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PoiStory brauchte ein neues Logo Design und hat einen Wettbewerb auf 99designs gestartet.
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PoIStory is a community web site for specialized and niche touristic content, allowing users to retrieve, organize and collect in guides the descriptions of exactly those touristic Points of Interest (PoIs) that are the most relevant to the tastes, habits, and logistic details of individual travelers.
PoIStory addresses the needs for niche and specialized tourists.
PoIStory's website uses a customized version of MediaWiki (the software used, among others, for Wikipedia), which uses a standard template for its page. On the top left corner there must be a logo 135 pixels wide. We are undecided on whether to have a rectangular logo (65 pixel high) or an almost square one (155 pixel high): we accept proposals and suggestions. We also need a high-resolution version of the same for stationery and printed guides. Below it (outside of the logo) we will put the text: "Build your own guide!" (PoIStory's motto).
Our idea of logo is fresh, young, funny (but not ridiculous), conveys any number of concepts such as traveling, tourism, niche communities, user-generated content, printed matter, printed guides, and does NOT contain images resembling the Eiffel Tower, the Colosseum, the Parthenon, the Empire State Building, the Golden Gate Bridge or any other recognizable touristic landmark. It would be interesting to stress the concept of PoIStory as the channel connecting specialized tourists with specialized destinations.
PoIStory has uppercase P and I, lowercase o, and the S is upper or lower case. All other letters are lowercase. We fancy an orange/blue color combination, but that is NOT a requirement. Suggesting the font of the motto and the font of the rest of the page is appreciated.
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Flight simulators are an important tool for training pilots to make the right decision fast. Managers and medical professionals can also learn this important skill in a simulated cockpit. Our reporter attended a seminar
"An oven in the forward galley has caught fire," the chief steward reports via the internal communication system. In the cockpit, I feel a rush of adrenaline. I've already forgotten that this is just a simulation. Now is the time for me, the pilot, to act. The first thing I do is report the incident by radio to Air Traffic Control on the ground. There isn't much smoke, but some of the passengers are anxious. I've just taken off from Frankfurt in a Boeing 747-8, the aircraft is full and we've only been in the air for a few minutes. If the cabin crew manage to put the fire out by hand I can continue on my way. If not, I will need to land the plane as soon as possible. My copilot and I have to make a decision fast, and we don't have time to wait for the fire to go out. With both the crew and ground control waiting for instructions, we quickly review the weather report and our landing options. The passengers are also waiting to be reassured. Here in the cockpit, a flashing light and a loud signal remind me of the fire, adding to what is already a very stressful situation.
You have to analyze the mechanisms of failure
Company managers and surgeons experience similar kinds of stress every day, where a wrong decision can be fatal and is often avoidable. "We call what we offer '10 000-meter know-how,'" says Walter Drasl, a former pilot and today head of Pro Toura, a company that works closely with Lufthansa Flight Training (LFT) to offer a seminar called "Decide." It's a two-day course given by experienced pilots on which participants are confronted with complex situations and learn how to make the right decision. I'm here today, just a stone's throw from Frankfurt Airport, with some management consultants, IT experts and a controller from LFT. Through the glass walls of our seminar room, we can see the flight simulators moving back and forth on their long, hydraulic, stilt-like legs. But seminar leader Robert Schröder isn't allowing us down there quite yet.
The flight captain tells us about a culture change in aviation that was introduced in the late seventies. Before that, crucial decisions were always made unilaterally by those in command. "The new approach harks back to a single date in history, March 27, 1977," says Schröder, who investigates accidents for Lufthansa when he's not flying or teaching seminars. That was the day two jumbo jets collided in the fog on the runway at Los Rodeos airport on Tenerife. Unclear communication with the tower and rigid hierarchies in the cockpit were later considered to be the main cause. "Flight captains were considered demigods whom nobody dared to contradict," Schröder explains. That's when CRM – crew resource management – entered the cockpit.
Put simply, this means making decisions by pooling the know-how and talents of every member of the team. Clear communication rules and flat hierarchies have altered the form of briefings and debriefings, as well as the interaction in the cockpit between captain and copilot. Everyone is encouraged to speak their mind, even if they just have a vague feeling that something is wrong. "Nobody need be afraid of disciplinary measures afterwards," the seminar leader says.
Before becoming a pilot, Schröder spent a couple of semesters studying medicine. Today, doctors also count among his students. Check lists, briefings and debriefings are all part of operating-room procedure today. "The team takes a time-out before every surgery," says Dr. Lorenz Rieger, chief physician at Landshut-Achdorf hospital, describing the routine there, "we make sure we have the right patient, that the right body part is marked, and that we have all the necessary instruments lined up." The team also counts the instruments to make sure the same number is there in the debriefing afterwards.
Most companies don't have procedures like this, nor do they usually have emergency plans in place. They tend to wait for problems to arise, solve them on the spot, and rarely work through past mistakes. "Instead of analyzing the mechanisms of failure, they often try to solve the problem by looking for someone to blame and punish," says Schröder. When a company goes bankrupt, it usually blames its competitors or its suppliers, the overall market situation or its creditors – not anybody at the company itself.
Flight captains cannot shift responsibility like this. That's why Lufthansa pilots practice dealing with difficult situations in a flight simulator up to four times a year. "Knowing what procedures to follow in a tricky situation has to become second nature," explains Schröder. And he clarifies that he doesn't mean chitchat when he talks about flat hierarchies. "It's not about everyone in the cockpit offering their two cents in a critical situation and then voting on what to do. It's about reaching a decision in a clear and structured way." This procedure can be condensed into the English acronym FOR-DEC. "F" stands for facts, which in my case is the burning oven in the galley. My options (O) are to continue to fly or land the plane. Then my copilot and I have to assess the risks (R). The fuel tanks are nearly full and the aircraft is correspondingly heavy, so I would need a long runway on which to land, preferably with an instrument landing system. The weather is also a factor.
