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|2012-05-16, 08:33
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Hyouka - Voice Actor Appreciation & Discussion
The purpose of this thread is to discuss, critique and idolize the Voice Actor cast of Hyouka. Please remember that the discussion should center on their performances as professional voice actors and not on the show content (which can be discussed in the various Episode threads). Please remember this simple rule when critiquing a VA's performance or reading another forum member's critique:
|2012-05-23, 00:53
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I'm actually loving the voice work in this show. This is really the first time I've been so enthusiastic about a Satou Satomi character. She projects her voice in ways that fit the character and the images so well.
And Nakamura Yuuichi has grown and grown on me as we get to ep5. He is really pulling off the subtle shift in Oreki's character. At first I found the character too depressive and pedestrian. But he has gradually revealed himself. I've just rewatched the first couple of episodes, and now I can see how Nakamura was working on this from the start.
Even Sakaguchi Daisuke -- whose similar sidekick character I loathed in Clannad -- is just terrific here, in my opinion. He keeps giving us glimpses of a fresh, real person.
But the VA who really does it for me in this show is Kayano Ai as Mayaka. I have never seen this type of character done with such verve and immediacy.
And Yuuki Aoi, Koshimizu Ami, Hayami Saori, Konishi Katsuyuki, Yukana, Irino Miyu, Hirohashi Ryou and others are yet to come (unless maybe I have not noticed the odd word from them before now).
|2012-05-25, 03:10
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Thanks for the info. I was only half-convinced by her performance as Menma and Inori. The former because she came out as a little annoying, and the later a little flat. Now That I think about it, that was actually exactly like it should be given the characters. Her role as Mayaka, with her wider range of emotions, shows that she can really bring it out. Her performance compliment nicely with the detailed gesture that was put in.
|2012-05-31, 02:39
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I have, have, HAVE to give props to Satomi Satou here; when I jumped into this series only hearing that she would be in this, I had no idea that she was Chitanda. If anything, I would've guessed she sounded more like Ibaya (who kinda even reminds me of Ritsu in a way).
From over-the-top zany to charmingly mysterious, she does one heck of a job.
|2012-05-31, 03:12
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I wasn't that surprise by her role as Eru because I get the impression from a couple interview I see of her that she's actually quite a "girly" girl. It's just that her breakout role is Ritsu. In fact, if Hyouka aired before K-On!, I think I'd be very surprised by how good she can portrait Ritsu.
Doesn't make her performance any less impressive though.
|2012-07-24, 06:29
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Daisuke Sakaguchi - Satoshi
They are probably most well known for portraying Tomoya Okazaki (anime version) and Youhei Sunohara from CLANNAD (respectively), which KyoAni adapted into anime form.
Speaking of which, I was thinking we could try to compile the insane number of voice actors in this anime into a list, would anyone like to help?
|2012-07-24, 12:52
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Did you look at the first post in the Hyouka - General Discussion thread, yet?
|2012-07-24, 12:57
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Okay,..so my Kanae Itou fanboyism may perhaps just be making me a little bit paranoid but I swear I heard her voice in that Calligraphy girl in Ep 13 and again in Ep 14 as one of the pumpkin girls. If anyone can confirm this so I can sleep at night then that would be great...
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(The MAL page is good, but I'm curious about all the ones with question marks on them...)
|2012-09-25, 02:55
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I especially impressed by Sato Satomi performance during the conversation between Houtarou and Eru behind the curtain on the last episode. It's still unmistakably Eru's voice yet indeed sounded like "lady Chitanda" instead of the ever curious girl. She also did a great job finding the balance between the two "mode" of Eru in the last during the last scene as well.
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Es/Teoría de Categorías y Programación Funcional @ Stanford: Clase 1
From HaskellWiki
Aviso: Esta página está en proceso de traducción.
This page now includes additional information based on the notes taken in class. Hopefully this will make the notes reasonably complete for everybody.
1 Bienvenida
El autor original es Mikael Vejdemo-Johansson. Se le puede encontrar en su oficina 383-BB durante horas de oficina o por correo en firstname.lastname@example.com.
2 Introducción
2.1 ¿Por qué este curso?
Las introducciones a Haskell usualmente incluyen indicaciones de que la Teoría de Categorías es una herramienta útil, aunque no haces mucho más que mencionarlo. El objetivo de este curso es cubrir esa brecha, y proporcionar una introducción a la Teoría de Categorías que se enlace con Haskell y con la programación funcional como fuente de ejemplos y aplicaciones.
2.2 ¿Qué incluye?
La definición de categorías, objetos especiales y morfismos, functores, transformación natural, (co-)límites y casos específicos, adjuntos, libertad y presentación como construcciones categóricas, mónadas y flechas de Kleisli, recursión con construcciones categóricas. Maybe, just maybe, if we have enough time, we'll finish with looking at the definition of a topos, and how this encodes logic internal to a category. Applications to fuzzy sets.
2.3 ¿Qué hace falta?
Los ejemplos provendrán de matemáticas discretas, lógica, programación en Haskell y álgebra lineal. Espero que los siguientes conceptos sean por lo menos vagamente familiares para alguien estudiando este curso:
- Conjuntos
- Funciones
- Permutaciones
- Grupos
- Conjuntos parcialmente ordenados
- Espacios vectoriales
- Mapas lineales
- Matrices
- Homomorfismos
2.4 Buenas referencias
En la biblioteca de matemáticas/CC (Stanford) hay:
- Mac Lane: Categories for the working mathematician
- Awodey: Category Theory
2.5 Monoids
Para establecer la notación y estar seguros de que todos hayan visto la definición:Definición Un monoide es un conjunto M equipado con una operación binaria asociativa * (en Haskell:
Un semigrupo es un monoide sin el requerimiento de elemento identidad.
Una función es un homomorfismo de monoide si se cumplen las siguientes condiciones:
- f(m * m') = f(m) * f(m')
3 Categoría
3.1 Gráficas
Recordemos la definición de gráfica (dirigida). Una gráfica G es una colección de aristas (flechas) y vértices (nodos). A cada arista se le asigna un nodo fuente y un nodo destino.
Dado un grafo G, denotamos la colección de nodos de G y la colección de flechas por G1. Estas dos colecciones están conectados, y la gráfica dada su estructura, por dos funciones: la función de fuente y el objetivo de la función .
No deberemos, en general, necesitar de una de las colecciones para ser un conjunto, pero felizmente aceptamos grandes colecciones; tratar con la teoría de conjuntos paradojas como son y cuando tenemos que hacerlo. Un gráfo donde ambos nodos y flechas son conjuntos se llama "pequeño". Un grafo que contenga una clase se llama "Largo".
Si los dos G0 y G1 son finitos, el grafo se llamafinitotambién.
The empty graph has .
A discrete graph has .
A complete graph has .
A simple graph has at most one arrow between each pair of nodes. Any relation on a set can be interpreted as a simple graph.
- Show some examples.
A homomorphism of graphs is a pair of functions and such that sources map to sources and targets map to targets, or in other words:
- s(f1(e)) = f0(s(e))
- t(f1(e)) = f0(t(e))
By a path in a graph G from the node x to the node y of length k, we mean a sequence of edges such that:
- s(f1) = x
- t(fk) = y
- s(fi) = t(fi − 1) for all other i.
Paths with start and end point identical are called closed. For any node x, there is a unique closed path () starting and ending in x of length 0.
For any edge f, there is a unique path from s(f) to t(f) of length 1: (f).
We denote by Gk the set of paths in G of length k.
3.2 Categories
We now are ready to define a category. A category is a graph C equipped with an associative composition operation , and an identity element for composition 1x for each node x of the graph.
Note that G2 can be viewed as a subset of , the set of all pairs of arrows. It is intentional that we define the composition operator on only a subset of the set of all pairs of arrows - the composable pairs. Whenever you'd want to compose two arrows that don't line up to a path, you'll get nonsense, and so any statement about the composition operator has an implicit "whenever defined" attached to it.
The definition is not quite done yet - this composition operator, and the identity arrows both have a few rules to fulfill, and before I state these rules, there are some notation we need to cover.
3.2.1 Backwards!
If we have a path given by the arrows (f,g) in G2, we expect and to compose to something that goes . The origin of all these ideas lies in geometry and algebra, and so the abstract arrows in a category are supposed to behave like functions under function composition, even though we don't say it explicitly.Now, we are used to writing function application as f(x) - and possibly, from Haskell, as
On the other hand, the way we write our paths, we'd read f then g. This juxtaposition makes one of the two ways we write things seem backwards. We can resolve it either by making our paths in the category go backwards, or by reversing how we write function application.
In the latter case, we'd write x.f, say, for the application of f to x, and then write x.f.g for the composition. It all ends up looking a lot like Reverse Polish Notation, and has its strengths, but feels unnatural to most. It does, however, have the benefit that we can write out function composition as and have everything still make sense in all notations.
In the former case, which is the most common in the field, we accept that paths as we read along the arrows and compositions look backwards, and so, if and , we write , remembering that elements are introduced from the right, and the functions have to consume the elements in the right order.
The existence of the identity map can be captured in a function language as well: it is the existence of a function .
Now for the remaining rules for composition. Whenever defined, we expect associativity - so that . Furthermore, we expect:
- Composition respects sources and targets, so that:
- s(u(x)) = t(u(x)) = x
In a category, arrows are also called morphisms, and nodes are also called objects. This ties in with the algebraic roots of the field.
We denote by HomC(A,B), or if C is obvious from context, just Hom(A,B), the set of all arrows from A to B. This is the hom-set or set of morphisms, and may also be denoted C(A,B).
If a category is large or small or finite as a graph, it is called a large/small/finite category.
A category with objects a collection of sets and morphisms a selection from all possible set-valued functions such that the identity morphism for each object is a morphism, and composition in the category is just composition of functions is called concrete. Concrete categories form a very rich source of examples, though far from all categories are concrete.
3.3 New Categories from old
As with most other algebraic objects, one essential part of our tool box is to take known objects and form new examples from them. This allows us generate a wealth of examples from the ones that shape our intuition.
Typical things to do here would be to talk about subobjects, products and coproducts, sometimes obvious variations on the structure, and what a typical object looks like. Remember from linear algebra how subspaces, cartesian products (which for finite-dimensional vectorspaces covers both products and coproducts) and dual spaces show up early, as well as the theorems giving dimension as a complete descriptor of a vectorspace.
We'll go through the same sequence here; with some significant small variations.
A category D is a subcategory of the category C if:
- D1 contains 1X for all
- sources and targets of all the arrows in D1 are all in D0
- the composition in D is the restriction of the composition in C.
Written this way, it does look somewhat obnoxious. It does become easier though, with the realization - studied closer in homework exercise 2 - that the really important part of a category is the collection of arrows. Thus, a subcategory is a subcollection of the collection of arrows - with identities for all objects present, and with at least all objects that the existing arrows imply.
A subcategory is full if D(A,B) = C(A,B) for all objects A,B of D. In other words, a full subcategory is completely determined by the selection of objects in the subcategory.
A subcategory is wide if the collection of objects is the same in both categories. Hence, a wide subcategory picks out a subcollection of the morphisms.
The dual of a category is to a large extent inspired by vector space duals. In the dual C * of a category C, we have the same objects, and the morphisms are given by the equality C * (A,B) = C(B,A) - every morphism from C is present, but it goes in the wrong direction. Dualizing has a tendency to add the prefix co- when it happens, so for instance coproducts are the dual notion to products. We'll return to this construction many times in the course.
Given two categories C,D, we can combine them in several ways:
- We can form the category that has as objects the disjoint union of all the objects of C and D, and that sets whenever A,B come from different original categories. If A,B come from the same original category, we simply take over the homset from that category. This yields a categorical coproduct, and we denote the result by C + D. Composition is inherited from the original categories.
- We can also form the category with objects for every pair of objects . A morphism in is simply a pair . Composition is defined componentwise. This category is the categorical correspondent to the cartesian product, and we denot it by .
In these three constructions - the dual, the product and the coproduct - he arrows in the categories are formal constructions, not functions; even if the original category was given by functions, the result is no longer given by a function.
Given a category C and an object A of that category, we can form the slice category C / A. Objects in the slice category are arrows for some object B in C, and an arrow is an arrow such that . Composites of arrows are just the composites in the base category.
Notice that the same arrow φ in the base category C represents potentially many different arrows in C / A: it represents one arrow for each choice of source and target compatible with it.
There is a dual notion: the coslice category , where the objects are paired with maps .
Slice categories can be used, among other things, to specify the idea of parametrization. The slice category C / A gives a sense to the idea of objects from C labeled by elements of A.We get this characterization by interpreting the arrow representing an object as representing its source and a type function. Hence, in a way, the
Alternatively, we can phrase the importance of the arrow in a slice categories of, say, Set, by looking at preimages of the slice functions. That way, an object gives us a family of (disjoint) subsets of B indexed by the elements of A.
Finally, any graph yields a category by just filling in the arrows that are missing. The result is called the free category generated by the graph, and is a concept we will return to in some depth. Free objects have a strict categorical definition, and they serve to give a model of thought for the things they are free objects for. Thus, categories are essentially graphs, possibly with restrictions or relations imposed; and monoids are essentially strings in some alphabet, with restrictions or relatinos.
3.4 Examples
- The empty category.
- No objects, no morphisms.
- The one object/one arrow category 1.
- A single object and its identity arrow.
- The categories 2 and 1 + 1.
- Two objects, A,B with identity arrows and a unique arrow .
- The category Set of sets.
- Sets for objects, functions for arrows.
- The catgeory FSet of finite sets.
- Finite sets for objects, functions for arrows.
- The category PFn of sets and partial functions.
- Sets for objects. Arrows are pairs .
- PFn(A,B) is a partially ordered set. precisely if and .
- There is an alternative way to define a category of partial functions: For objects, we take sets, and for morphisms , we take subsets such that each element in S occurs in at most one pair in the subset. Composition is by an interpretation of these subsets corresponding to the previous description. We'll call this category PFn'.
- Every partial order is a category. Each hom-set has at most one element.
- Objects are the elements of the poset. Arrows are unique, with precisely if .
- Every monoid is a category. Only one object.
- Kleene closure. Free monoids.
- The category of Sets and injective functions.
- The category of Sets and surjective functions.
- The category of k-vector spaces and linear maps.
- The category with objects the natural numbers and Hom(m,n) the set of -matrices.
- The category of Data Types with Computable Functions.
- Our ideal programming language has:
- Primitive data types.
- Constants of each primitive type.
- Operations, given as functions between types.
- Constructors, producing elements from data types, and producing derived data types and operations.
- We will assume that the language is equipped with
- A do-nothing operation for each data type. Haskell has .id
- An empty type 1, with the property that each type has exactly one function to this type. Haskell has . We will use this to define the constants of type t as functions . Thus, constants end up being 0-ary functions.()
- A composition constructor, taking an operator and another operator and producing an operator . Haskell has .(.)
- A do-nothing operation for each data type. Haskell has
- This allows us to model a functional programming language with a category.
- Our ideal programming language has:
- The category with objects logical propositions and arrows proofs.
- The category Rel has objects finite sets and morphisms being subsets of . Composition is by if there is some such that . Identity morphism is the diagonal .
3.5 Homework
For a passing mark, a written, acceptable solution to at least 3 of the 6 questions should be given no later than midnight before the next lecture.
For each lecture, there will be a few exercises marked with the symbol *. These will be more difficult than the other exercises given, will require significant time and independent study, and will aim to complement the course with material not covered in lectures, but nevertheless interesting for the general philosophy of the lecture course.
- Prove the general associative law: that for any path, and any bracketing of that path, the same composition may be found.
- Which of the following form categories? Proof and disproof for each:
- Objects are finite sets, morphisms are functions such that for all morphisms f, objects B and elements b.
- Objects are finite sets, morphisms are functions such that for all morphisms f, objects B and elements b.
- Objects are finite sets, morphisms are functions such that for all morphisms f, objects B and elements b.
- Suppose in some category C.
- If for all in the category, then u = 1A.
- If for all in the category, then u = 1A.
- These two results characterize the objects in a category by the properties of their corresponding identity arrows completely.
- For as many of the examples given as you can, prove that they really do form a category. Passing mark is at least 60% of the given examples.
- Which of the categories are subcategories of which other categories? Which of these are wide? Which are full?
- For this question, all parts are required:
- For which sets is the free monoid on that set commutative.
- Prove that for any category C, the set Hom(A,A) is a monoid under composition for every object A.
- * Read up on ω-complete partial orders. Suppose S is some set and is the set of partial functions - in other words, an element of is some pair with . We give this set a poset structure by precisely if and .
- Show that is a strict ω-CPO.
- An element x of S is a fixpoint of if f(x) = x. Let be the ω-CPO of partially defined functions on the natural numbers. We define a function by sending some to a function k defined by
- k(0) = 1
- k(n) is defined only if h(n − 1) is defined, and then by k(n) = n * h(n − 1).
- Describe and . Show that φ is continuous. Find a fixpoint (S0,f) of φ such that any other fixpoint of the same function is less than this one.
- Find a continuous endofunction on some ω-CPO that has the fibonacci function F(0) = 0,F(1) = 1,F(n) = F(n − 1) + F(n − 2) as the least fixed point.
- Implement a Haskell function that finds fixed points in an ω-CPO. Implement the two fixed points above as Haskell functions - using the ω-CPO fixed point approach in the implementation. It may well be worth looking at to provide a Haskell context for a partial function for this part of the task.Data.Map


