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Below is a map the school has been filling in as we have people visit our website! Currently we have had around 66,000 people come see us! From places such as:
Canada, USA, Mexico, Caribbean, Jamaica, Peru, Argentina, Brazil, Venezuela, Uruguay, UK, Ireland, France, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Germany, Austria, Hungry, Macedonia Czech Republic, Poland, Ukraine, Holland, Sweden, Finland, Norway, Russia, Turkey, Jordan, Morocco, South Africa, Cyprus, United Arab Emirates, Iraq, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, India, Pakistan, Thailand, Kazakhstan, China, Burma, Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines, Taiwan, Japan, South Korea, Australia and New Zealand.


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A few developers have weighed in on the Xbox One reveal, with many citing confusion over why we have to have Kinect 2 enabled all the time, and why the main focus was on the television aspect of the console – and not the games.
Majority of the negative opinions are coming from indie developers.
A employee of a major dev. House will not go on the internet and voice his displeasure against MS. they would damage relationship with MS and will be fired immediately.
"I wonder if bundling Kinect with it and the fact it's always-on is going to put a lot of people off. They're saying, even if the system is turned off or on stand-by, you come into your living room and say, 'Xbox On', so Kinect is going to be watching all the time. How many people will that put off? It's not something that sits well with me, frankly."
Ps4 Trolling lol!
X BOX One ain't got nothing to do with Ps4 ;)
Regarding Kinect always 'spying' ...It's the CIA's console of choice.
Phone Tapping is sooooo yesterday lol
If developers were wondering why the reveal was about what it was about then they are idiots since MS announced that that was what it would be about. It also makes you realize why gaming mechanics haven't moved passed exploding barrels and so many developers are going out of business. I can understand if they don't want to use Kinect and no one should be forced to add it. But i believe that smart developers will find uses for it. The idiotic notion that games will always be controlled the same way is sad. You can't progress if you don't have sense enough to evolve.

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InBusinessInc. necesitaba un nuevo diseño de página web y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 35 diseños de 9 diseñadores freelance.
The website is for an online realestate investment calculator that allows realtors to calculate the return on investment of a property for their clients. Realtors (and home buyer but realtors are the target market) come to the website, input property information and variables like mortgage rates and a ROI report is generated that they can use to impress their clients as a marketing tool.
The audience is both commercial and residential realtors male and female age 30-50. The logo needs to convey the idea that by using this service they will generate more customers. We want them to think of it as a marketing tool.
We will need an home page, and an internal content page variation done, for the fee. You can use a place holder logo, or go for the logo design seperately for $100
Simplicity is very important. Remove all unnecessary visual elements and be careful not to distract the user with to much decoration.
Use big bold text or icons to get the users attention but only where appropriate.Use of shadowing to make the site pop and almost appear 3-D is favored. The design must scale vertically.
The winner will be asked to provide us with PSD files of the design.
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The splash/branding message of the site must be big, bold and very clear. Try and emphasize the "ROI" . The branding message should be "use ROI to sell more homes". Below will be three key benefits and below those a large call to action button. Key benefits are:
Help Buyers/Sellers Make Financial Sense
Stunning Reports That Set You Apart From The Competition
Sell More Houses & Get More Listings
Call To Action "Create A Report Free Now" and a smaller button that says "See plans and pricing."
Product visual will be on right. great visual of final reports. You can fake the reports for the time being.


