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One of the more familiar faces at LDI is Rich Rose, the genial UCLA faculty member whose specialty is computer-assisted design and whose workshops are regular sellouts at the trade show. At UCLA, Rose was a real pioneer in design education, bringing the computer into the classroom before almost anyone else. Now, in his new position as associate dean at UCLA's School of Theatre, & Film and Television, he's taking on a new set of challenges.
David Barbour: How long have you been at UCLA?
Rich Rose: About 47 years. [laughs] About 20 years.
DB: How did you get into all this business?
Rose: When I was a kid, I wanted to be an architect. So when I went to high school, I got into filmmaking. They had a filmmaking program.
DB: This was in California?
Rose: Yeah. And when I went to my community college--Ohlone College, in Fremont, in the San Francisco Bay area--there was no filmmaking program, so I took a theatre lighting course, thinking that would help me--and I was in the theatre from then on. Theatre combined storytelling with architecture, which made it a perfect fit for me.
DB: So you worked as a designer?
Rose: I used to. I worked a lot with Back Alley Theatre, where I won several awards. After teaching for many years, I was asked to get into administration in the theatre department at UCLA, and it's really become a full-time job. I was department chair for the last five years. I co-chaired for part of that time with the scenic designer Robert Israel. And the last year of that, I did it full time. Now that I've become associate dean, it's so time-consuming--and I teach as well--that I don't design anymore.
DB: What courses do you teach?
Rose: I teach Introduction to Design, for freshmen. I also teach graduate students and upper division students in computer design, from AutoCAD to TV Studio. I love teaching both courses, for different reasons. It's exhilarating to teach the freshmen, to whom so much of this is new. They are eager to learn it all--and the students we get are so smart. We constantly challenge each other in the classroom.
DB: It seems like UCLA is more tuned into computer design than any other school.
Rose: I think so. It's because we started so long ago, about 10-11 years ago. I was teaching drafting and was fearful of the day when some student was going to come into my class, fresh out of high school, and say, 'Well, we used computers in my school.' It was about to happen. So I decided that we had to get into it. The Autodesk Company gave us a big software grant and a bunch of computers and IBM gave us a big hardware grant, and so we got into it and we've been doing it ever since.
DB: A lot of designers are phobic about computers.
Rose: Absolutely. A lot. The older designers, mostly. But I'm surprised at the age range of people who take the courses at LDI--people who've obviously been teaching a long time and want to get into it. I don't know if it's student pressure that they're feeling, which I feared but never really felt, since we were ahead of the game. But I am so in awe of these people who are obviously in the later stages of their careers, and who choose to learn about computers.
DB: It seems to me that when it comes to using computers, lighting designers are much less fearful than set designers, who are better than costume designers.
Rose: It's true that costume designers have been the slowest to get on board the computer train. And of course, for lighting designers, computers really do make their job so much easier, because they automate their paperwork. I'm not even talking about the design, but about all that other stuff.
DB: The UCLA program seems to be one of the few that recognizes that most students will eventually work in many media. There are many schools where you learn to design for theatre with no indication that there are other possibilities.
Rose: We want our students to have a core area, but we also encourage them to branch out. You don't know where you're going to be designing. It could be theatre, film, television--a lot of our students are even working for Walt Disney Imagineering. We try to make the programs as broad-based as we can. We also encourage students to take as many other kinds of classes as possible--not just theatre classes, but architectural history, art history, dance lighting, to name three.
DB: Some teachers have said to me that students often don't have enough knowledge of world culture to be able to draw on different art styles, or a sophisticated knowledge of literature to interpret a script.
Rose: And that's where we come from. When we interview students, we try to make sure they're interested in the kind of education that they're going to get with us. We don't want the student whose only goal is to do show after show after show. We want them to get a solid universal education. So they get a broad background--a lot of art history, for example--when they come to UCLA. It throws a lot of them--they say, this isn't what I came to school for. I want to be onstage, hanging lights. But that's the kind of person we try to discourage from coming to our department. The theatre students, for example, must devote fully half of their units to non-theatre classes: science, math, literature, history, philosophy, etc.
DB: In terms of design job opportunities, you are uniquely placed in Los Angeles. You're in the center of the film and television industries, with major theme parks nearby.
Rose: Absolutely. But also look at some of our design faculty, [scenery and lighting designer] Neil Jampolis, Robert Israel, and [costume designer] Dunya Ramicova--their primary work is in opera, so students get exposed to that world as well.
DB: Dunya and Bob have done a lot of very avant-garde work.
Rose: Right. And that's the focus of the graduate design program: to get students to think. Not necessarily to be avant-garde; let's say unconventional. The goal is to break students of the formulas that they've learned. As Bob Israel says, it takes the students almost a year to realize that their teachers don't want conventional stage design, lighting design, costume design. I think sometimes that the students must get crazed, they must think they're dealing with insane people. But toward the end of the first year, they realize there are other ways of thinking about design. The second year usually seems to go much more smoothly.
