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SEPANG, Malaysia (Reuters) - Briton's Lewis Hamilton won the Malaysian Grand Prix with a pole-to-flag victory ahead of Nico Rosberg on Sunday in a first Mercedes one-two since they returned to Formula One as a works team in 2010.
The 2008 Formula One world champion easily pulled away from his rivals on a dry track with a three-stop strategy to win by 17.3 seconds, for his 23rd career victory and first in Malaysia at the eighth attempt.
"Really grateful, thank you so much," the Briton told his team over the radio after taking the chequered flag for his second win for Mercedes since he joined them last year.
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Photo by Michael Baron Yesterday the Mets signed reliever Scott Atchison to a minor league deal and reports indicate that they are not done with the pen, in fact they could even sign someone with closing experience. Frank Francisco is coming off surgery, was injured for a portion of the season and struggled at times with the closing responsibilities. In Alderson's first year he brought in Izzy who eventually closed for the Mets. It makes sense to bring in another closer willing to set-up for now hoping that at some point they get the chance to showcase themselves in New York. Here is an updated list of free agent relievers who have at least ten saves in their careers. Jeremy Accardo (38)Matt Capps (138)Todd Coffey (11)Francisco Cordero (329)Kevin Gregg (144)LaTroy Hawkins (88)Jason Isringhausen (300)Bobby Jenks (173)Brandon Lyon (79)Guillermo Mota (10)Jon Rauch (62)Francisco Rodriguez (294)Jose Valverde (277)Brian Wilson (171)
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Spectro Spectro Jel Cleanser for Blemish-Prone Skin (Fragrance Free)
144 reviews
77% would repurchase
Package Quality: 4.1
Price: $$
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INGREDIENTSAqua, Butylene Glycol, Glycerin, Hydroxypropyl Methocellulose, Polysorbate 20, Cetyl Alcohol (moisturizer), Hydrated Silica, PEG-12 Dimethicone, Diazolidinyl Urea, Carbomer, Triethanolamine, Sorbitan Oleate.
on 2/12/2014 5:23:00 PM
Age: 30-35
Skin: Acne-prone, Fair-Medium, Not Sure
Hair: Brunette, Other, Other
Eyes: Hazel
I dont usually write reviews, however this product is worth a review. I have had trouble with acne since my early 20s(now in my 30s) and have been searching for a product that works, that is cost efficient and gentle on the skin. as many other reviews state you do have to give this product a few weeks to a month to really work. it has been just over a month now, and I love it. my breakouts have gone from constant to just a blemish here and there. it smells kind of odd, like glue, but it really does work. I use this as well as the spectro facial moisturizer for blemish prone skin. I would recommend this product and will buy it again. the price is great and the pump on the large size bottle is convenient to keep in the shower.
on 2/4/2014 8:56:00 PM
Age: 18 & Under
Skin: Oily, Fair-Medium, Warm
Hair: Brunette, Straight, Fine
Eyes: Brown
THIS SAVED MY SKIN!!!! So, I was looking at this for while, but never got around to buying it because it was so expensive! It was like 11 to 15 dollars! I bought it just after I ran out of my other cleanser. Well, technically, my mom bought it. But anyway, I was washing my face and I was a little confused with the pump cuz it locks easily. its a good idea to lock it after you use it because if you press the top even gently it will spew out like Smaugs fire all across the bathroom! The consistency was really surprising because I thought it was gonna foam up, but its literally like washing your face with gel. It didn't bug me because it didn't feel like it was stripping my skin! My skin was so bad! Not nearly acne, but on the brink of it. It was a slooooow process; it took almost a month until my skin started to show a difference. Now I only get, like, 2 to 4 pimples every once in a while but they clear up fast! I was so worried I was going to use Proactiv!! AAAAHHH!! This stuff is amazing! Just a reminder to people: don't give up on this cleanser if it takes a while to work or if you keep breaking out after using this! Cleansers wont prevent you from getting pimples ever again. It just removes impurities and cleans your skin. When you stop getting pimples is when YOUR SKIN ITSELF stops making them. Definitely recommend this for blemish prone skin!
on 1/4/2014 8:10:00 PM
Age: 18 & Under
Skin: Combination, Fair, Neutral
Hair: Brown, Straight, Medium
Eyes: Hazel
I've been using this and the HydraCare blemish prone skin moisturizer for about 5 months and it only helped with the little pimples, but instead I got the big, hard pimples that take forever to go away. Also, after using the cleanser my cheeks were really dry and tight so I had to use a lot of the moisturizer on my cheeks.
on 12/26/2013 2:16:00 AM
Age: 18 & Under
Skin: Very Dry, Fair, Not Sure
Hair: Black, Other, Other
Eyes: Brown
I bought this to give it a try as the label boasted 'sulphate free, ph balanced' good things indeed. Now it did it's job of cleaning my face, but I've discovered by removing one product from my routine at a time this was the cause of my mysterious nipple eczema! Very strange. I've struggled with eczema and dry skin my whole life so I would NOT recommend this for others who have the same problem. Back to good ol noczema for me!
