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Football fans often have little to do over the summer after the football season comes to an end. That span of three months before the best league in the world kicks off is filled with transfer rumors, debates about goal line technology and more. So to pass the time, aside from reading the latest development in the Fabregas saga or sifting through pages upon pages of ridiculous transfer rumors, I am going to assess the title chances of the top 6 teams, in my opinion, and predict how they will fare in the 2011/12 Premier League season:
6th – Arsenal
I'm going to stick my neck out on the line here and plump with Arsenal to come sixth. Arsenal have been an ever present in the top four in recent times but I think this will be the year where they come unstuck. With Clichy joining City and the imminent departures of Fabregas and Nasri — plus Gervinho being the only major potential arrival at the moment, I can see the Gunners surprising a lot of people this year and really underperforming. Szczesny has yet to prove himself in the Premier League, their defence still looks well short of the mark, they concede lots of stupid goals and can't defend set plays. Their midfield will lack creativity with Nasri and Fabregas gone, even though Wilshere will surely attempt to fill the gaping hole Fabregas will leave. Walcott and Arshavin were both inconsistent again last year and although up front they do have a top class striker in van Persie, he spends more time in the physio room than on the football pitch. Aside from van Persie, they don't have any realistic striking options. Even though Bendtner preaches that he is world class, he has yet to prove he is anything more than a back up striker for a low lying Premier League side.
This current Arsenal squad are not up to scratch and frequently look very fragile. Wenger will persist with playing attractive football again this season but with their current lack of quality to pull it off, Arsenal will come last out of the big six.
Title Odds – 1/10
5th – Liverpool
Although there seems to be a revolution happening at Liverpool with the new owners focused on buying young British talent and the club now moving in the right direction, I don't think there's any realistic chance of them winning the Premier League title this year. Carroll and Suarez look like they could be a formidable partnership this season and with the addition of Henderson and possibly Adam and Downing arriving as well, Liverpool certainly look stronger than recent years but I don't think that they are quite there yet. The new players will need time to gel together and get playing as a team before they can think about sustaining a title challenge.
I still think they are too weak in defence. They need signings at left back and centre back. Stalwart and Liverpool icon Jamie Carragher is aging; a younger replacement should be sought. It also looks as if 'King Kenny' is going to have an abundance of central midfield options next year with the likes of Gerrard, Meireles, Henderson, Lucas, Shelvey, Poulsen and possibly Adam, so they look to be strong there. Overall, it remains to be seen whether new boys Henderson, Suarez, Carroll and maybe Adam and Downing will perform consistently well over the course of a season at such a big club. Having said that, I think they will beat Arsenal to fifth but I don't think they have a realistic chance of regaining the title.
Title Odds – 2/10
4th – Tottenham
Since Redknapp arrived at White Hart Lane, Tottenham's fortunes have seen a massive uprise. and expectations have changed as well. Tottenham fans loved the experience they had last campaign in the Champions League and are dying to get back into the prestigious competition. Redknapp has built a strong squad and if they can sell off some their deadwood, they could go and sign a top quality striker to go and get them 25 goals in the Premier League and lift the team to a new level. The current strike force of Defoe, Crouch and Pavlyuchenko were not good enough last year. None of them could manage consistent goal scoring form. If they do this, plus keep their current world-class talent of Bale, Modric and van der Vaart, I can definitely see Tottenham having a real shot at the title.
Spurs have a pretty a solid defence marshalled by Dawson, one of the best centre backs in the EPL. Their main problem at the back is the often erratic Gomes. Although veteran Friedal has been brought in, he is forty years old and is not a long-term replacement. Nonetheless, they have a good squad and, provided a striker is brought in, I can see them doing well this year.
Title Odds – 4/10
3rd – Chelsea
Andre Villas-Boas has arrived at Chelsea with an aging squad in desperate need of an overhaul. In Cech, Chelsea have a fantastic keeper that provides a sense of security to the team, knowing that they have a safe pair of gloves at the back. Last season, the Blues conceded the joint least amount of goals, so for this upcoming season, they should have no worries about the solidity of their defence. The £21.5m signing David Luiz impressed with a refreshing style that is pleasing on the eye and will only get better with experience and looks a good partner for Terry. He has shown a Brazilian flair to his play that is rare to see. I think that a new right back wouldn't go amiss as Bosingwa looked out of depth at times last season and teams will look to try and exploit him this year, but it is only a minor fault in the team.
In midfield, Essien and Lampard really looked their age last season and neither were the effective force they have been previously; an injection of youth is definitely needed. Joao Moutinho could follow Villas-Boas from Porto, and at 24 would provide some creativity and guile to the midfield. However, Chelsea are also interested in Modric and have had a £22m bid turned down so who they will sign is still a mystery. Up front, Drogba has been cast aside and demoted to second choice since the £50m signing of Torres and I can't see Drogba being happy with playing second fiddle. His volatile personality could cause problems in the dressing room this year so I wouldn't be surprised if he was sold, while Falcao coming from Porto to join the new gaffer. For all Torres' poor performances last year, with a positive pre-season, he surely must come good. As they say, form is temporary, class is permanent and Torres has class in abundance. All in all, even with a few flaws in the current team, with the managing talent of Villas-Boas along with the winning mentality already instilled in the squad, the experience and quality still in this Chelsea side will look to mount another serious title challenge.
Title Odds – 5/10
2nd – Manchester City
Manchester City have spent big over the past few seasons and will surely do so again before the new UEFA financial fair play rules come into action. Mancini is building a really good side. They have the golden gloves winner Joe Hart in goal and the value of a good keeper can never be underestimated. Their defence was outstanding last time round, conceding the joint fewest amount of goals along with Chelsea, and with Clichy arriving to replace Kolarov, the problem left back area is sorted.
They could do with some more creativity out wide but this is not a huge problem. The long running Tevez saga continues to rumble on. One day he's staying, the next he has got the removal men in. I fear this could disrupt the dressing room. Every day they open the paper to see the latest story about their captain and talisman leaving.
I think there needs to be a lot of departures. Players rotting on the sidelines while earning astronomical wages isn't good for either party. The likes of Given, Bellamy, Wright-Philips and Santa Cruz will all be allowed to leave. The collection of expensive signings assembled by Mancini started to look like a team last year and if their finish to last season is anything to go by, they could do really well this year and I think they could be a definite threat to the favorites, Manchester United.
Title Odds – 6/10
1st – Manchester United
As the current holders of the EPL, Manchester United are certainly the favorites to go on and lift the trophy again this year. The team that won the title last year were definitely not the most swash-buckling, exciting Manchester United team we have ever seen. They will not be forever remembered as one of the great Fergie teams. However, this United team has a real grit and determination, a desire to win and never be turned over. There is a winning mentality at Old Trafford that sets them apart from the rest.
When you look through the likely team for next year, it is strong, again. I think that Phil Jones will add competition and cover in central defence, especially with Ferdinand being injured ever more increasingly. Young will provide more attacking options; he can play on either wing or through the middle. Twenty year old David De Gea looks to be a fantastic young keeper but whether he can handle the huge expectations that come with goalkeeping for such a huge club is another matter.
The Red Devils are also yet to sign a creative midfielder to fill the huge hole left by Paul Scholes; Modric, Sneijder and Nasri are all on their radar at the moment. Also, players like Welbeck, Macheda and Cleverley, all returning from loan, will provide valuable competition to spur on their senior counterparts. They will keep the more senior players on their toes knowing there is a young player waiting in the wings to take their place. And if Rooney and Hernandez build on their already successful partnership, they could easily become one of the great strike partnerships and score fifty goals between them in the EPL. Overall, Manchester United are definite favourites and the team to beat. I think it will take a monumental effort to topple them this year.
Title Odds – 8/10


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If you're a CCTV installer and your clients are running IP Cam Viewer, then here are ways to push camera settings and to update cameras settings for your customers.
Methods for initial push out:
1. To quickly send a single camera to someone, go into Manage Cameras, click on Camera and select Email Camera. Customer can import camera by clicking on link or attachment or scan qr-code in email.
2. To quickly send a group of cameras to someone, first enable the cameras you want to send, goto Manage Cameras, click Import/Export then Email Selected Cameras. Customer can import cameras by using attachment in email.
3. Post a single camera setting on a website! Do option 1 above but send email to yourself. Copy the camera link in email (starting with "http://..."), change it to start with "ipcam://..." and paste it anywhere on your website! When user clicks on it, mobile browser should offer IP Cam Viewer as an option.
4. Post a single camera QR-Code on a website. Do option 1 above but send email to yourself. Copy the qr-code image and add it to your website.
5. Post a group of cameras on a website! Do option 2 above but send email to yourself. Copy the XML attachment and place it on your web server. On a webpage, add link to XML file but replace the "http://..." With "ipcamxml://". When user clicks on it, mobile browser should offer IP Cam Viewer as an option.
6. If you are running IP Cam Viewer as display wall (running 24x7) and if the built-in web server is enabled, then you can actually command the app to import a camera XML file. You can also command app take many actions without using local touch interface. See this API post.