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May 22, 2008
Okolie Finishes 10th at the NCAA's in the Discus
Oshkosh, Wisc. - Senior Chris Okolie (Bronx, N.Y./Hills East) finished in 10th place at todays Division III Outdoor Track National Championships held at the University of Wisconsin in Oshkosh, Wisc.
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At the age of 8, Khalil Rehman saw a US drone kill his father at their home in South Waziristan. In an instant, the boy became an orphan in the tribal areas of Pakistan, which meant his education and future prospects went up in smoke.
Some armed fighters had recently crossed over from Afghanistan, and Khalil's cousin had given them temporary shelter. His father was visiting them when Khalil, returning from mosque, saw and heard the explosion.
His mother survived, but in Pakistan a child becomes an orphan if his father dies. With the loss of his father's salary, Khalil could not afford to go to private school and there were no public schools around.
For the next three years, the boy worked on farms until his mother heard about Ummah Children Academy, a free boarding school in Nowshera for orphans.
"I want to be an engineer," says Khalil, now a confident 12-year-old sitting beside two other classmates who were also orphaned by drone attacks. "I am happy over here. Living at home is very good but we have to sacrifice it for getting an education."
Pakistan is undergoing an education crisis. Some 10 percent of the world's primary school-age children who don't attend school live in Pakistan, according to the Pakistan Education Task Force.
In many places central to the war on terror, public schools have never existed. Floods and conflict have further wiped out educational opportunities. The unschooled then become vulnerable to joining criminal gangs who run under the banner of the Taliban.
Khalil's story represents one small effort to get the most vulnerable children back in school and back on track to a peaceful life.
"Orphans are the most vulnerable," says Ashfaq Ahmed, a dean of the Ummah Children Academy. "They are picked by those people who use them for their own purposes, to make them slaves, thieves, pickpockets – and suicide bombers."
Madrasas not the primary danger
The Ummah Welfare Trust, a Muslim charity based in England, opened the academy in 2007 and now houses about 700 orphans. Classrooms and dorms line a central, grassy quad, and mosque. The students pray five times a day and are taught the Koran, as well as a curriculum published by Oxford University Press that includes English, computer skills, and hard sciences.
"This is not a madrasa," says Mr. Ahmed. "We want [our students] to be good doctors, good engineers, with good human hearts and minds."
Nor are madrasas the biggest risk factor for conflict, according to a 2010 report from the Brookings Institution in Washington. Less than 10 percent of Pakistan's students are taught in madrasas and have not been a primary cause of rising militancy.
The real danger?
"The education supply gap in and of itself likely increases the risk of conflict in low-income countries like Pakistan," the report reads. Eight out of the 10 countries with the lowest primary school enrollment rates in the world experienced conflict between 1990 and 2005.
And to get the 26 million out-of-school Pakistani children ages 5 to 16 into classrooms, something more than a few worthy nongovernmental organization safety nets are needed.
"Given the big numbers and the scale of the problem, government has to respond to the emergency," says Mosharraf Zaidi, an education campaigner in Islamabad.
Last year, Pakistan adopted a constitutional amendment making education free and compulsory up to age 16. So far, the government has not put the money forward to make this a reality, let alone enforce it: More is spent on subsidies for Pakistan International Airlines, Pakistan Steel, and Pakistan Electric Power Co.
The floods have brought international dollars and attention to the education sector, but the waters also left the country with 8,618 fewer schools. The US Agency for International Development's website says that its programs have ensured some 900,000 school-age children could attend classes.
Overcoming 'mental trauma'
But the tribal areas at the center of the conflict represent both the biggest educational challenges and the highest stakes. Many schools are closed because of fighting or simple neglect by the government, says Ahmed.
Educated people do not want to return to tribal areas to teach. Ahmed rattles off a list of his faculty with master's degrees, a group he is able to attract because the school is located in a settled area between the cities of Islamabad and Peshawar.
The boys may also benefit from leaving the stressful uncertainty of the conflict zone.
Khalil and another child orphaned by a drone attack admitted their families knew they were taking a risk when they sheltered militants – though families do not always have the freedom to say no to armed passersby. A third boy, Ajab Noor, says his father's killing was a mistake. The man was simply returning from a trip to sell the family vehicle when he hitched a ride from a car of unarmed men.
"In the evening I go sit with them and I try to have some catharsis with these students. They have mental trauma and we are trying to bring them out," says Ahmed. "It is not that easy."
Surveys conducted by Khalid Mufti, a psychiatrist based in Peshawar, show some 70 percent of the population in northwest Pakistan indicate signs of stress. Dr. Mufti says he has patients who have delusions involving drones. But after a few visits to the academy, he is upbeat about the orphans' future.
"Because they are very young ... and because they have a good environment, there is a great difference with them," Mufti says. "They will come out good people."


