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Euler Hermes
|Société Anonyme (Euronext: ELE.PA)
|2002 Euler Hermes
1917 Hermes
|Tour First 1, place des Saisons - 92048 La Défense Paris, France
Key people
|Axel Theis, chairman of Euler Hermes Supervisory Board (since May 25th, 2015); Wilfried Verstraete, chairman of Euler Hermes Board of Management (since April, 2010)
|Credit insurance, Reinsurance, Trade debt collection, Bonding
|€ 2,527.0 million (2014) [1]
|€ 413.1 million (2014)[1]
|€ 302.1 million (2014) [1]
|Total assets
|€ 6,359.7 million (2014)[1]
|Total equity
|€ 2,580.5 million (2014)[1]
Number of employees
|6,140 (2013)[2]
|Euler Hermes Americas; Euler Hermes Asia-Pacific; Euler Hermes Germany-Austria-Switzerland; Euler Hermes France; Euler Hermes Mediaterranean countries, Solunion
Euler Hermes is a credit insurance company that offers a wide range of bonding, guarantees and collections services for the management of business-to-business trade receivables.
A subsidiary of Allianz SE, Euler Hermes is listed on ELE.PA and is rated AA- by Standard & Poor's.[3] The Group posted a consolidated turnover of €2.5 billion in 2013.[4] Euler Hermes employs 6,140 employees in over 50 countries and insured global business transactions for €789 billion in exposure at the end of 2013.[5]
Euler Hermes provides guarantees or insurance on accounts receivable arising from the sales of commercial goods and services on credit terms of e.g. 30-day, 60-day time scales or more especially for export companies (as an alternative to making the foreign purchaser obtain a letter of credit), sometimes on longer time scales; it manages guarantees for exports by corporations globally; and also provides other international support for exporters. It distributes its products and services through a network of direct agents, brokers, and banks and tracks companies in markets representing 92% of the world's GDP.[6]
Euler Hermes in North America[edit]
Euler Hermes North America, the North American subsidiary of Euler Hermes was incorporated in 1893. It is the oldest and largest insurance carrier in North America exclusively writing receivables insurance and providing risk mitigation services. It is headquartered in Owings Mills, Maryland. Euler Hermes North America provides trade credit insurance policies covering both domestic and export trade in more than 200 countries.
Global network[edit]
The company has 54 subsidiaries throughout Europe, in France, Italy, Belgium, United Kingdom but also in the United States and Canada, including regional service hubs in New York City, Chicago, Atlanta, Los Angeles, Houston, Toronto and Montreal.
Euler Hermes covers global risk management on six continents, with risk and information specialists located in 54 countries. Euler Hermes has a database with proprietary information on more than 40 million companies worldwide, and provides coverage on shipments to 200 countries around the globe.
- Best Trade Credit Insurance Brand in Middle East 2013 awarded by GLOBAL BRANDS MAGAZINE[7]
- Best Private Insurer in Trade and Best Global Export Credit Agency 2013 voted by the industry at TRADE FINANCE AWARDS[8]
- Best trade credit insurer 2013 awarded by GLOBAL FINANCE[9]
During 2014, the number of Euler Hermes Group shares held by Allianz Vie and Allianz France was unchanged at 30,744,048. This represents a stake of 67.8% in Euler Hermes Group share capital and 69.9% of voting rights as at December 31, 2014. The free float covered 29.2% of Euler Hermes Group share capital, and 30.1% of voting rights. Euler Hermes Group holds 1,360,137 treasury shares representing 3% of its share capital.[citation needed]
Financial information[edit]
|(in €thousand)
|2011 IAS 19 proforma
|2012 IAS 19 proforma
|Operating income
|Net income
|Net combined ratio
|Total Equity
Board of Management[edit]
- Wilfried Verstraete, Chairman. In charge of coordinating the work of the members of the Board of Management, steering and coordinating the activities of all the Group's companies, and representing the Company towards third parties. He also supervises the Group's Internal Audit, Human Resources and Communication functions.
- Gerd-Uwe Baden, Member of the Board of Management in charge of Business Development and Partnerships.
- Frédéric Bizière, Member of the Board of Management in charge of Risks, Information and Claims functions and Reinsurance.
- Clarisse Kopff, Group Chief Financial Officer and Member of the Board of Management in charge of Group Asset Management, Compliance, Finance, Legal, M&A, Tax and Risk and Capital Management.
- Dirk Oevermann, Member of the Board of Management in charge of Operations, including supervision of the Group IT function.
- Paul Overeem, Member of the Board of Management in charge of Market Management, Commercial and Distribution.
Supervisory Board[edit]
- Axel Theis, Chairman, Member of the Allianz SE Board of Management responsible for the global insurance lines and the regions UK, Ireland and Australia.
- Brigitte Bovermann, Vice-Chairwoman and Member of the Nomination and Remuneration Committee and of the Audit and Risk Committee. Head of Business Division « Global Insurance Lines & Anglo Markets » of Allianz SE
- Ümit Boyner, Independent Member, Executive Board member at Boyner Holding A.S
- Philippe Carli, Independent Member and Chairman of the Audit and Risk Committee, General Manager Groupe Amaury
- Elisabeth Corley, Member, Chief Executive Officer of Allianz Global Investors
- Nicolas Dufourcq, Independent Member, Chief Executive Officer of Banque Publique d'Investissement (BPI)
- Robert Hudry, Member of the Audit and Risk Committee, Company Director
- Jean-Hervé Lorenzi, Independent Member and Member of the Nomination and Remuneration Committee, Advisor to the Board of the Compagnie Edmond de Rothschild
- Yves Mansion, Member of the Audit and Risk Committee, Company Director
- Thomas-Bernd Quaas, Independent Member and Chairman of the Nomination and Remuneration Committee, Member of the Supervisory Board of Beiersdorf
- Jacques Richier, Member, CEO of Allianz France
Corporate Social Responsibility[edit]
According to its website, Euler Hermes consolidated the initiatives taken by its entities worldwide around a single Corporate Social Responsibility based on four key areas of commitment.
