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13 February 2013
Goil, the OIL compiler
Recently, we switched from Goil to Goilv2. The main difference is the full support of the implementation part of an OIL description. Now, default values can be defined for any attribute and any object. Moreover, we added the ability to define new object types in the implementation. By using this ability, we are moving more configuration in OIL like interrupt sources or API definition.
Run-time verification
As part of its PhD work in collaboration with Renault, Sylvain Cotard has plugged monitors in the kernel to do run-time verification of the application. The monitors are generated by a tool called Enforcer from a formal model of the system to monitor and of the properties to verify. So far, 2 papers have been published : « A Data Flow Monitoring Service Based on Runtime Verification for AUTOSAR » in ICESS 2012 and « A Dataflow Monitoring Service Based on Runtime Verification for AUTOSAR OS: Implementation and Performances » in OSPERT 2012 (Proceedings are available online for this workshop)
Inter OS application Communication, part of AUTOSAR OS 4.0 specification, has been added recently (thanks to See4sys for the development). IOC is configurable in OIL and some documentation exists in the Manual.
On going development
The main on going development is the multicore kernel. At first we will deliver an AUTOSAR 4.0 compliant multicore kernel. Because we are working on kernel modularization too, we plan to continue with a kernel where the scheduler may be changed easily and where other communication and synchronization mechanisms may be added.
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How to cite Trampoline in a paper
27 September 2012
Recently we found some papers citing the Trampoline website instead of the EFTA 2006 paper. If you did work using Trampoline and are looking for a reference, it would be better to use a published paper citation : Trampoline paper
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Trampoline 2.0 beta version available
23 June 2010
Trampoline 2.0 will be released soon. Here is a beta version to start playing with version 2.0. As explained in the article, feel free to try it, it is better tested than Trampoline 1.1 and carries many improvements.
Update: Trampoline 2b49 is available. See the link below
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Robotic french cup
19 May 2010
Serinus team (from IUT de Nantes) was in quarterfinals of the 2010 robotic french cup out of 166 teams. Congratulations for this good result!
Obviously, the strategy board of the robot is based on.. Trampoline! The robotic french cup is the national cup of eurobot.
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Trampoline to be presented at 10th Libre Software Meeting
6 May 2009
A presentation of Trampoline will be done during the 10th Libre Software Meeting that will be held in Nantes from 7 to 11 July. Check the abstract. Here is the corresponding session program.
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Arts and Culture Bloom Year-Round in San Jose
The San Jose arts scene is blossoming as never before—you can catch a Broadway-style musical, watch a first-rate opera cast with rising young stars, enjoy the premiere of a new American symphony, or visit acclaimed museums. The city's rich mix of performing arts and cultural attractions is pure Silicon Valley—marked by growth and innovation, with a nod to history.
The splendid California Theatre, beautifully restored and acoustically magnificent, is a prime example of San Jose's attitude toward the arts. The stylish and historic 1927-movie palace is now home to Opera San Jose, Symphony Silicon Valley, Cinequest Film Festival and other top events.
Much of the fun is free, like Starlight Cinemas in the Park, but even the most sophisticated entertainment—opera, symphony, and the theater—is affordable. Accessibility is no problem, since museums, clubs, galleries, and theaters are within walking distance of downtown hotels. And parking? Not to worry—there are abundant lots and on-street sites to choose from.
An Artful Downtown
Take a stroll downtown and you'll get the picture. Start on West San Carlos Street at the Center for the Performing Arts. Outside, it's graced with a host of outdoor sculptures. Inside, the stage is home to Broadway San Jose and Ballet San Jose.
Just across the street is the Children's Discovery Museum, often ranked among the top ten children's museums in the nation, and a center for creative play and expression. Over on South Market Street you'll find the mango-colored Tech Museum. Its vivid and innovative hands-on exhibits will make you a science convert even if you avoided the subject in school. Near the leafy Plaza de Cesar Chavez and imposing Cathedral Basilica de St. Joseph sits the San Jose Museum of Art. The old section of the building is a graceful, 1892 Richardson-Romanesque building that was once San Jose's post office. Gaze at some 1,400 works—20th-century American paintings, sculpture, and photographs. Or check out their innovative hands-on gallery activities, imagination stations, and reading galleries that make the artwork more engaging and accessible for both children and adults. A short drive away is the Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum, featuring the largest collections of Ancient Egyptian antiquities in the Western U.S.
Head west on W. Santa Clara Street and you'll see a building that is itself a work of art. The SAP Center San Jose rises like a giant crystal bowl, with its sparkling glass entrance and skylight ceiling. Locals have dubbed it the Shark Tank (it's home to the National Hockey League's San Jose Sharks), but it also hosts other teams like the San Jose SaberCats, plus A-list concerts, circuses, touring shows, and ice extravaganzas.
SoFA, So Good
It doesn't get cooler than San Jose's artsy South of First Area, aka SoFA, which centers around South First Street between San Carlos and East Reed Streets. You'll find everything from art galleries to cafes, clubs, and ultra lounges. Ultra lounges are the latest smokin' hot places where the hip and beautiful go to be seen, nibble from the late-night menu, and groove to the DJ's spins. Check out hotspots like Motif, and watch the bartender twirl bottles and set the drinks on fire; or Agenda Lounge (www.agendalounge.com), which offers fine dining, live jazz on the patio, pool tables, and dancing that ranges from salsa to hip-hop in both the upper-level "lounge" and the lower-level "cellar."
Just down First Street, flamboyant and colorful artworks splash across the walls of galleries like MACLA/Movimiento De Arte y Cultura Latino Americana, which merges the traditional with new art forms (like poetry slams), focusing on emerging artists. At the San Jose Institute Of Contemporary Art, the annual fall auction brings together the work of some 150 of the Bay Area's hottest artists. Textile art transcends cultural boundaries and encompasses traditional as well as contemporary forms—that's clear when you visit the San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles. It's a serious venue for all artists working with textiles. The best time to check out new works at galleries like Anno Domini and Works/SanJose is during South First Fridays. The first Friday of every month, the galleries stay open late, sometimes serving up live music and beverages. It's emblematic of how the district is exploding. Brian Eder, co-owner of the Anno Domini gallery, says "In the SoFA, we feel like we can help create a scene and a culture, be a part of the momentum and innovation."
Spotlight on the Performing
The performing arts are where San Jose really shines. Opera San Jose, for example, doesn't import stars but creates them in its resident company. In 2013, Opera San Jose celebrates its 30th remarkable season; look for a host of special events to mark the occasion. And tickets remain affordable, with a season subscription to four operas starting at only $120. Each May, the company holds the annual Irene Dalis Awards Vocal Competition, in honor of their general manager and former New York Metropolitan Opera star.
The San Jose Repertory Theatre is the only fully professional regional theatre in San Jose, CA, presenting seven mainstage shows annually offering a variety of contemporary, classic and new work. Ballet San Jose is the second largest professional ballet company in California. The company stages four grand productions each year, often including world premiere productions. Matinee prices start at just $21, making it very accessible.
Want something more intimate and edgy? The City Lights Theater Co. dubs itself "living theatre for thinking people" and presents both progressive and traditional programs in a 108-seat theater. Through its New Play Readers Series, the Company actively develops new pieces, some of which are produced during the regular season. For more of that off-Broadway feel, check out the San Jose Stage Co., presenting five plays by contemporary playwrights every season.
From long-established groups like Broadway San Jose to fast-growing companies like Teatro Visión, the breadth and scope of creativity here shows how this town encourages the arts to bloom.
For more information go to www.sanjose.org.
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Military might
Global defence spending fell by 0.5% to $1.75 trillion last year. This is the first annual decline since 1998, according to new data from the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, a think-tank. Although America still spends the biggest chunk of the world total, and 69% more in real terms than it did in 2001, its share has fallen below 40% for the first time since 1991.
Indeed, since the recession in 2008, spending has fallen by 10% in 20 of the 37 countries in western and central Europe. By contrast Russia increased spending by 16% in 2012 and further rises are planned to 2015. Russia and America each spent the equivalent of 4.4% of GDP, considerably higher than the global average of 2.5%, but much lower than that of Saudia Arabia, at 8.9%.
Over the past decade China's military budget has risen by 175%, the largest increase of any of the countries shown in the chart, though this still represents only around 2% of GDP.
The chart speaks for itself. Our government – regardless of blather about pivots, peace initiatives, the dangers of small countries getting big guns and big bombs – still maintains the greatest capacity to destroy the whole planet and all life.
And whines about the possibility of diminishing that danger by a fraction of a percent.
Thanks, Barry Ritholtz
Lessons for an unequal America – from Singapore
Inequality has been rising in most countries around the world, but it has played out in different ways across countries and regions. The United States, it is increasingly recognized, has the sad distinction of being the most unequal advanced country, though the income gap has also widened to a lesser extent, in Britain, Japan, Canada and Germany. Of course, the situation is even worse in Russia, and some developing countries in Latin America and Africa. But this is a club of which we should not be proud to be a member…
Singapore has had the distinction of having prioritized social and economic equity while achieving very high rates of growth over the past 30 years — an example par excellence that inequality is not just a matter of social justice but of economic performance. Societies with fewer economic disparities perform better — not just for those at the bottom or the middle, but over all.
It's hard to believe how far this city-state has come in the half-century since it attained independence from Britain, in 1963…Around the time of independence, a quarter of Singapore's work force was unemployed or underemployed. Its per-capita income (adjusted for inflation) was less than a tenth of what it is today…
There are at least four distinctive aspects of the Singaporean model, and they are more applicable to the United States than a skeptical American observer might imagine.
First, individuals were compelled to take responsibility for their own needs. For example, through the required savings in their provident fund, around 90 percent of Singaporeans became homeowners, compared to about 65 percent in the United States since the housing bubble burst in 2007.
Second, Singaporean leaders realized they had to break the pernicious, self-sustaining cycle of inequality that has characterized so much of the West. Government programs were universal but progressive: while everyone contributed, those who were well off contributed more to help those at the bottom, to make sure that everyone could live a decent life, as defined by what Singaporean society, at each stage of its development, could afford. Not only did those at the top pay their share of the public investments, they were asked to contribute even more to helping the neediest.
