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Spain are world Cup champions for 2010!! For the first time in their history, the flair filled Spanish soccer team will take a FIFA World Cup Winner's medal home after winning the finals of this year's World Cup in South Africa. The game at Soccer City was a hotly contested affair so much that by the end of the first half, referee Howard Webb had issued 5 yellow cards and a multitude of free kicks. At the resumption of the second half, the situation got even tenser as each of the teams huffed and puffed as they tried to break the deadlock. After 90 minutes of great football, both teams could not find goals and so the game went into extra time. Littered with plenty of yellow cards for both teams and a red card for John Heitinga, there was plenty of struggling in the contest. It was a 115th minute goal from Andre Iniesta that settled the score after a sublime pass from substitute Cesc Fabregas. The Spanish team are now champions of Europe and champions of the world.


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I have been on hold to speak to someone for over an hour. This is ridiculous. Why is your customer service so bad?
It's best to call when you have at least 2 extra hours to wait, or as another suggested, very early in the morning. Maybe only a hour wait then.
On for 1 hr after being told wait time is 45 mins - will give up and send a note to CRTC asking why wait times are false and why we can get better coverage and unlimited plans like in the US?
Hi KT, although call times can fluctuate depending on volumes (how many people are calling in at any given time) you can connect with them via chat too from a computer! www.telus.com/chat
Too late already posted complaint to CRTC and also asked why no unlimited plans in Canada - Canada has worst mobile service and rates in the Western world..... Sorry my post times vary as well! Tried your link it didn't work.......
@Dimo-X's link had a space on the end. Easy enough to fix in your address bar, but here it is again.
Just a note: the wireless code does not apply to the issues you wish addressed, so you may not receive an answer from the CRTC at all on those issues.
I normally prefer the chat option but i have been experimenting long wait time as well before I get connected. the last time there was more than 30 people ahead of me and gave up after 3 hours.
The link for chat doesn't work. I have been trying to contact support for three days, to no avail. Wait times are ridiculous. My lan line phone ...the battery dies after an hour on hold. Do I actually need to purchase another phone for a stronger battery just so I can be on hold for over an hour? Not acceptable.
On your computer visit https://www.telus.com/en/bc/support/contact-us?INTCMP=TcomFooter_contact_us there is a Live chat bottom right corner of the page. Enter your name, existing customer and the area of support. I just tried it an was instantly connected to a CSR rep. Guess luck of the draw.
Thank you for your help, but I tried this and it directs me to a page which does have the chat feature, but nowhere to click, ie botyom right corner. I did, however complete and submitted a customer support online form. Thanks again for the help.
Believe me i have tried that too....i waited over an hour being 29 in line and finally gave up. The chat option is as bad as the phone.
Wait times???? I only wish. They say on the hold message that they know our time is valuable and someone will pickup as soon as they are able but what gets me is ...if they KNOW our time is valuable...why is there no hint of a wait time??? I want to know how much time they are going to waste of my "valuable time". Also why is there no "call back" feature? I just want to upgrade my mobile phone but have a couple questions but i am getting ready to dump telus and go elsewhere just because i can't talk to someone. I am in chat AND on hold. Almost done here.
Beg to differ....there are 29 people ahead of me right now and been waiting almost half hour now...only went down by one. Even at 8 it is still an hour wait easy.
Your link doesn't work.
I too am sitting on hold.
Perhaps instead of telling people to call at different times of day (that are likely inconvenient for them), Telus could look at their call volume patterns and staff accordingly.
I have been on hold for 1 hour and 39 minutes now and still counting. I have been taking screen shots of my phone just to report the final time later. This is ridiculous considering I came to Telus for professional service.
Were you not given an option for a callback? I had to call the other day and was given that option and had a callback in less than half an hour. I've been with telus six months and each of the 3 times I've called I was given that option.
Telus now has the text messenging in place. I've used texting a few times and was able to resolve my problem. They don't always reply immediately but do get back to you.
Why is there no call back...even Telus home services has this...Telus mobility must be very poorly managed!!!
Just tried your link and that says that it is unavailable!! Never have any problems with Telus Home Services. Starting to thing that Telus Mobility is very poorly managed!!
Same with me. More than an hour waiting and listening to the
dreadful music. Surely there are better ways to serve customers
Same thing. Chat will give you The Support number to call. Then the waiting begins and frustration sets in.
They are only aggressive when getting customers to subscribe. Once you're a subscriber frustration sets in. The Chat feature is only a come on. Besides the wait times they will only direct you to a contact number for support and then another wait time is on the horizon. What a frustrating experience to be a Telus subscriber.
Really? They will only tweet you a number to contact for support! What Active?