on 11/30/2013 10:21:00 AM
Age: 18 & Under
Skin: Acne-prone, Dark, Not Sure
Hair: Brown, Other, Other
Eyes: Black
I have oily and acne prone skin. But everything changed when I used Spectro Jel Blemish Prone Fragrance free. Within a week I began to see changes. Not only was my skin clearing up but so were my dark spots. I am in my third week of this process and my skin looks better Not entirely perfect. A pimple her and there and faded dark spots. This cleanser does not irritate your skin so don't worry about feeling itchiness or pain. Stop wasting your money on expensive cleansers that supposedly "work". Get Spectro Jel and try it. You wont regret it. There are different types of bottles you can buy so get the one that will fit your skin. ;)
on 11/3/2013 1:26:00 PM
Age: 19-24
Skin: Oily, Tan, Not Sure
Hair: Black, Other, Other
Eyes: Brown
I had several cystic acne 2 years ago and was afraid to try this, due to a few reviewers in the lowest rating claiming it gave them large pimples (your mileage may vary btw because skin products is like dating). So I finally decided to buy the product a month ago and was (still am) in love of it. The cleanser does smell chemically and has a liquidy/jelly texture. It feel pleasant upon application, not like cetaphil which feels a lot like semen ( I am a nurse in training so I've handled many bodily fluids). Overall, the product is really refreshing and leaves you fresh. Hot showers will take away the moisturizing benefits of jel or hydrating cleanser so tepid showers is a must unless you like the tight "clean" feeling of drying cleansers.
HG everyday cleanser for me, but I still use strong drying cleansers to take away the makeup after special occasions.
on 9/10/2013 7:53:00 PM
Age: 30-35
Skin: Acne-prone, Medium, Not Sure
Hair: Blond, Other, Other
Eyes: Hazel
I am an 30 year old with 2 kids. I had s flawless face when I was younger then after my kids bam! adult acne . I have tried everything thing! even went to 3 dermatologist who gave me all these creams that just burnt my skin off. I was on acne.org and was them talking about this. I bought this the 2.5 benzo cream and moisturizer . I use it morning and night . rub for 30 seconds at least . I use makeup remover wipes then use this. my acne cleared in 2 weeks ! and now I have a clear flawless face again . I am in love ! I stopped using it out of lazyness and I saw the acne back with a vengeance after 2 weeks of lazyiness. def worth it . it might not be flashy packaging but it works !
on 9/2/2013 2:14:00 AM
Age: 30-35
Skin: Acne-prone, Olive, Not Sure
Hair: Black, Other, Other
Eyes: Brown
O-M-G!!! This is an amazing cleanser!!! I actually bought 10 of these in a duo set with the moisturiser at Walmart when it went on sale for like $12. I only liked the moisturiser at that time because this cleanser doesnt foam at all its just a gel watery like cleanser. I felt didnt do much but now that i use it to take off makeup and it does so perfectly melts everything right off. The technique in using this cleanser is you need to apply it on a DRY FACE! massage it for 30s around the face and neck to get everything off then wipe it off. By doing this technique i find it works for that. I still use another cleanser to cleanse my skin tho as i do not feel this doing much for my skin. But it is very gentle. I have about 8 bottles of these and will be using them up once im done i wont be re-purchasing tho!
on 8/14/2013 6:25:00 PM
Age: 18 & Under
Skin: Sensitive, Fair, Neutral
Hair: Red, Wavy, Medium
Eyes: Green
Love, love, LOVE this cleanser. I've been struggling to find the perfect cleanser for ages and I've finally found it. After about 2 weeks use my skin has never looked and felt better. It's such a gentle cleanser that it doesn't irritate any existing blemishes and it being fragrance free is even better. Sure, it doesn't smell pretty but fragrance free products are better for your skin.
Definitely recommend !
on 8/5/2013 1:20:00 AM
Age: 18 & Under
Skin: Combination, Fair, Neutral
Hair: Brown, Straight, Fine
Eyes: Brown
I don't know why more people don't review this... It truly is an amazing product. It cleans your pores and it makes my skin look cleaner, and brighter afterwards and fights off blemishes so my skin looks amazing. love it. xx
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Grade/Class: fourth-grade gifted/blended
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No. of years at Vineyards: 9
Darlene R. Crete
School: Lorenzo Walker Technical High
Grade/Class: 10th
Subject: Intensive Reading
No. of years teaching: 25
No. of years at Lorenzo Walker High: 3
Michal Durik
School: Barron Collier High
Grade/Class: ninth-12th
Subject: Spanish
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No. of years at Barron Collier High: 3
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School: Naples High
Grade/Class: ninth-12th
Subject: Social Studies (AP/Honors)
No. of years teaching: 17
No. of years at Naples High: 14
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School: Lorenzo Walker Institute of Technology
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Subject: Nursing
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Grade/Class: third-fifth; Exceptional Student Education
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Students Jordan Turcotte and Sebastian Pinero huddled around a bushel of Golden Delicious apples in their Palmetto Elementary school classroom Monday afternoon. One of their classmates stood back against the wall. She was crying tears of joy.
"I'm just so happy," said 9-year-old Lexsy Perugorria.
Their teacher, Sheila Snyder, had just been named one of six 2012 Golden Apple recipients by the Education Foundation of Collier County. Her students were ecstatic.
"I just love being with the students," said Snyder, who teaches exceptional student education. "It's an incredible honor."
Education Foundation board members, representatives and sponsors delivered the six Golden Apples to teachers Monday to recognize outstanding teachers who exhibit excellence in their classrooms.
In addition to Snyder, the 2012 winners are Maria Lana Christmas of Vineyards Elementary; Darlene R. Crete of Lorenzo Walker Technical High; Michal Durik of Barron Collier High; Paul G. Horne of Naples High; and Eileen Schoenknecht of Lorenzo Walker Institute of Technology.
In each classroom, students applauded and one-by-one gave their teacher a hug. They described their award-winning teachers as creative, relatable, inspiring and motivating.
"We have an awesome teacher, she really makes us understand," said 16-year-old Elizabeth Hernandez of their reading teacher, Crete. "She's an interactive teacher and includes everyone."
