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Could self-healing roads mean the end of roadworks?
Self-healing asphalt that contains steel fibres which conduct once heated could be the solution to cracks and potholes in roads, scientists have claimed.
Researchers in the Netherlands have already created several of the so-called self-healing roads, which have small pieces of steel that, once heated by an induction machine, are capable of closing cracks without any further help.
The system has already been tested on 12 roads in the country, one of which has been open to the public since 2010, with all 12 roads tested still in perfect condition.
The researchers from Delft University are also looking to utilise the new material in road surfaces for other means and have suggested the steel fibres could also be used to carry information or an electric current, which could then be used to charge electric cars.
The scientists have said they are looking into a technique whereby electric cars gain a small amount of charge when sat at red traffic lights.
In cost terms, the researchers also believe that while it would be more expensive to manufacture the self-healing surfaces, the removal of the need for maintenance could save millions of pounds in roadwork expenses, as well as hundreds of hours of labour for workers.


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My wife came through with an awesome birthday present for me this year, a 3 month subscription to Lootcrate. Each month you get a mystery box of filled with wholesome nerdness. Each month has a theme. This month it was classic Transformers, not Michael Bay style.
It came with:
- a super cool Transformers t-shirt that I have never seen before- Marty McPrime, a transforming DeLorean
- A Transformer Hexbug
- A collectible Transformer figure
- Stickers
- An MLG Sweatband
- other stuff
The worst part about this gift is that now I have to come up with something equally as cool for her birthday next month. Anyone have any suggestions?

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When I heard about the novel PUSH and its subject matter (poverty, incest, illiteracy, obesity) I simply had no desire to read it. Certain it would be another negative account of the African-American experience, I decidedly moved on in hopes of more uplifting material.
But then I heard an interview on NPR about PUSH's upcoming film adaptation Precious. And subsequently read the New York Time's feature The Audacity of Precious. Then there were the raves from the critics at the Festival de Cannes and Sundance. And of course the interviews with PUSH's author Sapphire. From these varied sources, I gathered PUSH was an emotionally difficult and complex work that warranted a reading. I wanted to find out just how all of this raw, wretched material could possibly transmute into something so emotionally grand.
One would have to be obese to take on the full figure of humanity, and PUSH's main character Precious consumes us all in both our glory and our horrifying shame. Precious embodies societal contradiction, and it is to author and poet Sapphire's credit that we grow to love this hugely unappealing, illiterate, indigent, pregnant girl.
PUSH is beyond tough and has been called "relentless", "brutal" and "redemptive". Call it what you will, but PUSH is one of the most difficult pieces of work I have ever read. Intensely graphic, PUSH does much more than that with its in-your-face, hard-core details of incest, ignorance, and the struggle to survive.
To excerpt the book would be futile. This work is so contextual, that any citing would appear pornographic and nonsensical. It is not a pick-up-put-down piece. Though PUSH is written in splintered English and phonetic slang, Sapphire's words have been carefully selected and each carries its own penetrating weight. Through Precious's simple poetry it is clear she is not simple-minded. It is through this medium that Precious is recognized as a stand-in for anyone who we as a society are quick to dismiss.
While the back cover carries this quote, "A fascinating novel that may well find a place in the African-American literary canon…" there will be those who won't see its merit. It could easily be misunderstood. However, I feel PUSH is an important examination of prejudice on a grand scale. More importantly, PUSH reconstitutes our sense of understanding as we bear witness to the Precious flowering of potential under simple acts of kindness.
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Hello Everyone!
I'm excited to share another inspiration sample with you today for the Dies R Us Inspiration Blog team.
The new design team will begin sharing their gorgeous inspirations on the blog beginning tomorrow. Please be sure to pop in each day for awesome ideas/techniques/tips & tricks from this new team of very talented crafters.
Today I have a fun card that could be used for a variety of occasions.
I began by die cutting this beautiful Dee's Distinctively 'Lattice' from white card stock.
Actually, I also cut my Impression Obsession 'Lily Trio' from white card stock then proceeded in coloring the flowers using Spectrum Noir alcohol markers.
The Impression Obsession 'Songbird Branch' was first die cut from dark green card stock. Then I decided I wanted two different birds on the branch, so I die cut just the birds, once in red and once in light blue. A few little snips and Viola!
The scene needed grass in front of the lattice so I chose the Precious Marieke 'Grass Border'. I also felt it needed a bit of 'greenery' along the left side so I die cut a vine from the same dark green card stock as the songbird branch using the Memory Box 'Climbing Vine' die.
The only thing needed was a sentiment. I originally stamped and die cut this sentiment using a banner die but then didn't like how it looked. So I stamped it again and this time I die cut using one of the Tutti Designs 'Nesting Stitched Hearts'. PERFECT!!
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Nothing says "perfect day" like an afternoon being out in the summer sunshine. One problem, though—if you don't protect your face, after a few short weeks you'll wind up looking like last season's leather handbag.
The solution? Try out one of this season's three awesome hat trends. You'll look cool and keep your face safe, and (if you're anything like me!) you'll have a new way to extend the lifespan of your unwashed hair.
1. The Fedora
The fedora is the quintessential "cool girl" hat. Channel your inner hipster this summer and try one with a narrow brim and a solid ribbon—then treat yourself to a kale-based meal in Brooklyn.
__For a Day at the Beach:__Wear it with a simple monochrome bikini and a pair of classic Wayfarers. For a real twist, try matching the ribbon on your fedora with your bathing suit, and wear glasses in a complementary shade.
__For a day in the city:__Throw on your fedora with a printed romper and a low, messy bun. Perfect for running around or lying in the park!
2. The Straw Hat
Nothing feels more glamorous than lying in a lounge chair on the sand in an enormous straw hat. Think Marilyn Monroe, in all her buxom glory, circa 1954.
For a Day at the Beach: Pair this look with one of these vintage-inspired solid and striped bikinis and a pair of big black sunglasses.
For a Day in the City: Put on your floppy hat with a maxidress and a pair of strappy sandals for an effortless way to dress up your comfort-casual look
3. The Baseball Cap
These sporty classics aren't just for the boys! They popped up all over the spring 2014 runways, and now there are all kind of fashion-friendly styles for even the girliest of girly girls.
__For a Day at the Beach:__My personal favorite look is the classic-sports-team-cap over beach waves and a white string bikini. It's sexy, sporty, and feminine, not to mention perfect for keeping the sun out of your eyes during a game of beach volleyball!
For the City: Brighten up a pair of cutoff shorts and a white tank with a colorful baseball cap like this Kenzo one, and throw on a pair of tinted aviators to complete the look.
Which hat are you planning to try this summer? Check out some of our favorites (and some stylish pieces to wear them with) below!


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India became the top importer of Ukrainian wheat
The current season 2016/17 started in Ukraine with a record fast pace of grain exports, including wheat deliveries. At the same time, UkrAgroConsult estimates that Ukrainian wheat export availabilities will shrink by 7-8% in 2016/17 from the previous season in view of some crop decrease.
According to official statistics, wheat exports from Ukraine increased 7.7% compared to the same period of last season.
Ukrainian wheat exports went down in December. Ukrainian exporters supplied more wheat than last year. Nevertheless, Marina Sych, grain analyst of UkrAgroConsult, noted that wheat export potential of MY 2016/17 was almost 70% realized in the first half-year, whereas this percentage equaled 62% a year ago.
The main feature of the past year 2016 was strengthening of Ukrainian wheat's positions in the Indian market. In the first half of the season, India made it to becoming the top importer of wheat from Ukraine, having sidelined major global buyers such as Egypt, Indonesia, Bangladesh and Thailand.
Full version of the article is available to subscribers for weekly market report "Black Sea Grain & Oil" and "Online market review" by UkrAgroConsult.


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BoJack Horseman has its share of verbal jokes and barbs, but it's also chock-full of visual references and sight gags — and nowhere was that more apparent than in season 3's "Fish Out of Water." The Netflix animated comedy went underwater for a largely silent episode that saw the production team proving it could tell a story as emotional as it was hilarious as they documented BoJack's quiet struggle to both reunite a baby seahorse with his parent… and apologize to the director he'd gotten fired. We spoke to supervising director Mike Hollingsworth for a behind-the-scenes look at how the critically acclaimed episode came together.
