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The 14th International Architecture Exhibition - Fundamentals, curated by Rem Koolhaas, came to a close on Sunday 23 November 2014. The show attracted 228,000 visitors.
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Fundamentals consisted of three interlocking exhibitions: Absorbing Modernity 1914-2014, an invitation to the national pavilions to show the process of the erasure of national characteristics. Elements of Architecture, in the Central Pavilion, focused on the fundamentals of our buildings used by any architect, anywhere, anytime. Monditalia dedicated the Arsenale to a single theme – Italy – with exhibitions, events, and theatrical productions.
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New Book: "Endangered Species NXT"
(Click above cover image to see it enlarged).
All building instructions and programs are full-color and high-resolution. The robots are:
NXT Sloth--slowly and smoothly slinks across a "branch" of your own choosing.
NXT Gorilla--"Knuckle walks" across the floor, just a like a real gorilla.
NXT Komodo Dragon--Slithers and "sidewinds" across the floor in snake-like fashion.
NXT Polar Bear--Walks on all fours, opens and closes its jaws, and roars
NXT "Poison Dart" Frog--Leaps up and forward into the air as it jumps across the room
Educational activities in math, literacy and critical thinking are included for teachers, students, FLLers and other groups and individuals.
All robots are built with the LEGO MINDSTORMS Education NXT Set (#9797), plus the NXT Education Resource Set (#9648). In the near future, I'll post a list of parts needed for the book.
The Amazon link to the book is here.
Posted by: Rick Rhodes at 9:15 AM
Labels: education, Endangered Species Book, Models, NXT
4 comments:
- Jim Kelly said...
This looks GREAT! I like that sloth - very funny and interesting looking. Good luck with the book, Fay...
- Nov 5, 2009, 11:34:00 AM
- Marc-A Bazergui said...
yé a new book... until i write my own there is one thing i love doing! Encouraging those who have taken the time to publish great NXT book by purchasing them and showing them off at convention and shows i participate in via QueLUG.
Is this one from you Fay? that part is not clear from the post!
- Nov 5, 2009, 3:34:00 PM
- Matthias Paul Scholz said...
I'm happy to see that Fay, Master of NXT animals, did it again. :)
The sloth decidedly is moreish - this book is most worthwhile to purchase, methinks.
- Nov 5, 2009, 6:28:00 PM
- Fay Rhodes said...
The book is authored by Fay Rhodes. Sorry about the confusion. (My husband, Rick, is my biggest fan.)
- Nov 6, 2009, 2:14:00 AM
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Stories from people who were children during World War II and the objects in this exhibit animate the past and inform us of a time when war took over daily life. "Retrospect is a very interesting thing," says Ruthie Kallnder. "At the time I don't recall any of the information we got as being propaganda," but the government tried to influence children to make "necessary" sacrifices. Propagandists made the war a battle between good and evil, democracy and fascism. They also asked children to share in the war effort. In response, many children took on more responsibilities. Ruthie explains that boys and girls felt "if that's what it was going to take" to win they "were willing to do it." The memories of the people in this exhibit and their wartime actions show the power of propaganda's messages and its lasting affect on their lives. Propaganda posters, children's books, and classroom assignments demonstrate how propagandists reached children and involved them in the national war effort.
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Painted in two major colonial American centers, these portraits from Boston and Mexico City (then New Spain) share a formality of pose and an emphasis on fine costume that reveal a common source in European portraiture. John Haskins holds his hand on his hip, in a pose of authority found in Elizabethan portraits. Nevertheless, this upright barrel maker known as "Honest John Haskins" was a modest patron when compared to his wealthy and ambitious Mexican counterpart. The inscription at the bottom of Don Ignacio Leonel Gómez Cervantes's portrait lists honors and inherited titles that explicitly identify him as a descendant of an aristocratic Spanish American family.
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- Medium: Oil on canvas
- Place Made: Mexico
- Dates: 1788
- Dimensions: 40 1/2 x 32 1/2in. (102.9 x 82.6cm) (show scale)
- Inscriptions: Inscribed across the bottom: " El Sr. Dn. Ignacio Leonel Gomez de Cervantes, Padilla, Niño de Cordova, Riva de Neyra, Fernandez de la Higuera, Gorraes Estrada Ve-/(lasco) Urrutia de Vergara, Cavallero Maestrante de la Real de Ronda, Marques de Salinas del Rio de Pizuerga. Señor de las Vi-/llas de Berniches de Sauguiya, de Enares Gentil Hombre de Camara de S.M.C. con entrada. Alclade Ordinario / (last line of inscription destroyed)."
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- Accession Number: 52.166.6
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- Caption: Mexican. Don Ignacio Leonel Gómez Cervantes, 1788. Oil on canvas, 40 1/2 x 32 1/2in. (102.9 x 82.6cm). Brooklyn Museum, Museum Collection Fund and Dick S. Ramsay Fund, 52.166.6
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FREEPORT — It took two determined parents and a passionate educator, but the Special Olympics will return to Walton County.
After settling for ifs and maybes for too long, the county is well on its way to hosting events and training intellectually disabled athletes through the internationally recognized program, said Mike Schumacher, a parent and recent Walton County transplant who is leading the resurgence with fellow parent Jennifer Fitzgerald.
"It just took somebody to say, 'Let's get this started,' " he said. "It's our program and we have to own it, and it's intimidating but it's good now because we have a direction."
The county had a Special Olympics program until about two years ago when the person who oversaw it retired, said Danielle Spears, the director of public relations for Special Olympics Florida.
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Both parents were told repeatedly that they could enroll their children in Special Olympics programs in neighboring Okaloosa or Bay counties.