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Basically, everyone has a message to give to the world. Some are basic, some complex, some have the power to up lift and some are just out there to bring as many people down as possible. But everyone has a message, and most people have problems identifying their message. And the ones who get that far can seem to figure out how to get the world to listen.
Well, I have a message, and this is where I will get a chance to share it. Hopefully, you'll get plenty of things to keep you motivated or inspired, provide knowledge and comfort, and just have a little fun. Apologies for the state of flux and state of seemingly confusing messages that you'll get here for a while, as I am doing a lot of personal soul searching, and scrubbing of old ideas to take the best of the past to build a new beginning.
In 2007, I changed the name of blog from "The Mis-Adventures Of The Jazzy Cool One" to "Life In Fast Forward." I began to tear down old blogs and newsletters and try to find places for them here. My goal is to take the focus off of me the person, and show the world the life I live and share with every human on the planet. I aspire to life at a very high standard, and instead of dealing with people who rather slow us down, I want to find ways to help people pick up there own pace. As you get to see an insight to the further adventures I hope to lead, hopefully you'll enjoy the ride, and want to come along.
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There is no one main inspiration for my home. I feel that it's a collective of my interests, background and style, which is constantly evolving. I am always discovering new architecture, design, music, art and fashion that influences and inspires my style. The best thing about creativity is that we get to reinvent ourselves all the time.
I am instinctively drawn to objects and the organization of space. Through my background in art I am hugely influenced and inspired by science and nature, and collect objects that reflect this.
My true passion is furniture and I have been designing pieces for 13 years. Some of my favorite pieces are my own. I have an addiction to collecting furniture pieces.
The biggest challenge this space poses (aside from not having a studio) is curbing my antique/ thrift store, flea market and ground score impulses because the space is so small. I really have had to control that urge to drag everything home thinking that I can totally do something with it. My second challenge is sharing my space with my 80 lb puppy, Superdog, who does not share the same level of design.
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Switzerland Questions Crazy Hollywood Claims About File Sharing... Ends Up On Congressional Watchlist
from the funny-how-that-works dept
That list doesn't come out for a bit, but there's another, similar list, put out by the Congressional International Anti-Piracy Caucus (yeah) that has added Switzerland to its "bad countries" list along with China, Russia and Ukraine. Italy also joined Switzerland as a "first-timer" on the list -- despite rulings that required ISPs to block access to various file sharing sites. The issue in Italy? I'd guess that a story we had earlier this year has something to do with it. After some political fighting, the government there basically decided to just stop regulating copyright issues online. There's also an upcoming fight about new copyright proposals coming in Italy, and this seems like a preemptive strike for some of Hollywood's favorite Congressional Reps and Senators to pressure Italy into approving bad laws that Hollywood likes.
Meanwhile, both Spain and Canada -- who passed legislation very much at the behest of American interests -- were removed from the evil part of the list and switched to "in transition." The message is not particularly subtle: do not, at any cost, question Hollywood's planned copyright laws, or the US government will shame you as a haven for pirates, no matter how bogus that claim really is. Hopefully governments in Switzerland and Italy resist such obvious lobbying on behalf of special interests and pay attention to reality in those markets.


