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Yesterday I talked about how many illustrators dabbled in album cover art.
Over thelast few years I'v sifting through many record bins at thrift shops and flea markets. I've come across many great record jackets and been pleasantly surprised to discover the signature of some illustrator I'm familiar with. Here are few from my collection...
Saturday Evening Post cover artist, Constantin Alajalov
Jan Balet, illustrator of several children's books and countless magazine articles and covers.
Magazine illustrator Lorraine Fox. (I've been wanting to write about Lorraine Fox for a very long time but never had any good information about her. Thanks to Matt Dicke that changed recently, so Fox will be featured on TI some time very soon.)
Bob Jones, illustrator of many magazine stories, paperbacks and greeting cards, Mad magazine cover artist and creator of the Esso Tiger mascot. When I asked Bob about this album cover he had absolutely no memory of ever doing it. He told me, "If I didn't see my signature in the corner I wouldn't believe this was my work!"
Sheilah Beckett - whom Bob Jones felt he was hired to replace at the Charles E. Cooper studio in the 1950s after Sheilah moved on.
Pete Hawley, famous for his delicious Jantzen swimsuit ad ladies - and then later for countless super cute kiddies for American Greeting Cards.
Al Parker (need I say more?)
Something you're not likely to see every day: an album cover by Robert Weaver! I was pretty surprised when I found this for a quarter at a local flea market.
Don Weller One of my most recent finds.
I asked Greg Newbold, who knows Don personally, to ask him about his album cover art. Greg graciously did so - and you can read Don's remarks at Greg's blog
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Album Covers by Famous Illustrators
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Thank you so much for this focus on album covers - I collect record albums and I've always admired a lot of the art on them and wanted to know about the artists. Album covers seemed an area (like book covers) where artists seemed to have wider discretion in what they created and produced work that was more "art" than straight "illustration", many so beautiful I want to frame them. Thanks for more fantastic inspiration!ReplyDelete
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Mary-Kate Olsen and Ashley Fuller Olsen (born June 13, 1986), also known as the Olsen twins collectively, are American actresses, fashion designers and producers. The identical twins made their acting debut as infants playing Michelle Tanner on the television series Full House. At the age of six, they began starring together in TV, film, and video projects, which continued to their teenage years. Through their company Dualstar, the Olsens joined the ranks of the wealthiest women in the entertainment industry at a young age.
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Oakland Heritage Alliance "Great Estates In April" Home Tour
Oakland Heritage Alliance
Saturday, April 20, 2013 from 1:00 PM to 8:00 PM (PDT)
Event Details
Oakland Heritage Alliance Presents
Great Estates in April
A Claremont Pines and Upper Rockridge Home Tour
April 20, 2013
The Oakland Heritage Alliance's popular house tours are back! Scheduled for Saturday, April 20th, the "Great Estates In April" tour features Claremont Pines and Upper Rockridge, which emerged as suburban garden developments in the first decades of the twentieth century. This tour offers a rare opportunity to view splendid examples of Tudor and Mediterranean revival style homes, including residences designed by some of Oakland's most distinguished architects, William Schirmer and Geoffrey Bangs. This year, OHA offers a new twist – two different tours to fit your schedule and your pocketbook.
Vintage Vistas, 1-4 pm
Afternoon tour offers the opportunity to view home interiors and enjoy light refreshments. Put on your walking shoes and explore the neighborhood! We will provide a street map for a self-guided walking tour to better enjoy exterior views of additional homes, vistas, and local landscaping. This tour offers the opportunity to study the eclectic architecture in a neighborhood that sprang back to life after the devastating 1991 Oakland hills fire.
Advance Purchase: $30/OHA members, $35/general.
On-site Admission: $35/OHA members, $40/general.
Sunset Over the City, 5-8 pm
Festive evening tasting tour features music with libations and appetizer pairings at tour homes. Enjoy leisurely socializing with OHA members, homeowners, neighbors, architecture experts and professionals at this multi-venue reception experience benefiting OHA.
- Live MUSIC with the Verge jazz trio and pianists Suzy Bohling and Richard Bruehl.
- Delicious FOOD sponsored by Village Market catering
- WINES sponsored by Terrace Cafe
- Access to "Vintage Vistas" day tour from 1-4 p.m.
Advance purchase & On-site Admission: $75/OHA members, $95/general.
On-site purchase and advance purchase check-in on April 20th begins at 12:30 pm at St. Peter's Anglican Church, 6013 Lawton Avenue, Oakland, CA 94618.
Parking: parking in the neighborhood is limited. Un-metered street parking is available on Broadway and nearby side streets. The parking lot at St. Peter's Anglican Church may be used after 3:30 PM.
The Oakland Heritage Alliance Home Tour is a fundraising event that supports our public education and preservation advocacy mission throughout the year - thank you for your generous participation!
Questions? Contact the OHA office at 510-763-9218 or email@example.com.
When & Where
St. Peter's Anglican Church
6013 Lawton Ave.
Saturday, April 20, 2013 from 1:00 PM to 8:00 PM (PDT)
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DERWA JPA Meeting - Cancelled
- Date: 11/25/2019 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
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Due to personal circumstances, we are not in a position to offer Summer Camps in 2018
"Robots are the next big thing and the current state of the robot industry resembles the PC industry 30 years ago"− Bill Gates, Microsoft
"Having worked for many years with children of various abilities myself I would happily recommend Colmac Robotics and their interactive, fun, approach to learning to anyone..."− Leone, Mayo
"Robots can - and will - change our lives"− Mark W. Tilden, Robot Physicist
"It has given him a real interest in technology. It's possibly the start of a journey towards his future career!"− Mark, Dublin
"Before the end of this century, 70 percent of today's occupations will be automated"− Kevin Kelly, Wired.com
"It has greatly improved her confidence... more importantly she doesn't see it as something only boys do!"− Sandra, Dublin
"There is a flickering spark in us all which, if struck at just the right age... can light the rest of our lives."− President Ronald Reagan
Welcome Colmac Robotics
President Ronald Reagan once said: "There is a flickering spark in us all which, if struck at just the right age… can light the rest of our lives." Our robotics workshops provide the perfect environment for children of all ages and abilities to explore the endless possibilities of robotics and engineering.
Creativity, imagination, teamwork and innovation are all actively encouraged to ensure your children have the skills required to design the world of tomorrow!
Why Robotics?
It's simple – Kids want to learn about robotics! Robots are cool and interesting and by designing them, you learn several different skills; computer aided design, electronic and mechanical engineering, physics, computer science, maths and practical skills.
We provide a platform that allows children to learn these skills in a fun and stimulating environment. Bill Gates has said that robotics are the future, we want Ireland to be a part of that future.


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Jason M necesitaba un nuevo diseño de página web y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 89 diseños de 26 diseñadores freelance.
We require a redesign of an existing websites landing page (http://www.rentalvaluation.com.au).
The service works in the following way.
1. The user visiting the site provides information about a property they are thinking of purchasing, or currently own.
2. On submission of this information, we produce and email to the client a report which contains information in relation to that rental property, such as comparative recent rentals that meet the same criteria, as well as generic property related information and data in the same area as the one submitted by the user.
Key objectives of the website are:
- Appeal to PROPERTY INVESTORS looking at maximising returns on investment.
- Showcase and communicate the value proposition provided by the report that we provide. The home page needs to make the user feel that they NEED TO GET ONE OF THESE REPORTS (without being too pushy or making overconfident claims of course).
As you will see from the existing site, there is no menu. The one and only purpose of the landing page is to encourage people to request a report. New design needs to cater to and strengthen this singular objective.
The site targets existing and potential real estate investors that rent their property out for investment return. This target group can be broken into 2 sub groups:
1. Investors considering the purchase of an investment property, and want to know what sort of return the property might provide them.
2. Existing Landlords wanting to know or confirm what sort of returns they should be receiving for their investment.
- Professional. Credible. Eye Catching. Memorable. Smart
- Use of common system fonts where possible so we can do text based rather than graphic based for SEO purposes.
- Sites landing page needs to entice people to request a report.. by making the report look valuable, and making the request form look very simple and quick to complete.
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Well, of course famed movie rip-off artists The Asylum were going to take on Pacific Rim, and of course their attempt would be called Atlantic Rim. What I wasn't expecting that it would look actually kinda good.
Okay, not good, exactly — especially not after today's new Pacific Rim trailer — but good for the Asylum, that's for sure. Here's the real question: Do the giant robots in this thing look like Chinese bootleg toy robots on purpose, or is it just a happy coincidence? Because if it's the former, that's genuinely brilliant.


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City of GlendoraHome Menu
Maintenance and Operations
The Streets Division performs, or oversees, such services as street sweeping, asphalt and concrete repairs, traffic signs and striping, and storm drain maintenance.
- Alley Sweeping
- Curb, Gutter and Sidewalk
- Graffiti Removal
- Potholes and Asphalt
- Procedures and Guidelines for the Possible Installation of Speed Humps
- Signage
- Striping Legends
It is the mission of the Streets Division to provide the highest quality street maintenance services to the citizens of Glendora. Our scope of work includes the following; weekly street sweeping, , monthly alley and public parking lot sweeping, sign maintenance, striping and legend application to streets, curb address application, curb painting, graffiti abatement response, sidewalk maintenance, curb and gutter maintenance, transfer drain maintenance, and asphalt repair (potholes, patching, utility cut repairs).


