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PETA Wants to turn the Arizona State Capitol into a billboard featuring its famous "Lettuce Ladies"
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals sent Arizona Governor Jan Brewer a letter today, offering to rent space on the outside walls of the state capitol building and use it to advertise its veggie-driven agenda.
PETA wants to pay the state to drop a giant banner down the front of the capitol with the organizations "PETA Lettuce Lady," and the phrase "Lettuce Legislate: Meat-Free Monday."
In the letter, Tracy Reiman, executive vice president of PETA, tells Brewer that the organization wants to help close the current budget gap.
"I am writing on behalf of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) and our tens of thousands of members and supporters across Arizona to offer a little financial help as the state considers selling some of its buildings in the capital. We would like to rent space to hang a banner on the Capitol's front facade featuring an image of one of our lovely Lettuce Ladies -- a gorgeous vegetarian woman tastefully clad only in lettuce leaves," the letter says.
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The rest of the letter was used as a platform to condemn (natch) the consumption of meat and to promote "Meat Free Monday," a program to get people to not eat meat at least one day each week.
"As you may know, Sir Paul McCartney, who is known to spend time in Arizona when he can, recently added his support to the Meat-Free Mondays campaign, which urges everyone to eat only vegetarian foods at least one day per week.
Going vegetarian even once a week would not only reduce the horrendous suffering that animals endure on factory farms and in slaughterhouses but also help protect the planet.
These days, millions of animals are raised in cramped, filthy conditions and mutilated in procedures such as ear-notching, castration, dehorning, debeaking -- all without any pain relief. Many are still conscious when their throats are cut.
Animal agriculture is a major cause of climate change, water pollution, and other environmental problems. In fact, a recent U.N. report concluded that meat production generates about 40 percent more greenhouse-gas emissions than all the world's cars, trucks, planes, SUVs, and ships combined. In addition, going vegetarian is also better for our health, reducing the risk of developing heart disease, certain types of cancer, strokes, diabetes, high blood pressure, obesity, and other serious health conditions."
Not that PETA will ever get Brewer's attention on this, but watching gun-toting members of the Legislature walk under a giant PETA banner everyday when they go to work would be rich.
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JM Eagle, the world's largest plastic pipe manufacturer, and the Earth Institute at Columbia University announced on January 14 the official completion of a new water infrastructure system that is bringing safer water to more than 13,500 people in western Senegal.
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At booth 2118, GigOptix will provide demonstrations and showcase the following E-band solutions and wideband products:
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DETROIT (AP) Authorities say an inmate briefly took a deputy hostage, stabbed another and carjacked a motorist while escaping from a downtown Detroit courthouse.
Wayne County Sheriff Benny Napoleon tells the Detroit Free Press that the inmate escaped Monday morning from a courtroom. Napoleon says the deputy was stabbed in the neck and was taken to Detroit Receiving Hospital for treatment.
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Detroit police Chief James Craig tells reporters at the scene that 25-year-old Derreck White was in custody for a court hearing related to a robbery. Craig says the man stole a minivan from a motorist near the courthouse and later abandoned that vehicle on the city's east side.
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THURSDAY, Aug. 28, 2014 (HealthDay News) -- The vast majority of American babies are getting the vaccines they need to protect them from serious illnesses, federal health officials said Thursday.
More than 90 percent of children are getting the vaccines that prevent measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR); polio; hepatitis B and chickenpox (varicella), according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
"Nationally, vaccination among children 19 to 35 months of age remains stable or has increased for all of the recommended vaccines, and that's really good news," said Dr. Melinda Wharton, acting director of CDC's National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases.
"There is still room for improvement," she added. "Coverage is not as high as we would like it to be for doses of vaccines and boosters given in the second year of life."
Wharton suggested one way to improve vaccine coverage could be with electronic medical records to help doctors keep track of when vaccinations are needed.
While some parents are reluctant to have their children vaccinated, or don't believe in vaccines at all, Wharton doesn't see this as a major problem. "The number of children who do not get any vaccine remains low and stable at less than 1 percent," she said.
Vaccines are essential in preventing sickness and death, the CDC said. "Among children born during 1994-2013, vaccination will prevent an estimated 322 million illnesses, 21 million hospitalizations and 732,000 deaths during their lifetimes," the CDC report stated.
The new findings were published in the Aug. 29 issue of the CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.
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Something terrible happened here yesterday. We live in Reno, and most of our extended family lives in Carson City. Around 9 a.m., Eduardo Sencion pulled up to the IHOP on South Carson Street and started shooting people. He targeted a group of National Guard members, killing three of them. He also shot another woman. Then, of course, he shot himself.
I grew up in Carson City. It's a very small town. But I know — anything can happen at anytime, anywhere. Since it's almost the ten year anniversary, it would be natural to talk about how September 11th left me feeling generally insecure about the world, but that wouldn't be entirely true. I suppose that happened back when I was a teenager in the mid-1980s. There was a string of airplane hijackings and then the hijacking of the Achille Lauro (the passenger ship where they shot a man and dumped him overboard). I remember having the sudden realization that I wasn't safe.
And if anything has served to stoke my fears about "anytime, anywhere," it wasn't September 11th. It was Beslan. Where a school in a random small town was taken hostage for days and kids were killed. That's the beast that keeps me up at night.
Anyway, my point is, I haven't felt completely warm and fuzzy about the world in a very long time. That band aid got ripped off years ago. Not to say I walk around thinking I'm going to be suicide bombed at the grocery store or whisked away by a marauding band of men. I'm in suburbia-land, U.S.A., so I should at least have enough respect for the people who actually live under those conditions to not pretend that my life is really anywhere close to scary. The scary part of my day consists of getting into my car and driving on the freeway.
The thing is, even though life here is relatively safe, I can't seem to bring myself to tell the kids about the shooting in Carson. It's where their grandparents live. It's a happy destination. And IHOP is one of their favorite restaurants (although they were boycotting it briefly, due to the fact that "cinnaminions" had been discontinued). I guess I just want them to be able to feel that sense of their world being an "okay" place for just a little while longer.
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Some more taxes:Obviously with a steep decline in earnings NTZ will pay less tax so let's go back to the part about taxes.If Natuzzi had been paying taxes in the last three years according to the tax laws they will have to obey in the future they would have paid: E49m off of E116m in 2002E42m off of E98m in 2001E47m off of E105 in 2000The average effective tax rate would have been:(49+42+47)/(116+98+105) = 43%Putting it all together:Hypothetical: Over the last three years Natuzzi operated in an environment where the USD/EURO exchange rate was constant at 1.15 and where they had to pay 43% of operating income as taxes. The exchange rate was stable so operating income was neither decreased nor increased by hedging gains.Average for 2002, 2001, 2000Operating income: E65mTaxes paid: E28mNet Income: E37m54.682 million shares changing hands at about $10 means a market cap of $547m. Today's USD/EURO exchange rate 1.20. Market cap in euros, 547/1.20 = E456m. P/E = 456/37 = 12.3. P/E after backing out E70m of cash on hand, 10.4. Hardly expensive, but not quite the 20% earnings yield steal it looked like at first.Conclusion:I have had to make some problematic assumptions in projecting back the altered exchange rates but I can't do much better with the info I have got. That said I don't see a particular bias.Also, I think that the tax rate (43%) is a little higher than what we will see in the next few years although I got my numbers from their 20F where they reconcile what they should have paid with what they did. The key causes of the big discrepancy were income tax sheilds for key companies which have since expired, I worked therefore under the assumption that if the sheilds had not been in effect then they would have paid what they "should have paid". In the 3rd Q conference call they advised a 38% effective tax rate going forward. If you plug this number in above instead of the 43% I used net income is increased E3m to E40m.baboon(sorry this was so long)
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PATERSON — The Paterson chapter of the NAACP is calling on the Passaic County prosecutor to drop charges against three boys, one of whom is 6, who are accused of fatally torturing a neighborhood cat, an incident whose reaction on the Internet has provoked an angry backlash in Paterson on behalf of the boys.
The statement came amid protests by city residents to harsh online comments about the accused boys, who are ages 12, 10, and 6, as well as resentment about outsiders' opinions about life in Paterson.
In a statement issued Tuesday, the Rev. Kenneth Clayton, the NAACP branch president, said the children were "criminalized and railroaded," and that the charges "serve no purpose other than to expose these children to a criminal justice system that is often inhumane in its treatment of minorities. . . This is comparable to modern-day lynching."
The animal cruelty charges against the boys raised some eyebrows among legal experts, who said it is rare for 6-year-olds to face criminal court hearings because they are too young to understand what they have done. But experts also said the juvenile justice system is designed to rehabilitate children and not to punish them.
The NAACP statement "vehemently" urged the prosecutor's office to "drop any and all charges" against the boys, and expressed hope that the boys' families would seek professional help for them. It also called comments made about the children on several social media and news websites "cruel and blatantly racist," saying they came from outsiders who "have no genuine concern for the present well-being and future of the children involved."
Neither Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia Valdes, nor the chief assistant prosecutor who is handling the cat-killing case, Jennifer Tremonte Bedrin, could be reached for comment Tuesday.
City school board members Jonathan Hodges and Corey Teague, angered about online comments against the boys, plan to lead a protest on Thursday against participants in a candlelight vigil for the cat that is being organized by animal welfare advocates.
"With the things they've been saying online, I'm just worried about what they're going to do when they come here," Teague said. "We don't tolerate animal cruelty, but these kids are human beings. They're not monsters. They're still babies."
"We're going to be out there so these people can hear our concerns about our kids," Hodges said about Thursday's protest. Hodges said he believed the public outrage about the cat killing prompted authorities to take a harder stand against the boys than they would have otherwise.
Harsh comments about the accused boys, some of them racially biased, appeared on websites that covered or commented about the incident. On NorthJersey.com, many comments were blocked from being posted or were rejected because they violated the site's Terms of Service. Because the boys involved are very young and some inappropriate comments still found their way onto the site, the comment function on these articles has been disabled.
Renee Olah, an organizer of the vigil who cared for the critically injured cat following the attack, said the vigil is not intended to be an attack on Paterson.
"This is going to be a peaceful and quiet event. It's going to be a candle-light prayer vigil for a cat that was brutally tortured to death," said Olah, founder of the Chance at Life cat rescue group.
She said the accused children needed mental health counseling, but she supported the filing of the animal cruelty charges. "I feel they need help, absolutely, mental health help," Olah added. "I also think they need a little scare put into them so they don't do it again. This has nothing to do with the town they came from or the color of their skin."
Olah agreed that some of the online comments about the children involved in the case were "out of control."
The reaction to the cat killing on the Internet has rekindled long-simmering resentments among Paterson residents about negative perceptions of the city by outsiders.
Kenneth McDaniel, a city councilman, said some online comments have "referenced lynching and other hideous and racially charged acts of violence against Paterson children. . . It's the kind of speech we don't need. It doesn't help the situation," he said.
The prosecutor's office announced the third-degree animal cruelty charges against the boys last week. Authorities also have said they are investigating whether to file complaints against other children.
Meanwhile, two boys who intervened and tried to save the cat have been hailed as heroes and received donations of cash and gifts worth more than $6,000, according to animal advocates.
Paterson Police Director Glenn Brown said organizers received permits for Thursday's vigil, which is supposed to be held outside the city's police headquarters on Broadway. Brown said officers from the department's traffic unit and its emergency response team would be available to police the event.
"I don't expect we'll have any issues," Brown said. "This is America and you're allowed to voice your opinion as long as you don't break the law."
Quattro, the cat, was beaten to death with bricks on May 7, 2014 by a group of grade school children. Grade school children brutally beat a stray cat with stones, bricks and sticks which caused him to die a week later, police said.
Youngsters all under the age of 10 allegedly attacked the innocent feline near the School 4 playground in Paterson, New Jersey, on May 7. Suffering a broken leg and skull, and with one of its eyes destroyed, the savage assault on the kitty only ended when two older children stepped in and chased the gang away.
We are heartbroken to say that Quattro was beaten so gravely that he succumbed to his injuries.
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A Federal Register Notice (PDF 82 KB) has been issued to solicit input related to DOE's upcoming go/no-go decision on pure carbon nanotubes for on-board vehicular hydrogen storage. Download Adobe Reader.
DOE's Office of Hydrogen, Fuel Cells, and Infrastructure Technologies will review the current status of hydrogen storage in carbon nanotubes against specific technical criteria and compile all input during September 2006 for consideration in the decision planned for October 2006. Relevant technical documents or position papers are due by September 15, 2006.


