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Hayao Miyazaki, the legendary Oscar-winning Japanese animator known for directing several amazing Studio Ghibli classics such as Spirited Away, Kiki's Delivery Service, and My Neighbour Totoro, will announce his retirement at a press conference next week in Tokyo.
Koju Hoshino, current Studio Ghibli president, announced the director's plans for retirement this past Sunday at the Venice Film Festival in Italy. The studio president declined to take questions, referring to the press conference next week. "He wants to say goodbye to all of you," Hoshino said.
It looks like The Wind Rises, which is currently in competition in Venice, will be Miyazaki's last film. Kaze Tachinu, as it's known in Japan, is the fictionalized biography of Jiro Horikoshi, the man who designed the Mitsubishi Zero aircraft used in World War II.
Miyazaki directed eleven feature films in total, including my personal favorite Howl's Moving Castle, and also acted as producer and writer on other Studio Ghibli films such as Whisper of the Heart and Arrietty.
The famed animator, who also co-founded Studio Ghibli in the late 80's, leaves a legacy of great storytelling that often held recurring themes, such as humanity's relationship with technology and nature, the struggle for pacifism, and environmentalism.
Remaining faithful to traditional, hand-drawn animation, Miyazaki's imagery gives his movies their own unique and unforgettable style. His human characters are not much more than giant-eyed dolls with stiff legs, as if walking clumsily on stilts.
The landscapes in Miyazaki's films are ravishing, to say the least, creating beautiful backdrops that emphasize environmentalism and the Earth's fragility. No one else will be able to recreate the worlds that Miyazaki has conceived.
Hironobu Sakaguchi, creator of the Final Fantasy video game series, cited Miyazaki as inspiration for elements such as the airships and chocobos featured in the franchise. Influencing countless others, Miyazaki isn't going to be forgotten for a long time.


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Apropos of an interesting conversation I had the other day, I want to talk internet memes/viral images. You know – this kind of thing.
Funny … sure.
Well … funny makes people laugh and people laughing is a good thing. So I guess they have their place.
It's just their utter ubiquity that's starting to get to me.
The logical spawn of this digital age we live in, they are a cheap and easy click (0r share/like/retweet/regram/stumble/tumble/repin/+1 etc.)
But that's it. That's where it ends. They serve no real useful purpose beyond the click.
And you know what? That's fine. There's a time and a place for everything. I just have a problem with 'not-very-useful' stuff becoming the rule rather than the exception.
The other reason they annoy me is because they hold a mirror up to my face.
I've been lazy here on the blog.
I've used lack of time as an excuse for choosing to simply scratch the surface. For putting only a hint of an idea out there instead of 'going deep'.
Seth Godin says often:
'an idea is nothing if we cannot get it to spread'.
Why do we want ideas to spread? Because those ideas can become movements that change the world. For the better.
I have ideas worth spreading yet I'm choosing to dishonour this powerful tool I have at my disposal.
That tool being my words.
I should be using my words to make you laugh and cry. To sigh with pleasure.
I should be using my words to inspire you; galvanise you into ACTION.
All good blogs need to mix dark and light – both in tone and length and topic. But I know in my heart I've been defaulting to the easy (light) option here this year.
I've chosen to barely scratch the surface – introducing the seed of an idea here and there, but doing nothing else to help it take root.
Maybe writing my book in such a short period of time burnt me out a bit.
Maybe I'm being too hard on myself.
But this has been on my mind for a month and I do tend to listen to things that won't stop tapping me on the shoulder.
So I hope you guys don't mind if I push back a little. If I get a little bit more intentional with what I share here on the blog.
I'm tired of 'viral' equating to pithy words in Impact font being overlaid on a grainy image. So I'm going to stop adding to the noise myself and aim more for this:
With the above in mind, I made Your Best Year Yet free on Amazon on the weekend. There are definitely ideas in that book I think are worth spreading so it was pretty thrilling to see it get downloaded over 4000 times.
If you missed grabbing the book on the weekend – drop me an email and I'll send you a pdf copy.


