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Amount locked up at CITs-A rises 48% in 7 months
Even as the NDA government has made ostensible efforts to make life easier for taxpayers — leaving only the retrospective tax issues largely unresolved — tax disputes may have only piled up, proof that old habits die hard with the revenue authorities. At the level of commissioners-appeal (CITs-A), the first recourse of the taxpayer in case of dispute, 2.8 lakh appeals involving a whopping Rs 5.67 lakh crore were pending till October last year, sharply up from the corresponding figures of 2.32 lakh and Rs 3.84 lakh crore at the end of the previous financial year.
In other words, in the seven months to October-end last year, unsettled disputes pending before these commissioners rose 21% and the amount locked up surged 48%. In the year to April-end, 2015, a period which too largely belonged to the NDA government, appeals pending before the CITs-A have only risen, though less steeply. And the CITs-A are only the first of the many layers of appeal where direct tax disputes are dealt with, with the income-tax appellate tribunal and the high courts being the higher fora and the Supreme Court, the final arbiter.
Though the finance ministry's latest annual report only put out the data on the undecided appeals before CITs-A, other available data suggest that the situation is any better with the tribunal and the courts.
Data separately gathered by FE show that outstanding claims – which include disputed and undisputed ones in 3:2 ratio- by the I-T department rose from Rs 5.8 lakh crore to Rs 8.3 lakh crore during 2014-15.
The issue of unresolved tax disputes has larger dimensions. In the case of multinationals, aggressive transfer pricing (TP) adjustments demanded by the tax authorities have been a major source of worry in the last few years. Although the aggression has been toned down by the Modi government, the progress on the taxpayer-friendly mechanisms put in place like the advance pricing agreements (APAs) has been less than satisfactory. As regards APAs, which by definition would guide the I-T department's pricing of non-resident firms' transactions with their India-resident associates and enable them to get TP audit waiver, of the 590 applications filed between FY13 and December 2015, only 32 became final agreements. Even among this small number of final agreements, which signal resolution of the dispute, only 2 were bilateral ones involving the revenue department of the MNCs' home countries.
Of late, however, there has been some headway in settling disputes involving US-based tech biggies like Microsoft, IBM, Google, Cisco, Honeywell, AT&T, Dell, Intel and Alcatel thanks to the invocation of the mutual agreement procedure (MAP) in the India-US Double Taxation Avoidance Convention. The current MAP agreement between the US and India targets to settle a total 200 cases — all relating to the disputes over the values ascribed by the Indian tax department to the past cross-border transactions of US-based MNCs' associates in India.
The big gap between the Modi government's targets and achievements in reducing the backlog of tax disputes is partly attributable to the rise in the number of new cases. Many analysts feel the government's efforts would yield more concrete results in the coming months. "The government issuing clarifications on substantive law in a rational manner would help bring down litigation. This would bring clarity on interpretation of the law for both tax payers and the income tax department. However, polices that say that a tax payer could pay certain percentage of tax and penalty and would be relieved of the tax demand, would not help much. There have been praiseworthy efforts from the government in the recent past to bring in clarity on various issues such as MAT on FIIs, characterisation of income from sale of shares etc. These kind of steps are helpful in the longer term," said Rahul K Mitra, partner and national head (BEPS & tax dispute resolution) KPMG India.
Efforts are being made to reduce indirect tax disputes as well. The threshold limit below which appeals are not to be filed by revenue department in Customs, Excise and Service Tax Appellate Tribunal (CESTAT) and High Courts have lately been raised to Rs 10 lakh and Rs 15 lakh, respectively. "Withdrawal of all cases in High Courts and CESTAT where there is a precedent Supreme Court decision and against which no review is contemplated. The Chief and Principal Commissioners directed to identify the cases fit for withdrawal among the cases pending in appeal before CESTAT and High Courts," the finance ministry had said. Following this withdrawal applications in 980 cases in High Courts and 2, 174 cases in CESTAT have been filed. Out of this, High Courts allow withdrawal in 250 cases and CESTAT in 202 cases.
"There have been efforts to reduce litigation by increasing threshold limits for "tax effect" for filing of appeals, resulting in withdrawal of appeals by revenue at different forums," said Sandeep Chaufla, Partner at PwC. In addition, the government has been issuing circulars clarifying the clauses that takes away the ambiguity between a tax payer and the assesse officer. There has been circulars clarifying treatment of profit of shares, taking tax holiday benefits, among others.
In April, in a significant reform that would cut the audit delays concerning indirect taxes, give relief to taxpayers and reduce litigation, the Central Board of Excise and Customs (CBEC) has eased and expedited the procedure of dealing with audit objections raised by the Comptroller and Auditor General. According to a CBEC circular issued to its field formations, the practice of issuing protective show-cause notices (SCNs) to assessees in cases where the audit objections are not accepted by the CBEC has been done away with. If the CBEC accedes to the objections, the SCNs would henceforth be issued forthwith and adjudicated expeditiously. No SCNs will be transferred to the call book, where they used to get piled up.
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Fox Recruits MARK MILLAR to Consult on Their Marvel Movies
Fox has hired Mark Millar as a creative consultant on their upcoming Marvel films, to help develop the future of the X-Men and Fantastic Four franchises."As someone who has spent his entire life obsessed with both comic books and movies, this is essentially my dream gig as it's a unique combination of both," said Millar in Fox's press release. Millar has experience with both X-Men and Fantastic Four comics at Marvel, as the original writer of Ultimate X-Men and Ultimate Fantastic Four, along with a year-long stint on the classic Fantastic Four series. His creator-owned books Wanted and Kick-Ass have both been made into films, and a sequel, Kick-Ass 2, is currently filming. Fox's upcoming Marvel movies include the James Mangold-directed The Wolverine, scheduled out July 23, 2013 (the first promotional image was released earlier this week); X-Men: Days of Future Past, a 2014 sequel to 2011's X-Men: First Class; and a Josh Trank-helmed Fantastic Four reboot. "I really like the Fox team, love this bold new direction they have for their franchises and am proud to be working alongside some of modern cinema's biggest talents," said Millar, who worked with First Class and Days of Future Past director Matthew Vaughn on the original Kick-Ass film. "James Mangold is incredible, Matthew Vaughn's one of my closest pals and Josh Trank gave us, in my opinion, one of the greatest superhero movies of the last decade with Chronicle. The invitation to join this crew was maybe the coolest phone call I've ever had." Previously, Fox also had the live-action rights to Daredevil, but it's been reported that the license has reverted to Disney-owned Marvel Studios after a reboot to the 2003 film failed to move into production in a timely fashion. Got a comment? There's lots of conversation on Newsarama's FACEBOOK and TWITTER!
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MADISON - Everyone knows not to get between a mother and her offspring. What makes these females unafraid when it comes to protecting their young may be low levels of a peptide, or small piece of protein, released in the brain that normally activates fear and anxiety, according to new research published in the August issue of Behavioral Neuroscience.
"We see this fierce protection of offspring is so many animals," says Stephen Gammie, a University of Wisconsin-Madison assistant professor of zoology and lead author of the recent paper. "There are stories of cats rescuing their kittens from burning buildings and birds swooping down at people when their chicks are on the ground."
In terms of biology, it makes sense that mothers would lay down their own lives to protect their offspring, especially if it means the parents' genes will be passed down to the next generation, says Gammie. But he adds that despite all the observations and the theories explaining why mothers display this behavior - commonly known as maternal aggression - very little research has investigated the biological mechanisms that turn on this trait in new mothers.
"We've known for a long time that fear and anxiety decrease with lactation," explains Gammie. "Maybe it's this decrease that allows mothers to attack during a situation that normally would evoke a fear response."