DB: Now that you're associate dean, do you have new goals for the school?
Rose: My specific duty is to work on new initiatives between the departments in the school. We're sort of a mini-campus--a soundstage, three television studios--but the two departments have always been separate. Yes, our theatre students have designed student films or acted in school television productions, but there's never been a focused school initiative to make that happen. So my goal is to make the departments mesh more smoothly. For instance, for the theatre department graduate actors, the most important productions are staged in rep at the beginning of their third year. This time, one of those rep productions will instead be a television production, which John Guare has written, because he's a good friend of Mel Shapiro, who heads the acting program. That's just one of the things that we're putting together in a real good way for the first time, believe it or not. The same is happening now with design opportunities. Design students are being assigned film and television projects as part of their design requirements. And we have the Geffen Playhouse, too. It's part of the School of Theatre, Film and Television, a block away from campus. It's a major new LA theatre. The productions this season have included Hedda Gabler, starring Annette Bening, directed by Daniel Sullivan, and Collected Stories, starring Linda Lavin. We're expanding our internship program there, as well as expanding the workshops, where designers come in and work with our students. We're going to regularize the method of making these things happen.
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ONE OF WILLIAMSPORT, MARYLAND'S OLDEST BUILDINGS was destroyed Monday in a 5-alarm fire that brought 20 engines and 5 ladders from Maryland and West Virginia departments.
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The fire was reported shortly after 7 am when it began in an outbuilding that housed the oil-fired furnace. The local newspaper, The Herald-Mail reports:
A mechanical failure in an oil-burning furnace started the fire Monday that caused an estimated $500,000 in damages to the former Wolfe's on the Square building in downtown Williamsport, the Maryland State Fire Marshal's Office said.
The fire was reported at 7:18 a.m. Monday in an outbuilding that housed the furnace and the fire quickly spread through the three-story structure, according to a fire marshal's office news release. One occupied apartment and the L&J discount liquor store were on the first floor of the building. Four vacant apartments were on the second and third floors. Kevin Lewis, director of Washington County Emergency Services, said the fire was under control shortly before noon.
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The building dates to before the Civil War, Councilwoman and local historian Joan Knode said. Over the centuries it had been the Wabash Hotel and the Taylor Hotel, she said, and Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee stopped there during the Civil War and tethered his horse, Traveler.
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Jack Byers, who owned Byers' Busy Corner across the street until about six months ago, said the history of the building, in one form or another, might date to the late 18th century.
The preliminary damage estimate is $500,000.
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Do you ever find yourself uttering that classic phrase "I have nothing to wear!" when you stare into your jumbled closet? Perhaps the real problem is that you can't FIND what you have and love amongst the chaos. Since I've probably read just about every column/ article/ book I've ever come across on the topic, let me share the top tips here and save you some time. Hopefully this will inspire you to get over your fear of the time commitment and effort to finally tackle the project. Remember the final reward: happiness when you look in your closest and drawers!
Tip 1:
Have a good objective friend come over to help you in the purging decision making process.
We all make excuses why that top from 2006 could come back in style or will fit again after a more dedicated exercise routine. You need someone who can look you in the eye and objectively tell you to let it go because it will never come back in style in the exact same design. If it doesn't fit NOW, why take up valuable real estate with wishes?
Tip 2:
Divide clothes into these piles: Donate, Repair/Rework, Trash, and Makes Me Look Fabulous So It Stays.
Because really, why hold onto ANY clothes that don't make us look fabulous?! My husband always preaches the value of a first impression as the reason you should always look put together because you never know who you are about to meet/ run into. (Though somehow trips to the hardware store on Saturdays seems to be the exemption to this rule in his mind.) I'm not the greatest at following through on this as "comfy" seems to be my first instinct when putting together an outfit, but I'm always trying to keep it in mind.
There will be some pieces that need a little tailoring repair or could fairly easily be reworked into a current and appropriate piece. Having a good tailor in your list of resources is key for this. I love NE Tailor on 22nd St & Johnson St in Northeast Minneapolis. I trusted him to tweak a Herve Leger dress, need I say more?
Oh, and get those Trash and Donation piles out of the house ASAP to prevent any second guessing.
Tip 3:
Organize clothes and accessories by type and then by color.
Here you can see how a random assortment of clothing and accessories topples out of control on the left without structure. On the right, all clutch purses are grouped together (by type) then by color (wow, she has a whole shelf of gold clutches!). I like this solution for the always growing stacks of tote bags. Stacking them folded flat so that part of the design is easily visible and by stacking them this way you don't have to try to keep them from flopping over as they would if stacked upright.
This is the key tip/rule as you start putting your clothes and accessories back into your closet after the big purge. It will make it easier to look at all your blouses and pick ONE and then look at your skirts all together and pick ONE. Now go to the Shapeware box or drawer and pick the appropriate piece for this outfit. Go to your jewelry area and pick a bracelet or two (depending on the look) and then earrings and a necklace from their zones. See how this sounds much less stressful?