Third, the government intervened in the distribution of pretax income — to help those at the bottom, rather than, as in the United States, those at the top. It weighed in, gently, on the bargaining between workers and firms, tilting the balance toward the group with less economic power — in sharp contrast to the United States, where the rules of the game have shifted power away from labor and toward capital, especially during the past three decades.
Fourth, Singapore realized that the key to future success was heavy investment in education — and more recently, scientific research — and that national advancement would mean that all citizens — not just the children of the rich — would need access to the best education for which they were qualified…
Singapore's success is reflected in other indicators, as well. Life expectancy is 82 years, compared with 78 in the United States. Student scores on math, science and reading tests are among the highest in the world — well above the average for the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development, the world's club of rich nations, and well ahead of the United States…
Joe Stiglitz comes to conclusions I would expect from someone well versed in the history of political economy. Democracy is more than periodic votes for a limited number of candidates. Democracy must include an economic component, a righting of past wrongs.
That last sentence includes two qualities our nation still denies. The racism central to our Civil War is still denied by most of the population. Economic democracy hasn't been a programmatic part of the two parties we're allowed since before World War 2.
The Political Economy of 2013
Watching America's leaders scramble in the closing days of 2012 to avoid a "fiscal cliff" that would plunge the economy into recession was yet another illustration of an inconvenient truth: messy politics remains a major driver of economic developments.
In some cases during 2012, politics was a force for good: consider Prime Minister Mario Monti's ability to pull Italy back from the brink of financial turmoil. But, in other cases, like Greece, political dysfunction aggravated economic problems.
Close and defining linkages between politics and economics are likely to persist in 2013. Having said this, we should also expect much greater segmentation in terms of impact – and that the consequences will affect both individual countries and the global system as a whole.
In some countries – for example, Italy, Japan, and the United States – politics will remain the primary driver of economic-policy approaches. But elsewhere – China, Egypt, Germany, and Greece come to mind – the reverse will be true, with economics becoming a key determinant of political outcomes.
This duality in causation speaks to a world that will become more heterogeneous in 2013 – and in at least two ways: it will lack unifying political themes, and it will be subject to multi-speed growth and financial dynamics that imply a range of possible scenarios for multilateral policy interactions…
How politics and economics interact nationally and globally is one of the important questions for 2013 and beyond. There are three scenarios: good economics and effective politics provide the basis for a growing and more cooperative global economy; bad economics interact with dysfunctional politics to ruin the day; or the world muddles through, increasingly unstable, as a tug of war between economics and politics plays out, with no clear result or direction.
Part of the answer depends on what happens in three countries in particular – China, Germany, and the US. Their economic and political stability is essential to the well-being of a world economy that has yet to recover fully from the 2008 global financial crisis.
Current indications, albeit incomplete, suggest that the three will continue to anchor the global economy in 2013. That is the good news. The bad news is that their anchor may remain both tentative and insufficient to restore the level of growth and financial stability to which billions of people aspire.
Mohamed El-Erian pretty much speaks in moderate terms even when discussing immoderate and opportunist politicians. He's a nice guy. Even for a NY Jets fan.
He's worth listening to if for nothing else his experience within and without the boundaries of international economics. Between the IMF and PIMCO, politicians stand in line asking him to run for elective office. But, then, he'd have to spend even more time with politicians. Most of whom – I'm afraid – aren't any better than the hyenas we have in Congress.
Best place to be born in 2013 — Switzerland
Switzerland is the best country for a baby to be born in 2013, according to a new study by the Economist Intelligence Unit, which is based on both subjective and objective quality of life factors.
The variables include life expectancy, gender equality, political freedoms, and even climate, but because the study looks at where "to be born" not "where to live," some of the factors look at what life will be like in those countries in 2030, when children born in 2013 reach adulthood.
Rounding out the top 10 are:
2. Australia
3. Norway
4. Sweden
5. Denmark
6. Singapore
7. New Zealand
8. Netherlands
9. Canada
10. Hong Kong
The report authors write:
Being rich helps more than anything else, but it is not all that counts; things like crime, trust in public institutions and the health of family life matter too. In all, the index takes 11 statistically significant indicators into account.
The United States didn't crack the top 10 this year, because American "babies will inherit the large debts of the boomer generation," the researchers write. Could have included mediocre education, crumbling infrastructure in that same sentence.
In the 1988 survey, the United States came in first, followed closely by mostly European countries and several high-performing Asian ones, such as South Korea and Japan…
Now, Japan and South Korea rank 25 and 19, respectively, perhaps because their economies have become more troubled in recent years.
Europe has also slipped in the rankings because the ongoing euro-zone crisis there has caused severe unemployment and "eroded both family and community life," the authors write…Germany has dropped to 16 – a tie with the United States.
Disagree with the list? The full methodology can be found here.
The Economist is a magazine grounded in conservative economics. That's conservative in the traditional sense, rather like the term used to be in the United States before today's Republican Party started their outreach policy for governance by homophobes, religious nutballs, various and sundry bigots.
So, the list will be accused of being part of a mythic liberal conspiracy – regardless of credentials.
Presidential election sets a new low for China bashing
As America's election season nears its finish, the debate seems to have come unhinged. Nowhere is that more evident than in the fixation on China – singled out by both President Barack Obama and his Republican challenger, Mitt Romney, as a major source of pressure bearing down on American workers and their families. Get tough with China, both stressed in the presidential debates, and the pain will ease.
Nothing could be further from the truth. Consider the following charges:
Currency manipulation. Since China reformed its exchange-rate regime in July 2005, the renminbi has risen 32% relative to the dollar and about 30% in inflation-adjusted terms against a broad basket of currencies. These are hardly trivial amounts, and more renminbi appreciation can be expected in the years to come.
Unlike Japan, which was pressured by the West into a large yen revaluation in 1985 (the "Plaza Accord"), the Chinese have opted to move gradually and deliberately. American officials call this "manipulation," arguing that market forces would have resulted in a sharper renminbi appreciation than has occurred. Fixated on stability – a concept alien to US politicians and policymakers – the Chinese prefer, instead, to play a more active role in managing the adjustment of their currency. I call that prudence – perhaps even wisdom. Two lost decades later, the guinea pig, Japan, might have a view on which approach works best.
Muhammad Yunus loses battle with bureaucrats, political hacks
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Muhammad Yunus, the Nobel prize-winning development economist, appears to have lost his bitter battle with the Bangladeshi government for control of the pioneering microlender Grameen Bank, which he founded nearly three decades ago.
Bangladesh's chief justice, ABM Khairul Haque, ruled out an appeal by Yunus against a decision last month by the central bank to ban him from continuing as a managing director, a post he has held since 2000…
Yunus, 70, did not appear in court but his legal team said they were surprised by the decision…
Despite the apparently final nature of the ruling against Yunus, his team told the Guardian they still hoped to find a legal avenue to continue the fight.
The decision was the climax of a long battle between the Grameen Bank's founder and the Bangladeshi government which has triggered statements of concern from diplomats and a range of international personalities including Mary Robinson, the former Irish president, and the American senator John Kerry.
Supporters claim the respected economist, who founded the Grameen Bank in 1983 after witnessing the suffering of rural people in a series of famines, is the victim of a political vendetta.
An outspoken government critic, Yunus has long had frosty relations with the prime minister, Sheikh Hasina. Reportedly angered by Yunus's attempt in 2007 to form his own political party, Hasina has accused Grameen Bank and other microfinance institutions of charging high interest rates and "sucking blood from the poor borrowers"…
Small-minded politicians, bureaucrats, seem to devote most of their energies to guaranteeing the people of their nation remain a "little people" – while they profit as much as possible themselves.
Bangladesh appears to be no different from so many of their peers – from Sudan to Iran.
Top financial diplomat confirmed 78-19 after a year of "NO"
Democracy manages to slip into the U.S. Senate
Lael Brainard won Senate confirmation today as the Treasury Department's top financial diplomat, giving her a key role in U.S. efforts to persuade China to adopt a more flexible currency.
The Senate approved President Barack Obama's nominee in a bipartisan 78-19 vote that was stalled more than a year by Republican concerns over Brainard's tax payments.
That's a year of stalling, hemming and hawing by crap moralists like Jim Bunning of Kentucky. One of the Republican thugs who specialized in blocking unemployment checks.
Nineteen Senate Republicans joined 57 Democrats and two independents in confirming Brainard Treasury Department under secretary for international affairs…
The timing of the confirmation vote is significant as it occurs before meetings this week of the Group of 20, the smaller Group of Seven and the International Monetary Fund and World Bank…
As well as holding a key position in talks with China, Brainard would help shepherd U.S. official positions through the global lending agencies that are being urged to take on a stronger role in monitoring global currency policies.
The Party of NO continues their favorite folk dance – Blocking the Road.
What if nutballs say you're the Messiah – and you know you're not?
Raj Patel's desk sits in a dusty, cement-floored nook in his garage, just beyond a parked gray Prius, near the washer and dryer. They are humble surroundings for a god.
Followers of Share International, a New Age religious sect, claim Raj Patel is the messiah Maitreya. He denies the claim, but he cannot persuade them.
"It is absurd to be put in this position, when I'm just some bloke," Mr. Patel said.
A native of London now living on Potrero Hill in San Francisco, Mr. Patel suddenly finds himself an unlikely object of worship, proclaimed the messiah Maitreya by followers of the New Age religious sect Share International…
Mr. Patel's journey from ordinary person to unwilling lord is a case of having the wrong résumé at the wrong moment in history. For this is a time when human yearning to find a magical cure for the world's woes can be harnessed to the digital age's instant access to a vast treasure-trove of personal information…
Mr. Patel has emphatically and publicly denied being Maitreya. Bad move. According to the predictions, "Maitreya will neither confirm, or will fail to confirm, he is Maitreya," said Cher Gilmore, a spokeswoman for Share International…
"It's incredibly flattering, just for an instant," Mr. Patel said of his unwanted status. "And then you realize what it means. People are looking for better times. Almost anything now will qualify as a portent of different times."
What would you do? Continue to deny the neurotic conclusion of looneybirds? Or take the money and run?