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Qt 4.5 to Dramatically Improve QtWebKit and QGraphicsView Through Animations and Speed Ups
At Akademy 2008 in Belgium, Qt developers Simon Hausmann and Andreas Aardal Hanssen announced dramatic improvements in the web browser engine in Qt and the canvas that is used by, for example, the Plasma desktop shell. Video support, animations and transitions, optimisations to speed up painting and animations, and new graphical effects open up nearly endless new possibilities for developers to present their user interfaces with. Read on for more details.
Reflecting a video in QtWebKit
Hausmann demonstrated a WebKit based Konqueror web browser displaying video content through the HTML 5 video tag. With only one line of HTML code, video content in Ogg format can be embedded in webpages. Style elements can then display reflections of this video widget. Naturally, the underlying multimedia engine used in QtWebKit for showing video content is KDE's Phonon multimedia layer. Animations will also be possible. By adding simple CSS properties to your webpage elements, you can animate, rotate and fade those elements. Writing rich and animated webpages and of course embedded web content in applications becomes a breeze with QtWebkit.
After Simon's demo of QtWebkit, Andreas Aardal Hanssen entered the stage to show some of the improvements that will be in Qt 4.5 which will be released later this year or in early 2009. After Qt 4.4 brought the goodness of widgets-on-canvas and lots of optimisations that especially speed up Plasma, more breakthroughs in the development of Qt's graphics canvas are coming up. Speed-ups of up to 40 times faster in some cases go along with a set of really nice additions that are unparalleled in today's toolkits and can only be dreamt of in competing offerings. Improvements that will be available in Qt 4.5 include:
Hausmann's and Hanssen's future plans for those components in Qt have been met enthusiastically by the KDE developers. Soon, these new features and optimisations will be available to KDE users around the Free world.
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> he posted here didn't he?
A very good point. ;)
Most developers I've talked to say they ignore dot comments these days because of all the flames.
Incidentally, the khtml group is very active on irc. I guess they need to put out press releases too? That seems to be the way to work these days. Although anything they say will instantly get bogged down in flames. :P
By A. L. Spehr at Thu, 2008/08/14 - 5:00am
When is the "hideable panel" back?
For want of a better place to put this, and so it gets any attention it can, I really need the "hideable panel", and cant really switch back to kde without it, so I'm using gnome for now, but I always used to use kde, and I REALLY like the new 4.1, but kinda-sorta-really-need that (configurable...) "hideable" thing happening...?? - (Great job though, everyone!)
By r. l. at Mon, 2008/08/11 - 5:00am
Don't like KDE 4.x so I must use Gnome
I don't understand this. Why not just use KDE 3.5.x?
By T. J. Brumfield at Mon, 2008/08/11 - 5:00am
Re: Don't like KDE 4.x so I must use Gnome
Could be a[n] Ubuntu/Kubuntu user. Their packagers considered KDE 3.5 "antiquated" and dropped every KDE 3.5 component with a KDE 4.x equivalent as of Intrepid Ibex.
By Stephan Sokolow at Sun, 2008/11/16 - 6:00am
Re: When is the "hideable panel" back?
"hidable panel" is the most annoying feature ever, I hope it never gets implemented so I never have to use a PC that uses this lame feature. It's just so annoying to see the panel appear and disappear all the time when I just want to use it.
By Lisz at Mon, 2008/08/11 - 5:00am
Re: When is the "hideable panel" back?
Some users like it. As long as you can turn it off, it's better to have it than not to. If you have to use a PC with it turned on, just turn it off and turn it on again when you leave (if you don't have your own user account).
By Grósz Dániel at Mon, 2008/08/11 - 5:00am
Re: When is the "hideable panel" back?
I'm sorry to derail this fine thread, but this argumentation is beyond retarded. First of all, no distribution I know turns on hideable panels by default. It's an option strictly for the people who feel that they want to use the panel occasionaly but need the extra screen space otherwise. Nobody "forces" you to use it other than yourself. Plus, can anybody get more self-centered by proclaiming that your special dislike for one feature should be forced onto a whole community of users, especially if it's not even a fringe case?
Or you are just trolling and I should stop feeding you. :-/
By Erunno at Mon, 2008/08/11 - 5:00am
Re: When is the "hideable panel" back?
He's obviously trolling but this is somehow what the "hiding panel complainers" deserve, cause they're doing so much ado for a feature used by a minority of users (and in NO WAY blocker for a KDE release).
By Vide at Mon, 2008/08/11 - 5:00am
well, that's my problem with KDE4..
a lot of 'features used by a minority of users' where cut and not reintroduced, especially the many things that made KDE3 so lovely for power users (f.e. interface short cuts saving two three clicks/key presses on every file action, compared to windows, packing the panel full of features without sacrificing a pixel to white space)...
By Marcel Partap at Wed, 2008/08/13 - 5:00am
Re: well, that's my problem with KDE4..
"a lot of 'features used by a minority of users' where cut and not reintroduced"
By Anon. at Wed, 2008/08/13 - 5:00am
Re: When is the "hideable panel" back?
It depends on how large your panel is and how you use it.
By reihal at Mon, 2008/08/11 - 5:00am
Re: When is the "hideable panel" back?
I'm not a fan of the panel hiding feature, but one increasingly important use case for having a panel that can be hidden is on UMPCs like the Asus eeePC and the new crop of UMPCs. These machines have screen resolutions around 1024x600 and every pixel is precious. A hideable panel gives more extra vertical space, even if it might be a bit annoying.
Tom-with-the-Acer-One here at akademy yesterday showed me his work-around for this problem. Remove the panel and add the k-menu and taskbar to the desktop itself at the bottom.
Nice machine too, I've got one ordered for the wife. 8-)
By Simon Edwards at Mon, 2008/08/11 - 5:00am
Re: When is the "hideable panel" back?
"I'm not a fan of the panel hiding feature, but one increasingly important use case for having a panel that can be hidden is on UMPCs like the Asus eeePC and the new crop of UMPCs. These machines have screen resolutions around 1024x600 and every pixel is precious."
True. Another important feautre to have in those machines is the MacOS-type menubar. Instead of wasting space by having each app have a separate menubar, there would be just one universal menubar.
If I were asked, the MacOS-menubar would be enabled by default in KDE: At least that would eliminate most of the "KDE is a copy of Windows!"-whining...
By Janne at Mon, 2008/08/11 - 5:00am
Re: When is the "hideable panel" back?
Speaking of hiding menu bars - I have for years and years wanted to "reimplement" the AmigaOS menubar in KDE. Unlike the MacOS menubar that is constantly there, the AmigaOS menubar only pops up when you press the right mousebutton. While you have this mouse button pressed, you can move around in the menues, click entries, set and unset checkmarks with left mousebutton - and once you release the right mousebutton, all actions you have clicked will be executed, in the order you pressed - this is what we old amiga users call "multiselect in menues", and that noone else seem to have implemented - ever, sadly.
I miss this very much in f.ex image processing programs that tend to have long and deep menues. For every action I have to wade through the menues over and over again, instead of just go once. Instead I want to go to menu, click blur, click resize, click save, let go of menu button, see it blur, resize popup coming up, enter new size, press OK, file saved, all done by going through menues only once.
Anyways, a start would be to let KDE be able to hide panels, and assign hotkeys for them to pop up - my hotkey would ofcourse be the right mousebutton.
This also brings me to another thing I miss - complete control over input modifiers, I want to define what happens when I click a file with certain modifier keys pressed, for example if I click a png I want it to open with kview (or other simple viewer), but if I click a png while holding down ALT-key, I want it to open in an editor, like f.ex gimp. To be able to define actions for click, double click and even tripple click would be most welcome - yes "most users" will never need them, I know. I hate "most users", they ruin it for the rest of us :P
Likewice, I want to be able to define what drag&drop does with modifiers, f.ex I might want to drag&drop of image files while holding a key converts all files to pngs in the destination.
I also miss the ability to assign certain commands to certain directories, so that if I f.ex have a directory with images (album), I can set it to open with kview instead of just opening it in the file browser (the default tool tooltype, for those who know amigaos)
While I'm on this wishlist - it would be excellent to have the desktop and the default filebrowser (dolphin) act as one, ideally (IMO), the desktop itself should be dolphin.
By kolla at Wed, 2008/08/13 - 5:00am
Re: When is the "hideable panel" back?
I prefer the NeXTSTEP Tear off menus that allow for saved state and auto change between applications while allowing for maximum Vertical Space..
By Marc Driftmeyer at Wed, 2008/08/13 - 5:00am
Re: When is the "hideable panel" back?
Thank you for the useful tip, (I am the one who started this whole conversation...!) I appreciate that. All the best!
By r. l. at Tue, 2008/08/12 - 5:00am
Re: When is the "hideable panel" back?
Oooops! I pressed the wrong "reply-to-this" button, Sorry! this comment was meant for the post above!
By r. l. at Tue, 2008/08/12 - 5:00am
Re: When is the "hideable panel" back?
this has been gone over a number of times already
By borker at Mon, 2008/08/11 - 5:00am
First of all, very cool article. As I mentioned in this talk, 4.5 is going to be great. However I feel a minor correction is in place - we're researching animations, transitions, and effects, but these feature are not yet tied to any roadmap nor release target date (in the talk I believe I said "4.5, 4.6, 4.7, we'll see once we know more").
In any case, the future is looking very bright IMHO.
By Andreas Aardal ... at Mon, 2008/08/11 - 5:00am
Re: Corrections
I've clarified this in the article now.
By Jonathan Riddell at Mon, 2008/08/11 - 5:00am
Does it scale down?
Qt is big on the embedded scene, where the hardware isn't necessarily this week's Dell XPS. Are there performance improvements for slower CPUs and low end video cards?
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LOWELL – City Manager Bernie Lynch, in a surprise development, announced his resignation Tuesday night during the first meeting of a new City Council, the makeup of which had left in doubt whether Lynch would have been offered a new deal later this year when his current pact was set to expire.
Lynch, who has served as city manager for almost 7 1/2 years and has been credited with vastly improving the city's finances, told the council his resignation will be effective March 10 at noon.
"While there is much work ahead in the cementing the progress that has been made, I believe I have largely accomplished the goals that I set out on July 31, 2006, when I was sworn in as city manager," Lynch read to the council from a resignation letter dated Jan. 3.
"With a new City Council in place, I believe it is a good time for me to pursue other endeavors and for the city to move to a new period."
Lynch had placed on the meeting agenda a request for a private session for the council "to discuss contract negotiations with the city manager," which councilors and City Solicitor Christine O'Connor thought would be about a new contract.
The council voted 8-1 to hold the session in public, which is when Lynch made his announcement.
Lynch, who recently moved to the city's downtown, told The Sun afterward he made the decision to step down "a little while ago," though he did not provide an exact timetable.
In his letter to the council, Lynch said he has been fortunate to work with "a great team of department heads" who helped the city succeed in the areas of finances, operations and economic development.
"I hope the greatest accomplishment is people have been able to see the merit of professional government, looking with a long-term perspective, dealing with things in a neutral fashion and really looking out for the citizens in a way that treats them all the same," Lynch said in an interview.
Lynch, who is earning a salary of $179,856, said he has no plans for the future at this time. The City Council will decide in the coming days how to proceed with seeking its next city manager.
Following November's election, which saw four new councilors elected – Corey Belanger, James Milinazzo, Daniel Rourke and William Samaras – there was a split over whether the new council should offer Lynch a new contract.
Councilor Edward Kennedy, Belanger and Rourke said they opposed contracts for the city manager's position, while newly elected Mayor Rodney Elliott was opposed to offering Lynch a new contract because of what he called poor performance, including several scandals in city departments.
Milinazzo, Samaras and Councilor Bill Martin had indicated they would support offering Lynch a new contract.
Councilor Rita Mercier said she was neutral on the matter, while Councilor John Leahy said he would consider offering Lynch a new deal.
Lynch's announcement left councilors surprised and some disappointed.
"It was very, very shocking," Belanger told The Sun. "I think it was for all of us. I just did not expect that. My intuition told me that by moving downtown, he would be interested in staying."
Samaras, who also was participating in his first meeting as a councilor, told The Sun he wish Lynch was staying on board.
"I was very disappointed," said Samaras. "I was ready for almost anything, but I was hoping that was not it."
Milinazzo, who helped negotiate Lynch's current deal when he was mayor in 2010, said he was disappointed he was not going to get to iron out another deal with Lynch. But like other councilors, he praised Lynch's time in Lowell.
"I think you, and the administration, and the City Councils you served with have brought the city forward," Milinazzo said.
Martin, who was the lone vote against a public session to discuss Lynch's contract, agreed.
"I think many of us having served with you would think the city will be in a better place because of your service," Martin said.
Both Elliott and Mercier acknowledged they had their differences with Lynch, but praised him for his work on the city's finances, with Elliott praising his efforts on the annual city budget.
"Overall, your financial skills were top notch," Mercier said.
"I wish you well," said Elliott, who led the charge for a public discussion of Lynch's future. "Some good things have certainly been done in the city."
Belanger, Kennedy and Leahy also publicly thanked Lynch for his fiscal efforts. The city has gone from being on a state Department of Revenue watch list to having strong bond ratings during his tenure.
Lynch's contract, which was set to expire July 31, called for him to notify the council at least 60 days in advance if he wished to terminate the pact early, which Tuesday's action does.
Under the contract, Lynch is entitled to receive his accrued vacation time, but no severance pay.
Lynch closed his resignation letter by thanking the residents of the city for their support during his service as manager.
"It has been a pleasure and honor to be the city manager of such an amazing and special community," Lynch said.
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This contestant on The Price Is Right won the "Most Expensive" game. Congratulations to her! She celebrated by tripping over the rug and falling facefirst into announcer George Gray.
We will forever have this screencap of her mid-tackle, also featuring Chrissy Teigen, mouth agape:
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The wind energy industry enjoys considerable growth potential. One of the largest manufacturers of wind turbines, Moventas, is ready to take full advantage of this situation – thanks also to investments in measuring technology from Carl Zeiss.
Several years ago, Moventas planned a new factory that should have the capacity to deliver thousands of planetary wheels annually. Prior to this, these components were manufactured in small batches manually and individually. Major changes were needed to take the next big step – the implementation of a serial process. A new quality management system, which would combine all tools and processes, was necessary. Taisto Kymäläinen, the responsible quality manager, and his team were tasked with conducting an in-depth analysis of internal processes and questioning all existing procedures. It also involved a price/performance comparison of all measuring machines and measuring solutions on the market. "When I saw the CenterMax coordinate measuring machine at Control 2006, I knew right away that it was the right solution for the Ikola plant," says Taisto Kymäläinen. With this in mind, he took Carl Zeiss on board as a solutions partner. Looking back, it is safe to say that the recently opened Ikola plant has far exceeded its planned production of planetary wheels.
The quality of the gears in the planetary wheels is vital to the energy efficiency and service life of the wind turbines. The raw material – large steel blocks – are first tempered before being transported to pre-machining using automated guided vehicles. A data matrix code is assigned to each part during initial machining. Following pre-machining, the gear wheels are transferred to the hardening area where it is always warm and cozy – even in the winter. This provides the surfaces of the gear wheels with an extra hard shell.
The next step is to grind the hardened gears. During run-in of the grinding process, the first parts are measured on a manually fed CenterMax directly on the shopfloor. Volume production can begin once the quality has been ensured and the process set up. During serial production, a gantry robot – automated, of course – transports the components to the next quality inspection station after grinding, where another CenterMax waits. The gantry robot then moves the gear wheels to the different processing stations, where the gears are cleaned and their tempered surfaces inspected using the Barkhausen noise method. Once again, it's off to quality inspection – and CenterMax.
The heavy gear wheel is then placed in a special fixture on the CenterMax. The measurement starts automatically. The measuring results are transmitted to a database via communication with the cell. Each part inspected by the CenterMax is first sent to larger, automated warehouse where it waits until it is integrated into the gearbox. Overall, the system is a perfect example of a standardized automated system. With additional demand expected, this area is prepared for the expansion of the master-slave system. Gear evaluation with GEAR PRO is a key element of quality improvement and it ensures stable production. Statistical data can also be captured to simplify future processing. With the transition to mass production and the measures implemented, Moventas is well-prepared to meet the challenges of the future.
The first transmission gears were manufactured around 70 years ago in Jyvaskyla, Finland, at a time when wind power was most likely still considered science fiction. Back then, Moventas produced gears for the paper industry. At the beginning of the 1980s, the company began building gearboxes for small wind turbines. The merger of Valmet, Santasalo and Parkano Gears in 2000 laid the foundation for Moventas. Today, Moventas is active around the globe and has around 1300 employees, 700 in Jyvaskyla.