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NORTON, Mass. - After finishing second in the last two NEWMAC Men's Swimming and Diving Championships, three times proved to be a charm as the Engineers delivered one of the most commanding victories in the history of the meet on Sunday at Wheaton College's Balfour Auditorium. Scoring 1,030 points to out-distance runner-up Coast Guard by nearly 300 points, MIT secured its first NEWMAC title since 2003 and fourth overall. Following the competition, junior Rastislav Racz was named NEWMAC Swimmer of the Year, while Tim Stumbaugh earned Rookie of the Year honors.
Sophomore Michael Dobson sparked the last night of finals with his second individual win of the weekend. Leading from the opening gun, Dobson split 15:53.15 to secure NCAA "B" cuts and NEWMAC First Team All-Conference honors, while finishing 43 seconds ahead of second place. Senior Udit Garg finished third overall, while junior Zack Cordero and sophomore Eric Roselli placed seventh and eighth, respectively, as MIT dominated the event.
In the 200 back, Stumbaugh earned another NCAA "B" cut for the Cardinal and Gray while posting the second-fastest time in program history with a clip of 1:52.08. Stumbaugh closed second overall in the race with freshmen Ryan TerBush and Jim Griffin taking fifth and eighth.
Senior Laurent Charpentier, who won the 200 free earlier in the meet, followed up that performance with a convincing win and school record in the 100 free. Charpentier split 45.16 and nearly missed on an NCAA "A" cut, while the ferocious swim set a NEWMAC championship record. MIT authored two other strong performances in the championship final, with Luke Cummings notching an NCAA "B" with a fourth-place finish of 45.70, and Peter Wellings closing sixth in 46.67. Cummings' time also bested the previous Institute record, while the Engineers tacked on additional points in the event as Jeff Zhou and Andrew Pierson finished 1-2 in the consolation final.
Another narrow miss on an NCAA "A" cut did little to dampen MIT's commanding performance in the 200 breast. Racz set a NEWMAC championship record and pool record while cruising to a sweep of the breast stroke events in 2:03.77. A pair of freshmen finished third and fourth for the Engineers as David Parell closed in 2:08.94 and Alejandro Dos Reis swam 2:09.49. Junior John Walk finished eighth in the race as MIT swimmers boasted half of the field. Adding to Tech's success in the event, rookie Yang Yang secured a four-second victory in the consolation final.
Taking three of the top five spots, MIT once again flexed its depth in the 200 fly. Freshman Matt Chapa erased one of the oldest records on the Institute's books to pace the effort, finishing second overall in 1:53.75. The final time eclipsed Andy Renshaw's '84 swim of 1:54.30 set during the 1982-83 season and resulted in an NCAA "B" cut. Sophomore Toomas Sepp finished fourth in the race, with senior Deke Hu closing in fifth.
The Engineers put the finishing touches on their dominating team win with another record-breaking relay effort. Finishing first in 3:03.07 in the 400 free relay, the team of Wellings, Cummings, Pierson, and Charpentier smashed the school record by two seconds while wiping out the NEWMAC open and championship marks. Cummings and Charpentier were both under 45 seconds for their splits, with Charpentier reeling off a meet-best 44.19 to anchor the victory.


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Justice Department Calls Megaupload Case A Success; Hands Out Cash To Cops To Do More Bogus Takedowns
from the shameful dept
And, of course, the master of all screwups, the Megaupload case. Given all the info that's been released so far, you'd think that the DOJ would have a slam dunk against Megaupload -- but instead, the case has been a complete disaster for the DOJ, as every week we seem to hear about another error made in going after the company. Given how poorly the DOJ has come out in that case so far, you would think that Attorney General Holder wouldn't be highlighting it as a key example of a "success story" for his role as Hollywood's favorite inside man.
And yet... in a speech in which he talks about handing out cash to local police forces to become local versions of Hollywood's private police force, he uses Megaupload as a shining example of the success of this "Intellectual Property Theft Enforcement Program." Of course, you'd think that the top lawyer in the country would know better than to falsely call infringement theft, but apparently Holder's very good at taking Hollywood's talking points without bothering to understand the actual law. Otherwise, he wouldn't have had to "give up" in the Rojadirecta and Dajaz1 cases, after it became abundantly clear that the DOJ was about to lose big time, and could face serious problems for its actions. Instead... he just cheers on the various abuses and failings in the Megaupload case as if they were successful:
In this year alone, we have prosecuted a number of significant IP cases. For example, in January – in one of the largest criminal copyright cases in U.S. history – the Department indicted two corporations and seven individuals with operating an international organized criminal enterprise responsible for massive worldwide online piracy of numerous types of copyrighted works, through Megaupload.com and other related sites.Indicted, yes. But pretty much everything after the indictment has been an unmitigated disaster. There was the illegal raid on Kim Dotcom's home, which used the wrong documentation. There was the illegal taking of evidence out of New Zealand without permission. There was the illegally obtained intelligence info on Dotcom's location. There was the ridiculous SWAT-ification of the raid team, which New Zealand officials now admit was both overkill and a mistake. Basically, pretty much every action by the DOJ in the case has been a disaster. And this is what Holder is cheering on as he hands out money for local cops to do more of the same? Really?


