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Therein lies Nintendogs inexorable pull: It's the first game powered by empathy. These things are much more convincing than the Tomogatchis, those rudimentary keychain creatures from the first virtual pet craze a decade ago. Nintendogs go a long way toward satisfying a sort of canine Turing test: If they look and act enough like dogs, then at a simple cognitive level, they're a pretty good substitute.
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Asperger's Syndrome and How Can Neurofeedback Help
Asperger's is a type of pervasive developmental disorder (PDD). PDD's are a group of conditions that involve delays in the development of basic skills; the ability to socialize with other people, to communicate, and to use their imagination. Many people consider Asperger's syndrome to be very similar to autism, but there are some important differences to note. Children with Asperger's syndrome typically function better than those with Autism, and they generally have more intelligence, as well as near-normal language development. Some of the symptoms of Asperger's include problems with social skills, communication difficulties, eccentric or repetitive behaviors, unusual rituals, limited range of interests, and coordination problems. Although these symptoms are usually present, many kids with Asperger's are exceptionally skilled in a particular area, such as math or music.
Reduce the Symptoms of Aspergers
We can reduce some of the symptoms an individual with Asperger's suffers from by using Neurofeedback. Neurofeedback, which is also known as EEG (electroencephalogram) Biofeedback, is a painless training system which trains the brain to perform more efficiently with the individual's active participation. A person's with Asperger's have a brain that is disregulated. We can strengthen the brain and teach it to self regulate. First we need to find which areas of the brain are not performing the way they should be. In order to find these abnormalities, we measure the client's brain waves by recording these activities while they wear a cap which has 19 different sensors on it. This process is called EEG. Once we have analyzed the EEG, which is known as qEEG, we will know which areas of the brain we want to train.
Neurofeedback Therapy for Aspergers
Once we identify the area of the brain to exercise, we place a sensor on this location of the head. Where the sensors are placed is specific to the individual, and the issue we are trying to address. We train these areas by having the client watch a movie, and if their brain waves are not in the parameters we have set, their movie will pause. Our brains want the movie to continue to play, so this reinforces the brain to perform within the parameters which have been set. During this process the neurons (cells in the brain) change. Once we have trained the neurons to perform the way we want them to, the brain will learn to match these parameters without being reinforced by Neurofeedback. As these neurons change, you will notice many symptoms will change as well. Some of the changes parents observe include
- initiation to touch
- reduced emotional outbursts
- slower, cleared speech patters
- better response to instructions
- less ritualistic and more imaginative thought
- increased tolerance to change
- decreased hyperactivity and impulsivity
- heightened levels of focus
- diminished anxiety
- better social skills and relationships
- more stable and calm behavior
- increased awareness of feelings and emotions
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To date, the Burden of Injury study has recruited 142 participants. We are pleased to have reached more than 50% of our final goal of 240 participants. We have had great success recruiting at the emergency department (82% of total participants), but have been surprised by the difficulty in recruiting participants at the hospital wards (18% of total participants). We are also in the process of obtaining both 1-month and 4-month follow-up data. We look forward to completing recruitment and beginning our data analysis over the next few months.
The CIHR Team in Child and Youth Injury Prevention (STAIR C&Y Team) is a unique collaboration of interdisciplinary researchers and partners who have a common purpose—to generate new knowledge for stakeholders who develop and deliver policy and programs, and advocate for children and youth in Canada.


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Paul Flessner, former in-the-trenches IT guy and now senior vice president for server applications at Microsoft, wants to run the data centre. His opening punch comes in November with the release of SQL Server 2005, Visual Studio 2005 and the beta for BizTalk 2006. Flessner recently talked about what lies ahead for Microsoft.
Q: What impact will Visual Studio, SQL Server and BizTalk have on the enterprise? A: We want to declare victory on the largest mission-critical apps in a company. We are tired of being pigeonholed into the Tier 2, Tier 3 apps. I want to run the enterprise. We think 2005 from both a developer Visual Studio perspective and a SQL Server perspective and also BizTalk, those are the releases that give us the credentials to take on most mission-critical, trading-floor applications, or power plant or distribution [applications].
Q: Where is the sweet spot for the enterprise with business intelligence (BI) and the business activity monitoring (BAM ) technologies you have talked about with SQL Server?
A: BI has come into its own. If you look at the revenue growth numbers for BI, they are off the chart. The relationship with your customers has changed. It used to be they came into the store, you could touch them, you could watch. Today, it is virtual in a lot of ways.
It is online. You need to be able to see trends and identify them, and the way to do that is through your data. Having integrated BI is compelling and we have invested a lot in it. Having the same thing for business process is compelling as well. BAM will give you the ability to look into your business processes as they occur. And that is a technology that today you have to handcraft. Data used to be this thing locked up that IT controlled. Data is on the loose now.
Q: Where are you going to build RFID into the platform?
A: We'd love for the reader manufacturers to pick up Windows CE. Some will, some won't, but RFID is really about being able to grab the data off the wire from the reader. Right now that is a wild market. Over time we think standards will develop and you will get standard protocols. We'll enable a plug-and-play device driver architecture and allow you to have a driver for any reader. Basically, you can hook Windows up to RFID, RFID-enabled Windows, whether it is a desktop or a server, where you can take that data, get access to it through an easy object model and manipulate it and do anything you want with it.
Q: What relationship will SQL Server and WinFS have?
A: WinFS is an important milestone; it really is focused on structured and unstructured data. It will allow an unprecedented ability to have data that resides on your desktop, the ability to get access to that data, to program against that data and to use that data both on the client and the server. Probably the most telling way to look at it from a high level is that WinFS is built to be a file system and think of SQL Server focused today on line-of-business applications, really running on the server.
Q: Why should IT be in tune to this Common Engineering Criteria, for which you've announced the 2006 additions, and how it is built into all new versions of your servers?
A: Any feature that I put into any product has a fleeting life in terms of competitive advantage. The open source community can copy any feature and they do today. But customers want to run their app, they don't want to think about the infrastructure underneath. They want the infrastructure to integrate seamlessly, repair itself, manage itself. That is what the Common Engineering Criteria is. Even though it has humble beginnings, you are looking at a multi-decade journey for us. But it is causing a behavioural change.
Q: What makes the Windows Server System start to look more like a whole than it has in the past?
A: It will take time. Integrated diagnostics where I can really understand what is going on, that is really compelling. Integrated serviceability, Windows Update, common setup and installation technology, best practice analyzer, a common management [user interface]. There will be a set of things that over time we will go for.
Q: What sort of impact has the Longhorn delay had on this, wrapping all this server and developer technology together?
A: We have had some very ambitious plans and we have pared them back some. Longhorn will still be very compelling. There is still a lot of cool [user interface] experience, search, a lot of what you'll see at [Microsoft's Professional Developer's Conference in August] has been talked about, but the demos are compelling. That is the Longhorn show.
Q: How do you classify the Linux challenge now?
A: It is maturing. It seems, from a database guy perspective, it is settling out. They are finding their niche. We now know how to compete with them.


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Events > 2005
The Great Lakeland Challenge
214 Mountains in a week - 14th/ 21st May 2005
In May 1955 Alfred Wainwright published the first of his Pictorial Guides to the Lake District. Since then the series has sold almost 2 million copies. AW as he's been known to generations of fellwalkers is still the undisputed master of the mountains.
2005 was the 50th anniversary of the publication of the Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells.
The Wainwright Society marked this event by recording the ascent of all 214 fells in the Pictorial Guides and those in the Outlying Fells in one week in May.
Registration was free to members and £10 for non members. Payment of this fee, however, carried automatic membership of the Society for 2005. The benefits of membership include quarterly issues of the Society magazine -Footsteps, discounts on books, guest houses etc. entrance to activities such as walks and lectures. Three pounds of each registration fee will be donated to the Lake District Tourism and Conservation Partnership which organises footpath repair and other environmental projects in Lakeland. £570 was successfully raised by The Wainwright Society during the week long event which was put to good use benefiting the upland footpath on Thorneythwaite Fell in Borrowdale.
This footpath runs up onto Glaramara from the Borrowdale valley. There are a few sections, generally on the steeper slopes, where the surface has washed away causing widening of the footpath. These sections need careful stone pitching to prevent the further spread of erosion.
Below is a full list of people who entered the Challenge.


