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From left: bacon and The Provocateur; bartender Matt Choy juicing fruit for cocktails; the smoked pork pizza
There are three things about The Mercury Bar that need saying right up front:
1. Fresh-pressed juice cocktails—so, so good. Like, dangerously good.
2. Corned beef hash and egg pizza. Yeah. Perfection on a plate.
3. Ready for this? Bacon. Some bars give you beer nuts, this one gives you bacon. Just bacon—strips of the crispy stuff standing at attention in a half-pint glass. Because what better bar snack, right? Sheer genius.
When Anthony Carll bought The Mercury Bar last September, it was with the intention of taking it back a few decades with an upgrade and a bit of retrofit. He warmed up the joint with a few well-placed wood accents (a new upcycled bar top and cool plank paneling on the walls), added table and chairs, gave the restrooms a redo (thank you) and has, over the past few months, been adding new drinks and food to the bar's offerings.
A name change is also in the works. Next month, we'll be drinking and eating at The Bar at the Blaisdell Hotel, the name a nod to the old Chinatown building that was once a hotel and is now all kinds of things, including Carll's bar. "I wanted the name to reflect the atmosphere that I'm going for," said Carll.
Old-timey swank with swagger—in a divey, speakeasy kind of way.
The new drink menu, with its aptly named cocktails, like The Poolboy, The Concierge and The Bell Hop, is the best kind of drink menu: chock full of boozy cocktails that taste fancy but aren't dainty. Our favorites: The Provocateur with fresh-pressed grapefruit and lime juices, Patron tequila and a li hing lemon wedge; and the Pool Boy, an ultra drinkable blend of fresh cucumbers, lime and mint. It's like a mojito, only better.
We would gladly stop in for the drinks alone, if Carll hadn't also created one of the best pizzas around. His corned beef hash and fried egg pizza is so simply brilliant that it's almost crazy. The thin, crisp crust seemed just barely brushed with a mild marinara sauce then spread with a layer of corned beef hash and topped in the very center of the pie with a perfectly cooked over easy egg. When he slices the 8-inch pizza, the tips of each piece get just enough of the silky, runny yolk and the whole experience is just perfect. We haven't stopped talking about it (and dreaming about it, and craving it) since. Not to be outdone by the corned beef hash-de-resistance, the other eight or 10 pizzas on the menu are also delicious. The smoked pork, made with Big Island pork and Nalo greens is a more-than-satisfying second choice.
Go to The Mercury Bar. Drink cocktails and eat pizza. Go on a Tuesday and get free bacon.
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What are the date ranges for silver nickels?
i've been hearing a lot lately in the podcast world about holding on to nickels as an investment since theyre still made of nickel and dont require any "sorting". anyone have any thoughts about this? it's portrayed like the silver back in 64. people say it's just a matter of time before they dump the nickel for a cheaper metal as the price of nickel continues to rise with other metals. is anyone doing this? any thoughts one way or the other? last i looked on coinflation nicels were valued right around .05 give or take .002
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Koehler, who is completing work on his Ph.D. at the Medical Neuroscience Graduate Program at the Indiana University School of Medicine in Indianapolis, reports, "For the last five years, I've been toiling away in a lab working with mouse embryonic stem cells. My project was to figure out how to take a ball of stem cells and turn it into parts of the inner ear using different protein and small molecule treatments. Thankfully, for my sanity, I was successful about a year ago and the resulting paper (is now published)."
In an email to Vanessa Fox, associate professor of biology, Koehler -- who majored in that subject -- adds, "This has been a major accomplishment and I just wanted to say thanks for being a great teacher and mentor to me during my time at DePauw. Without encouragement from my mentors I don't think I'd be where I am today."
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Things will gradually shift here from the Proboards forum, which shouldn't take too long because nobody has posted there in well over a month anyway. I will still hold onto it for a little while, but it will likely be deleted sometime in the near future.
The Sketch"book" shall live on in spirit...instead of being exclusive member-only content, it will simply be exclusive forum-only content. That was just a trick to try and move traffic in to the forum anyway...hopefully that won't be such a problem here.
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Jennifer Lopez has won a court order barring her first husband from making their sex life public — at least for a day.
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WASHINGTON -- Elvin Daniel, a "proud'' Republican and National Rifle Association member, gave tearful testimony Wednesday in favor of requiring background checks for all gun sales and taking guns out of the hands of abusive dating partners.
Daniel, who lost his sister, Zina, to domestic gun violence in a Brookfield, Wis., shooting in 2012, was joined by four other witnesses in the Senate Judiciary Committee's first-ever hearing on guns and domestic violence.
"Zina loved life. All she wanted to be was to be a good mother for her two daughters,'' said Daniel, as he tried to keep his emotions in check. "It has been nearly two years since Zina was murdered, and it is heartbreaking to know that our weak gun laws continue to allow dangerous abusers to buy guns without background checks.''
Zina Daniel's estranged husband, Radcliffe Haughton, had been served a permanent restraining order, which effectively prevented him from purchasing firearms. But gun-law loopholes allowed Daniel's husband to purchase a handgun through Armslist.com, an online site where private sellers are not required to perform background checks.
"To this day, I am convinced that the shooter deliberately bought the gun from an unlicensed seller because he knew he couldn't pass a background check -- and that if he hadn't been able to buy this gun, Zina would still be alive,'' Daniel said.
Roughly 40 percent of guns are processed without a background check, according to the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence.
Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., and Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., both have introduced bills in the Senate that would strengthen federal laws to keep guns away from domestic abusers.
Klobuchar's bill, the Protecting Domestic Violence and Stalking Victims Act of 2013, would expand a ban on possession and purchase of guns to abusive dating partners, convicted stalkers, and any form of intimate partner; while Blumenthal's bill would offer incentives and provide resources to states, encouraging them to take guns out of the hands of "dangerous people.''
"In most states, somebody subject to a temporary restraining order can lose access to his house, to his children and to his car, but under federal law he can still keep his guns,'' said Blumenthal. "Somebody might be considered too dangerous to see their son but not too dangerous to buy a handgun.''
Under federal law, abusers under a permanent restraining order are barred from purchasing guns, while those under a temporary order are not.
An estimated 48 women are shot to death by their intimate partner every month, according to Everytown for Gun Safety.
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., praised Klobuchar and Blumenthal for their efforts to "shine a light on the role of guns in domestic violence.''
But the other side of the gun debate was represented by Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, and panel witness Joyce Malcolm, a law professor at George Mason University.
"I think we can all agree that we have the same goals here,'' said Malcolm. "We are all concerned with protections (against) domestic violence and more generally public safety. I think the intention is there to do good, and protect women but I think both of these bills have the wrong approach.''
Klobuchar's bill, she said, is far too broad in its definition and would "net large numbers of innocent individuals'' for a misdemeanor crime, such as stalking. She then offered criticism of Blumenthal's bill which would "permit the seizure of firearms from anyone subject to a temporary restraining order.''