But how do you organize all those pieces? Here are a few favorite organization examples for accessories to inspire you.
Let's start with handbags. Here you can see how handbags that can stand on their own can sit on a shelf. Clutches are best stacked together since they are slim and when one is removed the rest won't fall over much.
The larger handbags with unstructured bottoms do well hung from hooks. Don't try to double up on hooks. It gets clunky when you try to grab one and inevitably both sets of handles won't fit comfortably on the hook.
For my clutches I use a Real Simple Purse Organizer to take advantage of hanging space in my closet.
Since they are narrower than handbags they don't get smooshed under the elastic bands and I can group a few similar clutches together in one section.
Depending upon the size of your jewelry collection and your organizational style (do you like to have everything out and visible at a glance or do you prefer it tucked away with easy access?) there are a number of different solutions.
You could hang necklaces from hooks on the wall and keep earrings and bracelets in an assortment of small bowls and dishes on the top of your dresser (top image). If you tend to wear a few pieces day after day, keeping them out with a few beautiful items might be sufficient (middle image). Or you could create a system of organized compartments in your drawers for each type of jewelry so they are organized and still accessible without sitting out and looking cluttered (which is how the first arrangement style would look to some people).
Here is an example of a vanity with clear organizers in the drawers to separate jewelry by type and style.
You can also see this style of organization in Gayle's revamped closet design above. Notice that all her workout gear is grouped together (top right image) apart from general t-shirts and pants.
What do I use?
I like a mix of organization style 1 & 3. Key items out and visible, less frequently pieces organized in a closed drawer.
My favorite necklaces are out and visible (and organized by type) on this jewelry stand by Umbra.
My earrings are organized by type (studs, fancy long earrings for parties, hoops, blue earrings, brown earrings, etc.) in small bowls on top of my dresser for quick access in the morning. If I put the fancier items in a drawer I'd probably wear them less frequently. Seeing them out reminds me to wear something a little more punchy day to day.
The rest of my jewelry is either hanging on hooks on the inside of a door or in an assortment of small boxes and cutlery trays in a dresser drawer that was suddenly empty after a purge when we moved into our new house last year. I could eventually upgrade to prettier organization pieces, but they are pricey, and these work just fine. I like having the 2 cutlery trays stacked because I get more function out of the drawer depth.
Above: the drawer of necklaces, bracelets, pins and rings. Very special occasion pieces are kept in closed boxes.
Above: the lower cutlery tray of necklaces and bracelets.
Finally, shoes.
If you collect shoes as works of art, perhaps displaying them in a case like this would allow you to appreciate their beauty even when you aren't wearing them.
Is space limited? Utilize wall space by hanging them on the wall.
Is your collection substantial? Organize them by type in standardized boxes with photos on the front.
Do you store your shoes by the front door so you aren't tracking dirt into the house? I loved this tradition in Japan, and since space is at a premium there, I frequently saw this style of shoe storage there. You can find these at the Container Store.
There are a million different styles of organization tools out there to suit your habits. The key is to purge to what you love and looks good on you first. Don't buy any organization bins, etc until you've completed the purge and know what you REALLY have left. Be creative with what you already have and live with those solutions for a bit to see how they work before investing in more.
I hope this has helped demystify the process for you! And if you need help, don't be afraid to email or call me!
Photo credits:
1 & 2 & 7 – Oprah 3-12,
3, 5, 12 & 13 – Lucky 3-12
4 – Bed, Bath & Beyond
6 – Unknown
9, 10 & 11 – Fox Interiors
8 & 14 – Container Store
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Scottsbluff outscored host Torrington 43-to-12 in the second half to turn a two point lead at halftime into a 70-37 rout of the Trailblazers Tuesday night.
The Bearcats closed their regular season at 19-5 with the win. They will play again Monday in District B6 semifinal action at Cougar Palace.
The Cats led 27-to-25 at halftime but heated up in the third quarter to pull away for the win. Tony Siske's crew outscored Torrington 31-to-6 in the third quarter.
Two keys for Scottsbluff were points off turnovers and three point shooting. They outscored Torrington 19-2 off turnovers and had 11 three point field goals to just one for the Blazers.
Senior Eric Moreno had another big night for the Cats. He finished as the only player in double figures with 21, including hitting six of 11 three point field goals.
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Enjoy your vacation in paradise im this newly decorated, open and bright island vacation home
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The beautiful island of Siesta Key is an island paradise rich with shopping, dining and award
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Florida Tax 11%
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Funeral arrangements have been set for the founder of the Shreveport Community Church and Evangel Christian Academy, who died Saturday.