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Anna Gunn stunned at the Emmy Awards on Sunday night -- where she revealed the shocking reason behind why she looks so different on "Breaking Bad."
"I was actually ill while I was filming the show and it affected my weight," Gunn told PEOPLE about her changing on-screen appearance, which has (unfortunately) prompted negative reactions from fans in the past.
"They gave me cortisone and I puffed up and gained weight," she added. "Now I'm better, thank God."
Better than ever, actually.
Gunn picked up a much-deserved trophy for Outstanding Supporting Actress for her role as Skyler White at the event -- and looked gorgeous in a Romona Keveza gown.
As for how she stays in shape now, Gunn says "I run around after two kids" ... and does Pilates.
See more stars who have struggled with weight criticism in the gallery above!
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On Sunday September 14, i had the great pleasure to host a panel on Cartography of Protest and Social Changes with 3 artists and activists i admire a lot: Brooke Singer, John Emerson and Lize Mogel. I usually avoid writing about the events i'm so closely involved in, either because i don't have the opportunity to take notes or because there's some video of it about to broadcast the ridiculousness of my accent on the world wide web.
It all started a few months ago when i found about, read and fell in love with a book: An Atlas of Radical Cartography. An Atlas is in fact a collection of 10 maps and 10 essays about social issues from globalization to garbage; surveillance to extraordinary rendition; statelessness to visibility; deportation to migration.
When Christina Ray, the director of Conflux, asked me if i'd like to host a panel i said i'd like to moderate one inspired by An Atlas. Lize Mogel is one of the editors of the book (together with Alexis Bhagat ), Brooke Singer and John Emerson contributed to the volume with maps. Just like the book, the panel was an attempt to demonstrate that maps have the potential to bring about social changes. I am not going to write down everything that was say, i'll just share with you tiny bits from the presentations:
Lize's presentation focused on the maps of An Atlas, you can find information about them online but her intro contained some fascinating facts. Here's just one of them:
One of the world's most famous maps can be seen on the flag of the United Nations.
The first version was drawn in 1946 by someone from the US department and had North America at the center of the emblem. The design was changed after some complains from other countries. But one question remained: how do you design a map of the world that has to be fair and display equality between the nations? There is always something on the top, something in the middle (and thus the center of the attention), even being on the left side is not innocent as our eyes are used to read from left to right, the right is also meaningful as advertisers have discovered that the eyes always seem to fall on that side of an image. The solution adopted represents an azimuthal equidistant projection centered on the North Pole. But that area which one would believe is blank and neutral is in fact a space for debate: the area is owned by Denmark, Canada, Russia, Norway and the US and it's unclear how it should be divided up exactly.
An Atlas of Radical Cartography exhibition opens on September 23 at the Global Education Center, UNC campus. Upcoming venues for the exhibition include New Jersey (October), New York City, Utrecht (2009), etc.
John Emerson has a very impressive portfolio and a blog i'd recommend anyone to subscribe to. He often collaborates with grass-root, independent, non-profit associations dealing with human rights, from California Coalition for Women Prisoners, to the Office of The Tibetan Government in Exile, or Injection Drug Use, Syringe Exchange Programs and AIDS in California. His belief is that maps can be useful tools that visualize power and are able to create social change, influence opinions and alter relationships between powers. By making abstraction visible, maps help us navigate through complex concepts.
One of the projects he highlighted are the compelling and revealing maps of Gold Trade in the Democratic Republic of Congo he created for the Human Rights Watch report The Curse of Gold. The gold trade is fueling conflicts and atrocities for the last 20 years in northeast of the Democratic Republic of Congo. The maps makes clearer the relationship between gold concessions, paramilitary groups in the country and gold companies from all over the world.
The art crowd will probably have heard about a project he developed together with Trevor Paglen.
Paglen's project 'CIA Rendition Flights 2001-2006' explores the practice of extraordinary rendition. Emerson designed the map that visualizes the movements of aircraft owned or operated by known CIA front companies in order to reveal the relationships that have been forged between the United States and other countries in the name of the 'war on terror.'
Back in 2006, Paglen and Emerson installed a huge billboard displaying the map of the rendition flights on 6150 Wilshire Boulevard, in Los Angeles. The billboard, part of the The Clockshop Billboard Series. The reaction of the drivers passing by was not an unanimous feeling of revolt in front of the CIA activities, some felt proud and satisfied to see that the government was doing a good job.
Another great project Emerson discussed is the NYC Guide to War Profiteers. First published in March 2003, the map located precisely government and military agencies, weapon makers, corporations, media benefiting from the war, etc. The map was available at progressive bookstores around town, and was distributed at organizing meetings for various protest events. It also listed a series of like-minded websites. You can find a scan of the hard copy online.
Brooke Singer discussed briefly her contribution to An Atlas: the Map of U.S. Oil Fix as well as her fantastic project Superfund365, a website that chronicles 365 of the worst Superfund sites where Americans live at risk of exposure to toxins.
In her introduction about map, Singer reminded the audience of a few relevant facts:
- mapping is more about representation than truthfulness,
She showed also two thought-provoking maps that illustrate this idea of maps as representation: McArthur Universal Corrective Map of the World, designed in the '70s by an Australian man who was upset by the idea that he came from the "bottom of the world". The second one is Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion map, the first world projection to show the continents on a flat surface without visible distortion. The map highlights the fact that the earth is essentially one big island over one ocean.
Sunday at Conflux, the art and technology festival for the creative exploration of urban public space, was hot in every sense including (unfortunately for Summer-phobics like me) in the meteorological one.
Given both the temperature and his own intrepidness, all my admiration went to Lucas Murgida. Last year, the artist was teaching Conflux participants the handy and delicate art of lock-picking. For this edition of the festival, he built a beautiful wooden cabinet, left it on a sidewalk and hid inside it. Mugida stayed in this torridness, for hours and with just a bottle of water, not revealing himself until a passerby would bring the cabinet to their home.
The name of the performance is 9/10 because Murgida wanted to check what would become of the often-quoted phrase, 'Possession is 9/10 of the law' when private property is placed in a public space. As he wrote: A person is not sure how to look at the object at first, but will usually fall back on the golden rule of U.S. culture (finders keepers, losers weepers) and claim it to be theirs. I am hoping to subvert the "finder's" personal space by claiming it to be my own public space.
Saturday wasn't much of an adventure. The cabinet was left in the street, people appeared to be tempted but they left it where it was. Now Sunday was more eventful, the artist and the cabinet got rolled into the storage room of a restaurant. As he had drilled a hole in the cabinet, Lucas was able to take pictures and get an idea of what was going on. The plan was to slip out unnoticed and leave the cabinet to its new owner.
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Jenny Chowdhury was braving the mellowing heat in her 802.11 Apparel - Wifi Jacket. Part of a line of clothing that reflects wifi strength detected in the wearer's immediate environment, the jacket literally "bring to light" a portion of the invisible radio waves by illuminating five stripes in accordance with the wifi signal strength.
The basic stripes of LEDs are integrated into a flower motif. This design choice associate our natural environment (the flower pattern) with the synthetic one (technology.)
More wearable devices were displayed all along the festival: CO2RSET which monitors air quality and tightens or loosens on the body in response to the levels of CO2 in the atmosphere; the Back-to-Back Massager vest which rows of electric massagers are pointed outward in order to massage others; Compli-mum, a kind of armor for women that plays movies and changes its own shape by separating or gathering parts of its construction through the use of microcontroller and a motorized skeleton structure and a very fetching Helmet Piece which i'm inconsolable to have missed.
Another work i missed because i was so busy passing the microphone to the public for a Q&A of the panel i curated for Conflux (more about that soon-ish), is The Light Mobs which showed participants how to use a simple little mirror (the pocket Lightcoder) and sunlight to transmit information.
But lucky me! i met Geraldine Juarez the day after and she gave me one of the Lightcoders to morse around and lucky us! she documented the action online.
The project had a very praiseworthy goal: to bring attention to our blind faith in digital technology as a medium of communication, using a simple analog "device": the pocket Lightcoder.
I finally did a Botanicalls tour in which plants guide you by telephone in the area surrounding Conflux HQ. Each tree or plant, speaks in their own "Botanicalls" voice, based on their botanical habits and characteristics. It all started with the arrogant Rose and her ridiculous French accent (i'm allowed to write that cuz i gave her my voice) and ended with heart-breaking cries for help coming from the kitchen of a vegetarian restaurant.
I had almost decided to be disappointed with Conflux, the art and tech festival for the creative exploration of urban public space. They had left arty Brooklyn for sleek Soho, Manhattan. You know that old whig who preaches that you should stick to the good old habit no matter what? That was me. But 5 minutes into the festival convinced me that the event is as good as ever. Just different. I did miss the Brooklyn location, it works better for free explorations of the urban grid and also for performances in the street. Plus there was no possibility to do a BBQ in the street which used to be a great and pretty relevant way to wrap up the festival. Ha! And the police had to come and take down a swing which was entertaining passersby. However, the quality of the projects performed and shown at Conflux was amazing. I'll brush over the two first days of the festival as i was still in Seoul trying unsuccessfully to overcome jetlag.
I arrived at Conflux HQ (the neat, elegant but a bit stiff Center for Architecture) to see a performance by the Apparatus for Orchestral Knitting. Laure Drogoul had invited everyone to knit and become a part of a musical knitting orchestra, based on an instrument that amplifies the sound of their knitting, mixed it and played it back live.
The techy work that really charmed me by its simplicity, poetry and melodies was Every Step by Matt Roberts.
You're given an armband with a mounted camera and pedometer. Off you go walking outside to create your own short experimental animation. The pedometer acts as a trigger for the camera and an image of whatever is above you is taken every time a step is made. Nothing to do, just walk and the device does the rest.
Once you're back from wherever your steps led you to, the images are transferred from the camera's memory into a program that create a frame-by-frame animation and an accompanying soundtrack. When the program completes the animation, you get your DVD.
Bingxia Yu had installed inside the gallery a display offering Ugly New York postcards: the unsightly spaces are sometimes located right next to favorite tourists' spots, the back of Time Square under construction, the down under of Brooklyn Bridge, the recovering Lower Manhattan in progress, etc. The project also involves a range of keychains, magnets and other tourist souvenirs which will soon be available for sale online.
As the artist wrote: We believe that ugly spaces - ugly in a sense that they will never make a perfect postcard are more valuable for city experiences.
Antti Pussinen's 7 Urban Silences was a surprisingly engrossing work.
Silence in urban spaces is never really devoid of the echo of receding sirens, crowd mumblings, door buzzings and other noises. 7 Urban Silences invites visitors to done headphones and mix the relative silences recorded by artists and musicians in cities as different as Paris and Dakar.
To be continued...
During the Conflux weekend, Jamie O'Shea was submitting his body to polyphasic sleep, the practice of sleeping multiple times in a 24-hour period.
The artist walked around the Conflux area with his Vertical Bed in a suitcase, found himself a nice spot, anchored his prostheses above subway vents or other rigid contact points and stayed there sleeping in an upright position for 40 minute intervals several times in a day.
Concealed harnesses ensure that Jamie didn't fall over. He also wore noise canceling headphones and double-mirrored sunglasses, padded with little cusions to keep his eyelid closed. In case of bad weather, an umbrella clips in the infrastructure for shelter.
The project is designed for the visual performance of an alternate way of occupying urban space, born partly out of fantasies of minimal need and elegant futurism, and partly out of fears of the dehumanization of space. Occupants will absorb the vertical structure of urban architecture into their bodies. The vertical sleeper is in a constant state of readiness, never succumbing to collapse. Homelessness is most often marked by the forbidden act of lying down on the sidewalk, an act that the vertical bed circumvents.


