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ROCKVILLE, Md., Sept. 1, 2014 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- As a means of honoring the economic and social contributions of U.S. workers, Labor Day first became a federal holiday 120 years ago, in 1894. Just eight years later, the Rev. Edgar J. Helms founded Goodwill Industries®. Then, as today, Goodwill has been providing the programs and supports that workers need to achieve their full potential, throughout North America.
"We are reminded on Labor Day of the power of work to transform lives," said Jim Gibbons, president and CEO of Goodwill Industries International. "Good-paying jobs allow people from all backgrounds to support themselves and their families, and contribute to the country's economic vitality. And those who are unemployed invariably struggle to make ends meet."
Recent government statistics show that the number of unemployed Americans has hovered right around the 10 million mark this year, showing a slight improvement from 2013 figures. In addition, approximately 2 million people are described as being marginally attached to the labor market. That means they wanted to and were available for work, but hadn't looked for a job in the previous month. Among those, approximately 700,000 Americans are considered discouraged workers, meaning they've stopped looking for work because they believe no jobs exist for them.
Goodwill works hard to meet the needs of all job seekers. In the past year, Goodwill agencies helped more than 9.8 million people train for careers in industries such as banking, IT and health care. Goodwill also provided the supporting services workers need to be successful, such as English language training, youth mentoring, and access to transportation and child care.
Everyone can take part. By donating to Goodwill of donors help create opportunities for those looking for work. That's because the items sold in Goodwill stores go to fund Goodwill's skills training and job placement services for people throughout the region.
About Goodwill Industries International
Goodwill Industries International is a network of 165 community-based agencies in the United States and Canada with a presence in 14 other countries. Goodwill agencies are innovative and sustainable social enterprises that fund job training programs, employment placement services and other community-based programs by selling donated clothing and household items in 3,000 stores and online at shopgoodwill.com®. Goodwill also builds revenue and creates jobs by contracting with businesses and government agencies to provide a wide range of commercial services, including packaging and assembly, food service preparation, and document imaging and shredding. In 2013, more than 9.8 million people in the United States and Canada benefited from Goodwill's career services. Goodwill channels 83 percent of its revenues directly into its programs and services.
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Running CARNOT models under OSX
CARNOT (Conventional And Renewable eNergy systems Optimization Toolbox) is a set of MATLAB & Simulink models for simulating buildings and building systems, e.g. boilers, heat distributors etc. It's been developed by a collaboration involving several companies and universities and is generally well-regarded. It's one of several MATLAB toolboxes dedicated to the problem of simulating building physics; other toolboxes with a similar goal include the International Building Physics Toolbox and SIMBAD.
CARNOT is in the process of being moved to a new hosting provider. In the meantime, I've recently obtained a copy of this toolbox and here is my experience in getting it to run under OSX.
CARNOT is distributed as a zip file,
carnot_60_2013b_public_22oct2015.zip. I decompress it and find what looks like a Simulink top-level model called
carnot.slx, and several sub-folders. Very encouragingly, I see there's an installation guide:
I move the decompressed folder to the folder where I keep all my in-progress projects, and create a symbolic link to it named more simply
The installation guide is very well written, and the main steps consist in:
- Decompressing the toolbox;
- Running the
init_carnot.mscript, that will setup all the paths correctly;
- Compiling all the MEX file with the provided script.
When I ran
init_carnot.m for the first time on my Mac, it didn't work and the error message made it very clear that most file paths have been written with the assumption that the toolbox was going to be used on Windows. At this point, I could have done either of two things:
- Fix the issues myself as quickly as possibly and get on with the work;
- Fix the issues myself carefully, making sure that my fixes could then be sent back to the maintainer of the package.
Being currently on a business trip, I felt like I had the leisure to go for option 2. Seeing that this toolbox was going to need some fixing, I made a git repo out of it and added all its files. (I didn't know at this point which, if any, files were generated. I figured that this was something I could worry about later and remove those files from the repo.)
I fixed the paths problem, which mostly lay in
path_carnot.m, called by
init_carnot.m. I created a patch from it and sent it to one of the maintainers. The paths were now correctly setup.
Next I ran
mex -setup and this ran fine, MATLAB picked up my XCode installation with the Clang compiler. So the next step in the installation guide was to run
MakeMEX.m from the
version_manager directory. That ran fine for several
.c files until it tried to compile
dir2_mex.c. When I opened that file in the editor I saw that it depended on the Windows API. Here I had two options:
- Try to understand what this file was doing and try to rewrite it without using the Windows API;
- Skip the compilation of this file and hope that the rest of the toolbox would run fine without it.