Testing this hypothesis, the Wisconsin professor and his colleagues studied the link between maternal aggression in mice and levels of corticotropin-releasing hormone (CRH), a peptide that acts on the brain to control behavior.
About six days after a group of mice gave birth, the new mothers received injections containing either one of three doses of CRH or a saline solution with no amount of the peptide. Following each injection, which was given once a day for four consecutive days, the researchers returned the mother mice to their pups. Twenty-eight minutes later, the researchers removed the pups and introduced a male intruder.
Under normal conditions, female rodents will fiercely attack the males, says Gammie, noting that the males sometimes eat pups and that "the best defense for the mom is the offense."
For the study, only the mice that received either no dose or a low dose of the peptide displayed the expected behavior. As the levels of CRH increased, the number of attacks and the duration of them dramatically decreased.
The results show, for example, that while the mice with the lowest levels of CRH attacked more than 20 times for the duration of about 45 seconds, the mice with moderate levels of the peptide attacked about six times over about eight seconds. Mice with the highest levels of CRH didn't attack at all.
"When we put the male in the cage, some moms would just sit there. They weren't protective at all. If anything they were skittish. They showed a fear response," says Gammie.
The researchers note that altering the levels of the peptide appeared to affect only maternal aggression; normal maternal behaviors, such as nursing, were observed in all mothers both before and after the encounters with male mice.
Based on the results, Gammie says, "Low CRH levels appear to be a necessary part of maternal aggression. If you don't keep them low, you won't see this fiercely protective behavior."
He adds that this finding - some of the first evidence suggesting a biological mechanism that enables parents, regardless of the potential danger, to defend their offspring - may also begin to explain why mothers occasionally neglect or harm their offspring.
"Postpartum depression in some individuals has been linked to higher levels of CRH release and an overly active stress response," explains Gammie. "If CRH needs to be low to see maternal protection of offspring, as our work suggests, then it explains why moms with high postpartum depression and high CRH not only may neglect, but also may abuse, their children."
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He grew up in Edmonton and from age seven, he knew what he wanted to do: "I never met a microphone I didn't like." First, Lance Brown stopped at the Northern Alberta Institute for Technology where he graduated with honours from the Television Broadcasting program. He then took the first job in media he could find at a station in Northern Alberta called CFOK about an hour or so north of Edmonton. He earned just $400 a month and had many tasks and responsibilities, but his on-air duties on Sunday afternoons were the reason he kept on keeping on. He was sandwiched between a country music show and a religious talk show, so it was a strange and less than ideal time-slot, but Brown made it work.
Four hundred bucks was hardly enough to get by even in the 1980s though, so when one of his profs from NAIT – the one who happened to drop a little nugget of wisdom that propelled him to his first job: "if you get a job opening take it, and see what you can make of it" – called Brown up after about nine months at CFOK, Brown was all ears. The prof was also a part-time director at an Edmonton TV station, so he told Brown to apply for a job in the sports department, which he got. This was how Lance Brown got started in TV.
After a little while at that Edmonton TV station, Brown moved on to Regina, Saskatchewan and a station called CKCK-TV because they were offering what he really wanted to do: play by play. It was junior football mind you, but he loved it because he loved the game and the people in Saskatchewan really loved their football too. Not only that, but Brown says people in Regina were some of the nicest he'd ever met. Lance Brown was on his way up however, so when BCTV – what he calls "the rock in Western Canada, it was the place to be" – called him with a job, he just couldn't turn it down.
While Brown says he loves BC because of its beauty – beauty that even brought his family over to the coast – and claims to even have a license plate that reads 'OKANAGAN', he says that the people at BCTV were less than ideal to work with. It was a great workplace and his best job yet, but the more closed off social life of the big city wasn't what he was used to from his time in the more close-knit communities in the prairies. Brown says that he "made more friends in one week in Regina than in a year in BC".
Brown was born and bred in the prairies and the West though and he didn't know much about Toronto and what it had to offer, so when a man named Greg Mason called him with a job offer at CTV Toronto, Brown was indifferent despite his gripes with life in Vancouver. Mason said "you don't know me but I know of you, would you send us a tape." Brown was not wooed by Toronto at that point, so he forgot about the conversation and didn't even send the tape. It was only after a call-back from Mason asking if he'd sent the tape, that Brown decided to send one out. CTV then called him back, flew him out and put him up in a hotel during the interview process and before he knew it, he had an on-air job in Canada's biggest market and sportshub. Brown was nervous his first couple of years at CTV but he got his footing and 31 years in at CTV, he has a lot of autonomy.
Nowadays, Brown is not only CTV's sports anchor, he is the director of the sports department. That is to say, he is host, writer and producer all rolled into one. Though Brown says each day is a little bit different than the last – one of his favorite things about his job, along with his autonomy – depending on whether he wants to go out to an event himself or what kind of events are going on in the sports world at any given time. There are some things he has to do on a daily basis however. These tasks are essentially putting together his segment; from accessing raw TSN footage, choosing content from the CTV database and deciding which sport events are more important and which will be left out based on time constraints. He also makes sure cameras are all where they should be at any given location and schedules the staff that need to be out filming.
When someone stays at a company for as long as Lance has, he will undoubtedly be able to say whatever he wants within reason. Autonomy and independence are always things people look for in a job. From his time earning $400 a month at a tiny radio station in Alberta to his happy time in Regina to his less than happy time in BC to his time as a host/writer/producer at CTV, Brown has certainly paid his dues to get to where he is today. And where he is today ain't too shabby.
I would love to have his job – just without the on-air aspect. I have found that I am certainly not cut out for on-camera work, but his control over content definitely made me envious. The CTV building is full of studios too, and an internship there would definitely lead to positive things for me down the road. Just by walking around with Lance at the station I saw seven different sets, some sports, some news, some even discovery channel. I even ran into James Duthie before he went on for a segment. Even if I don't want to go on-air, that definitely seemed like an atmosphere that would benefit me and my future in the industry.


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Alexander Rybak wins Eurovision with Fairytale
Norwegian singer and violinist Alexander Rybak has won the Eurovision song contest with an original song, "Fairytale", performed on stage with FRIKAR dance company.
The Eurovision Song Contest, held this year in Moscow, is an annual competition held among active member countries of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU). Rybak's song was chosen by popular vote and national juries throughout 42 participating countries, winning with 387 points, the highest total score in Eurovision history. The song also won by the largest winning margin on record (169 points).
Alexander Rybak was born in Minsk, Belarus, but grew up at Nesodden just outside the Norwegian capital Oslo. He has played violin and piano since he was five years old, he also composes his own music and sings. Alexander has performed with artists like Arve Tellefsen, Morten Harket, Hanne Krogh and Knutsen & Ludvigsen. In 2006 Alexander won the Norwegian talentshow Kjempesjansen with his own song Foolin. Alexander has performed with one of the world's most celebrated violinists, Pinchas Zukerman, he has won Anders Jahres Culture Price and he's been the concertmaster for Norway's largest symphony orchestra for youths, Ung Symfoni, in Bergen. He also played the role of the fiddler in Fiddler On The Roof at Oslo Nye Theatre (2007) and has a role in the forthcoming movie Yohan – Child Wanderer (August 2009).
Years ago when I was younger
I kinda' liked a girl I knew.
She was mine, and we were sweethearts,
That was then, but then it's true
I'm in love with a fairytale
Even though it hurts.
'Cause I don't care if I lose my mind;
I'm already cursed
Every day we started fighting,
Every night we fell in love.
No one else could make me sadder,
But no one else could lift me high above
I don't know what I was doing
But suddenly we fell apart.
Nowadays I cannot find her.
But when I do we'll get a brand new start
I'm in love with a fairytale
Even though it hurts.
