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- May 1
The 1994 San Marino Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held on May 1, 1994 at the Autodromo Enzo e Dino Ferrari in Imola, Italy. It was the third race of the 1994 Formula One season, and the first race of the season to be held in Europe. The race weekend was marred by the deaths of Austrian Roland Ratzenberger and three-time world champion Ayrton Senna as well as numerous other accidents and injuries, and was described by BBC Television commentator Murray Walker as "the blackest day for Grand Prix racing that I can remember". The race was eventually won by Michael Schumacher. In the press conference following the race, Schumacher said that he "couldn't feel satisfied, couldn't feel happy" with his win following the events that had occurred during the race weekend. (more...)
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- May 2
The Scottish Parliament Building is the home of the Scottish Parliament at Holyrood, within the UNESCO World Heritage Site in Edinburgh. Construction on the building commenced in June 1999 and the Members of the Scottish Parliament held their first debate in the new building on Tuesday, 7 September 2004. The formal opening by Queen Elizabeth II took place on 9 October 2004. Enric Miralles, the Catalan architect who designed the building, died during the course of its construction. From the outset, the building and its construction have proven to be highly controversial. The choices of location, architect, design and construction company were all criticised by politicians, the media and the Scottish public. Scheduled to open in 2001, it did so in 2004, more than three years late with an estimated final cost of £414m, substantially higher than initial costings of between £10m and £40m. A major public inquiry into the handling of the construction, chaired by the former Lord Advocate, Peter Fraser, was established in 2003. The inquiry concluded in September 2004 and criticised the management of the whole project from the realisation of cost increases down to the way in which major design changes were implemented. Despite these criticisms and a mixed public reaction, the building was welcomed by architectural academics and critics. (more...)
Recently featured: 1994 San Marino Grand Prix – Military brat – Arctic Tern
- May 3
William Monahan is an American novelist and screenwriter. Monahan went to work in Hollywood in 1998, when Warner Bros. bought the film rights to Light House: A Trifle, which had not yet been published, and contracted him to adapt it to the screen for director Gore Verbinski. In 2001, 20th Century Fox bought Monahan's spec script about the Barbary Wars called Tripoli, with Ridley Scott, who was to become Monahan's primary collaborator, attached to direct. Monahan, immediately successful as a screenwriter, has since worked with Martin Scorsese and Steven Spielberg, among other filmmakers. His first produced screenplay, Kingdom of Heaven was made into a film by Ridley Scott and released in theaters in 2005. His second produced screenplay was The Departed, a film which earned him a WGA award and an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. Monahan prefers that screenplays be written by one writer rather than a collaboration of multiple screenwriters writing competing drafts. Thus far he has followed his scripts through production, and is one of very few sole credit writers in the film business. (more...)
Recently featured: Scottish Parliament Building – 1994 San Marino Grand Prix – Military brat
- May 4
Gilwell Park is a campsite and activity centre for Scouting groups, as well as a training and conference centre for Scout Leaders. The 44 hectare (109 acre) site is located in Sewardstonebury, Epping Forest close to Chingford, London. In the late Middle Ages, it started as a farm, growing to a wealthy estate that fell into disrepair towards 1900. It was given in 1919 by Scout Commissioner William De Bois Maclaren to The Scout Association of the United Kingdom to provide camping facilities to London Scouts, and training facilities for Scouters. As Scout Leaders from all countries of the world have come to Gilwell Park for their Wood Badge training, it is one of the great landmarks of the world Scouting movement. The site contains campfields for a small patrol up to a 1200 people camp, indoor accommodations, historical sites, monuments of Scouting, and activities suitable for all sections of the Scouting Movement. It can accommodate events for up to 10,000 people. Accommodation of Gilwell Park can also be hired for non-Scout activities such as school group camping, wedding receptions and conferences. (more...)
Recently featured: William Monahan – Scottish Parliament Building – 1994 San Marino Grand Prix
- May 5
The history of Tamil Nadu and the civilisation of the Tamil people are among the oldest in the world. Throughout its history, spanning from the early Palaeolithic age to the modern time, this region has coexisted with various external cultures. Except for relatively short periods in its history, the Tamil region has remained independent of external occupation. The three Tamil dynasties of Chera, Chola and Pandya were of ancient origins. With the decline of the three ancient dynasties during the fourteenth century, the Tamil country became part of the Vijayanagara Empire. Under this empire the Telugu speaking Nayak governors ruled the Tamil land. The brief appearance of the Marathas gave way to the European trading companies, who began to appear during the seventeenth century and eventually assumed greater sway over the indigenous rulers of the land. The Madras Presidency comprising of most of southern India was created in the eighteenth century and was ruled directly by the British East India Company. After the independence of India, the Tamil Nadu state was created based on linguistic boundaries. (more...)
Recently featured: Gilwell Park – William Monahan – Scottish Parliament Building
- May 6
Elliott Smith was an American singer-songwriter and musician. His primary instrument was the guitar, but he was also proficient at piano, clarinet, bass, harmonica and drums. Smith had a distinctive vocal style characterized by his "whispery, spiderweb-thin delivery", and use of multi-tracking to create vocal harmonies. Although born in Omaha, Nebraska and raised primarily in Texas, Smith spent the majority of his life in Portland, Oregon. After playing in the rock band Heatmiser for several years, Smith began his solo career in 1994 with releases on the independent record labels Cavity Search and Kill Rock Stars. He eventually signed a major label contract with DreamWorks Records in 1997, for which he recorded two albums. Smith rose to mainstream prominence when his song "Miss Misery", written for the film Good Will Hunting, was nominated for an Oscar in the Best Original Song category in 1998. Smith battled with depression, alcohol and drug addiction for years, and these topics would often appear in his lyrics. In 2003, at age 34, he died from two apparently self-inflicted stab wounds to the chest; the autopsy evidence was, however, inconclusive. (more...)
Recently featured: History of Tamil Nadu – Gilwell Park – William Monahan
- May 7
The Rhodes blood libel was an instance of the blood libel against Jews in which the Jews of the island of Rhodes were accused of the ritual murder of a Christian boy in February 1840. The libel originated in the Greek Orthodox community and enjoyed active support from the consuls of several European countries, including the United Kingdom, France, the Austrian Empire, Sweden, and Greece. Most importantly, the Ottoman governor of Rhodes broke with the long tradition of the Ottoman governments (which had previously shielded the Jews from blood libel accusations) and supported the ritual murder charge. Several Jews were arrested. Some of them made false confessions under torture. The entire Jewish quarter was blockaded for twelve days. The Jews of Rhodes appealed for help to the Jewish community in Constantinople, who forwarded the materials on the Rhodes affair to Europe. In the United Kingdom and Austria, Jewish communities were able to win support from their governments, and dispatches sent to the ambassadors in Constantinople unequivocally condemned the blood libel; thus, a consensus favorable to the Jews formed within the European diplomatic community. In addition, the governor of Rhodes proved unable to force the case to any formal conclusion and turned for instructions to the central government, which initiated a formal inquiry into the affair. In July 1840, that investigation established the innocence of the Jews. Finally, in November of the same year, the Ottoman sultan issued a decree (firman) denouncing the blood libel. (more...)