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ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: What was your first reaction when you heard that this was happening?
MIKE HOLLINGSWORTH: It's kind of like, "Be careful what you wish for," because [show creator Raphael Bob-Waksberg] was like, "All right, you've asked for it, we're going underwater and it's going to be a silent episode." And that was initially a very daunting challenge to create a 25-minute episode with very little to no dialogue. But myself and my storyboarders Aaron Long and James Bowman, who were the main storyboarders on that episode, we're all just so heavily versed in the language of [animators] Tex Avery and Chuck Jones, and it was one of those situations where we ended up with too much material. We just had so much fun getting really cartoony. We always viewed this episode like "BoJack in Toontown," like in Who Framed Roger Rabbit?, which is kind of funny because he's a cartoon but he went to a cartoon-ier place with different rules, just like when Eddy Valiant headed through Toontown. I know when Raphael started out, his initial direction was a Lost in Translation thing, but then the storyboarders and I took that and mixed it with Roger Rabbit.
How was animating this episode different compared to the other episodes you guys worked on?
It was different in every way. First of all, it didn't fit into a slot in the schedule. It spread out over the whole season. We put a lot of love into it, and thankfully it worked out. Otherwise, we would have looked like real knuckleheads! But it was very different definitely all through the process, because when you're on a script-driven show, usually you "tell." But we were in a position where we had to show, not tell. We had to express all of BoJack's emotions and physically see the gears turning in his head rather than him going, "I'm confused, I don't know what to do next, should I turn left or right?" You had to see [it].
The rest of our shows are boarded like The Simpsons where there's a script and we board to the script. But this episode was boarded more like an episode of SpongeBob or Adventure Time, where the script lacked all that dialogue, so it was big blocks of descriptions of scenarios and these storyboarders and I acted out the whole episode and saw where we felt certain things weren't moving quick enough. We just really wanted to get to that baby [seahorse] as soon as possible. There was a lot of beats up top where BoJack was just exploring the world, which is all great, but you've got to get to that baby ASAP, as he is the real heart of the thing.
What about the design of the world? It doesn't look like the show viewers are used to.
We had so much fun with all of these fish. [Producer and animator] Lisa Hanawalt brings so much to the process. In our storyboards, we just had somewhat vague fish, and then Lisa Hanawalt and I just filled in this world with so many beautiful, awful characters. I put in internet celebrity blob fish. I was really excited about putting him in there. We figured out what kind of characters would be in there just by what kind of visual gag they lent themselves to. I love this moment where there's a celebrity octopus and he signs all kinds of autographs at once by just raising his leg and squirting ink on all of the headshots. We just figured out how to populate it by the gags that were coming to us as we were boarding it. As for the beautiful imagery, we have a terrific background department who figured out that whole underwater jumping around sequence that was so fun. It was hard restraining ourselves. We just wanted to make the whole episode bouncing around underwater because it was just so visually stunning. We could have probably done about 10 more minutes of that.
How much is in the script in terms of what creature everyone is? How do you know which characters are going to be an animal or a human?
Well, the main characters are cast generally if they're going to be this animal or that. But then there's the rest of the world and the environment that they're living in generally that the directors and storyboarders come up with the basic detail-oriented animal gags. I do have to say, I am the supervising director and I have a particular ability. Michael Jordan can slam-dunk, Joe Montana could throw touchdowns, and I consider myself the king of animal gags. Through my appreciation of the Muppets and Tex Avery, all I do is just think in animal gags constantly. I will take credit for the octopus squirting ink. I supervise the whole process of the show, but I just fill the show with as many animal gags as I can. Like in season 2 when they were in a '50s diner and one of the waiters was "Marlin Brando" and he was going "Stella!" That was a joke that I came up with and voiced. The first and last times our names will be mentioned in the same sentence.
Aside from Who Framed Roger Rabbit? and Lost in Translation, were there any other film or TV influences for the episode? Because it felt like there was some Chaplin and some Buster Keaton in there.
There's so many classic cartoon moments in that episode, including when the baby ingests some sugar and starts bouncing around wildly. That's lifted straight from Daffy Duck's first cartoon, "Porky's Duck Hunt." At the end of the cartoon, he starts bouncing around wildly and going, "Woo-hoo!" All of the animators are really influenced by Looney Tunes.
We wanted to have a little set piece that was an homage to Chaplin, one that was an homage to Keaton, but Raphael wanted to get away from directly referencing the silence aspect. He just wanted it to be what it was and for us not to directly point out what we were doing. Because when we were in that factory and it was falling apart, we were like, "BoKack could be hanging off the hands of some clocks like Harold Lloyd, or running around in the gears like Charlie Chaplin in Modern Time." He was like, "That may be a little too on the nose."
How did you approach balancing the cartoony-ness of the episode with the emotion that was also required?
It was really in the writing. The baby was so damn cute with those big beautiful eyes and that cute little nose and that little penis so it was really easy to love. We've been living with BoJack for three seasons now and he's a complex character. We had a lot of fun directing that episode but this character that Raphael has created, he easily does live in this world. This episode is a great example of it. But that thing that you're talking about, the combination of humor and the dramatic depression aspect of the show, that's pretty much in every episode. It's a real kind of departure for American animation. You never saw Mickey Mouse talking about how sad his upbringing was. You know he was probably one of 12, 15 kids and he probably didn't get that much attention from his parents. And he still hasn't married Minnie after all these years? He can't be too happy about that!
How involved is Raphael in the animation process?
We're so blessed to have a creator who brings such vision to everything. He's very involved in every step of the process. If you're a fan of BoJack and Raphael Bob-Wakesberg, you should read the text of every article that appears on screen because he writes all the text on websites and articles and cereal boxes. Some jokes are so funny but appear for a real split second. He just loves getting his hands into everything and we're very lucky for it.
Now that you have the designs and we've seen this world, might we return to the underwater world? Or was this a one-off for now?
Oh my god. It was a lot of work. How about this: Maybe let's go into the sky? We have birds too! That is not happening, but I'm pitching it to you. Let's go into the sky. It could just be BoJack falling for 25 minutes.
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PMQ China began more than 10 years ago inside PMQ's office in Oxford, MS. Now going to 3,000 pizza store operators around the country, PMQ China is the first and only pizza magazine dedicated to the pizza industry to publish entirely in Chinese. PMQ China provides industry news and market trends to pizza operators, food distributors, equipment suppliers and pizza professionals.
The magazine is published by Yvonne Liu (pictured here with PMQ Publisher Steve Green) from the PMQ China headquarters in Shanghai. Liu also organizes the Chinese Pizza Championships each year as part of the FHC food show each November in Shanghai.
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MTA Board votes to terminate LI Bus contractBy · Published in 2011
Following months of political maneuvering between Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano and the MTA over Nassau County bus service, which included a last-minute reprieve earlier this month, the authority's board has voted to terminate its agreement with the county at the end of the year. Barring any unforeseen circumstances, the MTA will, after 40 years, cease operating the county's bus service following a bitter dispute over payments.
Board members, according to numerous reports over the past few months, are incensed at the county — one of the richest in the state — for its failure to fund transit, and those who spoke with reporters did not mince their words. "To take care of the riders of Nassau County, the MTA has provided $140 million, which has not been provided to the riders of Suffolk County, Westchester County, Dutchess County, Rockland County, Orange County, Putnam County and the City of New York for the bus systems that we took over," Mitchell Pally, an MTA board member and Suffolk County resident said. "I think it's clear to say that the only people who have been protecting the riders for the last 10 years in Nassau County is this board, not Nassau County."
This vote comes after months of public wrangling between Mangano and the MTA, and it has not been a good experience for Long Island Bus riders. When the MTA first asked Nassau County to contribute to bus service, Mangano essentially called for Jay Walder's resignation. The county, it seems, wanted its bus service without paying for it. After the MTA voted to terminate service this month, state representatives pushed through a plan in Albany to siphon some state capital funds to cover operating costs for the remainder of the year. Now the deal will be dead come December 31.
