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The Cal State Northridge softball team (1-6) heads to Northern California to compete in the Stanford Nike Invitational from Feb. 15-17 in Palo Alto, Calif., on the Stanford Campus. The Matadors will face the host No. 20 Cardinal twice, CSU Bakersfield twice and Santa Clara once. All five games will be played at Smith Family Field and all five games will feature live stats available at GoMatadors.com. Fans are also encouraged to check with the CSUN Softball Twitter account (@CSUNSoftball) and the CSUN Athletic Department Twitter account (@GoMatadors) for in-game updates.
Last week, CSUN showed promise in its time at the Kajikawa Classic in Tempe, Ariz. Facing three nationally ranked teams and two participants in the 2012 Women's College World Series, the Matadors posted a team .344 on-base percentage after drawing 21 walks. And although CSUN lost both ends of a doubleheader at Fresno State, they managed nine hits in game one and scored the game's final tally in the second contest.
At the plate, Mikayla Thielges and Sydney House have had especially strong starts. A senior in her final season, Thielges leads the team in runs, doubles, total bases, walks and on-base percentage. House has posted a batting average over .500, two doubles and team-high five RBIs.
This week, the Matadors lock horns with three talented teams. No. 20 Stanford enters the weekend with a 5-2 record and are coming off an 8-0, five-inning victory over Santa Clara on Feb. 13. Tegan Schmidt leads the Cardinal in batting average at .455 while Erin Ashby has already totaled two home runs and six RBIs. As a team, opponents are batting .250 off Cardinal pitching in over 48 innings. The Cardinal lead the all-time series with the Matadors 9-6 and have won the past six meetings. CSUN has not defeated Stanford since 2001 and has not toppled a member of the Pac-12 Conference since 2007.
CSU Bakersfield enters the weekend with an 0--3 record and will face the Matadors twice at Smith Family Field. Laura Kings leads the team in batting average and the Roadrunners have already stolen four bases. In the circle, Kelsie Monroe has started two of the three games and has a 5.12 ERA and .293 opponent batting average. Having been long time rivals a the Division II level, Northridge leads the Division I series with CSUB 5-3, although the Roadrunners swept a doubleheader at CSUN in 2010 at Matador Diamond.
Santa Clara is also 0-3 on the season and dropped a doubleheader at Pacific in its opening two games. As team, the Broncos are hitting .182 and have posted a .957 fielding percentage. CSUN leads the all-time series with Santa Clara 17-2, but the Broncos took the last meeting 5-2 at Matador Diamond in March of 2010.
Following their weekend at Stanford, the Matadors will return back to the San Fernando Valley for classes and then head right back up to Northern California to compete in a tournament at Santa Clara. At the Santa Clara Bronco Invitational, the Matadors will play five opponents from Feb. 22-24 with all games played on the campus of Santa Clara. In addition to the host Broncos, the Matadors will take on San Jose State, Fresno State, Idaho State and Saint Mary's.
Mama Mia!
Senior Mia Pagano continues to be a two-way threat for the Matadors in her final season with the club. She carries a .292 batting average and a team-high seven base hits through the first seven contests of the season. She also has a double, three runs and hit a three-run home run in the Matadors' 6-1 victory over Western Michigan. In the circle, Pagano is 0-2 with a 6.84 ERA and a team-high 14.1 innings of work. Last season, she finished the season 8-19 overall, but posted a 3.45 ERA, 111 K's and .289 opponent batting average. As if her pitching performance was not enough, Pagano flexed some offensive muscle. Against New Mexico, Pagano set new career highs with three hits and four RBIs. For the season, she hit .195 with four runs and 10 RBIs.
Luck Be Thielges Tonight
Senior and Las Vegas native Mikayla Thielges has had a strong start to her final season at CSUN. She carries a .353 batting average, .577 on-base percentage and .706 slugging percentage through seven games. She hit her first home run of the year in the Matadors' season opener vs. San Jose State. She scored two runs in games against Western Michigan and Fresno State. She leads the team with three doubles and six runs scored. She now has 20 career home runs, the seventh-most in school history, and 75 career RBIs, 11 shy of moving into a tie for 10th in program history. She also earned All-Big West First Team honors in 2011 for her work behind the plate.
Burning Down the House
Sophomore Sydney House has come out of the gates swinging in her second season with the Matadors. House carries a team-high .556 batting average into the weekend, having collected five hits in nine at-bats. She has her first two career doubles and leads the club with five RBIs. She had a career-high two hits at Fresno State and a career-high two RBIs vs. San Jose State. She also sports a .778 slugging percentage, a .643 on-base percentage and has drawn four walks for the year.
Tait That Something
Senior Shelly Tait earned her first win of the season in the circle with a commanding performance vs. Western Michigan. She tossed 6+ innings and allowed only four hits and one unearned run in the victory over the Broncos. She is 1-2 on the season with a 4.90 ERA and a .326 opponent batting average. Last season, she went 1-7 with a 4.97 ERA and a .308 opponent batting average in 43.2 innings of work. Against Big West opposition, she finished 1-5 with a 4.29 ERA and .309 opponent batting average in 32.2 innings.
Brianna the Elder
Sophomore Brianna Elder had an impressive performance in relief at Fresno State. Entering the first game in the first inning, Elder did not surrender a hit to the Bulldogs for the rest of the contest. In all, she went 5.2 innings with no runs, no hits and just two walks. For the season, Elder is 0-0 with a 3.82 ERA and a .318 opponent batting average. Last year, she held a 3.73 ERA in 45 innings in her first full season with the Matadors. Against league opposition, she had a 4.70 ERA in 25.1 innings.
A Rolling Stone Gathers no Maas
Sophomore Crystal Maas hit the first home run of her career in the Matadors' victory over Western Michigan. She had two hits against the Broncos and is batting .231 for the season with two RBIs. Maas also stole her first career stolen base this season and has a perfect fielding percentage. In her freshman season, she batted .212 for the season and .259 against the Big West Conference. She collected two doubles and four RBIs for the season.
Randazzo's Return
Senior Korinne Randazzo has made an immediate impact for CSUN since returning to the line-up after missing nearly all of the 2012 season. She has started all seven games and carries a .235 batting average with three RBIs into the weekend. She drove in a career-high two runs in the game with California and had a season-high two hits vs. Arizona State. Randazzo also has two stolen bases this season. In 2011 during her first season with the club, she batted .197 in 45 games with three doubles, 13 runs scored, three stolen bases and four RBIs.
Tyler Transfers Talent to CSUN
Sophomore Jennifer Tyler carries a 5.25 ERA and an 0-2 record into the weekend. She has tossed eight innings thus far for the Matadors and picked up her first hit in Northridge uniform at Fresno State. Tyler starts her first season with the Matadors in 2013 after spending two years at Northwestern University. Injuries robbed her from playing in the 2010 season, but in 2011 she posted a 2.55 ERA in six appearances in the circle.
Linn-Sanity Comes to CSUN
Sophomore Abby Linn is batting .174 with four runs and a double through the first seven games of the 2013 season. She recorded her first career double in the game vs. San Jose State and scored two runs against the Spartans. She stole her first base of the season in the doubleheader at Fresno State. In her freshman season, she finished with a .194 batting average, 13 hits, three runs scored and two stolen bases. Against league opposition, she hit .375 with nine hits and two runs.