Our decision (D) is to land the plane in Munich. I inform the chief steward, who in turn tells the crew to prepare for landing. Then I make an announcement to the passengers, during which time my copilot informs Air Traffic Control of our decision and changes our course for the approach in Munich. As soon as everyone knows what to do and has received all the necessary instructions (E – execution), things in the cockpit quiet down. We've set the autopilot, and I've turned off the warning signal. We make use of the time to double-check (C) our decision. If in the meantime the fire has been extinguished, or alternatively, has spread, we would have to think again and make a different decision, but the fire is still smoldering. So we prepare for our descent. A short time later, the Boeing gently touches down on Runway 26 L in Munich, but before it comes to a full stop, seminar leader Schröder turns off the projector. I suddenly realize that none of this is real and that I've been in a simulator the whole time. But I still feel the after-affects of my adrenaline rush, and I'm glad that my copilot and I were able to make the right decision. The fire is out.

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|The Tilden Park Scarf is an easy ruffled and ruched infinity scarf that adds a feminine touch to any outfit.
Why do your fingers need hats? Why, for the same reasons that your cats need hats! I wouldn't think about this for too long if I were you...
Although I saw other miniature hat patterns out there, none of the ones I could find were fingertip sized to accompany my mini sweaters. (The mini sweater pattern is by Everwhelming Liz.)
• less than 4 yards of sock yarn
• 2 US size 1 16 circular needles
(US size 1 DPNs may also be used instead of 2 circular needles)
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• Tapestry needle
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• Making a pom-pom
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Loosely CO 16 sts on one circular needle (needle A). Slip half of the stitches to the other circular needle (needle B). Join to knit in the round, placing a marker at that point so you know where the round begins.
K 1x1 ribbing (k1, p1) for 2 rounds.
K 3 rounds.
Decreasing Rounds
On needle A, k1, k2tog, k until end of needle. Repeat for needle B.
K next round.
Repeat Decreasing Rounds until 4 sts remain. Cut yarn, leaving a 5 inch tail.
Make a pom-pom for the tip of your hat. When I make the pom-poms, I wrap scrap yarn around two size 1 needles, pull out one needle, and use a tapestry needle to thread the yarn tail through the scrap yarn and tie a knot. Once the knot is secure, I extract the remaining needle and cut the scrap yarn loops at the top of the hat. Admittedly, this is a little fiddly, so if you have a better method for making mini pom-poms, please share!
Weave in all ends. Leave the mini hats around your house. When people ask why there are mini hats around the house, you can tell them that they are for the fairies.
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Whether you're in the for-profit or nonprofit world, you have a front-line sales team.
It doesn't matter if they are selling products, services or the benefits of donating to your organization – it's all sales.
There are fundamental skills that make or break all salespeople, regardless of the category they represent.
Likewise, there are often universal failures among those who don't find success in the field.
In fact, the Harvard Business Review reports that only one in three working salespeople is "consistently effective," with only one out of 250 exceeding their targeted sales goals.
Based on the sales reps I've coached throughout my career, here are five of the top reasons sales people fail.
Check back next week for the next five to round out the top 10 list.
Sales is a numbers game. The key to success is to develop an activity plan and work your plan every day.
Start your day with the toughest task you dread the most.
If that dreaded task is cold calling, start your calls as soon as you walk in the door and don't stop until you have set the number of meetings you're targeting.
After that, the rest of the day will be a piece of cake.
Every quarter, invite your happiest clients to lunch.
Find out what you can do to improve their experience, and then brainstorm about others they know that you can also assist.
Too often, salespeople avoid asking the hard questions that ultimately qualify or disqualify a prospect, such as their intent and ability to buy.
Ask these questions early in the sales process to avoid spinning your wheels.
Roughly seven out of 10 salespeople kick off a new prospect meeting by diving straight into their pitch.
The better way is to start by listening – asking open-ended, high-impact questions to learn what's important to a prospect, and then adapting your pitch to fit his or her needs.
A universal truth in sales is that prospects are more inclined to buy when they feel listened to.
The added benefit is that active listening affords you the opportunity to identify additional selling opportunities.
Great salespeople don't walk into every sale assuming the prospect has a need for what they're selling.
Instead, their objective is to ask good questions and learn what's important to them.
If your prospect is in need of your services and you qualify them as a good customer, great.
If not, see if there are other problems you can solve for that prospect which may ultimately create a loyal referral source down the road.
Lori Turner-Wilson is an award-winning columnist and managing partner of RedRover Sales & Marketing, www.redrovercompany.com, with offices in Memphis and Nashville. You can follow RedRover on Twitter (@redrovercompany and @loriturner) and Facebook (facebook.com/redrovercompany).
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2011 Holiday Gift Guide: GeeksRiot Steve Jobs Tribute Shirt
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Steve Jobs will definitely be missed, and today's 2011 Holiday Gift Guide entry honors his memory, while also helping a great cause. What you see above is the GeeksRiot Steve Jobs Tribute t-shirt. All proceeds from the $25 purchase go towards Movember and the fight against cancer. Aside from all that, though, the shirt looks ridiculously cool. Seriously, we've seen 'em in person, and they're high quality. Go check them out, and grab a couple for the Apple fans in your life!
2011 Holiday Gift Guide: Lomography Sprocket Rocket 915
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Here's a more unique entry for our 2011 Holiday Gift Guide. This is the Lomography Sprocket Rocket. The plastic-bodied Rocket camera has a wide-angle frame that exposes the film all the way to the edges, out past the sprocket holes. It also lets you rewind the film for those cool double exposures. They typicalls sell for $89, but you can grab one on Amazon for $78.50, a 12% savings.