Recently featured: Elliott Smith – History of Tamil Nadu – Gilwell Park
- May 8
Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun and is known as the Red Planet due to its reddish appearance as seen from Earth. The planet is named after Mars, the Roman god of war. A terrestrial planet, Mars has a thin atmosphere and surface features reminiscent both of the impact craters of the Moon and the volcanoes, valleys, deserts and polar ice caps of Earth. It has the highest mountain in the solar system, Olympus Mons, and the largest canyon, Valles Marineris. Mars' rotational period and seasonal cycles are also similar to those of the Earth. Of all the planets in our solar system other than Earth, Mars is the most likely to harbor liquid water, and perhaps life. Mars is currently host to three functional orbiting spacecraft: Mars Odyssey, Mars Express, and Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. This is more than any planet except Earth. The surface is also home to the two Mars Exploration Rovers (Spirit and Opportunity). Geological evidence gathered by these and preceding missions suggests that Mars previously had large-scale water coverage, while observations also indicate that small geyser-like water flows have occurred in recent years. Mars has two moons, Phobos and Deimos, which are small and irregularly shaped. (more...)
Recently featured: Rhodes blood libel – Elliott Smith – History of Tamil Nadu
- May 9
Hovhannes Bagramyan was a Soviet Armenian military commander and Marshal of the Soviet Union. During World War II, Bagramyan became the first non-Slavic military officer to become a commander of a Front. Bagramyan's previous experience in military planning as a chief of staff officer allowed him to distinguish himself as a capable commander during the war in the early stages of the Soviet counter-offensives against Nazi Germany. He was given his first command of a unit in 1942 and in November 1943, received his most prestigious command as the head of the First Baltic Front. As head of the Baltic Front, he participated in the offensives which moved westwards to push German forces out of the occupied Soviet Union and the recapturing of the Baltic republics. After the war, he served as a deputy member of the Supreme Soviets of the Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic and Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic and was a regular attendant of the Party Congresses. In 1952, he became a candidate for entry into the Central Committee and, in 1961, was inducted as a full member. For his contributions during the war, he was widely regarded as a national hero in the Soviet Union, and continues to hold such esteemed status among many Armenians today. (more...)
Recently featured: Mars – Rhodes blood libel – Elliott Smith
- May 10
Campbell's Soup Cans is the title of a work of art produced in 1962 by Andy Warhol (pictured). It consists of thirty-two canvases, each measuring 20 inches in height × 16 inches in width (50.8 × 40.6 cm) and each consisting of a painting of a Campbell's Soup can—one of each of the canned soup varieties the company offered at the time. The individual paintings were produced with a semi-mechanised silkscreen process, using a non-painterly style. Campbell's Soup Cans' reliance on themes from popular culture helped to usher in pop art as a major art movement. For Warhol, a commercial illustrator who became a successful author, painter and film director, the work was his first one-man gallery exhibition as a fine artist. This exhibition marked the West Coast debut of pop art. The combination of the semi-mechanized process, the non-painterly style, and the commercial subject initially caused offense, as the work's blatantly mundane commercialism represented a direct affront to the technique and philosophy of abstract expressionism. The public commotion helped transition Warhol from being an accomplished 1950s commercial illustrator to a notable fine artist, and it helped distinguish him from other rising pop artists. (more...)
Recently featured: Hovhannes Bagramyan – Mars – Rhodes blood libel
- May 11
Minnesota is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States. It is the 12th largest state in the U.S., and the 21st most populous, with just over five million residents as of 2006. Minnesota was carved out of the eastern half of the Minnesota Territory and admitted to the Union as the 32nd state on May 11, 1858. While the state's residents are primarily white and Northern European, substantial influxes of African, Asian, and Hispanic immigrants have joined the descendants of European immigrants and of the original Native American inhabitants. Nearly 60% of Minnesota's residents live in the Minneapolis-St. Paul metropolitan area known as the Twin Cities, the center of transportation, business, and industry, and home to an internationally known arts community. The remainder of the state, often referred to as Greater Minnesota, consists of western prairies now given over to intensive agriculture; eastern deciduous forests, also heavily farmed and settled; and the less-populated northern boreal forest. The state, known as the "Land of 10,000 Lakes," is known for its moderate-to-progressive politics and social policies, its civic involvement, and high voter turnout. (more...)
Recently featured: Campbell's Soup Cans – Hovhannes Bagramyan – Mars
- May 12
The Eurovision Song Contest is an annual competition held among active member countries of the European Broadcasting Union, in which participating countries each submit a song to be performed on live television; then proceed to cast votes for the other countries' songs, in order to find the most popular song in the competition. Each country participates via one of their national EBU-member television stations, whose task it is to select a singer and a song to go forward to represent the country in the international competition. The Contest has been broadcast every year since its inauguration in 1956, and is one of the longest-running television programmes in the world. It is also one of the most-watched non-sporting events in the world, with audience figures having been quoted in recent years as anything between 100 million and 600 million internationally. The Contest is historically known for being mainly a bastion of formulaic, orchestrated pop music. However it has featured a vast, diverse array of songs, including such musical genres as Arab, Balkan, Celtic music, Dance, Folk, Israeli, Greek, Latin, Metal, Nordic, Pop-rap, Rock, and Turkish. (more...)
Recently featured: Minnesota – Campbell's Soup Cans – Hovhannes Bagramyan
- May 13
The Baby Gender Mentor test is a blood test designed to determine if a pregnant mother is carrying a boy or a girl. The test is made by Acu-Gen Biolab, Inc., an American biotech company in Lowell, Massachusetts, and is marketed to detect the sex of a fetus as early as five weeks after conception. According to Acu-Gen, the test looks for markers on the Y chromosome and the accuracy of the test exceeds that of conventional methods, such as ultrasonography, amniocentesis, or chorionic villus sampling techniques, and that the test offers "unsurpassed accuracy, unrivaled earliness, and uncompromised promptness". The company has so far chosen not to release details of how the test works or proof of its accuracy, as they consider this information proprietary. Since the test made a prominent media debut on 17 June 2005 on the Today Show, it has been the center of several controversies. Customers and scientists question the accuracy of the test; and legal action is being pursued against Acu-Gen as well as a major supplier of the test kit. Concerns have also been raised by bioethicists that use of the test could lead to practices such as sex selection and Acu-Gen has allegedly used the test to illegally offer medical diagnoses. (more...)
