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BOZEMAN – A group of engineering and architecture students from Montana State took first place among an international field with their integrated sustainable building design in a competition sponsored by the American Society for Heating, Refrigeration and Air-conditioning Engineers, or ASHRAE.
The interdisciplinary group consisted of four MSU seniors and one graduate student: Terra Moran of Calgary, Alberta, Mary Peterson of Missoula and Martin Reaves of Boulder, Colo., all from the College of Engineering's Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Department; and Theresa Lindenau of Olympia, Wash., and grad student Elyse Casper of Driggs, Idaho, from the College of Arts and Architecture. The team will receive a $2,000 prize, plus free transportation, two nights lodging and $100 expenses for one team representative to attend an award ceremony at the 2015 ASHRAE Winter Meeting to be held in Chicago.
The MSU team went to great lengths to work up their design, said Kevin Amende, MSU assistant professor of mechanical engineering and co-advisor to the group with Ralph Johnson, professor of architecture. Their hard work paid off with a win in MSU's first entry into the ASHRAE integrated sustainable building competition category, Amende said.
"It's really a testament to their work ethic on this project, and to their ability to think outside the box," Amende said. "That's the whole idea behind working this into a two-semester sequence that combines engineering and architecture. There are problems that can't just be solved with a mechanical engineering approach, or through architectural thinking alone, you need a multidisciplinary approach."
The competition's challenge was to select a building to renovate, retrofit and redesign with integrated sustainable building energy systems and fundamental elements.
After selecting a Brooklyn site on New York City's East River, the team chose to integrate a closed-loop renewable river water heat exchange, using a variable refrigerant flow system that would use the temperature of the river to either heat or cool the building.
The building's specifications show it would be highly efficient, though the variable refrigerant flow system was an element with a steep learning curve, Theresa Lindenau said. From site selection, to the use of a green roof, to their choices of sound-dampening materials, the report and video the team submitted to ASHRAE detail the design.
"The system we chose … wasn't even in the (text book)," Lindenau said. "It was great to learn about a trending engineering solution."
While the team was venturing into somewhat uncharted territory, Lindenau said they did their due diligence by exploring existing examples – Bozeman's Hawthorne Elementary School uses a variable refrigerant system. And when it came to the design choices, they also worked very well as a team, she added.
"It's all about collaboration and I can't stress enough how great this group was at that," said Lindenau, who now an architecture graduate student and plans to pursue similar sustainable building energy systems designs in her career. "I enjoyed the engineers process where everything in the (decision making process) is weighted in a certain way so that we all had a say in which solutions were going to benefit the project the most."
Lindenau said she was also reveling in the fact that MSU's team, four of five of whom are women, finished atop a field that included international competition such as runner-up Tianjin University in China and third-place University of Georgia.
"I was so happy we came in ahead of China," Lindenau said. "They are so advanced over there and to have MSU take first in front of them is fantastic."
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London Play's Taking Nature to the Street project is supporting street play events from huge estates in Pimlico to small street parties in Croydon this weekend.
The Jubilee weekend will be a fantastic revival of children and their families returning back to a time when their street was not simply a strip of tarmac for cars to whizz down. Bunting and flags, rugs and furniture, street games, community planting, barbecues, team games, chalk drawing and the rest will turn the tarmac into a 'magical kingdom' for one memorable day. Neighbours and children will benefit in so many ways from this festive weekend but we say street play deserves more than just one day.
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Governments and aid agencies need to double their spending on disaster preparedness to protect millions of vulnerable people around the world, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies said. Nearly two years after the Indian Ocean tsunami that killed 220,000 people in a dozen countries, interest has fallen off, Johan Schaar, the federation's special representative for the tsunami operation, told AFP in an interview.
"It's really important that we keep the focus on this absolute need to protect people who live in exposed communities and exposed countries," he said.
Schaar stressed that the poor were the most vulnerable and pointed out that there were three earthquakes in Indonesia on one day of his visit to "one of the most disaster-affected countries in the world".
"It's a stark illustration of what we're facing and there has to be much more emphasis on investment in disaster reduction in countries that are vulnerable and... it's always the poorest segments of society that are most exposed to this," he said.
The Red Cross estimates that one dollar spent on prevention can save up to 10 dollars on recovery after a disaster.
Of the 10 billion dollars in annual global spending on humanitarian aid, only four percent goes on disaster preparedness, according to the Red Cross, which wants to see it increase to 10 percent, or about one billion dollars a year.
"Ten percent of what the British government spends on humanitarian assistance goes to disaster reduction and I think other donor governments should follow that," Schaar said Sunday after attending a conference of Red Cross and Red Crescent partners here.
While the massive scale of the tsunami and Kashmir earthquake attracted international attention, floods, landslides and quakes occur on an almost daily basis and often prove equally disastrous to those affected.
"The tsunami showed in dramatic terms something which at the local level is a daily reality, particularly for poor people," he said.