Cause I don't care if I lose my mind;
I'm already cursed
She's a fairytale
Even though it hurts.
Cause I don't care if I lose my mind;
I'm already cursed
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Sayali is a graduate student in the department of Statistics. Her past research included application of statistical methods to management science subjects and methods of causal inference for social sciences. Her current research interest includes applications of statistics to social sciences and causal inference. When she is not busy unraveling the mystery behind datasets, she loves to dance or read.


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Only one week left! To help fund my Kickstarter Project to Toronto!
Only one week left Stephen Holt Show fans! Dear readers, dear cineastes! We need YOUR help to get to the Toronto Film Festival this year! 2014 is shaping up to be a very exciting year with great films galore at Toronto! Bennett Miller's "Foxcatcher" as I mention in the video clip, and David Cronenberg's "Maps to the Stars" among them.
I can't tell you how crucial the Toronto International Film Festival is to my continuing coverage of all the stars that I get on the level that I get them. And the hotels adjacent to the Film Festival have raised their prices accordingly. Which is what has put me in this Kickstarter mode.
And right now, if you're reading on this far, I can tell you that so far we have received $0.00 which is just a devastating figure to have to deal with.
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Saturday, December 14, 2013
I have such a strange life right now. It's the holidays, and because of it, there's this harmonic convergence of all parts of my life into one greater weird whole. All the family from both sides are coming here, there's a huge wedding, and on top of that there's The Hobbit. I've alternated between frantic texts with my mom to prepare for the family onslaught, and texts with friends asking me about various bits of The Hobbit. (Yes, I'm the local expert.)
In Second Life, there's also GENRE and C88 and Arcade and Gothmas by Gaslight and the bijillion other stuff advertised on Seraphim. MY LORD. It's all overwhelming and wonderful, right? On the other hand, I can't help longing for a nice slow week at the height of summer when everyone's playing outside.
Speaking of playing outside, my avatar put on this outfit from Uncertain Smile for GENRE and clomped around Gothmas by Gaslight earlier today. It opens up tomorrow, and I hope everyone enjoys the pretty and cheeky build. PLEASE ALSO NOTE MY WONDERFUL TIGHTS from Frick! They're selling for mere pennies at her store.
Tights: Frick Winter Tights in Sugarplum
Lashes: MC Falsies
Hat: Milk Motion faux fur hat in beige deer for C88
Hair: LaViere Natsya/platinum for last C88
Choker and monocle: La petite morte accessories for Gothmas by Gaslight
Necklace: Roots & Wings Steampunk Poetry Necklace for Gothmas by Gaslight
Outfit: Uncertain Smile Poesie Noire in pink for GENRE
Skin: MIASNOW candy with deep purple lips and teeth
Eyes: MIASNOW shine red
Hands: Slink prosper and fist
Boots: Lassitude & Ennui Jolenta boots in gold/cream
Cane: ANA_mations caneAO with cane (vintage)
I also did the same outfit in a sea coloring.
(Sur)real Life
Last night I did the most surreal thing: I went to a small town in Florida that blows fake snow on people. I stood there as the kids raised their little faces to the industrial-strength soap bubbles and played in it, pretending it was snow. On the ground at our feet were piles of foamy slush. Christmas music played, and a little golf-cart train drove around the town square. It was very festive and seasonal and SURREAL AS ALL HECK, especially cause it was warm enough for shorts.
Sometimes life is a lot more like SL than we give it credit for. Sometimes, it's weirder… But speaking of lovely things, I'm enamored with my Spyralle jacket for GENRE*, so much that I played with two different stylings for it. The lovely necklace from Lassitude & Ennui has a bat on it, and it'll be out shortly for Gothmas in Gaslight. The tree from noctis too! It's my second tree of the season in SL, and it's appropriately dark and eerie for Gothmas. Both of these events open shortly.
* Someone please update the GENRE blog, it's hanging out at November's event!
Violet-toned outfit (and red-toned outfit in parens):
Jacket: Spyralle Snowflake Lace Jacket in pink (and red) for Genre
Shoes: Lassitude & Ennui Emily Steampunk Shoes in purple (and Jolenta boots in gold/purple)
Hands: Slink Prosper
Skin: MIASNOW CANDY
Eyes: RUE Lotus Eaters in Lilac (and MIASNOW eyes in shine red)
Headpiece: aisling Xanthe Ultra Rare - Nymphe old gacha item (and [Wishbox] Red Rose Crown)
Hair: Wasabi Pills Jade Mesh Hair in Crystal Pink (and Ivette in crystal violet)
Pants: Milk Motion peg lace trousers in nude (and Marshmallows Rozy miniskirt in black with So Many Styles brain knit tights)
Necklace: Lassitude & Ennui Batty necklace in gold for Gothmas by Gaslight
Ring: MG ring speeling beauty heart in gold for C88
Purse: Katat0nik group gift candy purse
Nails: Bliensen & MaiTai steampunk nails
[noctis] Gothmas Tree for Gothmas by Gaslight
Friday, December 13, 2013
Walking in an animal-laden wonderland
Hello! I've recovered from my bout of drunken elven present-bagging in a fur catsuit, and thought I'd share a snowy sim that I've been wandering lately. Swayland has an advent calendar each year, and this year I've been doing it faithfully. I adore Sway's items, and Zacca and Nonino have been some of my favorite furniture and housemakers in SL since forever, so I always look forward gleefully to everything they give us. The sim is full of cute moments, including a very "It's a small world" skating rink with animatronic bears, and animals everywhere. It's well worth a visit, Advent or not!
Thursday, December 12, 2013
You put the presents into the bag
Sometimes it's hard to work in Santa's toymines. The elf is taking a break in his comfy catsuit from Avatar Bizarre, soon to be found at Gothmas by Gaslight.
Outfit: Avatar Bizarre Cheshire cat suit in white (comes with ears and boots, not shown)
Eyes: Avatar Bizarre manse eyes in red demon for Gothmas by Gaslight
Boots: Lassitude & Ennui Wanderlust in black
Hair: Dura boys 47 irish coffee
Skin: Evian Marlon medium with ears
Hands: Slink hands relax
Shirt: Schadenfreude ivory oxford full messy tails
Earrings: Vintage Ephemeral hoops
Alouette - Bag of Mail
AF Christmas Cookies
Alouette - Box of Mail 2
Alouette - Gingerbread House
Jester Chair - gray silver bells
Stocking: Schadenfreude 2012 Christmas stocking
Che bel cappello
Hello! Today I am wearing a Victorian-inspired outfit set from Le Petite Morte, created for the upcoming round of GENRE. I haven't put on a Victorian dress since I was kicked out of Caledon, but I really liked how well the fabric holds its shape even when I move. I remember that in the old days it was imperative to wear nice stockings because my legs would invariably emerge into the light, giving all the Caledonian gents a free show. Not so anymore! In fact, I'm not wearing a stitch of anything beneath this pretty frock, NOT EVEN SHOES. You'll be able to get this skirt and top when GENRE opens.
Because I was wearing such an outfit, I went back to the Gothmas by Gaslight sim and took a few more photos. I'm excited! The Christmas decorations are up, and the whole town has that slightly decrepid, Dickensian Christmas smoulder. It'll open on the 15th!
- Outfit: La Petite Morte Victorian christmas day outfit for GENRE
- Hair: D!va Hair Layla type B in Moon Stone
- Makeup: MSS October watercolors makeup (freckles)
- Hat: Hate Me and Eat Me the incongruo hat
- Necktie: Lassitude & Ennui Ophelia roses and pearls
- Skin: MIASNOW skin CANDY
- Hands: Slink Elegant
- Nails: Flair 161
- Gloves: Schadenfreude spiderweb gloves with Slink appliers (VIP group gift item)
- Sim: Gothmas by Gaslight, opening soon!
