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Drewsen, Merete; Lando, Henrik; Cummins, Tim (København, 2006)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: This is not a theoretical paper but an application of existing law and economic contract theory to the issue of how to draft a specific kind of contract. It is addressed to practitioners and is intended for practical use. It will be part of a Wiki (as in Wikipedia) for contract drafting, which IACCM (International Association for Contract and Commercial Management) has initiated. The main theoretical aspect of the article concerns the application of the value maximization principle (the Coase theorem) to the drafting of confidentiality agreements. While the article is not theoretical, its prescriptions are open to theoretical dispute; this may especially be the case for the section on the size of damages. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7250
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The Different Types of Home Insurance HO-1 to HO-8
People that are concerned with their house always try to do the best thing for it. You want to ensure the financial security of it in the event of disasters damages and other occurrences.
It is important that one should have home insurance to protect the expensive investment you have and provide security for any damages might occur to the house.
Here are the different types of home insurance:
- HO-1 Known as Basic Home Owners Insurance: This covers your dwelling and personal property against damages or losses including fire and lightening, theft, vandalism or malicious mischief and windstorm
- HO-2 Known as Basic Homeowners Insurance Plus: HO-1 is included in this kind of categories plus other damages such as falling objects, electrical surge damages, 3 categories of water related damages from utilities or appliances, weight of ice snow,
- HO-3 Known as Extended or Special Homeowners Insurance: 17 stated perils included in this categories of HO-2. This provides extensive coverage of your home like the structure and the content inside your house. This cover large area of your homeowners insurance also known as All Risk Policy.
- Ho-4 Known as Renter Insurance: This kind of insurance cover the personal property only from the 17 HO-2 perils in which this policy are highly recommended for people renting an apartment which is also called as Renter's Policy.
- HO-5 Known as All Risk: which covers building and the personal property and is something similar to HO-3 but it differs in terms which have better protection than HO-3. This cover larger area of damages or losses with wider boundaries that owners and its properties as well is liability that might arise from passer -by or outsider.
- HO-6 Known as Condominium Owners Insurance Coverage: This is designed for condominium owner's which covers personal property, building items, etc. and this provides protection for claims made for mishap or damages occur. Fire, thefts and other forms of loss that will occur in the future is included.
- HO-8 Known as Basic Older Home Coverage: Covers actual cash values or repairs in rebuilding cost and personal property where in this is designed for older house or so called historical house.
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text: World-famous DJ/mashup artist Girl Talk (a.k.a. Greg Gillis) has gone on record: he's a PC, and his sweatband may not be totally ironic. His "I'm a PC" short features a lot of his philosophies on music, which aren't so interesting, and his habit of taping Saran wrap to his computer during shows, which is sort of interesting. In between are shots of his live performances, which really are a ton of fun, and fleeting glimpses of sweaty yet colorful American Apparel. I'm a huge, unabashed, and unembarrassed Girl Talk fan, yet even I'm not sure that, like he says, "Software and computers are the most punk rock thing that's happened, ever." I think punk rock might actually hold that crown. But hey, Night Ripper was the unofficial dance party soundtrack for my entire fourth year at college, so whatever you say, dude. [YouTube]


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Last week I posted a tutorial on how to make a woven burlap table runner. This week, since I had so much left over material, I though I'd keep with the table set-up theme and post a few napkin ring tutorials using burlap as well.
Honestly, I have so many ideas for burlap napkin rings that this tutorial could go on forever, but here are just a few of my favorites.
#1 Beaded Burlap Napkin Ring
Supplies needed
Assorted size beads
Sewing machine
Hand sewing needle
Tape Measure
Step 1: Measure and cut your burlap to be 7.5 inches in length and 2.5 inches in width.
Step 2: Fold 1/4 of an inch around all edges and sew a straight stitch to prevent fraying.
Step 3: Thread your hand sewing needle and insert your first bead at the length-width intersection of your machine sewn stitch. You can see where I started on the left side of the burlap in the image below.
Step 4: Place and stitch down once side a random pattern of different size and color beads in groupings that are pleasing to you. Stop adding beads about an 1.5 inch before you reach the end of your burlap.
Step 5: Repeat on the other side.
Step 6: Fold top end over bottom end and hand stitch together. If you prefer, you can use some fabric glue to bind the ends together instead.
Step 7: Add some beads to your folded over area to complete and finish the look
And there you have it…your first napkin ring done!
#2 Braided Burlap Napkin Ring
Supplies needed
Embroidery floss
Sewing machine
Small office clip
Small plastic storage container
Tape Measure
Fabric glue
Step 1: Take 3 pieces of embroidery floss per desired color and cut them at 8″ in length. Tie them together with a regular knot. This means you will have 3 pieces per color for a total of 9 strings total.
Step 2: Use an office clip to secure your knotted embroidery floss somewhere so you can braid it. I use a small plastic storage container as shown below
Step 3: Braid your 3 colors of embroidery floss together.
Step 4: Tie a regular knot at the other end when you've completed your braid.
Step 5: Measure and cut your burlap at 7.5″ length and 2″ width.
Step 6: Insert one end of embroidery floss into top of the under side of your burlap and fold all four edges over at 1/2″ and machine sew a straight stitch.
Step 7: Repeat process for two more burlap & embroidery floss pieces. Machine sew all three piece together at the top with a straight stitch.
Step 8: Braid pieces together and machine sew bottom end together with a straight stitch.
Step 9: Hand sew or use fabric glue to bind the two end pieces together to form a ring. If your stitching is unsightly, use a small, clean piece of burlap to fold and glue over your stitching.
#3 Flower Applique Burlap Napkin Ring
Supplies Needed
Flower applique
Sewing machine
Hand sewing needle
Tape Measure
Fabric glue
Follow steps 1 & 2 of the Beaded Burlap Napkin Ring above.
Step 3: Place some fabric glue on the backside of your fabric flower applique.
Step 4: Glue flower to your stitched burlap piece.
Step 5: Fold top end over bottom end and hand stitch together. If you prefer, you can use some fabric glue to bind the ends together instead.
Repeat process for the desired number of rings you need for your setting and you are done!
All burlap used in this post came from BurlapFabric.com
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Police: Woman tried to burn down ex's house with bacon
Woman with the last name Crispi faces arson charges
A woman faces arson charges after police say she drunkenly started a fire in her ex-boyfriend's house with a pound of bacon and a lit burner.
32-year-old Cameo Adawn Crispi of Vernal, Utah, allegedly called and texted her ex-boyfriend several times in March from inside his home, The Associated Press reports.
The man wasn't home and called police saying he wanted Crispi removed from his house. When officers arrived, they saw smoke billowing out the front door. Apparently, Crispi had placed a pound of bacon on a lit burner. In the home, officers discovered hot coals on the floor around an open wood stove and the burned bacon. Charging documents say Crispi's blood-alcohol level was 0.346, four times the legal limit. She faces arson, burglary and other charges.
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On Saturday, October 27, Hulya Medi-Spa will hold a grand opening of its space above Guven Hair Salon (2315 Wisconsin Ave.). From 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. that day, the spa will offer special prices on treatments including Botox ($10 per unit); Juvederm ($500 per syringe); Radiesse ($600 per syringe); microdermabrasion ($50); and SkinTyte laser treatment ($300).