2011 Holiday Gift Guide: Free 4G Android smartphones at Radio Shack
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Our 2011 Holiday Gift Guide tries to hit you with gift recommendations at all different price points, and this one may be the least expensive. Radio Shack is selling a bunch of 4G Android smartphones for free, with two-year contract, this holiday season. You can get devices like the Samsung Stratosphere for Verizon, Samsung Infuse 4G for AT&T, and the HTC EVO Design 4G for Sprint. All of these devices support faster data speeds, and at a price of free, they're a tremendous deal.
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2011 Holiday Gift Guide Giveaway: Shenzhen 6-inch White Ceramic Chef's Knife
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We're giving away this next item featured in our 2011 Holiday Gift Guide, and it's a product that we weren't even sure we'd like at first, Take a look at the Shenzhen Knives White Ceramic 6-inch Chef's Knife. When we first looked at it, we thought it was gonna be a cheap, dull knife unworthy of any further attention. We were very, very wrong. In fact, it's become my daily go-to kitchen knife. The sharpness of the blade is more than capable of handling meats, hard fruits and vegetables, as well as softer items as well. Since it's ceramic, it stays sharper than a steel knife, and holds its edge longer. It also won't rust, and is resistant to acids, germs, and oils. The best part, though, is that they aren't even that expensive. You can get this knife on Amazon for $25.
Seriously, I've been using this knife almost exclusively for all my cooking over the past couple of weeks, and it has yet to let me down.
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2011 Holiday Gift Guide: Vtech InnoTab Learning Tablet
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Handhelds, Toys, Kids, Under $100, Under $250, Under $500,
Here's another 2011 Holiday Gift Guide entry for the kids, as we feature the Vtech Innotab Learning Tablet. This multi-functional tablet combines interactive animated e-books, tilt-sensor learning games, creative activities, and a rich collection of applications into a sleek and durable toy that kids will want to play with. Cartridges with your child's favorite licensed characters are sold separately and teach essential skills in reading, logic, and creativity.
You can pick up a Vtech Innotab for $79 on Amazon.
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2011 Holiday Gift Guide: Dismember-Me Plush Zombie
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We've got another inexpensive, yet awesome, entry for our 2011 Holiday Gift Guide, this one focusing on the undead. Do you know what happens when you take old broken plush toys and bury them in the woods by the light of the full moon while whistling the theme song from "Halloween"? Unfortunately nothing...which is why the skillful design monkeys over at ThinkGeek were forced to come-up with their own scary (but cute) zombie plush.
The Dismember-Me Plush Zombie begs to be torn limb from limb. After all he is a decaying re-animated corpse turned into irresistible cuddly plush. Rip off an arm... he doesn't mind. Tear him in half.. he'll barely notice. Pull off his legs... ok now he's getting a bit annoyed. Steal his brain... now you've really done it. Keep your teddy bears under close guard tonight because undead plush have come back from hell to walk the earth.
Grab yours now for $9.99, a 23% discount!
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2011 Holiday Gift Guide: Star Wars Chop Sabers
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How's this for a unique 2011 Holiday Gift Guide entry? They're lightsabers, they're chopsticks, and they'll change the way you experience your favorite Asian foods. Grab these Japanese imports from ThinkGeek and deftly maneuver your food with the power of the Force. We're not sure if you know this, but Yoda has been known to carve his Thanksgiving turkey using his lightsaber.
Go forth, brave Jedi warriors, and use your chop sabers to mix just a little extra wasabi into your soy sauce. You can handle it. It is a known fact that eating sushi with chop sabers vastly strengthens your ability to ingest horseradish products. (By the way, did you know that researchers are trying to make a smoke alarm for the deaf using wasabi vapors? We're debating whether it would be more annoying to wake up to the sound of a fire alarm or the punch in the nose that only wasabi brings. What do you think?) Either way, wield your weapons and ready the way for a truly epic eating experience. You can get a pair of Chop Sabers for $9.99 (a 23% discount!)
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2011 Holiday Gift Guide: Amazon Kindle Fire
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We continue our 2011 Holiday Gift Guide with the Amazon Kindle Fire tablet. This is the Amazon tablet we've been waiting on for months, and it's has finally shipping. Amazon's looking to disrupt the tablet landscape with the Fire, and is pricing it aggressively at $199. The Kindle Fire weighs 14.6 ounces and packs a 7-inch IPS display, dual-core processor, 512 MB RAM, and 8 GB of on-board storage. It runs a forked version of Android that Amazon has prettied up in a major way. You also get Wi-Fi built-in as well.
Purchasers of the Kindle Fire also get a 30-day trial of Amazon Prime, which'll let you get a nice sampling of what the company's Video on Demand service offers. Other services you can access from the Fire include Amazon's Android Appstore, Kindle books, a host of magazines, Cloud Drive, Cloud Player, and the Amazon MP3 service.
You can pick up a Kindle Fire now for $199 on Amazon.
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2011 Holiday Gift Guide: Crayola ColorStudio HD
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The next featured gadget in our 2011 Holiday Gift Guide is the Crayola ColorStudio HD. It includes iMarker, which looks and feels like a standard Crayola marker, but is safe to use on the iPad display. Paired with the ColorStudio HD app, you've got a marker, pen, crayon, and paintbrush all in one device. The app has interactive and animated coloring book pages that combine sound, touch, interaction, and special effects. You can print out the works of art, email them, and post to Facebook, all from within the app. You can get the ColorStudio HD on Amazon for $24.99.