"For every natural disaster that AFP or any agency will actually report to the public there are 10 more that no one will ever hear about but that will affect people in the same way at the local level." The poor were worst affected as they had no insurance and no resources to fall back on.
"It is important to see this (disaster preparedness) as part of poverty alleviation, this vulnerability, this exposure of poor people," he said.
But it is not just a problem for the poor and developing countries.
"It's an increasing number of people who are exposed, and of course with climate change and global warming and what we fear will happen as a result, the number will increase even further," he said.
The devastation wrought on New Orleans last year by Hurricane Katrina and the Kobe earthquake in 1995 provided stark reminders that it is not only developing countries that need to take action.
"Most of the world's population is at risk," said federation spokesman John Sparrow.
"Who would have considered the population of New Orleans to be at risk? So we should rephrase the question. 'Who is not at risk?'" he asked.
"It's frightening if you consider how little is being invested in preparing and protecting people."
Schaar said the tsunami had increased awareness -- with a comprehensive disaster management policy now before the Indonesian parliament and the Sri Lankan government having produced a strategic plan -- but stressed the need now "to walk the talk".
"So this is a good start but we need to see also the real investments in this and we need to see donor governments not just supporting the notion of disaster reduction but being prepared to invest and make this part of development aid because that's what it is," he said.
As part of preparations to reduce risk, Schaar underlined the need for homes and social infrastructure to be made disaster-proof. Shortcomings were tragically shown up by the Kashmir earthquake.
"What we saw in Pakistan in October last year, when tens of thousands of children were killed in their schools -- this is not acceptable, this must not happen," he said.
And reconstruction efforts such as in tsunami-hit Aceh had to leave communities safer than they were before.
"When a big disaster has happened and reconstruction and recovery begins that is always an opportunity to make sure that what is being rebuilt provides communities with more safety than they had before the disaster," he said.
"President Clinton invented this slogan of 'building back better', which is a wonderful slogan, but what does it really mean and how do we know if we really have built back better? We won't know that immediately, it will take time."
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The acceptance of server and storage virtualization has enabled a paradigm shift in how data center infrastructure is purchased and deployed. End user companies are migrating from purchasing separate physical servers connected to storage area networks (SANs) to more modular "reference architectures" which include every component required to run their applications.
Servers and storage were typically sold as separate IT infrastructure elements in the past, usually to different groups within the IT department, and usually under different parts of the IT budget. The move to the cloud has changed all of that. For example, one recent move by a major server and storage vendor enables its storage to directly connect to its blade servers, which may make a storage network unnecessary. You simply purchase the servers, storage and network together as a data center "building block" which converges everything together to make rolling infrastructure a one stop shopping experience.
Everything you need is provided by the modular converged infrastructure, which is now a simple building block for the data center. Traditional storage only vendors have seen the light and are now joining forces with the major network vendors to create the modular building blocks (what I call PODs) which include the storage as a part of the building block.
Since everything is converged into one solution, and virtualized over a converged network, there is no longer a need for a traditional storage only network. The building block (POD) provides storage for both structured (database) and unstructured (file systems) data directly to the servers inside the rack. Even solid state disk (SSD) can be included in the POD as a fast tier of storage for high performance applications. The movement toward modular reference architectures as building blocks for large data centers is now also trickling down to small and medium-size businesses as the vendors shrink their PODs into smaller scale "podlets".
All of this all got started back in 2009 when converged infrastructure became a driving force to reduce costs, and data center infrastructure management (DCIM) solutions started showing up. For some reason, it seems the large storage companies have become a driving force behind cloud solutions, and many of them see network convergence as a way to beat the other guys into your data center. The storage guys are partnering with the network and server guys to create the data center building blocks of the future.
It remains to be seen whether these developments are ultimately a good thing for the storage guys, as the folks who make both servers and storage may have a leg up in providing standardized solutions with one support perspective. It's getting scary out there for the SAN folks, as once everything is included in modular racks as part of the POD, then the job of allocating and managing storage may fall to the server or network admins in the future.
I guess it's always a good idea to keep your skill set and resume up to date. The good news is although reference architectures may make it simpler for end users and cloud providers to create datacenter infrastructure, there will be a surge in the need for people with the more complex skill sets necessary to properly manage and troubleshoot those environments when something breaks.
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Cm_bush wrote:Hey guys, a few questions about the KME. First of all, I have a DMT Aligner, which is a lot like the Lansky or Gatco system, and the angles it can achieve are pretty limited, around 15° per side for a wide chef's knife, and closer to 17° for blades that aren't as tall. Does the stock KME really go lower than that? I know in the first post, you show 9° per side on a wider knife, but 12° on one just a little more narrow. Would you have to have a very tall knife to achieve angles <10°?Also, what is the maximum length this system can handle comfortably? With the Aligner, even 165mm is pushing the limits of the design.Thanks for the thread at any rate, the pictures are great, they really show off he system and have me interested.