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The Geeks Who Cracked the ORCA Card
Eric Butler, 25, is a self-taught programmer and app developer who went to Seattle's Nathan Hale High. In February, 2011 Butler launched FareBot, the app that lets some Android cell phones read ORCA and other transit card data.
Butler drew upon the earlier work of Karl Koscher, 30, a University of Washington grad student in computer security. Koscher found a way to reverse engineer ORCA cards and get details about the card holder's transit travels.
According to Koscher, groups at the UW were concerned about ORCA because the plan was to integrate the cards with the university's student ID and "U-Pass" system. Koscher obtained some beta ORCA cards and used a third-party software developer kit to gain access to the raw data.
"I was able to read the data out of the beta cards," says Koscher. "However, we didn't know what kind of data would actually be stored on the cards, or whether the actual ORCA cards would be any better protected."
Once the ORCA system launched, Koscher and a UW colleague decided to find out how the card collected and stored information as a user traveled through the system. They rode the bus "several times with different cards, logging the time, date, route, fare, etc.," he says. "We could then easily correlate data stored on the cards with our notes, which told us how to decode most of the trip and fare data."
Koscher continues: "We hacked together a demo to show exactly what we could do with this data. For a few weeks, we kept a history of where each bus was located at any given time. We could then use the bus number and timestamp from the trip history to display a map of where people took the bus. I think the people we showed this to found it quite disturbing that we could fairly precisely determine where they lived."
Cracking the ORCA required specialized knowledge and tools at the time. Technological changes have since made it easier. "We had cautioned the transit agencies that one day cell phones might be equipped with compatible readers, which would reduce the complexity to simply installing an app," says Koscher.
That's pretty much what happened. Once Koscher met Butler the idea went from hack to app. Koscher shared his intel on how ORCA worked; Butler used what he knew about developing usable apps. FareBot launched in February, 2011. To date, more than 10,000 people have downloaded the app. It also works for the Clipper card in San Francisco, transit cards in Japan and elsewhere.
Despite assurances of strong security by the creators of the ORCA system — transit agencies and suppliers — hacking the card and launching the app has seemed to occur without anyone breaking much of a technical sweat. "The process of actually reverse-engineering the cards only took a few days," says Koscher. "Correlating the trip data only took a handful of bus rides." Butler built the app in about a month, as a side project.
There is one hack that both Butler and Koscher say hasn't, as far as they know, succeeded yet; that is, "spoofing" an ORCA card so that you can ride for free. For the original ORCA system developers, it seems guarding against scofflaws was more important than protecting privacy.
It's not that Butler and Koscher haven't thought about ways to spoof ORCA. "We can't load new passes on to your card or update its balance," says Koscher. "I can think of at least a handful of ways you might be able to defeat this protection though."
But he adds: "I don't see it being particularly cost-effective." Not yet, anyway.
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Posted Wed, Feb 13, 8:05 a.m.
Or you could just go to Seattle.Craigslist and buy a multi year ORCA for cheap and ride anything to anywhere for peanuts.
Posted Wed, Feb 13, 11:14 a.m.
Knowing what bus stops a person boards and deboards a bus doesn't really give a "fairly precise" indication of where they live. It tells you a 1/4 mile radius, most likely... although I suppose you could just wait at their regular bus stop to meet up with them for ill will.
Posted Wed, Feb 13, 6:52 p.m.
There is no such thing as a "multi year" ORCA card. Any ads you see on Craigslist offering one is a scam. All business that provide employees a full pass, known as the ORCA Passport program, are on a one year contract. While, those contracts are renewed most times extending the life of the card, at most there is only going to be one year of use left on a card at any given time.
Additionally, selling those cards is a violation of the user agreement the business has with the passholder. If the sale is found out, the business can deactivate the card any time it wants.
Posted Thu, Feb 14, 3:39 p.m.
Really? I could give two rips if someone can see what buses I have been on recently. Seems like some people have delusions of self-importance.
They are protecting all of the data that needs to be protected. Unless someone can start using the money in ORCA purse or stealing my debit card transaction information, who cares?
Not sure I think this is great journalism. "Hackers find a way to hack something and steal innocuous infomation." Can someone explain to me what I am missing?
The one positive thing that will come from this is both "geeks" will land six figure jobs at tech companies (maybe even with ORCA) doing RFID security and app development.
Posted Mon, Feb 18, 5:26 p.m.
I'm technical management consultant and deal with security quite often. My own assessment of this is that there is no great threat here. I installed the app and pulled out my Orca Card and the app worked very well. It showed the current balance on the card and several trips I've taken on Washington State Ferries and Metro Transit Buses. The only specificity was the bus number, not the route number. If one could find a database of which routes specific buses were using on specific dates, one could find the route number. In sum, this adds little to no security risk relative to the myriad of other risks we deal with on a daily basis. I find this to be a helpful utility which circumvents the need to logon to a web site to determine my Orca balance. This article is overblown.... yellow journalism using the parlance of a different era.
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This document lists the various on-sky tests which will be used to characterise WFCAM as soon as possible after commissioning time, and in some instances during commissioning.
I (PH) would like to use this document to define a list of what observations are necessary and to some extent who will be responsible for looking at the data and signing off each requirement.
The detectors will be being used in a new mains power environment, attached to a telescope, and may have noise properties different to those measured in the lab. The difference needs to be characterized so that its impact on data reduction can be assessed. This will include:
Basically check that it works. Verify 2x2, 3x3 and 4x4 sequences. Also finalise which option is optimal in the cases where more than one option is availiable for a given mode in terms of the step sizes (ie where there's more than one common denominator between the 2 pixel scales.
Note: in case of measurement of sky properties, the measurement listed is to be carried out in every appropriate filter. Repeatability of filter placement should also be tested, and this can be done in a number of the tests below.
Can probably mostly be done with the sky measurement data above
Need an early measurement of the sensitivity limit in the standard observing modes. Also should compare coadded images of the same field taken on widely-separated nights. Quantify overheads in standard observing modes.
Early check of background-limited exposure times.
Long exposure to pick up a lot of CRs - test whether DR rejects them. Probably daytime to some extent. Can be done in conjuction with dark current monitoring.
Observe a field with large numbers of stars, and one with a few bright stars. Quantify the scattered light and ghosting.
Dead-reckoning coordinate system - first go. Includes the following:
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Oak Brook, Illinois, USA, January 10, 2011 – Six hundred families are moving into new homes, thanks to Lions Clubs International Foundation (LCIF) and Lions around the world. These families lost everything on January 12, 2010, after the devastating 7.0 earthquake. Lions were among the first to offer help, providing food, water and shelter. One year later, Lions are still helping in Haiti.
In October, Renande Pierre-Louis and her family of seven moved from their Lions-provided tent into a new provisional home. Families living in the Lions' tent cities will benefit through this project. View photos of these homes.
LCIF is working with HELP, a German non-governmental organization (NGO), to provide the homes. HELP has a 30-year history of providing humanitarian assistance. In nearly 20 countries around the world, the organization supports communities based on need. In Haiti, HELP is reconstructing homes for victims of the earthquake.
"The houses, earthquake and hurricane proof, will be built where the families were living before the earthquake," said Pierre-Richard Duchemin of the Port-au-Prince Delmas Lions Club. "Renande Pierre-Louis, her husband and six children are the first beneficiaries."
This is the first major project using resources from LCIF's Haiti Earthquake fund that totals more than US$6.1 million in donations from Lions worldwide. In total, US$2 million will support the housing project. LCIF allocated US$1.4 million, Lions from Germany contributed US$696,250 and HELP is providing administrative costs.
To identify beneficiaries, Lions and HELP surveyed each camp to find people with the greatest need to relocate. Once homes are complete, beneficiaries will receive basic furniture for their houses. In addition, latrines and other essentials will be provided for the community.
At this time, a limited number of NGOs are supporting provisional housing, even though there is a considerable need. The 600 homes significantly add to the number of provisional houses in Haiti, as only 5,000 have been built to date. Still, nearly 225,000 are needed. The end goal is to shift all people living in Lions' tents to provisional housing.
Lions and LCIF have had a strong presence in Haiti since the earthquake. Within hours of the quake, LCIF received unprecedented interest from people worldwide who wanted to help.
"Lions' response to rebuilding Haiti is truly incredible," said Eberhard J. Wirfs, Chairperson of Lions Clubs International Foundation. "Following the earthquake, Lions gave generously to support relief efforts and remain committed to providing hope moving forward."
A US$50,000 Major Catastrophe Grant was awarded immediately. Lions in the Dominican Republic collected goods and used LCIF funds to purchase relief supplies including medical aid, food and clean drinking water.
Three tent cities in the Port-au-Prince neighborhoods of Delmas, Blanchard and Carrefour-Feuille were established to house people who lost their homes. Nearly 2,500 people still reside in these establishments. The tent cities have become communities in a sense, providing essential needs for the people living there. All of them have a market to sell and buy goods, a worship space and a clinic that provides medical care.
Lions leaders and LCIF staff have visited the area several times, most recently in September 2010, to help in developing long-term plans and assess ongoing needs. Other projects are currently being reviewed. Additionally, the Lions of Haiti have formed a committee of Lions leaders for Haiti, Dominican Republic and neighboring countries to oversee the reconstruction efforts.
LCIF is leveraging Lions' donations through collaboration with other NGOs and corporations committed to rebuilding Haiti. The International Organization of Migration provided supplies and assistance to Lions camps. LCIF also partnered with the shipping company, Maersk, and the World Food Program, to ship tents donated by Lions of Sweden and food donated by the World Food Program, to Haiti free of charge. The Foundation continues discussions with other organizations to partner on projects in Haiti.
Moving forward, LCIF remains committed to rebuilding Haiti. Projects will be implemented over the long-term and additional projects are currently being reviewed. Similar to other disasters, Lions hope to rebuild homes and hospitals, redevelop the eye care delivery system, and provide help for those with disabilities, including those disabled because of this disaster.
"The Haitian Lions Relief and Reconstruction Committee, working jointly with all the Haitian Lions clubs and LCIF, has a strategic approach to give a much bigger dimension to our efforts and to LCIF funds," said Duchemin.
Restoring hope to Haitians will offer them a better future, much like Pierre-Louis and her family. LCIF is dedicated to restoring this hope for years to come, and this is made possible through the generous support of the Lions international family.
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Lions Clubs International Foundation is the charitable arm of Lions Clubs International, the largest service club organization in the world with 1.35 million members in 207 geographic areas and countries. LCIF awards nearly US$2 million annually for Lions-led disaster relief efforts. Last year alone, relief efforts helped 118,050 people following disasters. LCIF was ranked by a Financial Times' study as the number one non-governmental organization with which to partner. Contribute at www.lcif.org/donate.


