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|Fund set up for Bautista family
|Kerry Craig | News-Telegram Assistant Editor
June 17, 2004 -- A memorial fund for the family of DelFino and Hortencia Bautista, who were killed along with their daughter, Hilda Bautista, in a traffic accident Sunday, has been established at City National Bank in Sulphur Springs.
Donations may be made to the Bautista Memorial Fund at the bank, 201 Connally St.
DelFino Bautista, 46, and his wife, Hortencia Martinez Bautista, 41, and their daughter, Hilda Bautista, 21, all of Sulphur Springs died Sunday, June 13, in an automobile accident on Interstate 30 in Sulphur Springs. The couple's three other children were also injured in the wreck but their injuries were not life-threatening.
Rosary will be said for the three deceased members of the Bautista family this evening at 7 p.m. at West Oaks Funeral Home.
Funeral services and interment for the family will be held in Panteon Municipal de La Luz Rio Grande, Zacatecas, Mexico.
International arrangements for the funerals were made through the Dallas office of the Consulate General of Mexico, Hopkins County Sheriff's Office and Texas Department of Public Safety.
The family was traveling east on I-30 when a rear tire apparently blew out, sending the vehicle out of control. The vehicle overturned in the center median, according to Precinct 2 Justice of the Peace Ronny Glossup, who was called to the accident scene.
"It started to turn over," Glossup said. "The two females were ejected out the windshield and it went across the median into the westbound [lanes]. A couple of children were thrown out, and it landed upside down in the westbound lane"
The two teenagers and one child who were also injured in the accident were taken to a Dallas hospital. They will be under the care of local family members.
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Archinect - News 2017-07-24T06:51:07-04:00 http://archinect.com/news/article/150015236/mit-team-wins-nasa-challenge-to-design-luxury-hotel-in-low-earth-orbit MIT team wins NASA challenge to design luxury hotel in low Earth orbit Julia Ingalls 2017-06-29T13:07:00-04:00 >2017-06-29T13:07:37-04:00
The MIT project — the Managed, Reconfigurable, In-space Nodal Assembly (MARINA) — was designed as a commercially owned and operated space station, featuring a luxury hotel as the primary anchor tenant and NASA as a temporary co-anchor tenant for 10 years. NASA's estimated recurring costs, $360 million per year, represent an order of magnitude reduction from the current costs of maintaining and operating the International Space Station.

Left to right: Caitlin Mueller (faculty advisor), Matthew Moraguez, George Lordos, and Valentina Sumini are some of the members of the interdisciplinary MIT team that won first place in the graduate division of the Revolutionary Aerospace Systems Concepts-Academic Linkage Design Competition Forum.

Part luxury hotel, part future Mars explorer, MIT's MARINA has a modular design that works not only to provide a bar, restaurant, gym,and eight rooms for low orbit guests, but can be reconfigured to create an "interplanetary Mars transit vehicle that can enter Mars' orbit, refuel from locally produced methane fuel, and return to Earth." At last: a luxury hotel at which it would be appropriate to charge sky-high prices.
 http://archinect.com/news/article/150007004/mit-is-developing-3d-printing-technology-capable-of-making-a-basic-building-structure MIT is developing 3D-printing technology capable of making a basic building structure Nicholas Korody 2017-05-11T12:45:00-04:00 >2017-05-12T10:31:05-04:00
The list of materials that can be produced by 3-D printing has grown to include not just plastics but also metal, glass, and even food. Now, MIT researchers are expanding the list further, with the design of a system that can 3-D print the basic structure of an entire building.

According to the researchers, structures built with this tech will be faster to make and cheaper than traditional construction. They'll be customizable and enable forms otherwise difficult to manufacture. "Even the internal structure could be modified in new ways," they write, "different materials could be incorporated as the process goes along, and material density could be varied to provide optimum combinations of strength, insulation, or other properties."

The process involves using a large, industrial robotic arm with a smaller, precision-motion robotic arm attached on a movable track. The highly controllable arm can work as a traditional construction nozzle, pouring concrete or spraying insulation, or be used for digital fabrication with something like a milling head.

The system is different than other large 3-D printers in that it's free-moving and doesn't require an enclosed, fixed structure. To test it out, researchers built a 12 ft. high dome out of foam insulation in less th...
 http://archinect.com/news/article/149996027/qs-releases-2016-international-architecture-school-rankings QS releases 2016 international architecture school rankings Nicholas Korody 2017-03-08T12:37:00-05:00 >2017-03-08T13:35:22-05:00
Every year, a host of lists emerge ranking architecture schools around the world. For some, they serve as a useful guide to choosing where to pursue their studies. For others, the lists are subjective and have little real value.

QS World University Rankings has just released its 2016 rankings for studies in architecture and the built environment, based on "academic reputation, employer reputation and research impact." You can check out the full methodology for selecting the schools here.

The top schools for studies in architecture and the built environment, according to QS, are:

MIT

UCL

UC Berkeley

Delft University of Technology

Harvard

University of Cambridge

ETH Zürich

Tsinghua University

National University of Singapore

Manchester School of Architecture

The University of Hong Kong

Columbia University

The University of Tokyo

UCLA

Politecnico di Milano

The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

The University of Sydney

The University of Melbourne

The University of New South Wales

Cornell

Ecole Polytechnique Fé...

 http://archinect.com/news/article/149985439/a-team-of-scientists-have-made-graphene-the-strongest-material-in-the-world-into-a-building-material A team of scientists have made graphene—the strongest material in the world—into a building material Nicholas Korody 2017-01-09T12:47:00-05:00 >2017-01-11T21:32:06-05:00
The space elevator—a theoretical mode of transportation where transport modules move up and down a long cable that connects Earth to space—has long been the stuff of futuristic fantasy...Now, a team of MIT scientists has designed one of the strongest lightweight materials in existence, taking us one step closer to realizing that sci-fi dream—and creating a formula for a material that could revolutionize architecture and infrastructure right here on Earth, too.

The material in question is called graphene, a two-dimensional form of carbon. At just one atom thick, graphene has so far proven to be inoperable as a building material, even though it's the strongest material we know about. But the team of MIT invented a process that could change that. Using heat and pressure, they were able to create 3D geometries that proved to be ten times stronger than steel, but 5% less dense.

According to the researchers behind the projects, the move from 2D to 3D is similar to rolling up a piece of paper, in the process creating a tube, which is a strong architectural form. Apparently, the material has other possible benefits for architecture. For example, because graphene is porous, it could act as a filter for water and air. And its strength could make buildings more resilient to extreme weather patterns.

