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Sonia Delaunay (also known as Sonia Terk) is a Jewish-French
artist best known for her use of strong colors and geometric
shapes her involvement in the Orphism Art Movement. The movement
viewed painting as a bringing together of the sensations of
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Sonia Delaunay Biography
Sonia Delaunay was born as Sarah Stern on November 14, 1885 in a small Ukrainian town called Gradizhsk. She was separated from both her father and her mother at the age of five when she was adopted by her wealthy, Jewish uncle Henri Terk, a powerful lawyer in St. Petersburg. Henri Terk renamed her Sonia Terk and offered her a life of social prominence and higher education.
At age 16, she was enrolled in one of St. Petersburg's most respected secondary schools, where an art teacher acknowledged her talent. Delaunay was sent to Germany to study further and soon entered the Karlsruhe Academy of Fine Arts where she studied from 1903-1905. After school, she moved to Paris, the center of arts and entertainment, where she quickly took up an active social life. In Paris, Delaunay met Wilhem Uhde, a prominent art dealer and collector. They were married on December 5, 1908 but soon divorced in 1910 when Sonia fell in love with and married Robert Delaunay, a fellow artist. Often living in the shadow of her husband, Delaunay's career took off after his death in 1941. She was the first living female artist to have a retrospective exhibition at the Louvre, Paris in 1964, and in 1975, she was officially named an officer of the French Legion of Honor.


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Westminster Cathedral's Master of Music addresses Vatican
Martin Baker, has become the first Master of Music of Westminster Cathedral to address a study day at the Vatican. In a talk delivered on Monday, entitled "Musica sacra - una sfida liturgica e pastorale" (Sacred Music, an liturgical and pastoral challenge), Martin Baker spoke about the role of the Choir in liturgical celebrations. The study day was organized by the Congregation for Divine Worship and Discipline of the Sacraments, to mark the anniversary of 'Sacrosanctum Concilium' - the Vatican II document on the Liturgy. (Sacrosanctum Concilium, was promulgated in 1963, and this conference forms part of the 40th anniversary celebrations of Vatican II.) The place and importance of sacred music has often been reflected upon throughout the twentieth century, from the Motu proprio of Pope Saint Pius X, through the liturgical reforms of the Second Vatican Council, featuring in letters by the late Pope John Paul II as well as in sermons and writings by the current Pope Benedict XVI. In his talk, Martin Baker examined how far 'pastors of souls' had responded to the challenges of Sacrosanctum Concilium which provides the directive to foster and promote both the Church's treasury of sacred music and the choirs that sing it. He concluded: "At the moment, whilst pockets of excellence in church music do exist, they seem to exist in isolation. Clearer guidance from Church hierarchy would encourage and support many musical establishments and could facilitate a renewal of all that is good in the Church's musical tradition. Whilst being grateful for the statements on sacred music in Sacrosanctum Concilium, it is worth acknowledging that we currently have to look beyond, to the writings of theologians such as Pope Benedict XVI, to elicit a degree of clarification. " "Especially given the direction the liturgy has taken in the years since Vatican II, a clear case can be made for the need to re-evaluate and expound upon these directives in the light of forty years of experimentation, even floundering in some quarters. Perhaps the time has come for some explicit guidelines as to the role of the Cathedral choir. We feel that the pattern which exists at Westminster could be well used to help recovery of the Church's choral tradition elsewhere. However, we cannot work in a vacuum, or without support of these aims from the highest level." Source: Archbishop's House


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Vitality and Ageing
People are living longer. The one-year English-taught master programme Vitality and Ageing is intended for students who are widely interested in the causes and effects of human ageing. This is studied from different perspectives: biological, medical, psychological and social. Another important aspect is the vitality of elderly people and how to retain it.


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My voice has been described as warm and deep for voiceover narrations, smooth and professional for business and corporate presentations and videos.
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I took the first steps in radio in 1997, since then my passion for mass media grows every day. In 2003, in local radio station, I became a professional speaker and played them during four and a half years. During that time I was sound technician, journalist and presenter, having acquired extensive experience. From 2007, outside the regular radio broadcasts, I became a freelance voiceover.
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The award to the 48-year-old woman, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, includes a lump sum of £38 million.
Details of the case have been made public in an anonymised judgment given today by Mrs Justice Eleanor King in London.
The case involves a Russian husband and wife who have lived in England since 2005 and have two children together.
They lived a "lavish lifestyle" and their family home in central London was bought for £3.825 million.
The couple married in 1991, but she divorced him in Russia in 2009 after 17 years of marriage.
They met in 1987 in the factory where they both worked. The husband was a telephone technician and the wife worked in the cultural department.
The woman sought orders at the High Court relating to a number of properties and also to a lump sum, which the judge said the ex-wife "will attempt to enforce in other jurisdictions".
Announcing her decision, the judge said: "The case has been a fantastic charade with the husband a shady puppet master in the background.
The woman's application at the High Court was for an order for "financial relief" under the Matrimonial and Family Proceedings Act 1984 following her divorce.
The judge said the QC representing the wife during the hearing earlier this year had put the assets in the case - "at least those assets his legal team have been able to trace in the absence of any proper disclosure by the husband" - at about £107 million.
Of that figure some £91.6 million is represented by 11 commercial properties in Russia, with the remainder of the "identified wealth" being held in eight English properties worth together about £14, 002,337.
The judge ruled: "The husband was the wealth creator, the wife the homemaker. Each contributed fully to the marriage.
"I am satisfied that all the family's wealth was created during the course of the marriage."
She said: "The starting point must be that the assets are shared equally. The husband has failed, whether in writing or by attending court, to make any submissions to the contrary.
"The wife does not seek an order in excess of 50% of the known assets to reflect the overwhelming likelihood that even yet the court does not know the full extent of the husband's wealth."
