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The automotive, fashion and art worlds collided when Lexus challenged four designers to create wearable pieces of art from car parts -- namely, parts from the the 90% recyclable Lexus CT 200h.
Artists were given one month to complete their designs, which were then placed on display in December during Art Basel Miami Beach.
Pieces were then sold at a private auction, with proceeds benefiting the Council of Fashion Designers of America/Vogue Fashion Fund, a not-for-profit trade association representing 400 fashion and fashion accessory designers.
I stopped watching "Project Runway" a few years ago, but this concept sounds like an ideal challenge for show contestants.
Results from the Lexus Fashion Workshop also appear in this month's issue of Vogue as a six-page ad campaign promoting the green Lexus CT hybrid. Team One created the campaign.
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Alejandro Ingelmo crafted "The Luna Shoe" from armrest leather trim and clear plastic tubing. But are they comfortable?
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The series is starting to wrap up in preparation for Heavenly Sword's Sept. 12 launch. We really do hope that the crumb of a demo isn't indicative of the whole experience. At this point, it's sad to think we'd prefer having three-minute animated shorts tell the story of the game each week than actually play the thing. We'll find out in a week.
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A new competence scheme for assessors has been launched to assist with the verification of health and safety arrangements in construction.
Individuals who carry out Stage 1 Core Criteria (pre-qualification) assessments for constructors who are members of the Safety Schemes in Procurement (SSIP) forum can now apply for certification by the International Register of Certified Auditors. The IRCA scheme is being actively encouraged by the HSE and SSIP members, with successful completion of the IRCA-approved SSIP assessor-training course being mandatory for all assessors working under the SSIP scheme.
IRCA director Simon Feary said: "We are delighted that [this] scheme will be used to set the standard for health and safety assessors working in construction. The scheme will provide the benchmark for the assessors responsible for ensuring that an organisation's health and safety arrangements are to standard. It should also provide assurance for those companies commissioning sub-contracting services and provide greater consistency in ensuring health and safety standards across the industry."
Philip White, the HSE's chief inspector of construction, said it will help the construction industry "have confidence" that assessors who are carrying out pre-qualification health and safety assessments for SSIP members have the necessary training and experience to do the job in a practical and proportionate manner".
The Stage One assessment applies to a company's health and safety arrangements and determines if they are sufficient to enable the organisation to carry out construction work safely and without risk to health. This competency assessment extends to organisations as well as principal contractors, contractors, designers, and CDM coordinators.
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We have a production database with transaction-style data, in most of the tables we have a timestamp attribute "created" telling the creation time of the table row. Naturally, this attribute is always increasing. By now we are hitting the limit where the table data does not fit in caches anymore. We have a report section where there are constantly requests for things like "sum up all transactions for the last two weeks", and those requests seem to do a full table scan, even though only the last parts of the table is needed - so by now those reports have started to cause lots of iowait. Is there any way to avoid this, apart from adding memory linearly with database growth, make adjunct tables for historical rows, or build a separate data warehousing system? There must be some simpler solutions, right? -- Tobias Brox, Beijing
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A Department of Homeland Security (DHS) report obtained by AIN through the agency's safety management system details how a Bell 205A1++ pilot (name withheld) supporting Oregon's Pole Creek fire-suppression efforts on September 28 saved another firefighter who became trapped by the blaze.
"The downed trees that had not burned were now igniting, and the heat was intense," the pilot reported. "I monitored [my ground contact's] position along the fire's edge watching for his orange tarp." The winds shifted and picked up speed. "I told him I had only 30 minutes of fuel. I made two more [water] drops into the area, but the fire was so intense I was having little effect," the pilot's report continued.
"My contact was now within 500 feet of the face of the raging fire. I could see the waves of heat actually shimmering. A 200- to 300-yard wide wall of trees ignited and then lit the next row of trees. My ground contact centered in this wall…was in grave danger. The fire was moving much faster than he was with no way out. [I realized] the fire would have been on him before I could attempt another bucket drop. I saw a small opening in the trees to hover without damaging the helicopter and lowered the bucket thinking we had only a few seconds or minutes left. I am sure he could feel the fire, because I certainly could. He climbed into the bucket and I lifted it and him, flying north, perhaps one-quarter mile to an open area. I carefully lowered the bucket to the ground and he got out and walked to the nearby trail. I looked back at the spot where I'd picked him up and it was fully torched."


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By Maite Garmendia
Julia* is a very articulated young girl. She moves her hands constantly as she speaks, and her feelings are conveyed through her big brown eyes. She is very cheerful and open as she shares her experience.
How did you arrive in Casa Alianza? "I was mistreated and sexually abused by my father". That is the straightforward answer of this 14-year old girl born in San Benito, Petén.
Similar stories could be told of other girls living in the Women's Centre of Casa Alianza, in Zone 2 of Mixco, which assists 19 girls, 15 young mothers and 14 babies.
In Casa Alianza you come across cases involving mistreatment, abandonment and abuse. Julia is special, she feels at ease talking about her experience which is not the case with other girls. "So I can move on", she says.
Abused since she was seven years old
"I was sexually abused by my father since I was seven years old. He used to hit me constantly. He also sold me to other men because he owed them money. I was sexually exploited and my mother was unaware because she left for work early in the morning and returned home in the evening. I did not tell her about it because my father had threatened to kill me if I did", she adds.
At that time, Julia wondered why his father treated her like that because he never mistreated any of her siblings – another girl and three boys. "I had done nothing wrong", she said.
As years went by, she continued to suffer his father's unrelenting mistreatment and humiliation. One day Julia began to feel that this was not right. "When I was 7 years old I did not know that what he was doing was wrong but as I grew older I realised that this situation should not be happening to me. When I started to reject him, he used to hit me very hard to get what he wanted", she adds.
Less than a year ago this situation began to change since our neighbours denounced him before the authorities. "A legal process was initiated against him and a judge sent me to Fundación Remar –a foster care home– in San Benito, where I remained for one week. Thereafter, on 6 April, the judge decided to send me here, to Casa Alianza".
A new home
Surrounded by other girls –who have been mistreated and gone through similar situations– and the staff from Casa Alianza, Julia has found a new home: "a great mansion", in her own words. "We are really a family and they all support me. Now I am happy, I have left violence behind me".
She easily became adjusted to her new life in Casa Alianza, an institution funded by donations. She got involved in new routines, activities and community sessions. "I was able to finish fifth grade and will be on sixth grade next year because I want to finish primary school. While on vacation school I took a bakery course and helped in the kitchen, and this week I will help out at the front desk", she proudly announces, while mentally going through her schedule of activities.
