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Disheartening news just came though the /. newsfeed; Zynga, the publishers of so many of the Facebook games out there, has sued and settled with Vostu, a game company in Brazil.
The suit claimed that Vostu copied elements of Zynga's copyrighted material (logo, website design, game design, etc…). Not the smartest idea, in my opinion, but then, we're looking at the pot calling the kettle black. Vostu has stated right back that Zynga stole what they are being sued about.
But, for all the copying and screaming of "I don't want f**king innovation!" (thank you Mark Pincus), Zynga is not the only company doing this. Last month, SpryFox has filed suit against 6Waves LOLAPPS for the infringment, code theft, and complete a$$hattery surrounding the games Tripple Town (SpryFox) and Yeti Town (6Waves LOLAPPS).
Before I leave you with the official court document, I have a new entry to the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:
Earth – The Internet
Casual Games: None.
Granted, these kinds of things are being created all the time. However, they are all the same game, and the myriad of delicate changes to the interface make new "copyright" filings, and thus "new" games are being created. In greater scope of the Internet, the "casual gamer" is always searching for a newer, better version of the game they are currently playing, no matter the minute changes, or who the new game producer is.
For a similar comparison, see "First Person Shooter, War Depiction Game", also known as Battlefield and Call of Duty.
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Come Out Please
Bong Joon-ho, Leos Carax, Michel Gondry
Ayako Fujitani, Ryo Kase, Denis Lavant, Jean-Francois Balmer, Teruyuki Kagawa, Yu Aoi
(Liberation Entertainment)
US theatrical: 6 Mar 2009 (Limited release)
UK theatrical: 25 May 2009 (General release)
What's with me?
—The hikikomori (Teruyuki Kagawa)
"This place is really perfect!" exclaims a nameless pizza delivery girl (Yu Aoi). Standing in the doorway, appreciating the compressed, dark apartment belonging to her client of the moment (Teruyuki Kagawa). Stacked with empty pizza boxes and equipped with a basic landline phone, it constitutes a self-enclosed world. Indeed, it is both haven and trap for the client, who describes himself as a hikikomori (extreme recluse). Struck by her enthusiasm, he looks up, just for an instant, and catches her eye. He gasps, barely nods, reeling from the "first eye contact" he's made in 12 years.
The girl leaves him, but he can't forget her. He tries to call her back, ordering more pizza, but she has become a recluse herself, no longer showing up to work, seeking her own perfect place. Desperate and un-self-knowing, he decides to pursue her, even if that means emerging from his apartment, into sunlight, traffic sounds, and urban air. The decision is difficult, given that he—the hikikomori—is a profoundly circular and fantastic concept. As soon as he steps out, he comes into representation. Visible in news reports and conjured in fans' feverish minds, the hikikomori is now spectacle, exactly what he can't imagine.
It's a brilliant conundrum, illustrated superbly if indirectly in Shaking Tokyo, Bong Joon-ho's terrific contribution to the short-film trilogy Tôkyô!. Like Michel Gondry's Interior Design and Leo Carax's Merde, Bong's film reconfigures the city in a way that's both wildly original and oddly familiar, challenging stereotypes and rethinking assumptions. Tokyo in each instance is typically colorful and pulsing, its streets pocked with neon signs, crowds of pedestrians, and looming skyscrapers. It is also newly vibrant, skewed and exciting and intermittently menacing.
Interior Design quickly establishes a peculiar relation between internal and external states. Young filmmaker Akira (Ryo Kase) and his girlfriend Hiroko (Ayako Fujitani) arrive in town to promote his independent feature. As they ride into town, he describes his vision: "It rained for months on end, the whole of Tokyo was flooded," he enthuses. The weather onslaught results in mutation, he continues, a band of survivors changed into "strange amphibian monsters, adapting quickly to the changing climate." The story quickly shifts from his fantasy to their reality, but the direction is set. Each will adapt to the city in his or her own way.
Staying temporarily in the cramped apartment of her friend Akemi (Ayumi Ito), they go forth each day in search of space and work. Akira finds a job wrapping gifts in a department store, but Hiroko is soon and repeatedly frustrated. Beset by a series of standard-city-type misfortunes (as when the car is towed to a municipal lot, Akira's precious filming equipment locked inside), Hiroko feels increasingly unwanted and unproductive ("Akira's not useless, he's got a job," she overhears her friend say, "It's Hiroko who does nothing"). Stymied, she resists Akira's occasional entreaties ("You're always saying something clever to avoid really talking") and begins to see herself as others do (at a screening of his film, she watches him flirt with a fan, relegated to "just the girlfriend" status in a conversation in the lobby. Her interlocutor commiserates: "Relationships with artists are hard," the woman observes. Hiroko can only agree.
This realization leads to Hiroko's transformation into a wooden chair, reflecting her self-image literally and metaphorically. Her drastic turn inside is both antic (as Gondry's imagery can be) and also unnerving, a means to escape the stress of the city (which becomes increasingly dark and creepy in her experience) and a way to make sense of her lost self. Her turn is also specifically gendered; an alternative, more conventionally masculine response to feeling rejected and lost is found in Merde. Here the title character (Danis Lavant) emerges from the sewers, staggering Godzilla-like along sidewalks, pulverizing pedestrians. Dressed in a green suit and sporting an "insane beard," Merde sends the citizens into a panic. And because he is aggressive, his story makes the news (unlike, say, the extremely receding Hiroko). Breathless reporters announce, "Tokyo is afraid! Who is this creature who has been terrifying citizens all over Tokyo, then disappearing?"
Merde's threat is both existential and intimate, uniting and redefining the city. "I was so afraid," confesses a fearful person-on-the-street, "I wanted to run away, but I couldn't move. Then he licked me." At the same time, he's a puzzle, making pronouncements for cameras and courtroom assemblies in language that seems impenetrable. Questioned as to motive, he spurts, "I don't like innocent people. I don't like people." As the frame splits into three and then four screens, he adds, "Among all people, Japanese people are really the most disgusting." His lawyer, Maitre Voland (Jean-Francois Balmer) tries to shut him up, but he's unstoppable, a figment and a force, ridiculous and horrible. "My god forced me," Merde asserts, "My god always places me among the people I hate most." And with that, he slaps himself, hard. His audience is stunned, if not into silence, then at least into a (brief) pause. And then the drive to fierce and righteous retribution can begin again.
Merde's radical disorientation—his seeming embodiment of self-and-non-self at once—combines monster movie hokum and political scapegoating. He's the westerner as ultimate beast, unfathomable and too obvious. As such, Merde seems the complete opposite of the shut-in featured in Bong's film, but they are also of a piece, products of a city, or more precisely, a city imagined. The very idea of the hikikomori is profoundly circular. Here he is admired and emulated—the pizza delivery girl wants to be like him, or even be him—at the same moment he discovers he wants her. Their romance is impossible, and so, all-consuming.
Exemplifying the sensual joys and transcendent horrors of connection, the hikikomori romance is both obsessive and adrift, the couple sharing rhythms—manifested in gorgeous compositions and allusive editing, as they remain bodily apart—that are lovely, spooky, and urgent. Their endless seeking serves as apt coda the three films in Tôkyô!. Taken apart, the movies are pretty much perfect evocations of places internal and not. Taken together, they create a frightful, smart, and lingering impression.
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Picture: Aretha Franklin performing at Day 1 of the US Open 2007 at the Billy Jean King Tennis Centre, Queens New York City, USA - 27.08.07
Soul queen Aretha Franklin's son TEDDY RICHARDS is desperately trying to break out from his mother's shadow after suffering a bunch of humiliating concert experiences.
The singer-songwriter, who once played guitar in Franklin's backing band, has gone it alone - but he's struggling to live up to people's expectations.
He explains, "I remember we pulled into town and I grabbed the local paper and it had 'Live...' in great big font '...Aretha Franklin's son', and in little teeny tiny writing 'Teddy Richards'.
"We got to the show that night and the audience that came out was primarily an R'n'B audience, which I am not, so I started hearing people saying, 'You suck!'
"One drunk fellow said, 'Goddamit, I came here to hear R.E.S.P.E.C.T,' and he took a bottle and chucked it up on the stage and I said, 'Alright, everyone turn your gear off, we're leaving.'"30/07/2003 17:44
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Slayer's Kerry King Says Jeff Hanneman's Recovery Isn't Delaying New Album
Slayer are moving full steam ahead with a new album, and guitarist Kerry King says the fact that fellow guitarist Jeff Hanneman is still recovering from necrotizing fasciitis will not delay the new album moving forward.
Marilyn Manson Joined by Doors Members at Sunset Strip Music Festival
The Doors were the big honorees at the Sunset Strip Music Festival this year, which opened a few doors for them when it came to performing over the weekend. One advantage they took was the opportunity to join Marilyn Manson onstage during Saturday's (Aug 18) outdoor bash.
Seether Celebrate 10-Year Anniversary of 'Disclaimer' With 'Sympathetic' Video Release
This time a decade ago, South Africa wasn't exactly known for turning out hard rock bands. Now, a decade later, Seether have become one of the most successful and steadily consistent hard rock bands going. It all started on Aug. 20, 2002, when the group issued their 'Disclaimer' album, and it set them on the path to where they are today.
Lamb of God Triumph During Knotfest Night Two in Somerset, Wisconsin
There's nothing like seeing a major band on the so-called second stage, so you can bet that fans at Knotfest over the last two nights enjoyed the return of Lamb of God at a fevered pitch.
Kid Rock Creates New Anthem for Detroit Lions
P.O.D. Show Off San Diego in 'Higher' Video
Guns N' Roses Fan Wants to Use $232 Million Lottery Winnings to Reunite Band
Axl Rose has balked many a time at the possibility of reuniting the original Guns N' Roses lineup, but that hasn't kept one of the band's fans from putting together a very lucrative offer.