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With sweeping views of Seven Seas Lagoon and Magic Kingdom from atop Disney's Contemporary Resort, the re-imagined California Grill features a new design inspired by mid-century modern California, and a new menu showcasing seasonal ingredients and a lighter touch. Known for its stellar wine list, the restaurant now boasts about 250 wine selections, 80 by the glass, an expanded sake list, eight kinds of craft beers and ciders and signature cocktails created by staff mixologists. Disney's Contemporary Resort is located at Walt Disney World Resort in Lake Buena Vista, Fla.
B-Roll: Food and Kitchen – California Grill, Disney's California Grill
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I'm trying to prove (or disprove) that in the set $C[0,1]$ of continuous (bounded) functions on the real interval [0,1] with the integral norm $\|f(x)\|_1 = \int_0^1|f(x)|dx$ that a sequence of functions $f_n$ is convergent to $f$ if and only if $f_n$ is pointwise-convergent to $f$.
My intuition tells me that this is true, but I'm having trouble formulating an attack (particularly for the convergence => pointwise convergence case). Given $\forall \epsilon > 0 \; \exists N \in \mathbb{N} \;$ $\forall n \geq N \; \int_0^1 |f_n(x) - f(x)|dx < \epsilon $, I'm trying to prove that for an arbitrary $x \in [0,1]$, $\forall \epsilon_0 > 0$ there is an $N_0$ such that for $n_0 \geq N_0 |f_{n_0}(x) - f(x)| < \epsilon_0$. I think I want to make $N_0$ somehow depend on the that integral (or a 'slice' of it), but I don't see it yet. Any pointers/advice/hints are welcome.