The almost yearlong process to be selected as a Golden Apple recipient begins with students, parents and community members nominating teachers. A selection committee reads applications blind and narrows the field to 60 teachers, who are then observed in their classrooms by a core committee. That team chooses the 31 Teachers of Distinction, who are interviewed and observed an additional time. Then, the committee selects the six Golden Apple teachers.
Schoenknecht, who was a nurse for 28 years before she began teaching, said she always wanted to be a teacher. She now teaches nursing at LWIT.
Her students repeatedly said "she's so deserving."
"She's not intimidating, she's really hands-on," said 21-year-old Nicole Prohaska of Schoenknecht.
Students in Christmas' fourth grade class celebrated her award by pairing up and performing a class dance.
Ten-year-old Faith Cotter said she always hoped to have Christmas as her fourth-grade teacher.
Christmas describes herself as a "back-row child" while she was in school. She said as a young girl, she knew there had to be a better way to educate and engage students.
"I was born to be a teacher," she said. "I really want to be here."
Christmas, along with the five other Golden Apple teachers, received an $1,800 check, an engraved Golden Apple and a basket of Golden Delicious apples for their classrooms. The Golden Apple teachers and Teachers of Distinction will be recognized at the 22nd annual Golden Apple Teacher Recognition Program presented by Suncoast for Kids Foundation at 7 p.m. Wednesday, April 11, at the Waldorf Astoria Naples.
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"It's frightening to learn about the age of entry into prostitution being 12 to 14," he told ABCNews.com today.
In general when parents traffic their own children, the fathers tend to be violent and abusive, while the mothers are typically desperate.
"But no poverty or economic desperation can along explain the prostitution of a child," he said.
While there are no numbers on how many young children are trafficked by their own parents, there are about 100,000 minors trafficked in the United States each year, Logan said.
"Most of them are runaways or throwaways," he said.
Lois Lee, the founder and president of the non-profit Children of the Night, said drugs are often involved when mothers are found to have sold or traded their children.
But the trafficking of a 5-year-old is "very rare," Lee said. "And very rare that they would call it trafficking."
Children of the Night, marking its 30th anniversary this year, typically deals with children whose ages range from 11 through 17.
What makes Shaniya's case different is that she is not yet old enough to be considered to be "mobile," to run away on her own to escape a bad home life, Lee said.
When children are trafficked or pimped under the age of 11, she said, "usually the parents are involved."
Chance declined to comment on a possible connection between Davis and McNeill. A third man, Clarence Coe, has been arrested in the case, charged last week with kidnapping. The charges were later dropped, according to police, after interviews with McNeill.
Davis' other child, a 7-year-old boy, was removed from her home last week, Chance said, and is now in foster care.
Shaniya's father told the Associated Press this weekend that the little girl, the product of a one-night stand with Davis, had lived with him until recently.
Lockhart said he decided to give Davis a chance to raise their daughter after she showed him that she was getting back on her feet financially and had her own home where Shaniya could live with her.
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Removing Tiering From the Revenue Sharing Formula Would Eliminate Payment Inequities to Local Governments
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GAO reviewed the inequities in the distribution of General Revenue Sharing funds which are caused by the statutory tiering procedure. Under this procedure, funds are first allocated to county geographic areas before being allocated to individual jurisdictions within the county. This review provides Congress with a comprehensive analysis of the effect tiering has on funding distribution patterns.
GAO found that revenue sharing allocations to city and township governments result from three sources: (1) the three formula elements of population, relative income, and tax effort applicable to each unit of local government; (2) statutory formula constraints; and (3) the statutory tiering distribution procedure. The effect of the three formula elements is well understood; more aid is allocated to units of local government with more people, low per capita income, and high tax effort. What is not generally understood is that the tiering process causes payment inequities at two stages in the distribution process. Throughout a state, the tiering procedure reduces funding to the governmental types with residents, that on an average, have relatively low incomes. In states characterized by rural poverty, tiering benefits most cities and penalizes the governmental type with a higher concentration of low income residents. Therefore, the targeting of revenue sharing funds to those governmental units which, on the average, contain the nation's low-income population could be enhanced by eliminating the tiering and applying the basic 3-factor formula directly to all units of local government within each state.
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Comments: When we determine what steps the Congress has taken, we will provide updated information.
Matter: Congress should amend the Federal Revenue Sharing Act, as amended, to eliminate the tiering procedure, thereby making allocations within states directly to all units of local government based on the three factors of population, relative income, and tax effort.
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We've heard many variations on this theme. Some people believe that a pro must work as a photographer exclusively. Some believe that a pro is someone who makes at least 15% of his income from photography. Well - Varina works as a photographer full time. 100% of her income comes from our photography business. So she's clearly a pro, right? But I work as a program manager most of the time. My income from photography may be less than 15% of my income overall... but does that make me less of a pro than Varina? We teach together. We write eBooks together. We run our business together - selling prints, teaching workshops, shooting weddings, portraits, and events. We have similar skill sets overall. And yet - by some definitions, I'm not a pro. Obviously, this definition doesn't make much sense in our situation.
Myth #3: A pro teaches workshop on a regular basis.
Well - Varina and I have been teaching workshops for years... but what about photographers who never teach a single class. There are lots of different ways to make money from photography (if that's what it comes down to in the end). Selling prints in a gallery or at art shows, selling merchandise, working as a journalist, offering tours, selling images for stock or microstock... the list goes on and on. And lots of photographers who do teach workshops don't make a full-time living from photography, which takes us back to myth #2.
Myth #4: A pro has been published in print.