Limp Bizkit's Fred Durst on Lack of U.S. Touring: 'We Were a Moment in Time and It's Over'
Limp Bizkit have done plenty of touring in recent years, but it's been noticeable that the group haven't played very much in the United States. Singer Fred Durst tells Kerrang! that a good reason for that was the band realizing that American audiences had moved on.
Rob Zombie + Anthrax's Frank Bello Among Toronto International Film Festival Draws
Hard rock fans descended upon Toronto over the weekend for the Heavy T.O. Festival, and they now have a reason now to come back in September.
Testament Guitarist Eric Peterson Says Album Success May Factor Into Band's Future
Three Days Grace, 'Chalk Outline' – Song Review
Three Days Grace are on their way back with new music and we're just getting the first taste with the single 'Chalk Outline.'
Guns N' Roses Announce Month-Long Fall 2012 Las Vegas Residency
Las Vegas, the Guns N' Roses road show is coming to you for the better part of a month. Axl Rose and crew have announced a series of 12 shows that will run between Oct. 31-Nov. 24 that will take place at The Joint in the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino.


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Docs Talk archives
The green line that divides citiesJuly 26, 2011
Our brains and bodies desire nature. A tide of research demonstrates that nearness to nature makes us healthier, happier, more peaceful beings. More »
Green energy could make every day a Clean Air DayJune 7, 2011
Ontario doctors, nurses and health charities have launched an unprecedented campaign for an accelerated coal phase-out and the development of renewable energy. More »
Urban planning is a health issueMay 24, 2011
The origins of public health care lie far back in history, but organized public health care as we know it was born in the mid-19th century, when the Industrial Revolution... More »
Nuclear radiation and your healthApril 14, 2011
As I write, the temperature inside Japan's Fukushima nuclear reactor is slowly rising because the crucial cooling system has failed. Perhaps by the time you read this, another meltdown will... More »
A Greener Hospital is a Healthier HospitalMarch 15, 2011
A couple of years ago, Canada's major health professional associations joined forces to call for an environmentally responsible health sector. This joint position statement expressed the following vision: We envision... More »
Hazards are hiding in fragranced consumer productsFebruary 10, 2011
They're everywhere: air fresheners, scented soaps, hand sanitizers, laundry detergents, dryer sheets, and cleaning supplies. They emit numerous chemicals, including some classified as toxic or hazardous, and even some with... More »
A few good reasons why we should abandon nuclear energy for goodJanuary 24, 2011
Consensus is growing that we must reduce our dependence on fossil fuels. Proponents of nuclear energy say nuclear is the best alternative. But nuclear energy is neither clean nor green.... More »
Who's keeping the Canadian asbestos industry alive?December 8, 2010
The Canadian chrysotile asbestos industry has been finding it tough lately to sell the whole exporting death thing. I guess it shouldn't be surprising. Who wants to buy a toxic,... More »
The simple truth about healthy eating: A dietitian's perspectiveNovember 9, 2010
People often have more than one health concern they are trying to manage with food. And so they will visit a dietitian and ask questions about whether foods that help... More »
Thought for food: Organic farming is good for you and the planetOctober 7, 2010
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Today is our first match for the PS3 league, and it's a Sever The Head match in Uncharted 3. All teams please confirm your rosters now so we can issue the schedule of who is the Head in which round. Here's a few things I want to emphasize for our players:
-Unlike last season, we are NOT combining all four teams into one match. This time it's strictly the two teams who are facing each other.
-EVERYONE who plays needs to take stats for every round and turn them in to me. We need to do this to ensure the accuracy of the stats since we are not recording this season.
-This is played to the best of seven rounds, which means that as soon as one team wins four rounds, it's match over. Remember that wins and losses in STH is determined by which team's Head died less in that round, and if that were tied it'll be settle by which Head has more kills.
In case anyone needs a reminder about the rules of Sever The Head:
In STH, each team has a player designated as the Head in each round. A round is won by having your head die less than the other team's head. Each player will have to be the Head at least once before any player can be the Head again, but once everyone has had a turn someone could be the Head for the rest of the match. Players will need to record the stats for Kills and Deaths in each round.
Below we'll outline who is playing today and which rounds everyone will be the Head. Players will be listed if they are playing today, and in parenthesis after their name we'll show the rounds they'll be the Head once we have all rosters in. When we have a player confirmed, their name will be in GREEN.
Zanzibar vs Team C
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Zanzibar: Old-Snake 24 (P, 1, 4. 7), SinfulSoxFan84 (2, 5), StormFuror (3, 6)
Combine vs Boston Teabags
Boston Teabags: DOJNDO (P, 1, 3, ) Siphen.0 (2, )
Combine: IamKyleMan (P, 1, ), johnyg13nb (), KLer (), guillermo316 ()
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By Paul and Bernice Noll
This is a list of the 3,000 most commonly used words in American newspapers and popular magazines. We compiled this list by taking forty newspapers and magazines and simply sorting the words and then counting the frequency of the words.
We broke them down in groups of 200. The frequency of use is true for the groups but not within the groups. For convenience I sorted the words within each group of 200.
Also if you should count the words you would find that there are fewer than 3,000 words. Actually there are 2,126 words listed. This is true because I removed words that were simply plurals of words. For example "tree" is on the third and fourth hundred-word list so I removed "trees" as somewhat unnecessary. Also I removed some but not all simple regular past tense words where I thought it would serve little purpose. I also removed the regular words duplicated in the "ing" suffix. For example "spell" is there but I removed "spelling" and "spelled".
This list is useful for the student who wishes a vocabulary list for simple conversation. It is an excellent base to begin with.
It is interesting to note that the list is very contemporary. For example the names Paul and George are on the list. This is no doubt due to Pope Paul and President George Bush at the time the list was compiled. Note that when a word is capitalized it is a person's name, a proper noun or title. For example Miss is a title, while miss is a verb or a noun.
* Note: We removed 1/2 and 1/4 from two of the lists since these would cause problems in some of the games.
Source: http://www.paulnoll.com/China/Teach/English-3000-common-words.html (Used with Permission.)
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TV Personality Dudu Topaz Attempts Suicide in Prison
Topaz admitted to paying neighbor to arrange assaults on several prominent television executives.
Television personality Dudu Topaz attempted to commit suicide in his Abu Kabir detention facility cell overnight by injecting himself with insulin, an Israel Prison Service spokesperson said early Thursday.
Topaz, was hospitalized in Holon's Wolfson Medical Center in stable condition after a warden found him lying on the floor of his cell with several insulin syringes beside him.
Topaz spoke to the media Wednesday for the first time since his arrest, expressing remorse for orchestrating attacks on TV executives over the past year. Police said they were still trying to identify a person suspected of providing a link between Topaz and the men who carried out the beatings.
While being brought back to the detention facility at Abu Kabir, Topaz agreed to roll down the window of the police car and speak to a Channel 2 reporter. "I told the truth and it feels good," he said. "I'm first and foremost at peace with myself .... I don't know what was happening to me at the time, what craziness got into my head. I hate myself for getting to where I was, I don't know how it happened to me."
A source close to the investigation told Haaretz that since his confession, Topaz has been cooperating fully with the police and providing many details on other suspects and the plans for the attacks. "It seems like something broke through when he confessed; he won't stop talking," the source said.
Topaz has admitted to paying his neighbor Daniel Zenko to arrange assaults on Keshet television CEO Avi Nir, Reshet deputy director Shira Margalit and entertainment agent Boaz Ben-Zion.
He was brought to court early yesterday for another extention of his remand.
Police said they were now able to link two other detainees, Suleiman Hiadra and Ayman Zabidat, to the attack on Margalit. They said this became possible thanks to the testimony of Zenko, who confessed to having been the middleman between Topaz and the two alleged attackers.
Also, a fingerprint of one of the men was found on the car of Margalit's partner, near the attack scene, the police said. After Topaz confessed, he was brought to a face-to-face confrontation with Zenko, sources said.
According to the sources, Topaz challenged Zenko and told him to "confess, we did it together." At first Zenko was reticent and told Topaz: "Stop talking to me, I'm just your neighbor, I don't know what you're talking about."
But later in the confrontation, Zenko began cooperating. He confessed to some of the crimes attributed to him, and linked himself to the attack on Margalit.
Zenko was said to have gone as far as apologizing for his involvement, saying he never thought things would go as far as they did. He said the original intention was to arrange a mild assault, and that Hiadra and Zabidat were told to deliver "only a few slaps." "I realize I made a mistake," he said.
However, Zenko also confessed to receiving NIS 30,000 for arranging the attack on Margalit, and to have transferred half the sum to Hiadra and Zabidat. After Topaz confessed to all the crimes attributed to him, Zenko confessed to helping arrange the attack on Ben-Zion.
Zenko's attorneys, Moshe Peretz and Uri Aviv, said Zenko confessed to some of the crimes attributed to him, in particular to having been the middleman in the affair. "But he denies any connection to the actual carrying out of the attack," one of them said. "It's obvious there was a group of attackers Topaz engaged without going through Zenko."
Topaz's lawyer said "Dudu Topaz is at one of the lowest and most difficult points of his entire life. The state of his health is something that will undoubtedly be considered by the court." However, the lawyer declined to comment on whether his client was intending to plead insanity.
Hiadra and Zabidat will be brought to court Thursday for an extension of their remand.
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Is This Kristen Stewart's New Girlfriend?
While Kristen Stewart is only recently thought to have split with her visual effects producer girlfriend of a year, Alicia Cargile, word has it there's already another woman on the scene.
