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Meet Tao Porchon-Lynch, The World's Oldest Yoga InstructorCBS2's Mary Calvi sits (and stretches) with the legendary yogi, and learns more about her incredible life as a fitness guru, model and activist.
First Day Of Summer Marked With Free Yoga In Times SquareThe Times Square Alliance is marking the occasion by offering sun salutations and other yoga moves at the crossroads of the world.
Seen At 11: Getting Fit Through Anti-Gravity Yoga And 'Cocooning'The cocooning payoff actually comes at the end of an anti-gravity yoga class at Crunch Fitness. It's a series of yoga moves that uses the hammock as a support for someone's own body weight, letting that person completely surrender into each pose.
Many Yogis Turning To Breweries As Unconventional Place Of PracticeYoga advocates say the venue choice may encourage more people to consider taking up the practice.
5 Healthy Ways To Start Your Day In NYCThere's nothing better than starting out your day with a little reflection and relaxation. Here are five ways you can connect mind and body before the chaos of the city hits you.
Tom Coughlin Massages 'Spa Day' Into Schedule For Banged-Up GiantsThe Giants have been hit with so many injuries the past few seasons that coach Tom Coughlin is experimenting with practicing less.
Best Places To Buy Yoga Gear In NYCFind all that you need, and more, at one of the following yoga boutiques in New York City.
Times Square Celebrates First International Yoga DayOn a soggy Sunday morning, thousands ushered in the summer solstice in Times Square by taking part in an all-day yoga event.
Yoga For Life In Times SquareSee how yoga can empower your life by visiting Times Square on June 21st to get your copy of Colleen Saidman Yee's new book, "Yoga For Life: A Journey To Inner Peace And Freedom."
Stories From Main Street: At 96, Hartsdale Yoga Instructor Still Going StrongA nearly 100-year-old Hartsdale yoga instructor is proving age is all in your mind.
How Trish Stratus Went From WWE Legend To Yoga IconWWE Hall of Famer Trish Stratus went from pro wrestling's squared circle to the yoga mat.
Morning Gloryville Brings Dawn Of 'Rave-olution'A sunrise rave known as Morning Gloryville, happens before most people go into work and is part of what organizers call "conscious clubbing," meaning the event is without drugs or alcohol.


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Video made for MAHOU –Spanish beer brand– to be projected during the Madrid Fashion Week. A choreography around a bottle where each graphic element orbits without pause. Commissioned by Interbrand Madrid. «This video manages to break loose from the familiar advertising aesthetics in this branch by creating an entirely new style.» –Statement by the Red Dot jury.
Brand Film
*Silver LAUS
*Red Dot
Opening titles for the 7th International Water Congress. With chemistry we can create water transforming unsafe water into drinking water. Create the word "WATER" with laboratory objects was the chosen way to tell this idea. Client: ANQUE (Spanish National Chemistry Association).
Open Credits
*Silver LAUS
*Vimeo Staff Picks
Data design, animation and video compositing. The exact distance to the dartboard, the perfect temperature for a massage, the right point of the flesh and the same number of petals in each bath. Every detail is taken into account to make an amazing holidays. Thanks to infographics we could to transmit all this care and precision.
Motion Infographic
Commissioned by Freelance For
Client: Sra. Rushmore
Annual book design for Spanish Corrugated Board Association. The publication consists of two parts; The first explains the work of the association while the second one is an economic annex. For data representation we use the carton wave as the main element to develop a graphic system. Cardboard cover; kraft and recycled paper inside.
96 pages
Papers: Cyclus offset, Krakt
"Tres" (three) is a number made from overlapping textures. Playing with geometrical shapes and colors, this non commercial project is an experiment about typography, stamp texture, motion and sound design.
Motion & Sound Design
No-commercial Project
Brand identity and a graphical system development.IPS is the Institute for Sustainable Production. Sustainable production means doing the same with less, using only the minimum raw materials, energy, resources,etc. Basic geometric shapes help to visualize this idea, develop a graphical system and create a brand identity beyond the logo.
Brand Identity
Client: IPS
Art direction and animation for cinema commercial. What is the simplest way to draw a pair glasses? With lines and circles. To tell this story we mix lines and circles for design several objects; vinyl records, arrows, streets, bows, eyes, glasses,... Art direction and animation for cinema ad made for this glasses shop.
Art & Motion Design
Client: Kaleos
Brochure design for AFCO. Every year AFCO –Spanish Corrugated Board Association– publish the main numbers of the corrugated board industry in Spain. Then they send it to their partners and key stakeholders. This infographic depicts the scheme of running of a corrugating machine cardboard.
Papers: Cyclus Offset, Kraft
Client: AFCO
Design of interactive infographics to explain how HIV works within our body. You can see them in the app that was developed on the occasion of 30th anniversary of the HIV discovery. Download app
Interactive Infographic
Commissioned by The Fact
"Through the Breaking Glass" Ending credits. As in the shortfilm, the credits are a journey, but here in a typographical way. Magic boxes, stars, mirrors and lot of fantasy. For more information check out the official website.
Title Credits
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Catch a showdown with this GrouponLive deal to see the Miami Marlins at Marlins Park.
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The Marlins take the field at Marlins Park: an eco-friendly, 37,000-seat facility equipped with a retractable roof, plexiglass fish tanks behind home plate, and a vibrant sculpture in left-center field that kicks into motion for Marlins home runs. Born in 1993, the Florida Marlins quickly established themselves as contenders in the National League, taking home World Series titles in 1997 and 2003. And today, after some light rebranding to go along with the new ballpark, the rechristened Miami Marlins aim to continue traditions new and old, expand their list of Hall of Famers, and train the ballpark's fish to stealthily intercept batting signals.