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2011 Holiday Gift Guide: Twelve South PlugBug
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The next featured gadget in our 2011 Holiday Gift Guide is the Twelve South PlugBug. It's a device that's so simple that it's hard to believe no one has come up with this until now. The PlugBug snaps onto your MacBook, MacBook Pro, or MacBook Air wall charger, giving you a powered USB port in the process. The results? You can then charge both your Apple notebook, and a USB device (like an iPhone or iPad) at the same time, using just one outlet. Genuis! This means that when you're on the go, you can carry one less charger, and you'll have one less outlet to try and find. You can get the PlugBug on Amazon for $34.
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Klamath Reservation Invitational All-Indian Basketball Tournament Turns 60
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Over the weekend the Klamath Reservation Invitational All-Indian Basketball Tournament was held for the 60th time on the Klamath Tribes Reservation in Chiloquin, Oregon. The gym was packed for all of the exciting men's and women's games, showing true March Madness spirit.
According to Native News Network, the birth of the Klamath Reservation Invitational All-Indian Basketball Tournament was in 1954. Prior to this date a local tournament was held on the Klamath Reservation for all local teams. From year to year the number of teams varied and one year ten teams were entered. The Chiloquin Townies under the capable direction of Sandy Miller consistently won the tournament. The committee was comprised of all local team managers. From time to time the committee had expressed their willingness to invite teams from other reservations. Then in the fall of 1953 the committee decided to invite four other teams for the following year. Those invited were from Warm Springs, Alturas, Ft. Bidwell, and Susanville. Today, 60 years hence, the tournament has grown into a major event, attracting teams from across the county and abroad.
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Art and Seoul
The South Korean capital is Asia's hotspot for cutting-edge creativity. Independent, politicized and trained around the world, Seoul's artists are fueling this development
You feel it in your stomach first: a tickling that makes you want to hold your breath. Jun Ahn, 34, leans over the balustrade on top of the 23-story Mijin Plaza tower. "Yes, I'm afraid of heights," she admits. "But looking down toward the ground I feel the present. It's like an empty space between the past and the future." Her self-portraits on skyscrapers have made the Seoul-based photo artist famous. The pictures, where she dances along the rooftops like Mary Poppins, dangles over edges or hangs out of windows, have been shown in exhibitions in Asia, Europe and the U.S., winning her numerous awards. It's not about the thrill, she says. "I always wear a climbing harness, but I still get dizzy – it is a very natural fear."
»Fine art or commerce? To me, the difference is obsolete. I work on the intersection
Down on the intersection people scurry like ants. Gangnam, the famous district in the city of 10 million, is where Seoul's reputation as a hipster hotspot started. The rise of K-Pop began here in the mid-90s, culminating in 2012 with the global hit "Gangnam Style" by Psy. Across Asia, North and South America and the Arab world, K-Pop girl and boy groups, plastic-surgery enhanced from head to toe, like Girl's Generation or Big Bang, have fueled Hallyu – Korean Wave. The skyscrapers and flashy shop windows in Gangnam reflect the economic miracle that has made South Korea one of the key industrial nations in the world.
Apgujeong Rodeo Street, named after Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills, is lined with the flagship stores of the West's most coveted brands, K-Pop production companies and giant statues of Hallyu stars. There are advertisements for plastic surgery everywhere: In Gangnam alone there are over 500 clinics, and many people on the street wear bandages on their faces. The city is obsessed with optimizing its facade, but there is a dark side to this fixation: the pressure to succeed causes up to 50 suicides a day, giving South Korea the highest suicide rate
of all OECD nations. Jun Ahn's breakneck photos are not a comment on this. The idea came to her in 2008 while studying in New York. "I had a tiny studio on the 21st floor in Manhattan and a roof where I would get some fresh air, have a coffee and admire the view." This is where she took the first photos in the Void series, which she completed two years ago. Gravity and falling remain her artistic focus: Her new series, Float, features photos of falling stones.
Not far from Mijin Plaza is a side street where artist Sho Jang, 45, lives and has his studio, Col.l.age+. His hypercomplex montages of hundreds of thousands of photos – of chocolates, brand logos, jewelry or butterflies – are compositions in the tradition of Hieronymus Bosch. With ten million photos on his hard drives, Jang edits and prints the pictures, cuts them out by hand and puts them together on the computer to form a digital kaleidoscope. He prints his designs on tiles, sculptures, handbags and dresses, animates them in videos and on catwalks. He illuminated the facade of the Grand Palais in Paris, has created fabric patterns for the South Korean avant-garde fashion designer Lie Sang Bong, designed video clips for BoA, the queen of K-Pop, and next year he will be creating an Art Car for Lamborghini. "Fine art or commerce? To me, the difference is obsolete," he says. "I work on the intersection. Art is life, life is art." Jang, an amateur musician, returned from the U.S. in 2009 inspired by Andy Warhol's Factory and wanted to create something similar in Seoul.
For three years, his studio was a meeting place for musicians, DJs and designers. Even the U.S. band Limp Bizkit popped by for a private session. Just as European visitors today goggle at the blinking touchscreens, the monitors in the sleek underground trains or the cheap shopping malls in Dongdaemun Market, Jong was once greatly impressed by Times Square: "The simultaneousness of too much information pouring down on us modern, urban people daily, our fixation with the surface and the Buddhist belief that the entire world can be revealed in tiny details – these are my topics," he explains. On the other side of the Han River, which flows through Seoul, Platoon Sonnendeck rebels against the slick Gangnam style. The names sounds German because it is. Along with German beer and curried sausage, the venue offers culture events: readings, exhibitions, DJ gigs and films. Anything, as long as it's not mainstream. Co-founder Tom Büschemann, 51, sees his mission as "cultural development," just like the original Berlin Platoon, where since 1999 mobile containers have moved between building gaps, acting as hang-outs for the city's hipsters and dotcom folks, often sponsored by big brands like Adidas, Hugo Boss and Absolute Vodka.
