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Hotel Batory
About the hotel
Property Location
A stay at Hotel Batory places you in the heart of Krakow, minutes from Krakow University Hospital and close to Main Market Square. This hotel is within close proximity of Juliusz Slowacki Theater and Botanic Garden of the Jagiellonian University.
Stay in one of 29 guestrooms featuring LCD televisions. Complimentary wired and wireless Internet access keeps you connected, and cable programming provides entertainment. Private bathrooms with showers feature complimentary toiletries and hair dryers. Conveniences include safes and complimentary bottled water, and housekeeping is provided daily.
Rec, Spa, Premium Amenities
Make use of convenient amenities such as complimentary wireless Internet access, concierge services, and tour/ticket assistance.
Grab a bite to eat at the hotel's restaurant, where you can enjoy drinks at a bar and dine alfresco (weather permitting). Or stay in and take advantage of room service (during limited hours). Quench your thirst with your favorite drink at a bar/lounge. A complimentary buffet breakfast is served daily.
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Featured amenities include a computer station, a 24-hour front desk, and multilingual staff. Event facilities at this hotel consist of a conference center and meeting rooms. For a surcharge, guests may use a roundtrip airport shuttle (available on request) and a train station pick-up service.
Hotel Facilities
- Laundry facilities
- Number of meeting rooms - 3
- RV, bus, truck parking (surcharge)
- Free breakfast
- Bar/lounge
- Free WiFi
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- Designated smoking areas
- Multilingual staff
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- Porter/bellhop
- Restaurant
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- Total number of rooms - 29
- Computer station
- 24-hour front desk
- Free self parking
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- Meeting rooms 3
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- Year Built 2000
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- Number of floors - 4
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- Number of buildings/towers - 1
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THE Wallabies have agreed to play the Great Britain rugby league team in a $10 million hybrid-game spectacular at Wembley Stadium next year.
London's most famous football venue has been booked for December 6, a week after the Wallabies' last game on their 2014 spring tour.
The game will pit the likes of Israel Folau and Quade Cooper against the Burgess brothers, Gareth Widdop and Sam Tomkins in front of an anticipated full house of 92,000 fans.
All up, organisers are expecting to raise $20 million through gates, corporate sales, TV, sponsorship and merchandise.
An agreement was reached between the two football codes at a secret meeting in London last month.
The codes will be paid $5million each and the players will earn around $50,000 each for a one-off appearance.
On November 11, English Rugby League boss and World Cup tournament director Nigel Wood secretly met with Wallaby supremo Bill Pulver at London's swish Grange Holborn Hotel.
They both agreed to the game, subject to commercial terms, which will be finalised by the new year.
Wood was desperate for the opportunity to promote rugby league in London on the back of the recent World Cup.
The London Broncos are struggling to stay afloat in the Super League because of lack of interest.
A global media company is in the process of selling world-wide television rights and major sponsorships.
A consortium of Australian businessmen and rugby legends Bob Dwyer and Mark Ella were involved in the talks in London that secured the historic agreement.
One half will be played with 15 players with rugby union rules and the other half with 13 players with NRL rules.
The plan was to originally stage a Wallabies v Kangaroos game at ANZ Stadium in December.
NRL chief executive Dave Smith met with Pulver and the promoters but, after showing initial interest, knocked it back.
So the promoters took their $10 million proposal to England.
London based promoter Steve Berrick has been hired to oversee the game.
He has previously been in charge of Barbarians games and major events in the UK.
This will be the first of what organisers believe will become a regular showpiece on the football calendars.
The All Blacks have also been approached and showed initial interest in a game against the Kangaroos.
Previously, Wigan played Bath in a hybrid game in the UK and two Australian school teams played in a trial game at Brookvale Oval.
THE NRL's appointment of Sandy Olsen as communications manager - hopefully she will deliver a far more positive message than her predecessor.
THE 2014 NRL season draw that leaves fans with only one live free-to-air game each weekend.
DISTURBING rumours of a serious rort by a senior NRL club official and a player manager are doing the rounds. Their scam apparently involved shaving thousands of dollars off a player's contract and then sharing the ''profits''.
The player found out and sacked the manager. The official remains in his job.
THE incredible drawing power of superstar Adam Scott saw Channel 7's golf ratings increase by 69 per cent year-on-year for the Australian Open coverage last weekend.
THE Shire is still the area of choice for Australia's most famous sporting names.
The latest arrival is former Australian captain Steve Waugh, who has purchased a prestige waterfront property on Port Hacking.
STOP the presses. Benji Marshall is back in Tigers territory. Sadly for Wests Tigers fans it's just a stopover for the wedding of his great mate Keith Galloway. Big Keith tied the knot last night with his long-time partner Serena.
Benji and his stunning wife Zoe flew across from New Zealand for the wedding.
STEVE Waugh's old manager Robert Joske working on the fairways as a marshal at the Australian Open at Royal Sydney, holding up a "quiet please'' sign.
MANLY halves Kieran Foran and Daly Cherry-Evans have lots in common. Foran's partner is about to give birth to their first child. They already know it's a girl. It fits in well because Cherry-Evans also has a baby girl.
MEET Sydney's luckiest and bravest 13-year-old boy. Dustin Villareal was struck by a car in September last year and spent three weeks in a coma. The very talented Macarthur Rams junior soccer player spent much of the year in hospital, undergoing five brain operations.
While recovering, Dustin had only one wish - to meet Cristiano Ronaldo. The Bossley Park school student made the trip to Spain last week
SHARKS prop Bryce Gibbs retired from NRL two months ago because of an achilles injury that wouldn't heal.
Last Monday, he marched back into Sharks training and declared he'd give it another go.
Coach Shane Flanagan says it's a massive boost for player morale to have him back.
NOT all rugby league players are ratbags like those who have recently been in the headlines for off-field atrocities.
This is a lovely story about the compassion and kindness of a couple of Knights stars.
Chris Houston and Kurt Gidley recently purchased two Knights family memberships for next year's games.
They will donate one to a local family who have just lost their young dad
to heart disease.
The second one will go to another fan or family who might be struggling to pay for their own membership.
They are running a competition on the Knights' website from tomorrow.
Simply show you are more dedicated than the two boys (with a photo) to win a family membership, judged by the players.
Both memberships will be delivered to the families by Gidley and Houston themselves.
It is something they came up with on their own.
No PR people involved.
Just a couple of caring and considerate fellas doing the right thing by the game and their fans.
ANTHONY Mundine is off to Panama next week for a meeting with WBA heavyweights to map out his future plans.
He says he wants to fight again next month and in March as part of the plan to get a super-fight in the US.
"Mayweather, Pacquia, Cotto, and Alvarez are the big four I eventually want to get to," Mundine said.
"But I can't just sit around for 10 months and wait and wait and wait like I did after the Geale fight.
"I'll meet with the WBA and work on a schedule. I need to stay active. My body and my mind is fresh.
"My goal is the same as it's always been - to be the first man to win three world titles descending in weight."
NO wonder David Gallop has no regrets about leaving the NRL.
Since his switch to soccer a year ago, the FFA boss has added lots of exotic stamps to his passport.
Mauritius, East Timor and Malaysia are not spots that were ever included in his NRL travel.
This weekend Gallop is leading the Socceroos delegation at the Costa de Sauipe, a resort on Brazil's tropical Atlantic coast, and a world away from damp, miserable Manchester.
THERE was a nice moment at the FIFA World Cup draw in Brazil when Socceroo coach Ange Postecoglou was sought out by Fernando Santos, the Portuguese-born coach of Greece. The Greek media has made much of Ange's ancestry and hailed him as "the only Greek coach at the World Cup".
Make no mistake, Ange is an Aussie through and through, while his new mate Santos has to make do with honorary Greek status.
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The Minnesota Timberwolves have exercised its fourth-year options on guard Ricky Rubio and forward Derrick Williams.