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This morning brought an op-ed in the Washington Post by someone named Ruth Marcus giving the smack down to Paul Krugman's rebuke of the Washington, D.C. Insider's cries for Social Security reform on the basis of that program's "crisis" status.
You can follow the back and forth here.
But the most important issue to address regarding Social Security's long term financing status is taken up by Josh Marshall in a post I am going to quote at length here. In particular, Marshall challenges the conventional wisdom that Social Security reform must start sooner rather than later in order to minimize the magnititude of the tax increases/benefit cuts establishing long term solvency would require. As Marshall points out, this is just wrong:
I said last night that I disagreed with the oft-stated claim that it just gets harder to 'fix' the non-existent Social Security crisis the longer you wait. In fact, as I thought about Obama's proposal to remove or retool the cap on Social Security taxes I got to thinking that it's not just not necessary to do right now but that it actually might be a bad idea altogether.
Many have argued that having this debate at all buys into the right-wing argument that there's a 'crisis' that needs to be solved and thus that the politics are all wrong. But put that aside, let's talk about whether it makes sense even on substance.
When it comes to the policy and number-crunching nitty-gritty of Social Security I'm definitely an amateur. But I think I've got a decent sense of the political-economy of the question. We need to remember that now and for at least a decade into the future Social Security is actually subsidizing the rest of the federal budget. The program brings in much more than it pays out. As we all remember from the voluble debates two years ago, the surplus is being used to buy US government bonds which go into the Trust Fund. And that socked away money will keep the program solvent through the middle of this century as the baby boomers retire, and revenues in no longer cover promised payments out.
We've been doing that for about a quarter of a century.
The problem on the political side of the equation is that the enemies of Social Security have spent a couple decades arguing that the Trust Fund doesn't exist or that it is simply a bookkeeping device with no true financial meaning. If that's true, it means that American workers have spent the last twenty-five years using their payroll taxes to subsidize general revenues and make it easier to float big tax cuts for upper-income earners without getting anything in return.
If we start pumping a lot more money into Social Security coffers now it will by definition go into more government bonds, which is another way of saying that it will go toward funding our current deficit spending. In fact it will enable more deficit spending and probably more upper-income tax cuts because it will make the consequences of both easier to hide.
If we want to push the buffer of the Trust Fund further out onto the horizon, then fiddle with payroll taxes when Social Security would need to start dipping into Trust Fund. In other words, in a decade or so. I see no reason why this approach doesn't work just as nicely then as it would now.
As Paul Krugman noted in the interview I did with him a few weeks ago, the window of time we had to seriously pare down the national debt to prepare for the retirement of the baby-boomers is close to over. Still, though, our best way of ensuring the future health of Social Security is to stop running up the national debt now. So I'm very reluctant to put more payroll taxes in the pot while we're still running big deficits because of the Bush tax cuts. The money will just go to subsidizing that irresponsible fiscal policy.
If there is any sense in which the 'Trust Fund' is not 'real' it is that it must be paid back from general revenues. And that will only be harder the more other debt we're running up. So rather than solving the problem, I think we're actually enabling it.
The second problem is that we need a national agreement or consensus that the Trust Fund is real, that it will be honored, and have the debate about the future of the program on that basis. Otherwise, we're still risking getting played in the same bait-and-switch privatizers have been trying to pull for years -- using regressive payroll taxes to fund current government spending and then telling future recipients that that money has disappeared and thus Social Security has to be phased out altogether.
Lifting the payroll tax cap while Social Security is still running a big surplus not only solves a problem that doesn't exist it enables the very policies that put the program in danger. Perhaps this is all another way of saying that I'm not a fan of putting more hens in the hen house while the foxes are still at the door, or even in the house.
This I think is exactly right. The only thing a benefit reduction or tax increase to Social Security would do now, is what it has succeeded in doing for the past two decades, and that is subsidize the rest of the federal budget, allowing for income, capital gains, corporate and other tax cuts, which would benefit mostly the well to do, and encourage deficit spending generally, both of which are bad for Social Security and its recipients, further magnifying the ultimate day of reckoning when Social Security's bonds will come due.
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text: Following his 2010 effort, Moon Deluxe, the rock-and-roll musician Andrew Cedermark spent 2012 putting new songs to tape in an honest-to-goodness rock-and-roll recording studio. Ten of these songs make up his new album, Home Life, which is set in New York, New Jersey, and Virginia, and which, loosely, is about growing up only to find that you didn't have to, and the subsequent discovery that the process is irreversible. Other irreversible processes discussed in the album include falling in love; losing friends while not making friends; and realizing that one is mired in a place where one does not belong. Like country and rap music, neither of which Home Life resembles, the album's lyrical content is designed to reflect the likely concerns of its listeners.


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RESOURCES > Federal Register Notices > Manufacturers Notice of Registration - 2006 > ISP, Freetown Fine Chemicals, Inc.
Manufacturers Notice of Registration - 2006
FR Doc E6-5964 [Federal Register: April 21, 2006 (Volume 71, Number 77)] [Notices] [Page 20731] From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov] [DOCID:fr21ap06-95]
Drug Enforcement Administration
Manufacturer of Controlled Substances; Notice of Registration
By Notice dated November 18, 2005, and published in the Federal Register on November 29, 2005, (70 FR 71559), ISP, Freetown Fine Chemicals, Inc., 238 South Main Street, Assonet, Massachusetts 02702, made application by renewal to the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) to be registered as a bulk manufacturer of the basic classes of controlled substances listed in Schedules I and II:
|2,5-Dimethoxyamphetamine (7396)
|Amphetamine (1100)
|Phenylacetone (8501)
The company plans to manufacturer Phenylacetone to be used in the manufacturer of amphetamine for distribution to its customers. The bulk 2,5-dimethoxyamphetamine will be used for conversion into non- controlled substances.
No comments or objections have been received. DEA has considered the factors in 21 U.S.C. 823(a) and determined that the registration of ISP, Freetown Fine Chemicals, Inc., to manufacture the listed basic classes of controlled substances is consistent with the public interest at this time. DEA has investigated ISP, Freetown Fine Chemicals, Inc., to ensure that the company's registration is consistent with the public interest. The investigation has included inspection and testing of the company's physical security systems, verification of the company's compliance with state and local laws, and a review of the company's background and history. Therefore, pursuant to 21 U.S.C. 823, and in accordance with 21 CFR 1301.33, the above named company is granted registration as a bulk manufacturer of the basic classes of controlled substances listed.
Dated: April 17, 2006.
Joseph T. Rannazzisi,
Deputy Assistant Administrator, Office of Diversion Control, Drug Enforcement Administration.
[FR Doc. E6-5964 Filed 4-20-06; 8:45 am]
NOTICE: This is an unofficial version. An official version of this publication may be obtained directly from the Government Publishing Office (GPO).