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Clarke wants Baggies to look ahead
Steve Clarke has stressed the importance of West Brom not standing still and the head coach is already planning to improve the squad for next season.
The Baggies have banished their reputation of being a yo-yo club between the top two divisions by guaranteeing a fourth successive campaign of Barclays Premier League football.
But Clarke knows eighth-placed Albion have to continue to look to strengthen ahead of the encounter with Arsenal at the Hawthorns.
He said: "We have been thinking about next season's plans since September last year. It's something we're always looking and thinking about, how we can improve what we have.
"We would like to think that's going to continue, but if you stand still in the Premier League, other teams come charging past you.
"It's important we don't stand still, it's important we look to improve the squad we have and give the players we've got a bit of help for next season.
"That's something we will endeavour to do between now and the kick-off of next season.
"Whether they are resolved early in the summer transfer window or whether we have to wait until July-August time, only time will tell."
An experienced football man, Clarke knows how the game works at the top level.
And, as a result, he believes Arsenal's current run without a trophy is just part of football's cycle of different teams enjoying periods of success.
He said: "Normal cycles are where you have periods at the top and then you have periods of not being at the top.
"At the moment, Chelsea aren't at the top either. They have slipped a couple of places down.
"It's just the way it is in football that, at different times, different clubs will be up there challenging and being the main one or two.
"Normally the Premier League boils down to two teams at the end of the season.
"This year it has boiled down to one (Manchester United) which is unusual and not so good for the competition, I don't think."
Baggies midfielder Youssouf Mulumbu will start a three-game ban for his sending-off at West Ham but Clarke has a ready-made replacement in James Morrison who has recovered from a hamstring injury.
Meanwhile, Nacho Monreal has revealed manager Arsene Wenger has given him an abundance of self-confidence since signing for Arsenal.
Wenger paid around #8.5million to bring the Malaga left-back to the Emirates in January and the 27-year-old has impressed in his short time at the club.
The Spain international has praised Wenger's positivity for helping him adapt to the Barclays Premier League.
"Since I've been here the manager has given me a lot of confidence and he's been starting me," he told Arsenal Player.
"This has been very important for me because it helps a lot to feel that the manager has faith in me, especially as I've just arrived. This in turn this leads to good performances.
"Everything has been challenging in different amounts, because the league is completely different to La Liga. Coming here and not speaking the language, being unable to communicate with my team-mates, is one of many difficult situations that is making me grow as a person and as a player."
Monreal spent two years at Malaga after establishing himself at Osasuna and his move to north London represents a first venture into club football away from Spain.
"It has been tough adapting to the type of football played here in England as the players are a lot more physical," he added.
"There's also a different style of play, as I've said before there's an emphasis on reaching your opponent's goal as quickly as possible. I've been here two months now and little by little I am adapting to this style of play. I am happy to be here.
"The worst change for me is the difference between a very hot town in the south of Spain and the freezing cold weather over here."
Monreal has overcome a knee injury and is likely to retain his place in Wenger's starting line-up.
England duo Jack Wilshere and Theo Walcott both have an outside chance of being fit for the Hawthorns clash.
Source: DSG
Source: DSG


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Cable television has been awfully good to acclaimed actresses of late (Glenn Close, Holly Hunter, etc.). So the fact that Debra Winger may be returning to the medium after three decades isn't a surprise. On the contrary, what took her so long? The 54-year-old "Terms of Endearment" star and three-time Oscar nominee is reported on the verge of joining HBO's "In Treatment." It would be her first TV role since playing Wonder Girl on "Wonder Woman" back in 1977. From Deadline.com:
Debra Winger is negotiating to play a regular role in the third series of the HBO dramatic series In Treatment. She will play a patient of Gabriel Byrne's psychotherapist character Paul. She's a former big star who is battling insecurity and fear about her career.
A former big star who is battling insecurity and fear about her career? My goodness, is Debra Winger's character based on Debra Winger? Why would she play such a meta part? I think we need to get Debra Winger in treatment, film it, and figure out why she's starring in "In Treatment."
"In Treatment" is a hard show to get into because it airs five nights a week (like a telenovela) during its run. The show has had trouble finding an audience despite awards and critical praise, so bringing in someone like Winger could help it get the footing it needs to become a bigger hit. It certainly won't be a dull affair.


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In this era of perpetual budget cuts, the state faces a strange new problem on the horizon: a big new pool of revenues that is likely to produce a big fight.
That pool of revenues is expected to result from the sale of allowances to produce greenhouse gases under Calfiornia so-called "cap and trade program." Cap and trade caps the amount of pollution available -- and then auctions off available rights to polluters.
A new report from the Legislative Analyst's Office examines how this will work -- and how the money may be spent. This would be a big, if volatile, pot of money -- at least $1 billion a year and perhaps as much as $14 billion in years.
U.S. & World
With so many interests and projects starved for cash, expect a war over the money to ensue. Gov. Jerry Brown already has vague proposals in his budget on how to spend it -- and has suggested that this might be one source of funds for phase one of the state's beleagued high-speed rail plan. But it's unclear if this money will be -- or even can be used -- for such purposes. The LAO suggests that if the money isn't used for greenhouse gases -- essentially to mitigate the same problem, climate change, that is the target of the fee itself -- it could be considered the sort of fee that requires a two-thirds of the legislature. And when two-thirds votes are required, nothing much happens in the California legislature.
The money could be used to shore up the beleaguered state budget -- and especially the general fund. But that's complicated too--because adding new revenues to the general fund could raise the Prop 98 education funding guarantee, allowing schools to gobble up some revenues. This is the trouble with adding new revenues into a broken budget system. It's not clear what the system will produce with such revenues.
Facing such complications, the best answer might be to send the money back to Californian citizens. That would put more money in the pocket of people in a recession, and it would be fair. We'll all pay higher prices for all kinds of goods and services that will have to be transformed in the name of reducing greenhouse gases. This refund could serve as a reimbursement.
Let us know what you think. Comment below, send us your thoughts via Twitter @PropZero or add your comment to our Facebook page.


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I am beginning to learn piano. To pep up my practising, I downloaded some sheet music for Waltzing Matilda
Then I noticed, at the same place, this:
Obviously it is the same music but needs to be played at half the speed of the first to result in the same performance. (I saw the same elsewhere marked "Moderato")
Is this commonplace or just used to simplify things for learners?
Is it possible to rewrite (say) a 12-bar blues tune in 24 bars, 6 bars, 4 bars and three bars that would be played identically?
Are bars totally arbitrary?


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MOVIE REVIEW- Nightmare snoozer: Freddy comes out of retirment, again
Forget about the plot, the actors and the director. What you require to make a new Nightmare on Elm Street are these three off-the-shelf sound effects:
1. A sudden, loud clanging noise mixed with a musical chord.
2. Snicker-snack sounds, which Freddy Krueger's steel finger claws make every time they are seen.
3. A voice deepener, to drop Freddy's speaking voice to an ominous level.
On top of that, you need your sudden cuts, your lighting from below, your thump-thump-thumps and of course a dog that barks at something unseen in the night, so that your teenage heroine can go out onto the lawn in bare feet and flimsy PJs and call, "Rufus! Rufus! Here, boy!" You know in your bones that Rufus is now checking into Doggie Heaven...


