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At the beach
impressionist photography
por Eva Polak
Sobre o livro
A collection of photographs by artist Eva Polak.
Impressionistic view of the beach.
All images are created in the camera with minimal modification afterwards.
This beautifully illustrated volume is ideal for your own
personal enjoyment or to give as a lovely gift.
Características e detalhes
- Categoria Fotografia e artes plásticas
Quadrado pequeno, 18×18 cm
40 Páginas
- Data de publicação jul 06, 2010
- Tags Fine Art, art book, eva polak, impressionist photography, beach, Impressionism, people, dogs, abstract, outdoors, nature, light, creative, portfolio, gift, photography, unique, original, ocean, sunset, sea, impressionistic, impressionist
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Eva Polak
Auckland, New Zealand
Eva Polak is a fine art photographer originally from Poland and currently living in Auckland, New Zealand. She specialises in impressionist photography. Eva takes inspiration for her photographs from the beauty and variety of nature and the world she lives in.
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Anime First Impressions: Flowers of Evil
By Joseph Luster
This article originally ran on the OTAKU USA website
I decided to wait until at least episode three to gather my thoughts on the Flowers of Evil anime adaptation for a few reasons. The primary factor is pacing. While I've read all five volumes of Shuzo Oshimi's manga (you can read the latest review here) that Vertical Inc. has published thus far, the anime enjoys a much more languid pace. This ends up working in its favor narratively, for the most part, but the truly divisive aspect of Flowers of Evil has been its distinct aesthetic choice.
Flowers of Evil doesn't look like your typical anime. It uses rotoscoped versions of real actors to convey the story of Takao Kasuga and his increasingly twisted encounters with class weirdo Sawa Nakamura. Does that mean it's a bad thing? Absolutely not. Some have gone as far as to call the characters here straight up ugly, and maybe some of them are, but why does it matter? Would anyone really be that much happier if Flowers of Evil looked like every other anime out this season? The studio responsible, ZEXCS (Rental Magica, Cuticle Detective Inaba), could have easily gone down that path, and I'm really happy they chose not to.
For those who haven't read the manga, Flowers of Evil follows the quiet, bookish Kasuga, who lives a fairly uninteresting life until one slightly perverted impulse sends him down a dreadful spiral of blackmail and confused middle school emotions. When his nose isn't buried in the poetry of Baudelaire, he's staring down the barrel of it at his school crush, Nanako Saeki. One day, after the classroom has emptied, he sees it: Saeki's gym uniform lying slumped in its bag on the floor. Curiosity and hormones draw him closer, and in a moment of panic he swoops down, picks it up, and runs off with it.
Next thing you know, the whole class suspects that some deviant creep came in and took Saeki's outfit, when in reality it's just the telltale heart in Kasuga's sweaty-palmed possession. Everything can go back to normal, though, right? He can just put it back and be done with it, surely. If only his classmate Nakamura hadn't seen it all go down. She quickly becomes a whispering voice in his ear. A non-stop reminder of the perversion deep within, refusing to leave him be until he reveals his true self to her, lest she tell the whole class what a maniac he really is.
And maybe she's not totally off. She bores so deep into Kasuga's psyche in such a short amount of time that his already fragilely forming self-image is rocked. Now he's in this precarious situation where he wants to develop some kind of relationship with Saeki, but has Nakamura pretty much literally on his back at all times. Never letting him forget. Never letting him move on. It seems like the kind of thing that could be easily resolved, but Flowers of Evil does a great job of creating a cloud of misery over a seemingly innocent mistake, and burrows further and further from that surface drop-off.
In the hands of director Hiroshi Nagahama (Mushi-Shi, Detroit Metal City) and writer Aki Itami (scripts for Fruits Basket and Mushi-Shi), Flowers of Evil pretty much perfectly captures the spirit of the original manga. Shinichiroh Ueda is spot-on as Kasuga, adding just the right amount of flailing comedy to his sheepish, self-doubting nature. Mariya Ise likewise does a great job of conveying Nakamura's wicked smile and her ability to go from cold and calculating to a whirlwind of intensity in a matter of seconds. Do they look exactly like their manga counterparts? Not really, and it's a non-issue.
Just like Oshimi's manga, there's a special kind of authenticity to the Flowers of Evil anime, and a lot of it has to do with the style to which ZEXCS committed. It's the anime equivalent of the real-life locations and explanations thereof scattered throughout the comic. The live-action foundation makes way for the type of details that probably wouldn't have made it through the normal animation process, and it complements the hypnotic pacing that's kind of like, I don't know, dangling your feet in the water and staring out at the riverbank. It's not boring, but it sure as hell isn't a thriller. It's just tough for me to imagine how this show is received by anyone who hasn't read the manga at all, because I know what's going to happen and I'm just along for the ride.
There are a lot of things I enjoy about Flowers of Evil. I love the exciting opening theme, full of youthful energy that contrasts nicely with the show's contents. The ending theme is its own strangely appropriate oddity, too. All in all, Flowers of Evil nearly makes it to the end of the first manga volume over the course of three episodes, with thirteen planned in total. Therefore, my only true concern is how much ground ZEXCS will be able to cover. The way things are going, I don't want anything to be rushed, but I also don't want this thing to end prematurely unless there's going to be more. We'll see how it plays out as the season progresses, but I definitely recommend adding it to your watch list.
You can currently stream Flowers of Evil here at Crunchyroll, and Sentai Filmworks has licensed the series for digital and home video release.
OTAKU USA is a bi-monthly print and digital magazine featuring reviews and features on anime, manga, games, jpop, and more! You can also check out OTAKU USA on-line and on facebook.