Wednesday, December 11, 2013
GENRE's December round and Schadenfreude new shoes
Ellantha doesn't trust me with her jewelry because I invariably f*ck it up. Case in point, in the above photo, half the prims for that lovely Enfant Terrible necklace are totally eaten up by my viewer. *sob*! I noticed that this morning and took the below photo so that you can see how cute the necklace really is. I'm blogging two things for the next round of GENRE today -- the necklace and that nifty corset from Kastle Rock Couture. I have to say, I love events for introducing me to new-to-me designers, and these two are truly neat! More information about the next round of GENRE will eventually be posted on the blog.
But okay, all blogger fail aside, LOOK AT ALLEGORY'S NEW SHOES! The fatpack is infinitely customizable (okay finitely, but with tons of options), and I adore the color combinations that I can make. They are at her elephant.
Outfit 1:
Shoes: Schadenfreude Casinelle shoes for C88 in the fatpack of colors
Ears: Half Deer Patchwork Army - troublemaker ears for Arcade
Jacket: H.E.D. cropped leather jacket
Necklace: Enfant Terrible Lotties darling necklace in beige for GENRE
Corset: Kastle Rock Couture Georgette Corset for GENRE
Makeup: Miss Shippe's Studio Feeling Lucky Punk? Joan's eyes with freckles
Hair: Magika Rewind
Skin: MIASNOW CANDY with teeth
More makeup: MIASNOW walker skin eye makeup in orange
Pants: Vintage sepia Audrey pants from ~silentsparrow~, clothing layer
Hands: Slink Prosper
Lashes: MC Falsies
Nails: Flair
Outfit 2:
Shirt: Plastik Kyrie top in Mother
Shorts: tres Blah Metallic glitter shorts in black
Tattoo: Wicked Explore tattoo
Makeup: Mock Red Hot Gray Matter
Hair: Magika Hair Rewind
Skin: MIASNOW CANDY with teeth
Socks: So Many Styles braid knit tights in green
Shoes: Schadenfreude Casinelle in different color options
Tuesday, December 10, 2013
It's beginning to look a lot like a post-apocalyptic Christmas
I decorated my house for Christmas, using a mix of old and new stuff. My favorite group gift is this adorable Rudolph picture and banners from ~silentsparrow~, so I put them front and center on my mantlepiece. I also dug out the Christmas Voubou from Schadenfreude to adorn some shelves. Most of the rest is from Arcade (a more detailed photo is below). I think some of my favorite Christmas items from Arcade are the Post Apocalyptic stuff. It suits Second life so perfectly with its Wastelands feel. After our land suffers flood and drought and the rough times come, I'm pretty sure we'll all be making these rough semblances of trees out of twisted metal from lost dreams. *cough* Anyway. I hope everyone has a lovely second week of Advent!
silentsparrow Rudolph Framed Art (group gift)
silentsparrow (Rudolph) Decorative Pennants silentsparrow
vespertine-northstar paper lamps for Arcade
(Yummy) Holiday Snow Globe - Nutcracker & Yeti for Arcade
O.M.E.N - My Fairytale - Aladdin's Palace & Ariel's for Arcade
[Commoner] Monogram Stocking / L for Arcade
Post Apocalyptic Tree - EMERGENCY TREE_RARE for Arcade
vespertine-advent calendar/red for Arcade
[Commoner] Cafe Collection / Table (Rectangle) for Arcade
vespertine-secret of baking for Arcade
vespertine-starbead curtain/texturechange2 for Arcade
Post Apocalyptic Ball - BROKEN DREAMS for Arcade
Post Apocalyptic Ball - REINFORCED SHELTER for Arcade
O.M.E.N - My Fairytale book ornaments (like all of them) for Arcade
vespertine-nutcracker/yellow for Arcade
vespertine- origami winter branch for Arcade
Jewelry set: Bliensen + MaiTai Tannenbaum set for the Christmas Expo
Jacket: Curio Obscura fluffy fur jacket in classic for Arcade
Antlers: Illusions Reindeer Antlers
Boots: Katat0nik Cozy Boots in elf green
Pants: ~silentsparrow~ (soot) gloomy suit jeans
Hands: Slink hands Prosper
Skin: MIASNOW - Candy with deep green lips & teeth
Ring: CIRCA festive holiday candycane ring - silver
Hair: Exile London Rain: Fern color
Monday, December 9, 2013
Winterizing Nouveau
The other day, Allegory mentioned that it was time to winterize the sim. I don't know if many of you have poked around Nouveau, but Jackal has made a corner of it into her cobbler's workshop. Like most creators, she actually lives up on a plain white platform, but it's kind of fun to pretend that in her spare time she cures leather and carves wooden soles. I winterized a little around the workshop. Of course we needed a Christmas tree, so I snuck over to Allegory's tree farm beneath the elephant with my handy chainsaw. (Allegory, you might find a few trees missing...) Go see our snow in Nouveau!
- Hat: XIAJ Zane winter hat in Charcoal from the Kustom9 gacha
- Hands: Slink relax
- Skin: Evian Marlon in medium
- Pants: DROP casual pants in ivory
- Shoes: Blvck Anchor Zebra suede shoes
- Face tat: White Widow october gift
- Hair base: INK hair base in sidburns, roots color
- Sweater: Gabriel high-necked sweater in light khaki
- Scarf: Vintage Aoharu, knit scarf in nordic/gray
- Chainsaw: Songbird Bubba's best friend in orange
- Ears: Illusions elf ears - sprite - with wrapped cords
- Trees: Schadenfreude Blue Full Spruce Trees, Saiygewood fairy arbor, and MIASNOW pines
- Bears: MIASNOW
Sunday, December 8, 2013
And this great reindeer
I have a sick kid in the house this weekend, which kind of delayed some Christmas plans. On the upside, I had plenty of time to play in Second Life, which means that I could put on and take off clothing and putter around my house to my heart's content. I put up my Christmas tree and changed my clothes a lot, all while entertaining a bored little one.
Do you remember back in the day when I took Twinnie posts with Mourna Biziou? Whenever I do two stylings of an outfit, it's in memory of those days. This one is the jumper dress from Katat0nik, so adorable and soft-looking, and this hair from Clawtooth. These new beautiful bootlets from Lassitude & Ennui were perfect for the outfits too. I just had a hit of coffee and realized that I'm still only half coherent, so I'll let the photos speak for me. Have a good Sunday!
- Band-aid: LIVAS kids baindaids in Kittylolli and Polkadot (dollarbie on marketplace)
- Shoes: Lassitude & Ennui Versailles shoe in Berry and Sea colors for We heart RP
- Hair: Clawtooth Snuggle Party in Princess Bubblegum and Cosy Cutie in Red Eye Flight
- Dress: Katat0nik Knit Jumper Dress in Cozy and Folksy colors
- Socks: Honey Kitty pink/blue baby ankle socks
- Lashes: MC Faleis
- Hands: SLink hands - prosper
- Eyes: Rue Lotus Eater Lilac and Rust colors
- Ring: CIRCA Festive Holiday snowflake cookie ring and candy cane ring
- Skin: Glam Affair Elvi Fairy 06 and 03 for Kustom9
- Ears: Illusions Elf ears - fairy
- Poses: Kirin
- ~silentsparrow~ Deer (Somber) Forest Elemen-tails!
- Nails: Flair 164
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Sunspot 1429, which produced several strong flares and was responsible for some nice aurora, is rotating back onto the face of the Sun we see. It is still active, and we might have a chance of aurora (although by the time it is facing us directly, strong Moonlight will interfere). See more here.