Newcomer Notes
The Matadors welcome four true freshman to their roster for the 2012 season: Madalyne Handy, Samantha Jakeway, Maylynn Mitchell and Ariana Wassmer. Through seven games, Mitchell and Wassmer have had an impact at the plate for CSUN. Mitchell is batting .278 with five hits and an RBI while making six starts. She also sports a perfect fielding percentage in 23 defensive chances. Wassmer is batting .167 through seven games and has a double and an RBI. She has also walked twice and carries a .978 fielding percentage in 46 chances.
Walk This Way
The Matadors have shown a good deal of patience at the plate through seven games in the 2013 season. As a team, Northridge has drawn 24 walks with Mikayla Thielges leading the squad with six free passes. Sydney House and Leann Lopez have four and Ariana Wassmer and Jennifer Tyler both have three to their credit. Through seven games, the Matadors sport a team .327 on-base percentage.
Lights, Camera, Action
The Matadors' doubleheader with Long Beach State on April 10, 2013 at 49ers Softball Complex will be broadcast live on ESPNU. The doubleheader will start at 1 p.m. and the two teams will complete the season series a week later with a single game at 3 p.m. also at the 49ers Softball Complex.


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"Though all Korean restaurants in the area have the feel of family-run establishments, Koreana is perhaps the closest you'll get to dining at someone's home."
If Korean food were to disappear entirely from Western New York - something we occasionally think could happen - it would be in part because of locals not understanding the cuisine's appeal, but also because of the proprietors' inability to actually appeal to locals. Koreana, a tiny Korean restaurant that appears to be an annex to an Asian grocery store, is so hidden at the intersection of Niagara Falls Boulevard and Sheridan that we wouldn't be surprised if you missed it - though it's at a highly trafficked corner, the recessed, shadowed location in a small strip mall likely accounts for its relative anonymity. And its menu, consisting of only two handfuls of choices, doesn't rival either Woo Chon or frankly any of the other Korean restaurants we've visited over the past decade or two. Yet the quality of its dishes is good enough for an occasional meal, inexpensive enough not to hurt your wallet, and pleasantly enough presented to serve as a gentle entree into one of the world's most delicious, yet least appreciated cuisines.
The Story: It is entirely possible that Koreana has the shortest menu of any Korean restaurant, including small shops in Seoul, we've ever seen: there are a total of 12 dishes on the menu, each served with rice, and none even pretending to be accessible to non-Korean patrons. Seven are soups, including Kimchi Stew ($7), Potato Soup ($7) and Beef Bone Stew ($7), Ox Short Rib Soup ($7.50), Cabbage Miso Soup, also described as ox bone beef Miso soup with cabbage ($7), a Hot & Spicy Soup with meats, vegetables, and red pepper powder ($7.50), and Tofu Stew with mild tofu, red pepper powder, egg, shrimp, and clams ($7). We've never been huge fans of Korean soups, and so went instead with several of the items that we've come to love elsewhere. Three are described below; we skipped the other two, Bibim Bap - a rice-heavy dish with vegetables on top ($7), and Pork Kalbi ($8), soy-marinated pork rib slices served with vegetables.
Highs: Called Jeyuk-bokkeum ($7.50) on this menu and the more easily illiterated Jae Yook Bok Kum elsewhere, Koreana's rendition of this spicy red pepper pork with vegetable dish was good, but not outstanding. Served elsewhere as a huge plate with large hunks of tofu, the Jayuk-bokkeum here arrives here with none, balanced instead by large pieces of pork and sauteed onions. The underlying flavor of hot chili is, by design, running throughout the meat, but the balance of lightness and freshness achieved by the original dish is missing, rendered more carnivorous and less expensively.
Bulgogi, also broken down sometimes as bul go gi, comes in two primary variants at most Korean restaurants: the traditional sweet garlicky soy sauce marinade, ready for grilling beef, and a spicier pork or chicken version that's coated in a thick red sauce derived from red pepper and the spicy Korean paste gochu jang. Koreana serves the sweet garlic soy version with beef for $7.50, and the so-called Hot Chicken Bulgogi for $7.
Both versions, like the Jeyuk-bokkeum, would fall into the "good but not great" category. Bulgogi typically benefits from being grilled rather than sauteed, as it is treated here, and Koreana's version has none of the slight char or differential texture offered by broiling on an open flame. Still, the flavor of its sauce is familiar enough, as is the Hot Chicken Bulgogi's, which glows as orange as the spicy pork dish and to many mouths would taste pretty much the same - after all, the red pepper, vegetables, and gochu jang seem to carry over a lot here from dish to dish. However, whereas the Jeyuk-bokkeum's pork thoroughly absorbs the flavor of its marinade, the Hot Chicken Bulgogi retains some of the flavor of poultry; the choice of either dish is purely a matter of preference.
Lows: Though we found Koreana's items to be more than edible and closer in flavor to the originals than, say, a Chinese restaurant might come, each of the dishes we tried was good, not great. They're served here with a relatively bare complement of side dishes, including the spicy pickled cabbage dish kimchee, bean sprouts, and rice, and unlike competitors, at prices that are perhaps too affordable to expect much more. Our impression is that the soups - for those who like them - may be more authentic, but the non-soup items we tried were a little bit off.
Though all Korean restaurants in the area have the feel of family-run establishments, Koreana is perhaps the closest you'll get to dining at someone's home. Rather than offering the table service and frills of a typical Korean restaurant, it actually looks like it was designed to serve as a small family's store-adjacent comic book library and workday kitchen, or perhaps a home away from home for Korean college students; its tables are buttressed by shelves full of manga comic books, and its few seats were barely occupied when we arrived. You can vaguely see the kitchen area when you dine, not enough to enjoy the view, but rather to let you know that your order isn't being prepared using the huge collection of grilling tools and service plates found at higher-end Korean shops; you eat mostly off of styrofoam. Consequently, this isn't a restaurant to visit on a date, unless your date loves cartoons and doesn't mind the extremely limited menu.
The Verdict: What ultimately makes Koreana both interesting and disappointing is its utter lack of pretense; you discover it, find an inexpensive, limited menu inside, and eat a fine but unremarkable Korean meal in clean but simple surroundings. As you leave, or perhaps as you finish your meal, you realize that you've gotten what you paid for but nothing more. There is seemingly no ambition for this place to become the next big Western New York Korean place, or perhaps, even to be discovered in its recessed location; one gets the sense that the owners will be content to sell a short list of sub-$8, simple meals, and those who are interested in trying them will neither rave nor complain. That's not a bad thing; it is what it is, and perhaps by design, Koreana will continue to enjoy anonymity relative to its local Korean peers.


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However, state law gives county boards of supervisors the power to set the length of time of the tax on the ballot question. And on Monday in routine fashion, the Linn County supervisors said they will abide by the wishes of Cedar Rapids, Marion, Hiawatha, Robins and Fairfax and let them ask voters for a tax extension of 10 years.
All other jurisdictions in the county except Walford already have extended the sales tax into future years for their jurisdictions while it is set to expire in the metro area on June 30, 2014.