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Vecna Robotics (https://robotics.vecna.com/) is the first materials handling company to offer AGV (automated guided vehicles) solutions with AGC (automated guided carts) pricing. AGCs are popular for applications where lighter loads and flexibility are required, however Vecna's solutions allow engineers to choose from tuggers that pull a string of carts or trailers in a train to unit load carriers that move subassemblies and work-in-process from one assembly station to another.
The capital expense of AGVs has simply been too expensive for most manufacturing distribution center operations. Vecna Robotics provides a leasing option including both materials handling equipment and revolutionary disruptive IIoT (Industrial Internet of Things) monitoring. The leasing program ensures a rapid ROI and far less than the cost of employing and insuring a fork truck driver.
According to John Hayes, SDCE Pros to Know thought-leader and Vice President for Vecna Robotics, "Companies are investing in AGVs to improve plant-floor efficiency and reduce operating costs. As the flexible technology is now more affordable and more easily used on assembly lines, manufacturers and single location distribution centers are deploying driverless carts, robotic parts bins, and autonomous tuggers." Companies considering AGCs must now seriously evaluate Vecna Robotics as a cost effective AGV solution. For additional information contact John Hayes at 704-905-1571.
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Data thieves exploiting flaws in retail systems and the public cloud
Most of us know the denizens of cyberspace include some shady characters but recent news about the bad guys using Amazon's cloud was the latest of a series of noteworthy events for those watching security trends. The ability of criminal rings to deploy botnets and install trojans has become a serious threat. In May 2009, for example, a federal judge ordered the shutdown of Pricewert, LLC (3FN.NET), a rogue ISP that recruited nefarious users involved in phishing, child porn and using botnets to distribute spam and malware.
The recent episode of an Amazon Web Services cloud instance being used to distribute malware caught my eye because it followed on the heels a lawsuit that's made news in the restaurant industry. In both cases, security flaws enabled hackers to use trojans to install keyloggers to steal financial information.
Restaurant owners are suing for losses because the keylogger enabled cyber thieves to steal credit card information using the Aloha point-of-sale (POS) system from Radiant Systems. The lawsuit involves systems installed by a US distributor for Radiant Systems, with Radiant and the distributor named as co-defendants. Law enforcement has prosecuted criminals in past cases of data thefts, but there could be an increase of victims suing for damages caused by security breaches from flawed software. That would have important ramifications for the public cloud providers for whom security has been a persistent obstacle to cloud adoption.
In December 2009, an Amazon Web Services EC2 instance was part of a scheme to use a botnet for propagating a trojan for malicious purposes. In November 2009, researcher Jose Nazario of Arbor Networks reported a similar security problem involving the use of Google AppEngine for botnet command and control.
Don DeBolt, the director of threat research for Computer Associates' (CA) Internet Security Business unit, reported the Amazon EC2 instance was used to control a Zeus botnet intended to receive stolen banking information captured by a keylogger. DeBolt was one of the contributors to the recent CA report "State of the Internet 2009:A Report on the Ever-Changing Threat Landscape."
CA found that the Internet was a much greater distribution threat than e-mail or removable media. The CA report indicates that trojans are currently the most prevalent form of malware, far outranking virus, worm and spyware infections. The report also notes that "banking trojans are flourishing".
The Internet provides a channel for all sorts of nefarious activity so any organization should adhere to the guideline that security measures are necessary for any system with an Internet link. Retailers such as 7-Eleven and TJX have been hacked, along with payment processing organizations such as Heartland Payment Systems and Hannaford Brothers. The Heartland and Hannaford crimes involved a single criminal ring that reportedly acquired data for 130 million credit cards. The Heartland case involved the installation of malware that captured information as credit card charges were being authorized.
In November 2009 testimony before Congress, Steven R. Chabinsky (Deputy Assistant Director, Cyber Division of the FBI) noted the FBI and Secret Service had been involved in the Heartland and Hannaford investigation. He testified that in 2008 there had been a staggering number of Internet crime complaints filed by consumers. More than 70,000 of the complaints were referred to law enforcement agencies for investigation. Steven Chabinsky testified:
"At the consumer level, the FBI established and leads the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) in partnership with the National White Collar Crime Center. The IC3 website (www.ic3.gov) is the leading cyber crime incident reporting portal, having received 275,284 complaint submissions in 2008 alone."
Court cases in Louisiana show that victims are willing to take other legal action besides filing a complaint with law enforcement. Users of the Aloha POS software are involved in multiple lawsuits over the theft of credit card information via the Internet. The defendants include Radiant Systems and one of its distributors, Computer World. The lawsuits illustrate that restaurant systems with an Internet connection are vulnerable to cyber crime if the systems are not hardened.
A press release from the plaintiffs illustrates a new resolve among victims of security breaches:
"This finding of alleged negligence is at the heart of a collective action lawsuit filed by seven restaurants claiming that hundreds of customers had their identities stolen as a result of poor business practices and faulty software from Radiant and Computer World (the distributor). "
The press release said the United States Secret Service was involved in the investigation of the credit card data thefts. The attorney for the defendants, Charles Hoff, noted that Radiant and Computer World said "their software and business practices are PCI-DSS compliant". On its web site, Radiant Systems reports the company's commitment to the payment processing security standard:
"Our security effort begins with a commitment to ensuring that our systems are validated as meeting the Payment Card Industry (PCI) Payment Application Data Security Standard (PA DSS)."
Software versions may be germane to the question of Aloha POS vulnerability. One of the issues of the lawsuit is whether the Aloha POS stored credit card information, which is a violation of the PCI DSS standard. The plaintiffs' petition alleges:
"The unnecessary storage of cardholder data made this software and its users high risk targets for data breaches."
The threat level was likely related to which version of the Aloha Suite software was running at each restaurant. Different specifications for payment application security were in play as different versions of the Aloha POS suite were released.
The Payment Card Industry (PCI) Payment Application Data Security Standard (PA-DSS) was derived from Visa's Payment Application Best Practices (PABP) specification. According to the PCI Security Standards Council, the Aloha Suite 5.3.15 was validated prior to the PABP 1.3 specification, with that validation expiring 2 December 2009. Aloha Suite 6.1 was validated according to PABP 1.3, with its validation expiring 2 June 2010. Aloha Suite 6.2 was validated according to PABP 1.4 with its validation expiring 2 December 2010. Aloha Suite 6.4 and 6.5 were validated according to PA-DSS v1.2 and their validation expires 2 October 2013. For new deployments Aloha Suite 6.x versions are acceptable, but the 5.3.15 version is not recommended.
The PA-DSS version 1.1 specification was published in April 2008, with version 1.2 following in October 2008. The version 1.1 specification states that payment systems that store magnetic strip data after authorization are out of compliance. In the Requirements and Security Assessment Procedures for PCI-DSS version 1.2, there's a list of 14 requirements including:
"Do not retain full magnetic stripe, card validation code or value (CAV2, CID, CVC2, CVV2), or PIN block data"
The Aloha POS is reportedly addressing that aspect of PA-DSS v1.2 spec compliance with a token replacement scheme for credit card information that uses an off-site secure server for credit card number storage. Other requirements for compliance include replacing vendor-supplied default passwords and security parameters when the payment application is installed and using encrypted communications.
With cloud computing having become the Next Big Thing, there's been interest in moving applications and databases to the cloud. This raises questions about the capability of specific cloud infrastructure and platform providers to support payment processing applications that comply with the PCI-DSS version 1.2 standard. Section 12.8.2 stipulates :
"Maintain a written agreement that includes an acknowledgement that the service providers are responsible for the security of cardholder data the service providers possess."