Here in Itaewon, Büschemann feels almost as at home as in Berlin: African, European and American expats and the gay community all live and party here. Smoke rises from the street food stalls all night long. "There was no subculture and no alternative art scene when we came to Seoul in 2008," says Büschemann, "but that was precisely what South Koreans were looking for." To a small, new avant-garde scene there's more to life than work and shopping. "We have created an independent platform for people who dare to swim against the current," he says. Seoul's many private galleries and museums are firmly in the hands of the "Jaebeols," the family-owned conglomerates who control the nation's economy. The Hyundai Card Music Library or the Leeum Samsung Museum of Art are a ten-minute walk from Sonnendeck. They feature impressive architecture but inside it's mostly Jeff Koons, Damien Hirst or Anish Kapoor. Edgier artists like Sungpil Han have little prospect of securing a show.
In 2013, Han, 44, showed his pictures of the Marx-Engels monument in East Berlin at Platoon. The visual artist focuses on political history and its significance over the years. His works, mainly photographs on giant screens, turn buildings inside out, alter landscapes or cityscapes. For the Havanna Biennale last year he brought the Korean Gameunsa Temple to the Cuban capital – on a giant backdrop. Han plays with illusion and reality, an obvious topic in Seoul. "You could call what I do plastic surgery for buildings, cities and landscapes," he says with a grin. He has exhibited in the world's major museums, from Tokyo to Houston, but his pet project is a two-hour car ride north of the city in the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) between North and South Korean: four kilometers wide, roughly 250 kilometers long. The country has been divided since 1953 and there are no border crossings, telephone lines or mail service like when Germany was divided. Military provocations are common: Last year, rockets were fired from North Korea, landing just behind the DMZ, where farmers on both sides of the border grow ginseng, beans or blueberries. Han's grandfather was killed in battle in the DMZ; his body was never found.
"The opening show in the Yeongang Gallery has a personal significance for me," he says. This is probably the only gallery in the world that has a border control point and an armed soldier guarding it. The former communal hall and air-raid shelter opened earlier this year. Han covered the exterior walls with photos of the facade of the Bauakademie in Berlin, the natural landscape in the border region, pictures of thousands of doors and peace messages from all around the world.
The border guard speaks fluent English. He grew up in the U.S. and is now serving his two-year conscription in Korea. He tells us about the bloody battle that took place on the border by the Han River, scarcely 500 meters away. And he wants to know all about how Germans experienced Reunification. South Koreans feel a close connection with Germany due to the shared history of division. Han has called his exhibition Innocence, after the natural beauty of nature that flourished in the thinly populated border region – contrasting starkly with political reality.


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Discover the Kinvara 9
- Successor to the Kinvara 8
- Winner of Runner's World – 2018 Editor's Choice
- EVERUNTM topsole construction for enhanced energy return and continuous cushioning throughout the run
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- Offset: 4mm
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Shoes with a 4mm heel-to-toe offset deliver a more natural ride, letting your feet and body do more work while relying less on the shoes' cushioning and stability features.
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LMSR 4-6-2 locomotives
Stanier pacifics are what this gallery is about. At the time of writing I have but one shot of a streamlined Coronation class and none of either the turbomotive or 46202 in its rebuilt form. However, livery variations abound and are clear to see even in monochrome images.Read More
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Apple Nearing Wal-Mart's Market Cap
Apple's shares have been on a tear following the announcement of the iPad, and with the device nearing its market debut, they're rising to new heights. As I write this, they're trading at $229.45, a fresh 52-week high and a new all-time high as well.
Apple today has a market cap of $207.99 billion. That means it ranks fourth on a list of the Top Five publicly traded U.S. companies–just below Wal-Mart.
That's right: Just below Wal-Mart.
- Exxon Mobil (XOM): 315.05 billion
- Microsoft (MSFT): 261.71 billion
- Wal-Mart (WMT): 212.19 billion
- Apple (AAPL): 207.99 billion
- Berkshire Hathaway (BRKA): 202.54 billion
An astonishing turnaround for a company whose market cap bottomed out at $630.9 million back in 1982.
Incidentally, at 207.99 billion, Apple's market cap is more than seven times that of Dell's (DELL) 29.44 billion, which is pretty funny considering Michael Dell's proposed solution to Apple's late-'90s woes…
UPDATE: As a commenter below notes, Apple actually surpassed Wal-Mart's market cap briefly a few weeks back.


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I want to implement a TCP transport layer protocl with UDP socket (UDP implemention of TCP).I put it describtion below Please give me a java UDP implemention of TCP.
Prerequisites: Here we assume that you're familiar with C & C++ language and network socket programming. In this project, we are going to use UDP socket API to implement TCP.
Description: As you know, TCP includes many features to support reliable transmission, flow control and congestion control. In congestion control, you can use TCP well known procedures like slow start, fast retransmission and additive increase/multiplicative decrease. The 3–way handshake for TCP connection setup is required but special cases need not be supported. To protect packets against bit level errors, use a checksum mechanism similar to TCP. You need to take a look at TCP RFC (RFC 793) for details.
The TCP like mechanism chosen for reliable transmission in this project is cumulative acknowledgment of the last in-order delivered byte for every packet received. Pay attention that the delayed acknowledgement method is not required so you will acknowledge every packet arrived at the receiver. The sequence numbers are measured in bytes like TCP with an initial random sequence number (Note that your protocol will totally work on bytes rather than messages).
When a packet ACK times out, window size is set to 2 packets. For RTO calculation you will use the options field of TCP to send a timestamp. Note that you should also add padding to the header to align it to 32 bits and also cover the options in checksum. You should update your RTT calculation and RTO for every packet acked.