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|2011-06-03, 19:22
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They are merelly a minor characters to show that he is capable to fight again, so that the sickle lady from car can pass the info to more "known" fighters that Shion is da game again.
And as for ppl and their QQ'ing about pill, seriously I don't give a crap how he will get his powers back, be it another magical pill (yeah he got the power in the first place thanks to a candy), some magical attack no jutsu, some ancient technique, or other stuff. As long as he is again able to fight then I'm more than happy, its better to see him fighting even with "zombie" style, as long as he does the fighting and somethings happens.
|2011-06-04, 16:10
|Link #1083
singing heartbreak
Shioon: It's been so long, I forgot this feeling....
WTF are you talking about!? You get your ass kicked practically every fight (O.o).
btw, I know he was referring to the ki returning, that above is just a joke =0\.
|2011-06-04, 16:23
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I was wondering about that pill... maybe its made from blood infused with ki... that kinda acts like temporary ki-center... that while beign in stomach ki is beign released...when its totaly consumed it will make shion lose the ki control again...
as for the blood-pack... it might be that the doc will plan to make more pills from shion's blood (that is infused with ton of ki)... so if he gets more and more of those pills made from his own healing blood... it might bring his ki-center back to life
mostly the doc needs his special blood in order to heal his ki-center we will look on how will he do it...
I guess next chapter will start with those 2fodders flying out of the bar next to that baldie wirhout fron teeths.... he will be all "WTF"... more guys will attack... more will fly around... and fatality will be used on the baldie... maybe he will fly next to that car with those 2 suc
anyway I wonder when we will see Sera or Jinie again... im kinda curious on where is jinee right now... my guess is that she will hear the news that shion is fighing suc back... maybe than she will go to see it herself (and that he could fight and was not "he sucks so much" and about a miracle that someone with no ki-center can do it).... my guess is that later the alliance and sumwoo clan will join shion to get rid of suc... and at the end gromo will appear like he promised.... maybe some student-teacher fight ect. distant future
but still hope it will remain more the fighting part again... since its been like 32chapters... and in 90% of them shion got his ass kicked... he stands says something... loses conciousness... end of fight... next repeat the sequence... and next.... the funny part was jiniees reactions and her starting to fall in love.... but currently she is not here anymore so it needs to be repleced with something exciting again...
|2011-06-04, 17:21
|Link #1085
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: SBC Gurokken
Not again... this comic ought to be called "The Candy" instead of The Breaker - both first series and sequel are following the same pattern, eat a magic candy and you can become strong. I wish real life was so convenient...
|2011-06-04, 19:09
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Steroids =P
|2011-06-05, 04:11
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I am a Boxer
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Location: Where hot girls are fighting!
But reallly, i watnt to see Shioon, restore his ki-center definitely, after this fight.
I hope the author,go in this way...
|2011-06-05, 16:09
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Shioon: Saehee, Sosul, Sera, Jinnie, I've succesfully defeated the world, and it's harem time!
*eats candy*
Girls: Shioon....um...
Shioon: Yesss ?
Girls:...Where's..where's your wang?
Spoiler for =]:
|2011-06-05, 16:43
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I am a Boxer
Join Date: Apr 2011
Location: Where hot girls are fighting!
|2011-06-05, 18:22
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Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: SBC Gurokken
Also, the way things are going, I doubt there will be a miraculous recovery for his ki center. It's more like he will gain some other skills to compensate (by eating that candy... sigh...). The author has been driving the point home that the ki center can't be restored, and I for one would be disappointed if that was just an act in order to make eventual restoration more dramatic, even if stranger things have happened in manga.
|2011-06-06, 01:19
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I disagree with you all.
Join Date: Dec 2005
I don't think he can pull off that ultimate technique (Back Heaven and Earth?) without a ki-center, and it's probable he will one day. So he will recover it at some point. Probably soon after he learns how to fight without it.
|2011-06-06, 06:54
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|2011-06-07, 06:34
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|2011-06-07, 14:48
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Working the bags...
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I doubt it's going to have the same effects as the Ilwollsindan pill I think it was called did. He was a complete wreck when he first took the pill. This one looks like it might be something temporary like taking speed, and once the effects wear off he's going to crash hard. Then again since Shioon's body is such an enigma whose to say what effects it may leave permanently...
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Classics is a Baylor tradition! From the first years in Independence to the present, the opportunity to study Greek and Latin literature in the original language has been a key part of a Baylor education.
To learn about the ancient Greek and Roman cultures and languages is to possess a key to our own cultural and linguistic roots. The Classical Studies program is interdisciplinary by nature, drawing together fields such as literature, art, archaeology, history, and philosophy of Ancient Greece and Rome. The Program also offers courses in Ancient Greek and Latin, which satisfy Baylor's foreign language requirement.
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Man Struck By Bus Dies of Injuries
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - A man who was struck by a Metro Transit bus in Minneapolis has died of his injuries.
Authorities say the 63-year-old man died Friday at the Hennepin County Medical Center.
Metro Transit says the man was walking in the crosswalk Thursday evening when he was struck by the bus. The driver has been placed on administrative leave while an investigation is ongoing. The victim has not been identified.
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March 11, 2003
Whether you live in fear that a frog will jump on you or are consumed by thoughts of dirt in your kitchen, Dr. Phil suggests you try self-directed systematic desensitization to overcome your fear.
Though some people are paralyzed by a fear for their entire life, the typical time it takes to treat and eliminate a phobia is less than 10 hours. Your fear may have nothing to do with the stimulus that sends your heart racing, so you can slowly learn to confront it and overcome your phobia.
Step One: Relax. This is a hard step because even when the stimulus is not present, you may not know how to relax. Learning how to relax takes practice and time. You may want to try:
Step Two: Introduce the least threatening aspect of the stimulus. For example, if you are petrified of frogs, you may want to start by getting comfortable looking at a picture of a frog. If that's too much for you to start with, try imagining a forest where there may be a frog, or the sound of a frog, or simply try looking at the word "frog." Use your relaxation technique to calm yourself as you introduce this element. You may also want to use imagery to demonstrate that you have conquered this aspect, such as throwing the picture in the trash, or blowing it away with your breath.
Step Three: Gradually move closer to facing the phobia.
Select the next level of fearful aspect of the phobia and repeat the process. Using these successive approximations, you should avoid projecting too quickly onto the full phobia image. Be careful not to go too far in conquering your fear. For example, if you are afraid of fire, you need not get to a point where you feel comfortable walking on coals! Functioning daily without the fear interfering may be the right place for you to stop.
One trick may be to imagine yourself as someone else, such as Superman or Wonder Woman, as long as you are still recognizing that you are under your own power. When your alter-ego has conquered the fear, then try switching back to your ordinary self.
Step Four: Generalize your relaxation to other parts of your world. Oftentimes the phobias may be triggered by other cues. For example, you may have been feeling a loss of power that somehow became associated with frogs. But this sense of vulnerability can be aroused by other stimuli. By relaxing to the many things that happen in your life, you can minimize the chances of arousing your phobia.


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As there isnt much else to talk about and not much going on here............I just thought Id point out a couple of oddities in the Most Improved Player voting =
Player Team 1st 2nd 3rd Pts
Hedo Turkoglu Orlando 61 22 9 380
Rudy Gay Memphis 23 14 10 167
LaMarcus Aldridge Portland 9 22 17 128
Al Jefferson Minnesota 6 16 22 100
Rajon Rondo Boston 6 10 17 77
Mike Dunleavy Indiana 3 9 9 51
Jose Calderon Toronto 2 10 5 45
Chris Paul New Orleans 5 4 4 41
Beno Udrih Sacramento 1 2 6 17
David West New Orleans 1 2 4 15
Ronnie Brewer Utah 1 2 1 12
Andrew Bynum L.A. Lakers 1 1 3 11
Chris Kaman L.A. Clippers 1 1 1 9
Louis Williams Philadelphia 1 -- 3 8
Monta Ellis Golden State 1 -- 4 7
Andrew Bogut Milwaukee -- 2 1 7
Rafer Alston Houston 1 -- 1 6
LeBron James Cleveland 1 -- -- 5
Andre Iguodala Philadelphia 1 -- -- 5
Travis Outlaw Portland 1 -- -- 5
Brandon Bass Dallas -- 1 1 4
Deron Williams Utah -- 1 1 4
Linas Kleiza Denver -- 1 -- 3
Jason Maxiell Detroit -- 1 -- 3
Tyson Chandler New Orleans -- 1 -- 3
Dwight Howard Orlando -- 1 -- 3
Shaquille O'Neal Phoenix -- 1 -- 3
Brandon Roy Portland -- -- 2 2
JR Smith Denver -- -- 1 1
Danny Granger Indiana -- -- 2 2
Roger Mason Jr. Washington -- -- 1 1
Bolded are the ones I find a little strange =
Shaq!!! - Getting any vote in this is plain ridiculous, let alone a 2nd place vote!!!........Id love to know who did that.
LeBron!!! - Getting a 1st place vote!!!.........are you kidding me??? not only are his stats the same, or less, his team is no better, and he is still at the same level (amazing level yes but I dont see any difference)
Deron - Pisshhhh.
Bogut - Mehhh.
JR Smith/Granger - Where did they improve? other than hitting a few more shots this year.
Turkoglu - I knew the guy would get it..........but Im sorry, someone his age/experience isnt improving..........they are just getting more minutes and/or a different role.
Monta - How does he only get one 1st and 4 3rds??? can someone tell me how he hasnt refined (IMPROVED!!!) his game to the point of near dominance on the offensive end............can you tell me how he doesnt get atleast more votes than he did..........let alone win it (I am seriously not being biased here.........might just be because I see Monta more and notice the changes more)
Mason Jnr - Who? (I do know who he is...........but come on! what a waste of a vote)
Chandler - Other than him and Paul before the season agreeing that 10 times a game, Paul will just dribble dribble dribble and toss the ball up within a foot of the rim........and Chandler will go get it.............how has his game improved?
I know most of the ones Im moaning at are just for 2nd and 3rd place votes mainly............but Im bored out of my skull and wanted something to say.
What say you people?
*EDIT* - Wow........I spent fricking ages spaceing those colums out.........and it didnt even work!!! .......hope it makes sense.
Some Weird Votes in the MIP Award......
Talk about anything general in the NBA here.
Moderators: Mr. Crackerz, JREED, Guybrush, 32
Well, I can understand, and even share, some of those votes. I mean, Roger Mason Jr. is one of the most improved players of the league, without a doubt.
I mean, he was a nobody and now he's won a spot in the Wizards rotation. No matter how you look at it, that's improvement.
Bogut has also improved a lot, and the same can be said about Danny Granger or JR Smith. Not to the point of competing for the award, but I don't think it's unfair to give them a few votes.
What I don't get is the Shaq vote... Just nonsense.
I mean, he was a nobody and now he's won a spot in the Wizards rotation. No matter how you look at it, that's improvement.
Bogut has also improved a lot, and the same can be said about Danny Granger or JR Smith. Not to the point of competing for the award, but I don't think it's unfair to give them a few votes.
What I don't get is the Shaq vote... Just nonsense.