Mrs Justice King said her decision would give the wife £53,531,168 , but added that this was "before what I very much fear will be the very substantial costs of enforcement".
She referred to the "formidable challenges for the wife in enforcing the lump sum order".
The judge said: "In my judgment this is a case where, notwithstanding the formidable challenges for the wife in enforcing a lump sum order, it would be iniquitous if the husband was permitted, by virtue of his appalling litigation misconduct, to drive the court into an order which is substantially less than that which by virtue of the sharing principle, she would otherwise receive."
She was satisfied that the 49-year-old husband had at all times been completely in touch with the progress of the litigation "whilst playing no active part in it".
The judge said: "Whilst the husband has failed at every step of the way to provide any honest disclosure or to engage in the proceedings he has equally, at every step of the way, indulged in satellite litigation which has achieved nothing other than to be costly and distressing to the wife."
She said: "In the present case the wife has received no provision from a Russian court. It is accepted that the only provision that this wife, who has made her permanent home in this country, will receive is that made pursuant to an order of this court."
The judge also made orders for child maintenance at the rate of £20,000 a year per child "until each completes full-time tertiary education and make provision for school fees and university costs limited to first degree".
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(including mimes and jugglers), technicians and stage managers for its 1986 season.
The family entertainment park with a European theme is on a talent search, swinging through 16 Eastern and Midwestern cities, and on Monday park representatives will be in Chicago from noon to 6 p.m. at the Palmer House.


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Kurt Tondorf has been appointed as Production/Development Executive at Animal Planet, reporting to Charlie Foley.
Tondorf joins Animal Planet with more than 15 years of experience in television production and program development. Prior to his appointment with the network, Tondorf served as vice president of development for Optomen Productions. During his tenure there, Tondorf helped fuel the rapid growth of the company's New York branch by winning series commissions at Animal Planet, History, National Geographic Wild, Investigation Discovery and Travel Channel. Before his promotion to vice president of development, Tondorf served as a producer for Optomen and was nominated for an Emmy for Outstanding Science, Natural History and Technology Programming for his work on History's Evolve. Prior to joining Optomen, Tondorf was the sole US-based development producer for London's BAFTA-winning indie Windfall Films and helped developed its internationally acclaimed three-part series, My Brilliant Brain, for National Geographic Channel.
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"The Other Side Of The Report Card"-what a novel concept!
As I listened to Dr. Michele Borba's 1 :30 minute promo clip for an upcoming conference, I marveled at the thought of what I had longed to put into words all of these years.
After 22 years in education, we still miss the mark in places. Why? Because, in some places, our "lens" is off.
Recently, in our Gurian trainings, I have had teachers and administrators approach me after the training with tears in their eyes. They say that they need to apologize to their own children, and their former students, for not reading the cues that those children gave them. Not recognizing what that particular brain needed .... I always assure them that they did not "ruin" these children, but with their new knowledge, how empowered they have now become to read the subtle yet imminent cues those brains give them.
our district around. He worked hard to value and rename many of the positions in the district so that people would recognize their contributions to the organization at large, would value the return on investment they gave, and would be cognizant that teamwork did not have an "I" in it.
However, in his quest to please parents and to uphold the mission of the district, he rolled out " rigor, relevance, and relationships" as the "theme of the year". He proclaimed that everything we did that year was going to be part of the three R's.
I remember thinking, what he missed was the first"R" -relationships.
One of our Gurian certified trainers and licensed professional counselor by day, Travis Webb, said it so eloquently when we spoke the other day. "Attachment and attunement. We all need to be attached to something bigger than ourselves."
As we train across the country, the theme continues to ring true. "Pick me!"
"I am over here!" ..... " " I want to answer the question!" .... these are not defiant children, these are not deregulated children, these are kids looking for one ingredient that we as adults sometimes get wrong: A gain in relationship.
2017 Winter Institute Wrap Up
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Director Elia Kazan's stupendous 1947 real-life American crime film noir thriller tells the riveting, realistic true tale of a State's attorney (Dana Andrews) who sets out to discover the truth after he decides he does not believe the State's case when a vagrant (Arthur Kennedy) is too quickly arrested for an elderly priest's gun murder in Bridgeport, Connecticut.
The film is supremely acted, especially by Andrews as the upright State's Attorney Henry L Harvey who defends the accused vagrant John Waldron (Kennedy), Lee J Cobb as the cynical police chief Chief Harold F 'Robbie' Robinson and Sam Levene as an old-time reporter, Dave Woods of the Morning Record.
It is particularly skilfully directed by Kazan and photographed by Norbert Brodine in the then pioneering realist fashion in fresh, small-town locations, though it is actually not made in Bridgeport but the similar-looking Connecticut town of Stamford, whose citizens provide the extra roles. It worked out well after Kazan was refused permission to film in Bridgeport. The courtroom scene was shot in White Plains, New York.
Richard Murphy's exceptionally tense, taut and tight Oscar-nominated screenplay is based on Fulton Oursler's newspaper article The Perfect Case published in The Reader's Digest December 1945. Writer Oursler was credited as Anthony Abbot.
The movie is a success in itself, but it also proved a widely influential, key US film in helping to change the nature of American film-making by dragging cameras out of the studios and onto the streets.
It runs a brisk, fast-moving 88 minutes, packing lots into a brief running time, is shot in black and white, released by 20th Century Fox, produced by Darryl F Zanuck and Louis de Rochemont and scored by David Buttolph.
It stars Dana Andrews, Lee J. Cobb, Karl Malden, Arthur Kennedy, Jane Wyatt, Cara Williams and Sam Levene.
Also in the cast are Taylor Holmes, Robert Keith, Ed Begley, Philip Coolidge, Richard Garrick, Wyrley Birch, Lewis Leverett, Barry Kelley and Lester Lonnigan. The semi-documentary film also contains voice-overs by Reed Hadley.