Mangano, of course, tried his typical appeal to the "bloated bureaucracy." It might ring true with partisan voters, but it's an empty threat considering the state of Long Island Bus funding. "It's a sad day in America when a government agency such as the MTA chooses to maintain its bloated bureaucracy over the services it is charged to provide its residents," he said. "Because the MTA has failed taxpayers time and time again, Nassau County will move forward with a public-private partnership that maintains bus service without demanding an additional $26 million from taxpayers. The MTA's monopoly over transportation in Nassau County ends now."
Of course, one might argue that it is a sad day in America with government officials want other county's taxpayers to foot the bill for $26 million worth of bus service for someone else's residents. One could say it is a sad day when zeroing out Nassau County's financial reserves on the backs of bus riders becomes a political game. Nassau County, remember, contributed just $9.1 million toward the $140 million it costs to operate the county's bus system, and the remainder has to come out of someone else's pocket.
With the vote today, the MTA is being more than generous with Nassau County. The contract requires just 60 days' notice of termination, but the board is giving the county an extra eight months to finalize privatization plans. Nassau County has been working toward a private solution since early fall, but no concrete proposals have materialized. County officials still maintain they can find a carrier to provide the same comprehensive bus service at lower costs than the MTA does, but my gut feeling is that the private solution will lead to numerous cuts of unprofitable routes or more pressure on Nassau County to pony up for transit service.
While I hate to draw too many sweeping conclusions from this saga, it's hard not to see Nassau County's maneuverings as indicative of transit policy throughout New York. Politicians want more and better service on the one hand, and they want to contribute fewer and fewer dollars to the operating costs on the other. The people who end up suffering the most are the riders who can least afford it.
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Good. Serves them right. They wanted bus service without paying for it, having the rest of us pay for them. They want a private company to come in? Have at it, Nassau County. You thought the MTA raised fares and lowered service? Wait till you see a company whose objective is to turn a profit come in. And have fun finding one who will want to waste time and money on this.
We have been experiencing similar issues here in Pennsylvania and more specifically Pittsburgh. Here it has been just a political football game where the biggest losers are the riders. Many media outlets slant stories to paint our transit agency so poorly by lies that about 90% of the population want to see the system privatized. The big problem is if they privatize our Port Authority, the biggest fare increases and worst service cuts would occur.
I think a better solution is to increase the County's share in funding to counteract the reduced state funding. Also, the funding sources need to be dedicated and growing with the transit costs. Most importantly, riders need to pressure their lawmakers to adequately fund transit!
So Nassau will privatize. Do they contract to the MTA for just operations, or the whole thing… including buses, garages, etc? I'm wondering what infrastructure/capital costs the county or private company will need to attend to. Thoughts of a common fare collection will be interesting too. The Atlantic Beach Bridge in Nassau County which crosses to the Rockaway Peninsula doesn't even take E-ZPass.
E-ZPass is not an MTA entity. Any and very many multi-state tolling authorities use it.
Well, it's about time. These loonies are going to have to learn that you're going to have to pay the piper; I say, good riddance. The MTA has many more important things to fund than Long Island Bus.
Funny nobody complains when taxpayers fund BILLIONS of dollars toward "failing" banks and auto companies, but everybody gets pissed about funding bus service for the poorest citizens in an otherwise wealthy county. Welcome thru the looking glass, Alice. Bankers get away with robbing everyone blind, but it's those poor day-workers riding the bus that are sending us all to the poorhouse.
well, lots of people complain when the fatcats get their bailouts, but i certainly agree that it's the poor who get the screw, and the blame. it's sickening. but any attempt to hold the actually responsible parties responsible will be hit immediately with rhetoric about 'socialism'. task #1 is to blast through the corporate/rightwing media machine and get the story of working people onto the airwaves. (see what Peter says below.)
I live in Nassau and News12 Long Island news will spend more time talking about Madden NFL and Lindsey Lohan then this issue.
I am curious to see the economic impact in Nassau in the coming years because of this. Our roads during rush hour are bumper to bumper and now with reduced and probably poorly performing bus service, I wonder how this change will effect traffic and local businesses along those routes.
I am willing to bet businesses will see a reduction in revenue, our roads will get busier, less parking spaces, more neighborhood traffic noise thanks to increased traffic.
Nassau county residents voted Ed Mangano in. He is a weasel and voters wanted this, let them have it.
This will prove once & for all that PRIVATISATION OF A GOVERNMENT SERVICE DOESN'T WORK!
Tell me what opperator would be foolish enough to take on Long Island bus operations based on what is currently known?
This may sound like something way out in left field, but is the actual goal to KILL the transit system by hook or by crook?
Maybe fans of Atlas Shrugged? If any actually have the capital to take on such an operation, that is….
What's odd about the graph is that it shows "funding" as stictly a measure of cash subsidy. What's the farebox revenue like on these systems? Also, I bet if Nassau could apply payroll tax revenue genrated in Nassau to pay for the system, you might get a deal to keep it in place there and fund up the system.
This (PDF) may give you some idea.
I'd be curious to see where that payroll tax even goes. Obviously Nassau has LIRR and the buses (for now), but that doesn't mean there isn't an inflow of revenue from NYC payroll taxes to the suburban railroads and bus systems.
Anyone who thinks that a public agency is more efficient than a private company is a moron. I deal with the MTA on a regular basis, and also deal with private bus companies that operate fixed route bus service in other cities. The difference in attitude is like night and day. Private companies are forced to innovate and remain competitive, public agencies are beholden to numerous political constituencies, not what their costs are. Managano is right – the MTA is a bloated bureaucracy with excessive layers of management and a bunch of fat lazy overpaid unionized drivers and mechanics. Privatization will save money and provide better service.
Many times, these private companies receive government subsidies to operate. For example, NJT (or just NJ) has a public/private partnership with many such companies, Lakeland and Academy for example. Can you reveal the names of the private operators?
It could just as easily be the other way around: the privatization fans are morons (okay, I don't think that, but at least you could make that case). Private companies have two rather large disadvantages over public agencies: (1) they have to pay federal and state income taxes and, more importantly, (2) they have far higher financing expenses, that are not tax-free but are much riskier because there is no government behind them to bail them out. Of course, this is why public authorities exist in the first place; it was hoped they'd meld the advantages of both systems. And sorry, but a private company with a transit franchise may have an incentive to help the bottom line, but they don't have an incentive to innovate against competition because by definition they probably don't have competitors.
None of that is to say privatization can't work, but it's certainly not a magic bullet, and definitely has no inherent efficiency advantage.
Meh. There are plenty of efficient state-owned companies: the national railways of Germany, France, Sweden, Finland, Belgium, Spain, South Korea, China, Russia, and especially Switzerland; the municipal subways of Japan and Russia; the regional rail agencies of the German-speaking countries and Scandinavia; the nominally-private-but-still-majority-state-owned subways in Hong Kong and Singapore; and the nominally-private-but-still-fully-state-owned subway in Tokyo and the railways of Kyushu, Shikoku, and Hokkaido.
It doesn't mean public is always better than private. There are certain problems with public agencies, especially in Japan, that privatization solved – namely, some overstaffing, and the construction of low-performing lines for political reasons. The overstaffing in the US could be partly fixed with privatization, but much of it is mandated by the FRA, and therefore would force wholesale regulatory reform anyway. Unfortunately, the contracts offered by agencies seeking to privatize, such as Caltrain, often set the staffing levels in stone, leaving private operators with no way to reduce operating costs except underpay employees.
Even DB might be described as "nominally-private-but-still-fully-state-owned," right?
DB and SNCF are fully public, but act increasingly like private entities, complete with not caring too much about regional service, trying to use their government connections to get a monopoly on home services, competing for contracts abroad, and not cooperating on transcontinental freight service. They're increasingly HSR companies with some side businesses, especially SNCF.