Amazon has stated it is not currently possible to support applications that are compliant with PCI level 1 using an EC2 instance and Amazon S3. Today building a PCI level 1 application in the cloud would require a token replacement system that uses an external, secure server for storing encrypted credit card information. Providers of tokenized payment services include IP Commerce, CyberSource, Payments Gateway, USEPay and zoPay.com.
Just as protecting our credit card information is a reasonable requirement for a retail POS system, so it is for a payment application hosted in the cloud. If it's based in a public cloud such as Amazon Web Services, securing the AWS instance is a reasonable expectation, as is complying with the PCI-DSS specification.
The cloud computing marketplace is fluid these days so it remains to be seen what the future of payment processing applications in the cloud will be. PCI compliance is not a legal requirement. But it's conceivable that Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Rackspace, Joyent and other providers would require PCI compliance of any payment processing applications that are hosted in their cloud.
One has to wonder whether the restaurants' lawsuit is the canary in the coal mine; is it an indication we'll see more litigation over security holes and database breaches?


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Liam mv BrideThis was the 1st time I seen U2. It coast 5pounds to get in and I was at the front of the stage
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"This Is Not A Rebel Song"This was the first time I got to see my favourite band. The energy of the young quartet on stage was absolutely electric and there was certainly a nervous energy as Bono introduced "Sunday Bloody Sunday", my recollection of how he introduced the song went something like this - "This is not a rebel song it is the first time we are playing it in Northern Ireland, if you don't like it we won't play it again" This was certainly a moment I wil not forget as the crowd listened and sang along as if they had heard this song so many times before. The highlight for me was having the opportunity to interview Bono after the gig with my friend Gary. I remember Gary asking "how did you feel when a few people decided to leave when you sang Sunday Bloody Sunday"? Bono's response was simple and spontaneous, he sang a few lines of the song and replied "does that sound like a rebel song" I don't know how Gary managed to continue to ask questions I was dumbstruck. I never got a chance to say thanks to the band...Thanks from Brick (brick through a window)
19 April, 2010
So easy to love....I wish I had been there, but God how 1982 just seems like yesterday, and hearing U2 for the first time, I fell instantly in love with not only thier unique sound but with them as well. U2 makes it so easy to love them, Bono's voice is like a whisper in your ear, Edge's guitar pierces your heart, Larry's drumming is the beat of your heart, and Adam, oh sweet Adam, the pure soul of U2....... J & M & L (Adam's Girls)
19 April, 2010
VERTIGOFan since 1985...look at for us ok? we getting old as well! Great show, great band. we waiting so many time....but we're happy! was perfect...the band was perfect - march -5-2007 São Paulo - Brazil - I was Stand very close to stage- the best moment was they did singing "Elevesion"and "Vertigo" was AMAZING...no words for to say about it!
19 April, 2010
Belfast Pre-war 82Bono climbing speaker stacks, promising never to play "Sunday Bloody Sunday" again if we didn't like it. "Surrender", "A Celebration" and "Gloria" all sounded great. Where I went from liking U2 to loving them. Since then I have seen them at Wembley, Manchester, Glasgow... but will never forget the intimacy of seeing them in a sports hall! A great memory.


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Patras Science Park (PSP) participates in the European Project "BLUE_BOOST" which aims at boosting the innovation potential of both traditional and emerging Blue Growth sectors clusters in the Adriatic-Ionian region. Within the project, the partners' networks from seven ADRION maritime territories will focus on transnational and cross-sectoral cooperation and innovation of maritime clusters through knowledge sharing and community based approach.
Lead partner is from Croatia, while the others come from Italy, Greece and Albania.
The project is funded under the Interreg ADRION Programme with a total budget of €173.727,25 and its implementation period begins from 1 January 2018 until 31 October 2019.
To learn more about the project, please browse at: http://psp.org.gr/blueboost
Smart Europe
Patras Science Park (PSP) participates in the European Project "Smart Europe" which considers that smart and targeted regional policies can be designed to boost employment in innovation-based sectors with a substantial impact on the local economy. The project aims to deliver concrete proposals on specific fields of interest, addressing decision makers and key stakeholders.
The project is financed by INTERREG IVC Funding Program with a total budget of €1.858.015,54. Lead partner is from Holland while the others come from Italy, Sweden, Hungary, Finland, Spain, Great Britain, Norway, Greece and Romania.
To learn more about the project, please browse at: www.smart-europe.eu
Regions for Green Growth – R4GG
Patras Science Park (PSP) participates in the European Project "Regions for Green Growth – R4GG" whose main objective is to equip the partners with regional policy instruments, mechanisms and approaches to improve access to finance and speed up investments in sustainable energy projects. The project is financed by INTERREG IVC Funding Program with a total budget of €2.090.576,58. Lead partner is from Holland while the others come from Holland, Italy, Sweden, Hungary, Bulgaria, Spain, Great Britain, Greece and Romania.
To learn more about the project, please browse at: www.regions4greengrowth.eu
Edynamics – Nimbus+
Edynamics participates in the Project called Nimbus+ awarded by the General Secretariat for Research and Technology under the call of the Development Program of Industrial Research and Technology. Water resources proper management is nowadays an environmental issue of major importance, as the climate change has affected the water resources map of Southern Europe. The quality and quantity of urban water resources is going to puzzle all those involved in water management in the following years. Edynamics Company in collaboration with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Patras, developed an interesting proposal. This proposal is about the industrial research and experimental development of a platform of products called Nimbus+, consisting an integrated technology providing optimized application of sanitation in urban drinking water networks. The idea was welcomed by the local municipalities and the company's experience in the area of water treatment lead to the conclusion that a low-budget water sanitizing could be massively produced, and hold a competitive position in the market.
The proposed Nimbus+ product is an embedded low-consumption system, connected to the sanitizing pumps of any tank, drilling or spring. It will be able to communicate over Cellular network (3G/GPRS) with a remote online server, where there will be a database and software, providing end-user with Cloud Services. Thus, the user will be able to optimize the sanitization procedure, through customized software, keeping the chlorinate of the water in proper levels. The goal of optimized water sanitization will be achieved by creating curves by software, collecting data in any individual source of water throughout the year. This data will be analyzed and then compared to the real-time levels of residual chlorine, pointing out the correct operation of the pumps, so as to gain optimized water sanitation.
Think Silicon - Multicore and multithreaded 3D Graphics Processing Unit for mobile/embedded devices
This project aims in the design of a novel multicore 3D Graphics Processing Unit (Think3D) and its associated software that would allow the efficient rendering of multimedia content on mobile platforms under tight power constraints. Think3D focuses on the acceleration of graphics applications based on the OpenGL|ES 3.0-Khronos standard, on video decoding according to H.264/MPEG4/VC7 standards and on supporting general processing workloads via the OpenCL programming model that forms the base for future standards focusing on embedded computer vision and augmented reality applications. Think3D is built using the Nema ultra-threaded processor (up to 128 simultaneous threads) designed by Think-Silicon that offers low cost implementations as enabled by the adopted power-conscious hardware-software co-design methodology. Scaling Think3D to a large number of Nema cores (64/128+) requires also a scalable on-chip communication fabric that would connect efficiently the processors and the on-chip memory system. Additional communication-related performance improvements are expected by the novel memory management methodology that removes redundant traffic thus saving both precious on-chip bandwidth and power. Agility and flexibility are required to differentiate companies from the competition because time to market combined with the right and unique features are often the critical factor that determines success. Think3D platform is a novel IP subsystem that addresses the needs of multiple closely related markets (3D graphics, video decoding, computer vision and augmented reality) since it provides the necessary computation capabilities and the needed programmability to cover many application domains with the same hardware platform. This reusability and programmability property offers three distinct advantages: (a) reduced time to market allowed by simple domain-specific customizations of the Think3D platform (b) amortized per-application design cost (c) place Think-Silicon in head-start of the emerging era of heterogeneous computing that is expected to dominate the embedded systems market.