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The Amphitheatrum Flavium
a.k.a. Colosseum or Coliseum (though in olden times Romans referred to it as Amphitheatrum Caesareum or hunting theatre), was built by the Flavian emperors Vespasian, Titus and Domitian between 71-72 and 80 AD as a gift to the Roman citizens in the place where the previous Emperor Nero (37-68 AD) had his residence, the Domus Aurea. (Click here to see what was there before Nero).
The city needed an amphitheatre, as the only one with a (partially) stone structure, which had been built by Statilius Taurus in 29 BC, was too small. The emperor Caligula (12-41 AD) had started the works for a new amphitheatre, but Claudius (10-54 AD) stopped them when he came to power. Nero, too, refused to use the old Statilius' building and preferred to have his own amphitheatre built in the Campus Martis. It was a beautiful one, according to the historians, but it was destroyed, probably in the famous fire of AD 64.
Nero's death in 68 AD marked the end of the Julio-Claudian dynasty; the Flavian family came to power. The emperor Vespasian was acknowledged as emperor by the Senate in 69, and wanted to make a political gesture to reconcile the Roman citizens with the new dynasty. So he gave back to the Romans most of the land that Nero had occupied in the centre of the city, and had the amphitheatre - a public facility - built in the place where once there was a huge artificial pond, in the park of Nero's residence.
It took about ten years to build the amphitheatre. Vespasian started the works in 72 AD and his son Titus (that's him smiling in the statue on the right) dedicated it in the year 80 with magnificent games that lasted one hundred days. It is generally accepted that the building was completed by the following emperor, Domitian, Titus' brother, who excavated the hypogea, the area under the floor of the arena, where the shows were prepared that can now be visited.
In the amphitheatre, a Roman invention, were held shows that we would condemn today: the most popular were the venationes (hunts) and the munera (gladiatorial games). The Roman ruling class was obliged, by law and by the expectation of the people, to organize these shows to gain the favour of the citizens. The organization of the games, which involved great expenses, became a matter of public interest and was regulated by many laws.
The whole area around the amphitheatre was dedicated to the games; near the Colosseum Domitian also built four ludi, the prisons where gladiators had their training. The bestiarii, who fought against the beasts, trained in the Ludus Matutinus, so called because the show with the animals was held in the morning. Then there was the Ludus Gallicus, the Ludus Dacicus and the Ludus Magnus. Click here for a comprehensive virtual tour of imperial Rome.
The Colosseum remained in service for four and a half centuries; there is evidence of many changes, additions and repairs. Many times was the amphitheatre destroyed by fire. Though the main structure was made of stone, a quantity of wooden elements (in the undergrounds, the arena itself, the masts of the velarium, the terraces and the roofs of the upper floor) fed the fire which in turn ruined the stone.
The first repairs were probably made during emperor Antoninus Pius (86-161), as proven by one Corinthian capital of a column of that age found by the archaeologists, after a fire had destroyed 350 houses in the city.
Major repairs, actually an almost complete rebuilding, were carried out after 217 AD, the year in which the upper floor was struck by lightning and went on fire. The embers set alight the wooden floor of the arena that in turn collapsed igniting the wooden structures beneath it and the rest of the building. The seven companies of Vigiles (fire brigade) of the city were summoned, and also the sailors of the Castra Misenatium, who normally manoeuvred the velarium, but to no avail. The Colosseum became an enormous brazier that stopped burning only after the fuel was consumed. Almost nothing was left of the Flavian building, and for five years the shows were held at the circus.
It took more than thirty years to rebuild the Roman amphitheatre. Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus, also known as Heliogabalus or Elagabalus (203 – 222) started the works. The building - still unfinished - was reopened and dedicated to the gods in 222 under Alexander Severus, who ordered that the taxes paid by pimps, prostitutes and homosexuals would be destined to the repair of public buildings, among which the amphitheatre.
Actually the repairs were completed only in 240 under Gordian III and a coin was minted for the occasion. Gordian wanted to celebrate in Rome a lavish triumph for his victory in the war against the Persians, and had collected 32 elephants, 10 elks, 10 tigers, 60 lions, 30 leopards, 10 hyenas, 1000 couples of gladiators from the imperial ludi, 6 hippos, 1 rhinoceros, 10 bears, 10 giraffes, 20 Asiatic wild asses, 40 wild horses and many other animals.
However, Gordian died in Persia in mysterious circumstances. Persian sources claim that at the beginning of 244 Gordian fought in a battle near modern Fallujah (Iraq), which ended with a major Roman defeat and his death. Roman sources on the contrary do not mention this battle and suggest that Gordian died somewhere else, upstream of the Euphrates. Philip, who succeeded Gordian as emperor, came to Rome and used all those animals. They were first exhibited and then killed on occasion of the shows organised for the millennium of the city: April 21, 248.
The amphitheatre was again damaged - according to some sources - during the reign of Decius (201–251) or of Trebonianus Gallus (206–253). Decius led many persecutions against the Christians: among the victims were the bishop of Rome, Fabianus, and the future saints Ireneus, Abundius and Policronius. Two Persian subregoli (vassals), Abdon and Sennen, were executed in the arena and their bodies were left in the area between the Colosseum and the Meta Sudans, in the spot where a small church was later dedicated to them in the V century; this church was still there in the XV century.
In 262, during the reign of Gallienus (218-268) a violent earthquake devastated the Eastern Mediterranean; also Rome was affected, so much that the following year a plague epidemic spread in the city.
In 312 the Senate dedicated to the emperor Constantine the triumphal arch that is still standing near the Colosseum, and replaced the face of the Colossus with that of the new emperor. The head of Constantine was found in the XVI century between the pedestal of the statue and the Meta Sudans and it is now in the Capitoline Museums.