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For a while now I've wanted to do a "TTV" project with an old, 4×5 camera. What's that you say? You can get some more in-depth info about TTV here.
Short and sweet is, you use one camera to shoot through the viewfinder (TTV) of a second camera. It's become a common practice with pros and amateurs alike, with the increased availability, good pricing and improved technology of today's digital cameras. And it's nice, too, because it breathes life into older cameras.
I've done TTV photography before, but only with a medium format camera. That's a little bit easier, since you're only messing with one plane of focus. A 4×5 cameras allows you to focus for distance, and then adds some dimension through a series of bellows.
Suffice to say, TTV with a 4×5 is very tricky. If you do anything funky with the bellows, it takes very precise focus. I mean ridiculously precise. And add to that the challenge of being underneath a heavy cloth to block the light out (think old-timey photographer), looking through ground glass that's super old. Like I said, tricky.
But wait, there's more!
Once you get the focus on the view camera, you now have to take your second camera (in this case, a Canon 5d MkII with a 24-70 lens) and focus on the image that's on the ground glass.
While the view camera is on a tripod, you are not. Any subtle movement — rocking, swaying, etc. — throws off the focus you just made. I would say for every subject I found to shoot, it took a good five to 10 minutes to make a handful of pictures.
Everything was shot under a tent against a white backdrop. I wanted this to be very lo-fi and stripped down, much like the 4×5 itself.
The rest of the series was pretty simple. I had great assistance from current intern Patrick Fallon.
As far as why I did this or whom I chose to photograph, I'll defer to the little blurb I wrote for the paper:
"The goal of this essay was to spend a day out at the State Fair of Texas and get a feel for the kinds of folks who visit our annual ritual. All photos in this essay were shot through the viewfinder (commonly known as "TTV") of an old Graflex 4×5 camera. What this involves is shooting the image off the ground glass of the camera with a digital camera. I did this for a couple of reasons.
For one, I wanted all the images to have a similar hook. In addition to the simple white, seamless backdrop, I was looking for a visual motif that would carry throughout the images. Secondly, the viewfinder has a lot of grit and grime after decades of use by previous owners. I liked that it gave the digital photos a bit of texture, and maybe a little personality.
Plus, it was just fun.
But it was also fairly difficult. Finding the focus on a 4×5 is a pretty precise process, and then subsequently having to make an additional, in-focus digital version of the 4×5 image is tricky. I'd say each shoot took a good five minutes or so to produce a handful of usable photographs. As far as my subjects went, I looked for folks whom I found interesting. I under- stand that's wildly subjective. One of the patrons in the booth next to us asked, at one point, 'Well, what is 'interesting' to you?' My reply? 'I know it when I see it.'"
It was a fun little essay, something I plan to try again with a different subject. One thing this exercise taught me is that depth is really key to pulling this off. The space we were given by the State Fair folks was a little on the small side, so we had to make do.
In the future, I'd like to get more distance between the two cameras, and use a longer lens on the digital camera to better compress the space and have a completely flat version of the ground glass image. And a tripod on both cameras is a MUST.
Here's the rest of the photos I liked, along with the pages so you can see how this was played in our Sunday lifestyles section.
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Keeping Safe in 2011
2010 is ending with one very clear message: international investors still don't have much appetite for risk.
Only weeks ago, the story was quite different. Optimism over the global recovery was on the rise, bond prices were falling and sentiment in currency markets was once again being driven by yield differentials. Investors appeared keen to buy into risky markets, with commodity currencies heading sharply higher.
Then, the focus was very much on China and whether Beijing would allow the country's economy to continue surging ahead. With interest rates firmly in the driving seat, risky markets were the place to be.
But this has all been turned on its head again, with investors heading back into safe havens as the year draws to a close.
The trend has been highlighted by the flood of funds out of the high-risk euro into the safe-haven Swiss franc, driving the pair to a steady series of new record lows over the last week. After its bounce to nearly CHF1.3800 near the middle of October, the euro has now traded as low as CHF1.2493.
The return of market pessimism that has made the franc so attractive has been aided by the ongoing uncertainty over the euro-zone sovereign-debt crisis and the continued risk of contagion. The level of concern about financial markets in general was driven home by the news on Tuesday that the U.S. Federal Reserve has renewed its dollar swap arrangement with other major central banks until next August. The Fed was obviously not comfortable enough with global liquidity levels to allow them to expire as planned in January.
Rating agencies haven't helped either, issuing warnings over possible euro-zone downgrades next year that will push funding costs among peripheral debtors even higher and increase the risk of sovereign default.
Other reasons for global concern at the end of 2010 include a rise in inflation pressures, not only in China and in some emerging markets that can afford to raise interest rates, but also in major developed economies such as the U.K., where recoveries remain far too fragile to withstand rate hikes. Should this higher inflation trend continue next year, investors will become even more concerned that global economic growth will have to be stifled at a later stage.
Geopolitical tensions have also become a market driver as the year has drawn to a close with South and North Korea entering an even more dangerous military standoff. The South is expected to ratchet tensions even higher by conducting its largest ever maritime drill on Thursday.
So far, most global equity markets are ending the year on a strong note and the underlying confidence in the global upturn has pushed the price of Nymex crude oil up to two-year highs of more than $91 a barrel.
But the edginess of the global investor can still be seen in the lackluster performance of the commodity-driven Australian and Canadian dollars, which under different circumstances would have powered ahead as investors showed their preference for risky rather than safe-haven asset options. Now, both have lost momentum, with the Aussie and its Canadian counterpart failing to establish sustained parity against the U.S. dollar.