Methods for updating cameras:
Normally, the import process will not overwrite existing cameras with the same name so how do you update customers with new camera settings should addresses or account information change? Simple, before sending the XML file or posting the XML file, edit the file and make the following changes:
If you want to overwrite existing cameras with new values, then change the <cameras> tag in the xml file to add an overwrite="true" attribute value (i.e. <cameras overwrite="true">).
If overwrite is enabled, you can delete existing cameras by adding attribute delete="true" for each <camera> tag (i.e. <camera delete="true" name=..../>). This overwrite/delete capability was added to Android v5.8.8 and iOS v2.6.2.
After making changes to the XML file, use any of the methods listed under initial push out to update customers.
Generating camera setting XML file:
You can use any text editor to make simple changes to a camera XML file. The username password attributes are encoded but you can simply replace them with clear text versions (make sure your website is secured by user login).
See this post for examples.
Here are ways to launch app into a specific camera / group:
iOS - http://hit-mob.com/2011/07/26/ios-launch-urls/
Android - viewtopic.php?f=8&t=697&p=2190&hilit=launch#p2190
Here are ways to remote control a running instance of IP Cam Viewer (ie. 24x7 display walls):

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[This SPEW used to start with a paragraph containing a link you could click. The link would take you to the Tumblr post by a young comedian who had a problem with the way I handled a heckler/videotaper at an open mike I was performing at.
The opening paragraph also created the fiction that I was engaging in a polite, reasoned dialogue about the responsibility of the performer towards the audience and emotions and feelings and blah blah fucking blah.
The person has since taken the Tumblr post down, blithely stating, "…I just felt it had run its course and didn't really need to be out there anymore."
Well thanks, asshole! I guess I "just feel" that the friendly, introductory paragraph for this entry had "run its course" and doesn't "really need to be out there anymore".
But my response to your Tumblr, I think, really really really needs to still be out there, which is the reason I wrote it in the first place. I never had any intention of winning back your approval, since you quickly showed yourself to be the same sort of opportunistic, fame-hungry climber I've gone out of my way to avoid throughout my career. (That thing you wrote over on aspecialthing.com, about how you were "…crafting your response" to this SPEW? Yuck. The mind reels…)
So allow me to admit to some opportunism of my own. I saw your entitled, sub-literate Tumblr post as yet another opportunity to hammer into the public's head this simple, why-do-we-even-need-to-state-it-idea: Don't film performers during their sets. Period. Especially at open mikes which are a place where we try to work out new material, in its roughest form, and don't want it preserved in that form unless we choose to. There is absolutely no response too harsh, no public shaming too severe, and nowhere too low to sink when slamming some idiot who digs into their pocket for a camera phone and begins, with all of the focus and passion of a monkey picking its ass, to film material you're struggling with at their convenience.
I'll finish here so you can begin "…crafting your response."]
I just re-read your Tumblr post. It was sensible and well-reasoned. I see every single point you're making. Based on what you saw, you nailed me and the night I ruined.
Based on what you saw.
I let what seemed to be a minor insult to my precious "comedy" escalate into a hateful, personal attack and, much worse, fester into a public motherfucking of someone who'd left the room and was no longer there to defend herself. It doesn't track, does it -- how did my initial, sincere, "Could you please not tape this?" warp-spasm into the vitriolic, "Time has not been kind, madam" shit-flinging?
Maybe this will fill in the gaps. Or not.
I have the liberty of telling my side of this, but you retain the freedom of deciding for yourself what to make of me.
What you didn't see was the girl's attitude the second I called her out on her taping.
For starters, whatever camera phone she was using had a piercing, distracting light on it which she merrily aimed right into my eye.
Worse, here's when she started taping: halfway through a new, longer joke that I'm working on -- a very embarrassing recollection from my younger years that I'm very nervous about performing and still very unsure of how to unspool. This was only the fourth time I've ever performed it, as well as the fourth time I've ever admitted this incident in public. So it still feels like a very nervy high wire walk for me. There's times when I lose the audience and have to get them back, freeze up, and wonder if I shouldn't have just kept this whole incident to myself. I'm walking into new territory with this one, and it's scary and I feel very raw and dry-mouthed when I do it.
I can't stress this enough: she clumsily brought the camera out and started taping after I'd done half of the story.
So now I was facing someone walking around -- a clumsily, socially blunt someone who clearly has no boundaries or sense of esthetics or shame -- with half of a half-formed, very personal and embarrassing story I'm trying to hone into something good, just sitting on a device in her pocket. A device which, anytime she's had one drink too many or is in whatever weird mood she may or may not get into, can whip out and play this to -- well, whoever.
So in that single act I've lost control of which version of my story has been turned from signal to noise, as well as who decides when, where, and to whom it's shown.
It's the equivalent, to me, of sitting at a table in a coffee shop or library, writing the first draft of a short story, or screenplay or, were I a musician, song lyrics, and having someone walk by, snap the sheet away from my fingers, snap a pic with their camera, and then say, "Hey, I'm a fan of your stuff. I want the new thing you're working on permanently on my phone now. I'm deciding when it's 'done.'"
To make it even more infuriating, she then said -- after I politely objected -- "You're going to want this later," as if she were the rational, intelligent one in this exchange, and I was some neophyte who was doing his first open mike. Yes, that's egotistical of me to say, but fuck it. I've been doing this for twenty three years. Ego was what got me started.
This is not the first time this has happened to me. Here are some other delightful encounters with "fans" (and anyone who thinks this is a new phenomenon brought on my the advent of camera phones needs to read Harlan Ellison's essay "Xenogenesis", available in The Essential Ellison which is, as the title says, essential reading):
My Weakness Is Strong special.
Two weeks before the special was set to air, someone contacts me and says the first ten minutes are already up on YouTube. Sure enough, I do a search, and there's the blurry, first 10 minutes of my special, shot with a camera phone from what looked like the 30th row.
I contacted the filmer, politely asked him to remove it and -- wow! He did it! He apologized and said he was a "huge fan" and didn't realize he'd made a mistake. Aaaaaannd...you know, he's got these other thirty or forty other short films on his YouTube channel, so could I maybe watch all of them, write up a critical assessment for each one, and maybe introduce him to my manager or agent? When I wrote back and apologized, saying it would be unfair of me to say, "Yes" when I didn't have to time to do any of that, he wrote back (and I quote): "That's cool. Kinda bummed though -- I DID take that video down for you."
The Crystal Ballroom, Portland
There are very few cities more fun to perform in than Portland, Oregon. Let me say that right off the bat.
I was near the end of my set when I decided to do a chunk of new stuff I was working on. It was such an amazing crowd, and I was in such a good mood and, to be truthful, was feeling greedy, and didn't want to let them go, they were that good. And I knew this would be a good chance to try out, for maybe the third time, a chunk of new stuff I was only mildly confident with.
And I let the crowd know that this is some new stuff I'm going to try out, and that I've got a closing bit ready that I know works in case the new stuff tanks. The crowd laughs gets excited and makes me feel great and I go into it.
And just as I start, a faux-hawked "culture jammer" with a cameraphone and, I'm sure, an American Express Platinum Card in his Rag and Bone jacket, rushes to the lip of the stage and starts filming me.
"Oh, can you not do that? This is new stuff and I don't want it getting on the inter -- "
He says, "I don't have an internet connection."
"Well, uh..." I'm thrown by this. "Uh, this is new stuff I'm working on, and uh, I mean, if you want it for your personal use, as long as you don't upload it..."
He sneers, "Why the fuck would I want to watch this shit?"
Now I'm thrown even more. I'm too confused/enraged to even engage the illogic of his statement, and then it hits me -- he doesn't want to tape my new material. He wants to tape me getting pissed off, and upload that.
Before I can say anything else, two security guys come up and, like Visigoths with ballet training, deftly whip his camera phone from his hand, pop out the memory card, daintily hand it back, and escort him down the center aisle. As the "culture jammer" is being led away, he turns and gives me a withering, Jamba Juice-healthy smile.
Now flash forward back to last night, upstairs at The Palace (which I'll return to, every single Thursday that I can, to work on new stuff, for free). You saw me ask the woman, again, to not tape me. And you heard her say, "I'm deleting it now."
But what you didn't see was her say, "I'm deleting it now" with the same, withering smirk I saw in the Crystal Ballroom. In other words, "I'm not deleting this, and fuck you."
And you didn't see her roll her eyes at her two friends, who rolled their eyes back, and nodded in agreement when she mouthed, "What an asshole."
Now, from that point and beyond, I should've kept my cool. And I didn't. All of my past resentments toward the entitled and beautiful and dismissive and cruel and, especially, the ones who confuse a "dark sense of humor" with "being mean" -- all of these resentments rocketed out of my pores likes bats fleeing a collapsing cave. That part, the eruption that continued even after they left? That's on me. I should've been cooler.
But it was that goddamned eye roll. And that smirk, as if through the arrow-slit of a castle the smirker had no right to live in.


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Professor Hurt joined the department in 1981. He teaches an
undergraduate course in livestock and meat marketing. Professor Hurt's
areas of specialty include examination of family farm market
problems, pricing strategies, and livestock futures market problems,
pricing strategies, and livestock futures market performance.
In extension education, he provides analysis for
participation in government programs, teaches marketing principles
and alternatives, evaluates the livestock industry structure, and
provides price analysis and outlook of live cattle and live hogs.