Recently featured: Eurovision Song Contest – Minnesota – Campbell's Soup Cans
- May 14
The cell nucleus is a membrane-enclosed organelle found in most eukaryotic cells. It contains most of the cell's genetic material, organized as multiple long linear DNA molecules in complex with a large variety of proteins such as histones to form chromosomes. The genes within these chromosomes make up the cell's nuclear genome. The function of the nucleus is to maintain the integrity of these genes and to control the activities of the cell by regulating gene expression. The main structural elements of the nucleus are the nuclear envelope, a double membrane that encloses the entire organelle and keeps its contents separated from the cytoplasm, and the nuclear lamina, a meshwork within the nucleus that adds mechanical support much like the cytoskeleton supports the cell as a whole. The nuclear membrane is impermeable to most molecules, and movement of molecules across the envelope is restricted to nuclear pores. Although the interior of the nucleus does not contain any membrane-delineated bodies, its contents are not uniform, and a number of subnuclear bodies exist, made up of unique proteins, RNA molecules, and DNA conglomerates. The best known of these is the nucleolus, which is mainly involved in assembly of ribosomes for translation in the cytoplasm. The nucleus was the first organelle to be discovered, and was first described by Franz Bauer in 1802. It was later described in more detail by Robert Brown in 1831. (more...)
Recently featured: Baby Gender Mentor – Eurovision Song Contest – Minnesota
- May 15
Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of China, Korea, and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea in the south. Japan's capital and largest city is Tokyo. Japan comprises over three thousand islands, the largest of which are Honshū, Hokkaidō, Kyūshū and Shikoku. Most of the islands are mountainous, many volcanic; for example, Japan's highest peak, Mount Fuji, is a volcano. Japan has the world's tenth largest population, with about 128 million people. Influence from the outside world followed by long periods of isolation has characterized Japan's history. Thus, its culture today is a mixture of outside influences and internal developments. Since adopting its constitution in 1947, Japan has maintained a unitary constitutional monarchy with an emperor and an elected parliament, the Diet. A great power, Japan is the world's second largest economy by nominal GDP and is a member of the United Nations, G8 and APEC. (more...)
Recently featured: Cell nucleus – Baby Gender Mentor – Eurovision Song Contest
- May 16
Gilberto Silva is a Brazilian football player. He has played most of his club football for the English club, Arsenal, as a defensive midfielder. Gilberto was raised in a poor family, and as a child he balanced playing football with various labouring jobs. He began his football career in 1997 with América Mineiro, where good form earned him a move to Atlético Mineiro in 2000. He became a star player for Atlético, playing for three years in the Brazilian Campeonato Brasileiro Série A. He came to particular prominence when he helped the Brazilian national team win the 2002 FIFA World Cup, playing in all seven of Brazil's matches. In August of 2002 he joined Arsenal for £4.5 million, with whom he has won the 2004 FA Premier League, and two FA Cup trophies. In his first five seasons with the club he played 208 games and scored 23 goals. On 19 August 2006 he scored Arsenal's first ever competitive goal at the newly built Emirates Stadium. He was made vice-captain of Arsenal in 2006 and is contracted to the club until June 2009, after which he is expected to move back to Brazil. (more...)
Recently featured: Japan – Cell nucleus – Baby Gender Mentor
- May 17
35 mm film is the basic film gauge most commonly used for both still photography and motion pictures, and remains relatively unchanged since its introduction in 1892 by William Dickson and Thomas Edison, using film stock supplied by George Eastman. The photographic film is cut into strips 1 3/8 inches or 35 mm wide — hence the name. The standard negative pulldown is four perforations per frame along both edges, which makes for exactly 16 frames per foot. A wide variety of largely proprietary gauges were used by the numerous different camera and projection systems independently invented around the late 19th century and early 20th century, ranging from 13 mm to 75 mm. 35 mm was eventually recognized as the international standard gauge in 1909, and has by far remained the dominant film gauge for both image origination and projection. Despite threats both from smaller and larger gauges, and novel formats, its longevity is largely because its size allows for a relatively good tradeoff between the cost of the film stock and the quality of the images captured. Since the beginning of the 21st century, the manufacturing of 35 mm motion picture film has been a duopoly between Eastman Kodak and Fujifilm. (more...)
Recently featured: Gilberto Silva – Japan – Cell nucleus
- May 18
Ohio Wesleyan University is a private liberal arts college in Delaware, Ohio. It was founded in 1842 by Methodist leaders and Central Ohio residents as a non-sectarian institution, and is a member of the Ohio Five — a consortium of Ohio liberal arts colleges. Wesleyan has always admitted students irrespective of religion or race and maintained that the university "is forever to be conducted on the most liberal principles." In this capacity, Wesleyan has espoused internationalism and community activism. The 200-acre site is 20 miles (45 km) north of Columbus, Ohio. It includes the main academic and residential campus, the Perkins Observatory, and the Kraus Wilderness Preserve. In 2005, Wesleyan had the ninth highest percentage of international students among liberal arts colleges for the twelfth straight year. U.S. News & World Report ranked Wesleyan 95th among U.S. liberal arts colleges in its 2007 edition. Notable alumni include former U.S. Vice President Charles W. Fairbanks and Nobel Laureate Frank Sherwood Rowland. (more...)
Recently featured: 35 mm film – Gilberto Silva – Japan
- May 19
The Parliament Acts are two Acts of Parliament of the United Kingdom, passed in 1911 and 1949. They form part of the Constitution of the United Kingdom. The first Parliament Act, the Parliament Act 1911, asserted the supremacy of the House of Commons by limiting the legislation blocking powers of the House of Lords—the suspensory veto. Providing the provisions of the Act are met, legislation can be passed without the approval of the House of Lords. Additionally, the 1911 Act amended the Septennial Act to reduce the maximum permitted time between general elections from seven years to five years. The first Parliament Act was amended by the second Parliament Act, the Parliament Act 1949, which further limited the power of the Lords by reducing the time that they could delay bills, from two years to one. The Parliament Acts have been used to pass legislation against the wishes of the House of Lords on only seven occasions since 1911, including the passing of the Parliament Act 1949. Doubts which had existed in academic circles concerning the validity of the 1949 Act were refuted in 2005 when members of the Countryside Alliance unsuccessfully challenged the validity of the Hunting Act 2004 which had been passed under the auspices of the Act. (more...)