What I did after a few frustrating weeks was I used Text Messenger, explaining how long it takes to get through on phone. Then explained my problem. I received a quick response and my problem was fixed. Failing that, there is a form you can fill out to escalate your problem. I can't remember how I found the form, but google it. Hope this helps.


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A little known secret for finding the best toddler climbing toys is to select good age specific ones. We all know that toddlerhood is a time for discovering various new skills, abilities and developing physically.
Now typically toddlers are aged around 2-4 years, but on this page we'll go a little outside this rage so as not to miss great evergreen ones.
Soft Tunnel Climber
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During this period your toddler is learning to speak properly, learning to do new things with their hands and legs, learning new concepts and developing new skills practically each day. One of the major development areas is physical... getting stronger, learning concepts like left and right, coordination, and experiencing perceptual concepts like over, under, in and out firsthand.
The good news is, the right kind of toddler climbing toys will go a long way to stimulate this development process.
Children, particularly toddlers delight in exploring: climbing, swinging, getting into things; and yes getting into a lot of trouble as well! Climbing toys can help a child discover and develop new physical skills without getting into trouble.
In the interests of your toddler's safety as well as the well being of the rest of your home, you probably spend a lot of time telling your toddler not to climb. However, climbing is an important form of locomotion. Children need to learn this physical skill and also need to expend their energy productively.
Bottom line is, help your child climb, and explore and have their own little adventure each day by picking the right kind of toys for them.
Size. Pick climbers sizes that are age appropriate. The really tall, big climbers are not really safe for a toddler, so look for climbers built on a smaller scale.
Space. Consider whether you want an indoor or outdoor climber. If you have a yard or open outdoor space, you can get an outdoor climber. However you will have to make sure that you will be able to supervise your child's activities at all times if you do pick an outdoor climbing toy.
Simultaneous. Try to pick toddler climbing toys that more than one child can use simultaneously - this way you can have your child learn to play with other children and develop social skills.
Safe. Pick climbing toys that are made with non-toxic, child safe materials, with no sharp edges or protrusions. Look for a design that will make it unlikely for your child to fall off or get hurt.
Strong. Also make sure that the toy is sturdy and well made so that it can withstand the rough treatment that your toddler will undoubtedly mete out.
The Step2 Naturally Playful Lookout Treehouse consists of a small set of stairs leading up to a covered platform and a small slide on the other side. Toddlers, who enjoy stair climbing and sliding and repetitive activities of this sort, will enjoy this. The compact design makes it suitable for indoor as well as outdoor activities.
The Spet2 Clubhouse Climbers are also good toddler climbing toys. This is a bigger, more complex climbing toy that may be suitable only for an outdoor space. It has more for your child to explore and presents more possibilities. Several kids can use it at once.
The Crawl & Climb Caterpillar from ECR4Kids looks like a caterpillar. The child can crawl along inside, climb over and ride it too.
The Little Tikes Climb & Slide Castle is a small climber consisting of a simple set of steps, a slide and a small platform. This way your easily bored toddler can hop from one to another activity and remain engaged. Great for confined spaces.
The Step2 Skyward Summit is another one of the toddler climbing toys that present multiple climbing opportunities and keep the child amused and occupied for a longer duration. Built to simulate a rock face, this climber presents a summit for the child to scale. It consists of cargo and floor nets, grips and different climbing surfaces. A younger child may be able to do less and then may progress to higher levels, giving a sense of achievement or accomplishment.
The Toy Monster Portable Monkey Bars is a smaller version of the classic jungle gym found in kids' playgrounds. This is a portable climber that requires adult assembly and may be suitable for the outdoors rather than the indoors. Two or three kids can play together on this sturdy toddler climbing toy, by climbing, swinging from the bars and more.
The Metro Design Inflatable Jungle Gym is another great idea for a toddler climber. It has crisscrossing bars that kids can climb and a bouncy platform as well. Since this item is inflatable you are less worried about your child getting hurt.
Similarly the Double Sided Rock Wall is also inflatable, which makes it easy to use and portable as well.
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Object-oriented processing of PDB files in Python
I recently encountered the surprisingly difficult task of processing a PDB file
in Python.
While reading fixed-width files is relatively trivial in certain old-fashioned
languages with support for complex
format statements,
like my beloved Fortran,
Python makes it
less simple.
Given the myriad record types
that frequently appear in such files,
doing this processing on an ad-hoc basis seems like a terrible idea.
the fields in these records lend themselves nicely to implementation as objects,
so I went ahead and did just that.