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Women's rugby player selected to compete for Junior All-American team
Brandeis club has its next home match on April 14 against Wheaton
Junior LauraBen Moore of the Brandeis women's rugby club was selected to compete in USA Rugby's training camp for the 2013 Women's Junior All-American team.
At the end of March, Moore trained with 40 other student-athletes at the training camp in Herndon, Va. She is now in a pool with members of three other USA Rugby training camps for a spot on the team's Under 20 Program which will compete in England in July in the U-20 Nation's Cup. That event is considered to be the first step in qualifying for the Women's Rugby World Cup and the 2016 Olympics in Rio, which will be the sport's Olympic debut.
The camp featured two days of intensive fitness training, rugby skills work, classroom training and nutrition education. From the four camps held nationwide, 33 to 40 athletes will be selected for a pre-tour camp in May at the Olympic Training Center in Chula Vista, Calif.
"I was one of the least-experienced players at the camp," Moore said. "I've only been playing for a year and a half, so this was an amazing experience, competing with and against players who have as much as a decade in the sport."
Moore is a double major in studio art and anthropology with a 4.0 grade-point average. She is a member of the National Society of Collegiate Scholars and the Alpha Lambda Delta honor society. Moore is also a Community Advisor and has served as the rugby club's top recruiter and publicist.
The Brandeis women's rugby club has its next home match on April 14 at 1 p.m. against Wheaton College.
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When you consider the financial strength of your company, there's more to think about than your Profit & Loss report and the Balance Statement. You should also consider the two debts entrepreneurs are most prone to ignore: The first is technology debt. The second is the hidden cost of high maintenance people.
Manage these two costs properly and your company's growth and profitability will soar. In my next column, I'll address the costs of high maintenance people. Today, I'd like to provide a quick lesson on the ways to find and eliminate the insidious costs of "Tech Debt".
Technology Debt is a term that emerged in Agile Methodology for programming (in our own company we apply it the principles of Agile to operation and leadership functions as well.) According to agile expert Pamela Szabo, "tech debt" occurs when companies do the following:
- Engage in poor programming practices, followed by patches
- Fail to maintain technical assets
- Isolate their technology or product from compatibility with the rest of the world
- Fail to keep up with universal product and technology trends.
Companies create tech debt when they write "corner cutting" code to rush a product to market too quickly, or they send their product over the wall to the testing department with expectations that testing will eliminate their risks and get the product to an acceptable level to ship.
The tech debt issues can apply to non-technology products as well. For example, a marketing company may make an "agile-like" decision to rush their product to market at 80% completion knowing it will fail for 20% of their customers, and will bank on apologies and fixes saving the day.
The company may make high revenue by hitting an aggressive deadline. But the additional revenue comes with a cost of unhappy clients, high returns, and escalating customer support costs. They've produced a product that carries a technical debt.
We experienced this phenomenon in the early days of Fishbowl. We coded like most traditional development shops. We banged out a ton of code and popped it over the cube to our testers. In the process, we created a tsunami of bugs – so big, in fact, that our tracking system actually broke.
A handful of our testers and programmers proposed a better way. They believed we could replace the "develop, then test" paradigm with a single higher quality development process. We closed the testing department entirely. Several individuals took the courageous step of eliminating their own jobs in the process (however, these testers have all become great programmers now).
The team moved its focus to creating as little technical debt as possible. Our Development team focused on the challenge of ensuring they introduced no new bugs when they created new features. Company wide, we adopted a "test first" attitude to help us write code that could not be broken again.
We agreed to refrain from adding new features if they might risk breaking something that already worked. In 24 months our products emerged with new life, yet our testing department was entirely gone. One of our programmers helped to eliminate our "national debt" by personally removing an estimated list of as many as 300,000 bugs.
Finally, in keeping with our commitment to transparency, Development began the process of posting its technical debt ratio continuously for all our company to see, along with our financial results. Yes, we now release new products more slowly. But the technical debt has been paid.
How do you find and eliminate your own technical debt? Experts in agile methodology offer multiple templates. But in short, you should consider the following steps:
- Identify the areas of debt. Call a team meeting. Brainstorm the results. Your employees will know where your inefficiencies lie. Take their feedback to heart.
- Think in terms of "products" instead of "projects". This will allow you to address the challenge holistically. At Fishbowl, we think of our product as a living entity (we give the product its own chair at every development meeting, in fact) to help us keep the bigger vision and mission at the top of our minds.
- Use metrics to measure the costs. There are multiple tools available to help find and assess the costs of problems in the various aspects of code. The metrics will also be helpful as you assess the priority level of the issues you choose to address.
- Prioritize as a team. With the metrics in hand, where can you gain the most reward the most quickly in eliminating your technical (or overhead) debt? The team can identify the prioritization and one by one, you can pay down the debt by addressing these areas.
- Identify human bottlenecks. Are there critical tasks in your development or leadership process that rely on one key person to proceed? This is a case for the agile principle of paired leadership. A process that is collectively owned is more resilient to risk and is better able to represent the team and company ethos as opposed to the preferences and idiosyncrasies of a single member of the product development team.
- Appoint a leader a (or even better, a leadership team). In our case, the developer who identified the technology debt and in the process actually eliminated his own job (in testing) now co-leads our entire development process. His name is Kevin Batchelor. His co-leader, Heber Billings, is the heroic programmer who played the leading role in eliminating our mountain of bugs.
- Document the evidence. Keep the evidence and report the results of your debt-decreasing efforts. This is the surest way to keep everyone in the organization bought in and involved.
How is your own company doing in the prevention and elimination of technical debt? Could you be doing better?
Starting January 28, Fishbowl (together with Intuit) is proud to lead out as a Competition Partner in Grow America's 30 day Product Innovation Competition, available to entrepreneurs throughout the U.S at www.growam.com. Alan Hall writes indepth about the competition in his Forbes column here.
For additional information on agile development or the Fishbowl story I've written about it some more here.
Contributions for this article were provided by Mary Michelle Scott, Brett Campbell and Kevin Batchelor.
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clickshot brauchte ein neues Website Design und hat einen Wettbewerb auf 99designs gestartet.
Aus 10 Designs von 4 Designern wurde eine Gewinner gewählt.
We need an attractive 2-page design to promote window treatments. The goal of the site is to convert the traffic to our marketing campaigns which are in the form of graphic banners and text ads
Window Treatments
Thepages will have (400-600) words of original content and an optional newsfeed.The text and ads should be made seamless and integrate to appear as content.Thereis also a possibility that these sites will later become full-fledged siteswith extensive content, products/services, videos, ratings and forums.
Bonus: $100 for HTML/CSS
1st Page
- 5-7 menuitems (Horizontal, Vertical or Both)
- Search Bar(Simple Google-like search bar)
- Content(Total ~500 words, 1-4 sections)
- RSS Feed(Optional)
- Banner Ad(Standard Unit Sizes)
- Text Ads (NoStandard Unit Size, 3-5 links)2nd Page
- Same as Page1 plus,
- DirectoryStyle Listings (Each listing will have a Heading (40 chars max), Subtext (190chars max) and URL (35 chars max), can be 1-3 sections. Each Section shall havea min of 5 listings.)- As long asthey are royalty-free stock images from istockphoto etc.
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The Time of My Life - more than your usual Hollywood biography
Posted by Camden Council Library Service
Narrated in Swayze's voice, The Time of My Life by Patrick Swayze and Lisa Niemi is an easy read in which Swayze tells of his life, career and marriage with stirring honesty. Swayze reveals himself to be a passionate and driven man who had more talents than his movies revealed. From football to gymnastics to dancing, singing and acting Swayze always strove to be the best and this determination, along with his relationship with his wife, is what kept him going through serious physical injuries and battles with alcohol and depression. This determination is evident throughout the book as right up to the last page he is still passionately declaring that he will continue to fight for his life after his diagnosis with pancreatic cancer. Sadly Swayze died shortly after completing the book. Reading the book I was glad that Swayze and Niemi took the time to write it before his death as it would have been a great shame if this amazing story was never written in Swayze's own voice, as it has accurately captured a real piece of him for all time.
You can read the book and check out the DVD North and South, the American civil war drama that shot Swayze to fame, at the library.
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Can't decide what to read next?
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Maybe you're looking for a book on a particular subject or you can't decide what to read next and want some inspiration. Perhaps the kids have a assignment and have been told to read a "crime" book or perhaps you want to dig deeper and read some literary criticim. We have the tools to help!
This great resource allows you to find suggestions for authors based on genre and includes reviews, feature articles and book discussion guides. You can access it (and some other great resources) from our website under literature.
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Need books for the kids?
This great resource allows you to find suggestions for authors based on genre and includes reviews, feature articles and book discussion guides. You can access it (and some other great resources) from our website under literature.
Good Reading Magazine
The library subscribes to this great magazine. New books, old books, meet the author this magazine has it all. Best of all its available to library members online ! Access via the "What to read" tab on our website.
Need books for the kids?
Magpies is a fantastic website that allows you to search for books for kids and young people by subject. Access to this site is only from within the library. If you can't get to our libraries the Department of Education WA has a similar site called CMIS Evaluation it is searchable by topic and age, great for those school assignments or for finding books on sensitive topics at age appropriate levels.


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As long as you're not chugging hydrochloric acid, your fragging thirst quencher of choice shouldn't be able to fry the impending AZiO's Levetron Mech4. The look's not for everyone (MechWarrior fetishists notwithstanding), but the spill-proof guts sure are.
Even if you're not trying to shoot someone in the face, the odds are decent that you've got a glass or bottle of something near your computer. And knocking it over can put an end to your circle-strafing or email typing in a hurry. That's why AZiO sealed the Levetron's components and added drainage channels too. Spill away.
And if you don't want that bulky numpad or the macro buttons up top, thankfully, they're detachable. I like my keyboards liquid-repelling, but I don't like them bloated. [AZiO via MaximumPC]