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Protein phosphatase 2C (PP2C) is one of the four major classes of mammalian serine/threonine specific protein phosphatases (EC 220.127.116.11). PP2C [(PUBMED:1312947)] is a monomeric enzyme of about 42 Kd which shows broad substrate specificity and is dependent on divalent cations (mainly manganese and magnesium) for its activity. Its exact physiological role is still unclear. Three isozymes are currently known in mammals: PP2C-alpha, -beta and -gamma. In yeast, there are at least four PP2C homologues: phosphatase PTC1 [(PUBMED:8395005)], which has weak tyrosine phosphatase activity in addition to its activity on serines, phosphatases PTC2 and PTC3, and hypothetical protein YBR125c. Isozymes of PP2C are also known from Arabidopsis thaliana (ABI1, PPH1), Caenorhabditis elegans (FEM-2, F42G9.1, T23F11.1), Leishmania chagasi and Paramecium tetraurelia. In A. thaliana, the kinase associated protein phosphatase (KAPP) [(PUBMED:7973632)] is an enzyme that dephosphorylates the Ser/Thr receptor-like kinase RLK5 and which contains a C-terminal PP2C domain.
PP2C does not seem to be evolutionary related to the main family of serine/ threonine phosphatases: PP1, PP2A and PP2B. However, it is significantly similar to the catalytic subunit of pyruvate dehydrogenase phosphatase EC 188.8.131.52 (PDPC) [(PUBMED:8396421)], which catalyzes dephosphorylation and concomitant reactivation of the alpha subunit of the E1 component of the pyruvate dehydrogenase complex. PDPC is a mitochondrial enzyme and, like PP2C, is magnesium-dependent.
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Infectious pathologies are usually qualified as contagious diseases (also called communicable diseases) due to their potentiality of transmission from one person or species to another. Transmission of an infectious disease may occur through one or more of diverse pathways including physical contact with infected individuals. These infecting agents may also be transmitted through liquids, food, body fluids, contaminated objects, airborne inhalation, or through vector-borne spread.
The term infectivity describes the ability of an organism to enter, survive and multiply in the host, while the infectiousness of a disease indicates the comparative ease with which the disease is transmitted to other hosts. An infection however, is not synonymous with an infectious disease, as an infection may not cause important clinical symptoms or impair host function.
Primary pathogens cause disease as a result of their presence or activity within the normal, healthy host, and their intrinsic virulence (the severity of the disease they cause) is, in part, a necessary consequence of their need to reproduce and spread. Many of the most common primary pathogens of humans only infect humans, however many serious diseases are caused by organisms acquired from the environment or which infect non-human hosts.
Organisms which cause an infectious disease in a host with depressed resistance are classified as opportunistic pathogens. Opportunistic disease may be caused by microbes that are ordinarily in contact with the host, such as pathogenic bacteria or fungi in the gastrointestinal or the upper respiratory tract, and they may also result from (otherwise innocuous) microbes acquired from other hosts (as in Clostridium difficile colitis) or from the environment as a result of traumatic introduction (as in surgical wound infections or compound fractures). An opportunistic disease requires impairment of host defenses, which may occur as a result of genetic defects (such as Chronic granulomatous disease), exposure to antimicrobial drugs or immunosuppressive chemicals (as might occur following poisoning or cancer chemotherapy), exposure to ionizing radiation, or as a result of an infectious disease with immunosuppressive activity (such as with measles, malaria or HIV disease). Primary pathogens may also cause more severe disease in a host with depressed resistance than would normally occur in an immunosufficient host.
One way of proving that a given disease is "infectious", is to satisfy Koch's postulates (first proposed by Robert Koch), which demands that the infectious agent be identified only in patients and not in healthy controls, and that patients who contract the agent also develop the disease. These postulates were first used in the discovery that Mycobacteria species cause tuberculosis. Koch's postulates cannot be met ethically for many human diseases because they require experimental infection of a healthy individual with a pathogen produced as a pure culture. Often, even diseases that are quite clearly infectious do not meet the infectious criteria. For example, Treponema pallidum, the causative spirochete of syphilis, cannot be cultured in vitro - however the organism can be cultured in rabbit testes. It is less clear that a pure culture comes from an animal source serving as host than it is when derived from microbes derived from plate culture. Epidemiology is another important tool used to study disease in a population. For infectious diseases it helps to determine if a disease outbreak is sporadic (occasional occurrence), endemic (regular cases often occurring in a region), epidemic (an unusually high number of cases in a region), or pandemic (a global epidemic).
Transmission of infectious diseases may also involve a "vector". Vectors may be mechanical or biological. A mechanical vector picks up an infectious agent on the outside of its body and transmits it in a passive manner. An example of a mechanical vector is a housefly, which lands on cow dung, contaminating its appendages with bacteria from the feces, and then lands on food prior to consumption. The pathogen never enters the body of the fly. In contrast, biological vectors harbor pathogens within their bodies and deliver pathogens to new hosts in an active manner, usually a bite. Biological vectors are often responsible for serious blood-borne diseases, such as malaria, viral encephalitis, Chagas disease, Lyme disease and African sleeping sickness. Biological vectors are usually, though not exclusively, arthropods, such as mosquitoes, ticks, fleas and lice. Vectors are often required in the life cycle of a pathogen. A common strategy, used to control vector borne infectious diseases, is to interrupt the life cycle of a pathogen, by killing the vector.