Rubio, the fifth overall pick in the 2009 NBA Draft, joined the Wolves in 2011-12 and has played 98 games with the club. He holds career averages of 10.7 points, 7.7 assists and 2.3 steals per game, including setting the franchise single-season steals mark last year (2.40 spg). As a rookie in 2011-12, Rubio was named to NBA's All-Rookie First Team after averaging 10.6 points, 8.2 assists and 2.2 steals per game.
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Peter Warlock is a magician with a dark secret. Every night, he amazes audiences at his private theater in New York, where he performs feats that boggle the imagination. But his day job is just a cover for his otherworldly pursuits: Peter is a member of an underground group of psychics who gaze into the future to help prevent crimes. No one, not even his live-in girlfriend, knows the truth about Peter - until the séance when he foresees an unspeakable act of violence that will devastate the city.
In Shadow People, national best-selling author James Swain's brilliant follow-up to Dark Magic, magician Peter Warlock has a dark secret. He's a psychic who peers into the future, using the information to alert the authorities to pending trouble. During a séance, Peter is confronted by a group of evil spirits called shadow people, beings who have the power to kidnap a person's soul. Peter is taken to another plane, where he confronts a serial killer about to claim his next victim. It's a harrowing encounter that Peter only barely manages to survive.
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By default, this value is set to 5%. I believe for most real world situations the code isn't efficient enough to be set this low. This should be higher, probably around the 50% mark, especially given the predominance of non-FIFO schedulers.
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For the edge case where jobs benefit from having .05%, they can continue to set this. The average case, from my experience, is that this is way way way too low. To re-iterate: I'd like to change the default that Hadoop ships with to something more reasonable for the average case.
As such I an neutral to this change. But as I said before, this is site-specific, job-specific. And this comment I've made only after seeing different opinions on this issue itself.
Allen says in the description "This should be higher, probably around the 50% mark".
Hong says here "Another case, for tiny jobs that require fast turn around time, it would be better if we set the percentage to be 0."
Either there is a cross-talk or I am missing something or these are different use-cases already. If we can agree to a default that is agreeable to everyone here, I am fine.
>Why not let it be and change site-specific, job-specific configuration?
In my experience, users don't set this until they've been around the Hadoop block for a while, and even then, this one is easy to miss.
The other reality is that few users only run "one" job. It is much more typical to run a series of jobs as part of a work flow. Doing specific, low-level tuning of every knob for every job is asking too much. For those users that do want to do that, then they'll eventually hit this and tune appropriately. But that doesn't mean we shouldn't ship a 'reasonable' default until they get around to setting it themselves.
>I think Allen's point is that the default 5% may be too low from the utilization perspective.
... and that's exactly my point. Inexperienced users wonder why all their reduce slots are not being utilized to get the max throughput of the grid. They have one big job that has all the reduce slots gone, sometimes for hours at a time, when a smaller job has all of its maps finished and just needs a handful of reduces to go. By setting this to reasonable default, chances are this very common case will disappear out-of-the-box.
While I think it would be great to see this tunable go away, that's not where we are at today. So let's just set this to something reasonable and then look at the bigger problem at some later date. There are bigger fish to fry.
I think Allen's point is that the default 5% may be too low from the utilization perspective.
My point (which may be shared with Matei) is that this really could be adaptively tuned by the MR framework (thus eliminating the need of a configuration knob). Finally, back to my comment on turn around time, i think users should specify high level optimization objectives such as whether they care more about response time or throughput, and MR framework should adjust related parameters automatically. Granted, this is probably beyond the scope of this jira.
This is a per-job configuration. And all the issues quoted above seem to be characteristic of the job in question. As such, no default value will ever cater to all the job characteristics. Why not let it be and change site-specific, job-specific configuration?
Yeah, actually the 5% setting can be a source of latency for small jobs in my experience, because the maps will finish at roughly the same time, and you then need to wait a few seconds for a reducer to start up and to get the map completion events from the JobTracker. For these jobs, it might make sense to look at the rate at which maps are reporting progress and launch the reducers when it looks like the map will finish in the next 5 seconds. There are many other things that could be done to decrease the latency for small jobs however.
Another case, for tiny jobs that require fast turn around time, it would be better if we set the percentage to be 0.
This is a good idea. Ideally though, we might actually want slow start to depend on the amount of map output data and the rate at which data can be copied. If you have a job with only a few MB of map output per reducer, setting slow start as high as 95% isn't going to impact your response time too much. On the other hand, if you have a job where the maps "explode" the output and you know that the bulk of your time will be spent in the shuffle phase, you might want to set it lower.


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It took 10 innings, but it was worth the wait for the Kings Mountain baseball team.
After squandering a 2-0 lead entering the sixth and suffering multiple close losses earlier this season, the Mountaineers broke through for a 4-2 victory at county rival Shelby on Friday.
Brandon Bell�s RBI triple in the top of the 10th scored Alex Reynolds, who was hit by a pitch and stole second, for the go-ahead run.
�This is a game we needed to win,� Kings Mountain coach Matt Bridges said. �I think we can build momentum off it, a 10-inning game and coming through at clutch time. It�s a good time to get hot.�
Then, Alex Grooms� double plated Bell for a two-run edge. All of Kings Mountain�s 10th-inning damage came with two outs.
�It feels good because we�ve been struggling here lately,� Bell said.
Bell�s decisive hit chased Shelby starter Chandler Young, who had 12 strikeouts and allowed four runs (three earned) on eight hits in 9 2/3 innings. Young took the loss.
Reynolds went the final 3 2/3 innings to pick up the victory for the Mountaineers. He tallied five strikeouts and one walk while allowing no runs on one hit.
A strikeout/pickoff double play ended a Shelby threat in the eighth, and Reynolds worked around a leadoff walk to A.J. Lombardo in the ninth. Lombardo was stranded at second after getting there on an errant pickoff attempt. A foul out and two strikeouts kept the Golden Lions from getting on the board.
After Kings Mountain�s two runs in the top of the 10th, Reynolds set Shelby down 1-2-3 in the bottom half to end it.
A Jackson Mims single, an RBI groundout from Lombardo and a Ben Gold RBI infield single in the sixth tied it 2-all to set up the finish.
�We came back,� Shelby coach Chris Emery said. �We just couldn�t get a big hit, couldn�t get a bunt down. We had our chances and didn�t take advantage.�
Mountaineer starter Landon Bolin allowed two runs on five hits and a walk in a 6 1/3-inning outing.
Bell (2 hits, 2 RBI), Grooms (2 doubles, 2 RBI) and Daniel Barrett (2 hits, including double) paced Kings Mountain�s nine-hit offense.
Mims had two of Shelby�s six hits.
Kings Mountain (5-8, 4-7 SMAC) hosts Draughn on Tuesday, the same night Shelby (8-6, 5-6) visits East Burke.


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Countries I've Visited
Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden
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Francis v. United Jersey Bank
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87 N.J. 15; 432 A.2d 814
JOHN J. FRANCIS, HUGH P. FRANCIS AND J. RAYMOND BERRY, TRUSTEES OF PRITCHARD & BAIRD INTERMEDIARIES CORP., PRITCHARD & BAIRD, INC., P & B INTERMEDIARIES CORP., AND P & B, INC., PLAINTIFFS-RESPONDENTS v. UNITED JERSEY BANK, ADMINISTRATOR OF THE ESTATE OF CHARLES H. PRITCHARD, LILLIAN P. OVERCASH, EXECUTRIX OF THE ESTATE OF LILLIAN G. PRITCHARD AND LILLIAN P. OVERCASH, DEFENDANTS-APPELLANTS
On certification to the Superior Court, Appellate Division, whose opinion is reported at 171 N.J. Super. 34 (1979)
No. A-156 Argued: May 5, 1980, Argued --- Decided: July 1, 1981, Decided
Clive S. Cummis argued the cause for appellants (Sills, Beck, Cummis, Radin & Tischman, attorneys; Thomas J. Demski, of counsel; Thomas J. Demski and Kenneth F. Oettle, on the brief).