At the moment, graphene is too expensive to be readily adapted to building purposes. But the 3D geometry invented by the MIT team could be used with mater...
 http://archinect.com/news/article/149962466/questioning-urban-truisms-with-artificial-intelligence Questioning urban truisms with artificial intelligence Amelia Taylor-Hochberg 2016-08-10T14:11:00-04:00 >2016-08-12T00:52:41-04:00
computer vision and artificial intelligence are the keys to a debate behind a door that's been locked for a long time: the social impact of design in cities. [...] "Now that we have new tools to measure aesthetics, we can estimate its consequences" [...] [MIT Media Lab associate professor Cesar Hidalgo] wants to develop more empirical ways to study cities and the way they're perceived—and, in turn, provide better science to the policy-makers who shape legislation.

More on neural networks and aesthetic quantification:

Mark Zuckerberg's resolution for 2016: build an at-home AI "like Jarvis in Iron Man"

Further strides made in Nobel-winning research on the neuroscience of navigation

Archinect's Lexicon: "Neuromorphic Architecture"

"Sculpting the Architectural Mind" conference examines neuroscience's effects on architecture education

AfterShock #4: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Neuroscientific Architecture Research

 http://archinect.com/news/article/149944701/are-food-computers-the-key-to-a-more-sustainable-future-of-agriculture Are "Food Computers" the key to a more sustainable future of agriculture? Nicholas Korody 2016-05-11T14:00:00-04:00 >2016-05-19T23:11:10-04:00
That an apple can travel over 11,500 miles from where it was grown (spending over a year in shipment and in toxic, low-oxygen storage to suspend its maturation) is the perfect object lesson of our global agricultural system's failures. [...] And with the advent of natural-resource scarcity, flattening yields, loss of biodiversity, changing climates, environmental degradation, and booming urban populations, we're hurtling toward its natural limit.

"What if we could build a different world? One in which anyone could farm anywhere, not just on land devastated by disaster, but in basements, skyscrapers, and abandoned subway tunnels? Or in classrooms, rooftops, and old factories?"

In this article by Caleb Harper, the Director of the Open Agriculture Initiative at MIT, he criticizes the "snarled cats-cradle of crisscrossed strings between origin and destination, shipment and storage" that constitutes today's global agricultural system.

At the Open AG Initiative, they're experimenting with hi-tech but low-impact ways to produce food, such as the "Food Computer," a "controlled environment agriculture platform." The platform utilizes robotic control systems and plant-sensing mechanisms to produce a "precisely calibrated environment for growth."

By utilizing thirty sensing points per plant, the group believes they're creating more of a dialogue with biological systems than the dominating tendencies of conventional architecture.

The Open ...
 http://archinect.com/news/article/149938713/world-s-first-fully-autonomous-taxi-service-will-arrive-in-singapore-later-this-year World's first fully autonomous taxi service will arrive in Singapore later this year Amelia Taylor-Hochberg 2016-04-06T12:58:00-04:00 >2016-04-10T00:31:48-04:00
[nuTonomy's] Level 4 autonomous vehicle "is designed to perform all safety-critical driving functions and monitor roadway conditions for an entire trip;" all you have to do is provide a destination and (possibly) open and shut the doors. Google's autonomous cars, in contrast, are currently at Level 3, with limited self-driving automation [...] [nuTonomy] is building into [its] decision-making engine the ability for cars to actually violate the rules of the road when it's necessary to do so

More from the autonomous vehicle beat:

The "Impossible" Car – Faraday Future's lead designer, Richard Kim, on One-to-One #17

"In LiDAR We Trust" – Poking the subconscious of autonomous vehicles with special guest Geoff Manaugh, on Archinect Sessions #43

This startup hopes to bring autonomous campus shuttles to colleges by 2017

Google's self-driving car hits bus and causes its first crash

U.S. says computers qualify as drivers in Google's autonomous vehicles; won't even have to go to the DMV

The U.S. just got $4 billion to spend on self-driving cars

 http://archinect.com/news/article/149938475/mit-named-1-architecture-school-in-the-world MIT named #1 architecture school in the world Nicholas Korody 2016-04-05T14:24:00-04:00 >2016-04-06T12:58:26-04:00
For the second year in a row, MIT has been named the top university in the world for architecture/built environment in the latest subject rankings from QS World University Rankings. In art and design, the Institute ranked No. 2 globally, a jump from fourth position in 2015. Ten other subject areas at MIT were ranked No. 1. "This ranking is testament to the success of the MIT model of research and teaching and its global commitment to address complex societal problems," says [Dean] Hashim Sarkis

In related news:

Get Lectured: MIT, Spring '16

MIT and TU Delft emerge victorious at Hyperloop competition; Elon Musk drops hint about "electric jets"

MIT researchers have created a new material that stores and releases solar energy

Stanford Anderson, head of MIT's Department of Architecture from 1991-2004, has died

 http://archinect.com/news/article/142833231/zoom-in-zoom-out-hashim-sarkis-dean-of-mit-s-school-of-architecture-planning-on-archinect-sessions-one-to-one-5 Zoom In, Zoom Out: Hashim Sarkis, Dean of MIT's School of Architecture + Planning, on Archinect Sessions One-to-One #5 Amelia Taylor-Hochberg 2015-12-07T18:08:00-05:00 >2016-02-16T18:36:01-05:00
Before coming to MIT to serve as dean of the School of Architecture + Planning in January 2014, Hashim Sarkis taught at Harvard's GSD as the Aga Khan professor of Landscape Architecture and Urbanism in Muslim Societies. He founded his own practice, Hashim Sarkis Studios, in Cambridge in 1998, and continues to lead the firm.

Sarkis's experience working in two of the most highly-regarded architectural education institutions worldwide, while also managing his own firm, puts him in a unique position to approach theoretical questions of architecture from within the two, often discordant spheres of academia and practice. Our interview revolves around the same questions we ask in our Deans List series – how architecture education and practice are changing, how to address student needs, MIT's particular take on how to cultivate exceptional architects, and the culture of the school in a global urban context.

