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Here's a nice story from a Reddit user who sits courtside at Timberwolves games about how LeBron James was really nice to his mom on multiple occasions. Suck it, LeBron haters.
Hey, I don't know if this is the right place for this or if I even should post this, but I thought I'd say, from a Wolves fan, Lebron is a cool guy. We typically get decent seats to all home games near the opposing team's bench, and sometimes you get to be right next to some pretty talkative NBA players. The first year Lebron came to the Target Center in a Miami uniform, my mom was at the game with us and she was wearing new earrings. Lebron noticed them, said they were nice and asked how much they cost. My mom jokingly just said, "A lot." He gave her a look and said, "You think I can't afford them?" Every year since then, when Miami comes to town, he'll at some point look over to our seats and grab his earlobes (because of the earrings) and smile. This year was no different, and in addition to that he talked with us a bit, wished us a merry christmas, and then gave her his sweatband. That's why he's not wearing it in the Dwayne Wade sweeping interview. All in all, in spite of his reputation leaving Cleveland and people thinking he's a bad guy and stuff, I think he's a cool guy.
Adding some credence to this guy's story is the video above, which shows a woman putting on LeBron's sweaty headband after his game against the T-Wolves on Saturday. LeBron may have broken the hearts of everyone in Cleveland, but he's super nice to moms from Minnesota.


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Iowa spirit shines in message written on napkin
Iowa air ambulance crews from across the state were in Mason City Thursday night for a memorial service for three crew members killed in a crash a week ago.
The memorial was for Shelly Lair-Langenbau, Russ Piehl and Gene Grell.
Hundreds attended the service, including the AirCare team from the University of Iowa Hospitals.
The team posted a picture on their Facebook page about what happened after the service.
"Today, the AirCare team attended the memorial service for the Mercy Air Med team in Mason City. Afterwards, all 13 of us had dinner at a restaurant and when we went to pay the bill ... an anonymous person had already paid our entire bill and left. They left this note ... how amazingly thoughtful"
The note written on a napkin reads, "For all you do and in memory of your team mates … this meal is on us."
The post had received more than 4,300 likes and more than 590 shares by of Friday afternoon.
AirCare operates two of Iowa's 11 air ambulances. The program has now flown more than 28,000 patients over 2.6 million miles.


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Membership has its plotlines
Is there a rule of thumb about including a significant mention of a real organization in a work of fiction? Such as having a murder mystery series having a recurring set of characters who are all members of a nationally known civic or charity group, and having the local chapter's meetings and activities be a background setting where some of the players interact during various parts of each novel's plot? As an agent, would this give you heartburn?
Like The DaVinci Code mentioning the Catholic Church?
Like Jennifer Weiner mentioning Princeton?
Like PD James mentioning Scotland Yard?
Robert Crais staging a shootout at Disneyland?
On the other hand April Henry's publisher Harper Collins had her invent an auction house rather than use Sothebys in her first mystery.
And those mean assed librarians at the ALA might get miffed if the president of the organization turned out to be the killer in your next mystery, Dewey Decimates Dallas.
You can use "public figures" in fiction. That includes public institutions and companies. Sometimes publishers get nervous not because it's illegal or actionable but because fending off a suit is expensive and time consuming.
It's certainly not a deal breaker at the query to the agent stage, at least not with me.
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- Anatidaeling said...
Mean-assed librarian here. We court danger. We live on the edge. When we're not fighting censorship or doing "The Itsy Bitsy Spider" with a roomful of two-year-olds, we routinely solve crimes and become imersed in international intrigue. And while many of us have hair-trigger tempers, the average librarian generally has well-developed sense of humor, too. So let your librarian character get in trouble. Let her hang out with gangsters. Show her gambling and swilling buckets of gin. But you should probably make sure she's fashionably dressed. We control the book budgets for library systems around the country. You don't want to piss us off.
- 11/17/2005
- Ellen said...
Miss Snark is dead on (as usual) when she says you can use public figures in your fiction. Watch out, though, for using them in your title. Apparently, this can be considered an implied endorsement, so it's a big no-no. In other words, it's not okay to call your book GEORGE CLOONEY IS COMING TO APPLEWOOD. However, if you want to call your book RUSH LIMBAUGH IS A BIG, FAT IDIOT, you will not only be correct, but will have no trouble getting approval from your publisher's legal dept.
And no, I never considered calling my book GEORGE CLOONEY IS A BIG, FAT IDIOT. Perish the thought. Like Miss Snark, I still swoon at the mention of his name.
- 11/17/2005
- Darby said...
Perhaps if RUSH LIMBAUGH CAME TO APPLEWOOD? (could be a sequel)
- 11/17/2005
- DubbleJay said...
Aren't real companies (with lawyers ready to defend their corporate image) a little more dicey though? What if the novel dealt with a secret neo-nazi leader fronting from a VW fan club? Yes, I wrote that (you can stop laughing at me now). This goes beyond just "mentioning" a company or organization, right?
- 11/17/2005


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Allison has nipples! Could this be an indication of something to come? Has Framed finally lost its G rating? What can this mean?!?
Tooner wrote:Why is it odd at all that she has nipples? Mike has... well, this.
And you people are sick. A wet Allison would be hot, but unless I'm misreading the comic, that's not "wet". That's spew.
You people have some weird turn-ons.
NotoriousMEQ wrote:Alison's also CUSSED in the current storyline...
and you can blame me for making him tone down the nippleness after that particular strip. Mwah ha ha and all, but he's gone crazy with the nippleness after the lack of them for so long!!
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Nikon 1 J3 and Nikon 1 S1 First Look Preview
The Nikon 1 J3 enters the arena as the bigger cousin to the Nikon 1 S1. It is also an upgraded model of the J2. The Nikon 1 J3 has a 14.2-megapixel CX-format CMOS sensor. The Nikon 1 S1, on the other hand, is new line to the Nikon 1 series. The Nikon 1 S1 offers a 10.1-megapixel CX-format CMOS sensor. Both cameras offer a wide ISO range, from 160 to 6400 in the J3 and 100 to 6400 in the S1. Both cameras have 3-inch LCD screens and a built-in flash. The Nikon 1 J3 and Nikon 1 S1 offer a Hybrid Autofocus (AF) system with a 73 point AF array. The cameras will be available in a multitude of colors.
The Nikon 1 series of camera are designed to be entry level cameras to the interchangeable lens sector and not geared toward the professional user. They are meant for someone who wants some creative control over their images and enjoys the ability to change their lenses.