Hugh P. Francis argued the cause for respondents (Francis and Berry, attorneys).
For affirmance — Justices Sullivan, Pashman, Clifford, Schreiber, Handler and Pollock. For reversal — none. The opinion of the Court was delivered by Pollock, J.
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In a battle for first place in the NFC East on Sunday, the Cowboys showed they are the cream of a very mediocre crop. Read »
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2014 NorCal Women's Team Review
by Hellyer • March 12, 2014 • teams, womyn on weels
The annual team review by the numbers is back. The rankings below include several women's teams that will vie for the top spot in 2014. This year we've included the 2013 Premier Series standings to help account for larger teams that will field a full roster throughout the long NorCal season. Teamwork and smart racing will be the single distinguishing feature at the end of the 2014 season.
Folsom Bike/Cervelo Womens Racing (181/825)*
Last year we predicted Folsom would come out swinging and they certainly made a huge impression in their first season. With the return of Marley Smith, Susannah Breen, the addition of Heather Van Sickle the team has some veteran horsepower to reply on. With promising developing riders like Claire Morgan and Diane Moug, Folsom will be in contention for the top spot in NCNCA. Some say this team is nibbling at the edges of greatness, while others say this is the team to beat.
Metromint Cycling (266/1548)
The always consistent and top-performing 'Dots' will no doubt find the podium and be in contention for every race they start. The Metromint women are the queens of homegrown talent, nurturing women through the lower ranks all the way to the most challenging races. Led by perennial powerhouse Molly Van Houweling this team also boasts stalwarts like Rikke Preisler, and has had a hand in developing top riders such as Joanna Dahl, Lisa Mueller and Lina Martennson. Amanda Seigle, arguably the best teammate in the NCNCA ,also returns to the Metromint squad. A renown animator in everything from crits to road races, look to Seigle to have a bigger presence this year. Despite graduating Hall and Huizar to the pro ranks this team returns with the bulk of its roster intact.
Pinnacle-Reactor p/b JL Velo (10/315)
Formerly Leopard Sapporo, Martin Santos' team takes a step forward with the addition of State Road Race Champion Tina Hughes, up and comer Sara Bird, and former pro-rider/DS Felicia Gomez. With their eyes on a heavier NRC schedule in 2014 this squad could be on the road a lot, but plan on Pinnacle being contenders throughout the year. When in town, expect to see this squad at the sharp end of the pack or off the front, as seen recently at Snelling Road Race where both Bird and Jane Despas were breaking legs.
Threshold Sports-Leadout Endurance Coaching (5/335)
Formerly Fremont Bank this squad features returning 'Capo' Josie Morgan, and proven entities such as Kimberly Fong, Emily Thurston, and Heather Ross. To keep life interesting they are sponsoring a few enterprising kids including Clarice Sayle and Jeanette Haggas. With ambitious plans, Sayles and Haggas are both eager to make their mark early in the season. This team has demonstrated a willingness to animate races in its early season outings, so keep an eye out for the sharpest looking kit to be represented in a breakaway near you.
TWENTY16 Professional Cycling (88/-)
Last year TWENTY16's NorCal duty was relegated to Alison Tetrick, but despite a lack of teammates, she won at will. Tetrick, who holds the NCNCA State Criterium and TT titles, will be teamed up with perennial points leader, and criterium maven, Mary Maroon. Since TWENTY16 has a nationally oriented focus, it is unclear whether this dynamic duo will be on the road or will be around to break NorCal hearts. If Tetrick and Maroon stay local, their individual point totals from last season alone could put them on the Premier Series Team podium. Here is some crit advice to the NorCal peloton… Attack before Tetrick, and sprint longer than Maroon. If you don't take the fight to them you'll get bored losing.
Velo Sports Group (282/836)
Formerly known as Pinnacle p/b Argon 18, VSG is the defending Premier Series Team Champion. Although graduating a few of their best women to pro teams (Thornquist & Headley) VSG likes to find unknown riders and develop them into winners. Returning to the team is Captain Jennifer Zierke, who will be joined by veteran riders Ginger Snell and Marissa Axell. The roster includes Lisa James and Erica Greif, who are both looking for early season successes. There is a lot of buzz around VSG rider Natalie Dell, a bronze medalist rower from the London 2012 Olympic games, who has recently switched to cycling. With an early season focus on development, several new recruits are expected to upgrade to Cat 1/2 squad mid-season. With Larry Nolan taking on the DS this team will be one to watch, again.
Honorable Mentions
SB Racing/CyclesFanatic.com
SB Racing, Mary Maroon's 2013 team, and Phil Roberts Cycles Fanatic squad did a lot the last two years to support women's racing in NorCal. Their rosters may not overflow with riders but the focused support, from experienced team managers, these teams provide is a crucial stepping stone for riders that want to take a run at riding professionally. Small squads with a tight focus may not win points series, but they produce big results for the riders.
There is always a solid crew of American and AZNAC riders on the VK Squad. Led by charger Liza Rachetto, and featuring CX stars Elle Anderson and Emily Kachorek, the VK squad has some heavy hitters, and god help you if they show up in force. Since their focus is on the NRC/NCC series the team misses a lot of the NorCal schedule, but they do pop in for select events.
Los Gatos Bicycle Racing Club
As one of the oldest local clubs in the area, Los Gatos keeps the lights on and produces one or two fresh faces a year. They may not be a huge women's team but the loose atmosphere is a great environment for independent minded riders to develop.
Did we miss your team? Send us your roster asap! Contact us at norcal (at) love dot com. We want to unveil your 2014 squad to Northern California.
* Numbers in parentheses are 2013 Premier Series/NCNCA BAT Points Series totals.
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A man who was attacked by an alligator while trying to evade police has given an interview from jail, saying he feared for his life during the ordeal. Courtesy: Fox News
A MAN who was attacked by an alligator after fleeing police in Florida says he was in a fight for his life.
Bryan Zuniga, 20, told Tampa Bay's Fox 13 News that he was swimming and trying to hide when a the alligator lunged at him.
Zuniga says he was nearly knocked unconscious when the alligator's mouth hit his head. He fought back with both legs and the arm not caught between the animal's jaws.
"I thought I was going to die," he told Fox 13 News.
"The moment the gator's mouth hit my head, I almost got knocked out. But my will to live kept me conscious and I fought back."
The Pinellas County Sheriff's Office says Zuniga ran away and into a water treatment plant after being pulled over by deputies on Thursday. He was later found at a hospital being treated for puncture wounds to the face and arm area.
He has been charged with fleeing police.
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The threat of poor entrepreneurs taking on too much loan debt is a growing reality, and a genuine threat to the rapidly expanding microfinance sector. At Oikocredit's annual staff and board meetings, regional managers who operate in almost 70 different countries, raised concerns over the rate of over-indebtedness in some countries. Those working in the field have witnessed that cases of over-indebtedness are becoming more common. Oikocredit board and staff agreed urgent action is needed and defined an action plan.
Microfinance has grown at a tremendous pace. This development has been applauded because microfinance allows poor people and small entrepreneurs to receive financial services they could otherwise not access. While some regions continue to struggle with inactive MFIs and an unmet demand for financing, others are experiencing the reverse.
Microfinance institutions (MFIs) must expand to become financially sustainable. As such, they aim for scale and strive to reach out to more and more clients. In some cases, especially with the entrance of profit driven actors, this leads to an increase in competition and results in institutions reaching out to the same clients in the same (often urban) areas.