Listen to our One-to-One #5 with Hashim Sarkis:

iTunes: Click here to listen and subscr...

 http://archinect.com/news/article/139888066/mit-launches-three-year-collaboration-with-london-s-soane-museum MIT launches three-year collaboration with London's Soane Museum Amelia Taylor-Hochberg 2015-10-27T17:57:00-04:00 >2015-11-04T23:21:13-05:00
The collaboration will consist of seminars, workshops, and studio classes for MIT students and potential exhibitions at MIT and the Soane Museum. This fall, the Department of Architecture is offering the program's first class, a reconsideration of architectural fragments [...] "The Fragment," taught by David Gissen, a visiting professor in the History, Theory and Criticism program, will explore architectural monuments rendered into a fragmented, disassembled, or ruined state.

More news from MIT:

Cutting across the Chicago Architecture Biennial: "Rock Print" from ETH Zürich and MIT

MIT presents 3D printer that can print 10 materials simultaneously without breaking the bank

MIT's "Placelet" sensors technologize old-fashioned observation methods for placemaking

Hashim Sarkis named dean of the School of Architecture and Planning

 http://archinect.com/news/article/139027144/mit-s-new-kinetic-blocks-enhances-ability-to-build-using-microsoft-kinect MIT's new "Kinetic Blocks" enhances ability to build using Microsoft Kinect Amelia Taylor-Hochberg 2015-10-15T13:24:00-04:00 >2015-10-15T14:21:19-04:00
Kinetic Blocks works by feeding spatial information read by a Microsoft Kinect into the display, allowing it to respond to physical objects. However, where the inFORM could already manipulate objects in real time, the new project is faster and finely tuned to detect, orient, and stack blocks to make and even disassemble structures. The display can also be programmed to build structures stored in memory, or interact with special kinematic blocks that allow the pins to interact with other objects

Watch the video below to see the Kinetic Blocks in action:

More news from MIT:

Cutting across the Chicago Architecture Biennial: "Rock Print" from ETH Zürich and MIT

MIT presents 3D printer that can print 10 materials simultaneously without breaking the bank

MIT's "Placelet" sensors technologize old-fashioned observation methods for placemaking

MIT develops self-assembling modular robots

 http://archinect.com/news/article/107714855/mit-s-mindrider-helmet-draws-mental-maps-as-you-bike MIT's MindRider helmet draws mental maps as you bike Amelia Taylor-Hochberg 2014-08-29T14:55:00-04:00 >2014-08-29T14:55:09-04:00
Originally developed at MIT, MindRider is a new helmet that shows, in real time, how your rides, movement, and location engage your mind. The MindRider app maps and tracks your engagement, and allows you to share your maps with others. These maps provide quantified insight that empower you to maximize your riding experience, and they are a great resource for riding communities and street advocacy.

Unlike many other biometric monitoring devices, the MindRider helmet isn't just about recording your physical activities; it's about harvesting data from normal routines to better inform public policy. The MindRider "reads" electrical activity between the brain's neurons, but the technology isn't invasive enough to determine anything beyond where on the route you're concentrating ("Hotspots") or coasting ("Sweetspots"). For an individual rider, boiling down the data into these two categories simplifies the ride experience, but with enough participants, the service can paint the cycling personality of an entire city, and provide a highly personal way to publicly engage with cycling. Maybe it can even make drivers empathize with stressed out cyclists.

While the actual helmet isn't commercially available quite yet, MindRider recently reached its Kickstarter goal to create "The MindRider Guide to New York City", a map and guidebook to the city's mental cycling infrastructure. Whether tha...
 http://archinect.com/news/article/104720996/mapping-the-city-statistic-by-statistic Mapping the city, statistic by statistic Alexander Walter 2014-07-21T17:19:00-04:00 >2014-07-22T18:44:08-04:00
The map, one of the central elements of navigation, has expanded in capability since the form has been translated to digital. Case in point, the MIT Media Lab's "You Are Here" project is a collection of maps that visualize a variety of datasets over space. Things from bike accidents to coffee shops, graffiti reports, and transit connectivity are all laid out, using a variety of open data and other online resources, such as Google's map directions services API.

Direct link to You Are Here.
 http://archinect.com/news/article/100931500/mit-s-newest-invention-fits-all-the-furniture-you-need-in-one-closet-sized-box MIT's Newest Invention Fits All the Furniture You Need in One Closet-Sized Box Archinect 2014-06-02T14:39:00-04:00 >2014-06-03T12:44:56-04:00
What if you only had to buy one piece of furniture to make your tiny apartment abundantly livable? CityHome, a new project from MIT Media Lab's Changing Places group, promises to make that fantasy a reality. The highly transformable device, loaded with built-in sensors, motors, and LED lights, promises to make a 200 sq.ft. apartment feel three times larger.

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"> <meta> http://archinect.com/news/article/100710717/j-meejin-yoon-appointed-head-of-the-department-of-architecture J. Meejin Yoon appointed head of the Department of Architecture Archinect 2014-05-30T14:55:00-04:00 >2014-06-03T22:44:28-04:00
J. Meejin Yoon, architect and educator, has been appointed Head of the Department of Architecture beginning July 1. The first woman ever appointed to that post, she succeeds Nader Tehrani, who served as department head from 2010 to 2014.

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"> <meta> http://archinect.com/news/article/92317987/mit-s-ad-le-naud-santos-stepping-down-as-dean-of-school-of-architecture-and-planning MIT's Adèle Naudé Santos stepping down as dean of School of Architecture and Planning Amelia Taylor-Hochberg 2014-01-28T18:56:00-05:00 >2014-02-19T09:17:55-05:00
[Adèle Naudé Santos] has decided to step down and return to the faculty, effective at the end of this semester. She is the ninth dean of the school and the second woman to hold the position of school dean at MIT. [...] "I have loved this appointment, because I have loved this school," said Santos. "The excellent faculty and students I've had the honor to collaborate with are more MIT than they've ever been: they're intent on doing interesting research, crossing aisles, and pushing boundaries."

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"> <meta> http://archinect.com/news/article/85220868/mit-research-reveals-the-power-of-placemaking MIT research reveals the power of placemaking Archinect 2013-10-28T15:09:00-04:00 >2013-10-28T15:09:57-04:00
The MIT Department of Urban Studies and Planning released new research that examines the evolution of urban planning and its effects on communities. The report defines placemaking as "an innovative approach to transforming communities by creating and revitalizing open, public spaces around the needs and desires of the community."

