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Only 3% of the earth's water is freshwater; about two-thirds of it is frozen in glaciers and polar ice caps and we have long over-stretched this precious resource.
The world faces considerable challenges in equitably managing the freshwater available to us for a growing population as we try and manage the impacts of climate change.
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According to the research at NIMH (National Institute of Mental Health), mental disorders are common, and affect tens of millions of people in the United States each year. Additionally, their study reveals only half of those Americans suffering from mental health problems ever receive treatment. Fortunately, for people in Maryland who would like help with issues related to depression, addiction, marital problems and anxiety, there is hope.
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issues 1–102 are available in PDF format
> Insight into the work of both historical and contemporary architects
> With a focus on beautiful architectural drawings over the past five centuries to grasp their role in design practice
> With drawings by George Aitchison, Heinrich Tessenow, El Lissitzky, Lina Bo Bardi and Tony Fretton
OASE #108 More Than Meets the eye - Over- and underrated architecture
On 25 November 2019 OASE #104 will be presented at the architecture school La Cambre in Brussel, Belgium.
> Unique OASE issue on locations of metabolism that kept communities urban households in order.
> With contributions by: Burkay Pasin & Gul Kacmaz Erk; Ben Vandenput; Koenraad Danneels; Julia von Mende; Dagmar Pelger & Emily Kelling; Ludo Groen; Nitin Bathla; Andrea Bortolotti, Andrea Aragone & Marco Ranzato; Diana Soeiro; Ciel Grommen, Dieter Leyssen & Maximiliaan Royakkers; Nadia Casabella & Jan Denoo; Riccardo M. Villa en Hans Vandermaelen.
On 17 June 2019 OASE #103 will be presented at the University of Manchester. Starting at 12.30. Everyone is welcome and a lunch is provided. More information in the pdf.
> Internationally renowned architectural historian Kenneth Frampton received the Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale 2018. Critical Regionalism is his most known theory
> Today, architects are searching for new ways to design and conceive built space. Critical Regionalism might just be the concept that we need to revisit.
On 16 May 2019 OASE #103 was launched at Hochparterre Bücher, bookstore for architecture in Zürich, Switzerland. These images give an impression of the launch, starring OASE editors Hans Teerds and Tom Avermaete as well as architectural historians Stanislaus von Moos and Irina Davidovici.
On Thursday May 16th 2019, OASE #103 will be presented at the Hochparterre bookshop in Zürich (Switzerland) at 19.00h (Gasometerstrasse 28). The presentation of this issue, which reinvestigates the concept of Critical Regionalism as coined by the architectural historian Kenneth Frampton, will be followed by reflections of architectural historians Stanislaus von Moos and Irina Davidovici. Entrance is free and everyone is welcome, so join us on May 16th in Zürich!


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ATLANTA - Forecasters have issued a flood watch covering most of Georgia as rainfall of up to 4 inches is expected to fall in parts of the state.
The National Weather Service said the flood watch will be in effect from Friday afternoon through Saturday afternoon. It covers parts of north Georgia and all of central Georgia, from the Gainesville area in the northeast to Americus and Vidalia in south Georgia. It also includes several major cities such as Atlanta, Columbus and Macon.
Forecasters at the weather service said rainfall amounts of 4 inches can be expected in central Georgia.
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With critical government systems reaching the end of the road, CIOs seek replacement strategies.
Former Oracle executive Kristin Russell used to be in charge of all the company's data centers and worldwide computer operations. She was accustomed to technology being replaced every three to five years, a norm in the private sector. So when she decided to join Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper's administration earlier this year to serve as the state's secretary of technology and CIO — her first government job — she was shocked by the condition of the state's computer systems.
She learned that Colorado's unemployment benefits system is 25 years old, its tax system is 23 years, and its titling system is 26 years old. And a recent audit found that the state's financial reporting system, which processes $36 billion in expenditures annually, is at risk of failure. Russell's discoveries confirmed an analysis two years ago of 200 of Colorado's IT systems, which found that 77 of the state's IT systems were more than 15 years old, and half had been around for at least a decade.
Many of these computer systems are coded in antiquated computer languages known only by the most senior of personnel — many of whom are set to retire in the next few years. The companies that built these systems in the first place no longer support them because the technology is so old, which drives up support costs with each passing year.
The situation has left Russell to wonder exactly how long her state can continue to scrape by. She likened state government's systems to a consumer who is trapped in the past. The rest of the world has moved on to iPods and high-definition TV, but state governments continue to run eight-tracks and black-and-white sets.
There's a growing sense that states like Colorado have run out of time, and that replacing these decrepit systems is a necessity, not a choice. Russell is among the optimists who believe that state governments can find a way to replace their old systems, even though funding appropriated by state legislatures and the federal government to do the necessary upgrades likely will be limited. Achieving success will require news ways of thinking and a willingness to work together.
"Being in IT and the high-tech industry my entire career, the big approach to brand-new systems has been tried out many times with increasingly disastrous results in terms of cost expenditures and failures," she said. The "light switch" type of approach to system design and implementation is passé. "We need constant evolution to be in a better place than where we are today, and reliance on and help from the private sector and third-party vendors to help get there."
CIOs like Russell are encouraged that states are working on developing systems that they can share. The thinking is that by banding together, these "multistate" systems can be updated as time goes on, helping to avoid the current problem of outdated computer systems. It also might be significantly cheaper.
Colorado's computer systems — old as they are — aren't out of line compared to other state governments. Rather, national data show that Colorado's oldest systems — the ones Russell said are more than two decades old — are in the middle of the pack among systems operated and maintained by other state governments.