The relationship between virulence and transmission is complex, and has important consequences for the long term evolution of a pathogen. Since it takes many generations for a microbe and a new host species to co-evolve, an emerging pathogen may hit its earliest victims especially hard. It is usually in the first wave of a new disease that death rates are highest. If a disease is rapidly fatal, the host may die before the microbe can get passed along to another host. However, this cost may be overwhelmed by the short term benefit of higher infectiousness if transmission is linked to virulence, as it is for instance in the case of cholera (the explosive diarrhea aids the bacterium in finding new hosts) or many respiratory infections (sneezing and coughing create infectious aerosols).
One of the ways to prevent or slow down the transmission of infectious diseases is to recognize the different characteristics of various diseases. Some critical disease characteristics that should be evaluated include virulence, distance traveled by victims, and level of contagiousness. The human strains of Ebola virus, for example, incapacitate its victims extremely quickly and kills them soon after. As a result, the victims of this disease do not have the opportunity to travel very far from the initial infection zone. Also, this virus must spread through skin lesions or permeable membranes such as the eye. Thus, the initial stage of Ebola is not very contagious since its victims experience only internal hemorrhaging. As a result of the above features, the spread of Ebola is very rapid and usually stays within a relatively confined geographical area. In contrast, Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) kills its victims very slowly by attacking their immune system. [6] As a result, a lot of its victims transmit the virus to many others before even realizing that they are carrying the disease. Also, the relatively low virulence allows its victims to travel long distances, increasing the likelihood of an epidemic.
Another effective way to decrease the transmission rate of infectious diseases is to recognize the effects of small-world networks. [6] In epidemics, there are often extensive interactions within hubs or groups of infected individuals and other interactions within discrete hubs of susceptible individuals. Despite the low interaction between discrete hubs, the disease can jump to and spread in a susceptible hub via a single or few interactions with an infected hub. Thus, infection rates in small-world networks can be reduced somewhat if interactions between individuals within infected hubs are eliminated (Figure 1). However, infection rates can be drastically reduced if the main focus is on the prevention of transmission jumps between hubs. The use of needle exchange programs in areas with a high density of drug users with HIV is an example of the successful implementation of this treatment method. [6] Another example is the use of ring culling or vaccination of potentially susceptible livestock in adjacent farms to prevent the spread of the foot-and-mouth virus in 2001.
General methods to prevent transmission of pathogens may include disinfection and pest control.
Specific identification of an infectious agent is usually only determined when such identification can aid in the treatment or prevention of the disease, or to advance knowledge of the course of an illness prior to the development of effective therapeutic or preventative measures. For example, in the early 1980s, prior to the appearance of AZT for the treatment of AIDS, the course of the disease was closely followed by monitoring the composition of patient blood samples, even though the outcome would not offer the patient any further treatment options. In part, these studies on the appearance of HIV in specific communities permitted the advancement of hypotheses as to the route of transmission of the virus. By understanding how the disease was transmitted, resources could be targeted to the communities at greatest risk in campaigns aimed at reducing the number of new infections. The specific serological diagnostic identification, and later genotypic or molecular identification, of HIV also enabled the development of hypotheses as to the temporal and geographical origins of the virus, as well as a myriad of other hypothesis. The development of molecular diagnostic tools have enabled physicians and researchers to monitor the efficacy of treatment with anti-retroviral drugs. Molecular diagnostics are now commonly used to identify HIV in healthy people long before the onset of illness and have been used to demonstrate the existence of people who are genetically resistant to HIV infection. Thus, while there still is no cure for AIDS, there is great therapeutic and predictive benefit to identifying the virus and monitoring the virus levels within the blood of infected individuals, both for the patient and for the community at large.
Microbiological culture is a principal tool used to diagnose infectious disease. In a microbial culture, a growth medium is provided for a specific agent. A sample taken from potentially diseased tissue or fluid is then tested for the presence of an infectious agent able to grow within that medium. Most pathogenic bacteria are easily grown on nutrient agar, a form of solid medium that supplies carbohydrates and proteins necessary for growth of a bacterium, along with copious amounts of water. A single bacterium will grow into a visible mound on the surface of the plate called a colony, which may be separated from other colonies or melded together into a "lawn". The size, color, shape and form of a colony is characteristic of the bacterial species, its specific genetic makeup (its strain), and the environment which supports its growth. Other ingredients are often added to the plate to aid in identification. Plates may contain substances that permit the growth of some bacteria and not others, or that change color in response to certain bacteria and not others. Bacteriological plates such as these are commonly used in the clinical identification of infectious bacteria. Microbial culture may also be used in the identification of viruses: the medium in this case being cells grown in culture that the virus can infect, and then alter or kill. In the case of viral identification, a region of dead cells results from viral growth, and is called a "plaque". Eukaryotic parasites may also be grown in culture as a means of identifying a particular agent.
In the absence of suitable plate culture techniques, some microbes require culture within live animals. Bacteria such as Mycobacterium leprae and T. pallidum can be grown in animals, although serological and microscopic techniques make the use of live animals unnecessary. Viruses are also usually identified using alternatives to growth in culture or animals. Some viruses may be grown in embryonated eggs. Another useful identification method is Xenodiagnosis, or the use of a vector to support the growth of an infectious agent. Chaga's disease is the most significant example, because it is difficult to directly demonstrate the presence of the causative agent, Trypanosoma cruzi in a patient, which therefore makes it difficult to definitively make a diagnosis. In this case, xenodiagnosis involves the use of the vector of the Chaga's agent T. cruzi, an uninfected triatomine bug (subfamily Triatominae), which takes a blood meal from a person suspected of having been infected. The bug is later inspected for growth of T. cruzi within its gut.