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Prediction of God particle secures Nobel Prize for physics
British scientist Peter Higgs and Belgian Francois Englert have been awarded this year's Nobel Prize for physics for their prediction of the existence of what became known as the Higgs boson, also referred to popularly as the God particle. Englert said it was 'not very unpleasant' news, while the famously media shy Higgs had a prepared statement released on his behalf saying he was 'overwhelmed', but was reported to be on holiday without a phone.
Source: AM | Duration: 2min 37sec
Topics: physics, awards-and-prizes, sweden, belgium, united-kingdom
TIM PALMER: In the world of physics it was regarded as something of an inevitability that the man who predicted the existence of what's popularly known as the God particle, the Higgs boson, would be awarded this year's Nobel Prize.
But Peter Higgs is no fan of the limelight so he prepared for the big day by going on holiday without a phone.
The British scientist shares the prize with Belgian Francois Englert.
Europe correspondent Barbara Miller reports.
BARBARA MILLER: Physicists around the world were kept waiting for news of who had won this year's Nobel prize:
NOBEL SPOKESPERSON: The press conference will be a bit late.
BARBARA MILLER: An hour after it was expected, the decision came that pretty much everyone had been expecting:
NOBEL HOST: This year's prize is about something very small that makes all the difference. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2013 Nobel Prize in physics to professor Francois Englert and professor Peter Higgs at University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom.
BARBARA MILLER: The "something small" is the Higgs boson particle, which both scientists predicted in papers written in the 1960s.
The theory explained how elementary matter attained mass. Fifty years later, scientists at the CERN research centre in Switzerland validated the theory by replicating the subatomic particle.
Dr Harry Cliff is a physicist at London's Science Museum:
HARRY CLIFF: The reason it's so significant is it closes the chapter of 20th century physics. It basically tells us that our current theory about the way the universe is built is right.
BARBARA MILLER: Several other scientists also predicted the existence of the particle which became known as Higgs boson, and it took several thousand at CERN to prove the theory right.
Physicist Dr Harry Cliff:
HARRY CLIFF: Six men in the 60s wrote it down on pen and paper, but it took an enormous effort to actually prove them right. And it's a shame that that hasn't been acknowledged. But traditionally, the prize has only been awarded to individuals but there was a bit of a hope that maybe CERN would be acknowledged but it hasn't happened.
BARBARA MILLER: Francois Englert has been speaking in understated terms about how it feels to join the ranks of Nobel laureates.
FRANCOIS ENGLERT: Well, you may imagine that this is not very unpleasant, of course.
BARBARA MILLER: As for the famously shy Peter Higgs, no one's quite sure if he has even heard the news.
NOBEL HOST: We tried quite hard to get hold of him, but of all the numbers we tried, he did not answer.
BARBARA MILLER: Peter Higgs' university in Edinburgh released a pre-prepared statement from the scientist, saying he was overwhelmed to receive the award. It's not known if they had an alternative version for the event that he was overlooked.
This is Barbara Miller reporting for AM.


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Face to Face: Children of the AIDS Crisis in Africa offers a moving portrayal of life in Africa in the shadow of HIV/AIDS. It combines photography and narrative to capture the hopes and joys, struggles and sorrows of orphaned children left to survive on their own, often caring for younger siblings. It pays homage to the care-giving grannies, the little-known heroes of Africa, who have kept families together as traditional social networks collapse. It also presents some of the special challenges faced by children who are living with HIV. Finally, the book profiles some of the activists -- the energetic people working at the grassroots level to help restore the well-being of thousands of children and families affected by the epidemic.
PRESS RELEASE, May 2011: Face to Face: Children of the AIDS Crisis in Africa wins award in Eric Hoffer book competition, Culture category. [Press Release (PDF)]
PRESS RELEASE, May 2010: Karen Ande wins top honor in World Affairs Council of Northern California "Global Visions" photography competition. [Press Release (PDF)]
PRESS RELEASE, Jan 13, 2010: Congresswoman Anna Eshoo pays official tribute to Karen and Ruthann for their "extraordinary work" on the book.
See articles and reviews about the book.
Copyright © 2010 Karen Ande and Ruthann Richter


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The competition watchdog has sided with internet service providers Optus and iiNet over fears Telstra could gain an unfair advantage for its retail business under the $11 billion deal with NBN Co.
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission directed Telstra on Thursday to change key terms in a contract governing how the telco giant will disconnect homes from the copper network as the national broadband network rolls out.
It hoped to ensure Telstra did not have a loophole to give confidential information from NBN Co on the rollout to advantage its retail arm or subsidiaries.
The move comes just weeks after the federal government accused the watchdog of becoming a "tool" for second-tier service providers to shore up a commercial advantage that could jeopardise the economic goals of the NBN.
In a direction to Telstra on Thursday, the watchdog said it was unsatisfied that Telstra would adequately protect key information on how Australian homes are migrated to the NBN, voicing fears that the company's retail division could use the information to gain an advantage over its rivals.
Confidentiality of information surrounding when and where the NBN is rolling out, and when homes will be disconnected from the copper network, is a key aspect of Telstra's agreement to structurally separate its wholesale and retail arms.
Though Telstra requires key information on the NBN rollout in order to ready its own infrastructure for new fibre cabling, it is prohibited from sharing the information with the side of the business that directly competes with other ISPs for customers.
Telstra said its security plan was robust and sought to restrict access for confidential documents to any unauthorised staff within the company.
But the ACCC said improper security on the information "would likely provide Telstra with an unfair commercial advantage over its wholesale customers in forecasting when the NBN would become available in particular areas and other aspects of service supply over the NBN".
The ACCC's decision, which requires Telstra to resubmit key documents within 40 days, gels with submissions from Optus and iiNet, the latter of which claimed the documents gave Telstra a loophole to provide the information to wholly-owned subsidiaries or select customers of its wholesale arm.
It also comes just a fortnight after bureaucrats from the Department of Broadband warned the ACCC not to impose adverse regulation on NBN Co as part of its simultaneous negotiations on documents governing the company for the next three decades.
Mark Heazlett, first assistant secretary of telecommunications at the department, said in a letter to the ACCC that it risked becoming a tool for second-tier ISPs to gain a commercial advantage, at the risk of ensuring NBN Co delivered a return to the government.
"In the government's view, industry operates best when negotiated commercial agreements are adhered to," he said. "It would be of concern if parties were to use the ACCC as a forum-shopping option, pursuing commercial solutions in name, but in reality using the regulator as a tool.
"The ACCC should give particular consideration to the shift in negotiating strength that has occurred as Telstra moves from one side of the table to the other."
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Arnaud Maggs, 1926 to 2012
From the Susan Hobbs Gallery:
Arnaud Maggs, a Montreal-born, Toronto-based artist who produced distinctive portraits of people and objects arranged within intimate and exacting systems of classification and identification, passed away in Toronto on November 17. He was 86.
Arnaud adopted a characteristic style of photographing his subjects, often isolating a single item in each frame and then grouping the images together in grids. For almost four decades, his works presented visual taxonomies in which subtle differences and striking similarities could be observed and appreciated.
Arnaud began his career as an artist in the mid-1970s at the age of 47. After earning success as a graphic designer and as a commercial and fashion photographer in New York and Toronto, his early artistic work explored photographic portraiture as a means to catalogue the unique geometry of the human face. Works in this mode include Joseph Beuys, 100 Profile Views and Joseph Beuys, 100 Frontal Views, both shot in 1980 at Beuys' studio in Düsseldorf. Other portraits include Yousuf Karsh, Northrup Frye, André Kertész, students at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, and numerous members of the Toronto arts community.
For the past 19 years, Arnaud created work from found documents, such as records of child labour in textile mills, French mourning stationery, Eugéne Atget's address book and 19th century invoices documenting purchases of a couple living in Lyon. In addition to capturing traces of everyday life through ephemeral objects, these photographs introduced a shift for the artist from using black-and-white photography to working in colour – a subtle understated use of the medium. As with Arnaud's earlier work, the gridded presentation and his concern for classification and taxonomy persisted. Even with the absence of a human subject, these works create a poignant portrait of life's traces.
With the presentation of After Nadar in March 2012, the artist made a radical departure from his object-based work and returned to human portraiture. Wearing full theatrical costume and make-up, Arnaud staged a series of self-portraits that referenced the rich history of French pantomime as captured by the Parisian photographer Nadar in his 1855 Pierrot series.
Arnaud Maggs's work has been featured in numerous international and national exhibitions and publications. In 2006, he received the Governor General's Award in Visual and Media Arts. The National Gallery of Canada recently mounted a survey exhibition of the artist's work titled Identification. Earlier in 2012, he was the recipient of the Scotiabank Photography Award. An exhibition at Ryerson Image Centre and a monograph published by Steidl will launch in May 2013.
Surviving him are his wife, artist Spring Hurlbut; two sons, Lorenzo and Toby and daughter, Caitlan; their mother Margaret Frew; nine grandchildren and six great-grandchildren; his sister Heather Cook and brother Derek Maggs and numerous nieces and nephews.
4 Responses to "Arnaud Maggs, 1926 to 2012"
A great talent.
When in Paris Arnaud would send me little 'treasures' of lettering and type that he found in the flea market. They are still in their envelopes that bore his delightfully idiosyncratic lettering. I treasure the envelopes as much as the contents.
Come on AA, profile his career as a graphic designer, for goodness sake!
Here's a start:
I saw his show at the National Gallery this summer and was blown away! So good, everything he did. He will be missed.