Recently featured: Ohio Wesleyan University – 35 mm film – Gilberto Silva
- May 20
Uncle Tom's Cabin is American author Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel about the evils of slavery. Published in 1852, the novel had a profound effect on the world's view of African-Americans and slavery, so much so in the latter case that people have said the book laid the groundwork for the American Civil War. The novel focuses on the character of Uncle Tom, a long-suffering Black slave around whose life the stories of other characters—both fellow slaves and slave owners—revolve. The sentimental novel depicts the harsh reality of slavery while also asserting that Christian love and faith can overcome something as evil as enslavement of fellow human beings. Uncle Tom's Cabin was the best-selling novel of the 19th century and the second best-selling book of the 19th century, following the Bible. The book's impact was so great that when Abraham Lincoln met Stowe at the start of the American Civil War, Lincoln is often quoted as having declared, "So this is the little lady who made this big war." The book also helped create a number of common stereotypes about Blacks, many of which endure to this day. These include the affectionate, dark-skinned mammy; the Pickaninny stereotype of black children; and the Uncle Tom, or dutiful, long-suffering servant faithful to his white master or mistress. In recent years, the negative associations with Uncle Tom's Cabin have to a large degree overshadowed the historical impact of the book as a "vital antislavery tool." (more...)
Recently featured: Parliament Acts – Ohio Wesleyan University – 35 mm film
- May 21
Mayan languages are a language family spoken in Mesoamerica and northern Central America. Mayan languages are spoken by at least 6 million indigenous Maya, primarily in Guatemala, Mexico, and Belize. The Mayan language family is one of the best documented and most studied in the Americas. Modern Mayan languages descend from Proto-Mayan, a language thought to have been spoken at least 5000 years ago; it has been partially reconstructed using the comparative method. Mayan languages form part of the Mesoamerican Linguistic Area, an area of linguistic convergence developed throughout millennia of interaction between the peoples of Mesoamerica. All Mayan languages display the basic diagnostic traits of this linguistic area. During the pre-Columbian era of Mesoamerican history, some Mayan languages were written in the Maya hieroglyphic script. Its use was particularly widespread during the Classic period of Maya civilization. The surviving corpus of over 10,000 known individual Maya inscriptions on buildings, monuments, pottery and bark-paper codices, combined with the rich postcolonial literature in Mayan languages written in the Latin alphabet, provides a basis for the modern understanding of pre-Columbian history unparalleled in the Americas. (more...)
Recently featured: Uncle Tom's Cabin – Parliament Acts – Ohio Wesleyan University
- May 22
Ellis Paul is an American singer-songwriter and folk musician. Paul is a chief architect of what has become known as the Boston school of songwriting, a literate, provocative and urbanely romantic folk-pop style that helped ignite the folk revival of the 1990s. While remaining among the most pop-friendly of today's singer-songwriters with songs that have appeared in movies and on television, Paul has bridged the gulf between the modern folk sound and the populist traditions of Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger more successfully than many of his songwriting peers. To date, Paul has released more than ten albums and has been the recipient of 13 Boston Music Awards, considered by some to be a pinnacle of contemporary acoustic music success. He has published a book of original lyrics, poems, and drawings and released a DVD that includes a live performance, guitar instruction, and a road-trip documentary. As a touring musician, Paul plays close to 200 dates each year and his extensive club and coffeehouse touring, together with radio airplay, has brought him a solid national following. (more...)
Recently featured: Mayan languages – Uncle Tom's Cabin – Parliament Acts
- May 23
Jerusalem is Israel's capital, seat of government, and largest city, both in terms of population and area, with 732,100 residents in an area of 126 sq. km (49 sq. mi.). Located in the Judean Mountains between the Mediterranean Sea and the Dead Sea, the city has a history that goes back as far as the 4th millennium BCE. The walled area of Jerusalem, which constituted the entire city until the 1860s, is now called the Old City, and was added to the list of UNESCO World Heritage Sites in 1982. The Old City is home to several sites of key religious importance: the Temple Mount and its Western Wall for Jews, the Church of the Holy Sepulchre for Christians, and the Dome of the Rock and al-Aqsa Mosque for Muslims. Modern Jerusalem has grown up around the Old City, with its civic and cultural hub extending westward toward the country's urban center in Gush Dan. Today, Jerusalem remains a bone of contention in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict: Israel's annexation of East Jerusalem (captured in the 1967 Six-Day War) has been particularly controversial, as there are Palestinians who view this part of the city as the capital of a future Palestinian state. Thus, the status of a united Jerusalem as Israel's "eternal capital" has not been recognized by the United Nations and much of the international community. (more...)
Recently featured: Ellis Paul – Mayan languages – Uncle Tom's Cabin
- May 24
A tornado is a violently rotating column of air which is in contact with both a cumulonimbus cloud base and the surface of the earth. Tornadoes can come in many sizes, but are typically in the form of a visible condensation funnel, with the narrow end touching the earth. Often, a cloud of debris encircles the lower portion of the funnel. Most tornadoes have winds of 110 mph (175 km/h) or less, are approximately 250 feet (75 meters) across, and travel a few miles (several kilometers) before dissipating. However, some tornadoes can have winds of more than 300 mph (480 km/h), be more than a mile (1.6 km) across, and stay on the ground for dozens of miles (more than 100 kilometers). Tornadoes have been observed on every continent except Antarctica; however, most of the world's tornadoes occur in the United States. Other areas which commonly experience tornadoes include New Zealand, western and southeastern Australia, south-central Canada, northwestern and central Europe, Italy, south-central and eastern Asia, east-central South America, and Southern Africa. (more...)
Recently featured: Jerusalem – Ellis Paul – Mayan languages
- May 25
Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope is a 1977 science fantasy film written and directed by George Lucas. It is the first of six films released in the Star Wars saga; three later films precede the story in the series' internal chronology. The film is set nineteen years after the formation of the Galactic Empire; construction has finished on the Death Star, a weapon capable of destroying a planet. After Princess Leia, a leader of the Rebel Alliance, receives the weapon's plans in the hope of finding a weakness, she is captured and taken to the Death Star. Meanwhile, a young farmer named Luke Skywalker meets Obi-Wan Kenobi, who has lived in seclusion for years on the desert planet of Tatooine. When Luke's home is destroyed, Obi-Wan begins Luke's Jedi training as they attempt to rescue the Princess from the Empire. Inspired by films like the Flash Gordon serials and such literary works as The Hero with a Thousand Faces, Lucas began work on Star Wars in 1974. Produced with a budget of US$11 million and released on May 25, 1977, the film became one of the most successful of all time, earning $215 million in the United States and $337 million overseas during its original theatrical release. The film received several Academy Awards and was listed by the U.S. National Film Registry. (more...)
