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I'm a designer / artist from Barcelona, currently living in New York.
My work revolves around the relationship between people and technology.
In recent years I've combined freelance work for clients with self-driven projects.
As an interaction designer, I specialize in envisioning and prototyping future scenarios that often involve emerging technologies.
I enjoy looking toward the future as well as learning from the past to better understand our culture.
Through art I investigate the aesthetics of nature, physics and more recently, computation.
I find beauty in complex systems that are driven by simple principles.
ishacbertran [at] gmail.com
Worked at / Collaborated with / Clients
Google Creative Lab, Fiftythree, B-Reel, Intel, CIID, Tellart, BenQ, Toyota,
Lego, Novo-Nordisk, Maersk, Nestlé, Orange, Hewlett-Packard.
School for Poetic Computation, Brooklyn, 2013
Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design, 2010
MA Industrial Engineering, Barcelona, 2006
Awards / Recognitions
Core77 Design Awards, Winner, Category Speculative Design: Window to the World,
a collaboration between Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design and Toyota Motor Europe, 2012
Interaction Awards 2012, Winner, Category Expressing: Pas a Pas, 2012
Interaction Awards 2012, Best Student: Pas a Pas, 2012
CIID Final Project, Honours recognition: Pas a Pas, 2010
UPC Mechanical Engineering Final Project, Best Mechatronics Project, Barcelona, 2006
Biennale Internationale Design, Saint-Etienne, 2015
Wired Store NYC, New York, 2014
SFPC: The first class. Eyebeam, New York, 2013
Museum London, London (Ontario), 2013
Screamstation Fest, London, 2012
The Future of the Making, Milan, 2012
Get Set Festival, Porto, 2011
AlphaVille, London, 2011
BYOB, Copenhagen, 2011
FêteAnim, Lille, 2011
Lift10, Genève, 2010
Salone Internazionale del Mobile, Milan, 2010
Danish Design Centre, Copenhagen, 2010
Kulturhavn, Copenhagen, 2010
ThoughtMade, Malmö, 2010
Publications / Print
WIRED 20th Anniversary magazine, code {poems}
Interaction Design for Children Conference, Paper, 2011
A Touch of Code, Pas a Pas
Blueprint magazine, Pas a Pas
WIRED Italy magazine, Linyl
WIRED, Slow Games
PSFK, Slow Games
The Creators Project, Interview
VisualMAG, Interview
Fast Company, Spatially Aware Devices
Gizmodo, Spatially Aware Devices
Microsiervos, Spatially Aware Devices
WIRED UK, code {poems}
The Creators Project, code {poems}
Creative Applications, code {poems}
Core77, Little Press
Design Boom, Little Press
WIRED, Analog Vinyl Sampling
Core77, Analog Vinyl Sampling
The Creators Project, Analog Vinyl Sampling
Creative Applications, Analog Vinyl Sampling
Design Boom, Analog Vinyl Sampling
Microsiervos, Analog Vinyl Sampling
The Creators Project, Generative Photography
Creative Applications, Generative Photography
CNN, Window to the World
WIRED, Window to the World
LA Times, Window to the World
The Independent, Window to the World
Fast Company, Pas a Pas
Gizmodo, Pas a Pas
Microsiervos, Pas a Pas
PSFK, Pas a Pas
The Creators Project, Pas a Pas
Gizmag, Pas a Pas
DesignBoom, Pas a Pas
BTV, Pas a Pas
Notes On Design, Pas a Pas
MAKE, Linyl
PSFK, Linyl
The Creators Project, Linyl
Microsiervos, Scriba
Design Boom, The Discreet Window
Infosthetics, The Discreet Window
Yanko Design, The Discreet Window
Fast Company, The Discreet Window
Fast Company, LSSE
Microsiervos, LSSE
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text: Congress Gets to Work on Milk Cliff ...But will likely extend unpopular agriculture subsidies in the process By Kevin Spak, Newser User Posted Dec 28, 2012 2:00 PM CST STORY COMMENTS (20) (Newser) – Fiscal cliff negotiations may be going nowhere fast, but the House and Senate agriculture committees are poised to temporarily avert another pressing crisis: the milk cliff. The two committees are drafting a short-term extension of as many as 37 expiring agriculture provisions, including one staving off a 1945 law that would force the government to buy milk until the price hit more than $6 a gallon, Politico reports. The bad news? The proposal preserves costly farm subsidies reformers had hoped to kill. "The hidden winners right now of not passing a farm bill are those who want to keep subsidies going for farmers who don't need it," says Debbie Stabenow, chair of the Senate agriculture panel. One thing she won't extend, however, is current dairy policy. The stop-gap bill includes proposed reforms from the Dairy Security Act, which dairy producers love, but processors—and John Boehner—oppose. "It doesn't make sense to extend dairy policy that doesn't work," Stabenow argues. This May 16, 2012, file photo, shows dairy cows on the Meyer farm in Chilton, Wis. (AP Photo/Carrie Antlfinger, File) ADVERTISEMENT(Click Prev or Next to continue viewing images.) « Prev« Prev | Next »Next » Slideshow Politico (Source Grid ») Politics agriculture • dairy • farm bill • Debbie Stabenow • dairy farm • Senate Agriculture Committee • milk cliff CLICK BELOW TO VOTE 6% 4% 15% 50% 19% 6% RETURN TO THE STORY To report an error on this story, notify our editors.