wade7575 wrote:...As far as I can see and from what many people have told me on Forums the Edge Pro takes longer to set up and you need to re-adjust for different stone thickness's,where as with the KME I just push ahead on the spring loaded rod and stick the knife in and check the angle with my digital angle finder and I'm off and running and I don't have to worry if one of my stones is thicker or not I can just change it out without worrying about stone being thicker or thinner and throwing my angle out. ...
wade7575 wrote:dougmc would not worry about the any wear on any guided system affecting the finished edge as even soft stones are still pretty hard.I can't see anymore then 1 or 10 thousands of an inch wearing off during a sharpening,I know a few guys have told me lately that they only flatten the shapton glass stones ever 6 to 8 knives because when they draw a grid patteren and try to flatten it the pencil wears off evenly.I don't know if that's a good idea or not but that say's something to me about worrying about stone wear affecting the finished edge,and even if it does effect the finished edge I myself don't care because it's still sharper then a free hand job.
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Depending on the dealer, you ought to be able to pick an '07 off the lot right now for $500 off MSRP. That's what I did with the MCS listed at $27400 which I took delivery of last Friday for $26907 (plus "free" carpeted floor mats).
I only paid $110 in fees (registration/license transfer, titling, documents, messenger, tire tax), so they didn't recoup the $500 through made-up dealer charges. Though they may be getting a cut on my trade-in, even though they said they were selling it to the wholesaler for the exact amount they paid me for it, which no doubt will resell for $3000+ more than I got for it.) Although I got the impression that even without a trade-in, they would've come down $500 on an '07 on their lot. It's Otto's MINI in West Chester, PA, if you're interested in coming 3000 miles to buy your car
A $500 discount on an '08 at this point doesn't seem so likely, so your best deal will probably be on an in-stock '07 if that works for you. In the end, if you question whether you're monetarily getting the best car deal possible, ask yourself whether the sheer joy of owning a brand new MINI is worth the extra money. For me, it is (plus I'm saving $300/year on car insurance). Good luck!
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Pasta, veggies and ham in a creamy pesto cheese sauce will make this easy-to-prepare Creamy Pesto Garden Pasta dish a surefire winner with the family.
- 1 box (12 oz.) dry tri-color rotini or spiral shaped pasta
- 1 bag (16 oz.) frozen broccoli, cauliflower and carrot medley
- 1 can (12 fl. oz.) NESTLÉ® CARNATION® Evaporated Milk
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- 1/4 teaspoon ground black pepper
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MEANWHILE, COMBINE evaporated milk, cheese, pesto and black pepper in medium saucepan. Cook over medium low heat, stirring occasionally, until cheese is melted. Remove from heat.
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Joe Nichols hasn't just thought of using embarrassment as a way to discipline his kids when they don't do something they're supposed to do — he does it "all the time."
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Joe Nichols recalled being pranked by Toby Keith during his Country Jam pre-show interview. Then he recalled getting revenge in a way Keith will never forget.
With Valentine's Day on the horizon, Taste of Country asked over a dozen different country artists to share their first kiss stories. The responses are captured in these videos.
Joe Nichols has released the lyric video for his new single, 'Hard to Be Cool.'
Joe Nichols' new single 'Yeah' keeps the feel-good vibe of 'Sunny and 75' alive. On paper, the story comes across as a track that was all too popular in 2013, but the singer's warm voice wraps the listener up like a good hug on chilly country night. His song is different because he's not trying so hard.
Before the last fun-filled weeks of summer are behind us, Joe Nichols wants to remind us to capture the carefree days of the season with his 'Sunny and 75' video.
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I've started to answer this question on (guess where?!) my wiki: see Queued Messaging and Message Order.
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I work as a firefighter in the lovely state of Florida. I have on more accounts than one should, been in these environments. The worst of which belonged to a 700lb woman whom suffered from depression. Apparently. Because when we went in for a welfare check, we found her dead...probably a good 3 weeks, face blown off, with a face...err...stump filled with maggots and cockroaches.
Her home was FILLED with insects beyond belief and we literally were up to our knees and waists in human excrement and garbage...well, her treasure.
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Tue Dec 11, 2012, 04:33 PM
hack89 (36,291 posts)
Why the long-gun registry doesnt work and never did [Canada]
registration is a common gun control desire. It was a colossal and expensive failure in Canada.
In March, Stephen Harpers government reversed decades of increasing restrictions on civilian firearms, scrapping the controversial long-gun registry on grounds that it was wasteful and ineffective. Gun laws, the prime minister correctly said, should focus on criminals rather than law-abiding citizens such as farmers and hunters.
In 2002, the auditor-general revealed that the Firearms Centre had grown out of control. Despite political promises that the program would not cost over $2-million, costs were expected to exceed $1-billion by 2005. By 2012, this had ballooned to $2.7-billion. The auditor-general uncovered irregularities including mismanagement and corruption. Her findings stimulated a parliamentary revolt. In 2003, Parliament imposed an annual spending cap. The auditors reports led to RCMP investigations of Liberal insiders and contributed to the fall of the Liberal government in 2006.