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A startup IT services firm -- headed by veteran offshoring executives -- has opened up an offshoring alternative in Michigan, a state with a 17.5 percent unemployment rate and a well-educated labor pool.
Fremont, Calif.-based Systems In Motion (SIM) has 35 IT workers in Ann Arbor and hopes to employ about 1,100 in Michigan within five years.
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SIM's plans for the state were cited by Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm in her State of the State address earlier this month.
SIM's business approach, which it calls "inshoring," emphasizes streamlined processes and an intensive worker training program to keep costs 30 percent below those of in-house IT departments.
The executive team includes CEO Neeraj Gupta, previously an executive at Patni Computer System in Mumbai, India; and Chief Marketing Officer Debashish Sinha, who held a similar post at HCL America, a division of HCL Technologies in Noida, India.
Michael Parks, the chief delivery officer, is a former IT executive from Virgin Mobile USA and Wells Fargo & Co.
The team could easily have created an outsourcing company based offshore with offices in the U.S. While such a strategy has proved successful for many IT services firms, "I don't think the world needs another offshore company," Sinha said.
SIM, formed last summer, is still running on startup funding. In September, the state government awarded it a $7.4 million credit to build in Michigan.
Salaries range from the $30,000 for recent college graduates to $80,000 for more experienced engineers, Sinha said.He wouldn't identify the five customers that have signed on with SIM so far.
Low real estate prices resulting from the downturn in Michigan's economy are helping SIM get started there. The cost of infrastructure, overall, is now lower in the U.S. than in Bangalore, Sinha noted.
This version of this story was originally published in Computerworld 's print edition. It's an edited version of an article that first appeared on Computerworld.com.
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/I find your meditations very hard for me. I come in feeling beautiful. Then I feel all this pain coming into my heart and into my head. Why does this happen?/
It is not any negative force that is entering into you. Your difficulty is that when you come to our meditations, you try to pull far beyond your capacity. When I am on stage, the whole stage is flooded with light. When you sit and look at me, you try to pull this light. It is as if you are in a shop and you see all sorts of most beautiful things. Like a greedy fellow you want to buy everything, but you have in your pocket only five cents. When you try to pull beyond the capacity of your receptivity, at that time you get pain in your head or your heart.


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Can you tell me some light and quick pasta sauces to cook midweek?
Craig MacCormick, Colchester
As spring is here, try your favourite dried pasta with some lighter, more varied sauces. Blister 3-4 red peppers. Sweat finely diced banana shallots in 2 tbsp lemon oil with a dessertspoon of fresh thyme. Season. Skin and chop the peppers, then add to the shallots with a glass of dry white wine. Bring to the boil, stir well and check the seasoning. Take off the heat and stir in 50g pecorino. A joy with orecchiette.
Fennel is a great match for pasta. Choose 2 firm bulbs, halve and chop. Soak a pinch of saffron in 1 tbsp white wine, and peel and thinly slice 4 cloves garlic. Saute the fennel with the garlic in a little olive oil until it starts to caramelise. Add the saffron liquid and 300ml double cream and bring to the boil. This goes well with fresh pappardelle. Add thin slices of courgette cut lengthways. Garnish with basil leaves and mini capers.
Mushrooms always make a great pasta sauce. Soak 25g dried porcini for a few hours, or overnight. Slice 250g fresh mushrooms, add to a preheated pan, cover and cook until juices begin to appear, then set aside. Squeeze and chop the porcini and add them to a pan with 1 finely diced red onion. Strain the liquid, then add to the covered pan. Bring to the boil. Reduce the heat, whisk in 100g mascarpone and a tbsp of tarragon, then check the seasoning. Serve with strozzapreti or linguine.
If you're cooking with fresh pasta, an Italian friend once told me it doesn't require sauce, merely "moisturiser".
• Sonya Kidney is a chef and the owner of Soda delicatessen, Oxfordshire