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Painters Guild Demonstration Larry Grob: The Art of Place
Presented by Lexington Arts and Crafts Society at Lexington Arts and Crafts Society
September 22, 2013
Painters Guild Demonstration
Larry Grob: The Art of Place
Our nature. thoughtfully observed, sustainably seen.
. Larry Grob is a New England based artist who works both in-studio and en plein air. His coastal and interior views- favorite locals include Cape Ann and the North Shore, the Maine seaside and islands, and the hills and farms of southern Vermont-are representations in style, with tendencies towards abstraction in his compositions.
Informed by his early training as a geographer, and inspired by the naturalistic painting of California's impressionists and various Swiss alpine painters, Larry strives to capture light and the forces of nature in views that he hopes will elicit viewers' connections with the land. "I'm a pastelist with a passion for creating images that fuel ecological awareness and encourage us to approach our surroundings with a :lighter hand," says Larry. "Landscapes help me explore both the range of my medium and the stories that our land tells us....if we only stop to look and listen."
Larry works exclusively with soft pastels, Painting on various sanded papers that impart "incidental" tones and textures to the finished work. He describes pastels as an ideal medium..."immediate, direct, and easy to move around in whatever outdoor place I find myself. Perhaps above all," Larry adds, "pastels let me explore that area between too much detail and just enough."
Larry's work has recently earned him recognition from the Pastels Society of America and the International Association of Pastel Societies as well as numerous awards for his work. A portfolio of his work can be seen at his website: http;//www.larrygrob.com. In the New England area, Larry participates in exhibitions at Art in the Barn (Essex, MA), the North Shore art Association (Gloucester), the Concord Art Association, the Weston Arts & Crafts Association. Work is also on view at the Albright Gallery in Lincoln, MA and in the Florentine Frames Gallery in Weston, MA.
Education includes: Middlebury College, School of Visual Arts, NY, New York University, Studio and plein air studies: Anne Haywood, P.S.A; Aline Ordman P.S.A; Jean Rosier-Smith P.S.A; David Curtis; Alain Picard P.S.A.
Larry offers work for sale as pastel originals and as limited edition giclée prints.
Demonstrations take place in the Plummer Studio
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The Catalyst Paper Mill had been operating since 1961 before closing its doors in late 2012. At one point the mill was the single largest employer in Navajo County. The power plant, which began commercial operations in June 2008, shut its doors in March of 2013, largely as a result of the closure of Catalyst. The closure of the two facilities accounted for the loss of over 300 local jobs.
Worsley, who is the majority owner and chairman of the new team, worked with local investors to repurchase the entire power complex. The purchase required over $12MM in working capital to restart the assets. The current team is being reassembled from former employees and management who were laid off when both facilities closed. Worsley, who has already begun rehiring workers, has pledged to rehire laid off employees who are still looking for work.
"I have a special place in my heart for the mountain communities. I was raised in Idaho and my best friends growing up in Boise were Flake's from Snowflake," said Worsley. "They would come home after vacation in Arizona and talk about the rodeos, and the great way of life in Snowflake. When my wife and I settled in Mesa we purchased property on the mountain because it was our way to stay connected with the pines."
He added, "I made a commitment after the Rodeo Chediski fire in June 2002 that I would do everything in my power to prevent such a fire from happening again. After fighting the financial meltdown of 2008 and the paper mill closure of 2012, this new venture is a recommitment to the promise I made over 11 years ago."
Novo Power, LLC will assist with targeted forest thinning and wildland urban interfaces around the small communities in Arizona that suffer from catastrophic wildfires like the Rodeo Chediski of 2002, Wallow of 2011, and the 2013 Yarnell fire. The biomass plant makes enough electricity from processing wood chips from pre-commercial thinning to power most of the residents in the White Mountains, approximately 20,000 homes.
Senator Worsley added that, "This is a win for Arizona. More water for the Roosevelt Watershed, more fire resistant communities, more renewable energy based in Arizona, and more jobs in the most economically depressed area of the state."