The problem with option 1 was that I didn't know at this point whether there were going to be other files with the same problem. I certainly didn't want to enter that kind of endless loop of fixing file after file that depended on the Windows API. Since the build process had stoppped on encountering the first error, I had no way of knowing if there was going to be many other problems.
So that's why felt more appropriate to find where in the call
mex was being called, and wrap that call in a
try/catch block, yielding a warning if any file failed to be compiled. Re-running
MakeMEX now compiled all the files correctly except the single
dir2_mex.c, which I hoped would not be needed to run any of the simulations I was planning.
Once this was done, I could finally type
carnot at the command line and the toolbox would open:
I was immediately drawn to the box that says
double click to open examples and that yielded another set of errors, again related to file paths. After fixing those I could open an example model, the
example_House_SFH45, click run, and saw the simulation running. I was all set and done.
A couple of days after writing the first draft of this article, I learned from one of the main developers that they plan to setup a proper SVN repository for the code, and that the whole toolbox was going to released under a BSD licence instead of the current LGPL. Until this is done, I've pushed my fixes to a pubic repository on GitHub, to which I have contributed some extra small fixes. But keep in mind that this is in no way the official repository for CARNOT; that will be announced shortly.
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Book review: Advanced R
I would like to call this the best second book on R, except that I wouldn't know what the first one would be. I learned R from classes and tutorials about 10 years ago, used it on my PhD and four articles, and use it today on a daily basis at work; yet only now, after reading this book, do I feel like I could possibly be called an R programmer rather than just a user.
The book deals with a variety of topics that are seldom discussed in the R tutorials you are likely to find freely available. Some are perhaps unnecessary in a book like this (Ch. 5 Style Guide), some could easily deserve an entire book (Ch. 7 OO field guide), but the chapters on Functions, Environments, the three chapters in Part II (Functional Programming) and the chapter on Non-standard evaluation are easily reasons enough to buy this book.
How many time indeed have you spent hours, frustrated, trying to write a function that would act as a wrapper around, say, lattice plotting functions that use non-standard evaluation? Or try to call
subset() from another function, only to see cryptic error messages? Now, for the first time, the solution is not only clear to me; I feel like I could also explain to a colleague why things work the way they do.
R is incredibly powerful and dynamic and will, most of the time, do just what you expect it to do. But if you want to really understand what is going on under the hood, or if you want to write your own packages (whether for self-, internal-, or widespread use), you owe it to yourself to read this book.
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The only problem with daily scrums
Over the past five years, our team has attended more than 120 daily standup meetings, carefully following the "canonical" format and having each team member answer the usual questions:
- What did you do yesterday?
- What will you do today?
- Any impediments?
There seems to be one flaw with this format, however. The flaw is that you cannot say what you will do for the day before having heard if anyone else has an impediment.
For example, if Alice says her bit, announcing what she intends to do for the day and declines to mention any impediments, then when Bob's turn comes and he mentions that he's having some trouble and could use some help, then Alice will have to come back to what she has just said and amend her plans for the day.
In Neurobat we've implemented a partially debugged hack around this problem by having two standup rounds. During the first round we do the canonical standup meeting, then the ScrumMaster asks if anyone needs a second round. The goal of this second round is two-fold:
- To let anyone say something he may have forgotten about during the first round.
- To let anyone amend their plans for the day due to something they may have heard during the first round.
This solution is far from ideal, and sounds annoyingly like a two-pass compiler. But it is, for now, the best approach we have found to deal with what I perceive to be the main drawback to the canonical form of the daily scrum.
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You know you have a great tester on your team when…
… you find a wireless room temperature sensor in your fridge:
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How to fix rotation problems with iPhone pictures
When I take a picture with my vertically-held iPhone, here is what happens when I insert it as-is in this blog:
But the picture shows up correctly when I open it in any OSX application, such as Preview. The issue is that when you take a picture with your iPhone, a meta-data tag gets written to the file telling OSX how to rotate the picture when it is displayed. You can see the tag by using the inspector in Preview:
The offender here is that
Orientation tag, which seems to be used only by OSX applications. The best way to fix this is to remove the tag, rotate the picture correctly with Preview, and save it again.
To remove the tag, I recommend using a tool called
ExifTool. It's a neat command-line tool that you can download here. Once downloaded, removing the tag is a simple as this:
$ exiftool -Orientation= filename.jpeg
This replace
filename.jpeg with the same file but with the tag removed, and save a copy of the original file as
filename.jpeg.original. Give it a try, I really recommend it.
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Reviewer queue
During a recent sprint retrospective we raised a problem with the way we assign code reviews. Not the formal, whole-team ones, but the regular ones we solicit for each pull request.