You will implement an API for applications to be able to use it for sending and receiving data. The API your protocol supports should be as follows but another private fields and private methods can be added to it:
class Socket { private: // some needed fields and methods public: // this method creates a connection to server and creates // a thread to buffer and acknowledge arrived packets Socket (char* serverHost, int serverPort); // read size bytes from SOCKET BUFFER and save it to // readBuffer and returns the number of bytes in the // readBuffer int read (char* readBuffer, int size); // if write buffer was greater than MSS then divide // writeBuffer to packet with MSS size and then send // there bool write (char* writeBuffer, int size); // closes the socket and makes the resources free. bool close (); }
class ServerSocket { private: // the list of connected sockets to this server vector<Socket> connectedSockets; // some needed fields and methods public: // this method creates a thread to accept connection from // client socket ServerSocket (int port); // this method remove a socket object from first of // connected sockets or wait to a connection established. Socket accept (); // closes the socket and makes the resources free. void close (); }


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(CNN) - Former Veterans Affairs chief Jim Nicholson said President Barack Obama is "not taking responsibility" for the ongoing scandal that has rocked the agency under his administration's watch.
In an interview on Friday with CNN's Wolf Blitzer, Nicholson also hit back at Obama's sharp criticism of his tenure leading the VA, calling into question the former senator's commitment to the cause when he severed on the Veterans Affairs Committee.
"He was on the committee but he never showed up," Nicholson said, appearing on "The Situation Room."
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Allegations of crippling delays in care and mismanagement have sparked calls for current Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki to resign. When Nicholson took over as chief of the VA in 2005 during President George W. Bush's administration, he, too, received criticism of his leadership of the agency, notably from then Illinois Sen. Obama.
Upon Nicholson's resignation in 2007, Obama, who had announced his presidential candidacy only months before, said, "It is clear that Secretary Nicholson is leaving the VA worse off than he found it."
"That was a political statement that I expected somebody who was running for president would take a shot like that," Nicholson said of Obama's comments. "He would never come to the committee meetings, so he really had no basis to know what was going on."
Dem 2014 candidates want VA chief out
While allegations of mismanagement have dogged the department for decades, in recent weeks, the political fallout from the scandal has heightened and many, like Nicholson, are pointing the blame at the President for a failure of leadership on the issue.
"What's happening now is the President of the United States is not taking responsibility for this and what I think the root problem is with these hospital directors is we've seen this kind of dishonesty and duplicity on the part of the President - if you like your plan, you can keep it," he said, a reference to issues surrounding the rollout of Obama's health care law.
CNN reported in January that at least 19 veterans died at VA hospitals in 2010 and 2011 because of delays in diagnosis and treatment. Last month, CNN reported at least 40 veterans died while waiting for appointments to see a doctor at the Phoenix Veterans Affairs Health Care system and that the patients were on a secret list designed to hide lengthy delays from VA officials in Washington.
Lawmaker: VA wait-list, cover-up allegations 'tip of the iceberg'
Asked whether Shinseki should resign, Nicholson said that move would be "premature," pointing to the ongoing investigations of VA facilities throughout the country.
Shinseki, Nicholson said, "is responsible, but the ultimate person responsible for this is, I think, the commander in chief. And he is the guy that ought to now be taking that kind of decisive action to see that we take care of these veterans."
Before leading the VA, Nicholson served as U.S. ambassador to the Vatican and chairman of the Republican National Committee.
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When has this president taken responsibility for anything? I voted for this incompetent in 2008, and I can't wait for him to leave! Bush was a cowboy; this guy is plain clueless. He does have the best spin machine I've ever seen.
Curious age we live in. Conservatives blame Obama for everything, even a former VA Chief. One would think that a VA Chief who allowed such things to go on would have some shame and some humility. No. He blames the President, who has tried to address problems, create a workable budget but has been blocked at every turn by pettiness and intransigence on behalf of men exactly like Jim Nicholson. I am tried of Republicans playing politics on important issues that need to be solved. These men, and it makes me cringe to call them that, are happy to blame and reluctant to solve even though the finger of shame points DIRECTLY at them.
As someone of the Viet Nam era, I can remember my parents and uncle – WWii and Korea – talking about the poor treatment the vets were receiving at VA hospitals. There have been issues for years and they need to be resolved. Even my extremely conservative brother – Nam Vet – does not lay the blame on Obama. Personnel need to be reviewed and, if necessary, terminated. I am sure there are a lot of good people working in the VA system. I just question why the doctor in Phoenix waited unti HE retired to bring up the issues. I understand mortgages, food on the table, etc but if something impacted my morals I would not have kept quiet.
according to the article when O was a senator he was a committee member of the VA committee.....but he never attended any of the meetings. How can you help right something is you are so disinterested you can't go to the meetings to see what is wrong? I realize this problem is decades old but for Pete's sake when you say you will do something do it. Don't no show meetings then criticise everyone from Moses to Darth Vadar for the everyone else's failure.
every 10 o 20yrs the us has to involve some kind of wars in order to sell or get rids of their weapons. do u think that only collect of taxes can afford the spending of our budget?
It takes some real stones to be one of the former heads of the agency when it was going badly off the rails and say that someone ELSE is not taking responsibility. Having said that, the VA is just overwhelmed. The number of new patients went up by more than 100% while the number of new doctors only went up by 9%. I think some of the new proposals by both sides to allow vets to go to non-VA hospitals shows some merit.
First off Mr. Rove for 2005/6 Obama would have been a junior member of the Senate majority VA committee where " awe shucks" he criticizes, does not demand resignation or impeachment of Nicholson who resigns himself in 2007. From 2006 to 2008 Obama was technically part of a minority committee, but he campaigned on better care for vets. I humbly suggest that was a pre-emptive bully pulpit far more effective than sitting a still junior member of minority committee.... how many republicans don't attend committees.... this is pathetic rhetoric and pure nonsense politics.