- Health & Well-being (support to organizations and projects working in the areas of health, social development and the fight against poverty and hunger)
- Financial literacy (employee volunteering to share financial expertise during educational programs)
- Environmental protection (actions to reduce the environmental impacts of the Group's sites (energy, water and paper production, waste production, etc…)
- Equality & Diversity (combating discrimination and encouraging the career development of women within the company)
See also[edit]
Hermes cover, the German export credit guarantee scheme managed by Euler Hermes Kreditversicherungs-AG and PricewaterhouseCoopers Aktiengesellschaft
- ^ a b c d e http://www.eulerhermes.com/mediacenter/Lists/mediacenter-documents/press-release-full-year-2014-financial-results-180215.pdf
- ^ http://www.eulerhermes.com/mediacenter/Lists/mediacenter-documents/Euler_Hermes_2013_Registration_Document.pdf
- ^ http://www.eulerhermes.com/mediacenter/news/Lists/NewsDocuments/Euler_Hermes_Group_core_subsidiaries_affirmed_at_AA-_Standard_Poors_020614.pdf
- ^ http://www.eulerhermes.com/mediacenter/Lists/mediacenter-documents/2013_Full_Year_financial_results_Press_Release.pdf
- ^ http://in.reuters.com/article/2014/04/30/idUSnHUGdFWS+77+ONE20140430
- ^ https://www.allianz.com/v_1399565411000/media/investor_relations/de/berichte_und_finanzdaten/geschaeftsbericht/geschaeftsberichte_allianz_gesellschaften/gesellschaften/eh_gb2013.pdf
- ^ http://www.globalbrandsmagazine.com/award-winners-2013/
- ^ http://www.tradefinancemagazine.com/Article/3350222/Sectors/26793/Meet-the-global-heavyweights.html
- ^ http://www.eulerhermes.com/mediacenter/news/Pages/best-trade-credit-insurer-2013.aspx
External links[edit]
- Euler Hermes group website
- Euler Hermes global presence
- Euler Hermes awards & honors
- Euler Hermes economic publications
- Euler Hermes regulated information
- Euler Hermes latest news
- Solunion (Spanish / English)
- What is credit insurance?
- EH Simplicity
- EH Journal (Italian)
- Euler Hermes broker portal
- Euler Hermes economic trends (Dutch)
- Global Brands Magazine


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'Disappointed' Bulls 'determined' to turn things around
INDIANAPOLIS—This one stung.
Bulls head coach Tom Thibodeau, an optimist for once, described his team as "determined."
"Disappointed" is how Joakim Noah described it.
Whatever the feeling was after the Bulls' 97-80 loss Wednesday night at Bankers Life Fieldhouse, it's something they certainly don't want to feel anytime soon. It's one thing when they just don't have it, have the odds against them, have to contend with bad matchups and the like. But the Pacers, a familiar foe they know like the back of their hand, beat the Bulls at their own game—defense, rebounding and resiliency—and there was nothing they could do about it.
"We got beat in every facet of the game: the rebounding, the defensive transition, turned it over. You have to play 48 minutes against good teams. We got into a hole in the first quarter and dug out of that. I thought we played well in the first half overall. Third quarter was good enough and then the fourth has to be our best, and it wasn't," Thibodeau explained. "Even at the end, when you're 10 or inside 10, we compounded our mistakes with giving them threes that really hurt us. I thought when you get outrebounded like we did and give a team like that two or three cracks at it, it's not good."
Noah added: "They fought hard. They wanted it more than us, they got to every loose ball, every rebound. Just took it away. Disappointing."
"Defensively, second shots, turnovers, everything. They were on the fight and we weren't there," he continued. "We fought with them for three quarters, and they took it from us in the fourth."
"We've got to get our edge back."
[MORE: Turnovers doom Bulls in loss to Pacers]
Indeed, from the frenetic and dynamic fourth quarter of shooting guard Lance Stephenson and timely second-half scoring from bench players like Luis Scola, Donald Sloan and C.J. Watson—the former Bull was a fill-in starter on this night—to mainstays like rugged power forward David West owning the boards, behemoth center Roy Hibbert dominating defensively and All-Star swingman Paul George scoring on one end and smothering Derrick Rose on the other, the Pacers had all their bases covered in front of a home crowd that's no longer 50-50 when the Bulls are in town.
What was a 69-67 Bulls lead with 7:15 remaining, thanks to All-Star small forward Luol Deng and reserves Taj Gibson and Kirk Hinrich, quickly morphed into a double-digit Pacers advantage in less than three minutes, as Indiana overwhelmed its guests.
"They were making shots. Lance came in and hit a couple big buckets, and the momentum went to their side," Rose said. "Defensively, towards the end, we let them get too many fast-break points."
[MORE: Rose has second most popular jersey in NBA]
But afterwards, as dejected as they looked—even on the court, in the final minutes of the game—the Bulls put on brave faces and vowed to turn things around, as the 1-3 start to a regular season in which they were expected by many to be eventual title contenders is certainly not what they envisioned.
"We have to work and we have to work together. That's the big thing. That's how you build chemistry. That's how you learn to play off each other. That's how you learn to cover for each other. For us right now, we're inconsistent. We have a good quarter, then a bad quarter. You can't win in this league like that. We have to be consistent with our approach and our work and in every facet of preparing for the game," Thibodeau said. "We have good character. We're all disappointed. We know we have to do better and we will."
Noah concurred: "Just keep competing. Get sick of losing. It's everybody. Everybody has to come in with the right mindset.
"We know we're capable of a lot better. We'll be all right though," he went on to say. "I think we just have to play with a better edge and we've just got to do better. It's all about winning and losing. Right now we're losing. We've got to find a way to turn it around."
The questions of how and when the Bulls will do that are still up for debate. But given this team's track record of fortitude—and the fact that two home games against Utah and Cleveland are next up on their slate—bank on it happening in the near future.

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I've had good results with ortho litho sheet film and a simple metol/sodium sulfite developer:
1 liter water
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I expose the film at roughly EI 0.5, or 2 seconds at f16 under sunny conditions and develop 4 to 6 minutes continuous agitation in an oversize tray. Tonal range is not as good as a standard film like Tri-X, but contrast is near normal. Tonality, for lack of a better term, is not quite like standard film. Uneven development is sometimes a problem, but usually not too bad.


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Australia are looking to their big-match players to upset three-time champions Germany in Sunday's 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa™ opener in Durban, with it 28 years since the Germans last having lost an opening match in Spain.
The Socceroos go into the match as outsiders and skipper Lucas Neill says his team would be satisfied with a draw in their opening match. But defensive midfielder Vince Grella believes Australia can do even better and has earmarked Tim Cahill, Harry Kewell and Mark Bresciano as the players to cause the Germans grief.
Grella said the trio will be the key to Australia bringing off a massive FIFA World Cup™ shock. "You need the special players in a team and we have a couple of them in Bresciano, Cahill and Kewell, if he's fit," said Grella, who has been capped by his country 46 times.
These types of players will make the difference. Our job is to put them in the position to score goals.
"These types of players will make the difference. Our job is to put them in the position to score goals. They'll be the key differences. We have some boys that have got some steel and we have some boys that have got class. If we make them hit together in the right spot on the pitch, we will put the Germans under a lot of pressure."
But clouding the trio's likely impact is a lack of match fitness for Kewell, who has played only a couple of minutes' football this year because of a persistent groin injury.
Star man Cahill, tagged by German defender Per Mertesacker as Australia's most dangerous player, failed to complete Tuesday's training session after injuring his neck in last Saturday's 3-1 warm-up match loss to the USA. Bresciano is also not long back from back surgery after playing only 18 games for Palermo in Italy's Serie A last season.


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One Life to Live fans have the following story lines and developments to look forward to one next week's episodes...
- Marcie is arrested.
- Blair (Kassie DePaiva, pictured) finds it difficult to be a natural mother to her baby.