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From NPR: American Library Association, Barnes & Noble Called 'Facilitators Of Porn'
From NPR's The Two-Way: The American Library Association and Barnes & Noble were among the groups named by conservative group Morality in Media in its "Dirty Dozen List" of "the top 12 facilitators of porn." The list states that the ALA encourages libraries to have unfiltered computers, and that the bookstore chain "is a major supplier of adult pornography and child erotica."
The top spot, however, went to U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder for "refus[ing] to enforce existing federal obscenity laws."
Hat tip to Bobbie Newman @librarianbyday for the lead.
More on ALA Involvement
Friends on LISNews, I haven't written for a while, but now I have more on ALA involvement in this porn facilitation case.
Note, the ALA OIF has quickly responded to this matter as it has gone nationwide big time. In a comment to that response, I have challenged the OIF to a public debate. Anyone here think that might be interesting?
Since your arguments aren't based in reality and you don't answer question posed to you, it would not be interesting to hear you spout propaganda in the guise of debate.
ALA OIF Agrees
It appears ALA OIF agrees. It removed (censored?, denied my free speech?) my debate challenge from the American Libraires page.
Here's all it said. Anyone here think this should have been removed from American Libraries online?:
Dear Ms. Caldwell-Stone,
I hereby request a debate with you or the ALA OIF Director Barbara Jones on the issues that you raise here or on related issues. Yes, I am indirectly the reason the ALA is in the news as a porn facilitator that caused you to write this piece, but that only makes debate with me more interesting. We once both appeared on an NPR radio broadcast, and you/OIF have several times talked about me publicly when I was not present, but it is time we meet and talk face to face in a forum where people can learn from what we say. Perhaps at an ALA annual meeting, for example.
So what do you say, will you or a suitable alternate accept the challenge?
Thank you for your consideration.
I say it is uncool to pull the comment.
Right, and Thank You
Right, and thank you. That other anonymous is probably in the ALA's OIF justifying its action. ALA is all about free speech, equal access, and censorship. Given that, when it acts in a manner that goes against such values, that only hurts its own interests. ALA regularly drops only my comments or blocks only me from accessing its offerings, although I was able to participate in a FTRF webinar by Theresa Chmara yesterday. (It probably couldn't figure out the technical means for dropping only me from the webinar.) In addition to that, it regularly attacks me when I'm not present. I'm even in its Intellectual Freedom Manual as something I'm not. So the ALA OIF is simply intentionally spiking my message so it can continue to promote its own. That may be a typical thing people do, but its particularly egregious where the ALA holds itself out as some great champion of free speech. It is not. But librarians like Will Manley have already revealed that. Etc.
What you are basically saying is that if the ALA OIF bought a billboard advertisement that your free speech rights include being able to post your own counter message on their space. Nope. ALA pays for the website and they can pick who or what is posted on it. End of story. And since you are a known ALA OIF troll, it makes it a very simple decision.
Now, if ALA was trying to stop you from posting on your own blog, then they would have gone too far. But you clearly don't understand the limitations of free speech which includes forcing people to listen to your message on their property.
But here is where your billboard analogy if off. ALA OIF did not have a billboard. They had a website with a COMMENTS section. Safe libraries left a COMMENT and then it was deleted. If the COMMENT was vile I could see removing it. But the only problem with the COMMENT seemed to be that it did not agree with ALA OIF.
Why have a comments section when you do not want comments?
Isn't the fix to bad speech, MORE SPEECH? Why did they not respond with SPEECH? They responded by removing the comment.
You're either missing or ignoring my point. They can allow whatever they want for comments. This includes removing it. Since SafeLibraries has a long history of link spamming and trolling behaviors, they are within their rights to remove the comment.
Yes they have the RIGHT to remove the comment. Just like libraries have a RIGHT to filter Internet porn. Question is whether they exercise the right. Do we really like when a supposedly free speech group removes comments just because they do not like the content?
And Even Worse
Thanks, Anonymous 2. Anonymous 1, likely from the ALA OIF, won't stop repeating the same false information that amounts to ad hominem argument.
My comment was just about as polite and friendly as one could get. It was even of public interest as I bet the silent majority of librarians would like someone to speak truth to power. Yet it was removed. The OIF Blog removes comments regularly -- I've never seen it removed before from American Libraries, although American Libraries has changed quotes to make them appear to say the opposite of what they did.
But even worse about the comment removal is that OIF knows, American Libraries knows, my reporting is the very reason why Morality in Media placed ALA on its Dirty Dozen List. I reported, for example, that Ernest Istook, the author of the Children's Internet Protection Act, revealed that the ALA OIF is intentionally misleading a third of American communities into leaving their children exposed to the very harm the law can legally curtail. And the ALA, along with Library Journal, refused to report that.
So literally the only regular source of news that is critical of the ALA is me.
And the ALA cut out my comment. Even after cutting out the CIPA story. It borders on Orwellian, or worse.
And the ALA cut out the very reason we are here writing about ALA porn facilitation policy in the first place. If it had sway at LISNews, these comments would disappear as well. THANK YOU LISNEWS FOR FREE SPEECH!
Given ALA's supposed love of free speech and equal access, this behavior of the ALA in silencing me is especially egregious, given the circumstances as I just stated.
Biased as Always
Biased reporting is not journalism. American Libraries and Library Journal have no obligation to reprint stories from dubious sources. And since you regularly interpret debate as attacks, there is no reason to take you serious for anything you write ever. You do not allow yourself be questioned so there cannot be a debate.
You're not being silenced. You have your soapbox still. You're just mad that you can't say what you want to say where you want to say it. Your persecution complex is growing just like when you got kicked off of Wikipedia. No one is out to get you. All of these bad things are on your head.
Ignorance is Your Religion
You really don't understand the concept of free speech. It doesn't allow you to wander the world and demand that people listen to you. You don't have the right to enter any venue just so you can spout off whatever is on your mind. This also includes websites; why should the ALA provide a venue for you to link to your bogus material or announce your dubious challenges? Free speech isn't forcing someone else to listen to your crap nor is it their prerogative to provide you with one. You still have your website and no one is trying to shut that down.
You could call it censorship, but then your own arguments are invalid when it comes to community policing the content of its own public libraries. Using your own flimsy arguments, they just simply removed content that was not consistent with their community values. See, that's not censorship. Go on, argue how it's censorship in this case but not censorship when it comes to public library content. You can't. You just can't. But go on and try since it just unravels your own position.
Gun nuts
Ever see a gun nut on the news spouting about the 2nd amendment? Librarians are like gun nuts with the first amendment. Just like with the 2nd amendment we need common sense regulation of the first amendment.
You are not Benjamin Franklin because you back the rights of some perv to sit and surf porn in the library.
It's a slippery slope of indicting speech that one doesn't like as 'offensive' and asking for it to be removed. That includes pornography, but recent events show how it seeps out to religious, hobby, and other websites being blocked as well. It's people like yourself who think they have the right to not be offended and believe that the best solution for that is curbing the behavior of others rather than self regulation (don't look, don't watch, don't read, don't participate). Defending speech isn't pretty and we don't get to choose our clients as repulsive as we might find them, but it is a necessary action in a democracy that puts a premium on the freedom of expression.
Oh yeah lets bring up democracy. Because if people can't look at porn in the library we won't be in a democracy.
In regards to your don't look, don't watch, don't read, don't participate that is a load of crap.
I go to my local library and they have a DVD collection that I like to look at. There is a row of computers that have the monitors facing the DVD collection. When you turn to walk away from the DVDs you are looking directly at the computer screens. I am at the library at 10am on a weekday and there are three creepy guys sitting at the computers practicing DEMOCRACY. When I walk over to the DVDs they start acting all squirelly because they plan on flipping to another browser when I walk away from the DVDs. It makes it real awkward to look at the DVD collection.
I guess I should exercise my first amendment rights by standing behind them and saying STOP LOOKING AT PORN.
If you need help removing porn from your library, ask me.
Anonymous, If you need help removing porn from your library, ask me. [email protected] Anonymously, if you wish, but I'll protect your privacy. Porn can be legally removed from libraries, and I can provide key assistance, as I have done in other communities, which is likely precisely why the OIF lady keeps ridiculing me and falsely claiming I'm link spamming and trolling, etc.
Calling me out?
You say you speak truth to power. So are you going to call me out? Go on. You want to say a name. You want to blame the OIF. You want to think that there is some dark conspiracy against you that originates from the ALA. Here's the sad truth.
When asked about SafeLibraries, a near 100% of librarians will answer, "What?" They've never heard of you. You're only huge in your own head. You think you're a thorn in the side of ALA but most people don't give a crap.
Sorry you had to find out this way, but most librarians don't know who you are. They just don't. You don't suffer from persecution, you suffer from indifference. Your talks do well on the Tea Party circuit as portraying libraries as the new Sodom and Gomorrah, but outside those groups, you're a non-entity.
So, why do I answer you? Because your kind of morality enforcement must be opposed to maintain a free society.
Wrong again.
So, you being awkward means that someone else has to change? That's the start of the slippery slope. If they were hiding the fact that they were watching KKK videos, or Taliban propoganda, or gruesome war footage, would that make it ok? If you say no, they you prove my point. If you say yes, then where are your limits? If that offended someone else, should they be allowed to say what people can watch or see?
You do not have a right to not be offended. Period. End of discussion. Limiting other people's behavior based on your personal morals is not a solution. Period.
>>You do not have a right to not be offended. Period. End of discussion. Limiting other people's behavior based on your personal morals is not a solution. Period.
Ok if you use enough double negatives you think you are making a point. The point is why if I want to look at the DVD collection do I have to walk around a bunch of creepy dudes watching porn?
If libraries want to support porn so much why not have masturbation booths in the libraries? Make sure the floors are linoleum and teach the librarians how to mop.
I just want to look at the DVDs without seeing the creeps. If you give them masturbation booths in the library I do not have to see them. Plus they will be happier. Win/win.
Not Offended, Just Morality Police
Your reading comprehension is wanting if you think that is a double negative. This is all about you and what you want which is extremely short sighted and ultimately selfish. Your kind of logic leads to getting rid of the homeless people because you don't want to see them while you walk around the city.
Get over yourself.
>>Get over yourself.
No you get over yourself. You think you are standing on some grand ideal of freedom of information when what you are actually doing is making our public libraries crappy places for families and kids to go to.
If kids and families are not going to the library who is going to stand up to keep the libraries open? Plenty of people question why we even have libraries at all.
You did not even respond to my idea about masturbation booths. I would have no problem having these is public libraries. If people are not surfing porn and masturbating in public view, no problem. I am much more liberal than you give me credit for. Can we put some masturbation booths in your library?
I'm not responding to it because I didn't think it was a serious answer. And right now you are projecting your experience to equal everyone's experience. "If it happens here, it must happen everywhere." No.
Just because you can't look at DVDs doesn't mean that the whole system is wrong.
ALA Porn Policy Needs To Be Addressed
Okay, let's set aside the ad hominem comments of that one Anonymous who regularly sidetracks people with ad hominem attacks. Let's ignore her and not feed the troll further.
Now where were we. Oh yes. "From NPR: American Library Association, Barnes & Noble Called 'Facilitators Of Porn'"
What can be done to stop the ALA from facilitating porn?
First, people should know exactly how ALA does this. Here are a few examples:
- Ernest Istook, the author of the Children Internet Protection Act, says its by misleading communities into not availing themselves of the protections of CIPA.
- Dean Marney, the library director who won the Washington state and federal filtering cases, says its by using dogma to mislead people. Indeed, when Barbara Jones of the ALA OIF was confronted with statements by Dean Marney, she admitted filters work, no longer block health-related information, and blocking breast cancer is an old excuse.
- Will Manley pointed out how the ALA makes it appear librarianship is the only profession that wants to push porn on children.
- The Annoyed Librarian says the ALA sounds like smut peddlers.
- A school superintendent in Kalida, OH, says ALA book reviews cannot be trusted to describe content that may be inappropriate for school children.
Next, what are the means to stop the ALA from doing this?
1) Most important is for librarians to get up the pluck to stand up to the ALA OIF. The ALA and librarians used to protect children from inappropriate material. Along came ACLU 3 year Illinois state leader Judith Krug who singlehandedly changed that, then enforced it into the ranks. Well, she's gone now. Is there anyone willing, finally, to stand up and admit the ALA should not be about promoting the facilitating of inappropriate material to children? Are librarians still afraid of speaking up, as Will Manley described?
2) Next, the librarians who are finally speaking up need to force the ALA OIF to stop its porn facilitation behaviors. There are so many so I won't list them here. But basically it boils down to the OIF using bully power to force its way on communities. Is there anyone who is proud that ALA now recommends libraries start to consider including porn in their book collections, for example?
3) Next, just like the OIF does, send word out to the state library associations that librarians will start making common sense decisions regarding children and sexually inappropriate material. I don't want to hear of any more cases of library directors yelling at maintenance men who stop 6 year olds from watching porn. Or library directors who order librarians to cover up for child porn viewers.
4) Include in this effort stopping the ALA OIF from advising libraries to destroy digital data that can and should be used to investigate criminals who prey on children. A women in Lincoln, NE, was attacked by a child porn viewer and, thanks to the ALA, the library would not help her. She went to the police. Thanks to the ALA, the police would not help her either. You see, they already knew from experience that that library follows ALA diktat and destroys all digital data. So they didn't even waste their time. So the lady got attacked by the porn viewer, right in front of her child, then got double screwed by the ALA's OIF. We ready need to stop this. To this day, the child ducks down in the car when passing the library. What a disgrace.
Okay, that's plenty for now. Let's get this ball rolling. (And, by the way, those are some of the very things the ALA OIF does not want discussed in public, so it uses censorship and ridicule to silence opposition.)
Crazy Talk
You clearly have no idea what you are talking about. You don't understand the role of the ALA in the library world. You have an ax to grind for reasons unknown. This is what to expect from a person who thinks there is only one definition of the word "lusty" to mean something sexual, not another definition such as strong, hearty, and boisterous. Your agenda clouds your mind.
Enjoy your future tinfoil hat discussions with yourself.
R-Rated Libraries, Courtesy ALA OIF
This just in, courtesy of ALA's OIF porn facilitation policy:
"R-Rated Libraries," by Janie B. Cheaney, World Magazine, 6 April 2013.
Excerpt from the article: But picture a mom who has dropped off her kids at the sparkling new branch while she runs to the mall for two hours of shopping. On her return, while waiting for her children to use up their allotted computer time, she pages through the books her 12-year-old has already checked out. Some shocking words jump out from the text: Can you say that, in a children's book?
Response: I would disagree with a parent dropping the kid off at the library and leaving them unattended. In many states a 12 year old is old enough to be left alone but my concern is that the creepy pervs using the library Internet. By supervising your kids you can monitor what they check out and make sure they are not checked out by the creepy Internet pervs.
Libraries are not Babysitters
If you want to monitor what media your child consumes, maybe try NOT treating your public library like it's a daycare center.
The library is a place for information. Free information means that there may be materials that you do not agree with. The idea that a library is "safe" (or do you mean "Christian"?) is an odd concept that seems very dated to me. A good library should be neutral, with access to all sorts of subjects and materials. Not everyone will be offended or effected by the same materials.
Stop using fallacious arguments against the library, because some people want to read things that you think should be hidden from the world.
ALA Response to Porn Facilitation Is Itself Criticized
The ALA OIF's response to the national news that it is a leading porn facilitator has been criticized by yet another librarian:
"On 'Filtering and the First Amendment,'" by Garren Hochstetler, Words, Ideas and Things, 3 April 2013.
Stop Feeding the SafeLibrary Troll
Seriously, ALA has no control or say in how libraries are run.
Each and every single public library system has their own set of rules and regulations. The ALA can say whatever they want, public libraries do not have to pay any heed to them, much like people shouldn't pay any heed to you and your nuttiness.
CIPA author Ernest Istook wrote, in a piece neither the Library Journal nor American Libraries reported, that the ALA effectively misleads a third of American communities into leaving their own communities exposed to the very harm it is legal to protect themselves from. If I had to choose between Ernest Istook and this latest "Anonymous" for accurate information, I'd go with the CIPA author. And, to be sure we stay on topic, the evidence for the ALA's facilitation of porn as reported by NPR, as this LISnews post is titled, comes in part from Ernest Istook. On CIPA, there is no more authoritative voice. That LJ nor AmL reported it doesn't mean it doesn't exist.