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Asia to become largest PLC market by 2016
While stagnation, debt crisis, an aging society, and engineering shortages in Europe are creating structural problems, emerging Asia will recover more quickly to become the largest PLC market from 2016 onwards. The current problems are mostly of a cyclical nature, and long-term indicators point nowhere but up. Still, the times of prolonged double-digit growth will not return.
This development is being driven by demand in China and the emerging Asian market, which will continue to grow at above average rates. In addition to Japan; China, Korea, and Taiwan have now established themselves as part of the global machinery market. These markets will also shift towards more high-end automation in the forecast period, developing more sophisticated machinery for export.
"Manufacturing Renaissance, Industry 4.0, and re-shoring are trends that describe the future return of manufacturing in developed markets. However, future development will prove whether this is wishful thinking or if manufacturing and automation will re-emerge in developed nations," according to Analyst Florian Güldner, the principal author of ARC's "PLC and PLC-based PAC Global Market Research Study"
Re-shoring: long-term potential for the PLC market?
Re-shoring describes the process by which manufacturing returns to developed nations, which had previously outsourced and off-shored manufacturing to countries with lower wages, such as Eastern Europe and emerging Asia.
In some areas, ARC sees this trend bearing large potential, especially when it comes to industries that need to react quickly to changing consumer preferences. The re-shored industries will automate larger parts of production to counteract the wage-structure in developed countries. In the long run, we expect this to have a slight positive impact on market development.
A manufacturing renaissance – technical requirements
The increased degree of automation in re-shored markets will demand PLCs that support information-driven manufacturing, linking the plant floor to MES and ERP layers and – in some cases – directly to the consumer. In addition, PLCs need to handle large amounts of data, feeding them back to higher-level systems. The results are self-optimizing cyber-physical systems and modular plants and factories.
PLCs are now integrating safety and cyber security, but in future will also need to integrated energy management, analytics, and other functions.
Why a manufacturing renaissance?
A manufacturing renaissance is driven by the need to react to consumer demand. The largest volume of consumers is still in Europe, Japan, and North America. However, the increasing wealth in emerging economies and the rising urban middle class lowers the incentives to shift manufacturing back as long as transportation costs and time are manageable.
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Dillon Garcia was born into a one-parent household in Whittier, California where he was inspired by superb comics to initiate and develop his own comedy career. Dillon started his professional comedy career at age 16 when he was offered an opportunity by Richard Villa to take the stage, and dish out laughs, using his microphone and his wits.
Dillon's successful stand-up routines have brought him to open for many renowned comics including, but not limited to, Nick Swardson, Dave Chappelle and Gabriel Iglesias (his comedic idol). Dillon has also performed throughout the country and has been credited by American Latino Television, Google TV and MTV. Dillon was the youngest comedian to appear on Comedy Central when he was featured on "Gabriel Iglesias Presents Stand-Up Revolution" series in 2011.
Despite Dillon's early accomplishments, he realizes and accepts that he has much more to learn. As he molds his comedic style and polishes his gift of improvisation, Dillon's material is supported by life lessons with a satirical and sarcastic twist. However most of his material is primarily based on throwing himself in the spotlight and poking fun at himself. Dillon is currently performing at comedy clubs across the country.
Jerry Garcia is considered to be one of the fastest rising young Latino Comics in Los Angeles and quiet possibly the entire Latino Comic genre. Jerry has stormed his way into the National Comedy Scene and people cannot get enough of this smart-energetic-funny-funny man from Huntington Park, California. A single father of two boys Jerry allows us to come into his world and laugh histerically along with him as he tries to convice the audience with his witty puns on how he is the best father he can possibly be while spending the least amount of energy in doing so. His views on life, relationships, his modest upbringings and everyday struggles captivates the entire audience as the punchlines Jerry delivers which such charm and charisma keep coming non-stop hyesterically. Jerry's presence, strong delivery and likeability on stage help him connect and interact with audience members in the most memorable way, fans leave the showing embracing a new "funny friend"...by the end of his set you won't know what hit you but you will be begging for more!
Early 2016 Jerry was named Best Comedian in the San Diego Comedy Festival Contest, marking his first comedy contest win in a festival. Few weeks later, Jerry won his second comedy competition in as many tries as he took home LA's Funniest Comic Contest Headliner Division Championship. Jerry has performed in over a dozen states and completed his first world military tour in the Spring of 2015 when he joined the Armed Forces Entertainment. Jerry has been featured on various television shows such as LAUGHS, BiteSizeTV, and Stand-Up and Deliver. He was co-host to the "Jeff Garcia Podcast Show" one of the most successful Latino Comedy Podcast on ITunes from 2011-2014. Currently a featured member of the new Latin Comedy Jam Tour which he performs alongside comedians such as Paul Rodriguez, Johnny Sanchez and Steve Treviño, he's a regular on many comedy showcases, festivals and colleges around the country. For Jerry Garcia, the sky truly is his limit at this point, and fortunately for us, he's just getting started.


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Saturday, June 29, 2013
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Dive deeply into the history of whales. Explore some of the earliest known whales! Look at how whales have adapted to thrive underwater by comparing archaic whales to modern whales. Discover how paleontologists study fossils to find the missing link to the earliest known whale ancestor. Finally, you will get the chance to make your own cast of an archaic Dorudon whale tooth! These 20-30 minute interactive programs take place on the 2nd floor of the U-M Museum of Natural History. They include both brief presentations highlighting university research and engaging hands-on activities. They are suitable for adults and children, ages 5 and up.


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Branching Out: Cool Chandeliers
The word chandelier might conjure images of thousands of crystal prisms, tinkling in baroque excess. But a chandelier is simply defined as a pendant fixture with multiple branches for lights — there is nothing inherently fussy about it (though, full disclosure: I love fussy chandeliers). If you're looking to increase your wattage in a stylish way, don't be afraid to venture into multi-armed territory.
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1-3 Erin Martin Projects 4 Ingo Maurer via Barnabys
5 Photo by Paolo Feliciano, via Desire to Inspire
6 Kelly van Patter interior, photo by Lisa Romerein for House Beautiful
7 The Lion, via Dwellers Without Decorators
8 Sevenup chandelier, 528 euros from De Invasie, via Design Milk
9 Anthropologie Dock Glow chandelier, $798
10 Anthropologie Halo Chandelier, $298.


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When it comes to borrowing money, Vidur Dhanda says small businesses are not as risky as the banks think they are, and he has two terabytes of data to prove it.
A data-modeling expert and long-time financial industry consultant, Dhanda began three years ago aggregating data points on nearly all U.S. businesses. He licensed several proprietary databases, tapped the U.S. Census and Bureau of Labor Statistics, and wrote algorithms to chart businesses' defaults on a wide range of debts such as credit cards, vehicle and equipment leases, loans, and lines of credit.
Today, his company WAIN Street, named for its mission to bring Wall Street-style analysis to Main Street, publishes a monthly index that reports how well 18 million businesses in a variety of sectors and geographic regions are meeting their financial obligations. The WAIN Street Business Default Index is a unique barometer of the U.S. economy. And Dhanda says the data show that small businesses are far more reliable than big ones when it comes to paying down debt. Sole proprietors—a group he calls "solos" that accounts for $1 trillion in revenues—have the lowest default rates of all, he says.
WAIN Street's data fly in the face of conventional lending wisdom. Banks usually consider small businesses bigger credit risks, and charge them higher interest rates than companies with more collateral. But Dhanda says those decisions are based on faulty assumptions. That's because, despite frequent complaints—from the Small Business Administration and Senator Elizabeth Warren, among others—about the dearth of small business data, no one had been tracking such benchmarks before Dhanda.
Anecdotal evidence that solopreneurs are safe bets is abundant. Consider the success of microfinancing efforts in the developing world. The Grameen Bank in Bangladesh, which requires no collateral or even contracts on the loans it makes to impoverished women entrepreneurs, boasts a loan recovery rate of 97 percent. Closer to home, Dhanda points to Brooklyn, NY: "Loaning someone $1,000 to run their own food cart or coffee trolley can get better repayment because 'my word is my bond' there," he says. Borrowers are too community-minded to make strategic defaults, he says: "They know if they pay back the lender, then the lady down the street can get the next loan." But that's not persuasive enough for lenders.
There is one caveat of Dhanda's research: It's possible that default rates are lower among small businesses because banks cherry pick the safest bets (while still charging them higher premiums). If this is true, he says, lenders are missing out on greater returns by not exposing themselves to enough risk.
He hopes his indexing products, which he offers as services to banks, will fix that. "We offer the ability for a bank to compare their performance to our index and make simple assertions such as, 'our portfolio was better than the national or northeastern default rate, so the quality of our exposures is better.'"
Dhanda acknowledges that banks are in a difficult position when it comes to analyzing which among thousands of small businesses to back. "You can't expend $5,000 worth of effort deciding to make a $5,000 loan," he says. The WAIN Street index, however, can help loan officers see which industries are most secure, price loans better, and reduce interest rates for safer industries.
"None of these things are like revealed truths," he says. "They're data points. It's much like human health: you can drink a bottle of wine every day and smoke cigarettes and still be in perfectly good health. I would never suggest a bank make a loan looking only at the index."
But Dhanda is confident that the index makes one thing clear: "This cohort of businesses is not as risky as we consider them—either because we are leaving out too many of them, or because they are just less risky."