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The ability to precisely edit the genome of a living cell holds enormous potential to accelerate life science research, improve biotechnology, and even treat human disease.
Methods for genome editing — primarily zinc finger nucleases and Transcription Activator-Like Effector (TALE) Nucleases — have existed for several years, but in 2013 these were quickly eclipsed by the efficiency, effectiveness and precision of the engineered CRISPR-Cas9 system that was first harnessed for genome editing by Feng Zhang of MIT and the Broad Institute.
The CRISPR system
Like zinc fingers and TALEs, CRISPR systems are natural products. However, CRISPR-Cas differs from zinc fingers and TALEs in one crucial aspect that makes it superior for genome editing applications: whereas zinc fingers and TALEs bind to DNA through a direct protein-DNA interaction, requiring the protein to be redesigned for each new target DNA site, CRISPR-Cas achieves target specificity through a small RNA that can easily be swapped for other RNAs targeting new sites.
In nature, CRISPR-Cas systems help bacteria defend against attacking viruses (known as bacteriophage or just phage). They consist of two components, the CRISPR (clustered, regularly interspaced palindromic repeats) array and Cas (CRISPR-associated) proteins. CRISPR sequences bookend short stretches of DNA that bacteria have copied from invading phages, preserving a memory of the viruses that have attacked them in the past. These sequences are then transcribed into short RNAs that guide Cas proteins to matching viral sequences. The Cas proteins destroy the matching viral DNA by cutting it. There are a number of different types of CRISPR-Cas systems in nature, which vary in their components; the CRISPR-Cas9 system uses just a single protein, Cas9, to find and destroy target DNA.
Engineering the CRISPR toolbox
In early 2011, Feng Zhang, a Professor of Biomedical Engineering in the departments of Brain and Cognitive Sciences and Biological Engineering at MIT, was just starting his own research group at the Broad Institute. After learning about existing CRISPR research (link to timeline) at a scientific meeting, he quickly realized that the system, with a single RNA-guided protein, could be a game changer in genome editing technology. He was already working on DNA targeting methods, having helped to develop the TALE system as a Junior Fellow at Harvard. This system could target and activate genes in mammalian genomes.
Zhang and his team focused on harnessing CRISPR-Cas9 for use in human cells. In January 2013, he reported the first successful demonstration of Cas9-based genome editing in human cells in what has become the most-cited CRISPR paper (Cong et al., Science, 2013). Researchers from George Church's lab at Harvard University reported similar findings in the same issue of Science (Mali et al., Science, 2013). The Zhang and Church papers showed that Cas9 could be targeted to a specific location in the human genome and cut the DNA there. The cut DNA was then repaired by inserting a new stretch of DNA, supplied by the researchers, essentially achieving "find and replace" functionality in the human genome.
Refining and sharing CRISPR tools
The CRISPR toolbox is continuing to expand rapidly, opening new avenues for biomedical research. Since the first publications in early 2013, the Zhang lab and other researchers have engineered a number of improvements to the system. For example, Cas9 has been modified so that instead of cutting the target DNA, it can turn gene expression on by recruiting transcriptional activators to its genomic location (Konermann, et al., Nature, 2014).
At the Broad Institute, the system has also been used for genome-wide screens to identify genes involved in resistance to cancer drugs and dissect immune regulatory networks. CRISPR has been used to rapidly create mouse models of cancer that arise from multiple gene alterations (Platt et al., Cell, 2014). In 2015, Zhang and his team reported success with Cas9 derived from a different bacterium, Staphylococcus aureus (SaCas9). SaCas9 is smaller than the original Cas9, which has advantages for gene therapy (Ran et al., Nature, 2015).
The Zhang lab has trained thousands of researchers in the use of CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing technology through direct education and by sharing nearly 25,000 CRISPR-Cas9 components with academic laboratories around the world to help accelerate global research that will benefit human health.
Users can obtain guide sequences for knock-outs and transcriptional activation as well as information about genome-wide libraries for CRISPR-based screening. To learn more, visit the Zhang Lab CRISPR Resources website.


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The Latest Cool Inventions
by findingDulcinea Staff
The ubiquitous iPod was once only a flicker in an inventor's brain. Today's newest gadgets may astound or baffle us now, but we can expect that these cutting-edge 2007 and 2008 inventions will be commonplace must-haves by the end of the decade.
Anyone who has ever stood in front of the closet musing, "What do I feel like wearing today?" should prepare to switch the words around in that sentence. Philips's new SKIN dresses may soon have us asking, "What does what I'm wearing say about how I feel?" Part of a larger Philips project called "Design Probes," the SKIN dresses use sensors that pick up on the wearer's emotions, and change colors or light up in response. Philips is using the Design Probe project to explore the marketing, profits and relevancy of imaginative inventions.
Source: Philips Design
If you're already in touch with your feelings and would rather know what your friends are thinking, Iconnicholson's new Social Retailing tool lets you take a video of yourself in the dressing room and send it to your friends. Simultaneously enjoy the benefits of shopping alone and the unfettered truth about how you look in wide stripes.
Source: Iconnicholson
Those more interested in books than fashion know that there's been much hype about the Amazon Kindle, which promises to make book reading and buying more convenient. But purists who long for the feeling of a page between their fingertips may be more intrigued by the Espresso Book Machine. The "EBM" can print paperback books from digital files for about three dollars each. That means that libraries can print essentially unlimited copies of more than 200,000 books that are currently in the public domain. Founder Jason Epstein's original vision was to implement the machines universally in newsstands, coffee shops, bookstores and even cruise ships. Now, the marketing strategy targets libraries, where it could exponentially increase the number of available titles and copies in a collection.
Source: On Demand Books
Tech fanatics brought up on "I, Robot" and "The Jetsons" should watch a video of ASIMO, the robot that will take the fiction out of Sci-Fi. ASIMO debuted in 2003; the updated model runs at 6 kilometers per hour and talks. Honda had to develop new motors in order to give ASIMO more athletic ability, and the work paid off: not only can ASIMO run, but he can climb stairs and the audience from the 2007 Consumer Electronics Show reported that he's quite well-balanced. However, unlike Star Wars's C-3PO, who peppers interactions with dry British humor, ASIMO's responses are entirely automated.
Source: PCMag.com
ASIMO can't clean your house yet, but there are other inventions that can streamline your home life. In addition to milk and eggs, your fridge will soon be offering you Web mail and mood music. Whirlpool's new Centralpark Connection is a refrigerator that can keep its door clutter- and magnet-free. The high-tech hub can already accommodate a digital picture frame, and in the near future, will also sport an iPod docking station with speakers, a tablet computer with Wi-Fi to take to the grocery store and an electronic message board. Unfortunately, the fridge does not come with snack foods to mindlessly consume while you surf the Web or create a playlist.
Source: Whirlpool
Naturally, you'll want exquisite photos to program into your new fridge, but often the best pictures are the hardest to capture. For example, if you're snorkeling and you see a stingray gliding by or an eel poking its head out of a cave, your chances of catching the image on film are slim. Or at least they used to be. Liquid Image sells a diving mask that takes digital pictures and videos. The mask comes in child and adult sizes, and images can be downloaded directly to your computer with a USB cable. Not only will you feel like James Bond, you'll probably have the best vacation photos out of all of your friends.


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Starting a Business
Starting a business is risky. Understanding the risks and reducing them through careful planning improves the chances for business success. You should be fully aware of the implications of owning your own business. A new business venture will affect both you and your family. Carefully analyze your reasons for starting a business. How will it fit with your family and your lifestyle?


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I spent my Sunday morning, in my pajamas, watching this debate:
Is There Meaning in Evil and Suffering?
Description: A panel discussion and debate on the meaning of evil and suffering from theists Dr. William Lane Craig and Ravi Zacharias, atheist Dr. Bernard Leikind (a plasma physicist and senior editor of Skeptic magazine), and Hindu Dr. Jitendra Mohanty (one of India's most distinguished Hindu philosophers and professor at Emory University).
These are the kind of debates/discussions I enjoy the most — why waste time arguing over the existence of something unprovable, one way or another? It's far more interesting to talk about the problem of evil. These kinds of discussions confirm for me why I rejected Christianity. In this debate, the explanations provided by Craig and Zacharias for the evils allowed (condoned?) by an omnibenevolent, omnipotent God fell FLAT. It basically boils down to "trust God to work things out in the end," which doesn't answer the question (not to mention it's unsatisfying).
One thing interesting to note when watching this debate (and it's a trait I've noticed when talking with believers) is how quickly Zacharias and Craig divert themselves away from specific examples/questions of evil or morality and rush back to the generalized platitudes of their faith. For example, in the debate above, when talking about absolute morality, at one point the naturalist asked the theists whether they thought divorce was immoral. Faster than you could bat an eyelash, Zacharias diverted away from the question into generalizations.
And I suppose I can't blame 'em, because the rhetorical power in saying you have absolute objective morality lies in being able to make the statement without having to provide specific examples to back it up.
A final lesson learned from the above debate: I think Ravi Zacharias is far more of a jerk than William Lane Craig (and this is saying a lot, because I am *not* a fan of Craig's snarky delivery). In the debate, watch how Zacharias first responds to the naturalist (Dr. Leikind), and you'll see why I award Zacharias the "asshole apologist" award.