A study of states' unemployment insurance (UI) systems made public last year by the National Association of State Workforce Agencies reported that most of them were first built in the 1970s and 1980s, and haven't been modernized significantly since then. These systems, which collect unemployment taxes from employers and determine eligibility and pay unemployment benefits to workers, are in many cases considered separately as "tax systems" and "benefits systems." A state government's average benefits system, as of last year's data, is 22 years old, while the average tax system is 24 years old, according to the study. The oldest of these systems, as of 2010, were 41 and 42 years old, respectively. Only eight states had modernized their systems, meaning they can fully support Web-based features and current database technology.
The numbers don't improve much for other types of systems. This year the Center for Digital Government, owned by Public CIO's parent company, e.Republic, surveyed 15 states about the status of their Medicaid Management Information Systems (MMIS), which do eligibility determination and claims processing for health-care coverage. Three states said their MMIS is more than 30 years old, and another four said theirs was more than two decades old. Two states reported that theirs was more than 10 years old. Massachusetts, New York, Oregon, Tennessee, Kansas and Alabama said their MMIS was less than 10 years old.
Before and after the Y2K scare, many states installed new enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems, which integrate a variety of business information, such as accounting and human resources data across a government. But 10 years later, even some of these systems are beginning to show their age. Several states are still running financial systems — which are often a part of the ERP — that were first implemented in the 1980s or 1990s, and may not have been heavily customized since then.
Old systems are found in all state governments, irrespective of geography. New Jersey's payroll system, for example, dates back to 1969, and the state's Motor Vehicle Commission uses a mainframe system that's 30 years old — prompting New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie to float a $60 million plan for upgrades. Meanwhile, Arizona's state financial system, which is used by 90 percent of the state's agencies, is 25 years old. It runs on an IBM mainframe and uses the old COBOL and DB2 programming languages. Arizona has hired a consulting firm to help upgrade to an ERP system.
Utah's MMIS is more than 20 years old and also runs on COBOL. "That's the one we're looking at [modernizing]," said Utah CIO Steve Fletcher. "The federal government pays for 90 percent of it, but it's still very expensive — $120 million to build a new system."
Installing new modules in the old MMIS is difficult for Utah to do, Fletcher said, because it's trying to force COBOL to do something it wasn't designed for. To make matters worse, the people who know how to code in COBOL are disappearing as they reach retirement age. "You spend an inordinate amount of time coding it and you spend an inordinate amount of time testing it. The cost for development becomes rather exorbitant," Fletcher said.
Delaware CIO Jim Sills said the state's top 11 mainframe systems average more than 20 years old and nearly half of those systems need to be replaced. Supporting those systems is difficult because the technology is old and so are the people who know how to maintain them. "I call it the 'silver tsunami,' a maturing workforce that will not be around to support these systems," he said.
The looming wave of retirements expected among senior IT staff is no secret, as it's been projected for years. A study released in January by NASCIO concluded that CIOs expect as much as 30 percent of their staffs to be eligible to retire within the next five years.
A loss of expertise is only one of several factors making system replacement an urgent priority. Other motivators are the promise of improved security and upgraded systems capable of pushing data out in order to support transparency.
Dave Andrews, who heads Accenture's state and local government ERP practice, has been in the business since the 1980s. As the years went by, he came to believe that state governments would get a maximum of 20 years from their big systems. In reality, states held out even longer. "Would somebody out there be surprised to learn that there are systems that are 30 years old running the business of government? Yeah, that would surprise people," Andrews said. The general public would be amazed by the amount of paper that still flows through government, and the "green screen" computer terminals still relied upon for back-office work, he said.
"We're not replacing systems that are client-server or Web-based systems. We're still replacing the mainframe systems," Andrews said. He made the observation as he was visiting Richmond, Va., to meet with the controller about a 30-year-old KPMG green-screen system that's still utilized by the agency.
Besides pure curiosity, why should the public care about these old systems?
One reason is that they have a real impact on delivering services to citizens. Doug Robinson, the executive director of NASCIO, called old UI systems the "poster child" for why modernization is important. The economic recession caused an overwhelming spike in unemployment claims, and the increased demand crashed states' back-end databases and websites. New York, Florida and Ohio were among the states that fell victim to the surge. A modern system, perhaps using cloud computing, would've been able to cope with that elasticity and scale, Robinson said.
Old systems running on ancient programming languages also struggle to accommodate changing business requirements or legislative mandates. Modifications can require weeks or months of programming time — causing delays that can draw the ire of lawmakers and the public. California's Employment Development Department experienced the real-world consequences legacy systems can have, when in 2009, Congress repeatedly extended the length of time individuals could draw unemployment benefits. Each extension required line-by-line coding changes in the department's 1970s-era UI system. During one particularly complex change, unemployment checks were delayed for weeks as COBOL programmers toiled over the modifications.
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Billions of dollars are needed to modernize states' computer systems. One phenomenon that's happening — given that budgets are stretched thin — is that unemployment insurance (UI), Medicaid Management Information Systems (MMIS) and enterprise resource planning (ERP) are competing for funding, said Dave Andrews, who leads Accenture's state and local government ERP practice.
The sputtering economy has put more workload onto UI systems simply because more unemployed workers are seeking benefits. MMIS reform also is viewed as a bigger priority than it once was because of the Barack Obama administration's focus on health-care reform.
Consequently back-end systems like ERP might be a lower priority right now in the eyes of lawmakers. For this reason, Andrews said ERP might be the third in line behind UI and MMIS, which are citizen-facing. Roughly a third of the states haven't modernized their ERP systems since the mid-1990s, Andrews said. Those states want to upgrade their ERP, but they don't have the money to do so.
No matter where money is spent, many state CIOs are clamoring for change on how the systems are funded by the federal government. Specifically states want more "administrative flexibility" on the requirements attached to IT dollars spent on federally funded, state-administered programs like UI and MMIS. The Obama administration recently ordered federal agencies to review these rules and alter them where appropriate.