Oikocredit Regional Directors reported stories of clients with loans by more than two, three or even five different microfinance institutions. The over-indebtedness of clients, and sometimes abusive collection practices, can often be a consequence of this multiple lending. As a socially-driven organization, Oikocredit is seriously concerned about the consequences of these developments for the microfinance industry, but more importantly for its end clients.
"Credit is a stepping stone out of poverty – as long as repayment is possible. If repayment becomes an insurmountable burden, a client becomes over-indebted. We do not want MFIs and their clients to fall into this trap. Organizations providing funds have an extremely important responsibility," said Oikocredit Managing Director Tor Gull. Oikocredit board and staff decided to take a number of steps to counteract this negative trend.
1. Oikocredit field staff in 33 offices around the world will share our concern with the microfinance partners and seek actions to mitigate or prevent over-indebtedness.
2. In countries where Oikocredit finances MFIs and competition is increasing, staff will contact leading national and international organizations and networks. The negative consequences of competition can only be effectively solved through agreements on a national level and joint initiatives.
3. Oikocredit will contact other socially oriented investors to collaborate in tackling this issue.
With these measures, Oikocredit aims at stimulating dialogue among institutions and investors commited to poverty alleviation and the prevention of over-indebtedness.
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I don't care about George Zimmerman's MySpace page.
Granted, it was gratifying to read recently in The Miami Herald about his crude animus toward Mexicans ("soft ass wanna be thugs") and his reference to a former girlfriend as an "ex-hoe."
Given the way white supremacists and other Zimmerman supporters have exaggerated and manufactured evidence to paint Zimmerman's unarmed 17-year-old victim, Trayvon Martin, as a thug who somehow deserved shooting, this unflattering portrait offers the same satisfaction one feels any time the goose is basted with sauce that was prepared for the gander.
But ultimately, Zimmerman's online profile is as irrelevant as Trayvon's to any real understanding of the social dynamics that were at play the night the boy was shot to death. Worse, our fixation on the need on the one hand to make Trayvon some dark gangsta straight from Central Casting and on the other to find a Klan hood in the back of Zimmerman's closet, suggests a shallow, even naive, understanding of the role race seems to have played in this tragedy.
The pertinent fact is that Zimmerman found Trayvon suspicious because, as he told the 911 dispatcher, the boy was walking slowly and looking around.
That might be the behavior of a boy who was turned around in an unfamiliar neighborhood. Or of a boy enjoying a cell phone conversation with a girl and not eager to return to where his sweet nothings might be overheard by his dad.
That no such alternate possibilities seem to have occurred to Zimmerman for even an instant suggests the degree to which we as a people have grown comfortable with the belief that black is crime and crime is black. Nor are African-Americans immune to the effects of that formulation.
Indeed, the dirty little secret of the Martin killing is that Zimmerman could easily have been black.
Why not? Blacks watch the same TV news as anyone else. We internalize the same message. We drink the same poison.
Why else do you think black folk flinch when the mug shot goes up on television, hoping the face will not be brown — as if we bore some communal responsibility for the suspect's misdeeds? Why else do you think so much of our music is a song of violence?
At some subterranean level, we — African-Americans — still believe the garbage of innate criminality. We struggle with it, yet we know better from firsthand, man-in-the-mirror experience. So how much harder is the struggle for white folks?
This is why I grow impatient with those — black, white and otherwise — who think the salient social issue here is George Zimmerman's character. It is not. Nor is it Trayvon's.
It is, rather, that ours is a nation so comfortable in conflating black with crime that a civilian carrying no badge of authority nevertheless feels it his right to require that an American boy walking upon a public street justify his presence there. And it is the knowledge that at least some black men would have done the same.
To make this about Zimmerman is to absolve the rest of us for maintaining a society that, in ways both overt and covert, still makes criminality a function of skin. Trayvon Martin was killed by a stereotype. George Zimmerman is just the guy who fired the gun.
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Culture Minister Ed Vaizey gave a written answer to a Parliamentary question on July 4 in which he said the UK Government was 'exploring options to provide free devices to people identified as being at higher risk of financial damage and personal distress as a result of nuisance calls'.
We have been calling for such a measure for the past two years as part of our 'Scams and swindles' campaign.
While the UK Government would be considering provision to all vulnerable people, older people are particularly at risk of exploitation, especially those who live alone.
Call blocking technology puts the customer in charge of what calls they receive and can cut out all calls from strangers.
One provider has shown a 98% success rate in cutting out nuisance calls.
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as above on my silver a4 avant also minor dints
Minor dints, dent remover (shop around as prices vary massively).
Scratches wise, depends on what you are trying to achieve. If the car needs a good polish (spider webbing and hologramming in the sun) then find a detailer near you that has experience with VAG cars as the paint work is uber hard.
If there are just a few smaller ones that you want to get rid of, something like Meguiars Scratch X will do you well, but use it in small amounts and carefully as it can be quite abrasive.
i think they are to deep may need painting in spring well see dent are f in anoyin specialy trolley dints to small to pop out by hand and will ripple rest of wing. thanks
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Fashion sector gears up for business changes and expanding markets
As overseas markets change and competition from Chinese manufacturers heats up, local players in the fashion and textile industry are constantly looking for business improvements.
Much of the responsibility for this rests on the shoulders of merchandisers whose jobs touch just about every facet of the production cycle.
With over 15 years' experience in the field, Bernia Chan, director and merchandising manager for Fenix Hong Kong, has seen the full scope of the industry. After initially working for three years as an assistant merchandiser with an American company, she joined Fenix in 1992. "At the time, we were focusing on Japan and I had the chance to get familiar with the entire business process, from research and design to production and marketing," she recalls.
Ms Chan was able to branch out further when Fenix expanded into European markets in 1997. As team supervisor and later assistant manager, she had to learn about different regulations and saw a whole new side of the global fashion business. Having built up a substantial network in Spain, France and England, she was promoted to her current position, where she oversees internal communications, client relationships, sales and marketing strategies, and HR policy.
Client contact
"We place special emphasis on training graduates," Ms Chan says. New recruits usually start as merchandising trainees and complete a thorough orientation programme. They are taught communication and presentation skills and receive daily updates on market news relevant to their future role. "We also give trainees the opportunity to come into contact with clients as part of the learning process," she adds. "By taking on real responsibilities, junior merchandisers can start to work independently more quickly."
Graduates in any discipline are welcome to apply, but they must be sensitive to market trends and proficient in English. Self-confidence and a passion for the business are also prerequisites. Starting salaries are in the range of HK$11,000 to HK$12,000 and promotion to the level of merchandiser can be expected within two years. For a long-term career, it's essential to have a sense of entrepreneurship in order to establish new lines of business and unlock new markets.
"The new generation of merchandisers must be self-motivated and ready to approach potential clients with concrete designs," Ms Chan explains. "These initiatives can really pay off substantially and give people the chance to exercise their creativity."
Cost efficiency
Competition from the mainland will obviously pose new challenges for Hong Kong's fashion sector. However, Ms Chan points out, with the right strategic moves, these can become opportunities. For example, to maximise cost efficiency, Fenix is transferring most of its lower-end production to subsidiaries in Eastern and Northern China. Improved quality assurance measures at mainland factories and new initiatives in staff management will help the company to maintain levels of profitability.
Since many European fashion brands are also moving production to China, Ms Chan believes Hong Kong can benefit by acting as a marketing and product development centre. "There should be many opportunities to negotiate new business, given that so much investment is going into the medium to high-end fashion lines," she notes.
Ms Chan advises young people interested in developing a career in China to acquire the necessary skill set and an international perspective. "Fresh graduates should expect to put in a few years of hard work first. Although the salary levels may not be on a par with Hong Kong, there will be substantial gains in the long run," she says.
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Beyoncé has basically had the public in the palm for a good year now, and she's still going strong. In about two week, Bey and Jay will take On the Run to Paris, for a show that will be turned into an HBO special.