Kazan made films concerned with personal or social issues but testified before the House Committee on Un-American Activities in 1952 at the time of the Hollywood blacklist, helping to end the careers of former acting colleagues Morris Carnovsky and Art Smith, and the work of playwright Clifford Odets. He directed A Streetcar Named Desire (1951), On the Waterfront (1954), and East of Eden (1955), won two Best Director Oscars, an Honorary Oscar, three Tony Awards and four Golden Globes.
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Tell It to Tim: Elections, Grooming & Fall
It's playoff time in the race for the White House. Fall weather is here, so we can quit whining about the heat. But the one thing we take seriously on Good Day... good grooming. It's all part of the mix on this week's Tell It to Tim.


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The Diet Doctor: When the pounds stop shifting
Almost anyone who's tried to lose weight knows how frustrating it can be when the weight loss slows and eventually reaches a plateau. Dr David Ashton of Healthier Weight on how to keep your weight loss going.
Why am I no longer losing weight?
There's a lot of misunderstanding as to why this happens, most of which stems from a confused idea of what the term metabolic rate means. So let's try and clear up the confusion. The term resting metabolic rate (RMR) simply refers to the number of calories a day you need to maintain your current body weight.
Various factors can influence RMR, including age and gender—but body weight is the most important. In short, the heavier you are, the more calories you need to maintain your weight.
Now we can understand the plateau effect. Suppose that at your present weight you have an RMR of 2,500 calories, and you then start a 1,000-calories-a-day diet. This means you save 1,500 calories each day—which is what we call the energy deficit.
A daily energy deficit of 1,500 calories is 10,500 a week and because a pound of fat equates to 3,500 calories, it leads to a weekly weight loss of three pounds. But of course, as you lose weight, there will be a corresponding reduction in your RMR. Assume that, as a result of your weight loss, your RMR has fallen to 1,500.
If you stay on the 1,000-calories diet, you now have an energy deficit of only 500 a day (or 3,500 per week) which equates to a weekly loss of a pound. Then, if you lose more weight and your RMR falls to 1,250, your energy deficit is just 250 calories, or half a pound of fat a week. The initial weight loss of three pounds per week has fallen to half a pound.
So, how do you get over it?
The trick is to increase physical activity as your weight comes down: the additional calorie expenditure will compensate for the narrowing of the energy deficit. It's the bit that most people forget, but it's crucial to getting rid of those last few stubborn pounds—and keeping them off.
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Uses the generalised ratio-of-uniforms (RU) method to simulate
from univariate and (low-dimensional) multivariate continuous distributions.
The user specifies the log-density, up to an additive constant. The RU
algorithm is applied after relocation of mode of the density to zero, and
the user can choose a tuning parameter r. For details see Wakefield, Gelfand
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rust: ratio-of-uniforms simulation with transformation
rust package implements the multivariate generalized ratio-of-uniforms method of simulating random variates from a d-dimensional continuous distribution. The user specifies (the log of) a positive target function
f that is proportional to the density function of the distribution.
we use the main function
ru is used to simulate a sample of size 1000 from a two-dimensional standard normal distribution with strong positive correlation between the components. Of course, this particular example is purely illustrative: there are better ways to simulate from a multivariate normal distribution.
rho <- 0.9covmat <- matrix(c(1, rho, rho, 1), 2, 2)log_dmvnorm <- function(x, mean = rep(0, d), sigma = diag(d)) { x <- matrix(x, ncol = length(x)) d <- ncol(x) - 0.5 * (x - mean) %*% solve(sigma) %*% t(x - mean)}x <- ru(logf = log_dmvnorm, sigma = covmat, d = 2, n = 1000, init = c(0, 0))
To get the current released version from CRAN:
vignette("rust-vignette", package = "rust") for an overview of the package.
plot.ru() can now be used when
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simulated values.
find_lamba(): argument
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Unnecessary print statement
print(dim(phi)) removed from function
Unnecessary print statement
print(a_algor) removed from function
lambda$init to
lambda$init_psi in
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Documentation of
ru() updated to include a description of the returned
logf_rho() and simulated values
sim_vals_rho and to clarify
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find_lambda(): carry out calculation of the target on a shifted log scale
to avoid underflow.
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����More than 15 years ago, Joan Drotor was working the counter at a Boiling Springs McDonalds when the owner of a local hearing aid company walked up.
Instead of ordering lunch, he asked Drotor about the Christmas scenes painted on the store's windows. Drotor had painted the holiday greetings herself, and suddenly, the teen-ager had a second job. ``I had just started painting for fun,'' she said. ``But people started wanting to hire me.'' Now, Drotor paints about 50 windows during the month before Christmas, mostly from a list of regulars. She decorates during mornings and late evenings, working it around her shifts at Hardee's. She can whip through a window in 15 minutes, although now that Drotor is in her 30s, she said age has slowed her down. While Drotor is glad to have the extra Christmas shopping money, she said painting windows puts her in the holiday mood as well. ``I think it helps other people to get into the Christmas spirit,'' Drotor said. ``That's one side effect.'' Thursday, she stood before the plate glass of the Spartanburg Children's Shelter cafeteria, a window she always volunteers to paint. Drotor penciled drawings of Santa, snowmen, candy canes and stockings on the glass, already hung with garland and red gilt balls. Her 11-year-old daughter, Christina, was helping her paint. When Christina was younger, Drotor used to bring her window painting to keep an eye on her during jobs. Christina would sit behind her mother, copying the designs she made on a pad of paper. ``She was practically as good as I was,'' Drotor said. Two years ago, Drotor began asking customers whether they minded Christina helping with the painting. Most said they didn't. ``She chooses to come with me now,'' Drotor said. ``I guess it's sort of a compliment.'' Christina said she'll probably continue painting windows as an adult. ``I started out just doing one stroke of paint,'' said Christina, touching Santa's cheeks with red. ``Now I do as much as she does.'' Drotor's technique for drumming up new business is simple. ``I just look for places with windows,'' she said. ``If the business has a window, I'd ask if they wanted a holiday decoration.'' The weeks following Thanksgiving are the busy time for Drotor. No one wants Christmas windows up before the turkey is in the refrigerator, but everyone seems to want their window painted for the Christmas parade or soon after. By now, Drotor said she's probably done all the business she'll do. Drotor, who occasionally paints in other mediums, considers herself to be an artist. She sees window painting as a blend of commercial art and folk art. ``Really, it's just a way for businesses to say thank you to the customers who've done business with them all year,'' Drotor said. Pride in her work doesn't keep Drotor secretive about the profession. She is willing to reveal the biggest trade secret of window painters. ``The paint comes right off with Windex,'' she said.