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When I asked Mike Pall, author of LuaJIT and DynASM for feedback on the article, he suggested several optimizations that would be much simpler than register allocation. I've implemented a few of these already on my own, and already was able to increase performance by 2-3x. Implement all of them, and the JIT would likely beat the compiler.
The process of implementing these optimizations was extremely fun, so I want to give you, my readers, a chance to try it out before I reveal my answers. I encourage you to start by forking my GitHub repository.
Here are the optimizations Mike suggested (I'll try to give the idea without giving away what you'd optimize these patterns into):
- implement a peephole optimizer that optimizes runs of
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Hello Jerry,
In VS.NET 2003, there is class defined in Global.asax, so that we can use
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As the RNC deals with a youth-aimed Web contest gone awry, its college counterpart launches a reward-driven activism hub aimed at derailing a government-run healthcare program
Healthcare isn't a typical topic of conversation among college kids, but the College Republicans hope to change that. The College Republican National Committee has launched a site intended to encourage supporters to use online social tools to promote conservative stances on healthcare issues, and reward them for doing it. Importantly, the site employs Facebook Connect, as did Barack Obama's presidential campaign site.
"Republicans are competitive," suggests David All, president of David All Group, the conservative digital consultancy that crafted the Operation Waiting Game site. Hence, the new site plays on that mentality. Supporters are asked to take actions, racking up points for doing things like posting an article link to Facebook or Twitter or signing an online petition. A leaderboard displaying a dynamic counter marking the total number of actions taken by all users dominates the site's homepage. Once one action is taken, the site presents users with additional ones.
As of Friday, over 8,000 actions had been "taken against a Washington takeover of our health care." However, many of those can be attributed to the site's developers and early testers. At this point, the CRNC is relying only on organic word-of-mouth to promote it.
And, the only rewards for now are bragging rights. In the long run, students will be able to purchase CRNC-related items using the points, said All.
Most young people aren't exactly clued into issues involving doctors, pharmaceutical prescriptions, or health insurance. But, the CRNC believes any kind of compulsory, government-run healthcare system could have a major impact on them. "We want to educate and make the issue relevant to young voters and young conservatives especially," said the committee's Executive Director Tommy Jardon. The organization is focusing on what some believe will be the result of government-run healthcare, and something most people detest: waiting. A concern is that people may have to wait several days to see a doctor if the system is patterned after Canadian and European-style government-led health programs.
The Republican National Committee also recently launched a site aimed at derailing healthcare reform. BarackObamaExperiment.com, however, takes a far more standardized approach to promoting activism among supporters, featuring lists of talk radio show phone numbers, contact information for elected officials, e-mail addresses for submitting newspaper opinion pieces, talking points, and sample letters. A "Tell and Share" option lets people easily link directly to various social media platforms such as Digg, Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, and AOL Instant Messenger.
The party got into some hot water last week in another reward-based effort to attract young people. The RNC launched an online contest aimed at young Republicans that was quickly taken down after a popular left-leaning blogger exposed related offensive content. The "Obama Card" game challenged young Republicans to see how fast they could reach expenditures totaling "the $3.4 trillion limit set by our current president." Apparently integrated with Amazon's database, the game allowed contestants to search for products, adding them to their shopping carts in the hopes of amassing the huge sum. AmericaBlog's John Aravosis searched on keywords like "Jew" and "bondage," resulting in offensive and risqué book titles and images.
The CRNC claims to have around 200,000 members, many of them who joined through Facebook during the 2008 election season. Now, however, the organization wants to branch out beyond relying on Facebook to garner supporters. "Facebook was a great recruitment tool in '08, but now we're looking for something else," said Jardon. The group is hoping the Waiting Game site serves that purpose. Depending on how successful it is, the CRNC may apply the activism-for-points approach to promote its ideas on other issues such as energy, or a possible second economic stimulus package.
Still, the Facebook integration could prove to be significant since it removes the barrier to entry that setting up a new login would create. "This allows us to reach more people in a medium they feel comfortable with," said Jardon. The integration allows supporters to interact with their Facebook friends through the Waiting Game site, and share media with them on the Facebook site itself.
Though some argue Web-based activism such as signing petitions or e-mailing elected officials has a limited effect, Jardon believes this sort of virtual participation can make a big statement, in part because most forms of digital communication such as Twitter are public, unlike e-mail, for instance. The CRNC is encouraging people to feature the "#HandsOff" hash tag in Twitter posts, used to mark posts representing the anti-healthcare reform movement.
"That's public knowledge that's out there for people to see," said Jardon. "It holds public officials even more accountable to the public than ever before...This is really just an evolution of what activism means."
No matter how public the participation, the organization's incentive-based approach could lead some to delegitimize the actions taken through the site, since some people may be compelled more by the spirit of competition than true activist support.