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Welcome in OneSails!
If possible, especially on onedesign, in very useful to mark on deck the camera position to give anyone the possibility to take proper shots.
Port tack
Starboard tack
Shots not using diagonal (above right) or not positioning properly the corners (above left sample) are impossible to properly measure.
on pics properly taken, is very useful to mark (possibly on the image) all datas related at the sail and the shot conditions (see samples).A quick way to remember datas is to take pics of electronic displays. Is often useful to take also a video from the same position to see also the kind of movement the sail is doing.
To have a complete report is useful to take also pics of: Mast (A) with max bend to see the type of curve, Jib clew (B) to see the sheeting angle and trim, Sail corners (C) to evaluate geometries and finishing.
In case of defects, wrinkles or problems, always take pics from different angle to show clearly the problem.
Downwind sails are very difficult to snap, is usually more useful to take videos (20/30 sec) from 3 positions (see pics below) if from onboard.If from outboard the best is a video making a slow circle around the boat.
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Well, the board is either fixed, or it's going to run terribly. Cross your fingers and hope for the best. I'm at my technical limit right now.
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Several years ago I bought my Golini ( century Galil clone ) . I really love this rifle ! Its a little on the heavy side due to the milled reciever but the weight helps tame the recoil , and being its .556 recoil is low rite out of the blocks . The rifle does eject the spent brass with a passion ! It even leaves a major dent in the brass , formed when brass hits the ejection port on its way out of the rifle . I feed it Brown Bear or Tulamo so trashing the brass is not a problem . The trigger on my rifle is great , it is the best trigger of any of my Black rifles !
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Now that is one nice looking rifle.
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I'm happy with mine had it for years. I've never had any of the issues that others experienced with them.
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A quick update , I have replaced the standard sling with a single point w/quick release and a bunge in the leg . The rifle rides nice in hi port , can be easyly fired from the left sholder and lays aganst my right hip if I have to tranishen to my side arm . schmedly , as always , Head Up , Eyes Out And ( First Point of Contact ) In The Grass
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This article was published 31/3/2013 (2553 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
OTTAWA — If ever one needed more proof of just how tight the reins are on individual MPs, one need look no further than the events of last week.
B.C. Conservative MP Mark Warawa was spitting mad from having a House of Commons committee deem a motion he introduced to condemn sex-selective abortion out of order. Warawa's motion, which would be non-binding, called on Parliament to condemn the practice.
Although a Library of Parliament analyst reported the motion was within federal jurisdiction, was not too similar to a previous motion and was constitutional, the committee, which has a majority of Conservative MPs, decided otherwise. An appeal of that decision was also rejected Thursday by committee members who went behind closed doors to discuss it.
The motion didn't have any traction. The NDP and most Liberals were sure to vote against it, as were most members of the Conservative caucus, who are following Prime Minister Stephen Harper's directive the abortion debate will not be reopened on his watch.
Preventing it from even being debated seems unusually heavy-handed. A motion on abortion was already defeated earlier this year. On that motion from Conservative MP Stephen Woodworth, calling for a study about the idea life begins at conception, it was the NDP that said it shouldn't be allowed to be debated. But it was, and it was defeated 203 votes to 91.
This time, the motion didn't even get to the floor for debate, let alone a vote.
But the hammer on democracy didn't end there.
Five days after his motion was declared non-votable, Warawa tried to take a moment to put his displeasure on the record by using a members' statement. Those are one-minute comments given to non-cabinet ministers before question period each day to air information important about their constituents.
However, Warawa was barred from that by Conservative party whip Gordon O'Connor. Warawa told the House he was told he was no longer on the daily list for members' statements, 15 minutes before he was to speak, and it was because "the topic was not approved."
Warawa then complained to House Speaker Andrew Scheer that violated his right as a parliamentarian to speak. O'Connor responded to the complaint by saying it is up to the parties to decide which of their members has a right to speak.
"This is a team activity and your role is referee," O'Connor told Scheer. "It is not your job as referee to tell the coach or manager which player to play at any given time. That is a question for each team to decide."
So the question now sitting before Scheer is, whom do MPs really represent? When they rise in the House to speak, are they doing so on their party's behalf or on their constituents' behalf?
Party discipline seems to get stronger and stronger by the day in Ottawa. The Conservative caucus in particular is well-known for saving any dissent for private discussions that will never see the light of day.
Warawa's point of privilege is therefore a rarity in that it is pitting MPs from one party against their own party. Several Conservatives stood up to support Warawa, including Manitoba's Rod Bruinooge. The MP for Winnipeg South told the House the original parliamentary system in the United Kingdom allows the Speaker to decide who speaks, not the parties.
"Therefore, I do not think we are talking about anything that is unique or novel," Bruinooge said.
It's clear why Harper wanted Warawa's motion and subsequent members' statement hushed up. Since he became party leader, Harper has been accused of having a hidden, socially conservative agenda that will see him end gay marriage and ban abortion as soon as he can. That he has been the head of a majority government for nearly two years now and has done what he can to keep the abortion debate from being reopened doesn't matter to his harshest critics.
Harper is in many ways between a rock and a hard place on this one. If he allows the MPs in his caucus who are against abortion to constantly bring up the issue with motions and private member's bills, it plays into the criticism his party is too socially conservative to govern. Or he can shut down the conversation from within, as he has done with Warawa.
It says a lot that Harper would rather stifle democracy than be accused of allowing another debate about abortion that was sure to end with Parliament voting it down.
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Well, it's been a very very long week. Sorry to leave everyone hanging. (It was only sort of intentional!) The good news (for me) is that the end is in sight and Doug is on his way home!*
The OTHER good news for Doug (and all of us) is that there are a few great job prospects in California. It looks like we WONT have to move into a cardboard box on the beach after all. (That was my Plan B.)
It's going to be a few more weeks, though, until any decisions are made. Sorry I can't be more specific. (Trust me, I really wish I could.)
In other news, if you can't get ahold of me this coming week, it's because I'll be in self-imposed isolation at the local Funny Farm. I'm hoping to get a few naps in and go at least one whole hour without having to put anyone in "time out". Hopefully the other inmates aren't as violent and naughty as my children! (Wish me luck.)
And now I'm off to bed.
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*After having him gone for less than one week, I (once again) have an even greater appreciation and respect for my friends with deployed husbands. How they manage their lives so well as single parents is beyond me!
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I am glad that he's on his way home! And I'm glad that you have a few prospects! Good luck!
- marissa said...
Horray for potential jobs in CA!
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A cancer therapy that removes malignant cells from a patient's cerebrospinal fluid may soon be available to prevent metastases and decrease complications of cancers involving the brain, according to Penn State medical researchers.
Many cancer types metastasize to the brain — including breast cancer, pancreatic cancer, prostate cancer and leukemia — but by filtering these malignant cells out of the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF), the researchers hope to decrease the chance of cancer spreading toward and away from the brain.
The brain and spinal cord are surrounded by cerebrospinal fluid, separated from the blood circulating throughout the rest of the body by a cellular lining known as the blood-brain barrier.
"Most chemotherapies have a difficult time crossing the blood-brain barrier, but cancer cells can if they have the right instructions," said Joshua E. Allen, postdoctoral fellow at the Penn State Hershey Cancer Institute.
The researchers have devised a way to move CSF through a filter outside the body that catches the cancer cells and then allows the CSF to flow back into the patient, tumor cell-free.
"Currently nothing exists that can filter cerebrospinal fluid — which, in some patients, contains malignant active cancer cells," said Akshal S. Patel, neurosurgery resident at the Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center. "This therapy filters all cerebrospinal fluid."
Many treatments, including chemotherapy, increase therapeutic resistance of cancer cells, Allen noted. However, filtering cells out does not offer the malignant cells an opportunity to develop therapeutic resistance.
Treatment providers can count the cells captured in the filter and use that to measure the severity of metastasis, another benefit to using this method.
Approximately 15 to 20 percent of metastatic breast cancer patients eventually develop brain metastases, according to the researchers.
"There is a high likelihood of breast cancer patients getting cancer cells in their cerebrospinal fluid," said Patel.
The researchers monitored the number of tumor cells in nine breast cancer patients with confirmed metastatic spread to their central nervous system. They counted both the number of tumor cells in the bloodstream and in the CSF.
Approximately half of these patients had tumor cells that moved through the blood-brain barrier. Allen and Patel found that this movement of tumor cells is not necessarily restricted to later phases of breast cancer, as previously thought.
With this new knowledge in mind, the researchers' proposed method can help treat breast cancer — and other metastasizing cancers — earlier and with potentially fewer drugs. This filtering of body fluid is similar to that used as standard care for leukemia, and offers potentially increased cure rates.
"The minimum this therapy would provide is straining the tumor cells out," said Allen. "But we could also include other therapies when returning the CSF to the body."
A provisional patent application for this method described by the inventors has been filed.