Doug Robinson, executive director of NASCIO, said funding rules should encourage collaboration, but the current rules have the reverse effect. States now receive less federal funding if they share systems. It's relatively easy, in some cases, to get the upfront capital from the federal programmatic agencies for a new system, Robinson said, but trying to replace them is tougher because of the funding rules. That's one reason states are holding on to aging systems.
Utah CIO Steve Fletcher said the feds should find a way to let states share technology, therefore cutting costs for everyone. "There should be a better way to approach this rather than build it 50 times, because it's pretty much the same system in all 50 states. Build it once and distribute it," Fletcher said. "They don't incentivize states to do the sharing."
Another drawback of old systems is security. Assuring the code on a legacy system can be done, but it's difficult. They were built before the advent of the Internet, so they were never intended to be connected online. "So you have that classic 'lipstick on a pig' situation where you put that Web service presentation layer in front of an old legacy environment," Robinson said. "That can cause added complexity and offers weaker security than a modern application portfolio with seamless security built in since day one."
Andrews and Russell added that legacy systems also don't have the functionality needed to provide good data reporting, and have a tendency to hide data so that it never finds the light of day. Old systems can hinder government transparency. "We have data across all these disparate systems, but because they're old and because we haven't implemented newer technologies that have this functionality, it sits in those systems," Russell said, "and we're not able to pull the data to make better business decisions on behalf of providing services."
"Technology is a predictor for how we do business, and if we're not changing that technology, then we do business the same way we've always done it," she added.
The appetite for upgrades to legacy systems appears to be present. An annual survey of state CIOs released in October from NASCIO said that more than half of the respondents were planning to replace their state's legacy MMIS as health-care reform continues forward. But this effort will require major federal funding, according to NASCIO, and "getting those funds from federal government with its own budget problems could be problematic." The Center for Digital Government's MMIS survey found that five states are in the RFP planning process and six states said they will be completely replacing their existing legacy MMIS.
A 2009 Gartner research brief reported that some type of ERP activity was under way in 27 of 37 states surveyed, whether that be planning or a recent implementation. States were planning to spend from $30 million to $120 million on ERP, depending on the scope of the project and the state's size. But some of these ERP projects were put on hold as states ran into financial hardship the past few years. Now there are two or three RFPs coming out each year, suggesting that ERP implementations have slowed.
The will is there, so what does the future look like? The consensus seems to be that states can no longer afford to develop new systems or modernize existing ones on their own.
The price tag is too high, and it takes too long. Furthermore, state-to-state, their systems share most of the same functionality, so developing systems that are shared among multiple states is feasible. A new model centered on "multistate consortia" is emerging that may be the way forward for replacing MMIS, UI and other big-ticket systems.
A few years ago, in the wake of the recession that stretched state UI systems beyond their limits, the U.S. Department of Labor awarded seed money to study the feasibility of shared UI systems that could be used by multiple states. The money also went toward writing requirement sets and laying the groundwork for states to work together. That effort has now reached the development phase after the Department of Labor awarded $128 million in September to three consortia of states that are planning to share a single UI system.
The consortia are arranged geographically. Arizona, Colorado, North Dakota and Wyoming are working together, as are Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee. A third consortium is also starting among Maryland, West Virginia and Vermont.
When you combine four states, the collection of expertise gets them to the critical mass they need for a successful project. There's very rarely one state that has enough staff versed in COBOL, Java and Oracle — but together, they do. "They have demonstrated that the pulling together of resources has had an enormous benefit — it really has," said Lou Ansaldi, technology director of the Information Technology Support Center, which is affiliated with the National Association of State Workforce Agencies.
These states could have a shared benefits system that's workable in as little as two to four years, according to the association. "I think this really is the way forward. We've scrutinized all aspects, and we think it does make the most sense," Ansaldi said.
But there are still obstacles to overcome, and Robinson said those barriers tend to involve policy rather than technology. There are jurisdictional issues that need to be clarified. States, in some cases, have starkly different business rules, which will make using a shared system more difficult. Some states also have restrictions on cost recovery such that they couldn't operate a shared system and charge other states a fee for using it, Robinson added. Also, it remains to be seen how these shared systems will be procured and managed. Will a consortium manage a system together, or will one state take the lead? But overall, these hurdles haven't dampened enthusiasm for the concept.
"Clearly there is more interest in these multistate endeavors, particularly around the common functions that all states need to do — which would be ideal for a shared service operated by one state," Robinson said. Similar to the UI consortia that are already under way, a few state CIOs such as Utah's Fletcher have been pushing for support on shared MMIS. A coalition of western states is also going in together on an RFP for shared storage of GIS data — Colorado is one of them.
The multistate systems are one part of Colorado's larger plan to update its legacy systems. Russell believes her state must also look within, at how it manages, budgets for and prioritizes its oldest computer systems. She doesn't want any more "one-off" development of big, monolithic IT systems that can't be upgraded as needs change.
Russell's trying to get lawmakers, who hold the purse strings, to think about the sustainability of IT — and that means including ongoing maintenance, disaster recovery and security into the cost estimate of any new project. She plans to put forth new legislation that would codify this forward-looking strategy in Colorado. "What happens is that people get really fixated on the shiny new ball rolling across the table, and then they build the system and forget that grant funding ran out and they don't know how to support it," Russell said. "And that is why the systems get old."
Russell also plans to build out a "comprehensive risk index" for all of the state's IT systems — new and old. Each system will be assigned a numerical score, like a person's cholesterol number or maybe a golf score. The higher the number, the worse off the system is. Russell wants this ranking number to dictate what system replacements are funded first and which are pushed down the list for later. The arithmetic will include the age of the system, what software it runs on and how secure it is. The business case also will be considered: Just because a system is old won't necessarily mean it should be replaced right away.