Other microscopic procedures may also aid in identifying infectious agents. Almost all cells readily stain with a number of basic dyes due to the electrostatic attraction between negatively charged cellular molecules and the positive charge on the dye. A cell is normally transparent under a microscope, and using a stain increases the contrast of a cell with its background. Staining a cell with a dye such as Giemsa stain or crystal violet allows a microscopist to describe its size, shape, internal and external components and its associations with other cells. The response of bacteria to different staining procedures is used in the taxonomic classification of microbes as well. Two methods, the Gram stain and the acid-fast stain, are the standard approaches used to classify bacteria and to diagnosis of disease. The Gram stain identifies the bacterial groups Firmicutes and Actinobacteria, both of which contain many significant human pathogens. The acid-fast staining procedure identifies the Actinobacterial genera Mycobacterium and Nocardia.
The isolation of enzymes from infected tissue can also provide the basis of a biochemical diagnosis of an infectious disease. For example, humans can make neither RNA replicases nor reverse transcriptase, and the presence of these enzymes are characteristic of specific types of viral infections. The ability of the viral protein hemagglutinin to bind red blood cells together into a detectable matrix may also be characterized as a biochemical test for viral infection, although strictly speaking hemagglutinin is not an enzyme and has no metabolic function.
Serological methods are highly sensitive, specific and often extremely rapid tests used to identify microorganisms. These tests are based upon the ability of an antibody to bind specifically to an antigen. The antigen, usually a protein or carbohydrate made by an infectious agent, is bound by the antibody. This binding then sets off a chain of events that can be visibly obvious in various ways, dependent upon the test. For example, "Strep throat" is often diagnosed within minutes, and is based on the appearance of antigens made by the causative agent, S. pyogenes, that is retrieved from a patients throat with a cotton swab. Serological tests, if available, are usually the preferred route of identification, however the tests are costly to develop and the reagents used in the test often require refrigeration. Some serological methods are extremely costly, although when commonly used, such as with the "strep test", they can be inexpensive.
Thus, the technological ability to detect any infectious agent rapidly and specifically are currently available. The only remaining blockades to the use of PCR as a standard tool of diagnosis are in its cost and application, neither of which is insurmountable. The diagnosis of a few diseases will not benefit from the development of PCR methods, such as some of the clostridial diseases (tetanus and botulism). These diseases are fundamentally biological poisonings by relatively small numbers of infectious bacteria that produce extremely potent neurotoxins. A significant proliferation of the infectious agent does not occur, this limits the ability of PCR to detect the presence of any bacteria.
Infection with most pathogens does not result in death of the host and the offending organism is ultimately cleared after the symptoms of the disease have waned. This process requires immune mechanisms to kill or inactivate the inoculum of the pathogen. Specific acquired immunity against infectious diseases may be mediated by antibodies and/or T lymphocytes. Immunity mediated by these two factors may be manifested by:
The immune response to a microorganism often causes symptoms such as a high fever and inflammation, and has the potential to be more devastating than direct damage caused by a microbe.
Resistance to infection (immunity) may be acquired following a disease, by asymptomatic carriage of the pathogen, by harboring an organism with a similar structure (crossreacting), or by vaccination. Knowledge of the protective antigens and specific acquired host immune factors is more complete for primary pathogens than for opportunistic pathogens.
Immune resistance to an infectious disease requires a critical level of either antigen-specific antibodies and/or T cells when the host encounters the pathogen. Some individuals develop natural serum antibodies to the surface polysaccharides of some agents although they have had little or no contact with the agent, these natural antibodies confer specific protection to adults and are passively transmitted to newborns.
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all deaths
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|All infectious diseases
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|16.4 million
|Lower respiratory infections
|3.9 million
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|2.8 million
|0.7 million
|Diarrheal diseases
|1.8 million
|3.0 million
|Tuberculosis (TB)
|1.6 million
|2.7 million
|1.3 million
|2.0 million
|0.6 million
|1.1 million
|0.29 million
|0.36 million
|0.21 million
|0.15 million
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|0.19 million
|Hepatitis B
|0.10 million
|0.93 million
|Tropical diseases (6)
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| Note: Other causes of death include maternal and perinatal conditions (5.2%), nutritional deficiencies (0.9%),
noncommunicable conditions (58.8%), and injuries (9.1%).
A pandemic (or global epidemic) is a disease that affects people over an extensive geographical area.
With most new infectious diseases, some human action is involved, changing the environment so that an existing microbe can take up residence in a new niche. When that happens, a pathogen that had been confined to a remote habitat appears in a new or wider region, or a microbe that had infected only animals suddenly begins to cause human disease.
Several human activities have led to the emergence and spread of new diseases, see also Globalization and Disease:
Abū Alī ibn Sīnā (Avicenna) discovered the contagious nature of infectious diseases in the early 11th century. He introduced quarantine as a means of limiting the spread of contagious and infectious diseases in The Canon of Medicine, circa 1020. He also stated that bodily secretion is contaminated by foul foreign earthly bodies before being infected, but he did not view them as primary causes of disease.
When the Black Death bubonic plague reached al-Andalus in the 14th century, Ibn Khatima and Ibn al-Khatib hypothesized that infectious diseases are caused by "contagious entities" which enter the human body. Such ideas became more popular in Europe during the renaissance, particularly through the writing of the Italian monk Girolamo Fracastoro.
Anton van Leeuwenhoek (1632-1723) advanced the science of microscopy by being the first to observe microorganisms, allowing for easy visualization of bacteria.
Louis Pasteur proved beyond doubt that certain diseases are caused by infectious agents, and developed a vaccine for rabies.
Robert Koch, provided the study of infectious diseases with a scientific basis known as Koch's postulates.
Edward Jenner, Jonas Salk and Albert Sabin developed effective vaccines for smallpox and polio, which would later result in the eradication and near-eradication of these diseases, respectively.