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King Bhumibol Adulyadej is a revolting clownish goon – and doubtless, like most of his countrymen, a pimp and a paedophile.
That is all.
King Bhumibol Adulyadej is a revolting clownish goon – and doubtless, like most of his countrymen, a pimp and a paedophile.
That is all.
On the other hand, imprisoning Australians is a good thing and should be encouraged. Lock enough of 'em up and they might get the the message that the rest of the world would prefer them to stay the fuck in Australia.
Everyone, everywhere should know the King of Thailand is an asshole. What a worthless piece of crap! The country is a joke but the king is a huge clown to allow this!
And Neil, where are you from? I wouldn't want to lock you up for your nationality…on the other hand if there is a pretentious prick lock up.. your gone and throw away the key! ha!
Aw come on, if you can't lock up Australians on some flimsy pretext, then what the fuck can you do? It's PC gone barmy.
Well, you could argue there's historical precedent at least…
Alright smart-arse, name one royal that isn't a despicable clownish goon? Queen Elizabeth II, and that's it, and she's just been trained to hold her despicable clownish goonery in and then pipe it out her doubly despicable, doubly clownish doublegoon of a husband.
The Dutch and Scandic ones seem mostly OK…
now there is a king who is divine.. sing with me… Ba-RRock of Ages, cleft for me.. may i (etc etc). oh holy One, messiah….. King Obama
"The Dutch and Scandic ones seem mostly OK"
Yeah, but can you name one?
Having said that, the Spanish royals seem ok too. Their scandalous gaffes seem to be stuff like dipping their bread and butter in their tea.
If you are going to splash out billions of pounds on a monarch then at the very least they should provide you with some entertainment.
Locking up some Aussie narcissist because you don't like his face, or having a massive racist for a husband is much more fun than just sitting on your arse shoving herring in your mouth like Good King Wenceslas or whatever that Norwegian is called.
Well, they've let him go. He'll soon be back to harassing abbos and swigging tinned piss.
Profane words are too good to be associated with the ersatz king of Thailand. He ani't good enought to kiss my boots. His filthy lips would make them unclean.
king of thailland is a fucking asshole dickhead cunt!!!
king of thailand is a motherfucker
The king, and his whole family, are bastards en they smell like shit!
See if you can catch me, you brainless motherfuckers!!!!!
Thailand….great country……shame there is that ugly, smelling royal family!!
hahahahahahah, hihihihihihihi, FUCK THE KING AND THE DEPARTEMENT OF IN-JUSTICE!
King is a sore pathetic old man holding on to power that is slipping away.
Then Thailand can move forward.
The King is far funnier than the five commenters above.
I dunno, I quite like Ron's. The others are rubbish though.