Recently he has examined the factors influencing the structural
changes in the pork industry, and evaluated the adoption of new
technologies in moderate size midwestern farms.
Professor Hurt helps coordinate a fee-based
market newsletter and report service published jointly with the
University of Illinois. He serves as editor of the Purdue Agricultural Economics Report.
Professor Hurt has received the USDA Superior Service Group Award,
an American Agricultural Economics Group award, as well as two
Indiana Extension Service Awards.
(2018) AAEA 2018 Premier Forecast Award: Combined Livestock and Crop Prices. AAEA.
(2018) AAEA 2018 Premier Forecast Award: Livestock Prices. AAEA.
(2017) Certificate of Distinction. Purdue Ag Alumni Association.
(2016) MS/MBA Founders Award. Advisor-Top MS/MBA Capstone Project.
(2010) 2009 Quality of Communications Award. Agricultural and Applied Economics Association.
(2010) College of Agriculture Team Award: Integrated ethanol Co-Products Team. Purdue College of Agriculture.
(2005) 2005 Team Award for Soybean Rust Educational Programming. Purdue Cooperative Extension Specialist Association.
(2003) Most Quoted Purdue Web Person. Google Searchers Anonymous.
(2003) Outstanding Individual Extension Award. American Ag Economics Association.
Edwards, A., Mintert, J. R., & Hurt, C. A. (2019). Practical Alternatives for Forecasting Corn and Soybean Basis in the Eastern Corn Belt throughout the Crop-Marketing Year. Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 44, 571-590.
Visualizing the Indiana Farmland and Cash Rent Adjustments. (2017). Department of Agricultural Economics, Purdue University, (August), 11-12. Retrieved from https://ag.purdue.edu/agecon/Documents/PAER%20August%202017.pdf
Hurt, C., DeBoer, L., Paarlberg, P., Alexander, C., Miller, A., & Dobbins, C. (2005). 2005 Agricultural Economy Can't Match Last Year. 15-Oct. Retrieved from http://www.agecon.purdue.edu/extension/pubs/paer/2005/paer0205.pdf
Hurt, C. (2005). 2005: Another Great Hog Year? 8. Retrieved from http://www.farmdoc.uiuc.edu/marketing/livestockoutlook/html/012005/012005.html
Hurt, C. (2005). Agricultural Economy to Tighten in 2006. 18-19.
Hurt, C. (2005). Can Hog Prices Hold On? 2. Retrieved from http://www.farmdoc.uiuc.edu/marketing/weekly/html/052305.html
Alexander, C., Hurt, C., & Lara-Chavez, A. (2005). Cash Market Storage Returns for Corn. 4-Jan. Retrieved from http://www.agecon.purdue.edu/extension/pubs/paer/archive.asp
Hurt, C. (2005). Cattle Expansion Underway. 8. Retrieved from http://www.farmdoc.uiuc.edu/marketing/livestockoutlook/html/022805/022805.html
Hurt, C. (2005). Cattle Market Absorbs Canadian Cattle. 2. Retrieved from http://www.farmdoc.uiuc.edu/marketing/weekly/html/102405.html
Hurt, C. (2005). Cattle Prices Face Downward Pressure. 8. Retrieved from http://www.farmdoc.uiuc.edu/marketing/livestockoutlook/html/080805/080805.html
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The Administration Papers are loose documents related to all aspects of the administration of the Mississippi Territory (1798-1817). The series has been referred to as the correspondence of the territorial governors, including Winthrop Sargent, William C. C. Claiborne, Robert Williams, and David Holmes, but the scope is larger. The papers pertain to the workings of the territorial government (i.e., the duties of the governor, the legislature, the military, and the courts, as well as early county governments and individuals' affairs), and touch upon most of the important themes in the government: Indian relations and lands, adjacent U.S. territories (particularly Louisiana), allegiance to the United States and duty to its service, and safe travel and trade for citizens.
Among these papers are messages to the legislature from the governor; proclamations, circulars, and publications of the governor; Legislative Council proceedings; resolutions and bills; reports of the auditor and treasurer; court papers (affidavits, depositions, and petitions for reconsideration or leniency); reports of county affairs; commissions, appointments, resignations, and oaths; military orders and lists of enrolled men; U.S. government directives; and correspondence. Most of the correspondence is incoming, that is, addressed to the governor. However, there is some outgoing correspondence, particularly regarding appointments and messages to the legislature.
The documents were originally collected into volumes and numbered in somewhat chronological order and are now arranged by size in archival boxes for preservation. There are several undated items that were assigned to the corresponding governor's administration. The document numbering is fairly consistent, with "a," "b," and so forth usually denoting a relationship between items; however, this is not always the case. Skipped document numbers frequently indicate assignment to another state government records series. Images of the papers are arranged in document- and page-number order.
A keyword search for names, dates, descriptions, and document numbers can be done for this series, using the box below. A search for a single word such as "Hutchins" or "1813" will yield more hits. More complicated queries such as "Anthony Hutchins" or "A. Hutchins" will probably have fewer or no results. Searches for partial words may be helpful. For example, searching for "Dinsmo" will show results for "Dinsmore" and "Dinsmoor". Alternate spellings such as "Chaktaw" for "Choctaw" may also provide results.


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In another post, the user 'dfrobot' (presumably somebody from DFRobot), mentioned that the new version of the DFRobot LCD shield does enable pin 10 to control the brightness. I tested the board I had ordered from Robotshop.com on May 31st, and setting pin 10 via PWM to 0..255 does control the brightness level.
I have been done the mod adding a Diode (IN5819) how you can see in the schematic (I have marked green the new diode in the graphic) . Now I have a new issue with the brightness wich have been decreased...
Quote from: CarlosGz on Jul 16, 2012, 10:02 pmI have been done the mod adding a Diode (IN5819) how you can see in the schematic (I have marked green the new diode in the graphic) . Now I have a new issue with the brightness wich have been decreased...That is because the diode does not go in series with the pullup resistor to the base of thetransistor but in series with the D10 to connection of the base of the transistor.--- bill
Almost, The diode is flipped/reversed. (I think you would have quickly figured it out)The diode is used to isolate D10 from the circuit when D10 is high.The pullup resistor is used to turn on the transistor.The backlight will be on if D10 is input or HIGH.Setting D10 to low turns off the backlight.The diode allows D10 to yank the pullup down to gnd to turn off the transistor when D10 is low.It works but really isn't a good design, I wouldn't design a circuit like this.I did it this way because I couldn't easily desolder the LCD on the shield I had to replacethe transistor with an FET. (The transistor was underneath the soldered LCD module)--- bill
Briefly (and I mean just a brief touch) connect the wire from D10 to Vcc.
Thank you dweston and bperrybap I just noticed that the product page says"Do not use Pin 10 while this shield is connected" http://www.robotshop.com/productinfo.aspx?pc=RB-Dfr-07&lang=en-USI do not remember that statement when I ordered it impressive if they have responded to this info so quickly
It looks like robotshop is not dfrobot.No warning here, and the schematic has not changed...Bummer...


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Welcome to the new web site
for the Collegium of Black Women Philosophers!
CONTACT: Kathryn Sophia Belle, Ph.D. (formerly Kathryn T. Gines), Founding Director of CBWP
email: email@example.com, web site: www.ktgphd.com
CBWP Purpose, Goals, and Objectives:
The Collegium of Black Women Philosophers (CBWP) is a philosophical organization whose purpose is to encourage and foster a networking and mentoring relationship between the underrepresented Black women in philosophy including undergraduate students and graduate students as well as assistant, associate, and full professors in the Academy. The objective of the CBWP is to mentor and retain the Black women who are currently professors or graduate students in philosophy while simultaneously recruiting more Black women into the discipline.
The specific goals of the CBWP are as follows:
1) To increase the representation of Black women in philosophy
2) To provide a network for participants to share their experience and expertise
3) To help participants in graduate programs in philosophy successfully complete the Ph.D.
and transition well into the job market and the Academy
4) To help participants get into tenure-track positions
5) To help participants successfully navigate the track to tenure
6) To help participants develop research projects into publications
7) To offer mentoring, professional development, and financial support for conferences
These goals will be achieved through the following initiatives:
- Annual CBWP Conference
- Philosophy Conference Support
- APA Job Market Information Sessions
- Recruitment into Philosophy Graduate Programs
- Publications
Kathryn Sophia Belle, Ph.D. (then Kathryn T. Gines) founded the Collegium of Black Women Philosophers in 2007.
The above photograph is from the inaugural conference held that same year at Vanderbilt University.
The above photograph is from the inaugural conference held that same year at Vanderbilt University.


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Tired of long, drawn-out, dry California political controversies over the budget? Or special funds? Or temporary taxes?
Eager for a political fight you can really sink your teeth into?
Thank goodness for Prop 37.
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News from around the country and around the globe
The November ballot initiative would require that products containing genetically modified foods be labeled as such.
The initiative is backed by some organic companies, environmentalists and activists who are concerned about genetically modified food. It also has a deep-pocketed opposition, including grocery stores, biotech, farmers and other food companies.