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Winners & Losers: Twitter Flies, BlackBerry Stalls
BlackBerry, Twitter and SAC Capital made MoneyBeat's list of winners and losers. David Benoit breaks it down.
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... it's Friday and every Friday we count down the week's winners and losers with David Benoit ... David stiff ... so lovely got this week the first letters you ... Marathon on Bank Street hours and forty two minutes or I think you're a classic exhibit says Louis went to a stop a vehicle making money for no up first when there's unity some of these ... auction houses an awesome activists in and out ... of the night and auction sales recently ... two hundred and ninety million in one night spots are pretty it was about to fight off of our wealth J C Penney J C Penney lenders live on the wonders ... of same-store sales growth the first time ... since December two thousand eleven ... pretty nice ... that this is a little better long-term chart publicly known but the but there are those few weeks if that something yes ... another one this is the dilemma that this is this big startups the winner of seventy three percent yesterday in its IPO after boosting their ancient pricing above its twenty five billion dollar company ... certainly not ... gonna be off well no ... complete says no I mean this off as most tech IPO or doom since Facebook Kenya into and it was arguably the anti Facebook exactly every every step of the way there was you know that when the NYSE doing Goldman is there we ... take on a price to conserve inflated and have their insider selling it all worked out well and for the sea with all eyes on the succulent is seeing how it would work right How image for a bank that is a morning raid on NYSE floor you that they let the cameras in my head people setting up the price is enough of an amazing and then the Goldman the bank or who put sweets out just one word he's he's out to right ... alright so now we are to move over to some of the was this year was Number three in U ... S Marine U S A C Capital on the official guilty plea filed this week against insider trading charges ... on world's biggest hedge funds will now become a family office still with ... nine billion dollars in assets but ... badly for S A C Capital Steve Cullen who share our eggs over to blockbuster blockbuster did you think they still are around they even make the listener that made those ... events are so ... Dish which bought them at a bankruptcy years ago announces that shutting down the remaining three hundred blockbuster stores ... to know going out to rent year so there were new really so there were some that were sprinkled around the country and now they are officially done new and more blocked it will be if you just above the water of franchise stores not a company that ... has this number one the biggest loser this week ... BlackBerry off ... I now has some Monday morning right were all waiting for word it set a deadline on their sales process ... no deal no deal no deal they increase the preliminary offer the biggest holder instead the race to billion dollars that Sanaa on tiny Madam ... but a billion dollars ... are they will remain an independent company and trying to turn this ship around the new leadership to try and leadership CEO Thorsten Heins hosted ... he's resigning a prominent doctor outside ... we've done to turn around to the past ... but certainly but he's only an interim so they gotta go find a new CEO role full time and figure out you know ... if their customers are even still there ... Sears down another ... sixteen percent this week announced a snob ... not looking great for by Redfin agents ... looking great all right David Benoit thank you so much is


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Resolute Forest Products (RFP) Jumps 8.3% on December 25Equities Staff Follow |
Resolute Forest Products (RFP) was among the biggest gainers on the Russell 2000 for Friday December 25 as the stock popped 8.3% to $8.35, representing a gain of $0.64 per share. Some 327,954 shares traded hands on 2,223 trades, compared with an average daily volume of 432,996 shares out of a total float of 89.59 million. The stock opened at $7.75 and traded with an intraday range of $8.41 to $7.75.
After today's gains, Resolute Forest Products reached a market cap of $748.11 million. Resolute Forest Products has had a trading range between $19.26 and $6.65 over the last year, and it had a 50-day SMA of $7.86 and a 200-day SMA of $11.01.
Resolute Forest Products Inc owns and operates pulp and paper mills and wood products facilities in the United States, Canada and South Korea, and power generation assets in Canada.
Resolute Forest Products is based out of Montreal, QC and has some 7,700 employees. Its CEO is Richard Garneau.
For a complete fundamental analysis analysis of Resolute Forest Products, check out Equities.com's Stock Valuation Analysis report for RFP. To see the latest independent stock recommendations from Equities.com's analysts, visit our Research section.
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The most incredible piece of horse woodcarving I have ever seen at VanderWiel Harnessmakers! [01:23]
This totally unexpected masterpiece caught my attention at the open days of VanderWiel Harnessmakers in Belgium...
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OLD FILM FROM OUR ARCHIVES: After bolting in harness with her owner, and being involved in a carriage driving accident where she ran into a car, this mare wa...
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Viewers statistics harness horse racing video channel "mytubes4u2" 2012 (best seen in HD and click on "Show more") The statistics relate mainly the videos of Duindigt (eg Derby 2012) summaries of Wolvega "Victoria Park" (Dutch viewers) and the Elitloppet 2012 from Sweden "Solvalla" (Swedish viewers) The total amount in 2012 was 150.000 pageviews worldwide. Dutch viewers group. The measured period was the last half year of 2012. (The total number of views was 70652 all over 2012) Viewers (23739 not unique, men 56% women 44%) in the Netherlands who are interested in harness racing. Most viewers came via YouTube (50%), nakoersen.nl and facebook. Swedish viewers group. At the end of the video is a similar number of Swedish viewers measured over 2012 (22.000 more unique, men 75% women 25%) These viewers came directly from YouTube and partly by news websites. Both in the Netherlands and Sweden, 20% of the viewers watched this channel via a mobile device. It is clear that in both countries, mainly those in the age groups of 35 to 64 years are most intrested in harness horse racing.
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1. Re: Colors change when exporting to jpg filelindan19994533 Apr 26, 2012 1:53 PM (in response to Mitch Man)1 person found this helpful
Are they viewing them in a browser? Some web browsers are not very good at displaying true colours of photographic because they do not read the ICC colour profiles that are embedded in then. If the images are being processed in Photoshop, make sure the artists are using the sRGB color space rather than Adobe RGB, and that they are not embedding color profiles.
2. Re: Colors change when exporting to jpg filegroove25 Apr 26, 2012 4:59 PM (in response to Mitch Man)
Along the same lines as Linda's suggestion: Take a look at the color profile of the image sent to you by the artist before you work on it. If it's anything other than sRGB, convert it. If you're on a Mac, you can use the Info panel (Command-I) to quickly check for a color profile on a graphic; otherwise, you can fire up Photoshop and use its Info panel. To convert the color profile within Photoshop, use Edit > Convert to Profile, which will preserve the image appearance but attach a different ICC profile.
Fireworks doesn't acknowledge color profiles (at least FW8 doesn't), so when you open the image in FW, you might see a small color shift. When you save or export the graphic from FW, the ICC profile may be stripped from the file. If it's important that it be preserved, as a final step, you could try re-opening the exported graphic in Photoshop and re-assigning the sRGB profile (using Edit > Assign Profile) before sending it off to your client. Some web browsers do observe color profiles now—Safari and Firefox, for instance. I think it's good to include them for photographs, but they shouldn't really be necessary for web or interface graphics.
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3. Re: Colors change when exporting to jpg fileMitch Man Apr 27, 2012 6:22 AM (in response to Mitch Man)
Thank you both for your responses. You were correct. I checked with the person who sent me the image, and he's using Nikon software that appears to utilize the Adobe system. The file was indeed saved as Adobe RGB--not sRGB. He was able to save it with an sRGB profile. When I opened the new image in Fireworks and exported it, it looked the same as the original.
I could not find anything in Fireworks CS5 that would tell me anything about color profiles which is too bad. It would be really nice if there was at least a warning.