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New PCB chief stresses on 'consistency, ' rules out major rejig in Pak cricket team
Pakistan Cricket Board's (PCB) newly elected chief has ruled out any major changes in the cricket team and has also backed Captain Misbahul Haq despite a dismal performance by the Pakistan team in the Test Series in Sri Lanka.
Shaharyar Khan, who was elected unopposed as PCB's Chairman on Monday, said that the loss suffered by Pakistan was a "setback" but not a disaster and acknowledged that there was room for improvement, reported The Express Tribune.
He dispensed doubts about major rejig in the team by underscoring the need to have a "consistency" in all cricketing matters and said that there would be no changes in the team or team management.
The team had received flak for a dismal 105-run defeat which consigned Pakistan to a 2-0 series loss on Monday and brought them down from third to sixth position in the Test rankings.
Besides his team's performance, Misbah also came under attack for his poor performance. With just 67 runs in four innings to his credit, many former players demanded that he must be sacked.
However, Khan has affirmed that Misbah will continue to hold the position till the World Cup next year as decided by his predecessor, Najam Sethi.
He also added that he hoped international cricket would return to Pakistan after the security situation improves in the nation.
The 80-year-old has previously held the position of the Chairman between 2003 and 2006 and has played an important role in reviving India-Pakistan cricketing ties in 1999. He also acted as the manager of the Pakistan cricket team during its first tour to India since 1987.
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The following is a summary of Oregon child custody laws, and is by no means intended to be an all-inclusive description of what to expect in your particular case. In some cases, the exact text of the statute may have been simplified and/or modified to provide for easier understanding. For a more specific understanding of the laws, you should consult the full Oregon Code and/or consult with an attorney about how the law might apply to your particular situation.
Child Custody Guidelines.
Oregon laws require the court to give primary consideration to the best interests and welfare of the child when making a child custody determination. In determining the best interests and welfare of the child, the court shall consider the following relevant factors:
- The emotional ties between the child and other family members;
- The interest of the parties in and attitude toward the child;
- The desirability of continuing an existing relationship;
- The abuse of one parent by the other;
- The preference for the primary caregiver of the child, if the caregiver is deemed fit by the court; and
- The willingness and ability of each parent to facilitate and encourage a close and continuing relationship between the other parent and the child, unless there has been sexual assault or a pattern of abuse against the parent or the child that will endanger the health or safety of either parent or the child.
The best interests and welfare of the child shall not be determined by isolating any one of these factors, and relying on it to the exclusion of other factors. However, if a parent has committed abuse, there is a rebuttable presumption that it is not in the best interests and welfare of the child to award sole or joint custody of the child to the parent who committed the abuse.
The court shall consider the conduct, marital status, income, social environment or life style of either party only if it is shown that any of these factors are causing or may cause emotional or physical damage to the child.
No preference in custody shall be given to either parent on the basis of that parent's sex.
Oregon laws do not allow the court to hear evidence of specific acts of misconduct, unless the misconduct is relevant to determining child custody.
-From 107.036 & 107.137 of the Oregon Statutes.
Parenting Plans.
The parties should file a parenting plan to be included in the judgment. A parenting plan may be either general or detailed.
A general parenting plan must set forth the minimum amount of parenting time and access a noncustodial parent is entitled to have, and how parental responsibilities will be shared. The parents may develop a more detailed agreement on an informal basis.
If the parents wish to file a more detailed parenting plan with the court, this plan may include, but need not be limited to, provisions relating to:
- Residential schedule;
- Holiday, birthday and vacation planning;
- Weekends, including holidays, and school in-service days preceding or following weekends;
- Decision-making and responsibility;
- Information sharing and access;
- Relocation of parents;
- Telephone access;
- Transportation; and
- Methods for resolving disputes.
-From 107.102 of the Oregon Statutes.
Parental Rights.
Unless otherwise ordered by the court, when one parent has sole custody, the other parent will still have the following rights, to the same extent as the custodial parent has the following rights:
- To inspect and receive school records and to consult with school staff concerning the child's welfare and education;
- To inspect and receive governmental agency and law enforcement records concerning the child;
- To consult with any person who may provide care or treatment for the child and to inspect and receive the child's medical, dental and psychological records;
- To authorize emergency medical, dental, psychological, psychiatric or other health care for the child if the custodial parent is, for practical purposes, unavailable; or
- To apply to be the child's conservator, guardian ad litem or both.
-From 107.154 of the Oregon Statutes.
Moving with the Child & Notice of Changes.
Neither parent may move to a residence more than 60 miles from the other parent without giving the other parent reasonable notice of the move, and providing a copy of such notice to the court.
Unless otherwise ordered by the court, both parents shall have a continuing responsibility to provide addresses and contact telephone numbers to the other parent and to immediately notify the other parent of any emergency circumstances or substantial changes in the health of the child.
-From 107.159 & 107.164 of the Oregon Statutes.
This information has been summarized from the Oregon statutes. You can find the full-text version of these and other Oregon divorce statutes online here: Oregon Divorce Laws.
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BUCKSPORT, Maine (NEWS CENTER) --- Thursday brought new information about an apartment building in Bucksport that caught fire early last week.
Officials with the Maine State Housing Authority say they found a number of electrical problems at 31 Main Street when they inspected the building earlier this year. The fire which consumed parts of the building on August 25, 2013 displaced about 20 people.
According to town officials, the apartment building was inspected by Bucksport Code Enforcement back in 2003 in response to a number of complaints from residents. Officials say they found smoke detectors in some rooms weren't working during the inspection and doors in the building weren't capable of containing a fire. The apartment building did change owners since that time but at this point its not clear if any of those problems were corrected in the last decade.
Meanwhile the Maine State Housing Authority did its own inspections on the building earlier this year. Specifically officials say they looked at four units inside that were used by tenants in Section 8 housing. Officials say inside those four apartments there were a number of electrical issues that could pose a safety risk. They say some apartments had lightbulb sockets that were missing a lightbulb, there were holes in the wall near electrical outlets and circuit breakers with broken switches.
"Some of the fails were 24 hours fails," said Deborah Turcotte, who is a spokesperson for the Maine State Housing Authority, "which means they needed to be fixed within 24 hours. The landlord would need to tell us the plan to get these fixed and the fails would require...if they were electrical would require an electrician to come in and repair them."
Before the fire broke out last week the housing authority was working to relocate Section 8 residents who lived there. At this point officials say they have found new apartments for those residents.
Fire investigators ruled the cause of last week's fire to be overloaded electrical circuits in an apartment and they say it is tenant related. Who currently owns the apartment is another big question. Town officials in Bucksport say the past landlord passed away and the building is currently owned by his estate.
NEWS CENTER tried to contact the company managing the property and it referred comment to an attorney for the family. The state fire marshal's office is continuing to investigate this fire with the help of the Hancock County District Attorney's office.