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It's no secret the majority of powersports enthusiasts research products and services online before making a buying decision. This is why news of your dealership's online reputation, good or bad, can spread like wildfire from the ratings and reviews displayed prominently by search engines. These ratings can create a lucrative and loyal base of repeat and referral customers, or lead to a plethora of lost sales and opportunities that can take years to overcome.
According to Businessweek magazine, 70 percent of consumers now consult reviews and ratings prior to purchasing. Here at Dealership University, we call this "the Amazon effect" — and it's spreading rapidly into the enthusiast-based powersports industry.
The simple psychology behind reviews is that what consumers say about your dealership appears more authentic, and therefore is more compelling to prospects than what you or your advertising say about your dealership. It's called social proof, and provides third-party credibility that is extremely powerful. A study conducted by the Yankelovich research firm concluded that 75 percent of people don't believe that companies tell the truth in their advertising, further validating why consumers yearn for real reviews from real customers.
Have you had an unreasonable ex-customer post a nasty, flagrant, and worst of all, inaccurate review online about your dealership? If not, consider yourself fortunate. Most retailers are eventually going to have to face the challenge of confronting a negative review. Even the best dealers will eventually face off with an unreasonable customer. The good news is, there is a solution. Dealers willing to embrace change and implement reputation management in their marketing efforts can experience significant short- and long-term benefits.
What's the best way to handle the inevitable negative reviews? First, you always respond to them. There are many solutions available that allow you to be notified every time you have a review posted about your dealership. Once you get an alert you can carefully craft a response. (By the way, it's also a good idea to respond to positive reviews.) But the most impactful way to handle negative reviews is to bury them with positive reviews.
When you consider all factors regarding modern consumer behavior, you can see that your online reputation is the foundation of your marketing.
Regardless of whether you choose traditional media like radio and TV, or you pump your ad spend into digital marketing like Google AdWords and social media, the target audience you're spending money to attract will most likely end up searching for you online. And with Google's well-known emphasis on displaying ratings and reviews on first page results, your prospects will likely see what others have to say about your business, and this has a big impact on whether or not they choose to visit you.
Your marketing secret weapon in the new economy is to encourage a lot of positive reviews to serve as a preponderance of proof that your store lives up to your customer's expectations.
So how are you supposed to acquire more positive reviews? I recommend that you prepare a launch meeting with your entire staff explaining this new initiative. As with most dealership best practices, successful execution starts at the top, with the dealer principal leading the way. Staff implementation is much more realistic when they totally understand the "why" behind what they're being asked to do.
Next, put up in-store point-of-sale displays encouraging customers to provide online reviews. These displays aren't going to set your system on auto-pilot, but they will create awareness and act as a reminder to you and your staff. It's also a good idea to include a custom note on the bottom of all invoices encouraging customers to provide reviews.
Roll out a storewide contest with your staff, rewarding the team member who gets the most reviews that mention his or her name. Train your staff to ask your dealership regulars to provide a review with their smart phones on the spot in exchange for a small incentive like a T-shirt or hat. Also, keep iPads with 3G connections handy so customers can create reviews immediately after a purchase, while the transactions are still fresh in their minds.
Include in your follow-up e-mail to customers a request asking them to go online and offer reviews of your service. And the last but most important component is to make the commitment to provide excellent customer service, as this will make positive reviews the natural conclusion to your customer's shopping experience.
For more up-to-date systems, tools and strategies on how to leverage the secret weapon of reputation management and more to boost your website traffic, phone traffic, door swings and closing ratios, be sure to sign up now for the dealer business education program at the 2012 Dealer Expo at www.dealerexpo.com. I'll see you there.
This story originally appeared in the Dealernews October 2011 issue.