The first 1 series camera I held in my hands was the Nikon 1 J3. It was lightweight and only slightly bigger than the S1. The first thing I do when I get a camera is look at the physical buttons and features. Then, I go straight for the menu. There are plenty of physical buttons on the J3 including the mode dial which allows users more direct access to the A,S,M, and P functions. Although the mode dial does not have A,S,M, and P on the dial, it does have the "creative mode" icon that allows you to access the manual functions from there. This is important to me and I appreciate the semi-direct access. On the back of the camera there are more buttons that allow you to preview, scroll through and delete the images when necessary. The J3 has a large LCD screen that looks great while taking and reviewing your images.
I was able to spend a few minutes shooting with the camera. Nikon had a demonstration area set up with 2 dancers. In auto mode I was able to capture some descent images, but the dancers were under great lighting. When I pulled the camera away from that area and shot into rest of the booth, the lighting became dim. The camera did not respond as well and I had more blurry images than I did crisp ones. One great option on both of these cameras is a feature called "slow view." In slow view, pressing of the shutter button halfway down once the lens is in focus will allow users to capture live action for about 1.33 seconds. After that, the images are display at five times slower than normal speed. The images are then looped continuously until you fully depress the shutter enabling you choose the image you want. This seems like a great option when photographing sports or other fast moving objects. The only thing I would like better than being able to pick one image from this series is to have the camera save all of these images so I can go back later and pick the best one. But, I guess that's what continuous mode is for. On that note, the J3 and the S1 have a continuous shooting mode of 15 frames per second. If that rate holds true in the real world, that's fantastic. Overall, the feel of the camera was smooth and simple. The color options are also fun.
The Nikon 1 S1 is definitely designed for someone that wants to pick up the camera and go, but likes the option of interchangeable lenses. The S1 is a sporty camera with no mode dial. It has fewer megapixels than the J3. Mode options are accessed through the graphic user interface (GUI) versus the dial mode on the J3. What I like better about the S1 is the thumb rest on the back of the camera next to the screen. It makes the camera easier to hold and less likely to slip from your hands. Other than that, most of the other features are the same. Both cameras offer Auto Mode, Creative Mode, Advanced Movie, Motion Snapshot and Best Moment Capture. In addition, the Nikon 1 J3 and Nikon 1 S1 were created to work seamlessly with Nikon's optional WU-1b Wireless Mobile Adapter. The adapter allows users the ability to wirelessly transfer their images to a smart device and even trigger the shutter by way of their phone or tablet. The S1 also has a variety of color options including pink and khaki.
Nikon also announced the addition of two new 1 Nikkor lenses. The 6.7-13mm f/3.5-5.6 is a wide angle lens that includes a vibration reduction system. Also new to the lens lineup is the 10-100mm f/4-5.6 telephoto zoom lens, which also has vibration reduction. Nikon hopes the addition of these lenses will attract more buyers to the Nikon 1 series. With the expanded lineup of lenses, the 1 series of cameras will have a greater appeal.
The Nikon 1 J3camera with the 10-30mm lens will be available in February 2013 for the suggested retail price of $599.95 and will come in a variety of colors including White, Black, Silver, Burgundy and Beige. The Nikon 1 S1 camera with the 11-27.5mm lens will be available in February 2013 for the suggested retail price of $499.95 and will come in White, Black, Red, Pink and Khaki. The 1 NIKKOR VR 6.7-13mm f/3.5-5.6 and 1 NIKKOR VR 10-100mm f/4-5.6, will have suggested retail prices of $499.95 and $549.95, respectively.


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Fayette council member Gerry Gonzales has a challenge for Fulton County home appraisers: He would like to see county officials buy just one house for the amount they have it valued.
Gonzales said he's seen how much the county said his house is worth and he would like to see someone make him a purchase offer at that price.
Gonzales made his complaint at Thursday's council meeting when county auditor Nancy Yackee visited.
Yackee explained that appraisals are made by sales studies, not by examining every single house in town. She said that sales studies are pertinent to an individual community.
"We don't take an Archbold sale and tie it into here," Yackee said.
Council member Mike Maginn asked where data is gathered in the current situation when houses aren't selling. Yackee responded that the past three years of sales are used.
"It's a struggle when you don't have sales," she said, "but there are some sales and the prices are coming in higher than valued."
Yackee said the final decision in appraising comes from the Department of Taxation.
Audience member Eugene Rosinski asked how the new school would affect taxes.
There should be no changes immediately, Yackee said, but it all depends on the sale of property. She views the new school as a positive factor for the community rather than a source of increased taxes.
"It's not all that easy to draw people to a rural community," she said. "It's hard. Businesses are struggling. Foreclosures are happening."
But she believes a new school and new water wells are both factors that should work in the village's best interest.
Yackee was asked about the county's sources of revenue. Sales tax brings in the largest amount, but she noted it's down about $300,000 so far from the usual figure of about $4 million.
Interest income is also a large source, and it's growing, and real estate taxes are the third big factor.
"It's a difficult situation," she said. "We're looking at where to make cuts. We've done that for the last three or four years, drastically."


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text: Sijun Forums :: View topic - Pure Photoshop 100% Log in to check your private messages Sijun Forums Forum Index >> Archive : Sep99 - Dec00 View previous topic :: View next topic Author Topic : "Pure Photoshop 100%" newancejunior memberMember #Joined: 31 Oct 1999Posts: 2 Posted: Mon Nov 08, 1999 4:04 pm I hope you all like my last 'pure Photoshop 100%' work. It is called: " Digital re-creation of Adam" Link: http://web.tiscalinet.it/newance/digital.jpg It's 140 kbs, so please wait.. For more images, just check www.newance.8m.com Bye, Newance Back to top imdakingmemberMember #Joined: 22 Oct 1999Posts: 321Location: USA Posted: Mon Nov 08, 1999 6:02 pm Looks pretty good man.. although you may want to ease up on the filter use.. But if you were going for a whacked out image... then it is sure as heck bad ass =) Back to top DuKEZmemberMember #Joined: 03 Nov 1999Posts: 317Location: BayArea Posted: Mon Nov 08, 1999 8:13 pm yeah looks good.. cept his other leg there and whatever his hand wrapped .. it looks odd i'll give you 3 smileys outta 5 Back to top FunfetusmemberMember #Joined: 26 Oct 1999Posts: 343Location: West Covina, CA Posted: Tue Nov 09, 1999 12:09 am Excellent! Great figure drawing, and nice colors -- I love the soft blue at the back of the figure. My only complaints would be the hair and face -- the hair lacks solid form, and the face looks kinda misshapen. Excellent piece just the same, though...I'm looking forward to seeing more. ------------------ Funfetus iCE VGA Division http://www.funhousedigital.com Back to top newancejunior memberMember #Joined: 31 Oct 1999Posts: 2 Posted: Tue Nov 09, 1999 9:42 am Now please check this new pic from the previous one representing another step of my imaginary digital creation of Adam.. http://web.tiscalinet.it/newance/digital2.jpg Back to top Display posts from previous: All Posts1 Day7 Days2 Weeks1 Month3 Months6 Months1 Year Oldest FirstNewest First Sijun Forums Forum Index -> Archive : Sep99 - Dec00 All times are GMT - 8 Hours Page 1 of 1 Jump to: Select a forum Digital Art----------------Digital Art DiscussionWork in ProgressGallery/Finished Work Miscellaneous----------------Random MusingsArchive : Sep99 - Dec00 You cannot post new topics in this forumYou cannot reply to topics in this forumYou cannot edit your posts in this forumYou cannot delete your posts in this forumYou cannot vote in polls in this forum Powered by phpBB © 2005 phpBB Group


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What exactly is it, and if possible, how is it calculated (if not already obvious)?