With well-funded energetic campaigns on both sides, Prop 37 should produce a real contest -- and plenty of ads about food.
Those ads may or may not make you hungry.
But they certainly should be refreshing -- as a departure from the usual predictable fights about taxes and budgets and union funding that are re-appearing on this ballot.
Yes, an expensive fight over food labeling usually isn't cause for celebration. But in California governance, we learn to take good news when we can get it.
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Larry Gerston teaches political science at San Jose State University and is the political analyst for NBC Bay Area.
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Bernstein Festival of the Creative Arts aims to reimagine the world
Numerous events to transform the campus for four days, April 25 to 28
This year's Leonard Bernstein Festival of the Creative Arts invites attendees to imagine truth unto its innermost arts.
Now in its 61st year, the festival theme, "Imagine the impossible," celebrates art that allows us to experience the impossible, the unlikely, and the visionary, with four days of music, dance, theater and visual arts throughout campus from April 25 to 28.
Reflecting on the work of some of the participating artists, Ingrid Schorr, associate director for the Office of the Arts and festival producer, says, "They looked at something ordinary in the real world, and then they saw it again as they wanted it to be."
From "Late Night with Leonard Bernstein," which allows guests to reimagine themselves at one of the composer's famous evening soirees at the Dakota apartment building, to Structural Healing, a visual arts project that asks whether an oversized adhesive bandage can heal the landscape the way it can help heal the body, to the Tanglewood Marionettes' "Fairy Circus" performance, the festival's art is not confined by conventional reality.
The events begin Thursday at noon when the campus community is invited to gather in the Shapiro Campus Center to sing John Lennon's "Imagine," led by campus a cappella groups, with more than 200 written wishes suspended from the atrium.
Thursday evening's events include the A Cappella Fest, which is now in its 14th year. The performance will be held in Sherman Hall at 8 p.m., with proceeds from its $5 tickets going to charity. Ba'Note, Company B, Jewish Fella A Cappella, Manginah, Proscenium, Rather Be Giraffes, Too Cheap for Instruments, Up the Octave, VoiceMale and Voices of Soul, with special guests the Lexington High School Pitch Pipes, all will perform.
The play "Visions of an Ancient Dreamer" is the culmination of a yearlong collaboration between theater arts and classical studies. Choreographed by Aparna Sindhoor and Anil Natyaveda of the Navarasa Dance Theater and directed by Eric Hill, the Brandeis Theater Company and Leonard Muellner translate the haunting classical Greek tales of "Orestes" and "Iphigenia at Tauris." The performance, which reimagines the tales in a dramatic journey across time and cultures, will take place Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights at 8 p.m. and Sunday at 2 p.m. Tickets are $20 ($15 for the campus community and $5 for students or seniors).
Friday's offerings also include "Late Night With Leonard Bernstein" and a workshop with Big Nazo, a larger-than-life performance group of visual artists, puppet performers and masked musicians. Email Schorr to sign up for the workshop.
The Brandeis Folk Festival will be held Saturday on the Great Lawn from 1 to 5:30 p.m., featuring Patti DeRosa, Hillary Reynolds Band, Too Cheap For Instruments, Lindsay Straw and Driftwood.
Billed as a family-friendly Super Sunday, the final day will bring everything from art activities with Sidewalk Sam and the Charles River Museum of Industry and Innovation throughout the day, to an animation festival in the Shapiro Campus Center at 3 p.m. and a pop-rock performance by Jim's Big Ego at 4 p.m.
The festival was founded in 1952 by the renowned composer Leonard Bernstein, who was then on the Department of Music faculty, with the idea that "the art of an era is a reflection of the society in which it is produced, and through creative endeavors the thoughts and expression which characterize each generation are revealed and transformed."
All events are free and open to the public, unless otherwise noted.
For a detailed scheduled of events, visit the festival page.
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The workforce genome
January 29, 2018
January 29, 2018
Financial services companies are struggling to attract young talent and to engage their existing employees. However, transforming the employee experience by investing in workforce analytics is not as complex and expensive as perceived. Those that make the investment will gain an edge as they compete for the best talent and seek to sharpen workforce performance.
A concept Accenture calls the employee genome holds the key to employee productivity and contentment. It makes it possible to shift from mass-management of HR to individual profiles, services and experiences that will maximize motivation and productivity and make the firm a preferred employer.
Organizations can leverage predictive analytics, artificial intelligence (AI) and the cheap computing power of the cloud to analyze and act on HR data and other data sources such as social media. They can use their data to build a rich, digital representation of each employee—then use this to drive better, hyper-personalized experiences at the moments that matter in the employee journey.
Read more about this topic on the Financial Services Talent & Organization blog
Eighty percent of leaders are still using 'gut feeling' and personal opinions to make decisions that affect talent-management practices.


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We are happy to announce that 60 Cycling Visionaries in total will be chosen. As announced, 30 prizes are given as "Voting Prizes", and a further 30 "Vienna Jury Prizes" were added because of the massive response to the Cycling Visionaries Awards program.
We want to thank the international cycling community for placing more than 31,000 votes online to identify the most innovative and potentially useful ideas for urban cycling, worthy of winning the 30 Voting Prizes awarded in the context of the Cycling Visionaries Awards.
The Velo-city 2013 Management Team acted as a jury to select 30 submissions that would win one of the Vienna Jury Prizes handed over as part of the Cycling Visionaries Awards. The beneficiaries of the Vienna Jury Prizes will be announced on Thursday, 18 April 2013.
Please browse the categories below and see all submissions for the Cycling Visionaries Awards. The submissions will remain published in their totality of 218 ideas/projects/visions originating from 49 countries to demonstrate the global diversity of urban cycling cultures and their growing importance.
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Advocacy and Social Projects
A Vision on Rio's Cycling Future!
A small group of keen cyclists had a vision about cycling mobility in Rio. It was before Rio became the host city for Fifa World Cup and Olympic Games. Now more than ever the need for changes in mobility is a big issue to the city. With a positive and collaborative advocacy, Transporte Ativo (Active Transportation) has found its way and is going beyond expectations, helping transform the city!
Beocyclization (Ser. Beociklizacija) is a play of words merging the name of the city of Belgrade and a verb bicyclization. What I had on mind is trying to make this city as beautiful and interesting place for bicycling, as it is in it's other aspects, for example, architecture or nightlife.
Bike.Bdg is a community based bike sharing. Now is being run by a local community, supported by 10 others community in Bandung. We want to create a cycling culture in a city that consists of 2 Million vehicle users.
Auto*Mat Prague
Creating Together the City We Want to Live in: Making urban cycling promotion an integral issue of urban development policies in cities with low cycling and civic engagement tradition We do crowdsource ideas, we do connect and activate creative people, we cooperate with active people from other cities and countries and WE REALLY WANT THE CHANGES we work so hard for. Let's join the movement!
Cycling Boom, Bike Theft Deterrence
Tens of millions of bicycles are being stolen each year. The sad fact is that these bicycles are being bought by peer cyclists. we believe that cyclists wouldn't buy stolen bikes providing that there is an easy way to identify them. We hope that offering a free bicycle tag with highest durability against removal would provide such a solution and could ruin the market for stolen properties.
About 300 bicycles are endangered. To avoid it, we want to carry out the project SAVE THE BIKES, which allows giving them a new chance, a new use. The project also aims to promote a new form of sustainable and healthy mobility in our environment, thanks to the work that we will do from LUB (Laboratorio Urbano de la Bicicleta).
Grr-Grr-Bike Game
Political support is the critical missing element for many bike projects. Grr-Grr-Bike is a smartphone game designed to increase political support for bike projects by connecting players with local bike advocacy groups via a link on the game results screen. Clicking the link takes you to a page with information from your local bike group on local events, projects to support and activities.
VELOGISTICS.net wants to make a constructive contribution to the development of sustainable lifestyles, share-economy and post-fossil mobility. Less noise, less pollution - more space, more fun: BURN FAT, NOT OIL ! The free sharing-platform http://velogistics.net brings together owners and users of cargobikes. Potentially worldwide ;)
'Thank you' notes
Have you ever received a note on your bike? How did you feel? Wasn't it better than receveing a postcard? Trying to make cyclists feel special we leave 'Thank you for riding in Madrid' notes on the parked bikes. Easy to copy, adaptable to all places, this inniciative aims to bring a smile to our cyclists' faces. This original idea was shared through our blog: "Muévete en bici por Madrid".
Cycling – routes in Vienna
One of the main reasons, not to use a bike, is the fact that people do not know the existing cycling routes. Once citicens are informed about the existing possibilities, they can see how easy it can be to move to a certain point by bike. The "Radagenda 22" publishes the most important cycling routes in the 22nd district - Donaustadt, to inform about the well extended net of cycling routes.
Holidays by Cycle
Holidays by Cycle (www.holidaysbycycle.com) is the first internet based business that aims to bring together all cycle tourism related businesses in Europe. The primary aim is to provide a comprehensive listing of cycle friendly accommodation throughout Europe and link this to cycle hire and routes. The concept allows people to take cycling holidays throughout Europe and utilise dedicated routes, suitable accommodation and cycle hire resources with the minimum of planning.