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Explore, Discover, Connect…for a Lifetime of Education. Join the Providence Public Library Board of Trustees, Foundation and staff as they work to make this goal a reality for the City of Providence and for all Rhode Islanders. The Library Board seeks an engaged, energetic leader to serve as Chief Executive Officer—finalizing and implementing a new strategic plan—to build on its outstanding service programs and achieve further levels of excellence. The Providence Public Library is a private, independent 501(c)(3) organization. Housed in a stunning historic building, the Library has a proud and venerable history. Operating from a single 116,000 square foot facility since 2009, it is home to more than one million items—including unique special collections. Library operations are funded by endowment, private donations, grants, and a new event venue enterprise. Supported by a $3.4 million annual operating budget, staff focus is primarily in three areas: Lifelong Learning; Early Childhood Literacy; and Individual Economic Advancement. As the state's premiere personal learning institution, the Library is also focused on building and strengthening its services not only for all Rhode Islanders, but for all interested in the history, growth and development of the New England region.
Providence combines the culture and sophistication of a big city with the accessibility and friendliness of a small town. The city's compact size and convenient location make it easy to get to and get around. Historic and hip, sophisticated and friendly, Providence packs the best of New England into one convenient and colorful package. Today, the City is home to eight hospitals and seven institutions of higher learning, which have shifted the city's economy into service industries, though it still retains significant manufacturing activity. With a thriving arts community, vibrant and diverse neighborhoods, and renowned restaurants, Providence is a great place to live and call home. For additional details on the Providence Public Library, the City of Providence and the metro area see Providence Links.
Responsibilities. Reporting to the Providence Public Library Board of Trustees, the CEO serves as the leader of the Library and is its primary public representative. The CEO works in partnership with the Board to ensure that the Library fulfills its mission and creates the strategies that will secure its future success. The CEO serves under the general supervision of the Board but works with a high degree of independence and is responsible for the overall administration of day-to-day operations; fiscal management; planning; development and fundraising; fostering community relationships; maintaining programmatic effectiveness; and providing ongoing support and leadership for the Library staff, Library Board and Foundation. See the CEO Job Description for additional information.
Qualifications. The ideal candidate will have a Master's Degree in Library Science and/or other desirable advanced degrees in public, nonprofit or business administration. The position requires a minimum of eight years of relevant work experience, including four years of experience in an executive capacity or other appropriate government, business, higher education or nonprofit enterprise. Essential attributes and skills include: experience and success with fundraising and development; excellent writing, communication and presentation skills; strong marketing skills with an entrepreneurial focus; political acumen; collaborative and consensus-building skills; and a thorough knowledge of current trends and "best practices†for library and/or nonprofit management. Proven success working with and reporting to a governing board is a desirable qualification.
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The International Council for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (ICIAM) has announced its quadrennial prize winners. ICAM is a worldwide organization for professional applied mathematics societies, and for other societies with a significant interest in industrial or applied mathematics.
The prizes will be awarded at the Opening Ceremony of the International Congress for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, ICIAM 2011, to be held in July next year in Vancouver, BC, Canada.
The ICIAM Collatz Prize was awarded to Emmanuel Candes. The Collatz Prize was established to provide international recognition to individual scientists under 42 years of age for outstanding work on industrial and applied mathematics. Emmanuel J. Candes of Stanford University and of the California Institute of Technology is awarded the 2011 ICIAM Collatz Prize in recognition of his outstanding contributions to numerical solution of wave propagation problems and compressive sensing, as well as anisotropic extensions of wavelets. In joint work with L. Demanet, Candes proposed and mathematically justified the first linear complexity method for the fast numerical solution of wave propagation problems. The analysis involved the proof that, within a curvelet representation, the propagation operator for the associated evolution problem is approximately equivalent to a permutation matrix, and that the compressed representation of the operator can be computed in O(N) operations. The significance of this result is only now beginning to be explored. Also, in compressive sensing, together with David Donoho, Justin Romberg, and Terence Tao, he developed a spectacular advance based on harmonic analysis, approximation theory and optimization. This result has been widely applied to image processing, sensor design, control and many other fields. He identified the fundamental role of the restricted isometry property (RIP) in compressive sensing. He has also a major contribution to anisotropic extensions of wavelets, which has deeply advanced both applications and mathematical theory.
The ICIAM Lagrange Prize was awarded to Alexandre J. Chorin. The Lagrange Prize was established to provide international recognition to individual mathematicians who have made an exceptional contribution to applied mathematics throughout their careers. Alexandre J. Chorin of the University of California at Berkeley and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory receives the 2011 ICIAM Lagrange Prize in recognition of his fundamental and original contributions to applied mathematics, fluid mechanics, statistical mechanics, and turbulence modeling. His methods for the numerical solution of Navier-Stokes equations stand at the basis of the most popular codes in computational fluid mechanics. Beginning with his pioneering work 40 years ago, Chorin developed some of the key mathematical and algorithmic ideas that underlie many of the most powerful computer codes in computational fluid dynamics, by blending mathematical intuition, physical insight and a deep attention to practical implementation. In the mid 1960s, Chorin invented the Projection Method and the Artificial Compressibility Method. These techniques were the first practical and accurate methods for approximating the full Navier-Stokes equations. By performing careful numerical experiments along with theoretical convergence studies, Chorin has placed the numerical solution of complex flow on a solid mathematical foundation for the first time. Chorin followed this with the invention and design of Vortex Methods, for which he was given the U.S. National Academy of Sciences Award in Applied Mathematics and Numerical Analysis. These techniques, based on the critical role of vorticity, are particularly suited to modeling the complex mixing and instabilities of turbulent flow. They allow the computation of the large transitory fluid structures critical to fluid mixing, wake development and chemical transport. In addition, Chorin was one of the pioneers in the development of high resolution methods for gas dynamics and combustion, in particular through his work on random-choice methods. Chorin has also made profound contributions to the application of methods of modern physics to turbulence modeling, numerical path integration, numerical methods for front motion, the kinetic theory of gases, phase transitions and Monte-Carlo methods.
The ICIAM Maxwell Prize was awarded to Vladimir Rokhlin. The Maxwell Prize was established to provide international recognition to a mathematician who has demonstrated originality in applied mathematics. Vladimir Rokhlin of Yale University has been selected for the 2011 ICIAM Maxwell Prize for his work on fast multipole methods which have revolutionized fields like numerical electromagnetism for radar and molecular dynamics for chemistry. Vladimir Rokhlin has had a profound impact on scientific computing and applied mathematics, most notably in developing "analysis-based fast algorithms." These include the fast multipole method for the Laplace equation, the fast multipole method for the Helmholtz equation, and the non-equispaced fast Fourier transform and also most recently in randomized matrix compression schemes. He has also made fundamental contributions to inverse scattering and to approximation theory. Rokhlin was the first person who took a systematic approach to combining approximation theory, the classical theory of special functions, and modern computer science to reduce the computational cost associated with handling the basic integral operators of mathematical physics. Earlier fast algorithms (like the fast Fourier transform) had had great impact, but they were brittle. They had required uniform data structures and could not cope with complex geometries. An interesting consequence of the approximate nature of this new class of methods is that they are more flexible as well as being more robust. His work on Fast Multipole Methods (FMM) has been cited as one of the ten algorithmic revolutions of the second half of the 20th century. These methods have revolutionized fields like numerical electromagnetism for radars and molecular dynamics for chemistry because the computing time to solve the problems is drastically reduced. For instance, for an airplane described by ten thousand points the radar cross-section can be computed in forty thousand operations instead of the millions of billions by earlier methods. FMM depends heavily on mathematical analysis and proper computer implementation and here too Vladimir Rokhlin has had a major role.
The ICIAM Pioneer Prizewas awarded to James Albert Sethian. The Pioneer Prize was established for pioneering work introducing applied mathematical methods and scientific computing techniques to an industrial problem area or a new scientific field of applications. James Albert Sethian of the the University of California at Berkeley and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory receives the 2011 ICIAM Pioneer Prize for his fundamental methods and algorithms which have had a large impact in applications such as in imaging and shape recovery in medicine, geophysics and tomography and drop dynamics in inkjets. Sethian has done pioneering work in applied mathematics. He introduced with Andrew Majda a widely used asymptotic analysis of combustion. The level set method pioneered by Sethian and S.Osher has had a very major impact on many fields of application, and is one of the most widely used new algorithms of the past few decades. Sethian's algorithms for imaging and shape recovery in medical scanning devices are embedded in current medical imaging workstations. He developed tools for solving Hamilton-Jacobi equations with applications in geophysics and tomography, including problems with multiple arrivals. Sethian has created startlingly accurate numerical methods of drop dynamics for use with inkjets.
The ICIAM Su~Buchin Prize was awarded to Edward Lungu. The Su Buchin Prize was established to provide international recognition of an outstanding contribution by an individual in the application of Mathematics to emerging economies and human development, in particular at the economic and cultural level in developing countries. Edward Lungu of the University of Botswana receives the 2011 ICIAM Su~Buchin Prize for his mathematical modeling of problems related to Africa and his fundamental contribution to developing teaching, research and organizational structures for applied mathematics in Southern Africa. Edward Lungu has been described as a "fundamental person" in the development of teaching and research in applied mathematics in Southern Africa. As founder and leader of SAMSA (Southern Africa Mathematical Sciences Association) and later of AMMSI (the Millennium Initiative) he has simply done everything that one person could do: organized, encouraged, supervised, and led by his personal example in teaching and research. For Botswana itself Professor Lungu has developed models in hydrology, ecology, and epidemiology. In choosing these three research areas, he has responded to the greatest needs of his fellow men and women. The series of recent papers in mathematical biosciences model the differential progression of HIV/AIDS based on characteristics of patients and the care they receive. In developing mathematical education and research, Edward Lungu has been described as a "giant force" &mdash a force with organizational talent, tireless energy, and a friendly personality.