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TAKING A STAND: A Bergen RECORD editorial states, "We have opposed sports betting in New Jersey since the ongoing push began earlier this year. We're concerned that widespread sports betting in a sports-crazy state like New Jersey is bound to threaten the integrity of the games. So, we agree with the implied point of the National Football League, the National Basketball Association, the National Hockey League and Major League Baseball that the state's logic is faulty in trying to shield college games played in New Jersey from gambling while contending that betting on all other contests won't undermine the integrity of the game. Call them hypocrites if you wish." The editorial: "But at the same time, we can't overlook the hypocrisy of the sports leagues in officially ignoring how widespread illegal gambling is on all sporting events, especially football." The NFL and the other leagues "would make a more persuasive argument if they acknowledged how illegal gambling affects the perception of games" (Bergen RECORD, 10/3).
KEEPING A WATCHFUL EYE: In Las Vegas, Chris Sieroty notes sports betting industry execs believe that a "positive outcome of New Jersey's court battle to legalize wagering on sports in the Garden State could set the stage for other states to legalize the industry." Marketing software company Income Access CEO Nicky Senyard said that there is "already a 'very big illegal market,' which could be significantly reduced with the legalization of sports wagering." She said that legalized sports betting in New Jersey "would lead to other states legalizing the industry." Senyard said that it "wasn't about 'creating a new market,' instead it was legalizing an illegal market that already exists" (LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL, 10/3).
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Thanks for sharing!! Can't wait to get my read on!!!
Loved this book Chantelle, the story and characters really sprang off the page ;). Have the next on my TBR pile, looking forward to it xx Abby
Thanks Laura and Abby. I have a TBR pile too – almost as big as my TBI (to be ironed) pile!
I loved this story. It kept me hooked to the very last page.
Motivation is crucial, I want to know why a character behaves as they do. Why they do and say the worst things at the worst possible moment in the story.
Love the TBI pile – in fact I've got lots of TB piles!
Chantelle, motivation is absolutely vital. It's knowing why your characters behave the way the do which makes them real. And yours just jump off the page!
Your synopsis had me absolutely gripped and this book sounds like a brilliant and emotional read.
Thanks Sharon!I'm currently trying to get to know the characters for my next book but so far I'm struggling to get inside the hero's head. He's obviously the secretive, brooding type!
Best wishes, Chantelle
Really love all your books Chantelle and can't wait to jump into this one! A writer can do pretty much anything in a book for me as long as it's strongly motivated.
Chantelle Shaw on Motivation and "After the Greek Affair"
by Chantelle Shaw, author of After the Greek Affair (Harlequin Presents Extra, May 2012)
When I'm at the planning stage of a book I spend a lot of time thinking about what motivates my characters to behave the way they do. In my latest release for Harlequin Presents Extra, After the Greek Affair, both the hero Loukas and the heroine Belle are haunted by events in their pasts that continue to affect them.
Initially, Belle was delighted when Larissa Christakis, the sister of billionaire business tycoon Loukas Christakis, asked her to design her wedding dress. Larissa's wedding is the society wedding of the year and the commission to design the bride's dress is guaranteed to give Belle's struggling design company Wedding Belle huge media attention.
Even before she met Loukas, Belle had heard of his reputation as a ruthless man who had fought his way out of poverty and who always demands his own way. Having grown up with a domineering step-father, Belle had reservations about her client's brother. When she meets Loukas on his private Greek island she is blown away by his virile good looks – he is the sexiest man she has ever met! But within minutes of arriving on Aura, Belle discovers that Loukas has offered the commission to make Larissa's dress to a designer he has chosen, and is prepared to bribe Belle to leave the island on the next ferry.
Loukas is infuriated by Belle's accusation that he is a control freak. He has acted as a surrogate father to Larissa since she was a child, after their father was gunned down by a drug gang in the rough part of New York where they had lived. When their mother had died two years later, Loukas had given his word that he would take care of Larissa. Of course he is over-protective of his sister when he knows how dangerous the world can be.
Loukas doesn't trust beautiful Belle because
he has learned that her company has financial problems. But he acknowledges that his sister is no longer a child, and maybe he should allow Larissa to make her own decisions. He can't deny he is attracted to Belle – and he senses that she is equally aware of the sizzling sexual chemistry between them.
That chemistry explodes into white-hot passion while Belle is on Aura, but she knows her affair with playboy Loukas is only temporary – and that's all she wants. She loves designing fairytale wedding dresses, but after witnessing her mother's unhappy marriage to her controlling step-father, Belle has vowed never to give up her independence for any man.
When it is time for Belle to leave Aura, Loukas tells himself he can let her go. Years ago he had been cruelly betrayed by Sadie, the women he had loved, and he's not looking for a long-term relationship. But he can't forget Belle and visits her in London – only to be confronted with the shocking news that she is pregnant with his twins!
Loukas insists on marriage. Sadie had denied him his child, but now he is determined to be a father to his twins and he won't take Belle's refusal to be his wife for an answer. Belle is terrified of losing her independence by marrying a powerful man like Loukas, but she wants her babies to have a loving father that she never had.
Both Loukas and Belle have so much to learn about each other. At first Belle thinks Loukas's determination to protect her is because he is trying to control her like her step-father had done. Loukas has to learn that although Belle is career minded like Sadie had been, her babies are her first priority. Only when they start to trust can they learn to let go of the past and open their hearts to love.
How important do you think motivation is? Do you think it is important as a reader or writer to understand what drives characters to act in a certain way?
For me, it's all about getting inside the characters' heads and really knowing them and understanding their beliefs, fears and concerns, and of course the events in their past that made them have those concerns.
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In late 2005, the IABIN issued a Request for Expressions of Interest, seeking to identify a coordinating institution or institutions for the Pollinators Thematic Network. A consortium, lead by The Pollinator Partnership (P2) was announced as the successful candidate for coordinating and developing the PINA.
The Co-Principal Investigators on the PINA project are Ms. Laurie Adams (Executive Director of The Pollinator Partnership - P2), Dr. Antonio Mauro Saraiva (Coordinator of the Agricultural Automation Lab at the University of Sao Paulo Polytechnic School), and Dr. Michael Ruggiero (formerly of the United States Geological Survey, and Smithsonian Institution).


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Emma didn't let that stop her. After making guest spots on several TV shows and starring in some off-the-wall comedies like Superbad, The House Bunny and Zomebieland, the twenty-two year old Scottsdale, AZ native has had made her mark on Hollywood. In addition to getting a Golden Globe nomination for her role in Easy A, she's in three movies this summer! She was just in the romantic comedy Friends With Benefits (which placed No. 3 in its opening weekend!) and stars in The Help as a young writer who delves into her hometown's unfair customs out later this summer. But this weekend her latest rom-com, Crazy, Stupid, Love. comes out! Emma plays Ryan Gosling's love interest in the film and they reportedly got along so well that he suggested for her to join him on his latest flick The Gangster Squad!
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I have also been interested into why my wife's ancestors left the
beautiful country of Ireland circa 1830. I am not altogether convinced
that the reason was because of the Emancipation Act or solely because of
it. Having read the 1781 lease between Walter Stinson and Hugh
Montgomery (see Vynette's records) you will see that the landlord had
essentially feudal type control over the leaseholder.
The maintenance of buildings and outbuildings on the property,
maintenance of thoroughfares, ditches, hedges, etc., etc. were the
responsibility of the lessee; the grains that he grew on the property
could only be milled at the landlord's mill and for a fee of course - oh
yes, even had to pay for the maintenance of the mill itself. On top of
that the mining of the peat used for heating their homes was also
controlled. Mineral rights and mining for same was allowed but my
suspicious mind tells me that the landlord was encouraging such
exploration but betcha as soon as any lucrative mine was discovered, the
right to mine would expire with the next lease. The types of crops and
orchards were prescribed down to the type of thorn to be used for the
perimeters of the land and fines could be levied if the work or crops
was not produced.
The rent as follows: /"shall and will yield and pay for and out of said
demised premisses[sic] unto the said Hugh Montgomery his heirs executors
and administrators Yearly and every year during the said term the clear
yearly rent or sum of nine pounds [illegible] with six pence in the
pound receivers [illegible] good and lawful money of Great Britain the
same to be paid half yearly by two even and equal portions (that is to
say) on every twenty ninth day of September and Twenty[cut off] Day of
March in every year during said term together with five men horses and
cars and for each man horse and car not [illegible] demand, one shill'g
in lieu thereof at the election of Hugh Montgomery his heirs or assigns
to be paid as duties to the said Hugh Montgomery his heirs executors and
assigns clear rent over and above, all and all manner of taxes
assessments country-charges, and all other imposition whatsoever, known
or unknown, ordinary or extraordinary, charged or to be charged on the
said premises or any part thereof or on the rent thereout or hereby
reserved by Act of Parliament or otherwise howsoever, (quit rent and
Crown Rent only excepted) and that if it shall happen the said yearly
rent and duties or any part thereof shall be in arrear or unpaid by the
space of twenty-one days next after any or either of the said days or
times whereon the same ought to be paid as aforesaid." /Nine pounds
including all the extras on top does not sound like a lot of money but
it certainly was in those days. I would hazard that after the tenant had
paid the milling charges, maintenance responsibilities, fines etc., the
tenant would net very little out of the arrangement. The lure of free or
almost free land in the Americas would have been immensely tempting. The
political situation would have been a factor but I think it was more of
a culmative effect. Those were very tough times and it got tougher after
they left Ireland. The conditions they faced in Canada was no bed of
roses either.
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I'll start with a disclaimer: although we've never met in person, I've known Leithart since 2012 when we were both fans of the then-upcoming MMO WildStar. Since those early days, he went into game development (coincidentally for the studio behind that same game), and I moved into game journalism. We still ping each other tweets from time to time, but that's about it.
Getting on to the meat of the article, I wanted to respond to Leithart's question above. As a small indie studio, with limited resources for marketing and PR, it's only logical for the development team to want to do some of the heavy lifting themselves. It drums up interest in the game, provides direct feedback from potential players, and removes any reliance on the fickle foibles of the gaming press. Sounds like a win-win for spending a few minutes on Twitter, right?
Only, not really. While I'm a big fan of developers interacting with fans on social media, producing blog posts about their work and sharing unique insight, there's also a risk that it gets in the way of actually developing the game. Tangentially, there's also a risk that the game's marketing voice – how it wants to be perceived by the gaming public – can get fragmented and/or diluted. And what happens if one of the developers goes off-brand? Can the incident be isolated without contaminating the game's brand as a whole?
So, with both of these in mind, answering Leithart's question is going to be tricky, particularly as I'm eager to make sure that both gamers and developers get something from being on social media. Luckily, there's a bit of a cheat-sheet.