The rumours come after Kristen was spotted watching Lyndsey Gunnulfsen perform with her band PVRIS last week in New York, and according to a source who spoke to Heat, they spent time hanging out backstage after the show and left the venue together.
'Kristen and Lynn are dating. Kristen came to see Lynn when her band played in New York last week, and they were hanging out backstage. The whole crew knows they're seeing each other, and they left together, too,' the insider said.
A tweet for a fan of the band also prompted more speculation the two are dating - user Lexi LaCava wrote: 'Kristen Stewart is just chilling at this show??'
Kristen, who famously dated Twilight co-star Robert Pattinson for four years, has been pressured to define her sexuality since dating Alicia. However, the actress shut down labels in a recent interview explaining she thinks "you should just do your thing" without being defined by the parameters society assumes are the norm.
When asked by the Nylon if she was 'ready right now to make any big pronouncements about her sexuality?' She simply replied 'Google me. I'm not hiding.


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The time has come for my final installment of Caption that Critter. I hope you all work extra hard to come up with captions this week. Take a look at this picture of one of my favorite bands, the Band Perry, washing a dog and come up with your best captions. I look forward to reading them!
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Analytical Science has an image problem, and analytical scientists are the first to admit it. But a new initiative launched in London last week intends to change all that. The U.K. Analytical Partnership (UKAP) has set itself the lofty aim of making the U.K. world class in analytical science, and it has the backing of government, industry, and the research councils to do so.
Measurement is fundamental to the scientific process, and all scientists carry out analyses--so what marks analytical scientists as a breed apart? Well, they're the people who are constantly refining the instrumentation and methods to make everyday analyses more reliable and are researching to discover completely new principles of measurement. For example, work currently underway in the United Kingdom aims to develop a single probe that will measure the vitamin content of any food--no easy task given the entirely different chemical properties of the various fat- and water-soluble vitamins.
The UKAP Skills Set for analytical scientists. Do you measure up?
Edited highlights--the full listing will be available on the UKAP Web site.
Analytical science is a huge industry employing around 200,000 people and with an estimated turnover of more than £7 billion. According to Alan Johnson, Minister for Competitiveness, "its growth is expected to exceed that of the economy as a whole over the next 3 years." Doesn't sound like a sector in crisis. But the 1996 Foresight exercise found that analytical science in the U.K. is "lagging behind." As well as its unexciting image, which means that it's difficult to attract the best graduates and scientists into analytical labs, the sector suffers from being fragmented--most large companies now contract out their analytical work to smaller, specialist laboratories that don't have the clout of the multinationals. It is precisely this fragmentation that UKAP seeks to overcome by bringing together the key players.
So why should you consider making a career in analytical science? "It's the challenge of the unknown," says Martin Day of Reading Scientific Services Limited, a contract research organisation that carries out analyses for the food and pharmaceutical industries. It's all about problem solving, bringing "a vast array of skills to identify what the problem is." For example, a manufacturer might complain that his bottled mineral water has developed a smell of rotten peaches. The challenge is threefold: Identify what is causing the smell, how it got there and, finally, how to get rid of it.
Traditionally, analytical science has been dominated by chemists, a situation reflected in the fact that the Royal Society of Chemistry is one of the major stakeholders in UKAP. But these days the ability to take an interdisciplinary approach is regarded as crucial. As one biologist at the launch pointed out, the human genome project is a triumph of analysis. When DNA sequencing, developed by Frederick Sanger, was first used to sequence a viral genome, the process took a year and a half. Today, sequencing the same length of genetic code at the Sanger Centre takes just 4 minutes.
The Analytical Science Network
If you're over 35, you're too old to join the Analytical Science Network. Established under the auspices of the Royal Society of Chemistry, the network currently has 142 members and is open to analytical scientists working in all disciplines--not just chemists. Alexis Holden, Secretary of the ASN and an analytical scientist in the Department of Environmental Management at the University of Central Lancashire, says membership in the network is extremely advantageous for younger analytical scientists. She came to her current job direct from her Ph.D., "so I didn't have my network set up," she explains. Through involvement with the ASN she's "been invited to join lots of other committees and contribute to other discussion forums."
One of the first initiatives arising from the ASN has been the establishment of a biannual Analytical Grand Prix in which scientists under the age of 35 compete for £90,000 in prize money for the best new idea in the field of analytical research. The first prize winner, in May 2000, was Joanne Elliott from the University of Southampton who will use her award money to develop new forms of molecular sieves.
But what are the challenges facing analytical scientists today? Miniaturisation and the idea of putting a "lab on a chip" are causing great excitement. Richard Brook, Chief Executive of Sira Limited, says "taking analysis out of the lab and into the plant or onto the open road," is key to future development. Being able to carry out reproducible analyses away from the controlled conditions of the lab, and swiftly, would bring enormous benefits to industry. The ultimate though, according to Brook, is a real-life Star Trek tricorder (a universal analyser that detects the components of any object it is pointed at, for all you non-Trekkies). That could be a long way off, however!
The UKAP Web site will be available from mid-August at www.chemsoc.org/networks/ukap


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Kowa Cosmetics
Kowa is a leading distributor of specialty chemicals, food- and cosmetic ingredients, as custom sourcing specialist with our worldwide network (offices in 16 countries).
Our aim is to serve a customer for any needs, to accompany developments by finding a solution and to establish a long-term relationship as a long-term partner.
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Deep Dark Chocolate CheesecakePublished: September 2006
Ingredients12 Servings
- 24 chocolate wafer cookies (from one 9-ounce package)
- 1 tablespoon sugar
- 1/4 cup (1/2 stick) butter, melted
- 1 9.7-ounce bar Scharffen Berger 70% Cocoa Bittersweet Chocolate,* chopped
- 4 8-ounce packages cream cheese, room temperature
- 1 1/4 cups plus 2 tablespoons sugar
- 1/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder (preferably Scharffen Berger)
- 4 large eggs
- 3/4 cup whipping cream
- Scharffen Berger 70% Cocoa Bittersweet Chocolate,* chopped
- 1 tablespoon sugar
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- Bittersweet chocolate curls
Preheat oven to 350°F. Butter 9-inch-diameter springform pan with 3-inch-high sides. Blend cookies in processor until finely ground; blend in sugar. Add melted butter and process until well blended. Press crumbs evenly onto bottom (not sides) of prepared pan. Bake just until set, about 5 minutes. Cool while preparing filling. Maintain oven temperature.
Stir chopped chocolate in metal bowl set over saucepan of simmering water until melted and smooth. Remove bowl from over water; cool chocolate until lukewarm but still pourable. Blend cream cheese, sugar, and cocoa powder in processor until smooth. Blend in eggs 1 at a time. Mix in lukewarm chocolate. Pour filling over crust; smooth top. Bake until center is just set and just appears dry, about 1 hour. Cool 5 minutes. Run knife around sides of cake to loosen. Chill overnight.
Stir cream, 6 ounces chocolate, and sugar in heavy medium saucepan over low heat until smooth. Cool slightly. Pour over center of cheesecake, spreading to within 1/2 inch of edge and filling any cracks. Chill until topping is set, about 1 hour. DO AHEAD Can be made 3 days ahead. Cover with foil and keep refrigerated.
Release pan sides. Transfer cheesecake to platter. Top with chocolate curls. Let stand 2 hours at room temperature before serving.
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The Million Air press conference yesterday was filled with announcements of new locations and executives for the FBO and franchise service provider.
Most important to the company was news that a corporate-owned FBO is now operational at Paris Le Bourget Airport, marking the first entrance of Million Air onto the European stage.
Pascal Ravel, general manager of the new location, said that while the facility is operational now, the grand opening is slated for January. The Paris FBO has the largest ramp space at Le Bourget, the airport best known as Charles Lindbergh's 1927 landing site and the Paris Air Show, and construction of a 43,000-sq-ft hangar is under way. There was also news of a second French Million Air location at Cannes-Mandelieu Airport, making it the first private FBO in Cannes.
Roger Woolsey, president and CEO of Million Air, announced other new FBOs under construction in the U.S., including those at Charleston International, due to open next February; and Hawthorne Municipal (five miles east of LAX) and Rogue Valley International in Medford, Ore., both scheduled to open later this year. According to Woolsey, facilities at Alexandria and Lafayette, La., are both fully operational after the devastation of Hurricane Katrina, with new terminals slated for next year.
Million Air, showing at Booth No. 5171, completed a spate of executive hires, adding Jeffrey Reid as executive v-p of the Million Air Charter division; Debbie Zener as executive v-p of marketing; v-p, aircraft technical services, Brad Pimm; and Deborah Highsmith as director of Million Air's customer service program.


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Sunset Park is a beautiful neighborhood that reflects much of the good and not-so-good of old Tampa. For the good we have mature growth trees, grid pattern neighborhood streets, a variety of large- and small-sized homes, great schools within walking distance, recreational and green spaces, churches and an eclectic mix of nearby shopping and restaurants.
For areas that need attention, we still have flooding due to poor stormwater drainage, Tampa Bay canals that need dredging and many residential streets without sidewalks.
In addition, we have perennial traffic problems on West Shore Boulevard, which could be alleviated by adding more left-turn lanes and thereby reducing the bottlenecks at certain intersections.
We look forward to working with our new mayor and City Council members to address these and other issues facing our neighborhood.
The city responds
After five years of pushing, the neighborhood's shallow, sludge-filled canals are finally on a viable path to dredging, city officials said.
By next month, the city aims to hire new consultants to obtain permits, said Ben Koplin, who for years has managed the plan for the city. "The project is as close as I've ever seen it," he said.