The idea is to have a systemic picture of all of Colorado's systems so that lawmakers can make informed funding decisions. Russell wants the state to have the necessary information to make proactive decisions instead of reacting after a system goes down. "We have a plan to not just solve the current problem," she said, "but to solve the root cause of how we got here."
Writer Colin Wood contributed to this story.


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At the market, last weekend, I was looking for some veggies to make some soup. In the summer, I like the soups where you can still detect the original ingredients, the types of soups that we have in South-Eastern Europe, however autumn time is a different story. Then, I really love a hearty, creamy, rich soup.
And this time the cauliflower draw my attention…together with some celeriac since was laying all alone next to the cauliflower. Since both are very earthy, thought they will marry perfectly in a soup. To bring in some extra flavour, I just added some watercress and crispy bacon on top.
cauliflower and celeriac soup with crispy bacon and watercress
2 tablespoons olive oil
one large onion or 2 shallots
3 garlic cloves
thyme, salt, pepper, nutmeg
3 cups vegetable broth
1 head of cauliflower
1/2 celeriac root
few slices of bacon
Heat the olive oil in a large pan over medium heat. Add the chopped onion and cook until softened. Add chopped garlic and the thyme, cook until the garlic softens, add the cauliflower florets and the cubed celeriac. Sautee them and the add the broth, season with salt, pepper and nutmeg. Cover the pot and bring to
a boil. Lower the heat to a simmer, keep covered, and let cook until the cauliflower and the celeriac are tender.
Puree with an immersion blender. Serve warm topped with crispy bacon, watercress or shredded cheese.


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Kunsthistorisches Museum
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The Kunsthistorisches Museum (English: "Museum of Art History", also often referred to as the "Museum of Fine Arts") is an art museum in Vienna, Austria. Housed in its festive palatial building on Ringstraße, it is crowned with an octagonal dome. The term Kunsthistorisches Museum applies to both the institution and the main building.
It was opened around 1891 at the same time as the Naturhistorisches Museum, by Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria-Hungary. The two museums have identical exteriors and face each other across Maria-Theresien-Platz. Both buildings were built between 1872 and 1891 according to plans drawn up by Gottfried Semper and Karl Freiherr von Hasenauer.
The two Ringstraße museums were commissioned by the Emperor in order to find a suitable shelter for the Habsburgs' formidable art collection and to make it accessible to the general public. The façade was built of sandstone. The building is rectangular in shape, and topped with a dome that is 60 meters high. The inside of the building is lavishly decorated with marble, stucco ornamentations, gold-leaf, and paintings.
Picture gallery
The museum's primary collections are those of the Habsburgs, particularly from the portrait and armour collections of Ferdinand of Tirol, the collections of Emperor Rudolph II (the largest part of which is, however, scattered), and the collection of paintings of Archduke Leopold Wilhelm.
Notable works in the picture gallery include:
- Jan van Eyck: Portrait of Cardinal Niccolò Albergati (c. 1431)
- Albrecht Dürer: Adoration of the Trinity (1511)
- Tintoretto: Susanna and the Elders (1555–56)
- Giuseppe Arcimboldo: Summer (1563)
- Antonello da Messina: San Cassiano Altarpiece (1475–1476)
- Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio:
- Peter Paul Rubens:
- Ildefonso Altar (1630–32)
- The Fur (1638)
- Raphael: Madonna of the Meadow (1506)
- Rembrandt: Self Portrait (1652)
- Johannes Vermeer: The Art of Painting (1665/66)
- Diego Velázquez: Several portraits of the Spanish royal family, a branch of the Habsburg, sent to Vienna.
- Pieter Brueghel the Elder:
- The Fight Between Carnival and Lent (1559)
- Children's Games (1560)
- The Tower of Babel (1563)
- The Procession to Calvary (1564)
- The Gloomy Day (Feb.-Ma.) (1565)
- The Return of the Herd (Oct.-Nov.) (1565)
- The Hunters in the Snow (Dec.-Jan.) (1565)
- The Peasant and the Nest Robber (Bauer und Vogeldieb), 1568
- The Peasant Wedding (1568/69)
- The Peasant Dance (1568/69)
The collections of the Kunsthistorisches Museum:
- Egyptian and Near Eastern Collection
- Collection of Greek and Roman Antiquities
- Collection of Sculpture and Decorative Arts
- Coin Cabinet
- Library
- Ephesus Museum
- Collection of Ancient Musical Instruments
- Collection of Arms and Armour
- Archive
- Secular and Ecclesiastical Treasury (in the Schweizerhof)
- Museum of Carriages and Department of Court Uniforms (in Schönbrunn Palace)
- Collections of Ambras Castle (in Innsbruck)
- the Austrian Theatre Museum in Palais Lobkowitz
Also affiliated are the:
- Museum of Ethnology in the Neue Burg (affiliated in 2001);
- Lipizzaner-Museum in the Stallburg
Recent events
One of the museum's most important objects, the Cellini Salt Cellar sculpture by Benvenuto Cellini, was stolen on May 11, 2003 and recovered on January 21, 2006, in a box buried in a forest near the town of Zwettl, Austria. It was featured in an episode of Museum Secrets on the History Channel. It had been the biggest art theft in Austrian history.[2]
The museum is the subject of Johannes Holzhausen's documentary film The Great museum (2014), filmed over two years in the run up to the re-opening of the newly renovated and expanded Kunstkammer rooms in 2013.