- Bo is awarded legal custody of Lindsay.
- Charlie misses his lunch date with Jared because of Dorian's interference.
- To the chagrin of Natalie, she witnesses a kiss between Jared and Jessica (Bree Williamson).


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SF Recreation & Parks Department has scheduled a 6:00pm public meeting on Monday, November 15th at the JP Murphy clubhouse to discuss the RPD's leasing of the JP Murphy clubhouse and park facilities. The Clubhouse is located at 1960 9th Avenue at the corner of 9th Avenue and Ortega.
In 2008 the Citizens of San Francisco spent $3,849,933 of the Proposition A, Parks Project Bond to renovate the JP Murphy Playground & Clubhouse. The Clubhouse is located at 1960 9th Avenue/Ortega. Effective August 15th, 2010 the RPD also fired or relocated all of its Recreation and Park Directors. The RPD is now about to lease-out our newly, renovated JP Murphy Park. The RPD euphemistically calls this new leasing for profit scheme "park revitalization."
RPD representative, Lev Kushner, the Assistant Director for Strategic Planning, has been holding meetings throughout San Francisco in an effort to rent out neighborhood clubhouses, parks and facilities. The RPD is trying to lease at least 24 of the 48 park clubhouses in San Francisco. Usually, the RPD's citizens notification is very lax and few people realize that their local Park is going to be leased for a minimum 5 year period.
It's not that the groups that lease the parks are good or bad, the problem is that these private commercial groups take over large portions of the park at specific times and the neighbors who use these parks are not allowed to use the portions that are leased. The groups leasing the City parks often have nothing to do with recreation and are already working from an existing commercial location.
The RPD lease clearly states, "The tenant shall have the right to shared access of all playground and garden space in areas surrounding the premises." Additionally, "The City shall use it's best efforts to avoid interfering with the tenants quiet and exclusive use of enjoyment of the premises."
Whatever happened to the neighborhoods right to "the use and enjoyment of premises" of our own park?
The RPD is claiming that this is its best way to generate revenue for now "underutilized" facilities. With usually only one potential tenant, the Parks are leased for ridiculously low amounts of money. The RPD started leasing parks throughout the City in July and is usually charging between $1.31 - 1.51 per square foot per month and allows full usage of the other park facilities. It is doubtful that the JP Murphy clubhouse will be leased for more than $1,500 per month. Apparently, the RPD now has a tenant for JP Murphy park or Mr. Kushner would not have scheduled a meeting.
The RPD's quest for money has actually made them predatory. On July 15 the Rec & Park Commission voted to let an expensive private preschool displace a free, 38-year-old City College parenting class at the Laurel Hill Clubhouse. The clubhouse was leased to Language in Action (LIA), a preschool offering nine-month terms immersing two to five year olds in Spanish and Mandarin. LIA tuition ranges from $1,000---for two hours per day, two days per week---to $14,000 for full day, five day per week instruction. The RPD leased the Laurel Hills playground to LIA for only $1,427.00 per month.
"On the face of it, the RPD wanted to lease this property and they didn't really care what the public thought," stated City College Board of Trustee President, John Rizzo. "The RPD cared so little about the public that it was too late once they were notified."
JP Murphy Park is our park, located in our neighborhoods and is used recreationally by the people in our neighborhoods. We don't accept the premise that the Recreation and Park Department can have one meeting with the neighborhoods and then lease out our park for five years. We want to use our park the way we want to use them. The RPD has not even talked with the neighborhoods about how we might want to use our own facility. Without citizen protest/input the new RPD tenant will probably be moving into the park within a couple of months.
If the money that neighborhoods/voters are spending on public parks is being converted to support and subsidize commercial businesses and privatize public parks, voters will have to think long and hard as to why we would want to support the RPD's proposed 2011 parcel tax or any other future bonds supporting the RPD.
This November 15 RPD meeting (next Monday night) is the neighborhoods only chance to stop the RPD from leasing the JP Murphy Park. The RPD will soon be leasing out other parks and clubhouses in our neighborhoods such as the Midtown Terrace park. If you love your park and want to save it from being privatized, please bring your friends and neighbors to this meeting. United we stand, divided we fall.
George Wooding
West of Twin Peaks Central Council
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PHOENIX — Police in Phoenix say a confrontation between two members of rival tagging crews has ended in a fatal shooting.
They identified the victim as 18-year-old Raul Ortega.
Police say 19-year-old Jasyel A. Perez has been booked into jail on suspicion of second-degree murder.
It was unclear Tuesday if Perez has a lawyer yet.
Police officers pulling up to the front yard of a home Monday night say they found Ortega unconscious with multiple gunshots wounds.
He was taken to a hospital, where he later died.
Police say an altercation had occurred earlier when a motorist pulled up at the home and reportedly pointed a gun at one of the residents.
Several people arrived and began arguing in the front yard and police say shots rang out and the suspects fled.


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First on the list of Bungie news, some rumor squashing. According to team Bungie, the Halo 3 acceptance videos that fans across the internets have picked apart and analyzed have been picked apart and analyzed way too much. Bluntly put, Bungie informs us that "there will be no insertion of Campaign objects, enemies or friendlies via the Forge as folks have speculated" and that there will be no "new feature that implements Campaign objects into multiplayer." Bungie then gives everyone some life advice, telling us all to "calm yourselves down, pump the brakes, and take a breath." Consider us calmed, breathed and our brakes pumped.
Other than some rumor busting, there's a list of September Halo 3 matchmaking updates (the removal and addition of various playlists) and confirmation that, come September 16th, the second Halo 3 title update will be released. Finally, for PAX attendees, Bungie plans on doing a few autograph signings, a few Recon competitions and selling a limited number of PAX-exclusive Bungie t-shirts. Phew! We're out of breath, make the jump to get your weekly (double) dose of Bungie news ...
- Key specs
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- Game format Optical disc, Downloadable
- Online features Multiplayer, Voice chat, Video chat, Store, Browser
- Drive capacity 500 GB
- Controller type Wired, Wireless
- Motion controls Camera / optical
- Video outputs HDMI
- Released 2013-11-22


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PCR and serology find no association between xenotropic murine leukemia virus-related virus (XMRV) and autism
Xenotropic murine leukemia virus-related virus (XMRV) is a retrovirus implicated in prostate cancer and chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS). Press releases have suggested that it could contribute to autism spectrum disorder (ASD).
In this study we used two PCR assays and one antibody assay to screen 25 blood samples from autistic children born to mothers with CFS and from 20 mixed controls including family members of the children assayed, people with fibromyalgia and people with chronic Lyme disease. Using a real-time PCR assay, we screened an additional 48 South Carolina autism disorder samples, 96 Italian ASD)samples, 61 South Carolina ASD samples and 184 healthy controls.
Despite having the ability to detect low copy number XMRV DNA in a large background of cellular DNA, none of the PCR assays found any evidence of XMRV infection in blood cells from patients or controls. Further, no anti-XMRV antibodies were detected, ruling out possible low level or abortive infections in blood or in other reservoirs.