Rodney Duron passed away at home Saturday morning after a long illness following several debilitating strokes 5 years ago. He was 88. He is survived by his wife of 60 years, Frances, who was at his side when he passed away. According to the Community Church web site, Duron and his wife, Frances, began pastoring the church in the 50s, when it was located in the Cedar Grove area of Shreveport. It has since moved west Shreveport and grown to become church home for several thousand in the Shreveport-Bossier area. Son Denny took over the reins of the church in 1998. In 2009, the church expanded its presence in Bossier City, by merging with the Family Worship Center and becoming Northpoint Community Church. Rodney and Frances also founded Evangel Christian Academy in 1980 as a small kindergarten to eighth grade school. The high school was added in 1989, growing to earn state and national recognition in academics and athletics. Pastor Denny Duron says the fact that his father died on 3/16 is not lost on his family. John 3:16, one of the most widely quoted verses from the Bible, has been referred to as the "Gospel in a nutshell:" For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life."That's my dad," says Denny Duron. The funeral will be held on Tuesday, March 19 at Shreveport Community Church at 4 p.m.
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WineDirect, the expanding Napa-based winery fulfillment house, has acquired Napa-based Elypsis Winery Software Solutions from Admiral IT.
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Every decade dozens of anthropology-minded folks descend on Bridgewater State University for the annual meeting of the Northeastern Anthropological Association. This year, more than 130 faculty members, students and researchers attended the two-day event, which was held in Boyden Hall, the Campus Center, and included a trip to the Robbins Archeology Museum in Middleboro.
This year's theme was "Anthropological Constructions of Time." Collected around this idea were dozens of interesting presentations and discussions of cutting edge tools and techniques.
A number of attendees were Bridgewater students and recent alumni.
"This is a great thing for our students, they really get into the meat of it," said Dr. Curtiss Hoffman, professor of anthropology, who helped coordinate the event, and presented some recent findings from his ongoing archeological dig near a Little League ball field in Middleboro.
Indeed, Bridgewater students took part in both delivering and watching the 64 presentations on the meeting's packed schedule. The event also included the presentation of 68 papers and a poster session showcasing members' latest research.
"This is a great thing for students because it's a great transition from the classroom into a professional career," said BSU senior Chelsea Talcott of Scituate, who presented her idea for an all-inclusive forum for anthropology majors.
During her presentation, Ms. Talcott pointed out that "students often get bogged down in information." This was what led her to research and write the paper she presented, "An Anthropological Collective: Providing a Platform where the Twenty-First Century and Academia Collide." Collaboration, networking and education are the goals of the site she described, an electronic forum for anthropology students seeking case studies, reference materials and more. The goal is to bring like-minded students together, Ms. Talcott said.
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Time was also dedicated to the discussion of computer applications in the field, such as powerful new mapping software and the iPad.
Other sessions were "Transforming Space/Mutable Memory," "Exploring the Links Between Experiential Learning and Public Anthropology," "Archaeoastronomy in Sacred Sites," "Performing Community," "General Archeology," "General Ethnography," "Careers in Anthropology," "Vulnerable Bodies and the Global State" and "Global Perspectives on Material Culture."
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Advancing an AIDS-Free Generation by Accelerating Children's TreatmentPosted byon August 21, 2014 at 3:09 PM EDT
Earlier this month, at an event co-hosted by the Office of First Lady Michelle Obama at the African Leaders Summit, several new steps towards advancing the President's goal of an AIDS-free generation were announced. The U.S. President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) and the Children's Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF) launched the Accelerating Children's HIV/AIDS Treatment (ACT) Initiative. ACT is a $200 million initiative ($150 million from PEPFAR and up to $50 million from CIFF) to double the number of children receiving life-saving antiretroviral therapy (ART) across ten African countries over the next two years.
In 2013, only 24 percent of the 3.2 million children under the age of 15 living with HIV– 91 percent of whom lived in sub-Saharan Africa –were receiving ART. Without ART, half of the children living with HIV will die before their second birthday, and 80 percent will die before their fifth birthday. The new initiative will make a significant impact by enabling 300,000 more children living with HIV to receive ART.Learn more about
Buying What Works: Case Studies in Innovative ContractingPosted byon August 21, 2014 at 10:35 AM EDT
Last week, the White House announced the launch of the U.S. Digital Service (USDS), a new team of America's best digital experts dedicated to improving and simplifying the digital experience that people and businesses have with their government. The USDS team has already begun to make progress by releasing the TechFAR Handbook, a guide that helps explain how Federal agencies can take advantage of existing procurement authorities to execute key plays in the Digital Services Playbook.
The Federal Government has long used its buying power as one of the world's largest customers to accelerate well-known innovations, from the first microchips to the Global Positioning System (GPS). Today, Federal agencies continue to leverage innovative procurement practices that spur the private sector to develop advanced technologies to better serve the American people – and to pay only for successful results, not just best efforts.