Here we are in the internet age - and the world of publication has changed dramatically. You don't need an agent anymore, and you don't need to go through a publishing company in order to see your work in print. So anyone can be published now. Varina and I have both been published in a variety of magazines and calendars... and we also have a collection of self-published eBooks. Are they less legitimate because we published them ourselves? Do we really care? We put a whole lot of work into them, and we do our best to make sure they are professionally presented and packed full of good information. Heck - we make good money selling them too, so I guess it really doesn't matter if they count as "real" publications or not, right? And many photographers don't work with print media at all. If I sell my images at fairs or in a gallery, does that make me less professional?
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Have butcher bone leg of lamb, replacing bone with pork tenderloin.
Roll and tie roast for pan roasting or rotisserie; rub lamb with seasonings.
For pan roasting, preheat oven to 325°.
Place lamb on rack in roasting pan and roast, uncovered, about 3 hours (30 minutes per pound) or until meat thermometer registers 185°.
For rotisserie, arrange lamb on spit, piercing roast through the center lengthwise.
Cook over low coals 3-3 1/2 hours or until meat thermometer registers 185°.
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Signature game October 13, 2001 --The play has been come to be remembered as "The Flip." The Yankees were leading the A's 1-0 in the seventh inning of Game 3 of the American League Division Series in Oakland when Terrence Long doubled into the rightfield corner. When Shane Spencer overthrew the cutoff man, it looked as if Jeremy Giambi would score from first base.
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v-a is a design studio based in Lisbon and New York producing some wonderful work like this booklet. I especially love the big block of color for the cover, combined with the clean grid-aligned type.
v-a is a design studio based in Lisbon and New York producing some wonderful work like this booklet. I especially love the big block of color for the cover, combined with the clean grid-aligned type.
I'm really enjoying the work of Polish architect and graphic designer Tomasz Berezowski. His design work is looks like it come right out of the 60s. Simple, typographic design.
Beautiful work by Toko for PTW Architects to celebrate their 125th anniversary. Toko designed a temporary identity and 9 bilingual books showcasing the firms work.
Sean Wolcott of Rationale designed this minimal wall calendar. It comes in two version, Sans and Serif, and the dates are presented in two columns with space for notes.
The spiral bound calendar measures at 11x17", and is printed on high-quality 100# Cougar cover stock.
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After the success of Manuals 1, Unit Editions has just announced Manuals 2, which features graphic standards and corporate identity manuals for IBM, Westinghouse, Canadian Rail, Bell, Knoll, PTT, Montreal Olympics, Dutch Police and more. These manuals were designed by some of the masters: Georges Huel, Paul Rand, Allan Fleming, Total Design, Massimo and Lella Vignelli, Alan Fletcher, Otl Aicher and more.
Manuals 2 will also feature my copy of the graphics manual for the 1976 Montréal Olympics. Pretty excited that a piece of my collection is included.
The book includes essays, interviews and a forward by Lance Wyman, designer of the 1968 Mexico Olympic games.
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Carl Brett was an Irish graphic designer and teacher who worked in Canada since 1954 and helped pioneer modernism in Canada. He was a founding member of the Society of Graphic Designers of Canada and served as president on two occasions.
Couldn't find much info on him, and only found this gallery of his work at a small resolution, and some sort video interviews with him.
Remember those fellas who found an original copy of the NYC Transit Authority Graphic Standards Manual in the basement of Pentagram? Well, they're partnering with the MTA to release a limited run of manual through Kickstarter.
It won't be exactly like the original manual. The original is ring bound in binder, but the reissue will feature a cloth hardcover and unaltered high-resolution scans of each page of the manual, all Smyth sewn together. It will measure 13.5" W × 13.5″ H (343 x 343 mm).There will be an introduction by Michael Bierut, and an essay by New York magazine writer Christopher Bonanos.
The manual will be printed in Italy on 100 and 140 gsm Munken Pure ivory offset paper. The cover, introduction, and essay headings will be set in a custom version of Standard Medium by type designer Nick Sherman, that he recreated from the photographs of the original manual.
This is a great way to get this wonderful piece of design history in the hands of more people. I've backed it.
Uwe Loesch is a German designer born in 1943 in Dresden, Germany, and studied graphic design at the Peter-Behrens Academy in Duesseldorf. He's a member of AGI — Alliance Graphique Internationale and has a collection at the MoMA. Most of his work focuses on poster design, and he's done some great work.
I found this image while surfing around this morning. Don't know about authenticity, but supposedly, these are the business cards of Josef Müller-Brockmann, Paul Rand, Adrian Frutiger and Helmut Schmid. I've seen the Paul Rand card before, so that one could be legit. Either way, these are lovely. The Frutiger card is definitely the least functional.
Update: Michael Bierut confirmed on Twitter that the Rand and Müller-Brockmann are the real deal.
Dot Zero was a quarterly by Unimark in partnership with Finch Paper that focused on the theory and practice of visual communication. Only five issues were published between 1966 and 1968, and Massimo Vignelli was the designer and creative director of the magazine. Vignelli wanted to make the design exciting, but simple, so he set all type in only two weights of Helvetica and everything printed in black and white.
Michael Bierut interviewed Vignelli about the magazine. Some nice insights on how the publication came about, and its production.
The folks at Rationale Design have made available a hi-res PDF of issue 1 of Dot Zero, and you can see some photos of issue 2 here.


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Henrico County Extension Agents Karen Carter and Lisa Sanderson recently were part of a team of agents in Virginia that earned a second place award in the Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services' 2011 Pesticide Safety Education Program. The two Henrico agents and four others earned the award for their efforts to design a formal training program to prepare applicators to pass the registered technician, core, category and private applicator exams for certification.