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Animal testing: science or fiction?
MPs, medical professionals and scientists unite in demanding a thorough evaluation of the utility of vivisection.
Most of us know that cancer, heart disease and stroke are the leading causes of death in the West. But many people would be surprised by the next biggest killer: side effects of prescription medicines. Adverse drug reactions kill more than 10,000 people a year in the UK (and more than 100,000 in the US), costing the NHS alone £466m per year.
The pharmaceutical establishment constantly reassures us that all drugs are tested for safety and efficacy on animals before they can be administered to humans. When challenged about the ethics of vivisection, their defence typically goes like this: 'Which do you think is more important: your child's life or a rat's?' Given this choice most people would thankfully sacrifice the rat.
But what if you were told that the current animal testing procedures are seriously flawed? Consider the following evidence: Arthritis drug Vioxx, withdrawn from the global market in September 2004, appeared to be safe and even beneficial to the heart in animals, but caused as many as 140,000 heart attacks and strokes in the US alone. The associate safety director of the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) described it as the 'single greatest drug-safety catastrophe in the history of the world'.
Many studies published in the scientific literature comparing drug side effects in humans and animals have found animal tests to be less predictive than tossing a coin. One review of human-animal correlation in drugs that had been withdrawn because of adverse reactions found that animal tests predicted the human side effects only six out of 114 times.
Hundreds of drugs to treat strokes (eg, Cerestat, MaxiPost, Zendra, Lotrafiban, gavestinel, nimodipine, clomethiazole) have been found
safe and effective in animal studies and then injured or killed patients in clinical trials.
Hormone-replacement therapy (HRT), prescribed to many millions of women because it lowered monkeys' risk of heart disease and stroke, increases women's risks of these conditions significantly. The chairman of the German Commission on the Safety of Medicines described HRT as 'the new thalidomide'. In August 2003 The Lancet estimated that HRT had caused 20,000 cases of breast cancer over the past decade in Britain, in addition to many thousands of heart attacks and strokes.
Dr Richard Klausner, former director of the US National Cancer Institute (NCI), lamented: 'The history of cancer research has been a history of curing cancer in the mouse. We have cured mice of cancer for decades, and it simply didn't work in humans.' The NCI also believes we have lost cures for cancer because they were ineffective in mice.
Cigarette smoke, asbestos, arsenic, benzene, alcohol and glass fibres are all safe to ingest, according to animal studies.
Of 22 drugs shown to have been therapeutic in spinal cord injury in animals, not one is effective in humans.
Of 20 compounds known not to cause cancer in humans, 19 do cause cancer in rodents.
Dr Albert Sabin, the inventor of the polio vaccine, swore under oath that the vaccine 'was long delayed by the erroneous conception of the nature of the human disease based on misleading experimental models of [it] in monkeys'.
Penicillin, the world's first antibiotic, was delayed for more than 10 years by misleading results from experiments in rabbits, and would have been shelved forever had it been tested on guinea pigs, which it kills. Sir Alexander Fleming himself said: 'How fortunate we didn't have these animal tests in the 1940s, for penicillin would probably never have been granted a licence, and possibly the whole field of antibiotics might never have been realised.'
Thalidomide, the infamous cause of birth defects in more than 10,000 children in the early 1960s, induces birth defects in very few species. Dr James Schardein, the doyen of birth defect studies, says: 'In approximately 10 strains of rats, 15 strains of mice, 11 breeds of rabbits, two breeds of dogs, three strains of hamsters, eight species of primates, and in other such varied species as cats, armadillos, guinea pigs, swine and ferrets in which thalidomide has been tested, teratogenic effects have been induced only occasionally.' Ironically, if thalidomide, the drug whose side effects made animal testing obligatory, were assessed exclusively on its results in such tests it would still be passed today.
Even the Handbook of Laboratory Animal Science admits that 'uncritical reliance on the results of animal tests can be dangerously misleading and has cost the health and lives of tens of thousands of humans'.
So why use animals to test new drugs?
Animal testing became legally enshrined in response to the thalidomide tragedy. The UK Medicines Act 1968 followed the US Kefauver-Harris Act, which was implemented in 1961 in the midst of the thalidomide furore to ensure that the FDA received proof of safety and efficacy for all new drugs. The intention was good but the reliance placed on animal tests to ensure safety was tragically ill-informed.
It has been known among scientists and the pharmaceutical industry for decades that animal testing is scientifically unreliable. As long ago
as September 1962 The Lancet commented: 'We must face the fact that the most careful tests of a new drug's effects on animals may tell us little of its effect in humans.' In 1964 Dr J Gallagher, the medical director of Lederle Laboratories, admitted: 'Animal studies are done for legal reasons and not for scientific reasons.'
So, pharmaceutical companies conduct animal tests simply to satisfy government regulators. Crucially, animal data also provide liability protection when drugs kill or injure people. Industry can point to the rigorous animal tests they have performed and claim that they have done their best to ensure against tragedies occurring, thus minimising any damages awarded against them.
From the perspective of satisfying the regulators, pragmatic selection of species will demonstrate whatever is required of a drug, whether it is favourable safety or efficacy. And companies are not required to submit all their animal data, but only that from any two species (one rodent and one higher mammal). Dr Irwin Bross, former director of the world's largest cancer research institute, the Sloan-Kettering, observed: 'Whenever government agencies or polluting corporations want to cover up an environmental hazard, they can always find an animal study to "prove" their claim. They can even do a new animal study which will come out the way they want by choosing the "right" animal model system.'
Placing massive emphasis on animal-safety data has also allowed pharmaceutical companies to avoid the expense of conducting clinical trials as extensively as they should. Since the 1950s doctors have been saying that clinical trials should involve more people, last for a longer period of time and use representatives of a broader swathe of society than the young, white males of standard practice. Women are generally not utilised in case they might be pregnant: the manufacturer would be held liable for any unanticipated birth defects. Very often trials do not even include representatives of the patient population the drug is designed to treat. This absurd situation clearly needs to be addressed.
There is no getting away from the fact that people have to be the ultimate guinea pigs for testing new treatments. Clearly, the health and safety of research volunteers and patients should be paramount and the best safeguards should be in place to protect them.