The problem was that we tend to select our reviewers based on various subjective criteria, including how well we like the person. I admit I am guilty of this myself. What's more, during the discussion it became clear that my own help in reviewing code was not asked as often as it used to.
At Neurobat we currently have a rule that all pull requests must be reviewed by two other team members (one, if the pull request was paired on). To ensure these reviewers are selected fairly and without subjectivity, we have now introduced a reviewer queue: our names are listed on the main whiteboard and an arrow is drawn, showing who is next in the review queue. When a reviewer is assigned, the arrow moves to the next name.
We've had this in place for a couple of sprints now and the results have been very satisfying:
- people get to review parts of the code they had never seen before
- people are "forced" to review code written in unfamiliar languages
- the reviews are more likely to be honest and thorough
- the review work gets more evenly spread out among the team
An added benefit for myself is that by explicitly putting my name among the review queue, I announce my willingness to participate in the reviewing process as much as anyone else. As a result, I've been reviewing much more code this last couple of weeks than ever before.
If you have a problem in the selection of reviewers in your own team, do consider setting up a review queue and let me know whether that works out for you.
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How to test for floating point exceptions with CppUTest
Some programmers, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll
use floating point arithmetic." Now they have 1.999999999997 problems.
// Tom Scott
Floating point arithmetic is notoriously hard to get right. I consider writing a bug-free, optimally performant numeric library to be approximately as hard as writing a compiler. Fortunately, most programmers don't need to deal with it, unless your work involves anything to do with science or engineering.
There's one subject though where I think you need to be a bit more careful. This is about understanding when and why your program will catch floating point exceptions (FPE). Let's consider a couple of examples.
Consider first this program
public class FPE {
public static void main(String[] args) {
int i = 0;
System.out.println("1 / 0 = " + (1 / i));
Compiling it and running it yields:
$ javac FPE.java
$ java FPE
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.ArithmeticException: / by zero at FPE.main(FPE.java:4)
In Java, dividing an integer by zero yields an
ArithmeticException. Fair enough. What about floating points?
public class FPE2 {
public static void main(String[] args) {
double i = 0;
System.out.println("1 / 0 = " + (1 / i));
Now this yields something different:
$ javac FPE2.java
$ java FPE2
1 / 0 = Infinity
I'm not sure I like having such a wildly different behavior. But consider now the same programs in C:
#include <stdio.h>
int main() {
int i = 0;
printf("1 / 0 = %d\n", 1 / i);
This is the result (under OSX):
$ gcc -o FPE FPE.c
Floating point exception: 8
Not exactly the most helpful error message ever, but at least the program crashes. Now the same thing with doubles:
#include <stdio.h>
int main() {
double i = 0.;
printf("1 / 0 = %g\n", 1 / i);
And here's the result:
$ gcc -o FPE2 FPE2.c
1 / 0 = inf
So Java and C behave similarly: dividing an integer by zero crashes the program, but dividing a double by zero does not. I find it rather unsettling that
1 / 0 should result in a completely different program than
1 / 0.. I realise now that I had assumed all divisions by zero would be caught at runtime and cause the program to fail. This is, however, simply not true.
Our code at Neurobat includes a fair amount of numeric algorithms, which are decently covered by our unit tests. However, there remained the small possibility that the code could execute "illegal" floating point operations and silently fail.
There is no portable way to force a program to crash when a floating point exception is raised. You need to make sure that floating point exceptions cause a
SIGFPE signal to be sent to your program. Only google can help you here, but for OSX here is how you do it.
What you can do in a portable way is to test if a floating point exception was raised, and I highly recommend that you check for most floating-point exceptions in your unit tests. I say "most", because you probably don't need to test for
FE_INEXACT. See the manpage for
fenv for details.
Here is how we do it in the CppUTest framework. You need to test for exceptions before and after running your unit tests. We use plain assertions because CppUTest doesn't like that we use its assertions outside of a test run.