Part of the holdup has been a layered permitting process that requires an answer to the issue's hardest question: where to put the dredged-up sediment, Koplin said. But the city's targeted consultants, who specialize in dredging, say they have found disposal locations and should be able to secure the permits, he said.
The next obstacle is approval from the City Council to hire the consultants. The council is expected to address the issue next week.
Council members Charlie Miranda and Harry Cohen, whose districts split Sunset Park, said they were open to moving the project along.
"I don't think you're going to get much resistance from the council," chairman Miranda said. The dredging "is past due."
Miranda also supported the idea to add left-turn lanes to West Shore Boulevard. Noting residents often complain about West Shore traffic but balk at widening the roadway, Miranda called left-turn lanes at certain intersections "a reasonable solution."
City transportation director Jean Dorzback said such lanes are planned for the intersections with Gandy Boulevard and Fair Oaks Avenue, but nothing as far north as Sunset Park.
"There's nothing active at the moment," she said. "But that's not to say if concerns are expressed, we couldn't revisit that."
Brent Morris, the city's chief stormwater engineer, said that although flooding can be particularly bad in Sunset Park, as it's a terminus for stormwater runoff, the problem extends across South Tampa. Thus, he said, the city is aiming to upgrade the entire stormwater drainage system — a comprehensive project that will take years.
By December, Morris said, his team will have identified the best solutions to stem the problem from Spring Lake Drive to Interstate 275, an area that includes Sunset Park.
As for sidewalks, the city said it relies upon requests when building new ones. The last request from Sunset Park came in 2005: One person nominated a 2,000-foot stretch on San Miguel Street. The city has considered the proposal every year, but passed it over for projects with more support or for more high-traffic areas, said city sidewalks manager Jan Washington.
Washington said the only way streets will get new sidewalks is if residents nominate them.
"It could be just a bunch of moms whose children play on a certain street," she said. "Well, write a little petition, send it to me and that's done. We want to work for them."
Jack Nicas, Times staff writer


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" Brand: Spa Paradisa / Texture: Cream / Type: Hand Cream / Suitable for: Hand "
Spa Paradisa are a range of toiletries stocked by both Debenhams and Superdrug, all paraben free, and all absolutely beautiful. I have been delighted with the shower cream which I have reviewed previously, so I decided to try another of their products, this time the hand and nail cream.
The toiletries come in three ranges, but the one which attracts me time and again is the "Coconut and Frangipani" which has a tropical design on the front, and which has all the fragrances of a summer holiday. Also within this range are shower creams, body balms, body scrubs, body butters, and all are designed to renew your skin.
For paraben free toiletries these are a good value price, I paid £4.37 for a 100ml tube in Superdrug which is very competitive with other natural products. Parabens are banned now in Norway and Japan (with more countries now following) as their long term use may be in question. This may be due to their female hormone mimicking properties; I try to buy paraben free products if I know they are going to be absorbed. Hand cream is something I use a lot during the day, so feel it is probably the most important paraben free purchase I make.
This cream is something I would recommend to anyone who enjoys the fragrance of summer. The tube is a colourful image depicting a girl with flowers in her hair, carrying a basket of tropical fruits under a coconut tree-you can't get more exotic than that!
The cream benefits from the addition of Monoi de Tahiti, which is a rich oil made from gardenia flowers and coconut extract, and the product also contains shea butter. It also has vitamin C and E and olive oil.
The flip top lid at the base makes dispensing easy, but be careful as this cream is ultra greasy, and you only need a small amount. It is a creamy white liquid with an intense almondy rich fragrance which hits you as soon as you use it.
I have used this on my feet, and actually it is for this purpose that I mostly prefer it as the cream really does linger on the hands, and I dislike the greasy nature which seems to lie there for ages afterwards. I am sure this makes the hands soft, but it isn't a feeling I enjoy, and it isn't practical to use too often, as the residue is something I don't appreciate. I would say this is an intensive moisturiser and a treatment, not something to apply frequently throughout the day, but part of a treat you could use with a manicure or pedicure.
I think also it would be perfect for chapped winter hands, which need a little more loving care. It is also particularly good at nourishing nail beds, so is a great product to use last thing at night. I have been using Lush- "The Soft Touch" for this recently, which is a mango, coconut, and vanilla butter ideal for this purpose. The Spa Paradisa performs equally well as this for that last thing at night treatment to keep hands soft and sweet smelling. Again you wouldn't use the Lush product all day long as it leaves an impractical greasy residue, just like the Spa Paradisa does.
I will certainly buy this again, but it is not my preferred paraben free "use all day long" cream. I buy the Marks and Spencer Natural Beauty Intensive Nail Cream for this, as it is a much lighter cream ideal for frequent use.
In conclusion I think this is a good product with a holiday fragrance for an affordable good value price. Just think of it as a treatment and not a frequent use cream and you have the picture.


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Trying to explain the worst season in Texas Tech women's basketball history
For first-year Texas Tech coach Candi Whitaker, this season's struggles go beyond the numbing string of hard losses.
Whitaker brings firsthand knowledge of the history, the tradition, everything that made Lady Raiders basketball an elite brand name for three decades under Marsha Sharp. For 16 straight seasons, Tech made the women's NCAA Tournament and brought a championship trophy back to Lubbock in 1993 behind megastar Sheryl Swoopes. For six straight seasons, from 2000 to 2005, Tech averaged more than 12,000 fans a game.
Now, Tech is preparing for the Big 12 Championship in Oklahoma as the 10th seed after enduring 18 straight losses in a winless conference season. Tech (6-23) opens Friday against TCU.
"It's been tough," Whitaker said. "I knew it was going to be going into the season. It doesn't make it easier even when you know what you're looking at."
Red flags were everywhere. Tech lost four senior starters from a 21-11 team that was eliminated in the first round of the NCAA Tournament. Coach Kristy Curry, who had compiled a 130-98 record as Sharp's successor, bolted for Alabama even though it meant a $350,000 pay cut this year.
"The Alabama program has tremendous potential and I am very excited to get the chance to lead the Crimson Tide back to national prominence," Curry said at the time, adding that she and her family left Tech "with heavy hearts."
Enter Whitaker, a former Tech point guard on teams that made consecutive Sweet 16 appearances. She had rebuilt the program at Missouri-Kansas City, taking a team to the WNIT. She seemed like the perfect fit and still may be.
But a difficult situation became even more so. Sole returning starter Kelsi Baker tore her Achilles in August and missed the season. Key reserve Jackie Patterson opted not to play.
Little experience was left.
After going 6-5 in nonconference play, Tech encountered Big 12 reality. Tech has only been within 15 points of a road opponent once and suffered losses by 37 at Texas, 49 at Baylor and 55 at Oklahoma.
"First of all, I think Candi did a real good job of keeping her players engaged," Sharp said. "I told her over and over how impressive it was they got players to play hard even not having success in the Big 12 Conference."
Tech had its chances at home. The Lady Raiders fell in overtime to Iowa State, lost to Texas by three and by one to Oklahoma State on a buzzer-beater. All are likely NCAA Tournament teams.
"We're showing people we're a team that can compete," said junior Amber Battle, the team's leading scorer at 16.2 points per game.
Added Whitaker: "They didn't come to work like they were 0-for team. They came to work like they had a dog in the fight."
But that hasn't translated to wins.
Attendance, which eroded during the Curry era, has averaged 3,885 for home games — low by Tech standards but still fifth best in the Big 12.
Whitaker points to the support of the administration and long-term fans for helping throughout season. She's received flowers, encouraging texts and even prayers.
Frequent chats with Sharp helped Whitaker keep perspective.
"She's a competitor and winner," Sharp said. "For her, it's a very difficult thing to lose, and in that manner. That's why it's been so important for people to be so encouraging."
Along the way, Whitaker made sure the current group of players knew what preceded them. She acknowledged that it was "sad" to see the program's decline the last half-dozen years.
"This program is much bigger than them or any one individual," Whitaker said.
Whitaker also has a plan. With probable return of Baker and four starters, Whitaker hopes to augment the talent level this spring with immediate help via junior college recruits this year and next. For 2016, considered a strong year in Texas and nationally for high school talent, she is seeking major inroads.
"I think all that depends on recruiting," Whitaker said. "You have got to get lucky at times as well. You have to sign kids who impact the program."
The turnaround won't be easy in the Big 12, where schools have poured resources into women's basketball.
Asked about her message going forward, Whitaker said: "Just how much I believe in this place and the program and what can it be and what it will be. It will take time. We feel we have right pieces in place."
Rough all around
Texas Tech has struggled this year and ranks at the bottom of the Big 12 in several statistical categories. Among them:
Category / Total
Scoring / 58.0
Defense / 69.3
Scoring margin / -11.3
FG pct. / 36.5
FG pct. defense / 42.8
3-pt FG pct./ 27.4
3-pt FG pct. defense / 27.4
Rebounding margin / 36.3
(at Oklahoma City)
Friday's first round
G1: No. 8 Kansas
vs. No. 9 Kansas St.6:00
G2: No. 7 TCU
vs. No. 10 Texas Tech 8:30
Saturday's quarterfinals
G3: No.4 Okla. St.
vs. No. 5 Iowa St.(FSSW) 11 am
G4: No.1 Baylor
vs. G1 winner
G5: No.2 W. Virginia
vs. G2 winner
G6: No.3 Texas
vs. Oklahoma
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Thoughts about setting up your table at the Farmer's Market
July 29, 2010
Pay to have a beautiful banner and use beautiful tablecloths. Make the display interesting and use different heights to display the products—it gives people a place to rest their eyes and makes the shopping more enjoyable for them. Offer samples of all of your products, be generous and passionate. Some resources that are current right now, you can purchase taster spoons here. You get 3,000 of them in each box so you never have to think about giving 10 samples away to one customer. Pay a little extra to get the cub shopping bags—I use Nashville Wraps. For those that don't carry their own recycle bags, it makes your product stand out and they can reuse the bag for gift.