"Like the Red Queen says in `Alice in Wonderland,' `sentence first! Verdict afterwards,' '' said Malcolm.
Debby Tucker, executive director of the National Center on Domestic and Sexual Violence, flew to Washington with other gun-control advocates to attend the hearing.
"There are strategies that we can put in place that will increase safety without infringing on anyone that has good sense and is not using their guns to harm other people,'' said Tucker.
During the hearing, Blumenthal offered his gratitude for the witnesses and family members of victims of domestic gun violence.
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Cartera raised $12.2 million this month in a round of funding led by Venture Capital Fund of New England. Along with Cartera, startups such as Plink LLC, CardSpring and Mirth Inc. are gaining attention in the world of merchant deals.
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These loyalty programs, which reward buyers on top of any airline miles or points their credit cards already offer, are often cheaper than coupon providers, too. LivingSocial and Groupon, the biggest provider of daily discounts, typically take a 30 percent cut of a transaction, versus 5 percent to 15 percent when a loyalty-linked card is used. The competition adds to concerns facing Groupon, whose shares have tumbled 51 percent since its initial public offering in November.
Virtual Cash
Some loyalty programs let consumers get rewards of their choice such as cash back, discounts or virtual currency for games like Zynga Inc. (ZNGA)'s FarmVille. American Express Co. (AXP)'s Zynga Serve Rewards card allows fans to amass the currency when they shop and use it for the online game.
Virtual currencies are seen as a way to attract people in their 20s, said Ron Shevlin, a senior analyst at Aite.
"Zynga has a large portion of players who are highly engaged in their games," said David Messenger, executive vice president of online and mobile for American Express. "We can connect that online engagement with offline behavior."
Plink, a Denver, Colorado-based startup, has designed a loyalty program that lets users earnFacebook Inc. (FB)'s virtual currency by dining at more than 25,000 restaurants such as Burger King Corp. and Outback Steakhouse. CardSpring allows clients to build their own Web-based and mobile applications for cards that can deliver coupons, digital receipts and loyalty programs.
Frustrated Merchants
Mirth, whose program is currently in trials in New York, rewards frequent customers with a 3 percent discount on purchases whenever they swipe their cards at participating restaurants.
"A lot of merchants have voiced their frustration with deep discounts and deals," Jeremy Galen, Mirth's chief executive officer, said in an interview. "With us, you don't have to lower your price."
On June 19, online-payments startup Square Inc. also introduced a loyalty program, letting small businesses offer rewards to customers who swipe credit cards through its handheld readers.
Increased competition may further damp analysts' expectations for Groupon. The Chicago-based company in March reported a "material weakness" in its financial controls and said fourth-quarter results were worse than previously stated because of higher refunds to merchants.
Repeat Business
A survey earlier this year by Susquehanna Financial Group and daily-deal aggregator Yipit showed that about half of businesses that had offered an online deal-of-the-day weren't planning to do so again in the following six months. Merchants were concerned about a low rate of repeat business from new customers gained through such offers, the survey found.
"We continue to question whether Groupon can sustain its high growth and begin to generate sizable profits while scaling back marketing costs," Edward Woo, an analyst at Ascendiant Capital Markets LLC, wrote in a May 15 note.
As a result, Groupon's IPO has been among the worst market debuts for a Web company since the dot-com crash. Closely held LivingSocial, whose backers include Amazon.com Inc., Lightspeed Venture Partners and AOL Inc. founder Steve Case, doesn't disclose sales or earnings figures.
Both LivingSocial and Groupon have started their own loyalty programs. LivingSocial introducedits first co-branded credit card with JPMorgan Chase & Co. in May. Cardholders can earn points that can be converted into DealBucks and used toward LivingSocial deals.
Rewards Program
Groupon's Rewards program, which gives consumers points for shopping at participating companies with a registered credit card, was rolled out nationwide at the end of the first quarter.
"We are signing up hundreds of merchants every week, and have hundreds of thousands of customers on this platform," said Jay Hoffman, vice president and general manager of the Rewards program. "The adoption has been incredible."
Still, some business owners view rival loyalty programs as a better investment than daily deals.
"With Groupon, it's a one-time offer — it doesn't last," New York baker Avezzano said. Customer numbers at Eileen's Special Cheesecake have jumped 18 percent since the shop started using Cartera's loyalty technology a year ago, she said.
Article Source: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-06-26/groupon-challenged-by-startups-in-doling-loyalty-cards.html


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There has not been any announcement as of yet that suggests what Google aims to do with the technology, but this potentially could have a knock-on effect within search results for the highly competitive insurance arena for both PPC and SEO.
We have already seen that Google is not afraid to beat advertisers at their own game with the inclusion of the "comparison ad" box above searches for credit cards in the UK.
The comparison ad box is served by Google and sits at the very top of the page, pushing PPC and SEO results down an extra position. For those that work in this space know, the drop in Click-Through-Rates on these sorts of terms can be quite substantial when you do not appear in those top positions.
The screen-shot below shows the "comparison ad" for "credit cards":
I have yet to see case studies that detail the full impact of these comparison ads on the rest of the market-place as Google have continuously played with the positioning and formating. However, if they are likely to repeat this process within the insurance space, then it is likely that we will see some form of complaint being made to the Competition Commission.
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A good use of $387m
Oracle will continue selling its own line of existing integration and SOA software to new customers instead of offering Java CAPs.
Java CAPs was the Integrated Composite Application Network (ICAN) enterprise application integration (EAI) suite Sun bought for $387m from SeeBeyond and promptly open sourced in the belief it could make a profit at the expense of proprietary EAI giants like IBM.
Meanwhile, Sun's Project Kenai code-hosting site- home to nearly 40,000 registered users - is being killed as a public offering. Launched in September 2008, Kenai was billed as different from SourceForge because it also offered social networking features to members.
Farrell said that Kenai wasn't quite working and that Oracle is bringing it in house, where it would use it, "flush it out," and add some features. Farrell said Oracle may re-release Kenai for public use if it finds some value in the project.
Kenai was one of the projects Sun's management urged employees to continue building in order to to stay motivated and chipper while Oracle's purchase was held up by European regulators.
Sun's Project Hudson is a lucky survivor of the acquisition: Hudson will be added to JDeveloper, to provide enhanced application lifecycle management capabilities.
Sun's open source was always of only selected interest to Oracle, which has a track record of evaluating products and keeping only those it considers better than its own.
As a Java middleware vendor, though, Java was one of the key assets in Oracle's $5.6bn Sun acquisition. Judging by the plan outlined by Oracle's executive vice president of product development Thomas Kurian on Wednesday, Oracle's extending Sun's existing work on Java by adding more manpower and money. Part of the reason for this is Oracle has inherited the chief-steward status of Java SE, Enterprise Edition, and Mobile Edition from Sun.
Kurian committed to continue existing efforts on Java SE around modularity, while also focussing on real-time monitoring and optimized garbage collection. Java EE, based on Java SE, will also see that existing work on modularity plus efforts to run dynamic languages in the VM.