Testing drugs safely on people
New drugs go through three basic testing phases: in vitro (test-tube) and in silico (computer) modelling; animal testing; and, finally, human trials.
Before a drug is tested in humans, there should be persuasive evidence that it is safe and effective. No method, neither animal, human nor test-tube, can predict the reactions of every patient with 100 per cent accuracy. Reactions differ between sexes, ages, ethnic groups, even between family members. We are all different, but not as different from each other as we are from animals, with which the differences are so great that they render extrapolation hazardous. Non-animal methods are not completely fail-safe, but do offer more security.
There are excellent in silico and in vitro testing methods available today. Many companies specialise in virtual screening of drugs for potentially toxic effects. A wide range of predictive software is available, including complete clinical trial simulations. Other companies focus on safety and efficacy assessments in human tissues. A 10-year international study proved that human cell culture tests are more accurate and yield more useful information about toxic mechanisms than traditional animal tests.
In place of animal-based pre-clinical studies, subsequent clinical trial patients and volunteers would be better protected by the adoption of preliminary microdosing studies (or 'phase 0' clinical trials). Microdose studies involve the administration of ultra-small (and safe) doses of the test drug to volunteers monitored by scanners. Human microdosing, based on the concept that the best model for man is man, helps in selecting the best drug candidates before advancing into full development, thereby reducing the chances of failure in later, more risky and more expensive phases.
During clinical trials, relevant pharmacological measurements should be made, which would give early warning of potential problems. It is true that some rare side effects will only be detected when drugs are prescribed to large numbers of people. This is why post-marketing drug surveillance is so important and should be strengthened, in order to pick up these effects as quickly as possible. Reports of adverse reactions to drugs are currently soaring in the US, where a record 422,500 adverse events were reported to the FDA in 2004. The FDA cautions that the actual number is likely to be between 10 and 100 times greater because of under-reporting.
What you can do
An independent survey of 500 GPs in August 2004 found that 82 per cent of doctors are 'concerned that animal data can be misleading when applied to humans', and that 83 per cent would 'support an independent scientific evaluation of the clinical relevance of animal experimentation'.
In 2002 the toxicology working group of the Select Committee on Animals in Scientific Procedures concluded that 'the effectiveness and reliability of animal tests is unproven' and that 'the formulaic use of two species in safety testing is not a scientifically justifiable practice, but rather an acknowledgement of the problem of species differences in extrapolating the results of animal tests to predict effects in humans'. It recommended that 'the reliability and relevance of all existing animal tests should be reviewed as a matter of urgency'.
The anti-vivisection alliance Europeans for Medical Progress is now calling for an independent and transparent scientific evaluation of the use of animals in drug-safety testing and medical research. Many MPs supported this call in an early day motion tabled in December (early day motion 385), which says: 'This house expresses its concerns regarding the safeguarding of public health through data obtained from laboratory animals, particularly in light of large numbers of serious and fatal adverse drug reactions that were not predicted by animal studies… [It] is surprised that the government has not commissioned or evaluated any formal research on the efficacy of animal experiments, and has no plans to do so; and, in common with 83 per cent of general practitioners in a recent survey, [it] calls upon the government to facilitate an independent and transparent scientific evaluation of the use of animals as surrogate humans in drug-safety testing and medical research.'
Please urge your MP to sign this important motion if they have not already done so. Given that parliament is in recess until the election, please get assurances from them that they will sign the early day motion immediately on returning to Parliament after the election. To monitor whether they have or not, and to follow the motion's progress, type 'animal testing of drugs' into the search engine at http://edm.ais.co.uk/weblink/html/search.html, or via www.curedisease.net. Please add your own support at www.curedisease.net/edmform.shtml.
Significant parliamentary support for this motion would encourage a debate on the matter in the House of Commons. The next stage would be to instigate the historic evaluation called for in the motion, which the government is reluctant to do but a large number of signatories to the motion would make very hard to avoid.
The evaluation should be conducted by a panel of independent scientists without vested interests in the animal model. They should review the paradigm of the animal model as it is currently used in biomedical research and drug testing. For the first time, the medical utility of animal tests would be assessed entirely on their scientific merits, without the distraction of whether or not they are ethically justifiable.
The government should fund this evaluation and grant the panel privileged access to company information on all drug-testing data, both human and animal: not just the cherry-picked submissions to the regulators. For the sake of future consumers of medicines, or of medical research, this rigorous and impartial evaluation is crucially important: the simple fact is people's lives are at stake.
Substantial evidence exists that animal tests are inadequate for the task they are supposed to perform, but, incredibly, this has never been systematically investigated. The only responsible course of action is to evaluate animal testing scientifically, in an independent and transparent manner.
by Kathy Archibald director of Europeans for Medical Progress
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"This is all I can tell you—and I don't want to talk about: Every housewife has been invited back," NeNe revealed to S2S exclusively.
However, NeNe reveals that she has received some offers and has other options. In addition, her terms of agreement with Bravo is clear. If Bravo drops her from the show, she is free to pursue her other options but if she quits then she is out of luck until her contract expires. As far as contracts are concerned, all the housewives including DeShawn Snow signed up for several years at a time.
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According to Daytime Confidential, the buzz around town is Bravo will be adding another housewife and the speculation is that former soap opera diva Victoria Rowell (ex-Drucilla Barber-Winters on The Young and the Restless) will join the cast. While this seemed like a crazy rumor, Victoria surprisingly doesn't deny it! She gave the following statement when asked –
"In my career as an entertainer I get solicited to do quite a number of things," Rowell began coyly with a giggle, "whether it be to write reviews for a fellow author's book, or participate in reality programming. The question has been posed from time to time about me joining the Housewives franchise, whether it be in Atlanta or somewhere else. As you know, I now spend a lot time in Atlanta. I know the fans would love to see me on television again, whether it be on a soap opera or as a real housewife of Atlanta. So, you know, we'll see. I always say, never say never!"
Not sure if Victoria has seen the show or not, but she might want to consider running far far away from this very entertaining trainwreck of a show.


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What Kind of Girls Smoke? (Mar, 1922)
For those of you who don't like to read here is a quick bullet point summation of the article:
- Mark Twain didn't like his wife cursing because she didn't "know the tune". I think this means either she was bad at cursing, or that she didn't understand why you would curse. Obviously this means that no woman "gets" cursing, thus it is wrong for a woman to curse.
- For a woman, smoking is like cursing. They don't understand it. They are bad at it. They pout.
- Women are weak and frail, like little children.
- This is proved because when a ship is sinking women and children are let off first.
- Children should not smoke, it's bad for them.
- Thus women shouldn't smoke.