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Pittsburgh Penguins v New York Islanders
Brad Boyes of the New York Islanders celebrates his third period goal... News PhotoBrad Boyes,Celebration,Full Length,Hockey,Ice Hockey,National Hockey League,New York Islanders,New York State,Pittsburgh Penguins,Round Three,Scoring a Goal,Sport,USA,Uniondale,VerticalPhotographer Bruce BennettCollection: Getty Images Sport 2013 Getty ImagesUNIONDALE, NY - FEBRUARY 05: Brad Boyes #24 of the New York Islanders celebrates his third period goal against the Pittsburgh Penguins at the Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum on February 5, 2013 in Uniondale, New York. The Penguins defeated the Islanders 4-2. (Photo by Bruce Bennett/Getty Images)


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Steve and Breanda Barth of Charlotte, N.C., announce the engagement of their daughter, Rachel Nicole Barth of Canton, to Sean Michael Callihan of Snellville, son of Jesse "Trey" and Melanie Callihan of Snellville.The bride-elect is the granddaughter of Ben and Eloise Barth of Buchanan, Tenn., and Virginia May of Southhaven, Miss., and the late Roger May. She is a graduate of Myers Park High School in Charlotte, N.C. She attended Harding University in Searcy, Ark. She is employed by the Bank of North Georgia in Kennesaw. The future groom is the grandson of Jesse Callihan Jr. of El Dorado, Ark., and the late Jerry Hediger Callihan, and Billie Ruth Mason of Lawrenceville and the late William T. Mason. He is a graduate of Grayson High School. He attended Harding University in Searcy, Ark. He is attending Kennesaw State University. He is employed by Pro Golf Association Pro Stores in Kennesaw. The wedding is planned for July 28 at Snellville Church of Christ in Snellville.
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Success of billions spent on Midwest rail routes touted, doubted
CHICAGO — Hundreds of Midwest manufacturers stand to benefit from a web of high-speed passenger rail routes emerging from Chicago's rail hub, according to a report released by an environmental policy group that has fought to defend the use of billions in taxpayer money on such projects.
The report released Friday by the Chicago-based Environmental Law & Policy Center found that 460 manufacturers in seven Midwest states are poised to reap new business, along with a dozen more highly visible companies that make rail cars and locomotives. Those additional supply-chain manufacturers make everything from seats, couplers and bolts to ceiling panels, interior lighting and air horns. They also cut sheet metal, provide electronics and communications equipment, and supply track maintenance machinery.
"What we're seeing is that old-line Rust Belt manufacturers are making the equipment for modern new rail cars," the group's director, Howard Learner, told The Associated Press. He said the "extraordinary" number of companies they found in the supply chain was nearly double what he expected.
"It shows that the federal investment in high-speed rail modernization is good for manufacturing jobs, good for economic growth and good for the environment," Learner said.
Critics of the high-speed rail projects set in motion by President Obama in 2009 with the help of $8 billion in stimulus money say they are expensive boondoggles. Opponents and skeptics include members of Congress, governors, policy experts and even some in the rail industry who doubt any of the planned routes will become profitable, especially given the political pressure to keep fares low. As a result, they argue, taxpayers will be on the hook for years to help provide subsidies to keep the projects up and running.
Kristina Rasmussen, vice president of the Illinois Policy Institute, rejected the notion that the new report provided evidence that the high-speed rail program would ever be a genuine and sustainable driver of economic growth. She said the businesses named were merely benefiting from what she called the government's shifting of taxpayer money from one industry to another.
"We can't trust the government to pick winners and losers," Rasmussen said. "Remember all of the businesses and industry that won't have capital available because some politician took it away through higher taxes or borrowing and spent it on a politically favored group like high-speed rail."
Work on the Midwest program spreading out from Chicago has sped trains up to 110 mph on at least some segments of the routes to Detroit and St. Louis.
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Faculty Profile - Paul G Steffes
Phone: 404.894.3128
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Selected Publications, Patents
- K. Devaraj and P.G. Steffes, "The Georgia Tech Millimeter-Wavelength Measurement System and Some Applications to the Study of Planetary Atmospheres" Radio Science, 2011. (doi:10.1029/2010RS004433)
- B.M. Karpowicz and P.G. Steffes, "In Search of Water Vapor on Jupiter: Laboratory Measurements of the Microwave Properties of Water Vapor under Simulated Jovian Conditions," Icarus, vol. 212, pp. 210-223, March 2011.
- K. Devaraj, P.G. Steffes, and B.M. Karpowicz, "Reconciling the Centimeter and Millimeter-Wavelength Ammonia Absorption Spectra under Jovian Conditions: Extensive Millimeter-Wavelength Measurements and a Consistent Model," Icarus, vol. 212, pp. 224-235, March 2011.
- W.C. Barott, M.A. Ingram, and P.G. Steffes, "Scan Loss Pattern Synthesis for Single- and Multi-satellite Tracking LEO Ground Stations That Use Adaptive Arrays," IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, vol. 46, pp. 1140-1152, July 2010.
- T. R. Hanley and P.G. Steffes, "A High-Sensitivity Laboratory System for Measuring the Microwave Properties of Gases under Simulated Conditions for Planetary Atmospheres," Radio Science, vol 42, no. RS6010, pp.1-12, November-December 2007.
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text: Hugo Toland | IBDB: The official source for Broadway Information IBDB: The official source for Broadway Information Official Broadway League sites: - sites - broadway.org broadwayleague.com broadwayfanclub.com kidsnightonbroadway.com stagespecs.org tonyawards.com Quick Search For: In This Category: All Show People/Org. Theatre Season Hugo Toland Performer Male Productions ProductionsDate of ProductionsThe Squaw Man[Play, Drama, Original] Performer: Hugo Toland Oct 23, 1905 - Apr 01, 1906A Fool and His Money[Play, Revival] Performer: Hugo Toland Oct 26, 1904 - Nov 1904Are You My Father?[Play, Original] Performer: Hugo Toland Oct 08, 1903 - Oct 1903My Wife's Husbands[Play, Farce, Original] Performer: Hugo Toland Aug 24, 1903 - Sep 1903Resurrection[Play, Drama, Original] Performer: Hugo Toland [Merchant, Oustinov]Feb 17, 1903 - Apr 30, 1903Zaza[Play, Revival] Performer: Hugo Toland [Jacques Rigault]Oct 01, 1900 - Nov 1900 Find out where Hugo Toland and are credited together © 2001-2015, The Broadway League, All Rights Reserved. (Copyright and Disclaimer)


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Some athletes may enhance their genetic makeup with gene therapy. These methods were developed to treat genetic diseases and have caught the attention of the athletic world.
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Photos of former olympic legends like Bruce Jenner and Mark Spitz and some updates us on what they're doing now.


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KUALA LUMPUR, March 17 — Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak pulled out all the stops on his one-day tour of Perak today, doling out funds and trumpeting Barisan Nasional's (BN) past successes in a bid to sway voters in the key northern state.
He reminded the people that the ruling coalition, under pressure to secure its customary two-thirds parliamentary seat majority, had always been able to ensure the nation's prosperity.
This was proven, he said, by Putrajaya's ability to pay for assistance programmes as a result of BN's efficient and effective administration.
"The opposition's stories cannot be relied upon as they don't have the capacity to administer the country efficiently. Even now they seem to be in chaos. So, don't listen to them if they come," Bernama Online quoted him as saying in Beruas this morning.
Najib also stressed that the government had succeeded in reducing public debt and raising national income, even after giving such handouts to the people.
"This means that we are able to administer the country well, manage the national economy efficiently. We ensure that the national economy can continue to expand, national revenue increases.
"And when we achieve such success, we return the national wealth to the people," he said, before allocating RM2 million each to Masjid Changkat Cermin, SJK(C) Tit Bin and a hall for the Indian community.
Because the Orang Asli community has been loyal to my government, I will not hesitate to approve this (RM30 million) allocation
Najib, who is also BN chairman, took the opportunity to deny that giving financial aid to those in need was "irresponsible", as charged by the opposition.
He said that the government was merely returning to the people revenue earned by the country, in line with his "People First, Performance Now" concept.
This was different from Pakatan Rakyat (PR), which only doled out aid before an election to gain votes without managing the economy properly or thinking of the nation's future, he said.
Later, in Tapah, the prime minister also announced that an extra RM30 million would be allocated to the Orang Asli community this year via the Rural and Regional Development Ministry.
"Because the Orang Asli community has been loyal to my government, I will not hesitate to approve this allocation," he said in Kampung Kuala Woh.
Najib has embarked on a lightning tour of Perak and Selangor this weekend, with stops in opposition-held federal seats as speculation mounts that he will call snap polls by June.
The prime minister is on a whistle-stop tour of Beruas, Menglembu, Ipoh Barat and Tapah in Perak today, which will be followed by visits to Petaling Jaya, Shah Alam and Puchong in Selangor tomorrow.
All the areas, excluding Tapah where MIC vice president Datuk M. Saravanan is MP, are now held by the opposition.
The tour is seen by political watchers to be an attempt by the ruling coalition to win crucial votes in Selangor and Perak which analysts believe still hangs in the balance.
BN took over Perak in 2009 — a year after it lost the frontline state to PR in the last general election — after three opposition MPs defected.
Najib will lead BN into polls for the first time in the next general election, with observers saying he must improve on the coalition's dismal 2008 outing and return its customary two-thirds majority in Parliament to remain in power.
Najib, the son of Malaysia's second prime minister, Tun Abdul Razak, replaced Tun Abdullah Ahmad Badawi in April 2009, a year after BN suffered its worst electoral outcome ever, ceding 82 federal seats and four state governments.