"Everything is a choice," contended All, who doesn't worry about the value of the interaction being diluted by incentives. "A lot of people don't know how they can help," he continued, adding that the site is aimed at giving busy students tools to promote the cause in 5 to 10 minute spurts.
"College Republicans don't always have money [to donate], but what they do have is 5 minutes a day or 10 minutes a day," he said.
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Growing blueberries in the home garden can be quite enjoyable. Blueberries have a very fresh taste when picked straight off the bush. Beyond the initial challenge of establishing a new planting, there are really few pests that attack blueberry bushes. Proper weeding, fertilizing, insect and disease control, and proper pruning help to assure quality fruit at harvest. This fact sheet is intended to help home fruit growers gain a better understanding of the principles of pruning blueberry bushes. Refer to the glossary of terms if you are not familiar with some of the terms used in this fact sheet.
For details on blueberry production, refer to OSU Extension Fact Sheet HYG-1422-98, "Growing Blueberries in the Home Garden" (ohioline.osu.edu/hyg-fact/1000/1422.html).
Blueberry bushes that have not been pruned on an annual basis may become overgrown and less fruitful (Figure 1). Proper training of blueberries is essential to maintain plant size, shape, and productivity (Figure 2). In the first two years, it is important to train young blueberry bushes to promote the proper structure of the plant for maximum fruit production. When the blueberries mature, their vegetative canes require annual maintenance.
|Figure 1. Blueberry bush that is not pruned.
|Figure 2. Blueberry bush that has been pruned.
Selection of a training system will help guide how you prune your blueberries. Many fruit gardeners prefer to retain two to three main canes that will anchor the bush's fruit production. Young blueberries are carefully trained to maintain close base at the root crown and an open center to allow sunlight to pass through and allow air movement.
Shoots harden-off as canes with a grayish-brown color and will be approximately pencil size or greater in diameter. Normally, fruiting buds are not counted on blueberry bushes to determine the maximum fruit load.
Most gardeners in Ohio and other Midwestern states grow high-bush blueberries. There is not a great deal of difference in plant characteristics from one blueberry variety to another. Each variety may produce a different number of canes; however, the overall plant structure is generally the same. Most high-bush blueberry varieties will respond similarly in terms of vegetative growth, fruit production, and quality of fruit following general pruning.
Young bushes generally do not require as much pruning to remove undesirable vegetation. Mature bushes normally require more selective cuts to maintain a desired shape, plant structure, and productive fruiting wood. The key to pruning young plants is to focus on setting up the overall plant structure that will make the bush fruitful for several years. Bushes that are seven years old and older will need to have a few mature canes removed to maintain a balance between older canes that are becoming less productive and young canes that are not quite into full production.
Blueberry bushes should be rejuvenated to improve fruit production and maintain proper shape. This may require that several old canes be removed and the bushes be pruned to fit the desired shape. Rejuvenating bushes can be quite a challenge if there has been no annual pruning done for several years. The first approach would be to remove any diseased or broken branches. Secondly, depending on the overall number, the oldest two or three canes should be removed to open up the plant structure. As with any blueberry bush, the center of the plant should be open to sunlight and air movement. The base of the bush (at the top of the root crown) should be tighter than the middle to upper portion of the bush. All branches that are touching and crossing should be removed.
Hand tools such as loppers, hand pruners, and handsaws can be used to effectively remove all undesired wood from blueberry bushes. Select the appropriate tool to remove wood as cleanly as possible to avoid unnecessary injury to the plant. Hand pruners can be used to effectively remove one-year-old wood. If the wood is two or three years old, it is suggested that a lopper or saw be used to cut through the heavier wood.
Learning to master the art and science of pruning blueberries takes time and practice. Contact your county Extension educator for updated information on pruning. Make sure your blueberries are pruned each year to maintain the size and shape of the bushes to maximize fruit production and increase the overall fruit quality.
Ohio State University Extension Bulletin 591, Growing and Using Fruits at Home.
Ohio State University Extension Fact Sheet HYG-1422-98, "Growing Blueberries in the Home Garden" (ohioline.osu.edu/hyg-fact/1000/1422.html).
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- On our last visit we felt standards had slipped slightly (old robes, broken TV channels), but the manager assures us these issues have now been fixed
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Ahmad Brooks, a long-time huge bust at LB who was hyped by the media as a budding superstar when taken by the Bengals in the supplemental draft, is being paid like a superstar anyway. In a 6 year career, Brooks has tallied over 29 solo tackles just once, in 2011 when he soared to a paltry 35 tackles, to go along with 7 sacks. His reward for being a bust? Read this from Weenieworld, I am looking forward to the 49ers being a much more beatable team in 2012:
49ers re-signed OLB Ahmad Brooks to a six-year extension. The maximum value of Brooks' deal is reportedly $44.5 million, with $17.5 million guaranteed. Coming off a career year with 50 tackles, seven sacks, and three passes defensed as an every-down player on the NFL's second-best defense, Brooks would have been one of the premier 3-4 outside linebackers on the market. Turning 28 next month, Brooks' 1,123 snaps were fourth on Vic Fangio's defense. The 49ers paid a premium, but they're now set at linebacker with Brooks and Aldon Smith on the outside and Pro Bowlers Patrick Willis and Navorro Bowman on the inside.