In culture
The Kunsthistorisches Museum appears in considerable detail in the final mission of the video game Mafia: The City of Lost Heaven, developed by Illusion Softworks.[citation needed]
The museum is the setting for director Jem Cohen's 2012 feature film Museum Hours, which premiered at the 2012 Locarno International Film Festival and screened within such festivals as Toronto International Film Festival and Maryland Film Festival. It is distributed by The Cinema Guild.
Statue of Thutmosis III
Cupid the Honey Thief, drawing by Albrecht Dürer
Bratina of King Ladislaus IV of Poland
See also
- ↑ The Art Newspaper. World museum attendance figures for 2010. Access 22 Oct 2011.
- ↑ "Entertainment | Police find stolen £36m figurine". BBC News. 2006-01-22. Retrieved 2013-09-16.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
External links
Media related to Kunsthistorisches Museum at Wikimedia Commons
- (English) Official website
- Spherical panorama of entrance
- Hofburg's Armory - photo gallery in Flickr
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- Art museums and galleries in Vienna
- Museums in Vienna
- Collections of the Kunsthistorisches Museum
- Egyptological collections in Austria
- Decorative arts museums
- Numismatic museums
- Museums of Dacia
- Museums of Ancient Greece
- Museums of Ancient Rome
- Museums of Ancient Near East
- Buildings and structures in Innere Stadt
- Hofburg Palace
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- Sean Penn has advocated for the release of a U.S. man from Bolivia
- Penn called on U.S. lawmakers to pressure the Bolivian government
- A Bolivian minister lashed out at Penn for his comments
- The actor has a historically close relationship with Bolivia
Actor Sean Penn, a friend of Bolivian President Evo Morales, nonetheless angered the South American country's government after his call for the release of a U.S. businessman who has been imprisoned since 2011.
Penn, known for his chumminess with Latin America's leftist leaders, is also an advocate for Brooklyn flooring contractor Jacob Ostreicher, whose supporters say has spent two years detained in Bolivia without evidence.
At a House Foreign Affairs subcommittee meeting Monday, Penn asked U.S. lawmakers to pressure the sponsors of the off-road Dakar Rally to cancel its planned 2014 route through Bolivia if Ostreicher is not freed.
"The Dakar Rally, one of the world's most prominent displays of freedom and tenacity of the human spirit, will be parading through Bolivia even as thousands of prisoners like Mr. Ostreicher sit in feces-filled cells, forgotten behind locked walls," Penn said.
On Tuesday, Bolivia's minister of culture shot back.
"The remarks by Mr. Penn are his worst acting in all of his career," Pablo Groux said, according to the state-run ABI news agency. "The remark is offensive to the Bolivian people, totally out of context and lacking any understanding."
The minister said the actor's comments harkened back to a time when the United States exerted heavy influence in Latin America.
"Those days are long gone," Groux said.
The rebuke from the Bolivian official is notable coming from a government that Penn has been friendly with.
During his testimony before the subcommittee, Penn said that he does not blame Morales for Ostreicher's situation, but endemic corruption in the judiciary.
Penn said that he met with Morales last year, with evidence supporting Ostreicher's innocence, and that "these findings were received by the president with tremendous personal and human grief."
Ostreicher is under house arrest after spending 18 months in a notorious prison while his case crawled in the overburdened Bolivian judicial system. He was arrested in June 2011 on suspicion of money laundering tied to a rice-growing operation, and he languished in prison without formal charges.
He maintained that corrupt officials had trumped up the case, and last year, six government officials were arrested for allegedly extorting and stealing from Ostreicher. But the case against him has not been dropped.


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A daily winner will be awarded a Callaway driver, hybrid, 3-wood, or wedge. Each week, one winner will be randomly selected to receive a new set of Callaway RAZR X irons (four weekly winners in total). The New Site. New Set. promotion runs through Sept. 11. Fans are eligible to enter the contest once per day.
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In June, Golf Channel unveiled a complete redesign of GolfChannel.com. The redesign features enhanced editorial content and video for expanded coverage of the game; integrates the leading online tee-time booking service GolfNow.com; provides easy access to instruction and equipment; and offers a more robust user community experience—all working to help golfers play better, and play more often.
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very frustating to enter a contest and there is trouble with your website does not go thru . fix the problem ???????????????
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Sorry you had trouble. I'm not responsible for the GolfChannel.com website. The link to the sweepstakes page in this post works fine.
the post for the new site new set is off the page i would just like a list of winners please
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A resolution authorizing the Director of Public Property, or his designee, to exercise an option to purchase real properties known as Map 069-04 Parcel Nos. 234.00, 236.00, 237.00, 238.00 and 239.00 and Map 069-08 Parcel 001.00 for recreational use in the parks system (Proposal No. 2013M-002PR-001).
Whereas, pursuant to the terms of the agreement attached hereto and incorporated herein as Exhibit 1 to this resolution, the Metropolitan Government holds an option to purchase certain properties; and
WHEREAS, Section 2.24.250(F) of the Metropolitan Code of Laws provides:
Where land in fee simple is being purchased for purposes other than for rights-of-way for highways, streets, roads, alleys and other places for vehicular traffic, the director of public property administration shall negotiate for the purchase of such property and seek to obtain from the owner an option to sell to the metropolitan government at a fixed price, subject to the approval of the metropolitan council by resolution, and no purchase shall be consummated until it has been so approved by the Metropolitan Council; and,
WHEREAS, pursuant to section 2.24.250(F) of the Metropolitan Code of Laws, the Director of Public Property Administration has negotiated an option (EXHIBIT 1) to acquire real property located in Davidson County being Davidson County Tax Map 069-04 Parcels 234.00, 236.00, 237.00, 238.00 and 239.00 and part of Tax Map 069-08 Parcel 001.00 and incorporated into this resolution by reference; and
Whereas, the Metropolitan Board of Parks and Recreation has approved the acceptance of the Property; and,
Whereas, portions of the property will be used to construct, operate and maintain portions of the parks and greenway systems; and
Whereas, it is in the best interest of the citizens of Nashville and Davidson County to approve the purchase of said property;
Now, therefore, be it resolved by the Council of The Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County:
Section 1. The Director of Public Property, or his designee, is hereby authorized to exercise the option to purchase the properties (Davidson County Tax Map 069-04 Parcels 234.00, 236.00, 237.00, 238.00 and 239.00 and Tax Map 069-08 Parcel 001.00) as shown in EXHIBIT 1 and to execute the necessary documents pertaining thereto.