In 320 the amphitheatre was again struck by lightning, but it wasn't heavily damaged. From this date onwards no more fires are reported, but there have been many earthquakes.
In 357 the emperor Constantius II (317-361) visited Rome and was very impressed by the amphitheatre. The historian Ammianus Marcellinus that same year described it as in very good conditions.
The last gladiatorial combat is recorded in 404, after emperor Theodosius established Christian orthodoxy, banned paganism and started persecuting its followers. Pagan holidays were abolished, the Temple of Vesta destroyed, the Vestal Virgins disbanded and auspices and sacrifices were considered witchcraft and punished. So it was in this period that most ancient Roman traditions and lifestyle ceased to exist. Also, from these years we have no further literary information about the Colosseum, and the only sources are the texts of inscriptions on stone slabs.
From 408 to 410 the city was besieged by Alaric (370 - 410), king of the Visigoth. In the end his troops plundered the city for three days. During the Visigoth war the amphitheatre was completely abandoned and its surroundings actually became a burial site, as the sieges prevented the Romans from burying the dead outside the walls. After the war these cemeteries were "reclaimed" by burying them under 2 metres of earth, and one of them was rediscovered only in 1895.
89 burial places, dating from Diocletian to Theodoric times (IV-VI century) have been found in the valley of the Colosseum, mainly in the NE sector. 63 burial places have been found in and around the amphitheatre, though only 56 have been mapped. These 56 are located in 3 places. The 15 on the eastern side and the 18 on the northern side were outside the travertine paving around the amphitheatre, which was still in use. The third group of 23 tombs (VI century) were found inside the northern portico.
So the obvious conclusion is that during the V century the area was abandoned, but the amphitheatre was still in use; in the VI, when the amphitheatre was closed, it was used for burials.
The trauma of the Visigoth sack induced about half the population to leave the city. At the end of the IV century Rome still counted between half a million and one million inhabitants, but after the shock of the invasion their number halved. The following sacks furtherly reduced the population and at the end of the V century/beginning of the VI there were only about 100.000 Romans left in the city. The Visigoth sack might have obstructed the drains of the amphitheatre, flooded the hypogea and maybe also ruined part of the upper porch that had collapsed in the cavea, as it was once again repaired between 417 and 423 by the Praefectus Urbi Iunius Valerius Bellicius, probably with Praefectus Urbi Rufius Cecina Felix Lampadius, who is mentioned in another inscription. How do we know all this? It is an interesting story.
Between 425 and 450, probably after the 443 earthquake, Lampadius carried out more restoration works on the arena, the podium and on the terraces at his own expense, as he had inscribed on the marble. This particular inscription is also important because it had been carved on a slab that had a former inscription made of bronze letters. These letters left holes in the marble and these holes were deciphered in 1995, and it was found that it had to do with the Palestinian war and the plundering of the Temple of Jerusalem.
After the 429 and 443 ones, another earthquake devastated Rome in 470, and in between, in 455, the city was again sacked, this time for fifteen days, by the Vandals of Genseric (a.k.a. Gaiseric, 389– 477).
Another inscription commemorates the repairs carried out by patrician Messius Phoebus Severus in 470, but the last restoration works mentioned are the ones paid in 484 or 508 by the Praefectus Urbi Decius Marius Venantius Basilius after an earthquake. See the text or the photo.
In any case these works weren't the last to be carried out in the amphitheatre: the arena floor was again raised during the VI century, as stated by the fragments of an inscription found in the amphitheatre which has disappeared but that at the time had been transcribed. This last inscription commemorated the works made by Anastasius, a senator of the period following the fall of the Western Empire.
The last venatio is recorded in 523. Gradually the taste of the public had changed, but the main reason for the end of the games was the military and financial crisis in the western part of the empire, together with the many invasions Italy had suffered. No one could bear the colossal expenses needed to organize the shows, and this made the function of the building obsolete. Perhaps some venationes were held until the end of the VII century (Gentili), but in the VI-IX centuries the amphitheatre was completely abandoned.
In medieval times houses and churches were built in the Colosseum,which was also used as a fortress/residence by the barons of Rome.
Read about it in the next history page: Middle Ages.
The main source for this page is Il Colosseo - AA. VV. - Care of Ada Gabucci, Electa, Milan 1999


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Iv'e been lurking for awhile and decided to hop on the boards. I purchased my first Subaru November 30th. I must say I am loving it! I have wanted an STI now for about 8 years. I just hit the 1000 mile break-in period yesterday, finally. I have already done a decent amount of mods. I look forward to reading all the knowledge out there that is provided on these forums. Again, hello all!
I purchased a 2013 with a short throw shifter and homelink mirror factory installed. Once home, I clayed her and applied 3 coats of Zaino wax.At about 600 miles I ran over to Cobb Tuning in Plano TX. They walked me through the AP and got it installed. I replaced the highbeams and fogs with Sylvania Silverstar ZXE bulbs. Next was the stereo, horrible! Oh, and don't get me started on these Dunlop SP Sport 600 tires, LOUD! I put in a Alpine INE-S920HD Nav unit, PDX amp, JL Audio C5 6.5" components in front and C2 coaxials in the rear. I mounted the tweeters in the stock locations and used a speaker adapter kit for the mids. I also put dynamat superlite in the outer door panel shells and inner. I also put in a video bypass, steering wheel control interface and rear backup camera in a Alpine license plate bracket. That's about all for now, future mods will be the stage 2 and tires. I love the wheels, but I wish the offset were more flush to the fenders, I am not sure what my options are there. I heard of spacers, but that scares me. Input there would be greatly appreciated. Enjoy the few pictures I have.