Noesis - Development of a silicon transceiver compliant with G.hn technology
Noesis Technologies is pleased to announce that its project for the development of a silicon transceiver compliant with G.hn technology has been awarded by the General Secretariat for Research and Technology under the call of the Development Program of Industrial Research and Technology.
G.hn is a new networking standard that enables the unification of home wiring existing infrastructure (power-line, coaxial, copper wires) in order to support delivery of a wide variety of content including HD video, IPTV, Voice over IP, broadband data etc. The G.hn technology can support rates up to 3 Gbps also enabling interconnectivity among networking devices. Market research analysis forecasts more than one billion G.hn nodes to be launched annually rendering G.hn technology the technological lever for the creation of a massive market of next generation networking products.
'This award is a clear recognition of our technological expertise and our ability to deliver highly innovative and state-of-the-art telecom products' stated George Krikis, Founder and Managing Director of Noesis Technologies.
IRIDA Labs participates in the H2020 R&D project – Borealis
Irida Labs kick-started EU-project Borealis which is funded in the context of Horizon 2020 (H2020), the €80 billion European Union Research and Innovation programme.
Borealis aims to build a 3A energy class Flexible Machine for the new Additive and Subtractive Manufacturing on next generation of complex 3D metal parts.
Irida Labs, which participates in this 16-partners consortium as a sole provider for computer vision software solutions, foresees to gain significant experience in the field of industrial manufacturing enhancing this ways its Industrial Machine Vision product portfolio.
This is the second funding that Irida Labs receives on the field of industrial machine vision after the EU project White'R which is funded in the context of the 7th Framework Program.
Development and Implementation of Decentralised Solar Energy-Related Innovative Technologies for Public Buildings in the Mediterranean Basin countries.
The project in brief
The rise in energy demand has aggravated the dependence on fossil fuels imports of most of the Mediterranean countries. With a forecasted increase by 70% in energy consumption over the next 20 years, there is an urgent need to secure alternative energy sources especially for buildings - commercial and residential - which share of total energy used is higher than 40%, i.e. superior to the industrial or transport sector.Within this complex energy scenario, DIDSOLIT-PB aims to implement small-scale solar systems for public premises including innovative solutions such as photovoltaic glass-substitute sheets, solar cooling or photovoltaic coverage of buildings roofs and car parks shady-covers. Technology transfer and design of dedicated financing instruments will also be addressed by the project.


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IGNACIO – After a six-year absence, Clement Frost is back on the Southern Ute Tribe Council – as chairman.
Frost, who served as council chairman from 1997-2000 and from 2005-2008, was the dominant candidate in a field of six.
In a special election Wednesday to fill the seat left vacant by the death in March of Jimmy Newton. Jr., Frost received 130 of 394 ballots cast. Second place went to Jocelyn Dutchie with 80 votes.
A regular election is scheduled this fall when two of six Tribal Council seats must be filled and the chairman's seat again is up for grabs.
A two-hour swearing-in ceremony Thursday included a blessing, the oath of office administered by Chief Tribal Judge Chantel Cloud, good wishes and gifts from Ute Mountain Ute and Northern Ute representatives and floor speeches by Southern Ute Indian Tribe members.
The Ute Mountain Utes presented Frost a bolo tie adorned with bead work. The gift from the Northern Utes was a woven blanket or serape in which red, orange, brown and white predominated.
Mayor Sweetie Marbury was the messenger sent from the city of Durango.
"We're all friends and neighbors who appreciate the land, water and clean air," Marbury said. "We look forward to meetings between the city and the Tribal Council."
Frost, dressed in a dark suit, turquoise-colored shirt with a bolo tie, took his seat, received recognition as leader from chairman pro-tem Mike Olguin and the welcomes and pledges of cooperation from the other council members.
Frost announced the jobs of three Jimmy Newton Jr. appointees, two executive officers and a media coordinator, were terminated immediately.
Also, he announced that council member Mel Baker would be his second aboard and Michelle Olguin would be his executive officer.
In his address, introduced with a few words in Ute, Frost said the tribal administration has failed its members and left rank-and-file employees "walking on eggshells" fearful for their jobs.
"We're here to work for the people so that their way of life is comfortable," Frost said. "We must meet the needs of the people, not the government."
Frost concluded: "We need to ask how can we better help members."
Comments from several members of the audience sounded similar concerns.
A man said the Utes are the tribes that have struggled most, and they are the tribes most regulated by the U.S. government.
"We must break away from the U.S. government and run on our own," he said.
A woman said the wealth disparity between the revenue-producing arms of the Southern Utes and tribal members is crushing and demoralizing.
Another woman said someone has obtained the right to film the annual Southern Ute Bear Dance that took place last weekend and sell the production for profit.
"They've shut the door on us," she said.
Frost gave his answer: "We're going to get back with the community. We're going to communicate with our members."


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The Obama administration on Wednesday issued its long-awaited final rule on essential health benefits that insurers must offer consumers in the individual and small-group market beginning in 2014 under health care reform.
A cornerstone of President Barack Obama's plan to enhance the breadth of health care coverage in the United States, the mandate allows the 50 U.S. states a role in identifying benefit requirements and grants insurers a phased-in accreditation process for plans sold on federal health care exchanges.
Wednesday's rule included few changes from previous administration proposals, which could help states and insurers as they prepare for new online state health insurance marketplaces, known as healthcare exchanges, scheduled to begin enrolling beneficiaries for federally subsidized coverage on Oct. 1.
"The administration has been consistent in its approach to essential health benefits for more than a year, and that continued today. It's good news for states and insurers because it means they don't have to make any changes," said Ian Spatz, a senior health care adviser at the consulting firm Manatt Health Solutions.
The exchanges are expected to cover as many as 26 million people within 10 years and seem likely to dominate individual and small group insurance markets. Another 12 million people are expected to receive health care coverage through an expansion of the Medicaid program for the poor, according to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office.
Obama's Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act sets out 10 benefit categories that must be covered by most plans at the same level as a typical employer plan. The categories range from hospitalization, prescription drugs and maternity and newborn care.
Insurers including UnitedHealth Group Inc., Aetna Inc. and Cigna Corp. will use the government's final word on these required benefits as they design plans and set premiums before the exchange launches. They have each said they will sell plans on some of the exchanges, but have not yet committed to which ones.
UnitedHealth, the largest insurer, said it is still reviewing the new rule. The company said the exchange insurance plans will essentially be a new type of coverage.
"In the long term, we are expecting and preparing for an 'exchange' category of coverage to become established as a new benefit category between Medicaid and the traditional commercial benefits markets," spokesman Daryl Richard said.