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This is a thread for students who were accepted into the Fall 2009 program. I started this, so that we could count down till school starts and help each other with places where we can get cheaper... Read More
0Aug 13, '09 by RNmydreamsTHANKS for your input!!! I really appreciate it!!! WHen you start please keep me updated!!! Because I am not completely sold on the idea of LPN!!! At least not yet...I am just taking my time, weighing my pros and cons, and praying!!!!! Much success to your future!!! THANKS AGAIN!!!
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0Sep 3, '09 by NursingNPinkI am in the LPN program in Newnan that started in July. We had to buy the uniforms from Meridy's. They are all white and very hot and uncomfortable. I would be careful about anything you buy to wear for clinicals because we had to have everything approved by our instructor and we have to be checked every morning before we are allowed to go in the building (right now, we're in the nursing home). They check everything (socks, shoes, underwear, etc).
Many of the students in our class have purchased the rolling crates with lids that they sell at the office stores for about $25. You need to have a lot of binders and paper and room for books supplies etc. You will also have to purchase a code something called MedsPub which is an online program to practice for your boards. It is $100 per quarter. The nursing bag that they made us purchase has many of the supplies you need for lab and to take to clinicals (stethescope, penlight, scissors, etc...the stethescope is very cheap so it may be hard to use).
For those considering applying to the LPN program, it is pretty bad the first quarter. Very overwhelming. You are given a very large amount of work and you are only on a 4-day a week schedule. The days are also a little bit long. We are in class from 8:30-4:30 and clinicals are from 6:30-4:30. We started out with 20 and are down to 15.
As far as RN vs. LPN, I wish I had gone the RN route. More money. But I am planning on finishing my BSN after I'm done with this.
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0Sep 7, '09 by sheri644hello all my future classmates!!
[color=#483d8b]by this time you are all probably as broke as i am. thank god for our parents!! after finally getting everything we needed (except med pubs. computer key and that mysterious nursing kit we keep hearing about) i believe i spent around $1400.00 . my insurance wouldn't pay for any shots, titers, etc. and that was a chunk of change in itself. i also went ahead and got a littman classic ii stethoscope. i read many reviews and did a lot of comparisons and in each the littman was rated tops. plus i found a great site to order from--it was only $63.00 plus free engraving. if you would like the site address let me know.
[color=#483d8b]for those of you who live in or near carroll county, the uniform boutique on 61 (right past the vr rec complex), has a good selection of nursing watches, scissors, nursing shoes, etc. no super deals here, but the prices are about the same as what i've found on amazon.
[color=#483d8b]i have a question for everyone. how stupid will i look if i use a carry on rolling bag as my bookbag? nice rolling bookbags are pricey!
[color=#483d8b]i also kinda got "freaked-out" when i went on the school site and clicked on "bookstore fall price guide" and there is a different edition listed (13th) for the nursing diagnosis book and the drug guide they have listed is the 2008 with cd. i used the letter they sent us this summer to order my books off amazon. the letter said 12th edition for the nursing diagnosis book, and my 2009 drug guide did not have a cd. but i decided not to worry about it.
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0Sep 7, '09 by yellow_26Sheri i don't think you'll look stupid at all. As long as it saves your back from hurting who cares what anyone else thinks. Besides, it sounds like you've already spent enough money on everything else. I just bought my books online today. I was surprised it only cost me $125 for everything. i figured they would change something about the books which is why I waited so long to buy them. I also got the same stethoscope. It had many great reviews.Well it's about 3 weeks and counting......see you all then.
0Sep 7, '09 by MyDream2011YIKES! I have already bought my books based on the letter they sent. I got them from Amazon. I sure hope they are enough like the new ones so we can keep them!
0Nov 14, '09 by CMille14Quote from ang1kmI'll be applying January 1. I went to the mock interview on 11/12/09 wearing a business suit (skirt and jacket, neutral colors, dark pumps). The folks conducting the mock interview told me to wear that suit to the real interview.Hello, I am new to this site and would like to ask a question of the group of nursing students at WCTC. I will be applying for 2010 and would like to know how those women who were accepted into the program dressed for the interview? Thank you!
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0Nov 14, '09 by ang1kmThank you for your response, CMille14. I plan on applying January 1st. I appreciate your feedback on what to wear to the interview. I plan on wearing a black pantsuit w/white shirt and pumps. I just wanted to make sure it wouldn't be too much. I didn't even know they offered mock interviews until I read it on this site for WCTC. Do you know who I could contact to find out if they plan on having more of them before Jan. 1st? Would you mind sharing with me the questions they asked you or the setup of the interview? I hope I'm not asking too many questions, so only if you have time and don't mind. Thank you!
0Nov 15, '09 by CMille14glad to help ang1km. contact them for information on mock interviews. for me, the interview was held in a conference room with two interviewers. apparantly they vary the questions between interviews, because they had (what appeared to be) a stack of questions to ask. a friend interviewed after i did and got different questions. mostof mine were "how would you handle it if you....(saw something unethical or dangerous, etc.)"
do you have the rest of your requirements completed? good luck. maybe we'll be in classes together soon.
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0Nov 15, '09 by ang1kmHey, thank you for the additional information. I am taking the NLN on 12/10. That is the last thing I have to do. I am currently taking A&P II and that is the last thing I can take except for the actual nursing classes. I thought it would be best to do it that way so that I won't have so much on me while taking the nursing classes and clinicals, even though it took me longer. Good luck to you, as well, hopefully I'll see you soon. Thank you again for your input!


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Silverlight installation per machine/browser?
A question I had on top of my head:
When you install Silverlight, is it installed automatically on every browser available on your machine or is it per browser like Flash installation ?The answer is:
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Back to some real content here!
Maybe you already know about this, but as I still often see static method like GetColorFromHTML() in companies static class, it could be a good reminder.The idea is when you want to set a color in code, like GridView1.ForeColor = "#FFCC66", but this do not work because the property is of type System.Drawing.Color.
You don't need to create a convert method as there is already such a method in the Framework, but the location is not obvious.
First I would have checked for System.Drawing.Color.FromHTML() as there is already a System.Drawing.Color.FromArgb(), but no, it is not there. Instead you have to look in System.Drawing.ColorTranslator.Convert a RGB color to System.Drawing.Color:
System.Drawing.Color col = System.Drawing.ColorTranslator.FromHtml("#FFCC66"); VB:
Dim col As System.Drawing.Color = System.Drawing.ColorTranslator.FromHtml("#FFCC66") Convert a System.Drawing.Color to RGB string:
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My Code Camp Montreal 2007 presentations
Here are the slides and demos of both of my french sessions: "Expression softwares" and "Silverlight".
Expression session was live only demos, but you'll find the samples I used for Silverlight :
- Expression Encoder output
- ASP.NET Future <asp:Media> Control
- Web Service
- OpenFileDialog
- Isolated Storage
Note that you need VS2008 beta 2 and Microsoft Silverlight Alpha Tools for Visual Studio 2008 BetaDownload the file:
Thanks to all attendees!
Expression Quizz at Code Camp Montréal
Help me be a De(v)signer! (Expression Design Tutorials)
Code Camp Montreal 2007
realDEVELOPMENT_07 Canadian Tour for Web Developers
The Real Development Reloaded Tour will be in Montreal on October 18.
I had the chance to review the content of this event, lots of good tips and tricks will be shown, and I am sure you will learn something new, even if like me you do ASP.NET since you are born (almost!).
This tour focus on today's technologies, the ones you use on your day to day job as a web developer. So don't miss this chance to consolidate your knowledge, feel more confident on ASP.NET, AJAX, and learn about the best tools for your browser!
realDEVELOPMENT_07 tour is coming to a Canadian city near you. This half-day event is your chance to get a closer look at the technologies you use to create real web applications.In the sessions, you'll learn how to use:
- Visual Studio® development system to debug and trace your web application
- Third party tools and utilities such as the Internet Explorer® internet browser Readiness Toolkit, Developer Toolbar, and Fiddler
- the Enterprise Library to implement best practices
- ASP.NET AJAX to create more immersive and interactive experiences
Link for Montreal registration:
MONTREAL - OCT 18, 2007 (8:30 AM - 12 NOON)For other dates and cities, read this post.
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Can't wait for the new Zune 80 ??
Try Popfly!
Zune not working on Desktop USB
I was not able to setup my Zune device since I bought my new desktop PC.
New Zune soon
New Zunes are coming in November!
Silverlight overview
COM Surrogate has stopped working error in Vista
I had this error each time I browse media folders in Vista :
Vista Sidebar Gadget Template
Tim Heuer has done a really nice Sidebar Gadget Template for Visual Studio.
Silverlight briefing event in Canada
Wow, this one is not announced elsewhere than here... it is not even in the MSDN Canada events page ???
An half-day morning event on Silverlight will take place in 3 cities in Canada during October. For Montreal registration go there, for Vancouver and Toronto links read the original post.
Join us for a very informative and productive half-day event which will provide you with an overview of Microsoft's new Silverlight browser plug-in. There is a great amount of buzz around Silverlight and this briefing is meant to provide you with an understanding of its capabilities and value proposition for both you and your customers.
This Innovation Briefing will cover:
- An overview of Silverlight
- Business value to you and your customers of Silverlight
- Architecture and services of Silverlight
- Implementing Silverlight-based applications
- A roadmap for Silverlight
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Everest – Ownerless
About Halfway to the Top
Ownerless, the third release from country-tinged rockers Everest, draws plentifully from the mineral-fresh wells of Joe Walsh, The Flying Burrito Brothers and heirs apparent like Uncle Tupelo and Wilco, but never bothers to dig for an underground vein of its own. Though there's no arguing lead vocalist Russell Pollard intently feels everything he's singing, there's a certain oomph, credulity—call it fire in the belly—missing from the songs' content, perhaps arising from a set list sounding too safe, too often. The themes and melodies just aren't focused and fully-formed enough to push the album's condition beyond a standard, middling result. Read more…
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Be a super saver for the kids
FEW things are as important to a parent as giving their child a good start in life.
But when it comes to setting them off on a sound financial footing it can be difficult to know which way to turn.
Here we look at some of the options open to parents.
The Junior Individual Savings Account allows children to save tax-free with anyone — parents, grandparents, godparents or friends — being able to chip in on behalf of the child.
They have been running for just over a year, and are set-up in a similar fashion as the adult version except the money is locked away until the child's 18th birthday, after which they have sole access to the money.
Up to £3,600 a year can be saved in either a Cash JISA or a Stocks and Shares ISA. The latter is more risky but could provide better returns over the longer term.
However, not every child is eligible for a Junior Isa. Those born between September 2002 and January 2, 2011 will automatically have a Child Trust Fund set up.
This was a Government initiative which invested £250 on behalf of every child at birth, with another £250 handed out when the child turned seven.
Like the JISA, up to £3,600 a year can be saved in a CTF and the money cannot be accessed until the child becomes an adult.Those with a CTF cannot take out a JISA and Child Trust Funds cannot be converted into JISAs.
There are three other main types of accounts that are tailored for children. These are regular savings accounts, fixed savings accounts and easy access accounts.
A regular saving account will be part of a money savings plan, where you pay in on a monthly basis for a fixed term and can then withdraw the cash.
They can be a good way of building up savings, but be mindful of any penalties should you miss a month.
A fixed style savings account tends to offer a slightly higher rate of interest than standard saving account but the money is locked away and can only be withdrawn after a set period of time, often five-year cycles.
Children's Bonus Bonds are a type of fixed-rate account, but an additional bonus is paid after the set time period has matured.
The last type of account that you can have is a standard easy access account, allowing you to save when you like and many can be opened with as little as £1.