Offer recipe cards so give folks ideas on how to use your products. A lot of people don't realize how versatile the jams are and how many things you can do with them. So…for me even as my wholesale business grows, I want to always continue the Farmers' Markets. There are my my test market, I get live feedback and I get to charge retail which I love!
Make sure you have all of your licensing—I display mine to give customers utter confidence and to comply with the law (more importantly). Make sure that your labels have all of your business/contact information, expiration dates and ingredients listings.
I am a certified kitchen manager, I have a state license from Dept of Agriculture and a County license. Each State has their own requirements. The health inspector twice a year to inspect our kitchen.
More on this later and I hope you will find this helpful.
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this was SO helpful to me! our local downtown market currently has a 6 month to 1 year waiting list, so i will be exploring other farmer's markets and shops to start. thank you again for everything, kindred spirit!
Comment by thecosmiccowgirl — July 29, 2010
HiCosmiccowgirl! This post was meant for you 🙂 Be sure to put yourself on the waiting list and then I would ask the market manager if they need or have openings for any specific products. Even if you can get in with a different line at first and then add your jams when there is an opening, you will be establishing a good customer base at the market and getting wonderful exposure. You just might be able to find a local retail outlet for your jams and refer your customers there while you a waiting! You are so welcome my kindred spirit!
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NAMEwmemmove - copy an array of wide-characters
#include <wchar.h> wchar_t *wmemmove(wchar_t *dest, const wchar_t *src, size_t n);
DESCRIPTIONThe wmemmove() function is the wide-character equivalent of the memmove(3) function. It copies n wide characters from the array starting at src to the array starting at dest. The arrays may overlap.
The programmer must ensure that there is room for at least n wide characters at dest.
RETURN VALUEwmemmove() returns dest.
SEE ALSOmemmove(3), wmemcpy(3)
COLOPHONThis page is part of release 3.24 of the Linux man-pages project. A description of the project, and information about reporting bugs, can be found at http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/.
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Community Forums › Forums › General Discussion › Agency Pro Home Middle – Pages Possible?
Tagged: agency pro, featured home, pages
This topic contains 26 replies, has 5 voices, and was last updated by jbculp 3 years, 11 months ago.
October 11, 2013 at 7:24 am #66252
Yes - sort of...Not to my satisfaction. Thanks for asking. I was writing my response and in the middle had a light-bulb moment. instead of deleting everything I'll keep my text below and you can decide if either will work for you.
Here is where it currently stands. I have two versions on my test site.
#1. Less than satisfactory solution. I created 6 "fake" blog posts and using a WordPress plugin (Page Links To - made by Mark Jaquith) I mapped those posts to real pages. End result, 6 grids on home page just like demo that can have specific copy for the links. This can all be done using the theme setup instructions with the small addition of the plugin remapping.
Upside of #1
- Upside is that there is no coding involved, simple plugin, copy/paste 6 urls and you are done.
Downside of #1
- The posts will need to be filtered out of the blog and archive. Creating them as custom post types may help but then I'd need to determine how to do that filtering so I'm back in code.
- The featured post plugin inserts Post metadata using schema.org format so these fake pages will have "post" metadata in the eyes of a web crawler
- Have no idea what this will do to SEO (if anything) or a Sitemap
- Solution #1 just isn't nuanced. It uses post css to get the visitor to a page.
Solution #2
- After a bit of tricky html copy/paste work from the demo I was able to create the exact same effect with one text widget. Initially the Text widget had a white background and inner padding which was unsatisfactory. (light bulb moment come here...) it turns out the widget for the home page has its own CSS which can be altered, so I did:
.agency-pro-home .content .widget { background: #none; margin-bottom: 80px; margin-bottom: 8rem; /* padding: 40px; padding: 4rem; */ }
Now I have 6 links to pages that look like the demo.
Also, I copied a HUGE section of the CSS and replaced the featured-post syntax with featured-page so each of these items has its own css element.
The styles still have the featured-post metadata so once I figure out (or likely am told) what the page metadata should be for a page I'll alter the already nasty html. Thankfully I have dreamweaver to help visually with the editing but Textmate would likely work just as well.
Upsides to #2
- Pages not posts - that's obvious
- The implications on the sitemap and SEO don't make my brain ache
Downsides to #2
- The metadata using a class of Article is still a problem.
- The Title for the entire section is not working. Using the Featured Post widget, the CSS knows what to do to style the title before the entire block, center the text etc. The title for the text widget hangs above the left top. When I took away the white background it nearly disappeared with the backstretch image behind it. So there is still work here to be done.
- The use of a huge piece of html in a text widget makes edits very difficult. If one's goal is to create something that can be altered later... this solution falls short.
All in all #2 isn't bad. If you like I can send you my incomplete HTML with the cavaet that it's not ready for prime time.
I'm still committed to the belief that this theme should have had a design accommodation for using pages as well. The name alone (Agency) implies that this will be focused on business and corporate sites and the bias toward posts on the home page just doesn't work so well here. I don't want to sound like a troll because I really like Genesis and the tech support and community have helped me far beyond the reasonable amount... I'm just saying that WordPress is now 20%-ish of all websites in the world and 60%-ish of all sites using CMS solutions and not all of those are blogs (e.g. CNN).
I hope this helps. If anyone knows how to style the title to use the .agency-pro-home .content .featured-content .widget-title::before element then that issue goes away. Then the only issue is the meta data and general inflexibility of using a monster text widget.
There you have it. Hope you could make it thru all this text.October 11, 2013 at 7:32 am #66254
OOPS, forgot to add. If you make the text background go away, any other widgets on the page that are legit will not have the white background - that's bad so one would need a custom class for this purpose.October 11, 2013 at 12:08 pm #66314
Thanks for the ideas, jbculp. I considered going the route of your option #1 but rejected it because I want to find a clean coding solution instead of adding redirects, etc.
I'll continue to play with it and if I figure anything out, I'll post it here. I hope you'll do the same! And maybe someone will notice our plea and help us out.October 11, 2013 at 1:20 pm #66321
GOT IT. Still using a text widget but got the background correct, the padding, the title etc. So still not as flexible as using a featured page widget but it works.October 12, 2013 at 4:38 pm #66450
Wow this an active stream and I am interested in the same...please do post a response on the schema info please.
"Life is Social" & "Social is the Lifeblood" of a Small Business Owner.October 12, 2013 at 6:02 pm #66461
If you are asking what did I use for the schema markup when pages were in play and not posts, here was what I did. I tested a Featured-Page widget in the home-middle. Per the previous posts, this didn't yield the layout I wanted but in the code, Genesis marked up the information in schema.org compliant information. I'm going to take it on faith that the markup is correct for a page and my experience is that getting clarity on any schema markup is a challenge so I'm ready to accept the Genesis version unless someone stands up and says its wrong.
So that said, here is a sample from Featured-post from demo compared to Featured-Page form my test site where the page ID is 27.
Schema.org metadata for Post:

Schema.org metadata for Page:

Since I've bludgeoned my featured-page solution in a text widget this was a nasty bit of copy/paste with changes for the post ID's and because the images need to map and the content needs to map, there are URL's a plenty in the code but the schema.org bit has one line for each of the 6 pages. I can't speak to the "instock" bit but can't tell you what any better code would say.
I hope this helps.
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October 13, 2013 at 11:17 am #66521
- This reply was modified 3 years, 11 months ago by jbculp.
Sridhar KatakamParticipant
How to show Featured Pages in Home Middle section similar to Featured Posts in Agency Pro: http://sridharkatakam.com/show-featured-pages-home-middle-section-similar-featured-posts-agency-pro/
October 13, 2013 at 12:04 pm #66526
Sounds very promising. Can't wait to try it!October 13, 2013 at 4:19 pm #66541
@Sridhar That looks very sweet! Can't wait to try it either once the main plug-in I need to use gets compatible with the new HTML5 themes... Thank you sir!October 13, 2013 at 9:44 pm #66569
Sridhar KatakamParticipant
May I ask what plugin that is?
October 13, 2013 at 10:01 pm #66572
@Sridhar It's an iDX plugin that displays real estate listings called Optima Express: http://wordpress.org/plugins/optima-express/
The plugin itself works fine but its CSS is messed up when used with HTML5 themes. I was able to override and fix most of it but I got stuck on a couple very important forms so I gave up for now and went back to the older education theme. 🙁October 24, 2013 at 3:37 pm #68712
yes... well it wasn't me, Sridhar revisited the topic and replicated it for pages using Featured Pages. As suspected it was some CSS and it works wonderfully. I replaced his example of home-bottom with home-middle. Also, his CSS is one block. You'll need to copy the upper portion into the style css and the bits that are media queries should probably go into their respective areas at the end of the style sheet, being careful to keep the sections nested. If you break things up like this, you won't need the media query itself e.g. @media only screen and (max-width: 480px) { and its closing } .
Other than that, no issues. I am now able to mothball my rather painful but beautiful text widget.
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D20 Modern Solution, looking for advice
I just recently had an exciting revelation about the D20 Modern system. I've always felt the Base Classes leave a lot to be desired, they are somewhat limited in function and limiting to character concept (why do I need to be Strong to become a Gunslinger early?) So I was thinking about the Advanced classes and it hit me, skip the Base classes entirely. Keep them around for NPCs but let the PCs skip over them. Prereqs become suggestions. There are a handful of actual Prestige classes that still function normally, but otherwise you just start at first level with the first level of an Advanced class. A party composed of a Field Scientist, a Martial Artist, a Gunslinger, and a Telepath sounds a hell of a lot cooler than a Smart, a Strong, a Fast, and a Dedicated.