Section 2. That this resolution shall take effect from and after its adoption, the welfare of The Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County requiring it.
Sponsored by: Ronnie Steine, Charlie Tygard, Walter Hunt, Lonnell Matthews, Frank Harrison
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Resolution No. RS2013-884
Mr. President:
I move to amend Resolution No. RS2013-884 as follows:
1. By attaching an updated option agreement to replace the existing Exhibit A.
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Timing is everything
"For the spectators and the fans at an Olympic Games, everything is remembered in terms of the results," a spokesman for Omega told us. "The accurate timing allows us to compare one edition of the Games with the others. All of us live for Olympic and World records and in order to keep track of them, every event at every Games has to be timed or measured with complete accuracy."
And it isn't just about the fans, he continues. It matters to the athletes and to the Games as an institution: "Athletes preparing for the Olympic Games have specific times in mind, based on their own previous performances and personal bests. The Olympic Games are the highest profile sporting events on Earth. Their appeal depends significantly on the accuracy of the timekeeping and the timely display and distribution of the results."
In London this summer, Olympic officials will require results measured down to the thousandth of a second. Keeping track of timings to that degree rules the human eye out of the equation for good, but we've been losing ground to the machines for some time.
In 1932 Omega was asked to supply 30 chronographs capable of recording times down to tenths of a second. By the time the 1936 Games were held in Berlin, the requirement had swollen to a more impressive 185 chronographs, but the technology itself had stayed the same. It wasn't until after the war that we start to see technology used that hints at the stuff we use today.
1948 was, according to Omega, the first Olympiad at which technology began to outperform humans. At the Winter Games in St. Moritz, Omega introduced the "cellular photoelectric eye" and the timing was triggered automatically by the opening of the starting gates. The summer Games, held in the same year, also saw the birth of the photo finish, as for the first time, the British Race Finish Recording company used an electronic eye "the Magic Eye" to record the moment the race winner crossed the finish line.
The OMEGA Photosprint (OPS1) from 1963 with ALPA camera
and world's first zoom lens. The camera was equipped with
a tiny vertical opening and the film with a time strip.
By 1952 the Magic Eye technology had been renamed "Photo-finish" and was synched up with timers capable of recording finishing times down to the nearest 100th of a second.
As we saw earlier, the lane-watchers in swimming were superseded by technology in 1968 with the introduction of the "swim-o-matic" touch pads that allowed competitors to stop the clock by touching the side of the pool. And the old fashioned starting pistol has already gone the way of the stop watch, having been replaced by a phaser-esque starting gun that simultaneously makes a sound (which is relayed to speakers behind each athlete, so that there can be no doubt that everyone hears the starting gun at the same time), produces a flash of light – a second cue that the race has begun, and triggers the timer. False starts are registered by pressing the trigger a second time within a two-second window. As well as being more accurate, Omega tells us it is easier to get the new starting guns through security at airports, too.
London 2012 is a veritable tech fest, in fact. In London this year, Omega will send will be more than 450 timekeepers and data handlers, supported by 400 tonnes of equipment, some 180km of cabling and optical fibre to link the timing systems with 80 public scoreboards and 320 sport-specific scoreboards. This Olympics will also see new timing blocks that track reaction time based not on movement of the sprinters in the blocks, but by measuring the force against the blocks once the athlete starts to run. And the new "Quantum" timing system, for land-based and aquatic disciplines, can slice time into microseconds, millionths of a second, and is accurate to one part in a million – five times better than its immediate predecessor.
Each new technology brought into the Games – like brand new starting blocks this year - has to go through rigorous checks to make sure it does what it is supposed to.
Omega's spokesman told us: "Each new piece of equipment is developed in tested extensively by top-class athletes who ensure that it functions perfectly and meets the requirements of each sport. We work closely with the sporting federations who give us feedback and ultimately approve every timekeeping device."
So, when the gold medals start being handed out, and the world records start rolling in, give a small thought to the work that goes into making sure they are right. And if anyone manages to cover the possibly 100.01m faster than Usain Bolt, the time they post will be very precise and accurate indeed. ®
*This fact is taken from The Looniness of the Long Distance Runner, by Russell Taylor. Recommended reading for all runners. Even, or perhaps especially, for armchair ones.
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PORTLAND, Ore. — (BUSINESS WIRE) — July 19, 2012 — Mentor Graphics (NASDAQ: MENT) has invested $825,000 in Portland State University's Maseeh College of Engineering and Computer Science to advance the study of integrated circuit design in the new Mentor Graphics Design Verification and Emulation Lab.
The support will allow the Maseeh College to expand its expertise in the growing and relatively new field of chip verification by emulation, a cost-effective way of testing complex new chips.
"This investment will advance PSU's goal to become a national leader in the field of chip design," said PSU President Wim Wiewel. "It is a wonderful example of a public-private partnership that blends philanthropy and education with an outcome that will have a positive impact on the economy."
The growing partnership with Mentor Graphics, a worldwide high-tech company headquartered in Wilsonville, Ore., enables PSU to enhance its relationships with chip design companies. The program expansion will offer students more state-of-the-art education and more opportunities in industry. It will grow enrollment and improve the quality of research and instruction in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.