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Purple is not my favorite color.
(It has always been my older sister's favorite...)
(It has always been my older sister's favorite...)
But lately I've been inspired by innumerable fantastic images
showcasing violets, periwinkles, lavenders, and plums.
They're everywhere!
They're everywhere!
(Designed by Donald Shermerhorn, Kips Bay Decorator Show House 2009)
I may be the last to mention the design industry's current obsession with this highly versatile hue, but I had to post a tribute!
In her fantastic blog Colour Me Happy, color expert Maria Killam states, "there are more violets than any other color in the world, because a violet starts at the blue side of the color wheel, moves through purple, and ends over at the reds."
In addition to all of the gorgeous photos I've found featuring purple, I've been equally interested in the colors that designers have chosen to pair with it. From fuchsia, to orange, to lime green, they are all exciting and innovative.
Elle Decor featured this Manhattan Living Room by Jamie Drake in February 2009. I love the pale lilac wall-window treatment-sofa color which feed into the darker, more saturated lavender club and slipper chairs. Hot pink and orange accents enliven the soft environment.
The palette continues throughout the home!
The palette continues throughout the home!
Rosy fuchsia punches up these
serene periwinkle and white spaces
(periwinkle is usually considered blue, not purple)
I love these feisty green accents!
(Master Bedroom by Diamond Baratta Design)
I'm a huge fan and had the privilege of meeting William Diamond and Anthony Baratta years ago when they spoke at the Cooper Union!
I'm crazy about this photo!
I can't imagine a more elegant, serene bath.
I was shopping recently when a woman came up to me with a pair of purple heels and two purple handbags. "Which purse goes best with these shoes?" she asked.
I immediately preferred the clean-lined, simple tote. She seemed disappointed in my response, apparently preferring the more complicated, multi-hued boho-chic bag and hoping I'd say the same. She explained that it was a gift for her friend who would prefer the large, crazy one....
(interior by Nina Campbell)
Everyone wants purple right now!
In their September 2009 blog post, Eberly and Collard describe amethyst as "a transparent violet...a warm, soft addition to the home." They explain that it has been "linked to tension and headache relief" and recommend "Soft Amethyst" paint color by Glidden Paints.
(A current ad for Saint Louis Crystal)
Royal Purple is going strong in fashion this fall, as evidenced on the runways by Proenza Schouler, Carolina Herrera, Marc Jacobs and Marni. Vera Wang used dark plums in her collection. Lighter tones were also on show, including pale lilacs at Versace and warm mauve at Bottega Veneta.
Even the new fragrances by Marc Jacobs ("Lola") and
Dolce and Gabanna ("l'Impératrice")
are marked by their orchid and lilac bottles.
(Bluetooth Headset)
Current "TECH" offering at Colette in Paris
(from millionlooks.com)
I originally decided to write this post based partially on Ferragamo's Fall Ad Campaign 2009/2010. I was completely starstruck by this deep aubergine croc trench, as well as the entire look...absolute LOVE at first sight!
(from lifeischange.wordpress.com)
I couldn't resist this photo!
I couldn't resist this photo!
And I can't think of a better way to end this post than
with my favorite of all French Patisseries, la Religieuse!


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On Mon, 08 Jan 2007 10:57:04 -0600, Bo opined:
> So... the questions are:
> 1) is this a known HW issue with MVME5100 cards?
> 2) if not, is there any possibility that the VxWorks BSP could cause the
> behavior?
> 3) can we conclude that both/all boards think they are system controller?
> 4) is there a SW fix to make the auto-config jumper work as intended?
I rather much wonder if this isn't some issue with the RMW mechanism being
used within VxWorks resulting in a lock on the local bus. Such nasty
behavior isn't seen if the transfers are not into shared memory spaces.
My recollection on the auto-config jumper is that it's sensed by the
Universe at initialization to determine if it needs to provide bus
arbitration and isn't used afterwards. That this problem comes and goes
depending whether auto-configuration or not is selected does suggest
otherwise; but I doubt the root cause is the jumper setting.
Bill Dennen email@example.com
Cluelessness: There are no stupid questions,
but there are a LOT of inquisitive idiots.


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Great Mac Apps To Look Out For 0
A huge number of Mac applications have recently been created to suit designers and web developers. So if you fit this description, then you are sure to want to read about the latest Apple apps listed below.
Its been a while since I have done a post on this site, i'm sorry. The pile of stuff to do is getting so tall I may have to raise the ceiling. Anyway, today's app is all about modifying images, specifically screen shots. It's called Voila and is the app for people who need to edit and modify screen shots of applications to send to their co-workers or friends. It is designed so you don't need to open up an image editing application to edit a screen shot. A good time save and way to streamline any development process in which you have to show screen shots of applications.Read More >
A huge number of Mac applications have recently been created to suit designers and web developers. So if you fit this description, then you are sure to want to read about the latest Apple apps listed below.
If you are a Freelance developer, working in a small business or need to know how much you have to charge for a service it can be quite hard to do this in a simple and easy to use fashion. This is where Billings comes into play. As the name suggests its a professional application which you can use to send estimates, track how long you have worked on a project and send invoices. It also has a very detailed reporting feature which you can use to see exactly what is happening with your clients.
We all need a method where we can organise and make sure we get all of our life's and files in order. Most of the time it is through making sure our Finder folders make sense and contain the files they supposed it (mine frequently don't). One way of helping with this is using a quick launcher. Today's app is called Berokyo and it does exactly what it says on the tin. It allows you to create groups of folders, files and apps which you can then quickly access.
Today I am going to review Stuf, a neat little clipboard manager that enables you to store more items on your clipboard, very useful if you do a lot of copy and pasting. There are hundreds of different clipboard managers out there, most of them are the same. Stuf, however, has one feature that sets it self apart, the ability to share your clipboard over a network. Interesting.
Image design programs are hard to get right. Photoshop seems to be the bigger winner in front however there are a lot of small image programs bring up the rear. Todays app, Pixelmator is an image manipulation program designed for the Mac, on its own its a really good application and for people who haven't used Photoshop its everything your want. It looks awesome and has plenty of features.
People have pets, I have a couple of fish and a rabbit. Keeping control of all of the information including medical bills, costs and other bits of information can be a hassle. Although you could use a spreadsheet or word document to keep control of everything having a dedicated app can take away a lot of the hassle and make keeping controls of your pet records more fun. This is where Clarus comes in. Its the one stop shop for keeping control of your pets records and its a dream to use.
I like a squeaky clean computer. Ever so often I will clean my caches get rid of old apps that I don't need and generally make sure my computer works as I want it. Most of the hard tasks which I forget to do, take a while and are quite complex to complete. This is where a tool like MainMenu comes in. Its a menu bar application (which, again, I am sure I have reviewed, another case of dèjà vu) which you use to run daily, weekly and monthly tasks. Its not the sort of app you run all of the time, but its really useful.