-also pass total gun-ban laws. Desperate here. Don't listen to NRA thugs.
You cant try to improve the VA until those lying administrators that created fraudulent lists are terminated! Sander and Reid should allow a Senate vote on the House Bill HR 4031!
Just like a poster written above the VA has been the brunt of jokes since before WWII..Some say the doctors were med school rejects that were allowed to practice on injured vets.. Some including my father who served in WWII said they actually experimented doing new procedures not yet approved on injured vets some never recovering ..So don't blame Pres.Obama for something that's been going on for decades and never taken care of ..In stead of pointing fingers and blaming just fix it,plain,simple...
Obama then (2009)..."We're going to challenge each of our 57 regional VA offices to come up with the best ways of doing business, of harnessing the best information technologies, of cutting red tape and breaking through the bureaucracy. And then we're going to fund the best ideas and put them into action, all with a simple mission: cut those backlogs, slash those wait times, deliver your benefits sooner. (Applause.) I know you've heard this for years, but the leadership and resources we're providing this time means that we're going to be able to do it. That is our mission, and we are going to make it happen"
Obama now......(Crickets)
Former Veterans Affairs chief Jim Nicholson seems to ignore that this was occurring on his watch as well.
Nicholson was a lap dog for Bush and Satan while they disemboweled the V.A.
It seems to me the defenders of President Obama have a common theme. It's the republicans fault. It's George Bush's fault. It never seems to be the president's fault.
A report released to the press targeting the Obama administration by a doctor working for the inspector general says Va workers are murdering vets by shredding their appointment and putting their names on death lists.
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is this the same Jim Nicholson that was in charge when the VA had rats infesting the VA hospital in Virginia and the dirty deplorable conditions in every other VA hospital because of poor management and top Bonus money paid to the administrators that saved the most money under the GW Bush plan that was in charge when the VA .
Yes , the same Jim Nicholson , why ?
I dont recall pres bush blaming clinton for everything that happened on his watch..he took responsibility..even when hilary voted FOR the war, she gets NO blame...
Obama never takes responsibility for anything.
Osama bin Laden might disagree with you on that !
Jim Nicholson had to resign as Veterans Affairs chief in 2007 due to his poor handling of the VA. He's pissed that Obama criticized him back then. Now he's using this opportunity to strike back which is so evident as he throws in a little extra hate for the health care law. My goal here is not to defend Obama in this unfortunate fiasco (he should share the blame) but to point out the greater level of hypocrisy and uselessness coming from the right.
And where was our former VA Secretary while this was going on on his watch? Is he also taking no responsibility for this? Theres blame enough to go around for a whole bunch of people, and not just the current President. I guess we could do what they did with Cromwell in England several hundred years ago. Dig up all the former presidents who ignored this and mount their heads on pikes. Would that make everybody happy? Easier then fixing the problem.
Hillary voted for the war because Bush and Cheney et al lied to Congress and to the American people about Iraq and WMD. Bush did not blame Clinton because Clinton left a good economy and Bush destroyed it. The economy was not going down the tubes until Bush put 2 wars and tax cuts on a credit card. There were several embassy attacks during Bush's time and over 60 people died. No investigations from Congress. One attack during Obama administration, 4 people die and how much time and many millions are spent on investigations? Did any of these articles bother to mention that the Republicans in the House and in the Senate have done everything to CUT funding for embassy security and for the VA hospitals? Maybe some of the rage expressed here needs to be directed at those who caused the problem. Obama cannot demand the money and have it show up – Congress still needs to approve it. Unfortunately, under Bush the democrats never stood up to him or tried to block all the insane things he did. If the democrats had shown some spine we would not be in the mess we are in now.
And by the way – the only way experimental procedures are used is if they have been tested in animals and then they are used as a last resort on people who have no chance of survival – then experimental procedures are seen as that one last chance.


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Dear Margo: I have been dating a wonderful man for four months now. He is very kind and sweet in every way. We are much in love and happy together. There is only one problem: We are different religions.
I am a Christian; he is agnostic. I have invited him to church, and in four months, he has accepted twice. He is adamant about me not pushing my religion on him. My faith is very important to me and has made me who I am today.
I want a man who will share my faith and stand beside me in my church. I know that down the road, our moral differences will ensure arguments. He has mentioned marriage a few times, which makes me so happy, and yet scared at the idea of being committed to a marriage that is "unequally yoked."
Should I end this relationship before we disappoint each other, or should I wait to see whether the seeds I have planted get a chance to grow? — Waiting for Jacob
Dear Wait: Since you and this lovely man are not oxen, I, of course, had to find out what being "yoked" referred to.
Paul, in 2 Corinthians 6:14, says, "Be not unequally yoked with unbelievers." This would seem to be your fella, rather specifically. And he is not exactly of "a different religion." More precisely, he believes in no religion.
Regarding growing the seeds, I have a hunch nothing would sprout, given his thinking. As sad as it makes me because you say you are much in love and happy together, I think your religious commitment would, indeed, make you "unequally yoked," and therefore, you should probably end it. — Margo, regrettably
Dear Margo: I am a 16-year-old girl, adopted at a year old by a loving, wonderful family. About five years ago, I became reacquainted with my birth father's side of the family, including my younger sister.
I love our visits and recently flew down to my native state and stayed for two weeks.
My sister, at first, was thrilled to see me and was oozing sweetness. However, as time passed, her affection for me turned to dislike and then to hatred. She was so jealous of my blossoming relationship with my birth father (her father) that she was mean, sarcastic, bossy and violent.