The Department of Health and Human said the rule would mean greater access to mental health and substance abuse services by requiring parity with other health care benefits. HHS estimated that 62 million Americans would gain mental health coverage, an issue that has risen in importance after a string of mass shooting including last year's elementary school massacre in Newtown, Conn.
The final rule preserved the state role in determining how the requirements are met by selecting their own benchmarks from plans sold within their respective borders. Most states opted for their home market's largest small-group plan.
HHS kept to the benchmark rule despite objections from consumer groups who claimed that some of the selected plans were not comprehensive enough and argued for a single, uniform federal package.
But HHS officials found that maintaining states as primary regulators of state insurance markets would keep benefit offerings more in line with services typically offered through employer-sponsored plans in each state.
"The states continue to maintain their traditional role in defining the scope of insurance benefits and may exercise that authority by selecting a plan that reflects the benefit priorities of that state," HHS said in the rule.
The administration also gave insurers the chance to phase-in requirements for plans sold on federally facilitated exchanges and denied requests from groups that wanted to exempt low-cost community health plans and Medicaid managed-care plans from the accreditation process.
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Men carry the body of a boy, who was killed in a reported Syrian air force attack in the village of Tel Rifaat, Syria on Aug. 8.
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Neighbors and family members dig through rubble of a home that was leveled on Wednesday in Tel Rifaat, Syria, searching for remains of those killed in what was reported as an attack by the Syrian air force.
To cries of "Allahu Akbar", (God is Great), the volunteers used mechanical diggers and their bare hands to search the rubble. Sweating and panting, young men lifted heavy concrete blocks and made piles of debris, trying to reach the bodies of Mohamed Blaw, a mechanic, and his family buried beneath.
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Men search for bodies under rubble of a house in Tel Rifaat near Aleppo on Aug. 8.
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LONDON (AP) -- A team of archaeologists said Monday it has unearthed an unusual coffin-within-a-coffin in the central England parking lot where it found the skeleton of King Richard III, and that they hope to identify the remains within.
University of Leicester scientists have been digging at the Grey Friars site in Leicester after finding the body of Richard there in September. He died nearby in 1485 at the Battle of Bosworth Field.
A lead coffin found within another coffin near Richard III's burial site. (Source: LiveScience via Yahoo)
The team said it had discovered a fully intact medieval stone coffin during a dig in September but wasn't able to investigate it further at the time. When it was opened this week, the team said, it found a lead coffin within it, one likely to contain a "high status" individual.
Scientists think the lead coffin - which has a hole through which the deceased's feet can be seen - could contain one of the friary's founders, a medieval monk, or the remains of a 14th-century medieval knight, Sir William Moton.
The archaeologists say that tests must be carried out to determine how to open the lead coffin without damaging the remains.
The University of Leicester's Matthew Morris said no one on the team had ever seen a lead coffin within a stone coffin before.
"It was as exciting as finding Richard III," he said in a statement. "We still don't know who is inside - so there is still a question mark over it."


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Rent Sharing or Composition?Fosse, Henrik Barslund; Maitra, Madhura (Frederiksberg, 2012)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Offshoring firms are found to pay higher average wages than purely domestic firms. We provide a unifying empirical approach by capturing the different channels through which offshoring may explain this wage difference: (i) due to change in the composition of workers (skill composition effect) (ii) because all existing workers get higher pay (rent sharing effect). Using Danish worker-firm data we explain how much each channel contributes to higher wages. To estimate the causal effect of offshoring on wages we use China's accession to the WTO in December 2001 - and the soon after boom in Chinese exports - as positive exogenous shocks to the incentive to offshore to China. Both skill composition and rent sharing effects are found to be important in explaining the resultant gain in wages. We also show that the firm's timing in the offshoring process determines the relative importance of a channel. For firms offshoring to China in 2002 but not in 1999, only rent sharing explains the gain in wages. For firms offshoring to China both before and after China's WTO accession the wage increase is explained mostly by the skill composition effect. Moreover, these patterns are not discernible from the measures of skill composition and rent sharing available in typical firm level datasets - like ratio of educated to uneducated workers and sales per employee. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8540
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Abstract: We examine the impact of discrimination on labour market performance when workers are subject to a risk of losing skills during an unemployment experience. Within a search and matching framework, we show that both natives and immigrants are affected by discrimination. Discrimination in one sector has positive spill-overs, inducing employment to increase in the other sector and the effect on labour market performance therefore depends on whether discrimination is present in only one sector or in both sectors. Discrimination may induce workers to train more or less than natives after having lost their skills, dependent upon which sector there is discrimination. Net output tends to the be most negatively affected by discrimination among high-skilled workers. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9157
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Abstract: We examine the impact of discrimination on labour market performance when workers are subject to a risk of losing skills during the experience of unemployment. Within a search and matching model, we show that all natives and immigrants are affected by discrimination. Discrimination in one sector has positive spillovers, inducing employment increases in the other sector. Discrimination may induce immigrants to train more or less than natives, depending on the sector where it is present. Welfare tends to be most negatively affected by discrimination among highproductivity workers. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8520
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Abstract: We exploit the regional variation in negative attitudes towards immigrants to Sweden in order to analyse the consequences of the attitudes on immigrants welfare. We find that attitudes towards immigrants are of importance: they both affect their labour market outcomes and their quality of life. We interpret the negative effect on wages as evidence of labour market discrimination. We estimate the welfare effects of negative attitudes, through their wage and local amenities, for immigrants with different levels of skills, origin, gender and age. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8519
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Start: Muncho Lake, British Columbia, Canada (10AM)
End: Destruction Bay, Yukon Territory, Canada (11PM)
Miles: 602
Our best (most efficient) driving day, I think. We didn't do as many miles, but that was due more to the road than us. Part of what this day feel great was that we were actually on the Alaska Highway by mid-afternoon – felt so much closer to our goal, and really started to realize how far we had already come. The trip felt a lot more manageable being two days, not six. And when we reached our stopping point for the night, we knew that the next night would be in my apartment in Anchorage! (but actually ended up being a motel because it was so late and I had no furniture or anything there).
Highlights: Seeing a herd of 80-100 wood bison on the ride of the road. Driving into the Yukon Territory and realizing we'd pay less for gas, and as it turns out would actually have roadside bathrooms (BC doesn't). Watson Lake, where we were practically overrun by RVs but saw two Northwest Territory license plates, as well as the Sign Post Forest (it's worth a look – none of the sites I found about it, including the one above, give sufficient indication of how freaking big this thing is). Stopping in Whitehorse, the capital of the Yukon, with not one but TWO McDonalds. Mount Logan (or was it Mount Hubbard?) in the distance. Kluane Lake and its accompanying park – really, really amazing. Looked like another world. Taking a "glamor shot" of the Subaru (covered in highway dust) in front of the mountains and the lake. The Talbot Arm Motel, where we stopped for the night, with its logo of a grizzled old gold miner or something. Splitting a bottle of wine to celebrate (early) our trip – "house" wine, Sawmill Creek, from Ontario.
Lowlight: As always, we put in a lot of hours that day, and didn't get to stop as often as we might have. Being in the car for 12 hours a day was also really beginning to wear on me, and probably Mom as well, as if my legs were just stitching themselves to the seats. We tried to make semi-frequent stops on the side of the road to walk around, to look at the amazing scenery, and because there was really no one on the road, so it would be easy to just stop on the side of the road anyway. More mosquitoes, though still not as bad as in Regina.