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State Board gives students second shot at improving marks, in practicals too
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The Maharashtra State Board of Secondary & Higher Secondary Education (MSBSHSE) has revised rules for students of Class X and Class XII to appear for the subsequent exam to improve results, by giving them two chances.
Also, they can henceforth appear for the practical examinations, too, to improve overall tally. So far, students were allowed one shot at improving their Board results through the Class Improvement Scheme (CIS).
MSBSHSE chairperson Sarjerao Jadhav said changes in the CIS would come into effect from the next Board exam in March/April.
"Students appearing for CIS used to have little time for improving their score. This was against the basic purpose of the scheme, so we decided to give students another chance," he told Newsline on Friday.
Jadhav said there were more takers for CIS from science stream of Class XII as students needed to improve scores for admission to professional courses like engineering and medicine. Students appearing for the board examination with all compulsory subjects are entitled to CIS, as per which they can appear for the consecutive Board exam.
Introduced in 2008, the origin of CIS was the belief that a student's performance cannot be evaluated by way of a mere few hours of exam at the end of the academic year.
On an average, 2,200 students of Class XII opt for CIS every year. The number for CIS among Class X students is relatively fewer and annually about 100 students opt for it, MSBSHSE officials said.
Reacting to the Board decision to allow two chances for CIC, secretary of Western Maharashtra School Principals' Association Pramod Nemade said it would help students, especially those who had poor performances due to unavoidable reasons.
Meanwhile, MSBSHSE has announced that Class XII students who appeared for the Board exam in March 2011, October 2011, March 2012 and October 2012 are eligible for CIS for March/April 2013 examination. The move to this effect has been taken by the Board in view of the HRD Ministry decision to prepare the merit list for admission to NITs, IIITs, DTU, Delhi and other CFTIs by giving 40 per cent weightage (suitably normalised) to class XII marks (or an equivalent examination).


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Don't worry – no spoilers on this post in case you still haven't seen it!
We decided a while ago that we wanted to watch the "Lost" finale together by ourselves – no distractions. I've had some whole wheat pizza dough from Fresh and Easy waiting in the freezer for the occasion.
After letting it defrost and rest, Abe used the bamboo rolling pin from CSN Stores to make two individual pies.
Mine was cheese-free, with Trader Joe's Peanut Satay Sauce as the base. Abe skipped the sauce and used olive oil and mozzarella.
Toppings – organic cherry tomatoes, organic zucchini (sliced very thin) and fresh rosemary from the front porch.
His and Her's:
We cut each pie into fours and served half.
I whipped up a quick side dish using garlic and Soy Paste:
Organic baby bok choy from the farmer's market, a little water (cover to steam) –
An international meal (just like the cast of "Lost"!) –
An organic nectarine for dessert. I am not a total "Lost" geek but I do have the action figure of "Jin" (when else in my life am I going to be able to own a friend in toy form?!) and brought it out for the occasion.
(If you haven't already, be sure to check out my interview with Daniel about his diet!)
Even Julius watched. He's as old as the show!
Mid-way through I sipped on some Decaf Coconut Thai Chai with Tempt Hemp Milk and Old Bank Honey. Sorry it's so dark – we had the lights off while we watched…
Overall, I was happy with the finale (like I said in my previous post, I had no expectations so I couldn't be disappointed) but am very confused. There's a lot I don't quite get, but it was still a satisfying ending.
This morning, I was actually hungry for breakfast at a "normal" hour – around 9am. The return of an old favorite!
I whipped up a batch for me and Abe – this serves two:
- The last of the Bob's 10-grain cereal, a little less than 1/4 cup (I am not crazy about this blend since it doesn't get very voluminous like oat bran and won't be buying it again)
- A little more than 1/2 a cup of rolled oats
- 1.5 cups water
- 1 small, very ripe banana
- 4 TB egg whites
- About 1/2 cup sweetened frozen cranberries
Toppings: Just Blueberries Powder, Beach Bash Trail Mix, and Liquid Vanilla Stevia.
Time to walk and memorize lines!


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CAPE GIRARDEAU -- A season spent on an upward trend ended on a down note for the Notre Dame girls soccer team Saturday night.
The Bulldogs gave up a goal just more than four minutes into their Class 2 state quarterfinal against Rosati-Kain and eventually lost 6-1.
"It was kind of what I expected," Notre Dame coach Jeff Worley said. "There wasn't any one player. The two previous games we had a 50-plus goal scorer and then a 40-plus goal scorer, and they didn't have that. But you could see the way their scoring was balanced and against the teams that they played, that they could come at you from any position, that they get forward as a team extremely well. And you could see that tonight."
Five different Rosati-Kain players scored in the game.
"They all attacked very well, and they all played defense," Notre Dame senior Brianne Sanders said. "Like I said, we just didn't come out as hard as we could in the very beginning, and I think that kind of threw us off a little bit in our game plan, so we just had to regroup and try to recover."
The Kougars scored their first goal with 35 minutes, 55 seconds left in the first half when senior Tayisah Pohtos buried a ball in the left side of the goal.
"That first goal was a give-and-go, and it was all about the speed of being able to do it," Worley said. "It was a very quick give-and-go. If you're slow about it, you don't get an open look. Theirs was so fast that they got a quick, open look at it. It just makes the shot that much more dangerous."
Pohtos was the only Rosati-Kain player to score twice in the game.
"What we heard was that they played the same kind of game that we did," Pohtos said about her team's preparation for Notre Dame. "Lots of passing and keeping possession rather than just kicking, which is what we saw."
Rosati-Kain added to its lead before the midway point of the half when freshman Christina Niedbalski created space for herself in front of the goal before scoring.
"They definitely came out harder than us in the beginning," Sanders said. "I think we were kind of more laid back and we weren't at the top of our game at the very beginning. That allowed them, definitely, to get ahead in the game early. They put two in extremely early in the game."
Rosati-Kain added two more goals before halftime, one of which came on a penalty kick after an intentional hand ball in the box.
"We talked about at halftime that you can just fold the tents up and say, 'That's it,' but we won't improve that way," Worley said. "We have to go out and continue to try to improve on things, and whatever time we have left we need to make it enjoyable. If we get on each other, if it's going to be your last game, you don't want that to be your memory of the season."
The Bulldogs put together a much-improved season compared to a year ago despite having just two seniors, Sanders and Hali Rendleman, on their roster. They finished 7-9 a year ago and lost to Farmington in the district semifinals.
Notre Dame won both their district and a sectional-round game to finish 13-8 this season.
"Our team was mostly really young. We had a lot juniors and sophomores on this team," Sanders said. "Hali and I being the only seniors, we definitely had to tell them what to do and all that stuff, but they're a great group of girls. They're going to do amazing next year."
Notre Dame's scored the game's final goal with just under 10 minutes left. Sophomore Maddie Baumgart scored after a teammate's shot rebounded off the Rosati-Kain keeper.
"I think it really just happened because our team didn't give up," Baumgart said. "When the ball was rejected the first time, they put it back in. They were just always there, and it just happened that I was the one to poke it in."