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RG3 is money!
Steelers are playing not to get injured in this game. They have no intentions of trying to win it for pride.
Way to get your team fired up to play Tomlin!
Now Polamalu decides to play. Thanks for your help Troy...NOT.
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When ABC's The Gates premiered, the early marketing made it look like Desperate Housewives, only with vampires. But as yesterday's episode showed, the series is actually going in a darker direction. We talked to stars Frank Grillo and Marisol Nichols.
The early promos for The Gates foregrounded Rhona Mitra's bored suburban housewife character, who's also a vampire who kills a contractor in the first episode. (And we weren't the only ones to make the Desperate Housewives connection from those promos.) But Mitra's character's struggle between being a good mom and draining the blood of the living is just one of the show's storylines.
Says Nichols:
When we first were doing the press, it was hard to break people from that idea. "No, this is not Desperate Housewives with vampires. But it was definitely compared to that in the beginning.
Adds Grillo:
I think it hurt the show. Because, you know, vampires are an easy sell. And they promo-ed the show, and geared it towards vampires, like Rhona. And it was unfair not only to them, but to the show. Becuase that was just an element of what the show is. People thought the show was going to be a certain thing, and when they didn't get it, there was disappointment.
Yesterday's episode focused more on other characters who are confronting their inner monsters — including Frank Grillo's cop, Nick Monohan, who turns out to have shot an unarmed man in cold blood. And with Nick discovering the truth about The Gates' supernatural inhabitants, the show can finally start to tell some more interesting stories about a cop keeping the peace in a community of monsters, and asking some more metaphysical questions.
Grillo says that now that Nick knows about the monsters, it'll make it a lot easier to buy into his character. "The audience has a problem with my character, I think, because the audience knows more than my character. It's always tough thing for a character in a show when the audience knows more than them." And Grillo doesn't think that the fact that Nick deliberately shot a man he believed was a rapist will turn off audiences — people often root for vigilantes in TV and movies, after all. But when Nick confesses he knew the rapist wasn't armed, Nichols says you can see her character, Sarah Monohan, thinking to herself that her husband is a monster.
Now that Nick knows about the supernatural creatures in the gated community, "the show turns on its axis," says Grillo. The show is changing from what it's been for the first four episodes to "what it's going to be for the rest of the season." Nick will keep making new weird discoveries, episode after episode — until he starts to wonder just what The Gates are the gates to. Do these gates lead someplace? Also, now that Nick knows that immortality is possible and all these other mythical things are real, how does that change his worldview?
Adds Grillo, "I hope the audience sticks around for a while, because the show gets so good from this episode on."


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"Disagreeing has never been so much fun!"
The US Congress will be voting on the Protect IP Act of 2011 (PIPA) and the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) next week. Are these bills a good thing or do they threaten what will ultimately lead to the censorship of the internet?
PROTECT IP / SOPA Breaks The Internet from Fight for the Future on Vimeo.


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Tuesday, August 4, 2009
Garden Status at 9 Weeks
Our Anaheim pepper plants are growing tall. This one and one other are about two feet high, two others are smaller but doing well, one other is still quite small but blooming. The small one doesn't get much sun and is now being crowded by zucchini, kale, and mint.
An Anaheim pepper, green and growing.
This green mass is a tangled affair of two tomato plants with one large zucchini plant behind them.
The current generation of tomatoes, red and ripening.
The next generation of tomatoes, green and still growing.
The third generation of tomotoes, just blooming.
The zucchinis will hopefully grow a little bigger than this. Some small ones turned yellow and wilted - I presume their flowers didn't get pollenated.
A zucchini flower.
Hopefully the ants inside the zucchini flowers are doing something useful like contributing to pollenation.
One of our darned cabbage butterflies - there seem to be half a million of them.
They flit around from leaf to leaf, leaving little tiny eggs everywhere. The eggs become green caterpillars, which can destroy the inner leaves of our red kale. Otherwise, the red kale is doing well, growing like crazy.
This is a yellow jacket, or other waspy-type bug - and I'm hoping it's eating lots of caterpillar eggs and some tiny caterpillars.
Chocolate mint! Yay!
The marigolds have gotten quite large in the front row of the garden. They may have some effect on the location of butterfly egg-laying practices: possibly the front two kales have had fewer caterpillars on them. Possibly. So I'm not sure if they've helped with keeping pests out of the garden. They do add a lot of color, though.
Date and time of photos: August 4, 2009, at 12:30 pm.
4 comments:
- Cath@VWXYNot? said...
We had the first of our big tomatoes yesterday and it was phenomenal. The cherry toms have been great too. No zucs yet, but lots of other squash!
- Tuesday, August 4, 2009 at 3:56:00 PM PDT
- Silver Fox said...
So far, our toms haven't been very large, but they sure are good!
- Tuesday, August 4, 2009 at 4:00:00 PM PDT
- Julia said...
Hurrah for the chocolate mint!! And those toms are looking great. Mine never ripened last year, but at least I was able to make green tomato chutney from my great grandmother's recipe. We've been buying courgettes (it's British - or French - for zucchini!) from our local farm shop and they're yummy.
- Wednesday, August 5, 2009 at 8:11:00 AM PDT
- Silver Fox said...
I suspect we'll have some green tomatoes at the end of the season - whenever that is. It takes 5 weeks of ground temps of 65 to 70 degrees (or more) to ripen tomatoes. I don't know how long our summer heat will last.
We'll have fried green tomatoes, and maybe try something like the chutney you made.
Now, where is my recipe for chocolate mint tea? :)
- Wednesday, August 5, 2009 at 1:56:00 PM PDT


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Every citizen must have complete confidence in the integrity of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission; otherwise, our ability to act in the public interest will be compromised. Therefore, each FERC employee must demonstrate ethical conduct by complying with all relevant Federal statutes and rules, including those set forth in the Commission's and the Office of Government Ethics' regulations. Each employee is responsible for knowing the ethics rules and for behaving ethically. Ignorance is no defense.
Major Ethics Requirements
A FERC employee:
Information and Communications
- May not disclose nonpublic information, including draft orders and internal discussions, to the public.
- Must follow the guidelines on Accessing and Handling Nonpublic Information.
- May not disclose the nature or the time of any proposed action by the Commission to anyone outside the Commission.
- Must adhere to the rules on prohibited off-the-record communications, including but not limited to, (1) not discussing the merits of a contested proceeding with anyone outside the Commission and (2) following the procedures for placing prohibited and exempt communications in the record.
- Must adhere to the rules on communications between decisional and non-decisional staff members.
- May not accept (1) a gift from any person, company, or organization that is regulated by, does business before or with, or whose interests are otherwise affected by FERC, or (2) a gift given because of the employee's position at the agency.
- Such gifts include, but are not limited to, meals, transportation, lodging, and tickets, as well as free or reduced tuition or attendance at industry-sponsored events (seminars, conferences, receptions, etc.).