Since it's her birthday, why not double up on your Bey fix?
Hit the gallery for more photos of the "Year in Beyonce."
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Scholarship Overview
This scholarship is for residents of Ohio who are high school seniors or senior-equivalent in good standing. To qualify for this scholarship, applicants must plan to pursue bioscience-related studies and enroll in a two- or four-year college or university in Ohio. The application items of most importance to judges will be: essay (35%); letters of recommendation (25%); and statement of activities, honors, and leadership (15%). Other application requirements comprise the remaining 25%.
How easy is it to apply?
Not too bad
This scholarship's application process may have items such as essays that could take a couple hours.
How much competition is there?
Not much
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The WSU pathology club provides lectures and hands-on activities for vet students simply looking for some fun wet labs and case studies as well as those interested in a career in pathology. We do several necropsy labs each semester and hold lunch lectures (food provided) for dues-paying members. Learning about pathology is a great way to tie all of our classes together and remind us that the things we're learning really do matter.


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Complete Convenience! Minutes Walk to Arncliffe Station!
Located at the top of a quiet cul-de-sac in a peaceful tree-lined street this bright & ultra spacious second floor apartment presents a smart & affordable property opportunity. Situated in a well-maintained security complex. Upon entry you are greeted by warm & inviting air-conditioned living areas including light & spacious lounge & dining with ideally positioned access to the tidy timber look kitchen & sun bathed street facing balcony, perfectly arranged for easy entertaining & family living.
Conveniently seperate from the main living areas are two spacious bedrooms, both include mirrored built in wardrobes. 1 Light & airy bathroom with floor to ceiling tiling & combined internal laundry. Stylish floor tiling throughout.
Located in the charismatic, family oriented suburb of Arncliffe, Just a short walk from your doorstep to Arncliffe or Wolli Creek rail stations, Local schools parks & playgrounds, boutique shops, fruit markets, bakeries & amazing local eating spots. Close proximity to airport and scenic beaches all just 15 minute drive to Sydney CBD.
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I really like the first and the third one, congratulations for that!
I'm wondering: is there any way to select which one or revert it to original KitKat boot animation?
Just waiting for a revert to try it!
hmm? can You explain better?
the KitKat bootanimation is here
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Knockout Olive 1870OLBLK folding knife
Knockout is a wonderful folder knife type manufactured by the American Kershaw company. The whole knife has been manufactured in the USA from top to bottom. The aluminum handgrip and simple, but effective sub-frame lock render the knife very lightweight and perfect for EDC - every day carry. The blade's made of matt finish Sandvik 14C28N steel.
The knife has a very comfortable flipper that makes the blade easy to unfold using just one hand. All the while the additional auxillary SpeedSafe® lock system makes it supremely simple to unfold the blad using just one swift move. The mount clip allows to mount the blade in 4 different positions, so as to make the folder most universal and adjustable.
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In two new spots for UPS, studio Psyop creates an amazing, seemingly hand-crafted cardboard world filled with lions, gladiators, elephants, and acrobats.
Working with ad agency Doner, US animation studio Psyop has created a fantasy world and characters that appear to be made entirely of cardboard for UPS's latest campaign.
Two TV spots have so far been released, telling epic tales that illustrate the extent of UPS' services beyond shipping packages. The first, titled The Presentation, sees a bespectacled businessman facing a chariot and a fierce lion to get his point across to the audience before being saving by a UPS representative.
The second, Circus, is set under a big top, with a woman in danger of dropping her fragile shopping as she walks a tightrope. With the help of UPS all her packages are saved and she reaches the other side to applause.
Along with the challenge of fitting each epic tale into just 25 seconds of animation, the need to make the environments and characters look as if hand-crafted from cardboard raised some interesting technical issues for the Psyop team.
"The brief from agency was to make worlds out of cardboard that felt simultaneously epic and handmade. All of the scripts read like short films and we worked hard to tell these stories in a visually impactful way but in a tight timeframe," explains Eben Mears, Psyop's creative director.
"We were also given the task of creating characters and environments that looked truly hand-crafted, with the caveat that everything must always be made of cardboard," he adds.
"The design of the worlds and characters in each spot was intense. It's an interesting struggle to design everything out of cardboard and make it look and feel 'real'.
"Our use of corrugation and texture, plus the thought that went into the rigging of the characters, was an epic struggle in and of itself."
Mears and his team worked closely with the creatives at Doner to hone the scripts for the commercials and create detailed storyboards.
Psyop took inspiration from stop-motion films including Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas and Rankin/Bass Production's classic Christmas television specials.
According to Tony Barbieri, Psyop's lead technical director, creating a fully cardboard world and characters that emulated a stop-motion aesthetic was a particular challenge for the team's CG animators.
Each character had to be broken apart and looked at again to visualize how it would be built if it really was made from cardboard. This was to ensure that each would have the full range of necessary motion. "We didn't want the characters to look 'CG', so we tried to not cheat by using tricks in 3D," says Barbieri.
"This forced us to approach character setup with some additional boundaries that in some ways made setup easier, but in others ways it forced to us to become more like mechanical engineers and focus on the details of believable mechanics."
The 3D models were created in Maya, with nearly all of the cardboard's corrugation modelled in detail. However, this placed a huge strain on the studio's pipeline.
"We pushed Maya to the limits on what it can handle in a scene due to our geometry polygon counts being so high," says Barbieri.
"It also pushed how much corrugation our modellers were able to handle before cracking mentally."
Ensuring that the geometry of the corrugated cardboard characters wasn't too obviously CG was also tricky.
"If we kept the geometry too clean, it ended up looking too CG. Our creative director, Eben kept referencing lasagne noodles whenever he saw corrugation that was too clean in dailies," says Barbieri.
"On the other hand, if we pushed it too far, our cardboard ended up looking like it came out of the garbage so we had to walk a fine line between the two."
By adding this level of detail, the team could see straightaway how it would work in a render without concerning themselves with model close-ups, shadow effects or textural detail in the subsequent compositing stage.
Environment creation began in 2D with sketches based on the script and references supplied by the ad agency. With the sketch approved, Psyop's designers then created the scene in Photoshop.
From here a parallel pipeline was set up, with 2D and 3D teams working hand in hand says Helen Choi, lighting artist on The Presentation. "For The Presentation, we already had an initial model and texture of the stadium.
"However, we wanted to figure out a couple of elements in the stadium that weren't quite resolved. So we rendered out different passes for the designer so we could preview our ideas in 2D before we made changes in 3D," she explains.
"This helped us save time and effort. After our initial environment and camera was locked down, we embellished each shot by adding the details it needed."
Texturing the environments was straightforward, says Choi, with the team scanning every cardboard box they could find to ensure that the imperfections and wrinkles of the material could be recreated.
Outstanding characters
With every element of the spot made to look as if built from cardboard, one concern was that the characters would get lost among the background environments.
"We decided that playing with tonal variation through lighting and texturing would help us control the focus of each shot. We used Mia-x shaders with the Remap HSV node so the lighting artists could tweak the value, hue and saturation as needed," says Choi.
On several scenes involving dozens of fully animated characters, detailed props and environments, as well as numerous animated sources of light, file sizes quickly topped more than 1GB.
The serious horsepower provided by 64-bit machines with lots of RAM was essential to handle these scenes, says Anthony Patti, lighting artist on the Circus spot.
"One of the most important features of the pipeline, from the lighting point of view, was a tool created by Tony Barbieri that allowed us to texture the props, environments and characters in a separate file and load it into the lighting scene at will," Patti says.
"We decided to assign the textures in such a way as to help us when setting up our render layers. We would go through the regular process of approvals for texturing, but then alter those textures to account for the various render layers we knew we would need."
So in the layout files for Circus, the floor was kept consistently one colour, the walls another, and various other props yet another, he explains. This meant that the lighting artists could ensure that the characters and props had the same setup for every shot.