Alexander Fleming discovered the world's first antibiotic Penicillin.
Gerhard Domagk developed Sulphonamides, the first broad spectrum synthetic antibacterial drugs.
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Fin Art in the Winter
Next time you're at Kite Hill or the beach, stroll over to see a unique art work, "The Fin Project: From Swords to Plowshares." Made from submarine fins, this sculptural installation is arranged to represent a pod of whales. Dedicated in 1998, this art work was created by John T. Young. It has sparked a diverse mix of comments and interpretations from park visitors. Find "Fin Art" on the eastern foot of Sand Point Head (Kite Hill), just north of the swimming beach. Just a side note: Because of this art project, many people have wondered if Naval Station Puget Sound ever was a submarine port. This is one side that of the peninsula's history that never took form.
For more on "The Fin Project, "see a description from the Office of Arts & Cultural Affairs http://www.seattle.gov/arts/publicart/permanent.asp?view=2&img=0&cat=1&item=11.
In June 2007, the newest piece of public art was unveiled in Magnuson
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baseline through the placement of twelve, 6-foot-high limestone columns.
The installation, called "Straight Shot," features holes bored
through each column that allows visitors to experience what a surveyor
does. Since closure of Naval Air Station - Seattle public and private
surveyors have used the baseline to verify and calibrate their equipment.
The location of the baseline follows the western edge of the main air
station runway. The Office of Arts & Cultural Affairs and Seattle
Public Utilities commissioned the work in 2005. A surveyors association
and a private survey-equipment company also contributed.
For more on "Straight Shot, "see a description from the Office of Arts & Cultural Affairs http://seattle.gov/arts/publicart/permanent.asp?cat=6&view=2&img=0&item=9.
NOTE: Due to security concerns, access to NOAA and the Art Walk has been restricted. Photo ID is required to enter (such as a student ID, state driver's license, etc.). All visitors must use NOAA's main access road and stop at the security guard station for access. NOAA's main gate is open Monday-Friday, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Visitors can walk in (but cannot drive in) to Art Walk and Sound Garden. Backpacks will be searched; picnic baskets and other large containers are not allowed. NOAA's back gate is open as well Monday-Friday, 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m., so visitors can pass between NOAA property and Magnuson Park. No access on weekends. For more information, contact NOAA site facility manager at (206) 526-6163 or view NOAA's website at http://www.wrc.noaa.gov/
Some art you can hear as well as see. One such piece is part of a public art walk on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) campus, at the northern end of Sand Point Peninsula. While not part of Warren G. Magnuson Park, the NOAA art walk is popular with many park visitors. A half-mile trail gives access to all artworks on the NOAA property.
NOAA's art collection includes six outdoor artworks by nationally recognized
artists. Of special interest is the "Sound Garden," located
atop a knoll near NOAA's boundary with Warren G. Magnuson Park. This
installation features pipes that generate muted tones, with the pitch
dependent on the direction and velocity of the wind. In all, the NOAA
art collection pleases the eye, challenges the mind and enchants the
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For millenials, it's simply not enough to incorporate technology into your brand — brands must now use technology to innovate in ways that make their customer's experience seamless.
In order to stay ahead of the competition, brands must embrace technology that provides a useful interaction with their products or services.
Millenials use the mantra, "useful is the new cool," and millennial parents take it one step further — "useful is the new essential."
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Dust is a general name for minute solid particles with diameters less than 500 micrometers. Dust occurs in the atmosphere from various sources such as soil dust lifted up by wind, volcanic eruptions, and pollution. Dust in homes, offices, and other human environments consists of human skin cells, plant pollen, human and animal hairs, textile fibers, paper fibers, minerals from outdoor soil, and many other materials which may be found in the local environment.
The quantity and composition of house dust varies greatly with seasonal and environmental factors such as the surroundings, exchange of outside air, age of the house, building materials and their condition, and the quantity of furniture and carpets, as well as their state of preservation. It varies further with ventilation and heating systems, cleaning habits, activities of the occupants or users of a room, etc. House dust consists of inorganic and organic matter, yet the relative proportions of these components may vary considerably. "House dust" from kindergartens often consists almost completely of inorganic materials such as sand, loam, and clay from sand pits. On the other hand, house dust from residences of animal owners with worn out carpets may consist nearly completely of organic material. The proportion of organic matter in 318 house dust samples was found to vary between <5% and >95% (Butte and Walker, 1994). Fergusson et al. (1986) reported the organic content of house dust from 11 homes in Christchurch, New Zealand, to be within the range from 25.7% to 56.5%. Floor dust from seven Danish offices had a mean organic fraction of 33% (Mølhave et al., 2000).
According to the German Environmental Survey, approximately 6 mg/m²/day of house dust is formed in private households, depending primarily on the amount of time spent at home. Nearly 1000 dust particles per square centimeter settle on domestic surfaces every hour. Some dust consists of human skin; it is estimated that the entire outer layer of skin is shed every day or two at a rate of 7 million skin flakes per minute, which corresponds to a mass emission rate of about 20 mg/minute. "Dust bunnies" are little clumps of fluff that form when sufficient dust accumulates.
House dust mites are on all surfaces and even suspended in air. Dust mites feed on minute particles of organic matter, the main constituent of house dust. They excrete enzymes to digest dust particles; these enzymes and their feces, in turn, become part of house dust and can provoke allergic reactions in humans. Dust mites flourish in the fibres of bedding, furniture, and carpets.
On the other hand the hygiene hypothesis suggests that the modern obsession with cleanliness may be counterproductive; that it may in fact encourage the development of health conditions including hay fever and asthma.