- This rule applies to any donor, not just regulated companies. It also applies to environmental site reviews.
- There are some exceptions. An employee may accept an unsolicited gift of $20 or less per source per occasion, subject to a $50 annual limit. An employee may generally not accept any other gift absent a determination from the Designated Agency Ethics Official (DAEO) that another exception applies. Note: an employee may not make that determination on his or her own. Also, absent a generic decision by the DAEO, permission that one employee may attend an event does not apply to anyone else unless so determined by the DAEO.
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1ERA MUESTRA INTERNACIONAL DE ARTE CORREO Y POESIA VISUAL DE PUERTO RICOThis Blog will be for documentation and Catalog for the 1rst International Poetry Visual and Mail Art Exhibition of Puerto Rico 2010. Under the theme: STOP CHILD ABUSE NOW
Theme Stop Child Abuse Now
Size Postcard only A4 - 5"x 6" (105 x 148 MM) maximum.
Limitations Two artwork by artists
Technique free
Deadline January 15, 2010
Exhibition This is a traveling exhibition
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Conditions All artworks will be exhibited and no returns.Will be archived in the Collection of Caribbean Center of Art Mail and Visual Poetry
Send Edwin Velázquez / Coordinator
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San Juan Puerto Rico 00910
The abuse of children is a serious public health problem. In
Estimated annually, abuse is responsible of thousands of deaths of infants and children in the world. According to the Organization Global health in the year 2000 there were a few 57000 global deaths attributed to murders of children under the age of 15. However, studies has shown that deaths from abuse are much more frequent that what indicate official records. On the other hand, infants and children under the age of 4 years are at greater risk of becoming victims of homicides. The first cause of death by physical abuse is trauma to the head, followed by trauma to the abdomen.
Abuse is associated with health problems Physical length of life: problems in speech, psychomotor retardation, seizures, Visual and auditory problems, obesity, cardiac infarction chronic lung problems and cancer. Also associated with problems of behavior and mental health: aggressiveness, attention deficit problems learning and behaviour of high risk as the use of cigarettes, alcohol or drugs, promiscuity, suicidal ideation, and juvenile delinquency. If not stopped, the cycle of abuse continues through the generations.
Risk factors
Abuse occurs in families of all socio-economic levels. Is most commonly reported in families of few resources because they attend public services, and can be exposed to situations of crisis more frequently. Most parents not they are mentally ill or have criminal history.
There are risk factors predispose the child and his family live situations of abuse. The preterm infants, unwanted, difficult temper, late psychomotor or impediments are at greater risk of abuse. Mothers teenagers, parents with history of abuse in childhood, with problems of alcohol or drugs, or untreated mental illness are at risk of liable to abuse. The risk of abuse increases in families where there is couple, that are dysfunctional violence (live crisis in crisis) and that lack of support networks.
There are also precipitating, events that occur immediately before the incident of abuse, such as: crying persistent, accidents in using the bathroom or toilet training, learning or situation causing nuisance. Unlike the sexual abuse and abuse in the medical setting (also known as Münchausen Syndrome by Proxy) (or Münchausen syndrome by power), which are planned, physical abuse usually occurs when the adult suddenly loses control.
On the other hand, there are factors protect the child and his family. In children's intelligence and the prosociales skills are important factors. Hand parents, the risk of abuse decreases when possess adequate parenting skills and discipline and/or they have a strong support network.
Snippet of text in the text the role of the "El" "role of the doctor suspected abuse of a child" published in Galenus Magazine for Puerto Rico medical in http://www.galenusrevista.com/El-rol-del-medico-cuando-se Brenda Mirabal MD, MPH, FAAP specialist paediatric, Professor, Department of Pediatrics, school of medicine, RCM, UPR.Directora programme Biosicosocial RCM for abused children. Rights reserved the author.


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Indego's co-inventor says WKU engineering prepared him well for career
- Author: Friday, August 2nd, 2013
A co-inventor of the Indego, a lightweight wearable robot, credits WKU's Department of Engineering with providing the hands-on, real world training to develop cutting edge technologies.
Dr. Ryan Farris, a 2007 mechanical engineering graduate, is Engineering Manager for the Human Motion and Control unit at Cleveland-based Parker Hannifin Corp. Farris earned his Ph.D at Vanderbilt University where he worked with another graduate student and a faculty member to develop the powered exoskeleton now called the Indego.
Farris noted it was his undergraduate work at WKU that prepared him for graduate school and for a career.
"My experience at WKU was a great one all around," said Farris, who grew up near Cynthiana. "From the freshman year on, we were doing real projects and learning real project management skills."
Farris said Dr. Chris Byrne and other WKU engineering faculty members brought their professional experience into the classrooms and laboratories and "taught us to be professional engineers."
"What I observed in Ryan Farris was an ability to seize opportunities to produce results," said Dr. Byrne, professor of mechanical engineering. "He had many such opportunities and he never failed to impress those he worked with or for. The research opportunities in the mechanical engineering laboratories provided him some visibility to the joys of generating new ideas, information and new devices."
"At WKU, engineering professors taught you what you were capable of," Farris said.
For Farris, that meant looking for ways to apply mechanical engineering skills for designing products that would improve the lives of others. "I wanted to think about the future, and the engineering program at WKU was structured to help me do just that," he said.
"Ryan's experience at WKU gave him insight and experience in the many facets of research and product development," Dr. Byrne said. "He added to this education during summer internships where he designed, built and installed manufacturing assembly lines. This furthered his experience and abilities to create new devices and systems. By the time Ryan completed his mechanical engineering degree, he had gained as much experience in engineering as one might expect from several years of full-time work experience."
During internships at area industries, Farris worked on several projects including the design of industrial automation equipment. "I was an engineer doing real work," he said. "Those experiences really defined where I was going."
His first stop after graduating from WKU was as an engineering research assistant at Vanderbilt University. As part of his master's degree program, Farris worked on a project to develop a clutch/brake mechanism for medical devices. His doctoral research with Dr. Michael Goldfarb and others in Vanderbilt's Center for Intelligent Mechatronics resulted in the Indego.
The Indego allows individuals with severe spinal cord injury to walk and enhances rehabilitation for people who have suffered a stroke. Parker Hannifin has licensed the technology and is working to further develop and test the system before a commercial launch of the product.
Farris expects to spend the next few years working to bring the Indego to market and hopes that thousands of individuals with walking impairments will soon be aided by this technology and others that are being developed by Parker's Human Motion and Control unit.
"Ryan's time at WKU was one of productivity and growth," Dr. Byrne said. "While he may not have fully realized it at the time, his trajectory was one that was destined for advanced study leading to a position where he could contribute at the highest levels. He is now an international leader in robotic systems for augmenting human movement. His passion for creating new ideas and devices was fostered while at WKU and has led him to a rewarding career."
Read more about the Indego technology at www.indego.com.