Walford also will vote Nov. 5 to extend the tax. Walford, which is not one of the metro cities that vote as one block on sales-tax questions, can seek an expiration date on the tax extension different than 10 years, Tim Box, the county's deputy auditor, said on Monday.
Box said the city councils in the jurisdictions voting on Nov. 5 have until Aug. 30 to inform his office of the exact ballot language they intend to use.
The Cedar Rapids and Marion councils already have approved their ballot language.
Cedar Rapids will use 100 percent of the revenue from the extension of the sales tax for "the maintenance, repair, construction and reconstruction of public streets."
Marion will use 70 percent of its revenue for "street and sewer construction, reconstruction, repair and improvements," and 30 percent for "community projects consisting of any general or essential corporate purpose."
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Step 1: Add the following script to the <head> section of your page:
The code above references the following external files, which you should download and upload to the same directory as your webpage:
Important Note: Your page should contain a valid doctype at the very top in
order for this script to work as intended, such as:
Step 2: Add the below HTML markup for the two demo galleries to your page:
Each gallery should consist of an outer DIV with an unique ID and a CSS
class of "
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Notice the width and height settings defined inside touchgallery()-
they should correspond to the desired dimensions of the gallery. All images
inside it will be shown in their native dimensions unless their width
exceeds that of the gallery's. In that case, the image will be scaled
appropriately to fit. The following table lists all of the options you can pass
You may also want to edit touchgallery.css to make additional changes to the look of each gallery. For example, to modify the animation speed of the swipe, edit the corresponding code in red below:
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With only 22 months to go before the computer dates change to 2000 (or 1900, or even 1980), inventors are busy patenting ways of protecting computers against the millennium bug. Erasoft of Canada warns (GB 2 312 536) that even new computers may be fooled by dates buried in old database files. Erasoft's software ferrets through your files looking for any entries that will trip up a computer after it has correctly changed the date to the year 2000. It enables users to correct faulty files before the millennium.
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It has been two-and-a-half weeks since Alphonsine Nyirasafari, 28, a mother of four, gave birth to triplets. But instead of the father of the kids receiving the news with excitement, he chose to flee the home, apparently for lack of means to provide for the family.
Nyirasafari, a resident of Ikaze village, Kabeza cell, Muhima sector, Nyarugenge district, delivered triplets, on January 11. The triplets are her second delivery after she begot a son four years ago with the same man.
But the new mother is hapless as there is no one to help her provide for the four children, because the sole breadwinner, Emmanuel Mudacyahwa, left her right after she brought the triplets, all boys, to the world.
"He just disappeared after establishing that I was about to deliver triplets. He only came back once to see the newborns. When we told him that he had three boys at once, he said, 'it's up to you and your mother.' Since then I have never seen him and I do not know where he is staying. He even switched off his cell phone," Nyirasafari said.
With such a challenging task of raising triplets, one would want house-helps at hand. But for Nyirasafari, it is a luxury, much as she is itching to have one. For now, she attends to all the children alone.
"I am being helped by my young sister and another volunteer. My sister has to go back home soon because she is needed as our mother depends on her as well," Nyirasafari said.
Village authorities have urged her to go to her mother's place in Rutongo, a a suburb in the outskirts of Kigali City.
She is, however, pessimistic about the idea, because her mother does not have enough resources to sustain her with the four kids.
Speaking to The New Times, the National Women Council coordinator in Muhima sector, Beata Kandutiye, said that they are aware of the case and they are lobbying concerned institutions to help Nyirasafari.
Supportive neighbours
Since giving birth to the triplets weighing 2.2, 2.1kg, and 1.8 kilogrammes, she has received aid of Rwf31,020 from the neighbours and good Samaritans.
She spent this money on two umbrellas and warm clothes for the babies, and paid her monthly rent of Rwf20,000.
Some neighbours also supported her individually; one of them gave her access to fetch water for free, while another one paid her electricity bills.
Despite this support, Nyirasafari still needs more help from any well wisher because breast-feeding cannot sustain three normal growing babies without any supplementary baby milk.
"I do not have enough to feed my babies, no clothes for them, really I need help," Nyirasafari appealed.
Clementine Mukakarara, the head of Ikaze village, said they are aware of Nyirasafari's case and that they communicated to the sector authorities for more sustainable help to the mother.
"We did all that we could and we involved the residents of our village; they provided her with food and basic needs and we still hope that more will come," she said.
Love betrayed
Nyirasafari and her husband Mudacyahwa met while working on construction site back in 2008, where he worked as a mason and Nyirasafari as a painter.
They fell in love and two months later, they settled to start a family, until December last year.
In the middle of Muhima slam, near Nyabugogo market, there is a rundown shack, which serves as home to Nyirasafari and her family. All that they possess is a dilapidated mattress on which the triplets are sleeping. It is spread on the ground, a mosquito net hung over it.
On the other side of the room are possessions of the family comprising of a basin holding dishes, two bags holding their clothes, a few small cans, and some raw food wrapped in a khaki bag. The other room is empty.
Despite the abode being a squalor, the rent is still a challenging issue to her.
"We used to rent a Rwf25,000 house when we were still together with my husband. Now that I am no longer able to afford such an amount alone, I moved into this one that I pay Rwf16,000 per month, but it is still too expensive for me," Nyirasafari said.


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Linux OpenCL Performance With The Newest AMD & NVIDIA Drivers
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Last month I published some benchmarks where NVIDIA slaughtered AMD's Catalyst driver in APITest benchmarks, a set of OpenGL 4.x test cases. While these are just micro-benchmarks of modern OpenGL and designed for showing off potential solutions for problems to leading to lower driver overhead, there's been some improvements within the Catalyst 14.6 Beta on Linux. Up today are some new benchmarks of APITest using the latest AMD and NVIDIA drivers.
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Even With Re-Clocking, Nouveau Remains Behind NVIDIA's Proprietary Linux Driver
Starting out the last week of July's Linux benchmarking on Phoronix is a fresh comparison of several NVIDIA GeForce graphics cards when comparing the performance of the latest open-source Nouveau driver against the latest NVIDIA proprietary Linux graphics driver. While the Kepler cards now support GPU re-clocking, the results aren't quite ideal yet.
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The Power Consumption & Efficiency Of Open-Source GPU Drivers
Complementing yesterday's Radeon, Intel, and Nouveau benchmarks using the very latest open-source driver code, here's some power consumption, performance-per-Watt, and thermal numbers when using an assortment of graphics processors on the latest open-source drivers.
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As the second part of our Linux graphics testing this week after a Radeon R600/RadeonSI performance update with the Linux 3.16 kernel and Mesa 10.3-devel are some comparative numbers that include Intel's Haswell HD Graphics and various NVIDIA GeForce graphics cards on the Nouveau driver.
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As the first part of an upcoming series of tests benchmarking the latest open-source and closed-source Linux graphics drivers for AMD Radeon and NVIDIA GeForce hardware, here's some benchmark results for several recent Radeon GPUs when tested on the current Git version of the Linux 3.16 kernel and a recent Mesa 10.3-devel snapshot.