Coal dust is responsible for the lung disease known as Pneumoconiosis, including black lung disease, which occurs among coal miners. This danger has resulted in a number of laws (only some being passed) regulating environmental standards for working conditions.
The particles that make up house dust can easily become airborne, so care must be exercised when removing dust, as the activity intended to sanitize or remove dust may make it airborne. The device being used traps the dust; however, some may become airborne and come to settle in the cleaner's lungs, thus making the activity somewhat hazardous. Another way to repel dust is with some kind of electrical charge .
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Cisco has hired Barclays Plc to sell its Linksys wireless home router unit according to Bloomberg.
Barclays is also advising Google on the sale of its Motorola Home Business, which sells set-top boxes and cable TV equipment.
Cisco bought the Linksys business for $500 million in 2003. It's not expected to fetch anywhere near that because it's a mature low-margin business.
Linksys quality also suffered under Cisco's administration. Seeking Alpha says Linksys under Cisco repeatedly violated the open source General Public License (GPL).
Bloomberg figures TV makers might be interested. Seeking Alpha, which would like to see the back of Cisco CEO John Chambers, suggests Belkin.
In a turnabout Cisco now wants out of the consumer business to focus IBM-like on corporate software and technology services. It killed its Flip camera business last year because of overwhelming smartphone competition.
It also owns Scientific Atlanta set-top boxes, which it bought for $5.2 billion in 2006, and in July bought NDS Group Ltd for $5 billion, Cisco's third-largest acquisition. NDS makes software for paid-television channels used by British Sky Broadcasting Group, Canal Plus and DirecTV.
Chambers said a few days ago that Cisco had gone too long without a major acquisition and didn't invest enough in the companies it acquired. He figured the lack of a major acquisition cost Cisco 1% on revenue. Figure a major acquisition would run about $10 billion or so.
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The 5th International DevOps Summit, co-located with 17th International Cloud Expo – being held November 3-5, 2015, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA – announces that its Call for Papers is open. Born out of proven success in agile development, cloud computing, and process automation, DevOps is a macro trend you cannot afford to miss. From showcase success stories from early adopters and web-scale businesses, DevOps is expanding to organizations of all sizes, including the world's largest enterprises – and delivering real results. Among the proven benefits, DevOps is corr...
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SYS-CON Events announced today that Secure Infrastructure & Services will exhibit at SYS-CON's 17th International Cloud Expo®, which will take place on November 3–5, 2015, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. Secure Infrastructure & Services (SIAS) is a managed services provider of cloud computing solutions for the IBM Power Systems market. The company helps mid-market firms built on IBM hardware platforms to deploy new levels of reliable and cost-effective computing and high availability solutions, leveraging the cloud and the benefits of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS...
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Today air travel is a minefield of delays, hassles and customer disappointment. Airlines struggle to revitalize the experience. GE and M2Mi will demonstrate practical examples of how IoT solutions are helping airlines bring back personalization, reduce trip time and improve reliability. In their session at @ThingsExpo, Shyam Varan Nath, Principal Architect with GE, and Dr. Sarah Cooper, M2Mi's VP Business Development and Engineering, will explore the IoT cloud-based platform technologies driving this change including privacy controls, data transparency and integration of real time context wi...
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This month we salute Making It Grow! host Rowland Alston, who will be live on his last program as fulltime host on June 26. Alston, who has guided the series for 18 years, will turn over hosting duties to Amanda McNulty, but will continue to provide monthly segments and serve as backup host. We will miss his ability to entertain and educate viewers with his humor and vast knowledge of horticulture, and we thank him for his invaluable contribution to ETV and the promotion of our state!
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Also in June, we welcome the Antiques Roadshow crew to Myrtle Beach for a full day of taping professional appraisals. Three hour-long programs from this visit will air as part of the Antiques Roadshow 2013 season, so stay tuned to see what they find!
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SUPA (Studio Upsun* in Pennsylvania) is an initiative designed to provide opportunities to engage in in-depth investigations of choreographic practices. The SUPA workshops are a place for intensive study of contemporary choreographic methods and modes of making with some of the most influential and challenging artists working today. Each week-long SUPA session is designed to expose, challenge and refine the participants' beliefs about choreography and the medium of movement. SUPA aims to stimulate and offer opportunities for sustained and meaningful engagement by investigating choreography itself, and its relation to teaching and other fields of endeavor. The SUPA faculty consists of rigorous choreographers of note who are interested in teaching and its relationship to making. Each workshop is limited to 10 people to ensure a dynamic artistic community and maximize opportunities for close, detailed feedback.
SUPA is located on the campus of Wilson College in Chambersburg, Pa., 225 miles southwest of New York City and 90 miles northwest of Washington, D.C.
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What we do when we do the thing we do before we know what we are doing: Approaches to Creative Practice, Performance and Choreography with Jeanine Durning
Starting from a place where not-knowing is not a deficit but an active, creative and generative state, we will use this workshop to develop and cultivate a daily practice that will help support each individual's creative priorities, interests and inspirations. Using our questions as proposals for action, we will practice accepting material as it arises, and then honing our recognition of and responsiveness to that material. We will notice and locate the inherent structures in what we do and think and we will consider possibilities toward internally scoring these structures in daily performances. We will support these structures coming to form through fluidly developed strategies and tools for further immersion and then distance. These strategies include moving, writing, drawing, scoring, directing, watching, showing, sharing, listening, and discussing. Throughout the process, we'll generate then reconsider, translate then reinterpret: action, image and content as they relate to personal interest, history and perception, and in turn, as these relate to extant themes, structures and events. At the core of the workshop is the interest and insistence on what cannot be predetermined, and a willingness to think/move/imagine in unanticipated directions.