To this day, it has been claimed that the registry is important in protecting women. But in fact, there is no convincing evidence that registering firearms has been effective in reducing either homicide rates overall, or spousal murders in particular. Even though homicide rates have been gradually falling since the 1970s, a wide variety of researchers have been unable to find solid evidence linking gun laws to this decline. Changing demographics, not firearms laws, better explain the decline in homicides involving long guns over the past 20 years. It is difficult to argue that Canadian gun laws are effective when homicide rates have dropped faster in the United States than in Canada since 1991.
A third claim is that long guns are the weapon of choice in domestic homicides, and that registration can help to identify the perpetrator. (This is related to the aforementioned claim that guns promote violence against women.) In fact, the long-gun registry and licensing are rarely needed by police to solve spousal homicides for three reasons: (1) in almost all cases, spousal murderers are immediately identified; (2) firearms are not often used to kill female spouses; and (3) the firearms used by abusive spouses to kill their wives are almost all possessed illegally. Statistics Canada data show that just 4% of long guns involved in homicides were registered.
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Tue Dec 11, 2012, 04:38 PM
believer10101 (9 posts)
1. Illinois anti-carry law struck down
Federal Court Strikes down Illinois' total ban on carrying firearms for self-defense outside the home or business
Fairfax, Va. The United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit ruled today that Illinois' total ban on carrying firearms for self-defense outside the home or business is unconstitutional. The case involves lead plaintiff Mary Shepard, an Illinois resident and a trained gun owner, who is licensed to carry a concealed handgun in both Utah and Florida. The National Rifle Association is funding this case. The Illinois State Rifle Association is a co-plaintiff in this case.
Todays ruling is a victory for all law abiding citizens in Illinois and gun owners throughout the country, said Wayne LaPierre, Executive Vice President of NRA. The court recognized that the text and history of the Second Amendment guarantee individuals the right to carry firearms outside the home for self-defense and other lawful purposes. In light of this ruling, Mary Shepard and the people of Illinois will finally be able to exercise their Second Amendment rights.
On September 28, 2009, while working as the treasurer of her church, Ms. Shepard and an 83-year-old co-worker were viciously attacked and beaten by a six-foot-three-inch, 245 pound man with a violent past and a criminal record. Ms. Shepard and her co-worker were lucky to survive, as each of them suffered major injuries to the head, neck and upper body. Ms. Shepard's injuries required extensive surgeries and she continues physical therapy to this day attempting to recover from her injuries.
In todays decision, Judge Richard Posner ruled that Illinois ban on carriage is unconstitutional. The Judge went on to say, One doesnt have to be a historian to realize that a right to keep and bear arms for personal self-defense in the eighteenth century could not rationally have been limited to the home. . . . Twenty-first century Illinois has no hostile Indians. But a Chicagoan is a good deal more likely to be attacked on a sidewalk than in his apartment on the 35th floor.
"Today's ruling is a major victory for law-abiding Illinoisansand for everyone who understands that the Second Amendment protects the right both to keep arms, and to bear arms," added Chris W. Cox, executive director of NRA's Institute for Legislative Action. "This ruling makes clear that Illinois cannot deny law-abiding residents the right to carry a firearm for self-defense outside the home. This is a step in the right direction for all gun owners. We know it probably wont be the end of this case, and were ready to keep fighting until the courts fully protect the entire Second Amendment.
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Tue Dec 11, 2012, 04:41 PM
-..__... (7,776 posts)
2. Ohh... now you've gone and done it!
I'm willing to bet that there's at least one very frustrated and angry lurking Canadian just foaming at the mouth because she/he/it can't respond to that.
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Tue Dec 11, 2012, 04:43 PM
hack89 (36,291 posts)
3. I can feel the vibes from here! nt
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Tue Dec 11, 2012, 04:49 PM
gcomeau (5,764 posts)
4. Since you chose to bold this...
"It is difficult to argue that Canadian gun laws are effective when homicide rates have dropped faster in the United States than in Canada since 1991."
I can only assume you thought it made some kind of valid point. It does not, for the simple reason that the current rates in Canada are still THREE TIMES LOWER than in the US.
Only looking at the rate of change while disregarding the starting point is a nice little trick to pull. Kind of like looking at two houses, one of which is an energy inefficient power wasting boondoggle and another which is a model of energy efficiency... then turning the lights off in the energy wasting house, looking at the drop in power consumed, and saying that since there was no corresponding drop in power in the energy consumed by the energy efficient house obviously it isn't effective at saving energy, because look! The power usage dropped faster in the wasteful house!
Never mind what it dropped from and to... yeah that''s not important...