Mother, daughter spruce up storefronts
����More than 15 years ago, Joan Drotor was working the counter at a Boiling Springs McDonalds when the owner of a local hearing aid company walked up.


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Jewel Collars Street Style
Look of the Day: Collared Cool
Fab reader Paricoleini amped up the cool factor on a low-key outfit with the help of one super-embellished collar add-on. In addition to her leopard-print sweater and cuffed fitted jeans, she topped the exotic look with a bejeweled collar, which instantly injected a girlie feel into the mix. To finish, she wore structured black Alexander Wang slingback booties. When you're not looking to deck yourself out, this is the perfect amount of sparkle for everyday wear.
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Tron goes fast-forward into the past
Tron influenced a generation of designers. With its sequel, Disney had the chance to invent the future once again. Unfortunately, says director Johnny Hardstaff, Tron: Legacy looks and feels almost exactly like the original, but channeled through a three year-old Audi commercial
In 1982, amidst a politicised and combative period of bombs and impending apocalypse, Disney offered audiences an escape into a new internalised world in the form of the emotionally autistic film Tron (original trailer below). In so doing, Tron captured the cold hearts and predominately introspective male minds of embryonic designers everywhere, thereby predefining the visual language of technology and modernity for a generation.
Tron's impact on the visual code for all things 'digital' cannot be underestimated. Here was a global blockbusting film about technology that existed because technology had facilitated it. For perhaps the first time technology had blatantly made a film about itself, invoking an aesthetic in retrospect successfully determined as much by its own technological limitations as by the expert styling of the incredible hired talents in Moebius and Syd Mead. Tron light-cycled its way into design and the creative imaginations of millions, and in so doing forever co-opted the vector, the pixel and the grid, indelibly stamping its presence upon almost every visual manifestation of technology since.
Importantly, in a pre-internet age Tron originally captured for the first time the dream of living virtually and in so doing spawned motion graphics' own totemic aesthetic and sense of modernity (the term as naive and dated as the film itself). The film's legacy can be identified throughout the slew of dated 'modern' visions outputted during the 1990s and 2000s by a generation of early adopters, who had formatively been exposed to the film as children and who – in the creation of digital worlds – could now themselves wield pro-sumer variants of Tron's own custom designed animation software.
Given access to this previously inconceivably powerful software, what did Tron's pre-pubescent audience now seek to create as adult designers? Unsurprisingly they sought to recreate Tron. Within the creative output of the last 20 years, adulatory Tron references abound. The legacy, it seems, lives on.
So, when Disney returns to this film nearly 30 years later with its sequel, Tron: Legacy, one wonders just what impact the sequel will have on designers of the future? Technology and the world has changed enormously, so what has happened within Tron's parallel universe? How now does the future look?
Somewhat dispiritingly, Tron: Legacy looks and feels almost exactly like Tron, but channeled through a three year-old Audi commercial. The great crime here is that nearly 30 years later Disney has invoked almost exactly the same aesthetic. Whilst the sequel could never have ignored its predecessor's visual legacy, one would have expected Tron: Legacy to have radically reinvented it. Not so.
If modern technology has shown anything, it has shown that it can be warm, human and relevant. Instead we are presented with a charmless bombastic anachronism. Plot was never Tron's strength, but here we are treated to a suspect and clumsily fascist storyline that together with its visual styling, composition and soundtrack would surely solicit the approval of Leni Riefenstahl and Albert Speer. These fascist allusions are actively amplified by its score. Though marketed as one of Tron: Legacy's strengths, not for us the original film's inventive electronic Bach of Wendy Carlos. Instead imagine Triumph of the Will sound-tracked by an industrialised Wagnerian marching band.
Had this 'visual prog rock' been made over ten years ago at the birth of the then imminent 80s revival and conceived primarily as a vehicle for a Daft Punk then at the height of their powers, this would have been an infinitely more agreeable and significant experience. Instead Disney has missed the boat and through a blue-screened cinematic equivalent of 'dad dancing' cried out in 'digital oompah' to a generation too sniffy, too emotionally challenged and too busy wallowing amidst the emotional landfill of their own referential introspection to care about this film.
But it is particularly ironic, given this film's subject matter, that the greatest missed opportunity within this cinematic experience lies in the film's inability to harness modern technology. If there is one recent film that is best placed to harness 3D, then it is Tron: Legacy. A stylised virtual world within which anything can happen is simply screaming for deep, rich and immersive 3D. It should be a showcase, a pivotal moment for all that is genuinely fantastic about 3D. Indeed, here is a film begging to be interactive. Instead we are mostly fed shallow seemingly faux 3D and fail to transcend the digital baroque of surface and gimmickry.