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"> <meta> http://archinect.com/news/article/83383390/mit-develops-self-assembling-modular-robots MIT develops self-assembling modular robots Amelia Taylor-Hochberg 2013-10-04T18:49:00-04:00 >2017-03-07T19:06:35-05:00
Known as M-Blocks, the robots are cubes with no external moving parts. Nonetheless, they're able to climb over and around one another, leap through the air, roll across the ground, and even move while suspended upside down from metallic surfaces [...] As with any modular-robot system, the hope is that the modules can be miniaturized: the ultimate aim of most such research is hordes of swarming microbots that can self-assemble, like the "liquid steel" androids in the movie "Terminator II."

MIT, you've done it again. And again. A team at CSAIL, MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, has developed M-Blocks -- robotic cubes that can self-assemble into practically any configuration, through a system of carefully aligned magnets and flywheels. Even at their current scale (about the size of an apricot), the M-Blocks could be used to "fill-in" damaged bridges or buildings in an emergency, or serve as adaptive support systems in construction.

But the smaller the blocks can be built, the more versatile their application -- and the more subtle their shapes. Think of a semi-liquid material that can be poured onto the floor and then spring into the shape of a chair, in whatever design you prefer. The modules could also be outfitted with individual components, like cameras or thermometers, to perform a specific function in the horde.

Check out the videos below to see the M-blocks in action.
 http://archinect.com/news/article/70587374/building-a-better-big-box Building a better big box Archinect 2013-04-03T16:41:00-04:00 >2013-04-05T14:51:57-04:00
D'Hooghe, a Belgian-born architect and director of the Center for Advanced Urbanism at MIT, cares deeply about urban form and the large-scale issues cities face in achieving more efficient energy use, better transportation and less congestion. One of his main concerns is better integrating suburbs with the larger metropolitan areas in which they exist.

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"> <meta> http://archinect.com/news/article/67459186/mit-launches-new-research-center-on-advanced-urbanism MIT launches new research center on advanced urbanism Archinect 2013-02-12T18:57:00-05:00 >2013-02-27T14:10:07-05:00
Interdisciplinary teams will focus on the planning, design, construction and retrofitting of urban environments for the 21st century.

 Already, the world is becoming predominantly urban. However, the dominant form of urban living will be very similar to our older suburban regions in the U.S. This places substantial pressure on American suburban models, the dominant model of urban development copied worldwide, to set a better example of sustainability. This is even more critical as economic development grows robust middle classes in developing countries who expect more from their living environments.

 To address the urgent need for better models of urban growth, the MIT School of Architecture + Planning is launching a major new research center focused on the planning, design, construction and retrofitting of urban environments for the 21st century.

 Under the leadership of center director Alexander D'Hooghe and research director Alan Berger – professors of architecture and of urban design and landscape architecture, respectively – the Center for Advanced Urbanism will coordinate collaborations among existing eff...
 http://archinect.com/news/article/63545280/five-tenets-of-a-new-kind-of-architecture Five tenets of a new kind of architecture Nam Henderson 2012-12-16T20:56:00-05:00 >2016-03-31T09:19:25-04:00
So when people look at you know, at the ability to 3D print using a robotic arm, they're very, very curious about the possibility of in the future, printing full scale houses, so I think the media lab and specifically in the Media Matter Group, we don't focus only on efficiency translations. For that, I would open a practice in the commercial world, but that's not the function of this lab...

 Neri Oxman founder of the Mediated Matter group at MIT's Media Lab was recently profiled in a 30-minute segment and interviewed by Dr. Sanjay Gupta. CNN also published a short essay in which Ms. Oxman begins to define a design credo suitable for the contemporary context, wherein the World-as-Machine is replaced by the World-as- Organism. The five components include; Growth over Assembly, Integration over Segregation, Heterogeneity over Homogeneity, Difference over Repetition and Material is the New Software.

 As Bruce Sterling noted elsewhere "Looks like Prof Neri's working up a manifesto there."

 http://archinect.com/news/article/59374383/an-app-for-architects-that-makes-physics-easy An App For Architects That Makes Physics Easy Archinect 2012-10-15T18:58:00-04:00 >2012-10-18T07:38:25-04:00
After seven years of teaching structures to a mixed group of architecture and structural engineering graduate students at MIT, Paul Kassabian found that many of his future architects took a just-enough-to-get-the-homework-done approach to understanding those fundamental components. So he created an app to help them out.

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"> <meta> http://archinect.com/news/article/53694418/what-is-the-future-of-academic-publishing-an-interview-with-gita-manaktala-from-mit-press What is the Future of Academic Publishing? An Interview with Gita Manaktala from MIT Press Archinect 2012-07-17T12:16:00-04:00 >2012-07-23T18:58:26-04:00
University presses will endure as long as they are in a position to offer significant value to academic authors and their readers, and as long as they have the support of their home institutions. In the present and near future, we will see new models for the university press including funded open access models, collaborative publishing models, and global partnerships to develop and disseminate high quality scholarship worldwide.

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"> <meta> http://archinect.com/news/article/48459191/understanding-the-resource-intensity-of-cities Understanding the Resource Intensity of Cities Archinect 2012-05-14T17:24:00-04:00 >2012-05-15T12:50:31-04:00
Urban planning has focused on identifying many important questions about the formation and functioning of our cities. However, there is a lack of understanding about the spatial patterns related to material and energy use in cities. This work attempts to address this knowledge gap.

 urbmet.org is a web-map that illustrates data on material and energy use in cities. The goal is to provide an intuitive way of understanding this complex problem using an interactive interface. We have analyzed 42 cities and estimated material and energy intensities.

 To make this work as useful as possible, we are interested in examining whether this information is presented in such a way that it builds intuition about the functioning of cities.
 http://archinect.com/news/article/46381939/mit-creates-invisible-glass-that-s-fog-glare-free-and-self-cleaning MIT creates invisible glass that's fog+glare free and self cleaning Ian Smith 2012-04-26T17:45:00-04:00 >2012-05-03T12:30:41-04:00
One of the most instantly recognizable features of glass is the way it reflects light. But a new way of creating surface textures on glass, developed by researchers at MIT, virtually eliminates reflections, producing glass that is almost unrecognizable because of its absence of glare — and whose surface causes water droplets to bounce right off, like tiny rubber balls.