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Okay, I wasn't going to do any samplers this year. I really need to quilt the quilts I have finished, but 2 blocks in to the Splendid Sampler and weather that turned from Spring back to Winter sent me running to my machine. I had been pretty sick the last 3 weeks and did a lot of sleeping so not much sewing, cleaning or gardening got done. While looking through my blogs I started seeing people posting about Pat and Janes collaboration and decided to check it out. Once I did I thought how fun to jump in and try one, there are prizes to be won and they are small and not time consuming so I printed out the instructions and got inspired by some of the blocks people were sharing. A little digging in my scrap bins for some of my all time favorite fabrics and I was off and running. The heart came from a 3 Sisters fabric I had from years ago. I think it was the first fat quarter bundle I ever bought so fond memories come with that one. I doesn't look quite square partly because it is laying funny, but I did have a little trouble getting back into the groove so this was a good block to start with.
Thanks to Pat for sharing this one and for setting up such a splendid group!
That was yesterday and today I remembered that block 2 was set to be posted today so I got my coffee and found the post and it was off to the printer. Well, Jane's block was also a fun one to pull fabrics together for. The purple butterflies are from a recent project I finished piecing for my son's 30th birthday in December…it is on the 'to be quilted' pile. I will be glad to see those butterflies to remind me of that project years from now, but I will hope neither project is still on that pile. This block was a bit more challenging though. It looked harmless enough, but those are 1" finished squares including the HST so some of my butterflies my not have sharp points. My advice to anyone reading this is that when she recommends pressing seems open follow that advice. I though I could figure out how to press the seams to the side so they would lock like I often to, but half way through the first row I was already in trouble so I switched it all there and I even used pins at most of my seams. You can see the ones where I got all confident and, well, they may be off a bit, but overall I am very happy with this block. I am still embroidering my antennea, but here it is…
and the quilt I made for my son in my December…I know, quite the rebel I am, but in my defense I was making something for my son I thought he would enjoy because he loves history and especially American history. All the talk about not displaying the confederate flag bothers me because it is a part of history and always will be so I designed this quilt completely around it. My son was not as excited about it as I had hoped, but I sure had a fun time making it. I even have some good ideas for quilting it and got a good flannel backing for it so after I take all the paper off those piano keys on the side I can get busy on that.
Hopefully, I might have a few readers here who I have inspired to check out the Splendid Sampler project and join me there for fun, prizes, sharing and lots of learning for many talented designers. And…it is free!


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Feasibility, acceptability, and characteristics associated with adherence and completion of a culturally relevant internet-enhanced physical activity pilot intervention for overweight and obese young adult African American women enrolled in college
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BACKGROUND: African American women are one of the least active demographic groups in the US, with only 36% meeting the national physical activity recommendations in comparison to 46% of White women. Physical activity begins to decline in African American women in adolescence and continues to decline into young adulthood. Yet, few interventions have been developed to promote physical activity in African American women during this critical period of life. The purpose of this article was to evaluate the acceptability and feasibility of a culturally-relevant Internet-enhanced physical activity pilot intervention for overweight/obese African American college females and to examine psychosocial and behavioral characteristics associated with intervention adherence and completion.
METHODS: A 6-month single group pre-posttest design was used. Participants (n = 27) accessed a culturally-relevant Social Cognitive Theory-based physical activity promotion website while engaging in a minimum of four moderate-intensity physical activity sessions each week. Acceptability and feasibility of the intervention was assessed by participant retention and a consumer satisfaction survey completed by participants.
RESULTS: Fifty-six percent of participants (n = 15) completed the intervention. Study completers were more physically active at baseline (P = 0.05) and had greater social support for exercise from family members (P = 0.04). Sixty percent of study completers (n = 9) reported the website as "enjoyable" or "very enjoyable" to use and 60% (n = 9) reported increased motivation from participation in the physical activity program. Moreover, 87% (n = 13) reported they would recommend the website to a friend.
CONCLUSIONS: Results provide some preliminary support for the acceptability and feasibility of an Internet-enhanced physical activity program for overweight/obese African American women, while highlighting important limitations of the approach. Successful promotion of physical activity in college aged African American women as they emerge into adulthood may result in the development of life-long healthy physical activity patterns which may ultimately reduce physical activity-related health disparities in this high risk underserved population. Future studies with larger samples are needed to further explore the use of Internet-based programs to promote physical activity in this population.
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Joseph RP, Dutton GR, Cherrington A, Fontaine K, Baskin M, Casazza K, Lorch D, Allison JJ, Durant NH. (2015). Feasibility, acceptability, and characteristics associated with adherence and completion of a culturally relevant internet-enhanced physical activity pilot intervention for overweight and obese young adult African American women enrolled in college. Open Access Articles. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13104-015-1159-z. Retrieved from https://escholarship.umassmed.edu/oapubs/2565
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The navy will get its planned two new aircraft carriers at a cost of more than £5bn in a package of defence cuts agreed yesterday that will shape the future of Britain's armed forces for many years to come.
After weeks of intense debate centred around the carriers, the outcome of the government's long-awaited strategic defence and security review was agreed by senior ministers and military chiefs at a meeting of the national security council, chaired by David Cameron.
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The review's shadow was always hovering over a debate about Britain's future defence needs, which both government supporters and critics said was dominated by the Treasury.
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The prime minister's spokesman would not officially comment on the national security council discussions, which lasted around an hour, saying only that "very good progress" had been made.
Fox is under pressure from the Treasury to address a £38bn overspend in the Ministry of Defence procurement budget over the next 10 years. The Treasury is demanding a further 10% in cuts in Fox's annual £37bn budget over the next spending period from 2011-15.
Last night the Telegraph reported that Air Chief Marshal Timothy Anderson, director general of the military aviation authority, told MPs the cuts would mean the UK "would be unable to respond effectively to a 9/11-style terrorist attack from the air".
In a rare move highlighting one of the new threats expected to be seized on by the government next week, the director of GCHQ, the government's electronic eavesdropping agency, warns today of the growing threat of cyber warfare. "There are over 20,000 malicious emails on government networks each month, 1,000 of which are deliberately targeting them," Iain Lobban said in a speech last night to the International Institute for Strategic Studies, but released only today.
Lobban also made it clear that GCHQ, which is based in Cheltenham, wants to recruit more staff able to protect computer systems from cyber attacks and to find out who is attacking.
"I … want to bang the drum publicly about the importance of technology and cyber skills so that we can sustain a flow of top-quality recruits into GCHQ and its industry partners," he said.
Lobban called for an aggressive approach to cyber attacks as he warned of the dangers of adopting the sort of defensive posture famously symbolised by France's Maginot line, which was meant to repel the Nazis.
"A 'Maginot line' approach to defence will not be sufficient of itself," he said. "'Patch and pray' will not be enough. At the national level, getting the rest of cyber – the more difficult 20% – right will involve new technology, new partnerships, and investment in the right people."
His speech echoes a warning last week by Fox of what he called the "battle for cyberspace". The defence secretary said this involves states, as he highlighted a cyber attack by Russia on Georgia.
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Jovan Cvijić
Jovan Cvijić
Photograph by Milan Jovanović (1911)
|16 January 1927 (aged 61)
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|New Cemetery, Belgrade, Serbia
|Alma mater
|Belgrade Higher School
University of Vienna
|Scientific career
|Geography, geology, folklore
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|Albrecht Penck[1]
|Notable students
|Pavle Vujević
Petar Jovanović
|William Morris Davis[1]
Albrecht Penck[1]
Eduard Suess[1]
Jovan Cvijić (Serbian Cyrillic: Јован Цвијић, pronounced [jɔ̌ʋan tsʋǐːjitɕ]; 12 October 1865 – 16 January 1927) was a Serbian geographer and ethnologist, president of the Serbian Royal Academy of Sciences and rector of the University of Belgrade. Cvijić is considered the founder of geography in Serbia, he began his scientific career as a geographer and geologist, and continued his activity as a human geographer and sociologist.