Perhaps the fate of film in post-post-modern times is that it must steal back from its past (in this case not least The Matrix), but it strikes me that one of graphic design's most exciting frontiers is its intersection with production design in film. On paper Tron: Legacy was a truly wonderful opportunity for incredible and original art direction to improve upon and sustain a never- before-seen technological aesthetic. On paper Tron: Legacy was an open goal built solidly upon a foundation of great originality. The problem, I suspect, is that in design terms it never was 'on paper', at least not in a contemporary Moebius or Syd Mead's sketchbook. Where we craved the shock of the new we have instead found Tron's legacy to be at best 'conceptual mo-cap', and at worst a generational vacuum.
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Multi angle Random cubic planar graphs revisited
Auteurs : Rué, Juanjo (Auteur de la Conférence)
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Résumé : We analyze random labelled cubic planar graphs according to the uniform distribution. This model was analyzed first by Bodirsky et al. in a paper from 2007. Here we revisit and extend their work. The motivation for this revision is twofold. First, some proofs where incomplete with respect to the singularity analysis and we provide full proofs. Secondly, we obtain new results that considerably strengthen those known before. For instance, we show that the number of triangles in random cubic planar graphs is asymptotically normal with linear expectation and variance, while formerly it was only known that it is linear with high probability.Codes MSC :
This is based on a joint work with Marc Noy (UPC) and Clément Requilé (FU Berlin - BMS).
05A16 - Asymptotic enumeration
05C10 - Planar graphs; geometric and topological aspects of graph theory
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MOVIE SYNOPSIS [ General Audiences ] Film of Rebecca Field. The premiere took place in 2014, with a production coming from USA. You can watch Licking Lemons online on TV cable or theaters with original audio in English at different dates. This film premiered in theaters in 2014.
Rating: 5 by 10 users./
Runtime: 17 minutes
Jared Benjamin, Gigi Bermingham, Ryan Caldwell, Monica Herman, Marissa Ingrasci, Joseph Keane, Tammy Minoff and Michael Grant Terry.
Short film, Drama, Comedy.
17-minute film (full movie) directed by Rebecca Field.
The original audio of Licking Lemons has dialogues in Dolby Digital, it was produced in USA.
It premiered in cinemas or television in 2014.
Screenplay written by Marissa Ingrasci.
Dan Adlerstein.
Marissa Ingrasci and Nicole Ettinger.
Composed by Nestor Estrada.
Without commercial breaks, the full movie Licking Lemons has a duration of 17 minutes; the official trailer can be watched in streaming on the Internet. You can watch this full movie free in EnglishDolby Digital in movie TV channels, renting the DVD or with VoD services (Video On Demand player, Hulu) and PPV (Pay Per View, Netflix).
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It seems that too many of our elected officials these days have the darndest time obeying that tricky ninth commandment ... the one about not lying.
Many of us learned that one at a very impressionable age and depending on the severity of the parental discipline, it seemed to set us on a proper course in life. Back in the day, any lie was dealt with quickly; the punishment was swift and the lesson was learned within hours or in many cases, minutes.
The disgraced New York congressman, Rep. Anthony Weiner, is obviously hoping his constituents have short memories and that somehow all the embarrassing sexual twittering he engaged in blows over. Standing before many of the media members he had consistently been lying to over the previous nine days, he finally apologized to his online sexcapades on Monday.
Known for his arrogance and abrasive tongue, Weiner was betting that Monday's blanket apology would quell the political firestorm he had caused. Instead, his confession caused more embarrassment within the Democratic party and with any additional photos still floating around, the fallout may not clear anytime soon.
Even once-staunch allies like Sen. Harry Reid have backed away, saying that Weiner cannot be defended. Republicans are going much farther, saying he is not fit to hold his congressional seat.
Of course, all the public embarrassment is of his own doing. His blatant immorality and poor judgment in the sexting scandal, which involved six woman (so far) over the past three years, was bad enough. But follow that with 10 days of lying to everyone and you have all the reasons needed for Weiner's exit from the U.S. Congress. The confession came only after the evidence against the congressman proved indefensible; he was backed into a corner with no where to turn, and no one else to blame.
People caught in the first lie invariably find themselves digging a deeper hole with every subsequent denial. The sanitized word these days for lying to our face is "misstatement." Weiner's case is typical. He started with a complete denial, then tried to deflect blame to the media, then called it a joke. Finally, with all options exhausted, he told us Monday that he "panicked."
On Monday, Meagan Broussard, one of the six women Rep. Weiner confessed to having "inappropriate" online exchanges with, told one news network that Weiner wasn't a bad guy but like everybody else, he has "issues."
No kidding? Yesterday, even business magnate Donald Trump called him a "bad guy" and a "psycho."
If he remains in office, Weiner is betting his constituents in New York City can forgive and forget. One poll released yesterday even showed that 51 percent of the people in his district say he should remain in office.
That's remarkable, given the fact that Weiner lied for nine days before confessing. In any other job outside of congress, lying to a superior is reason for instant dismissal. After using the worst possible judgment an elected official could have, Weiner looked into our faces and lied for nine days. With that kind of credibility, on what authority can people judge his confession or base any future statements he makes as a congressman?
Perhaps, Weiner and his "issues" could be helped through a 12-step program. The first step, though, should be to step down from office and spare us from yet another Washington circus.
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At the beginning of 2002, Microsoft raised the cost of its certification tests from $100 to $125.
This 25 percent bump hasn't been well received by many IT professionals. More than three-quarters of those who took a recent poll at TechRepublic said a price increase was not justified (see Figure A).
Yet 12 percent say the cost of the increase is necessary to maintain the quality of Microsoft's testing program.
TechRepublic columnist Erik Eckel says that although the 25 percent increase is significant, "It's certainly not a deal killer, especially considering the value of an IT certification."
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Don't complain to the testing centers, Eckel wrote in his column "Watch out: Certification fees are on the rise." The testing centers offer the tests as a service to their training customers, and sources at a few of those centers said they aren't getting any part of Microsoft's fee increase.
Microsoft says it needs to increase the price
For Microsoft's part, a spokesman said that the price was due a look after years without being changed.