Recently featured: Tornado – Jerusalem – Ellis Paul
- May 26
Diplodocus is a genus of diplodocid sauropod dinosaur whose fossilised skeleton was first discovered in 1878. The generic name, Greek for "double bar", refers to its double-beamed chevron bones located in the underside of the tail. They were initially believed to be unique to Diplodocus; however, they have since then been discovered in other diplodocids. It lived in what is now western North America at the end of the Jurassic Period. Diplodocus was one of the more common dinosaurs found in the Upper Morrison Formation, about 150 to 147 million years ago, in what is now termed the Kimmeridgian and Tithonian stages. This was an environment and time dominated by gigantic sauropod dinosaurs such as Camarasaurus, Barosaurus, Apatosaurus and Brachiosaurus. Diplodocus is among the most easily identifiable dinosaurs, with its classic dinosaur shape, long neck and tail and four sturdy legs. For many years, it was the longest dinosaur known. Its great size may have been a deterrent to the predators Allosaurus and Ceratosaurus: their remains have been found in the same strata, which suggests they coexisted with Diplodocus. (more...)
Recently featured: Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope – Tornado – Jerusalem
- May 27
Simeon I ruled over Bulgaria from 893 to 927, during the First Bulgarian Empire. Simeon's successful campaigns against the Byzantines, Magyars and Serbs led Bulgaria to its greatest territorial expansion ever, making it the most powerful state in contemporary Eastern Europe. His reign was also a period of unmatched cultural prosperity and enlightenment later deemed the Golden Age of Bulgarian culture. During Simeon's rule, Bulgaria spread over a territory between the Aegean, the Adriatic and the Black Sea, and the new Bulgarian capital Preslav was said to rival Constantinople. The newly-independent Bulgarian Orthodox Church became the first new patriarchate besides the Pentarchy and Bulgarian Glagolitic translations of Christian texts spread all over the Slavic world of the time. Halfway through his reign, Simeon assumed the title of Emperor (Tsar), having prior to that been styled Prince (Knyaz). (more...)
Recently featured: Diplodocus – Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope – Tornado
- May 28
Calvin Coolidge was the 30th President of the United States. A lawyer from Vermont, Coolidge worked his way up the ladder of Massachusetts state politics, eventually becoming governor of that state. His actions during the Boston Police Strike of 1919 thrust him into the national spotlight. He was elected as the 29th Vice President in 1920 and succeeded to the Presidency upon the death of Warren G. Harding. He was elected in his own right in 1924, and gained a reputation as a small-government conservative. In many ways, Coolidge's style of governance was a throwback to the passive Presidency of the nineteenth century. He restored public confidence in the White House after the scandals of his predecessor's administration, and left office with considerable popularity. Many would later criticize Coolidge as a part of a general criticism of laissez-faire government, especially in times of economic hardship, such as the Great Depression. His reputation underwent a renaissance during the Reagan administration, but the ultimate assessment of his presidency is still divided between those who approve of his reduction of the size of government and those who believe the federal government should be more involved in regulating the economy. (more...)
Recently featured: Simeon I – Diplodocus – Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope
- May 29
The Caspian expeditions of the Rus were military raids undertaken by the Rus between 864 and 1041 on the Caspian Sea shores. Initially, the Rus appeared in Serkland in the 9th century traveling as merchants along the Volga trade route, selling furs, honey, and slaves. The first small-scale raids took place in the late 9th and early 10th century. The Rus undertook the first large-scale expedition in 913; having arrived on 500 ships, they pillaged Gorgan, the territory of present day Azerbaijan, and the adjacent areas, taking slaves and goods. On their return, the northern raiders were attacked and defeated by Khazar Muslims in the Volga Delta, and those who escaped were killed by the local tribes on the middle Volga. During their next expedition in 943, the Rus captured Barda, the capital of Arran, in the modern-day Azerbaijan. The Rus stayed there for several months, killing many inhabitants of the city and amassing substantial plunder. It was only an outbreak of dysentery among the Rus that forced them to depart with their spoils. Sviatoslav, prince of Kiev, commanded the next attack, which destroyed the Khazar state in 965. Sviatoslav's campaign established the Rus's hold on the north-south trade routes, helping to alter the demographics of the region. Raids continued through the time period with the last Scandinavian attempt to reestablish the route to the Caspian Sea taking place in 1041 by Ingvar the Far-Travelled. (more...)
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- May 30
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Giordano, Rita; Teixeira, José Triscari; Wanderlingh, Ulderico
European Journal of Mineralogy Volume 19 Number 2 (2007), p. 223 - 228
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A small-angle neutron scattering (SANS) study was carried out on typical building stones widely used in north-eastern Sicily in several architectonic contexts, aimed at measuring the particle and pore-size distribution in view of stone treatment by protective (Hydrophase) and/or consolidant (Ethyl silicate) agents. Samples of quartzite, sandstone, calcarenite and marble exhibit particle and pore-size dimensions that are inversely proportional to the porosimetric values of the stones.The particle size of treated stones varies in an analogous way to the grain size of the blank samples. The present paper aims to find a correlation between particle size and porosity in building stones used in ancient monuments. The relationship between particle size and porosity is investigated using SANS techniques, which are applied to characterize the physical, mechanical and thermal behaviour of single mineral grains belonging to different lithologies.
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Since going through a difficult experience three years ago, I've battled subsequent bouts of intense anxiety and fear. Upon learning of my season of struggle, a dear friend encouraged me to memorize, meditate on, and embrace John 10. The passage, she explained, expounds on the Good Shepherd we have in Jesus and calls us to recognize and listen to His voice rather than voices of doubt, darkness, discouragement, and shame.
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St. Andrew's Cathedral is a glistening church near the southern tip of Singapore. While exiting the sanctuary, worshipers can see four distinct and colorful images in stained glass above the front door.
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Howling winds, booming thunderclaps, and lightning flashes tend to make me nervous, even when I'm sheltered in a safe, dry place. Gentle rain showers I can handle. It's the clamor and din of an intense storm that get me. So Jesus could well have been speaking to me when He asked His disciples, "Why are you afraid? Do you still have no faith?" (Mark 4:40).
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As scientists have continued to search the Mariana Trench, which lies 26,000 feet under the Pacific Ocean's surface, they've discovered a new species of fish never seen before—one which researchers describe as a mix between a puppy, an angel, and an eel. It's mind-boggling and humbling to think that even after so much time and effort has been spent trying to understand this planet, there's still so much that we don't know about all that God has created.
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Mortality motivates and eternity influences. These two things motivated and influenced Puritan leader Richard Baxter, who is credited with saying, "The face of death, and nearness of eternity, did much to convince me what books to read, what studies to prefer and prosecute, what company and conversation to choose. It drove me early into the vineyard of the Lord, and taught me to preach as a dying man to dying men." Baxter's mortality made him discriminating as to how to use his time. When we look at the Scriptures, it's clear that they influenced his understanding.