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There is always that period in late winter when everything gets grim and gray. It is usually around February, and everyone who has survived through winter is very BLAH up to that point. It doesn't help that during this period, Saturday Night Live tends to run all repeats. It just feels like it stretches out winter and makes the last few weeks last longer than they should. Well, we got some good news for fans of SNL, as the show is coming back on March 1st with some killer guests.
Their first host will be The Big Bang Theory star Jim Parsons. There is just something so likable abut his dead pan delivery and monotone voice. What we love about SNL is the writers often know how to play off the host's characteristics, and it can make for some truly fun and truly funny skits. It would be great of they brought Jimmy Fallon on for that episode, and have them did a Jim-off. That would rule the night.
On top of that, Beck will be the musical guest that night. So, in essence and with no disrespect meant for anyone, it will be a night filled with nerds. Parsons is a nerd and openly admits it. Beck is a nerd and openly admits it. The thing is, nerds are awesome. The meek HAVE inherited the Earth, and the March 1st return of SNL stands as testimony to this.
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Hi everyone my first thread here been lurking for ages though.
4 of us last night witnessed the strangest thing imaginable, this wasnt some ordanary ufo sighting, oh no, ive seen plenty of those in the past... this was much bigger than anything ive ever even heard of. Before any of you ask we used stationary reference points, no drugs were taken, and i (not the others) had 2 beers.
Standing outside Adelaide, Australia about 24 hours ago. (11pm) look up and notice all the stars are moving at the same speed across the sky, from the northen horizion up untill they reached directly above us, where they slowed right down to normal speed.
Ive seen "stars" move on their own before thats nothing crazy but the entire spectrum of stars that i could see was moving alot faster than normal. example: if you were to take a video of the night sky watch some stars move from horizion to directly above you, that video would take half the night... but if you sped that video up so that one star you're watching took 10 minutes to comlete that journey accross the sky, thats how fast they were moving.
I'm not bull#ting we saw this, and to any of you guys fimilar with Val Valerian (matrix series) in the 3rd from the top update on his website trufax.com at the bottom of the home page "events that will occur" a video by Pane Andov is linked
If you skip to 1:04:30 you can see him talking about a crack over Adelaide (my city) which i didnt discover untill last night after we came in by complete acident... i think this is definatly tied in somehow and yeah i dont know what else to say other than wtf..
anyone got any ideas?
TL;DR All the stars were moveing very fast simultaneously accross the sky by far the weirdest thing ever considering if anything is to remain constant in this world its the location of starts.edit on 28-12-2012 by GeardUp because: grammer
Originally posted by GeardUp
... this wasnt some ordanary ufo sighting, oh no, ive seen plenty of those in the past... this was much bigger than anything ive ever even heard of.
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Originally posted by GeardUp
... this wasnt some ordanary ufo sighting, oh no, ive seen plenty of those in the past... this was much bigger than anything ive ever even heard of.
Hmm... given your experience with 'UFOs', I suggest the possibility that you and your friends were in a tiny bubble of 'missing time'.
Originally posted by GeardUp
look guys, im not looking for approval from anyone we know what we saw.
I'm looking for anyone whos experienced anything similar over the past few days, or some kind of explination as to what this could have been, as every sinlge theroy i can think litterally falls apart.
i know what we saw defies every single law and every sinlge bit of information out there, but i was hoping that if there was a place on the internet that people would stop read what i wrote, and actually give it some REAL thought, this would be the place.
It isn't happening tonight however, ive been looking every half hour which is really dissapointing, however i do not doubt that things like this will increase over the next year.
Originally posted by BellaSabre
I've experienced what appears to be very fast moving stars.
It's actually clouds you can't really see, quickly passing over the sky, giving the appearance of fast moving stars.
It's kinda neat-looking, isn't it?


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One of the things I don't like about the default way of working with (URL) routes in ASP.NET MVC, is code in the Global.asax. While this is fine for simple MVC-routing, you don't want to hard-code all your WCF endpoints inside that class, instead you want to configure using the web.config.
The first part of this code example is based upon code from one of my colleagues (thanks Roy Tore), it's basically a custom configuration element for your web.config, which allows you to define a list of services and the route it should be registered on.
Second element of this sample, is how the types are defined in the serviceType proprety in the web.config, which does not require a specific type, but support the use of interfaces. There is additional code in the example, which extends the WebServiceHostFactory with support for dependency injection using Autofac.
Here is a walkthrough on how you can do this from scratch.
- Create a new ASP.NET MVC 3 Web Application.
- Install the Autofac.MVC3 NuGet package.
- Add a reference to System.ServiceModel.dll, System.ServiceModel.Activation and System.ServiceModel.Web.dll
- Download the Routing.zip and unpack this into your web project.