These results imply that XMRV is not associated with autism.
Author: Brent SatterfieldRebecca GarciaFiorella GurrieriCharles Schwartz
Credits/Source: Molecular Autism 2010, 1:14
Published on: 2010-10-14
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All Stories
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By Johnny Jackson
11-26-07 obituaries
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Shakespeare's spooks to return for another show
By Daniel Silliman
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I'd say it was a good beginning to the holiday season.
Jive Turkey - Joel Hall
Thanksgiving is, by far, my favorite holiday of the year.
First black woman promoted to police lieutenant
By Daniel Silliman
Local challengers aim to unseat national Mock Trial champs
By Curt Yeomans
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In the latest excerpt of Poser 7 Revealed, Kelly L. Murdock describes how to use the Morphing Tool to create morph targets.
This is the next in a new series of excerpts from the Thomson Course Technology book Poser 7 Revealed: The e frontier Official Guide. In the next few months, VFXWorld readers will develop the skills needed to create, render and animate scenes and projects using the amazing tools offered by Poser 7. We will offer step-by-step tutorials for each task, followed by projects that allow readers to apply each new skill.
What You'll Do
In this lesson, you learn how to create morph targets.
Once a figure is deformed using the Morphing tool, you can use the Create panel, shown in Figure 1, to create and save the deformed object as a morph target.
New Poser 7 Feature
The Create panel of the Morphing tool is new to Poser 7.
Creating a Morph Target
Once the surface of an object is deformed, you can use the deformation to create a new morph target. Morph targets appear within the Parameters palette as a new named parameter. Dragging the Parameter dial changes the deformation between the full deformation amount (with a value of 1.0) to an inverted deformation (with a value of 21.0). Morph targets provide an easy way to create subtle surface changes and they can be animated.
Within the Create panel are several methods for deforming the morph. They include:
Push. Causes the vertices to be pushed inward toward the center of the object.
Pull. Causes the vertices to be pulled outward away from the center of the object.
Smooth. Causes a general smoothing over the entire surface, thus eliminating any extreme peaks or valleys.
Restore. Causes the vertices to gradually return to their original location.
The position the vertices are moved as you drag over them and the move can be based relative to the Surface of the object, or relative to the Screen. You can also choose the Brush size and Feathering options using the Presets or with the Radius and Magnitude parameters.
The Accumulate option stacks the changes on top of one another so that more painting yields more of a change. The Stroke option lets the vertices move only one magnitude value for each time you drag over the vertices. You can also select the group that the changes are applied to. This helps prevent changing the wrong sections.
The Display Mesh option shows the original mesh under the morph changes. The Display Brush option shows the brush as a cursor over the surface of the object, as shown in Figure 2. This option provides some feedback about the size of the current brush. The brush also displays a gradient showing the areas where the effect is a maximum and how the brush's power falls off with distance. The hard edge brush doesn't have a gradient.
The Mirror option includes selections for defining the symmetry axis. When enabled, any changes on side of the object are mirrored to the opposite side automatically. This is a great way to make sure that changes on either side of the face or body are symmetrical. Zero Morph resets the vertices to their original position.
Saving a Morph Target
The Save a Copy As button in the Create panel opens a dialog box where you can name the new morph target. This new target is then added to the Parameters palette where you can test out the changes.
Spawning a New Morph Target
With a deformation set to its maximum value, you can create a new morph target using the Object, Spawn Morph Target menu command. This command opens a simple dialog box where you can name the morph target. This name appears in the Parameters palette for the selected object. Figure 3 shows a new morph target created for a serious condition called Chipmunk cheeks caused by stuffing nuts in your cheeks.
Deleting Morph Targets
To delete a morph target, open the Hierarchy Editor, locate and select the morph target and press the Delete key. Morph targets will be visible when the Show Parameters option is enabled. The morph target will be located under its object. You can also delete the morph target using the Delete Morph command in the pop-up menu to the right of the parameter.
Creating Full-Body Morphs
If your figure includes several morphs that you want to include together in a single morph target, such as a figure flexing all his arm muscles, you can create full-body morph targets using the Figure, Create Full Body Morph menu command. This command makes a simple dialog box appear where you can name the morph target. The morph target appears in the Parameters palette when the Body actor is selected.
Splitting Morph Targets
You can split an existing morph target into its right and left halves using the Split Morph option in the pop-up menu. This creates two new parameter dials labeled right and left with the original name.
Create a Morph Target
1. Open Poser with the default figure visible.
2. In the Camera Controls, switch to the Face Camera to get a close up on the head.
3. Select the Morphing tool in the Editing Tools and click on the Create panel. Choose the Push mode and the smallest brush. Then enable the Display Brush option.
4. Drag the brush over the forehead to add some deep creases. Then drag around the edges of the mouth and to the side of the nose, concentrating on the left side of the face.
5. Once the left side of the face looks good, choose the Mirror, +x to 2x option to apply the wrinkles to the opposite side of the face.
The wrinkles add some age to the figure, as shown in Figure 4.
6. Click on the Save a Copy As button and name the morph target wrinkles.
The wrinkles parameter dial appears in the Parameters palette.
7. Select File, Save As and save the file as Aged morph target.pz3.
Split a Morph Target
1. Choose File, Open and select and open the Aged morph target.pz3 file.
2. Open the Parameters palette and select the Split Morph option from the pop-up menu to the right of the Wrinkles parameter dial.
Two new parameters, one for the left side of the face and one for the right side of the face, are added to the Parameters palette.
3. Set the Wrinkles_Left dial value to 1.0 and the Wrinkles_Right dial value to 21.0.
This causes only half of the face to be wrinkled, as shown in Figure 5.
4. Select File, Save As and save the file as Split morph target.pz3.
Find out more about how to put the power of Poser 7 to work as you learn how to use the new Talk Designer to automatically sync facial animations to an audio track, combine the power of Poser 7 with other software packages, create new motions using the new animation layers feature and much more. Check back to VFXWorld frequently to read new excerpts.
Poser 7 Revealed: The e frontier Official Guide by Kelly L. Murdock. Boston, MA: Thomson Course Technology, 2007. 592 pages with illustrations. ISBN 13: 978-1-59863-296-5; ISBN 10: 1-59863-296-5 ($29.99).
Kelly L. Murdock has a background in engineering, specializing in computer graphics. He has worked on several large-scale visualization projects, created 3D models for several blockbuster movies and has worked as a freelance 3D artist and designer. Murdock is the author or co-author of several books, including seven editions of the 3ds Max Bible, two editions of the Illustrator Bible, Adobe Creative Suite Bible, Maya 7 Revealed, LightWave 3D 8 Revealed and Poser 6 Revealed. He works with his brother at his co-founded design company, Logical Paradox Design.


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Linux Mint 10 "Julia" is now available!
The popular, Ubuntu 10.10 based, Linux distribution released Linux Mint 10 today.