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Just when you think the waters have subsided for Drake and Breezy, it looks like the sh*t has just hit the fan for both these artists. The NYPost reports of the $16 million suit served to the budding super-stars by W.I.P. for their infamous club brawl:
It was Chris Brown and Drake themselves – and not their posses – that set off a bottle throwing fracas at a Manhattan nightclub, a $16 million lawsuit claims.
In papers filed in Manhattan Supreme Court, Entertainment Enterprises Ltd. says the two stars started mixing up it at the joint clubs Greenhouse and WiP on June 14, and then ordered their crews to follow suit. Each man "shared a grudge against the other arising out of their romantic relationships with the same woman," Brown's former flame Rihanna, and when they "crossed paths," they "began to fight violently with each other," says the filing by the company, which owns the trademark to Greenhouse name, but not the club itself.
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When Tom Corbett and his Polaris unit mates, Roger and Astro, were assigned to the great expedition of one thousand space ships carrying pioneer colonists billions of miles to the satellite Roald, they did not dream that they were facing the most thrilling adventures of their careers.
Yes, chapter 19 was missing but I've updated the source and everything should be fine now.
Chapter 19 is missing, but this whole series is a wonderful bit of fun. There's a scene where the cadets have to record everything they can remember of their education in science, math and engineering for the children of the colony, and it's mentioned that the new recordings would be fine for the boys, but what about the girls? It makes me wonder how silly modern scifi will look in 50 years.
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Word count: 50,962 words (≈ about 3 hours)
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Computer Science 371: Cognitive Science Assistant Professor of Computer Science Douglas Blank
What is intelligence?
What is consciousness?
How do neurons give rise to thinking?
Can a computer think?
Tasks that require humans to concentrate on the steps needed to produce a certain result-filing a 1040 form, for example-are easy to program on a computer. This is not the case with the daily decision-making activities that come so naturally, we don't even think about the mental processes involved.
If a computer could simulate the latter, would it have intentions-and would those reside in the machine's hardware or software?
These are some of the questions examined in this introduction to cognitive science, the interdisciplinary study of intelligence in mechanical and organic systems. Students explore topics in psychology, philosophy, computer science, linguistics, neuroscience, and mathematics. (No prior knowledge or experience with any of the sub-fields is assumed or necessary.)
During the course, students use Pyro (an acronym for PYthon RObotics), an NSF-funded programming environment created by Assistant Professor Douglas Blank that allows beginning students to experiment with several different types of robots and robotic "brains."
For the first lab project, each student must design a brain in Pyro to make a robot perform an interesting behavior and then demonstrate it to friends without letting them see how the robot's brain actually works. As the robot is running, observers are asked to describe the behavior and then guess how the robot works. Students note what kinds of mental structure or mental mechanisms (memory, desire, fear, or randomness, for example)their observers may or may not attribute to the robot.
Selected Reading
Braitenberg, Valentino, Vehicles: Experiments in Synthetic Psychology (MIT, 1984).
Chalmers David, "The 'Matrix' as Metaphysics" (a paper written for the philosophy section of the official "Matrix" website).
Dennett, Daniel, "Where am I," from Brainstorms: Philosophical Essays on Mind and Psychology (MIT, 1978).
Hofstadter, Douglas, "Acoffeehouse conversation on the Turing Test" (1981).
Ibid., "How Could a COPYCAT Ever Be Creative?" (1994).
Searle, John. R., "Minds, Brains and Programs," Behavioral and Brain Sciences 3 (3): 417-457 (1980).
Turing, A.M., "Computing machinery and intelligence," Mind 59: 433-460 (1950).
Judging creativity
This year's course benefited from having two experts in analogy-making computer programs on campus, Blank himself and James B. Marshall, who is visiting Bryn Mawr this year as a research associate to learn about robotics from Blank's team (see sidebar).
Marshall lectured to the class about Metacat, a computer program he developed that has the ability to watch its own behavior and compare its answers.
Assistant professor of computer science at Pomona College, Marshall worked with Douglas R. Hofstadter, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning book Godel, Escher and Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid, as a graduate student at Indiana University. Blank and Marshall did their doctorates at IU at the same time, but Blank approached analogy from a different perspective, through neural networks.
Metacat is an extension of Copycat, which was developed by Hofstadter. Both are part of an ongoing research project on computational modeling of the psychological processes underlying creativity. Copycat and Metacat explore analogies between groupings selected from 26 abstract objects, represented by the lowercase letters of the alphabet: for example, "abc is to abd, as xyz is to ?." Only three relations among the 26 objects are meaningful: sameness, predecessorship and successorship; a is understood to have no predecessor and z no successor. (One possible answer to the question above is wyz. Why? What else can you think of?)
"Despite its apparent simplicity, this letter-string microworld harbors an exceedingly rich variety of subtle analogy problems in which many surprisingly creative and non-obvious answers are possible," Marshall said. Unlike Copycat, Metacat can store and retrieve past answers and evaluate analogies made on its own or suggested to it. "As Metacat works on an analogy problem," Marshall said, "it displays a running commentary in English of its ideas and observations about the problem and about its own 'train of thought.' "
An earlier section of the course was devoted to Blank's own "analogator" model, which trains a neural network on analogies; when it is done learning, it is able, Copycat-like, to make novel analogies on its own.
"Cognitive Science 371 is a prototype for courses in our new Computational Minor, which may be taken even with major disciplines such as art history or English," Blank said. "These courses will cater to students with a wide variety of backgrounds. Topics such as geoinformatics, for example, will combine content from geology and the science of computing."
|Bringing up robots
"I went into computer science because Iwas very interested in language, how people think, where culture comes from, and how people evolve to become who they are," said Assistant Professor Douglas Blank, who did an undergraduate major in anthropology at Indiana University before completing a B.S. there in computer science and Ph.D. in computer science and cognitive science.
Blank became interested in robotics when he "came to believe that you have to have a body to acquire intelligence." His is a controversial view:robots that operate in the real word must evolve in the real world.
He is working with Associate Professor Deepak Kumar and Swarthmore Associate Professor Lisa Meeden to develop an artificial intelligence system that can adapt to behave intelligently within an environment without a "fitness function," or being told how to behave. "Evolution itself has no 'goal' or 'fitness' for a task," Blank noted.
"In 'developmental robotics,' a term we've coined, a robot goes through phases of mental growth, with a result of increasing levels of sophisticated behavior and mental representations," Blank said. "A system interacts with the environment, and that interaction causes changes in the system that drive it to become increasingly complex. We don't want to tell it by programming what it should pay attention to, but a robot that didn't want to do anything or learn wouldn't be any good.What does it mean to make a robot want to explore? Does genuine intelligence require the awareness of one's ignorance?"
Blank is one of a group of faculty and students at Bryn Mawr who are interested in the phenomenon of emergence, systems whose wholes are greater than the sum of their parts. "A family is greater than its individual members because of the interaction between them," he said. "We think that emergence is behind learning and evolution, but we don't really understand the principles of emergence from a scientific point of view. That's because it's very difficult in an interconnected system to ascribe a particular cause to any particular effect."
He conjectures that "the more intelligent an emergence system is, the less possible it will be to understand how it works. An emergent computer model of the human brain may be equally complex and opaque. As a result, science may shift its focus from understanding how a system works to how it develops."
Although Blank's approach differs in core ways from Hofstadter's, especially in emphasizing learning, both Blank and Marshall use an "emergent" method and are working together on a paper arguing that this is the proper approach to AI.
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(WARNING: What's about to happen here is tantamount to walking into a cathedral and urinating in the holy water. In fact, it might even be worse than that considering if one was forced to choose the most dominant and pervasive religion in America, it'd literally come down to a coin toss between Christianity and the NFL that would leave even the Pope saying, "I'sa a don'ta knowa!" Which would be weird considering all that time he grew up in Germany and used to be a Nazi. Anyway…)
As I'm writing this, the Pittsburgh vs. Cleveland game heralding the return of Ben Roethlisberger after a four game suspension, he was reportedly greeted with a loud ovation, just started the second half – and I haven't watched a single play. Mostly this has to do with the local CBS affiliate's practice of airing the Baltimore Ravens despite being a Pennsylvania station. (You picked the wrong building, James Lee. — Too soon?) But as I've chronicled on Facebook, I'm having trouble getting it up this season for the Steelers which makes every single Cialis commercial feel like it's aimed directly at me.
The problem? My quarterback's a rapist. I'm sorry, "alleged rapist."
If The Superficial is about anything, it's about calling out celebrities and running counter-culture to the media machine and hero worship of people, just like you and I, who happen to have a lot more money and/or ridiculously good looks. (See: Blake Lively from the neck down.) It'd be disingenuous of me, or anyone, to sit here and demand Lindsay Lohan rot in a jail cell so she'll stop snorting mountains of cocaine and running over strollers, only to turn around and give Ben Roethlisberger a pass because he throws a piece of leather with incredible precision. Granted, there's no definitive account of what happen that night in Georgia, or the first alleged rape, it's no secret large amounts of cash exchanged hands to keep both voices silent. Some might say this speaks to the truth of these women's allegations, but I'd counter by saying I don't think of any of us would know how to react should a life-changing amount of money present itself to us. Would you choose the gauntlet of the press or having all your financial hopes and dreams instantly satisfied? Regardless, something happened. Twice.
Now, here's where I begin to take issue, especially with women and fathers with daughters: The mental gymnastics.
"Those girls had it coming. Twice."
"They were just after his money. Twice."
"SUPER BOWL RINGS, BABY! Twice."
It was once said Kobe Bryant would be "judged on the court." You think guys like Ben Roethlisberger don't know that? You think they don't realize in the back of their head they simply have to move a ball down a field to satisfy an entire audience horfing down beer and nachos? They can do whatever they want, and you will forgive them. Because of a game.
I understand this entire post is anathema to a sacred institution – if not the very core of our nation – not to mention overly serious for a site laden with penis jokes and whatever the hell this is, but there comes a time when I have to call out the bullshit even if it costs me an entire season of enjoyable Sunday afternoons. I simply cannot root for a man who'd be in jail right now if he wasn't practically Jesus in that pocket. Not to mention, the Steelers weren't doing too bad without him, and it was Jeff Reed who cost us the Baltimore game because he forgot to pretend the opposing team consisted entirely of Sheetz paper towel dispensers: His mortal enemy.
Sorry for such a long-winded rant, but for the sake of full disclosure, I should probably point out I bought the new Linkin Park CD. So, really, at the end of the day, what do I know? — That's actually a legitimate question. Who the hell does that?
See you Monday.
UPDATE: Congratulations, you beat the Browns. In related news, I won a foot race against a paraplegic once. (Was that necessary? Probably.)
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On 6/7/07, Walid <firstname.lastname@example.com> wrote:

Dear Lennart,

The nodes are mostly busy most of the time, these clusters are utilized 99.9 % the jobs are around 2-3 days long seismic jobs, and there are lots of them queued for a couple of days at least before they are due to run. now what we have is a number of clusters each is 128 node, what we want to do is to create a big pool of nodes and utilize the nodeset to ensure network locality for the job/cluster, and as there will be nodes down for one reason or another, or nodes that are under testing, we would like to the scheduler to know by it self what is the maximum number of nodes it can allocate to the single job, that is the user script will say either full, half, and quarter that is qsub=%resources not -l nodes=Number required. and according to who many online nodes available the full would be 128 or a little bit less, half would b 64 nodes or little bit less, we would like this to be automated, Load leveler does that, and i was wondering if this is possible with Moab/Maui & Torque

one usage scenario would be qsub -l nodes=100-128:ppn=2 instead of qsub -l nodes=128:ppn nodes so that if there is 28 nodes or less " e.g rack problem" the job would still run on the other racks that is 100 nodes or more upto 128

regards

Walid


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Had a successful Appleseed in Ramsuer this weekend, with 50+ shooters on the line, making it one of the larger events I've worked. It was exhausting… and worth every second of it.
We do not talk politics there beyond the Colonial politics of the 1770s, because our focus is on connecting Americans with their heritage. That said, it is hard to miss the arrogance of tyrants of any age, and that has given me much to consider.