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A video describing the SINGLE project.
SINGLE is a project supported by the 7th framework programme for research and technological development (FP7) of the European Union. The research project is a collaborative project - a small / medium scaled focused research project (STREP) on how to couple charge transport to internal degrees of freedom at the single molecule level.
The project will be carried out by a collaboration of these institutions, coordinated by Prof. Thomas Bjørnholm of University of Copenhagen:
University of Copenhagen (Nano-Science Center)
Chalmers Tekniske Hoegskola AB
Technische Universiteit Delft
IBM Research GmbH
Universite de Mons-Hainaut
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Probably the most feasible Skype-replacement for all just released version 2.0:
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Silas, E G and Ummerkutty, A N P (1967) Parasites of scombroid fishes Part II : Parasitic copepoda. In: Proceedings of the Symposium on Scombroid Fishes, Part 3, MBAI, 12-15 January 1962, Mandapam.
The literature on copepod parasites of fishes is profuse and ever increasing, and notable contributions which include parasitic copepods found on scombroid fishes are mainly to be found in the works of Brian (1906, 1935), Heller (1865), Kirtisinghe (1933- ), Leigh-Sharpe (1930), Pearse (1951, 1952), Scott and Scott (1913), Shiino (1952- ), Steenstrup and Lutken (1861), Wilson (1905-1944), Yamaguti (1936, 1939), and several others. A perusal of the literature shows that hardly a dozen species of copepod parasites have been described as new or recorded as occurring on scombroid fishes (mack_erels, seerfishes or Spanish mackerel, tunas and billfishes) found in the Indian seas, while at least 58 species appear to have been described or recorded (chiefly from eleven families of Caligoida and Lernaeopodoida) from scombroid fishes from various parts of the world. Our collections.from Indian scornbroid fishes contain seven species of parasitic copepods, most of which are new distributional records.
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How can I put this mildly? For a few days I wasn't able to 'go', and now I have the opposite problem. I really worry because every time I drink or have a pack I rush to the loo and it just goes right through me!
I'm concerned that I'm on negative calories today, as nothing can be staying in my system for long enough to be absorbed, and I feel really weak and dizzy. I don't have a counsellor yet because I'm using up packs from an old diet first (still in date, pretty new!) but I will be switching to CD as soon as I can.
I've been thinking whether a couple of days of SS+ might be the answer, but I'm concerned that I'm trying to rationalise a decision I'll later regret! Even if I am taking no calories in, that's not damaging if it's just a couple of days, is it?
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We love computers and other electronics, but -- not unlike an addict's opinion of his dealer -- we hate the companies that sell them to us. Now our contempt for Silicon Valley is expanding to include tech workers.
In San Francisco, where locals know the techies best, 30-year-old worker bees are taking as much heat as their billionaire CEO overlords.
Geographical familiarity breeds political contempt.
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Dark dust cotton cropped trousers from Rick Owens featuring an elasticated waistband, a drawstring fastening, two inset pockets to the sides and raw edge trimming.
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Dark romance and broken beauty fill the collections of Rick Owens, the LA-born master of glamorous grunge (or 'glunge' as he calls it). His collections of wearable luxury combined with a rock'n'roll attitude has attracted celebrity fans such as Rihanna, Nicole Richie and Madonna.
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The interior of the intentionally hard-to-find Gallery Aesthete was designed by Lukas Machnik to evoke feelings of wonder and to transport customers (those who find it, at least) into a sanctuary of fashion, art and carefully curated style.


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Microsoft upped its cool factor today with introductions of some really great-sounding products, including a first for the company, the Surface Book convertible laptop.
The storefront for handcrafted items is another effort by the e-commerce giant to become the everything store while simultaneously gunning for Etsy's business.
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Not all new iPhones have the same processor chip, but Apple says differences in performance are minimal. Apple also pulls ad-blocking apps over privacy concerns, and Netflix raises its price again.
The Californian tech giant has removed several apps from its App Store that install root certificates, which potentially allow hackers to view private user information.
The next version of Apple's Mac software is available for download. CNET explains where you can get it and how to use it.
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The company will bring a high-resolution 4K screen to its smaller desktop machine, going on sale ahead of the iPad Pro, according to 9to5Mac.


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Austin Butler or Austin Robert Butler (born August 17, 1991) is an American actor, singer, and model. He is best known for his feature films roles as Jake Pearson in Aliens in the Attic and as Peyton Leverette in the High School Musical spin-off film Sharpay's Fabulous Adventure, as well as for his television roles as James on Zoey 101, Jordan on Ruby & The Rockits and Jones on Life Unexpected. He currently stars on Switched at Birth playing the role of Wilke.
In 2005, after working as an extra on several TV shows, Butler landed his first regular job as a background actor playing the role of Zippy Brewster for two seasons on Nickelodeon's Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide. His friend on the show, Lindsey Shaw, introduced him to her manager, Pat Cutler who immediately offered to represent him, and from that point on, Butler began taking acting seriously as a career.
Two years later in 2007, after performing in several commercials, Butler landed his first movie role in the short film The Faithful playing the role of a dog, Danny, who later turns into a human being. In May of that year, Butler landed a guest starring role on the Disney Channel series Hannah Montana playing the role of Derek Hanson opposite actress Miley Cyrus, and in September of that same year, he portrayed "Jake Krandle" in the episode "iLike Jake" on the Nickelodeon series iCarly.
In February 2008, Austin Butler landed a recurring role on the Nickelodeon show Zoey 101 playing James Garrett, the love interest of Jamie Lynn Spears's character Zoey, and in March of that year, he appeared in an episode of Out of Jimmy's Head playing the role of Lance in the episode titled "Princess".
In July 2009, Austin Butler starred in 20th Century Fox's family adventure movie Aliens in the Attic (originally titled They Came From Upstairs), portraying Jake Pearson, alongside Ashley Tisdale, Carter Jenkins, Robert Hoffman, Kevin Nealon and Doris Roberts. In the movie, his character, along with his family, battles to save their vacation home and the world from an alien invasion. That same summer, Butler appeared in the starring role of Jordan Gallagher on the popular, but short-lived ABC Family series Ruby & The Rockits, alongside David Cassidy, Patrick Cassidy and his good friend, Alexa Vega. Butler portrayed the cousin of Alexa's character Ruby, whom he has a crush on, reasoning that it was because he never grew up with her.
In the spring of 2010, Butler's Aliens in the Attic co-star Ashley Tisdale invited him to audition for a lead role in the film Sharpay's Fabulous Adventure, a spin-off of Disney's popular High School Musical franchise that followed the adventures of Sharpay Evans after high school as she tries to get her big break on Broadway. In the film, Butler played Peyton Leverette, a handsome student filmmaker who finds Sharpay nearly as fascinating as she finds herself.


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2015 Q1 Personal Review
I like retrospective-style posts. When writing them I get to look back at the things I've done and am often surprised, pleased and encouraged to improve. I also enjoy reading retrospective posts of others, particularly from those who are doing similar things or those that I look up to and learn from. Hopefully the majority will forgive the indulgence of a personal retrospective and a few - like me - will find it interesting and useful. If you're considering a developer evangelist role this may provide you with some insight. If you're already working in a similar role then it might be a useful comparison. I'll also do a summary retrospective retro including a few stats, and cover what some my plans are for 2015 Q2.


text: You Tube [ What's Your Favorite Music Video Of A Professional Team? By Peter Carrillo July 31, 2013 Today well I was surfing the web, I came across one of the catchiest music videos of a professional team I've ever heard. The song "Cant stop the Blue" was shot by Ozomatli Inside of Dodger Stadium. Read More|Comment Category: Baseball, LA Dodgers, Opinion, Sports, Videos Tags: cant stop the blue, dodgers, music video, ozomatli Send to a friend! Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Pin it! Reddit This! Share on Tumblr!


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Treasury reveals rescue for UK BanksWednesday, October 8th, 2008
The Chancellor, Alistair Darling has announced details of the much anticipated rescue package for the banking system worth an initial £25bn and could increase to as much as £50bn.
This will initially make the extra capital available to eight of the UK's largest banks and building societies namely; Abbey, Barclays, HBOS, HSBC, Lloyds TSB, Nationwide Building Society, Royal Bank of Scotland and Standard Chartered. (more…)


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