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Impact of a Simple Prayer
Nikki Washington, Tobin Heath, Ali Hawkins, and Casey Nogueira have something very special in common. All four are three-time NCAA national champions. They've all been extremely successful as members of the U.S. National Women's Soccer Teams. They've all led Bible studies with teammates. But the most important part of their story is that one by one, each was transformed by the Gospel while at the University of North Carolina.
In 1996 I came to UNC to play football and get a degree in physical education. Although it was not a part of my plan, I became a serious follower of Jesus in my freshman year. By the time I graduated in 2000, I decided that I wanted to become a campus minister. My dad was a football coach and my wife, Tiffany, was a sports science major. Athletics was part of our DNA so focusing on ministry to athletes was natural. This year will be our eleventh year in campus ministry.
Around 2005 I began to feel a concern for the women's soccer team at UNC. It's one of the super-elite programs in the country with twenty-one NCAA national championships to their credit. Over the years, over a dozen members of the UNC Women's Soccer team have been chosen as NCAA Player of the Year, including World Cup team stars Mia Hamm, Kristine Lilly, and Cindy Parlow. But to my knowledge there had never been any significant inroads for the Gospel among those teams. I didn't know anyone deeply connected with the team and knew even less about the sport. In my family growing up, football was the only sport that really mattered. All I knew to do was to pray for players I'd never met, participating in a sport I knew nothing about.
As a confirmation that prayer should be our first resort (not our last), Callie Pottinger began coming to our on-campus Bible study. Callie, already a Christian, was a member of UNC's women's track team. Before long, her suitemates from Avery dormitory began attending with her — key members of the UNC women's soccer team. Tobin Heath, Nikki Washington, and Ali Hawkins were all freshmen midfielders who also played on various USA National Teams. After about six weeks, there were eight or nine girls from Avery dorm attending the Bible study.
My wife and I had just had our first child at the end of July 2006, so Tiffany was not on campus in August. Thinking things were going so well with the female students, I asked Tiffany to get involved again. She has a way of cutting through all forms of superficiality and engaging people on a very personal level. It quickly became obvious to her that very few of the soccer players actually believed in Jesus.
Ali Hawkins was an agnostic who was coming to the Bible study to prove to herself and others that religion was just a crutch. But after hearing of the evidence for the resurrection one night, she walked out of a Bible study and said,
"I just feel like I have to believe in Jesus."
Ali did become a believer and a passionate follower of Jesus Christ.
Another UNC and USA National Team members, Nikki Washington, had no previous Christian or church background, spending most of her weekends on traveling soccer teams. Primarily because of the influence of Tobin Heath, Nikki also became a Christian.
Heath began sharing the Gospel with Casey Nogueira. Casey came from a very diverse religious background. Her mother was a lapsed Catholic who searched through various kinds of spiritual disciplines to find peace — new age, Hinduism, Buddhism, etc. Her father, a professional soccer player as well, took the family to new age conferences, meditated, and channeled spirits, looking for ways to increase his performance as a world-class athlete.
On one of the numerous summer team trips, Tobin gave teammate Casey a book to read on the plane: Dinner with a Perfect Stranger by David Gregory (Waterbrook Press, 2005). It's a fictional conversation between a man and his dinner guest, Jesus of Nazareth. Mid-flight Casey sent a note back to Tobin:
Something crazy just happened." After the flight she clarified, "I think I just believed in Jesus."
In the following years, God revealed Himself to many people from Avery dormitory. About twenty students from that dorm attended the Bible study, including eight from the soccer team. Outside of Avery an additional twenty to thirty athletes were coming. In that first year, one of the senior leaders on the women's soccer team sent an email to all the team members, apologizing to them for her hypocrisy and committed her life to Christ.
The UNC Women's Soccer teams were NCAA National Champions in 2006, 2007, and 2009. While Tobin, Casey, and Nikki lead primarily by example, Ali Hawkins was the vocal leader. She was team captain for three years and elected to Phi Beta Kappa. Coach Dorrance said she is one of the greatest leaders he has coached in his thirty-two years at UNC.
Today Nikki Washington, Tobin Heath, and Casey Nogueira all play for various professional soccer teams.
Ali Hawkins left competitive soccer after graduation in 2010 and is now an investment-banking analyst at Goldman Sachs where she views herself as a marketplace missionary in New York City. Ali commented:
"Being immersed in the New York financial world, I have come to realize what an impact those discipleship groups in Avery dorm had on me. It is so amazing to see what a difference Christ has made in my life and how much I grew in those few short years, We have yet to begin a Bible study at work, but I have had so many opportunities to talk with people about a personal relationship with Jesus Christ."
Callie Pottinger, the UNC track athlete who got things going in Avery dorm, is currently in the Every Nation School of Ministry in Durham, NC. Her plans are to go back to UNC as a full-time campus minister.
I'm still at the University of North Carolina, still sharing the Gospel, and still discipling college students. Several members of the current UNC Women's Soccer team are coming to our Bible study, and we are praying for the Holy Spirit to touch the hearts of the entire team.
Charles Kiefer is an Every Nation campus minister at the University of North Carolina.


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So sweet! The Biebs celebrated his little brother's 4th birthday with his family — and shared a touching special message to his youngest sibling on Twitter!
Justin Bieber's adorable brother Jaxon celebrated his fourth birthday on Nov. 20! Justin revealed a new Instagram picture of his little bro grinning at his celebration with his 5-year-old sister Jazzy — and showed off his pretty sweet Power Rangers cake!
Justin Bieber Brother Jaxon's Birthday: Biebs' Little Bro Celebrates 4th Birthday
They grow up so fast! Justin, 19 tweeted his heartfelt birthday wishes to his little brother before he had to head off on a flight to New Zealand:
Happy birthday @JaxonBieber! You are 4!!! I love you very much.