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The Washington Y is getting ready to host a new event in the fall. Greg Woller with the Y says they are going to have their first ever torch run next month. The run will consist of a three-mile run for adults and one-mile for children.
He adds the event will contain a cross-country obstacle course. It will be held at the Washington Golf and Country Club on Friday, October 14th at dark.
The funds from this run-walk will go to the Y's Annual Sustaining Drive.


text: Alpha Lyrae,the latest collection from Vega Zaishi Wang, was recently showcased at Beijing's Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (UCCA) as part of The Creators Project, a global platform launched by Intel and Vice.She is Beijing based and a 2008 graduate from St. Martins, perhaps explaining the visual link to McQueen and Chalayan. Inspired by a BBC documentary about deep sea creatures—in particular, colorful jellyfish and the magic of bioluminiscence, she utilized EL technology upon advice from her electronic engineer parents. The result makes for some very poetic atmosphere. See more at: Vega Wang


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Greetings folks: I am also going to start posting local news and events on this blog. So I am creating categories to differentiate between announcements and news, and my analyses and opinions.
This announcement is about a play being revived by New Image Theater. The play is about a village called Sahmatah, one of the 500 villages destroyed in 1940s at the time of creation of Israel. It was initially done in 1996 by Mast and another Seattle dramist Hanna Eady, and has been played both in Israel and Seattle. (See also: Local couple put their lives on the line in Israel for some of the experiences of Edward Mast and his spouse Linda Bevis in Israel.)
The play is running during October and November. (Events details can be found on Seattle Times site here.) If I get an opportunity to see the play, I will try to write a review.


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More Support for Phuket Children at Laguna Phuket Food & Music Festival
Today (Tuesday 10 April), the organizer of Laguna Phuket Food & Music Festival 2018 has announced that they have secured additional musical acts, the famous Thai saxophone artist "Koh Mr.Saxman" and vocalist "Pui Duangpon" to perform as special guests on the night of Saturday 28 April, adding more groove to what is already expected to be a romantic night to remember.
"I have performed at the picturesque Laguna Grove before, and I remember how beautiful the venue was, with couples and families singing and dancing near the stage and by the lake," said Koh, reminiscing his Laguna Phuket's debut in 2015,
"It is a great pleasure to return and perform again on Saturday 28 April as a special guest. I am particularly delighted to learn that the concert will raise funds to support more than 400 children in Phuket orphanages. I hope you will come out and join us!"
Koh Mr.Saxman and Pui Duaungpon will perform at 7pm on Saturday 28 April, followed by Russian pianist and opera singer Ivan Sharapov at 8pm and Black 'n' Blue band closing the night.
Ticket is THB500 (seating with complimentary refreshment) and available at CentralFestival Phuket, Limelight Avenue Phuket and Phuket Indy Market in Phuket town and Laguna Tours Office in Canal Village. Online purchase is also available at www.lagunaphuket.com/foodandmusicfestival. Previously-purchased concert tickets for the same night (Saturday 28 April at 8pm) can be used to enter the 7pm segment by Koh and Pui.
The Concert is part of the 3-day Laguna Phuket Food & Music Festival 2018, scheduled to take place during 27-29 April at Laguna Grove, Laguna Phuket. Gate opens daily at 4pm to the free-entry Festival where guests and visitors can enjoy a wide range of food booths selling tantalising international and Peranakan cuisine. The Festival aims to raise funds for Children First Fund in support of orphanages in Phuket. For more information, please visit the website or call +66 (0) 76 362300 ext. 1404 or email: firstname.lastname@example.com and follow Facebook/LagunaPhuketResort.


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Mochachos food is so tasty and healthy that the Heart Foundation has approved certain menu items. Look out for the Heart symbol next to the relevant food item on our menu.
Our Chicken Burger is one of the most popular menu items on our menu; not only because of its mouthwatering flavour but also because it is the biggest chicken burger in town.
No, hormones are not
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Yes! We offer a wide array of vegetarian dishes, including our refried bean burrito, vegetarian burgers, Mexican rice, spicey chips and fresh salads.
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Pirate Boat Reusable Fabric Wall Decals by Pop & Lolli
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Dashing & daring, this Pirate Boat is made of wood barrel smells and massive ocean swells. Please note this does not include the Cotton Candy Clouds as depicted in the picture and can be purchased additionally here.
49 Chic Fabric Stickers including:
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Use as a single design for simple fun, or combine various favorites to add some funky & spunky to any room for an interactive experience. PICTURE POETRY unique in its concept and application you create your own fabulous & flexible artistic mural changing as your mood depicts and time evolves.
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This past weekend Ever After Polish released two new holos (as well as a few other polishes) from it Princess Collection and I have swatches to share. These polishes are available now in the Ever After Polish shop now for $10.50 each, which is a steal for these beauties.
First up we have Ever After Polish A Dream is a Wish. This is a lovely sky blue holo packed with silver flakies to give it that extra sparkle. I used two thin coats for opacity and formula was even and easy to work with – not too thick or thin. I just loved this polish, the extra silver sparkle really made it gem-like to me and it reminded me of my birthstone, the aquamarine.
This is Ever After Polish I've Got a Dream. This is a lovely pastel purple holo with similar platinum flakes, but I found my bottle to be not as packed as A Dream is a Wish. Still really pretty. I also spied some super small and subtle multichrome flake in this one, definitely gave it more dimension and beauty! This formula was also easy to work with, and I found this to be opaque in two coats.
So that's all I have for today, short and sweet. But Ever After Polish releases really great stuff, I'm especially enamored with their flakies, but these are gorgeous as well. I'll drop all the links below so you can find out more about them!
I got a cold on the second leg of my vacation so I'm still fighting that and have been low on the energy spectrum because of it. I do have some new stuff to share this week though so stay tuned!
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What is district and school level TRAx?
Like the state level system, TRAx is a web-based application used to assess the digital learning readiness levels of schools and school districts. At the district and school level, stakeholders can begin collecting data almost instantly. Through the interactive dashboard, districts and schools can manage user accounts, roles, and responsibilities. Tailored for individual needs, the district/school level TRAx tool can be customized to specific data needs, including gathering data to help evaluate goals, make decisions, and inform proposal writing and grant project evaluation. Districts receive overall district report and individual school-level TRAx reports. These reports provide data describing schools' device readiness, network readiness, and overall readiness, and calculations to determine network infrastructure and device needs for digital learning and online testing.
Success Stories
Districts and states that participate in TRAx assessments will be provided with accurate, timely data related to digital learning readiness. Schedule a demonstration to see how the district/school-level TRAx can benefit your organization.
What sets TRAx apart?
- Quick on-boarding process means you can be collecting data next week.
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- Ease of use is described as "flawless" by educators.
- Data sandbox lets users see how changes can improve their readiness.
- Every piece of data is meaningful and all tied to a proven framework for digital learning.
- The entire TRAx system has been vetted by educators, and developed with educators to ensure that it gives districts and schools the data that they want and need to support digital learning.


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Last week we brought you the news that Rihanna and Drake we reportedly 'seeing each other' again after they had been spotted together at some of London's most exclusive night spots. Today it appears as though opinion is split on whether or not the couple are serious as there are conflicting reports regarding their relationship.
One source told Hollywoodlife.com the following. "Rihanna and Drake really have this chemistry and vibe with one another and that's something they can't explain. They're both kind of infatuated with each other."
Infatuated with each other they maybe, but another source claims the couple are "just having fun" as they said the following to the Daily Star Newspaper. They said, "Rihanna and Drake are just having fun at the moment. Neither of them are relationship people really, but Drake has made it clear that if things are going to get serious with them, he doesn't want her speaking with Chris."
Chris is of course Rihanna's ex-boyfriend, but he is currently behind bars so contact with him will be limited if non existent right now which means Drake will get his wish, though the source did finish off by saying, "They are never going to get along properly."
So Drake and Rihanna are infatuated with one another and have amazing chemistry and vibe, but neither are into relationships and they are not going to get along! Not the ideal mix for a long standing relationship is it!