Despite her outgoing personality, at times she seems to be shy. Such is the case when she is inquired about her family in Petén. Even though she is allowed visitors, her mother has only visited her once since she moved to the capital city. Why don´t you call her? Julia answers: "In the first place because I do not feel like talking to her, and in the second place because I do not know where I left her phone number". In the meantime, her father is under a criminal process based on the neighbours´ testimony.
In 2003, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), started a project with the Italian Cooperation to define and implement a Central American strategy to fight against abuse, sexual exploitation and human trafficking through the promotion of adequate legal frames; strengthening the capacity of national institutions responsible for these issues; developing local protection systems and participating in awareness campaigns around these issues.
The future…
Julia is happy and optimistic about the future: "I do not have to endure past experiences". She knows that remaining in Casa Alianza is subject to the judge's decision. "I want to stay here. I do not want to leave this place until I grow up because I have my whole life before me", says Julia.
It does not take long to perceive that things will go well for her. Her determination and optimistic attitude have allowed her to participate on behalf of other children in various activities and forums on children's rights. In the future Julia would like to become a journalist or perhaps dedicate her life to her great passion … music.
"Ricardo Arjona's friends mocked him and did not believe him when he said that one day he would be a successful singer. Look at him now …Why wouldn´t I be able to accomplish my dreams? she seems to be asking herself.
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Hyperlapse is quite simply the coolest thing we've seen on the web in quite a while. Not only is it creative and beautiful, it's a great reminder that there are still a few APIs left out there that allow you to make cool stuff.
Hyperlapse is a JavaScript library that stitches together Google Street View imagery to create short "hyper-lapse" movies (time-lapse movies with movement).
The code behind Hyperlapse consists of Hyperlapse.js, Mr Doob's Three.js and "a modified version of GSVPano.js". The project is the brainchild of Teehan+Lax, the same design firm that built the interface for Medium.
The site uses WebGL, so you'll need a modern browser like Firefox or Chrome to see it and create your own.
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Kings of Leon to Headline Made in America Festival Despite Drummer's Injury
Kings of Leon were forced to cancel two weeks' worth of tour dates in the wake of a bus accident that left drummer Nathan Followill with broken ribs, but the band will reportedly still headline this weekend's Budweiser Made in America Festival in Philadelphia.
Except for a Questlove-aided appearance on 'The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Falllon,' the band haven't performed since Followill was injured in the accident earlier this month that happened after a fan darted in front of Kings of Leon's tour bus in Boston. Although they were originally expected to resume their summer tour on Aug. 28 at the PNC Bank Arts Center in Holmdel, N.J., the band were forced to cancel that show along with an Aug. 29 concert at First Niagara Pavilion in Pittsburgh.
"After further evaluation, a doctor has ordered drummer Nathan Followill to remain on rest for one more week," the band said in a statement. "The drummer has been on strict doctor's orders to rest over the past two weeks in order to recover from an injury sustained in a tour bus accident earlier this month.
Followill also tweeted his disappointment:
I'm so bummed 2 have 2 cancel more shows but I need to be fully recovered before I get back. So sorry to the fans & thanks 4 understanding.
— nathan followill (@doctorfollowill) August 26, 2014
Despite the setback, Rolling Stone reports Kings of Leon are still set to headline the Made in America Festival on Aug. 31 and will continue the North American leg of their tour in support of 2013's 'Mechanical Bull' through the fall.
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optimizing dataload in index tables
Hi all,
We use SSIS DFT to perform dataload using oledbsource and oledb destination (fastload option). The target table is SCD2 type and we are in process of creating Index in target table. As the process is in development stage, no of records (per day) from source is unknown. But decided to built the index as per the rough estimate of rows per day received from client team. Loading data in to indexed table will take additional time.
Is it good practice to disable and rebuild index before loading data. I read from the link(http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms177445.aspx) that no of incoming rows should be relative to the target row before disable and rebuild index. If the no of input rows is less on a daily basis can we give "order" (clustered index columns) in fasloadoption under oledb destination without disabling index.
Checkconstraint & tableloack are already enabled as part of fastloadoption.
Please find the index details in one of the tables created.
Clustered index (3 columns) on Int
non clustered no unique (2 columns) on Int
we could not make standard steps now as we don't know the exact no of rows to come in production. Any suggestion would be highly appreciated.
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Hi msbi,
If you want exactly to take the options that whether indexes should be dropped beforehand. You could use 2 "Execute SQL Task" to get the amount of new data imported and the amount of existing data in the table, then did division using the 2 numbers to calculate their proportion to see if the indexes should be dropped. The logic could be illustrated like this -
[<<Execute SQL Task - to get the row count of the new data imported and assign the count to a Variable>>]
[<<Another Execute SQL Task - to get the row count of existing data in the target table and assign the count to a variable>>]
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(Count1/Count2<=30%) (Count1/Count2 > 30%)
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[<<DFT->without dropping index>>] [<<DFT - > drop index>>]
In additional, to add the ORDER hint, open the advanced properties of the OLEDB destination componenet and switch to componenet Properties tab where you can find "FastLoadOption", in the box, type something like this: TABLOCK, ORDER(ClusteredColumn, ASC).
Hope this helpfully,
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Mr. Downer writes about type, and type history, for Emigre magazine, House magazine, and other publications. He lives in Iowa City, and travels widely in the United States and Europe, always on the lookout for interesting letterforms.
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UC Davis School of Law is pleased to announce that Sacramento Superior Court Judge Emily Vasquez will serve as the keynote speaker for the 2013 King Hall Outreach Program (KHOP) awards banquet. Judge Vasquez was appointed to the bench in 2001, becoming the first Latina judge of the Sacramento Superior Court.
KHOP is a unique program that helps high potential college students who are either economically disadvantaged or part of the first generation of their families to attend college to prepare for the law school admissions process. In addition to providing mentoring and pre-law advising during the school year, the program takes eligible college juniors and seniors through two residential summer sessions in which they improve writing, logical reasoning, trial and appellate advocacy skills, and study techniques for taking the Law School Admission Test (LSAT), in addition to exploring career paths available to law school graduates. This year's session kicked-off on July 6 and will close with the awards banquet on August 2.