I'm by no means the first person to write a package for this purpose—searching PyPI for "pdb" turns up a lot of results, even after references to the similarly named debugger are discarded. These packages are uniformly impressive and provide powerful sets of functions for fetching, modifying, and converting PDB files. I would recommend many of them to friends and family. But that's not what I was looking for.
I wanted a simple, lightweight package that converts PDB records into Python objects and back again, something I can drop into a script when I want to perform some arbitrary calculation of my own.
For example, I wanted to find the heavy atom closest to a known point. I'm sure many of the packages on PyPI can do that, and cpptraj almost certainly can. But the first thing that came to mind was
min((atom for atom in atoms),
key=lambda a: a.distance(point))
Doesn't that look beautiful? I don't want to install a whole package or dig through the entire AMBER manual to do something I already know how to do. Reading the data in the first place was the only hard part.
Here's what the function to read in an
ATOM record looks like:
def read_atom(line):
Reads an ATOM or HETATM from a PDB file into an Atom object
return Atom(record_type=line[:6].strip(),
While I'm sure there are neater ways, that's roughly as good as it gets. And if I want to manipulate the structure and write out the result, I can't really discard very many of those fields. It's clearly better to outsource the ugliness to a friendly package than to do that every time I want to read a PDB.
The result is an
Atom object, which looks a bit like this:
{'record_type': 'ATOM',
'num': 1,
'name': "O5'",
'alt_location': '',
'residue': {'name': 'DG',
'chain': 'A',
'resid': -117,
'insertion': ''},
'coords': {'x': 186.697,
'y': 135.541,
'z': 228.518},
'occupancy': 1.0,
'temp_factor': 757.65,
'segment': '',
'symbol': 'O',
'charge': ''}
That's much easier to work with. You may have noticed that residues and coordinates are objects too, so these elements can be easily shared across record types and a load of powerful and expressive methods can be exposed.
The package currently (v0.1.2) supports the following record types:
A number of useful operators are intuitively defined.
Since PDBs are inherently ordered,
> and
< do what you'd expect.
Equality is defined using the unique (in a well-formed PDB) identifiers,
so two objects representing the same atom/terminator/structural element are
equal even if their other properties are not (or undefined).
__contains__ method is defined for residues,
so that
if atom in residue is a valid construct.
Coordinates can be added and subtracted together,
and multiplied or divided by scalars.
Printing any of the objects (or otherwise casting it to a string) results in a correctly formatted PDB record like this one:
print(*records, sep='\n') gives you a PDB,
as long as
records is a list of objects
like the one the handy
read_pdb() function gives you.
This isn't a fully-fledged PDB-manipulating package. It's not trying to be. But it has made my life a bit easier, and maybe it will help you too.
The source code is available (under an MIT license, so you can do whatever you want with it) on GitHub, and the package is in PyPI, so you can just
$ pip3 install pdb-objects
then stick
import pdb_objects
at the top of your script and go get a coffee. You deserve it.


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Servo Motors Power Unmanned Ground System
Ruggedized motors, coupled with a titanium housing and clever clutch design deliver a dumbbell-sized unmanned ground vehicle that can survive a 30 foot drop onto concrete.
On March 22, 2012, French commandos surrounded a building in Toulouse where an Islamic extremist was holed up after a shooting rampage that had already left six dead. The team needed to get inside the apartment where the suspect had barricaded himself. The problem was they didn't have a clear picture of the situation—at least not until a mini reconnaissance robot from ReconRobotics came into play. The team threw the unit—the ReconScout XT—onto a landing in the zone of fire, where it peeked through an open doorway and began transmitting images, allowing the team to pinpoint the suspect's location and monitor his activities. The information allowed the team to successfully end the standoff and subdue the suspect without further loss of life.
That robot was an earlier version of Recon's new 1.2-lb Throwbot XT, a micro unmanned ground vehicle that can be deployed—or thrown to be exact—from up to 120 ft away to stream video and audio feed of a scene. Tough enough to survive a 30-ft drop onto concrete, the unit can traverse rough terrain and operate for up to an hour on a single charge, courtesy of small, high-power DC motors from FAULHABER MICROMO.
When it comes to armed conflicts, particularly in urban environments, situational intelligence is a key advantage. About the size and shape of a 10-pound dumbbell, the Throwbot consists of a pair of 4.5-in-diameter wheels linked by a 1.5-in diameter, 6-in-long crossbar, for an overall width of just under 8 in. The unit's small size allows it to maneuver through small openings and to gather intelligence unobtrusively.
Building a better 'bot
In designing the robot, the ReconRobotics team faced a number of conflicting performance requirements. The Throwbot needed to be light but extremely rugged. It needed to have the muscle to fight its way over uneven terrain and yet remain efficient enough to provide long-term operation powered by the smallest possible battery. Above all, it needed to be reliable enough to deliver a steady stream of information in situations in which lives might hang in the balance.