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After earlier this week posting some fresh NVIDIA VDPAU video playback performance tests, here is some testing of the open-source AMD Radeon driver with R600 and RadeonSI Gallium3D drivers while using the VDPAU state tracker for open-source, accelerated video playback using the graphics cards' UVD engine.
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NVIDIA VDPAU Performance Metrics On Ubuntu 14.04 Linux
It's been a while since last running any video acceleration benchmarks at Phoronix so this week we're running a fresh set of VDPAU (Video Decode and Presentation API for Unix) benchmarks with NVIDIA's official driver plus for AMD Radeon hardware using the Radeon VDPAU state tracker support.
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Maybe I'm thinking too much about this, but I can't help it. I saw today on ESPN that you could vote for something and one of the choices was Anthony Robles "the one-legged wrestler".
I tried putting myself in his shoes and I would think that once I won the National Championship I may start thinking that I would finally be looked at as an equal. I know that his story is shining a positive light on wrestling and that's cool. I'm just wondering if well intentioned people (like ESPN) are making him think "Damn! When will they just see me as a National Champ and not a one-legged National Champ!"
I heard him say that he wanted to be a motivational speaker. I would bet that he would be focusing on overcoming obstacles, not necessarily being one-legged. He and Cejudo would probably make a good speaking tour.
I am just wondering if these guys get frustrated by the label of "son of an illegal immigrant" and "one-legged wrestler". Anybody else think Robles may be a bit frustrated by that?
I just noticed that I put this in nonwrestling talk. If it needs moved, my bad. Maybe the politcs thread?


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SUBTLE it ain't. The first advertising campaign ever to be aimed at non-human consumers, unveiled at the ad industry's Cannes Lions Festival on 25 June, will use blatant sex to persuade its audience.
The unsuspecting consumers are a colony of capuchin monkeys, who will later be invited to choose between two competing brands of food. Keith Olwell and Elizabeth Kiehner of New York ad agency Proton created the campaign with primatologist Laurie Santos of Yale University.
Captive capuchins understand money and behave in similar ways to humans in economic games. So the team wondered if they would respond to advertising too. They are creating two food brands, one backed by two billboards that will hang outside the monkeys' enclosure. "The foods will be novel to them and are equally delicious," says Olwell.
Designing the campaign threw ...
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A reboot of the thread "Porting Pose2lux using PyCarrara to get Luxrender into Carrara?"
Since Python in Carrara only offers basic functionality, it looks like a C++ exporter for LuxRender is a better start for a Carrara port.
Of all the exporters at http://src.luxrender.net/ only LuXSI supports C++ and is kept up-to-date.
LuXSI 1.1 release is here: http://www.luxrender.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=9167
Source: http://src.luxrender.net/luxsi/file/9d37156d1893
LuxRender 1.1: http://www.luxrender.net/en_GB/download
Free Softimage Mod Tool 7.5 32bit here (Free for non commercial game modding, 400MB):
Carrara 126.96.36.199 SDK is here:
Source code of other Carrara plug-ins for educational purposes:
The free Visual Studio Express 2012 for Windows desktop now includes
built-in support for 64bit applications, more info and download here
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The report, released Tuesday by the state Department of Children and Family Services, found that Hartgrove Hospital, on Chicago's West Side, often was understaffed and over capacity — a dangerous combination that created opportunities for frequent attacks by patients on other patients and hospital staff.
Reviewers from UIC interviewed children and teens who expressed fear for their safety or that of more vulnerable peers.
After reviewing findings of a preliminary report, DCFS officials in June put an "intake hold" on the facility, meaning they will not authorize the placement of state wards at Hartgrove.
"It's our duty to ensure the safety of children in state care, and we will take whatever action is necessary to keep our kids safe," DCFS spokesman Kendall Marlowe said.
Experts from UIC's department of psychiatry spent about six months investigating conditions at Hartgrove, a 150-bed private psychiatric hospital that treats adults, teens and children.
The psychiatry department's mental health policy program has been conducting reviews of psychiatric hospitals on behalf of DCFS since 1995 pursuant to a federal court consent decree involving DCFS and the ACLU. The reviewers serve as independent experts.
About 100 violent incidents were documented between December 2010 and mid-June 2011, which included physical attacks, uncontrolled threatening behavior and sexual assaults.
In one case, an "aggressive" male patient, a DCFS ward, who had been discovered receiving oral sex from a female patient a day earlier, was observed "stalking females" on one of the units, according to records.
In another incident, one girl assaulted another, "tearing out her hair and punching her in the face," according to the report. The victim sustained a swollen eye.
The Tribune has previously reported on violence and sexual assaults at psychiatric facilities for youth, including Hartgrove.
In a statement, officials from Universal Health Services Inc., the Pennsylvania-based parent company of Hartgrove, said: "Despite the findings in the UIC report, Hartgrove is proud of its track record and has many more success stories to its credit than the negative ones highlighted in the report."
The statement said hospital officials are working with the appropriate agencies "towards a resolution which will allow Hartgrove to serve DCFS wards again."
Other hospitals owned by UHS have come under scrutiny in recent years, including facilities in at least eight states.
Among the chilling details in the UIC report on Hartgrove were descriptions of some hospital employees who appeared to be indifferent or too poorly trained to treat seriously mentally ill youth.
One case involved a 16-year-old girl with severe sickle cell anemia who was forced to cope with intense pain for long periods of time. When she became overwhelmed and had emotional outbursts as a result, staff blamed her for not being able to control herself.
A psychiatrist at the facility labeled her behavior as "med-seeking," according to records.
In another case, employees in May reportedly fractured the arm of a 16-year-old boy, who was not a state ward, apparently because they were not properly trained in restraint techniques.


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Swedish rounding
Swedish rounding is rounding the basic cost of a purchase which is to be paid for in cash to the nearest multiple of the smallest denomination of currency. The term "Swedish rounding" is used mostly in Australia, where such a method has been practised since the 1990s.
Rounding becomes necessary where low denomination coins in a currency are withdrawn or otherwise made unavailable, but the currency's subdivisions remain the same. Since it may not be possible to make exact change for a purchase, rounding the total bill to the lowest available denomination of coinage is required if a customer is paying in cash. If payment is being tendered using credit card, debit card, EFTPOS or cheque, no rounding is necessary.
The practice was introduced in Sweden following the removal of 1 and 2 öre coins from circulation in 1972. It is called "öresavrundning", meaning "öre rounding". A similar system was later adopted by the Reserve Bank of New Zealand in 1990, when the 1 and 2 cent coins were removed from circulation, and the Reserve Bank of Australia which did the same for its own currency in 1993. At this time, the phrase "Swedish rounding" came into use in both countries.[citation needed]
In countries with 0.01 coins, many shops avoid the need for the smallest coins by having all prices rounded to 0.05 or 0.10.