Response to gcomeau (Reply #4)
Tue Dec 11, 2012, 05:08 PM
gejohnston (17,081 posts)
5. their rate was one third ours
from 1968-1977 when their laws were overall laxer than ours. While they did begin a handgun registry and licensing in 1934, they did not register machine guns until 1952, and required no permits or ban them until 1977. When you balance specific provisions, their federal laws seem more or less stricter than ours, but not really. There, most felons may legally own guns after their time is served. Federal law allows 18 year olds to buy handguns, while here it is 21. With a minor's permit, a 12 year old may buy ammo and possess an unrestricted long gun without adult supervision (the law allows subsistence hunters a waiver to allow those as young as 9 to get a minor's permit) Putting a shoulder stock on a handgun is not a crime there, here it is creating a short barreled rifle without a manufactures license, a federal felony. A resident of one province may buy a gun in another as long as you have a valid PAL. Internet sales work the same way, the gun comes to your door. Can't do that here.
Response to gcomeau (Reply #4)
Tue Dec 11, 2012, 05:28 PM
hack89 (36,291 posts)
7. But it does beg the question
of the impact of gun control laws if US rates are falling faster even though the US is actually relaxing their gun laws while Canada was strengthening theirs.
It's demographics not guns that drive crime rates.
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Tue Dec 11, 2012, 05:27 PM
Eleanors38 (18,318 posts)
6. But there is one area of success for Canada's gun-registration bureaucracy...


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Revenue on City Link in Melbourne has risen more than 12 per cent, but the operator, Transurban Group, has posted another loss and is at least five years from break-even.
The company issued the figures yesterday as it released details of a $450 million offer that will raise funds for its share of the $1.25 billion Western Sydney Orbital toll road project.
City Link revenue increased by $12.5 million to $115.2 million for the six months to the end of December, 2002 - 12.2 per cent higher than for the same period the previous year. The total revenue for City Link was $194.9 million.
Traffic volume grew 7.4 per cent, but managing director Kim Edwards said growth had been very strong on sections of the freeway that had previously been down.
Traffic on the elevated road and Bolte Bridge grew 11 per cent, and the Domain tunnel was up 12.5 per cent.
Mr Edwards said revenue growth was higher than traffic growth because toll prices rose 4.5 per cent. Customer service costs were 23 per cent lower at $14.2 million, a monthly average of $2.37 million.
However, Transurban posted a $38.3 million loss for the half-year - which Mr Edwards said compared favourably with a loss of $58.4 million in the same period the year before.
Mr Edwards emphasised that it was usual for large infrastructure projects such as City Link to record accounting losses in the early years because of depreciation write-offs.
"Accounting losses will start to break even in about 2008," he said.
"The measure of success is the free cash that is distributed."
This would be more than $100 million this year, which would fund distributions.
The company will pay an interim distribution of 10˘ per stapled security, payable on March 26, and Mr Edwards said the company was on track for another 10˘ distribution later in the year.
Overall borrowing costs were further reduced by 10 per cent, reflecting the benefits of the refinancing put in place last July, he said.
The $450 million for Transurban's 40 per cent share in the Western Sydney Orbital project will be raised by an offer of convertible adjusting rate securities (CARS).
The offer is for 4.3 million CARS underwritten by Macquarie Bank and Salomon Smith Barney. The distributions are expected to be 90 per cent tax deferred and generally convertible into Transurban securities at a 2.5 per cent discount.
The offer has been given a preliminary long-term investment grade credit rating of BBB by Standard & Poor's.
Transurban stapled securities closed yesterday 10˘ lower at $4.15.
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The hottest new toys at an industry trade show last week included some golden oldies like Play Doh.
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"And then this morning, this scarf had sugar all over it. I swear the maid is wearing them while eating donuts, but if I could just prove it…"
Because a family that stares at each other's freckle curtains, stays together, Lindsay Lohan apparently brought her little sister Ali to her recent Playboy shoot and of course, Dina couldn't be more pleased. It's important for big sisters to teach little sisters how to knock out mommy's rent. There's nothing more wholesome. Via Hollywood Life:
According to a new report, Lindsay Lohan's 17-year-old sister Ali Lohan tagged along for the nude photo shoot, for which Lindsay is said to be netting nearly $1 million. And, as always, mom Dina Lohan couldn't be more proud of her daughter for her big accomplishment.
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Nor will building infrastructure.
Of course, having the Trade and Investment Minister promoting foreign investment as a national priority will help. It will smother the Nationals' knuckle-headed economic nationalism and promote Australia to global investors at a time of rising risk aversion.
Building infrastructure with high benefit-cost ratios also will make a useful contribution to productivity growth, and Abbott's decision to increase infrastructure investment in the next four years will strengthen budget.
But, with infrastructure spending running at historically high levels for several years, there are not enough high-yielding projects available to the fill the growth gap.
In his report on Australia's reform priorities, the Grattan Institute's John Daley warned that investing faster in Australian infrastructure is unlikely to substantially increase the size of the economy over the next decade.
"Project-by-project analysis by Infrastructure Australia reveals relatively few projects ready to proceed, and most have modest net benefits," he said.
The task of accelerating Australia's growth rate is more complex and politically difficult.
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The evidence cited by Daley suggests that only three reforms are capable of making a substantial difference to economic growth within a decade. They are a change in the tax mix to cut personal income and company tax and measures to boost labour force participation by prime working-age women and older men. That takes Abbott into politically dangerous territory.