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About Sales Partnerships, Inc. Sales Partnerships provides turnkey sales teams for Fortune 500 companies throughout the United States and internationally. Operating in more than 400 markets throughout the US, our focus on hiring the best talent, supporting them with the best systems and personnel, and leveraging bleeding edge technology has allowed SPI to become the most recognized company in our industry. That relentless focus has resulted in SPI becoming the choice for many Fortune 500 companies for B2B customer engagement and acquisition in the field. That same spirit of innovation and focus on getting better continues to drive our success. We are tasked with representing large companies in the field as their field sales forces. We recruit the staff, train the teams, deploy the systems to support the sales force, then become the clients' field representatives engaging with customers under their brand. We're trusted to perform that mission to deliver superior ROI with a constant eye to protection of their brand. Over the past 20 years, since our founding in 1997, SPI has never been out-performed by a competitor in that mission… ever. That success isn't possible without the best people helping us grow and improve over the years. We are the most highly selective company in our industry – if you have what it takes to be one of the best, please apply. EEO Statement: We are committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all persons regardless of race, color, ancestry, citizenship, national origin, religion, veteran status, disability, genetic characteristic or information, age, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, family status, pregnancy, or other legally protected status (collectively, "protected statuses"). We do not tolerate unlawful discrimination in any employment decisions, including recruiting, hiring, compensation, promotion, benefits, discipline, termination, job assignments or training. Disclaimer: The job information below has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees within this classification. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job. Job duties and responsibilities are subject to change based on changing business needs and conditions. Responsibilities Job Summary: 3 positions available The QC agent is part of a team that is responsible for monitoring the quality of work performed by field agents assigned to SPI's "Merchant Visits" program on behalf of one of its largest clients. Quality control is needed to ensure we comply with standards for customer visits as well as to protect client and company branding. QC reps will call out to our client's customers and conduct a scripted "Follow-Up" survey in reference to a previous visit our Field Agents have conducted to the customer. Most of the work day is spent making calls to customers to attempt to complete surveys as well as reviewing and noting quality issues in records of visits submitted by field agents in the customer visit tracking software. This includes reviewing field agent notes regarding their visits, any objections the agent may have had to overcome, and photo submissions submitted by the field reps to confirm the visit was completed to company standards. The results of quality control activities will be reported to the management team to be used to improve the quality of visits to customers and maintain quality of documentation and reporting and activities by field agents. 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Essential Duties: Makes at least 70 outbound calls each day to complete surveys with selected customers; completing up to 25 surveys a day Logs information and findings into the internal CRM Evaluates 70-100 records daily and noting any issues with clear, concise written documentation Works in a team environment and is involved in team meetings and "Brainstorming" sessions Handling each call with care and attention to detail Understanding how to identify and report various issues and when to escalate issues for priority handling Responding to occasional customer complaints and referring these to management team(s) Qualifications Knowledge, Skills and Abilities: Strong verbal and written communication skills Ability to perform repetitive tasks on a daily basis while maintaining focus and attention to detail Proficiency in Excel or Google Sheets Experience entering data into data trackers such as CRM, Salesforce Strong work ethic and a high-level of personal and professional integrity Strong attention to detail and ability to correlate information and recognize patterns Education and Experience: Minimum of 1 year experience in a similar position or field CLICK ON LINK BELOW TO BE DIRECTED TO OUR WEBSITE FOR YOUR APPLICATION: https://careers-salespartnerships.icims.com/jobs/1532/quality-control-agent-%28customer-service---outbound-calls%29/job
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That rock that you would always pedal-strike, I made it smoother. That ditch you could almost wheelie across, I filled it in so now you can roll it. That tight switchback that you could hop around like Ryan Leach and all your friends were impressed, I made it so you can pedal around it.
I have a confession: I am the guy who dumbs down your trails.
Over many years and miles of trail work, I have smoothed, buffed, filled in gap jumps, opened up corners, bench-cut narrow trails, dismantled wooden features, made mandatory drops rollable, armored stutter bumpy corners, cut out roots, rerouted trail, and I apologize for none of it.
Let's back up a bit and get some perspective on this issue. I grew up in a northern California town with a burgeoning mountain bike community; above town there is a university with a campus with expansive meadows and acres of dark redwood forest, and a budding renegade trail system. I began mountain biking in high school with two buddies. As our skills progressed and we searched farther and farther for cool trails, we added to the growing underground build scene, and built a steep downhill trail close to town on the university property. Though completely illegal and equipped with little more than our bikes and a rake between us, we "built" our first trail. The result was steep, rocky, surfy and unsustainable. Don't worry, no campers died during the process (If you have ridden this campus you know what trail I'm talking about.)
I continued building trails without permission over the years in California and in Central Oregon, when I moved here.
The theme was always steep and technical, usually as much fall line as possible. Eventually, I joined my local trail association because I decided I could put my efforts to better use by cooperating with the authorities to develop legal, land owner approved trails. Now, I am a trail crew leader, designer and head builder with Central Oregon Trail Alliance in Bend. My main focus is the more technical trails we build and maintain. I have also adopted two trails and have added a lot of my personal flair to both. Ever ridden South Fork or Whoops? Those are my babies.