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In the Shakespearean play Othello, the main bad guy is named Iago. He pretends to be Othello's closest friend, offering counsel and advice, but all the while he's plotting his friend's downfall behind the scenes. The play is carefully constructed so that it's impossible for even the audience to grasp the underhanded deceit of Iago until the very last scene. He's plausible right up until the end, and if his part is acted well, the audience will often gasp when his true nature is finally revealed, for the character's deception is convincingly hidden by his words and actions.
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We're in that sweet season of hope and possibilities. No matter how difficult the year may have been, most of us hope for a better and brighter new year. At the end of last year, I knew I would be juggling my job along with the daunting task of handling the responsibilities of a colleague who was going on maternity leave.
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Recently a store that's part of a huge retail chain labeled its Bibles as "fiction." A pastor shopping for a gift came across the Bibles and saw "Fiction" written on the price tag. So he took a pic and posted it on social media with the comment: "[Name withheld] has Bibles for sale under the genre of FICTION. Hmm." The retailer has since apologized, saying the Bibles were mislabeled and the mistake had been corrected.
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As a second-grader at a mission school in Ghana, I didn't fare too well. Our two teachers gallantly juggled lesson plans for students spanning seven grades. This academic effort took place in a two-room cinderblock structure with an aluminum roof that began to broil us by noon each day. Distractions waged war on my 7-year-old attention span, and they were winning—handily.
Is It Him?
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Particle Tacking and UDF
I have a problem concerning DPM. If I hook a DEFINE_DPM_SCALAR_UPDATE udf to the discrete phase model (even if the UDF does not contain any code!) the particle tracking does not work properly any more. Meaning that most of the tracks are aborted, but are not being reported as aborted.
As soon as I unhook the udf, it works. Any ideas?
DEFINE_DPM_SCALAR_UPDATE(particle_deposition, cell, thread, initialize, p)
It apparently has to do sth with Accuracy Control settings. If I disable them it does not work, if I set them to lo it does not work, but set to 0.05 the tracks all escape.
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The ASEAN Quiz is a project of the Association of South East Asian Nations Committee on Culture and Information (ASEAN-COCI) that aims to foster the spirit of healthy competition among ASEAN youth in a friendly quiz game that exposes them to ASEAN history, social, cultural, political, and economic developments in the Region.
The ASEAN Quiz will be participated in by the ten (10) ASEAN member states. It consists of two levels: the National Competition held in each member state and the Regional Competition hosted by the ASEAN Quiz Country Coordinator for the year. The Regional Competition was previously held in Thailand (2002), Brunei Darussalam (2004), Malaysia (2006), and the Philippines (2009). For the 5th ASEAN Quiz, the Cambodia is the country coordinator and will host the Regional Competition in 2012.
The National Level Competition will be held on January 23-26, 2012 at the People's Television Network Inc. (PTNI), Visayas Avenue, Quezon City which shall be participated in by the DepEd regional winners. The three (3) winners in the National Level Competition shall be the Philippine representatives to the 5th ASEAN Quiz to be held in Cambodia in 2012.
In connection with the 5th ASEAN Quiz National Competition, the local regional and division offices are encouraged to conduct the search from September to October 2011 for one (1) student who shall represent the region and compete in the National Level Competition.
The name of the winner shall be submitted to the Bureau of Secondary Education (BSE), Attn: Ms. Rosalie B. Masilang and Ms. Flora B. Homeres either at telefax nos.: (02) 632-7746 or (02) 632-7586 not later than November 4, 2011.
The student-participant in the National Competition must possess the following qualifications:
For the National Competition in Quezon City, the airfare, accommodation, food and local transportation expenses of one (1) student-representative from each of the seventeen (17) regions shall be covered by the ASEAN Quiz National Competition Project Fund.
For the three (3) winners in the National Level Competition who will represent the Philippines in the 5th ASEAN Regional Competition in Cambodia in 2012, their airfare, accommodation, food and local transportation shall be covered by the 5th ASEAN Quiz Regional Competition project fund.
Enclosed are the National Competition Mechanics for reference and the Student Information Sheet which shall be accomplished by the student regional representative.
For further inquiries, please contact Ms. Rosalie B. Masilang, BSE, DepEd at telephone nos.: (02) 632-7747, (02) 632-7586 or send a message through e-mail address: email@example.com and/or Ms. Vizmalau E. Bonalos, Program Production Services Manager, People's Television Network, Inc., at telefax nos.: (02) 455-9785 and (02) 920-4389 or send a message through e-mail address: email@example.com.
THE 5th ASEAN QUIZ
The ASEAN Quiz, a project of the ASEAN Committee on Culture and Information (ASEAN-COCI), is a competition on knowledge of ASEAN participated in by outstanding students from private and public high schools in the 10 ASEAN member countries. It aims to elicit the spirit of healthy competition among ASEAN youth in a friendly quiz game that exposes them to history, social, cultural, political, and economic developments in the ASEAN Region.
The ASEAN Quiz has proven to be an effective vehicle for promoting ASEAN based on the extensive participation of students from the ASEAN countries and the wide coverage as shown during the conduct of the 1St (2002), 2nd (2004) , 3rd (2006) and 4th (2009), Regional Competition ASEAN Quiz held in Thailand, Brunei Darussalam , Malaysia and Philippines respectively.
The ASEAN Quiz consists of two levels, the Regional Competition participated in the 10 ASEAN Member States and the National Competition conducted by each Member State prior to the Regional Competition.
The 5th ASEAN Quiz National Competition, Philippines shall be held on January 23-26, 2011. The venue is the PTV Broadcast Center, Visayas Avenue, Quezon City. The National Competition is held to select the top 3 students who will represent the Philippines in the 5th ASEAN Quiz Regional Level Competition to be hosted by Cambodia in 2012.
As the implementing agency, for the 5th ASEAN Quiz, the People's Television Network Inc. (PTNI) will have as partner agencies the DepEd, DFA, PCOO, PIA and PBS
The 5th ASEAN Quiz National Level Competition in the Philippines is open to 3rd year students of private and public schools as well as laboratory schools of colleges and universities nationwide, except relatives up to the second degree of consanguinity of the employees of the agencies involved in the implementation of the project.
A. The ASEAN Quiz, both National and Regional Competitions, shall be conducted in English.
B. The 5th ASEAN Quiz National Competition shall consist of 1) the local regional level competition and 2) the National Competition.
B1. Local Reqional Level Competition
The DepEd Regional Directors shall request each School Division Superintendent to search among 3rd year students of public and private schools as well as laboratory schools of colleges and universities nationwide for their respective local contenders to the 5th National ASEAN Quiz National Competition. One student shall emerge as the official representative of the region for the National Competition.