If Nassau wants to play games, then the MTA should play them back. If the MTA were vindictive, Nassau County would right now be receiving a bill for the Long Island Rail Road. Play a game of chicken with Mangano. Make him cut the LIRR, or contradict himself. At the least, the MTA should make it's Nassau trains make more stops in the City to both irritate the county's riders and make the LIRR more useful for people in the City.
The MTA is going to get slammed in the press for this anyway, so why not go all out.
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Jusuf Isak (1928-2009): Indonesian socialist journalist and publisher
By Max Lane, in Jakarta
Watching Jusuf Isak's body wrapped in white linen being passed down to his sons, standing deep in the grave dug in Java's rich, red muddy soil, was like watching life itself being buried, for Jusuf was somebody who never stopped living life to the full, to the very last moment. He died on August 15, aged 81.
Despite suffering with a heart condition, he could not stop working. Only the day before he died, he was invited to be the main resource person at a seminar organised by the weekly Tempo magazine to discuss the life and ideas of Njoto, one of the leaders of the Indonesian Communist Party (PKI) who was murdered in General Suharto's mass anti-leftist purge in 1965 and whom Jusuf knew well. Jusuf was there at the centre of the seminar until early evening. He was scheduled to meet a delegation of left-wing activists and intellectuals the next morning.
In the weeks before he died, he was working on manuscripts to be published by Hasta Mitra, the publishing company he had helped form in 1980. Hasta Mitra, which now has a reputation for quality publishing, was run by Jusuf, with one assistant, Subowo, out of a 1.5- by 4-metre windowless office at the back of his home. His front living room became the site of thousands of discussions with leftist activists and intellectuals from around the world and from around Indonesia.
Jusuf began work as a very young journalist during the period of the revolutionary struggle against Dutch colonial rule (1945-50). He had learned Indonesian for the first time in 1942, having been brought up in a Dutchified home. He read widely in English and Dutch after 1942, "borrowing" the books a cousin was able to retrieve from the abandoned homes of the Dutch elite who had fled the March 1942 Japanese invasion. He was first aligned to the pro-Western social-democratic Socialist Party of Indonesia (PSI) but was later won to radical socialism through the ideas of Sukarno, Indonesia's first president, who was deposed from power by General Suharto in 1965 (though formally remained president until 1967).
In the 1950s Jusuf was one of the youngest editors of a major daily, but was soon in conflict with the owner as he took the paper in a more left-wing direction. After leaving this paper, he was elected to office-bearer positions in the Indonesian Journalists Association and eventually became the secretary-general of the Asia Africa Journalists Association (AAJA). In this position, he travelled throughout Africa, Asia and Latin America, including Cuba, advocating journalists act in solidarity with the national liberation movements of the Third World. In Indonesia, he played a leading role in the campaign to convince journalists to support the struggle for socialism.
Jusuf was in and out of the army's detention centres during 1965-68, when Suharto's army was implementing its systematic arrest, torture and murder of the left. At least 1 million people are believed to have been killed and hundreds of thousands arrested during that period. Another 20,000 were kept in prison until 1978-79, including Jusuf. He was released in 1978.
He played a key role — explicitly acknowledged by former US president Jimmy Carter in his preface to a recent book on the Suharto years — in convincing the US government to press Suharto to release the prisoners on Buru Island. They came out in 1979. After his own release, Jusuf had the opportunity to discuss the issue with US officials. He had the knack of being able to find the wavelength of almost anybody he spoke to and win them over. He was famous in Salemba prison in Jakarta for having being able to do this even with the prison block commandant.
After the novelist Pramoedya Ananta Toer and another journalist, Hasyim Rachman, were released from Buru Island and had returned to Jakarta, the three men joined forces and set up the publishing company, Hasta Mitra, in defiance of the Suharto dictatorship's ban on former political prisoners being involved in publishing. They quickly moved to publish Pramoedya's novels, This Earth of Mankind, Child of All Nations, Footsteps, and House of Glass, all declaring boldly on the cover: "Works from Buru Island". One by one these novels were banned. Hasta Mitra defied each ban, proceeding to publish the next novel.
Jusuf and Rachman were repeatedly called in by the military for interrogation. After Jusuf's son, Verdi, organised a meeting on campus with Pramoedya as a speaker, Jusuf was imprisoned again for three months. His son was expelled from the University of Indonesia. But on release, Jusuf continued to publish more books.
It is almost impossible now to imagine Indonesia without Pramoedya's books being a part of its political and cultural history. Despite the bans, in one way or another, huge numbers of people have read his books. But without the courage, tenacity and tactical brilliance of Jusuf Isak, those books would never have been published in Indonesia until after Suharto had fallen. Nobody else in Indonesia would have done it. Nobody else from the old left had the political resources and initiative to make the impact those three men did. They are without doubt national heroes who made a contribution of huge importance to their nation.
Indeed, without Hasta Mitra's literary political defiance of the regime in the 1980s, it is likely that Pramoedya's books, especially those now known as the "Buru Teratology" might never have made it beyond academic circles. Now they are in Penguin's paperback collection. Pramoedya provided the manuscripts, while Rachman was the commercial leader and Jusuf Isak the political leader of the trio.
All three were remarkable for their faith in the young activists who had developed in the 1980s and '90s with a completely different political culture than that of Jusuf's generation. Jusuf, in particular, was remarkable for his ability and enthusiasm for finding ways to relate to contemporary developments. Suharto created a new Indonesia, the reverse image of the Indonesia from before 1965. Suharto's Indonesia was defined by corruption and greed, dependence on foreign capital, and official and elite contempt for intellectual culture. In the face of this, Jusuf was alive always to every opportunity to intervene to regenerate a left culture. Historical research later will surprise people when it can be identified how many publications Jusuf ghost wrote for others.
After Suharto's regime fell in 1998, Jusuf never stopped working, keeping Hasta Mitra going by himself. Rachman died of cancer in the 1999. Pramoedya began a family company to publish his books. Among the many books Jusuf brought out was an Indonesian translation of the three volumes of Marx's Capital and a translation of the hundreds of pages of CIA-compiled US government documents connected to the Suharto take-over and the mass killings in 1965. He published many memoirs of left-wing activists and intellectuals who had been important in Indonesian history. Many more manuscripts flowed in than he could possibly handle.
Wherever he wrote a preface or a comment, he never tired of advocating the necessity to fight for social justice, for national dignity and the superiority of socialism over capitalism. It was a sad privilege for me to speak of him at his graveside. He gave so much to his nation and to everybody who had anything to do with him.
[Max Lane is the translator into English of Pramoedya Ananta Toer's novels This Earth of Mankind, Child of All Nations, Footsteps, and House of Glass, and is the author of Unfinished Nation: Indonesia before and after Suharto (Verso, 2008). He is a member of the Revolutionary Socialist Party.]


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In $1's Worth, the artist especially focuses on one particular characteristic of sound, which is its immateriality. She attempts to materialize sound by applying units used to measure concrete material, namely, length, height, and width. The artist purchased pop songs from online music store for $1.29 a song, and respectively substituted the three units into the sound file's time, pitch, and frequency range, not according to the standards of sonic studies, but rather, according to commonly used concepts by which laypeople understand and describe sound in their everyday experiences. Then she proportionately reduced each song's time, pitch, and frequency range to create three versions of each song that is worth a dollar.
"In the iTunes store, one song usually costs about $1.29 regardless of the value of each song. When we buy something in a market, we make our decisions based on the price or the quality of the product. Applying this rudimentary logic, the artist imagines music whose worth is one US dollar. If a $1.29-priced song is an integral whole, than a song worth $1 must be lacking something. If it were a materialized object, we would get an incomplete product. But if it is sound, what are we supposed to receive?… As the audience enters the exhibition space, he or she gets to hear these songs lacking 29 cents in quality. It is a "sound" with something strange in it." Extract from "Shades of Sound" written by Hanseung Ryu, Associate Curator, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea
Sound sources that are modified by turns in time, pitch, and frequency emanate from each of the three speakers, and videos show how each sound is sculpted in a format of video tutorials that can be seen on Youtube.