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When I was a kid, I went to Catholic School. The early years of my education was in Canada's Arctic I was instructed by Nuns who floated around the school as if they didn't have feet but roller skates instead. When we moved back to Edmonton, my Catholic education was at the hands of a kid named Rolland. Sure I went to a Catholic School, but I only remember the lessons he taught in the school yard.
Roland was the type of person who would only know a small bit of information, add it to what he thought was true and gave examples to prove his street cred. It worked, we all believed everything that came out of his mouth. He was charismatic. Every grade three kid knew he was THE authority on all things from the Prime Minister of Canada being married to Queen Elizabeth II to when the last Pope dies the world will end.
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The Centre for Technology Enhanced Learning focuses on theoretical and practical challenges related to educational uses of technologies for teaching and learning in formal and informal educational settings.
Watch a video of Members and the co-Director, Don Passey, talking about the work and approaches of the Centre.
Our staff and doctoral researchers take an interdisciplinary stance and utilise a range of methodologies to systematically explore questions concerning educational technologies with respect to three interweaving research themes:
Taken together, the themes provide ways to deconstruct social, political, historical, and economical discourses behind the educational uses of technologies in day-to-day activities.
The Centre encourages links between research and teaching. Our teaching is research-led and our research is informed by our teaching, where the coursework is designed to allow students to build on their professional experience to conduct research and construct knowledge.
Our research is internationally renowned and our academic staff pursue rigorous research projects. The Centre has strong ties with institutions and schools in the UK and beyond.


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They're trading in their uniforms and badges for aprons and menus, and the best part is it's all for a good cause.
Leon County sheriff's deputies and Tallahassee police officers are hosting the seventh annual Cops for Kids.
They're stepping in as waiters at Marie Livingston's Steakhouse and using the tips they earn to purchase bicycles for children for Christmas.
"It's a good cause and something we're glad to come out after a day of work to do another evening's work to help the children," said Leon County Sheriff Larry Campbell.
Cops for Kids at Marie Livingston's is held Friday and Saturday nights.


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In recent weeks, a debate has raged as to whether the government should cut the subsidies it provides to the automobile industry. As important as this debate may be, I believe that much of it has focused on the wrong issue. The question should not just be whether the industry needs support, but what larger purpose any support should serve.
Public-private partnerships are essential for businesses and countries alike. They can help define a nation's future, encourage economic growth and create a climate where businesses are eager to invest. But they must be strategic in design, and governments should enter into them only under two conditions: when the outcome of the partnership will provide a long-term benefit for the country, and when it is clear that the industry being supported can eventually sustain itself.
Today, at least, the answers to those questions are mixed for the car industry. On the one hand, the industry has the potential to play a central role in the manufacturing sector, to be a key component in its revival. On the other hand, the industry is operating under a model that will never be sustainable in Australia.
That is because much of the industry is geared toward basic manufacturing alone, which tends to be labor intensive, low-skill, low-tech manufacturing—the kind of manufacturing that can be done in many countries that have cheaper wage rates and lower costs. These are the kind of jobs that will eventually, inevitably, move offshore.
At the same time, manufacturing remains essential to Australia's future. Manufacturing has the power to create jobs and growth to a degree that no other sector can. It creates as many as three to five jobs outside the plant for every job inside it. That is an enormous – and unmatched – effect. Without question, manufacturing is a sector that Australia cannot afford to lose.
The good news is, it does not have to. Australia can reinvent its manufacturing sector and, in doing so, put its economy on a much stronger footing. This requires building and sustaining a robust advanced manufacturing base – one that's focused not on low-tech, low-value products that other countries can build cheaper than we can, but on high-tech, high-value products that require the kind of intellectual heft Australia is known for.
We should be in the business of building products like water purification and fuel-efficient cars, like solar panels and wind turbines. And we should be focusing on industries that have global markets, so that the value we add is far greater than any transport costs, and the scale of production isn't limited by the economics of the domestic market.
That is how we can leverage our competitive advantages—not just our vast resources below the ground, but our intellectual resources above it. The old model of manufacturing in Australia was too often sub-scale industries hiding behind tariff walls and sized only for a limited domestic market. There are countries where the Dow Chemical Company operates that have successfully reinvented manufacturing. They have done so by identifying and exploiting their country's competitive advantages, not by competing in areas where they are bound to lose.
That does not mean giving up on the Australian car industry; it means transforming it. It means connecting it to research centres and laboratories so that Australia can take the lead in automotive innovation, not just assembly. It means government should make a smart, strategic investment in turning the industry into an engine of economic growth and long-term job creation. that we export innovate products, not basic products that others can do.
If we elevate the auto industry into that more advanced space, and if we do the same for other key industries in our manufacturing centre, we will turn our centres of innovation into hubs of commerce, creating a virtuous cycle of economic activity.
But success will not come by default. It will happen only if Australia develops a manufacturing strategy, and executes it relentlessly.
That means making substantial investments in innovation and research and development, the precursors to a vibrant advanced manufacturing sector. Spending on that front has fallen nearly 25 per cent since the early 1990s. This is a trend we have to reverse.
It also means maximising our competitive advantages when it comes to our natural resources, especially energy. We have to be strategic about this. Right now, for example, Australia either burns most of its natural gas, or liquefies it for export abroad, creating a one-time value-add. If, instead, we used some of those resources as the inputs in a high-value advanced manufacturing process, we could get, on average, a return on investment eight times higher, across the gross domestic product of the entire economy. This is a worthy and achievable goal.
But most importantly, for this strategy to succeed, Australia needs to establish genuine, workable partnerships between business and the public sector. Both sectors should be working with each other, not against each other, to create a strong framework for growth. Such a commitment is, perhaps, the most common thread running through countries that are succeeding in the global economy.
One striking example of where both sectors need to work together is in educating and expanding Australia's workforce. Advanced manufacturing jobs are high-skilled jobs that tend to require a background in science, technology, engineering and mathematics. Global businesses go where this kind of talent is found. That also means revisiting our immigration policy. To build an economy run by the best and the brightest, we not only need an education system that can produce them, but an immigration system that can attract them
This is an ambitious agenda, and no single piece will be easy to accomplish. It is hard, to be sure, for nations to think holistically and act strategically. But I know it is possible. I know, from my travels around the world, that Australia is an envy among nations, especially at a time when many of our "competitor" nations are preoccupied by crises. Let's make this the year where we take advantage of our good fortune and rebuild the manufacturing sector once and for all.