— Justin Bieber (@justinbieber) November 20, 2013
Then, Justin called on his Beliebers to turn Jaxon's birthday into a viral event! He prompted:
Everyone wish my lil brother a big Happy Birthday. #happybirthdayJaxon I love you http://t.co/S6Etgffclg
— Justin Bieber (@justinbieber) November 20, 2013
Justin shared a photo of Jaxon and his awesome birthday cake, which featured the red Power Ranger and a number 4 with a lightning bolt. Looks like Jaxon has some seriously good taste in favorite television shows!
Justin Bieber Dotes On His Younger Siblings
Justin is a doting big brother — and he shares precious quality time with his siblings every time he gets a break from his demanding schedule! Even when he is on tour, he fits in bonding time with his family, even if he has to bring them up on stage to share a moment! Justin awed the crowds at his Nov. 8 concert in Argentina when he brought his little sister Jazzy on stage for an impromptu performance. It's so sweet how easily he connects to his siblings, even though there's a big age gap between them.
What do YOU think, HollywoodLifers? Do you think it's sweet that Justin celebrated his brother's birthday?
— Kristine Hope Kowalski
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Innovation Engineering Experience with Doug Hall
Manufacturing Extension Partnership of Louisiana
Tuesday, April 23, 2013 from 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM (CDT)
Who's Going
San Francisco, California
London, United Kingdom
Florence, Italy
Event Details
The Manufacturing Extension Partnership of Louisiana (MEPOL) in sponsorship with the Lafayette Economic Development Authority (LEDA) and the Opportunity Machine will host an "Innovation Engineering Experience" with Doug Hall of Eureka! Ranch.
Innovation Engineering transforms innovation from a random event into a reliable system, a scientific system, for profitable growth. It accomplishes this by creating a culture of never ending innovation within organizations that delivers increased innovation speed (up to 6x) and decreased risk (30 to 80%).
It Works in LOUISIANA; this from a previous event on Innovation Engineering in Lafayette:
"This was a rare experience to have a high powered seminar like this right
here in our backyard."
- Jay Jackson, President and CEO
Stuller, Inc.
Innovation Engineering Experience is a one day, high intensity experience performed by Doug Hall, Eureka! Ranch CEO and founder of the Innovation Engineering movement with the University of Maine.
The program features a blend of a) high energy presentations, b) "Lab class" where you apply the skills on a case study and c) guided reflection where you consider how you can apply to your organization. The program ends with a three dimensional experience called Paul's Popcorn where the participants experience the entire Innovation Engineering process in 90 minutes.
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how come AquaVitro does not have Traces?
how come AquaVitro does not have Traces? they have all the other lines of NPK and Fe but no traces, why is that? traces are important for plant growth but am surprised they dont have traces.
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never mind, aquavitro envy does contain traces even though its not listed on the back of the bottle.
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The stakes are high and the world would be the victim should the Republicans and Democrats not come to a solution regarding our debt. U.S. citizens, regardless of party affiliation, want to see progress. Anything short of that would cost us dearly -- to avoid solving this problem head-on could cause a ripple effect impacting real GDP of high income and developing countries in 2013. Not to mention this would again paint the U.S. as the 400-pound gorilla who can't climb a tree to find its supper.
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In The Smaller Majority, Piotr Naskrecki, director of the Invertebrate Diversity Initiative at Harvard's Museum of Comparative Zoology, explores a miniature world, transporting the reader through three major biomes—rainforest, savanna and desert—to encounter the microcosms of animals that mostly would "fit inside a matchbox." Naskrecki's photography offers insights into the biology and conservation of these creatures; the sumptuous illustrations that make up the bulk of the book are obviously the work of a fine craftsman.
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In 1942 Enrico Fermi, Leo Szilard and Eugene Wigner began building the world's first nuclear reactor beneath the grandstands of the University of Chicago's football field. In 1963, I visited that very field with my dad, who told me about the reactor and the bombs to which it led. That same year, the Limited Test Ban Treaty was signed, and the Nuclear Age, in the naive sense, began to wind down. Only much later would I come to understand the relation between those events and certain oddities of growing up in the 1950s: the distinctive yellow and black signs near the doors of sturdy buildings, the drills at school during which we huddled beneath our desks, the underground playrooms in neighbors' backyards.
Gerard DeGroot's The Bomb: A Life is the catalyst that has led me to reflect on these things. DeGroot, who writes with grace and wit, offers an overwhelming array of fascinating yet bizarre facts and anecdotes, and he masterfully reveals the complex interface between physicists and politicians. But more than anything, his book gives form to the central cultural feature of the time: the shadow of the mushroom cloud.
The Bomb chronicles nuclear weapons from their conception in the 1930s through the end of the century, focusing mainly on the decisions made from 1940 to 1962 to develop and use devices of unimaginable destruction and become ironically reliant on them for maintaining peace. Was it the Soviets or the Americans who pushed the crazy escalation in megatons and warheads? The answer isn't so simple as I once thought.
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When ThinkFlood released their "RedEye Mini" for the iPhone/iTouch, everybody acted like it was a revolutionary idea to use the audio jack to transmit IR signals and use a cellphone as a universal remote.
This same exact concept was patented and developed by Griffin over 6 years ago and called "Total Remote".
The idea has obviously been around a long time with the biggest hurdle being the software. The idea of playing a sound file for every button for every device is just ridiculously cumbersome, so a User Interface is needed. After addressing that issue, one has to start contemplating how many users would actually be willing to record an audio file for every device manually, so naturally enters the idea of having a pre-existing database of generated files from which the user can pull their devices by name. Of course, lots of new devices come out all the time, and it would be interesting to try to manage this database without some sort of verified source, a large and willing following of opensource volunteers, or some serious capital ($$).