Sound cannot be seen or touched, so it is difficult to discuss in terms of sensory perception and to confirm its existence. The work shows the process of materialization of sound as a medium through the method of measuring things.
Young Eun Kim (KR) lives and works in Los Angeles and Seoul. Her latest works have focused on the act of listening as a means to understand space and to examine sculptural possibilities in using voice, songs and site-responsive sound as medium. Her current work resonates within a deep breadth of recent interests, from perceptual to social operation of sound and listening. She studied sculpture and media art in Korea and sonology in the Netherlands.
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Vodafone India completed its merger with Idea Cellular. The combined entity will be renamed Vodafone Idea. It becomes the largest mobile operator in India followed by Bharti Airtel and Reliance Jio.
The Open Container Initiative (OCI) welcomed Alibaba Cloud, the cloud computing arm of Alibaba Group, as a member.
Cloud storage innovator Infinite.io raised $10.3 million in a Series B round.
Alibaba is putting on hold its plans to expand its cloud business in the U.S, according to The Information.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) released its relational database service on VMware. It enables users to set up and operate databases in VMware software-defined data centers (SDDC).
CenturyLink became an Amazon Web Services (AWS) managed service provider partner.
Dfinity, a non-profit building a crypto platform, raised $102 million in an investment led by Andreessen Horowitz and Polychain Capital.
CenturyLink and VMware jointly launched an IT partner group for business and IT leaders, the Catalyst Club.
Rancher Lab's Project Longhorn, a distributed block storage system for Kubernetes, released version 3.0, available on Rancher 2.0.
Broadcom, NetApp, and VMware demonstrated NVMe over Fibre Channel running on VMware's cloud computing virtualization platform.
The Linux Foundation Deep Learning Foundation added two new framework projects.
Lenovo and Pivot3 will collaborate on edge computing products for smart city security.
California Telecom partnered with Versa Networks to resell its managed SD-WAN.
Bigleaf Networks joined Microsoft's immersive collaboration group for startups, which provides sales, marketing, and technical support.
Network monitoring company Nyansa launched a free public dashboard that serves as a repository of network analytics.
Equinix partnered with VMware for private connectivity to VMware Cloud on AWS.
Pivot3 released a ruggedized hybrid cloud platform.
Platform9 added a new capability for its managed Kubernetes platform to enable companies to run nodes in a Kubernetes cluster on Amazon EC2 instances.
VMware extended its Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) multi-cloud platform to manage cloud costs, operations, security, and compliance. It also enhanced its intelligence-driven digital workspace platform.
Mellanox demonstrated 25G Ethernet and remote direct memory access on VMware vSphere.
Lacework closed its Series B funding round of $24 million.
Colt Technology launched its SD-WAN service in Asia Pacific and North America and its on-demand network services in Singapore.
Carbon Black released version 8.1 of its application control product, which locks down servers.
Quest Software added support for VMware cloud on AWS in the most recent update of its optimization and data protection platform.
Itential released version 6.0 of its network automation platform with orchestrator and controller data models.
Service assurance company Cenx was awarded a contract for a European Tier 1 operator.
Fortanix's Self-Defending Key Management Service achieved VMware ready status.
Onica acquired Canadian cloud computing startup TriNimbus Technologies.
Unified analytics startup Databricks partnered with Snowflake Computing to integrate their products.
The National Science Foundation awarded $60 million to the University of Texas at Austin Advanced Computing Center to acquire and deploy a supercomputer.
Wireless sensor and remote monitoring company Monnit Corporation partnered with Cradlepoint for wireless sensor-to-cloud connectivity services for IoT.
AMD released a dual-GPU virtual desktop infrastructure graphics card for data center visualization workloads.
Machine learning and cloud analytics company Cloudera announced general availability of its hybrid cloud data warehouse.
Inseego launched its enterprise-grade industrial IoT device-to-cloud management platform.
Software delivery company Armory raised $10 million in its Series A funding round.
Data security firm Very Good Security raised $8.5 million in its Series A round.
Software company Blue Medora released its hybrid platform operations software for visibility into Pivotal Cloud Foundry.
BehavioSec launched its behavioral biometrics platform for continuous authentication and anti-fraud features.
Webroot partnered with Digital Shadows to integrate their threat intelligence services.
Security startup Indegy closed an $18 million Series B funding round.
Monitoring software service Metricly raised $9 million in a Series A round.
Here are the other stories SDxCentral covered this week:
- Marvell Nixes the Programmable Xpliant Chip It Inherited From Cavium
- Constant Updates Key to Fighting Spectre, Meltdown, Foreshadow
- Despite What VMware Says, Not Everyone Wants to Deploy Containers in VMs
- Former LinkedIn, Yahoo, Cisco Execs Target Cloud Security at Avid Secure
- SUSE Touts Financial Growth Hints at Future Acquisitions
- HCI Heats Up in Vegas With VMware, Cisco, Veeam, and Pivot3
- Cloudian's $94M Funding Round Signals SD-Storage Is Officially Exciting
- HPE's Hyperconverged Segment Attains Annual Run Rate of $1 Billion
- Juniper Research: Far East 5G Operators Top US as 'Most Promising'
- Google Transfers Kubernetes Operational Control to CNCF
- VMware User Group VMUG Counts 125,000 Members
- Hyperscale Capex Soars to $53 Billion in First Half 2018
- Gremlin Chaos Engineering Now Attacks Docker Containers
- Dell EMC to Sync Hypercoverged Updates With VMware Software
- Arista Founder Takes Aim at Cisco With VMware NSX 'Open Framework'
- ODPi Group Launches Egeria Project to Manage Metadata
- Michael Dell at VMworld: Edge Is Where It's At
- VMworld Opener: CloudHealth Acquisition, Edge Preview, and Gelsinger's New Tattoo
- Lavelle Networks Launches SD-WAN NFV for Microsoft Windows Hosts
- Nokia Scores $583 Million 5G R&D Loan From European Commission
- IDC Predicts the Orchestration Segment of Telecom NFVI to Grow Fastest
- VMware Cloud on AWS Hits Asia-Pacific Region
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The main reason that the teaching of Buddhism often seems not to be a religion in the usual sense of the word is that Shakyamuni Buddha did not admit the existence of a transcendent god controlling human destiny. The Buddha never preached belief in a god who created this world and presides over the workings of nature - an absolute being by whom people are saved if they pray to or worship.
The Sanskrit word buddha means "awakened" or "enlightened." The teaching that the Buddha preached can be understood by anyone who has a high enough degree of reason. It is not something visionary that only an inspired person can perceive, nor is it something bestowed by an absolute being in whom one simply has faith.
Shakyamuni Buddha did not regard this universe as God's creation or his conquest, but as resulting from the relation of cause and condition by which all phenomena are produced (engi, or dependent origination). Causation means a cause (in) and a condition (en) combining to produce an effect (ka) and a recompense (ho). In this world, there is nothing unchangeable or fixed in form. All things have a direct cause. When this comes into contact with an opportunity or condition, the result of this conjunction appears as a phenomenon (effect). This effect leaves behind traces (recompense); thus Shakyamuni Buddha interpreted all things in the world.
"Learning the Dharma" means understanding the Buddha's teachings correctly and regularly applying them in daily life. Seeing how the Truth and the Dharma apply in various situations is one of the practices of "Learning the Dharma."
"Correctly acknowledging the Buddha's teachings" means understanding the Buddha's wishes by showing reverence for other people's buddha-nature and cultivating compassion. However, even if we try to do that, conflicts may arise, and we should then ask ourselves if we did the right thing. Were we self-centered? Did we rectify our behavior? Doing this regularly will improve us.
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DOWNEY - The Downey Regional Medical Center Auxiliary installed its 2009-10 board of directors at a luncheon on May 27.The new board consists of Nann Goldstein, president; George Toerge, vice president; Joanna Orsel, volunteer orientation director; Claudia Graham, ways and means director; Wilma Garcia, secretary; and Ruth Rodriguez, treasurer. During the luncheon, the auxiliary also presented a donation of $48,000 to the hospital. The gift represented proceeds from the hospital gift shop and fundraisers held throughout the year. The auxiliary also awarded Volunteer Corps member scholarships to three local high school seniors: Jackie Hollada ($1,000), Parisa Mazandarani ($1,000) and Aisha Butt ($500).