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Jeanine has an ongoing teaching practice, facilitating classes in movement and choreographic practices, and is regularly invited to advise the work of other makers. More recently, she has been on faculty at SNDO and MTD (Amsterdam Theaterschool), HZT (Inter-University Centre for Dance- Berlin), Laboratory for Contemporary Dance Practice (Vaganova Academy, St. Petersburg), NYU Tisch School of the Arts and has co-taught a workshop on choreographic scoring with Forsythe Company member Liz Waterhouse as part of the German Dance Education Biennale (Frankfurt).
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A rally outside the Wisconsin State Capitol in Madison.
Liberals had every reason to burst with optimism as the November election results began to set in. Not only did Democrats hold on to the White House, but they also won major Senate battles. In battleground states like Ohio, Florida, and Wisconsin, a majority of voters chose more progressive visions for the future in both the presidential and Senate races. You might assume that this would have repercussions at the state level too—that these moderate-to-progressive states would work with the federal government in forging a more liberal set of policies. But you'd be wrong.
The GOP emerged from November 6 controlling both legislative chambers in 26 states—the same number of states it controlled after the 2010 Tea Party revolution. Most surprising: In seven states that went for Barack Obama, Republicans still hold both the governor's office and at least one chamber, and they are showing no signs that the voters' split decision will keep them from pushing the extreme agendas that we've seen since 2010.
Nationally, of course, the party has been moving rightward for a long time. But it's only been over the past couple of years that state-level Republicans have abandoned their state-specific political cultures for hardcore conservatism. When the Tea Party gave the GOP an unprecedented number of legislative majorities in 2010, it also brought a national agenda to the state capitals. No longer were Republican legislators in Wisconsin or Ohio acting more moderate than those in Texas or South Carolina. Newly elected conservative lawmakers drew on "model legislation" concocted by pro-corporate, right-wing groups like the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC). On the most consequential of state-level debates—over budgets—the terms of negotiation were often dictated by Grover Norquist's Americans for Tax Reform.
To keep the momentum going in 2012, groups like the Republican State Leadership Committee channeled enormous amounts of money into state races. Last year, the group raised more than $25 million; its Democratic counterpart raised less than $6 million. Gerrymandering also helped; capturing so many legislatures in 2010 meant the party could draw new districts designed to maximize GOP seats. Lawmakers in "safe" Republican districts, though, are only safe in general elections; they're not immune to primary challenges from the right. So rather than representing the majority views of their constituents, even centrist Republican lawmakers often feel compelled to vote the Tea Party line to avoid being "primaried" by wealthy groups such as Norquist's.
Regional differences used to mean that Republicans in different states had different agendas. Now, opposition to the Affordable Care Act, cuts-only approaches to budget shortfalls, anti-union "right to work" laws, and voting restrictions have become priorities for Republican lawmakers not only in deep-red states but in purple ones like Wisconsin and Ohio. In Michigan, a state that was long home to the nation's most powerful union, the United Auto Workers, Republicans rammed through right-to-work legislation designed to cripple organized labor—just weeks after voters went for Obama by nine points. The law passed was practically identical to a model bill from ALEC. In Pennsylvania, easily carried by Obama (and even more easily won by Democratic Senator Bob Casey), Governor Tom Corbett is continuing to slash social safety-net programs. It looks like Corbett, ignoring the state's high levels of urban and rural poverty, will join governors in South Carolina, Texas, and other deep-red states in opposing Medicaid expansion.
Perhaps most jarring was what happened in Wisconsin, home of the progressive movement and one of the nation's consistent leaders in voter turnout. In 2011, Republican legislators passed a voter-ID law that state courts ruled unconstitutional. Now, the Republican state assembly leader has said that in addition to finding a new version of the measure that courts would approve, he would also consider a constitutional amendment to allow for the more stringent measure. Meanwhile, the senate leader, also a Republican, has called for replacing the state's Government Accountability Board, a nonpartisan panel of retired judges that runs elections, with partisan officials who can make decisions more favorable to GOP interests. This sort of thing would be no surprise in, say, Alabama, but it's startling in a state that Obama won by seven points and that elected liberal Democrat Tammy Baldwin, making her the first openly gay U.S. senator. No matter: Republicans have both house chambers, along with Governor Scott Walker, the Tea Party favorite, so they're going full-speed ahead.
While everyone tends to focus on Washington, it's state legislatures that decide on many of the most controversial public policies, from voting procedures and collective-bargaining rights to abortion access and health care; the success of Obamacare will partly come down to which states choose to be willing participants in the program. Republicans understand this well; GOP strategists, funders, and policymakers have increasingly focused on state legislatures. By creating a nationwide agenda for the chambers they dominate, conservatives have effectively spread policies that otherwise would only take root in red states. That means that when progressives wake up to this reality, they'll find that the most pressing fights against right-wing policy must be waged in the states—including those long considered moderate.
Fri, 2013-02-01 13:27
Obama won because of overwhelming support in urban areas. In state elections, representative and senate districts are established across the state. There is no "winner take all" vote. The fact that Republicans control a large number of state legislatures reflects the philosophies of the state, not just the urban areas that won the state for Obama. This fact is the most compelling argument for Electoral College votes by Congressional districts, an argument that gets the presidential elections back to the intent of the Constitution, namely that large populous ares do not control the election; that the election fairly represents the country as a whole.
Fri, 2013-02-01 14:24
brunnegd is right. But we don't need to apportion electoral college votes by Congressional districts in order to weight votes appropriately! The framers already DID this! All we need to do is go back to the framers "original intent," which is to give "urban" voters 3/5 of the vote in order to apportion vote power to the RIGHT Americans...