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Shapeling RedSonja has a question that we think you all can answer better than we can. Let's play collective Aunt Fattie!
Here's the situation:
My boss was telling me the other day that his sister and her children are coming to visit. Apparently she felt both fat and ostracized in high school (I say felt, because he indicated he didn't get that from that time period AT ALL) and, in an effort to prevent that for her 3 daughters, she has begun food restricting them. (Their ages, BTW, are 7, 5, and 3) He has been instructed that, while they're visiting, they can't serve desserts, the girls can only have 2 carbs a day, stuff like that. He's concerned for his nieces, but wants to respect his sister's feelings. Any Shapeling suggestions on how to do this? Also, when I asked him, he felt that she would be more likely to be responsive to anecdata than to studies. Any guidance any of you have would be appreciated!
What do you all think? Should the uncle follow the rules? Should he confront his sister? Should he put delicious bowls of ice cream right at kids'-eye level? The man wants anecdata, so have at it in the comments.


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You might remember that I was in NYC a couple of weeks ago for the Quilt Alliance's Quilters Take Manhattan event. As is often the case in the city, we spent lots of time walking around. And while I think NYC is a little too much hustle and bustle for me personally, I have to admit that it is full of inspiration, everywhere. Literally everywhere. From the people on the subways below ground, to the tallest sky scrapers, and everything in between, there are so many things to see and draw inspiration from. I was especially intrigued with these corrugated metal water towers that sit on top of buildings.
I really love how they looked against all of the buildings they sat on, and I think they reminded me a bit of the metal silos that are often found on farms around here. Like this one.
Of course, there are really all sorts of amazing architectural details in the city. Here are some of my favorites that I saw.
This is a post office near Madison Square Garden, and it's a bit hard to tell in the photo, but the motto "Neither rain, nor sleet, ..." is carved in the lintel.
I especially loved these art deco brass details that were on this building. Such amazing craftsmanship.
And another thing I love about NYC is all of the types of people you see everywhere. I have no idea how many different languages I heard being spoken. And I just had to stop and take a photo of this woman in a kimono on the street. She was so beautiful.
The corner in the fashion district is one of my favorite places. It's near Parsons New School of Design, for all you Project Runway fans, and there are two large statues there. One is a garment worker at a sewing machine, and the other is a huge sewing needle and button.
And I really loved this elaborate metal work and carved stone.
Going through these photos really makes me want to spend a lot of time documenting the scenery around me, in my community. Jeff and I have often said that we want to take a day where we walk all around Cincinnati, photographing things that catch our eyes. Now, we just need to make the time to do it.


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Transactional Email Inspiration: Zulily's Well Branded Order ConfirmationCarly Brantz
What makes a great email? Rather than tell you, we'll show you. Here is an email from Zulily, a daily deals site for moms, babies, and kids that shows how important clear messaging and branding is in a transactional email.
Clear subject line:
The subject line of this email clearly states the nature of the message as an order confirmation: Zulily: New Order # 809178472. The message is succinct and contains important details about the order destination, purchased items, and the transactional total. The email is upfront with the information its sharing—it tells the customer exactly what they need to know.
Strong branding:
The order information is presented in an easy to read layout with clear branding. Zulily's colors and logos are prominent. They also extend their branding power by showcasing social sharing buttons that encourage customers to invite friends to get the same great deals.
Marketing Messaging:
Zulily includes a marketing message in the top right corner that invites customers to "Go Wild" and earn additional credits. What would make this even more powerful is if they personalized the marketing offers to encourage deeper engagement. They could utilize their customer's recent purchase to suggest similar or complimentary items—like bowls to match the plates they purchased, or other items that have a similar design.
The Verdict:
This email is great. The little girl carrying the package is fun and furthers the brand message. It's direct, provides value, and reinforces the savings received to encourage future purchases. Well done.
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For a hypothetical, four-band concert comprised of the best music-related movies of the past 20 years (documentaries not included), "Almost Famous" would obviously headline. "Crazy Heart" performs second. Tom Hanks' "That Thing You Do" goes on first.
What's slotted third? "Sopranos" creator David Chase's personal, deeply felt feature writing-directing debut "Not Fade Away," which makes Hanks' immensely entertaining comedy look goofy and shallow. Like "TTYD," "Fade" focuses on a band trying to make it in 1964 and a drummer who's not the group's first choice. The timekeeper replaced in "Not Fade Away" joins the Marines, leaving an empty seat for Doug (John Magaro of "Liberal Arts"). Doug's never been much of a drummer, nor an athlete—two limitations he blames for his inactivity in the female department.
Among many other triumphs, "Not Fade Away" captures Doug's life clicking into focus after high school, even as some people—and, at times, Doug himself—struggle to see themselves and others as anything other than the way they were back then. Now Doug embraces a chance to take over singing duties, muttering, "I can sing that song better than you," despite knowing his friend, the band's singer (Jack Huston), won't be happy about it.
Doug's confidence, and his soulful voice and stage presence, also attracts his former classmate Grace (Bella Heathcote of "Dark Shadows"), who Chase resists writing as some thinly drawn hottie for the hero to ogle, win and ultimately dismiss. Grace and all of the movie's main characters have fully drawn personalities and vivid relationships, including the resentments and jealousies that can crop up when friends become colleagues and a hobby becomes a business.
Underneath the dedication and struggle of Doug's band lingers the escalating popularity of the Beatles and the Rolling Stones, captured in a clip from Dean Martin's show as he rolls his eyes at the latter's performance. So much in life, and especially in the entertainment business, doesn't seem worth taking seriously until it is. Of course, Chase bakes plenty of serious moments into "Not Fade Away," including President Kennedy's assassination, the work of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and a health scare for Doug's father (James Gandolfini). They're all used as backdrops in a movie that beautifully, sometimes heartbreakingly documents people living in the moment, doing what feels right at the time.
More than the solid Beatles tale "Nowhere Boy," "Not Fade Away" recreates a period and feelings of music running through your blood, of egos and opportunities, of transparent crushes and the gradual acquisition of knowledge. You'll be overcome with satisfaction and nostalgia, whether or not you lived through it the first time.
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Bolshoi BalletPrivate Company active 7 years, 7 months ago
Founded in 1776 by Prince Peter Urusov and Englishman Michael Maddox, the company started by giving performances in a private residence until 1780 when the Petrovka Theatre was acquired and the company began to present plays and operas.
In 1805, the Petrovka Theatre was destroyed by fire and in 1806 the administraion was taken over by the Imperial Government. But it was not until twenty years later that a new theatre on the site, designed by the architect Andrei Mikhailov, opened on 18 January 1825 with a performance of Fernando Sor's ballet Cendrillon.
This theatre was extensively damaged by fire in 1853 and was reconstructed by the architect Albert Cavos who also built the Mariinsky Theatre and renovated the Mikhailovsky Theatre in St. Petersburg. Albert Cavos was the son of opera composer Caterino Cavos, a naturalised Russian of Venetiam origin.
The Bolshoi Theatre reopened in 1856 and remained the home of the Bolshoi Ballet and the Bolshoi Opera until 2005 when the theatre closed for reconstruction, which is currently in progress. In the meantime, the ballet and opera companies are housed in the adjacent New Bolshoi Theatre, which was built in a record time of only six months.
The Bolshoi Ballet has given many historic performances in the Bolshoi Theatre, including the premiere of Marius Petipa's Don Quixote on 14 December 1869, the premiere of Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake, which took place on Saturday, 4 March 1877, and more recently, the premiere of Yuri Grigorovitch's legendary production of Spartacus in 1968.
The ballet company has had a succession of distinguished Artistic Directors. Since the 1950s these have included Asaf Messerer, Yuri Grigorovitch, Vladimir Vasiliev, Alexei Fadeyechev and, most recently, Alexei Ratmansky who was succeeded in 2008 by Yuri Burlaka.
The General Director of the Bolshoi Theatre is Anatoly Iksanov.
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- *Stephanie's Sculptual Beadmaking Class must go in order for this class to happen.*
I am a fiber-artist, jewelry designer and glass beadmaker. While I work in several media, my signature jewelry incorporates a mixture of my own lampwork beads, vintage glass, ethnic beads, natural materials and fibers.
Since I was threading yarn through pasta I have been making jewelry. My mom, Annie, is an artist too and was always doing art projects in the house while I was growing up. My mom collects ethnic jewelry and eclectic art. She sews wild (but elegant) clothing and knits stop-you-on-the-street sweaters. From her, I've inherited a love of beads and fibers as well as the desire to create unique wearables by hand.
In college, I studied metalsmithing and painting. I loved the engineering process of the metal work and colors of the painting. As a bead-collector, I was tempted to try and make my own glass beads.Lampworking is an ancient glass-working technique whereby one winds glass rods around a steel mandrel over flame to build layers of color. There it was, the amalgamation of color and texture I craved.
I taught myself a variety of traditional stringing and knotting techniques and developed a few of my own. The "Spiny Knotting" technique I developed allows more beads and small treasures to be bound into a single piece, so each one of the "ingredients" adds a distinct energy that works to complement all the others. Though these collections take the form of jewelry pieces, I think of myself as a creator of "talismanic objects"…or maybe just "revolving wearable vignettes". I live on the coast of Maine and love to spend time in my garden and studio, combining different colors and textures, whether beady or floral.
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17-year-old Helena Muffly wrote exactly 100 years ago today:
Wednesday, May 15, 1912: Besse was out this afternoon. We had sort of a sewing bee. Ma worked on my dress and Sis brought several along.
Her middle-aged granddaughter's comments 100 years later:
Yeah! I finally know what Besse looked like. I recently found a picture of all four Muffly children. I think that it was taken about the same time as the diary. In 1912 Jimmie was 6-years-old, and I think that the boy in the photo looks about six.
This is the first picture that I've seen of Grandma's oldest sister Besse. It's fun to finally be able to picture what she looked like.
It's also fun to see what the path toward the barn (or maybe some other farm building) looked like–and how the siblings arranged themselves for a group photo. It's interesting how Jimmie is clinging to Besse, who was married and not living at home. She must have made a fuss over Jimmie when she visited. In April 1912 Besse had a baby who died shortly after birth. Maybe she transferred some of her maternal feelings to her little brother.
It's also interesting how Ruth is standing a little separate from the others and has her hand on her hips. It reminds me of the times in the diary when Grandma refers to Ruth as "her highness."
An aside–My brother helped me locate a small group of pictures (including this one), some old newspaper clippings, and related items that had been found in Grandma's house after she died.
I've really been enjoying the newly found items, and look forward to sharing some more of the pictures and clippings over the next few weeks.