"This also allowed us to standardize our output as much as possible, so compositors could work from a standardized skeleton and the composite was made easier," says Patti.
"Consolidation of passes in single renders was also important, for example rendering a single pass with as many different kinds of tools as possible... [we'd have to] assign ambient occlusion to the red channel, facing ratio to alpha, Z depth to green, Y depth to blue and that would make a single image file. Then we'd share these shaders with the other lighting artists to make sure our output was the same."
Efficient rendering was key. This called for good communication and planning between the lighting artists and compositors.
"If a compositor asked for a tool to reach a certain feature of a character, we'd ask for three more they might need, simply to fill up the channels of the new pass and not waste processor power outputting a tiny feature, such as the pupils of the eyes," says Patti.
"Of course, there are always exceptions. Some of the things we would plan for may not be needed or used, so we would end up breaking from the process and just building render layers based on whatever tools were necessary to tweak certain features. You can never plan for everything, you can only do your best and slog through it until it's done," he continues.
The efforts of the texturing and lighting artists made compositing "really fun", says Psyop's lead compositor Molly Schwartz. The sole compositing challenge was the complexity of the shots themselves, she adds.
"Each shot was broken out into dozens and dozens of layers – including the base beauty colour and final gathering for all the elements, character and background passes, Z depth, Y depth, ambient occlusion, mattes, as well as lighting passes, including various rays and shafts," she says.
"The lighters also gave us three separate-channel light and shadow passes with which we were able to manipulate all of the lights and darks in each scene, really bringing colour and warmth into the highlights and shadows."
Using the cameras imported from 3D, Schwartz and her team created skies and suns for each spot, and added live-action elements including smoke, dust, and particles.
"We then topped off the whole mess with dozens of effect passes from our unleashed particle madman – all kinds of beautiful dust, trails, even more light and sunshine rays, twinkly bits and flying cardboardy bits," she says.
The high number of passes required in the composite meant maintaining continuity in the colours of the cardboard was a key consideration. According to Schwartz, lots of discussion and comparison between shots was needed to ensure all the scenes matched and the cardboard effect worked successfully across each spot.
"Cardboard is 'brown' which meant balancing values with a lot of subtly different hues of red, yellow and orange to keep a consistent colour palette," explains Schwartz. "I miss blue sometimes, but I will never see brown as just brown again."
Mears concludes: "These spots were a pleasure to make and we're happy with the worlds we were able to create. For us, this project is a combination of a real cardboard aesthetic and cool little stories."
One problem the team found was that of condensing a suitably 'epic' narrative into the tiny amount of time available. "Most of the stories we wanted to tell would have suited a 60-second format, so we spent tons of time editing boardomatics and revising our storyboard frames based on what told the story the best," says Mears.
"It's common for most CG animators to strive for super smooth animation," says Jordan Blit, lead animator at Psyop. "This can be a difficult hurdle to overcome when trying to emulate a more hand-crafted, stop-motion style.
"Trying to work frame by frame would have proven too laborious and changes later on would have been difficult to make. So, we solved the problem by disciplining ourselves to work as we would normally, but looser. We also skipped the polish phase all together, keeping the motion more raw, spontaneous, and not to mention timesaving."
"Cardboard is not pretty but practical and efficient, therefore we had to find ways to glorify the material aesthetically," explains Psyop lighting artist Helen Choi. "For The Presentation, we went for the golden-hour look, mimicking natural sunlight. The lighting setup was simple and efficient, with one spotlight for sunlight and two directional lights used as skylights."
The team rendered using mental ray and final gather with an image-based lighting dome. Once the initial light rig was in place in the scene, they started test-rendering in low resolution thumbnails. "This not only saved us time, it also allowed us to see how the light and shadow affected the overall composition. If it didn't look good in small thumbnails, we could be sure that it wasn't going to look good in bigger resolution," she says.
Project: Circus and The Presentation spots Client: The UPS Store
Agency: Doner
Studio: Psyop, www.psyop.tv
Software: Adobe After Effects, Autodesk 3DS Max, Autodesk Maya, Mental Images, Mental Ray, Side Effects Houdini


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More and more we hear people arguing that we're running out of time. It's not just because December 12, 2012 is just around the corner, nor is it just because time seems to folks like us to fly by as we get older. There's a growing sense of urgency, a growing malaise, among Americans of all ages.
It's not like there's a shortage of time: We live in a universe that has existed for an estimated 13.7 billion years (+/- 0.13 billion years), which NASA reminds us is a long time indeed: "To put this in perspective, the Solar System is thought to be 4.5 billion years old and humans have existed as a genus for only a few million years." [1] And we don't seem to be running short of space-time, either: Astronomers predict that our solar system is going to be around for another 5-8 billion years before the sun expands into a red giant, and then collapses into a white dwarf, with dire consequences for the planets:
"The discovery of remnants of a planetary system orbiting a dead star is providing astronomers with a window on the distant future of our own Solar System. * * *
"According to [Boris] Gaensicke [of the University of Warwick in England ], when the Sun dies the fate of the Earth is unclear: our planet could be engulfed, or it may narrowly escape as its orbit moves further out. 'There is a vast uncertainty, which mainly relates to the poor understanding of mass loss during the late stages of evolution [of a star],' he says. Even if the Earth is not consumed, however, Earth's water and most of its atmosphere will be boiled away." [2]
One would think that something so far out in the future, so utterly inconsequential to those of us living today, ought not to trouble anyone. Still, strangely, even the most casual Google search reveals some edginess about the ultimate fate of the earth. Some of it appears to relate to attempts to reconcile emerging science with ancient scripture. We are reminded that the Quran tells how 1,400 years ago Allah informed "an illiterate man in 7th century Arabia" of the sun's ultimate death and qayamat (judgment day). For example:
Quran{75:7-12} "when the sun and moon are brought together, on that day will man exclaim where to flee? On that day the journey's end will be",
Quran{81:1-6} "when the sun with its spacious light is folded up and when the stars loose their light and when the seas boil over with a swell." [3]
The fairly modern concept of astronomy existing in those days apparently comprehended that the Solar System would not last forever, and it appears to have contemplated the expansion or explosion of the sun. These ideas, however, were uninformed by scientific knowledge of either the age of the universe or of the origin of our species. Understandably, it was thought that people like us would be around at the end. Much, however, has been learned since then.
Humans are mammals, a class of animals that has only existed for a little more than 200 million years, evolving from reptiles during the Triassic Period when dinosaurs were also first establishing themselves. [4] Hominidae, a family of primates, has been around for about 4 million years, a very long time but only about 1/1125 of the entire period since the solar system began. Homo sapiens [5], however, the only surviving species of hominidae, has only been around for about 100,000 years.
This chart shows what has been revealed so far in the hominid fossil record of Africa, including Homo erectus from which Homo sapiens may have descended: [6]The hominid lineage leading to Homo sapiens remains uncertain, and new theories emerge as the fossil record accumulates. [7] One thing is certain, however: it would be very far-fetched to imagine that people like us would still exist 5 billion years from now.
Nonetheless, Marko at the the Homeboy Astronomy Blog [8] sounds the alarm:
One day the Sun will die. One day the Sun will "eat" planet Earth and life on Earth will stop. Is that scary? Oh yes it is, but do not worry. The sun will shine the next five billion years before it becomes the "Death Star." Nothing lasts forever, not even the sun. * * *
The future does not sound good. It is a bit dramatic and scary. Anyhow, we do not need to be afraid at all. When we think in which scale these phenomena happen, we realize that there is no need to worry at all. The universe was born 13.7 billion years ago and the sun will continue shining the next five billion years. Human beings [have] measured [time for only a] few thousand years, which is really nothing compared to figures such as 5 billion years and 13.7 billion years. So, there is no need to be afraid of the future of the sun because the things happen during very very long time. Our life on Earth is not in danger when it comes to the sun, but the fact is that one day the sun will die, for sure. When that has happened, there is no life on Earth.