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Izzy's Doll
I made a decision early on that every year, my goddaughter Izzy would get one handmade gift, at least one book and one costume. So for her first birthday it was high time I made her something.
This doll was lovely and soft and has spent most of it's time in her mouth!
The limbs and body are cotton, the hair is felt, the dress is some scraps of patchwork fabric and the features done with DMC embroidery thread. I used the same process as the mini moopy soft toy where the limbs are folded in and then the body is stitched around. Things came out a little wonky but that was okay. Once she was dressed you couldn't really notice it.
I had great expectations of myself and spent an evening trying to do plaited rag doll hair with embroidery thread but it got to midnight and I hadn't even completed one line! I will have to try that again another time when I haven't left finishing the doll to the day before. The felt hair worked out quite well in that it is super soft and I don't have to worry about it falling out if there's some rough play.
Izzy had open heart surgery very young so I decided to stitch the chest scars onto the doll like she has. So there is the main center scar and two drainage scars. I may add the kidney ones later on but they are currently quite faded.
I had definitely overestimated my skills in make a soft toy. There was a fair bit of swearing when things just wouldn't quite go as I had planned and it definitely is not as detailed as I planned for it to be when I first started. But that's okay :)
let me know what you think!
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5 Weight Loss Diet Plans for Diabetics
Diabetic weight loss options may have become a top priority for you to research, especially if you have just received news from your doctor that you have diabetes and you should lose weight. Trying to find a good weight loss program is hard enough. It may also seem an impossible task to find a good diabetic weight loss diet.
This is where we may help out, by explaining 5 different diabetic weight loss diet options.
5 Diabetic Weight Loss Options
Diabetic Food Exchange Diet: This diabetic diet plan is one of the main eating plans that doctors prescribe to people with diabetes. It may be confusing at first, yet once you understand its concept, you will find that it has two positive outcomes. It will help you lose weight and maintain your blood sugar.
Basically, the diabetic food exchange diet separates food into groups. Each group lists certain foods that may be eaten and the exact portion that may be eaten. Measuring the food portions exactly is very important on this diabetic weight loss diet. It is also important to eat on a very regular schedule.
Diabetic Food Pyramid: This diabetic food plan is easier to understand and implement than the diabetic food exchange diet. With this plan, the foods are separated into different groups. The food group that allows the most servings is the base of the food pyramid. The next set of groups of foods to follow up the pyramid, with the top of the pyramid representing the food group allowed the list.
You can lose weight on this diet and be satisfied if you stay within the servings allowed each group and choose healthy, low-calorie foods.
Atkins Diabetic Diet: This diet is found in the Atkins series of dieting books. The book, Atkins Diabetes Revolution, offers diabetic meal plans allowing three different levels of carbohydrate consumption. This diet plan begins with the person having only 20 grams of carbohydrates a day. Gradually, 40 grams of carbs are allowed, and finally, 60 grams of carbs are allowed per day. This diabetic weight loss diet may be a bit extreme for many people because it almost eliminates bread, rice, and potatoes. Yet, many people to control their diabetes as well as their weight with this diet.
Nutrisystem Diabetic Diet Plan: The diabetic weight loss diet plan offered by Nutrisystem may be considered one of the most convenient diabetic weight loss options. The diabetic meals are specifically made for people with diabetes Type II. They are low calorie pre-packaged and pre-portioned and require no refrigeration. Fresh fruits, vegetables, and milk should be added to completely balance the diet. If you are a busy person and find it difficult to plan meals, this particular diabetic diet should be considered.
Medifast Diabetic Diet Plan: This diabetic diet weight loss plan claims to help you lose 20 pounds in 30 days. Medifast has a simple, yet powerful diet plan called "5 in 1." This means you choose 5 items to eat a day from Medifast's prepackaged meals and make your own one "lean and green" meal a day. The "lean and green" meal should consist of a lean meat and green vegetable. Many people with diabetes and weight issues have been helped greatly with Medifast's diabetic diet plan.
Anyone of the above diabetic diet weight loss plans can help you manage your diabetes and weight loss goals reducing insulin.
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For more informations on why I initially started the course see my post from March 2014.
This post is about my lessons learned, findings and experiences.
General Software Engineering Findings
A great quote from the lecture (for a geek T-shirt maybe?): A software engineer does for a dime what any fool can do for a dollar. The key to such an efficiency is abstraction and separation of concerns.
This wasn't knew to me but it was good to see that those concepts were not invented by the "object-oriented people". They've made the idea popular but you also can achieve nice abstraction layers in your code by only using functional programing, see this section of the original SICP book for a good example.
Before I started the course I probably never wrote a recursion - at least not by intention. In SICP recursion is an important concept and I had solve many different exercises on that topic. Over time I believe I can say I've adopted the recursive thinking.
The most important idea here is the leap of faith. This is a way of thinking which help dealing with recursion: Since it is hard to play a whole recursion through in your head (particularly for complicated tasks) develop your code with a simpler variant of the original problem in mind and believe that the recursion will also work for the more complex variants.
Read Eval Print Loop (REPL)
These days I wouldn't start a bigger programing project without having a REPL available. A REPL gives you an interactive way to try out some pieces of code before adding it to your actual program.
For Java I utilize the Eclipse Scrapbook, for C I sometimes use codepad.org. Those last two examples are no REPLs since they are not interactive but at least they provide some convenient way to try out code. For C I might use straight gdb next time - we'll see how well that goes.
Functional Programming
SICP is heavily relying on the power of higher order functions. That is due to the Scheme heritage of the course material. In the original SICP book (the wizard book) the possibility to assign values to a variable is mentioned somewhen in the middle of the book. This modern version of the course is not as puristic.
The further you work your way through the course material you see functional programming being used side by side with classic procedural and object oriented programming. In my opinion this is what makes Python such an interesting language: you pick the programing paradigm (the tool) which fits best for the job to be done.
I did some Javascript coding recently and used this occasion to re-read Eloquent Javascript. After having taking SICP this whole fuzz about Javascript functions is now much less confusing. The syntax could be more elegant though ;-)
Object Oriented Programing
Due to my efforts in structuring my work C code I was aware of Abstract Data Types (ADT) before. In the course we've pushed this idea further: We've been using Python to implement an own object model including inheritance. This object model stood beside the build-in OO-features of Python.
This was an impressive and eye opening experience. Now I eventually know how to give the bash OO-capabilities ;-)
To quote the teacher, Professor Hillfinger: Object oriented programing is just a disciplined way to structure your programs.
Declarative Programing
The last quarter of the course had a huge emphasis on declarative programing. We've learned the concept, discussed a simple interpreter of a small invented declarative language written in Python. This language was a mix of Prolog (the structure) and Scheme (the brackets).
I saw that this is a very different way to approach solving a problem and that you should be aware of it. However, for my taste we've spend too much time on coding exercises with this little academic teaching.
Python as The Courses Main Language Language
Many years back my first programing language was Perl which impressed me with the power of a couple of code lines. Python is for me Perl done right - a multi purpose high-level scripting language with an easy to read syntax. At least Python doesn't share Perl (bad) reputation for cryptic one-liners.
Writing some Java after having done Python makes me feel like "Is the handbrake still pulled?" - not to mention my emotions going from Python back to application programing in C.
Scheme - Your Fathers Brackets
The original material of the course was entirely held in Scheme. In the new version the main programming language was Python but Scheme was still very present.
After doing some Scheme syntax and coding exercises the last project was about writing an own Scheme interpreter in Python. I wouldn't say that I'm now an expert in designing programming language but if I would ever get the task to implement an own language I definitely have a clear idea of the basic concept - a constant (meaning recursive) evaluation and application of a stream of input tokens.
This concept is so fundamental that it made it on the originals book title:
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I started the course when I was off on parental leave for two months. At the beginning of that time I appointed one full day per week for the course work, in the second month I increased to two days per week. Additionally, I was watching the lecture screencasts in the evenings at home.
To stay focused I tried to study at my local universities library as often as I could.
When I started working again things slowed down. I tried to shift my study time to the evenings but my performance is not the best after 8:30 pm, particularly when you're not "just coding" but trying to solve tricky lab tasks. Additionally, work (a lot of mighty C programming) was quite involving.
The trick was to believe in small steps and to celebrate every complete homework, discussion or lab assignment.
At the beginning I tried to do all homework tasks, also the extra credits. When I saw my pace going down I decided to be just an average student and to focus only the compulsory work. My pace increased again and I realized that to be average in my situation was a good decision. It was my trade off being a full time worker, committed family father and a remote student at the same time.
Self Paced Learning
The course wasn't designed as a self study course. However, the lecture screencasts where great, I watched them all, some of them more than once. I found out that my brain digests new ideas better if new material is first presented/ explained to me and then I start practicing on my own.
The study guide Composing Programs also helped a lot to approach a topic from a second side (first listen to the screencast, second read in the book).
When we've learned about environment diagrams, the Online Python Tutor was very helpful. It's basically a graphical debugger for smaller code snippets which nicely illustrates the environment frames involved and their content.
Most of the hands-on assignments (labs, homework, projects) came with unit tests which described the intended behaviour of the functionality to be implemented. This way I could always check my implementation. Solutions were also available (with the exception of the projects).
Maybe the biggest problem for me was the lack of support from somebody else. As an enrolled student there are assigned teaching assistants (TAs) to help you. If I had questions I only had the Google search on my side which wasn't always as effective.
Particularly when I got into writing recursive functions I was sometimes fighting for hours to finish a task. Of course I only could have looked up the solution but this wasn't my intent - the whole purpose of my studies was to deeply understand the material.
Bigger projects where intended to be work on by small teams. As a one man team I did all the tasks on my own. This was also one reason why I took my longer then planned to finish the course.
Next Steps And Follow Up Courses
Online courses are great. They have their limitation once you get into project or group work. But e.g for learning a new programming language or library sites like codeschool.com are nowdays first choice for me. Infact, I would rather take a week off and work my self through a quality online course than attending a real life training. Check out this AngularJS course as an example for what I mean.
I was a bit disappointed that CS169.1x had already started when I finished: CS169.1x teaches the fundamentals of software engineering using Agile techniques to develop Software as a Service using Ruby on Rails. They have now the archived material available so I might work my self through that course again - we'll see.
It was fun and I definitely would do it again. Also for me the modern Python version of the course was more appealing than the pure text book based study of the old Scheme book.