Bike Train
Bike Train supports people to cycle - especiallly those nervous on busy roads - by organising \'safety-in-numbers\' rides. Each ride creates a friendly, sociable & assertive presence by enabling participants to cycle side-by-side, taking up a lane of road space. Every ride carries a sound system playing up-beat tunes and is clearly signposted with a large red triangle \'Bike Train!\' sign at the rear
Lastenradkollektiv Wien-Cargobike
The Vienna Cargobike Collective (Lastenradkollektiv-LRK) is a group of about 20 people who want to facilitate an autonomous cargo bike transport and push the idea of an almost carfree city. Founded in 2010 as a non-commercial project it works on the basis of free donations and supports local d.i.y. Initiatives. On our blog interested people can choose the most suitable among 11 cargo bikes and 9 trailers and also find all the information regarding the lending of a bike.
BICIRED is a network conformed by non-profit organizations, civil groups and collectives working on behalf of cycling mobility in Mexico. We are pushing forward the bicycle agenda in our country through organized civil work, projects and campaigns. We've been working on national activities that make an impact on people, institutions, federal and local governments.
Bicycle in Action
The Municipality of Aglantzia since 26/10/2011 applied a bike sharing system. The idea started from our participation in the Tat-project - Students Today, Citizens Tomorrow, an Intelligent Energy Europe Program regarding sustainable mobility. After hard work and the information campaigns of the TaT project the other Municipalities of the greater Nicosia liked the idea of having a similar bike sharing system.
"Ulice za bicikliste" (English: Streets for Cyclists) is a project started 2 years ago to promote the usage of bicycles as a mean of transport in Belgrade. Unfortunately in Serbia the awareness for bikes is low and in order to change that, I founded Belgrade Critical Mass. Since then, once a month cyclists are taking to the streets...
Bicicooperativa Urbana
We are a group of young cyclists promoting a different lifestyle and offering a space to bike around the city and to create a social conscience about economy and people.Our goal is to encourage the use of bicycles in business and social activities in Mexico City. We established as a cooperative because it fosters economic solidarity, generates dignified jobs and social welfare.
Bikenapped is an online platform that allows bike theft victims to tag thefts on a map with details of the incident. Also using incident reports collected from public police logs, the map generates an overview of the scope of the bike theft problem and how it affects our cities. Users are also asked to post a Bikenapped flyer at the actual place of the theft to help raise awareness for the issue.
Photographic Bicycle Counts
Photographic bicycle counts, combines the reliability of the automated processes with the practical and low-cost practice of manual bike counts. This new method of bicycle counting was developed to respond to the needs of cyclists groups as well as civic organizations as partners in the process of local bikeway planning.
Schulterblick – The Vienna Cycling School is organizing cycling courses for school classes in the centre of Vienna in order to support and motivate families to use the bicycle for transport in the city. The program is distinguished by its interactive approach, which enables to reduce the apparent complexity of urban traffic to a few behaviour patterns. These are easy to learn and great fun for children when put into practice.
BikeSurfBerlin is a free bicycle lending project in Berlin. It allows everyone the opportunity to cycle in a relatively safe city environment without the need to leave a deposit or pay to use the bikes. It relies on the generosity of people who give us bikes and bike parts, online donations and time to maintain and improve the service we provide. We don't just advocate cycling; we facilitate it.
Shkodra,shining cycling culture
Shkodra, Northern Albania (114.000 inhabitants), is renowned for its cycling tradition in Albania and in Southeast Europe. Its modal split is special: 29%¨cycling share, 44% walking and 3% public transport. There's gender equity in cycling and cycle use is wide spread and popular over all ages. The cycling culture is well alive still and Shkodra is said to be a live laboratory for 'shared space' with mutual respect between road users. Can compact Shkodra then preserve this sustainable urban travel profile that is by western standards very 'active, clean and energy efficient'?
Volunteers buy with their bicycles food from a grocery for other persons. The cyclists receive some extra money from the clients and sales discount for their own food shopping at the grocery. This service takes place in a village or urban settlement where the cyclists use the nearest food grocery to buy food for the clients. Also offices and other workspaces can contact the cyclists to get food.
Rodada de Altura
How about a bike ride with your girlfriends wearing heels? Riding a bike as a social activity lets you add pleasant experiences and views from different perspectives. What happens when femininity and woman strength summon on a bicycle? You get empowered women capable of showing their unique style.
Arma la Bici
The project aim is to increase youth capacity to play a productive role in the community by means of a comunitary bicycle workshop. The project will take the attention of the citizens and will make a strong statement on how this bicycle project is a model to mitigate the community-level impact of crime and violence.
JobRad - the bike commuting concept
We are LeaseRad, an independent ecological company which aims to promote the use of bikes in business life. Our new, innovative commuting transportation concept JobRad allows employees to lease bikes via their employer, enabling them to save up to 40% of the original purchasing price. JobRad makes bikes available independent of the size of the company.
Women Cycling School
Escuela BiciMujer (Women's Cycling School) gets women on wheels and onto the street! 235 women from different backgrounds and ages who never learned to cycle or who never gained confidence to bike in the streets have become urban cyclists. 50 enthusiastic volunteers power the school making possible the dream of many. We are transforming the landscape of the city by transforming women's lives.
You could tell how bike friendly a city is by the number of women on bikes. In a city where bike riding in general is not always a bliss, SkirtBike aims to celebrate the independence and empowerment that cycling can provide to all women and to encourage those who don't already cycle. SkirtBike is a fun, colorful and friendly women bicycle ride, where the skirt or the dress is the proper outfit.
ConduzcoYo Urban Movility
ConduzcoYo its a drivers´enterprise for nights in Madrid city. we offer a drivers' service for those clients who use his car and are not in conditions to drive. We send a driver that drive the car of the client until the point selected
A bike bloggers' European network
My idea is to create a Multilanguage European network of bike bloggers and journalists which will have the goal to spread cycling culture all over Europe and to strengthen advocacy activities. A kind of "alpha version" of this network has already been successfully tested in Italy under the name of #Salvaiciclisti.
BikeEverywhere - Commuter Videos
BikeEverywhere is an initiative to encourage more people to cycle (well, everywhere) by helping cyclists navigate the busiest routes in and out of the CBD through a series of helpful videos. BikeEverywhere has produced a video series that is shot from a cyclist's point of view and shows a new cyclist how to best handle the challenges of cycling on the road in Wellington, New Zealand.
Unionize cyclists!
Cyclists' Union is a volunteer based organization which does not rely on funds and donors, but rather on the abilities and willingness of its members. The 2000 strong membership base was formed using inventive social media strategies and attractive public actions. This model could serve as a cheap and sustainable advocacy model for civil society organizations around the globe.
Velo City Night
Straßenraum für die Radfahrer erobern. Auf Radverkehr aufmerksam machen. Verkehrssicherheit durch Erweiterung des Bewusstseins für den anderen Verkehrsteilnehmer Aufbau einer Radfahrer Community Interesse der medien für den Radverkehr wecken Innovatives zeigen und fördern, fordern
A citizen-painted shared lane for bicycles and motorized traffic running in front of the Mexican legislative office, making visible the need of resources for non-motorized infrastructure. First lane was 300 meters long, then erased by the government in less than 24 hours. Then it was repainted stretching for 5 Km.
The Biketrials Vienna Project
Dear Cycling Visionary Team! Hereby I would like to submit my application with the " Biketrials Vienna Project" to the Velocity Cycling Visionaries Awards. "Biketrials Vienna" is a friendly biker community, and I am really proud that I am the one who started to organise this community in Vienna. For further details about us, our events and shows visit our website www.biketrialsvienna.com
The bikekitchen is a public space located in Goldschlagstraße 8, in 1150 Wien spanning a workshop, a kitchen and a lounge (a place for events). Our legal basis is a club/association but we see ourselves as a non-hierarchical, open collective. The bikekitchen is a non-profit organisation but of course we need to cover our costs (rent, tools, kitchen ...).
Open Streets Cape Town
Open Streets Cape Town (OSCT) is a citizen-driven initiative, it is both an organisation and a philosophy for public life, working to design and promote streets which embed and generate respect for people, regardless of who they are, and how they move. It was founded in 2012 by a group of cycling activists committed to contributing to a more equitable; integrated; safer and vibrant Cape Town.
Recicleta is an NGO conformed by a group of friends that recycles unused bicycles donated by people in Santiago, and give those bikes to people that can't afford one.
Young Germans
A youth research & participation project with the main objective of rethinking society from a young perspective. At the core of the project is a 2-month bicycle-couchsurfing tour across Germany to empower local youth groups to make local interview-survey projects and to gather stories. The bike is symbol for environmental and social sustainability and key to people.
The Village Bicycle
Everyone get a ride - we use recycled bikes that we collect at people's home to offer as rentals all around town, owned and manned by unemployed young adults, who use the bkes as their own transport as well as rentals.
Cyclefriend / Cykelven
A Cyclefriend is a mechanic with a mobile workshop. Through partnerships a Cyclefriend will visit a workplace once a week and repair the bikes of those who have booked online through the webportal made for each workplace. No-one will ever again avoid taking the bike because their 8-5 job is conflicting with 8-5 bikeshop opening hours. A membership community is made to promote cycling.