We had one more (extremely long) day of driving left, but we're almost there!
PS – if you can to go to Kluane Lake, do it. I would go back.


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Need a break from traffic, pollution, gas prices, and all the other stresses related to the internal combustion engine? Visit one of the handful of US islands where motor vehicles are banned. These protected havens (most are national parks or seashores) are often only reached by boat and have no paved roads. But unlike exotic destinations such as Bali and Tahiti, they're both affordable and accessible—if you're up for a little adventure.
National Park
Ten thousand years ago, the "Galapagos of North America" was home to some of the oldest human settlements in the Northern Hemisphere. Nowadays this mountainous archipelago is virtually free of people, despite being only 60 miles from Los Angeles. Instead, its five islands are home to thousands of species of plants and animals, 145 of which are found nowhere else on earth. In the surrounding waters, 750-pound black sea bass and bright orange and blue Garibaldi swim through giant kelp forests. Humpbacks, orcas, and blue whales, cruise nearby, as do four species of dolphin. In spring, wildflowers explode across the hillsides in pinks, purples, and yellows.
Get There, Stay There:
Truth Aquatics in Santa Barbara offers multiday, live-aboard trips to the park, complete with gourmet food.
Camping is also available by reservation.
Dry Tortugas
National Park
Visit this string of tiny coral keys 70 miles from Key West, Florida, and you can explore the ruins of a nineteenth-century fort, snorkel with 300 species of tropical fish, dive to more than 250 nearby shipwrecks, or spot pelicans, terns, and masked boobies from the beach.
Get There, Stay There:
Two operators, Yankee Freedom and Sunny Days Key West, run ferries from Key West to Dry Tortugas. The park is open year-round and camping on the beach is welcome.
Isle au Haut
When one of the only ways to reach your destination is by mail boat, you know you're off the beaten path. Isle au Haut is a pine-covered slab of rock 7 miles off the coast in Maine's Acadia National Park. Mink, snowshoe hare, and otters roam a forest of spruce, pine, cedar, maple, and oak; ravens, eagles, and the occasional osprey soar overhead. The southern end of the island drops into the North Atlantic down dramatic 100-foot cliffs. A small town features a café, a gift shop, and a year-round population of about 50 hardy souls who brave ice-choked harbors and brutal nor'easters each winter.
Get There, Stay There:
Book a spot on the mail boat, which leaves from the town of Stonington through mid-October. You can camp in one of five lean-tos, from May 15 to October 14 (nps.gov/acad) At the Keeper's House Inn, you can spend a night at the secluded Robinson Point Lighthouse, which is powered by solar panels and windmills. Management is about to change hands, so check out the website to get the latest info.
Cumberland Island National Seashore
This charming isle lies just off the coast of Georgia, but it seems to belong in a fairy tale. Salty ocean breezes that slow tree growth have created a bent and buckled forest of live oaks, with some trees shaped like arches. Visitors can explore the area via a boardwalk that crosses a sea of white sand dunes. Another attraction is Dungeness ruins, the remains of a 6,700-square-foot mansion built by the Carnegie family in 1884; the house is a 2-mile hike from the beach.
Get There, Stay There:
Ferries leave from the village of St. Mary's. Camping is available at backcountry sites or near the beach.
Or try the ultra-deluxe lodging at the Greyfield Inn, built by the Carnegies in 1900. Rooms start at $350.
Isle Royale
National Park
This smattering of more than 400 islands in the northwest corner of Lake Superior was formed when lava burst through the earth's crust a billion years ago. Today, the resulting 1,300-foot Greenstone Ridge is forested with conifers and paper birch, and the islands are home to wolf, moose, and bird populations. Lakes, streams, swampy beaver ponds, and bogs provide a transportation grid for kayakers and canoers.
Get There, Stay There:
The park is open April 16 through November 1. A ferry leaves from Houghton, Michigan, and there are 36 campsites. The Rock Harbor Lodge has rooms with lake views and private cottages.
Fire Island
Though it's best known for the summer cottage scene that attracts nearby New Yorkers, this barrier island 50 miles from Manhattan also features serene beaches and several unspoiled shore ecosystems. Its sunken forest is a dense spread of oak, black gum, sassafras, shadbush, and holly—some trees predate the Declaration of Independence. Hundreds of species of birds swing by on their way up the Atlantic migratory flyway, and giant leatherback sea turtles, harbor seals, finback whales, and humpbacks are all occasional visitors.
Get There, Stay There:
There are plenty of ferries that link to the island, and marinas at Sailors Haven and Watch Hill cater to private boats. Camping is available.
To find cottage rentals, check out Fire Island Finder.
Cape Lookout
National Seashore
These three storm-battered North Carolina barrier islands have 56 miles of undeveloped beaches. And although four-wheel-drive vehicles are allowed in designated areas on the two northern islands, South Core and North Core, the southernmost Shackleford Banks is for trekkers only. It's here that you'll find vine-entangled maritime forest and more than 100 wild horses along the beaches.
Get There, Stay There:
The islands are accessible by frequent ferries, and there are rustic cabins on the northern two islands, where vehicle camping is also allowed. There are no established campgrounds on Shackleford, which means you can settle in just about anywhere on the beach, but there are no services.
Story by Justin Nobel. This article originally appeared in "Plenty" in March 2008.


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One month every year, five highly competitive friends hit the ground running in a no-holds-barred game of tag they've been playing since the first grade - risking their necks, their jobs and their relationships to take each other down with the battle cry "You're It!" This year, the game coincides with the wedding of their only undefeated player, which should finally make him an easy target. But he knows they're coming... and he's ready. Based on a true story, "Tag" shows how far some guys will go to be the last man standing.
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Opened June 15th, 2018
Rated R for language throughout, crude sexual content, drug use and brief nudityCastJeremy Renner, Ed Helms, Hannibal Buress, Jake Johnson, Annabelle WallisDirectorJeff TomsicWriterMark Steilen
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Treasury Deficit Reaches 1.5 Trillion Feathers
The Treasury's Troubled Assets Relief Program (TARP i.e. direct bailouts for the financial sector) is by far the largest user of extra feathers at a massive 175 billion and accounts for a full 1/3 of the additional spending. By comparison, spending on all other economic recovery programs increased by less than half that. Interestingly, spending on education dropped by 10 billion.
I truly do not see how we will ever climb out of this deficit hole, without seriously reforming fiscal policy. Where are the massive initiatives to transform the U.S. into a localized green economy? Where are the incentives to use less imported oil and to rely on wind, solar, geothermal instead? Where are the subsidies to overhaul the antiquated electricity grid?
Why are we spending tax money to promote buying new cars without requiring them to be low or zero emissions? Why are we providing 8,000 feathers at a pop for houses, but don't insist they are highly energy efficient and have solar roofs installed?
Why is Mr. Obama's government so stubbornly insistent on following the old Bush/Bernake/Paulson agenda? Where's the outside-the-box thinking? The president is perilously close to wasting his entire political goodwill on a mild reform of the health system, while at the same time feathering the nest of a corrupt financial sector.
Taxpayers are in danger of becoming plucked chickens with nothing to show for it..
P.S. A reader mentioned containerships yesterday and I realized I forgot to include data for them in the previous post about sea cargo. Such ships carry mostly finished goods and their charter rates are, thus, a gauge of consumer demand for imported goods. Here is a relevant chart:


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Berkeley Hall Club plays host this week to an impressive field of 84 golfers at the 14th annual Players Amateur.