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Blue-Collar Kaizen: Leaning Lean & Lean Teams
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If you follow visual arts in our region, you probably know about most of the museums and larger galleries that populate it. Even if you don't, you have probably read about what a magnet the arts are for visitors and those who relocate here.
Still, you might know little or nothing about an institution that has as much, if not more, status in the contemporary art world than any other in these parts.
It's housed in a modest facility on the University of South Florida campus with scant gallery space to reveal its revolutionary wonders over the decades. That is why the Tampa Museum of Art has used most of its 15,000 square feet of gallery space to do so with "Graphicstudio: Uncommon Practice at USF."
Now in its 46th year, Graphicstudio is an atelier (ah-tel-YAY), or studio, in which artists collaborate with a production staff to create prints and sculptural multiples. Many ateliers exist worldwide but Graphicstudio was, from its founding in 1968, special. With its university affiliation, it could draw on the expertise of a diverse staff across many disciplines and it was ambitious in harnessing that expertise to invent new methods of creating editions using unexpected materials.
Donald Saff gets the credit for its founding. He hired a crack team of technicians and master printers and, through his contacts and charisma, persuaded artists to come to the campus to create limited editions. Mostly, Graphicstudio used the lithography process in the beginning and printed images on paper but experimentation and innovation were always the goal. We see that in the earliest works in the show, such as a 1972 series titled Made in Tampa by Robert Rauschenberg, who used clay to mimic cardboard and used the cyanotype process, which is a type of blueprint, as an artistic medium.
Collaboration is at the heart of such workshops. Individual artists have revolved in and out of the studio and Graphicstudio's team seems never to have told any of them "it can't be done" judging from the scope and span of this exhibition. And judging by the number of artists who came when they and the atelier were young and have returned at least once to create new work.
Philip Pearlstein, the first artist invited to Graphicstudio, came back in the 1980s. Jerusalem, Kidron Valley is his large print made using a woodblock printing method that the studio invented called heliorelief.
Pearlstein said, "We are using (the process) in a much more flexible way than it was done traditionally. . . . It would be inconceivable to do a large-scale project like this landscape in a private . . . workshop. It would be impossible in terms of dollars."
Ed Ruscha, James Rosenquist and Rauschenberg made return visits. Younger stars such as Christian Marclay have, too.
In all, Graphicstudio has collaborated with more than 100 artists and produced thousands of prints and sculpture multiples. As large as this show is, only 46 artists and about 100 works could fit into the galleries. Still, it's representative of the studio's span and scope.
Since Saff, Graphicstudio has had directors that put their stamp on its direction: David Yager, Alan Eaker, Hank Hine (now director of the Dalí Museum in St. Petersburg) and currently Margaret Miller, who joined USF as an art professor in 1971. Hine, for example, expanded its reach, bringing in artists from Latin America and the Caribbean. Miller has cultivated relationships with international artists and, because Graphicstudio is also officially USF's Institute for Research in Art, encouraged more research on materials and processes that have led to some exquisitely complicated and beautiful sculptures. Teresita Fernández had her drawings translated into layers of stainless steel cut by precisely calibrated water-jets for Landscape (Panoramic Mirror), which draws the viewer into a leafy denseness of perceptual experiences.
The innovations aren't spurious or stunts. As Miller writes in the catalog, they "derive from the artists' intentions and interests and the ability of the production staff to utilize and define the most appropriate techniques to realize the artwork." (I encourage you to buy a catalog if you can afford it. It's $29.95 and reproduces not only the art in the show but wonderful essays by curator Jade Dellinger, Miller, former directors and some of the artists who have worked at Graphicstudio. Miller's narration of the epic quest to figure out a way to create lava for Keith Edmier's sculptures is alone worth the price.)
But the studio also utilizes the tried and true, albeit at the highest level. Acclaimed painter Theo Wujcik used the centuries-old method of etching for his portrait of Ruscha, whom he befriended when the artist came to Graphicstudio and Wujcik was one of its master printers. Vik Muniz is celebrated for portraits he creates from unexpected materials, anything from chocolate sauce to diamonds, that he photographs. The original is destroyed and the reproductions become the art. He was inspired by a fingerprint portrait Chuck Close had made at the studio, created a self-portrait made of old stamps a printer gave him that was printed in a double process of lithography and screen print. It looks like a conventional drawing until you look closely.
All of these cool projects cost money, and USF contributes funding, but Saff took the genius idea of having a limited number of subscribers for the limited edition prints, which would help underwrite the studio. The subscribers would additionally purchase the works if they chose. The practice has become a status symbol among collectors of contemporary art and there is now a waiting list for subscribers. Miller also crafts a good mix of established artists and young ones. The young ones may not be well known, but she has a long track record for recognizing talent and picking winners.
Graphicstudio isn't a tourist draw; it's an artists' draw that, in its own way, has put our area on the art map. See this show and you'll see why.
Lennie Bennett can be reached at [email protected] or (727) 893-8293.


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By On Oct 11, 2018 Coloring Pages
When you are coloring, make sure you have a good light source so that you aren't straining your eyes. During the day try and find yourself a nice spot by a window with plenty of natural light, alternatively invest in a daylight LED lamp so that you can have a decent bright light to color under day and night. Some of these lamps even have in-built magnifying glasses which will help you when coloring detailed pages, but will also put less strain on your eyes.
Find your space. Whether you are coloring for relaxation, to de-stress or simply for fun, you need a place where you are comfortable coloring. It doesn't have to be somewhere quiet (although that can certainly help if you want to get lost in your coloring page), there are plenty of coloring groups and meetups where adults who enjoy coloring can go to chatter and color at the same time, the important thing is find your own space, reserve some time, get a comfy seat and give yourself every opportunity to color in comfort.
You need to invest in your coloring hobby to reap the rewards! I don't mean you need to go spend your life savings on the most expensive art supplies or furnish part of your house with an art studio, I mean spend the time to allow yourself to become better at coloring. Most things in life take practice and coloring is no exception.
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World cup days in Sarajevo
I'll start the holiday posts with what was the reason that we rushed to Bosnia as soon our studies ended in June - World Cup! After traveling around, cheering for Bosnia in qualifying matches, it felt as a matter of course that if we can't be in Brazil at least we'll cheer from home ground. It didn't quite go as we imagined though... I don't want to open up old wounds by even thinking about the match against Nigeria. Those of you who know, you know. But if we ignore that and focus on the positive... wow. The atmosphere before the first two group matches were over the top. The whole city was full of flags, signs, game jerseys, hats, honking cars. Even the tram was one big Bosnian flag. It was great while it lasted.