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Here it goes Lasalle Bank V Smith on March 22, 2010. We need Judges like this all over the US who understand the fraud behind these foreclosures! Why oh Why does the same Baum Law Firm go before this Judge when they know they are going up against one Wise Man?
Judge Schack is asking for valid proof MERS and Lasalle has the authority to be nominated as part of the Note/Mortgage via a Power Of Attorney before he can issue a Judgment. LOL We know this will be impossible. This is off MERS website:
Do we need to file a power of attorney and what do we do if we are asked to produce a power of attorney?
Being appointed as a MERS Certifying Officer means that the employee is an officer of MERS and can sign as a MERS officer. A power of attorney is not needed because that is not the capacity of how a certifying officer is signing. A power of attorney would be necessary if an employee is signing as an employee of the Lender on behalf of MERS. The Corporate Resolution does not need to be recorded and is appointing the employee as an officer of MERS. In essence, the employee is a dual officer of the lender and MERS. WELL NOW DID WE JUST MAKE OURSELF INTO SOMETHING THAT YOU CANNOT! Statement not a Question.
He also asks for the "Servicing Pool Agreement" that even permits them into the equation. I BET THERE IS NONE! Why because MERS nominates itself to speak onbehalf of many banks. This is an issue that should be raised.
As in most foreclosure cases, Judge Schack is questioning Baum Law Firm how they are representing both the Plaintiff and the Defendant in this case and seeks an explanation. I think this is the question for most of where [1] VP for [2] seperate "banks" sign multiple Assignment of Mortgages and Affidavits.
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All devices have an RJ45 connector and are daisy-chained using Cat. 5 cable to the EM1408MC, EM1416MC Master Relay Panel and/or the EM1408SC (8 circuits) or EM1416SC (16 circuits) Slave Relay Panels. The system is laid out in series (A to B, B to C, C to D) so there is no need to figure out a star or other topology making setup much easier. Once programmed, your lights will come on and off at the times you set. With 32 schedules available every day of the year the options are nearly endless. Never forget to turn the lights off before bed and burglars watching the house will never know you are on vacation.
About Energy Master - The Energy Master Control System provides 100% digital replacement for traditional time clocks, twist timers and other difficult to use and inaccurate timers. Panels and switches daisy-chain together using category 5 patch cables with RJ45 connectors. The digital timing control (DTC) of the EM1400 Energy Master Series includes many advance features and provides for complete control of up to 256 circuits. Control options are enhanced by the ability of the EM1400 series to accept inputs from a variety of accessory devices including; digital photo sensors, dry contact closures, keypads & switches, as well as peripheral devices such as serial and Ethernet interfaces.
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text: Visitors to the beaches of Ocean City, Maryland, have been treated to some rare and interesting sightings recently. Our Animal Rescue team has received several reports of large whales feeding very close to shore over the last week, which makes for great viewing while on vacation. The whale in the photograph below has been identified as a humpback whale and was spotted at 42nd Street in Ocean City on June 18. The picture was provided courtesy of Jennifer and Steve Gower. Our Animal Rescue staff members have been fielding a lot of questions about these sightings, so we'd like to share some important information: As you can see from the picture, the whale is very close to the shore. The Mid-Atlantic coast is a popular destination for migrating marine mammals (dolphins, whales, seals or manatees) and sea turtles, but recently these animals are coming much closer to land. Why is that? Large whales, like most marine animals, tend to congregate in areas where food is plentiful. Recently, large schools of Atlantic menhaden have been spotted along the Atlantic coast of Maryland and Delaware. As a result of this, there have been several big pods of dolphins, and even large whales spotted very close to shore feeding on the menhaden; at times there have even been reports of dolphins and large whales feeding in the same area together – what an exciting sight! Ever wonder how they feed? Humpback whales are filter feeders, which mean they have baleen plates that are made of keratin (like our hair and fingernails) instead of teeth. Baleen whales will open their mouths to take a large gulp of water, including any food items in the water (krill, fish, shrimp, etc.). They close their mouths and use their tongues to force the water back out of their mouths, which traps any food items in the baleen. They will then use their large tongues to lick any food items off their baleen and will swallow the food items whole. A whale's mouth operates similar to a pasta strainer! These marine mammals are experts in navigating in-shore waters, and usually do so only when the tide is high. Along the Mid-Atlantic coast, this is indeed a rare sight, and one that should be appreciated from the beach. Seeing these animals close to shore is a reminder that it is important for us to enjoy, respect and protect the aquatic environments that we share with marine mammals and sea turtles. It's up to us to ensure their survival, and to ensure our future generations can appreciate these animal-sighting experiences that we witness today. What can you do to protect marine mammals and other aquatic animals in our area? Slow down – boat strikes are a frequent source of injuries for marine mammals and endangered sea turtles. Dispose of trash properly, particularly plastics and plastic bags. Marine animals confuse trash with a food source or become entangled. Do not release balloons. Balloon debris can fall into bodies of water where animals can choke on the pieces or become entangled. Never dispose of fishing line or nets in the water, as marine animals can easily become entangled. If beachgoers spot a stranded animal, they are required by law to keep their distance, and encouraged to call the Maryland Natural Resource Police at 1-800-628-9944 or the National Aquarium's Animal Rescue team at 410-373-0083 to report the animal. Tags: humpback-whales, marine-animal-rescue-program, marine-mammals, ocean-city, whale-sightings Categories: Animal Rescue, Animals, News Previous Post Next Post