Linux Mint 10 features the 2.6.35 kernel and GNOME 2.32. Other new features include more choice from the welcome screen and a menu that now highlights newly installed applications and supports GTK themes.
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Even though Jermarcus Hardrick grew up some 20 miles or so away from Oxford, Miss., he didn't know a whole lot about Ole Miss. That changed recently, when the 6-foot-7, 315-pound offensive tackle from Fort Scott (Kan.) Community College made the short trip from his home in Batesville, Miss., to the Ole Miss campus for an unofficial visit with the Rebels' football staff."It went good," Hardrick said Tuesday. "I learned a couple of things that I didn't know about Ole Miss. I learned more about their tradition. I got a chance to talk one-on-one with their coaches. I spent a lot of time with (offensive line) Coach (Mike) Markuson. We went over their schemes. It excited me. It was good. It felt like I'd known him all my life." Hardrick, a former South Panola High School standout who signed with Southern Mississippi out of high school, is at home in Batesville this week on spring break. He plans to graduate from Fort Scott in December and enroll at his college of choice in January 2010. If that choice proves to be Ole Miss, Hardrick knows the Rebels' plan for him. "(Markuson) said he liked how I am nasty," Hardrick said. "He liked how I like to pancake. He said he really liked all the South Panola guys (at Ole Miss), and that he wants me to come in and take over for (rising senior right tackle) John Jerry. "I'm thinking about them a whole lot. I'll be keeping them in the back of my mind." Hardrick said Markuson indicated to him that much of the Rebels' offensive line plans depend on the impact five-star signee Bobby Massie makes when he arrives on campus this summer. As for Massie, Hardrick said he's intrigued at the idea of playing alongside him. "I talk to Tig (Hargrave Military Academy defensive back/Ole Miss signee Darius Barksdale) a lot and I talked to Bobby a couple of times," Hardrick said. "He's a good guy. I talked to John Jerry (Tuesday) and he said Ole Miss is the place to be. He said the coaches work you hard but they keep you focused and made you better. I like that a lot. He made me think." Hardrick has offers from Ole Miss, Southern Miss, Arkansas, Nebraska and South Florida. He said Tuesday he's "in no rush" to make a decision, adding that he plans to take in some spring practices at several schools in the coming months. "I'm going to wait until I know where the place is that I want to be," Hardrick said. ...More... To continue reading this article you must be a member. Sign Up Now!
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I am sure this has been discussed many times, but when I read over the old posts, I get confused by the different assignments. Some assignments use cookies in the Data.java interface, and some do not.
I have the non-cookies approach. I'm confused... how will I know if this client has locked this record?
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Hi Jay,
What you need is something that is unique per connected client - and the most "obvious" choice (thread number) can't be used, as there is no guarantee that a single client will use the same thread twice, or that another client won't use the same thread.
way of handling this is to create an instance of the Data class for each connected client. You can then use the instance of the Data class to identify the owner of the lock. You could do this by setting up a connection factory on the server - instead of doing an RMI lookup which returns
the one
instance of the remote object, you do an RMI lookup which returns a factory which has a method you can call to get
a unique instance
of the remote object. This unique instance can have it's own instance of the Data class, and so on.
You might then want to think about whether you have a static lock collection, or whether you have a common lock manager class. Likewise you might want to think about whether you have the Data class accessing the database file directly, or whether it calls helper classes to access the database file (so your Data class could become a Fa�ade).
Another advantage of having the Connection Factory is that it makes it simple to handle client's dying later (if you want to do this) - since you have a unique remote object per client, you can use the Unreferenced interface or some collection that uses WeakReferences (e.g.
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Thank you very much. My original plan was to have one instance of Data, and use thread name as the key to a hashtable. I will rethink my design.
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Grades for the Detroit Lions following their 27-20 loss to the Green Bay Packers on Sunday night at Lambeau Field in Green Bay, Wis.
Grades for the Detroit Lions following their 27-20 loss to the Green Bay Packers on Sunday night at Lambeau Field in Green Bay, Wis.
Someone cue up the Whitesnake song, "Here I Go Again," and start humming the refrain: "going down the only road I've ever known." These Lions are coming up with new way to lose every week, including looking like Super Bowl contenders in the first quarter against the NFC North Division-leading Packers on the famed Frozen Tundra and then melting into a pitiful pretender the rest of the night. The same franchise that went to the playoffs by winning lots of close games in the fourth quarter last season just cannot close the deal this season. The Lions dropped their fifth consecutive game and third in a row after leading by 10 or more points, which, of course, ties an NFL record. Detroit quarterback Matthew Stafford down the field on the opening series behind a potent rushing attack. He scored on fourth-and-1 on a naked bootleg — one of offensive coordinator Scott Linehan's more imaginative calls — and Green Bay quarterback Aaron Rodgers coughed up the football on a strip-sack-fumble by Lawrence Jackson on the next possession. A quick slant to tight end Tony Scheffler made it 14-0 for the Lions at the outset of the second quarter. At that point, the sky began to fall again. Stafford let the ball slip through his hand in the snowy, windy conditions, which resulted in a touchdown return for the Packers. The Lions failed to get the ball to Calvin Johnson enough despite being single covered by Tramon Williams, the rushing game stalled and Stafford fell in love with trying to squeeze repeated passes into his former college roommate, Kris Durham, pressed into service due to injuries. Durham made a spectacular one-handed grab in the first half, but little else. Megatron finished with 10 receptions for 118 yards, but it was too little, too late once more for the imploding Lions. It marked the 22nd straight road loss to the Packers, the longest streak in the NFL.
Grade: C-
All season long, the Lions can't seem to play a full 60-minute game on defense. The meltdown against the Packers was no different: After permitting just three points to Green Bay's high-powered offense in the first half, the Lions were gashed for some big plays, especially on the ground, in the second half. The Packers scored touchdowns on runs of 27 yards by Rodgers in the third quarter and 14 yards by DaJuan Harris in the fourth quarter. Both of them scored untouched. Harris, making his NFL debut, had a red carpet to the end zone through a gaping hole in the left side of the Detroit line. Yes, the Lions own a formidable pass rush, but when are they going to stop the run with some consistency? It's impossible to stop the run, however, when Detroit's two safeties, picked off the NFL scrap heap, are playing so far off the line of scrimmage they should be performing the Lambeau Leap in reverse. It leaves an unfair burden on Detroit's middling linebacking corps to tackle running backs, cover tight ends and running backs in open spaces and, on the rarest of occasions, perhaps blitz. It's a recipe for disaster, especially with free safety Louis Delmas, their best defensive back by far, injured again. The Lions surrendered 140 rushing yards on 25 attempts (5.6 average), which is the stuff losers are made of. The TD run by Rodgers spotlighted just how clueless the Lions' defense is at times. If and until the Lions stop putting fugitives in their depleted secondary, there's not much hope. Nick Fairley, Cliff Avril and Lawrence Jackson all sacked Rodgers, but it's not like it mattered on the scoreboard.