I'd like to hear GM opinions on this, thanks.
I'd like to hear GM opinions on this, thanks.


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Business News
Rising tuition, 'Occupy' spark new campus activism
TAMPA - Dani Leppo planned to keep her head down, study and finish as fast as possible when she transferred from St. Petersburg College to the University of South Florida this year. But as she crossed campus one day, she saw a group of people holding signs saying tuition was going up 15 percent. An activist was born. "We can barely pay our bills," Leppo said, "and here they are raising tuition."USF government professor Harry Vanden sees the anger rising on campuses across the country. "This is a very bad situation for students everywhere," he said. "Student debt is higher than it's ever been. There are no jobs to speak of. These issues affect all of them across the country and it could unite them." Leppo joined the Tampa chapter of the SDS, Students for a Democratic Society, a modern day version of the student protest group from the 1960s. Another group of students recently formed an Occupy USF group to call attention to students' struggles. Overall, their numbers at USF and throughout the country are small, nothing like the masses who made up the campus protests of the 1960s and '70s. But Vanden, who has written extensively on social reform movements, predicts the student groups will grow. "I think it's very serious, and I frankly have been surprised that something hasn't started before." * * * * * Political science professor Susan MacManus agrees the problems are serious for students. She doesn't, however, see it leading to mass protests. "A lot of my students are saying they don't have time to get involved," she said. "They're more concerned about getting through their classes and getting out and moving on." She said she saw more involvement three years ago, when Barack Obama was running for president. Obama targeted young voters like no candidate had. And they turned out in record numbers to vote for him in 2008, said a Pew Research Center study, "Millenials: Confident. Connected. Open to Change." The new SDS had emerged two years earlier, in 2006, with many of its members becoming active in the anti-Iraq war movement, said Justin Wooten, who helped start an SDS chapter at the University of Florida. But the energy waned after Obama's election and the disillusionment that accompanied the financial collapse. Some people thought the new SDS would collapse, said Wooten, now a student at Montclair State University in New Jersey. Then came Occupy Wall Street. "I think that's giving everyone sort of a new consciousness," Wooten said. Another thing is fueling these protests among students, said Mike Chrisemer, who helped start an SDS group at Florida State University before graduating two years ago.He now attends a graduate program at City University of New York. "These are people who grew up with technology, so you're seeing people using social media, like Twitter, to coordinate these mass protests. It's just natural for them." * * * * * A group of California students has begun coordinating the campus protest groups through a website called Occupy Colleges. "We're trying to bring them together around the essential issues," said Natalia Abrams, a recent graduate from the University of California, Los Angeles. Occupy Colleges is calling for a nationwide student strike for Nov. 28, "in solidarity with UC Davis , UC Berkeley, CUNY Schools and all students who are defending their right to protest against rising tuition cost and out of control student debt," says the website. Leppo, at USF, said she has surprised herself in the past few months. She was always the type to speak up if she saw something that was wrong, she said, but she never saw herself as a campus protest leader. After she got her associate's degree at St. Petersburg College a few years ago, she began drifting, "traveling, just like partying, not really doing anything substantial," she said. She came to USF to get focused and finish her bachelor's degree in English. Then she learned about the tuition increase. She lives at home with her mother and works 12 hours a week at a beauty supply store. She has a Pell Grant, but it doesn't cover everything, so tuition increases worry her. "These are our lives we're talking about, our future," Leppo said. This year's increase is the latest in a string of annual 15 percent hikes, imposed largely to make up for state cuts to university budgets over the past five years. * * * * * The SDS Tampa chapter had just started in August, so when Leppo joined, she was one of a handful of members. But each time they staged an action on campus, coming out with their signs and flyers, they drew a small crowd and a few more email addresses. Earlier this month, they banded with Occupy USF and assembled about 60 people who marched to the administration building at the southeast end of campus to present demands, including a tuition freeze. That same day, about 60 other students from the USF system trekked to a state Board of Governors meeting in Boca Raton to take a stand against efforts to split USF Polytechnic from USF. In Tampa, administrators were waiting for the SDS and Occupy students, armed with charts and explanations about why tuition was going up. Including fees, it's about $6,000 a year for a full-time, in-state student, but that's lower than almost every other state's tuition. The students had planned to stage a sit-in until the administrators invited them into the building to talk about the problem of state funding, Leppo said. A similar thing happened when SDS members met with a group of USF student government leaders two week ago. "Our wallets are hurting," said Student Body President Matt Diaz. "But our battle is with the state Legislature," which has been consistently cutting the state university budgets. "Without the increase, the situation would be so much worse," Diaz said. Professors would be laid off, class sizes would go up, financial aid would go down. The SDS members agreed to work with the student government leaders and USF's administration, for now, to pack as many buses as they can in January for student day at the Legislature. Leppo's not sure what to expect after that. If there are more cuts and faculty members start losing their jobs and tuition goes up yet again, she predicts that students who've been hanging back will join the protesters. "Then you'll see some real anger," she said.
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NewswireToday - /newswire/ -
Linden, NJ, United States, 2010/07/28 - The Data Center Alliance (DCA) announced that they successfully hosted their first event, titled "Winds of Change: Creative Concepts for Increasing Data Center Efficiency," on July 27th at the Biltmore hotel in Santa Clara, California.
The event explored solutions for data center efficiency challenges to an audience of CIOs, facilities managers, data center managers, IT managers and system administrators.
The Data Center Alliance event was sponsored by DCA members Digi International, Elliptical Mobile Solutions, Minicom, PDI, and Wright Line. Together with other alliance partners, these companies have joined forces to leverage the core strengths of each organization, and to fill the information gap in the marketplace by providing a centralized, comprehensive source for building successful IT infrastructures.
Digi's presentation about their integrated console management platform made a compelling case for centralized access control as a driving force in helping data enters run more smoothly. It was hard not to be convinced by Elliptical Mobile Solutions' concrete value proposition for their modular data centers: their "Data Center in a Box" offers operational expenditures savings for clients from 40% to 65%. Minicom demonstrated how remote access management increases operation efficiency while maintaining security. Equally exciting was PDI's talk about their power solutions, and the innovations they have introduced in order to track and reduce data center energy use. Wright Line's erudite explanation about how to eliminate chaos cooling gave participants a road map for creating predictability in their data centers.
William Dunckel, Senior Project Manager at Pacific Gas & Electric Company (PG&E), captivated the audience with his keynote speech on "Myths and Facts Driving Data Center Energy." Bringing charts and statistics to life, Dunckel drove home the necessity of reducing the carbon footprint of data centers, and outlined strategies for making it happen.
"It's encouraging to see the dedication of the data center community to this important initiative," Dunckel said. "The existence of this event bodes well for the future of the environment."
Kathy M. Diehl, Regional ENERGY STAR Program Manager, spoke about the hot topic "ENERGY STAR for Data Centers." Her talk addressed the development of the "Guiding Principles for Energy Efficiency Metrics for Data Centers," giving a colorful context to the standards that are now used. Diehl's speech highlighted the reality that most stand-alone and larger buildings housing data centers have the means for tracking and curbing energy use.
"With ENERGY STAR's help, it is easy to establish an energy management program that will benefit both your company's bottom line and the environment. I am happy for the opportunity to inform the attendees of this event about ENERGY STAR's efforts to support energy efficiency for data centers," said Diehl.
"The DCA is proud to host an event with such relevance and substance. After hearing all our speakers, attendees have the tools to make major positive changes in many aspects of their data centers, such as scalable designs for rack enclosures, data center mobility, lowering cooling costs, remote access management, power management, and facility design. We are already planning the next DCA event!" said David Zucker, Executive Director, DCA.
About the Data Center Alliance
The Data Center Alliance brings together the best in class IT infrastructure manufacturers into one place, where IT decision makers can find the data they need to make smart decisions about their growing data center needs. Designed to help IT personnel overcome challenges related to physical space, power consumption, remote access and budget, the Alliance is an invaluable resource for every CIO. For companies looking to improve productivity in the fields of power, KVM, network management, remote access, environmental monitoring and air flow, the Data Center Alliance is the answer.
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Nah, penguin! Its the truth man! the next halo!
Yea my main problem with it was that he had a really smooth voice, which is just really weird. Where did all the gravelyness to his voice go? lol
Wait but wasn't that just ocelot with nanomachines hypnotized to be liquid?
Its kind of weird because I thought that the gameplay we have seen from ground zeroes was the opening of the game, and if that is the only level in the entire game, how is it open world? I mean I know that ground zeroes is a smaller prologue but if the event of saving chico directly leads into the destruction of mother base, then how is it going to have open world elements?
I just find it odd that he would put a line in ground zeroes like "kept you waiting huh?" when we wouldn't have the iconic voice to really make that line so cool. I mean i understand why he would want to change the phantom pain's voice actor for big boss, but he confirmed that ground zeroes takes place literally days after peace walker...
Why the hell would kojima put in a line for the beginning of ground zeroes like "kept you waiting, huh?" if he isnt going to have the iconic voice actor that would really give that line its punch?
Wait... didn't someone ask David Hayter if he even was asked to come back for metal gear solid v by someone on twitter and he said "nope." And now is saying that he met with someone that told him he won't be in metal gear solid V? Maybe I'm wrong about this, but isn't this contradicting his previous tweet?


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This course prepares participants to handle the various challenges they will face in leading teams throughout their life cycle. The course supports self-reflection and skill development by creating changes in each participant's internal dialogue through interactive role-playing, self-assessment measures, group discussions, exercises, and interactive lectures.