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The Politics Blog Home Your Daily Pope Let us check in on the latest conclave odds, shall we? Self Awareness Is Not Just a River In Egypt Things In Politico That Make Me Want To Guzzle Antifreeze, Part The Infinity Every sportswriter learns one simple rule in a very quick hurry namely, that nobody out in your readership cares how hard you think your job is. A Tough Weekend For Compromise It was a tough weekend for fans of "compromise." Your Cash Ain't Nothing But Trash According to the proposed sequester, the FAA is going to face approximately $1 billion in cuts. This could mean a couple of thousand air-traffic controllers could be laid off. Your Morning Dooley Your Evening Jemmy Is There A Late Fee For This? The great state of Mississippi corrects an unfortunate bureaucratic oversight. Recent History Is Still History Here's Stu Rothenberg, being very nearly almost right about the problems with the Republican party. Things In Politico That Make Me Want To Guzzle Antifreeze, Part The Infinity Your Daily Pope Everybody's a cleric these days, especially at The New York Times, where Ross Cardinal Douthat and Bill Keller both took the opportunity this weekend to weigh in on the soon-to-be-vacant Chair Of Peter, and the upcoming process to fill it. What Are The Gobshites Saying These Days? Welcome back to our semi-regular weekly survey of the state of Our National Dialogue which, as you know, is what Aaron Copland would have come up with had he written Fanbelt For The Common Man. Your Morning Dooley Out On The Weekend In Which I Agree With Senator Aqua Buddha Rand Paul is right on drones. Your Daily Pope It seems that Benedict XVI wasn't doing all that well before he decided to resign and, of course, the rest of the Church was kept in the dark. Bill Hemmer Needs To Be Cockpunched Let's convey our enthusiasm today for Bill Hemmer mocking a 102-year old woman who had to wait an entire day to vote! Good dog, Bill. Fetch. The North Carolina Nipple Defense Act Of 2013 The hilarious anti-nipple bill coming out of the North Carolina legislature. Another day, another indication of how the Republican party is moving itself away from being The Stupid Party. The Cool Kidz Club Is Open When I start my re-education camp for Beltway pundits, Chris Cillizza of The Washington Post is going to be first in line every day for his bowl of rice. Survivalist Nation As the week comes to a close, the two most talked-about lumps of prose are the hysterical in every sense of the word zombie-apocalypse op-ed by the NRA's Wayne LaPierre and and Sam Tanenhaus's long exegesis. A Brief Announcement From The Management It is hereby declared that "What the fk does it all matter, anyway?" is an acceptable response to everything else that appears on the blog today. A Tale Of Two Senators Your Morning Dooley Your Evening Jemmy This Afternoon In Hagel Town It seems now that Harry Reid may not have the votes even to get a vote on Chuck Hagel's nomination to be Secretary Of Defense, even though he's scheduled one for this afternoon. This Week In The Laboratories Of Democracy Welcome back to our weekly survey of what's goin' down in the several states where, as we know, the real work of governmentin' really gets done. Disorder In The Court Rule Number One about the Wisconsin Supreme Court never talk about the Wisconsin Supreme Court. Q&A: The Game, Whose Song Pumped Up The Shooter Heroism At A Safe Remove I'm rather old-fashioned in my belief that combat military citations are best earned on the battlefield. I'm not convinced that you should get a medal for what you did in Waziristan from your computer and a drone. The Hagel Mess There are a number of reasons why the nomination of Chuck Hagel to be the next Secretary Of Defense may hit the rocks however temporarily over the next couple of days, and almost all of them have to do with the dysfunction within which Your Morning Dooley Your Daily Pope Your Evening Jemmy 'The Shooter' On the Hill Your Daily Pope Can I offer a tip to the panjandrums over at liberal MSNBC? Get Chris Jansing out of Vatican City now. Climate Happens Anyway The warming of the Earth is killing off the permafrost, and that does more than make life miserable for the people of Shishmaref, and for the Arctic peoples in general. This Day In Your Changing Republican Party The Republican Senate primary in Georgia is shaping up to be a poo-flinging Agincourt right from jump. The Grassroots Were Longer Than We Thought The Tea Party was a scam. Today In Responsible Gun Ownership The Kamikaze Governors It seems that Governor Rick Snyder's popularity among the Michiganders has not blossomed since he got his pet right-to-work law through a while back. Keeping The Minimum In Minimum Wage Things In Politico That Make Me Want To Guzzle Antifreeze, Part The Infinity The Audacity of Shame SOTU: The Three Faces of the Republican Party Swift Boats Triumphant Your Evening Jemmy Marco Rubio Clears His Throat For His Big Solo Have You, At Long Last, No Decency? Mitch Daniels Is Not The Answer, Either One Thing To Remember |