- The author likes young boys with their "soft, beautiful faces, as delicate as a womans" and loves the change in their voices which change from "haunting sweetness" to the "bellow of the male animal".
- If a woman is good at smoking and likes it, that means she's tough.
- Tough women are bad and should never be allowed to have children.
- I have no idea what the monkey on the front page is about. I don't even really understand the caption. Are they saying that smoking is bad because a monkey can do it? A monkey can eat, does that mean eating is bad?
What Kind of Girls Smoke?
It's a Fine, Manly Accomplishment for Women, Don't You Think? — But What Are the Real Reasons Why Women Should Not Smoke?
By Wainwright Evans
IN Albert Bigelow Paine's "Life of Mark Twain" the story goes that Mark Twain was given, in moments of strong feeling, to the use of English more vigorous and picturesque than anything to be found in the dictionary. It wasn't Sunday School English, in fact. All this grieved his wife very much, and she sought by every means to break her distinguished husband of his habit of latitudinarian speech.
One day something went wrong; and Mr. Clemens began in words embroidered with lightening to express his views. Mrs. Clemens heard him from the next room. She waited without protest till he was through; and then, to shock him into a sense of his own impropriety, lifted up her voice with an eloquence copied from him.
Mr. Clemens listened in critical and appraising silence. When silence reigned again, he called out, "You've got the words all right, my dear, but you don't know the tune!"
That little yarn has always seemed to me to throw an interesting side-light on the question "Should Women Smoke?" In humorously presenting the incongruity and essential unfitness of a woman swearing, it seems also to suggest the incongruity and essential unfitness of a woman smoking. A woman who smokes doesn't know the tune. A woman with a cigarette has the technique down all right; she holds the little white coffin nail just so; she puffs in approved fashion, pouting her delicate lips more than the smoker's technique allows; she may even blow rings neatly, and send them one through the other, and all that. But somehow it's off the key; the incongruity of the thing hits you between the eyes, and either amuses you or shocks you. You may not be able to justify your sense of the unfitness of it, but you feel it.
The real reason why a woman should not smoke is the reason why a child should not smoke. Opinions may differ as to whether or not men should smoke; but they do not differ as to whether boys should smoke. The matter is not even debatable. A boy should not smoke for the simple reason that he is more delicately organized than a man. He is growing, he is going through the critical period of adolescence; his face, hitherto smooth, soft, beautiful, and delicate as that of a woman, is beginning to sprout a beard; his voice, hitherto a thing of peculiar and haunting sweetness, the strange spiritual sweetness you get from the minor cadences of a boy choir, is now deepening and changing to the bellow of the male animal. Neither before nor during this change in his life will any person of sense advocate tobacco for that boy—no matter what he thinks about tobacco for adults. The reason is that the lad is still a child. And, of course, the same would apply in the case of a young girl who is developing into a woman.
The organization of the child is so delicate and fine, both physically and psychologically, that we all instinctively recognize the impropriety of permitting children to partake of strong alteratives and drugs. Wise parents do not even allow their children to have tea and coffee. And it goes without saying that alcohol is absolutely under the ban also.
This does not mean that one recognizes an arbitrary "double standard" of conduct as between children and adults; it does mean that one recognizes in the child a sensitiveness which the tougher organization of the adult has lost, a sensitiveness which cannot be disregarded without grave consequences.
To hear profanity or foul obscenity come from the mouth of an adult is not pleasing; but we take his greater toughness into account, shrug, and let it go at that. But how inexpressibly shocking to hear such things from the lips of a child! We don't accept toughness from children. Call this a "double-standard" if you like. The fact stands. Society reckons offenses by their consequences, not by their abstract morality. It will penalize you hardly at all if you steal a cent; it will send you up for a month if you steal a dollar; and for a year if you steal a hundred. And yet, ethically, stealing is stealing, regardless of the magnificence of the theft.
The question, therefore, of whether a woman should smoke need not be argued on the debatable ground of abstract morality. There is plenty of food for thought in the question of the physical well-being of women, and of its consequences and implications for society. Why, when the ship is sinking, does the cry go up, "Women and children first?" Why this instinctive classing of the women and children together, in spite of the fact that the women are adults, physically and mentally?
One obvious reason is that the physical strength of a woman, adult though she be, is usually less than that of a growing boy of, say, fourteen. Physically she is classed by men with the children, to be sheltered and cherished like them.
Again, a woman's organization, particularly if she be delicately reared, has about it the same delicacy of adjustment, the fineness, the sensitiveness to stimuli, which is characteristic of children. The delicacy is a little less pronounced, but it is there. This is not said in derogation but rather in praise. Indeed, it is this delicacy which men are most eager to preserve in women, and which they prize and love most greatly. They find in it certain aesthetic values which are of the utmost importance, because of the spiritual conditions that produce them. Men prize this in women more than they prize mere physical beauty, which, however lovely, is a fleeting thing. It is the quality which makes many a woman beautiful at seventy. It is the quality which goes with the divinest side of motherhood. It peculiarly fits women to deal with children—to nourish them and raise them to maturity It is this which brings the average mother closer to her children than their father ever gets; nor does any normal man begrudge his wife that privilege.
Here, then, may be some reason and justification for the old "clinging vine" tradition which it is the fashion, in this robust age of the feminist, to laugh at. There is an eternal reason for the clinging vine notion of women; you will find it well expressed in the old song that begins:
"Young Rory O'Moore loved Kathaleen Bawn;
He was wild as a hawk; she, soft as the dawn."
From such women spring the boys who will grow into Rory O'Moores and the girls who will be other Kathaleen Bawns.
I am aware that it is the fashion to dispute all this. I merely point to the fact, rooted in biology and psychology, of this eternal, basic difference; and that it sums up in the fact that women are more closely allied to children and to adolescents in their requirements than they are to the tough, full-grown male of the species; and that there is something wrong with them when they are not.
This is a fact that has to be reckoned with. It makes an absolutely similar code for men and women both impossible and undesirable. It means that conduct which might be comparatively devoid of harmful consequences in the one may have the gravest results if indulged in by the other. Can you imagine a woman nursing a baby and smoking a Pittsburgh stogie, or even a mild cigarette?
If there be a sound reason why women should not smoke cigarettes, it is the same reason why they should not smoke big, black cigars, or a pipe. The difference is only one of degree. There is no other reason. As a practical problem of conduct, it has to be gauged simply by the effect. If there be any reason why men should not smoke, it has to be argued on the same grounds: What is the effect?
Of course this opens the way to the claim that since it may be plausibly maintained that it does a man no special harm to smoke in moderation, it is equally evident that it may do a woman no harm to smoke in still greater moderation—if she substitute the mild cigarette, for instance, for the strenuous cigar or pipe; that the true solution is for a woman to guard herself against excess, just as she might take one glass of wine or one cocktail, but no more.