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Cvijić was born on 11 October [O.S. 29 September] 1865 in Loznica, then part of the Principality of Serbia. His family was part of the Spasojević branch of the Piva tribe (Pivljani) in Old Herzegovina (currently Montenegro). Cvijić's father, Todor, was a merchant; his grandfather, Živko, was head of Loznica and a supporter of the House of Obrenović in Mačva. Živko fought in the 1844 Katana Uprising against the Defenders of the Constitution, and died after torture.
Cvijić's great-grandfather, Cvijo Spasojević, patriarch of the Cvijić family, was a well-known hajduk leader in Old Herzegovina and fought the Ottoman Empire in the First Serbian Uprising. After its failure in 1813 he moved to Loznica, built a house and opened a store.
His father, Todor (d. 1900) was a trader before accepting a clerkship in the municipality. Cvijić's mother, Marija (born Avramović), was from a family in the village of Koremita in the Jadar region (near Tronoša and Tršić, birthplace of Vuk Stefanović Karadžić). Todor and Marija had two sons, Živko and Jovan, and three daughters. Cvijić often said that in his childhood his spiritual education was primarily influenced by his mother and her family; he said less about his father and his father's family. However, in his works on ethnic psychology Cvijić praised the Dinaric race of his father.
After completing elementary school Cvijić attended grammar school in Loznica for two years, in Šabac for his third and fourth years, and graduated from the First Belgrade Gymnasium's department of natural sciences and mathematics in 1884. After graduation, he wanted to study medicine, but Loznica could not provide him a scholarship to study abroad. A grammar-school teacher suggested that he attend geography classes at the Velika skola in Belgrade (now the University of Belgrade). Cvijić took his advice, enrolling in the natural sciences department and graduating in 1889. Cvijić studied in several languages; in grammar school, he studied English, German and French, which was helpful at university (which had little work translated into Serbian), and wrote his scientific and other papers in those three languages.
During the 1888–89 school year Cvijić was a geography teacher at the Second Male Grammar School in Belgrade, and in 1889 enrolled to study physical geography and geology at Vienna University. At that time geomorphology was taught by Albrecht Penck, geotectonics by Professor Sis (president of the Austrian Academy) and climatology by Julius von Hann.
Cvijić received his PhD from Vienna University in 1893,[2] his thesis was Das Karstphanomen, introducing him to the scientific world, and was later translated into several languages (into Serbian as Karst in 1895).
In 1911, Cvijić married Ljubica Nikolić, a widow from Belgrade, née Krstić (1879–1941).[3]
Cvijić did his first (and most important) field research in eastern Serbia, observing the structure of the Kučaj mountains and Prekonoska Cave in his PhD thesis (accepted in Vienna on 22 January 1893).
He was interested in geology and geomorphology. Cvijić's monograph on lime karst was well received in European scientific circles, and an introductory academic lecture established him as the first South Slavic tectonicist; the Serbian lime fields had been studied only peripherally by Otto von Pirch (1830), Ami Boué (1840), Felix Philipp Kanitz, Milan Milićević, Jovan Žujović and Vladimir Karić before him. Cvijić studied Midžor and Rila in the Balkan Mountains, recognizing the glacial origin of 102 mountain lakes, it was previously unknown that the region was influenced by the last glacial period, and Cvijić's discovery was a turning point in the study of regional dispersion.
Cvijić conducted a pioneering human-geographical survey in "Balkan Peninsula 1918", 1922–I, 1931–II, based on his research of Balkan personality types, he researched for 38 years, leading expeditions in the Balkans, the southern Carpathian Mountains and Anatolia which produced a number of research papers. Cvijić's two-volume Geomorphology is an important starting point for research into the Balkan peninsula.
Karst geomorphology[edit]
When studying under Albrecht Penck's tutelage he was encouraged to focus on the study of karst phenomena in the northern Dinaric Alps which was a region Penck was already acknowledged with, his first major work was Das Karstphänomen published in 1893. This work was a publication of the key points of his doctoral thesis. Das Karstphänomen was published as a slightly modified translation in Serbo-Croat in 1895; this work describes landforms such as karren, dolines and poljes. In a 1918 publication, Cvijić proposed a cyclical model for karstic landscape development;[1][4] the results of this work written in French were made accessible to English-language scientists in 1921 when it was commented by E.M. Sanders. Differences in climate and geology were used by Cvijić to explain various shapes and types of karst landforms, sometimes incorrectly. Nevertheless, his views on the role of climate on the development of karst were more accurate than those of various climatic geomorphologists that succeeded him and who greatly exaggerated the role of climate.[1]
It has been attributed to Cvijić that the term karst prevailed over Edouard Martel's proposed term "Le Causse". Another terminology usage indebted to Cvijić is that of doline, a term he introduced, and that overlaps with that of sinkhole. Eventually, Cvijić emerged as the "father of karst geomorphology".[1]
Human geography[edit]
In his human-geographical research, Cvijić studied migrations, village and town habitat, types of housing and the culture of populations in regions influenced by a variety of civilizations, psychological types, folklore and dress, he traveled during difficult social and political times, exposing himself to unpleasant and life-threatening situations (especially in countries under Ottoman and Austrian rule before World War I). During these trips Cvijić became acquainted with the living conditions of the Balkan population, leading to his interest in ethnographic and psycho-social issues; he noted how little he had known about the difficulty of life in Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Macedonia until 1896–1898; until then, he later said, he had little of the interest in folklore, ethnology and national politics he later developed. Cvijić organized a number of research expeditions to dangerous, unexplored regions.
In 1896 Cvijić published "Instructions for studying villages in Serbia and other Serbian lands", which was later revised to apply to other Balkan regions. In Serbia, interest developed in folkloric research; this encouraged the first systematically-gathered data in ethnology; the research was conducted by Cvijić's students and colleagues and interested laypeople (primarily village teachers and priests), constituting a large, unified scientific effort.
Cvijić's thesis on the effects of climate and geography on human life is the basis of his approach to human geography, where he emphasizes that humankind is ecologically sensitive; when classifying anthropological types Cvijić considered social structure (work, endogamy, exogamy and migration) the primary factor, stressing the effects of the physical environment on a population's psyche. His basic concepts are presented in the 1902 Balkan-peninsula paper, "Human-geography problems". Influenced by Cvijić's paper, Milorad Dragić (a former student) elaborated on psychological anthropological research in his 1911 paper "Instructions for studying settlements and psychological characteristics" (after which Cvijić expanded his thesis on "The Balkan peninsula and South Slavic lands" in Serbian).
Cvijić introduced the term 'metanastasic movements', which referred to slow, gradual, a place-to-place human movement, he and his students took wide exploration of this phenomenon, eventually establishing the Serbian ethnological-historic school which gathered ethnological material from all around the Balkan peninsula and encompassed exploration of written sources.[5]
The sparking of interest in human-geographical and ethnographical research was one of the greatest achievements of Cvijić's scientific career, his efforts and research helped him gather crucial data, which he used during negotiations on the state borders of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia after World War I.
Influence on Yugoslav state borders[edit]
After World War I Cvijić helped determine the state borders of the new Yugoslav state, using his research in demography and human geography in the negotiations; his data was used in determining the ethnic expansion of the South Slavs.