Today, the Office of Science Technology Policy (OSTP) and the Office of Management and Budget are pleased to release the first version of Innovative Contracting Case Studies, an iterative, evolving document that describes a number of ways Federal agencies are getting more innovation per taxpayer dollar – all under existing laws and regulations. For example, NASA has used milestone-based payments to promote private sector competition for the next generation of astronaut transportation services and moon exploration robots. The Department of Veterans Affairs issued an invitation for short concept papers that lowered barriers for non-traditional government contractors, which led to the discovery of powerful new technologies in mobile health and trauma care. The Department of Defense has used head-to-head competitions in realistic environments to identify new robot and vehicle designs that will protect soldiers on the battlefield.Learn more about Technology
A Promising Pilot to Help Student BorrowersPosted byon August 21, 2014 at 8:06 AM EDT
Investing in postsecondary education is among the smartest choices Americans can make. College completion opens doors and expands economic opportunity, leading to lower rates of unemployment and higher earnings over the course of a career. But tuition rates have risen significantly in recent decades, and obtaining a college degree increasingly depends on students' ability to take out loans and manage repayment after leaving school. While most borrowers are able to repay their student loans, many struggle, and some fall behind.
That's why last month the President and his Administration announced a series of executive actions to help reduce the burden faced by student loan borrowers and make postsecondary education more affordable and accessible to American families. A centerpiece of this action plan is to improve the effectiveness of communications to borrowers about flexible repayment options the U.S. Department of Education offers to help ensure they stay on track with their payments. This includes income-driven repayment plans – Income-Based Repayment, Pay As You Earn, and Income-Contingent Repayment – that link monthly payments to borrower incomes.
We know borrowers are busy and that decisions about student loan plans can be complex and challenging. That's why the Office of Federal Student Aid at the Department of Education has teamed up with the White House Social and Behavioral Sciences Team, a group of experts who focus on effective, innovative strategies for helping government programs and communications better serve citizens.
In November 2013, Federal Student Aid, in collaboration with the White House Social and Behavioral Sciences Team, launched an e-mail campaign to increase awareness of Income-Driven Repayment and help borrowers make more informed decisions about loan repayment options given their circumstances. The campaign sent emails to borrowers who had fallen behind on their payments, had higher-than-average debts, had grace periods coming to an end, had deferred or entered forbearance because of financial hardship or unemployment, or some combination of the above. In total, the campaign sent emails to over three million borrowers last year and 221,000 submitted applications.
The team embedded a rigorous, randomized-control pilot into the broader campaign, which measured the impact of e-mails designed based on insights from the behavioral sciences on action among borrowers in delinquency for 90-180 days. These e-mails indicated income-driven repayment eligibility criteria, the benefits associated with taking action and the costs associated with inaction, and the relevant web-links and servicer contact information. Behavioral science research demonstrates that timely, clear and low-cost informational messages of this kind can help citizens better understand their options, make more informed decisions, and follow through on their intentions.
Results of the pilot are promising. Sending e-mails to borrowers in delinquency for 90-180 days resulted in a statistically significant, four-fold increase in completed income-driven repayment applications. This effect translates into roughly 6,000 additional completed applications in just the first month after sending among the 841,442 borrowers in the pilot.
We are working together to use insights from this trial to inform future communications and develop even more effective ways of reaching borrowers to help them stay on track.
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Making for a Stronger AfricaPosted byon August 19, 2014 at 12:06 PM EDT
This month, the first class of the President's Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI) Mandela Washington Fellows converged on Washington, D.C. for their inaugural Presidential Summit. During the Summit, many of the Fellows joined the US Global Development Lab and the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy at Fab Lab DC to discuss the role of making in Africa's economic and community development.
Mandela Washington Fellows gather to discuss how making will help shape Africa's future. (Photo by Mike Star)
The Maker Movement is transforming the way we design and produce things – both here at home and overseas. At this year's first-ever White House Maker Faire, President Obama described making as "a revolution that can help us create new jobs and industries for decades to come." In recognition of the potential of young African visionaries to advance the Maker Movement, YALI is working to equip change-makers with the tools they need to foster progress across the continent.
Community maker spaces are already springing up around the world, providing public access to tools and technologies like 3D printers, laser cutters, and low-cost modular electronics, which dramatically change the rules of invention - anyone with an idea can bring that idea to life. By democratizing the means to create, digital manufacturing lowers the barrier to entrepreneurship around the world, including in developing regions like Sub-Saharan Africa.
In 2012, Togolese entrepreneur Sename Koffi Abdojinou founded WoeLab, a bootstrapped maker space and business incubator built on an ethos of community design and open-access hardware in low resource settings. Illustrating the power of this philosophy in action, WoeLab member Afate Gnikou invented a 3D printer made primarily from discarded electronics, or e-waste, scrapped from landfills. The invention's design has been openly published, so makers across Africa and the rest of the world can leverage his ingenuity to sow the seeds of digital fabrication in their own communities. This year at the Fab10 maker conference, WoeLab's e-waste 3D printer was awarded the Global Fab Award.