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The Christmas time is definitely my favorite holiday. How wonderful is the feeling that unites people to celebrate life, love and peace! And how delicious are the Christmas foods too. In Brazil, one of the most tradicional dessert is the Panettone. This unique holiday bread, originated in Italy, has a sweet aroma and vanila flavor. It is perfect to serve with a cup of coffee or tea.
The tradicional Panettones have candied fruits and raisins, and it's also my favorite too. But you can find all sorts of alternatives flavoured Panettones, such as coffee, coconut, limoncello and chocolat. The chocolat panettone is so popular in Brazil that it is called "Chocottone".
I took the recipe from the same book that I used to prepare the Brioches (Crust and Crumb, Peter Reinhart). As I like very much candied fruits and raisins, I doubled the amount written in the original recipe. The author gives two importante advices to intensify the flavor. The first one is to put the candied fruits and raisins in a vanilla extract and rum. This will keep them moist too. The other one is to use buttermilk instead of milk. This will give the best flavor.
Merry Christmas!
(From Crust and Crumb, Peter Reinhart)
Makes 1 very large loaf, several small loaves, or to 24 hot cross buns
¾ cup unbleached bread flour
2 teaspoons instant yeast
1 cup buttermilk, at room temperature
41/3 cups unbleached bread flour
1/3 cup sugar
1 teaspoon salt
5 large eggs, cold
½ cup unsalted butter, softened
½ cup golden raisins
½ cup dark raisins
½ cup rum
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
1 cup sliced almonds or walnuts
½ cup candied fruit
1 large egg for egg wash (optional)
To make the sponge, stir together the flour and yeast in a mixing bowl. Stir in the buttermilk and mix till smooth. Cover the sponge with plastic wrap and allow it to ferment at room temperature for 1 to 2 hours, till very bubbly.
If using dried fruit, soak it in rum and/or vanilla in a bowl while the sponge is developing.
To make the dough, combine all the other dough ingredients and the sponge in a mixing bowl or the bowl of an electric mixer with a dough hook.
Mix the dough on slow speed for 1 minute, then on medium speed for 5 minutes. Add the fruit and nut mixture and mix for an additional 2 minutes, or until the dough is soft and tacky, registers about 80°F on a probe thermometer, and passes the windowpane test. Pinch off a small piece and stretch it slowly apart, gently pulling and rotating it. You are trying to stretch the dough into a thin, translucent membrane or windowpane. Add water if the dough is too stiff or flour if it is too sticky. To make by hand, knead the dough on a well-floured counter with floured hands for about 15 minutes, adding the fruit and nuts during the final 3 minutes.
Mist the dough with cooking spray, cover it with plastic wrap, and allow it to rise at room temperature for 60 to 90 minutes, till it increases in size by 1 ½ times.
Use up to the full amount of dried and candied fruit and nuts, according to taste. For a single large loaf, grease a 9-inch round cake pan, and line the sides of it with a parchment collar that is about 2 inches taller than the pan. For smaller loaves, use smaller pans or simply make free-standing rounds. Form the finished dough into a ball and press it nearly to the edge of the prepared pan. Let it rise, brush with egg wash, and bake for about 60 minutes. When the loaves are baked, you may brush them with simple syrup made by boiling equal parts sugar and water for 1 minute. This will give the tops a shiny look.


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Stockton, CA
Doris D. Hand
Nov. 17, 1920 - Mar. 21, 2013
Doris Hand passed away peacefully at Meadowood Skilled Nursing at O'Connor Woods on March
21, 2013. She was born November 17, 1920 to Frank and Ethel Dahlin in Oak Park, Illinois. After graduation from Cornell College (Iowa) she married Clifford Hand. While he attended graduate school she began her career in education. Doris was born a teacher- first with blind children, later in Chicago at the Bruno Bettelheim School for emotionally disturbed children. After coming to Stockton she was one of the first teachers in Lincoln Unified to qualify as a Resource Specialist. Following her retirement from Lincoln Unified she volunteered as a teacher at the one.Transitional Learning Center, for homeless children. She taught countless children to read with her "never fail reading books," and her legacy is profound in the gift of literacy she gave to the children who passed through one.TLC doors. Doris and Cliff traveled extensively, both in the United States and internationally. They also shared a love of nature. She made a study of wildflowers and was an avid bird watcher. While attending a UOP event for international students she met Yi Zhang and invited him to share her home. Shortly thereafter she sponsored his wife and young daughter, Bao Ching and Nancy, to emigrate from China. They lived happily as a family for 22 years in her home, and continued as a family for the rest of her life. In 1996 she was honored with the Susan B. Anthony award. She was a member of the Unitarian Church, Planned Parenthood and the Women's Center. Doris was always eager to help others. She was also a member of the Town and Gown Book Club and active in the UOP chapter of Osheer Lifelong Learning Institute. Memorial gifts may be made to the Clifford Hand Scholarship Fund at UOP, the one.Transitional Learning Center, and the OLLI program at UOP, or a charity of your choice. Her wishes are being respected, therefore, no service or memorial will be held. Doris will be missed by all whose lives she touched. She leaves fond memories with her many friends and admirers. Please sign the online guestbook at frisbiewarrencarrollmortuary.com.


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Problem Statement -
Given a NxM grid of 1s & 0s (1s mark walls, while 0s indicate empty chambers), the task is to identify the number of chambers & the size of the largest. And just to whet my curiosity, to find in which chamber, a cell belongs.
It seems like an ad hoc problem, since the regular algorithms just don't fit in. I just can't get the logic for writing an algorithm for the problem. If you get it, pseudo-code would be of great help!
Note - I have tried the regular grid search algorithms, but they don't suffice the problem requirements.
Source - INOI Q Paper 2003


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Recipe for better fuel mileage to be presented at research review
Wouldn't it be nice to be able to mix water with gasoline to save some money at the pump-and benefit the environment too?
That idea may not be as far-fetched as it sounds, although it will involve more than just adding water from a garden hose. Gasoline engines cannot burn water, of course, and that's why they stall when water gets into a gas tank. Under normal conditions, the two liquids don't mix.
But research in the JMU Alternative Fuel Vehicles lab is looking at a way to emulsify water with gasoline so that engines can still burn it. The project is one of several that will be presented at the annual Valley 25 x '25 Research Review on Wednesday, Oct. 24. The event is free and open to the public and will take place from noon to 5 p.m. in Room 259 of the ISAT/CS building on the JMU campus east of Interstate 81. Visitor parking will be available. For parking information contact Ben Delp (email@example.com).
Valley 25x'25 is based at JMU and promotes using a diverse energy portfolio to achieve 25 percent renewable energy in the Shenandoah Valley before 2025. Other projects to be presented include an investigation of ways to harvest algae for biofuel production, biodiesel gas chromatography and using poultry litter as fuel. A full schedule is available at http://www.jmu.edu/research/wm_library/v25researchreview2012.pdf.
In theory, a gasoline-water mixture, or emulsion, would improve fuel mileage while also reducing harmful exhaust emissions.
So far, Joe Crosbie, a senior honors student majoring in integrated science and technology, has only done tests emulsifying water with diesel fuel and running it through a tractor-trailer engine. The results from tests he performed in Pennsylvania this summer were mixed. Poisonous emission levels, such as carbon monoxide and particulate matter, reduced by 50 percent, but fuel economy went down about 2 percent.
Crosbie is running the tests again at JMU using a gasoline-powered Harley Davidson motorcycle. The motorcycle is situated on a dynamometer, a machine that enables Crosbie to run the motorcycle in place in the lab. The motorcycle is hooked to an emulsion combustion unit that emulsifies a small amount of water with gasoline.
The creator of the ECU, Eric Cottell, and the manager of a Shenandoah County company that manufactures the ECU, Wesley G. Pence, received a $100,000 award for the device during an international competition in September, beating out 60 other projects from 16 countries. Both men are working with Crosbie and supporting his research.
Dr. Chris Bachmann, associate professor of integrated science and technology, said one of the theories behind getting better fuel mileage with an emulsified blend is that the water will be converted to steam by heat in the engine that is normally wasted. Engines send that heat out through the cooling system, but if it could be turned into steam it would help push the pistons, ultimately getting that energy to drive the wheels. Bachmann said Crosbie will test a wide range of water/fuel ratios to see if there is a "sweet spot" that reduces emissions and saves fuel.
In addition to the support from Cottell, president of Nonox, LTD., and Pence, manager of research and development for Wholesome Energy of Edinburg, Valley 25 x '25 funded Crosbie's summer internship to work on the project.
A Better Way to Harvest Algae
Also presenting at the symposium will be Caleb Talbot, another senior ISAT major, and Premal Patel, a senior at Harrisonburg High School, who are researching ways to harvest algae that can be used to make biodiesel.
Among the benefits of getting oil from algae is that the plant reproduces rapidly and can be grown in the ocean where it does not compete for farmland used to grow food for people and animals. One of the hurdles to making algae biodiesel practical is finding ways to harvest it that require less energy than it will produce.
Talbot said he has researched eight to 10 different harvesting methods and is focusing on two for his senior project. One involves electrolysis, where he runs electric current through a container of saltwater and algae. The electrolysis causes the water's hydrogen and oxygen molecules to separate, with hydrogen gas bubbling to the surface. Since hydrogen atoms have a positive charge, they attract the negatively charged algae, which cling to the hydrogen and ride to the top. The algae that rises to the top can then be skimmed out and put in beakers to dry. Once it is dry, oil can be removed by pressing the algae or mixing it with solvents.
Talbot also wants to see if the oil can be extracted by mixing algae and solvents in the Nonox ECU.As for the promise of algae biodiesel some day easing the dependence on petroleum diesel, Talbot is excited. "The earth gets hit with an amazing amount of the sun's energy, but the earth's surface is two-thirds water. When you look at the size of the potential zones for growth, they're almost continental. The potential is there for some huge-scale production. The technology is not there yet, but the potential is huge," he said.