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"> <meta> http://archinect.com/news/article/38746622/app-s-glowing-arrows-guide-you-around-a-new-building App's glowing arrows guide you around a new building Archinect 2012-02-20T12:58:00-05:00 >2012-02-20T12:59:06-05:00
Developed by Jaewoo Chung at MIT's Media Lab, Guiding Light consists of a wearable badge with magnetic sensors and a software app that makes use of a projector built into many Samsung smartphones to cast arrows onto the ground in front of you as you walk. The system relies on a map of the building based on fluctuations in its magnetic field, created by the presence of steel in the walls, floor and ceiling. In tests, Guiding Light was able to determine a user's position to within a metre.

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"> <meta> http://archinect.com/news/article/29880497/the-senseable-city-an-interview-with-carlo-ratti The Senseable City: an interview with Carlo Ratti Archinect 2011-12-05T15:06:00-05:00 >2011-12-05T15:06:13-05:00
Architect, engineer, and director of the SENSEable City Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Carlo Ratti will focus on (you guessed it) the Senseable City—merging the digital and the physical realms by understanding how we sense and act on our built environment, and how the latter then responds to us.

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Haifa-born Oxman, 35, one of the world's leading researchers in the field of digital architecture, is currently studying how our bones are affected by environmental conditions and by the weight that is brought to bear on them, and how such knowledge can be applied in other areas of life. It is known, for instance, that astronauts in outer space lose bone mass because of the absence of gravity, whereas women when they are pregnant develop stronger bones in order to withstand the added load.

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Sanergy, a year-old for-profit social enterprise that manufactures high-quality, yet low-cost and compact toilets for urban slums in the developing world and then uses human waste to produce energy and fertilizer. It is an "affordable, accessible and hygienic sanitation" solution for millions that live in places without sewage or electricity. They are places where the street is the bathroom. And that's precisely the problem.

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Welcome to the Immersive Cocoon, a surround display dome with sophisticated motion sensor technology that inspired the technology depicted in 'Minority Report'. Now your body becomes the interface, as you are enveloped and your body movement becomes part of this digital environment to make our everyday lives more enjoyable, at least that is what this conceptual project tries to explore.