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A rather peculiar issue has been discovered with the newly released Doom 3 BFG Edition on Xbox 360 - out now in the US and on Friday here in the UK.
Those installing the game - including Wario64 - have found they are unable to play the included version of the original Doom, with an on-screen message stating the game can only be accessed when playing from the game disc.
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text: Arch Coal reports $30 million profits so far in 1998 By Ken Ward Jr. October 21, 1998 Story Share The state's largest coal producer has made nearly $30 million in profits so far in 1998, company officials announced Tuesday.Arch Coal Inc. reported earnings of $29.9 million for the three quarters that ended Sept. 30, 1998, according to Deck Slone, Arch's director of public affairs.During the third quarter of 1998, from July 1 through Sept. 30, Arch reported earnings of $500,000 on $424 million in revenues.These results included a positive, after-tax impact of $11.3 million from the sale of some inactive coal properties in eastern Kentucky, Slone said in a news release.In comparison, St. Louis-based Arch Coal had a net loss of $13 million for the same period in 1997. That included a one-time, after-tax charge of $23.8 million related to the merger with Ashland Coal Inc."The third quarter, which is traditionally our weakest earnings period, was especially difficult this year due to a number of previously announced operating challenges," said Steven F. Leer, Arch Coal's president and CEO. "However, we are pleased that, in spite of those challenges, we continued to generate very significant levels of cash."Arch's coal sales for the third quarter totaled 25.9 million tons, compared with 12.6 million tons for the same period in 1997. Increases in sales tonnage were caused by the purchase in June of ARCO's coal holdings in Wyoming and other western states, the company said.Arch Coal reported revenues of $1.1 billion and coal sales of 54.5 million tons during the first nine months of 1998, the company said.The company said that third-quarter results were also adversely affected by higher-than-expected maintenance costs in July during routine mine shutdowns in connection with miners' vacations, unfavorable geologic conditions at Arch's Hobet 21 and Dal-Tex mines in West Virginia, and poor rail service at western operations. Offsetting those negative impacts was the Sept. 29 sale of properties in eastern Kentucky that previously supported Arch Coal's No. 37 mine, which closed in January 1998.This sale resulted in a pre-tax gain of $18.5 million, including the assumption of $4 million in reclamation liabilities."Our ongoing, long-term objective is to lease or sell those assets that are not performing or do not fit our long-term strategy," Leer said. "Our land subsidiary, Ark Land, is operated as a profit center and is constantly reviewing our properties in an effort to identify assets that fit one or both of those criteria."Arch Coal is the nation's second and West Virginia's largest coal producer. In its Tuesday statement, Arch Coal also repeated its call for federal regulators to allow the state Division of Environmental Protection to issue a permit to expand the mountaintop removal mining at the company's Dal-Tex operations.The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has halted the 3,100-acre permit extension because of concerns of the mine's impacts on the environment."As previously stated, we will also need to secure the new permit for the Dal-Tex operation in a timely fashion in order to realize improvements there and avoid curtailment of operations at that complex," Leer said. To contact staff writer Ken Ward Jr., call 348-1702. Write a letter to the editor. Story Share Story Share Trending Now 1 City of Milton tries to revive Morris Memorial property 2 Mitch Vingle: WVU's Lyons watching bombshell merger news 3 Former Boone school board members indicted 4 Morgantown coal operator Laurita indicted in alleged campaign finance scheme 5 Capito quiet on newest ACA repeal proposal; Manchin opposes Land firms can't join mountaintop mine suit Previous Story Editorial: Blasting Next Story


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Well, what can I really say about this CD? It's rave music; it's classified as "4 Beat" or "Happycore," according to the research I've done in my attempts to learn more about something I really have no direct experience with. But, I'll tell you what I know.
There's another kind of rave music called "Trance," and this descriptor actually makes me think of this CD, even though it's not the same thing. There's just this massively booming bass that, if you turn it up loud enough, it makes things rattle and fall off the table (I tried this experiment; it was fun!). Mixed with this, there's a lot of keyboard effects with some scratching sounds. That's about all I could discern from it, although if I was at a club and I had imbibed any toxic chemicals very recently, I could definitely see this as being a good time.
Actually, I have spent lots of time doing just that, and when I compare the 4 Beat I've heard at clubs to what is predominantly on this CD, I find that this disc has much more slow stuff. Cuts like "Elevation" from Stompy and "I'll Be There" from JHAL are actually very melodic and entrancing in more of an "Over the Rainbow" sense, rather than a "Disco Dancing in Hell" manner.
Vinylgroover also does a speedy remix (a DJ Storm remix, to be exact) of Ozzy's "Time After Time." I couldn't believe what I was hearing when the song came on, but there it was. A rave remix of an Ozzy song. The only thing that really remained was the lyrics, and maybe a chord or two. It was still interesting, but it made me feel all old skool for even recognizing it in the first place.
I couldn't find any info on DJ Brisk himself, but the website where you can find this CD is www.majesticrecordings.com. There's a massive amount of music on this site. And, like www.abstraktreality.com, they use Liquid Audio so you can download stuff easily, and even make your own CDs online. It's worth checking out, even if you're not into rave music.
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Check out this great video of Real Salt Lake midfielder Sebastian Velasquez taking us through his match day routine ahead of last Saturday's win against Vancouver. Clearly the routine worked for Seba, who assisted on the second goal in RSL's 2-0 victory over the 'Caps.
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Think stories are just for entertainment? They're not. Stories are simulations that allow us to vicariously experience problems we might someday face. Think of them as the world's first virtual reality—minus the geeky visor. Story was more crucial to our evolution than opposable thumbs. All opposable thumbs did was let us hang on. Story told us what to hang on to.
The great feeling of enjoyment we get when a story grabs us is nature's way of making sure we pay attention to the story. It's a survival mechanism. Do you know what that feeling is? A rush of the neurotransmitter dopamine. It's your brain's way of rewarding you for following your curiosity and finding out how the story's problem is solved.
That's why, when it comes to writing, the most important thing to master is the craft of story. Because it turns out that the brain is far less picky about beautiful writing than writers have been taught to believe.
Yes, writing well is a good thing—only a fool would deny that. But what matters most is that the story hooks the reader from the first sentence. How? By igniting the brain's hardwired desire to find out what happens next. That's what gives all those beautiful words all their power in the first place.
Lisa Cron explains how story captivates the brain.
So, how do you ignite the reader's curiosity on that crucial first page? There are three things readers innately hunt for as a story begins.