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UNO derives from the Latin word for one and stands for "as one".
UNO is the root of Unity.
UNO is a theme that brings the sunken unified toolbar/titlebar look&feel to every single window on your system (metal or aqua, and already unified windows as well).
On an higher level, UNO's main goal is to enhance aqua interface consistence, by making all elements look&feel as one.
Required OS: not specified
Tags: theme , appearance
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Not compatible with iTunes 7.5 (yet) but instead it simply launches and the option to alter your iTunes will be greyed out....so no problems there (especially if you use Aqua4iTunes as well).
One problem though is now there is a separate option for quicktime. When I enabled this, my quicktimes broke, necessitating a complete re-install. What was happening was that movie's were playing but with sound only, no video. Clicking "Restore" in UNO had no effect - the window did revert to look graphically as it used to, but video was still broken.
Luckily going to the apple website and re-downloading Quicktime 7.3 dmg (and re-installing) "cured" the issue (qt 7.3 now works, albeit with it's window not-uno'd).
Apart from that, all other GUI's work fine and look nice all unified.
Overall, as long as you don't alter QT with it, it still works brilliantly.
(BTW, PPC 10.4.10 used here).
UNO 1.5.2 was just released, with full support for iTunes 7.3.1.
maybe this help http://gui.interacto.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=46&Itemid=33
I'm having the same problems as everyone else. I had to reinstall iTunes, and disable UNO for iTunes, but I left it on for everything else and it works fine. I juse emailed them about it, and hopefully they'll do something about it. Until then, I have to deal with a slightly darker iTunes. :-)
This is an awesome app, but does not seem to be compatible with iTunes 7.2 yet. But then, neither is Aqua4iTunes without the recent update.
Just had to waste time uninstalling and reinstalling iTunes as it was totally corrupted by Uno. Definately not impressed.
Does this work the way Shapeshifter does? And thus have the potential for the same problems?
The new mail skin is worth this app alone!
this new version (1.5) is even better (as it should be). what is a subtle difference to some is a better mac world for others. i love especially what it does for iTunes. great freeware!
The 1.5, just out today, can now skin iTunes, Mail, Preview...
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I-75 south reopens after crash at Mitchell Ave.
Police say car, semitrailer collided
UPDATED 7:31 PM EST Jan 30, 2013
Multiple lanes were closed Wednesday evening by a crash on southbound Interstate 75 at Mitchell Avenue.
A car and semitrailer collided on the expressway, snarling traffic for miles.
Only one lane was open at 5 p.m. and all lanes reopened about 7:25 p.m.
No information was available about possible injuries.
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EAST PRAIRIE - The Kelly Hawks basketball team took another step towards an improbable conference championship with a 56-48 road win over the East Prairie Eagles on Tuesday.
The Hawks, now 6-14 overall and 4-0 in the Scott-Mississippi Conference, have two games conference games left. They host Delta next Tuesday at 6:30 and they will travel to Oran the following Thursday.
At East Prairie, the Hawks trailed by eight points with about three minutes left in the game but they rallied to pull out the victory.
Kelly out-scored the Eagles 22-9 in the fourth quarter.
East Prairie led 16-6 after one quarter and still led 25-24 at the half. They extended their lead to 38-34 entering the fourth quarter.
Kelly was just 1-of-14 from the field in the first quarter.
"We just couldn't get it to fall early," said Kelly head coach Nick Lanpher. "The ball just wasn't bouncing our way. We came out in the fourth quarter and they were hitting those 3s. It was unbelievable how well they shot."
The Eagles canned nine 3-pointers on the night led by Josh Shoffner's four and Matt Boyer's three. Shoffner and Boyer led the team with 12 and 11 points respectively.
"We went to a man-to-man late in the fourth quarter and we finally got it turned around," said Lanpher. "The boys didn't give up and it paid off. We picked up our intensity in the fourth."
Tyler Schlosser led the Hawks with 15 points. Major Burger added 13 points and Barry Zeigler had 12. Hawk standout Michael Romas played in his first game since before Christmas and finished with seven points.
Kelly's junior varsity won 63-39 over East Prairie to improve to 16-7 on the season and 4-0 in conference play.
DEXTER -- Dexter ended its regular season on Friday with a 70-63 win over Doniphan.
The Bearcats held just a two-point lead with two minutes left in regulation, but went to a delay and were able to hit their free throws down the stretch to pull away late.
While it was a win, Dexter head coach Eric Sitze wasn't pleased with how his team ended the regular season.
"We can't win a district with the way we're playing right now," said Sitze. "We're just not playing very good team defense. Fortunately, we don't play Friday and we have some days here where we can work on that."
Kyle Christian led the Bearcats with 21 points. Chris Carr scored 18 and Chad Gill finished with 10.
Danny Kellas paced Doniphan with 18.
"We're glad to get the regular season over with, and we're still confident," said Sitze. "Hopefully we can approach districts like it's a new season, and get back to the way we were playing earlier in the year."
Dexter played the game without Matt Christian, who is nursing a knee injury. His prognosis is day-to-day.
Doniphan (10-13) will host North County on Friday. Dexter (22-3) will face Fredericktown in the first round of district play on Tuesday at Sikeston.
CHAFFEE -- Chaffee's 14-point margin in the middle quarters keyed its Mississippi Valley Conference win over Delta. Chase Eskew led Chaffee (6-15, 3-2) with 19 points, followed by James Reischman's 17 and Brent Thomason's 11.
"I was proud of the guys tonight," said Chaffee head coach David Mirly. "It's a big cross-town rivalry, and we executing our gameplan perfectly. Our intensity was extremely high, this was the best game we've played all season. I feel like we're peaking at the right time."
Delta (8-14, 2-2) was paced by four players in double figures: Lance Kinder (13), Craig Bock (12), Joey Keys (12) and Brent Menz (12).
"We're feeling real good about ourselves now," said Mirly. "The kids are really working hard, and they're starting to get some wins for it."
Chaffee will travel to Oran on Friday, while Delta hosts Leopold.
"Oran may set us back to reality real fast, but we're going to go over there and give them our best shot," said Mirly.
"We're not going to go over there and just give up."
BERNIE -- Bernie defeated Richland in a key matchup with 1A District 2 seeding ramifications Tuesday night, 70-54.
Chad Wooldridge led the scoring attack for Bernie with 22 points, followed by Marcus Johnson with 20.
Robert Johnson hit four 3-pointers and finished with 20 points. For Richland, Sherome Cole led the charge with 18 points, followed by Josh McMullin with 13.
Bernie (15-6, 4-2) will travel to Bloomfield on Friday.
Richland (9-13, 1-3) will host Woodland on Friday.
ADVANCE -- In a game with major implications for the upcoming Class 1A, District 2 boys basketball tournament, Oran rallied past host Advance 59-56 Tuesday night.
Oran trailed by two points when Matt Seyer nailed a 3-point basket with 25 seconds left to put the Eagles up by one.
After Advance missed a pair of shots, Oran's Patrick Friga hit two free throws with 3.9 seconds left for a three-point lead. The Hornets then missed a 3-pointer at the buzzer.
Ryne Wood led the Eagles (16-6) with 19 points. Friga had 16 and Nathan Seyer added 15.
Andrew Jenkins pumped in a game-high 23 points for the Hornets (15-8). Oran will host Chaffee on Friday while Advance travels to Scott Central.
CHARLESTON -- Cape Central went 11-for-20 from 3-point range but was outrebounded 41-22 as Charleston posted a SEMO Conference victory.
Jordy Mixon and Kewain Gant scored 19 points apiece to lead the Bluejays (14-7, 4-3). Ashton Farmer added 10.
Matt Cardin paced the Tigers (4-19, 0-8) with 21 points. Ryan Delph had 13 and Jay Ruark 11.
Charleston will travel to Poplar Bluff on Friday while Cape Central travels to play St. Louis University High.
OAK RIDGE -- St. Vincent (11-8), behind 29 points from Tyler Wengert, cruised to victory.
Jeff Cowan and Adam Hahs led Oak Ridge (7-15) with 13 and 11 points, respectively.
LEOPOLD -- Kevin Holzum poured in 30 points, Scott VanGennip had 24 and Josh Van de Ven added 14 as Leopold (8-13, 3-1) rolled to a Mississippi Valley Conference victory.
Zalma (2-16, 0-4) got 16 points from Steven McCain, 13 from Chad Wiseman and 13 from Brad McKlin
MARBLE HILL -- Luke Johnson scored 12 points and Travis Benfield had 11 but Woodland (9-11, 0-5) still dropped a Stoddard County Conference contest.
Some information in this roundup was provided by SEMO News Service.