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Occupy London Petition: Government Responsibilities for Housing
The Economics Working Group of OLSX/Occupy London have developed a Community Housingdocument to address the many relevant and associated issues. This activity has been supported by the GA of OLSX/OL and after final approval by GA, this petition was delivered by Tammy Samede, Dave Dewhurst and Chris FD to No 10 Downing Street on the Weds. 4th July, to coincide with a demonstration to highlight the absent, or at best regressive, policies of successive governments on Housing.
Dear Mr. Cameron and Mr Clegg,
Occupy London Petition Re: Government Responsibilities for Housing
We are delivering this petition on behalf of Occupy London. As representatives of the Economics Working Group of OL, we are the signatories of this document, acting on behalf of the OL General Assembly which approved both its principles and its content at its meeting of 23rd June 2012.
It is difficult to argue against the general and particular merits of the initiative proposed, this taking account of the acute crisis in housing which is generally acknowledged by all those working in the sector. While this policy has been developed independently by the Economics Working Group of Occupy London, it both reflects, and draws upon, a variety of suggested policy initiatives which would seem to enjoy wide and urgently felt support from a majority of professionals with an interest in the field.
The imperative need for a stimulus for the economy is impossible to overstate, and this agenda provides the best possible place to start. It is clear that blind adherence to housing policies that have been shown to be both ineffective and economically disastrous over an extended period has nothing but continuing social damage to offer to the people or economy of our country, either in the short or longer term.
We understand that you will find it difficult to avoid engaging with the issues raised other than on the basis of spurious and outmoded economic ideology. However, we look forward to prompt 'real world' action to address this fundamental and as yet outstanding duty to the country whose people you lay claim to represent.
Yours Sincerely
Tammy Samede, Dave Dewhurst and Chris FD
On behalf of Occupy London
A Community Housing Policy Fit for Purpose
Housing is the third most fundamental of human needs after water and food and it is therefore a matter of grave concern in a supposedly civilised democracy that there has been nothing resembling a responsible policy on this front for more than 30 years.
Such policy as there is, in combination with the self evident and profound failure of ongoing economic ideology, is central to substantial under-provision and un-affordability of housing. Of much greater importance in the broader context has been the permissive complicity of UK and other governments in the manipulation by the banks and financial sector in such way as to position property speculation at the epicentre of the near, and still threatened, collapse of the world economy.
Wilful complicity of successive governments in such regressive policies is undeniable, and fundamental reappraisal is necessary. The need for the development of policies fit for civilised society in the 21st century is inescapable, and any ideological reservations should be tempered by the social and fiscal benefits.
In immediate terms, it has been stated that the current under provision equates with an approximate outstanding need for 2 million homes for 5 million people. The profound social message of this is compounded by the fact that the cost of rental or purchase has spiralled out of control. The combination with long term economic downturn or depression and 'regressive' policies in respect of welfare legislation (2011) and security of tenure is resulting in intolerable strains upon the rental market in particular (reflected, for example, in recent housing policy issues in the Borough of Newham). Prices verge upon, and are breaking through, the barrier of un-affordability of both private and 'social housing' rentals, with mounting alarm in all relevant and concerned quarters and consequent upsurge of local activism.
Current ineffectual short term initiatives will do nothing of significance to address the a crisis born of the fundamental failure of extant economic ideology, and the 'more of the same' policy will simply fuel the unsustainable distortion of the housing market in the longer term.
Further emphasis of the projected escalation of these problems is provided by a study from the Cambridge Centre for Housing and Planning Research. In this is the prediction that, on the assumption that un-affordability driven by the current market model is unchanged, dependency upon rented accommodation may increase to affect something approaching of 40% of all households by 2025. Such rental housing will, on the basis of the current escalation of distorted market forces, be even more unaffordable than at present.
There is an absolute need for a plan to rectify the lack of social and economic viability of the current situation. A plan should be developed and administered in the spirit of localism that the current government has purported to espouse with recent legislation.
It is proposed that the government should embark upon a major project of new-build Community Housing, with particular emphasis upon 'starter homes'. Such housing will be of highest quality, environmentally sound and socially integrated. The model should be independent of the inflationary potential of private sector finance, and have the aim of providing accommodation with rents which fall within income related affordability; tenure should be secure, within realistic constraints.
We suggest apportionment of something of the order of £20-30 billion a year as funding for new-build of approximately 200,000 new Community homes a year. This would provide one million new homes over five years and go some way to redress the current under provision of housing. This will begin to address the increasing demand for rental accommodation as an inevitable counterpoint to the un-affordability of owner occupancy.
Such a Community housing policy will be a first step, reflecting a tradition of truly affordable housing which is well established in other highly developed social economies, such as seen, with long term sustainability, in Germany. The policy in no way discourages owner occupation, but would be hoped to counter the speculative aspects and potential profiteering of the rental housing market.
We note that there are important additional issues such as long term vacant properties, estimated at 80,000 in London alone, and in excess of 700,000 for the country as a whole. There is a widely recognised and urgent need for an aggressive policy and adequate funding to ensure that all such housing and that in need of refurbishment is brought back into occupancy.
Another important concern is in respect of the regulation of the private rental sector. The matter which we would particularly emphasise is the socially unacceptable lack of security of tenure. We find the current legislation on this to be flawed and would urge the development of more socially compliant legislation to be informed by a constructive review under the auspices of a wide ranging public enquiry. This is also a matter of urgency.
It has been suggested that infrastructure projects could be funded through QE, although, when challenged about this in respect of Community housing, Sir Mervyn King dodged the question with the inappropriate response that it is a political question, whereas the question in fact concerns economic feasibility. Whatever the case, it is patently clear that despite £325 billion of QE the economy is in double dip recession, and QE has been little more than a bonus for the bailed out banking system, and something that should not, in principle, be supported.
We note the new variation upon this 'more of the same' policy, with the recent more adventurous initiative of approx. £100 billion underwritten 'Loans for banks' from the Bank of England at lower than market rates, with the absolute requirement that this money is directed to MSEs. While such policies show complicity with a system that is in manifest failure, if they are to be used, it would seem most appropriate that this should in part be for the initiative outlined here.
The short and medium term benefits for the economy will have the particular advantage of being largely predictable, in contrast to the nail hanging uncertainty intrinsic to the hope of a re-birth of the 'confidence' factor. The initiative will be in keeping with the increasing call for fiscal stimulation (post austerity measures), and may, with good fortune, act as a 'kick start'. This will also bring major and sorely needed benefits for the severely depressed construction industry.
Alternatively, funding could be raised through 10, 20 or 30 year government bond issues, with inducements such as security against inflation. Yet another somewhat elusive source of funding might be found in outstanding tax revenues. In the longer term, the introduction of a well crafted scheme for land value taxation would not only levy revenue to support such 'infrastructure' initiatives, but would also contribute to the development of much needed policies of progressive taxation.
Funding would either be channelled directly to local authorities or via a designated organ of State.