Moreover, a much wider range of reforms offering longer term pay-offs will be needed to enhance the investment climate as Australia starts to really feel the effects of population ageing.
Abbott needs a disciplined and strategic approach to economic reform, involving the states as well as the federal government, in order to generate the income growth and budget surpluses he needs for his long-term political success.
Abbott's key economic policy ministers – the Treasurer,
Abbott's decision to give him the junior post of Assistant Treasurer was greeted among economists with almost as much disappointment as the failure to promote more women in the parliamentary party was greeted across the wider community.
Perhaps at least the Sinodinos decision will look smarter in retrospect. A senior Cabinet role might have cast the persuasive and popular former Treasury economist as a rival to Hockey at a time when it is in the government's interests that the two men forge a strong alliance.
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More generally, it seems that Abbott's portfolio allocations were driven to large extent by relatively shorter term considerations.
Abbott and the Coalition have to make the transition from aggressive opposition to responsible government.
Claims of a budget emergency have had to quietly give way to a more gradual change in the stance of fiscal policy.
Joyce, as a member of the Cabinet, now must persuade regional voters to accept much smaller policy changes than they demanded in foreign investment, for example.
The Nationals are expert at this, but it is never easy.
Robb's role in promoting trade and investment is intended to assist this transition. And so, in due course, will be the ritual sacrifice of some perfectly satisfactory Chinese investment proposals.
All of this gives the first Abbott ministry more than the usual air of impermanence.
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Governor General David Johnston and his wife Sharon will visit Prince Edward Island June 15-18.
In a statement he said, "as a nation, we must celebrate milestones in the history of our country, such as the 150th anniversary of the Conference of Charlottetown. These historic meetings were the pillars that helped to shape Canada as we know it today. Sharon and I are looking forward to visiting the birthplace of Confederation, Prince Edward Island, and to attending official events and activities that reflect who we are as Canadians and define where we aspire to be."
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Alicia Keys' next album to be titled 'Girl On Fire'; was it inspired by The Hunger Games?
Last week, singer Alicia Keys announced the titled for her next project, Girl On Fire. The problem? There's already one Girl On Fire in this world and her name is Katniss Everdeen.
Ever since Keys revealed the album name, fans began speculating whether or not she was inspired by The Hunger Games at the time she defined the name, but the artist didn't made any reference to it during the announcement. She explained the title as coming from a personal process of change: "Before making this record, in some ways I felt like a lion locked in a cage… I felt like a girl misunderstood that no one really knew, I felt like it was time to stop making excuses for any part of my life that I wanted to change. Once I made that choice I became a Girl on Fire, the lion broke free!!"
In a recent interview, EW.com was the first one to directly ask Alicia Keys what everyone was wanting to know: if the title was influenced by the popular saga. Here's what she had to say:
Alicia Keys: "You know, the funny thing is that it's actually not. It was such a shock when I heard about The Hunger Games — I wasn't aware of the book at that point. And I didn't realize that, I guess, that's what they call the one girl. So we tried very hard to make it all work and put the song in — and to put parts of what I was developing in with the movie. Anyway, obviously it came out way too early, so the timing wasn't right. But, no, it has nothing to do with The Hunger Games. That powerful feeling is what it's all about."
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Newark – A dialogue on Black-Jewish relations by the leaders of The Foundation for Ethnic Understanding — Rabbi Marc Schneier of the Hamptons Synagogue and hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons — expanded its focus with the unplanned arrival of Imam Feisal Rauf of the controversial Cordoba House planned for Lower Manhattan.
The event, which also featured Newark Mayor Cory Booker, was held at the Newark Art Museum and was attended by members of the Newark Municipal Council, local activists, and a handful of concerned Jews.
Rauf entered the museum hall as Schneier, rabbi at the Hamptons Synagogue, was describing the media storm surrounding "the mosque at Ground Zero.†Schneier made the point that media can be used to almost instantaneously change the public perception of a group. "Overnight you could see how credibility could be shattered. There are so many examples of how the media can influence people to turn,†he said.
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TechKnowledgey Says BoinxTV is "Extremely Powerful..."
by Cara - Thursday, June 30, 2011 - Permalink
Tech guru and avid YouTuber, Devir Kahan, takes a look at BoinxTV in his latest online video software review. "BoinxTV is live video software that anyone can use to make their videos look professional," says Devir. "You can add cool lower thirds, layers... the list goes on and on. It's awesome, easy to use, and extremely, exteremely powerful." Devir is also giving away a free BoinxTV Home license to one lucky winner... stay tuned to his YouTube Channel to win!