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Not much to complain about here. Jason Hanson missed a 51-yard field goal attempt that fell short in the strong winds at Lambeau, but connected on two others. Meanwhile, return man Stefan Logan not to pose much of a threat to run back either a punt or a kickoff for much of a gain, let alone a touchdown.
Grade: C
The Lions lost another close game, which begs the question if this team is beginning to lose its fire. The wasted draft picks on players such as Amari Spievey, Brandon Pettigrew and Titus Young are coming back to haunt this team. The Lions could've had left tackle Jared Veldheer (Hillsdale College), right tackle Michael Oher (of "Blind Side" fame) and any other wide receiver with a better attitude than Young with those three picks. Lions general manager Martin Mayhew shares the blame for an underachieving 4-9 team that should be in the thick of the NFC wild-card chase again, but isn't. It isn't time for a total reset in the front office or the coaching staff now that a losing record is guaranteed, but the Lions need to show some signs of life under head coach Jim Schwartz during the final three games. It all starts with checking their cockiness at the locker room door and playing a full 60-minute game.
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Over the past 12 months, I\u2019ve spent something like 250 nights eating out<\/strong>, sometimes with my family,\u00a0sometimes with friends and colleagues, and often on the road by myself. Not a bad gig, I admit, but at the end of the day it was work. Everywhere I went, no matter what the chef\u2019s reputation or the price of the entr\u00e9e, I considered it for this list. After much deliberation and a few difficult choices, I narrowed down all these meals to this: my top-ten best new restaurants of 2011.\r\n\r\nI can\u2019t promise that your list will match mine\u2014after all, how fun would food be if we didn\u2019t get to argue about it? One thing I can promise is that all the spots I\u2019ve chosen\u2014from a Southern gem in Charleston, SC, to a surprising indie hit in Robbinsdale, MN\u2014are driven by passionate people who care deeply about the food they\u2019re cooking. They all have a story to tell, and I\u2019m thrilled to share them with you before I start eating my way toward next year\u2019s list. Bon App\u00e9tit!<\/em>
When people talk about a small restaurant run by a couple, they always seem to say, "It's like eating at grandma's." To me that sounds like a polite way of saying the place was charming, the staff cheery, but the food dowdy and the decor a bit twee. Bondir convinced me otherwise. For starters, there are remarkable homemade breads, including one flecked with seaweed, served with butter so intense it made me ask where it's from (Cabot Creamery). Each homespun dish\u2014hand-rolled tagliatelle with chicken; braised lamb shoulder\u2014is available in either a half or a full portion, encouraging sharing. And then there's the fireplace, appealing staff, and intimate setting that, yes, make it feel like you're eating in grandma's country house. And that's a very good thing.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n
279A Broadway, 617-661-0009, bondircambridge.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n
Photo: Table for two at Bondir<\/em><\/small><\/p>
I'm all for keeping Austin weird, as the city's indie slogan goes, but sometimes you want something more than breakfast tacos and eccentric street food (chicken-avocado dogs or bacon-and-maple-syrup doughnuts, anyone?). You want a place that's, well, a bit more grown-up. And that place is Congress, a bustling restaurant complex that consists of a fancy white-tablecloth spot (Congress), a more casual tavern (Second Bar + Kitchen), and a bar (Bar Congress). It occupies the ground floor of a luxe new condo building\u2014not my preferred restaurant location, but I'll go anywhere for executive chef David Bull's distinctly American comfort food, which includes everything from chicken-fried olives and avocado fundido<\/em> to short rib "pot roast."<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n
200 Congress Avenue, 512-827-2760, congressaustin.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n
Photo: The communal table at Second Bar + Kitcheb<\/em><\/small><\/p>
Let me get this out of the way, since it's the first thing people ask about M. Wells: From Grand Central Station, take a Queens-bound 7 train two stops to Hunters Point Avenue in Long Island City. Your reward for the seven-minute trip is diner food unlike any other. Starters include pickled pork tongue and escargots with bone marrow. Want a sandwich? Try the General Tso's sweetbreads, or a hot dog with bacon chili and maple syrup coleslaw. The we're-not-at-Mel's-Diner-anymore feeling is courtesy of Canadian chef Hugue Dufour (he cooked at Montreal's cult favorite, Au Pied de Cochon) and his wife, Sarah Obraitis, who oversees the front of house. Go for lunch and order the French onion soup if they have it\u2014it's the best I've had. If you ask, they'll put foie gras on top. In fact, you can add foie to a lot of things here. Looks like I'm gonna need to walk back to Manhattan.<\/p>
Note<\/i>: After the September issue went to press, we learned that M. Wells had lost their lease and would be closing at the end of August. Bummer\u2014we liked that old diner cart. Thankfully, they've found a new location nearby and will be opening shortly. Long live snails and bone marrow!<\/p>
21-17 49th Avenue 718-425-6917, mwellsdiner.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>
Photo: Sarah Obraitis and Hugue Dufour of M. Wells, where "diner" food includes beef tartare and torilla espa\u00f1ola.<\/em><\/small><\/p>
What Wolfgang Puck's Spago was to the 1980s (hip hangout with an A-list crowd and great food), Animal is to the 2010s. Culinary-school buddies Jon Shook and Vinny Dotolo made "stoner food" (foie gras poutine<\/em>, Buffalo-style pig's tails) mean more than Doritos and Funyuns. But there's creative subtlety to their food, and it's more visible than ever at Son of a Gun, the duo's seafood-centric homage to their Florida roots. Expect their smoked-mahi fish dip to be copied by other restaurants around the country. The satisfyingly rich shrimp-toast sandwich with Sriracha mayo is the thinking person's grilled cheese. Salmon collars (good meat in them necks) with a yakitori glaze will have you licking your fingers clean. Most impressive was spring lettuces with a zingy green goddess dressing, avocado, and a mess of radishes and carrots. I know: a salad\u2014how L.A. But that salad, like Shook and Dotolo's cooking, defies expectations. There's no script to follow. It's just two guys with two restaurants cooking food they want to eat. And, son of a gun, they do it well.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n
8370 W. 3rd street 323-782-9033, sonofagunrestaurant.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n
Photo: Jon Shook working the line<\/em><\/small><\/p>
I never ate at Chez Panisse during its '80s heyday, but I imagine the food tasted something like the meals I had at Talula's Garden. I'm talking ultra-fresh ingredients in flavorful, straightforward dishes. It seems easy to do, but as your average mesclun salad proves, it's not. It requires the talent of someone like executive chef Michael Santoro, who cooked at the Fat Duck in the U.K., and the vision of someone like co-owner Aimee Olexy, whose tiny store-cum-restaurant, Talula's Table in Kennett Square, PA, is considered the hardest reservation in America. If I made a list of my top-ten dishes of 2011, three would come from Olexy's new big-city spot: braised rabbit with handkerchief pasta, soft-shell crab with spicy fennel pickle, and, above all else, golden potato gnocchi with succotash and lemon-brown butter.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n