The policy would be delivered through localism planning, and would involve the exploration of community land trusts and a variety of co-operative models, to develop the most effective ways of minimising the land price component of build cost. This could be most readily achieved in respect of public land, but it would also be important to develop a deleveraged model for private land (?controlled inflation linked ground rent). Rentals would service the debt.
It will be appropriate to encourage imaginative exploration of other models with the help of NGOs and other contributors in the field. Such models will embody the principle of true affordability and financial viability. In the longer term, while the exploratory development logistics will be challenging, the introduction of a formula to embrace the progressive fiscal benefits of a scheme of land value taxation would have the additional merit of a constructive socio-economic adjustment of land valuation.
We believe the general detail of policy expressed in this advisedly brief document to be suitably informed through sound principles of both economic and social pragmatism. The depth and breadth of associated practicalities should be informed through imaginative exploratory development. Occupy London and the Economics Working Group will hope to engage with this challenge and act as a conduit for additional progressive ideas to enhance the development of such a programme.
The social benefits and economic merits of such a programme are highly persuasive and would resonate with the needs of our social economy for a generation.
We are calling for the building of 200,000 Community homes a year at truly affordable rents, achieved with a fully imaginative programme fit for an advanced society in the 21st Century. These should be of high quality in the comprehensive spirit of social, environmental and sustainable design. This will result in the creation of 1 million new 'units' over five years.
Faced with an evolving crisis in housing, it is difficult to find any persuasive argument against such a programme. This not only gives the opportunity to begin to redress the profound failure of housing policies, but also guarantees predictable generation of internal economy activity when all else has failed.
The funding and land value issues of this project are not a matter of feasibility but of will, driven by social and fiscal responsibility.
This overall plan has natural echoes with many who have been greatly concerned with these issues, and some of the narrative inevitably reflects certain policy suggestions of others. We are grateful for the comments and advice we have received. This initiative from Occupy stems from the major concerns that we have encountered in the wider community, along with the undeniable need for a programme to reverse long term serial neglect and mismanagement and address both the social and profound economic implications of housing policy. .


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Regretfully, I am still a Human 2.0 that has - as opposed to the current version Human 4.0 - only have internet access when I am at home or at work (but then, I am supposed to work). Therefore I was not online at 18gmt.Cornflakes_91 wrote: ↑Fri Jun 08, 2018 12:22 amRemind me at ~1800GMT, when im hopefully back home from work
Perhaps this late reminder will find you during the week end and sitting in front of an adequate device?
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In a previous blog entitled Network Infrastructure Visibility and Analytics with Data Streaming, we discussed the theory and operations behind using data streaming to provide network visibility and analytics. That article also detailed how SLX products support data streaming.
Here, we'll detail a concrete example of how you can build a complete solution using SLX products and two collectors configured in Splunk Enterprise. One collector provides an interface profile and the other provides a system profile.
Many of our enterprise customers are focused on operational capabilities and best practices around reporting from their network elements, and using this demo is a great way to bootstrap that effort. The plugins to Splunk Enterprise can be found in this GitHub link so you can evaluate the effort involved, or implement it in your own lab.
Background and Purpose of Streaming
Data streaming allows you to collect real time data to support this, and does so in a much more continuous and useful manner than traditional collection methods such as SNMP.
This data can then be analyzed to get a clear picture of the state of the system through parameters such as CPU and memory usage, security breaches, interface usage, and changes to logical topology. This analysis can in turn be used by automation tools for auto-remediation.
What is Being Demonstrated?
The intent of the telemetry/analytics example discussed here is as follows:
Fulfilling the third goal involves:
Streaming to a Client Collector
As described in Network Infrastucture Visibility and Analytics and Data Streaming, Extreme provides two models of streaming; data can be streamed to a collector, or a gRPC client can request data which is then pushed at desired intervals to the client. This demo uses the collector model (Figure 1), wherein the network element itself (an SLX 9540) acts as a client and streams data to the desired collector over TCP.
Figure 1: Collector Model Showing Two Collectors
In this example, we configure two collectors providing information such as IP address, TCP/UDP ports for connectivity, the streaming interval, and a telemetry profile to identify which data to stream to the collector.
Splunk Collection, Analysis, and Reporting
After the Splunk collector receives the data, it performs necessary conversions on it (to JSON, for instance) so that Splunk can understand it. Then the collector delivers the converted payload into Splunk. At that point, a search application in Splunk can view the data in its raw form.
Splunk users can then create specific reports and dashboards (Figure 2) to view the data in useful formats.
Figure 2: Defining Reports and Dashboards
The reports shown here can give, at a point in time:
And dashboards are available so you can continually see:
Sample Reports for Memory and Traffic Flow
Reports with multiple attributes give you more information at a single glance. For instance, in the following report (Figure 3), cache memory and total free memory (at points in time) are plotted on the same graph.
Figure 3: Cached Memory and Free Memory Shown Over Time
To analyze activity on the data plane, a report that allows you to see traffic flow on different interfaces is extremely useful. In the following dashboard (Figure 4), you can choose different interfaces and time periods.
Figure 4: Traffic Flow on Selected Interfaces
Both received (InOctets) and sent (OutOctets) traffic counters are plotted.
Next Steps: New Reports, Event Logs, Automation
We are continually enhancing this integration to show new reports and dashboards, including more detailed throughput information, errored and discarded packets, and event logging to help with auditing and analytics. Additionally, data streaming will continue to be enhanced in the future to stream new attributes to address various use cases.
Finally, Workflow Composer integration can be used for event-based automation tied to analytics of the streamed data (Figure 5).
Figure 5: Workflow Composer Integration
As an event-based automation engine, Workflow Composer can accept events from the collection unit (SLX in this case) or analytics engine (Splunk in this case) and can run workflows for automation actions. These could include remediation actions to the SLX element.
A typical way to set up a remediation stream would be to use triggering events from Splunk. For example, you might first forward all logs to Splunk, then trigger events when specific patterns are matched.
You can do this by creating a saved search in Splunk, and configuring it to send a webhook request to StackStorm when that event matches. After that, you would configure StackStorm to run a workflow when that event occurs. See here for a walkthrough example.
Workflow Composer can also be used to statically or dynamically configure the data streaming parameters on SLX. For example, on the occurrence of an event, Workflow Composer could tell the SLX element to start streaming specific data.
You can contact your Extreme account representatives or systems engineers for more information, or optionally you can find the code to integrate SLX Insight with Splunk Enterprise here.
The post Integrating SLX Telemetry Streaming with Splunk Enterprise appeared first on Brocade.
This post was originally published by Product Marketing Director Alan Sardella.