BoinxTV Helps Create Prom Night Memories...
by Cara - Wednesday, June 29, 2011 - Permalink
BoinxTV helped create extra special memories of a recent Prom Night in Wetzlar, Germany. Held at the Rittal Arena in Wetzlar, the prom was host to 1,260 guests in one of the most modern, multi-purpose halls in the area. We spoke with Michel Honold, one of the organizers of the event, who told us a little bit about how BoinxTV was used. "We had live video from BoinxTV playing on television screens in the foyer, displaying information for guests and visitors. We also used BoinxTV to create the content for the projection shown on stage via a 10m wide screen," says Michel. "With BoinxTV it was easy for us to compile live video, text, images, animations, and pre-recorded content, and combine it with all the action on stage. We even added in our event sponsor's logos, live tweets, program notes, and more to the content displayed in the foyer. Thanks to BoinxTV, the entire event looked like a great television show!"
The BoinxTV set up for the prom was extremely easy and helped us to create more than 16 hours of live composed content - from the start of the event in the foyer to the end of the after-show party. An iMac 27" was used for the video wall above the stage, and two MacBook Pro's were used for the screens in the foyer. "We chose BoinxTV because it's much easier to use and set up than other mediaserver products," says Michel. "We were able to produce and playout all of the media content for the event ourselves, without having to hire an outside video technician. The stability and intuitive nature of BoinxTV is outstanding - from layers, to tickers, and the long list of available features - it's all great!"
Read about other interesting ways users are taking advantage of the unique capabilities of BoinxTV!
An Alternative to FCP X for Snazzy Slideshows!
by Cara - Tuesday, June 28, 2011 - Permalink
ApertureExpert.com recently named our very own FotoMagico as a top alternative to the new Final Cut Pro X for making snazzy slideshows! The article says, "FotoMagico is made by Boinx Software and is a very sophisticated application that works hand in hand with Aperture and iTunes to make amazing slideshows. FotoMagico has dozens of slide transitions, layouts, effects and so-on and offers the power user a range of advanced features that allow you to time slide transitions, move text, manipulate images, insert video clips, and more."
The article, posted by Marcus Adams, goes on to say, "I can highly recommend it as a much less expensive option than Final Cut Pro X, that will probably by completely adequate for 90% of users, who can spend the money they save on shooting more images!" A big thanks to ApertureExpert for the shout out! Read the complete posting here!
Click here to read more about FotoMagico's great features and advanced capabilities.
May 22 Through the Eyes of iStopMotion
by Cara - Thursday, June 23, 2011 - Permalink
This unique iStopMotion movie was created by Frank Doheyn, as a tribute to the maker's of 'Dag op Dag' (or 'Day to Day'), a national TV program in Belgium dedicated to the history of the world on one specific date. Frank chose to portray the history and events of May 22 over the years through stop motion animation. To create this elaborate animation, Frank used non permanent whiteboard marker, tissues, Q-tips, and hours and hours of patience. The audio effects were also created by Frank, using GarageBand and iMovie. He used a HUE webcam to make the 1,992 images that were needed for the project. The background music is from a 1968 Arthur Brown song.
Watch here as Frank takes viewers through history on May 22 - from the fall of Constantinople, to the 1960 earthquake in Chile, to top model Naomi Campbell's birth in 1970. To view more iStopMotion examples click here!
iStopMotion Clicks Ahead to Version 2.8
by Cara - Wednesday, June 22, 2011 - Permalink
iStopMotion version 2.8 is here! Headlining the list of new features and improvements is iStopMotion's new ability to apply filters to imported images. This means that if you have existing time-lapse sequences you'd like to work with in iStopMotion, now you can! In version 2.8, all filters, such as the popular Tilt Shift effects, can now be applied to previously-recorded time-lapse footage shot with stand-alone DSLR cameras directly upon import. Just drag and drop the images from your camera onto an iStopMotion document and the Tilt Shift effect will be applied to all images, while a time-lapse movie is created at the same time.
Our engineers also went under-the-hood in version 2.8 to restore Canon DSLR camera functionality that was lost with the Mac OS X 10.6.5 system update, as well as make major improvements to color management. Rounding out the upgrades in version 2.8 is the software's localization of the Russian language.
Sometimes, a customer reports what seems to be a minor bug and it looks like a totally trivial thing. Then we dive in and discover a much better way to do things, which leads to dramatic improvements," comments Oliver Breidenbach. "With iStopMotion 2.8, this happened when a small color matching problem was reported. Now, the color is handled much better throughout all areas of the program, leading to better animation results."
Learn about all the new features and updates to iStopMotion 2.8 here!
'You Might Remember This'
by Cara - Tuesday, June 21, 2011 - Permalink
Painter and experimental filmmaker, and avid user of iStopMotion, Jeff Scher created this unique and personal animation for Father's Day, featuring his son Buster from ages 6 to 10. 'You Might Remember This' portrays Buster's childhood through drawings, animated with iStopMotion. In describing the animation, Scher is sure to explain that although it portrays childhood, the perspective of the short film is parental.
"The silce of childhood depicted here makes it feel like we're creeping up on the middle of our journey together. The bubble of babyhood has burst and there have been great leaps in physical prowess, but the shell of adulthood has not yet hardened and the children remain vulnerable," he writes. "As parents, we remain indispensable, but the intoxicating and scary scent of future independence is in the air. School is at the center of most days, and the balance between social and academic development and the need to just be a kid swings back and forth constantly. Being a parent has similar conflicts: while I'm insisting he do his homework, I'm wishing we were fishing, too. But we've both signed on to be (or become) functional citizens, and the homework gets done."