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"The module itself is simply 2 infrared LED's from Radio Shack, (940nm wavelength), a 10-ohm resistor, and a 3.5mm stereo jack. A mono jack will not work for this application. An amplifier module is in the works, and photos of it can be viewed on the emitter page. Buttons in the application trigger each command for the remote by playing the correct 36kHz square wave (.wav file) for each remote function. Each function, (power, volume, channel, etc.) have different waves, as the infrared beam is slightly different for each function."
"In order for the application to successfully perform remote functions, the module must be plugged into the device. The application in short is a square wave generator, which generates the appropriate 36kHz square wave for each button. When the button is pressed, the module receives that 36kHz square wave information from the Audio Out port of the device, converting it into infrared light to control the television.
Furthermore, the square wave samples are recorded and fine tuned using the Nyquist script in Audacity. I referred to this blog post to figure out the correct commands in Nyquist to sharpen the waves. If this is too much for you, luckily someone has written a program called LedRem, allowing us waveform newbies to easily convert our initially recorded waves into IR-ready signals."
Redmote Beta is confirmed to run successfully on my tablet, and produce signal.
However, it's important to note that this is merely a program that links on-screen buttons to the playing of WAV files. No real magic is going on here (It's similar to the thousands of "soundboard" programs that are in the Market).
What needs to be changed/added to Redmote (or a code project started from scratch) to make this practical:
If this functionality was added, you would just need to load the LIRC code text file for the IR device you want to control. Several hundreds of these files could be stored in very little space. The application would parse the file when needed and then generate the audio signal in real-time when you press the corresponding button (essentially a port of LEDRem to the Android platform). This would eliminate the need to store hundreds of WAV files. With the amount of sound makers / waveform generators in the android market, this can't be that large of a task for someone familiar with android programming.
The following proposed ideas may not be practical, but are stated as brain food to help get your "think outside the box" juices flowing.
Another place to start for the PC->IR device side would be a device such as USB-UIRT, or a USB IR Transceiver.
Plenty of linux code exists in the way of IR remote control. Here is an older conglomeration of resources.
For this to become a reality, the following needs to be written or ported from other projects:
All of this stuff has been done before, it's just a matter of bringing it all together into one android-based project.
If the project really took off, future development might include:
Feel free to discuss, correct any errors, bounce new ideas around, etc.


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Foundation distributes Ash funds to three Belding organizations
BELDING — The late Stanley and Blanche Ash were well known throughout Montcalm County for their generous donations and entrepreneurial efforts, but the community of Belding was close to their hearts as well.
Last week, $25,000 was distributed to three organizations in Belding in the first year of grants provided by the Greenville Area Community Foundation (GACF) from the Stanley and Blanche Ash Community Improvement Fund, which is an endowment fund established in the autumn of 2011.
Those organizations include the Belding Skate Park committee, which received $10,000, the Belding Veterans Memorial, which received $10,000, and the Belding Community Garden, which received $5,000.
"Blanche Ash and the Ash Foundation had been very generous over the years to nonprofit organizations in Belding, as well as Greenville and Montcalm County," GACF Director of Grants and Communications Amy O'Brien said. "Being the first year money was available to award from this fund, the GACF wanted to make a strong effort to honor Blanche's wishes to include Belding."
O'Brien said the GACF contacted Belding City Manager Randy DeBruine to help identify initiatives taking place in the community that people were excited and positive about and that had strong community support.
"This was very unexpected and we are very grateful," DeBruine said. "Blanche had stated in her will to the foundation, 'remember Belding.' This was a very kind act to give $25,000 to the community."
After the Ash deaths — Stanley in 2004 and Blanche in 2011 — the couple's remaining assets were divided up between college and community foundations such as the community improvement fund, which the GACF will continue to use to award grants for area needs.
Veterans Memorial
After the Belding Freedom Wall was completed on Nov. 11 next to the Pere Marquette Depot in Belding, Denny Craycraft of Belding, who helped spearhead the effort to construct the wall, celebrated with the rest of the community, but did so quietly with $7,000 in outstanding bills.
With the $10,000 grant from the GACF, Craycraft said he can now breath a sigh of relief.
"They came to the rescue," Craycraft said of GACF awarding the Veterans Memorial with the grant. "This donation let us put the first phase behind us. It was a shot in the arm and one that we really needed."
Craycraft said for the donation to come from an endowment fund from the Ash family is "truly special," because three of the Ash family members' names are on the Freedom Wall for serving in World War II, including Stanley.
"The Ash family has a history in Belding," he said. "Just to say thanks doesn't justify how grateful I am. They really helped out the community tremendously on this project."
Craycraft said with phase I of the Veterans Memorial now complete, fundraising for phase II can begin, which will consist of construction of World War I and Korean War memorials.
Craycraft said 300 of 840 bricks, which will make up portions of the memorial's foundation, have been sold thus far. Bricks are available for $50 and can be engraved with any veteran's name who has served in any war.
Belding Skate Park
The Belding Skate Park committee is still working its way toward a goal of raising $100,000 to construct a park at Central Riverside Park as early as this spring, and committee member Roger Wills said the donation from the Ash Foundation is a big boost for the committee's morale.
"When you get a five-figure donation like this, it's a real boost," Wills said. "It not only moves your numbers up, but it helps your attitude and your fundraising."
Wills said the committee now has $68,000 in funds and pledges from area businesses, the latest coming from the $10,000 grant given by the GACF.
Having personally met with Blanche before she died, Wills said he was very grateful that the GACF decided to donate funds to the Belding Skate Park.
"What's more special about this is having met and talked with Blanche Ash," he said. "She loved to give money to projects that involved kids. Whatever it was, she always wanted to know how the kids were doing."
Wills said the skate park, which will be permanent and concrete, will be closest park of its kind next to parks in Grand Rapids, Holland and Grand Haven.