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|Current Peace Corps Volunteer in Ethiopia Marcy Aldacushion (Gondar) has teamed up with the Family Training Center that trains poor and disabled women in home economics skills. Part of the curriculum involves teaching design and sewing skills that will enable students to earn a living after they graduate.
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Black Purple Vase
turned into a lamp with hand crafted antique brass fittings and finial, two lampholders and a choice of modern or antique style cables.
£1100 + vat
Object measuring: W: 13cm H: 34cm
Delivery time 4-6 weeks
painted in the colour of your choice or mounted with one of our many lampshade materials.
Price dependent on size and material used
Delivery time 4-6 weeks


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I made this as part of my graduate course in adult education, around the idea of learning by creating and sharing "artifacts" on the web in a "digital portfolio".
My 7 year old son Gabe is a big paper airplane enthusiast. In this video, Gabe shows you how to make a paper airplane of his own design, "The Poining Arrow". As you can see in the video, Gabe is a natural explainer. We rehearsed once or twice before we recorded this, and he went into about twice as much detail in the actual video as he ever did during rehearsal, without ever missing a beat or needing to do a second take. Contrary to what he said in the video, this was actually his very first how to video, and I was very impressed with his style and ability to explain what he was showing. I recorded the video on my smartphone, and uploaded it directly to YouTube.
We've been using Gabe's interest in paper airplanes in our homeschooling to learn about all kinds of things – geometry, symmetry, lift, drag, and experimentation with different designs to see how they perform. We're just getting started with the idea of making how to videos and guides, but we'll definitely be doing more. They're a great way to take a constructionist approach to learning – making something (a physical or digital artifact), sharing it with others, and thinking/talking about what's being learned.