Rounding with 0.05 intervals[edit]
This was used in Sweden from 1972 to 1985, New Zealand from 1990 to 2006, and is used in Argentina (always rounded down), Australia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Canada, Finland, Hungary, Malaysia (though 1 sen coins are still legal tender), The Netherlands, Singapore, South Africa (from 1 April 2002 onwards, rounding is done to the nearest 5c),[1] Switzerland, and Turkey (even though the 1 kuruş coin can still be used). In Chile, where 1 peso coins are legal but rare, prices are rounded to the nearest 5 pesos using the same system. In the Republic of Ireland, a National Payments Plan prepared by the Central Bank of Ireland approved by the Government in April 2013 plans "to trial the use of a rounding convention in a pilot project in a mid-size Irish town", with the 1¢ and 2¢ no longer being minted while remaining legal tender.[2]
- Prices are rounded down to the nearest multiple of 5 cents for sales ending in: 1¢ & 2¢ to 0¢; and, 6¢ & 7¢ to 5¢;
- Prices are rounded up to the nearest multiple of 5 cents for sales ending in: 3¢ & 4¢ round to 5¢; and, 8¢ & 9¢ round to 10¢
- Values ending in 0¢ or 5¢ remain unchanged.
Rounding with 0.10 intervals[edit]
This is currently used in New Zealand, which eliminated its 5 cent coin in 2006. This is also the case in Hong Kong, which eliminated its 5 cent coin in 1989 and 1 cent note in 1995. In practice only utility bills, petrol stations and banks still keep the cent. All other businesses use only ten cent intervals.
- round down to the nearest 10 cent value for sales ending in 1¢, 2¢, 3¢, 4¢, 5¢;
- round up to the nearest 10 cent value for sales ending in 6¢, 7¢, 8¢, 9¢;
- In NZ, it is up to the business to decide if they will round 5¢ intervals up or down. The majority of retailers follow government advice and round it down.[3]
In Sweden between 1985 and 1992, prices were rounded up for sales ending in 5 öre.
In the People's Republic of China, coins smaller than ¥0.10 are now rare though still valid. As a result, many shops simply truncate their bills down to the next ¥0.10 increment, giving the customer a discount of up to ¥0.09.
Rounding with 0.50 intervals[edit]
The system used in Sweden from 1992 to 2010, in Norway from 1993 to 2012, and in Denmark since 1 October 2008[4] is the following:
- Sales ending in 1–24 öre round down to 0 öre.
- Sales ending in 25–49 öre round up to 50 öre.
- Sales ending in 51–74 öre round down to 50 öre.
- Sales ending in 75–99 öre round up to the next whole Krone/krona.
In practice, the proportion of transactions rounded upwards is greater, due to psychological pricing of items ending in 90–99 öre.[5] Rounding is only done on the total sum of a purchase, which makes that effect smaller. In many shops all prices are already rounded to the whole krone, so that no rounding takes place.
Rounding with 1.00 intervals[edit]
The system used in Sweden since 30 September 2010 and used in Norway[6] since 1 May 2012.
- Sales ending in 1–49 öre/øre round down to 0 öre/øre.
- Sales ending in 50–99 öre/øre round up to the next whole krona/krone.
See also[edit]
Related currencies[edit]
- ^ "Cessation of minting of 1 & 2 Cent Coins". South African Government Information. 2002-03-22. Retrieved 2008-08-14.
- ^ "Written Answers 23960/13: Euro Coins Production". Dáil debates (Oireachtas). Unrevised: 57. 21 May 2013. Retrieved 26 May 2013.
- ^ "Change for the Better: Questions and Answers". Reserve Bank of New Zealand. Retrieved 2009-01-28.
- ^ "New rounding rules". Danmarks Nationalbank. Retrieved 2010-05-02.
- ^ Such prices are for example visible in (click the image)
- ^ "Regulation relating to withdrawal of 50-öre coins as legal tender". Norges Bank. Retrieved 2011-05-09.


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Relatives of missing Yemeni army officer Mohammed Abdo al-Mlaiki, are seen at their home in the Yemeni capital Sanaa, on October 1, 2012. AFP PHOTO/STR
SANAA: Five Yemeni army officers being held by a shadowy Islamist group in Syria are students at a military academy in Aleppo and are not involved in the fighting that has engulfed the country, a Yemeni official said.
In a statement released late Monday on the ministry of defence website, the unnamed official denied the officers had "any link at all, and they did not participate in the events in Syria."
He said the five officers "were on their way back home after they completed their studies," at the academy in Aleppo, northern Syria's largest city where fierce battles have been raging between regime troops and rebels.
He added that the five men were "kidnapped while on their way to Damascus," from where they were planning to fly home to Sanaa.
According to the officials, the defence ministry has asked the International Committee of the Red Cross to "intervene and help secure the release of the five officers."
On September 30, the Al-Nusra Front posted a four-minute video on jihadist forums showing the Yemeni captors, saying they were helping President Bashar al-Assad's regime.
The video shows the Yemeni army ID cards of the five officers who condemn the "crimes" committed by Assad's regime against Syrians and the Sanaa government's support for Damascus.
The men -- named as Ali al-Salama, Mohammed Abdo al-Mlaiki, Hani Nizar, Hassan al-Wahib and Ahmed Radman -- say they were serving in Aleppo.
"I came after coordination between the Yemeni and Syrian governments to crush the Syrian revolt," says Mlaiki, who like the four other officers is seen sitting below a black flag on which "Al-Nusra Front" is written in Arabic.
"I call on the Yemeni government to cut off all military and logistical relations (with Syria) because President Assad's regime kills its people, and this is what we saw with our own eyes in many Syrian regions."
It was unclear when the men were detained or when the video was taped.
Al-Nusra has claimed the majority of suicide attacks during the anti-regime revolt in Syria, including a twin suicide bombing in Damascus in May that killed 55 people.
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Raising Cane's accepting donations for Oklahoma tornado victims
Raising Cane's Chicken Fingers has teamed with the American Red Cross to assist in relief efforts in areas of Oklahoma affected by this week's tornados. In addition to a $10,000 donation to the Red Cross, from Wednesday, May 22, through Sunday, May 26, more than 150 participating Raising Cane's will be collecting cash and credit card donations from […] [Read More]


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The Student Success Fee at work in the Library
The passing of the Student Success Fee has made it possible for the University Library to improve our services to the students in the following ways:
- Increase the hours we are opened – Starting Fall Quarter the Library will be opened 91.5 hours/per week. That's more hours than any of the nearby CSUs.
- Provide face-to-face research help on the weekends. The Research Help Desk will be staffed Saturday from 12-4pm and Sunday from 2-6pm.
- Provide you with technical help in the evenings. The Tech Help Desk will be staffed from Monday-Thursday from 9am-10pm and Friday from 9am-5pm.
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Judge rules in favor of SD farmerA South Dakota district court judge in Aberdeen has agreed with a farmer from Orient, S.D., that his claim to a bond in the Anderson Seed case should be included in a $100,000 bond payout. The judge overturns a decision by the South Dakota Public Utilities Commission.
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A view of the footbridge designed by renowned Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer in the Rocinha slum in Rio de Janeiro December 6, 2012. REUTERS/Sergio Moraes
RIO DE JANEIRO: Architect Oscar Niemeyer recreated Brazil's sensuous curves in reinforced concrete. He built the capital of Brasilia on the empty central plains as a symbol of the nation's future. Niemeyer died Wednesday. He was 104.
Elisa Barboux, a spokeswoman for the Hospital Samaritano in Rio de Janeiro, confirmed Niemeyer's death, saying the cause was a respiratory infection. He had been hospitalized on various occasions this year suffering kidney problems, pneumonia and dehydration.