"We greatly appreciate PSU's commitment to partnering with private industry to ensure that its curriculum delivers graduates skilled in the most advanced technologies available in the world," said Gregory K. Hinckley, president of Mentor Graphics. "This donation will enable a unique partnership between Mentor Graphics and PSU and ensure that the students who graduate from this program will be able to immediately contribute to their employers."
Mentor Graphics makes software and hardware products to automate electronic design tasks, enabling engineers to develop electronic devices more efficiently. In 2009, the company gave PSU an emulator worth approximately $1 million, a piece of hardware that simulates how a new chip will behave before it is actually manufactured to enable design errors to be discovered before manufacturing costs and time are committed. PSU is the only university in the country to receive a Mentor Graphics emulator donation for research and instruction, giving students a rare opportunity to learn on cutting-edge equipment and making them valuable to future employers.
This new investment includes a $700,000 gift over five years for a new faculty member, to be hired by June 2013, and $125,000 for options for exclusive access to intellectual property based on research conducted in the lab. Two PSU professors are already working in the emulation field, and PSU plans to hire an additional faculty member using PSU funds for a total of four faculty members in the lab.
"It's such an important gift to advance our teaching and learning and build a cutting-edge program in chip design," said Renjeng Su, dean of the Maseeh College. "We can benefit a great deal from working with Mentor Graphics, because they are one of the top companies in the world."
About Portland State University (PSU)
Located in Portland, Oregon, PSU has about 30,000 undergraduate and graduate students. PSU's motto is "Let Knowledge Serve the City," and we provide every student with opportunities to work with businesses, schools and organizations on real-world projects. Our downtown campus exhibits PSU's commitment to sustainability with green buildings, while sustainability is incorporated into much of the curriculum.
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Whether you're an investment junkie or a timid novice, investing needs to be part of your relationship. So what makes investing so complicated for couples? Let's see ...
- One partner is more interested in the topic than the other.
- One partner is investing more money than the other.
- One partner doesn't like the delayed gratification that investing requires.
- One partner is skipping work to day trade your home equity loan.
Rest assured, there are ways to satisfy both the risk-taker and the worrywart in your relationship. And, yes, it involves talking.
First, couples should set investing goals. That may sound like humdrum homework, but it's really just a formal way of saying that you two lovebirds need to sit down for a grown-up conversation about what you want to do with your money in the future. So don't skip this step.
Investing means putting your savings to work for you, so start with your long-term goals. Around The Motley Fool, we define long term as, at the very least, five years, although 10 years or longer would be even better. What major expenses do you predict down the road? Perhaps you're investing for your child's college tuition. Or maybe you'd actually like to retire when you're ready to stop working.
Your goals should have time frames associated with them. From a purely logical standpoint, the more time you have until your goal, the more risk it makes sense to take on. You should also consider some ground rules, including an agreed-to dollar amount for the investment account and an assessment of each partner's risk level.
Next, consider how you're going to invest. Are you comfortable putting your money to work in the stock market? Is your sweetie? Would he rather play it safe in a money market account earning 2% interest? Can you see the fight coming?
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The JPanel subclass
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public class xImagePanel extends JPanel { BufferedImage image; public xImagePanel(){ image = null; this.setAutoscrolls(true); } public void setImage(String path) throws IOException{ File f = new File(path); image = ImageIO.read(f); } @Override public void paintComponent(Graphics g) { Graphics2D g2 = (Graphics2D)g; g2.drawImage(image, 0,0, this); } }
And the main class where it is added to the scrollpane. I didn't add the entire class because the scrollpane is part of a much larger GUI.
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try { JScrollPane jScrollPane1 = new JScrollPane(); xImagePanel imagePanel = new xImagePanel(); imagePanel.setSize(2560, 1600); imagePanel.setImage("...\testIMG.jpg"); //directory path excluded } catch (IOException ex) { Logger.getLogger(xbsMainFrame.class.getName()).log(Level.SEVERE, null, ex); } jScrollPane1.getViewport().add(imagePanel);


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Pope Francis on Sunday preached about the importance of gratitude and thankfulness for the Christian community and for family life.
"If we can realize that everything is God's gift, how happy will our hearts be! Everything is his gift. He is our strength!" he told the crowd of about 150,000 gathered for Mass in St. Peter's Square Oct. 13.
"Saying 'thank you' is such an easy thing, and yet so hard!" his homily continued. "How often do we say 'thank you' to one another in our families? These are essential words for our life in common."
The Pope gave special attention to the need to show consideration for one's family.
The Pope gave special attention to the need to show consideration for one's family.
"If families can say these three things, they will be fine. 'Sorry,' 'excuse me,' 'thank you.' How often do we say 'thank you' in our families? How often do we say 'thank you' to those who help us, those close to us, those at our side throughout life? All too often we take everything for granted!"
The Pope spoke after a weekend of Marian prayer that culminated in a special act of entrustment of the world to the Immaculate Heart of Mary and to Mary's maternal care.
As the original statue of Our Lady of Fatima stood nearby, Pope Francis reflected on Mary's relationship with God as an example of Christian gratitude.
Mary's words at the Annunciation, "my soul magnifies the Lord," are "a song of praise and thanksgiving to God not only for what he did for her, but for what he had done throughout the history of salvation," the Pope explained.
This history reveals that "God surprises us."
"It is precisely in poverty, in weakness, and in humility that he reveals himself and grants us his love, which saves us, heals us, and gives us strength," the Pope explained.
The journey to salvation also entails a commitment on the part of those following the path of Christ, which is not always easy.
"I ask myself: am I a Christian by fits and starts, or am I a Christian full-time?" the Pope said. "Our culture of the ephemeral, the relative, also takes it toll on the way we live our faith. God asks us to be faithful to him, daily, in our everyday life."
