyzed and reconstructed to create a 3D representation in a process akin to a CT scan, except the slices are collections of interfering waves, not cross-sectional pictures. "It's the ensemble of data that tells us what we're after," said project leader Bryan Barnes. "We may not be able see the lines on the wafer, but we can tell you what you need to know about them &dmash; their size, their shape, their spacing." Scatterfield imaging has critical prerequisites that must be met before it can yield useful data for high-accuracy measurements of small features. Key steps entail detailed evaluation of the path light takes through lenses, apertures and other system elements before reaching the sample. The path traversed by light scattering from the specimen undergoes the same level of scrutiny. Fortunately, scatterfield imaging lends itself to thorough characterization of both sequences of optical devices, according to the researchers. These preliminary steps are akin to error-mapping, factoring out sources of inaccuracy. The method also benefits from the as-designed arrangement of circuit lines on a chip, down to the size of individual features. Knowing what is expected to be the result of the complex chip-making process enables comparison of theoretical and experimental data. The researchers used standard equations to simulate light scattering from an ideal, defect-free pattern. Using wave-analysis software they developed an indexed library of light-scattering reference models. Once a specimen is scanned, the team relies on computers to compare their real-world data to models and to find close matches. From there, succeeding rounds of analysis hone in on the remaining differences, reducing them until the only ones that remain are due to variations in geometry such as irregularities in the height, width, or shape of a line. Next steps include extending the technique to even shorter wavelengths of light in the UV range, with an ultimate goal of accurately measuring features as small as 5 nm. The research will be published in Light: Science & Applications (doi: 10.1038/lsa.2016.38 [PDF download]). In a related development, Checkpoint Technologies LLC of San Jose, Calif., said it had achieved optical resolution of 125 nm using solid immersion lens technology and laser scanning microscopy, with potential applications in semiconductor failure analysis and optical debugging. "We believe this is the smallest optical resolution achieved with midrange visible light through the backside of silicon," said G. Xiao, the company's chief technology officer.


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By Mike Scott
New Orleans Times-Picayune
Dear Al Pacino,
Oh, Al.
As I sit down to write this, I've just returned from seeing the comedy "Jack and Jill," in which you co-star alongside an in-drag Adam Sandler. That movie is the real reason I'm writing, but I first feel compelled to express my admiration for your body of work.
Your turn in "Scarface" was beyond memorable. In "The Godfather" and "Dog Day Afternoon," your performances were sublime. I still even find the charm in that "hoo-ah!" nonsense in "Scent of a Woman" that won you an Oscar.
And there are so many others: "Serpico," "Heat," "Ocean's Thirteen," "Gigli."
Just kidding on that last one. Bet you were hoping I would have forgotten it, huh? I also bet you hate IMDB for the same reasons I love it. But a quick perusal of it makes it clear that the past decade hasn't brought you the kind of scripts most of us would have liked to see you in. I get it, though: Sometimes a turkey is hard to spot on the front end.
Jack and Jill
Who: With Adam Sandler, Al Pacino, Katie Holmes, Eugenio Derbez, Nick Swardson. Directed by Dennis Dugan.
Rated: PG for crude and sexual humor, language, comic violence and brief smoking.
Running time: 89 minutes.
When: Opens Friday, Nov. 11.
Where: Area theaters.
Grade: D+
But "Jack and Jill"? Oh, Al.
Granted, like all Sandler movies, this one will make a mint. That's especially true since he toned down the poo-poo and pee-pee jokes and earned a PG rating, which will make moms more likely to see this loosely connected string of sight gags with their sons (and husbands).
But moms deserve better, don't you think?
Anyway, here's a question: Did you read the script for "Jack and Jill" before accepting the gig? Or more to the point: Was there a script? This is a movie whose summary is admirable only for its brevity: Adam Sandler plays both an advertising exec and his annoying twin sister, with whom Al Pacino -- playing himself -- falls in love. Fart jokes and pratfalls ensue. Pacino raps about coffee. Roll credits.
Everything in between feels as if it was made up on the fly.
I'll admit it: There are some chuckles there. Maybe even a real laugh or two. But nothing resembling cleverness.
I hope you don't think me sycophantic when I say that you are the best thing in "Jack and Jill." The way you gamely throw yourself into this self-parodying role is both amusing and commendable. Like the scene when you and Jill are playing stickball in your living room and she breaks your Oscar. "I'm sure you have others," she says.
"You'd think it," is your reply. "But, oddly enough, I don't."
Good stuff. And your third-act song and dance, while not quite as catchy as that "Attica" chant in "Dog Day," shows that you are impressively light on your feet.
But did you ask yourself why so many celebrities agreed only to cameos in "Jack and Jill"? Johnny Depp, Shaquille O'Neal, Regis Philbin, Dan Patrick, Drew Carey, Bruce Jenner, John McEnroe, Dana Carvey -- all only appear for a few seconds.
It's an awkward question, but it should be asked: Was it all because you needed the money? I recognize that most actors accept a "paycheck" role from time to time. But if that's the case, just drop me a line next time, Al. I'm not a rich guy, but I'll pitch in to help. I'll do my part. I feel like I owe you at least that for all you have given movie fans like me.
Besides, I know I'll have at least eight bucks to spare.