The $100 per test price has been the same since the Microsoft Certified Professional program's inception in 1992, the spokesman said.
"To establish exam prices worldwide, Microsoft evaluates a number of factors, including our costs to develop and deliver exams, competitors' pricing, changes in currency exchange rates, and inflation.
"The new exam prices ensure that Microsoft is able to continue offering consistent exam delivery services worldwide. We believe the price adjustments reflect the value of Microsoft certification and are competitive in the marketplace," he said.
Exam prices for CompTIA and Cisco tests have also increased.
While some argue that the value of Microsoft's tests isn't rising proportionally to the cost, not everyone feels this way.
"A person with experience and a certification is worth their weight in gold. Plus they show that they still have the drive to learn and expand their knowledge," wrote Dahart.
"I, personally, have over five years' experience and I find that I have a deeper understanding about a product that I cover as part of studying for a certification. It is certainly one way of keeping your skills up to date once you have experience."
Many aren't buying it
Microsoft finds some harsh critics of its test prices in the response to Eckel's column.
"Microsoft reminds me of the greedy little kid with candy. The more he gets, the more he wants," writes JimHM.
Would people understand and say nothing if gasoline, cable TV, or Internet service costs jumped 25 percent? "No, they would be screaming from the highest mountain," he writes.
Bwatt agrees with JimHM.
"Certification is a moneymaking machine for Microsoft; hence, they are constantly retiring certs and rolling new ones out," he writes. "I like the new philosophy of allowing the cert to stand once it has been retired, but feel that I won't be getting too many Microsoft certs myself."
Limiting the number of Microsoft certifications they will seek is just one response that was noted in the discussion.
People are getting jaded by Microsoft's certification philosophy, writes Solveit, who thinks people may start jumping to other certification programs.
"That may not sound important, but if a certified network manager moves to Linux or Novell certification, you may just see his or her network converted to Linux or Novell in a very short time," Solveit writes. "We don't just jump to another certification program; we jump to another operating system."
A similar thought comes from India, where Vkri writes that the cost of the increase makes going for advanced certifications difficult when added together.
Vkri compares the cost of Microsoft certifications to Cisco's CCNA and Sun Solaris Administrator certifications, both of which he says are less expensive.
"So this pricing will surely reduce the number of MCSEs from India, whereas CCNA and Sun Certification numbers will increase," Vkri writes. "I feel by this stand, Microsoft is promoting Sun Certification. Microsoft: Hope you will read this."
Is $25 too much to raise test costs?
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CENTER FOR IMMIGRATION STUDIES — Protesting against the deportation of Central Americans who have been ruled ineligible for political asylum after illegally crossing the Mexican border, several people blocked Tuesday morning rush-hour traffic on a major Chicago street near an ICE office.
Eleven of the protesters were arrested, according to the Univision evening newscast. In addition, the Spanish-language news service EFE reported that most of those arrested were "indocumentados".
"Enough of such injustice! We are fighting for all our Central American brothers," protester Estela Vera told the Univision reporter in Spanish. She had chained herself to a ladder that supported a sign that read: "DISMANTLE ICE. DEFUND THE POLICE!" According to today's Chicago Tribune, "protesters chanted 'F— the police' as they were led to a police van."
Standing off to the side was Maria Mejia, of an unidentified Central American country, who said she and her two children are now in a deportation proceeding. "The truth is we don't want to leave because we feel good in this country," she said.


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Miles Pomper is co-chair of the Fissile Materials Working Group (FMWG) and Senior Fellow in the Washington DC office of the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies. His work focuses on nuclear energy, nuclear nonproliferation, nuclear security, and nuclear arms control. Before joining CNS, he served as Editor-in-Chief of Arms Control Today from 2003-2009. Previously, he was the lead foreign policy reporter for CQ Weekly and Legi-Slate News Service, where he covered the full range of national security issues before Congress, and a Foreign Service Officer with the US Information Agency.


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Located on the Mornington Peninsula, in Rye, Melbourne's favourite holiday playground, this beautiful huge holiday home is just 1km to the front beach and foreshore walking / bike track.
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About Singapore
Singapore (; ; , ), officially the Republic of Singapore (; ; , ), is an island nation located at the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula. It lies 137 kilometers (85 miles) north of the Equator, south of the Malaysian state of Johor and north of Indonesia's Riau Islands. At 704.0 km² (272 square miles), it is considered one of the few city-states in the world.
The main island was a fishing village sparsely populated by indigenous Malays and Orang Lauts when it was colonized by the British East India Company in 1819. The British used the position as a tactical trading outpost along the spice route. Occupied by the Japanese Empire during World War II, it reverted to British rule in 1945 and was later part of the merger which established Malaysia in 1963. Two years later, it left the federation and became an independent republic on August 9 1965. The new republic was admitted to the United Nations on September 21 of the same year.
Since gaining independence, Singapore has seen its standard of living rise dramatically. Foreign investment and government-led island-wide industrialization have created a modern economy based on electronics and manufacturing, featuring entrepôt and financial trade centering around the country's strategic location. In terms of GDP per capita, Singapore is the 18th wealthiest country in the world. The geographically small nation has a foreign reserve of S$212 billion (US$139 billion).
The Constitution of the Republic of Singapore established the city-state's political system as a representative democracy while the country has official United Nations' recognition as a parliamentary republic. The People's Action Party has won control of Parliament in every election since self-government in 1959."
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A round that brings together London, Switzerland, Singapore, Korea, and Silicon Valley reinforces the global nature of the problem we are addressing, and the global potential of the group that solves it.In Zennstrom, Thiel and Others Invest $10 Million in Quid
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Went out to take some pictures of the total eclipse tonight. By time the moon was in full eclipse it was high in the sky. So taking a high quality closeup has its challenges. Also it's Sunday night and I really didn't feel like driving far out-of-town to get rid of some light pollution so I had that to contend with also. But it was a beautiful night and cool to watch with the naked eye.