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Cleveland Indians' star shortstop Francisco Lindor made good on his bet with his high school baseball team, shaving his hair Thursday after Montverde Academy completed its season undefeated. A former USA TODAY All-USA high school baseball team member for the Eagles, Lindor was drafted eighth overall out of Montverde by the Indians in 2011.
Lindor, 24, shared the experience on his Instagram account:
The "Daily Commercial" also posted a video of Lindor getting his head shaved by the team's players.
The result is pretty shocking:
Lindor, whose hair has been dyed blonde on top and down the middle since his debut in the Majors, made a bet before the season that if Montverde went undefeated, he would shave his head. The Eagles went 25-0, and Lindor used his off day to make good on his bet. It'll certainly be a new look for one of the game's brightest stars, but as long as he keeps producing like he has been this year — he's coming off an AL Player of the Week award — it shouldn't be a problem.
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Toscane > Valdarno, Pergine Valdarno, Italië
Typisch Toscaanse woning met 4 slaapkamers en 2 badkamers, gelegen in de heuvels tussen Chianti en Arezzo.
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Huisdieren OK
Main house 160 m2: going up 4 steps, living-dining room with kitchen corner and fireplace, three double bedrooms, twin bedroom (possibility of a double bed), two bathrooms with shower.
Private swimming pool mts 5x10 depth 1.4mts, garden furniture, barbecue.
Grocers 800 m, supermarket 6 km, restaurant 1 km, railway station 'Laterina' 6 km. 20 km from the centre of Arezzo, 40 km from the centre of Siena, 60 km from the centre of Firenze. Motor vehicle access to the house: 1 km via unpaved road not suitable for sport car.
This typical Tuscan country house, with 4 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms is located between the hills of Chianti and Arezzo, with magnificent views of the woods, fields and the surrounding vineyards. There is a nice swimming pool in panoramic position. Easily reached from the main roads, Querciolaia is an ideal starting point for trips to explore the fascinating countryside and the interesting towns in the region.
Typisch Toscaanse woning met 4 slaapkamers en 2 badkamers, gelegen in de heuvels tussen Chianti en Arezzo.
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NCIS claims ratings crown: BBM
The 60-minute drama netted 2.73 million viewers, whileThe Big Bang Theory was the top weekly show for March 18 to 24.
Here are the top-ranked daily measured shows in Canada (for all persons 2+; all times ET), according to BBM, for March 18 to 24, 2013:
Monday: Hawaii Five-O on Global at 10 p.m.: 2.13 million viewers.
Tuesday: NCIS on Global at 8 p.m.: 2.73 million viewers.
Wednesday: C.S.I. on CTV at 10 p.m.: 2.43 million viewers.
Thursday: Grey's Anatomy on CTV at 9 p.m.: 1.99 million viewers.
Friday: Blue Bloods on CTV at 10 p.m.: 1.54 million viewers.
Saturday: Hockey Night in Canada Prime East on CBC at 7:00 p.m.: 1.89 million viewers.
Sunday: Amazing Race on CTV at 8 p.m.: 2.41 million viewers.
Here are the top-ranked weekly averaged measured shows in Canada (for all persons 2+; all times ET), according to BBM, for March 18 to 24, 2013:
1. The Big Bang Theory, weeknights on CTV at 7:30 p.m.: 1.72 million viewers.
2. CTV Evening News, weeknights on CTV at 6 p.m.: 1.68 million viewers.
3. CTV Evening News Weekend on CTV at 6 p.m.: 1.13 million viewers