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A lady at Target was leaving at the same time I was and ditched a plant on the curb. (?) I asked her to be sure she didn't want it, and when I got close enough, I saw why - the poor thing was wilted to no end. She said she bought it at the gardening store at the end of the strip, and didn't think she'd be in Target so long... so I guess the extreme heat in the car while she was shopping took it's toll.
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1 It was now two days before the Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread. And the chief priests and the scribes were seeking how to arrest him by stealth and kill him, | 1 Now the Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread were only two days away, and the chief priests and the teachers of the law were looking for some sly way to arrest Jesus and kill him. |
2 for they said, "Not during the feast, lest there be an uproar from the people." | 2 "But not during the Feast," they said, "or the people may riot." |
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Le Puy is an 8-room, 4-season, destination inn for the Yamhill Wine Valley in Newburg, Oregon. The inn strives to exemplify sustainability from the food offered, to the products used, to the care for the environment from the exterior to the interior. Our goal is to provide a superior hospitality experience. Our mission is to be an authentic "eco-inn". We host meetings, retreats and seminars as well as intimate weddings, anniversaries and reunions. Guests are invited to come to the inn to re-balance themselves with the tranquil setting, good food, spa amenities and fresh atmosphere.
The property was purchased as a single family home. Our vision took us from a large residence to a beautiful 8 room inn for the wine valley. The 10 acres upon which we sit yield hay for our neighbors horses, as well as gardens for flowers, vegetables and fruit. The property is nestled half way up a hill on the north side of the Dundee Hills and we offer panoramic views of surrounding mountains, vineyards and farmlands. In addition to the main house, we have a large courtyard as well as the Loire room for guests to enjoy.
About Le Puy (pronounced "pwee")
We toured the Loire Valley in France with our home base in Le Puy de Notre Dame, a quaint French countryside village. The land surrounding us was full of vineyards and where the soil was deemed unsuitable for grapes, there were rolling fields of sunflowers. Inspired by the beauty of the region and the simple sweetness of the name Le Puy, we looked further into the origin and meaning. Basically, it is old French for "hill". There are many Le Puys throughout France. They are most often ancient worship sites which contained a dolmen (sacred stone) and were usually replaced by Christian churches.
Our property, although located in wine country, is not really suitable for grapes, so that is why we infused the sunflower theme into our name. We sit on a hillside with spectacular views of the Chehalem Ridge and peeks at the Coastal range, Mt Hood and Mt Jefferson. We feel the mix of nature, spirituality and deep rooted history behind the name, fits into our dream for creating a holistic, sustainable inn. Thus, Le Puy, our wine valley inn was born.
From our guest suites to the common areas, we have strived to create a relaxing environment from which to enjoy the Willamette wine valley. Our guests will find that there are many choices at the inn for kicking back and taking in the sights, smells and sounds of the countryside. Whether sipping a glass of wine, reading a good book or visiting with friends, we offer a 4 season environment. From your private rooms and terraces to the courtyard, gathering room and great room, there is something for everyone.
Common Areas
- The Great Room: Flanked by an enormous fireplace and stunning views of the Valley, this room is the heart of the inn. Breakfast is served in our turret room as well as in part of the great room. In warmer weather, a large balcony offers outdoor dining and comfy seating while our guests take in the sights, sounds and smells of the wine country.
- The Loire Room: Pub style room with TV, conference/private dining table, small bar area for private parties, wine tastings, retreats and meetings. Accommodates up to 20.
- The Courtyard: Highlighted by a beautiful stone and water sculpture created by local artist Stuart Jacobsen, our courtyard offers a casual country villa atmosphere. Located at the main entry, this space will accommodate up to 75 for outdoor events and compliments the future Barn and The Loire Room.
Le Puy offers 8 beautifully appointed suites. All of our rooms have private bathrooms, spa amenities, a wine 'bar' with refrigerator, cutting board, glasses and picnic supplies. Each room has an LCD TV with access to our DVD library where guests can enjoy our movie collection. Most of our rooms have a spacious balcony or patio capturing our beautiful wine country views. Some of our rooms also feature spa tubs and several offer a romantic gas fireplace. We are proud to offer Tempur-pedic mattresses in all rooms, America's number one recommended mattress.
Amenities in all Rooms:
- Private bath facilities
- Wireless Internet access
- LCD Televisions with Blu-Ray CD players
- iHome alarm clock radio/docking stations
- Spa robes & spa quality bath amenities
- Hairdryers
- Irons & ironing board available on request
- Air-conditioning Tempur-Pedic beds with Tempur-pedic pillows
- Additional Hypoallergenic Feather Pillows & Duvets
- Wineglasses & wine openers
- Refrigerator
- Smoke-free facility and grounds
- Complimentary access to our collection of DVD movies
- Complimentary gourmet breakfast
- Complimentary Afternoon treat
The Inn is perfectly suited to host events and provides a wide choice of style and venue options. From our covered porch and balcony to the courtyard and gardens, we offer exterior spaces that capture the beauty of wine country in all weather conditions.
Our interior spaces include The Great Room, Loire Room, and for a more rustic flavor, the Saumur Room. Exterior spaces include the courtyard, great lawn and Anjou Terrace.
We welcome weddings and celebrations,(up to 40 persons).
We also host smaller events for guests of the Inn which includes Wine Pairing and Culinary Dinners, Meetings, Retreats & Seminars, (16 persons max).
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Ooh! Aah! Check out our list of dazzling Hawaii Fourth of July fireworks shows
by: Stephanie Louiposted: Tue Jul 02, 2013 at 11:57 AM
Independence Day festivities will soon be under way in the 50th state. If you're looking for fireworks shows, you'll find them on four islands this year — Oahu, Kauai, Maui and the Big Island. Here's our list of the large-scale get-togethers that include fireworks displays. (Admission is free for most of the listed events.) Happy Independence Day from the entire HAWAII Magazine ohana!
Kick off your Independence Day festivities a little early with food, fireworks, and music at Aloha Tower Marketplace on Wednesday (July 3), 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. This event will include a variety of restaurant options, live bands, and a spectacular oceanfront firework show slated to get under way at 8:45 p.m. There will also be a concert starting at 10 p.m. featuring Trinidad James and Luminox. For more information, click here.
It's go big or go home at the 22nd annual Ala Moana Fourth of July event. With the largest public firework display in the state, spectators from line the island's south shore from Waikiki to Kakaako to watch this stunning display. The fireworks are set to launch from Ala Moana Beach Park at 8:30 p.m. with a live, synced soundtrack broadcasting on KRATER 96 FM. The mall will also be offering a special 20 percent savings pass for shoppers, July 4-7. The holiday music and dance performance lineup will feature a hula dance showcase and Hawaii musicians including John Cruz, Lehua Kalima, Ho'okena and more. Free. For more event details, click here.
Head to the North Shore for an all-day lineup of water sports, live entertainment, food, and fireworks. Starting at 10:45 a.m., more than 500 paddleboarders will take to the water for a seven-mile race from Turtle Bay Resort to Waimea Bay. Check out the paddleboard expo or the Primo Island Lager beer garden to kick back with the music of John Cruz, Kapena, Kamaka Fernadez and more. For family friendly fun, try out Hawaiian holua sledding, board-carving, and the waterslide. Fireworks start at 8 p.m. with an after-party at Surfer, The Bar starting at 9 p.m. For more details, click here.
The 67th annual Kailua Independence Day parade will start at 10 a.m. on Kainalu Drive. An air show is set for 6 p.m., and fireworks will light up the night sky on the windward side of Oahu at Kailua Beach Park at 8 p.m. For additional information, click here.
The 42nd annual 4th of July Spectacular at Weyand Field on Schofield Barracks is open to Department of Defense ID cardholders and their guests. Starting at 10 a.m., the celebration will include crafts, pony rides, food vendors and a live performance by headliner ONEREPUBLIC. Fireworks start at 8:30 p.m. (Note: Department of Defense cardholders and authorized guests include military service members and retirees, civilian employees, and military families.) Click here for more details.
The July Fourth Barbeque on the Bay is back for its sixth annual soiree with special thanks to community residents, businesses, and an anonymous donor who together have raised enough funds to host this year's fireworks display. The festivities at Maunalua Bay Beach Park in Hawaii Kai feature hula, jazz, Hawaiian music, and crafts, 1 p.m. to 9 p.m. The barbeque area will serve up hamburgers, hot dogs, ice cream, shave ice and drinks with proceeds benefitting two local nonprofits. Fireworks begin at 8 p.m. Click here for more information.
Check out these related HawaiiMagazine.com posts:
Hawaii retailer Hilo Hattie sold
Flying between the islands of Hawaii: What are your airline options?
Where to find localized Hawaii weather forecasts online
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It's not quite the Soviet KGB, but a new service called kgb uses human agents to answer texted questions from mobile users for 50 cents a pop.
Full story in the New York Times.
At the Federated Search blog there is this entry:
Carmichael's federated search journey
Carmichael does something in her blog that I'd like to see more of — she shares her federated search journey. Over the past year, but especially in recent weeks, Carmichael has written about her experiences exploring federated search.
You might expect forward-thinking libraries to put their databases online, to encourage people through their doors. But they can't. Even though they created the data, pay to have records added to the database and pay to download them, they can't.
"It's safe to say that the policy change is a direct response to Open Library," says Aaron Swartz, the founder of Open Library (openlibrary.org), a project to give every published book its own Wikipedia-style page. "Since the beginning of Open Library, OCLC has been threatening funders, pressuring libraries not to work with us, and using tricks to try to shut us down. It didn't work - and so now this."
A proposed OCLC Policy got Tim thinking about compiling all the arguments against the Policy. He wants to start with the process and legal ones, which have gotten very short shrift. OCLC spokespeople are persuasive personalities, and OCLC's "Frequently Asked Questions" allay fears, but the Policy itself is a scary piece of legal writing and, as it explictly asserts, the only writing that matters. He finishes with a call to action:
Librarians and interested parties have only a month before the OCLC Policy goes into effect. It is time to put up or shut up.
* The New York Public Library is hosting a moderated discussion with OCLC Vice President Karen Calhoun from 1-4pm on Friday, January 17. Show up and make your displeasure known.
* Visit and link to the Code4Lib page on OCLC Policy change.
* Sign the Internet Archive/Open Library petition to stop the OCLC Policy.
* Sign librarian Elaine Sanchez's petition.
Troubles for Reference Librarians: Rick Roche:
At the risk of sounding old fashioned and crotchety, let me say that this sounds like the result of having had too much easy success in the past and settling for just enough. I think we as librarians should work to make our tools as easy to use as possible, with the goal of connecting clients and information/content that they seek, but we should convey that the tools are not perfect. I think some of our marketing that says "Hey, use this , it's easy!" backfires on us. Students and other clients believe us and then assume that if the easy search does not find anything, there is nothing to be found. How we can have positive and encouraging promotions that are still realistic is tricky. We need to think about this.
Dave Lankes shares a conversation because, to him, it goes right to the heart of what he has been saying about the need for librarians to be innovators and leaders.
It is a constant drumbeat that we must change and make our libraries relevant. But dammit, we must move beyond bullet points and slogans and translate this drumbeat into real risk, real action, real new thinking.
He closes with a great series of questions:
Why can't we replace the "Read" posters that portray libraries as places of things with "Ask" posters that show them as places of curiosity? Why do library gaming programs have to be some sort of lost leader to reading when gaming is a literacy unto itself? Who said the catalog has to be the public face of the library on the web? WHY CAN"T LIBRARIES REINVENT SEARCH?
In this 1936 Modern Mechanix article, a fantasy about shrinking the Library of Congress to fit "in a few small filing cabinets" on microfiche/film. Once this is done, copies of the great library will be distributed to worthy institutions all over the world.
"Each volume so reduced in size is housed in a sealed cartridge not much larger than a 12-gauge shotgun shell. When desired for reading, it is inserted in a small cabinet, the light turned on, and the copy is projected upon a screen, enlarged to comfortable reading size and unaccompanied by glare."
Here's a really wonderful thread over on PUBLIB. It started with this: "Some pre holiday humor for y'all. I just had a patron ask me for a list of all our informational books. I giggled."
My personal favorite: "Patron rolling up a shirtsleeve and showing me her arm, "is this herpes?""
Pushing ahead in the decades-long effort to get computers to understand human speech, Google researchers have added sophisticated voice recognition technology to the company's search software for the Apple iPhone.
David Bainbridge from the Greenstone team posted a release noting that a new version of the package was released. Greenstone originates from New Zealand at the University of Waikato. Relative to the changes in the new release, Bainbridge wrote:
The main focus has been on multilingual support. Improvements include handling filenames that include non-ASCII characters, accent folding switched on by default for Lucene, and character based segmentation for CJK languages.
This release also features our new installer, which is 100% open source. Previously we had relied on a commercial program for this, which incurred a significant cost in keeping up to date; consequently we decided to develop our own installer, based on the excellent open source installer toolkits already available.
There are many other significant additions in this release, such as the Fedora Librarian Interface (analogous to GLI, but working with a Fedora repository). See the release notes for the complete details.
The post gives details on downloading the release as well as daily builds.