Summer Canoe Trip to the Boundary Waters National Park
This summer I had the opportunity to go to the Boundary Waters on a week-long canoe trip. The first day we got up at 4:00am and made our way to entry point 16. This is a picture after we portaged our canoes from the truck to the entry point on the river. It was a nice clear cool morning perfect for canoeing. We canoed the first day to our base camp on Lac La Croix. We setup our camp on an island close to the Canadian border.
The small pile of rocks in the lake on the right side of the picture is the US/Canada border.
We hiked over to the top of "Warrior Hill" in Canada. It is the rocky hill in the above picture. This is a picture of the campsite we stayed at and our own private island taken from the top of Warrior Hill.
While we were hoping to see lot's of wildlife, especially bears, wolves, and other predators that could eat us we were not so lucky. We did see our fair share or squirrels, chipmunks, and Beavers.
Even though we had some rough weather. The scenery was incredible. It was so nice to be unplugged for an entire week and just enjoy nature.
Time-Lapse From Our Campground In The Boundary Water
During our second day at our campground on Lac La Croix in the Boundary Waters we had a massive storm system move in. The wind and rain lasted 36hrs causing us to take shelter for much of the storm. This is a time-lapse of just before the storm and just after the storm cleared out.
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By Paul Rudnick
Uptown Players
Directed by B.J. Cleveland
Scenic Design by Clare Floyd Devries
Lighting Design by Lisa Miller
Costume Design by Suzi Cranford
Wig and Makeup Design by Coy Covington
Sound Design by Virgil Justice
Properties Design by Jo Anne Hull
Stage Manager – Darius Anthony Robinson
Adam – Chad Peterson
Steve – Kevin Moore
Jane – Kelsey Ervi
Mable – Morgan Mabry Mason
Man 1 (Latecomer/Pharaoh/Trey) – Paul J. Williams
Man 2 (Father Joseph/Rhino/Brad/Kevin) – Bronze C. Hill
Woman 1 (Miriam/Babe/Ftatateeta/Rabbi Sharon) – Marisa Diotalevi
Woman 2 (Cheryl/Fluffy/Peggy) – Beth Albright
Reviewed Performance 12/8/2013
Reviewed by Chris Jackson, Associate Critic for John Garcia's THE COLUMN
"God created Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve." Popular fundamentalist statement.
"To say that some people are born homosexual is to say that God makes mistakes."
From the essay "God Doesn't Make Mistakes" by David J. Stewart
Yes, the play is about Adam and Steve . . . and Jane and Mable . . . and yes there is full frontal male nudity, if only briefly, and oh hell yes, it is hysterically funny! Uptown Players, thankfully never a theater group to avoid the provocative or controversial, and believing that good art should spark debate, opened Paul Rudnick's award-winning The Most Fabulous Story Ever Told amidst the swirls and flurries of rain, sleet and snow this last Thursday.
The stuff of Fox News conservative pundit nightmares, the show first opened December 1998 at the New York Theater Workshop. In a generally positive review, Ben Brantley of The New York Times called it a "seriously silly theology treatise of a play", saying that "line by line, Rudnick may be the funniest writer for the stage in the United States today."
The play has gone on to become popular all over the country despite controversy such as that experienced by theaters in Austin, South Hadley, Mass., and Oklahoma City among others, where, speaking at a pro-gun rally, Dan Fisher, a Republican representative and pastor of Yukon Trinity Baptist Church, called the play a "direct frontal attack" on Christians. Yes, I know, it reads like a Paul Rudnick set-up for a character.
Born and raised in Piscataway, New Jersey, Rudnick attended Yale College and also wrote the popular plays Jeffrey and I Hate Hamlet and screenplays for Addams Family Values and Sister Act among others. He was the winner of The Outer Critics Circle Award for his play Poor Little Lambs and The Obie Award and the John Gasner Playwrighting Award for Jeffrey. He has also written two novels.
Knowing that "… trying to explain the cosmos inevitably leads to comedy," Rudnick worked for three years on a script that posits a world beginning with Adam and Steve as well as Jane and Mable. He follows these couples through the Garden of Eden, The Flood, and Pharaoh's Egypt and ends the first act with the Nativity. In the second act, we see the couples in the present day, with no memory of their past, as they experience the typical tribulations and glories of personal relationships. In his introduction to the play, Rudnick said, "I wanted to offend or provoke everyone equally, to allow all points of view equal mockery and equal acceptance." He also said, "I wanted to, however comically, research the roots of faith: why do we need to believe? What terror or transcendence leads to either the invention or the discovery of a god?" Heavy questions indeed, and like most heavy questions, perhaps best answered through comedy.
And comedy is what Uptown Players provided in large doses for the Sunday matinee crowd that braved the slips and slides of the streets to get there. The actors, after having to cancel the Friday and Saturday shows, seemed eager and happy to get the show back on the boards and the audience was greatly appreciative and responsive, even if the temperature inside the Kalita wasn't much warmer than that outside! I pitied our two leading men on stage in their first act birthday suits instead of being bundled up like Ralph's younger brother in A Christmas Story as some of us in the audience were! Temperatures aside, we were treated to a warm, funny, perceptive, ultimately moving performance.
Director B. J. Cleveland assembles a fine cast that confidently takes the stage and makes the space their own. The script is not necessarily an easy one to direct. The first act is written broadly, very much like sketch comedy, with various scenes of Old Testament events, even though it ends with the New Testament Nativity. The second act is more traditional in its approach and plays more like a sitcom, albeit a very clever one. To make the two halves work together is not a minor task and Cleveland has handled the problem smoothly, making each act distinct and cohesive in the final effect. His handling of the comedy is masterful, and the more poignant moments work well too.