- Modify the global.asax.cs, inside the Application_Start handler, add the following code in the beginning of the method:
DependencyResolver.SetResolver(new AutofacDependencyResolver(CreateContainer()));
And on the bottom of the method, after the ASP.NET MVC routes (RegisterRoutes):
- Modify the same file, but this time inside the RegisterRoutes method. We need to make sure the regular ASP.NET MVC routing will ignore our special services URI. See the full example below, and here is the modified default route:
routes.MapRoute( "", "{controller}/{action}/{id}", new { controller = "Home", action = "Index", id = UrlParameter.Optional }, new { controller = "^(?!services).*" } // Important for WCF services to work. );
- Create a new method called CreateContainer inside global.asax.cs, which creates your inversion of control container. Preferbly this should be placed somewhere else in a separate class. The first 3 registrations is to enable Autofac-support for your regular ASP.NET MVC controllers. After the changes, your global.asax.cs should look similar to this:
public static void RegisterRoutes(RouteCollection routes) { routes.IgnoreRoute("{resource}.axd/{*pathInfo}"); routes.MapRoute( "", // Route name "{controller}/{action}/{id}", new { controller = "Home", action = "Index", id = UrlParameter.Optional }, new { controller = "^(?!services).*" } ); }
protected void Application_Start() { // Set the MVC IOC resolver to our Autofac resolver. DependencyResolver.SetResolver(
new AutofacDependencyResolver(CreateContainer())); AreaRegistration.RegisterAllAreas(); RegisterGlobalFilters(GlobalFilters.Filters); RegisterRoutes(RouteTable.Routes); // Map all the routes configured in web.config. RouteTableManager.MapRoutes(
DependencyResolver.Current.GetService<DynamicWebServiceHostFactory>()); } private IContainer CreateContainer() { var builder = new ContainerBuilder(); builder.RegisterControllers(typeof(MvcApplication).Assembly); builder.RegisterModule(new AutofacWebTypesModule()); builder.RegisterModelBinderProvider(); builder.RegisterType<DynamicWebServiceHostFactory>(); // Register all the WCF (REST) services. builder.RegisterType<ItemService>().As<IItemService>(); var container = builder.Build(); return container; }
- Create your WCF (REST) Services (and modify the CreateContainer).
- Modify your web.config with the example below and you are done!
Add the following to your web.config, right after the configuration elemenet:
<configSections> <section name="routingExtention" type="
ConfigurableServiceRoutes.Routing.RouteTableSection, ConfigurableServiceRoutes,
Version=184.108.40.206, Culture=neutral" /> </configSections> <routingExtention> <routes> <add route="services/items" serviceType="
ConfigurableServiceRoutes.Services.IItemService, ConfigurableServiceRoutes,
Version=22.214.171.124, Culture=neutral" /> </routes> </routingExtention>
If you need more services, just keep adding into the routes collection with more add elements.
Next part of the config change, is to enable the ASP.NET Compatability. This is important for the sample to work.
<system.serviceModel> <serviceHostingEnvironment aspNetCompatibilityEnabled="true" /> </system.serviceModel>
That's it!
There are multiple benefits from this sample.
- Service Routing are configured, not compiled in code.
- Services does no longer require an empty constructor.
- Services supports dependency injection.
- WCF Services works fine together with ASP.NET MVC.
And that's basically it, I hope you enjoy this for your own projects.
Source Code
You can download a fully working sample here: ConfigurableServiceRoutes.zip
When you run the sample, you will get a 404 on the root as it's based on an empty ASP.NET MVC 3 Web App. If you access the URL with /services/items, you should see the WCF REST Service initialize correctly.
Notes of caution
There is one place in the code, inside the DynamicWebServiceHostFactory where I override the CreateServiceHost method. The logic that replaces the base here, I don't know what the original code was and there might be special instances where your service instance won't work properly. It works on my machine!


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SPRING LAKE, Mich. (AP) -- A West Michigan man's annual high-tech Christmas lights display is up and running again.
Months ago, a team of 150 volunteers helped Brad Boyink start stringing up nearly 300,000 LED lights around his Spring Lake home, plus 13 other houses in his cul-de-sac neighborhood. Click here for a link to the Facebook page.
The 42-year-old Boyink tells The Grand Rapids Press his Holiday Road Lights show is one of the largest neighborhood computerized displays in the country. Boyink uses 64 control computers for the show.
It might be March by the time the display is completely taken down.
The show is free, although donations are accepted. All proceeds will be donated to the Special Olympics.
Boyink raised about $140,000 for local charities in the first five years of the show.
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Situated in Holland, this aparthotel is 2.8 mi (4.6 km) from Van Raalte Farm and 3 mi (4.8 km) from Outdoor Discovery Center of Wildlife Unlimited. Holland Community Aquatic Center and Holland Museum are also within 6 mi (10 km).
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Along with an indoor pool, this aparthotel has a fitness center and an outdoor tennis court. Free buffet breakfast is provided, as well as free WiFi in public areas, free self parking, and a free manager's reception. Other amenities include a spa tub, a 24-hour business center, and coffee/tea in the lobby.
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Since Brad and Sheila Barker moved to their home near the intersection of County Road 31 and Colorado Highway 14 in Ault five years ago, theyve seen two fatal crashes and two near-fatal crashes end up in their front yard.
The most recent crash, which took the life of 49-year-old Severance man Donald Swets on May 31, was the breaking point, though, Sheila said.