Sat, 2013-02-02 16:36
brunnedg seems to think that winning big patches of geographical space is more important than winning the most votes of actual humans. I call this the "one tumbleweed, one vote" philosophy. Who cares who the majority of people prefer, right, especially if they're from those evil urban areas. The only votes that should matter apparently are someone's idea of real 'mericans, you know, rural and exurban voters. Typical Republican attempt to override popular will. Hey, why not turn back 2 centuries and limit the franchise to wealthy white males? Then the GOP would win. Shameless nonsense.
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Posted 03 November 2012 - 21:25
Posted 03 November 2012 - 21:36
Well I completely re-ripped one CD and yet it's still appearing with the same old metadata and lacks album art, so I think the previous data was being cached. I also already rewrote the id3 tags for the songs with missing art (forgot to mention that) before and that didn't work.
Run it through foobar2000 and use the rebuild function and rewrite the id3 tag. It'll probably work after that.
Posted 03 November 2012 - 22:06
Posted 03 November 2012 - 22:58
Man, if I knew, I'd tell you I've done everything I can think of. I fixed the data and art that were showing up incorrectly, I re-ripped one of the albums completely, I removed my collection from my music library, I changed the folder my MicroSD card is mounted to and added the new folder to the library, etc. The app is caching the data from the songs somewhere, because by re-ripping at a different bitrate I created brand new files, and I also slightly changed some of the metadata so it was different from last time.
In my case, it totally went to town on my music. Showed up losts of different metadata when it was perfectly fine on my PC through Zune, WMP.
I guess it updated the data as that setting was ticked on Xbox Music but there was nothing wrong with the metadata before hand. I'll have to double check but sure all tags were perfect.
So, how do you clear the cache metadata before I try and fix what it's showing somehow?
Posted 03 November 2012 - 23:25
Posted 04 November 2012 - 03:49
Nope, they're not. They even show up fine in explorer on the desktop in Windows RT.
Check to see if those songs are tagged with id3 v2.4
MS software doesn't support ID3 2.4 tags (windows explorer, WMP, and zune don't anyway, I haven't used xbox music but I suspect it doesn't either).
Posted 04 November 2012 - 13:01
Posted 04 November 2012 - 13:12
The app is caching the data from the songs somewhere,
Posted 04 November 2012 - 14:46
The RT app doesn't use the same database as the desktop. It builds a new one in protected storage. Same goes for artwork - it downloads it again. You could try uninstalling the app and re-downloading it from the store.
They really need to get on the stick with their in-house apps. They're lousy.
Posted 04 November 2012 - 16:05
Do you think deleting all the files in that folder would cause the app/search indexer to look at the files again for their data when I add the folder back to my music library?
If you want to know, it's database is located at : {User}\AppData\Local\Packages\Microsoft.ZuneMusic_8wekyb3d8bbwe\LocalState\Database as an edb file.
As far as I know, all WinRT music applications get their metadata and album art from querying the Window Search Indexer, so whatever happens you'll need to make sure that it can index the tags you're using properly. And of course, the Windows Search Indexer has a habit of routinely just not indexing some files for no reason in particular.
Posted 04 November 2012 - 16:27
Do you think deleting all the files in that folder would cause the app/search indexer to look at the files again for their data when I add the folder back to my music library?
Has anyone tried an alternative music player from the store that they can recommend?
Posted 04 November 2012 - 16:35
The one in my signature I made - it wasn't designed as a music player per sé but people are using it as such over Xbox Music, so your mileage may vary. There's no ads, but it doesn't play DRM'd files or open playlists either. Unfortunately I'd say the metadata pick up would probably be exactly the same though, because we both rely on the Windows Search Indexer to give us all that data quickly (which is frankly the only way to do it without waiting a very long time to manually scan all your files). It should at the least perform a bit better though.


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I found W8 to be unstable, especially the networking code which takes about 100x longer to connect.
Welcome to W8 is buggy club.
Posted 08 November 2012 - 14:55
I wonder if anyone else has come across this: When copying all my flacs from Win8 to my Win7, I notice my Win8 computer memory usage spiked to 97% and slowed to a crawl. The Win7 is ok. Both have 16GB of ram.
poolmon.exe shows the tag wfpn is the culprit. Doing a findstr shows that netio.sys is causing the problem. I restarted all the network services but the ram usage is still 97%. Only a reboot will solve this problem.
The Realtek driver is update for Win8. It's consistently reproducible.
Posted 08 November 2012 - 15:20
Hi sspj,
I have exact the same issue - when copying big files around LAN, torrents,.. Win8 memory usage constantly grows to 3.8GB (total ram is 4GB) and machine starts to crawl. Only restart helps. I used the same technique with poolmon.exe (http://msdn.microsof...v=vs.85%29.aspx). The problem is with non-paged pool that grows all the time. The driver tag find by poolmon is "Wfpn", findstr finds "netio.sys"... this is the part of Win8 core (MS actually wrote the [bad] code..)
My machine is HP Pavilion dv7 laptop. With Win7 it worked like a charm..no memory leaks. I'll probably switch back to Win7...Win8 disappointed me..
Anyone knows how to inform MS about that issue?
Posted 09 November 2012 - 15:00
Might be better to get HP to push out decently coded Win8 drivers, because in all likeliness it will be your driver, not Windows
Posted 09 November 2012 - 16:10
I've tried two options with updating Realtek Gigabit Ethernet LAN drivers:
1. install Win7 drivers (Win8 still not supported) from HP official support site --> memory leak remains
2. install Win8 Realtek latest drivers --> memory leak remains
I've also disabled LAN interface and tried Wlan only --> still memory leak
What else can I do?
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