The field, which includes 10 of the top 30 players in the Scratch Players World Amateur Rankings, hit the club's South Course for practice rounds Monday. They will compete in a contestant-amateur event today/Wednesday before beginning the four-day tournament at 7 a.m. Thursday. The winner receives a spot in the 2014 RBC Heritage at Harbour Town Golf Links on Hilton Head Island. Admission is free for spectators.
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You can pre-order a copy of Mastering Genealogical Proof here. The ship date is listed as approximately May 20th, but I assume that there will be copies available at the National Genealogical Society (NGS) Family History Conference in May, as NGS is the publisher of this new book. I will be organizing groups to study this new text and will post information as soon as the group format and registration process are established. If you are interested in mentoring a study group, please send me a message. If you are interested in participating in a study group, please wait for further instructions.
Tom Jones is a masterful teacher and I am very excited for more genealogists to learn from him as they study this new book. For more information on the book, a link to the full table of contents, and a sample exercise, click here.
Table of contents for the book:
- Preface
- Chapter 1 - Genealogy's Standard of Proof
- Chapter 2 - Concepts Fundamental to the GPS
- Chapter 3 - GPS Element 1: Thorough Research
- Chapter 4 GPS Element 2: Source Citations
- Chapter 5 GPS Element 3: Analysis and Correlation
- Chapter 6 GPS Element 4: Resolving Conflicts and Assembling Evidence
- Chapter 7 GPS Element 5: The Written Conclusion
- Chapter 8 - Using the GPS
- Chapter 9 - Conclusion
- Appendix A - Pritchett Article
- Appendix B - McLain Article
- Glossary
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The footage spliced together in the video above comes directly from the home library of Adele Diamond and her husband, Don. During her interview, she told Krista the following story:
"So I think mysteries are just wonderful. It's very interesting because when I made this book for the Dalai Lama, I put a lot of love and time and effort into it. And my husband said, who came with me to Dharamsala said, 'If you're going to give him a present, I want to give him a present too.' So he wanted to give him a kite because he didn't think the Dalai Lama got to spend enough time playing.
And so then he found online that he could get a package of 10 plain undecorated kites very inexpensively. So he asked me if I could find classes of school children to decorate them. So I contacted a colleague, Kim Schonert-Reichl, and she helped me find a class of children with developmental disorders, many of them ADHD, who were either not on medication or on reduced medication because they were doing mindfulness. So they had heard of the Dalai Lama, and they were very excited to be decorating these kites. And there were two children per kite. So on one side, they did self portraits, so it looked like a Picasso because half of the kite is one child's face and half of the kite is the other child's face. Anyway, so my husband brings all these to Dharamsala and we get a private audience with His Holiness and we had the wisdom not to bring all the kites with us to the audience because the Dalai Lama said thank you but it was very clear he wasn't going to fly any kites; he was going to put them in a drawer.
So after that we went to visit Matthieu Ricard at Katmandu, where he has a Tibetan monastery. And he has many humanitarian projects in connection with that and one of them are schools for poor children. Any background, doesn't matter, religious or ethnic. They call it bamboo schools because the buildings are all made out of bamboo. So we went to these bamboo schools and we brought the rest of the kites and we gave it to the children there. They had never flown kites before, and they were so happy to be flying these kites. And Matthieu was so happy to see the children so happy. And we took photos and videos and I brought them back to the class in Vancouver to the children who had been studying mindfulness and I showed them the pictures and they were so happy to see how happy they had made the other children.
And one of them said, 'You know, we're on the other side of the world but we're all connected.'"
As if Diamond's descriptions of the Dalai Lama, Nepal, bamboo schools, and children painting kites weren't enticing enough, we wanted to visualize the scene of those children flying kites. What strikes me is an immense amount of joy — the children playing and Adele and Don watching their gift come to life. I hope you enjoy these few minutes of seeing the world through an act of simplicity — flying and entangling a kite in a tree.


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Shopping with a credit card is the weapon of choice for many shopping fanatics, but despite tech advances, around the world cash remains king.
To address this gap one company has come up with a novel solution for accessing cash with a smartphone.
The NCR Mobile Cash Withdrawal system allows the user to launch a smartphone app which then scans a QR code on an ATM and seamlessly withdraws cash in seconds.
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The wireless process lets users skip the usual process of tapping passwords into a random ATM kiosk, thus avoiding potential fake ATMs that skim your credit card information.
The ATM upgrade requires no new hardware (e.g. no NFC readers needed), just software installs, and it works with iOS or Android .
The company hopes to start rolling out the system with select partners later this year. You can see the NCR Mobile Cash Withdrawal system in action in the video below.


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I am learning to understand rather than immediately judge or to be judged. I cannot blindly follow the crowd and accept their approach. I will not allow myself to indulge in the usual manipulating game of role creation. Fortunately for me, my self-knowledge has transcended that and I have come to understand that life is best to be lived and not to be conceptualized. I am happy because I am growing daily and I am honestly not knowing where the limit lies. To be certain, every day there can be a revelation or a new discovery. I treasure the memory of the past misfortunes. It has added more to my bank of fortitude.Bruce Lee
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Venture Spark CEO necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 94 diseños de 32 diseñadores freelance.
Venture Spark Network, http://www.VentureSpark.org
Venture Spark will be the premier technology business incubator in Southern California. A for Profit Incubator firm that takes early stage businesses or business ideas and with the collaboration of experts, talent, experience, education, capital, and resources creates successful companies that contribute positively to their local community.
We take business ideas and build great companies around them.
We aim to be professional but innovative, attractive to Professionals entrepreneurs, and recent MBA grads.
We are looking for a logo represent our web address and brand
We would love to have the logo incorporate our name Venture Spark with ".org" but here are a few things to think about:
1. No Cartoons - we want it to be professional but High Tech and innovative
2. It must look great small and large as well as in grayscale as much as possible.
3. The typeface should be clear, simple and bold. We want something that stands out. Again being careful not to be too fancy.
4. Although not required we are open to logos that have a graphic alongside the words playing off of "spark" or something else
Feel free to experiment with ideas
Please feel free to experiment with colors!
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Jaime Garcia carried a shutout into the eighth inning and Yadier Molina got his 1,000th career hit with an infield single that started a three-run second against rookie Matt Harvey in the St. Louis Cardinals' 5-1 victory over the New York Mets on Tuesday night.
Daniel Descalso and David Freese had two hits and an RBI apiece for the Cardinals, who are 42-26 at home for the second-best mark in the National League. St. Louis will go for a three-game sweep Wednesday with Adam Wainwright facing 17-game winner R.A. Dickey.
Descalso also stole third in the sixth, putting him in position to score on John Jay's groundout against Justin Hampson that made it 4-0.
Pinch-hitter Mike Baxter hit a bases-loaded sacrifice fly off Lance Lynn in the eighth. Left fielder Adron Chambers, who ran for Matt Holliday in the seventh, caught Daniel Murphy's drive at the left-field wall to end the threat and then bounced into the fence in front of the visitors' bullpen.
Holliday left the game with lower back tightness after walking to start the seventh. The Cardinals said Holliday, among the league leaders with 92 RBIs, was day to day.
Garcia (4-6) gave up an unearned run in 7 1-3 innings for his first victory in five decisions since May 16 and first in four starts since coming off the disabled list. He was sidelined for 64 games by a shoulder strain.