According to the Colorado State Patrol, the crash occurred when Billy Douglass, who was traveling northbound on County Road 31, swerved his 1999 Pontiac around a car stopped at one of the County Road 31 stop signs and drove into traffic on Colorado 14. Swets, who was traveling west on Colorado 14, hit the Pontiac, causing it to spin off the road and causing his truck to roll.
A Japanese exchange student who had been living with the Barkers during her junior year at Windsor High School was waiting at the other County Road 31 stop sign with a friend when it happened. The two teenage girls were the first to respond and saw Swets die at the scene and Douglass being flown by helicopter to NorthColorado Medical Center with serious injuries.
Theyre traumatized by the events, Sheila Barker said. Its just really tragic. Its just really out of control.
It just keeps happening, and of course this time the man died, and he is a father, so it just feels so tragic, she added.
Sheila Barker reached out to local news organizations after the May 31 crash in an effort to warn drivers about the intersection. If I didnt say anything now, I would feel so horrible if someone else got hurt or killed, she said.
She said she often hears northbound cars that are driving too fast on County Road 31 skid to a stop at the stop sign.
Brad Barker said hes heard that Weld County has taken an interest in the intersection, but nothing has changed yet.
Its not dangerous enough yet to do anything and I understand that, Brad Barker said. Were blessed, I guess, that out of all that, weve only lost two people.
This is a starting place for us, Sheila Barker said, adding that people have been talking about the County Road 31/Colorado 14 intersection since they moved to the area.
We felt like if we could get the word out, the county might take notice, and people could be a be more alert and aware, she said.


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: showing a desire to cause trouble but in a way that is not serious
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: resembling or befitting a devil: asa : evil, sinisterb : mischievous, roguish <a devilish grin>
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Mrs. Evelyn R. "Fatgal" Bhuya, age 79 of Henderson, NC, peacefully departed this life on Thursday, January 17, 2013 at her home.
Evelyn, daughter of the late Jefferson "Buster" Reaves, Sr. and Margaret Jones Reaves, was born December 25, 1933 in Halifax County, NC.
At an early age, she confessed faith in Christ, was baptized and joined First Baptist Church-Hodgestown under the pastorate of the late Rev. N.K. Dunn.
She received her formal education in Halifax County and graduated from John Armstrong Chaloner High School in 1952. She then attended Cosmetology school in Charlotte and received her certification as a Nurses' Aide from Halifax Community College.
"Fatgal", as she was fondly called by family and friends, was employed with J.P. Stevens as a spinner and also a Nurses Assistant at Guardian Care of Roanoke Rapids, Hollister Nursing Home and Carolina Rest Home. She faithfully held employment and retired as a Housekeeper for the late William and Katherine Davis of Davis Insurance and Real Estate.
She was united in Holy Matrimony to Adris "Mickey" Bhuya (deceased) and their union was blessed with three children.
In addition to her parents, she was also preceded in death by her siblings: Jimmy L. Reaves, Zelma R. Pitt and Aubrey Daniel and a niece: Ruth Daniel.
Evelyn is lovingly survived by her children: Adris "Tony" Bhuya and Zelma "Tina" Bhuya of Henderson, NC and Archilles "Val" Bhuya of Roanoke Rapids, NC; seven grandchildren: Angel, Antonio and EveLyn of Germany, Adris Ragland of Henderson, NC, Paris (Makhala) of Gaston, NC, Sasha "Shay" and Archilles "Chillie Willie" of Roanoke Rapids, NC; five great-grandchildren; her brother: Jefferson Reaves, Jr. of Roanoke Rapids, NC; half-sister: Dorothy Pringle of Englewood, NJ; her aunt: Janet Berkley of Fredericksburg, VA; supportive adopted son: Lowell Moody, Sr.; an adopted grandson: Wilbert "Rooks" Mills; sister-in-law: Sarah P. Daniel of Roanoke Rapids, NC; two nieces: Tawana Williams (Jerome) of Garysburg, NC and Avis Reaves of Raleigh, NC; four nephews: Jeffery Reaves of Virginia Beach, VA, Jimmy Reaves of Gaston, NC, William M. Pitt (Karen) of St. Peters, MO and Shelby Daniel of Roanoke Rapids, NC; several great-nieces and great-nephews; a host of cousins, other relatives and many friends.
A Celebration Honoring the Life and Spirit of Evelyn Reaves Bhuya will be held on Friday, January 25, 2013 at 11:00 A.M. from the sanctuary of First Baptist Church-Hodgestown with the Pastor, Rev. Michael E. Simmons offering words of comfort.
Ms. Bhuya will be laid to rest in the Crestview Memorial Cemetery, Roanoke Rapids, NC.
The family will receive friends at the home of her niece, Avis Reaves in Halifax, NC.
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The local planners welcome you to our 22nd annual event to be held in Daviess County, Indiana.
The purpose of horse Progress Days is to showcase the complete line-up of the latest equipment innovations and hitching techniques in the Draft Horse Industry. There will be educational seminars and clinics to guide you on your journey with Draft Animals, whether you are just getting started or are looking for ways to broaden your knowledge.