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April 2, 2004
"Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since
I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy." - Groucho Marx
We were starting to get worried. Someone had purchased a winning ticket
in the Virginia Lottery seven weeks ago, but had not shown up yet to
claim the $239 million jackpot. Even though the Commonwealth of Virginia
could have used the dough, we really wanted it to go to its rightful
owner. No fooling, on April Fool's Day, a 69-year-old truck driver with
his wife of 35 years by his side, came forth to claim their prize. He
chose a lump sum payout, which will total around $100 million once state
and federal taxes are deducted. The winners, J.R. and Peggy Triplett,
appeared yesterday at a news conference, probably something they weren't
accustomed to. Mr. Triplett told reporters that after finding out that
he had the winning ticket, he kept a long-held promise to buy a
tombstone for the grave of a childhood friend who had died many years
ago. Mr. Triplett said he had always been a poor man. But he had been
buying lottery tickets for the past 25 years, just in case luck would
come his way. And it did sometime during the week of Valentine's Day
2004. How sweet it is.
High school students are becoming slightly more knowledgeable about
financial matters, according to a survey by the Jump$tart Coalition for
Personal Financial Literacy. The survey of more than 4,000 high school
students in 33 states measured 12th graders' knowledge on the basics of
personal finance. On average, students who participated in the 2004
survey answered 52.3 percent of the questions correctly, up from 50.2
percent in 2002 and 51.9 percent in 2000. The survey found parents had a
great role in score results with 58.3 percent of the students saying
they learned financial skills at home, verses 19.5 percent at school,
and 17.6 percent from experience. Nearly 78 percent of the students have
a savings and/or checking account with a bank. There was virtually no
difference in performance by gender, but average scores were higher for
white students than other races. A summary of the survey is available here.
The Conference of State Bank Supervisors is a Jump$Start partner. CSBS
President and CEO Neil Milner encourages all CSBS members to get
involved in a local effort to improved financial literacy education.
"All sorts of financial heartbreaks could be nipped in the bud by
improved financial education. Those of us in the banking industry share
a common responsibility for better consumer education. CSBS commends
Jump$Start for raising public awareness of how important financial
literacy is in this day and age," he said.
The House Financial Services Committee questioned Comptroller of the
Currency John D. Hawke Jr. for more than two hours Thursday at an
oversight hearing into the OCC's recent rulemaking that exempts national
banks and their operating subsidiaries from state consumer protection
laws and licensing requirements. Next week, the Senate Banking Committee
will hold an oversight hearing into the matter on Wednesday, April
While Committee Chairman Michael G. Oxley (R-Ohio) opened the hearing
with a statement indicating his support of the Comptroller's preemption
ruling, the hearing quickly turned more contentious when Ranking
Minority Member Barney Frank (D-Mass.) began his questioning after the
Comptroller's opening statement. Rep. Frank noted that the OCC had
issued its ruling in spite of requests by Committee members from both
sides of the aisle to wait for Congress to hold a public hearing on the
proposal. He then aired an introductory clip from a videotape featuring
Mr. Hawke touting how his agency could assist banks and insinuated that
the Comptroller's action was intended to lure larger state-chartered
banks to convert to national banks. Frank opined that the OCC should
restrict itself to regulating existing national banks instead of
advertising for national bank conversions. Mr. Hawke replied that many
state banking departments were promoting the state charter's advantages,
including lower examination costs, adding that competition between
charters was "the essence of the dual banking system."
Committee members lined up to protest the Comptroller's decision and the
fact that the rules were finalized in early January while Congress was
in recess. Reportedly 20 or so of the 70 Committee members were present
for the hearing, with twice as many Democrats as Republicans in
attendance. Several bipartisan letters have gone out questioning the
Comptroller's actions. The Committee's Vice Chairman, Rep. Sue W. Kelly
(R-N.Y.) chaired an Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee hearing
into the matter in late January.
Rep. Kelly and Rep. Louis Gutierrez (D-Ill.) announced at Thursday's
hearing they have asked the General Accounting Office to examine the
OCC's preemption decision and its timing.
The transcript from Thursday's hearing is not yet available. Opening
statements from Committee Chairman Michael Oxley and Comptroller Hawke
are posted on the Committee's Web site.
The Conference of State Bank Supervisors is staunchly opposed to the
OCC's preemption rule and sees it as a serious threat to state-chartered
banking. "If OCC is allowed to set national lending standards absent
Congressional action, a state's ability to protect its citizenry is
seriously undermined," CSBS President Neil Milner said.
Idaho Director of Finance Gavin M. Gee will testify on behalf of CSBS at
the Senate Banking Committee oversight hearing next week. Gee is CSBS
immediate past chairman.
If you are planning to attend the Conference of State Bank Supervisors'
2004 Annual Conference next month and have not made your hotel
reservations with the Westin Mission Hills Resort, you should do so
before the cut off date of this Sunday April 4. This is the last day the
hotel will honor our conference group rate of $205. To make your
reservations, please call the Westin Mission Hills Resort at (760)
328-5955. For additional information about the CSBS 103rd annual
gathering, click here.
We look forward to seeing you in Rancho Mirage, CA.
The Senate this week approved the nomination of Alphonso R. Jackson to
be the secretary of Housing and Urban Development. Jackson has been the
acting secretary of HUD since Mel Martinez stepped down in December to
run for a Senate seat in Florida. His nomination will now be voted on by
the full Senate. Jackson was unanimously confirmed by the Senate in June
2001 as HUD's deputy secretary and chief operating officer. In that
position, he managed the daily operations of the $32 billion agency.
Before coming to HUD, Jackson was president of American Electric
Power-TEXAS, a $13 billion utility company in Austin, Texas. To read
Jackson's biography, click here.
Connecticut: Connecticut State Banking Commissioner John P. Burke
imposed a $100,000 fine on American Express Financial Advisors Inc. The
action settles an investigation into the possible violations of the
Connecticut Uniform Securities Act by American Express Financial
Advisors Inc. The Department of Banking's Securities and Business
Investments Division found that American Express used a wrap
exit/purchase policy that penalized its representatives a $1,000 per
occurrence for moving clients' funds, held less than 36 months, from a
mutual fund to a wrap account. A wrap account is an investment product
that charges a fee based on a percentage of assets under management.
During the investigation, the division also discovered that American
Express provided the agency with inaccurate information. In agreeing to
the settlement, American Express did not admit or deny the
Commissioner's findings. Part of the settlement includes reimbursing 32
representatives $42,000. More information about the action may be found here.
Idaho: Idaho Department of Finance Director Gavin Gee issued a
cease and desist order against a fraudulent credit union on March 22.
The order stops five individuals and one company from fraudulently using
the name of a credit union to solicit consumer loans in Idaho. This is
the second order issued recently by the department against a phony
credit union. The phony credit union used the name "Credit Union One" of
Toronto, Canada. The phony company in Canada is not related to or
endorsed by a legitimate credit union in Michigan that has the same
name. Idaho consumers who responded to the ad were told that as a
condition for receiving a loan, they must provide copies of their
drivers' licenses or Social Security cards and pay $1,450. Idaho
consumers who paid the money were asked to send an additional $465
payment as an "international border tax" premium. Gee said many state
financial service regulators have reported similar instances of phony
credit unions seeking to defraud consumers. The Justice Department and
the FBI are working to end the scam. A press release about the
Department's action is available here.
South Dakota: South Dakota Gov. Mike Rounds has signed
legislation that allows financial institutions to be organized as
limited liability companies. The bill takes effect July 1.
FDIC: FDIC published its quarterly report profiling the
conditions of banks in each state on Thursday. The report is available
on the FDIC's Web site at http://www.fdic.gov/bank/analytical/stateprofile/index.html.
FFIEC: The Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council on
Wednesday issued revised guidance for examiners, financial institutions
and technology service providers on the risks associated with retail
payment systems. The "Retail Payment Systems Booklet" covers risks and
risk-management practices in such areas as electronic benefit transfers,
card-based electronic payments and automated clearing house
transactions. More information may be found at http://www.ffiec.gov/press/pr033104.htm.
FTC: The Federal Trade Commission received 34,543 complaints
about third-party debt collectors in 2003, which represents more
complaints than any other industry, the agency said in publishing its
report on the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act on March 23. Consumers'
No. 1 complaint in 2003 was repeated calls from collectors. The agency
received 8,559 complaints about frequent calls, up from 4,570 in 2002.
Another 5,650 consumers claimed that collectors used obscene and abusive
language during the calls. The number of consumers saying they received
false threats rose by 41 percent to 3,364. The number of complaints
about collectors calling places of employment also increased by 33
percent in 2003 to 3,101. For more information, click here.
NCUA: National Credit Union Chairman Dennis Dollar announced on
Wednesday that he is leaving his post, effective April 30. Dollar said
he decided to leave after serving a year past the end of his official
term because the "timing is right for me and my family." President
George W. Bush selected Dollar as chairman in 2001. See announcement...
EDITOR'S NOTE: For a more detailed review of regulatory activity,
refer to the Regulatory Newsbytes section of our website.
April 3-19
The House of Representatives is not in session during the spring
district work period.
April 6
The FDIC Board will meet in open session. Items on the discussion agenda
include a proposed rule on whether funds underlying stored value cards
qualify as insurable "deposits"; a proposed rule on medical privacy
regulations under the Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act of
2003. - 10 a.m., FDIC Headquarters 6th Floor Board Room, 550
Seventeenth Street NW, Washington, DC.
April 7
The Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs will meet in
open session to conduct a hearing on "The Review of the National Bank
Preemption Rules." The hearing will feature testimony from Comptroller
of the Currency John D. Hawke Jr., Idaho Director of Finance Gavin M.
Gee, North Carolina Attorney General Roy Cooper, Center for Responsible
Lending CEO Martin Eakes, Consumer Bankers Association President Joe
Belew, George Washington University Associate Professor of Law Art
Wilmarth, Secura Group Chairman William M. Isaac, National Association
of Realtors President Walt McDonald, and American Bankers Association
Director of Regulatory and Trust Affairs James McLaughlin. - 2 p.m., 538
Dirksen Building.
April 8
The Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs will hold
the 10th in a series of hearings on current investigations and
regulatory actions regarding the mutual fund industry. This hearing will
focus on the views of the Securities and Exchange Commission. SEC
Chairman William H. Donaldson is scheduled to testify. - 10 a.m., 538
Dirksen Building.
"It is not in the interest of the financial community to use your muscle
to push something through that is inherently unstable because of the
degree of resistance it has engendered." -- Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.),
Ranking Minority Member of the House Financial Services Committee, as
quoted in Thursday's edition of CongressDaily's article on the
Committee's hearing on the OCC's recent decision to exempt national
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Take the relationship closePersonalFriendOf. The designers of this list somehow overlooked it, possibly on the grounds that it's tautological, and only of use on talk shows. ("Oh yes, Julia Roberts is a close personal friend of mine.") But it is nevertheless informative -- you would only use closePersonalFriendOf if the person in question was someone of relatively high fame or station.Link
In addition, anyone claiming to be a "close personal friend" of someone else is talking about a domain where a high degree of social interaction is the norm, e.g. show business. By extension, the seemingly oxymoronic friendYouDontLike is also a valid category, as anyone in highly social environments can tell you. (You often run into friendsYouDontLike at partiesYouHaveToGoTo.)