Maker spaces like Abdojinou's WoeLab promote hands-on STEM education; they empower ordinary people to develop local solutions to the challenges faced in their communities; they encourage entrepreneurship. In October 2013, Togo celebrated its ten most promising young entrepreneurs. Three of them came from WoeLab.
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Outcomes of the Fifth US-China Innovation DialoguePosted byon August 13, 2014 at 3:18 PM EDT
On July 8, U.S. Assistant to the President for Science and Technology Dr. John Holdren and Chinese Minister of Science and Technology Wan Gang co-chaired the fifth U.S.-China Innovation Dialogue in Beijing, China.
The day before the Innovation Dialogue, on July 7, experts from the United States and China met to discuss reports on ongoing research on the best means to spur innovation through policy. A group of Chinese experts and a group of American experts reached joint conclusions about their research related to China's High and New Technology (HNTE) tax incentive program. The experts reports are posted at the following link: http://igcc.ucsd.edu/publications/igcc-in-the-news/news_20140714.htm.
Delivering a Customer-Focused Government Through Smarter ITPosted byon August 11, 2014 at 1:50 PM EDT
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As expected, West Virginia sophomore Devin Ebanks will remain in the NBA Draft, hiring an agent and precluding any possibility of returning to school, per Gary Parrish of CBS Sports.
The 6'8'', 205-pound Ebanks is widely considered a fringe first-round pick in the upcoming NBA Draft, with Draft Express currently ranking him 30th in what is shaping up to be a deep class. While his prototypical length and athleticism for an NBA small forward make him an attractive prospect, Ebanks has shown little ability to create his own shot in two years at Morgantown, and his skill level, particularly his ball-handling, is fairly suspect for someone who projects to be a perimeter player in the pros.
While it's hardly a surprise that Ebanks is staying in the draft, the new draft process -- where underclassmen have until the end of April to declare, and then have to decide by May 8th whether or not to remain in the draft -- has left many potential early entrants with little idea of where or whether they'll get drafted. Indeed, as Gary Parrish points out, practically no NBA teams have begun working prospects out, leaving players with little concrete information as to whether they should go back to school or not. With a deluge of college players declaring for the draft due to concerns about a possible lockout in 2011, expect quite a few quality players to go undrafted thanks to bad, or rather a lack of, information.


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I unequivocally love CrossFit, and am a bit obsessed with our box, CrossFit Northside. The more I do it, the more I deeply and totally enjoy it. It's fun, incredibly challenging, and has transformed my body in a way I never thought was possible. Because of CrossFit, Anthony and I are both stronger, more confident, and healthier. It helps that we do have an excellent, if ever so slightly awkward, coach.
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Who can't help but take a self-portrait if he gets his mitts on anyone else's camera, but that's not the point. The point is, he has created a really wonderful environment, and keeps his athletes safe, while consistently challenging them to be better. He has also hired several other amazing coaches to support him in this, namely Adam, Dimmity and Nicole, who share his passion for excellent technique and being hilariously awkward. And drinking coffee. Our box is also made up of group of amazing athletes that have become our friends. Without those pieces, CrossFit would just be an expensive gym.
Coaches Nicole and Dim, with me in the middle
The weekend before my foot surgery, I went up to watch team CFNS compete in the All Stars finals. To make a long story short, one of the athletes couldn't finish the event, and gave me her blessing to step in to take her place for the last bit of her teams competition. It was the one of the most enjoyable 20 minutes I've ever had, and I have done at least twenty competitive fitness events before (always run races or triathlons.)
It was so fun because I was with a team of people who truly couldn't have cared less how fast I was, as long as I tried my best. Which I did, though trying my best mostly meant trying not to drown or get sick in the pool. I was successful. Hurrah!
In spite of my love of CrossFit, you can't help but hear horror stories of people really hurting themselves from this incredibly challenging sport, sometimes quite seriously. We really lucked out by finding CrossFit Northside, but looking around at the competition, in which there were many athletes with seriously bad (and dangerous) form, I realized how easy it would have been to choose a box with less conscientious coaches and a less encouraging atmosphere. So, for any CrossFit newbies out there, here are my recommendations on what to look for to make sure your box is the best for you. Of course, none of these are "be-all and end-all" but they might be helpful guidelines to narrow down the decision.
Plus, as a bonus, a bunch of gratuitous photos of me competing! Or pretending to! Lucky you.
- Coaches who have a background that is not just CrossFit. One of the biggest complaints I have about CrossFit is that the certification process is just two days. That's right, I can be a random Jane from the street, and after two days, Boom! I'm a CrossFit coach. For comparison sake, my NASM personal trainer certification took six months, and my 500-hour yoga teacher training took a full year. There is absolutely no way that after two days, you have enough knowledge and awareness to be a coach of anything, let alone one that involves lifting hundreds of pounds over your head. I would highly recommend a coach that has a wide range of background activities and experiences, particularly weightlifting, as that is the place it is easiest to get seriously injured.Full disclosure: Not actually competing here. Just pretending to.