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"Never listen to experts!"
It's crass. The shabby seating area, a carpet that's seen better days, two wobbly tables – a motley ensemble, carelessly thrown together. A gigantic plant blocks the large window sloping across the corner that might have let some daylight into this unconventional space between two university buildings. Daniel Libeskind is all smiling dismissal: "That's architecture. Afterlife. You build something and that's it."
Walking through the first story of his small extension to London Metropolitan University completed in 2004, he presents it to me now, in 2016. The architecture is the most down-to-earth of all the arts, he tells me – full of compromises. As a composer, say, he would have an easier time of it. Composers are free to do as they please. And that's how things almost turned out for him: In his youth, Libeskind was an extremely talented musician. His instrument? The accordion.
The accordion… of all things!
We were still living in Łódź at the time. With the suspicious eyes of our anti-Semitic neighbors on us, my parents did not want to bring a piano to the courtyard. So what I got was a mini-piano in a suitcase.
You achieved a certain degree of virtuosity on the accordion. Why did you stop playing?
When I was 12, I won a scholarship. The famous violinist Isaac Stern was one of the jury members. He took me aside and said: You need to change instrument now, you've already exhausted all the possibilities of this one. My entire future fell apart! But he was right. And that's how I came to architecture.
Your concert project One Day in Life is coming up in Frankfurt any day now. The musicians will be playing in all kinds of venues, including a moving tram, a swimming pool, and an operating room…
It's a displacement of habituality. You come back to places you're familiar with but hardly notice anymore. Then you hear music that normally wouldn't be there. That might give you a different perspective on everything else. It alters your sense of orientation. For sure.
Couldn't people just wear headphones while walking in the city?
Sure, but then they'd be cut off from the world. The sounds of a city are music, too! I have very good headphones at home, but I hardly use them. If I'm listening to a symphony and a fire engine passes by, that's all part of the listening experience to me. You can tell every city by its sound.
You always have a number of projects on the go at once. Do you ever actually get to listen to any music?
My mornings always begin with music! I make coffee for my wife and myself; then I pick something from my collection or from Spotify and spend around an hour listening. For me, it's not just background, but an activity – and it makes a difference to the entire day.
In the evening, they listen to jazz. His wife, Nina, likes to cook five-course meals even when she doesn't expect him home much before ten. Then they light candles and enjoy a glass of wine. Sometimes, when daughter Rachel brings friends home, they ask what the pair are celebrating. Perfect harmony? Nina, says Libeskind with evident pride, is his exact opposite. What she likes, he tends to find terrible – and vice versa. And that's exactly how it should be, he says. "I have never understood how people who never fight can live together."
You have to imbue the spirit of the earth
When Libeskind laughs, his eyes almost close completely. And he likes to laugh. The hugely successful architect is friendliness itself and a thorough optimist. Even at 69, he finds it hard to suppress a certain childlike euphoria – which sends his voice curving upward. Not that he is one to avoid a battle when the cause requires. And there's usually trouble brewing somewhere because even in the buildings he designs, Libeskind aims to take people out of their comfort zone.
The most frequent criticism: His distinctive buildings burst in on evolved structures like foreign bodies. Although Libeskind indeed has little time for misplaced nostalgia, he would not want to force something alien on a place; he has no desire to conquer. That's why, at the very start of a project, he pays a lengthy visit to the proposed site, and the way Libeskind describes it, there's almost an air of ceremony to it. "You have to somehow imbue the spirit of the earth, put your head into the place, get into the vibrations," he says, searching for words that won't sound all too nebulous. "I have to experience some kind of revelation." If he doesn't, he turns down the job.
You see yourself as a recipient?
Oh yes! Many people think that ideas come from within us. But that's not the way it is. They come from the place. And you can't force it. Scientists in Harvard once tried to determine exactly what innovation was. They failed because only the opposite can really be defined: imitation. When I design a building, I try not to imitate, but instead create an experience in which things are slightly shifted.
Your style has become very distinctive, as a result. Are you sometimes worried about imitating yourself?
Losing one's naivety is the biggest threat. When I started out, I did not know how a window is made. So I thought: Why don't I turn that by three degrees to get a different view? When you've made thousands of windows, you have more experience, of course, but your creativity may suffer. Particularly the experts know everything. Don't listen to them!
How do you preserve your naivety?
I try not to spend too much time thinking and preparing. Just do something! That may sound primitive, but it's true. Computers are wonderful tools that can give you 1000 designs in just ten minutes, but they only simulate – they reveal nothing.
For an architect battling nostalgia, that's sounds remarkably old school…
I am old school. And new school! Some things don't get old. I can draw a line in the sand with a stick or on an iPad with my finger. But that one line, however humble, is already the origin of architecture.
Libeskind usually starts drawing on that first visit to a site. It's often just a simple thought that needs to be captured immediately, on a notepad, an air ticket, a newspaper, on the page of a book – "whatever works." Little by little, he develops the idea, and later creates modest, small paper models.
When Libeskind emigrated to New York with his parents in 1960, he was assigned to a remedial class because he didn't speak the language and given typing lessons so that he would be able to find an office job. He has nursed a profound aversion to all things mechanical ever since – even to computers. And for all the technical advances that have been made, he says, ultimately architecture is about one thing and one thing only: Each of us needs a place for ourselves.
People are on the move more than ever these days; cities are rapidly growing. What can be done?
I've been an immigrant all my life – my parents, too. We have to learn that we are not owners of the world or the city we live in. We are all only passing through.
But that doesn't provide today's refugees with a roof over their head…
What we need is a good plan: How can we give these people a place where they can live in dignity? How can we integrate them? And that has a lot to do with bringing them into the center of the city. They should not disappear without trace in the outskirts.
But it's the cities that are getting more and more crowded.
Density is the greatest challenge architects face. There's a real boom going on in the centers of Manhattan, Paris and elsewhere these days, but who can afford the prices? Not the people who work there, but global corporations. Glossy buildings do not make a good city.
What would your master plan look like?
I already have one – for Yongsan, a neighborhood in Seoul. The city is 700 years old, so you cannot simply impose a new artificial grid. I took what had evolved historically, but created a new idea of the city: a very high density of life, work, culture and transport, all connected by parks. People need open spaces to encounter each other.
Cities are exhausting. Why are so many people drawn to them?
It's not only because of the jobs. We would still live in villages if there was not an natural impulse to gather. And gathering is: culture. I think it was Leonardo da Vinci who said that small spaces make us intelligent – because we have to think about where we are and what we are doing.
Although the furnishings of his apartment in Manhattan are on the sparse side, says Libeskind, he has plenty of books and CDs there – as many, at least, as his wife allows. And there are flowers. Lots of flowers. He goes to the florist's several times a week and simply asks for the freshest specimens, because to this day he knows their names only in Polish. So, Libeskind has in no way renounced color – his uniform notwithstanding: black glasses, black top, black pants, light-black leather jacket.
At a reception given by the U.S. Secretary of State, a woman belonging to the diplomatic corps recently took him for a priest, he says, laughing, "and in a way, we architects are priests." Be that as it may – Libeskind does not have to waste a thought on matching colors, perfect patterns or proper footwear. He always wears cowboy boots; "It's very liberating." The first question on any given day is not: What shall I put on? But rather: What music will I listen to today?
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text: My name is Kelly Schomburg, I'm the girl with the red hair in these pictures. I was protesting at the Occupy Wall Street march yesterday when I and several other women were sprayed with mace and subsequently arrested. Many have already seen the video, which has been spreading like wildfire over twitter, Facebook, tumblr, and other video feeds, along with hundreds of other photos and videos. This is my recount of what happened.


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With Israel-US ties in crisis and tensions subsiding after the worst riots in Jerusalem in years, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas dug in his heels on peace talks on Wednesday.
Sharing US anger over the announcement of a 1,600 home building project in East Jerusalem during Vice President Joe Biden's visit last week, Abbas retreated to a prerequisite that he dropped just a week ago in order to give a chance to a US initiative for indirect negotiations.
"Israel must implement … a complete cessation of settlement activities in the West Bank and East Jersualem to go to negotiations,'' he told reporters in a joint-appearance with the president of Brazil, according to the official Palestinian news agency WAFA.
IN PICTURES: Israeli settlements
In the zero-sum maneuvering to return to the peace table, the blunt language and angry messages from US officials over Israeli building in the sections of Jerusalem claimed by Palestinians as the capital of a future state has proven a momentary boon to Mr. Abbas.
"The Palestinian leadership probably feels they are on the moral high ground right now," said Sam Bahour, a Palestinian businessman and political commentator in Ramallah.
Abbas on shaky ground
But without any momentum on negotiations, the Palestinian Authority president is on shaky ground. The clashes around Jerusalem on Tuesday -- after his main Palestinian rival Hamas called for a "day of rage" -- demonstrated Palestinian frustration with the inability to stop the expansion of Israel's presence in occupied East Jerusalem and the West Bank, say observers. A diplomatic vacuum leaves more room for tempers to heat up.
Despite speculation about the outbreak of a new Palestinian uprising in the West Bank, experts say the time isn't ripe. Beyond Jerusalem's borders, clashes erupted in a handful of West Bank locations and did not last long.
A revival of economic activity over the last year in West Bank cities has soured many Palestinians on a new period of instability. Moreover, unrest could undermine reforms in the Palestinian government and security forces while playing into the hands of Hamas.
And yet, the PA can't afford to ignore disappointment of Palestinians at the continuing impasse.
"The Palestinian Authority is trying to keep the situation as calm as possible, preferring to get support from the international community. But under heavy public pressure, they have to take measures," says Nashat Aqtash, a communications professor at Bir Zeit University. "It's a complicated situation where you would like to improve economic situation, and to express anger. How can you get international support if you express anger, and how can you stay silent?''
Worst riots in years
The clashes on Tuesday were stoked in part by Hamas, which called from Gaza for West Bank Palestinians to embark on a new uprising and to end security cooperation with the Israeli army.
However, the day of fighting will have little effect on the PA or Hamas. With Paletinian police in control of daily security in Palestinian towns and the Israeli army sitting outside of population centers, Palestinians have no physical target for their frustration, says Jaimil Rabah, a pollster.
The controversy over Israeli building in East Jerusalem further erodes Palestinian confidence that the government of Benjamin Netanyahu plans to make concessions for peace. That skepticism is the reason why Abbas would only agree to indirect talks in the first place.
Despite tough talk from the US about Israel's need to demonstrate its commitment to the peace process, Palestinians still believe that the US will be biased in favor of Israel in the talks, Mr. Rabah said. Only a US punishment of its ally could reverse that perception, he said.
"There is no expectation for concrete or visible steps to discipline Israel. I don't think the Palestinian position toward the US will change,'' Rabah said. "What we're seeing is a gradual downward distrust in the peace process and the ability of Abbas to achieve something.''