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IO Data Centers LLC, a maker of small corporate data centers, has tapped banks to help it prepare for an initial public offering that could come later this year, according to people familiar with the matter.
The company, which builds so-called modular data centers that house gear corporations use to run their computing infrastructure, has chosen Goldman Sachs Group, Morgan Stanley and Bank of America Merrill Lynch to lead its IPO, the people said. The Phoenix company will likely seek to raise around $100 million in the offering, which could come as soon as December, the people said. Its revenues are growing at about 50% annually, putting the company on track to generate up to $150 million this year, they added.
IO Data Centers announced in September that it had confidentially filed papers with the Securities and Exchange Commission for an IPO under the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act. The JOBS Act, as it is known, enables companies that meet certain criteria — including annual revenue of under $1 billion — to keep their IPO planning quiet for longer than they would have been able to in the past.
The company builds data centers, packed with servers as well as storage and networking equipment, which are roughly the size of an 18-wheel truck. Customers can deploy them closer to their offices than the football field-sized data centers they typically rent space in now. IO Data Centers also develops software to run these modular data centers more efficiently, at a time when the electricity requirements for running large-scale computing infrastructure are on the rise.
An IO Data Centers IPO would come amid a flurry of computer networking share offerings since the summer. These include FireEye, the cyber-security software maker whose shares nearly doubled in their first day of trading in September, and Barracuda Networks Inc., a data-storage and security company that is also on file to go public.
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Hi Nick, thanks for the warm welcome
First some context. For the past fourteen years I have been researching and teaching in the Product Design Department at The Glasgow School of Art. For the past seven years I have been a Visiting Professor at HDK, Design School, Göteborg, Sweden.
My current research and design activities concern the understanding of the changing nature of society, ecology and economy and how design and design education may be transformed to act and support how we may live with greater empathy, respect and humility in a world that is in a period of significant change. A specific focus within this is the development of the "Citizen Designer" capable of working within social enterprise and community regeneration. A broad ambition being to cultivate creative practice able to support existing and emerging social enterprises and communities and also the strategic future development of the profession. I am an academic by necessity and a pragmatist by nature.
I work a lot in active design projects with students, here is a selection:
• Together with Masters students in Design Innovation won The Audi Design Foundation competition, Sustain our Nation, for the design of a social enterprise, the project now being in the implementation phase in Wyndford, Glasgow. It is expected that this new model of design innovation has significant potential for growth and adaption in designing for resilience in a convivial society, has special value in designing for transformation in our changing society and opens up new roles for the designer as citizen. See - www. getgoglasgow.co.uk
• Choreography of Care for the Elderly. This seven week long student project involved working collaboratively with practitioners from across the health, public, voluntary and private sector agencies, as well as older people and their carers from the Southside of Glasgow. The project's objective was to gain a holistic understanding of what it may mean to live a good older life and to suggest meaningful services and experiences devolved into the community through four key themes; anticipatory care, reablement, partnership working and communication and social isolation. See: http://www.iriss.org.uk/project/future-choreography-care-older-people
• You, Me, Us and Them. A six week project embedding design students in 6 Glasgow social enterprises to explore the nature of social enterprises and co-create design activities to help develop some aspect to the benefit of the host organisation. The enterprises involved were: Glasgow Wood Recycling, Spruce Carpets, Shelter, Oxfam, Unity and the Prince and Princess of Wales Hospice.
From October to November I am running this project again and have 3 enterprises signed up already - The Galgael Trust, The Bike Shed and the Prince and Princess of Wales Hospice. The Social Enterprise Academy is helping also.
In the Glasgow School of Art we are starting a Masters Degree in Design and Citizenship
If anyone finds this interesting please contact me as there is much more to tell
Thanks for your comments, we are a bit isolated here so it is good to see what everyone is doing. The airport has already had an impact with some people returning to the island from Ascension, Falklands and the UK, shortages of rented accomodation and food (particularly fruit and vegetables but most of the shelves are empty now even when the ship does arrive so although no-one is starving it is difficult, expensive and time consuming to get things. Lots of talk about increasing agricultural production but nothing tangible yet. On the back of the airport opening we are also looking at a big hotel development with a golf course and all the usual things(up to 400 people staying) on an island with a population of under 4000. - massive changes and all the emphasis on economic development and virtually no support for social and cultural development (only me and I have no budget to work with at all).
Interesting times ahead!
In answer to your question there is one social enterprise, SHAPE, which was set up following support from COPE in the Shetlands.
Hi Nick,
Thank you for your message. I am enthusiastic about sharing ideas and experiences and also in expanding the community.
Best wishes,
Thanks for your comment Nick - project has been a bit slow in getting going but in the next few months I am hoping that we can make real progress. Happy to share as things unfold
Best wishes
Wonderful, thanks Nick. I've put all the events up now so hopefully we'll start getting some interest! All the best.
Hi Nick,
Thanks for your interest in the book. It would be great to do an event around it early next year - in a way that mutually complements your work and mine. Maybe we could do a short version of the IFF World Game around a them of interest to local Fiery Spirits.
let me know when you see a possibility shaping up.
best wishes
Nick, thanks,
So, inspired by your book ... my thoughts
There is an old adage "Starting where your audience is" ... I think there is more to be explored on that point ... how groups might frame the narrative of community resilience in all kinds of situations and for all kinds of people. How we might construct our locally appropriate story of community resilience.
We are not all in communities where shared purpose is brought into focus eg by a visible emergency, so how do we take the vision of resilience and make it clear and compelling for Mrs Jones ... and Dan Brown ...so that it spreads from platform to platform in the community and begins to shape public opinion/support structural change. I think this is about framing the story so that it spreads.
Many thanks Nick...enjoyed contributing and would love to do more. Its a very interesting agenda.....
Hello Nick - thanks for the message, grand to hear from you. I knew you had one little boy, and now it's two! All good with me thanks. I moved from the bassac side to join Locality when we merged with the dta and still work on programmes around voice and impact. Tempered radicals, folk devils and creative delinquency all still big for me too. My partner lives in Bristol so I spend half the month with him and half the month in Alston. I like fiery spirits and look forward to getting amongst it R xxxx
thank you. Angus Hogg mentioned this site to me this morning and suggested we get in touch with you and Geoff Brown. Are you about week-commencing 16th May? Happy to come over to you.
Hi Nick,
could you please change the date of the event I posted on Saturday to 28 February? It would be useful if the website enabled users to re-edit their entries.
Many thanks, Elke
Hi Nick, many thanks for adding me as a friend, I`m very much a "Newbie" here an still finding me way aboot!