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Angry Birds Star Wars is about to be revealed by Rovio. But to add to our early news story about the launch October 8th a few days ago we now have a short teaser trailer and some more information.
Angry Birds Star Wars, which will be available for download in just a few hours, will feature birds as the Rebel Alliance's Luke, Leia, Han, Ben Kenobi, and the gang – while the piggies take the Imperial roles of Darth Vader and his stormtroopers. The action's relocated from cartoon fields to Star Wars planets like Tatooine and Hoth – but here's hoping the asteroid with that giant space-ship eating worm makes an appearance too.
We can't wait to get a go at sticking it to the Empire, as well as hearing the remixed John Williams Star Wars musical score. The Angry Birds Star Wars Jenga with collapsible Death Star has us pretty excited too. Check back in a few hours for more.
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Leaning against the north slope of Black Mountain, the village of Dourgne seduces with its wild landscapes, sites of yesteryear and its turbulent history.
Its origins date from the distant past: the peaks that dominate bear traces of the Gallo-Roman (St Chipoli) and in the valley, large stones of the Roman road Narbonne, Castres are still visible in places.
In the Middle Ages, the village lay at the entrance to the valley Taurou at the foot of a castle "Le Castel" has been destroyed and up to the Chapel St Stapin.
In the early thirteenth, Dourgne was ruined by Simon de Montfort during the Albigensian Crusade against the (remains of the old castle).
The village was rebuilt in 1301 with the permission of Philip the Fair, at its current location and the King of France awarded him the first liberties, in particular, the authorization to make cloth. The new country house becomes an important manufacturing center.
In memory of these events, the entire village of Dourgne in costumes, parade on floats decorated with rosemary, Septuagesima day. It is the traditional Feast of Rosemary, still existing today and dating back over 700 years which is commemorated each year in February.


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This app is only available on the App Store for iOS devices.
Alhamdulillah, it is with great pleasure for Zoosware to bring to the iPhone and iPod Touch users another Islamic application called "IQRA".
The content of this application suits the usage for both adults and children respectively.
Insyallah, the objectives of this application are:
1) To get children to learn the Arabic alphabets by heart and to practice them daily.
2) To help parents to follow the development of their children in their Iqra study.
Each alphabet has sound and transliteration to assist in remembering the pronunciation of the alphabet.
Single tap on the alphabet to hear the pronunciation.
Single tap on the transliteration to toggle between the different forms of the alphabet (i.e Independent, Initial, Medial or Final) where applicable.
Swipe to browse through the entire alphabets.
In the Review mode, double tap on the alphabet to switch to the Trace mode.
In the Trace mode, user can learn to write the alphabets by tracing on the outline provided.
User can Shake the iPhone to erase.
Double tap on the alphabet to switch back to the Review mode.
In the Review mode, rotate the iPhone to landscape view to get to the Quiz mode.
In the Quiz Mode, user can double tap to hear the recital of the alphabet shown.
User can swipe to see the next random alphabets.
In the Quiz mode, rotate the iPhone back to Portrait view to get back to the Review mode.
What's New in Version 1.0.1
- Minor graphic fix
- Min OS set to iPhone OS 3.0 instead of 3.1.2
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sorry, but this isn't worth the price. i'm dissapointed. This wont help children to read. Please add some features like short n long vowels, articles, rules of assimilation, and other basic stuffs that enable children to read qur'an.
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- Updated: 23 December 2009
- Version: 1.0.1
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I am trying to get all of the tags that are created in the system in a list. I am doing some heavy lifting with a lot of objects that require I look up each tag and add it to a collection for each object. This would be more efficient if I did not have to call
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I need to get list of all TAGs associated with a product object and similarly fetch other products having same TAGs. I am trying to build a 'Related Products' (just like Amazon)
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"Seriously catchy."
- Sarah Lipoff, PopSugarMoms
For a generous helping of sunny warmth, gentle humor and truly expert musicianship, look no further than...children's music artists Andrew & Polly."
- Lynne Heffley, Parents Choice Foundation
"It's folky and smart and weird, by the way."
- Stefan Shepherd, Zooglobble
"Kids' music that's actually good."
- Cool Mom Picks
"If your favorite indie pop group composed the soundtrack to Saturday morning cartoons the result would be the happy, imaginative sound of Andrew & Polly."
- Shahrzad Warkentin, Red Tricycle LA
Andrew & Polly are award-winning music makers and the hosts of Ear Snacks, a radical podcast for kids and families. Their original earworms ("Grapes" was SIRIUS XM's #1 kids song of 2015) and inventive reimaginings of classic favorites ("Forever Young," "Ghostbusters") are smart, quirky, and full of heart.
"Odds & Ends," Andrew & Polly's 2015 self-produced album, received a Parents' Choice Award and was named one of the Fids & Kamily Top 10 Albums of 2015. The duo was honored to receive the ASCAP Foundation Joe Raposo Children's Music Award in 2012.
Together, Andrew & Polly compose and produce music for television and film. Their production credits include songs for Wallykazam!, Sesame Studios, the score to Welcome To The Wayne, their own dope jams and a bunch of boring commercials and films for grownups.
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(2016) We have a podcast. This is the soundtrack. Ear Snacks: Songs from the Podcast will be released on September 30th, 2016. The first season of Ear Snacks - over seven hours of free content for children and their families - includes interviews with more than 60 kids and 35 adult experts along with an original score and a slew of genre-busting songs, ranging from insightful to anthemic and absurd, delivering addictive earworms and surprises around every corner. Pre-Order the CD and digital music, including a 20-page SNACKTIVITY booklet, exclusively at our shop; pre-order on iTunes by clicking here: http://bit.ly/earsnacks_pre-order
(2015) Our September 2015 release, Odds & Ends, includes fan-favorites including originals "Little Bitta You" & "Grapes," as well as our renditions of classics like, "Forever Young," "Here Comes the Sun," "Ghostbusters," and "Critters." Recipient of a Parents Choice Award Silver Honor.
(2015) We hope you'll love this little collection of holiday songs that celebrate every day - it's quirky and catchy, warm and surprising - or at least, we think so. Other Days is an EP of four original holiday songs including Thank You for the Box and L.A. Christmas - a super-fun collaboration with Mista Cookie Jar.
At only $5, Other Days is a perfect holiday gift for classmates, teachers and cousins.
(2010) Our debut, self-produced album is a snappy soundtrack for an awesome day. Up & At 'Em features "When You're a Dog," for which we received the Joe Raposo Children's Music Award in 2012.