#include "CppUTest/CommandLineTestRunner.h"
#include <cassert>
#include <fenv.h>
void assert_no_fpe_raised(void) {
assert(0 == fetestexcept(FE_INVALID) && "Invalid floating-point exception raised during tests.");
assert(0 == fetestexcept(FE_DIVBYZERO) && "Division by zero raised during tests.");
assert(0 == fetestexcept(FE_OVERFLOW) && "Overflow raised during tests.");
assert(0 == fetestexcept(FE_UNDERFLOW) && "Underflow raised during tests.");
#ifdef FE_DENORMALOPERAND
assert(0 == fetestexcept(FE_DENORMALOPERAND) && "Denormal operand raised during tests.");
assert(0 == fetestexcept(FE_ALL_EXCEPT & ~FE_INEXACT) && "Floating-point exceptions (other than inexact) raised during tests.");
int main(int argc, char** argv) {
int result;
assert(0 == fetestexcept(FE_ALL_EXCEPT) && "Floating-point exceptions active before tests begin.");
result = RUN_ALL_TESTS(argc, argv);
return result;
So did we ever catch any bug with this? Indeed we did. We use an off-the-shelf optimisation algorithm that minimises an objective function in an $N$-dimensional space. At each iteration, the algorithm needs to compute the middle between two points where the objective function is to be evaluated. It does this by taking the mean of the points' coordinates, in the naive way: $x' = \frac{x1 + x2}{2}$. What we found was, that if $x1$ or $x2$ is large enough, their sum could overflow. What's worse, the program would not terminate or fail in any visible way, but just return rubbish.
Bottom line is that if your program does any kind of floating point computation, consider having your unit test framework check for floating point exceptions. It probably won't do it by default.
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Not prioritising architectural needs
From Mike Cohn's User Stories Applied, there was this little paragraph that I think many teams (including my own) tend to forget about:
Developer Responsibilities
You are responsible for providing information (sometimes including your underlying assumptions and possible alternatives) to the customer in order to help her prioritize the stories.
You are responsible for resisting the urge to prioritize infrastructural or architectural needs higher than they should be.
Indeed, on a team with technically strong members you will sometimes see proposals for stories such as:
Define our services's API
As a developer, I want a clear and stable API so that I can develop the client-side code more effectively.
This story has all the virtues of a well-written user story: a clear title, a clear stakeholder, yet left intentionally vague to make sure that people will speak among themselves about it. Yet something is wrong here.
The problem is that the story brings value neither to the business nor to the users. It is part of a larger story; it is a task, or a TODO item, masquerading as a user story. It is a (no doubt well-intentioned) attempt at breaking down a larger story into small ones. But it doesn't work.
It doesn't work because once it is done, you are worse off than when you began. How is this possible? It's possible because you now own software that is neither finished nor potentially shippable. It is by definition unfinished work, and chances are that the mass of unfinished work will only grow over time. Unfinished work is like inventory: it is waste and it costs money.
Instead, it is your responsibility to gently nudge the team towards what's sometimes known as a Walking Skeleton, i.e. a system that implements a small functionality end-to-end. Try hard to achieve this, and be prepared against any objections the team may have. The benefits are immense, and experience has shown that the resulting system will be better designed and easier to test.
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Bayesian tanks
The frequentist vs bayesian debate has plagued the scientific community for almost a century now, yet most of the arguments I've seen seem to involve philosophical considerations instead of hard data.
Instead of letting the sun explode, I propose a simpler experiment to assess the performance of each approach.
The problem reads as follows (taken from Jaynes's Probability Theory):
You are traveling on a night train; on awakening from sleep, you notice that the train is stopped at some unknown town, and all you can see is a taxicab with the number 27 on it. What is then your guess as to the number N of taxicabs in the town, which would in turn give a clue as to the size of the town?
In different setting, this problem is also known as the German tank problem, where again the goal is to estimate the total size of a population from the serial number observed on a small sample of that population.
The frequentist and bayesian approaches yield completely different estimates for the number N. To see which approach gives the most satisfactory estimates, let's generate a large number of such problems and see the error distribution that arise from either approach.
n.runs <- 10000
N.max <- 1000
N <- sample.int(n = N.max, size = n.runs, replace = TRUE)
m <- sapply(N, sample, size = 1)
We run this experiment
n.runs times. Each time we select a random population size
N uniformly drawn between 1 and
N.max. We draw a random number
m between 1 and
N, representing the serial number that is observed.
The frequentist approach gives the following formula for estimating $N$: $\hat{N} = 2m-1$. Intuitively, the argument runs that the expected value for $m$ will be $N/2$. $m$ is therefore our best estimate for half of $N$, and hence, our best estimate for $N$ will be twice $m$. And I'm not sure where the ${}-1$ thing comes from.
The bayesian approach is more complex and requires one to provide an estimate for the maximum possible number of taxicabs. Let's therefore assume that we know that the total number of cabs will not be larger than 1000. (The frequentist approach cannot use this information, but to make a fair comparison we will cap the frequentist estimate at 1000 if it is larger.)
Then the bayesian estimate is given by $\hat{N} = (N_\textrm{max} +1 – m) / \log(N_\textrm{max} / (m – 1))$.