French geographer Paul Vidal de la Blache invited Cvijić to Paris on behalf of the University of Paris twice (in 1917 and at the beginning of 1919), where he lectured on Balkan physical and political geography. At the end of 1918, the Serbian government named him their chief expert on ethnographic borders; in 1919, he was elected president of a unit dealing with territorial issues as part of the state delegation to the Paris Peace Conference. Here, with Mihajlo Pupin (another influential scientist), Cvijić's efforts in creating ethnographic charts of the Yugoslav countries in 1918–1919 helped determine the borders of a new country: the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenians, it was agreed that the new country should incorporate Banat, Baranja, Dalmatia and the Bled triangle (Bled, Bohinj and Triglav).
Cvijić' s scientific impartiality has been criticized for his support of Serbia's political advancement;[6] his geographic work was used to scientifically justify Greater Serbian politics and territorial claims.[6]
... For economic independence, Serbia must acquire access to the Adriatic Sea and one part of the Albanian coastline: by occupation of the territory or by acquiring economic and transportation rights to this region. This, therefore, implies occupying an ethnographically foreign territory, but one that must be occupied due to particularly important economic interests and vital needs.[6]
According to Cvijić, Bulgarians were "different from the other South Slavs in their ethnic composition", he described as Slav three ethnographic groups previously considered Bulgarians: the Macedonian Slavs, the Shopi and the Torlaks. Cvijić excluded the region around Sofia (Bulgaria's capital) from the Bulgarian group, maintained that the three groups above were Slavic (and therefore Serbian),[7] he believed that Serbia could govern a much larger area that the territory it held.[8]
After Cvijić's return from Vienna in March 1893 he became a professor in the Faculty of Philosophy of the Velika Skola in Belgrade, teaching geography, physical geography and ethnography. Traveling as a student and a professor throughout the Balkans later in life, he developed an interest in folklore and culture and organized ethnographical research in the department of geography.
After the Velika Skola became the University of Belgrade on 12 October 1905, Cvijić was one of eight tenured professors; the others were Jovan Žujović, Sima Lozanić, Mihailo Petrović Alas, Andra Stevanović, Dragoljub Pavlović, Milić Radovanović and Ljubomir Jovanović, and they chose other colleagues for tenured positions.
Cvijić played an active role in reforming the school, helping found an ethnography department whose first professor was his oldest student and assistant, Jovan Erdeljanović (followed by Tihomir Đorđević); Cvijić remained in the geography department, he was influential in establishing five new faculties: medicine, agriculture and theology in Belgrade, philosophy in Skopje and the Subotica Law School.
Critique of education[edit]
Cvijić thought that the grammar-school education of that era should last seven years, instead of eight, and felt that young men should be included early in adult life and independent work.
Grammar school forms the intelligence and character perhaps even deeper and stronger than university; it influences the spirit and moral value of future intellectuals. Besides university, the moral and spiritual situation and its development depend on the type of grammar school, what will its civilization get, and in the end, will it slow or interfere with the development of great personalities, which show the properties of one nation.[citation needed]
He published detailed instructions for conducting field research into populations and habitats to help his colleagues, including the 1907 article "On scientific research and our University".
You should get used to constant thinking about a problem, work, profession until you find a solution. There are bright moments, especially bright nights, which are rare; where you can find an answer to a question or come up with a research plan; that time of spiritual lucidity and creativity should be put to use, and not thinking about rest according to that ordinary human, oriental laziness. That does not hurt the body, and if it does hurt, the body exists in order to be spent properly.[9]
With a group of geographers and biologists, Cvijić founded the Serbian Geographic Society in Belgrade in 1910 and was its president until his death. In 1912 he began a magazine, the Serbian Geographic Society Herald, which is still published. Cvijić conducted weekly seminars for science students, which were also attended by teachers from Belgrade grammar schools, he founded the Faculty of Philosophy's Geographical Institute in 1923 (the first such organization in the Balkans), managing it until his death.
In 1947, the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts founded the Jovan Cvijić Geographical Institute in Belgrade to advance the science of geography. On 21–22 November 2002, the Academy hosted a meeting on "the socio-political work of Jovan Cvijić".[10]
The Jovan Cvijić's house is housed in his family's house in Belgrade at 5 Jelena Ćetković Street. Since 1996, the house (built in 1905) has been declared a cultural monument by the state and was decorated by Dragutin Inkiostri Medenjak; Cvijić favored a decorative style based on Balkan folklore; the museum features manuscripts, letters, notes, books, paintings, geographical charts, atlases and personal items, and occasional lectures are presented.
In Serbia, a number of schools and streets are named after Cvijić and he is still considered the most important Serbian geographer, his work has been continued by his students, six of whom later became members of the Serbian Academy (including Pavle Vujević, Borivoje Z. Milojević and Milisav Lutovac). The scientist's life and work were researched by geographer Milorad Vasović for his 454-page book, Jovan Cvijić: Scientist, Public Worker, Statesman (1994).
Academic honors[edit]
Cvijić received a number of awards, he belonged to 30 scientific societies (academies, geographical and natural societies), receiving ten decorations. Cvijić received a gold medal for his work in 1924 from the New York Geographical Society and medals from England and France. Two varieties of saffron were named after him.[citation needed]
Cvijić was awarded:
- 1917: Medal of Geographical society of Paris
- 1918: Medal of the Charles University in Prague
- 1920: Patron's Gold Medal of the Royal Geographical Society[11]
- 1924: Cullum Geographical Medal
- 1924: Medal of the Paris-Sorbonne University
Cvijić was named:
- Honorary doctor, University of Paris
- Honorary doctor, Charles University in Prague
- Member of the Serbian Royal Academy
- Member of the Czech Academy
- Member of the Academy in Brussels
- Corresponding Member of the Yugoslav Academy of Sciences and Arts, Zagreb
- Corresponding Member of the Royal Academy of Italy
- Corresponding Member of the Parmasus Science Association, Athens
- Corresponding Member of the Russian Geographical Society, Saint Petersburg
- Corresponding Member of geographical societies in Budapest, Vienna, Geneva, Warsaw, Bucharest, Munich, Berlin, Amsterdam and London
- Honorary president of the Congress of Geographers and Ethnologists, Prague (1922)
- President of the Serbian Royal Academy from 12 April 1921 until his death in 1927
- Rector of the University of Belgrade (twice)
In more than 30 years of scientific study, Cvijić published many works. One of the best-known is The Balkan Peninsula. Other publications include:
- Ka poznavanju krša istočne Srbije, 1889.
- Prekonoška pećina, 1891.
- Geografska ispitivanja u oblasti Kučaja, 1893.
- Das Karstphänomen, Geographiche Abhandlungen, Wien, 1893.
- Karst, geografska monografija, Belgrade 1895.
- Pećine i podzemna hidrografija u istočnoj Srbiji, 1895.
- Izvori, tresave i vodopadi u istočnoj Srbiji, 1896.
- Tragovi starih glečera na Rili, 1897.
- Glacijalne i morfološke studije o planinama Bosne, Hercegovine i Crne Gore, 1899.
- Karsna polja zapadne Bosne i Hercegovine, 1900.
- Struktura i podela planina Balkanskog poluostrva, 1902.
- Antropogeografski problemi Balkanskog poluostrva, 1902.
- Novi rezultati o glacijalnoj eposi Balkanskog poluostrva, 1903.
- Balkanska, alpijska i karpatska glacijacija, 1903.
- "Die Tektonik der Balkanhalbinsel mit besonderer Berückichtigung der neueren Fortschritte in der Kenntnis der Geologie von *Bulgarien, Serbien und Mazedonien". C.R. IX. Cong. géol. intern. de Vienne. Wien: Hollinek Fréres. 1904. pp. 348–370. Retrieved 21 May 2018 – via Internet Archive.
- Nekolika posmatranja o etnografiji makedonskih Slovena, 1906.
- Osnove za geografiju i geologiju Makedonije i Stare Srbije, 1, 1906; 2, 1906; 3, 1911.