The following members have been re-elected to the Randolph-Macon College Board of Directors of the Society of Alumni: Rev. David F. Jarvis II, of Glen Allen, and Kathryn Viall Stottlemyer, of Richmond. The Board is comprised of 37 members, from class years spanning seven decades, who are elected for staggered three-year terms. The members are expected to serve on a standing committee; be active ambassadors for student recruitment efforts; actively support initiatives associated with the Board's strategic priorities; and support the Randolph-Macon Fund. Jarvis, Class of '59, is a retired United Methodist clergy. Stottlemyer, Class of '99, is vice president of operations of Tweed gifts and home accents.
Jamel Davis, of Richmond, recently graduated from Coastal Carolina University in Conway, S.C. He received a bachelor of arts degree in communication.
Richard Michael Pantele, a senior at Hampden-Sydney College, has been recognized as an outstanding campus leader in the 2013 edition of "Who's Who Among Students in American Universities and Colleges." A Madison Scholar, Pantele is president of the social fraternity Chi Phi, vice president of the Orthodox Christian Fellowship and secretary of the honorary society Pi Sigma Alpha (political science). He also serves as a member of the Student Court, as Senior Class Campaign chairman and as a resident advisor. A government major, Pantele is a graduate of Godwin High School.
VMI 1st Class Cadet Nick Potter, of Henrico, is currently conducting graduate-level work in physics – while still an undergraduate. He is experimenting with Janus particles, microscopic polystyrene spheres coated on one side with metal to give them unique attributes. Practical applications of his research include thin-film optical coatings. The Godwin High School graduate will complete his studies at VMI this spring with a major in physics.
John Eugene Dunlea, of Glen Allen, recently graduated from Bethel University in McKenzie, Tenn. He was awarded a master of business administration degree from the College of Graduate Studies.
The following students from Henrico recently were named to the dean's list for the fall 2012 semester at Furman University in Greenville, S.C.: Kelsey Bing, daughter of Mr. and Ms. John Bing; Alexandra Buff, daughter of Mr. Scott Buff and Mrs. Patricia Buff; Meredith Donahue, daughter of Mr. Thomas Donahue and Mary Sue Donahue; and Ann Snyder, daughter of Candice and David Snyder. To be eligible for the dean's list, students must earn a grade point average of 3.4 or higher.
'Proof of Heaven' coming to Glen Allen
Dr. Even Alexander, a New York Times best-selling author who has been featured on Oprah and Dr. Oz, was in town last week to promote his June 27 talk, "Proof of Heaven," at Glen Allen High School.
Alexander (pictured, at right, while Unity of Bon Air church member Harry Simmons interviews him) has written about what he considers to be his journey through the afterlife.
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Innsbrook Rotary celebrates 25 years
The Innsbrook Rotary Club, which is celebrating its 25th year in 2015, has completed a number of volunteer projects this year and raised thousands of dollars for various organizations through three events.
The club's annual rose sale, benefit for youth live auction and Virginia Fire Games competition, combined with individual and corporate donations, have raised nearly $70,000 – money that the club contributes back to the community.
FeedMore is the beneficiary of the club's 25th anniversary project, which provides refrigerated trailers to be used for the distribution of food throughout Central Virginia. > Read more.
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I just checked a V5R3 box I have access to - that program is in QSYS - and documentation does say it first came out in V2R2 - so someone had to have removed it, so far as I can tell.
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So this is happening right now at Modular Robotics….
Alicia Gibb's new book, Building Open Source Hardware, is awesome. It's filled with interviews, case studies, discussions of licensing and manufacturing, and practical information about taking a project from idea to product. If you're interested in open hardware, you'll want a copy.
I contributed a little piece to the book about FARKUS, the open source manufacturing robotics platform that we're working on. You can read it here while you're waiting for your copy of the book to arrive!
Do people on the internet bring you down? It happens to me a lot. I'll read an article, and before I know it, my eyes will have wandered down into the comments, and I start to get upset with trolls, upset about how intolerant some people seem to be. Upset with our education system, upset with stupidity, and even a little upset with there, their, and they're. Often upset about an oversimplification of complex things. I try not to let this stuff get to me, but sometimes it's hard, especially first thing in the morning. I just don't want to hear what random people on the internet have to say.
So I use Shut Up, which is a lovely lightweight Chrome extension that removes all comments from web pages: YouTube, the Daily Camera (it's our local Boulder, CO paper and has the worst comments ever), the Radavist (apparently I like pretty bicycles more than I like other people who like pretty bicycles), etc.. Shut Up misses a couple of sites and isn't perfect, but it's free. Maybe you'll find that it has a place in your life too.
It strikes me that this may seem antisocial. Facebook's article last week about "echo chambers" has made me a little more aware of the possibility of over-curating our inputs. But eschewing web comments is not the same as reducing diversity, it's reducing the volume of input from the whole diverse internet. Toward what seems like, for me, a much more manageable flow.
Don't worry, I haven't forgotten about tiny robots. Next Level Cubelets Part II soon!
I flew to Atlanta last week to give a talk at Mailchimp. Know them? If you don't send emails to big groups of people, you probably wouldn't, but if you do, you definitely do. Mailchimp is a mass-email service, but it's wrapped in a cutesy, web 2.0 B2C-style design. They have millions of clients — we use them at modbot to send newsletters. If you've subscribed to get email updates for blog posts, look at the bottom of this email! Sent by Mailchimp.
I try pretty hard to ignore invitations that don't appear to have a direct benefit for Modular Robotics. After all, there's always a lot to do at the new shop. But the people at Mailchimp are totally awesome, and they offered to take me to dinner at Empire State South. So, 18 hours in Atlanta. Turns out it was completely worth it. For a SaaS company, the chimps there do a lot of playing in hardware. I got a great demo of the Freddie Mercury Project hardware in which they sent email from the stratosphere with a stuffed monkey. Etcetera.