From Brasilia's crown-shaped cathedral to Paris' undulating French Communist Party building, Niemeyer shunned the steel-box structures of many modernists, finding inspiration in nature's crescents and spirals.
His hallmarks include much of the United Nations complex in New York and the Museum of Modern Art in Niteroi – perched over Guanabara Bay looking to Rio de Janeiro like a flying saucer.
"Right angles don't attract me. Nor straight, hard and inflexible lines created by man," he wrote in "The Curves of Time," his 1998 memoir. "What attracts me are free and sensual curves. The curves we find in mountains, in the waves of the sea, in the body of the woman we love."
Niemeyer designed most of Brasilia's important buildings. While French-born, avant-garde architect Lucio Costa crafted its distinctive airplane-like layout, Niemeyer left his mark in the flowing concrete of the Cabinet ministries and the monumental dome of the National Museum.
As the city grew to 2 million, critics said it lacked "soul" as well as street corners. Art critic Robert Hughes called it "a utopian horror."
Niemeyer shrugged off the criticism.
"I search for surprise in my architecture," he said in an interview with O Globo newspaper in 2006 at age 98. "A work of art should cause the emotion of newness."
Late in life, Niemeyer was still striving for renewal. Living well past the century mark, his journey mirrored that of his beloved Brazil, and his restless modernism captured the developing country's sweeping ambitions.
Oscar Niemeyer Soares Filho was born on Dec. 15, 1907, in Rio de Janeiro, and earned his architecture degree at Rio's School of Fine Arts.
Working in Costa's office in 1936, he helped design a Rio Education Ministry building that was a classic of functionalist horizontal and vertical lines. With modernist giant Le Corbusier, Niemeyer developed the "brise soleil," a heat protector that enhanced the building's grid design and became an architectural standard in the 1960s.
After teaming up with Le Corbusier in 1947 to design much of New York's U.N. complex, he was already chafing at the limits of form-follows-function architecture.
His first solo project was the Pampulha complex, set on an artificial lake in the central Brazilian city of Belo Horizonte. For the first time, Niemeyer employed the curves and arches that would become his hallmark.
Not everyone was pleased. The St. Francis church, built in a series of parabolic arches resembling waves, was shunned for years by Catholics who considered it an offense to Christianity. Finished in 1944, the church wasn't inaugurated until the late 1950s.
In the 1950s, Niemeyer was summoned by President Juscelino Kubitschek to design a new capital on Brazil's empty central high plains. Costa became the project's urban planner.
With the slogan of "50 years in five," Kubitschek hoped to prod Brazil into a great leap forward – and inward, away from the coast.
Niemeyer rose to the challenge, testing new forms and technical limits for reinforced concrete. His cone-shaped Metropolitan Cathedral is a circle of curved concrete pillars set like tepee poles with glass mosaic in between.
"I didn't want an old-style cathedral – dark, a reminder of sin," he said in an interview in the 1990s. "I wanted something happier."
Perhaps his best-known creation was the National Congress building, designed as two giant white bowls, one facing up and another facing down, with twin 100-meter towers rising between them.
In 1987, UNESCO declared Brasilia a World Heritage Landmark.
After a 1964 coup plunged Brazil into a 21-year military dictatorship, Niemeyer, a lifelong communist, decided to spend more time in Europe than Brazil. While living in France in 1965, he designed the headquarters of the French Communist Party. He also designed a modernist compound in Lebanon's Tripoli, today's derelict Rashid Karami Fairground.
He won the Gold Medal from the American Institute of Architecture in 1970, the Pritzker Architecture Prize from Chicago's Hyatt Foundation in 1988 and the Gold Medal of the Royal Institute of British Architects in 1998.
He never ceased working. He also never abandoned his faith in communism, befriending Cuban leader Fidel Castro. His Brasilia monument to Kubitschek, a statue in an elevated curve of stone, was criticized by the military regime for its similarity to the communist hammer-and-sickle.
Until the end, he saw architecture as a humanist endeavor and rejected criticism that his work was more enjoyable to look at than to live or work in.
"Life is more important than architecture," Niemeyer wrote in a 2006 article for a Brazilian daily. "One day the world will be more just and will take life to a superior stage, no longer limited to governments and dominant classes."
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Oakton has a long history of musical excellence, and the choral program is no exception. Members of the Oakton High School Choral Program are challenged both as individuals and as ensembles. Students have the opportunity to develop and grow as individual singers, technicians, and performers. Each ensemble is dedicated to singing with outstanding vocal technique, precision, expression, and tone quality. Together, students strive for musical artistry as they create beautiful music.
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A Wireless Jammer will emit an REP (Redstone Ether Pulse) approximately every 10 seconds. When powered by a Redstone signal the REP will stop.
Wireless Redstone devices hit by the REP will stop working for ~30 seconds, including Wireless Remotes that are held by players.
The bolt may be used to sabotage signals or be used as a form of defence. It harms mobs more than players and will always attempt to target a mob in range.
The range is 9 blocks. If you stand 10 blocks away from it you will be safe.


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Florida Georgia Line, comprised of Brian Kelley and Tyler Hubbard, promise a party atmosphere concert when they are in Swift Current for Frontier Days on June 27.
The good time country duo Florida Georgia Line say fans can expect to have a blast on June 27 when they kick off the grandstand entertainment at Frontier Days 2013.
When asked what fans can expect during their mainstage concert, Florida Georgia Line member Brian Kelley gave the succinct answer: "A Party!" "Period!"
Florida Georgia Line, comprised of Brian Kelley from Ormond Beach, Florida and Tyler Hubbard of Monroe, Georgia, have been riding high since bursting onto the music scene with the 2012 summer country music anthem Cruise. The duo are now embarking on an exhausting tour in support of their debut full length release Here Comes The Good Times which boasts the triple platinum single Cruise and the chart topping Get Your Shine On.
"It's been a blast. Every night's been pretty much a party, and the fans have been amazing and we're having the time of our lives," Kelley said during a phone interview from St. Louis before taking the stage to open for Luke Bryan on his Dirt Road Diaries Tour.
Florida Georgia Line has an intimidating 44 shows booked between the day of our interview and the end of August, including a quartet of dates in Canada.
"We've been killing the road man. We love it out here. We go home for a day or two here and there, but we can't wait to get back on the road and hang out and party and play music for our fans," he said.
Their swing into Canada includes concerts in Swift Current, Calgary, Saskatoon plus Dauphin's Countryfest, with this four-day swing north of the US border marking just their third trip into Canada.
Kelley said there is really no difference in country music fans on either side of the border.
"They (Canadian fans) seem just as passionate and excited. I can't really tell a difference."
Admittedly, they are looking forward to a series of outdoor concert dates, country fairs and country music festivals.
"Those are fun. Those are wild too, so we're excited about seeing all the country girls and it's going to be a good time."
Florida Georgia Line are one of the red hot new country artists after winning both the American Country Music Awards New Artist of the Year and New Vocal Duo or Group of the Year.
Appearing in Luke Bryan's Dirt Road Diaries Tour has allowed them to reach a number of their growing legions of fans.