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It's the ghost that haunts the minds of everyone who has a dream. Before you see it, you don't even want to believe it can happen. But once you've seen it, you only hope that you never have to face it again.
It's not that way for everybody though. People who learn the importance of their failure learn to overcome it and are no longer afraid of it.
But how is this possible? How can someone defeat their fears? It begins with identifying the fears which raise legitimate concerns, and those that are only distracting us from achieving our goals.
Let me give an example.
Say you are afraid of getting in a car accident. In this case, you wouldn't take the risk of leaving your seatbelt off just to overcome that fear. That would be reckless (and against the law). This is a loose example, but it gets the point across.
Another fear could be applying for a certain job. Maybe you think you're not qualified and somebody else would do better in the position. But this fear is simply holding you back from acquiring something you want, something you've worked for.
Fear assumptions
For the example above, I would say this.
Have you met all of the candidates? Have you interviewed each one and evaluated them for the qualities the company wants in their employees? Probably not. So just go for it!
This is what I call a fear assumption. It involves accepting the outcome of a certain action before even taking it. We come to conclusions that we couldn't methodically come to with the information we have. In the end, we are basically claiming to know the future and that is incredibly ignorant.
Opportunity often disguises itself in fear, when in reality there is nothing to be afraid of. Watch out that you don't make silly fear assumptions, and you will start to find opportunity you had no idea was there.
I always like to say that if you are afraid to do something — like in the situation I described above — it just might be exactly what you need to do.
Here's a little bit of truth for you.
Everybody fails. Everybody.
If I speak to someone who says they rarely fail, then I would feel sorry for them.
Because either they are lying or they're not even trying.
In order to succeed, you must fail — sometimes over and over again. Ask Steve Jobs, Steven Spielberg, Thomas Edison, Oprah, etc. People who have achieved much success in this world are at the top for a reason.
We may make fun of them or critique them for things that they do, but in the end, they are not much different from you.
Many times the only distinction is the amount of times they have failed. Be real with yourself for a moment. If you had millions of eyes on you 24/7, how hard would it be to live a spotless life?
The point where their life path deviates from your life path is when they are faced with a challenge.
They don't give into their fear because that would mean compromising the ultimate goal, the prize they have worked for, strived for, and failed for. They realize the real failure happens upon refusing to get up and try again.
It's a mindset. Every time something goes wrong and defeat is knocking on the door, it's back to the drawing board. But this time with something more — another piece of the puzzle that will eventually bring them to their goal.
Maybe you decide to go for that job. Completely prepared and more qualified than any other candidate, but you still don't get the job.
Don't worry.
You still have a dream and a vision. Other people can't always see future value in you and that is OK.
But you can. In fact, you are likely the only person in your life that can see yourself 10 years down the line. You could be the next Bill Gates, but nobody else knows it.
Acknowledge failure
I think we can agree that hiding from reality is essentially pointless. Eventually, it will find us and impose on us whatever implications we deserve — good or bad.
It's similar with defeat. By simply ignoring it, we are doing ourselves no good in the long run. Perhaps it helps us cope with our failure and move on, but if we get nothing out of it then what was the point anyway?
When you learned to ride a bike, you probably fell many times(maybe not). Afterward, you would contemplate trying again — is it worth it? Won't I just fall yet another time?
Well if you try again without learning a little bit more about how to do it, you'll surely fall again.
So don't simply try to forget fear. Use it. Learn from it so you do better the next time around. Harness it to thrust you on into the future you know is inevitable — and one day — you will get there.
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Emmerdale star Natalie Anderson will be filling in for Daybreak's Richard Arnold in the new year.
Anderson, who plays Alicia Metcalfe in the ITV1 soap, will be standing in as the morning programme's guest entertainment editor from January 2 to January 4.
Her role will involve reporting from the biggest showbiz parties and events in the first week of 2013, as well as sharing the latest celebrity gossip and behind the scenes secrets.
Natalie will be on the show at 7:50am during the first week of 2013 until Arnold returns to his post on January 7.
She said: 'I'm absolutely thrilled to be joining the Daybreak team next week! I can't wait to get started and hope I do the lovely Richard proud.'
Natalie returned to Emmerdale in November after going on maternity leave. Her character Alicia recently ended her sham marriage to local dishy shopowner David after discovering he was secretly seeing barmaid Priya Sharma.
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Police search for Edgware robbers by their tattoos
Police in Barnet have released sketches of distinctive tattoos in order to trace three men linked to an Edgware home robbery where a traumatised woman was forced to hand over cash and jewellery.
The same tattoo was etched on two of the suspects' bodies, and police hope that its eye-catching design will stand out to someone able to provide more information about the incident.
On August 7 at approximately 11:05 hours the victim was at home in Stanway Gardens when she heard banging coming from a bedroom belonging to another resident.
Thinking that they were late for work she thought nothing unusual about it until two men, wearing balaclavas and gloves, barged into her bedroom demanding to know where the safe was.
The victim told the intruders there wasn't a safe in the house and handed over a quantity of cash and items of jewellery she had in her bedroom.
They forced her downstairs, still demanding to know where the safe was, when a third suspect appeared from upstairs. All three suspects then left when they realised there wasn't a safe in the premises.
The first suspect is described as a white, 6ft tall male of stocky build with brown eyes, a pale/mid tone complexion and speaks with an eastern European accent. He was wearing a black balaclava and gloves, white t-shirt, dark blue jeans, blue trainers and had a tattoo on the right side of his neck (diamond shape with three vertical arrows through the middle.)
The second suspect is described a a white male of 5ft 10ins. He was aged between 30 – 40, of thin build, and also spoke with an eastern European accent. He wore a black balaclava and black gloves, a red Manchester United T shirt with the Manchester United coat of arms on the back, light blue jeans and red and white Nike trainers.
The third suspect was a white male of 5ft 10insin height. He had blue eyes, a pale/mid tone complexion and a eastern European accent. He had an identical tattoo as the first suspect, but it was on the outside of his upper right arm. He wore a black balaclava and gloves, sleeveless shirt white with "Armani Exchange" black logo on front chest, blue jeans, black dress shoes with no laces.
Detective Constable Kerry Bonomi of Barnet's Serious and Acquisitive Crime Unit said: "This has been a disturbing incident for the victim which has clearly left her traumatised. We would like to hear from anyone who may have been in the area of Stanway Gardens at the time of this incident and witnessed any suspicious activity. We would particularly like to hear from anyone who may recognise these distinctive tattoos etched on two of the suspects, do they have a meaning?
We would also like to trace the items of jewellery stolen from the victim, which are quite distinctive. Call us if someone has tried to sell them to you.
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Understanding Illiteracy
Understanding Illiteracy
World Reading Literacy
World Illiteracy 1970-2010
US Reading Literacy
Percentage of the population of each state that has below a 5th grade level of literacy
30% or greater
20% to 30%
15% to 20%
10% to 15%
42 million American adults can't read
50 million American adults are unable to read above a 5th grade level.
The number of American adults who are classified as functionally illiterate increases by about 2.25 million each year.
20% Of high school seniors can be classified as being functionally illiterate at the time they graduate.
70% Of prisoners in state and federal systems can be classified as illiterate.
85% Of all juvenile offenders rate as functionally or marginally illiterate.
43% Of those with the lowest literacy skill live in poverty.
U.S. Math Literacy
According to the Department of Education's National Assessment of Adult Literacy, U.S. adults are terrible at solving real-world math problems like calculating tips or comparing prices in grocery stores. Here are some dismal facts:
42 Of Americans are able to pick out two items on a menu, add them, and calculate a tip.
1 in 5 Americans can reliably calculate mortgage interest. The other 4 can't.
1 in 5 Americans can't calculate weekly salary when told an hourly pay rate.