Why would Marko, I wondered, try to scare me just to tell me there's no need to worry? At first glance I overlooked the ad for solar energy at the top of the blog: It turned out that Marko had subtly turned my thoughts to solar energy! Cleverly, he got me thinking: Maybe I should be using more solar energy before the sun starts to die! (Of course, the Sun has already "started to die." Just like us, it started dying the moment it was born.)
There is only one comment posted on Marco's blog, a candid reaction by the undaunted and irrepressibly practical Tazina:
We will be colonizing other planets long before the sun destroys the earth; that is if we're still here to develop that technology, and not destroyed by something like flooding, a direct hit from a gamma ray or a huge asteroid. We may destroy ourselves. A virus could wipe us out. We should be grateful for every tenuous day we have on Planet Earth and not think about the future too much.
"… every tenuous day we have on Planet Earth…" It appears that Tazina feels it too: We're running out of time.
But hold on, wait just a minute: What, exactly is "time" and what is the "future"? Watch these videos, then come back:
Unification of space and time : Relativity
Space-Time And The Speed Of Light | Einstein's Relativity
Seriously, it's not easy for everyday folks like us to stop thinking of gravity as a "force" and think of it as a warping of the space-time continuum, but that's what Einstein's General Theory of Relativity instructs us to do. Look at where that takes us:
As you read this sentence, you probably think that this moment—right now—is what is happening. The present moment feels special. It is real. However much you may remember the past or anticipate the future, you live in the present. Of course, the moment during which you read that sentence is no longer happening. This one is.
In other words, it feels as though time flows, in the sense that the present is constantly updating itself. We have a deep intuition that the future is open until it becomes present and that the past is fixed. As time flows, this structure of fixed past, immediate present and open future gets carried forward in time. This structure is built into our language, thought and behavior. How we live our lives hangs on it.
Yet as natural as this way of thinking is, you will not find it reflected in science. The equations of physics do not tell us which events are occurring right now—they are like a map without the "you are here" symbol. The present moment does not exist in them, and therefore neither does the flow of time. Additionally, Albert Einstein's theories of relativity suggest not only that there is no single special present but also that all moments are equally real [see "That Mysterious Flow," by Paul Davies; Scientific American, September 2002]. Fundamentally, the future is no more open than the past. [9]
Huh? Dare I ask, if "the present moment does not exist" in the equations of physics, might they possibly still need a little more work? It appears that all of this can be understood with just enough brainpower. Take the case of Jacob Barnett:
A 12-year-old child prodigy has astounded university professors after grappling with some of the most advanced concepts in mathematics. Jacob Barnett has an IQ of 170 – higher than Albert Einstein – and is now so far advanced in his Indiana university studies that professors are lining him up for a PhD research role.
The boy wonder, who taught himself calculus, algebra, geometry and trigonometry in a week, is now tutoring fellow college classmates after hours. And now Jake has embarked on his most ambitious project yet – his own 'expanded version of Einstein's theory of relativity. [10]
Jake gets it, for sure. I'm not sure what to think at this point, and I suspect that language and perception are both culprits. But I seriously wonder whether reality is or should be considered as all about the equations of physics. Math lays it all out, then language screws it up. Even the great Stephen Hawking must abandon his equations and use language to explain to us why be concludes that "no divine force was needed to explain why the Universe was formed." [11] If space and time did not exist before the big bang, he explains, nothing existed, including a potential creator. But he doesn't seem to have really explained anything with that assertion, certainly not the meaning of "existence."
How can we cope with the associated idea that "time" can't run out because it isn't even moving? Cosmic consequences and the consequences of general relativity are interesting, but do not seem at all material or relevant to how we choose to live our lives. In the shorter time-frames of our lives and near-history, time does indeed move for us; our perception of time is all that should matter, assuming that our "existence" matters to us.
I'm with Tazina, to the extent she is suggesting that we ought not to think so much about the distant future. Ironically, though, people become tragically myopic when considering matters nearer to the present, falling into the trap of operating within static models of reality and refusing to look "ahead" to the dynamic consequences. Thus, people allow themselves to conclude that cutting government spending will reduce deficits, when they know (or should know) that economic dynamics generally lead to the opposite result. They cannot see the effects of climate change, even though they are incredibly short-term in geological time, so they blindly continue destructive practices.
There is, however, one overwhelming problem none of us can ignore much longer: To put it bluntly, because it has no natural enemies and has the ability to control and manage natural resources, Homo sapiens has overrun the planet and is destroying it. Last month, the human population reached 7 billion. To put that in perspective, there likely were only about 5 million people ten thousand years ago, when agriculture was invented. [12] By the time of Christ, there were about 200 million people:
[B]y 1650 there were only 500 million people, and in 1850 only a little over a billion. Since there are now [1990] well past 5 billion people, the vast majority of the population explosion has taken place in less than a tenth of one percent of the history of Homo sapiens. This is a remarkable change in the abundance of a single species. After an unhurried pace of growth over most of our history, expansion of the population accelerated during the Industrial Revolution and really shot up after 1950. Since mid-century, the human population has been growing at annual rates ranging from about 1.7 to 2.1 percent per year, doubling in forty years or less. Some groups have grown significantly faster; the population of the African nation of Kenya was estimated to be increasing by over 4 percent annually during the 1980s — a rate that if continued would double the nation's population in only seventeen years.[13]
Here is a graphic and stunning video representation of world population growth produced by Population Connection (formerly Zero Population Growth, Inc.), from 1 A.D. projected out to 2030. The pace of population growth in just two or three generations has become geometric. Here is a graph of population growth from Wikipedia with the population level presented on a logarithmic scale (i.e. – each unit increase on the logarithmic scale represents an exponential increase in the underlying quantity for a given base):
So we struggle on, unwilling and/or unable to reconcile our quests for individual survival, freedom and well-being with the serious limitations of a damaged environment and the resource limitations that are becoming exponentially worse. The crises that lie ahead can be addressed, with people living drastically different lives with lower standards of living. It seems like a heavy lift, given our evolved nature, especially since we are only very recently beginning to really understand ourselves and the world.
Somewhere out in the future, as ice ages come and go, the human race will eventually perish, along with most of the ecosystems people have dominated. The only question is how they will go out. Will they continue the current path of unbridled aggression and destruction, or will they reach a higher, more cooperative, dignified and spiritual level of civilization?
(For Tazina and the Tribe: Black and White, Jackson Browne (1986))
[1] Universe 101, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), updated July 19, 2010.
[2] Clues to the Death of Our Solar System, by Hilary Jones, Cosmos, December 22, 2006
[3] Death of Solar System, Remembering Allah
[4] The Evolution of Mammels, Enchanted Learning
[5] Classification of Homo Sapiens, Biology Cabinet
[6] Genus Homo, African History, about.com; see also Becoming Human, an interactive documentary.
[7] Most recently: "Early members of the genus Homo, possibly direct ancestors of people today, may have evolved in Asia and then gone to Africa, not vice versa as many scientists have assumed. Most paleoanthropologists have favored an African origin for the potential human ancestor Homo erectus. But new evidence shows the species occupied a West Asian site called Dmanisi from 1.85 million to 1.77 million years ago, at the same time or slightly before the earliest evidence of this human-like species in Africa." Site hints at Asian roots for human genus, by Bruce Bower, Science News, July 2, 2011.
[8] The Death of the Sun – The End of Life on Planet Earth, by Marko Pyhajarvi, The Homeboy Astronomy Blog, February 2, 2008.