Anyway, I talked about tiny robots and manufacturing and complexity. And also a little about evolution and faith, because why not? The slides from my talk definitely don't stand alone as a presentation (if you weren't there, you won't get it) but for the archives, here they are (55MB PDF).
What's a robot? Our working definition is that it's a machine that Senses, Thinks, and Acts. Cubelets and MOSS are pretty primitive robots; if you prefer Sense, Plan, Act, they probably won't be offended.
Anyway, each Cubelet falls into one of the Sense, Think, or Act categories, and one of the main reasons that they seem primitive (compared to a mouse, say), is that they fundamentally work together based on simple, linear, one-to-one relationships. Snap a Distance Sensor onto a Drive block, and the more the distance sensor detects, the faster the motor goes. The less, the slower. All of the Sense and Act Cubelets output basically linear values (or actions) based on their inputs:
A linear, monotonic relationship like this makes simple, perfect, robotty sense, but doesn't have a lot in common with the messy, biological irregularities and discontinuities that we find in systems that look alive. What if we try something that's not monotonic: a function that doubles back on itself. How about an easy piecewise function that makes a triangle: y=x for x<0.5 and y=1-x for x>0.5. At Wolfram Alpha, we can plot it like this: Plot[Piecewise[{{x, x<0.5}, {1-x, x>0.5}}], {x, 0, 1}]
I used Cubelets Studio and a Bluetooth Cubelet to reprogram a Knob block to apply this transformation to any data that flows through it. Then I added a Bar Graph so that I could see what was going on and got this:
Which is exactly right, but I want to use the full range of the bar graph, so I'll make my triangle wave twice as tall by adding a simple 2x. It works, and I know you can picture a full bar graph response so I'm not going to bother with a video. Here's the code:
void loop() { int temp = get_knob(); if (temp <= 127) { block_value = 2 * temp; } else { block_value = 2 * (255 - temp); } }
OK. Now I'm going to switch it up a bit and flash (almost) the same code into a Distance sensor (swapping get_distance() for get_knob()) and build a little mobile robot. It's a differential drive robot with the modified Distance sensor controlling one motor, and a stock Knob controlling the other for easy tuning. The Passive block is just for balance.
Hm! This little robot looks like it's attracted to the box but also careful to keep its distance. Is it "thinking"? Is it "intelligent"? Maybe not, but it seems like we're getting a little closer to intelligence here than we can do with a robot made out of stock Cubelets….
Modular Robotics is moving! We've been in our current space for almost three years, and it's time for an upgrade. Three times the square footage, two times the ceiling height, and three times the number of bathroom stalls. And for the first time, we're not just using my truck to move! Team modbot has arranged for a series of trucks, riggers for the SMT equipment, and a real moving company to move the office. The elf team is currently working on moving the inventory.
The new space is amazing. It's a former post office! It's a former Coca Cola bottling plant! It's super weird! We've been working on a renovation with Tres Birds Workshop for the last six months and it's finally ready; inspections are complete and the certificate of occupancy is in hand. I won't belabor the description since I'm confident that many blog-worthy shenanigans with forklifts and rollerskates will ensue, but it's currently looking eerily empty.
While we're making this transition, please note that our address has changed. Send all boxes of chocolates, fruit baskets, or tiny robots in need of maintenance to:
Modular Robotics
1860 38th Street
Boulder, CO 80301
Modular Robotics co-founder Mark Gross was in a paragliding accident last Sunday. He is not dead! And he has balloons.
Mark broke his back and a leg, but is stomping around with a cane and in great spirits. He's currently encased in a plastic insect shell thing so that his back doesn't move too much while he heals from surgery. Falling out of the sky onto rocks sounds pretty harrowing; in Mark's words:
…one way to clear a tangle is to give a quick gentle tug on one of the tangled lines. So I give a quick tug on the tangled right brake. Whoa! The wing collapses completely, and suddenly the glider steers left sharply in what is aptly and terrifyingly called a "spiral dive". Round and around heading for ground: Not much time to think, too low to deploy the reserve parachute, but somehow I get the left side inflated and flying again, but by now I've lost a lot of altitude and I'm swinging like a pendulum from the radical changes. An instant later I swing into the ground. Hard.
I'm letting you know about Mark's accident here because he's not a big social media poster and because he's got a pretty big community who I know might want to be concerned.
I also wanted to make a little plea for you to be safe out there on your paragliders. My friend Jacques hit the deck paragliding in the Himalayas in November, broke his back too, and was laid out flat in traction for a month in an Indian hospital. That makes two for two — both of my paragliding friends have broken their backs falling out of the sky in the last six months. I think that's all of my paragliding friends, but if you're number three, please exercise caution.
Modular Robotics is now 72 people, and 72, while not an objectively huge number, is sometimes overwhelming since it seems like only yesterday that we were 4 or 5 people. As we've grown, it's seemed sometimes that things get crazy at a faster than linear acceleration: we'll hire two people at once and everything will get four times crazier.
I think it feels that way because of graphs: because modbot is great big complex adaptive system. People are the nodes, and relationships are the edges. When we add one person to a ten-person team, we're also adding ten more relationships and communication paths into the mix, and relationships are the nuanced pieces of our system that are messy and unpredictable. When things break at modbot, they usually break because of communication. It's the edges.
Anyway, we decided a few months ago that we'd change our planning rhythm a little bit for 2015. Last year, we made a lot of projections for the whole year, and when things changed, our projections and actual results diverged wildly and the projections and planning models became less useful really quickly. For 2015 we're planning and rebuilding our operating model quarterly, so to recap the first quarter and recalibrate for the next quarters, we decided to meet offsite for an immersive session that we called a Retreat, even though we weren't running away from anything at all.