I mentioned this to her father and his family. Their reaction? "Ignore her. She's jealous. Don't let it bother you." I felt like nobody was listening to how hurt I was. I tried numerous times to tell them how I felt but was brushed off. I decided I was done putting up with my sister after she slammed my leg with the car door, requiring six stitches. I left a few days later.
My birth father has expressed how much he loves me and how he doesn't want his other daughter's treatment of me to affect our relationship. His failure to control or discipline her, however, really put me off. Honestly, I went home not knowing whether I truly needed these people in my life. I know that the way his daughter treated me shouldn't affect our relationship, as he is a sweet man.
How can I express to him my despair at how my visit went without burning bridges? — Confused and Upset
Dear Con: It sounds to me as though you did express your despair, but were not heard. I agree with you that your birth father's not dealing with the jealous sister shows a lack of control, or at least will.
There is jealousy, and then there is jealousy expressed by causing a need for stitches. Totally unacceptable.
I would tell your birth father that you want to be in touch with him, but you don't think there will be any visits from you in the near future. Leave the door open.
And the good news is that your actual family is "loving and wonderful." — Margo, honestly
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On New Year's Eve, the Neosho United Methodist Church Christian Life Center will host an alternative to ringing in the New Year.
On New Year's Eve, the Neosho United Methodist Church Christian Life Center will host an alternative to ringing in the New Year.
"This (party) is to give an alternative to children, young people, from going out of town, they can stay here in town and (have) a safe environment," said Rhonda Sexton Neosho United Methodist Church New Life Center director.
The event will be held from 7 p.m. to 1 a.m., with formal attire suggested, and is free of charge.
"There will be plenty of parental chaperones and parents are invited to stay as well,"
Sexton said. "We want everyone to come."
There will be refreshments, including finger foods, but no alcohol will be served. Some games, including karaoke, will be provided.
"We are going to make a big dance floor," said Sexton. "We are going to try to recreate Times Square in New York. We will have our own ball to drop at midnight."
Sexton also noted that the center will pipe-in the "Dick Clark Rockin' New Year's Eve"
onto the PowerPoint screen. The church's middle youth and high school youth are putting on the program.
"So we will celebrate with them at 11 p.m. (our time) and then again at 12 o'clock," Sexton said.
Currently, there are 25 people who have signed up for the event. Sexton is hoping to have 50 people or more show up.
This is the first time the center has hosted this type of event. Sexton noted The Bridge in Joplin is offering something similar to this, but it costs.
"This (the center's event) is just a good thing for young people to be able to participate in, because it is something safe and fun," said Sexton. "And it encourages them to bring their friends and have a good time."
For more information, contact the United Methodist Church Christian Life Center at 451-2324.
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Day 3 - Wednesday Morning Sessions
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Continuing my post-week coverage of the [Data Center 2010 conference], Wednesday morning started with another keynote session, followed by some break-out sessions.
The show floor closed after Wednesday's lunch, so many people made their last attempts to meet the folks at the booth.
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Friday, June 10, 2011
What is the value of research?
Robert Hofmeister tries to give research some value. The approach is to consider the scientific process through cohorts, where each wave provides fundamental research as well as end-applications based on previous fundamental research. A particular research results thus can have a return over many generations. It is an interesting way to properly attribute the intellectual source of a new product or process, but the exercise is of little value if it is not possible to quantify the social value of the end-application. Indeed, Hofmeister goes back to using citations in Economics for a data application, which is equivalent to evaluate research only within the scientific community. In terms of the stated goal of the paper, we are back to square one. In terms of getting a better measure of citation impact, this is an interesting application of an old idea. And the resulting rankings of journals and articles look very much like those that are already available.
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The rankings I present fail to provide an ideal measure for several reasons. Lacking a measure for the value of end-applications is one problem, assuming that all references are equally important is another problem.
The main contribution of the paper, however, is not to provide a ranking but to outline how the value of research could, in principle, be measured in terms of social welfare. So the theoretical core element is really about connecting research to its impact on society.
In terms of having better metrics the paper provides only a minor improvement. In terms of getting towards more sensible metrics the paper might be an important starting point. If going through the paper, one should focus on the theoretical part (section 2) and not too much on the rankings which are only an illustrative exercise.
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FORWARD motor
Motor - is the motor name A or B.
Make a motor output turn forwards This is a 'pseudo' command designed for use by younger students with pre-assembled classroom models. It is actually equivalent to 'high 4 : low 5' (motor A) or 'high 6: low 7' (motor B).
This command is not normally used outside the classroom.
Demonstrate moving a motor forward, backwards and stopping.
main: forward A ; motor A on forwards
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Christmas party brawl leads to 7 L.A. County deputies being relieved of duty pending probe
A Christmas party for employees from Men's Central Jail turned ugly when a brawl broke out that resulted in seven Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies being relieved of duty pending an investigation, an official confirmed.
Roughly 100 guests were gathered Friday at the Quiet Cannon banquet hall in Montebello, where an argument led to violence, said sheriff's spokesman Steve Whitmore.
It's unclear if alcohol was involved, but "it was a Christmas party, one could assume there was," Whitmore said.
No gunshots were fired but deputies may have been armed, he said.
"Deputies that have their badges also have guns, so that will certainly be looked at," he said.
At least two people were mildly to moderately injured, Whitmore said. Seven deputies were relieved of duty with pay this week, pending an internal criminal investigation.
Montebello police may have been called out, but no arrests have been made yet, Whitmore said. Relatives may have been at the Christmas party, but only deputies were involved in the brawl, Whitmore said.
"This investigation will go wherever the evidence leads," he said.
Strip-club manager shot in robbery
3 pedestrians killed by Amtrak train identified
Distracted driving at 'epidemic' level, says Glendale mayor
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