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Performers will find a perfect place to play at UCSD's new Conrad Prebys Music Center
Conrad Prebys Music Center, the details
Opening concerts: 7 p.m. Friday (opening gala) and 8 p.m. Saturday
Open houses: For UCSD students and faculty, 3-4:45 p.m. Friday (the center will be dedicated at 5 p.m.); for the public, noon-4 p.m. Saturday (Cecil Lytle will perform at noon; Janos Negyesy at 2 p.m.; Aleck Karis at 4 p.m.)
Opening program:
Anthony Davis: "Jesus Saviour, Pilot Me"
Rand Steiger: "A Good Diffused" (premiere)
Chopin: Barcarolle, Op. 60, performed by Karis
Ives: Four Songs, performed by Susan Narucki and Karis
Philippe Manoury: Prelude from "On Iron"
Roger Reynolds: "Of Life and Spring (SEASONS 1 a)" (premiere)
[THE]: Clips (premiere)
KaiBorg: "trans terra firma"
Alexander Juutilainen and Dirk Sutro: "Sculpting Sound," excerpt from an upcoming documentary video about the Conrad Prebys Music Center
Lei Liang: "Brush-Stroke"
Tickets: Limited number of $125 seats for Friday; $25 for Saturday ($10, UCSD students and faculty). Open houses are free.
Directions: The Music Center is situated near the intersection of Gilman Drive and Russell Lane, at the southeast corner of the main UCSD campus, across Russell Lane from the Gilman Parking Structure.
From I-5, take La Jolla Village Drive west. Turn right on Villa La Jolla Drive, to Gilman Drive. Park in the Gilman Parking Structure or in surrounding surface lots. Permits available from red machines.
Information: music.ucsd.edu or (858) 534-TIXS.
Hungarian-born graduate student Katalin Lukacs was one of the first musicians to play in the state-of-the-art small concert hall in the new $53 million Conrad Prebys Music Center at UCSD. Lukacs sat down at the grand piano, carefully opened her Liszt score, and began to play. She played for one hour straight, as if mesmerized – transfixed and transported to other dimensions by the rapturous quality of the sound in the hall.
Soon the public will have the same opportunity to experience an acoustical environment that UCSD hopes, in the words of Rand Steiger, the music department chair, "will develop a reputation as being one of the best small concert halls in the world."
The 400-seat Prebys Concert Hall, which opens Friday, is the centerpiece of the new Conrad Prebys Music Center. It's named after the Point Loma developer and piano aficionado, who contributed $6 million to ensure that the music center's construction, which was facing possible shutdown due to state budget cuts, could finally be completed.
"So far as I am aware, there is no other dedicated music facility – for presentation, exploration and learning – anywhere in the world that can match the CPMC facilities," said Pulitzer Prize-winning composer and UCSD faculty member Roger Reynolds.
The Prebys Concert Hall is the brainchild of renowned acoustician Cyril Harris, who teamed up with his associate of 23 years, architect Mark Reddington of LMN Architects, based in Seattle, to produce a masterwork of acoustic design.
This is the last project and perhaps the crowning achievement of an illustrious career for the retiring Harris, who in June will turn 92. Harris, a legend in acoustics circles, has won numerous awards (including a 1997 Gold Medal from the Acoustical Society of America) and has authored many books (including the 1950 "Acoustical Designing in Architecture," the bible of acoustical design).
Harris has been involved in the construction of more than 100 halls, among them the John F.
Architect Reddington listens to the needs of his clients rather than coming at them with an agenda. He disavows any stylistic labels, claims no heroes of architecture or buildings he trembles before. Rather, he is a man interested in building projects that serve people while minimally impacting the environment.
Reddington and Harris' design "demonstrates a mastery of basic principles, and elevates them by pushing their limits," Steiger said. "This is possible only with the freedom for, respect for, even expectation for innovation. In a way, the concert hall is a physical manifestation of what this department has always stood for."
The music center was constructed on the eastern part of the UCSD campus near the intersection of Russell Lane and Gilman Drive in what is known as the Arts District. Like its twin, the Theatre District, built around La Jolla Playhouse, it is part of UCSD's Neighborhoods Plan, meant to bring the feeling of community, warmth and a sense of belonging to a campus once known for its social alienation.
The new facility replaced the old single-story CRCA (Center for Research in Computing and the Arts) building. CRCA was fondly loved for its moldy carpets and at night its furry scampering creatures but also for great music, experimental performance and art shows, and the best receptions on campus. Many miss it.
The music center is a three--story, rectilinear, gray-colored modernist structure measuring some 46,880 square feet. It is mainly constructed of concrete and has open areas on the various levels offering expansive views. The basic theme is one of openness, transparency and access. There is much attention to detail with an artistic flair.
In addition to the concert hall, the center's first floor contains a 150-seat Experimental Theatre for multimedia presentations, a more conventional, boldly colored 150-seat theater/lecture hall, offices and a large orchestra practice room. The back wing is almost entirely devoted to the percussion department.
The second level houses a computer lab, recording studios, a conference room, faculty studios, and classrooms. On the third level, there are numerous practice rooms, faculty offices and a unique, artistically inspiring chamber music practice room.
Some may wonder if in these difficult economic times, with so many state cutbacks to education, if it was a bit extravagant for the university to spend so much money on a new music building.
Music department chair Steiger points out the building had been in the planning stages for more than 20 years, long before the budget crisis. The music department, which has 178 undergrad music majors and 85 graduate students, has been spread out in five locations. Its Mandeville headquarters, built in 1974, is hopelessly out of date and acoustically inadequate. To renovate Mandeville would have cost more than a new building, according to Steiger.
Steiger said the new building passed through two rounds of value engineering to cut costs, trim the fat and eliminate any frills. However, if not for private donations (not only from Prebys, but also $1 million from John Moores, $350,000 from Ann and Joel Reed, and others), construction would still have been halted due to budgetary concerns.
But putting all concerns about costs aside, what ultimately makes it all worthwhile is the concert hall. Ultimately, a da Vinci is worth it because of how it enriches the spirit. For this project, Harris was given complete freedom to design the physical manifestation of all his theories of acoustics. And Reddington said he set out to create something that would make patrons' hearts "beat faster upon first sight."
The stage, although too small for a full symphony, is ideal for a chamber ensemble (the La Jolla Symphony and Chorus, which incorporates UCSD students, will continue to perform at Mandeville Auditorium). The ceiling and the walls are constructed of fitted triangular panels, attached to metal frames that are hung securely from the high ceiling on numerous hidden cables with shock absorbing springs. Thus, if a jet plane rumbles over, the sound will not penetrate the hall.
On the back wall are long strips of wood paneling that can be covered with fabric and can be adjusted to "tune" the room's acoustics. The effect of everything in the hall on the sound has been precisely calculated – from the absorption of sound by each seat to the glue on the paneling.
Harris points out that the key factors affecting sound quality in the room are reverberation (the length of time sound takes to fade) and diffusion (how sound moves through the room). When you have both, he said, "you hear the sound from all directions." All the shapes, absorptive materials and reflective surfaces in the room have been precisely and scientifically constructed to produce the optimal reverberation time and the optimal diffusion of the sound across the spectrum, in an effort to create the best possible acoustics for music.
"The initial sound coming from the stage is clear and true, no matter where you sit in the hall," Steiger said. "And the beautiful reverberation that follows creates a rich, enveloping sound without sacrificing clarity."
As Reynolds puts it, "the sound blooms around you in a way you may have imagined, but have never experienced before."
The Experimental Theatre is equipped with more than $150,000 worth of sound equipment from Meyer Sound of Berkeley. Steiger calls it the concert hall of the future. The actual acoustics in the Experimental Theatre are quite dead, but with a push of a button you can digitally alter the sound to create a virtual acoustic environment. Many of the faculty are as excited about it as the concert hall.
"My own interests are particularly in the Experimental Theatre and in the new concert hall," Reynolds said. "Doing innovative work in the arts is inevitably challenging. This building removes many of the usual obstacles from one's path and leaves the responsibility exactly where it ideally should be: with the creative imagination itself."
There is an old folk belief that to dream of a building during sleep is actually to dream about the self in a metaphorical sense. UCSD's now realized its dream of a new building; it should be the site for a new and renewed self for the department that will have far-reaching consequences.
Still, some days department chair Steiger stands by the large window of the Experimental Theatre and gazes at the vacant lot across the street. He dreams of an even larger symphony-sized concert hall along the same lines of the small one UCSD now has. Steiger is hoping that once people experience the phenomenal acoustics of the small hall, they will want more and they will find a way to fund an even larger hall.
Yes, Steiger is a dreamer, but he is a visionary who knows how to do the hard work to make his dreams come true. He is truly unique in that he is inspired to reach out of the closed elite circles that characterize many UCSD departments to touch humanity. He wants to share his music and his concert hall with all of San Diego and perhaps all of the world.
Will Bowen is a San Diego writer.


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for the crust:
1 1/2 cups of gingersnap crumbs*
6 tablespoons of butter, melted and cooled slightly
for the cheesecake:
4 eggs, at room temperature
32 oz cream cheese, at room temperature
16 oz labne, at room temperature
1 cup apple butter
1 1/4 cups sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla
Preheat oven to 250.
For the crust-
Mix the crumbs and the butter until damp. Press firmly into the bottom of a 9 inch springform pan. Set aside.
For the cheesecake-
In a large bowl, slowly cream together the apple butter, sugar, cream cheese and vanilla. Add the eggs and labne, mix thoroughly. Pour into pan. Allow to sit 2 minutes, then tap the pan on the counter to encourage any air bubbles to come to the surface and burst. Bake 2 1/2 hours or until the surface is mostly set- the middle inch or so might still look even less set, almost jiggly. Remove to the counter and run a knife or thin spatula around the edge of the pan. Allow to cool to room temperature, then refrigerate 3-5 hours before serving. Refrigerate leftovers, promptly..
*I used this recipe and added 1/2 teaspoon of allspice and 1/4 teaspoon of nutmeg.


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Mission accomplished
Six years ago a small band of Nottingham creatives started an online community. A place that recognised Nottingham's growing creative industries were important; a place that celebrated, connected and championed that creative scene. Creative Nottingham was born. Over the past six years we've seen people come and go, we've reviewed, blogged, welcomed, networked, partied and… Read More