[9] Is Time an Illusion?, by Craig Callender, Scientific American, May 24, 2010
[10] 12-year-Old Child Prodigy Taking On Toughest Problems in Physics, from The Daily Mail; reported at Archive Fire, March 24, 2011. See also: A Beautiful Mind? 12-Year-Old Boy Genius Sets Out to Disprove Big Bang, by Jonathon M. Seidl, The Blaze, March 25, 2011.
[11] Stephen Hawking: God Was Not Needed to Create the Universe, by Laura Roberts, The Telegraph, September 2, 2010.
[12] That point in geological time coincided with the beginning of an interglacial period of the Quaternary Ice Age; the last glacial period of the Quaternary ended about 10,000 years ago with the start of the Holocene epoch. See Timeline of Glaciation, Wikipedia.
[13] Paul R. Ehrlich & Anne H. Ehrlich, The Population Explosion, 1990 (Ch. 1, "Why isn't everyone as scared as we are?
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Oyster Dressing
1 cup self rising cornmeal
1/2 cup self-rising flour
3/4 cup buttermilk
2 eggs
2 tablespoons vegetable oil
7 slices white bread, dried in warm oven
1 sleeve saltine crackers
2 cups chopped celery
1 large onion, chopped
8 tablespoons butter
2 cups chicken stock
1 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
1 teaspoon dried sage
1 tablespoon poultry seasoning
5 eggs, beaten
2 pints or 1 quart oysters, drained
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
To make the cornbread, combine all ingredients and pour into
a greased shallow baking dish. Bake for approximately 20 to 25
minutes. Remove from oven and let cool.
To make the dressing, crumble dried white bread slices,
cornbread and crackers. Mix together and set aside. Saute
chopped celery and onion in butter until transparent,
approximately 5 to 10 minutes. Pour over corn bread mixture.
Add stock, mix well and add salt, pepper, sage, and poultry
seasoning. Add beaten eggs and mix well. Add oysters and mix.
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Egberto Gismonti
(born December 5, 1947) is a Brazilian composer, guitarist and pianist. He cites Villa Lobos as one of his greatest musical influences, continuing to draw on Brazilian folk music within the context of jazz and classical composition. Gismonti's unique guitar style incorporates elements drawn from musicians as wide-ranging as Django Reinhardt and Jimi Hendrix.
Selva Amazonia (orig. eight-string steel)
Sete Aneis / Seven Rings (orig. piano, synth, cello)
2 Violoes / 2 Guitars (orig. two guitars)
Ano Zero / Before the Beginning (orig. piano)
Salvador (orig. ten-string guitar)
Dança das Cabeças (orig. ten-string guitar)
Carmem (orig. contrabass, guitar, cello)
Lundu (orig. ten-string guitar)
Bianca (orig. eight-string guitar)
Toumani Diabate
comes from a long family tradition of kora players including his father Sidiki Diabaté, who recorded the first ever kora album in 1970. His family's oral tradition tells of 71 generations of musicians preceding him. In 1988 Diabaté released his first album in the West, a solo album entitled Kaira, also the first solo kora recording in history.
Tubaka (orig. kora)
Cantelowes / Jarabi (orig. kora)
Kaira (orig. kora)
Kaounding Cissoko / Alla L'Aa Ke (orig. kora)
Djourou Kara Nany (Alexander the Great) (orig. kora)
Konkoba (orig. kora)
Elyne Road (orig. kora)
Ali Farka Toure and Vieux Farka Toure
(October 31, 1939 – March 7, 2006) was a Malian singer and guitarist, and one of the African continent's most internationally renowned musicians. His music is widely regarded as representing a point of intersection of traditional Malian music and its North American cousin, the blues.
Cinquante Six ('56)
Heitor Villa Lobos
(March 5, 1887 – November 17, 1959) was a Brazilian composer, described as "the single most significant creative figure in 20th-century Brazilian art music." His music was influenced both by Brazilian folk music and by the stylistic elements of European classical music.
Preludes and Etudes
Trenzinho do Caipira / Little Train of the Caipira arr. Gismonti/Gripper
(born 1922 in the Eastern Cape province) is a South African musician playing uhadi (gourd resonated bow), umhrubhe (mouth bow), and the isitolotolo (jews harp). She is regarded as a national treasure.
Mna Ndiyayithanda Imotokali / I Like the Motorcar (orig. umhrubhe/mouthbow)
Ballaké Cissoko and Vincent Segal
Ma-Ma FC (orig. kora and cello)
Chamber Music (orig. kora and cello)
Luis de Narváez
(1526–49) was a Spanish composer and vihuelist. Highly regarded during his lifetime, Narváez is known today for Los seys libros del delphín, a collection of music for the vihuela, an instrument which resembled the modern day guitar in tuning and construction.
Cancion del Emperador / Song for the Emporer (orig. vihuela)
Sonatas and Partitas for solo violin (BWV 1001–1006) are a set of six works consisting of three sonatas da chiesa, in four movements, and three partitas, in dance-form movements. The set was completed by 1720, but were largely ignored until the celebrated violinist Josef Joachim started performing them. Today, Bach's Sonatas and Partitas are an essential part of the violin repertoire, and they are frequently performed and recorded.
Sonata and Partitas – ' Six Solo' (orig. violin)
Derek Gripper
Koortjie for the Kommetjie Whales
Uhadi Rain
The Veldskoen of Manie Kruger
Anne Magdalene
Tikkie is nie Meer nie
Kai Kai
Sai Goes Round and Round
Clinton's Seven
Toru's Blood
Big Bryon's Little Room
Oom Jan se Skorsies
Holland Road
by Derek Gripper for guitar and strings
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September 23rd, 2013 10:27 AM #1Junior Member
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Looking for a middle name/nn for Simone...
My hubby and I both love the name Simone for a girl, but are having trouble coming up with a middle name that flows right, and isn't too "out there" - I would prefer something more classic - the two e-names were a coincidence, not planned...
The only two we have right now, and neither of us LOVE them are:
Simone Elisabeth Jensen
Simone Eloise Jensen
What do you all think of Simone and do you have any classic suggestions for a middle name AND I haven't even considered nick names...any thoughts would be GREATLY appreciated!
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Simone is great! Nicknames could be Sissi, Mona, Minnie.
Other middle name ideas:
Simone Ariel Jensen
Simone Rebecca Jensen
Simone Juniper Jensen
Simone Harper Jensen
Simone Bianca Jensen
Simone Annabel Jensen
Simone Veronica Jensen
Simone Paloma Jensen
Simone Lily Jensen
Simone Louisa Jensen
Simone Fiona Jensen
Of your current options, I love Simone Eloise!
Edit: I'd also like to suggest Simone Evelyn Jensen
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Amid Heat Wave 130 Israelis Fainted During Yom Kippur Fast, Thousands Treated
Medical authorities treated 2,566 people this year, a 9 percent rise from last year.
Medical authorities treated 2,566 people this year, a 9 percent rise from last year.
Israel's north has the highest vaccination rate, at 69%; Jerusalem and Tel Aviv are lagging well behind, with 19.8% and 5.15% respectively.
Sharon has undergone abdominal surgery to correct a problem in his intravenous feeding system; his condition remains unchanged.
Studies suggest vaccine-linked autoimmune conditions; nearly half of Israeli women who develop cervical cancer die of the disease.
The two-drop, oral inoculation contains two types of weakened virus: strain 3 and strain 1, which has been discovered in Israel's sewage systems since May.
City-dwellers went to the Negev, where the spectacular Perseid shower featured up to 100 meteors an hour.
Health Ministry's Operation Two Drops to expand northward, amid pockets of parental resistance.
From August 18, parents of all children between 4 months and 9 and a half years will be asked to inoculate kids amid evidence that polio virus is present in sewage systems throughout the country.
Health Ministry still debates whether to expand the vaccination campaign to children throughout the country.
As the government announces a campaign to vaccinate 150,000 children in the south of Israel, members of the public have called parents to abstain citing safety concerns.