13% Of Americans are "proficient" at math. Worse yet, only 1 in 10 women, 1 in 25 Hispanics and 1 in 50 African Americans made the grade.
20 Million Americans pay someone to file their 1040EZ, a one-page tax form with about 10 blanks to complete.
The U.S. ranks 25 among 30 industrialized nations in math scores, down near Serbia and Uruguay. However, one study showed U.S. students believed their scores would be the highest of any nation.
Half of all 17 year olds do not have the math skills required to work in an auto plant, according to the President's National Mathematics Advisory Panel.
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Concentration: Ed.M. with
Teaching Certification
Fall: April 1
Spring: November 1
All applications are evaluated together after the deadline date.
APPLY ONLINE to this graduate program.
Number Required: 3
From Whom: Letters of recommendation should be obtained from college/university faculty, art teachers or supervisors, and curators or gallery directors familiar with the applicant's academic and artistic competence.
Applicants must have an undergraduate degree, 40 undergraduate studio credits, and 9 art history credits.
A degree in Art or Art Education is required.
The Statement of Goals should be approximately 500-1,000 words and should include the following elements: your interest in Temple's program in particular; your future career goals; and your academic and artistic endeavors and achievements.
The GRE/MAT is required, with scores in the 50th percentile or higher on the verbal and/or analytical sections. Students with concerns about scores may contact the Chair of the Art and Art Education Department.
Minimum TOEFL score needed to be accepted: 550 paper-based, 213 computer-based, or 79 internet-based.
As a Master of Education applicant, you must submit a portfolio consisting of twenty 35mm color slides or a CD-ROM with 20 images representative of your range of experience and the immediate direction of your work. You should also include a variety of drawings. If you are applying with a slide portfolio, you should label each slide with your name and indicate "top." An accompanying description list should indicate title, date completed, medium, and dimensions. Images on a CD-ROM must be in .jpeg format. You must also submit 10 pages of printouts on 8.5" x 11" paper, two images per page (20 images total). An accompanying description list for the CD-ROM images should include title, date completed, medium, and dimensions. Original work, slide carousels, catalogs, photographs, zip disks, floppy disks, books, and/or large binders cannot be accepted and will not be returned. Please provide a sturdy self-addressed envelope with sufficient U.S. postage for the return of your slides or CD-ROM. Materials that are not accompanied by return postage will be discarded after review.
A resume is required.
Upon approval of the Art Education Coordinator, the student's advisor, and the Associate Dean, up to 9 credits of post-graduate work completed at Temple University within a five-year period may be transferred into the program. Up to 6 credits of graduate coursework taken at other accredited institutions within the prior five years before matriculation may be considered for transfer into the program after the student has enrolled. No decisions are made until students have successfully completed 15 matriculated semester hours of the degree. The maximum number of credits a student may transfer is 9.
Number of Didactic Credits Required Beyond the Baccalaureate: 47
Required Courses:
Core of required studies in Art Education (17 s.h.)
Elective Studio Art courses (15 s.h.)
Required Art History (6 s.h.)
Ed Psych (9 s.h., depending on academic background)
See your advisor for the exact required courses.
Students must earn credits in the professional sequence which includes courses in Art Education methods, Education, Educational Psychology, an internship, and student teaching in art.
Internship: An internship is required.
Language Examination: No language examination is required.
The thesis for Ed.M. students is a scholarly master's paper developed through research under the guidance of an advisor.
Graduate Admissions Office
Tyler School of Art
2001 N. 13th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19122
Carmina Cianciulli
Program Coordinator:
Jo-Anna Moore
Graduate Chairperson:
The Master of Education with a Major in Art is designed for the practicing art teacher or supervisor of elementary or secondary art, as well as the individual with an undergraduate art background seeking professional preparation to teach art. This program encourages development as a creative artist/teacher with a breadth of study through and about art, along with specialized research demonstrating awareness of significant issues in art education.
Time Limit for Degree Completion: 4 years
Students are required to complete the degree program through classes offered before and after 4:30 p.m. Students are also able to complete the degree program on a part-time basis (8 credit hours or less per semester).
Graduate Admissions Office
Tyler School of Art
2001 N. 13th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19122
Not applicable.
Tyler School of Art has been ranked as one of the top 10 art schools in the country by U.S. News & World Report, Graduate School edition.
This degree program is accredited by the National Association
of Schools of Art and Design.
The program is primarily dedicated to producing well-trained art teachers.
The Ed.M. with Teaching Certification Program, 44-47 credits,
along with the successful completion of the state-required
PRAXIS and Art Education Examinations, provides all the requirements
for Pennsylvania State Certification in Art for kindergarten through
twelfth grade. Pennsylvania Teaching Certification is awarded
to U.S. citizens only.
Only certain courses are available to non-matriculated graduate students.
The principal duties of Teaching Assistants (TA) or Academic Interns (AI) include assisting faculty members in preparing apparatus or materials for demonstrations and maintenance and/or monitoring of studio and exhibition areas and equipment.
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Now on to the November Challenge!
I can't be the only one who has started getting a jump on the Christmas cards; December will be here in no time. So, this month your challenge is to create a Christmas card (or project) using non-traditional colours (i.e. no red/green combos). Isn't that easy?
And of course, here are the rules:
- you must be a registered user of www.stampshoppe.ca (Canada/USA only);
- create a new card or project using a Magnolia stamp based on the November challenge;
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- Come back to this post and leave a comment or fill out Mr. Linky (below) with the DIRECT link to your card/blog post by midnight EST November 30th.
And as an added bonus, your name will be thrown in the hat twice (for each entry) if you add our store banner to your sidebar and link us up.
Curious as to what's up for grabs? This ADORABLE snowman stamp (one of Carla's favourites): Edwin's Snowman!
Edited to add: I'll apologize now for ending the challenge early, for some reason when I got up this morning I thought it was November 1st… I'll blame it on sick kids and lack of sleep. That being said, I didn't feel right changing anything after I posted a winner so if anybody else posts a card to the October challenge they will get an extra ballot for the November challenge. Thanks for understanding.


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This is the first time in twenty years a large tract of contiguous marsh front lots has been available on Barbour Island. Here are six beautiful lots just feet from a modern clubhouse, swimming pool, and two community docks. Access to this paradise is by boat or private plane. Thirty minutes after leaving PDK, you will be in your boat shrimping. Head over to one of the local waterfront restaurants for an evening meal and cap off the day watching the sunset. Sapelo, St Catherine's, and Blackbeard Islands offer you pristine beaches you can visit only by boat and you are minutes away. Take off from the community dock for a day of blue water fishing or stay inshore for trout, redfish, and flounder. Stay for the weekend or a lifetime. Savannah is 50 minutes away. Call us for a visit and you probably will not go home.


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A bare butt is often considered comic gold. Many Halloween costumes incorporate them, so much so that plastic fake butts are often sold in costume shops. If you want a fake butt without paying high prices, you can make your own out of paper mache. This simple craft uses newspaper and glue to build shapes. With a bit of painting and sewing, you can incorporate a big old booty into your costume.
Things You'll Need
- Sports balls
- Duct tape
- Plastic wrap
- Newspaper
- White glue
- Water
- Bowl
- Scissors
- Paint
- Punch tool
- Needle and thread
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Place two basketballs side by side.
Duct tape the two balls together to keep them in place. This will create a form to work on.
Cover the form tightly with plastic wrap.
Tear newspaper into 4-inch squares.
Mix equal parts of water and white glue in a bowl.
Dip the newspaper squares one by one into the glue mixture, then smooth them onto the form.
Completely cover the top half of the form with newspaper.
Build up at least five layers of newspaper. You can use more if you want the butt to be extra strong. Apply additional layers around the edge if you plan to sew the butt into a costume.
Allow 48 hours for the butt to dry.
Remove the butt from the form and trim off any rough edges with a sharp pair of scissors.
Paint the butt with several coats of flesh-colored paint. If desired, paint on comic details such as pimples or a heart tattoo.
Create holes every inch along the edge of the butt using a punch tool.