Is that sound reasoning? Perhaps. I admit that the question is debatable. And yet, it calls to my mind an incident in my own experience which brings us right back to the suggestion I have made that a woman's physical organization is to be classed in delicacy with that of a child and should, in most cases, be as rigorously shielded from stimulants and narcotics. When I was a youngster I once called at the home of a young woman who represented a perfection of breeding, education, culture and refinement, which we are accustomed to recognize as one of our ultra-metropolitan products. It would have been better for that young woman's health if her mother had married a prize-fighter perhaps instead of a prominent but small-muscled dignitary of a very important and dignified church. Besides being highly cultured, this young woman had a mind and will of her own, and was on the whole very sane and well-balanced besides.
In those days it was not so common for women to smoke as it is now. For a girl to smoke was almost as bad as for her to wear a skirt coming only as low as her ankles.
When I arrived, the first thing she did was to take a cigarette, a very choice and expensive cigarette, and to offer me one. I took it. It made me feel right devilish, I can tell you. This, I told myself, was seeing life. The Movie Vamp hadn't come in then; but it was a good deal like keeping company with Theda Bara or Pola Negri in their vampiest moments.
We smoked, gravely, sedately, self consciously. I watched her critically, and I observed that she didn't know the tune; but what most surprised me was that she smoked just one and then quit.—I commented on this. It seemed like undue moderation.
"I can't smoke more than one," she said. "They make me sick."
Since then the memory of that incident has come back to me many times. I know now that if she did not inhale, and if the cigarette was mild, and if one was her limit, tobacco was a poison to her, and she probably had no business to be smoking at all.
But what about the woman who could have smoked a box of cigarettes on the spot and never know she had done it?—I answer with another question: What about the woman who can drink a half dozen highballs with the toughest male tippler, and demonstrate that like him, she has leather insides? Does the thought charm you? Has the lady retained those aesthetic values which tell the world what she is, or what she isn't?
The whole point is that while it is bad enough for a man to have cast iron insides, or pickled internal organs, or smoke saturated lungs, it is infinitely worse for women to be that way—worse in its spiritual implications and worse in its physical consequences. It is bad for the women, and it is bad for the babies that are to be brought into the world and nourished at those breasts.
Not only that, but it is bad for any child, with his physical, mental, and moral fineness—a fineness which is beautifully expressed and symbolized by the silken texture of his skin, that his closest associate in his formative years should be, not a person akin to himself, and sympathetic to him, but a smoked, toughened, tanned, and pickled feminine edition of the Old Soak.
If a woman is never going to have any children her offense toward the race is less; but the woman who expects motherhood, thereby accepts a peculiar responsibility which involves the stewardship of her body, and involves besides that, a certain respect for the aesthetic values in her life. The use of tobacco is not consonant with the perfection in these fine and lovely qualities which children have a right to require in their mothers.
You can sum it up this way—the reason why women should not smoke is essentially the reason why they should not swear, or chew, or drink whiskey; it's tough and they don't know the tune; and they can't know it unless they become tough. Beware the woman who does these things, not with loathing, but rather with ease, elegance, and relish.
I knew a man who, when he was a green country boy made a trip to the great city. There a friend undertook to show him the town; and they started on a journey through the Tenderloin, to the end that the youth might see what the world was like.
"And," he said in relating the experience to me years later, "there sat that girl, smoking. I wasn't used to seeing women smoke. They didn't do it in our neck of the woods. But that wasn't what disturbed me. What clean bowled me over was what she was smoking,—a big, fat, black cigar that would have put me on the casualty list in five minutes. And I considered myself pretty hard-boiled, too. That finished me. I couldn't see anything attractive about a woman smoking a rank cigar. Whatever temptation I was under with respect to the lady fled. 'Come,' I said to my friend, 'let's get away from here.' We went.
"It was the shock of my young life. But I have always been thankful to that girl for frankly smoking that cigar. A library of preachment and warning from all the sages could not have more completely and vividly revealed to me just what she was—just how hard she was, how unlovely, how unlike a woman, how physically and psychologically repulsive, and what violence a man does to his deepest instincts whan he permits himself to be drawn by such women. I suppose it was the want of what I might call feminine aesthetics in the performance rather than the its unconventional side, that repulsed me most. I wouldn't have recoiled from a cigarette; I wouldn't have seen what it meant; but the cigar—the highball beside her—there was no misinterpreting that.
"It taught me a fundamental lesson. I know now why I abominate coarsegrained women, and women who make themselves coarse-grained. It's instinctive. They can't be good mothers. No child should ever be trusted to their hands—and no youth, either."


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Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness. This is a statement of our most basic individual rights. Over the centuries our human rights have been abused and eroded but always one could still say (...most of the time, in this country...) one could mind their own business and be left totally alone to live their life with no interference from anyone. But with this new health care bill, soon everyone will have to pay a fee to the government, or insurance company, for being alive.
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We are the "go to guys" for businesses who need general legal counsel, but whose revenues don't justify hiring a full-time, in-house, lawyer. We are their "partner" and recognize that we are there to help them succeed, and not to get in the way of the deal. We help them do business right for the long-term. And we fight for them if they need to go to court.
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Selecting internal clearance or preload
Bearing internal clearance (fig. 1) is defined as the total distance through which one bearing ring can be moved relative to the other in the radial direction (radial internal clearance) or in the axial direction (axial internal clearance).
Initial internal clearance is the internal clearance in the bearing prior to mounting.
Mounted clearance is the internal clearance in the bearing after mounting but prior to operation.
Operating clearance is the internal clearance in the bearing when it is in operation and has reached a stable temperature.
Bearings must have the appropriate operating clearance to operate satisfactorily (→ Importance of selecting correct clearance/preload).
In most cases, bearings require a certain degree of clearance (→ Selecting initial internal clearance). However, in some cases, they may require preload (i.e. negative clearance → Selecting preload).
As a general rule:
- Ball bearings should have an operating clearance that is virtually zero.
- Cylindrical, needle, spherical and CARB toroidal roller bearings typically require at least a small operational clearance.
- Tapered roller and angular contact ball bearings should have a small operational clearance, except in applications where a high degree of stiffness or positional control is required, in which case they can be mounted with a degree of preload.
Selecting initial internal clearance and Selecting preload describe the influencing factors that you must consider and provide the methods by which you can calculate the initial internal clearance needed to achieve the degree of operational clearance/preload required by your application.


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International Women's Day: Angela Hartnett, Jillian Maclean and Carrie Wicks discuss women in hospitality
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Whether it is by getting ahead in a male dominated kitchen under the tutelage of Gordon Ramsay to achieve Michelin-star status, founding a bar company led by women at the height of the recession or promoting female general managers; all three have helped women in the sector so do they see being a role model as an important responsibility in their respective careers?