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The president, speaking at the Washington Hilton Hotel Feb. 6, urged Americans to "never forget those who are persecuted today."
"We pray for Kenneth Bae, a Christian missionary who's been held in North Korea for 15 months, sentenced to 15 years of hard labor," Obama said. "His family wants him home and the United States will continue to do everything in our power to secure his release because Kenneth Bae deserves to be free."
Obama continued, "We pray for Pastor Saeed Abedini. He's been held in Iran for more than 18 months, sentenced to eight years in prison on charges relating to his Christian beliefs. And as we continue to work for his freedom, today, again, we call on the Iranian government to release Pastor Abedini so he can return to the loving arms of his wife and children in Idaho."
Jordan Sekulow, executive director of the American Center for Law and Justice, which has led an international effort for Abedini's release, noted that Obama raised Abedini's situation in a private phone call with Iran's president last fall but the prayer breakfast comments marked the first time he publicly addressed the pastor's imprisonment.
"With President Obama highlighting this tragic case of religious persecution," Sekulow said in a statement, "we're hopeful that this new level of engagement by our government -- President Obama publicly calling on Iran to release Pastor Saeed -- will bring even more attention to the unjust treatment of a U.S. citizen who has been imprisoned for more than a year simply because of his Christian faith."
Naghmeh Abedini, Saeed's wife, wrote on Facebook Feb. 6 that she wept when she heard Obama had called for her husband's release.
"All I could see was each of you standing with us through your prayers, by calling your government officials, signing petitions, and sending the kids and I Bible verses and encouraging us not to give up and to continue," Naghemh wrote to her supporters. "Thank you from the bottom of my heart. Each prayer and each voice counts."
Terri Chung, Bae's sister, who resides in the Seattle area, said their family was "delighted" to hear Obama advocate for Bae's release.
"Tears sprung to our eyes as we heard the President affirm our family's pleas," Chung said in a statement at freekennow.com, adding that Obama's commitment "is great reassurance to our weary spirits."
The day before the prayer breakfast, the remaining members of the U.S. Congress to have survived the Korean War -- Rep. Charles Rangel of New York, Rep. John Conyers of Michigan, Rep. Sam Johnson of Texas and Rep. Howard Coble of North Carolina -- sent a letter to North Korea's dictator, Kim Jong Un, asking him to release Bae.
"We thank them as well, as this movement to bring Kenneth home grows even stronger," Chung said.
Every U.S. president since Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1953 has attended the annual National Prayer Breakfast, which attracts thousands from around the world. First Lady Michelle Obama and Vice President Joe Biden joined the president at this year's breakfast. The keynote speaker was Rajiv Shah, administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development.
Also during his remarks, Obama noted that "around the world freedom of religion is under threat."
"We sometimes see religion twisted in an attempt to justify hatred and persecution against other people just because of who they are, or how they pray or who they love," Obama said.
"Around the world we're elevating our engagement with faith leaders and making it a regular part of our diplomacy," Obama said.
The United States will "keep standing for religious freedom around the world" because "no society can truly succeed unless it guarantees the rights of all its peoples, including religious minorities," Obama said.
David Curry, president of Open Doors USA, said he was encouraged by Obama's support for persecuted Christians and other faith groups in such places as North Korea and Iran.
"With the number of martyred Christians almost doubling last year from 1,201 to 2,123, according to Open Doors researchers, it is past due for a new focus in the State Department and our entire government to support the value of religious freedom worldwide and in our own country," Curry said in a statement.
In January, Open Doors' World Watch List of the worst persecutors of Christians listed North Korea as the No. 1 persecutor in the world and Iran No. 9. Open Doors said Christians are the most persecuted faith group in the world.
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Reviewed By Kyle M (EAST FREETOWN, MA) Reviewed for a 1993 Mitsubishi 3000GT —11/12/2014 2:53 PM
I received my car cover within a couple weeks, and it looks and feels durable. I purchased it for the upcoming winter season. Two days after I put it on my car it down poured and snowed a couple inches with 40+mph wind and it stayed in place. The cover really does have a perfect fit to it. I've had the cover on for a few weeks now and once and a while I'll hose it off to get the leaves and dirt off of it. Car stays clean, I'm happy.


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My guideline is to think about whether it is an adjective, adverb or noun.
What you can say in response to "how are you?":
"I am doing well"
"I am good"(ok, technically incorrect unless you're trying to say I'm a good little girl, but it's better than the next two)
What irritates me:
"I am well" (to me this implies you are not ill, like you just got over an illness that had you in the hospital. For most people, this is not what they mean - right?)
"I'm doing good" (this implies you are working for Amnesty International or that you are a redneck from Iowa)
To avoid all the confusion, I just say "I'm fine". Because I am a damn fine woman.
Now that we have that out of the way, let's congruatulate Alicia H who was the first woman runner finisher in the Arrowhead 135 mile race in Superior National Forrest in northern Minnesota. She ran it in 55 hours and 56 minutes. Awesome. And crossed the finish line with a Spaniard.
Here she is while actually running the entire Superior Hiking trail, which took 4 days, 17 hours and 35 minutes.
Now, I'm actually not very newsworthy, but I am crazy. Plus if I didn't talk about myself, I'd just be a boring journalist.
My training has been going well lately.
Last Thursday I ran a 3:14:01 marathon on the treadmill. It was at 0.5% elevation. I did not count the bathroom breaks. This was two days after a 20 mile tempo.
Fri: 10 miles easy, total body conditioning + swimming intervals
Sat: 20 miles outside 8:45 pace
Sun: 15 miles outside + swimming intervals
Mon: 20 miles on treadmill, slow
Tues: 3 miles easy, 1 x 6 mile intervals on hilly route outside in 6:32, 6:28, 6:26, 6:26, 6:25, 6:35, then 5 mile cooldown. Swimming intervals.
Wed: 13 miles slow, stairclimber + modern nordic track + spinning class + yogalates
So - given my treadmill "marathon" time, I have (with SR's okay) signed up for the New Orleans Marathon March 4th to go for a PR. After that is out of the way, I can enjoy a spring and summer of ultras and triathons. :)
Oh, I forgot. I was in the news in some way - here is a page from the most recent Løbemagasinet in Denmark, informing women that continuing to train during pregnancy will improve their condition.
Crazy women. Yes. Now: read carefully the top regrets of dying people, collected by a palliative care nurse in Australia:
1. I wish I'd had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me.
2. I wish I hadn't worked so hard.
3. I wish I'd had the courage to express my feelings.
4. I wish I had stayed in touch with my friends.
5. I wish that I had let myself be happier.
Yes, ladies, we could all learn from women like Alicia and Annette who let themselves do what makes them happy.
What makes you happy? Training makes me happy. Running makes me happy. But what really makes me happy? Those little moments with my family.
Touching Mattias chest, so soft over a paper thin breast bone and watching him coo and giggle.
The Lorax has been telling me about his best friend, "Santa" at school for days now. I was so happy he had made such a close friend. He told me about all of the things they did together. How Santa took a nap right next to him. How Santa played with him on the playground. I figured the boy's name was Xander. I asked tonight at his parent teacher conference who Santa was. And they had all assumed Santa was a friend at home because there were no boys there with a name close to that. We looked at each other. We looked at Christian who was playing with rocks in a sand case. Santa was not real, not to us at least. Santa is is friend he needs during this transition to a new life. I looked at my baby, Christian, still in many ways as fragile as Mattias.
And Natali announced tonight she thinks she might have a boyfriend. He is the most popular boy at school. His name is Quentin and I don't think she's making him up. They have told each other they like each other, but what the next step is, well, she suggested they eat lollipops and go for a walk on the bike path.
These are good days. And well days.
Running songs of the day:
The Fall by Gary Numan (thanks, World Café)
Wrecking Ball by Mother Mother (th


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