- Coaches who do not constantly tell you to lift more weight. For the first full month I was at CrossFit (and I went five to six days per week) I didn't lift anything heavier than the 20kg bar. The coaches all wanted me to get better with my form before I started lifting heavier weight. Three months later, however, when we tested our one rep max, most of the time I was able to use fairly heavy weight with really solid form. I have heard so many horror stories of coaches telling people to add more weight, simply for the sake of doing so, and people getting injured. If the coach is constantly telling you to RXD, or pile weight on and it simply feels too heavy or you injure yourself, that to me is a sign of a coach who is more interested in inflating their own ego than improving their individual athletes.
- Supportive Fellow Athletes. One of the best things about CrossFit that I hear almost across the board is how amazingly supportive and caring fellow CrossFitters are. Perhaps because of the significant amount of suffering involved, CrossFitters tend to bond and be really welcoming. If you happen to stumble into a box where folks aren't welcoming, or are not as supportive of the person coming in last as they are of the person coming in first, I'd suggest finding another box. The community is what makes the experience.
- A Wide Range of WODs. If you look on most CrossFit websites, they post their workouts daily. Now, this is just an opinion, but I personally believe that the workouts should be wide ranging, and not insanely long or heavy every single day. I've heard stories of boxes who do a Hero and a Benchmark WOD (internationally recognized workouts named after heroes and women, which are internationally renowned as freakin' hard) every week, religiously. Don't get me wrong, the Heros and Benchmarks are phenomenal, and great ways to check fitness and strength, but twice weekly? I think I'd probably be dead by now.
- They Don't Just Offer CrossFit. My favorite sessions at CFNS are actually Olympic Weightlifiting sessions. These are the times I get to really work on form and technique, and of course, chat a bunch with whoever else happens to be there. While this one isn't a deal breaker, I really respect boxes that create the time for athletes to really hone their skills.
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New promos for the "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1" video game have been released. The new images, taken from the Nintendo Wii platform of the game, can be found from this picture onwards in the Leaky galleries.
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under "Reducing bandwidth usage" in the online tutorial (http://wiki.forum.nokia.com/index.ph...andwidth_usage) there is the description how to manage it, if you don´t use PSP templates and AJAX functionality, but I for me this information is not clear and hard to follow! i mean to don´t use PSP templates and to use my own css stylesheet!
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File "C:/Data/Web server/htdocs/Web_Applications\ProjectFolder\ProjectController.py", line 30, in get_stylesheet
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Residents in the Milano development in North Naples say that a bear and its cubs are wandering their streets at all hours of the day.
"As I walked out of the garage, the bear was sitting in the driveway," said Lisa Stutz of Naples.
"It's been digging through all of our neighbor's garbage, taking it out every day," said Naples resident Odalys Perez
Dozens of residents in the Milano development say they've had encounters with the creatures, they say they've seen them almost every day for weeks.
"It's terrifying to walk out and see a 400 pound bear in your driveway," Stutz said. "It actually got up on his hind legs and growled."
While the bear and its cubs are making their presence known in Milano, they're not just hanging around there; they're also wandering over to the Imperial Golf Estates, a community that backs right into Milano.
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The label "Group of Death" is thrown around a lot. In any tournament, the toughest group is usually given the moniker, but there is rarely a group deserving of it. The group stage of the 2011-2012 UEFA Champions League will almost assuredly have a Group of Death though as some of the continent's top teams have been put all the way down in Pot 3 or even Pot 4.
There are 32 teams remaining in the competition and they have been split into four pots with eight teams in each pot and one team from each pot will be put in each group. That means a team from Pot 4 will be in the same group as a team from Pot 1. Normally that isn't a problem because the Pot 4 teams are supposed to be the worst teams in the field, but the UEFA coefficient that ranks the teams aren't quite accurate. That leaves us with Borussia Dortmund and Napoli all the way down in Pot 4.
As unfair as it may seem to put the best team from Germany, Dortmund, and one of the most dangerous in Italy, Napoli, in Pot 4, it will be a lot of fun for viewers. It means that those two teams will end up playing two matches against a team from Pot 1, which is made up of Barcelona, Manchester United, Chelsea, Bayern Munich, Arsenal, Real Madrid, Porto and Internazionale. It's a viewer's dream.
Not only does Pot 4 have some abnormally strong teams, but Pot 3 has some strength too. It is where we find Manchester City, Lille and Bayer Leverkusen. Toss in a strong Pot 2 that includes AC Milan, Lyon, Shakktar Donetsk and Valencia, and you're guaranteed to see some incredibly difficult groups that will make for great theater.
Imagine a group of Barcelona, Milan, Manchester City and Dortmund. It is possible that the four get paired up in the ultimate Group of Death that may leave the knockout stages short a couple of the continent's best teams, but would be amazing to watch for six matchdays during group play. Even a group of lesser-known teams like Porto, Donetsk, Lille and Napoli would be extraordinarily difficult and a thrill to watch.