Come and see the horses up close and in action. You will see many different Draft Horse breeds, plus mules, ponies, and oxen; in harness, doing what they do best. You will see hitches from one to twelve demonstrating plowing, tillage, haymaking, produce farming, logging, and more.
Professionals from around the world will be sharing valuable information from round pen training to seminars on horse farming and related topics.
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In Yonkers!
A recent New York Times article tells of an exciting young rabbi, Rigoberto Emanuel Viñas, who has revived a dying Conservative congregation in Yonkers, New York, through an emphasis on greater diversity and inclusion, as well as through a love of Jewish practice and spirituality. I had the pleasure of meeting Rabbi Viñas at this year's Be'chol Lashon conference (which I blogged about here), and he explained his belief that there could be literally millions of people in the Latin-speaking world who trace their roots to Jewish ancestors and might be interested in learning more about their Jewish heritage and even returning to Judaism. In fact, Rabbi Viñas—who traces his roots through Cuba to Spain—has helped a number of such Latino families do so. The Times article explains:
The personal histories of the new Latino members are varied. Some are the children of Holocaust survivors who settled in Buenos Aires. Some are New York City-bred Puerto Ricans who married Jewish sweethearts. Others, like Ms. Rodriguez, believe their ancestors were among the Jews who were forced centuries ago to convert to Catholicism during the Spanish Inquisition. They are known as anusim, a Hebrew term that refers to Jews who forcibly converted. Rabbi Viñas welcomes them, too. Over the last decade, Rabbi Viñas has performed dozens of "ceremonies of return" for people who grew up in Roman Catholic homes watching their grandmothers perform rituals they believed were strange family customs, such as lighting candles on Friday nights.
This wonderful work somehow rankles a few leaders in the Jewish community. The Times article continues:
"It's certainly not something that people would say is a priority," said Steven Bayne, the national director of contemporary Jewish life at the American Jewish Committee in New York. "We are focusing on retaining the people we already have, not churching the unchurched."
Okay, so here you have a synagogue that is growing within a movement that is shrinking, and Dr. Bayme (the Times spelled his name wrong) thinks it's not a priority? "Retention" is apparently the new, more desperate key word for the Jewish community in the Aughts the way "continuity" was in the Nineties. That's very disturbing.
By suggesting that we're "focusing on retaining the people we already have" (i.e., the Jews), Bayme is, it seems, admitting that we are not currently retaining them, thus the need to focus on it. Certainly Bayme knows that among the reasons we're not retaining Jews is because many of them too are "unchurched," and he therefore wants to focus on chuching them. So if you really look deeply at that quote, what he's saying is that we should only church the unchurched JEWS. In other words, why bother encouraging converts?
The reason to welcome and embrace converts, or those anusim who are returning to Judaism (and are perhaps in a whole different category) is contained in the very same article, which we hope will give Dr. Bayme a new angle on the issue:
For the graying veterans at Lincoln Park, which has about 120 families, the new blood is welcome. Many of them know that Rabbi Viñas has helped many people convert, but no one bothers to make the distinction about individual worshipers. … "Everyone here has blended in perfectly with each other," Mrs. Katz said. "I imagine that if we were overwhelmed, you'd have people commenting, 'All he is bringing in are Spanish people.' But we have children again. We have energy again."
Is there a more persuasive argument for outreach than that?
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KENDALL, NY-- The Orleans County Sheriff's Office is investigating recent incidents of vandalism at a Town of Kendall Cemetery.
Investigators say an Orleans County Sheriff's Lieutenant was checking the Beechwood Cemetery on Woodchuck Alley when he discovered damage to the chapel of the cemetery on October 12th.
On October 14th, deputies were called back to the cemetery after a caretaker noticed about 32 gravestones turned over, including some that were broken.
Officials say many of the markers belonged to the graves of people buried in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
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Charon is an early, low-altitude test vehicle developed by Blue Origin of Kent, Washington. With its vertically oriented jet engines, Charon served as a precursor to the company's development of a family of reusable space launch vehicles. These vehicles will use rocket engines to lift off vertically, fly to space, then return to again use their rocket engines in a carefully controlled powered vertical landing.
Built by a small team at Blue Origin, the Charon vehicle consists of a welded aluminum airframe holding four Rolls-Royce Viper Mk.301 jet engines. Charon's direction of travel was controlled by redirecting the thrust from these engines. Four jointed legs serve as landing gear.
Blue Origin successfully flew Charon at Moses Lake, Washington on March 5, 2005. The fully autonomous vehicle flew to an altitude of 316 feet (96.3 m) before returning to a controlled landing near its liftoff point. Blue Origin continues to use processes developed on the Charon project in building and testing its more advanced rocket-powered vehicles today, including the New Shepard family of suborbital vehicles.