Ciclopaseos del Ecuador
Ciclopaseos del Ecuador aims to make bicycles, as well as public spaces in which to ride them, more readily available for Ecuadorian citizens. The overall goal of Ciclopaseos is to generate safe and environmentally friendly spaces for public recreation, to provide education surrounding public health and street coexistence, and to promote social inclusion.
Saint-Petersburg Bicycle School
Bicycle School is a non-commercial series of tutorials and practical rides to teach people how to ride safely in the city with practically no the bike paths. At the moments 90% of bicyclists in the city ride on the sidewalks. In our School we teach how to ride safely on the roads, making it fairer to pedestrians and more noticeable to drivers and Government.
Bike Fest
Bike Fest is a colourful and dynamic celebration of bike-riding, designed by Green Revolution to bring together bikers of all kinds: women, men, children, extreme sport fans, advocates of urban cycling, beginners and advanced users. It blends the competitive nature of a sports event, a pentathlon, with the engaging and entertaining structure of a festival focused on bike culture and advocacy.
(B)VEST-BIKE Program
Tired of getting your bike stolen or of being forced to buy an old-used one, because a new bike wakes up the envy of others? Here is the solution. Become part of the VEST-BIKE Project and ride assured that your bike stays with you all the time. And not only that! This project will increase your personal safety while you ride and in case of a crash, thus, rising the bike ridership.
Cyclescape is a comprehensive online campaigning toolkit which will be "a hugely important step forward for all cycle campaigning groups". People subscribe to geographical locations (e.g. "Where I cycle") to infrastructure problems in those areas. Planning applications appear automatically, collision data is integrated, a library suggests resources relevant to a discussion, deadline listings, etc.
Bicycle & Theft Show
When cycling becomes popular, bicycles will be stolen. The 3 P's of preventing bike theft: prevention, places, police. Prevention: knowledge and use of good locks by bicycle owners. Places: enough legal points to attach the bicycle too and big, free, guarded parking facilities. Police: without permanent attention by the police, stealing of bikes will proof to be a profitable criminal activity...
The One Billion Bicycles Project
From 1 June 2012 to 1 June 2013 young journalist and filmmaker Bojun Bjorkman-Chiswell undertook to document the stories of the world's One Billion Bicycles. Traveling to 5 continents, 30 countries, 50 cities and conducting over 200 interviews, the importance of the bicycle to humanity is revealed via the stories of whole cities in transition, through to one man for whom "the bicycle is a life".
Bike your way around
The aim of this 2 minute video is to raise awareness of how fast, practical, and healthy cycling is thereby stressing the importance of cycling, promoting it and striving to institutionalise the culture of cycling amongst the student population in Novi Sad.
Global Ride to Rio
The Global Ride to Rio is a campaign for the advancement of bicycle traffic. It started in a small company in Munich, Germany, and rolled all over the world. Bicycle-enthusiasts from all walks of life came together to bring the message across: Cycling is good for you and for the environment. Finally, the campaign was presented at the Earth Summit in Rio where it was met with great interest.
DU hast ein schönes Rad!
\\\"Du hast eine schönes Rad!\\\" it´s a versatile event with multiple actions all around two wheels and a saddle, from superheroes to the kids. \\\"Du hast ein schönes Rad!\\\" is a event concept that shows over interactive elements the relationship to the own bike of the participants and promote all the needs for a save ride. The event was held one time in 2010.
Bike on the House
Cities want to dramatically promote commuting by bicycle but the path is not clear. A lower cost supplement or alternative to bike share programs would be for municipalities to simply give out free commuter bicycles of one simple design and colour. Recipients would have specified responsibilities, with a locator in each bicycle. Corporate advertisement could easily pay for the entire venture.
I-bike-SPb (or People, Cycles and Saint-Petersburg in Russian) in a non-commercial project - simply a series of photos of people and their bikes. In our city cycling is still perceived as something sub-cultural and sportive. Our purpose is to show that riding a bicycle is not just a sport or leisure activity, but also an important mean of transport.
Bicycle Innovation Lab
Bicycle Innovation Lab is a national and international house of cycling culture situated in Copenhagen. We facilitate lectures, events (see link), workshops and exhibitions with the bicycle and bicycle traffic as the focal point. Bicycle Innovation Lab works to highlight the developing potential of bicycle culture across disciplines.
Adopt a dangerous bicycle lane!
Bucharest is Romania's capital. In Romania it is mandatory for cyclists to use the bicycle lanes. What should a cyclist do when a bicycle lane but puts his/her life and physical integrity at risk? "Adopt a dangerous bicycle lane! Then ... abolish it!" was an event that took place in Bucharest and led to the abolishment of more than 100 kilometers of dangerous bicycle lanes from a total of 117 km.
Badges to gain bike supporters
Giving bagdes with the logo of our blog (with a beautiful bike on it) is not only a way of promotion of our blog "Muevete en bici por Madrid", but also usefull to gain bike supporters. We give these to taxi and bus drivers (if they are "friends with us", we will cycle more safe), to cyclists (in gratitude for cycling), and celebrities (promotion). More than 500 badges given already.
Tribul (The Tribe)
Tribul (The Tribe) is a simple social project/social business based on bicycle couriers in the busy city of Bucharest. The Tribe has one big goal: to promote cycling while showing all it's benefits.
Bicycles for Life
Through the national citizen-led network 'La Ciudad Verde', we promote cycling as a vital component of urban sustainability. We depend on academic evidence but understand it must be sexy to all. Thus, we lead creative initiatives that allow for citizens to "get their hands dirty". With Bicycles for Life, we have instituted September 22 as the yearly DIY bicycle lane day in Colombia.
Experience France by Bike
Experience France by Bike (www.experiencefrancebybike.com) advocates recreational cycling in France for all ages, fitness levels and budgets by empowering people with the information needed to plan and take a bicycling vacation. It also strives to promote social change by advocating cyclotourism as a way to experience the culture and history of an area in a way not possible when touring by car.
The Cycle Hub - Newcastle Upon Tyne
Brought to you from the people behind Saddle Skedaddle Cycling Holidays - The Cycle Hub is a social enterprise that promotes and facilitates cycling, complete with bike hire facilities, cafe, bike shop and repair workshop. The Cycle Hub will provide cyclists in Newcastle a place to meet and chat over cake and coffee.
Cycle me home
A documentary/road movie project founded by friends and bike lovers in 2011. From a crazy idea of riding from Madrid to Budapest on a fixed gear bike to building an international cycling community and a filmmaker team that has only one goal in life: show the world that there are lots of ways to have fun in life and riding a bike is definitely one of them.
Spread the ride! We want the trails
National Parks in Patagonia and in many other places are packed with precious trails, but for some misterious reason, administration has not yet awakened for the use of it. Finding the myths that take these key people to believe it is not possible or appropriate to ride inside PUBLIC parks is our mission, and it is good to see we are not alone! A lot of dialogue and positive attitude to share.
SHUKRA–Cycling Skills for Refugees
This project aims at teaching refugees in Vienna how to cycle and move safely in the city. Many refugees settling in cities in Austria are not able to cycle; to change this situation in especially organized courses would enable them to fully participate in the city life, solve questions of transport and empower them in general. This would eventually help in their integration in the local society.
Tweed Ride Madrid
Promote the use of bicycles in the Madrid city through a slow bike ride dressing old vintage clothes inspirited on the early 19th century.
Mission Richmond Spokes empowers, engages, and employs youth through cycling and green industries that benefit our local community. By creating a new youth cycling industry which embodies youth skills development and green entrepreneurship, Richmond Spokes guides each participant to improve their life and the health of our local and global environment.
Cycling buses and guides
Regular cyclists describes their daily itinerary on a web site to allow beginners to contact them to get advises, or to be picked up and guided, up to constitute a group of cyclists, like a (cyclist) bus. There are 150 buses described in France. It is possible to contact the cyclist guide by his e-mail address, and then exchange mobile phone numbers.
Changwon Bike Party
Changwon Bike Party is a monthly, group ride open to any and all riders in Changwon, South Korea. Every ride has a different costumed theme, start point, and route. The goal of Changwon Bike Party is to create a cross-cultural exchange between foreigners and native Koreans centered around a love of bikes and community, all carried out using Changwon's public bike share system Nubija.
UWSA Ice Riders
The University of Winnipeg Students' Association's Ice Riders and their Bike Lab are gaining momentum in the creation of an active cycling culture year-round. The UWSA Bike Lab and Ice Riders are aptly positioned in location and in their capacity for education and advocacy in Winnipeg's core. They provide resources, events and education to help cyclists find their traction Winnipeg winters.
This project aims to help and to enable people to create job themselves using the excellent tool as bicycles. The beneficiaries will be grouped in cooperatives and every member receive a bicycle to use for transport of goods or passengers and he earn money by that work. He have to pay the total price plus a small interest within one year. After to pay back another group receive the bicycles and so on; it means that the project 'll continue for a long time.
Stadthelm (hometown helmet)
According to scientific studies head injuries in traffic can be reduced with bicycle helmets by 69%. For this reason Bundesverband Kinderneurologie-Hilfe e.V. created a prevention project to promote the use of helmets: Stadthelm is a secure, stylish helmet that creates a connection to the carrier by identification with his hometown. A donation for each helmet sold underlines the social benefit.