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Power Consumption Test
Using our PROVA Power Analyzer WM-01 or "Power Thingy" as it has become quickly known as to our readers, we are now able to find out what kind of power is being used by our test system and the associated graphics cards installed. Keep in mind; it tests the complete system (minus LCD monitor, which is plugged directly into AC wall socket).
There are a few important notes to remember though; while our maximum power is taken in 3DMark06 at the same exact point, we have seen in particular tests the power being drawn as much as 10% more. We test at the exact same stage every time; therefore tests should be very consistent and accurate.
The other thing to remember is that our test system is bare minimum - only a SSD hard drive is used with a single CD ROM and minimal cooling fans.
So while the system might draw 400 watts in our test system, placing it into your own PC with a number of other items, the draw is going to be higher.
Power draw comes in at a little under 500 watt when under load. Again considering the performance of the card, this is pretty good and considering the price you should have a power supply that is more than capable of dealing with this kind of power draw.


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C.H. Robinson includes cutting instructions on packaging and provides recipes and information that retailers can add to their websites and Facebook pages , Castagnetto said.
Consumers want to learn all they can, said Karen Caplan, chief executive officer of Los Alamitos, Calif.-based Frieda's Inc.
"Consumers are always looking for information, especially at point of sale," Caplan said.
Information-rich labels, signage and recipe tear-offs are particularly effective teaching tools, as are quick-response codes for smartphone users, Caplan said.
The most important tool, though, is experience, Caplan said.
"A great way to educate consumers is to do sampling," she said. "We recommend when a fruit ripens — like cherimoyas — that instead of throwing them out, cut them up and sample. It's a great way to build sales and introduce the fruit to new shoppers."
Retailers, on the whole, haven't held up their part of the educational bargain, said consultant Dick Spezzano, owner of Spezzano Consulting Service, Monrovia, Calif.
"I don't see them doing a really great job on that," he said. "There's probably some regionals in my area that do a decent job, but it's all about information and how well you train the produce people."
Less knowledge means fewer sales, said Bill Sheridan, executive vice president of sales with Banacol Marketing Corp., Miami.
"We find the best (approach is) having a demo person very familiar with the products and how they should be prepared," he said.
Coral Gables, Fla.-based Turbana Corp. tries to aim its messaging at consumers, said Scott DiMartini, regional sales manager.
"We have assistance with that now, with the boom of food networks and fusion-themed restaurants," he said.


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This summer, Georgia's Special Council on Tax Reform and Fairness for Georgians began its five-month mandate to examine our state's tax code and recommend a path forward.
With their mission nearing completion and taxes becoming a key election-year issue, I believe the Council must focus its energies on long-term and sustainable solutions for a healthy fiscal future. Read More»
Whether you suffer through a two-hour commute to work, worry about MARTA's future, or need a better option than driving to get from one end of the state to the other, we can all agree there is a transportation problem in Georgia.
So, why is our Republican leadership standing idly by as federal aid that could help solve our traffic problem goes to surrounding states?
States in the Southeast recently received nearly $2 billion in federal funds for high-speed rail projects. Florida received over $1 billion, and North Carolina received $545 million. Read More»
In the second full week of the legislative session, a Republican state senator introduced a brand new property tax overhaul designed to save you money. Under this legislation, he says, appeals will move faster and assessments will be fairer.
Of course, all eyes turned to this "fair tax" legislation, which is exactly what the state Republicans want. They want a distracted homeowner so eager to shave pennies off his assessment that he doesn't notice the nearly $500 million in property tax increases mandated by the same Republican legislature. Read More»


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Experimental Course Proposals
Departments that wish to offer new subject matter prior to proposing a permanent course, or to meet one-time demands, should use the Undergraduate or Graduate Experimental Course Proposal Form. Some colleges require the same approval process as for new permanent courses; others may require only department chair and college dean approval before the proposal is forwarded to the AVP's office. NOTE: Approval is for one semester only. Repeat offerings (up to a maximum of three times) require resubmission of experimental course proposal forms, with chair and dean signatures, each time the course is offered.


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baby was born 1987 in queens,new york. Ever since she can remember she was
holding a pencil drawing on anything she can practice on. In third grade she
won her first award for first place portrait; which just motivated her to
master her talent. Getting her first tattoo at the age of 14 and with the
support of other tattoo artist she made a homemade tattoo gun and started
practicing on all her highschool friends.by the age of 19 she made the mature
decision that it was what she wanted to do for the rest of her life. Being
self-taught she challenged her skills and put her 100%. She has become a
respected award winning tattoo artist; and not to mention got to tattoo clients
such as lil wayne, nu jerzey devil and ,mma master rene" level"
martinez. If talent isn't enough tatu baby models aswell and has been feautured
on urban ink, 305hipop.com hard body of the month, on dynastyseries.com,
24hourhiphop.com, telemundo"persigiendo injusticias" ;and much more..
Tatu baby has beauty and skills but most importantly dedication and
preserverance so get ready to see more jaw dropping projects.
At a
glimpse your first thoughts might be "erotic" and "tatted",
but after reading this interview you would know that this month's Hard Body
model is way more than that. One of the hottest tattoo artist coming from Miami
is a female by the name of Kat, but it's not the one from Miami Ink TV show.
This Colombian tattoo artist that goes by the alias of Tatu Baby, is a smart, ambitious, and insightful person.
An insta Tattoos are sexy. Particularly when done by a skilled seductress who
hails from our hometown. Meet Tatu Baby (AKA Katherine Flores), a Miami native
and contestant on season two of Spike TV's reality hit, Ink Master.
One of
only three women in a lineup of 16 contestants, Tatu Baby had to hold her own
against top talent while fighting for a $100,000 cash prize. The show, judged
by Dave Navarro of Jane's Addiction, Chris Nunez of Miami Ink and Oliver
Peck of Elm Street Tattoo, pits artists against each other in a series of
tattoo challenges. Forced to create original ink on command, the stakes are
pretty high.
Baby has been tattooing professionally since she was 19, and got her first ink
at 14. These days, she's a full blown canvas of original art, and spends her
time inking up South Floridians. While she couldn't reveal much about the
show's secrets (season two premieres on October 10), Cultist got the skinny
from Kat on creativity, making permanent mistakes and the asshole tat
favorite and one of the hardest bodies to grace the cover of 305HipHop.com.