(July 2016) If you need to busta move in your movin' shoes, check out this hot single featuring our pal - the one and only - Mista Cookie Jar. Get it on iTunes, Google Play, Amazon; stream on Spotify and YouTube.
(October 2015) This song came straight out of the Ear Snacks experiment. Rock on!
(June 2015) GRAPES. LA LA LA LA LA x infinity.
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(February 2015) A simple and sweet song for Valentine's Day. Will you be my Valentine?
(April 2014) We released this cover of Bob Dylan's Forever Young in honor of the birth of our first son. Welcome to the world, Izzy! Love, Mom & Dad
(August 2013) I'd run around the world for a little bitta you. A little bitta you... why, yes - that's all I need. A little bitta you... I want a lot, a lot, a little more, please.
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So far we've interviewed 60 kids, 35 experts, and 2 giraffes to create over 7 hours of listening-thinking-doing experiences for young children and families around the world. Whether we're talking about shadows in your bedroom or those on Mars, Ear Snacks is fun and smart food for thought for our audience (of mostly 2-7 year-olds) and their incredible growing brains.
We just love thinking about ordinary things in extraordinary ways. So join us in our studio every month and stay tuned for Ear Snacks Extras!
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"The complete and near-complete response rates we're seeing are unprecedented for an immunotherapy in melanoma. We were particularly impressed that the drugs work together so well," said Dr. Jedd Wolchok, of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. "Melanoma researchers have been hopeful that combination regimens would increase the effectiveness of single-agent immunotherapies, and now we have confirmation that such an approach has significant potential." Serious adverse events related to the combination therapy were reported by 59% of patients and included swelling inside the eye, inflammation of the colon and reversible lab abnormalities. Bristol-Myers is planning to start a phase III study of the Yervoy-nivolumab combination in melanoma patients next month. Phase III studies of nivolumab as a stand-alone therapy in lung cancer, kidney cancer and melanoma are already underway. The Roche phase I study of MPDL3280A enrolled 140 patients with advanced solid tumors. The overall rate of tumor shrinkage was 21%, with the highest number of responses seen in lung cancer (22%) and melanoma (31%.) Responses have been durable, with only three responders reporting tumor re-growth following MPDL3280A treatment so far. MPDL3280A targets the cellular receptor PDL-1, and in a subgroup of patients with tumors positive for PDL-1, the overall response rate was 36%. Conversely, the response rate in patients PDL-1-negative tumors was 13%. Roche is developing a diagnostic test to better identify and define PDLI-1 positive tumors. Thirteen percent of patients reported serious adverse events considered to be related to MPDL3208, but immune-related adverse events were reported by only 2% of patients. "We are impressed with the frequency and duration of the responses in these patients with very difficult-to-treat tumors. So far, almost none of the patients that have had tumor shrinkage have progressed," said Dr. Roy Herbst of the Yale Cancer Center. Roche is starting a phase III study of MPDL3280A in non-small cell lung cancer, which will enroll patients with PDL-1-positive tumors, detected by the companion diagnostic. Additional, follow-on studies of MPDL3208A in other cancers are being considered. Given the striking efficacy observed with all these drugs, even in early stage trials, investors essentially assume approval. The big questions that remain are which company -- Bristol-Myers, Roche or Merck -- has the most effective PD-1 and PDL-1 drugs, and how fast can the new therapies be approved. ISI Group analyst Mark Schoenebaum expects Bristol-Myers' nivolumab to be approved first, perhaps late next year in lung cancer, followed by Merck's lambrolizumab in late 2015. Roche's approval timeline for MPDL3208A is relatively unknown. -- Reported by Adam Feuerstein in Boston. Follow @AdamFeuerstein
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WORKING together and encouraging each other to reach new heights saw 18 members of 1st Landford Brownies achieve new skills while completing a challenge badge.
The pack were on a visit to Foxlease Guide centre in the New Forest where they learned to belay (control the ropes) of those climbing tall trees or creating giant stacks of crates.
Learning the techniques gave the girls confidence and knowledge of their abilities, reassured that their team mate below would be looking after them as they scaled the 100ft tall oak tree. Over the past six months the Brownies have completed a series of challenges that have developed self knowledge, skills and encouraged them to be part of their community while finding out about Girlguiding around the world.
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Web Shopping's New Wave
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Despite all the great bargains online, sooner or later you'll have to visit a real storeif only to buy milk and cheese. Happily, the Internet can help here too, through Cairo.com. Cairo scans the Sunday circulars, sorting sale items by ZIP code, store, and product. It's led me to incredible bargains on Kraft Macaroni & Cheese and on milktwo of my young son's four basic food groups.
This new breed of shopping sites even helps you sell yourself. The recently launched Indeed.com scours job listings from five hundred newspapers and Web sites, including Monster and Hot Jobs. It's a great way to find a job and keep up on who's hiring.
There's one problem with all these new sites: I'm a creature of habitand that habit usually leads to Google. My brain is so overstuffed with URLs that I can't possibly squeeze in more than one or two new ones. And that's why I've embraced Info.com. It's an aggregators' aggregator, combining many of the newest vertical search sites along with Google and Yahoo!. A single search delivers jobs from Indeed, travel from Kayak, prices from Shopping.com, and even related eBay auctions.
Web searching is evolving much as magazines did. The early days brought broad titles like Look, LIFE, and The Saturday Evening Post. But over time the magazine world developed into thousands of specialized titles. Will Google and Yahoo! follow Look and LIFE into oblivion? It's too early to tell. But I'd rather visit Info.comperhaps the newsstand of these newfangled sitesthan Google, Yahoo!, or even Travelocity and PriceGrabber.
CheapGeek Tip: E-Books. Tired of spending $8 on the latest paperbacks? Go e-book and read cheaply. Fantasy and sci-fi publisher Baen Books sells electronic versions for half the retail cover price, and many popular titles are free. You can find free books at Project Gutenberg ( www.gutenberg.org ) and the Internet Public Library ( www.ipl.org ). To read them, your PDA or laptop are viable choices, but consider picking up a used e-book reader on eBay. I recommend the REB 1100, which costs $120 on eBay, or the REB 1200. Free tools let you easily convert Word or HTML books into the reader's proprietary format.