Women are still under-represented in the top hospitality jobs so on International Women's Day 2012 BigHospitality asked if the sector was still a challenging place for women.


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Taco Thursdays: Midnight Tacos at Mi Mexico Lindo
Searching for great tacos around the five boroughs with Sara Markel-Gonzalez.
Taco carts abound in Queens, and there are many to choose on Roosevelt Avenue alone, particularly on the 10 blocks between 74th and 84th Streets on Roosevelt Avenue. Conveniently, most carts are located close to subway exits, perfect for a late-night bite on the way home.
If you find yourself with a hankering for some street tacos while stepping off the 7 train at the 82nd Street stop, Mi Mexico Lindo is a great option. There is always a line, no matter what time of day or day of the week, at this small cart on the corner of Gleane Street and Roosevelt. Their many kinds of tacos include carnitas, carne enchilada, and oreja.
The shredded chunks of pork carnitas were appropriately crisp on the outside with a soft interior. Each taco, con todo, gets a spoonful of creamy avocado salsa, a sprinkling of crisp chopped onions, and cilantro. Topped with a thin and sharp salsa roja added a burst of garlic and heat to the meat.
The bright red, spice-rubbed pork of the carne enchilada was tender with a nice charred finish. When paired with bites of the roasted, lime-marinated jalapeños from the condiment area, the flavor of the meat gets a bit lost, but it's a good taco nonetheless.
Chunks of oreja, pig's ear, were so soft that the cartilage and fat almost melting on the tongue. Piled atop the steaming, griddled tortillas, the salty, fatty bits melded with the creamy, cold avocado and the crunchy onions into a great last bite of a perfect midnight snack.
At $2.00 each, there is no reason (aside from limited stomach space) not to try as many of the generous servings of meat as you can, of every variety that the friendly ladies behind the griddle have to offer.
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Gleane Street and Roosevelt Avenue, Elmhurst NY 11373 (map)
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Have seen some old posts on this. Twas not a popular pedal, but I think I figured it out. This works perfectly, and with the previously suggested clipping upgrades it is a killer distortion pedal. Unfortunately, I have not been able to solve the FET switching noise.
As noted, there is a place on the circuit board for an LED. You just need four things to do this - a 3 or 5 mm LED of your color choice, a resistor (850ohm minimum - I used a 1k with a 5mm violet water-clear LED - these are not super bright - but if you use a water clear 3mm you will want a bigger resistor so the LED doesn't blind you on a dark stage) a JFET (I used a Fairchild J201 here) and a run of the mill 1N4148 diode.
First (see first pic), desolder all the indicated holes (there is just a little on the solder side of the board - not difficult). The negative (shorter) leg of LED goes in hole labelled 1, and positive (longer) leg goes in hole 4. You will obviously need to drill a hole for the LED through the top plate using the circuit board as a template. With a 3mm you can use a bolt in collar, but not with a 5mm. I used a plastic collar. I also have a drill press which makes drilling through the hard metal face plate easier. Be very careful if using a hand held drill.
Second, step down resistor goes in holes 2 and 3
Third, FET goes in the three holes in a row there (marked with little dashes). Flat side of my J201 faces the control pots - that makes it D S G left to right (be sure your FET is the same pinout).
Finally, down below the footswitch, are two more holes that need to be desoldered (see pic 2). Install your diode here - negative side towards the footswitch (little black stripe).
In pic 3 you will see the other mods to help make this more RAT-like. Just clip out the four diodes that you saw on the left in pic 1, and remove the other pair of clipping diodes just under where you installed the LED and replace with 5mm red LED's (oriented in opposite directions).
One thing that does happen with this - when I first plug the power supply in the pedal turns on. After that everything works as it should.
I also installed a power jack in this. Very easy. If you are doing the LED, you should already know how to do that...
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Swallowing four uncoated Advil without water was a bad idea, but I was desperate. An hour into our family's volunteer shift at the Greater Chicago Food Depository, I'd already lost my battle with back pain and wasn't about to admit I couldn't keep going. Apparently those peeps who wrote the Proverbs verse "Pride goeth before a fall" knew what they were talking about.
Our task at the Food Depository was straightforward: box up endless husks of corn to be sent to area food pantries and soup kitchens. Along with 50 other volunteers, we scooped up armfuls of corn and carried them over to boxes lining a nearby conveyer belt.
Our efforts would ensure hundreds of local families had fresh corn to eat over the next few days. Two hours of bending and lifting would ensure I'd be in traction for the same.
The assembly line work was fun at first. I started off in my natural "can do" enthusiast mode, chatting up the other volunteers and striving to be a good team player. While my older daughter rolled her eyes at my eagerness, I felt proud of myself – "Look at me in a group, being a people person." I enjoyed watching how other people approached our joint task and admired the power of a group in action.
An hour later, I'd lost my joy. My team spirit and positive attitude quickly followed. My neurons screamed for me to stop bending and lifting. I felt cranky and old, yet we still had another hour left to our shift.
My patience with teamwork disappeared like the memory of a sexy dream and soon I was picking people apart in my mind, no longer appreciating our varied humanity, instead fantasizing about who I could lose my shizz at first.
Would it be the sweaty man next to me who grunted like a over-muscled gym rat every time he bent into the corn bin? Or the woman who spent all her time straightening the corn instead of boxing it?
I needed an attitude adjustment and the ibuprofen burning my esophagus wasn't going to cut it. I was done but didn't want to admit it.
I hate having limits. In my mind, I'm still as lithe and supple as the twelve year old across the bin from me who bent over at her waist repeatedly like a deranged drinking bird. Doesn't she know she has a limited lifetime allotment of pain-free hinges, and she used up at least seven years worth that day?
Looking over at my husband and daughters working diligently, I tried to convince myself that I'd done enough and had nothing to prove. I could stop whenever I wanted. Right?
But where would we be if everyone stopped whenever they wanted? Don't we need people who push through pain to accomplishment, Annie Warbucks-style?
I had a choice. I could save face by ignoring the signals my mind and body were sending and pay the price later. Or, I could respect my limits and sit my ass down. Hiding in the bathroom was an option too.
Have I mentioned how much I hate limits? After picturing all the starving homeless people who would be denied corn if I stopped and swallowing my pride (it stuck in my throat right next to the Advil), this time I chose to honor my limits and not hurt myself to prove my worth. Instead I spent the rest of my time handing out hair nets and hand sanitizer. My pride took a beating, but my back appreciated the loving choice.


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Remarks by the President of the Academy of Sciences at the Investiture Ceremony - 2009-05-08
Your Highness, Prince Aga Khan;
Mr. Vice President, and President of the Class of Humanities of the Academy of
Sciences of Lisbon, Prof. Adriano Moreira;
Your Excellencies, the Ministers of Defense and Culture;
Eminent Rectors;
Eminent Academicians;
Professors and persons of Culture and Science;
Ladies and Gentlemen;
On the day of the first visit of Prince Aga Khan to an Academy that was wise enough to elect him as one of its members, it is my honor and pleasure to greet His Highness on behalf of the Institution.