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Stromatolite was founded in Shoreditch, London, in 2000, by Royal College of Art graduates Michela Magas and Peter Russell-Clarke. For over 10 years Stromatolite has developed design innovation concepts for a series of international clients including Apple, Nike and Nokia, as well as educational methodologies for the Royal College of Art Design Products, Goldsmiths MA Design Critical Practice, and a series of international creative workshops. While Peter is now part of the Apple Industrial Design Team, Michela has continued to build teams focusing on taking innovation to industry in the areas of visual communication, system design, music tech and Open Product concepts. The team now comprises an extended network of collaborators from different fields.
Stromatolite has been awarded the UK Technology Strategy Board: Collaboration in Digital Industries; the EU FP7 award for MIReS: the future of music tech; the UK Technology Strategy Board award for Open Product Licenses; the EU FP7 award for ICT&ART; and the 'art meets science' NEMart award for Songlines (Barcelona 2010) and Synaesthesia (Istanbul 2012). Stromatolite was selected for the "Make It in Great Britain" exhibition at the Science Museum, showcasing the best of British manufacturing and innovation during the London Olympics.
In 2012 Stromatolite launched two spin-offs:
Sonaris Systems
, an innovative music technology company, and
Music Tech Fest
, the global festival of music ideas.
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for more info
We launched
Music Tech Fest
in London in 2012 as 'the festival of music ideas', by pulling the entire music technology ecosystem under one roof. The festival united major players like Soundcloud, Spotify, Shazam, EMI Music and the BBC, innovative labels like Ninja Tune and Warp, tech media like WIRED, great performers and a whole bunch of innovative startups, hackers and researchers.
In 2013 we set out to make music with anything. Jamie Cullum improvised for the first time on the new
, Sony/RCA gave our hackers 330GB of original audio stems to play with, Mike Skinner uploaded his stems and Jacob Banks recorded his soulful voice for the hackers to use. Matt Black jammed on the Ninja Jamm app and Steven Hill launched the
Warp Incubator
for new artists.
In 2014 we were asked to take the fest to the global stage, starting with
, Berlin, Paris and New York. Our flagship event in London is now part of the official autumn season of the Barbican LSO St Lukes in partnership with the
London Symphony Orchestra
. In 2015 the festival reaches Scandinavia at the brilliant Umeå campus, with the addition of São Paulo, Los Angeles and Amsterdam.
Watch the performances on the
Music Tech Fest channel
and read about the collaborations and innovations on
our blog
. Play with the colour 'keyboard' on the
Music Tech Fest website
and download our free
Synaesthesia App
"Music Tech Fest was one of those incredible events we won't forget soon, a heavyweight gathering of the sound tribe"
. Patrick Bergel, Animal Systems
"that was fab!"
Matt Black, Coldcut+Ninja Tune
"I heard nothing but glowing reports"
. Denzyl Fiegelson, iTunes Music Synergist
"It's a privilege to see such amazing new experiments in sound"
. Jamillah Knowles, BBC Outriders
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Suppported by Stromatolite and the
project, the Ministry of Measurement was a performance installation by art collective thickear that took place in the
Barbican Centre
from the 7th to the 18th of August 2013. The work transformed the Barbican's giant cloakroom area into a sinister bureaucratic data collection centre where members of the public were coerced into collecting bizarre measurement data, fed into the eleven enormous databanks, printed and hung up as lengthy data sheets.
A study of the subjectivity of data readings, the intricacies of measurement and our inherent suspicions about data exchange, the Ministry of Measurement was also a homage to much classic Sci-Fi and dystopian film and literature, visual echoes of which are evident within the Barbican's architecture and interior design. With deft use of sound, visual cues, performance and a keen eye for the Barbican's brutalist aesthetic, it presented an engaging, ominous,
Kubrickesque experience
'our highlight from this afternoon was the strange, cinematic Ministry of Measurement installation by sound art collective thickear. The group has taken over the Barbican's lower level cloakroom, creating an interactive piece/performance that examines the subjectivity of measurement and data processing. It's odd, it's cinematic and it's charmingly engaging'.
Emily Gosling,
Design Week
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Sound and Music
Creative Boom
The Ministry of Measurement was performed at the
at the EU Parliament
, presented at
the Royal College of Art
, and
the Lighthouse
. It lead to a commission by
the ODI
, and an invitation to curate an edition of Springer's
Philosophy & Technology Journal
at the University of Oxford.
A Stromatolite collaboration with
Andrew Dubber
Blue Hippo Media
, Occupy Music is a feature-length documentary about
Fora do Eixo
- a revolutionary Brazilian independent music movement born out of a network of performing music collectives.
Resisting the traditional infrastructure of the mainstream entertainment industries, the network rejects the star system and works on the basis of collaboration rather than competition, with its own currency and its own university. It is to the mainstream music industry what the Occupy movement is to Wall Street.
Occupy Music is set to be a documentary featuring a range of music by some of Brazil's most exciting artists and performers. It aims to take the viewer on a tour of Brazil from the rainforests to the beaches, from enormous cities to rural towns, from backroom bar gigs to large rock festivals. It explores a very Brazilian idea that looks set to fundamentally challenge the global music industry orthodoxy.
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and at
the Occupy Music website
An EU FP7-funded project, ICT&ART brings together artists and scientific researchers in an exploration of new cross-disciplinary practices. Collaborative acts of co-creation, together with an open and multidisciplinary discussion enabled via a series of initiatives, foster the bringing together of art, science and technology.
The project has enabled support and collaboration for the
Ministry of Measurement
installation at the Barbican in August 2013, and the ART+TECH HACK as part of the
NEM Summit
in Nantes in October 2013. Stromatolite supported 5 out of 19 collaborative projects, including the
art collective collaboration with Ulrich Atz from the
Open Data Institute
, colaborations between musicians, designers, educators, sound designers, creative developers, and even a 15-year-old programmer from the
Young Rewired State
For a full list of projects download the
ICT&ART final brochure
Our longest residency,
were invited to present their project at
in Manchester,
the Royal College of Art
symposium on
data culture
, the monthly talk at
the Lighthouse
in Brighton, given a commission by
the ODI
, and invited to curate an edition of Springer's
Philosophy & Technology Journal
by Editor-in-Chief Luciano Floridi at the University of Oxford.
The project was run in collaboration with the
Waag Society
in Amsterdam,
Brunel University
in London, the
Black Cube Collective
in Edinburgh, and is coordinated by
Sigma Orionis
in Nice.
For more information visit the EU project portal
ICT&Art Connect
Songlines unites distant cultures through music. It draws a web of relationships based on audio similarities found between recordings made all over the world. The variety of different relationships results in unique musical paths and distinctive visual patterns each time a query is triggered. Songlines uses our
Sonaris technology
, which allows users to search for music using sound samples. The technology analyses a sound clip and matches it to similar sounds from other tracks.
The first version of Songlines was built with the Alan Lomax collection of field recordings and received the NEMart award in Barcelona in 2010. A new version was built for the "Make It in Great Britain" exhibition at the Science Museum during the London 2012 Olympics, in conjunction with Peter Gabriel's Real World Records. The aim was to help audiences discover relationships between music by Real World artists from all corners of the globe.
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CueSongs is a new quick way of finding and licensing music for use in digital media, backed by Peter Gabriel. It has gathered all of the big music publishers, including Sony, Warners and Universal in the quest of opening up large portions of their music libraries - mainly back catalogues and up-and-coming artists - for off-the-shelf music licensing. We built the brand, designed the system and implemented the supporting tech. Peter wrote: "The logo is brilliant - I love it and I'm really picky"
"By introducing low prices and easy online access, Cuesongs is creating a new market for music, to satisfy a huge untapped demand that can begin to provide new income streams for artists."
Peter Gabriel on the BBC
"Nasa's head of media has called to say the site has eased his licensing nightmare, and beta testing has yielded other whispers of support."
The Huffington Post
Watch the
CUE promo
Check out the
. CueSongs Pro, available to subscribers, is powered by our
music search technology.
If Shazam provides the answer to "I like it - what is it?", we provide the answer to "I like it - is there anything else like it?".
Sonaris analyses an audio stream in real time, and matches it to similar sounds from other tracks. Sonaris helps discovery of new artists regardless of their name or provenance, compilations of well-mixed playlists, and fast licensing of just the right music for film and advertising productions.
See a demo at the
Sonaris pecha kucha.
Sonaris was co-authored by Michela Magas and Cyril Laurier, aided by an award to Stromatolite from the UK Technology Strategy Board. It builds upon two sets of PhD research which became more than the sum of their parts. The first version of Sonaris enabled discovery of music from the AWAL - Artists Without A Label - an independent collection which includes artists like Moby and Thom Yorke. The Sonaris technology was used to power the
Songlines exhibit
at the "Make It in Great Britain" exhibition at the Science Museum during the London Olympics.
Incorporated as a spinoff of Stromatolite in 2012, Sonaris is currently powering the innovative
CueSongs Pro
licensing engine, backed by Peter Gabriel.
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MIReS (
) was an EU-funded project focusing on the future impact of music technology research on academia and industry. The project was enabled by an EU FP7 award by the EU Commission following a proposal by Stromatolite. The team was assembled from some of the most prominent figures in this field from the
Music Technology Group
at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona,
- the Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique/Musique at the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the
Centre for Digital Music
at Queen Mary, University of London,
- the Austrian Institute for Artificial Intelligence in Vienna,
- the Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores in Porto, and
- the Barcelona Music and Audio Technologies. Advisors included
and the
As Scientific Director of the project, Stromatolite was responsible for paving the way for a pan-European research-to-industry network. The MIReS funding has been instrumental in the establishment of the
Music Tech Fest.
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Existing patenting laws have been developed for the protection of industrial tools which generate mass-produced clones. This system is becoming increasingly inadequate for the needs of designers and makers of rapid-prototyped, digitized and traceable tangible products. Within this new three-dimensional landscape of networked and co-created products only certain elements can be registered under existing licenses. The software components can be registered as Open Source for example, while digital on-screen artwork can be assigned one of the Creative Commons attribution licences. Tangible networked products however cannot be registered under any of the existing licensing systems.
The Open Product Licences came from a need to enable product designers to register their tangible innovations and assign an attribution license for others to build upon their work in an accountable way. Inspired by the Open Source and Creative Commons models, Open Product received approval from CERN to take their licensing model and develop it further in line with ideas of 'design by attribution'. One of the main goals of the project is therefore to set the standards for registration and attribution of products, and provide a platform for a community of product designers, developers, makers and thinkers to share ideas and collaborate on new products, regardless of background or provenance.
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, developed with an award by the UK Technology Strategy Board, from
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There were a lot of great fashion moments in Cannes this year but there equally a number of 'what were they thinking' moments. Here's an overview of the worst dressed:
Paris Hilton and Doug Reinhardt win the 'worst couple' award for Cannes this year. I don't know how they managed to get onto the red carpet for Inglourious Basterds or the AMFAR Gala but they brought their hideous style and inappropriate PDA out in full force.
Emile Hirsh and his girlfriend (I think it's Britany-something) looking swarmy on the red carpet of Inglourious Basterds. I love Emile - he was Amazing in Into The Wild and Milk but he looked creepy on the red carpet. As for her dress...hideous! I don't think I need to say more.
Sharon Stone looked amazing on the red carpet for the AMFAR Gala but earlier in the week she wore a trashy looking Balmain gown for the Inglourious Basterds premiere. Sharon has an amazing body but this dress wouldn't look good on anyone. It's a sad day when a Balmain dress looks like it's from Marla's Dress Emporium!
Hayden Panettiere wore a blush silk chiffon Marchesa dress to the AMFAR Gala. Hayden is a beautiful girl but this looks like a bad prom dress.
Eva Herzigova in a red Dolce & Gabanna dress at the AMFAR Gala. This looks like it's a costume from Moulin Rouge. TACKY!
Eva in another bad choice at the Chopard event earlier in the week. She's wearing Roberto Cavalli with Guiseppe Zanotti shoes. Everything about this look screams Euro-trash.
After looking amazing in white earlier in the week, Penelope Cruz wore an ill-fitting purple Marchesa gown to the Broken Embraces premiere. The color is beautiful but the fit is off. I don't know how Marchesa created the amazing white/silver dress that Diane Kruger wore earlier in the week and then sent Penelope and Hayden out in such horrible dresses.
Hillary Swank on the red carpet in a bizarre short/long dress. I don't care enough to find out what designer made the dress but it's definitely bad.
Eva Green wore pink to the AMFAR Gala. The dress isn't that bad but her hair is horrific! Seriously, I know Eva is out-there but nobody could really think this hair/makeup combination looked good. Right?!?!
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I've been doing a bit of reflecting on The Cellar lately. I have always maintained that I don't miss it and I stand by that. I have such a great situation with Frankie's and Coastal Jazz its sometimes hard to believe I did it any other way but then I comb the archives and start remembering some of the amazing moments. Our ten year anniversary was one of those moments. One For All descended on Vancouver like and left a path of musical destruction (in a good way). Those cats have so much swagger and it was on display for four wonderful nights in 2010. The resulting album Invades Vancouver is a gem and what's even better is we video taped the last night. Bossa For All, a David Hazeltine original for no other reason than we had so much material to choose from. He never forgave me but I'm recording it with him in New York in a few months so all is now forgiven.
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