Putting it all together, we create a data frame with the errors found for both approaches:
frequentist <- pmin(m * 2 - 1, N.max.bayes) - N
bayesian <- (N.max.bayes + 1 - m) / log(N.max.bayes / (m - 1)) - N
errors <- rbind(data.frame(approach = "FREQ",
errors = frequentist),
data.frame(approach = "BAYES",
errors = bayesian))
The mean square error for each approach is then given by:
> by(errors$errors^2, errors$approach, mean)
errors$approach: FREQ
[1] 73436.81
errors$approach: BAYES
[1] 44878.61
The bayesian approach yields close to half the square error of the frequentist approach. The errors can also be plotted:
histogram(~ errors | approach, errors)
Both error distributions are skewed towards negative values, meaning that both approaches tend to underestimate $N$. However, the bayesian errors have a tighter distribution around 0 than the frequentist ones.
The bottom line is that, given exactly the same information, the bayesian approach yields estimates whose squared error is about 60% that of the frequentist approach. For this particular problem, there is no question that the bayesian approach is the correct one.
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ISH 2015 — first impressions
ISH, held every two years in Frankfurt, describes itself as "The world's leading trade fair The Bathroom Experience, Building, Energy, Air-conditioning Technology, Renewable Energies". At Neurobat we develop systems for improved and more efficient indoor climate control systems, and it was only natural that we attend as visitors.
A small party from our company visited the fair, which was spread out over 12 halls according to topics. Each of these halls would have easily required at least half a day do it proper justice, so it was obviously not possible to visit the entire fair.
My professional interests made me focus on two domains: heating systems and control systems. Here are some key observations, together with some pictures I took:
Internet connectivity
This was a recurring theme in the heating systems hall. Every single heating system manufacturer seemed to have a solution to connect their system to the "Internet Of Things".
There appears to be two main benefits from having your system connected to the web: remote control and remote maintenance. Remote control is all about having the possibility (usually through some app) to control your house remotely. Remote maintenance is more aimed at the installer, who will have the possibility to remotely monitor, and proactively intervene on, your system.
It is hard to determine if this is a fad or a long-term trend, but I am very excited by the latter possibility.
Lack of awareness about advanced control algorithms
It is fairly well known that the standard weather-compensated heating control systems in wide use today deliver a suboptimal energy performance. When I visited the control systems hall, I was looking forward to finding proposals for more advanced control algorithms.
I was therefore a bit disappointed to find no such offer. Manufacturers of control systems appear to have made a lot of progress in making their systems easier to program and configure, with easy-to-use graphical programming interfaces, but when you drill down into their library of standard components you always find the good old heating curve.
That being said, I did visit a few booths and asked how open, as a manufacturer, they were to letting third-parties provide add-on components to their library of elements. I was pleasantly surprised to learn that more often than not, the response was positive.
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Bitterness and astringency of grape and wine polyphenols
Version of Record online: 12 MAR 2008
DOI: 10.1111/j.1755-0238.2001.tb00191.x
Australian Journal of Grape and Wine Research
Volume 7, Issue 1, pages 33–39, April 2001
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BROSSAUD, F., CHEYNIER, V. and NOBLE, A. C. (2001), Bitterness and astringency of grape and wine polyphenols. Australian Journal of Grape and Wine Research, 7: 33–39. doi: 10.1111/j.1755-0238.2001.tb00191.x
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- grapes;
- wine;
- anthocyanins;
- phenols;
- tannins;
- astringency;
- bitterness
Extracts containing anthocyanins (ACN), and skin tannins (SKIN) and seed tannins (SEED) were prepared from Vitis vinifera cv. Cabernet Franc grapes grown in the Loire Valley, and characterised. Phenolic fractions from Cabernet Franc wines made from three Loire Valley locations were also isolated and characterised. Bitterness and astringency of ACN, SEED and SKIN as well as the wine extracts were evaluated by time intensity procedures in citric acid solution and in a base white wine. SEED and SKIN were equally astringent when tasted at the same concentration in spite of differences in tannin composition. The lower molecular weight (MW) of SEED was equal in astringency to larger MW SKIN which had a lower percentage of galloylation. The SEED fraction was slightly more bitter than the SKIN fraction in the citric acid solution, although no difference could be detected between samples in base white wine. Astringency of ACN alone was much lower than either SKIN or SEED. Addition of ACN to either tannin fraction produced very small sensory effects in citric acid. In wine, addition of ACN to either SEED or SKIN increased astringency significantly over either fraction alone, but had no effect on bitterness. The wine fractions differed only in astringency, which was correlated with tannin units as determined by thiolysis.