- Grundlinien der Geographie und Geologie von Mazedonien und Alt-Serbien. Nebst Beobachtungen in Thrazien, Thessalien, Epirus und *Nordalbanien, 1908.
- Jezerska plastika Šumadije, 1909.
- L'anexion de la Bosnie et la question Serbe, Paris, 1909.
- Dinarski Srbi, 1912.
- Izlazak Srbije na Jadransko More, 1912.
- Raspored Balkanskih naroda, 1913.
- Ledeno doba u Prokletijama i okolnim planinama, 1913.
- Jedinstvo i psihički tipovi dinarskih južnih Slavena, 1914.
- Mouvements metanastasiques dans la Peninsule Balkanique, La Monde Slave, 1917.
- Hydrographie souterraine et évolution morphologique du Karst, 1918.
- La Peninsule Balkanique, Geographie Humaine, 1918.
- Etnogeografske karte jugoslovenskih zemalja, 1918.
- Severna granica južnih Slavena (La frontiere septentrionale des Jugoslaves), 1919.
- Đerdapske terase, 1922.
- Balkansko poluostrvo i južnoslovenske zemlje, 1922.
- Metanastazička kretanja, njihov uzrok i posledice, 1922.
- Geomorfologija I-II, 1924. and 1926.
- Karst i čovek, 1925.
- Karst i srpske narodne pripovetke, 1925.
- Seobe i etnički procesi u našem narodu, 1927.
- Balkansko poluostrvo i južnoslavenske zemlje, 1931.
- ^ a b c d e f g Ford, Derek (2007). "Jovan Cvijić and the founding of karst geomorphology". Environmental Geology. 51: 675–684. doi:10.1007/s00254-006-0379-x.
- ^ "Ethnographic Map of the Balkan Peninsula". World Digital Library. Retrieved 23 January 2013.
- ^ ""The Belgrade Atlas of Jovan Cvijić: Century and a half since the birth: 1865–2015", Tatjana Korićanac, p. 23, Gallery of the Serbian Academy of Science and Arts; 135, Belgrade, 2015" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 5 December 2017. Retrieved 14 June 2017.
- ^ Cvijić, Jovan (1918). "Hydrographie souterraine et évolution morphologique du Karst". Recueil des travaux de l'institut de géographie alpine (in French). 6 (4): 375–426. Retrieved 5 June 2017.
- ^ Džaja 1999, p. 43.
- ^ a b c Jovan Cvijic, Selected statements
- ^ "The National Question in Yugoslavia. Origins, History, Politics", Ivo Banac, pp. 307–328, Cornell University Press, 1984.
- ^ Cvijic, "O nacionalnom radu", commemorative speech 1907, reprinted in Govori i Clanci, I, Beograd 1921 pp. 51–76
- ^ Cvijić, Jovan (1907). O naučnom radu i o našem univerzitetu svetosavski govor 1907. Beograd: Državna Štamp. Kraljevine Srbije.
- ^ "Social-political work of Jovan Cvijić".[dead link]
- ^ "List of Past Gold Medal Winners" (PDF). Royal Geographical Society. Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 September 2011. Retrieved 24 August 2015.
- Džaja, Srećko M. (1999). Konfesionalnost i nacionalnost Bosne i Hercegovine (in Croatian). Mostar: Ziral. ISBN 9536364212.
- Radojević, Mira (2015). "Jovan Cvijić in social and political life of the Serbian and Yugoslav States". Jovan Cvijić: Life, work, times. Belgrade: Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts. pp. 79–95.
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- Jovan Cvijić – Biography (in Serbian)
- Jovan Cvijić – Biography on Anthropology site (in Serbian)[permanent dead link]
- Biography on Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts site
- Jovan Cvijić museum[permanent dead link]
- Балканско полуострво и Јужнословенске земље (1. део) ‹See Tfd›(in Serbian)
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This is one of my favorite features that I think is pretty cool. It's things like this that make a library great and let you know you are on the right track.
Just to clear up any confusion, Authlogic stores both the record id and the persistence token in the session. Why? So stale sessions can not be persisted. It stores the id so it can quickly find the record, and the persistence token to ensure no sessions are stale. So if the persistence token changes, the user must log back in.
Well, the persistence token changes with the password. What happens if the user changes his own password? He shouldn't have to log back in, he's the one that made the change.
That being said, wouldn't it be nice if their session and cookie information was automatically updated? Instead of cluttering up your controller with redundant session code. The same thing goes for new registrations.
That's what this module is all about. This will automatically maintain the cookie and session values as records are saved.
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majorusa replied to williamsats's topic in LG webOS Smart TV DiscussionConnect your Samsung BD player through device connector to the respective HDMI port. For this go to the Device Connector tile and select your hDMI port where the Samsung is. You will be taken into a setup sequence. After this you will be able to use you remote to control the Samsung. Also be aware that you have an extensive help - electronic user manual on your tv. The WebOS works different to the Netcast. It is a PC like software.
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Dear SerdarPinar. Of course you can share your opinions. You may also help other users. But agreeing to a two months old post about a feature that either was not present at that time or the user did not know how to access it, does not help anyone. Since that post the firmware changed four times. The folder structure is available therefore my question. There are still features missing from Smart Share but not the folder structure. Concerning the mobile phone access may I ask what os do you have on your phone? I might help you if you are using ios.
Agree to what? The TV has a folder structure. Select all in the smart share app and in the upper right side select folder view. Please read here: http://www.lgwebos.com/topic/1512-feature-request-and-ideas-add-folders-to-smartshare/?p=1948 Before bashing some feature that already exist, learn to use your tv or ask in the forum.
@Mr North. I think that a better solution for you would have been to buy a cheap non smart tv and to attach in the back an Asus Vivopc with windows 8.1. In this way you wold have had the freedom of a PC combined with a big screen tv. @Mile Until this year Android TV has been a nice fairytale. I read a review of the Android TV system and it was not stellar. 99% of the apps are not optimized for the TV, the Android system itself is a mess because it has a too broad scope and it runs on a 1001 devices with totally different specs. I own an Android miniPC and is bareley useable with an air mouse. Most of the android apps that run on a tablet are not running of the minipc because they do not detect a touch device or they are not drm signed by the owners of the service. So if you think that Android TV is God's gift for the world go and be an early adopter for that one too. After that I am looking forward for your honest review.
I am happy with WebOS. What you wrote are normal things in a new OS. It will improve in time. Make sure you have the latest firmware on your TV. The star-up speed is improving with every firmware. This is a pc like software. So it is normal to take abit of time to start all the services. Concerning the speed in changing the channels this may be cable operator related. The issue with changing from HDMI to Live TV is not present on my set running 3.23.24. Fw. If you like Android you should have waited a bit more. Philips is launching its android TV top line which is three times more expensive than the LG. Also will be present only on active 3d tvs. Last, if you really dislike your tv so much give it back to the store.
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Interesting. Southern hemisphere is at 4.00.13. Northern at 3.23.xx. Why LG?
WebOS TV Firmware version
majorusa posted a topic in LG webOS Smart TV DiscussionPlease post here firmware number for your WebOS set including your country or the country where you downloaded the firmware and the model of your tv set: - 3.23.24 - Romania- 47LB730v - 3.23.34 - Romania -47LB730v - 21.08.2014 by USB - 4.30.09 - Romania - 47LB730v - 29.08.2014 - OTA
Difference between 650V and 730V?
majorusa replied to MrNorth's question in LG webOS Smart TV QuestionsI bought my 47lb730 for 1000 euro and they threw in for free a 500GB USB3 portable HDD. Here in Romania LG discounted hard the entire LB line, probable to push for a more rapid adoption of the WebOS.