The student participant for the National Level competition must:
The local regional winners will compete in the National Competition to be held in Quezon City on January 23-26, 2012. Venue of the competition will be the People's Television Network, Inc., Visayas Avenue, Quezon City.
The three students with the highest scores shall be declared as the first, second and third place winners, respectively.
The first, second and third winners shall compete in the 5th ASEAN Quiz Regional Competition that will be held in Cambodia in 2012.
IV. Rules
A. Who are allowed to participate
First Prize
A. Organizational Set-up
The 5th ASEAN Quiz Organizing Committee Philippines, chaired by the PTNI (as the implementing agency) with members from the DFA, DepEd, PIA, PCOO and PBS shall oversee the implementation of the project ,formulate the necessary policies , approve the plans and activities from pre-, during-, and post-, implementation of the National Competition.
B. Procedure for the selection of student participants for the National Competition
1. The DepEd shall issue a memorandum to its Regional Offices directing them to select and submit the name of the student to represent their region based on the criteria given. The student shall accomplish the student information sheet which will be submitted to the Bureau of Secondary Education through :Ms. Rosalie B. Masilang
2. Based on the accomplished student information sheet, the Organizing Committee of the 5th ASEAN Quiz National Competition, Philippines, shall decide on the eligibility of the official representative from each of the 17 regions and formally inform the selected student of his/her participation in the National Competition.C. Arranqements for the Participants
SCHEDULE: January 23-26, 2012
VII. The 5th ASEAN Quiz Regional Competition
Download the ASEAN Quiz Philippines Student Information Sheet
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Little Giants
1994, PG, 107 min. Directed by Duwayne Dunham. Starring Rick Moranis, Ed O'Neill, Shawna Waldron, John Madden.
REVIEWED By Brian Baker, Fri., Oct. 21, 1994
Little Giants offers nothing new in the way of children's entertainment. If you have ever seen a sports movie for kids, you already know exactly what is going to happen and when it will occur. Other than that, Little Giants is a pretty good film. Moranis stars as Danny O'Shea, a man who has lived in the shadow of his Heisman Trophy-winning older brother Kevin (O'Neill) for 30 years. When Kevin decides to put together a winning pee-wee football league, Danny is ecstatic because his daughter Becky (Waldron) is the best player in town. Unfortunately, Kevin decrees that football is a sport for men and Becky is not picked. Also not chosen are all of Becky's friends, who are either too small, weak, overweight, or uncoordinated. So, Danny forms a team of all the outcasts which he then pits against Kevin's in the film's climactic showdown. Moranis, recently typecast as an off-beat but kind-hearted father figure, goes all the way with his role as the off-beat but kind-hearted father and coach. O'Neill, best known for his role as the annoying father on Married With Children, excels as the annoying father and coach. Boy, allow these two actors to stretch their wings a little and they just carry the whole film. Little Giants also benefits from appearances from some football greats, including John Madden. (Be warned though, this interesting scene gets all of five minutes of screen time.) The film is not above resorting to bathroom humor to get laughs. The overweight child (Why do overweight kids in movies have to eat all the time?) is able, on cue, to pass gas that could knock out a mule at 20 paces. Although, on the whole, it is pretty tame stuff. Little Giants is a funny and entertaining little film that suffers from a blatant lack of originality.
Marjorie Baumgarten, May 2, 2001
Marjorie Baumgarten, May 11, 2000
Little Giants, Duwayne Dunham, Rick Moranis, Ed O'Neill, Shawna Waldron, John Madden


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Wednesday Words
To Go Where Your VisionPoints, a few inspiration points for you and your business.
A good advertisement is one which sells the product without drawing attention to itself.
—David M. Ogilvy
How do you say, "We're right for you," to your customer?
Do you say, "We'll change your life," or do you say, "Damn, we're good?" (Hint: Advertising your greatness is a turnoff.)
Worse yet, does your advertising (website, blog, brochure, DVD… ) say "Look how pretty" and expect the customer to decide that means you can help them out?
When it comes to promoting yourself, forget overly clever, forget loud, and definitely forget long-winded. I don't want to know you're good, and I sure don't want to know your writer/ designer/ ad agency is good. I want to know that when I buy from you, I'll feel good.
It's not about you. It's about the folks who pay your bills.
Would you rather buy from the company with the coolest ads, or the company who wants to make you cool? How does your company sell without drawing attention to the sales materials?
Grow and be well,
Kelly Erickson
The Big P.S.: Monday, we talked about connections. Coming up, I'm going to connect you with some great voices in Experience Design.
Tomorrow something very different for MCE: A Pixelated Blog Conference, inspired by Mitch Joel by way of the inimitable, life-changing Chris Brogan.
The first ever Maximum Customer Experience Conference, not-at-all-live, with a super roster of experts speaking on some of my favorite aspects of strategic, integrated Experience Design.
Does Experience matter? Can you really engineer it? Does your company matter to your customers? Can you make more money by improving your Customer Experience? (Haven't you been reading here?) Get fresh takes on the questions that keep you up at night when you listen to what these folks have to say tomorrow. "Attend" as many "breakout sessions" as you like. I'll write a quick intro to each so you can find the topics that interest you.
I hope you'll
come out from behind the firewall make some time in your day for a few of these brief videos, to learn and laugh (you know I'm looking for a few funny guys) about growing your business with Maximum Customer Experience.
Hey, why am I hyping it so much? You know if it's here at MCE, it's free, right? So come on back tomorrow. But today, subscribe, leave a comment, or bookmark this post to share with others.
16 Responses to "Inspiration Points: Why Having the Coolest Ads is NOT the Way to Go"
Stop making me think! Ack! You're making me think! 🙂
This is good.
And I'm laughing about the firewall bit… sounds like you were talking about some Factory workers!
Brett Legree's last blog post…still doing crazy things…
Gee, I thought that's what I was supposed to do.
Bring Friar on over, I'm sure we can get off track and scare my potential customers away with his help.
[Friar: Easy, now…]
Psst… speaking of going slightly off-topic, if you didn't click away to "advertising your greatness," do. One of my fave in-jokes that you don't have to be "in" to get.
Yeah, we've got bankers, factory managers, corporate types, at least one Tax Woman, and The Widget Factory workers reading, so believe me, I know tomorrow might cause trouble for a few firewalls. *sigh* Good stuff coming!
You do it well, milady. I'm sure Friar will be here shortly, once he finishes drawing Special Ed pumpkins…
Off to click on that link now!
Brett Legree's last blog post…still doing crazy things…
Just returned from clicking… that was so good!