"We're just very blessed to be a part of some amazing tours. Everybody's been so amazing to us and it's just awesome man. It's good to be on the road with your buddies and people you enjoy doing music with. We're just very lucky right now."
"Our fans have been amazing to us. They've just blown our minds really. They've changed our lives as well, so we're very thankful for the best fans in the world."
The duo boast having their first two singles top the music charts, the first country act to accomplish that feat in over two decades.
"People are always looking for new, fresh music, and that's what we've always tried to write. Our producer Joey Moi just has just got the touch. We call him The Wizard. He's just taken our music to another level. So it's a very cool time right now."
Frontier Days 2013 boasts an impressive line-up of concerts as the annual fair celebrates their 75th anniversary.
June 29 will feature a double bill sponsored by Robertson Implements, with High Valley taking to the concert stage along with Canadian country music star Paul Brandt.
Brandt has re-written the record books as Canada's top award winning male country music artist. He is an eight time Juno Award winner, capturing Country Male Vocalist/Artist of the Year for five straight years from 1997 to 2001, earning the nod as male vocalist of the year in 1998, plus winning the 2008 country recording of the Year for his album Risk. In 2008 he also received the Juno's prestigious Allan Waters Humanitarian Award.
Brandt is also a multiple Canadian Country Music Association Award winner, earning the following accomplishments:
2005 - Album Of The Year: This Time Around; CMT Video of the Year: Convoy.
2002 - Male Artist of the Year; Album Of The Year: Small Towns And Big Dreams.
2000 - Male Artist of the Year; Video of the Year: That's The Truth.
1999 - Male Vocalist Of The Year; Male Artist of the Year.
1998 - Male Vocalist Of The Year; Male Artist of the Year; Humanitarian Award.
1997 - Male Vocalist Of The Year; Male Artist of the Year; Single of the Year: I Do; SOCAN Song of the Year: I Do; Video of the Year: I Do; SOCAN Songwriter of the Year: I Do.
He had an immediate impact on Canada's Country Music charts right from his million-selling debut album Calm Before The Storm. He has enjoyed a string of gold and platinum albums, boosted by numerous chart toping singles.
He has released five of his own recordings through his independent record label Brand-T Record. His latest release Just As I Am, the 11th of his illustrious career, returns Brandt to his gospel roots with songs like The Old Rugged Cross, It Is Well With My Soul, and Amazing Grace. The album teams Brandt for collaborations with artists including Patty Loveless, Ricky Skaggs, John Anderson, and High Valley.
Brandt's The Build It Forward Foundation is making a difference throughout the world. One initiative helped build homes and infrastructure projects to battle homelessness in Canada, Mexico and Haiti. He was also involved in a major fundraiser to support the community of Slave Lake, Alberta following a devastating fire in 2011.
Brandt, who has produced tracks for the up and coming group High Valley, is touring with the brother trio of Brad, Bryan and Curtis Rempel.
High Valley have released a pair of studio albums, the self titled High Valley (Sept. 2010) and Love Is A Long Road (June 2012) and have a bright future ahead of them. They received a series of CCMA nominations for High Valley, they are two-time nominees for the CCMA Rising Star Award, plus they were nominated for a 2012 Juno for Country Album of the Year.
Canadian rockers The Trews will wrap up the concert series with a June 30 concert.
The Trews, who formed in 1997 in Antigonish, Nova Scotia, boast a pair of gold records along with a baker's dozen of top 10 songs.
Their list of five full-length studio albums includes House of Ill Fame (2003), Den of Thieves (2005) No Time For Later (2008), the live acoustic record Friends & Total Strangers (2009) plus 2011's Hope & Ruin.
In May 2010, The Trews released the single Highway of Heroes in tribute to all fallen Canadian soldiers and their families. The song, written and produced with Gordie Johnson of Big Sugar, directed net proceeds from sales of the song to the Canadian Hero Fund. The Trews wrote Highway of Heroes after being moved by the 2006 death of Captain Nichola Goddard who was from their hometown of Antigonish.


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High DPS Windup: Inferno Belial in 90s with Critical Mass Melee Wizard
Here's a high-dps variation of the Critical Mass / Energy Twister / Explosive Blast Windup Wizard build. It takes a total of 90s from loading into the Imperial Palace title at 0:43 to the kill flash at 2:13. And yes, there is a death during that minute and a half!
This is a comparable time to this video of Athene's Demon Hunter which is the fastest I found on YouTube. His time is 5s longer at 95s using the Imperial Palace/kill flash at 0:06 and 1:41 as boundaries.
Defensive skills are out, so no Energy Armor or Teleport. They're replaced with two DPS buffs, Force Weapon and Dartling Familiar. Mirror Skin is used rather than the more defensive Crystal Shell to reflect damage back. For passives, Critical Mass is joined by Cold Blood and Glass Cannon. Buffed DPS is 68k.


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Posted: December 08, 2012|
FOR the past 14 years, Derbyshire County Council has hosted a Young Achievers awards night to recognise children and teenagers for their outstanding courage, talent, hard work and kindness.
This year, nearly 100 youngsters aged three to 18 were chosen to receive the special accolade.
And last night, they gathered with their families for a glitzy ceremony at Matlock's Highfields School, where they picked up their awards from ex-Derby County captain and Strictly Come Dancing star Robbie Savage.
Among those present was the leader of the council, Andrew Lewer, who told the audience it was a special occasion.
He said: "This evening is about recognising the good, amazing and just plain outstanding contributions young people make to life in Derbyshire.
"At the county council we know that young people have a lot to give to make local life better. And the majority of young people are doing good things in our schools, homes and communities.
"Unfortunately we do not get to hear enough about them, which is why we think it's important to hold this event tonight."
Young Achievers are nominated each year by a wide range of people including teachers, local councillors, family members, friends and sports coaches.


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HSBC "lift" by Grey London
Agency: Grey London
Rating: 5.0
By Nick Batten, mediaweek.co.uk, Wednesday, 21 November 2012 11:31AM
The agency won the brief following a competitive pitch against eight undisclosed agencies and its work with eBay will launch later this year, with a campaign geared towards the Christmas trading season.
Fetch claims that mobile already accounts for a considerable amount of eBay's business, and will play a significant role in its Christmas media strategy.
James Connelly, managing director for Fetch, said: "We have long considered eBay to be one of the most innovative brands in the mobile space, so, as an agency that's passionate about innovation, we're extremely excited about working with them.
"We've been using eBay as a best-in-class case study for years, and we're looking forward to helping eBay strengthen its mobile offering, and engage with consumers across multiple platforms."
The eBay win follows a run of new business wins by the agency, including Square Enix and Bloom FM.
Earlier this year, Fetch hired Bigmouthmedia founder Steve Leach in the newly created role of chairman.
In September, eBay redesigned its logo for the first time in 17 years.
This article was first published on mediaweek.co.uk
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"Bottom-Up Innovation" by Refugees
There has been an "innovation turn" in the humanitarian world. A number of United Nations organizations, including UNHCR, have been pioneering the drawing upon of ideas and language more commonly used by the private sector in order to rethink humanitarian response. This work has offered an opportunity to transform old ways of working. Across the humanitarian system the dominant part of that debate has focused on improving organizational response. What has been neglected is a recognition that "affected communities," including displaced populations themselves, engage in innovation on a daily basis, adapting to new markets, social networks, and regulatory environments as a matter of necessity.