"Buster might actually remember some of the moments depicted in this film; some he might remember because of this film," says Scher. "I will remember them all, having now engraved them in memory with crayon, paint and pencil." Watch the full animation here. Visit Scher's New York Times Blog to watch more of his short animations made with iStopMotion!
FotoMagico Makes a Stylish Transition to Version 3.8
by Cara - Monday, June 20, 2011 - Permalink
FotoMagico version 3.8 is all about the transition; your FotoMagico slideshows will flow smoother than ever before with the new transitions Blinds, Flash, Pixelate, and Broken TV, and enhanced options for the existing favorites Fade and Flip. Our crafty engineers also went under-the-hood in version 3.8 to tune-up the software's performance and audio playback for a more streamlined and efficient workflow. In accord with the iPhone and iPad's support for HD movies, we added an HD 720p format option to FotoMagico's iPhone sharing plug-in, allowing users to display their HD movies on a HDTV with the appropriate connector cables. In addition, the FotoMagico export process is now visble in the Dock icon so that users can send the app to the background and work in a different app in the foreground while not losing sight of the export progress.
"By very popular request, the focus of FotoMagico 3.8 was definitely to provide our users with more transitions," says Oliver Breidenbach. "Transitions are a great way to enhance and play up the mood, look and feeling you want your slideshows to achieve if they are executed well. We also did not forget to work on performance and stability which are essential to every creative process."
Download FotoMagico 3.8 now and start making slideshow magic!
Stop Motion Animation Ident - BBC1
by Cara - Monday, June 20, 2011 - Permalink
YouTuber "Jackamaddox" recently sent over a unique stop motion animation video that he and his peers put together for a college project. The assignment required that Jack and his peers create an ident - or television identification symbol - for the well-known British channel BBC One. The ident needed to be a short video tailored to BBC One's target audience, which the students defined as largely family orientated, that would remind the audience what channel they were watching. In this short ident project, Jack and his partners took the concept of snowmen for the holiday season and ran with it. "Previous idents for BBC One involved objects coming together to form a circle of the 'One' in BBC One - this is how we developed our idea of snowmen coming together to form the 'One,'" says Jack.
Jack used a Canon XM2 Camcorder and a Mac computer to create the iStopMotion animation. It took hundreds of snowman, thousands of frames, and a couple weeks of clicking to create the BBC One ident. Here's the finished product!
Silicon Summit Reviews BoinxTV Home!
by Cara - Friday, June 17, 2011 - Permalink
Laurrell Davenport of the Silicon Summit recently took a look at BoinxTV Home, and was pleasantly surprised at its advanced capabilities. "For the price, I expected a drastically gutted version of BoinxTV. I was wrong. Except for a few limitations, BoinxTV Home is exactly the same as its big brother," says Laurrell. "I am very pleased with BoinxTV Home. Once you have a basic understanding of the program, it is very easy to use. Basically, anyone who needs to output a video production would find this useful."
Read the complete review here!
photokina Hits the Airwaves with BoinxTV
by Cara - Thursday, June 16, 2011 - Permalink
A highly anticipated bi-annual event held in Cologne, Germany, photokina is the world's largest photography and imaging trade fair in the industry. A product of Koelnmesse, Cologne's largest trade fair company, photokina attracts an immense gathering of professional and semi-professional photographers, and imaging aficionados alike. The fair brings together new products, trends and the world's leading photo and imaging brands for an unparalleled, virtually eye-popping event line-up.
This past year, photokinaTV, the official podcast of photokina, hit the airwaves with official TV partner, FotoTV, the world's largest WebTV station for photography available online at fototv.com and fototv.de. Looking to make "podcast magic" with a smooth and fresh delivery method, German IPTV 2009 Award-Winner, FotoTV, turned to our revolutionary live production, "studio-in-a-box," software - BoinxTV. Serving as the technical power behind FotoTV, BoinxTV delivered daily photo news, trends, products, interviews, and highlights of the 6-day photo bonanza - via photokinaTV - to imaging enthusiasts all over the world ia a tailored and tantalizing online podcast.
Presented with the opportunity to deliver groundbreaking photo news and trends to millions of viewers around the world, FotoTV sought a modest alternative to the complexities and nuances of most higher priced production machines. Utilizing our unique "studio-in-a-box" production platform in the past to create various online photography news broadcasts and podcasts such as FotoTV.News and FotoTV.Tech, the WebTV station was familiar with the BoinxTV workflow and unparalleled technical support. Thus, it was a natural choice for them to leverage our all-in-one production capabilities for this special project.
Click here to read more about BoinxTV's trip to photokina and the debut workflow that broadcasted the photography event from the never-before-seen "FotoTV Glass-Box Studio."
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