210 W. Washington Square 215-592-7787, talulasgarden.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n
Photo: A communal table at Talula's Garden<\/em><\/small><\/p>
As a kid, Edward ("Teddy") Kim was called Teddy Ruxpin after the talking teddy bear\r\nthat was big during the 1980s (I admit it. I had one). So when naming his restaurant, he chose Ruxpin\u2014or, rather, a misspelled version of it. It's a quirky story for this quirky, BYOB restaurant in West Town that feels off the beaten path. The space looks like a set from Blade Runner\u2014everything is refurbished, repurposed, or reclaimed, from walls lined with shipping crates to a banquette back made of old seat belts. All this, and the Korean-American chef manages to make the food the most memorable aspect. Skipping the kimchi taco route that's so popular elsewhere, Kim takes a chance (and succeeds) with dishes like a clever spin on the clambake and calamari stuffed with chicken and pork forcemeat and Korean chili. If there's a wait\u2014and with only 32 seats, there will be\u2014sit at the communal table, snack on the house popcorn, and take solace that memories of the food will outlast those of that teddy bear.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n
851 N. Ashland Avenue 312-624-8509, ruxbinchicago.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n
Photo: Chef Edward Kim at Ruxbin<\/em><\/small><\/p>\r\n
There was no celebrity-chef hype around the opening of Travail Kitchen and Amusements. I didn't book weeks in advance. I just drove to this unassuming suburban spot 15 minutes from Minneapolis for lunch one day and ended up going straight back for dinner. Here's why: They've got the best house-made charcuterie, crazy-low prices (a ten-course tasting menu for two for $60!?), and smart, ambitious food that applies elements of molecular gastronomy to the Midwestern traditions of pickling, preserving, and lots of meat. It's both prepared and served by a motley crew of chefs who cook like a band making its first album, i.e., without limits. They've got a hit on their hands.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n
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Photo: The calm before the storm at Travail<\/em><\/small><\/p>
It would be a shame to visit this tiny spot named for a Lewis Carroll short story and not get beyond the oysters. It almost happened to me. First I ordered a dozen, then six more, and six more after that. The quarter-size Olympia, "Samish Sweets," and Malaspina varieties were that good, especially when chased with a bright Muscadet. (Luckily, the order comes with a piece of paper so you can keep track of what you're slurping.) But that's only the tip of the menu, followed by smallish dishes composed mainly of things plucked from local waters. Plump fried oysters were crispy and irresistible. Grilled herring (a first for me) and a tartare of butter clam almost made me forget about those oysters. Almost.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n
4743 Ballard Avenue NW, 206-395-9227, thewalrusbar.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n
Photo: The oyster bar at the Walrus and the Carpenter<\/em><\/small><\/p>
The unlikely story of this breakout spot goes something like this: Anthony Myint and Karen Leibowitz open a taco truck, Mission Street Food. It lasts four weeks. Next they launch a pop-up restaurant in Lung Shan, a no-frills Chinese place in the Mission District, featuring weekly guest chefs. It eventually matures into this fully operating restaurant, open six days a week. The no-reservations policy means there's always a line. But it's worth the wait to get some of the most out-of-this-world creative (and seriously delicious) Sichuan-inspired dishes in America right now. The cumin lamb belly? Fiery and addictive. Warm egg custard with duck confit and sea urchin? Brilliant. Hot-and-sour pork dumplings made to order? Further proof that the runaway success of MCF is no accident.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n
2234 Mission Street, 415-863-2800, missionchinesefood.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n
Photo: The dining room at Mission Chinese Food<\/em><\/small>

My first impression of Husk involved a bowl of boiled peanuts and a shot of bourbon. Not enough to earn the title of Best New Restaurant? Let me explain.<\/p>
As a son of the South, it's always bugged me that I didn't really grow up eating classic Southern food. My family did the pimiento cheese thing, but I missed out on homemade cast-iron skillet fried chicken, peanut soup, hominy grits, braised collard greens, pickled okra (actually, okra everything), fried green tomatoes, and piles of fluffy biscuits. A few restaurants in my hometown of Atlanta prided themselves on scratch cooking, but their numbers seemed to dwindle every year. Traditional Southern food, it seemed to me, was dying.<\/p>
And then a few years ago a curious thing happened: Southern-inspired dishes started popping up on menus across the country. My New York friends began asking me about country captain, Brunswick stew, and chess pie. Talented young Southern chefs, perhaps realizing they'd grown up with a food culture that was already "local" and "farm to table," returned to their roots. America's greatest regional cuisine was being rediscovered\u2014and reborn.<\/p>
This brings me back to the chef responsible for the boiled peanuts and bourbon, Sean Brock. Together with the folks from his molecular gastronomy-driven restaurant, McCrady's, Brock opened Husk in Charleston in November 2010. The historic Victorian house in which it's set is the first indication that the restaurant is a throwback of sorts. And then there are the ingredients he uses in the kitchen, which are all harvested or raised in the South. That even includes vinegar (Brock makes his own), salt, cheese, and, yes, olive oil (from South Texas, if you're wondering). Brock's self-imposed restrictions separate him from the pack of pretenders. But noble causes alone don't make a restaurant great. In this case it's the fact that Brock is a helluva cook.<\/p>
A meal at Husk begins with buttermilk dinner rolls sprinkled with benne seeds (a.k.a. sesame seeds). You know how people tell you not to fill up on bread? When you're at Husk, you can ignore them. After that it's on to wood-fired clams with Benton's sausage, crispy pig's-ear lettuce wraps, and country ham-flecked pimiento cheese on heirloom-wheat crackers. And do not leave without trying the smoky fried chicken skins served with hot sauce and honey.<\/p>
Brock isn't reinventing Southern food or attempting to create some citified version of it. He's trying to re-create the food his grandma knew\u2014albeit with the skill and resources of a modern chef. As a result, he (and Husk) has become a torchbearer for an honest style of home cooking that many of us never truly tasted until now.<\/p>
76 Queen Street, 843-577-2500, huskrestaurant.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>
Photo: Husk's Sean Brock<\/em><\/small><\/p>
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — List of awards presented during Sunday's telecast of the 55th annual Grammy Awards at Staples Center:
— Album of the year: "Babel," Mumford & Sons.
— Record of the year: "Somebody That I Used to Know," Gotye featuring Kimbra.
— Song of the year: "We Are Young," fun.
— New artist: fun.
— Pop solo performance: "Set Fire to the Rain (Live)," Adele.
— Pop vocal album: "Stronger," Kelly Clarkson.
— Rock performance: "Lonely Boy," The Black Keys.
— Urban contemporary album: "Channel Orange," Frank Ocean.
— Rap/sung collaboration: "No Church in the Wild," Jay-Z, Kanye West featuring Frank Ocean, The-Dream.
— Country solo performance: "Blown Away," Carrie Underwood.
— Country album: "Uncaged," Zac Brown Band.