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Open access publishing has gone through a number of stages. Though different people will classify these stages in diverse ways, one way to view this is to say that since the initial period of advocacy for open access, commercial interests have entered this market and are now prepared to augment their positions by leveraging their elite brands, using them, as it were, to draw manuscripts for a family of cascading products. Continue reading
The Internet operates on a scale unlike anything we have seen before. How must publishing adapt to this scale? This requires more than thinking of the Internet as another format. The scale of the Internet requires us to invite machines into our research and publishing activity. Continue reading
Scholarly publishing is virtually unique in that it has significant representation by both for-profit and not-for-profit publishers. This alters the very nature of this segment of publishing, making the not-for-profits more business-like and forcing the for-profits to behave at times like mission-based organizations. Continue reading
When sexist comments make it into a technical review of a research article, journal editors and publishers are wise to take a moment and think about processes for finding, responding to, and eradicating this behavior. Continue reading
A presentation to a scientific society on the current environment that STM publishers have to work in. Five issues are identified: regulatory matters, new technology, the structure of the marketplace, competition, and governance. Continue reading
Publishers have underestimated how disruptive mobile technology potentially can be. We are likely to see an entirely new ecosystem develop with the smart phone at the center. Continue reading
A report from Simba Information tallies the total value of the open access marketplace, putting OA at 2.3% of the total market for STM journals. It documents as well, without comment, that more and more OA activity is the business of for-profit companies. Continue reading
Revisiting Joe Esposito's post on the real world concerns of the research community. Although many people claim to know what scientists want, the author's own ongoing survey has come up with results that are at odds with most conventional wisdom. This post summarizes those findings and identifies a near-universal view held by many scientists. Continue reading
Revisiting Joe Esposito's 2010 post which discussed how improper use of financial analysis can obscure problems in strategy, a problem faced by for-profit and not-for-profit organizations alike. Continue reading
Businesses are using more data than ever to inform decision making. While the truly large Big Data may be limited to the likes of Google, Amazon, and Facebook, publishers are nonetheless managing more data than ever before. While the technical challenges may be less daunting with smaller data sets, there remain challenges in interpreting data and in using it to make informed decisions. Perhaps the most daunting challenge is in understanding the limitations of the dataset: What is being measured and, just as importantly, what is not being measured? What inferences and conclusions can be drawn and what is mere conjecture? Where are the bricks and mortar solid and where does the foundation give way beneath our feet? Continue reading
Some predictions about the future of scholarly publishing, which acknowledges the continuing central role of the major STM publishers. Continue reading
Although Jeffrey Beall has done us all a good service by coming up with his list of predatory publishers, his arguments against open access publishing have become shrill and reveal that he is expressing a political viewpoint that obscures the many gradations of opinion concerning scholarly publishing. Continue reading
PLoS has an interesting opportunity before it to push its most robust service, PLoS ONE, very aggressively for growth. PLoS can do this by lowering the cost of publishing fees, which would make it increasingly hard for other publishers to match them for a Gold OA service. This could result in PLoS ONE becoming the default OA publishing option for all STM publishing. Continue reading
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Green Open Access can lead to the cancellation of subscriptions to journals. The environment for OA, however, is full of nuance and resists easy characterization. Continue reading
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eLife, BioMed Central (BMC), the Public Library of Science (PLoS), and the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) will be forming a new peer review consortium based around the concept of what eLife calls "portable peer review." Continue reading


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Dallas Mavericks All-Star forward Dirk Nowitzki became the 23rd player in NBA history to score 23,000 career points during a Friday night game against the Milwaukee Bucks. Nowitzki finished with 11 points and the Mavericks went on to win the game, 102-76, at American Airlines Center.
Nowitzki entered the game with 22,997 points. He crossed the 23,000-point threshold with a second quarter free throw. It took 1,005 games for him to score 23,000 points.
"I'm trying to keep going and trying to help this team and franchise win as many games as I can," Nowitzki said, according to Mavs.com. "All the milestones are gonna be great when I look back on my career in 10-15 years."
The German forward is the third highest currently active scorer in the NBA, trailing only Los Angeles Lakers guard Kobe Bryant, who ranks No. 6 on the all-time scoring list, and Boston Celtics forward Kevin Garnett, who ranks No. 19.
Nowitzki is averaging 18.0 points per game on the season. If he continues to score at that clip and doesn't miss significant time due to injury, he will almost move into the NBA's top-20 all-time scorers by season's end. Robert Parish, Adrian Dantley and Elgin Baylor all finished their NBA careers with between 23,000 and 23,400 points. Nowitzki could also push past Charles Barkley, who retired with 23,757 points, this year.
Nowitzki, 33, is in his 14th NBA season. He has never won a scoring title; his high-scoring season was 2005-2006, when he averaged 26.6 points per game. He was named the 2011 NBA Finals MVP when the Mavericks defeated the Miami Heat. His other awards include: 2006-2007 NBA MVP, All-NBA first team four times and 10 All-Star selections. He is the Dallas Mavericks' all-time leader in points, rebounds, field goals, field goal attempts, games and minutes, according to HoopsManifesto.com.
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Mount Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church will prepare for the upcoming Lenten Season with a Shrove Tuesday sausage and pancake supper at 6 p.m. Tuesday.
The event, sponsored by the Men's Group of the church, will be held in the church's Fellowship Hall, 2164 Mount Zion Road. A brief service and time for fellowship will follow. The public is invited to attend. For more information, call the church office at 757-7626.