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Executive Insight was event sponsor of 'Health Technology Assessment World Europe' that tooks place in London, December 4th - 5th. We had a presentation looking to answer whether Germany is up to the HTA challenge for Personalized Medicine and give insights and a comparison to Australia, France and the UK. If you want to discuss please get in touch with Klarissa Hoday (email@example.com) who presented at the conference
We regularly attend and present at key industry events. Please contact us if you would like to discuss any of the topics below.
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text: Fear Factory easter eggEnter the museum and examine the notice on the wall terminal to the far right. The text is about a virus infecting their Archetype. At the end it repeats parts of the song "Archetype" by Fear Factory: "the infection has been removed, the soul of this machine has improved". |


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Recent Stories
Potomac: More Colorful Than a Courtroom
Potomac jewelry artist traded corporate law for colorful fabric.
Few of the more than 400 artists and crafters featured in this weekend's Sugarloaf Craft Festival got their start in a courtroom.
Arlington: A New Audience for a Beloved Tale
When Mozart wrote "The Magic Flute" in the late 1700s, it's hard to imagine he envisioned an audience entirely filled with elementary school children.
'Shutdown' a new beginning for BoxCartel Jumphead
Arlington band BoxCartel hosting a CD release party on May 24 at the Rhodeside Grill.
Last fall's closure of the federal government for more than two weeks might have been a frustrating time for some, but five local men used it to make a record.
A Rolling Tradition
Annual event brings thousands of motorcyclists, spectators to streets of Fairfax for Memorial Day celebration.
When it first began, the Ride of the Patriots was a few friends getting together to honor Memorial Day and those who served, riding down to Washington, D.C. to join the national Rolling Thunder parade.
Sharing Stories Across the Globe
Arlington Sister City Association honors 20th anniversary of first partnership and launch of oral history project.
The Arlington Sister City Association is throwing a party to celebrate the 20th anniversary of its first international partnership, with Aachen, Germany, and its subsequent relationships in France, El Salvador, Ukraine and Mexico, and its new oral history project. ASCA's event is by invitation only on Monday, May 5, 7-9 p.m. at the Arlington Arts Council, 3550 Wilson Blvd. Anyone interested in attending and learning more about the organization and getting involved can contact Emily Morrison 202-299-0262 or firstname.lastname@example.com.
Fuse Box Lighting Up the Wammie Awards
Five teenagers from Alexandria up for Best New Artist at this year's Wammie awards Sunday, Feb. 16.
Among the eight acts up for new artist of the year at this year's Washington Area Music Association Wammie Awards, most won't have to worry about getting up for high school the next morning. Fuse Box, five talented musicians who discovered their love of music at a young age, have been playing together in some form or another for several years, and as a fully-fledged band for nearly four years.
Tags from the Edge
Under the cover of darkness, soldiers and civilian contractors are taking to the walls of the Kandahar military base in Afghanistan. They're using spray paint and stencils, along with their sense of humor and expression, to make the beige concrete walls a little more colorful.
Spreading Holiday Cheer
Wine shops from around the region give their suggestions for bottles to bring to holiday parties.
Holiday season means parties, hostess gifts, office Secret Santas and other occasions where many people bring a bottle of some spirit or other to spread good tidings. So what to pick up? What's right? What kind of wine goes with what kind of food? And where to go for some good advice?
Dancing into the Sunset
After 35 years, Kathy Harty Gray and her dance company are taking a bow.
Kathy Harty Gray's career may have started as a student at Julliard, but she and her students will celebrate her legacy in Alexandria.
Hollywood comes to Alexandria
Bringing a little taste of Hollywood to Old Town, the seventh annual Alexandria Film Festival kicks off Nov. 7.
It might be Patti North's favorite time of year, but it's certainly one of the most stressful. As chair of the Alexandria Film Festival, North has spent moths preparing for this year's event, pulling together movies ranging from a few minutes to an hour or more in length from around the world and helping to line up Q&A sessions with as many filmmakers as possible during the festivals' four-day run.


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12 The younger son said to his father, 'Father, give me my share of the inheritance.' Then the father divided his estate between them. | 12 The younger one said to his father, 'Father, give me my share of the estate.' So he divided his property between them. |
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Study Type |
Nutrition |
Study Purpose |
The purpose of this study is to find out what eating meals in a short time period early in the day, versus eating meals spread out during the day ("grazing"), does to the body's ability to control blood sugar and to the health of its blood vessels. |
About the Study |
This study will test the conventional wisdom that people should graze all day long. It will also test whether when you eat matters.
Study Design |
Number of visits: Study procedures: During the eating parts of the study, you will eat according to the following schedules: |
Study Qualifications |
Study Duration |
4 months (10 weeks participating in the study + 7 weeks off) |
Compensation |
Earn up to $1800 for participation. |
Study Contact |
If you are interested in volunteering for the TIMED EATING study, click here to screen online, call 225-763-3000 or email firstname.lastname@example.com. |
If you think you may be eligible, please click the button below to screen online. Please do not fill out this questionnaire for anyone other than yourself unless you are their legal guardian. If you know someone who may be interested please direct them to the site or have them call us directly at 225-763-3000. |


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Rihanna and Chris Brown Party at Same Club in LA
Rihanna and Chris Brown are seen leaving the Greystone Manor in LA on January 22, 2012 separately after a night of partying. Chris Brown left the club through the front door then got into his Range Rover with some friends, while Rihanna left through a side door getting into a waiting SUV with a bodyguard.
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I believe the world needs more directory structures that webmasters can submit their sites to. I'd like for one to be made, and possibly make it with people here. This is more of a idea to get conceptual designs and structures for one and see if wheels start turning.
DMOZ and Yahoo are both great resources. I know that with the minds here another directory could be built with unique features and be very useful to websurfers, and webmasters. Ideally the site would need to be clean, sharp in presence and looks and offer a structure that is suitable. The site submission would need to be free and as DMOZ does, have editors.
All the pages would be indexable, and would be structures as paths compared to variables and such. I don't want to reinvent a wheel here, I want ideas to turn and to have a new directory spawn from the results. Ideas are fine, good and bad.
Right now so much is relying on DMOZ and Yahoo and it wouldnt hurt if another structure was available.
Agree with that. Niche Directories are manageable (and hopefully comprehensive therefore) so collaboration is not necessary.
A large directory needs many editors. Enough volunteer editors just do not exist to index the web. Period.
Therefore I would contend that the only way to run such a large directory would be to have in place a lot of the sort of gizmo's discussed here to cut down on the amount of human input required.
Hey, don't knock all the Geocities & similar sites! There are some very good niche information sites on Geocities!
Yes, it all depends on the subject category and underlines the need for human editors in order to distinguish good from bad.
I would love to have you guys over for the introduction tour....
-Check listings once a month? -Check important domains more often? -What to do when a page's content has completely changed -How to automate all of the problems/solutions etc
Only if that can be done will a new (indeed any) directory work.
As Yahoo, DMOZ et al have never suceeded in doing this, one assumes that it is not an easy task.
The directory structure would be a good place to start at in figuring out which structure it would best be suited with. The ODP structure, the Yahoo structure the way the TOP categories are displayed, would anyone suggest any changes in those? Or are those categories well chosen? I think most everything fits into them.
The search system would need to be setup also in how it searches, how the sites are indexed and made searchable then how they rank. While at the conference did anyone talk about the possibility of a new directory, the good, the bad, the flaws and so forth?
Would people be interested in getting into a project like this, as an editor, as developers, designers, and all the other aspects of development and layout of the site? Feedback from people who have developed directories before and had roles in them would be good to hear from.


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DICE has released a video showing off the stunning terrain of the new Alborz Mountains map.
Alborz Mountains is one of the new locales that'll come with the 'Armored Kill' DLC expansion. Created by senior environment artist Andrew Hamilton, this flythrough video offers a good look at what DICE says is "one of our most beautiful maps ever".
If you're interested in a deeper look at how the map was made and the work that's gone into improving the game's environments, check out this official blog post.
Armored Kill debuts on PS3 for Premium subscribers on September 4, but for the full (and needlessly complicated) rundown of Armored Kill release dates head here.