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Unleash your inner lobbyist: Why it's time for retailers to make their voices heard
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The retailers who fly in for NRF's Annual Washington Leadership Conference (WLC), May 15-16, will be in good hands. David French, NRF's Senior Vice President for Government Relations, has been leading the charge on Capitol Hill for more than a year and was named a top association lobbyist by the Capitol Hill newspaper The Hill last fall. But he really wants you to do the talking.
WLC is a two-day event that combines NRF's many committee and board meetings with an intense, full-court legislative press by retailers on Capitol Hill.
WLC carries a bit of clout. It's 77 years old this year, among the oldest of all Capitol Hill fly-ins. And with retail supporting one in four jobs in the U.S., retailers certainly carry some weight in Washington. NRF welcomes all types of retailers—independent brick-and-mortar retailers, national department stores and online retailers—to meet with lawmakers and tell it like it is.
But NRF has a team of lobbyists like David fighting to keep the world safe for retail. So why will retailers be coming to Washington? Because there are some things "real people" do better. Lawmakers shop like anyone else, but that doesn't mean they fully grasp what it means to be in the retail business. That's what WLC is all about—the reality of retail.
"As a lobbyist, I can change a word in a bill. I can change a line in a bill. But I can't change minds on bills," David French, NRF Chief Lobbyist said. "Voters, constituents—real people who are actually in business—are incredibly valuable in educating lawmakers on how what happens on Capitol Hill is going to impact them on main street."
The issues on deck for discussion include sales tax fairness, corporate tax reform, labor policy and organized retail crime. Before meeting with lawmakers, NRF educates retailers on policy and arms them with materials and tips to make their visits successful. No Capitol Hill experience is necessary. In fact, it's a retailer's real-life experience told in his or her own words that will break through the noise on the Hill.
"When it comes to participating in the public policy process, the most engaging and persuasive people are those who just go in and tell their individual story," David said.
Meeting with a senator or member of congress at WLC often kicks off a lasting relationship with leaders, making it easier to renew conversations and persuade lawmakers when an issue comes down to the wire.
Strong advocates with good relationships have influenced many legislative victories. For instance, debit card swipe fee reform – a rule that's worth about $14 billion to the retail industry—might not have passed if retailers hadn't been engaged in a long-term campaign to tell Congress how high swipe fees hurt them. When the banks stepped up to repeal the law, retailers drowned them out, helping the industry prevail.
There's also just something inspiring about representing your industry in Washington.
"You might be a little nervous at your first meeting, but after you've done it and once you understand how welcoming a lawmaker's office can be, how important you are as a constituent, you feel very empowered by the experience," David said. "This is your government in action, and it's great to be a part of it."
All retailers receive complimentary registration to WLC. To join your retail colleagues and help us lead the way for a better future for retail, learn more and sign up at www.nrf.com/wlc.
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'A Common Time to Get Stuck'
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In last month's column, a reader commented that the third year of a Ph.D. program is when students are most likely to get frustrated and decide to stay or go. We agree that the third year is, as the reader put it, "a common time to get stuck," and it's also a good theme for this month's column.
Julie: Last fall, at an annual event where advanced doctoral students give advice at my university to first-year Ph.D. students, I was struck by how many of the speakers mentioned that the third year was a real challenge. A student in earth and environmental sciences said he almost quit his program in his third year because nothing seemed to be working out. He said to me later, "That's why I made the point about perseverance—it's hard to have perspective when you haven't ever seen a successful project all the way through."
A student in communication told me that the third year was when she fully committed to her Ph.D. program. "By the end of your third year," she said, "you're done with coursework, you're about to do your exams, and then you're A.B.D. So it feels like a make-or-break moment. You're also exhausted from coursework but not sure if you're ready to go out on your own and plunge into a dissertation."
Jenny: The transition from coursework to dissertation writing is tricky regardless of when it happens in a doctoral program. The familiar rhythm of reading lists, paper submissions, and semester-long deadlines gives way to a more ambiguous challenge—developing an original research project that meets the standards for scholarship in an academic discipline. At the same time, many students are taking their qualifying exams.
Those two things often combine to create challenges that are both intellectual and emotional. As the reader who inspired this column put it, "It feels like you are spinning your wheels."
Julie: It is also a time when students have to start answering to themselves more than to their professors and mentors. After comprehensive exams are passed they need to become their own taskmasters and work without, in many cases, external deadlines and demands. For some graduate students, particularly those in the humanities, this also marks the beginning of a long period of spending less time with others and more time on your own.
Jenny: Working on a long-term project with few, if any, hard deadlines or short-term rewards in the form of grades or evaluations, is an intellectual and motivational challenge for almost everyone. Even on a good day, and even when you are passionate about your research topic, all of those tasks that will add up to a completed dissertation—reading, writing, running experiments, coding data—still feel like endless work.
It can be hard to resist the temptation to procrastinate. So set a schedule for your dissertation project and then start working. Don't postpone the start as you wait for inspiration to strike—you may find it never will. In this terrific article about motivation, Hugh Kearns and Maria Gardiner point out that inspiration is more likely to arrive once you've gotten started on a task.
Julie: We recommend this book—Writing Your Dissertation in Fifteen Minutes a Day: A Guide to Starting, Revising, and Finishing Your Doctoral Thesis by Joan Bolker. It's the classic guide to working consistently and productively on your dissertation, although we are sure there are many others that readers might suggest. In addition, there are some terrific Web sites out there, such as Grad Hacker and The Chronicle's ProfHacker, that regularly deal with the challenges of being productive in the academic world and offer some tech-savvy tips for dealing with a world filled with easy (online) distraction. A recent GradHacker post on "Getting More Done in Less Time" was particularly helpful, and includes a list of apps that "will boost your willpower."
Finally, if you haven't done so already, you might meet with the subject-specialist librarian at your university to make sure you are up to speed on all of the research-support tools available to you.
Jenny: For many doctoral students, it's not the scholarly challenges but the psychological ones that make the transition from coursework to dissertation writing so hard. It's difficult to motivate yourself to work when you're facing an uncertain job market or are unsure whether completing your dissertation will lead you down a rewarding career path.
Julie: The Ph.D. student in communication added this about her third year: "In terms of how I survived—well, I integrated a lot of different experiences into my graduate-school career, which helped me feel like this time was about personal exploration as much as it was about professional growth and development. I also finished my coursework in my third year (in my program, it usually goes until halfway through your fourth year), so it gave me some wiggle room to integrate my other selves into my academic persona (an internship, working with underserved youth and doing campaign stuff)."