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Set in one of the most picturesque villages of the North York Moors National Park, this beautiful, detached stone-built cottage oozes charm and character. The accommodation is stylishly presented and very spacious, with a farmhouse-style breakfast kitchen and two living rooms, one with a cosy fire and the other overlooking the pretty south-facing garden. Hutton-le-Hole is home to the Ryedale Folk Museum, which gives a unique glimpse into the past rural way of life and the village has a delightful selection of craft shops, tea rooms and a traditional inn serving good food. The River Beck runs through the village, where the sheep peacefully roam the grassy banks and there are walking and cycling tracks galore. The quaint market towns of Kirkbymoorside and Helmsley are close by, where there are top quality and quirky shops to browse through, renowned restaurants and delicatessens and attractions including the Helmsley Walled Garden and the International Centre of Birds of Prey at Duncombe Park. The famous North York Moors steam train departs from Pickering (9 miles) and transports passengers to the fishing port of Whitby, and the traditional seaside resorts of Scarborough and Filey are also within an hour's drive. There are miles of sandy beaches along the coastline and fascinating coves at Robin Hood's Bay and Staithes. Try mountain biking at Dalby Forest or enjoy family fun at Go Ape and Flamingo Land. There are abbey ruins to visit at Rievaulx and Byland and stately homes at Nunnington Hall and Castle Howard or take a day trip to the historic city of York (35 miles). Shop 3½ miles, pub and restaurant 200 yards.
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Birchglow lies in the heart of the delightful market town of Helmsley. One of five stone-built homes, it is adjacent to the renowned Feversham Arms Hotel and Verbena Spa where day passes are available, beautifully furnished with good quality fittings and appliances. Light, airy and comfortable, with an enclosed courtyard garden, it makes a superb base from which to explore the picturesque market square with fine old pubs, restaurants, antique galleries and interesting shops. Visit abbey ruins at Byland and Rievaulx. Visit Duncombe Park with its beautiful landscaped gardens and the International Centre of Birds of Prey. The North York Moors National Park offers great walking and cycling as well as Go Ape at Dalby Forest and Flamingo Land. Enjoy a trip on the steam train from Pickering to Grosmont where you can change and get a connecting train to Whitby or take the train to York with its Roman walls, cobbled streets, magnificent minster and of course Betty's Tea Room. Alternatively, just relax in the tranquil ambiance at Birch Glow with all its home comforts. Shop 20 yards, pub and restaurant 10 yards.
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Alister Grierson serves as a director for "Sanctum" with a script provided by Andrew Wight and John Garvin. Richard Roxburgh, Alice Parkinson, Ioan Gruffudd and Rhys Wakefield are among the cast ensemble of the adventure thriller, which is due February 4, 2011 in the U.S.
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"Ok, and now to the blockbuster crime of the century: we took -- wait for it -- drum roll -- people are on then edge of their seats -- 350$!!!!!
"Did I? I sure did, I took 350$ and left on Saturday. Tuesday afternoon I paypaled him -- wait for it ----- drum roll ---- 350$ back!! So he lost ----- 0 dollars! No one asked me to do this. I said to him, well here you read the text:
Ok I'm going to pay pal you your money back. I never spent it, it was on principle. You'll have it today. I'm sorry things got to this level. Please text me to let me know you got it. Yea dude it's crazy. I don't hold any grudges man. I wish you and your crew the best.
"I've said for years, I don't talk, I do. I let him feel what we felt -- to be disrespected an screwed. So the same thing doesn't happen to another wrestler (remember what I said about the boys sticking up for the boys?).
"I have the PayPal receipt as well to prove it.
"Ok so stealing and threatening have been covered, what else?
"Oh I know! Ya know I could, I could slander your name as you have mine, wished harm on you as you have me (the getting in a car wreck bit was sure classy) or I could post your phone number on a social media site like you did mine. But I won't, I won't hang at the bottom of the barrel with you buddy.
"And really 15 min after this ordeal this loser is on twitter begging for a match in ROH, like a certain someone in the ROH office said, 'This is this losers big shot at getting some attention and he's going all out'. Well friend I'm not mentioning you by name. Your going to have to get attention the same way I did in this wacky business- work your ass off and earn it.
"I know it's the socially dictated right thing do to apologize and try to make amends. But c'mon that wouldn't be ol DR now would it?
"So instead of trying release myself from responsibly by saying it was 'anger taking hold or it was emotionally driven actions and comments' I'll simply say from the bottom of my heart that I don't apologize for anything, I'm proud that I stood up for my friend, what I was taught, and how I was raised, and most of all what I believe to be right. I meant every word and every action and take full responsiblity.
"I don't talk, I act. I treat people how they treat me. I stand up for what I was taught and for my friends.
"If I'm the bad guy for it, I welcome it with open arms. I'm more than willing to take shots for what I believe in.