These activities will enhance each participant's development of their own unique leadership capabilities. Leadership styles are uniquely individual and situational. Participants will learn to use their new capabilities in a team environment and to select the most effective management style for a specific situation. They will also learn the competency level required to improve task performance. As leaders, participants will learn to successfully support their teams by reducing uncertainty and to increase collaboration by providing structure and developing trust during the life cycle of a project.
Individual leadership development plans will be prepared to enable participants to internalize improvements and become more effective without the stress of miscommunication and distrust. Once their development plan is enacted, each leader will be able to form teams that are quickly organized with individual team members who think collaboratively. Self-assessment, learning how to form a team, maintaining the team, reducing uncertainty, and becoming a good negotiator through using your emotional intelligence and leadership competencies are the focus of Challenges of Leadership in Teams.
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Course Length:
Course Fee:
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It is highly recommended that you apply for a course at least 6-8 weeks before the start date to guarantee there will be space available. After that date you may be placed on a waitlist. Courses with low enrollment may be cancelled up to 4 weeks before start date if sufficient enrollments are not met. If you are able to access the online application form, then registration for that particular course is still open.
Participant Takeaways:
Takeaways from this course include:
- Developing your level of expertise in each of the challenge areas
- Assessing yourself as a team leader/manager/CEO by understanding your strengths and weaknesses, choosing three or four areas you wish to develop
- Utilizing your emotional intelligence to manage others
- Managing stress and conflict through changing your internal dialogue
- Planning and facilitating effective conflict management
- Facilitating and coaching in a culture aimed at delivering results
- Using effective socialization practices reduce uncertainty on a team
- Transforming your leadership to a more adaptive style that fits your organizational culture
- Enhancing your leadership abilities through effective intercultural communication
Who Should Attend:
This course is appropriate for anyone who is, or will be, involved in leading and managing teams. Although the majority of participants in some years have had engineering or scientific training, the course has proven useful for individuals from a variety of other backgrounds. Participants are expected to have some background in team-building and/or team management skills.
Assignments and Computer Requirements:
Students will be provided with slide copy, notes, and books for the course. There will be nightly readings assignments from these materials that students should read before the beginning of class the next day. For those who wish to read in advance, and as a courtesy to participants for whom English is not their first language, some of these materials will be provided electronically before the course begins. In addition, the course makes use of several well-known self-assessment instruments that have large databases, which enhance their accuracy. These will also be sent to participants to fill out and return before class begins so that the results will be available as the course proceeds. Laptops are encouraged for this course.
Program Outline:
Day 1
Challenge 1: The Leadership Development Model
Learn the structures and systems that need to be integrated into a model that can be globally adapted to any organizational structure.
Challenge 2: Project Management with Emotional Intelligence (EI) Strategic Project Management
Leaders can use their EI skills to build trust, handle conflict, give and take criticism constructively, deal with people who don't deliver, generate team commitment, and keep others motivated. Sharpen your EI by developing yourself in four major domains.
Challenge 3: Strategic Project Planning and Design
Most projects never get off the ground because ad hoc, haphazard, and obsolete methods fail to turn their ideas into coherent and actionable plans. Strategic project management uses an approach to designing projects and action initiatives that builds on critical questions which teams must intelligently answer in order to create their own strong, strategic foundation.
Challenge 4: Unique Challenges of Cross Functional Teams
Cross-functional project teams involve people with different expertise working toward a common goal and can be immensely powerful. These teams do offer additional challenges to leaders. How to lead in the absence of organizational or line authority is a skill that is important for leaders, as well as managers leading outside of their areas of expertise, to understand.
Day 2
Challenge 5: Resiliency and Stress – Transforming your Internal Dialogue
The real dynamics of stress and conflict is not from outside influences but from how you think about your circumstances. Leaders learn to uncover stress-producing thoughts and dismantle them by transforming their mindset, thereby helping them to reduce stress and uncertainty.
Challenge 6: Leadership Challenges when Forming the Team
Clearly defining the structure of the team under a predetermined team formation model is essential. This model includes creating a vision, systems of behavior, and an understanding that there are two processes simultaneously in effect—the team and task processes. This approach facilitates learning to use each individual's competencies to form a team.
Day 3
Challenge 7: Leading through Negotiation and Conflict Management
Conflict is a difference of opinion. A leader's main focus when managing a team conflict is to understand the conflict styles of other members and to facilitate their ability to understand and develop the use of more effective styles. Conflict can be beneficial for a team when managed successfully. Using principled negotiation and planning the team's negotiations for resources as a developed leadership skill can support team success.
Challenge 8: Leadership Self-Assessment
Certain assessment surveys can facilitate an individual's understanding of their present management style and abilities. Participants complete online surveys before the course begins and individually utilize the results during the course to develop their skills further. Although these self-assessments can take an individual outside their comfort zone, their application to each of the challenges can have a powerful transformative effect.
Day 4
Challenge 9: Leadership Mindsets
Mindset management provides cognitive insight into how we move away from limited personal goals to more systemic activities that have measurable outcomes and become part of a network of skills within an organization. These principles are predicated upon coaches and team facilitators utilizing a specific, learnable skill set, such as relationship building, problem-solving, and effective listening. Learning objectives include teaching leaders to develop a personal understanding of thinking and coaching styles. This session reviews recent findings in biological and behavioral studies that have helped to form a scientific basis for understanding mindset management.
Challenge 10: Team Communication and Socialization
Innovation and motivation are inextricably linked to the generation and reduction of uncertainty, albeit in very different ways. Innovation and change are related to the full cycle of the generation and reduction of uncertainty while motivation is predominantly related to its reduction. Miscommunication within teams leads to stress and anxiety, which generates the uncertainty that needs to be reduced. Behaviors are situational in this respect. Focused leadership values the differences in priorities, backgrounds, and values that exist in the team members.
Day 5
Challenge 11: Leading in an Intercultural Environment
To lead in a culturally diverse environment, a leader must be able to recognize cultural variables to increase cultural sensitivity. It is essential to understand how these variables influence communication and, therefore, team dynamics. Recognition of how to maximize intercultural communication strengths and minimize potential difficulties is an important ability for a leader to learn.
Challenge 12: Gender Issues in Leadership
Gender differences in the workplace can be theoretically viewed as cultural differences, which should be mediated. Gender can be a challenge to clear communication and cooperation. Once diversity is clarified, gender issues can be minimized to maximize comfort and productivity.
Challenge 13: Leadership Strategies: Personal Development Plans
Learn how to integrate competencies and personal leadership assessment results into an individual leadership development plan.
Course Schedule:
View 2017 Course Schedule (pdf)
Class runs 9:00 am - 5:30 pm except Friday when it ends at 4:30 pm.
9:00 am - 10:00 am Session
10:15 am - 12:30 pm Session
1:30 pm - 2:45 pm Session
3:00 pm - 4:30 pm Session
Participants' Comments:
"This course reminds you that you can still be the best leader regardless of the environment. [It] pushes you to think, which is rare these days."
"The best part of the program was the interaction with the staff. They were just amazing. They were really helpful and I could approach them at any time and they would just help out. Personally, I approached every lecturer to get my problem solved and everyone provided their perspective. I was really impressed."
"The class was the most diverse group of students I have ever been a part of. And the instructors engaged and included all of us in discussions and conversations aimed to improve our understanding of the material. I got a tremendous benefit from taking this class and am grateful to the staff of your institute and the instructors for letting me participate."
"This is knowledge that will be useful in all jobs and private relationships - it's about how to deal with people and how to manage own and others expectations and feelings."
"It was a great opportunity to get a very good insight in soft skills that I have never experienced before, as I usually attend courses that deal more with my everyday work, rather than me as a person/leader in my work environment. Therefore the assessment tests, which I took quite serious, were very helpful to get a good knowledge of my abilities and weaknesses, not only from guessing, but on an objective basis, and get some ideas on which aspects of my abilities/weaknesses I would like to work on."
"The diversity of the group was great. We had a great collection of senior managers to new managers, from different areas/industries and different countries!"
Clark K. Colton
Clark K. Colton is co-director of this course and is a professor of Chemical Engineering at MIT. Dr. Colton has written over 200 publications in chemical engineering and bioengineering and has received many awards. In collaboration with Bonnie Burrell, he teaches interpersonal business and technical communication skills to students in Chemical Engineering in addition to other technical courses, and is working to expand interpersonal communication and team building training into undergraduate and graduate engineering subjects.
Bonnie Burrell van Stephoudt
Bonnie Burrell van Stephoudt is co-director of this course. She is a lecturer in the Chemical Engineering Department at MIT and has her Master's degree in Management from Harvard University. She is presently teaching team development to Chemical Engineering students. In collaboration with Dr. Colton, she has been developing the integration of interpersonal communication and team building skills into undergraduate and graduate engineering education. She conducts research in the areas of interpersonal business communication, including collaboration, leadership skills, and assessment methods. Her publications include Conflict Management Theory and The Team Development Model.
Andrew Bernstein
Andrew Bernstein teaches people an eye-opening new way to transform challenges at work and at home more effectively, with no jargon, stigma, or "touchy-feeliness."
Since 2006, Andy has taught executives through Wharton Executive Education and Duke CE, where his programs on resilience, team dynamics, mindset, and leading change are always among the highest-rated and most in-demand. Clients include Merrill Lynch, Raymond James, General Electric, Johnson & Johnson, Google, Coca-Cola, Novelis, Colgate-Palmolive, and many others.
Andy's first book, The Myth of Stress, was published by Simon & Schuster. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Johns Hopkins University, and lives in New York City.