Her comments highlight something we've talked about before—the need to make time for activities that enrich you personally and professionally but aren't necessarily connected to your graduate program. Doing so can help you to feel more balanced and fulfilled, and can sometimes even give you insight into career possibilities beyond the tenure track.
Jenny: In an e-mail, the Ph.D. in earth and environmental sciences summed this up perfectly, noting, "It is important to find other sources of meaning in your life. ... Watching episodes of Downton Abbey isn't enough (though I certainly support this). Your hobby should be something that brings you personal growth."
He also asked us to remind students that help is available at their own universities. He took advantage of both personal and group counseling at his campus counseling center. "It's much better to go to resource centers and to talk to friends than to present your frustrations to your adviser or committee, who will likely be writing recommendation letters for you in a few years. ... It's in your interest to maintain a businesslike working relationship with your adviser, who is not and should not be your therapist."
And it's just plain useful to get insights about a complicated situation from people outside of it.
Julie: Even so, a good adviser can help students through the dissertation process or, alternatively, help them look for other career choices if they decide not to continue in their programs. That is what being a mentor truly means.
As many graduate students know, however, not everyone has an adviser who truly acts as a mentor. Many faculty members don't know enough about nonacademic positions to help steer students toward a path other than in academe. And some students are too afraid to even ask their advisers for such help.
Jenny: If you are midway through your Ph.D. program, and you're asking yourself whether to stay or leave, it's important to get advice from several places: friends and family, people working in nonacademic careers in which you're interested, your adviser and committee members, and counselors, career or psychological ones.
It's also important to listen to yourself. In Outside the Ivory Tower: A Guide for Academics Considering Alternative Careers (a terrific book that is sadly out of print but available in many libraries), Margaret Newhouse phrases this problem very nicely, saying: "Try to separate the 'shoulds' from your own true voice." At the same time, she cautions graduate students, "Get as much information as possible about the practical consequences of either choice for a career in the fields you are considering."
No one can make this decision for you. But you can make an informed choice that balances your personal and professional goals. If you're really having trouble deciding, take a leave of absence and use that time for career exploration. We've known Ph.D.'s who took a break from academe only to return and go on to successful academic careers. We've also known many students who have left academe (with and without a Ph.D.) and successfully moved on to nonacademic positions.
Julie: The third year is especially challenging for female scientists. A blog post on The Guardian's Web site last May focused on the question of "why women leave academia and why universities should be worried." It cited some alarming statistics from a report on a study done by a Britiish center for women in the sciences, engineering, and technology and the Royal Society of Chemistry: By the third year of their doctoral programs, only 12 percent of the women in the study and 21 percent of the men listed academic careers as their preferred choice, down significantly from what both the women and men had reported in their first year.
That's not news to anyone who works with young scientists on career issues. In that British study, female third-year Ph.D. candidates cited various reasons for giving up on academic careers: The had problems with their supervisors; they preferred to focus on achieving experimental results rather than mastery of methodologies; they believed an academic career would be all-consuming, solitary, and unnecessarily competitive; and they lacked female role models, especially ones who seemed to have lives outside the lab.
Jenny: We urge mentors and university support offices to be particularly sensitive to the challenges that Ph.D. students face at the midpoint of their programs. Department colloquia should feature faculty members speaking, not about their research, but about their lives and the joys and challenges of research, teaching, and raising a family while going up for tenure. Departments and career centers should also organize panels of alumni speakers from a variety of careers. Celebrate the richness of having Ph.D.'s working in both the academy and in many other fields.


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Guided Exhibition Tour of The Edgeless School and Building Connections
Join us for a guided tour of The Edgeless School: Design for Learning and Building Connections.
When: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM MONDAY, JANUARY 7
Where: Center for Architecture
536 LaGuardia Place
New York, NY
Join us for a guided tour of the Center for Architecture's exhibitions:
The Edgeless School: Design for Learning
Building Connections 2012
Monday, January 7, 2013
12:00pm – 1:00 pm
Tours will be led by Center for Architecture Foundation educators and will include refreshments.
$10 per person.
Programs take place at the Center for Architecture, 536 LaGuardia Place, between Bleecker and West 3rd Streets in Greenwich Village, unless otherwise noted.
Your registration includes acceptance of our photo release and consent policy.
The Edgeless School exhibition and related programs are organized by the AIA New York Chapter in collaboration with the Committee on Architecture for Education and the Center for Architecture Foundation.
Opening Reception
Monday, October 1st, 2012, 6-8pm
Also opening, The Best School in the World: Seven Finnish Examples from the 21st Century. The Best School in the World exhibition is produced and organized by the Museum of Finnish Architecture. The New York presentation and related events are part of the New Finnish Design CITY campaign, produced by the Consulate General of Finland and the Finnish Cultural Institute in New York.
Guided Exhibition Tours@theCenter
Thursday, October 4, 2012, 6-7:30pm: The Edgeless School & The Best School
Friday, November 16, 2012, 12-1pm: The Edgeless School & The Best School
Monday, January 7, 2013, 12-1pm: The Edgeless School & Building Connections
Building Great Schools: Finland to New York
Tuesday, October 9, 2012, 6-8pm
Spaces for Learning
Thursday, October 11, 2012, 6pm
Steelcase, 4 Columbus Circle
Nurturing Minds: Educational Design Policies, Finland/New York
Tuesday, October 16, 2012, 6-8pm
CAt: A Japanese Lesson for Progressive School Design
Monday, October 29, 2012, 6-8pm
Organized by the AIANY Architecture for Education Committee. With support from Okomura Corporation, Japan; TOTO USA; The Japan Foundation Center For Global Partnership.
Making a School: Principals and Architects in Conversation
Tuesday, October 30, 2012, 6-8pm
With support from The Japan Foundation Center for Global Partnership.
FamilyDay@theCenter: Design a School of the Future
Saturday, December 1, 2012, 11am-1pm or 2-4pm
Outside the Classroom: Design for Experiential Learning
Wednesday, November 14, 2012, 6-8pm
The School Building as Community Center: Policies, Paradigms, and Challenges
Tuesday, December 4, 2012, 6-8pm
Learning Environments for Special Needs: Places that Comfort and Challenge
Thursday, January 10, 2013, 6-8pm
Adapting Historic Schools for 21st Century Learning
Thursday, January 17, 2013, 6-8pm
The Edgeless School: Designing for Learning in the Digital Age Symposium
Saturday, January 19, 2013, 11am-5pm
Event website: http://www.nycharities.org/events/EventLevels.aspx?ETID=5365