Your Highness
Many distinguished visitors came to this Academy since its foundation, 230 years ago. But it would be very wrong to consider you as just one more among them. Not only you have been, since 1957, Prince Aga Khan IV, the 49th Imam of the Ismailis, and thus the religious leader of a community, the Ismaili Community, that the Portuguese Nation learned to regard with such a high esteem, but - in the exercise of your exalted office -, you have displayed a outstanding talent as a statesman, a diplomat and an organizer, besides being a man of faith and culture.
The political transformations that occurred in Asia and Africa during the last few decades could have been much more difficult for several nations, and for the Ismaili Community settled within them, had not been for your activity both as a leader and a statesman.
The establishment by His Highness of the Aga Khan Development Network - AKDN, a group of international development agencies with mandates ranging, from health and education, to architecture, culture, microfinance, civil society, rural development, and disaster mitigation, as well as the promotion of private-sector enterprises and the revitalization of historical cities, was vital for such communities.
I am sorry that a tight schedule does not allow me to tell more about the Man and his achievements.
I end my short speech wishing Your Highness happiness and success in your projects.
During your public life, you have displayed an almost unique capacity for linking East and West. We regard therefore your connection with our Institution as much more than an honor bestowed upon an international personality we so much admire. I ensure you, Your Highness, that the Academy of Sciences of Lisbon wishes to play a significant role in your relations with a nation, like Portugal, that has always felt a specific call for promoting the dialogue between cultures and civilizations.
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It's easy to argue against a Yahoo-Tumblr deal. Internet history is full of misguided M&A, and Yahoo has its own, very expensive chapter.
But if you want to make the "pro" case for the deal, here's how to do it: Pretend that Yahoo is Facebook, and Tumblr is Instagram.
The Facebook/Instagram deal is just over a year old, which means it's still pretty early to gauge it. But so far it seems to have worked perfectly.
Facebook promised that Instagram would operate autonomously after the acquisition, and from the outside it appears to have kept that promise. People who read sites like this know that the two companies are linked, but lots of other people don't, which is a huge plus for Instagram. (See: Parents who won't let their kids use Facebook, but are okay with Instagram. For giggles, tell them the two are owned by the same company, and watch their faces turn ashen.)
And we've yet to see Instagram clutter up with lots of ads — or any ads at all. Result: The app is still growing like a weed, which helps mollify critics who worry about Facebook's inevitable slowdown.
So that sounds like a pretty good model, right? Can Yahoo do the same thing with Tumblr?
Maybe. Tumblr is a much more mature company than Instagram, with a much bigger infrastucture. Kevin Systrom had about a dozen employees when he sold his company. After keeping his staff super lean for many years, David Karp has been on a hiring spree, and Tumblr's head count is on track to hit something like 200 this year, with its own sales staff. So it will be harder to just tuck that away in the Yahoo org chart.
The crucial difference between the two scenarios, though, has less to do with the seller than the buyer.
Facebook bought Instagram because Mark Zuckerberg wanted to remove an obstacle. If Marissa Mayer buys Tumblr, it's because she'll be looking for a boost.
That makes it much less likely that she'll be able to resist leaving Tumblr alone, and letting it figure out how to sell ads. Zuckerberg can drop a billion (or so) on Instagram, leave it unmonetized for a year, and Wall Street shrugs. Hard to imagine investors reacting the same way to this one.


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Deadline 3:00pm on Tuesday, September 4, 2012.
The Winnipeg Art Gallery invites Expressions of Interest and Qualifications from architect teams in respect to a project for a new Inuit Art and Learning Centre proposed to be built as an addition to the existing gallery building on Memorial Boulevard in downtown Winnipeg. The new addition will house the gallery's celebrated collection of contemporary Inuit art, as well as new facilities for the Gallery's Studio Art and Learning programs.
The new addition will be approximately 40,000 gross square feet in area. The base construction cost for it, and for related renovations to the existing Gallery building, is $33.4 million.
Architectural Teams interested in the project are invited to submit expressions of interest in, and qualifications to undertake the project by the deadline of 3:00pm on Tuesday, September 4, 2012. Submissions should be sent to the following address:
- Office of the Director, Winnipeg Art Gallery, 300 Memorial Boulevard, Winnipeg, MB, Canada, R3C 1V1
Expressions of interest must include the following information:
- Name and contact information for architectural firm or firms making the submission
- CV's for key team members
- Names of proposed required subconsultants, including structural, mechanical and electrical engineers, a landscape architect and a cost control consultant, together with brief firm descriptions for each of them, including a list of 3 relevant previous projects
- Names of any additional subconsultants proposed by the architectural team, together with firm descriptions, and a list of relevant previous projects
- Descriptions and illustrations of 3 relevant previous projects completed in the past 7 years by the proposed architectural team
- A brief description of the approach to the design of the Inuit Art and Learning Centre that the architectural team would propose.
Expressions of interest are limited to a total number of fifteen 8 ½ by 11 pages, excluding cover sheets.
The Winnipeg Art Gallery has formed an architect selection committee that will review the Expressions of Interest and Qualifications submitted; prepare a short-list of teams; review proposals submitted by them, interview them, and select the successful team. The selection committee comprises the following members:
- George Baird, Founding Partner, Baird Sampson Neuert Architects, Dean Emeritus of the Daniels Faculty of Architecture, University of Toronto and advisor to the Director of the Winnipeg Art Gallery
- Stephen Borys, Executive Director, Winnipeg Art Gallery
- Herbert Enns, Director, Experimental Media Research Group, and Professor of Architecture, University of Manitoba, and Director, Cisco Innovation Centre for Collaborative Technologies, University of Winnipeg
- Naomi Levine, Lawyer, and President, Board of Governors, Winnipeg Art Gallery
- Brigitte Shim, Architect, Shim-Sutcliffe Architects
- Richard Yaffe, Partner, Aikins, MacAulay & Thorvaldson, LLP, and Chair, The Winnipeg Art Gallery Foundation
- Mirko Zardini, Architect and Director, Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal
The selection committee will review the Expressions of Interest and Qualifications submitted, and will prepare a short list of 3-5 teams for interview. These teams will be asked to prepare full proposals to undertake the design of the Inuit Art and Learning Centre. It is anticipated that the proposals will be due at the beginning of October 2012, and that interviews will take place in the second week of that month.
Architectural Teams not already registered to practice in the Province of Manitoba, and who are selected as part of the short list, will be required to form an affiliation with a firm which is registered to practice in Manitoba for the purposes of undertaking the design of the project, as part of the full proposal submission.
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