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It's definitely been a rough ride for us Lipstick Jungle fans recently. However, we finally get some good news courtesy of NBC. It looks like the network has officially moved Lipstick Jungle to 9 pm starting on December 5th with "Bye, Bye Baby." Sorry, Crusoe fans but your show has been bumped to Saturdays.
This might not seem like much, but when the show was considered cancelled a little over a week ago, it's realy nice to see the network actually doing a positive move for the show. Could this mean a season three for the Jungle? We'll definitely have something to be thankful for on Thursday if so.


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A Class Hero Who Showed Meaning of Real Nobility
Byline: GEORGE GALLOWAY
I SPOKE in George Square Glasgow last week with a woman who is a heroine in every sense of the word.
Susan Wighton OBE, former Scotswoman of the Year was decorated for heroism under fire in the inferno of the Palestinian refugee camps of Beirut.
She operated in often pitch-dark theatres and through it all she never lost her Scottish stoicism and freckle-faced humour. Susan loved the Palestinians and married one of Yasser Arafat's bodyguards, but they are now divorced.
She lives quietly near Crieff and works in occupational health. In the Glasgow Lord Provost's room she spoke of her hopes for the Palestinians.
Lord Provost Mosson is visiting Palestine with Cardinal Winning in November and promised to convey her wishes. As she left I got to thinking she'd be a glorious angel who could light up the Scottish Parliament. ANGEL: Susan worked in Beirut refugee camps Family seat: Alan Clark and canine friend at Saltwood Castle NO SNOB: Alan Clark loved Scotland and admired its miners and ship builders Susan set to light up Holyrood?
Ice cool, that's our Alex ALAN CLARK, the son of Lord Clark of 'Civilisation' was the most civilised man I ever knew and Britain is a colder, less colourful place for his passing.
Someone once described him to me as 'arrogant'.
To which I replied, he and his family have a castle in the South of England at Saltwood, an estate at Eriboll in Sutherland and he has a residence in Piccadilly for which only bluebloods need apply.
He also has a chalet in the Swiss Alps, a [pounds sterling]27million fortune, one of the best collections of classic cars, was a Minister of State at the Defence Department, is one of the country's best war historians, wrote Britain's best book on the First World War The Donkeys, and the best book on the Second Barbarosa and his company is cherished by all but the brain dead; please don't confuse your envy with his 'arrogance'.
He loved Scotland, spending a lot of time in Skye, the family money was earned in Paisley at the spinning, and when Minister for Defence Procurement he opened a secret channel to me to help land a bumper order for frigates for Yarrow. Clark regarded miners and shipyard workers and those who made real things with their own hands as the country's true nobility. He was no snob.
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Yes, if the student has access to the equipment as needed. If the student does not have the necessary access, then the appropriate equipment should be purchased for the student's use. The IEP Team will decide as a group the need and use of computers on a case-by-case basis.
Transition planning for technology users is particularly challenging because there is no legal requirement for the transfer of ownership for an assistive technology device from the school to the individual student or to an adult agency upon graduation.
If the school district purchased the device, the device is the property of the school. The school could keep the device for use by other students, sell it, or decide to transfer the device to another district in which the student enrolls.
If an assistive technology device is necessary to fulfill the requirements of a student's IEP, such a device must be provided in the school the student attends.
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If the device is included in a student's IEP, it must be provided in whichever school the student attends in that district.
Once an assistive technology device is determined necessary for the student, the district must implement procedures necessary for obtaining the device without unnecessary delay.
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Next Wednesday October 26th, the architect Josep Bunyesc will give a lecture entitled "Prefabrication with local materials" within the lecture series "Engagement" that IE School of Architecture and Design is celebrating these months in Segovia.
Despite his youth (Lleida, 1979) Bunyesc has already achieved a solid recognition of his work including Catalonia National Architecture Award 2012.
He has collaborated on various projects of urban planning and heritage conservation with the Department of Culture of the Generalitat de Catalunya. Among his built projects include the rehabilitation of various traditional buildings in the Pyrenees of Lleida, a wood-frame and sheep wool house in Lleida (Spain pioneering project in the application of Passivhaus standards), the serial module for passive house NOEM, CO2 neutral and the extension of Colomina refuge. He received the First European Award EIT Entrepreneurship awards and the 1st Prize at the Iberoamerican Passivhaus
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If you could turn pro in another sport which would it be and why ? Basketball because I love the team feel and watching every game makes me want to play.
If someone walked into your room right now, what would they notice first ? How organized I am.
You're on a date and trying to impress, where do we go ? Go dinner and concert.
You've got 2 weeks and a private jet, where do we go ? Some incredible exclusive island somewhere.
Top 3 reasons to wake-up every morning ? To train hard, eat, not be lazy.
How long does it take to get ready in the morning ? 10 minutes.
How do you relax ? Sitting on the couch doing nothing, and hanging out with friends and playing the piano.
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What is Post-colonialism?
An introduction to the meaning and complexity of post-colonialism.
Post-colonialism is a period of time occurring after colonization of a country by a foreign power has ended. Depending in part on the nature of the decolonization process, the immediate post-colonial period may be more or less traumatic for the people involved. For example, decolonization in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia was only achieved as the result of fierce wars against the colonizing power (France) by the revolutionary communist forces that most represented resistance. In those countries, post-colonialism at first was characterised by turmoil, repression and violence. On the other hand, decolonization after WWII by the British government in Malaysia and Singapore, for example, was much less stressful because it followed periods of negotiation and preparation. There were still problems, certainly, but these were not as severe as they might have been.
One of the main results of post-colonialism is that it grants independence to geographical units which were organised for the convenience of the colonizers and not the colonized. As a result, decolonization can reveal strong differences in terms of ethnicity or religion that had previously been suppressed by the firm rule of the colonizers. One clear example of this was post-Empire India, which then suffered the horrors of partition as Islamic states were created in Pakistan and Bangladesh (formerly East Pakistan) amidst considerable violence. This does not mean that the colonial period should have continued; it means that it should never have started in the first place.
The post-colonial period involves not just the creation of national governments, the creation of institutions and the settlement of borders, it also involves the creation or recreation or even invention of national culture. Under colonization, it is generally the colonizing power's culture, language and customs that are privileged: in British Burma, for example, Burmese had to speak English to obtain good state sector jobs and generally had to compete with Indian people imported to run the civil service. Once these restrictions have been lifted, the people have the opportunity to return to their own language, their own forms of cultural expression and so forth. One problem of this is that, for various reasons, English in particular has become a global language and so post-colonial societies that prefer to speak an indigenous language and reduce the use of English also reduce the competitiveness of their economy and their workers in a globalised world. There are many very complex issues in this regard which operate at the individual and the societal level.
In terms of economics, the colony is generally organized so as to extract resources which are exported to the colonizing country for consumption there. Principal cities, therefore, are built on the coast where ports exist and good communications (roads and rails) link the cities with economically important areas of agriculture or mining. In a post-colonial state, the new government may wish to change the nature of its economy so it does not continue to be reliant on the colonial master, although there may be no easy alternative in the short or medium terms.
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