"This has been on the wish list of the Belding Recreation Board for years and years," he said. "I think we're on a pretty good pace now."
With donations already collected ranging from $5 to $25,000, Wills said he hopes people continue to donate with the final goal within reach.
"We just need a little more help getting to the finish line, or rather, the starting line.," he said.
Donations can be mailed to Belding City Hall at 120 Pleasant St.
Belding Community Garden
The Belding Community Garden was established in June and was recently celebrated by those who grew gardens and various fruits and vegetables throughout the summer months.
On hearing the news that the garden was receiving a $5,000 grant, Garden Coordinator Andrea Belding said she was pleasantly surprised.
"I was very emotional," she said. "We're going to be able to touch so many more people with the community garden than what we expected and be able to help out so many more families."
More than six bushels of food grown in the garden were donated to the Belding Food Pantry and teachers at nearby Woodview Elementary School have incorporated the garden into their class curriculum.
With the addition of the GACF grant, Belding said the garden group is already thinking of ways to expand the garden and put the money to good use.
"To have that influx of money for all three projects for all of us to benefit greatly from their generosity is just amazing," she said. "Our group is ecstatic and already coming up with grand ideas on how to spend the money."
Those interested in being part of the next season, by donation or by gardening a plot, can contact Belding at (616) 240-1472.


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"Improprieties" may be code-speak for "crimes"
As usual,
readers are dead on in their commentary. Responding to our report on Hewlett-Packard Comp.'s (
dire earnings guidance
due to accounting "improprieties" at recently acquired Autonomy,
Hewlett and Packard are turning in their graves. These "improprieties" sound like fishy criminal activities to me. How come no one is being held accountable. At the minimum, some fraud charges should be filed and somebody needs to do hard time. There is just no deterrence for things like this to repeat.
That comment proved prophetic as today the
U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigations
, working hand-in-hand with the
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
to investigate claims brought to it by HP.
In order for the SEC and FBI to investigate accounting errors, they must typically be criminal in nature and pertain to interstate or international offenses. HP reportedly personally requested the investigation after it was shocked to find out Autonomy had doctored its books in an apparent attempt to inflate its value.
The plan to
buy Autonomy for $10.3B USD
drew much criticism from analysts that argued HP was over-paying by at least twice what the UK enterprise software firm was worth. Léo Apotheker -- obsessed with
reforming HP to resemble his former employer
German enterprise software giant SAP AG (
), who gave him the boot shortly before his pickup by the HP -- ignored these glaring warning signs.
The board also shares some blame for failing to take heed of the warnings, as does new CEO Meg Whitman who completed the final stages of the purchase agreement shortly after taking over the reins after Mr. Apotheker was effectively fired for the second time in two years.
This Autonomy poster seems rather ironic in retrospect, considering the software company is alleged to have duped HP out of billions via bad accounting. [Image Source: Autonomy]
However, as much as HP failed to practice due diligence, if its side of the story is to be believed, Autonomy's leadership duped it with basically outright lies regarding improperly categorized hardware and other cleverly cooked books. HP estimates $3.8B USD of the $8.8B USD hit it took on the purchase were due to its own misreading of the software company's value, while the majority of it -- $5B USD was due to the possibly criminal "improprieties".
The FBI and SEC have not posted any official press releases confirming the probe, so at this point the only evidence of it are HP's
[8-K] and
a report
Bloomberg BusinessWeek
If Autonomy is indeed probed, it could take some time to investigate the misconduct as one of its two headquarters is located in Cambridge, UK, outside U.S. jurisdiction. Autonomy does have a second joint-headquarters in San Francisco, Calif. Thus far there have been
no reports
of any FBI raid on that location, as may later occur, if the reports of the probe are accurate.
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Non-invasive assessment of tear film surface quality
Alonso-Caneiro, David (2010) Non-invasive assessment of tear film surface quality. PhD by Publication, Queensland University of Technology.
The tear film plays an important role preserving the health of the ocular surface and maintaining the optimal refractive power of the cornea. Moreover dry eye syndrome is one of the most commonly reported eye health problems. This syndrome is caused by abnormalities in the properties of the tear film. Current clinical tools to assess the tear film properties have shown certain limitations. The traditional invasive methods for the assessment of tear film quality, which are used by most clinicians, have been criticized for the lack of reliability and/or repeatability. A range of non-invasive methods of tear assessment have been investigated, but also present limitations. Hence no "gold standard" test is currently available to assess the tear film integrity. Therefore, improving techniques for the assessment of the tear film quality is of clinical significance and the main motivation for the work described in this thesis. In this study the tear film surface quality (TFSQ) changes were investigated by means of high-speed videokeratoscopy (HSV). In this technique, a set of concentric rings formed in an illuminated cone or a bowl is projected on the anterior cornea and their reflection from the ocular surface imaged on a charge-coupled device (CCD). The reflection of the light is produced in the outer most layer of the cornea, the tear film. Hence, when the tear film is smooth the reflected image presents a well structure pattern. In contrast, when the tear film surface presents irregularities, the pattern also becomes irregular due to the light scatter and deviation of the reflected light. The videokeratoscope provides an estimate of the corneal topography associated with each Placido disk image. Topographical estimates, which have been used in the past to quantify tear film changes, may not always be suitable for the evaluation of all the dynamic phases of the tear film. However the Placido disk image itself, which contains the reflected pattern, may be more appropriate to assess the tear film dynamics. A set of novel routines have been purposely developed to quantify the changes of the reflected pattern and to extract a time series estimate of the TFSQ from the video recording. The routine extracts from each frame of the video recording a maximized area of analysis. In this area a metric of the TFSQ is