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I Love The Word Hope - Poem by Francis Duggan
I love the word hope 'tis a great word it keeps reminding you when you are down
That in many ways you are lucky you are not the worst off in the town
Compared to some you are quite lucky and though you may not be one of the privileged few
There's hope and comfort in the thought that many are worse off than you.
I love the word hope it seems positive to hope for the good days ahead
For life for you is scarce worth living if the hope in your heart it is dead
To hope for a better tomorrow is the thing that keeps us keeping on
For you do not have much to live for if hope out of your life is gone.
I love the word hope it's uplifting for those who are feeling quite low
For as they say hope springs eternal and out of hope success can grow
And one can only see a dark future for one who is struggling to cope
If that person has lost the great gift the gift that we all know as hope.
I love the word hope it's a great gift those who have it in them have fight
They keep on going through the dark tunnel till finally they reach the light
And when you retain hope through your hard days you are telling the World I'm alive
For without it life on you much harder and you find it so hard to survive.
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V. Students Formerly #5143
C. Disciplinary Policies
1. Code of Conduct
b. Student Discipline
It shall be the policy of the Narragansett School System to expect standards of good citizenship from all members of the school community. Authority for establishing codes of student behavior and standards of student dress for each school shall rest with the school administration. All regulations and/or codes so established shall be approved by the Superintendent of Schools and the School Committee.
1. Individual conduct shall reflect consideration for others.
2. High personal standards of courtesy, decency, and honesty with others must be maintained.
3. Respect for persons and property is expected.
4. Conformance to school rules and regulations is expected of all.
Inappropriate conduct for which students will be disciplined includes, but is not limited to:
Disrespect; insubordination; disrupting class; smoking; possession, selling, or being under the influence of illegal substances; possession of weapons, fighting; stealing; vandalism; failure to comply with school directives; card playing/gambling on school premises; leaving school without permission; cutting classes; unexcused tardiness; truancy.
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