Brett Legree's last blog post…still doing crazy things…
I suppose it's too much to ask to have a pretty ad AND a pretty product? 😐
Psst… I'm not sure if it's showing up this way for everyone or if I'm just special — ya know, like Friar's Basil — but your links are showing up as a very light turquoise. Like, too-light-to-read light.
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If pretty/ fancy/ splashy is not interfering with the message, okay. A lot of times, though (think Super-Bowl ads or flash games for soft drinks, etc.), all that gets remembered is the ad, not the product.
… …
Turquoise? Unvisited, they should look like the category heads in the sidebar; visited, darker. Pretty much the colors in the banner. If not, please tell me, and I'll have a look on a –gasp– PC later this week. Maybe the upgrade messed with my CSS, though I don't know how it could.
Oh, and if they do look like they should and you don't care for it anyway, come back and razz me. I'll think about changing the entire deisgn of the joint just for you.
(Seriously, I see this on a Mac most of the time, and PCs do have a color shift, though usually darker. If it's causing a readability problem let me know.)
Until later,
It's the same color as the sidebar headings. That would be hard to read too, but it's bigger. Maybe I'm just going blind?
The visited links are easy to read. Maybe the key is visit all of the links? 🙂
Actually, now that I'm looking, the green in the sidebar is really light too. Maybe my colors on my laptop are just off or something. I don't remember having trouble reading anything here before. I don't spend much time in the sidebar though.
I know what you're saying about the ads. It's overkill. And stupid. You'd think they'd want to use all that technology to make a cool ad that actually worked to promote their cool product, but hey what do I know? 🙂
Amy Derby's last blog post…Hump Day Reading for the Restless Soul
"Would you rather buy from the company with the coolest ads, or the company who wants to make you cool?"
If you're a male between ages 18-25 (in the Peak Darwin Years), the answer would be
Friar's last blog post…Assorted Friar-O-Lanterns
Will do a PC visit and tweak, all for you (probably next week). I don't get insomnia anymore now that the downstairs folks are behaving, so I need a little free daytime or evening. I'll miss my mid-tone blues, though. I suppose you'll tell me next that my greens bug you?
Let's have it, folks. Is Amy alone in not being able to see my blues or has everybody been waiting for a chance to tell me? *sniff, sniff*
*ducks and runs away*
"Like, yeah," has me worried. We're raising a generation… or two… or three… of people who can't umm, put together a sentence, and they kinda like, sound stupid. But yeah, umm, coolness is like, rockin'.
They may be easier to please, too, or maybe they just, umm, sound that way. Aargh.
No problem with the colours from here, but I use either my MBP or my HP from work, and I've done colour correction on both of them, plus I have really good eyes. But not everyone's me (lucky for them!)
Brett Legree's last blog post…still doing crazy things…
And they'd probably add a "dude" or two, to the sentence.
"Like..dude….uh, YEAH?!"
Friar's last blog post…Assorted Friar-O-Lanterns
"Duuuude, like, don't go for a commercial that thinks it's, like, more cool than it really is"
– Skateboard Dude, who like, hangs out in front of the Seven-Eleven.
Friar's last blog post…Assorted Friar-O-Lanterns
Hey Kelly,
I just messed around with my computer, and they look better now. So I dunno if you changed the colors or if it was just my computer. But everything seems back to normal. 🙂
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I wish I had thought to make a screenshot of how it looked before so I would know if I'm going colorblind. LOL Plus, it could have been very entertaining for you. Very neon, this particular look was. 🙂
Amy Derby's last blog post…Dances With Muses
I didn't touch it, so I am now crossing that off very very long TTD (things to do) list.
Thank goodness.
Happy to make your to-do list a little shorter. Even though I'm the reason it was longer. 🙂
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CCI says federal gov must restore business confidence
Western Australia's peak business lobby says the federal government needs to focus on restoring business confidence in the Australian economy.
A survey by the Chamber of Commerce and Industry and Westpac has found business confidence in WA has fallen to levels not seen since the global financial crisis.
Sixty per cent of respondents expect the local economy to perform poorly over the next 12 months, compared with 29 per cent at the same time last year.
The Chamber's chief economist, John Nicolaou, says there is no doubt the change in government will provide an initial boost to confidence but long-term strategies are needed.
"Over 48 per cent of respondents reported that their bottom line had deteriorated during the September quarter and that was in line with falling sales and rising business costs," he said.
As a result, about a third of businesses cut staff.
"What will be needed is more than just a change in government," Mr Nicolaou said.
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The NAB monthly business survey, released yesterday, showed confidence soared to a two year high last month.
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Trade exchange between Jordan and Iraq declined by 27 per cent during the first half of 2012 compared to the same period last year, Ministry of Industry and Trade Secretary General Maha Ali said on Wednesday.
In remarks during meetings of the 26th session of the Joint Jordanian-Iraqi Committee, which opened on Wednesday, Ali stressed the importance of reaching solutions to the challenges facing trade exchange between the two countries, and to follow up on the implementation of what the two sides agreed upon in the last session.
Emphasising the need to benefit from the opportunities available in the economic and trade agreements signed between the two countries, she called on Iraq to ratify the agreement signed between the two countries in 2009 for establishing a joint free trade zone.
Ali underlined the importance of facilitating procedures for registering pharmaceutical products in Iraq and expressed Jordan's readiness to provide Iraqi personnel with training in the field of companies' control, standards and metrology, investment, agriculture, customs and metrology.
Kathem Husseini, adviser at the Iraqi ministry of trade, expressed keenness to cooperate with Jordan and to discuss methods that enable the two sides to enhance cooperation in various fields.
He noted that his country plans to use the Aqaba Port due to the great pressure on the Iraqi ports.
He called on Jordan's private sector to take part in the mega-projects that Iraq plans to carry out during the coming period.
During this week's meetings, talks will focus on means to encourage Iraq to benefit from the facilities in the Aqaba Port.
According to the agenda, they will also examine means to boost expertise exchange in the field of competitiveness and to facilitate the flow of Jordanian vegetables to the Iraqi markets.
The agenda also include an article on supporting Jordanian companies which exported goods to the Iraqi public and private sectors before and after 1992.
In the industrial sector, representatives from both countries will also examine measures to activate a memorandum of understanding signed between the Iraqi ministry of industry and minerals and the Jordan Industrial Estates Corporation.
In the investment field, the two countries will sign an agreement between Jordan Investment Board and Iraq's National Investment Commission on protecting investments.
Talks will also focus on the need to provide Jordan with a list of the goods allowed to be imported from Iraq to facilitate the flow of products between the two countries.
In the field of construction and housing, officials from both countries will examine measures to activate a memorandum of understanding signed between the Ministry of Public Works and Housing and the Iraqi ministry of construction and housing in 2009 on boosting bilateral cooperation.
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