Sew the fake butt into your costume by weaving a strong thread through the holes you created.


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Observed as early as 1854 for her 35th birthday, Victoria Day is a long-standing tradition celebrating the birth date of Queen Victoria, even though she never actually visited Canadian soil.
In fact, lasting 63 years, her reign was the longest in history and especially, the longest as a female monarch.
When: On the last Monday before May 25th of every year.
Also Known As: May Long Weekend, May Two-Four, and May Long.
What's Open? While public transportation may be running on a holiday schedule, certain grocery stores, restaurants and museums may be open (call ahead just to make sure).
What's Closed? All public buildings such as schools, post offices, libraries, banks, government offices, etc.
Online Shopping Spree
With online retailers releasing amazing promotions in time for Victoria Day, skip the speculation as to whether your favorite store will be open or not and head on over instead online. Be sure to either check our A-Z listing for your favorite stores or category page. Speaking of which, our Bargains Blog is another great way to stay on top of the best deals.
Considering it is also known as May Two-Four, appropriately named after a two four, what better way to celebrate the Queen's birth day than with a little get together surrounding a grill. Barbecues are some of the best ways to celebrate birthdays, although do make sure to add a touch of glam in true royalty fashion with a couple of champagne glasses.
In the event that you haven't made the step towards purchasing a BBQ yet for the summer, we suggest visiting a department store such as Walmart, Sears or Hudson's Bay.
A wonderful source of excitement, fireworks at some of the best places to watch them in Canada can provide fond memories.
When all else fails, you might as well enjoy the time to get some cleaning in — it is the long week-end after-all! From extra tips for the bathroom to DIY cleaning tips, we definitely have you covered on your journey to a clean home!
No matter what you choose to do or not do, take time to relax — even if only with a bubble bath!


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San Mateo Working Families Win Major Victories
The Raise the Wage Coalition has scored its first victory in San Mateo County. On August 15, by a 4-1 vote, the San Mateo City Council adopted the first minimum wage increase in the County. Low-wage workers will see their wages go up to $12 dollars starting in January 2017, $13.50 in 2018, and $15 in 2019. Subsequent annual increases will be adjusted according to the Consumer Price Index for the Bay Area region. Nonprofits will have an extra year to adjust to the changes.
But the adoption of a higher minimum wage was not the only victory for San Mateo working families. The Council also voted to move ahead toward adoption of a commercial linkage fee to raise revenues for affordable housing development. The ordinance includes an incentive for developers to pay area standard wages to construction workers. The second reading of the ordinance is planned for September 6, and if adopted, the City will be able to collect close to $3 million dollars for the development of affordable housing. Foster City also had its first study session on the impact fees and their process is moving forward.
And if adopting a higher minimum wage and raising affordable housing funds were not enough items for one night, the Council took on the discussion of renters' protections. The San Mateo County Association of Realtors (SAMCAR) has been lobbying the Council to derail, delay, or entirely stop the rent stabilization ballot initiative that was put on the ballot by San Mateo residents, who collected close to 11,000 signatures. But SAMCAR failed once again. The Council voted 3-1-1 to not write an opposition argument on the ballot initiative and to allow the democratic process takes its course.
Activists, some who stayed past midnight, left the chamber with big smiles on their faces. It is not often that we get to celebrate so many victories in one single night. What is even more promising is that San Mateo is just the start. Labor and community-based organizations will continue to move a progressive multi-issue agenda across the county. The affordability crisis is energizing progressive organizations to work together strategically to improve the standard of living for all working families, and we are excited about all of the opportunities on the horizon.


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Ouranoupolis is the threshold of Mount Athos. It is the last village just a kilometer before the border of the Holy Mountain (Agion Oros) and where a visitor who intends to visit the monastic state must go to. Every day, from the small harbor under the shade of the Tower, you will see the boats which take the pilgrims (after they have previously acquired the visa pass they will need to enter) to the Monastic Republic.
Today Ouranoupolis is considered to be one of the most important resorts in northern Halkidiki. There are many restaurants and Hotels that offer the visitor good food and a comfortable stay. During the summer months there are daily cruises to Mount Athos from the harbour of the village. A must for those who choose this unique and beautiful village and a chance for one to see all the monasteries on the western side of Athos. You may also enjoy the sea and the beautiful and clean coasts or go opposite to the islands called Drenia.
For those who loves nature, there are lots of walking paths through the olive and pine hills. One may also visit the "Serbian" region on the Northern side of the peninsula and the "Zigou Abbey" just a kilometer away.
In the village the visitor can visit the exhibition in the Byzantine tower with Byzantine antiquities and icons. In the souvenir shops you may find famous hand made carpets with Byzantine drawings, goat hair rugs, byzantine icons or jewels made with natural raw materials. You may also find local products such as oil, local wines, honey, raki (tsipouro), oregano and various teas.


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African-Native American Genealogy Forum
Re: Joe Hutton, Sr./Creek Freedmen
In Response To: Re: Joe Hutton, Sr./Creek Freedmen ()
I am trying to find any information on my grandfather Henry Hutton he had two sons my father who was James Eugene Hutton and my uncle George Hutton who lives in Muskogee Okla., but I found out there was two Henry Hutton one died in Muskogee, but my grandfather died some place in California, when I was very small, I would really like to know where my grandfather came from and who were his parent's were. My grandfather had several sisters and brother's, but their lasts name was Haynes.
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Edwin M. Martin, 93, a retired State Department Foreign Service officer who served as an assistant secretary of State during the 1962 Cuban missile crisis, died Saturday of pneumonia at his home in Washington, D.C.
Martin served as assistant secretary of State for inter-American affairs from 1962 until 1964, during which he helped direct Kennedy administration policies toward Latin America, including the Alliance for Progress.
As a member of the administration's team assembled to deal with the Cuban missile crisis, Martin helped explain the crisis to the media and the nation, and briefed diplomats of the Organization of American States.
In 1964, Martin helped defuse tensions in Panama over U.S. control of the Panama Canal, then began a four-year tour as ambassador to Argentina. From 1968 to 1974, he chaired the development assistance committee of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.


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Ambient flyovers on Tanoa, sometimes crash into the trees.
I have adjusted the flyinheight to 200 up from 125. It Seems to have fixed the issue. Though it was quite random to begin with, I suspect its just arma pilots having trouble navigating the tall mountains, I could be wrong. None the less, I thought id report it.
_group = createGroup independent;
_targetPlayer = selectRandom allPlayers;
format ["Ambient Fly Over - Heading to %1...", _targetPlayer] call ExileServer_util_log;
_flyHeight = 200;
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On a particularly hot Friday that Monsieur Poisson had off work, we ventured to Waterloo in search of some lunch. This has become an increasingly favoured area of mine in recent years to dine at or just to browse through places like Fratelli Fresh and Macro Wholefoods. On the upper level of Fratelli Fresh, past all the varieties of dried pasta, tins of tomatoes and bottles of balsamic vinegar, Café Sopra can found more often than not teeming with people waiting for a table. To the right, hidden in a corner, is what looks like a private dining table in front of a massive board with a recipe for minestrone written in Italian. The table is not part of the café itself and I would love to find out what its reserved purpose is.
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They are super easy to make.
Using a funnel for the floor polish and paper type funnel for the glitter (I just rolled up a piece of computer copy paper).
1. Take off metal piece off of the top of ornament.
2. Pour a little bit of floor polish into the ornament.
3. Swirl around to coat inside completely while pouring back into bottle. (Use the plastic funnel.)
4. Using paper cone (rolled up copy paper) pour glitter into ornament.
5. Swirl it around and cover the whole inside of the ornament and then pour excess glitter out onto another piece of copy paper. (Pour this extra back into glitter container.
6. Put the top back on and then you can decorate it however you wish ie. add ribbon, write on it, add vinyl decoration etc.
I just loved these fun shapes. The flat round one would be perfect (and easy) to draw on or add vinyl art.
Now to get back to that tutorial I mentioned in my last post. :) I keep finding things I haven't shared yet. LOL!
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