"I'll always be the first help people out (ask Adam Cole, Eddie Edwards, Kenny Omega, Kyle O'Reilly, and countless others) but I will also to call out what I don't believe to be right.
"Maybe I just have rebel blood running through me, but I don't bow down, I don't keep my mouth shut, I don't run from what I disagree with. I speak up, I stand up and I fight for what I believe in. That's how I raised. If it's the end of ol DR then I couldn't be more proud.
"It's like my grandma used to say to me, 'It's better to hated for who you are than loved for who you're not'.
"In the end, to the guys in Iowa -- god bless ya, I wish you guys nothing but success. Hopefully y'all wake up but that's your cross to bear not mine."
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Scientists have confirmed the function of a gene that controls the awakening of trees from winter dormancy, a critical factor in their ability to adjust to environmental changes associated with climate change.
While other researchers have identified genes involved in producing the first green leaves of spring, the discovery of a master regulator in poplar trees (Populus species) could eventually lead to breeding plants that are better adapted for warmer climates.
The results of the study that began more than a decade ago at Oregon State University were published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, by scientists from Michigan Technological University and Oregon State.
"No one has ever isolated a controlling gene for this timing in a wild plant, outside of Arabidopsis, a small flowering plant related to mustard and cabbage," said Steve Strauss, co-author and distinguished professor of forest biotechnology at OSU. "This is the first time a gene that controls the timing of bud break in trees has been identified."
The timings of annual cycles — when trees open their leaves, when they produce flowers, when they go dormant — help trees adapt to changes in environmental signals like those associated with climate, but the genetics have to keep up, Strauss said.
While trees possess the genetic diversity to adjust to current conditions, climate models suggest that temperature and precipitation patterns in many parts of the world may expose trees to more stressful conditions in the future. Experts have suggested that some tree species may not be able to cope with these changes fast enough, whether by adaptation or migration. As a result, forest health may decline, trees may disappear from places they are currently found, and some species may even go extinct.
"For example, are there going to be healthy and widespread populations of Douglas fir in Oregon in a hundred years?" said Strauss. "That depends on the natural diversity that we have and how much the environment changes. Will there be sufficient genetic diversity around to evolve populations that can cope with a much warmer and likely drier climate? We just don't know."
Strauss called the confirmation of the bud-break gene — which scientists named EBB1 for short — a "first step" in developing the ability to engineer adaptability into trees in the future.
"Having this knowledge enables you to engineer changes when they might become urgent," he said.
Yordan Yordanov and Victor Busov at Michigan Tech worked with Cathleen Ma and Strauss at Oregon State to trace the function of EBB1 in buds and other plant tissues responsible for setting forth the first green shoots of spring. They developed modified trees that overproduced EBB1 genes and emerged from dormancy earlier in the year. They also showed that trees with less EBB1 activity emerged from dormancy later.
"The absence of EBB1 during dormancy allows the tree to progress through the physiological, developmental and adaptive changes leading to dormancy," said Busov, "while the expression of EBB1 in specific cell layers prior to bud-break enables reactivation of growth in the cells that develop into shoots and leaves, and re-entry into the active growth phase of the tree."
The study began when Strauss noticed poplar trees emerging earlier than others in an experimental field trial at Oregon State. One April morning, he found that four seedling trees in a 2.5-acre test plot were putting forth leaves at least a week before all the other trees. Strauss and Busov, a former post-doctoral researcher at Oregon State, led efforts to identify the genes responsible.
They found that EBB1 codes for a protein that helps to restart cell division in a part of the tree known as meristem, which is analogous to stem cells in animals. EBB1 also plays a role in suppressing genes that prepare trees for dormancy in the fall and in other processes such as nutrient cycling and root growth that are critical for survival. Altogether, they found nearly 1,000 other poplar genes whose activity is affected by EBB1.
It's unlikely that plant breeders will use the finding any time soon, Strauss said. Breeders tend to rely on large clusters of genes that are associated with specific traits such as hardiness, tree shape or flowering. However, as more genes of this kind are identified, the opportunity to breed or engineer trees adapted to extreme conditions will grow.
Funding for the research was provided by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the U.S. Department of Energy and the Tree Biosafety and Genomics Research Cooperative at Oregon State.
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We invite paper proposals of around 200 words for the 2015 ACLA Convention seminar "The Rhetoric of Intermediality."
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In Poe's "The Man of the Crowd," the narrator finds himself anxiously pursuing an unknown but somehow sinister old man through the streets of London, determined to penetrate his mystery, only to ultimately conclude that he will "learn no more of him." Early in Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Mr.