Eight of us drove West last Thursday morning for a play day in Winter Park and I joined the skiing group. Snow conditions were poor (frozen-over old corn) but the company was top-notch. We were all ready to rock the bunny hill all day since it was Hiller's second time ever on skis but he figured out pizza and french fries in five minutes and shredded the whole mountain. The sky was pretty grey: Stu's the only one of us who broke through, sporting rad purple gnargyle.
We rented a super-cool, super-weird house in Tabernash to use as home base. We took Myers Briggs personality tests, cooked dinner together, ate fajitas, got a little drunk on red wine, and played charades until late. All good.
At 8am Friday morning, we settled in for a marathon day of strategic planning. Eight of us spent ten hours in a big rented living room talking about our product lines, manufacturing strategy, hiring plans, etc. And it was awesome. No one talked over each other. No one interrupted. Everyone facilitated a section and took turns taking notes for the group. We were productive, respectful, and functioned like a well-oiled machine.
I started this post wondering about communication and team complexity. We've had some glitches at modbot as we've grown, and at times, it seems like we function and work together with results that are less than the sum of our parts. My main goal for the Retreat was simply to work on communication, soft social skills, and team-building with this group, and I'm pleased to report that I was tremendously impressed with the results.
Christie sent me this photo of one of our walk-and-talk breaks at the Retreat and I absolutely love it. At first glance, I thought, "wow, Eric, look at you! What a super business photo. Looking like such a leader!" Upon further reflection, I realized that everyone else in the picture is moving forward and I'm the only one who's walking backward and falling into various holes and obstacles. Allegorically or otherwise, maybe I should turn myself around and focus on where we're headed.
A few weeks ago Jon Hiller showed some ideas for next-level robot programming at our weekly engineering meeting. We got to talking about boxes-and-arrows programming or "visual" programming or whatever you might want to call it.
We're pretty into visual programming. Cubelets take visual programming to the extreme and make it tangible. When you snap Cubelets together, you're snapping little plastic blocks of programming to each other, and they immediately begin to pass data. But we like visual programming in the traditional sense too — the MOSS Scratch extension has proven to be popular not only for our users and our education team, but also for our design team: engineers at Modular Robotics usually default to Scratch when mocking up new robots and behaviors because it's fast and easy to use.
Now we're looking at some ideas for more accurately representing the Sense-Think-Act flow of robotics programming, and we're playing with boxes-and-arrows language ideas. This isn't new: LEGO Mindstorms has a boxes-and-arrows language that's based on LabVIEW, but it's based on the notion of a single, centralized brain (not the distributed model of Cubelets and MOSS), and, of course, there's the common sentiment that LabVIEW just straight sucks and is something to be learned for a control systems class, complained about, and then promptly forgotten.
In my world, Max/MSP is the benchmark for boxes-and-arrows programming. My friends at Sketching in Hardware use it to program physical devices and prototypes. My electronic music friends use it for synthesis, sound design, and elaborate rule-based IDM, even embedding Max inside Ableton Live. Max has been around since the mid-1980s!
Funny thing is, I had never played with Max. I referenced it in my dissertation, I've seen a bunch of demos, and I get the concepts, but it's $400 for a license. Now, the people behind Max also built Pd, a free and open-source boxes-and-arrows language, and I tried to build a mini granular synthesizer in Pd a few years ago, but the documentation is sparse, the tools aren't polished, and I ended up never completing the project. Max, the polished commercial product, has a 30 day free trial, though, so I thought I'd give it a go. Here are the results of my two hour experiment.
This little patch is a simplistic step sequencer, and it works! The toggle switch on the upper left triggers both the BPM calculation on the right and the main metronome. The metronome sends beats to a counter that breaks them up into groups of 8 (two measures of quarter notes, say) and the select object splits each of the 8 beats into a unique output. Squiggly lines, that I like to think are virtual cables on my modular sequencer, connect the beats to MIDI codes for a hi-hat (55), bass drum (50) and snare (40), the makenote object turns those into a complete MIDI note with note-off, velocity, and duration, and the noteout object triggers the internal synth on my Macbook. Beats!
I learned some things by playing. Patches flow from top to bottom, and each input and output on a particular object does something different. Lines can transmit various data types from the simple pulse called a bang to integers or audio signals. Max, and the whole boxes-and arrows paradigm, seem to inherently enable and encourage thinking in terms of parallel processing and distributed nodes of computation. Instead of a huge page of procedural C, we've got a visual map of the code structure in front of us and can dig in atomically to the modules.
This is a little scary. Remember Flash? I used to write a lot of Flash in the early 2000s and it was great for hacking little graphic web things together. You'd embed code into the window, into objects, into special tweening scripts, anywhere you'd want it. And that worked fine until it was time to debug, and 400 code snippets in 400 different places quickly became a nightmare. I worry about the same thing happening in a giant Max patch, but at least the main flow chart provides a clear overview of the whole system. Managing complexity rears its head again as a hard problem.
I thought I'd share this because I learned something about visual programming. Because I finally played with a thing that I've been talking about for ten years. Because I think it might be a great way to get kids thinking and playing with Finite State Machines! And because my Max free trial only has 17 days left so I better play with my dumb sequencer while I can.
You may have noticed that we're out of stock on almost everything. If you're looking around on the site and you can't order what you need, I'm sorry! All of the tiny robots will be back in stock soon and we're thinking that the holiday rush has subsided and that we'll be able to build a little inventory shortly. Just as I'm typing this, in fact, a few MOSS kits are coming off the assembly line and getting put back in stock on the site. Cubelets on Friday.