Clare Floyd Devries is given the task of creating the world in the first few moments of the show, and starting with a bare stage, except for a stage manager's desk down stage right, elements are slowly added as called for and a new world is created bit by clever bit. Helping immensely in those first few moments are lighting by Lisa Miller and sound by Virgil Justice. Together, they take us to each location in the story. Light and sound cues are called by the Stage Manager (God?) and everything falls neatly into place. I also really like the avoidance of the clichéd rainbow for something more subtle. The second act is the interior of Adam and Steve's modern-day loft in Manhattan. In a clever move, Ms. Devries uses the campfire as part of the fireplace, the bar from the arc as the bar, the same lamp, etc. as we've seen in Act One and yet somehow it doesn't quite come together to create a believable modern-day loft. Or if it does, it's one of somewhat questionable taste, even taking into account the over-decorating Adam has done for Christmas. Music and lighting remain well thought out, especially the choice of musical numbers played throughout the performance.
Costumes (or lack thereof!) by Suzi Cranford and wig and makeup design by Coy Covington go a long way to identify and personify each character and help amplify without overpowering, even in the Egyptian segment which must have been a fun moment to create not to mention the terrific animal costumes. Jo Anne Hull and/or the scenic designer have come up with some clever "early Bible" props for the first act that also works when incorporated into the second.
In the role of Adam, Chad Peterson uses his considerable talent, experience and onstage charm to create a character we immediately like and identify with. We care about him and his actions and want only the best for him and that's quite a tribute to Mr. Peterson. He's clever without being cute and the more sensitive moments come off as entirely real. We feel in capable hands with him on stage guiding the action beat by beat.
Steve is played by Kevin Moore, and like Mr. Peterson he commands the stage with confidence and presence. If at times he seems a little self-aware, it's not distracting and he too gains our sympathy and makes us feel welcome into the world he is helping to create. Mr. Moore's bio mentions that the two men are best friends and the chemistry between them shows their comfort with and genuine affection for each other. The more tender moments toward the end of the play are touching and sincere and I appreciate Mr. Moore's handling the reality of AIDS when it rears its ugly head … only to be then defeated by the beauty of cashmere! Well done.
As the Stage Manager, Darius Anthony Robinson is never less than wildly entertaining and totally in control of his every move as he oversees the creation of the world and guides the action on its merry way.
Jane and Mabel are played by Kelsey Ervi and Morgan Mabry Mason respectively and both are terrific in their roles. Ms. Ervi, in the "butch" role of Jane, manages to avoid being a cliché by showing as much of the character's vulnerability as she does the stereotypical toughness. Her child-birthing scene has to be seen to be believed! Ms. Mason as Mable is especially talented and likeable and totally adept at playing naïve and over-enthusiastic in a believable manner that doesn't make us want to slap her after two minutes! Her genuine interest in the world around her is so real and so intense that we believe every second of it. The chemistry between these two actresses also works to the advantage of the show.
Paul J. Williams commands the stage with his first entrance and continues to create hysterically believable characters throughout, from the Latecomer at the beginning through being a bunny, a pharaoh and Trey, a totally disillusioned Santa impersonator. Comic timing and experience like his is always an asset. Right up there with him, comic bit for comic bit and creating indelible characters, is the always amazing Marisa Diotalevi. If there's a comic trick grounded in reality Ms. Diotalevi hasn't mastered, I don't know what it is. Her Rabbi Sharon is a character you won't soon forget, even if her wig kept hiding her face from certain angles. Wig aside, her explanation of a wedding ceremony with or without God is a jewel.
Beth Albright & Bronze C. Hill round out the talented cast and like the others create fully rounded, fun to watch, reality-based characters. Ms. Albright is cute and perky as Cheryl, a Utah Mormon, caught up in the Christmas party madness of Act Two. If it starts out much like Mable's first appearance, it soon settles into its own groove and works fine. Bronze C. Hill is convincing as a priest and the leather bar rhino on the arc, not an easy switch to make! He's also funny and competent as the go-go dancer wearing a Christmas bow in a strategic spot in the second act.
Each actor has a moment to shine and they take it. The entire cast also works hard and fearlessly to keep the pace fast and the comedy based in truth, flinging Rudnick's zingers with ease and sureness and not afraid to tackle the bigger questions the play raises: Is there a God? If so, what form does he, she or it take for you? Can you face a world without an ultimate creator of some sort, something to pray or turn to and believe in? What sustains you? The play is a "quest" story of Adam's uneasiness with happiness and yearning for answers, something many of us can identify with. Rudnick of course never lets the profound get too ponderous before he throws in another smart quip to "help the medicine go down." In all, the show entertains while provoking thought, always what I like best about good theater.
Stephen Sondheim, in speaking of song writing, said that a song "like a play, should have a beginning, a middle, and an end. It should have an idea, state the idea, and then build the idea and develop it, and finish. And in the end you should be in a place different from where you began." I think this play and this production do that. It's a circuitous route, no doubt about it, but we are taken on a journey, and hopefully what is discovered is something different from where we began. Love and family, and maybe some divine power, can be the Eden we've been seeking.
Rudnick asks, '…why would anyone want to believe in a god without a sense of humor?, and Ben Brantley ended his review this way: "In laughter, there is something like the memory of Eden." Amen, brother, amen.
Uptown Players
Kalita Humphreys Theater, 3636 Turtle Creek, Dallas, TX 75219
Runs through December 15th
Thursday – Saturday at 8:00pm, Sunday at 2:00pm. Additional performances added Saturday, Dec. 14th at 3:00 pm and Sunday, Dec. 15th at 6:00 pm.
Tickets are $25.00 - $35.00 and can be purchased online at www.uptownplayers.org or by calling 214 219-2718.


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The researchers conducted a study where they gave seventeen children with two nasal sprays. The first one contained oxytocin while the other one had no drug in it at all.
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