RIDE TO CHANGE_Social Movement
Through an 18,000 km trip by bicycle across Latin America 'Ride to change' intends to be a platform that connects different groups of students, organizations, private companies and public institutions to create synergies that contribute to The Change. The change in the way we interact with our environment and those around us. Ride to change your life / your city / our world.
Hop-on Hop-off your City Bike Guide
Talk of the town AB will the coming week launch a new way for visitors to experience Stockholm. The the audio guide app "Hop-on Hop-off your Stockholm City Bike Audio Guide" powered by GuidiGO. In the app, we have combined our guide with tips to users on where it is smartest to walk or use the bike for transport between the audio guide's sights and where they can pick-up and leave their bikes.
Cargo Bike Parade
Once asked about his opinion in an interview, James May, BBC's presenter of Top Gear – an immensely popular TV show about cars – once said the following about bicycles: "I know what they're good for, and what they're not good for. Among the latter is carrying a new refrigerator." Well, James May definitely got it wrong, and we would like to show just how much he got it wrong.
Bike Town, Alberta
Bike Town is a branding initiative of Devon, Alberta, Canada to create a more liveable environment for its citizens as well as drive tourism. Through a passionate community and supportive town council, Bike Town provides residents and tourists bountiful cycling opportunities, ranging from recreational to competitive and beginner to professional. Life is better in Bike Town so enjoy the ride!
Bikes who where removed in the public space by the MA48 will be fixed up an repainted. This could happen by jobless teenagers or/ and volunteers. They could be trained to be mechanics , painter or steelworker. The bikes could be painted in a catchy or cool color and sold to a moderat price... called the WIENRAD ...


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Armed Forces Day mandates a solemn tone and that was very much the case today as Prince William and Kate spent time meeting privately with families of Irish Guardsmen killed in the line of duty.
This was also the first time the Duchess was making any kind of official military appearance, clearly a function heavy with symbolism.
Additionally this was William and Kate's first visit to the regiment since he was made Colonel of the Guards, it was the deep red uniform of the Guards he wore on his wedding day. Below we see William presenting medals to members of the Guard.
Kate accented with a navy fascinator.
The fitted navy coat was accented by shining gold buttons and epaulets on the shoulders. Alexander McQueen confirmed via Twitter Kate was wearing the line: HRH the Duchess of Cambridge wore a navy Alexander McQueen PreAW11 dress in Windsor, England today.
We continue to wonder however if both garments (the coat and whatever is underneath) are by McQueen…? NOTE: 6.26.11 McQueen has apparently confirmed this is their garment, good to know. 🙂
There is strong sentiment the piece was custom-made, blending many of the elements seen in the Pre-Fall (Autumn/Winter) collection referenced in the tweet.
Here is a snippet from the review Women's Wear Daily did (subscription required)on the collection:
"Sarah Burton showed a military-inspired pre-fall lineup, packing it with a feminine take on traditionally masculine fabrics and details. Like the men's collection, it's about uniformity and has a regimental feel with the richness of ceremonial dress, Burton said."
Kate's coat is not identical to any of the pieces shown in the collection. It is almost a combination of the coat shown lower left and the dress lower right.
The always-on-top-of-things Leisa pointed out on Facebook that Kate carried another Anya Hindmarch bag, the Marano Clutch, she also wore her Kiki McDonough Citrine Drop earrings. We also saw the return of Kate's navy Prada pumps.
Our fab friends at Kate Middleton Style blog confirmed the fascinator is once again by Rachel Trevor-Morgan, she created the piece worn by Kate at the Order of the Garter.
The gold three-leaf shamrock brooch Kate wore has a storied history: it actually belongs to the regiment, they determine to whom it will be loaned. Previously it has been worn by the late Queen Mother, as well as the Princess Royal, Princess Anne. (NOTE 6.26.11: With thanks to Jen for her helpful comment, this is corrected copy, amended to reflect the Guard's ownership of the brooch.)
The Duchess definitely stood out in the sea of camouflage, her ensemble was effective, conveying honor and respect. Altogether another splendid outing for Kate.


text: VISITVisitor InformationDirectionsThronson CaféMuseum StorePublic ToursGroup ToursSchool VisitsNearby AttractionsEXHIBITIONSCurrent ExhibitionsUpcoming ExhibitionsPast ExhibitionsOutlooks Exhibition SeriesArt Is EverywhereCOLLECTIONSBritish Pre-RaphaelitesHoward PyleAmerican IllustrationJohn SloanAmerican Art, 19th Century – PresentCopeland Sculpture GardenThe Helen Farr Sloan Library and ArchivesNew AcquisitionsCurator CornerSearch The CollectionPROGRAMS & EVENTSCalendarAdult ProgramsTalks & ToursFamily and YouthArt CampConcerts on KentmereCalls for ArtisansConnected SeriesHoliday House TourEDUCATIONStudio Art ClassesSchool & Teacher ProgramsOutreach: Art ExcursionsHomeschool ProgramsDocentsKids' CornerRed Apple FundMEMBERSHIPWhy Membership MattersMembership LevelsDirectors CircleRossetti CircleArt Is CardReciprocal MuseumsSUPPORTAnnual GivingLegacy Giving1912 Loyalty SocietyDonor PortraitsCorporate SupportFinancial Documents2014 Annual ReportABOUTCentennial HistoryBuilding DesignGoing GreenDelArt BlogE-NewsMuseum RentalPress RoomOpportunitiesVolunteerContact UsStaff ListBoard Of TrusteesMuseum CouncilFirstPrevious12345..1213NextLast © Robert Stackhouse Delaware PassageDate: 1991Artist: Robert Stackhouse, American sculptor, born 1942Medium: Red brass and bronzeDimensions: 118 1/2 x 83 x 221 in. (301 x 210.8 x 561.3 cm)Credit Line: F. V. du Pont Acquisition Fund, 1991Object Number: 1991-74About: Delaware Passage was commissioned by the Museum in 1991 as part of an exhibition highlighting Robert Stackhouse's work at mid-career. The A-frame structure of the sculpture is similar to the overturned hull of a ship and creates a passageway through which light is filtered.Permalink to this object: http://emuseum.delart.org:8080/emuseum/view/objects/asitem/items$0040:6550


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This old world ain't what it used to be. Humanity was just minding its own business when all of a sudden, spaceships filled the skies. It was First Contact. See the Drabs had been searching for a planet that was rich in Specularite (gray hematite for those unfamiliar with the term). It's a mineral they use for medicine and fuel. They'd come here to set up negotiations with us.
But there's an old earth saying, the road to hell is paved with good intentions. They brought with them Hyrotitus. A germ that was as common to them as the sniffles. To humans, it was lethal. Those who were young and those who were old, perished within days of contracting it. The only to survive were adolescents whose bodies were changing, and a handful of exceptionally strong adults. Somehow the germ mutated them, making them stronger, smarter... more lethal.
The Drabs could have saved us. They had the medicine and technology. Some of them wanted to and they had a small and brief civil war over it. In the end, it was decided that we weren't worth saving. That they wanted our planet and we were nothing more than a nuisance to them. Not worth their time or their resources.
Human survivors were forced underground as the Drabs began destroying everything that had been our proudest accomplishments-- our literature, our art and cultures. For a hundred years mankind has tried to assimilate or hide. We identify each other by quoting human text. If we say, "To be or not to be," and the person looks at us as if we're insane, we know they are a Drab. But if they counter with another quote such as "Quoth the raven, nevermore" then we know they are one of us.
Now we're through with that. Hiding is for the old and infirmed. We are the Scraps of the day and we're pissed. This is our planet, our world and we're taking it back. Drabs take note and take cover.
It's time to bring out your body bags ...
The virus ran swiftly on the hot summer breeze. Unseen. Unheard. Unknown. It swept through the entire earth in a matter of months, having mercy on no one. Young—old—it didn't matter.
Brought to us by the Drabs, it was the last thing we expected. But the Drabs knew. They even fought a war over whether or not they should save us.
In the end, it was decided that we were diseased insects who were unfit to breathe their air.
Our air.
So they left the human race to die a miserable death of agonizing pain. Left us with no doctors or medicine. Their plan was to rid the earth of us and to take our home as their own.
What they never expected was the change that would come after the plague. We didn't all die as they'd planned. Those under the age of twenty somehow managed to survive the disease.
We managed to pull through it, even alone, and we learned to hide ourselves while our bodies changed. Still human, but now something else. Something more powerful. More intuitive.
More pissed off.
We're still here, on this earth, and we're not leaving. This is our home.
Our planet.
Drabs take note and learn to be afraid. You've had a hundred years here on earth, but now your time here is done.
You called us rodents. Insects. Diseased animals. The scraps of humanity—and that, my Drab friend, we certainly are. But what you should have realized is that you can't kill a Scrap. Humanity isn't dead. Not by a longshot. We still have our soldiers and we have our conviction.
Most of all, we have hope.
And we will win in the end. Whatever it takes. Whatever it costs. We won't allow you to take our planet from us. So count your days, Drabs.
The war is on.