calculated. Initially two metrics based on the Gabor filter and Gaussian gradient-based techniques, were used to quantify the consistency of the pattern's local orientation as a metric of TFSQ. These metrics have helped to demonstrate the applicability of HSV to assess the tear film, and the influence of contact lens wear on TFSQ. The results suggest that the dynamic-area analysis method of HSV was able to distinguish and quantify the subtle, but systematic degradation of tear film surface quality in the inter-blink interval in contact lens wear. It was also able to clearly show a difference between bare eye and contact lens wearing conditions. Thus, the HSV method appears to be a useful technique for quantitatively investigating the effects of contact lens wear on the TFSQ. Subsequently a larger clinical study was conducted to perform a comparison between HSV and two other non-invasive techniques, lateral shearing interferometry (LSI) and dynamic wavefront sensing (DWS). Of these non-invasive techniques, the HSV appeared to be the most precise method for measuring TFSQ, by virtue of its lower coefficient of variation. While the LSI appears to be the most sensitive method for analyzing the tear build-up time (TBUT). The capability of each of the non-invasive methods to discriminate dry eye from normal subjects was also investigated. The receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curves were calculated to assess the ability of each method to predict dry eye syndrome. The LSI technique gave the best results under both natural blinking conditions and in suppressed blinking conditions, which was closely followed by HSV. The DWS did not perform as well as LSI or HSV. The main limitation of the HSV technique, which was identified during the former clinical study, was the lack of the sensitivity to quantify the build-up/formation phase of the tear film cycle. For that reason an extra metric based on image transformation and block processing was proposed. In this metric, the area of analysis was transformed from Cartesian to Polar coordinates, converting the concentric circles pattern into a quasi-straight lines image in which a block statistics value was extracted. This metric has shown better sensitivity under low pattern disturbance as well as has improved the performance of the ROC curves. Additionally a theoretical study, based on ray-tracing techniques and topographical models of the tear film, was proposed to fully comprehend the HSV measurement and the instrument's potential limitations. Of special interested was the assessment of the instrument's sensitivity under subtle topographic changes. The theoretical simulations have helped to provide some understanding on the tear film dynamics, for instance the model extracted for the build-up phase has helped to provide some insight into the dynamics during this initial phase. Finally some aspects of the mathematical modeling of TFSQ time series have been reported in this thesis. Over the years, different functions have been used to model the time series as well as to extract the key clinical parameters (i.e., timing). Unfortunately those techniques to model the tear film time series do not simultaneously consider the underlying physiological mechanism and the parameter extraction methods. A set of guidelines are proposed to meet both criteria. Special attention was given to a commonly used fit, the polynomial function, and considerations to select the appropriate model order to ensure the true derivative of the signal is accurately represented. The work described in this thesis has shown the potential of using high-speed videokeratoscopy to assess tear film surface quality. A set of novel image and signal processing techniques have been proposed to quantify different aspects of the tear film assessment, analysis and modeling. The dynamic-area HSV has shown good performance in a broad range of conditions (i.e., contact lens, normal and dry eye subjects). As a result, this technique could be a useful clinical tool to assess tear film surface quality in the future.
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I need to check the cam timing on a N52B30 Engine.
I understand that it is general advisable to use a camshaft locking kit however I can't justify the cost as this is a Uni project and not my engine. The kit from Sealey is VS5000, instructions not available online.
The engine has been disassembled by other students without marking up the engine correctly. I have the TDC on no.1 however both the exhaust and inlet cams are out as the chain/sprockets have been removed.
I've searched for a few hours here and google, finding the thread on the pelican parts link and the M42 timing using the other sealey kit.
Similarly can anyone confirm that the flanges on the cam shaft should 90 degrees to the cylinder block top face. The inlet has just closed and exhaust is about to open.
And then viewed from the chain side, the sprocket you have two marks, one on the adjustment unit cover circumference and the other on the front face. Should the circumference marker be 90 degrees again i.e vertically upwards. Otherwise the marker on the front face is about +15(exh)/-15(inlet) degrees. . Is the front face marker a pointer to the chain guide?
I tried initially but it seems the oil holes are misaligned.
Perhaps cheeky but could anyone provide a scan of the sealey VS5000 kit instructions or even better the relevant pages from the Bentley Publishers Book.
Any help would be greatly appreciated more than I could say here. I'm in quite a pickle and don't fancy contact against the valves, as I need the opening, closing, lift vs crank angle.
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Australia's shadow treasurer Joe Hockey says Australians have missed the "dripping hypocrisy in Julia Gillard's speech to parliament on sexism'' as a new poll shows a boost the the Prime Minister.
Ms Gillard's now famous parliamentary misogyny speech has lifted her personal standing and widened the gap between her and Tony Abbott.
The latest Fairfax-Neilsen poll on Monday gives Ms Gillard a 10-point margin over Mr Abbott - her biggest lead since February 2011.
Apparently it's also relegated any possible threat from former prime minister Kevin Rudd.
She is now seen as as preferred prime minister by 50 per cent of voters - up three points from the last poll, while Mr Abbott has slipped four points to 40 per cent.
Mr Joe Hockey said the poll shows most Australians missed the "dripping hypocrisy in Julia Gillard's speech to parliament on sexism''.
"Quite frankly for those who bore witness to the concepts of the speech the hypocrisy of her words was not lost,'' he told ABC radio.
"I'm not sure if polls are always right.''
"Trade Minister Craig Emerson told ABC radio the poll reflected the opposition's "scare campaign on the carbon tax falling to the ground''.
"Tony Abbott's ratings are collapsing because all he's got left is this relentless negativity,'' Dr Emerson said.
Labor's two-party vote has also risen for the fourth consecutive month.
The coalition remains ahead in the two-party vote but has eased one point in five weeks to 52 per cent while the government added one point to 48 per cent.