text: Thursday, December 29, 2011 Foundation-Funded Researcher's Study Featured on Newswires Alzheimer Disease biomarkers and a low body mass index (BMI) are linked in the development of the disease, according to a study led by APTA member Eric Vidoni, PT, PhD, and recently published in Neurology. The study was mentioned in the online editions of US News & World Report, CBS News, and CNN Health. Vidoni was the recipient of a 2009 New Investigator Fellowship Training Initiative (NIFTI) postdoctoral research fellowship from the Foundation for Physical Therapy, which provided partial funding for the study. For this study, Vidoni and colleagues analyzed cross-sectional data from participants enrolled in the Alzheimer Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI) with PET imaging using Pittsburgh Compound B (PiB, n = 101) or Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) analyses (n = 405) for β-amyloid peptide (Aβ) and total tau. They assessed the relationship of CSF biomarkers and global PiB uptake with BMI using linear regression controlling for age and sex. They also assessed BMI differences between participants who were and were not considered biomarker positive. Finally, they assessed BMI change over 2 years in relationship to Alzheimer Disease biomarkers. According to their findings, no dementia, mild cognitive impairment (MCI), and Alzheimer Disease groups were not different in age, education, or BMI. In the overall sample, CSF Aβ (β = 0.181), tau (β = −0.179), tau/Aβ ratio (β = −0.180), and global PiB uptake (β = −0.272) were associated with BMI, with markers of increased Alzheimer Disease burden associated with lower BMI. Fewer overweight individuals had biomarker levels indicative of pathophysiology. These relationships were strongest in the MCI and no dementia groups. Vidoni's 2-year Foundation funded NIFTI research fellowship supported work on his project titled "Cardiorespiratory Fitness and Executive Function in Early Alzheimer's Disease," which was completed at the University of Kansas (KU) Medical Center. He recently received a KL2 Career Development Award, and currently acts as the assistant director of KU's Alzheimer Disease Center, a designated National Alzheimer Disease Center by the National Institutes of Health, as well as a research assistant professor in the Department of Neurology at the University of Kansas Medical Center.


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Michael Jackson The Immortal World Tour
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This event occurred in the past.
This Cirque du Soleil show combines Michael Jackson's music and lyrics with riveting visuals and dance.
According to the show's website the story takes place in a fantastical realm where we discover Michael's inspirational Giving Tree -- the wellspring of his creativity.
The show is written and directed by Jamie King.
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Goodell comfortable with replacement refs
GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) -- With no end in sight to the labor dispute between the NFL and its officials, commissioner Roger Goodell said Wednesday that he is comfortable with the idea of using replacement officials in preseason games.
Goodell said he doesn't think using officials with less experience will pose a safety risk to players.
"That's why we've been training them for the last two months and why they're on the field now, is to make sure they're prepared, they understand the rules," Goodell said during a visit to Green Bay's training camp.
Replacement officials were on the field during practice Wednesday and are expected to stay in Green Bay through Friday's "Family Night" scrimmage. The Hall of Fame Game between the Arizona Cardinals and New Orleans Saints is Sunday.
Members of the NFL Referees Association were locked out in June after talks broke down.
"We are in discussions with them," Goodell said. "We've had discussions recently. Hopefully we'll have more discussions with them in the near future. But as you can see, we're preparing for the season and we will have officials on the field. We hope that the officials from last season will be on the field again this year but to date, we haven't been able to get an agreement that makes sense for both parties."
Goodell said the main emphasis in negotiations from the league's perspective was to find ways to improve officiating.
"We proposed an idea where we could have another 21 officials so we could help train them and have a deeper pool of officials and be able to potentially move them in and out," Goodell said. "And that's something that we're discussing with the officials. But the whole issue is, how do we continue to improve the officials?"
The purpose for the proposed pool of additional officials hasn't been clearly defined, but it could become a way for the league to promote and demote officials based on their performance.
Goodell said the league also has offered officials a pay raise as part of negotiations.
"Of course, they're interested in compensation and benefits, we understand that," Goodell said. "We've made a proposal we think is fair, with an increase. It's five to 11 percent per official. We think we've been responsive on that, and hopefully we can get something done."
Packers coach Mike McCarthy says he doesn't have any concerns about the use of replacement officials.
"To me it's something that everybody has to deal with," McCarthy said. "(Supervisor of officials) Ed Coukart is here with the new officials, they worked practice today. We will spend some time tomorrow with the officials in our meetings as we have done annually. We're just moving forward. We're getting ready to play games and it's a business issue. As we know from the past, those things will get worked out, and we're just focused on our football team."
Packers players generally seemed unaware of the ongoing labor dispute or the presence of replacement officials; the team usually has a group of local officials, generally with high school experience, present during practice.
"I really don't pay much attention to those guys, other than the fact that I noticed none of them looked familiar," guard T.J. Lang said. "Talking about the refs, I don't really know what their situation is, so I can't really speak on that. But whoever they have in there, I'm sure they're going to get them coached up."
Joked linebacker Desmond Bishop, "I had no idea about that. I was too focused on John Madden out there."
The former Raiders coach and broadcasting icon also was at practice Wednesday.
Goodell also was asked about recent comments from Packers president and CEO Mark Murphy, who said at last week's shareholders meeting that he couldn't support an 18-game regular season schedule because of health and safety concerns.
"We haven't had any discussion about it," Goodell said. "Our view was, we were going to have to go through a full cycle of the offseason, training camp. We'll obviously be done with that shortly and then we'll get back to really analyzing it and trying to say, 'What are the positives and negatives about it?'"
Goodell said he was not sure if the league has received an application for reinstatement from former Packers defensive lineman Johnny Jolly, who is suspended indefinitely for violations of the league's substance abuse policy.
And with three Packers players -- defensive linemen Anthony Hargrove and Mike Neal, along with linebacker Erik Walden -- all facing league suspensions once the regular season starts, Goodell was asked whether he sees a trend developing from recent reports of player misconduct.
"Fortunately, the vast majority of our players are terrific," Goodell said. "They do the right things on and off the field. And that's what we encourage. We have rules, we have policies, we want to make sure those are held to the highest standards, because we think our fans deserve it. And so If there's a violation or there's a trend, there's consequences for that."