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Present: The Martins, bloo, james, nix, abby, ryan
apologies: gareth, chris palmer (I don't believe he actually apologized)
cave update
screen printing room
hall? here?
what is the point?
news of the forest magazine
Cave Update:
cave is going well and is making between £50 - £80
thing about the cave is that it keeps getting trashed. within a fortnight cables will be organised and labelled. cables will be in cave and cafe and labelled accordingly.
nix thought ryan was doing this...
action: ryan has begun to keep track of this. kind of but not long term.
Screen Printing Room:
Palmer has lost heart. now it is back like a loyal dog who is well fed. He will be starting it soon. Bikes that are in there will be moved to the balcony. that's 3 bikes. The plan is to get them all out.
the boiler room will turn into a screen printing workshop.
bikes to be kept neat and on the second step. that is that. alles clar?
action: nix will clear screen printing room.
Hall: Here:
Lights are going to be organised soon.
we charge for the use of the lights.
What is the Point of this meeting???
martin: this is an amalgamation of several working groups and these mergings may be totally arbitrary. things that need to be discussed together. the thing is that each of these facilities are run by their own thing. what is the reason? just seems more awkward.
bloo: seeing as there are not many issues to talk about and therefore why more.
ryan explians the dream. he can not type and speak.
nix had hoped that budgets could be decided via AF WG.
consequences must be had if bottomliners who are in charge of certain aspects don't show up.
action: all to remember this discussion and reiterate at OOTB
martin is trying to do some things but he is not ready to take on more responsibility. Danny Darkroom has totally vanished and that is frustrating.
there is money in there but martin cannot get it. needs to get key from danny.
martin is not a replacement for danny but will do a bit more.
action: martin to PM duncan re switching the darkroom.
action: ryan to PM Danny re: money box / money?
Within a fortnight nix says workshop will be tidy.
the group wishes nix well!
Forest News Letter:
abby: could we have a space to put our stuff.
YES: website – speak to milk. server – add to it in the future. physically – put the issues in the file cabnit in the office.
Action: martin to work with geeks on server stuff.
The Office:
should continue to be used. but how? we do not know.
artist facilities wg 6 march, 2008
Working group and other such Forest meeting minutes
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Students Set Pro Bono Record Over Winter Break
By Ken Reitz
A record number of Virginia Law students took part in this year's Winter Break Pro Bono Project, coordinated by the Law School's Mortimer Caplin Public Service Center. The center found projects for 114 of the 135 students who applied, and the number of volunteered hours could top 3,000—nearly double last year's total.
Kimberly Emery '91, assistant dean for pro bono and public interest and founder of the program, credits its success to the efforts of a hard-working team that includes center office manager Andrew Broaddus, center director Yared Getachew '98, and student volunteers, including third-years Amy Woolard and Renada Rutmanis, and second-year Alissa DePass.
"Pro bono projects give students the opportunity to serve their community and make themselves more competitive in the public-service job market," explained Getachew, who also administers Public Works, a blog with comprehensive information on public service careers and pro bono opportunities. He added that Emery's contacts with the legal aid community in Virginia and around the country, including a well-maintained network of alumni working in the public-service sector, have made it possible for the program to grow rapidly in the four years since it was established.
Law schools and firms benefit from the arrangement as well, Emery said. "Pro bono service is part of the new law school accreditation standards and more and more firms care about it because they want associates coming in who have experience doing pro bono work."
This year the center placed 20 students in the Charlottesville area, but most students received assignments in or near their hometowns. The most popular assignments were with legal services and public defender's offices. "We've had some go to the city attorney's offices, and a few to federal government and public advocacy groups such as Children's Rights," Emery said.
Students typically volunteer 25 to 80 hours during their winter break on their assigned pro bono project. While that may seem a short amount of time, the students believe their efforts are well spent.
Second-year law student Paul Levin worked for Public Advocates, a public-issues oriented, impact-litigation firm in San Francisco. "I was only expecting to get a little exposure to an issue and a taste of impact litigation, but I ended up getting very involved in the project," Levin said. He helped draft reports and conduct research in preparation for court filings. "It was great to get some first-hand experience after a whole semester in the classroom," he added.
Also on the West Coast, first-year Lisa Leung worked at the Seattle field office of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Leung called it "an amazing experience."
"Starting from the first moment, I had non-stop legal work to do," Leung said. "I got to see what it was like doing eight, sometimes more, straight hours of legal work and it solidified my belief that I can actually do this for a career."
First-year Greg Hillson became interested in public service law after talking with a family friend who has been a life-long public servant at the U.S. Department of Justice in Washington, D.C. Hillson worked in the Norfolk, Va., public defender's office, where he assisted the supervising attorney with various research projects and memoranda. "There were several ongoing, pending cases she needed assistance with: felony murder cases, robbery, conspiracy—some pretty interesting, substantive cases."
In southern Missouri, first-year Audrey Brown worked with Legal Services in her hometown of Rolla. Brown said she was able to learn plenty by observing in the courtroom and judges' chambers, and by talking extensively with career attorneys in the office. "Through the experiences I had working on some cases, I was able to learn a bit about family law," she said.
First-year Tamara Fishman worked for a prosecutor in the District Attorney's Office in Manhattan. "It was the first trial I had really seen up close and I saw how much of the process was done behind the scenes, not just in front of the jury," she said.
The winter pro bono experience can change the direction of a student's career. "Some of them see very powerful situations in the courtroom," said Broaddus. "For example, they might help an attorney assist a client who's getting their house back or getting child custody—things like that can be very significant."
Brown agreed. "Before working at Legal Services … I was absolutely sure that I would pursue a career with a private firm. Now, I'm seriously considering a career in legal services."
The experience altered Hillson's career strategy as well. "I figure at the very least I can be active in pro bono and if I do choose to go to a private law firm, one of the major criteria will be how active its pro bono program is."
That's exactly Emery's objective with the program. "We're really trying to target the broader group of students who are going to be going into private practice," Emery said. "They really need to understand about these types of clients who don't have access to legal services. Many firms are starting to look for that in their recruiting and interviewing."


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Study analyzes pollution benefits from Maine wind farms
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) � An environmental group says power generation from Maine wind farms is eliminating more than 400,000 metric tons of carbon pollution a year.
Environment Maine on Wednesday released a report that analyzes data from the U.S. Department of Energy and the wind industry to measure the environmental benefits from wind turbines operating in Maine.
The report says the turbines reduce carbon dioxide output by 403,000 metric tons a year, equivalent to the pollution from 79,000 vehicles. It further says the wind farms also reduce the output of smog- and soot-forming pollutants, while saving 155 million gallons of water annually.
The group released the analysis to support its position in favor of extending federal tax credits for wind energy that are set to expire at the end of the year.


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Calling All Past Life Partners: Please Set Me Free!!!!!!
Awakening With Angels ~ Dr. Deborah Unipan Radio Show
When pain from past relationships holds you back from happiness..how to set yourself free on this week's show with Dr. Deborah. Free yourself from the past relationships.
Join Dr. Deborah this week on Awakening with Angels where she will invite you into the world of angels.
~ More Awakening With Angels ~ Dr. Deborah Unipan ~
Have you ever wondered what it would be like if you could see the possible outcome of an experience, by changing whether you went left instead of right, or knowing the karmic lessons that were about to befall you by your present actions were now put in motion to help you grow?
Dr. Deborah Unipan is a Seer, and this is her world everyday of her life. She sees past lives, present and future situations of the people who come across her path. She understands why they hold onto the hurt and pain of situations in life that seem impossible to overcome. She can help them understand the lesson needed to learn in order to release the pain and blockages so they can move forward to find their joy again. Let her help you learn how to heal yourself through opening up your awareness to the understanding of your soul's journey, its path and blueprint of your present life. Let her teach you how to know your soul, see your aura, and feel your higher self's connection and guidance, along with connecting to your Angels, Spirit Guides, Animal Totems, and Loved Ones who have passed. Reach out to Deborah and discover how to open your awareness to a level you never knew was imaginable, opening new doors of possibilities into your present life.
To get more of Awakening With Angels ~ Dr. Deborah Unipan, be sure to visit the archives page for replays of all her shows here: https://www.inspiredchoicesnetwork.com/podcast/awakening-with-angels-deborah-unipan/


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Huge update to the Sirens of Song Radio playlist with over 30 songs added! Hear these songs and much more at http://www.live365.com/stations/sirensofsong.
Sia – Big Girls Cry
From the album 1000 Forms of Fear
Lana Del Rey – West Coast / Gods & Monsters
From Ultraviolence and Paradise EP
Banks – This Is What It Feels Like
Singer/songwriter Jillian Banks. From the album Goddess
Haim – Days Are Gone / Don't Save Me / My Song 5 / If I Could Change Your Mind / Falling
Group made of the three sisters, Este, Danielle and Alana Haim. From the album Days Are Gone
Sky Ferreira – Everything Is Embarrassing
From the Ghost EP
Solange – Lovers in the Parking Lot
From the album True
Echosmith – Cool Kids
American band composed of four siblings, led by vocalist Sydney Sierota. From the album Talking Dreams
Continue reading Sirens of Song Radio Playlist Adds – November 2014