For more information, visit www.resilienceacademy.com.
Lori Breslow
Lori Breslow is the founding Director of the Teaching & Learning Laboratory (TLL) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is also a senior lecturer at the Sloan School of Management where she teaches courses on professional communication, including intercultural communication. Dr. Breslow's work in education has involved her in a number of international efforts, including being the co-director of the Teaching for Learning Network, a collaboration between MIT and Cambridge; consulting on MIT's partnerships to create new universities in Abu Dhabi, Singapore, and Russia; and being a visiting scholar at Cape Peninsula University of Technology. She has spoken on university-level teaching and learning at Oxford, the University of Edinburgh, and the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), among other international venues.
Keith Dionne
Keith Dionne received his M.S. in Technology and Policy and his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from MIT. He was one of the initial scientists in the founding of CytoTherapeutics Inc., where he led the effort to develop immunoisolation systems for the treatment of diabetes. Dionne later moved to Alza, where he led the research and development group for implantable drug delivery systems. In that role, he developed the DurosTM technology, which is now marketed as ViadurTM for the treatment of prostate cancer. Dionne grew the Technology Solutions group at Millennium Pharmaceuticals into a $100M/yr business. He was the CEO of Alantos Pharmaceuticals, a private transatlantic drug discovery company that was sold to Amgen for $300M in 2007. He was the CEO at Surface Logix, a Metabolic Disease discovery and development company, an Entrepreneur in Residence at Third Rock Ventures and is currently the CEO of Constellation Pharmaceuticals, an oncology focused epigenetics company located in Cambridge, MA.
Ralph Katz
Dr. Ralph Katz is a Senior Lecturer at MIT's Sloan School and a Professor of Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Northeastern University's College of Business. He received his B.S. in Math/Physics from Carnegie Mellon University and his M.B.A. and Ph.D. from the Wharton School. For almost 40 years, Professor Katz has been carrying out extensive research, education, and consulting on the management of innovation with particular interest in the leadership and motivation of professionals and high performing groups and project teams.
Katz has conducted numerous workshops on innovation and the management of professionals in many organizations, including Lockheed-Martin, P&G, MGH, Diageo, Goodrich, EMC, CIA, Novartis, Tetra Pak, Alstom, Saab Aerospace, Master Foods, Mathworks, NASA, Lawrence Livermore, and Los Alamos. Katz is the Faculty Leader for two MIT Sloan School Executive Programs, i.e., Building, Leading and Sustaining the Innovative Organization and Managing Technical Professionals and Organizations. He also led the 3-day Management of Technology and Innovation Executive Program at Cal Tech from 1984 to 2009. For more than 10 years, he organized and led the Management of Technology and Management of Technical Professionals Courses at IBM's Corporate Technical Institute. He has published several books and numerous articles in leading professional journals, including,The Human Side of Managing Technological Innovation, 2nd edition, Oxford University Press, 2004.
Katz has received the Academy of Management's "New Concept Award" as well as many journal "Best Paper" awards. In 2004, his paper in Research-Technology Management was selected as the Holland Award Winner for that year's most significant and original contribution to research management field.
Harold V. Langlois
Harold V. Langlois has spent the last 30 years of his career with one foot firmly anchored in the day-to-day leadership responsibilities of managing complex organizations and the other rooted in the theoretical world of academe. Beginning in the early 1990s, Langlois held senior executive positions at various financial firms, where he was responsible for constructing a Division of Wealth Management, designing and implementing innovative education programs for financial advisors, and overseeing the cultural integration of these firms as they became acquired. These experiences have given him an understanding of the challenges and mindsets of advisors, whether working in global firms in the investment or insurance sectors or providing advice within the independent sector.
Since 2006, Langlois has dedicated his efforts to lecturing and coaching business executives on improving their leadership skills. His approach is highly interactive and he concentrates on providing the latest research in the areas of leadership, teamwork communications, change management, and neurobiology.
Langlois holds a Ph.D. from the University of Connecticut and for the past 15 years he has been a member of the graduate faculty at Harvard University teaching courses on managing change, leadership, and teamwork. In fall 2007, he offered a web-based graduate course streamed worldwide each week as part of Harvard's distance learning initiative. In 2002, he was the recipient of the Joanne Fussa Distinguished Teaching Award at Harvard.
Terry Schmidt
Terry Schmidt is an international management consultant, strategic thinker, entrepreneur, and educator with 30 years of experience assisting corporations, governments, and research organizations in 36 countries worldwide. He earned his BS in aerospace engineering from the University of Washington and his MBA from Harvard University.
Schmidt is president of ManagementPro.com (USA) and founder of the Strategic Planning Academy. Before starting his own company, he worked for NASA, the U.S. Department of Transportation, and the U.S. Embassy in Thailand. His clients include eBay, Boeing, Sony Electronics, Northrop Grumman, DirecTV, Symantec, Trader Joe's, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, and the Federal Reserve Board. He teaches strategy at the UCLA Technical Management Program and serves on the Los Alamos Laboratory Management Institute faculty. He has seven published books; his latest is Strategic Project Management Made Simple. Schmidt won the esteemed Theodore von Karman trophy from AIAA and the Charles T. Main Award from ASME.
This course takes place on the MIT campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts. We can also offer this course for groups of employees at your location. Please complete the Custom Programs request form for further details.
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Heidi Klum's new clothing collection is aimed at busy mothers. The supermodel–who raises four children with husband Seal–says she decided to create the line, Heidi Klum for New Balance, because she wanted something comfortable and stylish to wear when she takes her kids to school.
She said, "Moms are doing so many things, we have so many hats on–go to Starbucks, meet a friend, go to a meeting–and you don't really want to do that in nasty sweatpants. I myself have to drive 40 minutes to go to school, and that time of the day, 7.20 when I have to leave my house, I don't want to have to be wearing something too cute or too tight, because there are errands to do. So I thought about what is missing that we can all wear, that is cooler, that is active, that is stylish."
Describing the collection as "very comfortable, stylish clothing", Heidi admitted that she was inspired by other mothers at her kids' school.
She told popeater.com, "It's activewear, it's for moms on the go. Basically I have four children: our older daughter Leni is six, Henry is going to be five on Sunday, Johan will be four in November and Lou is 11 months. The boys have been going to school now for almost two years and Leni for three years, so what I've been looking at is a lot of the moms in the morning doing drop-offs."
The busy mother also spoke about Project Runway calling this season's contestants "softies." She said, "They're softies this season! And they get aggravated fast–they fight quite a bit and they show their emotions a lot."
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I'm a beach girl at heart. But until retirement or I win the lottery, my art studio overlooking the ocean remains a dream. In the meantime, I spend my days being creative in Ohio, and indulging my love of the ocean in my home decor. With 3 canvases and a little acrylic paint, you can make custom decor that showcases your beach finds. Since there is no wrong way to … Continue reading →


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A redesigned 2013 Chevrolet Malibu wasn't the only treat that Chevrolet had for mid-size sedan shoppers at the New York auto show this week. Chevrolet also trotted out the Chevrolet Malibu Eco, a fuel mileage-oriented hybrid option that rides on the same completely redesigned platform as its traditional gasoline sibling.
The 2013 Chevrolet Malibu Eco borrows its drivetrain from the Buick LaCrosse and Buick Regal eAssist models. At its core, the Malibu Eco makes use of what General Motors calls a 'light electrification'? system in order to enhance fuel mileage through the judicious application of battery assistance during certain driving situations. The system consists of a lithium-ion battery and a 15 horsepower electric motor that works in concert with a 2.4-liter, four-cylinder Ecotec engine that automatically starts and stops when the vehicle is at rest to prevent idling. The direct-injection gasoline motor also features a fuel cut-off while the Malibu is slowing down, and its regenerative braking system keeps the battery topped up without the need for plugging in.
The eAssist mild hybrid technology used in the Chevrolet Malibu Eco is essentially transparent, with no real indication from behind the wheel that the vehicle is operating with an electric horsepower boost or not. In fact, from a driver's perspective the biggest difference between the Malibu Eco and the standard Malibu would be the silence from the engine bay while the vehicle is sitting at a stop light.
And, of course, the fuel mileage. Chevrolet claims that the 2013 Chevrolet Malibu Eco is the most fuel efficient mid-size sedan ever built by the company, and while official EPA ratings have yet to be released, the automaker claims that the hybrid will see 26 miles per gallon in city driving and 38 miles per gallon on the highway. Chevrolet estimates that a full tank of fuel will give the Malibu a range of up to 550 miles. These figures are on par with what Buick has been able to achieve with its eAssist models, and are quite solid when taking into account the fact that the four-cylinder motor found under the hood of the Malibu Eco generates a healthy 180 horsepower.
Helping the Chevrolet Malibu Eco hit its reported fuel mileage numbers are a number of aerodynamic improvements that have been made to the sedan's body structure. The underside of the car has been smoothed so as to reduce drag, and the Eco bears the same active aero system found on the standard Malibu that closes bottom grille shutters at certain speeds in order to further lower the automobile's wind resistance. Drivers of the green-friendly Malibu model are also coached by the vehicle's ECO gauge on the dashboard, which monitors driving style and attempts to help owners modify their habits in order to improve overall efficiency.
The 2013 Chevrolet Malibu Eco is an interesting step forward for the domestic brand, and the vehicle immediately puts vehicles like the Toyota Camry Hybrid and the Nissan Altima Hybrid on notice. Although the Malibu Eco might lag behind both of those vehicles in terms of city mileage, it tops them when it comes to highway cruising, and if Chevrolet can keep the base price below the Camry's MSRP of $26,675, it could have an interesting fight on its hands in the green family sedan segment.