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Secretary of State Nomination Hearing
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Senator John Kerry (D-MA) testified about his nomination as secretary of state. Among the topics he addressed were Iran's nuclear weapon program, Afghanistan, and the civil war in Syria. In his opening statement he urged bipartisanship to promote U.S. leadership on matters such as food and energy security and climate change. He also answered questions about Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's statements on the U.S. Consulate attack in Benghazi, Libya. Regarding Afghanistan, he said the turnover of U.S. operations in that country was on target to happen in Spring 2013. He was introduced by Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren, Secretary of State Clinton, and Senator John McCain. close
*The transcript for this program was compiled from uncorrected Closed Captioning.
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Hollaway, who is known to many as "Big Dave," brought two different species of animals that can be found in Alabama — birds of prey and reptiles — for the children to see up close and personal, even touch.
"I am a Naturalist, which is a scientist who studies nature, and I feel very blessed, because in Alabama, where we live, we are super-blessed with a whole bunch of nature," Hollaway told the children. "When we put all that nature together it's called biodiversity, and Alabama is very rich with biodiversity."
Going back to the subject of biodiversity, Hollaway said Alabama has four different species of owls: the barred, screech, horned and barn owls, and all four are protected under the federal laws which protect birds of prey.
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Hollaway told the children that to be a bird of prey or raptor, owls also have two special tools — they must have a curved beak and very sharp talons (claws). He then let each child do something that many people will probably never get to do, and that was touch a federally protected bird of prey.
"All owls have a niche, or job, which is to eat rats, mice and snakes, but the horned owl also eats ground hogs, raccoons, possum, and even shunks," Hollaway said. "Horned owls have no sense of smell, which allows them to eat shunks, but the barred, screech, and barn owls do have a sense of smell."
Hollaway told the children the grip of a great horned owl also has four hundred pounds of pressure per square inch. "A daddy, or grown man, only has one hundred pounds per square inch," Hollaway said. "So technically, a great horned owl is stronger than four daddys put together. That's some gnarly power."
He also let the children touch an "elaphe guttata" or corn snake, just one of the many snakes which are native to Alabama.
"We have 40 different species of snakes in Alabama, and out of that 40, only six are venomous. They are the eastern diamondback, timber and dusky pigmy rattlesnakes, and the copperhead, cottonmouth, and coral snakes," Hollaway said. "And for grown-ups information, the cottonmouth and water moccasin are the same snake and the timber rattlesnake, velvet tail, and cane snake are also the same snake."
Hollaway has worked for Camp McDowell for more than seven years and leads classes and workshops about environmental education. He also supervises the care of injured wildlife through rehabilitation at McDowell, including the two owls he brought Tuesday to show during the Summer Reading Program at the Sumiton Library.


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Tocino is a cured meat product native to the Philippines. It is usually made out of pork and is similar to ham and bacon although beef is also used. It is often reddish in color and has a sweetish taste. Its name is derived from the Spanish word tocino, which is used to describe bacon or cured meat
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One word of advice though, even how good cured meat tastes, moderate consumption is still recommended. Too much intake can still affect our health in the long run. It is best to have pork tocino at least once or twice per month. By the way, it tastes best when dipped in spicy vinegar.
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Pork Tocino Recipe
- 2 lbs pork ham
- 1/4 tsp Prague powder #1
- 1 tsp sodium phosphate
- 2 tbsp coarse salt
- 7-10 tbsp sugar
- 2 tbsp Anisado wine (or ground star anise and/or anisette)
- 1/2 tablet ascorbic acid (250 mg) (optional)
Cooking Procedure
- Slice the pork ham to about ¼ inch thickness
- Except for the meat, combine all ingredients in a container and mix well
- Apply the combined mixture to the meat by rubbing. Make sure that the mixture is evenly distributed across the meat
- Place the mixed ingredients in a covered container
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Roadmap to a Career in Web Design & Digital MediaNoble Desktop (594 Broadway, Suite 1202, New York, NY 10012) Map it Free
You may be thinking about a new career in computer graphics, but where do you start? And in which direction should you aim? Is it web page design, Flash animation, or print? And what about eBooks and eMagazines? To answer these questions Noble Desktop has created this free seminar. We'll tell you what you need to know to get started in web and/or print graphics, and which Adobe Creative Suite app are right for each medium.
Here's some of what we will cover:
• Current trends in computer graphics and how to learn them
• Should you focus on web page design?
• What about Flash animation?
• Is print dead? If not, where are the opportunities?
• How do eBooks and eMagazines fit into the picture?
• Recommended classes to achieve your career goals
• Suggestions on free resources to achieve your career goals
• After deciding a career-path, what's the best way to get there?
• How do you get that first website up?
• If you are doing print, do you still need a website? Yes!
• Should you have an online portfolio, and what should be in it?
• Should you create a digital portfolio for iPad or Android Tablet?