We weren't able to manufacture as many robots as we had hoped to this year. We had to decline quite a few orders from our resellers to make sure that we had enough kits in stock for people to order on modrobotics.com, and we had to put off a relationship with two big electronics stores until next year because we just couldn't build the sheer volume of tiny robots that they needed. We left money on the table, so to speak, and that missed opportunity hurts.
Modbot can stand the pain. Manufacturing our own products here in Boulder is hard and we've pushed through a lot of challenges (oh, say, bad raw materials, broken industrial machines, surprise tolerance stack craziness, plastic parts seizures by Customs, for example) that might not have presented themselves if we just had a Chinese contract manufacturer make our stuff for us like everyone else does. I'd rather we were in this position than in the opposite position of having made a lot of stuff that nobody wants to buy.
Our whole mission revolves around broad impact. Modular Robotics is all about enabling as many people as possible to experience designing with complex systems and emergence (by playing with tiny robots) as possible. And so, while we regret not being able to manufacture (and sell) as many robots as we might have been able to, I'm pleased to note that we did, in fact, make and distribute 5x as many robots as we did in 2013. And we had a lot of fun doing it! Thanks for making modbot possible.


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Im pretty stoked the game will be out in 2 months.
Things i'm looking forward to..
1) Improved online gameplay (the occasional looping bug)
2) Improved defensive play by AI teammates
3) Was it just me or did EA announce at E3 a new roster updating system that would update player stats and attributes on the fly based on players play that actual season.. I think they were referring to Madden or possibly NBA.. but if thats true it'd be nice if they included that into NHL 09. (Did anyone else here that..?)
Curious to how many hockey fans are on Giant Bomb.. I know I saw a Coyotes and Canucks icon on the forums.. !
Im pretty stoked the game will be out in 2 months.


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Red Cross turns 90
Then and now volunteers have been heart of Red Cross
The American Red Cross of Southwestern Indiana had a history in the community even before it was chartered in 1917.
In 1884, when the Red Cross responded to its first disaster here, founder Clara Barton visited Evansville and directed flood relief efforts from the home of then-Mayor Byron Parsons.
More than 30 years after that visit, the Evansville chapter of the American Red Cross was chartered.
Since then it has grown to include a variety of services, including safety training, lifeguard and baby-sitting classes, military services, blood donation services and disaster relief, both local and national.
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s she walked into a Georgetown, S.C., high school gym, Margaret Pride was stunned by what she saw.
Lying on the hardwood floor, where basketball games and physical education classes were held, were about 200 Hurricane Hugo evacuees. Some had mats to lie on, but most were on the bare floor.
For the evacuees, the gym was their third shelter - the roof of their first shelter had blown away and water had risen to the chests of adults at the second.
"I'll never forget that for as long as I live," Pride, 82, said. "They had nothing. They had not been able to save a thing. I've been on 14 national disasters, but this is my most vivid and I'll never forget it."
As the Red Cross of Southwestern Indiana celebrates its 90th birthday, officials say the
organization has thrived because of its volunteers.
"We just have great volunteers and they're dated back to the 1940s and earlier," said Candi Croft, chapter services specialist for the Southwestern Indiana chapter of the Red Cross.
Pride and her late husband, Ron, were the first to take out the American Red Cross' Emergency Response Vehicle when they responded to Hurricane Hugo in 1989 for three weeks.
They started in Georgetown but would end up doing most of their volunteer work in St. James, S.C. The couple passed out meals and comfort kits, talked with evacuees and did "whatever we could to help," Margaret Pride said.
Pride, a retired nurse from Deaconess Hospital, was a part of the Junior Red Cross club in high school. She still has the white pin, which has its place among her trade pins from other Red Cross chapters.
After retirement, the Prides began volunteering with the American Red Cross. They did so for more than 20 years.
"We had a glorious time," she said. "We were the ones that got the most good out of it."
Within the Red Cross, Pride is known affectionately as "Mother ERV," because she has claimed the vehicle as her own.
The last disaster the two went on together was in 1991, several months before Ron died of a heart attack.
"(The Red Cross) was an extended family and I loved them very, very much," Pride said.
Red Cross officials said they believe the agency has thrived in Evansville because of the community.
"We are who we are today because of the community that supports us," said Croft. "Without the volunteers and community donations and time, we wouldn't be able to provide the services we do today."
As it celebrates 90, the Red Cross also looks to its future.
The goal is to recruit the next generation of volunteers and get at least one person in every family in the Tri-State trained in first aid and CPR.
"We've very fortunate as Red Cross staff and volunteers of today, that we've had such incredible volunteers and leadership come through this organization," said Executive Director Matt Bertram.
"We need to make sure our imprint is just as good as what we've had. We're duty bound to make sure as the next generation that we continue that legacy of service to the community."
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Accounts which have just become available from Companies House show that Jacobs and Turner, the company behind the Trespass outdoor clothing brand, raised pre-tax profits to £4.01 million in the year to June 30, 2013, from £2.41m in the prior 12 months.
The family-owned company attributed much of its success in its last financial year to the wet summer of 2012.
Its jump in profits in the 12 months to last June was achieved on the back of a jump in turnover to £75.3m, from £64.9m in the prior financial year.
Jacobs and Turner, which is owned by brothers Afzal and Akmal Khushi and has its headquarters at Kinning Park on the south side of Glasgow, also increased its workforce significantly during the year to June 30.
The accounts show that the average number of people employed by the company during the year to June 30, 2013 was 1135. This was up from 1001 in the prior 12 months.
Afzal and Akmal Khushi were inducted into the Glasgow-based Entrepreneurial Exchange's Hall of Fame in 2010.


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