At the Refugee Studies Centre in Oxford, we set up the Humanitarian Innovation Project in 2012 to inform this debate, focusing our research on innovation by affected communities, and in particular by refugees and displaced populations. We have been privileged to work in partnership with UNHCR on much of this work. Drawing upon ideas from human-centered design, indigenous innovation, and participatory methodology, we have tried to shift the lens from "top-down" towards "bottom-up" innovation, premised upon the recognition that refugees themselves have skills, talents, and aspirations, are frequently entrepreneurial, and often use and adapt technology.
We have begun with an initial focus on refugees' livelihoods-innovation in Uganda, carrying out mixed methods, participatory research across three sites: the capital, Kampala, and two settlements, Nakivale and Kyangwali. Our decision to focus on Uganda has not been accidental: it is a country which, unlike many, allows refugees the right to work and a significant degree of freedom of movement. It allows exploration of the boundaries of the possible when refugees are given basic entitlements and opportunities. A team of over forty refugee researchers and enumerators, led by Ugandan research coordinators, carried out qualitative research and a survey of over 1500 refugees, based on two core questions: 1) how do refugees engage with the private sector, and 2) how do they use technology?
The results have been fascinating, and our preliminary findings will be published next month in a report called Refugee Economies: Rethinking Popular Assumptions. The report organizes the data around five core "myths": 1) that refugees are economically isolated; 2) that their livelihoods activities are homogenous; 3) that refugees are a burden on host states; 4) that they are technologically illiterate; 5) that they are dependent on international assistance. In each case, our data challenges or fundamentally nuances these ideas. It shows vibrant and complex economic systems that thrive despite the constraints placed upon them. Whether in the formal or informal economies, displaced populations adapt their own self-protection and self-help strategies, which include a range of highly innovative responses.
The economic systems we have encountered in Uganda are nested in much broader structures, with connections across communities, with the national host economy, and transnationally. Far from being isolated, we discovered, for instance, that the Congolese bitenge trade connects the refugee settlements to urban centers as well as factories as far afield as China and India. Refugees make a great contribution to the host state economy through their role as consumers, producers, employers, and employees. To take the example of employment: of urban refugees that employ others, 40% employ Ugandans, while 43% of urban refugees who are employed work for nationals of the host state.
In terms of technology, mobile phone and internet use is greater than in the general population, with 96% of refugees in urban areas and 71% in rural settlements having mobile phones, and 51% and 11%, respectively, having access to the internet, often using these technologies for income-generating activities. Many refugees adapt their own appropriate technologies – from Congolese wooden bicycles to sustainable rain-water cooling systems for maize-milling, to video games parlors based entirely on reassembled second-hand equipment – leading to a vast array of livelihoods-innovations. Far from being uniquely dependent on humanitarian assistance, only 1% lack any independent income-generating source, and in urban areas 78% receive no international assistance at all. In prioritizing needs, many want educational opportunities and business support rather than just financial assistance.
Through these findings and others, we have recognized that refugees have incredible capacities for innovation. Better understanding the economic systems of displaced populations offers a great opportunity to rethink the very basis of how we do assistance. It enables us to think about market-based interventions that build on what already exists, to remove market distortions, and to improve the ability of displaced populations to more effectively engage with markets. Unlocking this potential stands to benefits the displaced, hosts, and donors. With the right kind of facilitation, it may transform humanitarian challenges into sustainable opportunities.


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NCTM advises on the issue of the Pasta Zara 'mini-bond'
NCTM Studio Legale Associato acted as 'deal counsel' for the transaction.
EC insolvency regulation amendment draws closer weblink
Proposal is intended to address enforcement issues.
MSC Group buys UniCredit's stake in Bluvacanze as part of refinancing deal
MSC has acquiredUniCredit's 42.85 per cent stake in Bluvacanze, increasing its share to 95.26 per cent.
NCTM assists Yarpa and LBO France over sale of IZO to Vaxxinova
Italian veterinary company IZO is sold to German farm animal vaccination company Vaxxinova.
NCTM and Paul Hastings assist Waste Italia in €200m high-yield bond offer
NCTM and Paul Hastings have assisted Waste Italia in a high-yield bond offer for a total value of €200m and on a €15m revolving credit facility.
NCTM assists Banca IMI in financing arrangement for Banca Farmafactoring
NCTM has assisted Banca IMI, acting as global co-ordinator and bookrunner of a pool of banks in the financing for a total value of €110m to Banca Farmafactoring.
Italian government shakes up the lending market weblink
The Italian government is trying to shake up the lending market by Law Decree No 91 of 24 June 2014 (Decreto Competitività).
A debtor in a concordato preventivo pre-filing regime can suspend but not terminate agreements pursuant to bankruptcy law weblink
Can the Bankruptcy Court authorise the debtor to terminate credit facility agreements when the debtor submitted a pre-filing for concordato preventivo?
NCTM and SPC sign agreement with Deutsche Bank for managing non-performing loans
NCTM Studio Legale Associato and SPC have signed an agreement with Deutsche Bank for the management of non-performing loans.
NCTM advises online advertising specialist Triboo Media on acquisition of HTML.it
NCTM has advised Triboo Media on the acquisition of 100 per cent of the share capital of HTML.it.
NCTM appoints three new equity partners
NCTM has appointed three new equity partners, Sergio Fulco, Guido Martinelli and Lukas Plattner, who were all previously salary partners.
NCTM advises Enertronica on issuance of mini convertible bond
NCTM has advised Enertronica on its mini-bond Enertronica SpA, a company operating in the sectors of renewable sources, energy efficiency and electromechanical systems.
Minibonds: regulation following the new provisions of law weblink
The subject of so-called 'minibonds' has become particularly topical, following the recent conversion into law of the decree law 'Destinazione Italia' at the end of February.
NCTM receives two accolades at the 2014 Legalcommunity Finance & Tax Awards
NCTM has been awarded the Law Firm of the Year — Equity Capital Markets, while Piermauro Carabellese won Professional of the Year — Transfer Pricing.
NCTM advises BNL and Unicredit on acquisition financing to Aso Siderurgica
NCTM has advised BNL and Unicredit in connection with an acquisition financing to Aso Siderurgica for the acquisition of Cromsteel Industries SA.
NCTM advises Gala on its AIM Italia listing
NCTM has acted as legal adviser to Gala in its listing on AIM Italia, the alternative capital market devoted to SMEs and managed by the Italian Stock Exchange.
NCTM assists retailer La Gardenia Beauty with its restructuring
NCTM has assisted La Gardenia Beauty, an Italy-based beauty and cosmetics retailer, with its restructuring following the entry of Fondo Orlando Italy into its share capital.
NCTM launches capital markets and financial intermediaries department
NCTM has launched a capital markets and financial intermediaries department under the direction of Prof Alberto Toffoletto.
NCTM assists Fiera Milano in its expansion project in China
NCTM Studio Legal Associato has assisted Fiera Milano in its expansion project in China, with the acquisition of a 75 per cent stake in Guangzhou Shi Zhan Exhibition Service.