In two home starts since then he's allowed one run in 15 1-3 innings while going 0-2 on the road and giving up 10 runs in 11 1-3 innings. Garcia is 2-2 at home with a 2.63 ERA this year and 2-4 with a 5.80 ERA on the road.
Molina got a prolonged ovation after barely beating David Wright's throw on a slow roller up the third base line for his milestone hit. The Cardinals added three more singles by Freese, Skip Schumaker and Descalso to open the inning.
That was the only spot of trouble for Harvey, the Mets' 2010 first-round draft pick, whose five-inning stint matched the shortest of his eight career starts. Harvey's string of four consecutive quality starts was the Mets' best in a single season by a rookie since Jae Seo had six straight in 2003.
Harvey (3-4) has thrown 157 1-3 innings this season, including 110 for Triple-A Buffalo, and the Mets don't want to overload the 24-year-old right-hander. They have scored only 16 runs while Harvey was in the game.
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WASHINGTON — WASHINGTON (AP) — United Airlines will pay more than $1 million in fines for stranding passengers on 13 planes for more than three hours on the tarmac last year in Chicago.
The Transportation Department says it's the biggest fine against an airline since 2010. That's when new rules barred airlines from stranding passengers on the tarmac for longer than three hours without giving them the opportunity to leave the plane.
The delays involve 13 United and United Express planes at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport. They happened on a day when severe thunderstorms and lightning caused several ramp closures and disrupted the movement of aircraft at O'Hare. Toilets weren't working on two planes.
United will pay the government only $475,000. The rest of the fine will go toward steps to prevent similar events.
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Billy Bob Thornton is to star in a 'Bad Santa' sequel.
The actor has revealed plans for a follow-up to the dark comedy - in which he played alcoholic crook Willie T. Stokes, who works as a mall Santa every December - are well underway and a script has already been written.
Speaking at the Berlin Film Festival - where he is promoting 'Jane Mansfield's Car', which he directed - he said: "The writer is still working on the script, he's doing his rewrite right now. We saw the first draft and we just had a few little things we wanted to take away or add and he's doing that."
Thornton also revealed the movie has a Christmas 2013 release date pencilled in.
No director is currently attached to the project.
Meanwhile, Thornton is making a movie based on his failed marriage to Angelina Jolie.
He is to co-write and direct road movie 'And Then We Drove' which will have parallels to his union to the screen beauty which ended in June 2002 after two years.
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JUNEAU, ALASKA – A Juneau man is learning the hard way that when caught smoking a joint on the street, the trick is not to conceal the evidence by eating it.
Police say they forwarded felony "tampering with physical evidence" charges against a 24-year-old man after he apparently ingested a marijuana joint when confronted by a police officer.
Lt. David Campbell said in a interview that a police officer was patrolling the downtown area last Friday and smelled the marijuana at the intersection of Fourth and Harris Streets.
The officer located the man, then observed him eating the joint, Campbell said.
The man was not arrested, but JPD forwarded the charges to the District Attorney's office per their request. His name was not released.
Campbell said this is something that happens periodically.
"People don't understand that having the marijuana is a class 'B' misdemeanor, which is like one step above running a red light. Then when they destroy it, and they're tampering with physical evidence, that's a higher charge," Campbell said.
Tampering with physical evidence is a class 'C' felony that is punishable by up to five years in prison and a $50,000 fine.
If the man didn't ingest the joint, he would likely only be facing misconduct involving a controlled substance in the sixth-degree. That maximum penalty for that misdemeanor is 90 days in prison and a $2,000 fine.
Alaska law allows a person to possess less than four ounces of marijuana (plant or dried) in the home, but not in public.


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I was reading about evaluation strategies for lambda calculus on Wikipedia, and one caught my eye: "call-by-future". The idea behind this strategy is that you evaluate the function and its argument in parallel. It's like lazy evaluation, except you start evaluating earlier. Call by future semantics are non-strict, so I figured I could coerce Haskell to doing it.
Template Haskell to the rescue again! I wrote a module which has this function:
parApp :: (a -> b) -> (a -> b) parApp f x = x `par` f x
par is a special function which says to start evaluating its first argument and then return its second argument. Then it walks the syntax tree, replacing applications with applications of parApp, like:
fib 0 = 0 fib 1 = 1 fib n = fib (n-1) + fib (n-2)
fib 0 = 0 fib 1 = 1 fib n = parApp (parApp (+) (parApp fib (parApp (parApp (-) n) 1)) (parApp (parApp (-) n) 2))
Pretty, ain't it? :-p
For the above program (test.hs) computing fib 40, when compiled with -threaded -O2 I get the following results on a dual quad-core machine:
# command time speedup incr.speedup ./test +RTS -N1 # 20.508s 1.00 N/A ./test +RTS -N2 # 18.445s 1.11 0.56 ./test +RTS -N3 # 15.944s 1.29 0.77 ./test +RTS -N4 # 12.690s 1.58 0.94 ./test +RTS -N5 # 11.305s 1.81 0.90 ./test +RTS -N6 # 9.663s 2.12 0.97 ./test +RTS -N7 # 8.964s 2.29 0.92 ./test +RTS -N8 # 8.541s 2.40 0.92
The number after -N is the number of hardware threads used, the speedup is the ratio of the original speed against the multicore speed (in an ideal world this would match the number of hardware threads), and the incremental speedup is (tn-1Nn-1)/(tnNn), i.e. the fraction of what we gained over the previous simulation versus what we should have in an ideal world. As long as this is near one, our time is decreasing linearly. As we can see, we pay a lot of overhead mostly at 2 and 3 processors, and after that there is little additional overhead. There is too little data here to see what the large-scale trend is, though.
Suppose that the incremental speedup goes to a constant p < 1. Then tn+1 = n/(n+1) * tn/p. Doing a little algebra, we see that the time levels off at n = p/(1-p). So, for example, if p were 0.92 as it looks like it's going to be, then n = 11.5. That is, adding a 12th processor is not going to gain you anything. The long term goal for parallelization is to get solutions where p is very close to 1, because processors are going to start being cheap like hard drives, and I actually wouldn't surprised if in 24 years, 64-cores were common (calculated using Moore's law).
So, 8 processors, 2.4x speedup. We could certainly ask for better. But it ain't bad considering you didn't have to know anything about your program at all to get it there :-).


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Who is the Guest?
Studying a rare volume in the Judaica section of the Royal Library in Vienna was none other than the rabbi of the Brod community, Rabbi Eliezer Landau. This famed Torah scholar, who authored the Yad Hamelech, was interrupted in his reading by a stranger who asked him who he was. When he identified himself as the rabbi of Brod, the stranger expressed his pleasure at meeting him and promised to look him up when he next visited his city.
Upon returning the book the rabbi asked the librarian who it was that had so greeted him. "That was the emperor!" replied the surprised librarian.
The emperor kept his promise and eventually arrived unannounced at the rabbis home. The excitement of receiving such an honored guest and of making the special blessing on seeing a king caused the rabbi to forget to invite the emperor to sit down. "Is it some sort of Jewish custom," asked the laughing emperor, "to refrain from inviting a guest to sit down?"
The quick-witted response of the rabbi was:
"According to Jewish tradition whenever the emperor comes he becomes the host and all are his guests. We are therefore waiting for the emperor to invite us to sit down."