The theme for the 36th annual SWPACA conference is "Many Faces, Many Voices: Intersecting Borders in Popular and American Culture." We invite proposals for individual or panel presentations that consider the theme as it relates to rhetoric and technical communication. We're excited to hear about the ways in which popular and American culture inform the pedagogical, theoretical, and practical work of rhetoric and technical communication. Feel free to interpret the conference theme broadly.
Proposals for individual presentations should not exceed 250 words. Multi-paper panel proposals must include separate abstracts and titles for each individual proposed paper.
Submission deadline: 1 November 2014
Intégrité: A Journal of Faith and Learning, a peer-reviewed journal published by Missouri Baptist University, welcomes essays for a special issue (spring 2015) on "Christianity and Literature." Essays may explore aspects of Christianity in individual works or writers, in pedagogical matters pertaining to teaching literature at Christian universities, and in issues concerning courses devoted to specifically Christianity and literature. Some possible approaches and examples would include:
• The ability of mainstream literature to show the picture and power of spirituality in the lives of non-religious people (The End of the Affair by Graham Greene, as an example)
Abstracts are requested for a proposed collection on the works of Carlos Ruiz Zafón. Intended to be the first academic collection about the author, abstracts regarding all topics of interest are welcome.
Suggested topics include, but are not limited to:
- the modern Gothic tale
- use of the Faustian pact in his novels
- the Cemetery of Forgotten Books as metaphor
- his use of classical theology
- "Marina" as a modern "Frankenstein"
Please understand that all abstracts (and later articles) will need to be written in English.
Abstracts of 300-500 words are due by December 1st, 2014.
CFP: "Teaching Poe and Popular Culture," a Poe Studies Association panel at the 26th Annual American Literature Association Conference in Boston, MA (May 21-24, 2015)
The quint's twenty fifth issue is issuing a call for theoretically informed and historically grounded submissions of scholarly interest—as well as creative writing, original art, interviews, and reviews of books. The deadline for this call is 15th November 2014—but please note that we accept manu/digi-scripts at any time.
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Now in its seventh year, the AUM Liberal Arts Conference in Southern Studies invites panel and paper proposals on any aspect of Southern literature. Topics may include but are not limited to:
In her 2014 Modern Language Association Presidential Address, "Connective Histories in Vulnerable Times," Marianne Hirsch reconfigures vulnerability. She asserts that answers to problems lie within the "aesthetic encounters" that we practice, study, and teach, which "elicit a sense of vulnerability that can move us toward an ethics and a politics of open endedness and mobility, attuning us to the needs of the present, potentialities for change, and to the future." Vulnerability, in essence, sustains us. In this era of STEM-focused funding and vast academic change, the humanities continue to reconfigure vulnerability into sustainability.
The Philological Association of the Carolinas invites you to submit papers related to this year's theme of cultural production. We welcome panel and paper proposals on the rhetorical situation of author and reader (producer-consumer); the historical and materialist context of cultural texts; translation; minor literature; and, of course, on Wilmywood films such as Blue Velvet, Empire Records, Firestarter, Lolita,and Iron Man 3.
Papers on literary, cultural, media, film and communication studies are also welcome, as are presentations on pedagogy, semiotics, linguistics, and literary and cultural theory.
CFP: The Gothic in Literature, Film and Culture (11/1/14; National PCA/ACA Conference, 4/1/15-4/4/15)
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We welcome papers and presentations on any aspect of the Gothic in film, literature, media, performance or other forms of cultural expression. All critical approaches are welcome.
Call For Papers: Critical Survey
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Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE) 2015 Conference
July 30-August 2, 2015, Fairmont The Queen Elizabeth Hotel, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Conference Theme:
Je Me Souviens / I Remember
Quebec's simple but provocative motto, which is not without controversy over interpretation, caught our imagination — both metaphorically and geographically. It invokes thoughts of remembering — remembering theatre at its best, when its immediacy and humanness is embraced, remembering our past and how it points to the future, and remembering our power to instigate change.
Call for Submissions from Harlot: A Revealing Look at the Arts of Persuasion
Special Issue, Spring 2015: Crafting and DIY Rhetorics
2 January 2015 - Submissions Deadline
Guest Editors:
Amber Buck, Megan Condis, Kristi Prins, Marilee Brooks-Gillies, Martha Webber
These days the word "craft" gets attached to a lot—from cocktails to crochet, 3D printing to upcycled t-shirts, handmade paper to handmade pickles. And this trend only appears to be growing as craft is closely connected to the DIY movement: a wide-ranging, ever-expanding, and sometimes controversial field of work and play.
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"The tradition of the oppressed teaches us that the 'state of emergency' in which we live is not the exception but the rule. We must attain to a conception of history that is in keeping with this insight."
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