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He did not even say that those who upheld what he calls 'tenets of popery' were to be silenced.
You have the presence of this popery also where Protestantism alone ought to be known.
popery can only gain strength two ways—by positive persecution, and by indifference as to its movements.
But dread of popery had driven him into opposition and rebellion.
Greater triumphs there never were in time of popery than were this Easter at the resurrection and at her high mass.
She has left her virginity as a relick of popery, and marries in her tribe without a ring.
Of course, Knox was always ready to ridicule such "remnants of paganism and popery."
The chief assailants of the book were the friends of popery in England.
The only real cry in the country is the proper and just old No popery cry.
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HOUSTON (AP) — A federal jury in Houston has rejected the claims against military contractor KBR Inc. of a Texas woman who said she was drugged and raped while working in Iraq.
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The final four acts of Othello are set on the relative remote location of Cyprus. All of the characters are removed from the buffering effects of civil society as a consequence of this shift from Venice to the Mediterranean island. In Act IV, Scene 1, the Venetian nobleman Lodivico witnesses Othello physically strike Desdemona, and protests, "My Lord, this would not be believed in Venice / Though I should swear I saw't" (IV.i.243-244). Emotions and actions are exaggerated on an outpost where Othello is both the military commander and the civil administrator. The move to Cyprus allows Shakespeare to underscore Othello's immaturity, for while the Moor is an outstanding military leader, he is a poor administrator.
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Director Seth Gordon's Identity Thief generated around $11 million at the box office on Friday. Not even a slew of bad reviews could slow it down.
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This weekend's other debut couldn't seem to find an audience at the local cineplex. The Hollywood Reporter explains that director Steven Soderbergh's final theatrical release Side Effects only earned about $2.7 million on Friday. Analysts believe the film will bring in around $9 million over the weekend. The thriller stars Channing Tatum, Rooney Mara, and Jude Law.
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Rounding out the top five are David O. Russell's critical darling Silver Linings Playbook and the Jeremy Renner action-horror flick Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters. According to the folks at Deadline, the films earned $1.5 million and $1.3 million on Friday, respectively.
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im trying to rip my dvd of spaced to my library, but ive come across an annoying problem. When i rip the dvd i end up with 7 .vob file for the 7 episodes on the dvd. thats fine, but when i watch them the 1st vob has the 1st 2-3 mins of the second episode on the end, the second vod has the 1st few mins of the episode missing and the first few mins of the 3rd episode on the end etc,etc,etc
the only way i can thing of doing it, is ripping the whole 7 episodes to a single avi file and splitting them up into single files. but i have no idea what software i need to do this and how. any pointers would be gratefully received
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Use DVDShrink.
It will allow you to rip one "Title set" at a time, called a VTS (Video Title Set).
Just turn off the compression, and see how it does for you.
Or you could use handbrake and rip/convert one Title Set at a time to xVid or h.264.
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the main feature is showing as 1 2h:50 min tile, how do i do 1 episode at a time with dvd shrink?
thanks for the reply btw
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If you use dvd decryptor it will rip each episode as a single .vob
And it will also remove as much info as you want i.e languages and subtitles.
It's no longer being developed but you should be able to grab an old version on the net.
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thanks for the help on this. what i ended up doing was adding the main feature tile 7 times with dvd shrink and just manually changing the start and end time for each episode, worked a treat
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Greg, Puget Sound, Wash.
A: Getting into business with no money down certainly is possible and may be easier than you think. Doing so requires the same skills as buying a small piece of real estate without a lot of cash.
Let's say you found a nice duplex that's going for $100,000. Using an FHA 3% loan, it is possible to buy that $100,000 asset with as little as $3,000 down. The bank will loan you 97% of the money you need to buy the property. That's called leverage — the asset itself secures the loan required so that you need not come up with a lot of money out of pocket. That sort of leverage is similarly possible in the business game. Would it surprise you to learn that in fact it is commonplace to get into business with no cash down at all?
The key is to buy an existing business.
While starting a business from scratch with little or no money is doable, it's difficult because financing a new startup is just about the riskiest loan a bank can make; lenders are much more apt to lend you money to buy a business with a track record. So if you want to get into business, but don't have a lot of money, the secret is to buy an ongoing business and apply the same sort of leverage financing techniques used in real estate transactions.
There are many ways to structure such a deal. The first step is to secure the largest part of the financing — usually 60% — 70% or so. This can be done in one of two ways. First, there is bank financing. Again, because the business has a track record, and presumably some assets (accounts receivable, cars, machinery, etc.), getting a bank loan shouldn't be too difficult.
Second, consider seller financing. Sellers are surprisingly often willing to finance much of the deal. Seller financing is great because:
· Sellers may finance as much as 80% of the deal, while banks usually top out at around 60%. 100% seller financing is not unheard of either.
· Sellers usually offer better terms. Whereas a bank may charge you 10%, a seller may offer financing as low as 7%, and the payout may last much longer (10 years is not uncommon.)
The best thing is to combine bank and seller financing. Let's say you want to buy a restaurant worth $100,000. The bank may be willing to loan you 60%, and the seller may chip in another 25%. All you need now is to find another 15% and you have bought the business with no money down. Where do you find that $15,000?
There are several options:
• Liability financing: Sellers will usually include in the cash price the amount they need to pay off creditors. If you agree to assume those liabilities however, you can reduce your out-of-pocket down payment by that much. Assuming $15,000 in liabilities is not hard to do.
• Cash flow financing: If the business earns $10,000 a month, offer to pay the $15,000 balance in three payments after closing of $5,000 each, spread out a month apart. For a business that makes $10,000 monthly, that should be easy. Or, consider having the seller retain the accounts receivables and reducing the purchase price by that amount.
• Inventory financing: The purchase price will take into account the value of the inventory. If you are short $15,000, ask the owner to liquidate $15,000 in inventory, and then reduce the purchase price by that amount.
• Asset financing: Arrange, before the sale, to sell one of the business' assets at closing to help finance your purchase: Equipment, patents, trademarks, trucks, office space, etc.
• Broker financing: 70% of all business sales are done through a broker. To keep a deal, almost any broker would be willing to forgo part of his or her commission and put it in the pot for the seller. My brother sells commercial real estate and it is not uncommon for him to (sadly) kick-back part of his commission to close a deal.
• Supplier financing: Major suppliers who want to keep the business' business may be willing to loan you some money for closing a deal if it means they will continue to have a major account.
As you can see, there are many ways to creatively finance a business purchase with no money down. The key is to find a willing seller and get creative.
Today's tip: If you would like to learn more about how to buy a business without a lot of money, then pick up a copy of Arnold S. Goldstein's great book, How to Buy a Great Business for No Cash Down (Wiley, 1991).
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Especially in law, defined by clear terms, standards, and rules so as to avoid ambiguity or room for interpretation. Used especially as "bright-line rule" or "bright-line standard." After the economic crash, several bright-line rules were established.
bright shiny object
Something that is widely appealing or attention-grabbing for its superficial characteristics, but which is usually not useful, substantial, or long lasting. Recent technological advances seem to be just a series of bright shiny objects, consuming all of our attention for a while before something shinier comes along.
bright young thing
A young person who is exuberant, ambitious, and glamorous. A: "Daisy is a bright young thing, isn't she?" B: "I know! I wish I had an ounce of her verve and style."
bright-line rule
In law, a clarification of ambiguity in rules and regulations, so that they cannot be interpreted in multiple ways. Since we have two different interpretations of this law, there should be a bright-line rule for it, if there isn't one already.
See also: rule
bright spark
A person who is regarded as clever or intelligent. The term can also be used sarcastically to mean the opposite. Primarily heard in UK, Australia, New Zealand. Timmy's the bright spark of the family—he graduated at the top of his class. Some bright spark at the auto repair shop forgot to tighten the lugnuts on my wheels after he rotated my tires.
bright spot
A positive occurrence in an otherwise sad or negative situation. His granddaughter coming to visit him in the nursing home was always a bright spot in Jim's day.
be as bright as a button
To be intelligent and a quick-thinker. Primarily heard in UK, Australia. Ted's as bright as a button, so he'll find a solution to this problem. Of course Ellen is our valedictorian—she's as bright as a button.
be bright and breezy
To be confident and cheerful. I may be bright and breezy now, but I often felt melancholy as a teenager.
be bright-eyed and bushy-tailed
To be energetic and enthusiastic. After that nap, I am bright-eyed and bushy-tailed! As usual, the new interns are bright-eyed and bushy-tailed—just watching them is exhausting.
bright and breezy
cheery and alert. You look all bright and breezy this morning. Bright and breezy people on a gloomy day like this make me sick.
bright and early
very early in the morning or the workday. Yes, I'll be there bright and early. I want to see you here on time tomorrow, bright and early, or you're fired!
*bright as a button
intelligent; quick-minded. (Usually used to describe children. *Also: as ~.) Why, Mrs. Green, your little girl is as bright as a button. You can't fool Jane. She may be only six years old, but she's bright as a button.
*bright as a new pin
bright and clean; shiny. (*Also: as ~.) After Joe cleaned the house, it was as bright as a new pin. My kitchen floor is bright as a new pin since I started using this new floor wax.
*bright idea
a clever thought or new idea. (*Typically: have ~; get ~; give someone ~.) Now and then I get a bright idea. John hardly ever gets a bright idea.
bright-eyed and bushy-tailed
Fig. awake and alert. (Often used ironically, as in the first example. The idea is that one is like a frisky animal, such as a squirrel.) Jill: Hi, Jane! How are you on this beautiful morning? Jane: Bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, just as you might expect, since I've only had three hours of sleep. Despite the early hour, Dennis was bright-eyed and bushy-tailed.
look on the bright side
Fig. consider the positive aspects of a negative situation. Look on the bright side. Things could have been much worse than they are.
on the bright side
Fig. [ignoring the bad for a moment] considering the positive aspects of a situation. (See also look on the bright side.) On the bright side, the car you wrecked was covered by insurance.
one's future looks bright.
Fig. One has a promising future. Tom's future looks bright and he will do well if he keeps working hard.
bright and early
very early in the morning You'll have to be at the airport bright and early to make that flight.
the bright sidealso a bright side
the good parts or features of a mostly unpleasant situation There's a bright side to this – at least you can learn from your mistake.
Usage notes: often used in the form look on the bright side: They tried to look on the bright side when their flight was rerouted to another city.
a bright spark(British & Australian)
an intelligent person
Usage notes: This phrase is often used humorously to mean the opposite.Some bright spark was clearing up and threw my invitation away.
a bright spot
a pleasant or successful event or period of time when most other things are unpleasant or not successful (often + in ) The only bright spot in Liverpool's disastrous performance was a stunning goal in the second half.
be as bright as a button(British & Australian)
to be intelligent and able to think quickly She was bright as a button - always asking questions and quick to help.
be bright and breezy
to be happy and confident I get a bit depressed at times, whereas Gill's always bright and breezy.
bright and early
very early in the morning You're up bright and early.
the bright lights
exciting and attractive people and places in big cities I went in search of the bright lights, but all I found was poverty and loneliness.See look on the bright side
be bright-eyed and bushy-tailed(humorous)
to be full of energy and eager to do things She was bright-eyed and bushy-tailed the next morning, despite having been up half the night.
look on the bright side
to try to see something good in a bad situation Look on the bright side. The accident insurance might pay for a new car.
bright and early
Early in the morning, at dawn, as in It's a long trip, so we'll have to start out bright and early. The bright here presumably alludes to the brilliance of the dawning sun, which has long been noted by poets. [Early 1800s]
bright-eyed and bushy-tailed
Eager and alert, as in Here is my new kindergarten class, all bright-eyed and bushy-tailed. The allusion here is to the appearance of a squirrel, which with its beady eyes and bushy tail looks ready for anything. [1930s]
bright idea
A clever thought or plan. For example, John had a bright idea for saving space-we would each have a terminal but share the printer . This term uses bright in the sense of "intelligent" or "quick-witted" and may be employed either straightforwardly, as in the example above, or ironically, as in Jumping in the pool with your clothes on-that was some bright idea. [Late 1800s]
bright side
A favorable or hopeful aspect, as in Bob is inclined to look on the bright side of everything. This idiom uses bright in the sense of "lit up with gladness or hope." [First half of 1800s] Also see glass is half full.
bright-eyed and bushy-tailed
mod. alert and ready to do something; as alert and as active as a squirrel. You look all bright-eyed and bushy-tailed this morning.
n. the eyes. (From bright eyes.) Don't you close your brights and look bored when I'm talking to you!
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BOSTON (AP) A Rastafarian man who refused to shave off his beard or cut his hair to comply with an employee grooming policy at his oil change job can take his religious discrimination case to trial, Massachusetts' highest court ruled Tuesday.
The Supreme Judicial Court reversed a decision by a Superior Court judge who had dismissed Bobby T. Brown's lawsuit against a Jiffy Lube franchisee before a trial.
Brown worked as a technician at a Jiffy Lube business owned by F.L. Roberts & Co. Inc.
In 2002, after a new grooming policy was put in place requiring employees who worked with customers to be clean-shaven, Brown told management that his religion does not permit him to shave or cut his hair. Managers then said Brown could work only in lower bays where he did not have contact with customers.
Brown filed a discrimination lawsuit in state court in 2006. A Superior Court judge agreed with the company that it had the right to control its public image and found that it would be an undue hardship on the company to grant Brown an exemption from the grooming policy.
But the Supreme Judicial Court disagreed, saying the company had not proven that no other accommodation was possible for Brown without imposing an undue hardship on the company.
"Here ... because the defendant did not discuss alternatives with the plaintiff, the defendant cannot show conclusively, on this record, that a total exemption from the grooming policy was the only possible accommodation," Justice Roderick Ireland wrote for the court.
Brown's attorney, Joel Feldman, praised the ruling. He said Brown no longer works for the company, but will take the case to trial because he believes the grooming policy discriminated against him based on his religion and that he is entitled to damages.
But a lawyer for F.L. Roberts said that after the grooming policy was implemented, the company continued to employ Brown and gave him merit raises.
"The policy was not aimed at an individual's religion. What the policy said was if you want to continue to have customer contact, then you must be clean-shaven and have neatly trimmed hair," she said. "Otherwise we are still going to maintain your employment ... but you can't have customer contact."
The Rastafarian faith urges followers to let their hair grow unbridled. Many grow their hair into long, matted strands called dreadlocks to express a oneness with nature.
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Sunoco Logistics Partners L.P. (NYSE: SXL) today announced the pricing of $350 million aggregate principal amount of 3.45% senior notes due 2023 and $350 million aggregate principal amount of 4.95% senior notes due 2043 of its wholly owned subsidiary, Sunoco Logistics Partners Operations L.P. (the "Operating Partnership"). The sale of the senior notes is expected to settle on January 10, 2013, subject to customary closing conditions. The Operating Partnership intends to use the net proceeds of approximately $692 million from this offering to repay in full the balance outstanding under its $350 million revolving credit facility and the balance outstanding under the $200 million revolving credit facility under which Sunoco Partners Marketing & Terminals L.P. is the borrower and SXL and the Operating Partnership are the guarantors. SXL will use the remainder of the net proceeds for general partnership purposes, including to partially finance its $700 million 2013 expansion capital plan.
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Electoral commission head Higinio Cardoso said the PAIGC had won, but without a majority in parliament.
The party, which fought Portuguese rule and led the country for 26 years after independence in the 1970s, nearly doubled its number of seats.
The poll was marred by reports that Mr Cardoso had offered his resignation.
In a letter to the ruling National Transitional Council (CNT), he said he had been under strong pressure and received death threats from people who did not want the results of the 28-30 March election published.
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The Social Renewal Party (PRS) of the deposed former president, Kumba Yala, took second place in the election.
The party's interim leader, Alberto Na Mbeia, has vowed to challenged the results of the election, saying it was rigged, with names deliberately left off the electoral lists. He has 48 hours to contest the result.
"We will not let them wrench our victory out of our hands," he told AFP news agency.
International observers, of whom there are more than 100 in the country, have described the elections as fair.
But there were delays in the scheduled opening of the polls on 28 March, which resulted in voting being extended for two days.
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Israel and Syria have agreed to permit United Nations observers to visit demilitarized and defensive zones on their border in accordance with a suggestion offered by General Carl C. von Horn, Chief of the UN Truce Supervision Organization, it was announced here today.
It was reported that the proposal was made to Israel's Foreign Ministry last Friday as one step by UNTSO to ease the tensions arising in the Lake Tiberias area from repeated Syrian gun attacks on Israeli fishermen and police launches and a reprisal raid earlier this month. Israel agreed promptly but Syria apparently withheld approval until Tuesday.
Under the agreement UN observers will visit the areas to determine whether there have been any large-scale troop concentrations and building of fortifications which would be contrary to terms of the Israel-Syrian mixed armistice pact. Informed sources here said that the agreement did not represent a new position for Israel which has permitted UN observers to make such visits to Israeli positions without limitations.