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Document Type Doctoral Thesis Author De Graaf, Johan firstname.lastname@example.com URN etd-07102008-083542 Document Title Integrated pest management of the banana weevil, Cosmopolites sordidus (Germar), in South Africa Degree PhD (Entomology) Department Zoology and Entomology Supervisor
Advisor Name Title Prof P Govender Supervisor Keywords
- integrated pest management
- banana weevil
Date 2006-09-07 Availability unrestricted Abstract The banana weevil, Cosmopolites sordidus, is an economical pest of Musa, distributed to most areas where the crop is grown. The beetle larvae produce feeding tunnels in the pseudostem and rhizome, reducing bunch weight and causing toppling or snapping of plants. In developing an integrated pest management system for South Africa, specific aims of the study were to quantify the genetic diversity of the species around the world, investigate the population dynamics of the insect, determine the potential of semiochemical mass trapping, elucidate the efficacy of cultural and chemical control methods and establish economic thresholds for the banana weevil on Cavendish bananas in South Africa.Pest status of the insect is variable around the world, and may be influenced by genetically distinct populations of the weevil. Six populations from four countries were sampled: Australia, Costa Rica, South Africa (South Coast, North Coast and Tzaneen) and Uganda. DNA was isolated from 12 individuals per population and subjected to amplified fragment length polymorphism (AFLP) analysis. The AFLP analysis involved DNA restriction with EcoRI and PstI enzymes, ligation of adapters, and a pre-selective and five selective PCR amplifications. Empirical analysis of the AFLP fingerprints showed that, within populations, genetic diversity varied from 16-53%, with the South Coast and Tzaneen/Australian populations the least and most variable, respectively. The coefficient of gene differentiation showed that the Tzaneen population were the most differentiated from the South Coast population, while the South and North Coast populations were the most similar. All the populations showed statistically distinct marker frequencies, except for the Costa Rican and South and North Coast populations, which were similar. Based on the simple mismatch coefficient, a neighbour-joining tree showed the Australian, Ugandan and South African coastal populations produced monophyletic groups, while the South African Tzaneen population were removed from the other populations and presented an ancestral state.
The population dynamics of the insect was investigated over two seasons and at three locations in the South Coast of KwaZulu-Natal. Adult activity was monitored with semiochemical (Cosmolure®) baited pitfall traps. Traps were moved monthly to a random independent location, or left in situ for the duration of the experiment. The ontogeny was determined by dissecting felled plants and toppled plants (up to 2-week-old fresh residues), and harvested plants visually classified as an early and a late rotting stage (decayed residues). Replicated, randomised block designs were used in the experiments. The adult beetles were sexed and the percentage females with eggs and the number of eggs per female were recorded. Larval head capsule widths were measured with an electronic caliper. Ambient temperature and precipitation (rainfall + irrigation) were measured on site. Weevils were active throughout the year and mainly collected in stationary traps, with a collection peak in May and high numbers in early spring and late autumn/early winter. The activity was usually a negative and a positive function of ambient temperature and corrected rainfall, respectively. Eggs per female and percentage females with eggs were reduced during winter and a positive function of ambient temperature. The beetles sampled from plant material represented an equal sex ratio, while the pheromone traps collected a female biased sex ratio during spring and autumn/early winter. The beetle had overlapping generations with a peak of adults and larvae in autumn and late summer, respectively. Adults were mainly associated with decayed residues while larvae were mostly found in freshly toppled plants. Adults were the main over-wintering stage. The earliest larval instars were usually sampled during autumn. The data suggested that the beetle is multivoltine in the study areas and provided valuable information for the optimal management of the insect pest.
Semiochemical adult trapping methods were compared in field trials using a randomised block design. Pseudostem traps, pitfall traps containing a pheromone (either Cosmolure® (Pheromone A) or Cosmolure+® (Pheromone B)), and unbaited pitfall traps (control), were compared over 5 weeks during all seasons along the Southeast coast of South Africa. Pseudostem traps treated with an insecticide, and rhizome traps were included as additional treatments in autumn. In summer two treatments were also added: individual suspension of both pheromones above a pitfall trap either in combination with or without a pseudostem trap. The adult beetles were sexed, and the number of internal eggs noted. Pheromone A proved to be the most effective of the different traps. Grouping of the pheromones resulted in a synergistic response, while combining the pseudostem did not enhance trap efficacy. The different plant material traps and the control were usually equally effective in catching weevils. Plant material traps caught greater numbers of fecund females, but pheromone traps captured a higher proportion of females. Treatment effects were much less pronounced in summer, and compared to a pseudostem trap, pitfall traps were the most efficacious during spring. Compared to conventional pseudostem trapping, Pheromone A pitfall traps should be optimally applied during spring in South Africa.
Cultural control methods were investigated over 2 years at an ongoing trial in the Southern KwaZulu Natal, South Africa. Harvesting at ground level and dissection of remnants, and covering of the mat with soil and moving debris to the inter-row, were compared to a positive control that involved treatment of plants with a registered pesticide, and a negative control that involved harvesting at approximately 150 cm with no soil or sanitation amendments. Yield, weevil damage and pseudostem girth of plants were measured from August to November annually, while adult beetle densities were assessed over 4 weeks in October/November and April. Nematode samples were analysed in October/November every year. Damage parameters included the Coefficient of Infestation, the Percentage Coefficient of Infestation (PCI) at two intervals, the summed PCI value, the percentage cross sectional damage of the central cylinder (XI) and cortex, and the mean cross sectional damage percentage (X mean). A replicated block design was used in the experiment. The parameters were similar before the onset of the trial. Fruit yield and plant girth, corrected by nematode densities, were not significantly different in any treatment, nor were the nematodes controlled. Soil cover and recession of remnants was the only effective treatment, significantly reducing the Coefficient of Infestation, but not the adult density or any other damage parameter. The former showed promise as a cultural control method because it only needs to be applied seasonally and reduced the XI, the damage parameter most closely related to yield, by 14.18%.
The weevil is difficult to control, and chemical control arguably provides the best opportunity to manage the pest. The efficacy of injecting bifenthrin, chlorpyrifos, fipronil, imidacloprid, oxamyl and water (control) into residual banana plants was determined. The chemicals were administered every even numbered month over 2 years at two locations in Southern KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Yield, weevil damage and pseudostem girth of plants felled from August to October were measured, while adult beetle densities were assessed over 4 weeks in October and April. Nematode samples were analysed in October every year. Damage parameters included were similar to that of the cultural control trial. Replicated block designs were used in the experiments. The parameters were similar before the onset of the trial. Fruit yield and plant girth, corrected by nematode densities, were not significantly increased after chemical applications, nor were the nematodes controlled. Fipronil and imidacloprid were highly effective against C. sordidus, minimising damage to the periphery, cortex and central cylinder of the rhizome and significantly reduced adult density. Fipronil caused a 95% and imidacloprid a 100% reduction in the XI. Injection of fipronil and imidacloprid provides an optimal chemical strategy in an integrated pest management programme for the banana weevil.
Economic thresholds of the insect were investigated on bananas at four locations in the South Coast of KwaZulu-Natal. Yield (bunch weights) and larval damage to felled plants were measured from August to October in 2003, while adult densities were assessed over 4 weeks in October 2003. Nematode samples were collected and analysed in October 2003. Damage parameters included were similar to that of the cultural control trial. Replicated block designs were used in the experiments. The economic-injury level (EIL) for chemical and cultural control was calculated. Nematode densities did not influence the yield of plants. The XI was the best predictor of yield, but under certain conditions X mean was the most important. Chemical control showed the lowest EIL, with more than 1 and 7% damage to the central cylinder when applying fipronil and imidacloprid, respectively. The EIL for cultural control was more than 11% damage to the central cylinder. A recommendation algorithm, considering all the findings of the individual studies, is provided for IPM of the banana weevil in the South Africa. The potential use of microbial and invertebrate (especially parasitoids) biological control and semiochemical mass trapping of the weevil requires further research. Long-term research should focus on host resistance, and weevil damage to the central cylinder can serve as indicator of susceptibility of Cavendish bananas.
© University of Pretoria 2006
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