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Issue No.03 - March (1988 vol.21)
pp: 25-39
DOI Bookmark: http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/2.29

The adaptive linear combiner (ALC) is described, and practical applications of the ALC in signal processing and pattern recognition are presented. Six signal processing examples are given, which are system modeling, statistical prediction, noise canceling, echo canceling, universe modeling, and channel equalization. Adaptive pattern recognition using neural nets is then discussed. The concept involves the use of an invariance net followed by a trainable classifier. It makes use of a multilayer adaptation algorithm that descrambles output and reproduces original patterns.

"Neural Nets for Adaptive Filtering and Adaptive Pattern Recognition", Computer, vol.21, no. 3, pp. 25-39, March 1988, doi:10.1109/2.29


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Frederick Jackson Turner in The Spanish-American War
Frederick Jackson Turner (1861-1932) was an American historian best known for his book, The Significance of the Frontier in American History, in which he presented his "Frontier Thesis." This central thesis was that the vitality of the American spirit rested on westward expansion.
Turner, who was chosen to speak in Chicago during the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition, told his audience that all the land in the American western frontier had been explored and settled, and the great era of expansion appeared to be over. He assured his audience, however, that expansion could continue as long as the U.S. broadened its notion of "manifest destiny" and looked beyond its continental borders toward the rest of the world. This message was of great importance to a nation that was increasingly coming to value imperial expansion.


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Gregory Vineyards275 Bowling Spring Drive, Angier, NC 27501 Angier, North Carolina United States of America
Gregory Vineyards Lane Gregory, Larry Gregory, Teresa Gregory Hidden Prejudice Made Public Humiliating a Customer (Hate Speech) Angier, North Carolina
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I am an African American female, and my husband is Caucasian. My husband and I went for a joy ride. It was my idea to go by Gregory Vineyard in Angier, NC to check it out. We did their full test taste of
all eight wines in order to support their family business. We were discreet when we noticed that none of the wine tasted as though they were ready to be bottled in our opinion. But we were still willing to
give the two year old business a chance and purchased a bottle of their
wine, cheese, and Lance crackers.
The Gregory family were having a Christmas gathering at the public
establishment with customers present. [continued below]....
Because I stated that I was cold earlier, they offered us a table at the fireplace. We took it. Shortly thereafter, Larry ordered Lane Gregory to turn off the gas fire place. Larry didn't even glance in our direction or ask if it was OK to turn off the fireplace right next to our table where we were invited to sit. Lane obeyed and turned it off immediately with absolutely NO concern for our comfort. He purposefully didn't even look at us as he quickly turned it off and returned to the family circle of approximately 20 other Gregory's for a Christmas gathering.
From the head of a circle created, Larry loudly shared of past Christmas gifts when he asked one of the family member do they, "remember you got that black n****r doll! Yes, this was a direct quote. The family members showed their amusement by laughing out loud. COMPLETELY ignoring my husband and I's presence or stating it on purpose so that we knew where they stood. Hard to tell. Either way, it was humiliating for us though it showcased the utter ignorance of the Gregory's.
Right after displaying his "hate speech," Larry immediately proceeded to remind everyone that the reason for the Christmas season is Jesus. He then asks everyone to bow their heads in prayer for continued blessings upon their family and ended with in Jesus name, Amen.
As a Christian mixed race couple, we were appalled by the mixture of blatant show of prejudice and praying in the name of Jesus in the same breath!
When they were done with their "prayer," Larry's final word was, Im the oldest, so follow me. I thought that to be the saddest thing of all metaphorically since there were quite a few children there that will likely do just that ... follow his example and world view. As they went to get into the buffet line for the family, my husband beckoned Lane Gregory over to our table. I asked Lane if I heard the head
of his family correctly about the prejudice comment and the show of support of the comment with laughter by the family. He was a bit antsy and not quite sure what to do and lied, um I think he said negro. That is a direct quote from Lane Gregory.
However, his wife, Teresa, later admitted that she heard exactly what I heard as we were paying for the wine tasting, crackers, and a bottle of wine that we had already opened. Did she or Lane offer the light snack and bottle of wine as complimentary in order to lightly make up for humiliation that caused us to quickly get out of there? No. Not that we would have accepted it. But it would have been the right thing to do if they had any business ethics at all. Horrible example. Just horrible.
I love to support small family owned businesses since they are economically the backbone of our country (or use to be). Obviously, that wont be happening here. They took what would have been the end of a very pleasant day for my husband and I and utterly ruined it with their open display of ignorance. The saddest thing was that quite a few of the family members were young children that will likely grow up with the same mind set.
We will, however, pray from a distance for a true repentant heart instead of a sorry that you over heard it type attitude of the Gregory family members present.
Because we choose to support family owned businesses with ethical standards and not that of bigotry (hidden or public), we will not be returning to Gregory Vineyards and pray for a sincere conversion of heart by each of them that are prejudice at heart.
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