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A proposal to establish an aggressive new system to prosecute sex cases in the military has picked up two key Republican backers as proponents continue seeking enough support to force a vote on the plan in the coming weeks.
Sens. Rand Paul, R-Ky., and Ted Cruz, R-Texas, said Tuesday that they now fully support a proposal by Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., that would limit a military commander's ability to oversee investigations and prosecutions of alleged sexual assaults in their units.
Military commanders strongly oppose the idea, saying it would jeopardize the chain of command and the cohesion of units in the field. The Senate Armed Services Committee rejected the Gillibrand proposal last month as it put the finishing touches on its version of the National Defense Authorization Act. But the panel approved other proposals by senators of both parties to clarify how the military should investigate allegations of sexual assault and to stiffen penalties for service members convicted of such crimes.
She has pressed ahead in recent weeks to secure the support of at least 51 senators to hold a vote on her plan when the Senate begins debating the defense bill in the coming days. As of Tuesday, she said she has commitments from at least 34.
"This is not a Democratic idea. It is not a Republican idea. It is a good idea that meets the needs of the victims, creates transparency and accountability, and creates the needed objectivity that this issue deserves," Gillibrand said at a Tuesday news conference.
She was flanked by Paul and Cruz and party stalwarts, including Sens. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, and Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., as well as newer colleagues, including Sens. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., and Mazie Hirono, D-Hawaii. It was a notable bipartisan event that started at almost the same moment that Senate leaders were announcing a tentative deal to avert a showdown over Senate rules and the use of the filibuster to block presidential nominations.
The backing of Paul and Cruz is critical, according to aides of supportive senators, who said the pair will help attract more attention for the issue in conservative circles and persuade other GOP senators to back the plan. The collaboration of Paul, Cruz and Gillibrand, relatively young and ambitious senators, is also notable as all are often mentioned as future presidential candidates, and thus future potential commanders in chief.
"When I heard about this, my first impression was a positive one," Paul said in explaining his support, adding that he asked Gillibrand to tweak her proposal so that it focused only on how military prosecutors would handle major crimes such assault and murder. With those changes, "I see no reason why conservatives shouldn't support this," Paul said.