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Be&bo Manel B. Mercè B.-Untitled Design Chaise Longue
At Design Interviews
Interview with Be&Bo Manel B. Mercè B. : Frank Scott: What is the main principle, idea and inspiration behind your design?. Be&Bo Manel B. Mercè B. : The principle of our design was to harmonize a chaise longue seat design, our idea was the continuity of the lines of our sitting and inspiration was the sinuosity, throughout their perfect faces for the 6 sides of our design (top, bottom, front, back, and both sides). It was a daily work with all the staff at Be & Bo to achieve the existing piece, with a non doubt result. .Frank Scott: What has been your main focus in designing this work? Especially what did you want to achieve?. Be&Bo Manel B. Mercè B. : The main focus of this design was to achieve a comfortable and plastic image from all the points of view, gathering all aspects of ideal and perfect image, it was what we wanted to achieve. .Frank Scott: What are your future plans for this award winning design?. Be&Bo Manel B. Mercè B. : Our plans are to offer our design to an product design international publishing house , with international distribution, and manufacture by our staff and collaborators. .Frank Scott: How long did it take you to design this particular concept?. Be&Bo Manel B. Mercè B. : This design concept took us out about 3 weeks as to formal concept refers, 15 days more of further virtualizations that carries us to the next step, 6 weeks were necessary to make models of our design. We followed the most stressful point :manufacture ,testing resistance and constructive details, painting treatments and foam system for upholstery. .Frank Scott: Why did you design this particular concept? Was this design commissioned or did you decide to pursuit an inspiration?. Be&Bo Manel B. Mercè B. : It was a piece we wanted to design and from the first sketches we forecasted that it would be a beautiful design and although it was not easy nor cheap,we knew that it would overcome our most appealing design until the date. It has not been a custom design, it is totally our inspiration. .Frank Scott: Is your design being produced or used by another company, or do you plan to sell or lease the production rights or do you intent to produce your work yourself?. Be&Bo Manel B. Mercè B. : Our design is not producing or is being used by any company, our idea is that a company specializing in product design, might edit our design and product. .Frank Scott: What made you design this particular type of work?. Be&Bo Manel B. Mercè B. : The need to get a differentiated seat out of what is done so far. This object object, like chairs has a saturation of models, which add up and continue. Without any other purpose to become something more than a seat for framing. .Frank Scott: Where there any other designs and/or designers that helped the influence the design of your work?. Be&Bo Manel B. Mercè B. : Our generation from design school and its way of influencing and know all the myths and classic design world we see all kinds of classic and not so classic novelties, with all kinds of finishings such as steel tube, aluminum, plastic and others. .Frank Scott: Who is the target customer for his design?. Be&Bo Manel B. Mercè B. : Our design target customer is people who let themselves be surprised by good news and for those who like good design, and are not indifferent to design. .Frank Scott: What sets this design apart from other similar or resembling concepts?. Be&Bo Manel B. Mercè B. : The difference with other designs, it is that is handmade, understanding that behind each of the processes is a skilled person. .Frank Scott: How did you come up with the name for this design? What does it mean?. Be&Bo Manel B. Mercè B. : LA, Chaise Longue, once made our design and speaking without the need to name it, we decided to rename it with the article LA provided but with a coma, emphasising the typology seat. .Frank Scott: Which design tools did you use when you were working on this project?. Be&Bo Manel B. Mercè B. : We used the programs: Autocad autodesk, solidworks, 3ds max .Frank Scott: What is the most unique aspect of your design?. Be&Bo Manel B. Mercè B. : The smoothness of the curves that make this design a piece worth to be seen, this continuity of each curve makes the piece an exciting piece. .Frank Scott: Who did you collaborate with for this design? Did you work with people with technical / specialized skills?. Be&Bo Manel B. Mercè B. : We collaborate with our specialists in aluminum metal structures and processes of transformation: Llorigrafic We cooperate with treatment specialist surface preparation and finishing. Ph. Dr. Jose Antonio Ortega. We assist businesses paint treatments Apiliso We work with CUSO, a company for upholstery Special mention for Amaya Ortega, assistant English language translation. .Frank Scott: What is the role of technology in this particular design?. Be&Bo Manel B. Mercè B. : The particular technological process, always directed by a specialist has a technology called, handmade, in all its processes, although it could introduce technology to the fullest, although the initial investment costs would be much higher. From automated curved, curved and continuous welds, laser and wáter cutting processes of Xmm thick plate and assembly of each sheet. .Frank Scott: Is your design influenced by data or analytical research in any way? What kind of research did you conduct for making this design?. Be&Bo Manel B. Mercè B. : Further investigation was made to the designs resulting from possible materials to be used in this design, aluminum, abs, fiberglass, Rotomolding, rigid polyurethane injection Determined that all other processes required a higher investment initially, but less than the mass and industrialized production costs. .Frank Scott: What are some of the challenges you faced during the design/realization of your concept?. Be&Bo Manel B. Mercè B. : The challenges came when we had performed all the pieces by duplicate and obtain a 99.9% similarity in their replica since it is a symmetrical piece in the x axis, the replica of their curves would give a result of succesful appropriate design , then the process would lead to the junction of the faces. .Frank Scott: How did you decide to submit your design to an international design competition?. Be&Bo Manel B. Mercè B. : We read news platforms industrial design products, such as DESIGN BOOM, about this competition and we decided to compete. .Frank Scott: What did you learn or how did you improve yourself during the designing of this work?. Be&Bo Manel B. Mercè B. : I learned to know as the Aluminum and its proceses, the need for neatness and cleanliness when working it and welding, complications with less than 1.5mm thickness, polishing and cleaning of Aluminum in the welding points by ICT, as the manufacturing system works by casting of Aluminum. .
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Samantha Schultz
Samantha Schultz is a singer and songwriter from Edmonton, Alberta who started playing guitar at the age of 11. Her original songs fuse folk, blues, and soul, and her ability to deliver powerful live performances has earned her several honors, including being nominated in the Young Performer of the Year category at the 2006 Canadian Folk Music Awards, when she was only 14. At the age of 16, Schultz released her first album, Both Sides, consisting of 12 original songs. Schultz has performed at several popular music festivals in Canada—including two appearances at the Edmonton Folk Music Festival—and has opened for a long list of high-profile artists, including Jennifer Warnes, Ruthie Foster, and Lynn Miles. She began her Berklee studies through the Slaight Family Scholarship in fall 2009. She is a member of Pitch Slapped, an award-winning a capella group composed of Berklee students and alumni. She currently serves as assistant musical director of the group and will become musical director in fall 2012. Ink to Paper, her 2011 release, earned her two Edmonton Music Awards (Blues Album of the Year and Female Artist of the Year).


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Channel: Caliente
Title: "Fania Revolution with Salsa Icon Ismael Miranda"
Description: Fania Records, the legendary New York label that pioneered salsa, has often been called the Latin Motown and responsible of producing some of the biggest names in Salsa music history- Celia Cruz, Hector Lavoe, Ruben Blades, The Fania All Stars and many more. Only Caliente brings you another installment of this monthly show called, the "Fania Revolution" hosted by "Ismael Miranda". In this show, Ismael Miranda discusses working with some of his friends like Joey Pastrana, Willie Colon, Andy Montañez, and Justo Betancourt. Listen how he met each one of them, the experience of working and recording together. What role he played on each of the albums and personal anecdotes from those times. Who better to take you on the journey than salsa legend and Fania artist, Ismael Miranda! Listen to the stories and memories of this milestone moment in Latino music history as told through the eyes of the man who lived it.
Caliente Channel
On-Air Time: 7/04 @11AM (ET)
Rebroadcasts: 7/10 @ 9PM (ET)
Rumbon Channel
On-Air Time: 7/04 @2PM (ET)
Rebroadcasts: 7/09 @ 12PM (ET), 7/17 @ 10AM ET, 7/22 @ 6PM ET, 7/26 @ 10PM ET