Fortunately, the Christian knows that "we can be unfaithful, but he (God) cannot: he is 'the faithful one'," he added.
One woman in the crowd shed tears as Pope Francis said that God in his mercy, "never tires of stretching out his hand to lift us up, to encourage us to continue our journey, to come back and tell him of our weakness, so that he can grant us his strength."
"This is the real journey: to walk with the Lord always, even at moments of weakness, even in our sins."


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On the weird Webmin's Java-based Filemanager, there is a nifty UL/DL - function. You can download a whole folder as zipped file. The folder is going to be zipped, afterwards you can download the folder.
Same with the upload of a zipped folder file: you just uplod the zipped folder, webmin deflates the zip/tar file, in the place where you initiated the upload to the file manager and optionally deletes the uploaded zip file.
That enhances massive web-based uploads for non-Quickr Connector users (some people work on a Linux and OSX, you know :-D) .
Don't know if someone mentioned this idea....


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NINGGUO, China, Oct. 31 (UPI) -- Officials in a Chinese province faced online ridicule for releasing a poorly doctored image of administrators meeting with a 103-year-old woman.
The photo, captioned "love and consideration for the elderly is a cherished Chinese tradition. They should feel the warmth of the party and the government," depicts four Chinese Communist Party officials in Anhui province and the 103-year-old woman, but one of the men is cut off in the middle and all three men are towering over the elderly woman, Cheng Yanchun, who was clearly edited in from a different photo, The Mirror, Britain, reported Thursday.
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The government said the photo may have been faked, but the visit was real.
"Cheng was sitting on a chair on the balcony, under the sun. The balcony space was very small and the camera lens could not cover the whole scene," a government statement said. "When the employee of the municipal civil affairs department uploaded the photos, ... he simply merged two shots. We express deep regret to Internet users for its negative influence. We will learn from the experience, to improve civil affairs work."


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In a scathing public critique of Fairfax chairman Corbet Ms Rinehart combines subtle insults with sledge hammer blows. Fairfax directors now know what it was like for WWII Wehrmact commanders when General Patton approached.
"The milestone we propose is that the Fairfax Media weighted average trade share price increase from current levels to 87c per share prior to the AGM, which would represent only a 50% loss from the commencement of your chairmanship in 2009." (My italics)
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Update: See sections 190 and 191 of the Corporations Act 1981.
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Etihad and ADSC officials at the signing ceremony.
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ABU DHABI, January 20, 2016
Etihad Airways has announced the renewal of its sponsorship with the Abu Dhabi HSBC Golf Championship for the next five years, from 2016 to 2020.
The airline and Abu Dhabi Sports Council (ADSC) have signed an agreement to extend Etihad Airways' long-standing partnership with the annual European Tour event, which will take place from January 21 to 24 at the Abu Dhabi Golf Club. Etihad Airways' investment further supports Abu Dhabi's vision to position itself as a premier international golf tourism destination.
The announcement was made by Peter Baumgartner, Etihad Airways' chief commercial officer, and Aref Al Awani, ADSC's general secretary, at a meeting held at the airlines headquarters in Abu Dhabi.
Etihad Airways, the official airline and gold partner of the golfing event since its inauguration in 2006, named the Abu Dhabi tournament's most successful winner, Martin Kaymer, as the Etihad Guest Ambassador in 2014.
The two-time major winner and three-time Abu Dhabi champion will be up against one of the championship's strongest-ever fields with world number one Jordan Spieth, making his Arabian debut, alongside four-time major winner Rory McIlroy, American hotshot Rickie Fowler and Swede Henrik Stenson.
Baumgartner said: "The Abu Dhabi HSBC Golf Championship is a world-class event attracting some of the games' greatest competitors to Abu Dhabi. We are very proud to continue our support for this initiative as it fits perfectly with our strategy to reinforce Abu Dhabi as a leading hospitality and leisure destination."
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The airline also continues its 'Etihad Most Birdies Prize', won last year by Phil Mickelson. The player who cards the most birdies over the four rounds of the 2016 tournament will receive two Etihad Airways First Class return tickets to any destination on the airline's network.
Al Awani said: "Etihad Airways is the championship's longest-standing partner and its support over the years has played a key role in elevating the event, and golf in Abu Dhabi, onto the global stage. From enticing visitor packages and competitions, to the highly contested 'Etihad Most Birdies Prize', we look forward to working closely with Etihad Airways and our title sponsor HSBC to continue lifting the championship's fan and player offering to new heights."
The Abu Dhabi HSBC Golf Championship is owned and presented by ADSC. Tickets and tailored packages are available via the event's official website www.abudhabigolfchampionship.com at Dh50 ($13.6) for a daily pass and Dh150 ($40.8) for a four-day pass. Guests staying at any Abu Dhabi hotel over the championship period can enter for free. – TradeArabia News Service


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Back when people exercised something called "optimism," they would while away the hours imagining how awesome the future would be. Looking back, sometimes they were surprisingly prescient, other times not so much. What's the most ludicrous vision for future cars?
Highway escalators? Right. That's part of the comprehensive future-vision portrayed in Disney's 1958 short Magic Highway. Of course we know futurist writers back then didn't base everything they wrote on educated predictions; nine times out of ten they just made shit up. But highway escalators? What in the world would make mountain-sized moving stairs for cars viable? And what if we got our pant-leg stuck in it? Yes, in this case, future fail.
(QOTD is your chance to address the day's most pressing automotive questions and to experience the opinions of the insightful insiders, practicing pundits, and gleeful gearheads that make up the Jalopnik commentariat. If you've got a suggestion for a good Question of the Day, send an email to tips at jalopnik dot com.)