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ICT Stochastic Externalities and Growth: Missed Opportunities, Beyond Sustainability or What?
In this paper we present an analysis of the OECD production process and consider the ICT as driver of growth. In doing so the production function approach adopted underlines the externalities exploited or not and, possibly, when the production process overpasses the countries capacities implied by the technical parameters. In line with the general purpose theory such externalities are attributed to ICT. Business services are relevant as a vehicle to better exploit the innovative capital embedded in the production process. We develop and implement a methodology for the evaluation of the different effects on growth related to ICT. Our main conclusion is that even if a competitive solution is viable there are possible, though small, margins for a sustained growth in the long run for the OECD countries considered. We also point out some conclusions on the capital and labour shares showing that the latter is too small both in the long and short run.
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Kevin Porée
Kevin Porée (born 11 February 1965) is a British record producer, songwriter, composer, arranger and recording engineer. He is best known for his work with Mark Hole, Paul Young, Los Pacaminos, Senser, Joy Tobing, Hiding in Public, George Stiles and Anthony Drewe, Charlotte Gordon Cumming and for his associations with the composer / arranger Matheson Bayley and the eminent South African producer Neal Snyman.[1]
Born on the Channel Island of Jersey, Porée achieved a first class degree and an MA from the University of Kent at Canterbury. He initially pursued an academic career, working as a university lecturer at the University of Kent, London University Royal Holloway College, and City University, London, in the fields of theatre studies, communication theory and popular arts.[2]
Working as a musician and producer in the late 1980s and early 1990s, he took over Berry Street Studio in London in 1993 [3][4] and has since used it as a base for his production work as well as running it as a commercial recording studio.[5]
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Reader: Pound for pound, Boulder is a much better food city than Denver
Only in Boulder: The Dushanbe Teahouse.
Boulder just made Livability's Top 10 Foodie Cities list -- again. "Known for its array of outdoor adventures, the mountain town of Boulder, Colo., contains an equally impressive collection of restaurants, markets and food purveyors," the site reports. "You'll find residents here get just as excited about the opening weekend of the neighborhood farmers market as they do the opening of surrounding ski resorts." Boulder made Livability's first Top 10 Foodie Cities list in 2012, and not much has changed since then -- including the four restaurants that Livability namechecks: Frasca Food and Wine, Dushanbe Teahouse, Amu and Brasserie Ten Ten. Also unchanged: The fact that people have very different opinions about Boulder.
See also: Livability.com ranks Boulder seventh on its list of Top 10 Foodie Cities in America
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I can only hope they're joking.
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Of course Boulder deserves to be on the list. Pound for pound Boulder is a much better food city than Denver. The fact they have two JBF winners and Denver only has one is very telling. Criticizing Boulder because their restaurants have longevity is asinine. Most great food cities have a good mix of new innovative restaurants as well as old standbys that become institutions over time. Ten years ago there were no good restaurants in Denver -- don't hate on Frasca because they continue to be successful.
I'm sure the Boulder County Farmers' Market played a big role too. There is really nothing else like it in the state.
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One female employee at a southern Colorado prison is dead and another is in critical condition after an inmate attacked them this morning while breakfast was being prepared, the Colorado Department of Corrections says.
The Arkansas Valley Correctional Facility, about 45 miles east of Pueblo, was locked down, as were most other prisons, and the inmate subdued, said spokeswoman Alison Morgan, the Associated Press says. Food was delivered from other state prisons to the medium-security facility, which houses about 1,000 male inmates.
Morgan provided no details about what happened, saying it was premature.
KUSA-TV, owned by Gannett, USA TODAY's parent, says it's the first time a Colorado prison worker has been killed on duty.
The critically wounded employee is being treated at a Pueblo hospital.
The names of the dead and wounded staffers and the inmate involved were not released. Contrary to what AP writes, the The Pueblo Chieftain and The Denver Post identify them as "correctional officers." The Chieftain says they are sergeants; the Post says they were assigned to the kitchen.
Gov. John Hickenlooper visited the prison and the hospital this afternoon.
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Sergio Rodriguez has signed a contract extension with Real Madrid until the 2018 season.
Rodriguez has played with Real Madrid since the last of four NBA seasons with the New York Knicks in 2009-10.
Rodriguez was a first round draft pick by the Phoenix Suns in 2006 and played for the Portland Trail Blazers and Sacramento Kings. He averaged 4.3 points in 285 NBA games.