The team started with a titanium housing, coupled with polymer wheels to absorb shock. Delivering the performance required in a limited form factor presented a challenge. With the exception of the wheels and the antenna, all of the elements of the robot have to fit within the crossbar. The system features an electronic vision sensor with IR capabilities to stream video of the scene, leveraging output from a row of IR LEDs to provide illumination in low- or even no-light conditions. A variety of channel choices allows multiple robots to be used independently in the same area at one time.
Intuitive and precise positioning and control of the robot by the human user is achieved through closed-loop feedback from specialized sensors overlaid on the human user's input reference from the joystick. Although the robot is piloted by an operator using the joystick, the system delivers feedback in order to permit the robot to do things such as drive straight without the operator having to fight the joystick in a stressful situation. "The robot should help the human as much as possible, making their job easier and requiring as little extra attention as possible from the user, but in a manner that the user does not even notice the corrections that the robot is making for them," says Casey Carlson, a product management engineer with Recon.
An encoder might be the obvious choice, but space limitations in the crossbar ruled out that option. Instead, the design uses a gyroscope and accelerometer, which provide the feedback to correct the offset from what the user intends. These sensors enable more intuitive control of the system by the user in many other ways.
Choosing the right motor
Each wheel of the robot is driven independently by a 10-mm-diameter, high-power-density DC motor from FAULHABER MICROMO. "The very first motor we chose from FAULHABER MICROMO for the initial version of our robot was able to take a huge amount of overvolting, or driving of the motor at a higher voltage than specified, at the tradeoff of lifetime since our life requirements were somewhat less than those specified by FAULHABER MICROMO," says Carlson. "When we sought another motor from FAULHABER MICROMO for increased performance, the assumption was that we could achieve a similar performance multiplier from a similar, though larger, motor." However, when the team attempted to push the new motor far past specifications, they found that it could not tolerate as much abuse as the initial model. "Our first motor from FAULHABER MICROMO gave us great performance when driven at 10 V—a full 4 V over the specified 6 V. But when we tried the same push on the larger motor we came up short." So the team went back to FAULHABER MICROMO to get some advice from their experts.
The company brought to bear value-added engineering capabilities from its design team and its in-house test lab to solve Recon's problem effectively and quickly. "When we spoke with FAULHABER MICROMO about our issues, they immediately went to work to find a solution that would help us get to market," Carlson explains. "Their team was able to diagnose the issues and within a short amount of time they came back and offered us a solution that would get us all of the performance that we were looking for and the lifetime that we needed with minimal cost, a short time to sample and production, and backed up by laboratory testing."
The final solution included the addition of a capacitor ring to alleviate the arcing that occurred between the brushes and rotor and caused early degradation at such high voltage and speed. FAULHABER MICROMO also changed the brush material and adapted the winding to a particular performance point required by the ReconRobotics team. Finally, the vendor helped to facilitate the mean-time-to-failure (MTBF) testing to validate the solution. "We worked with FAULHABER MICROMO to set up the testing parameters. They ran all the tests and delivered a detailed report of the findings, including MTTF data and failure analyses."
One of the biggest challenges for the design team was ensuring reliability. In these types of applications, failure is not just an inconvenience—it can be a matter of matter of life or death. The robot is designed to be deployed by casting it into the theater of operations. That means it lands hard, applying a high shock load to the drive train. When the wheels hit the ground after being thrown, the angular acceleration applied to the wheels during landing is extreme enough to torque off the drive shaft of the motor or strip the gearing and damage the motors further.
ReconRobotics solved the problem mechanically, adding a clutch to decouple the wheels from the motor during high stress events. The torque of the clutch is designed to be just above the maximum torque of the motor, thus not wasting any energy due to the motor causing slippage of the clutch and not transferring that energy to the wheels. When a higher torque is applied during impact, however, the clutch disengages and allows slippage of the interface between the wheels and motor, preventing the shock of landing from reaching the motor and gear-head.
The value proposition of the robot lies in its ability to gather and send information, and that's where the ReconRobotics team focuses its efforts. When it comes to manufacturing, they leave the motion to FAULHABER MICROMO. The micro-motor specialist doesn't just sell them a servo motor, it delivers an integrated assembly consisting of motor, gearhead, and cabling. As a result, the modules arrive at the factory already tested and operational, saving manufacturing time and allowing the ReconRobotics team to focus on the elements of their project that differentiate them. "The more plug-and-play we can get, the better," says Carlson.
To date, ReconRobotics has deployed thousands of its reconnaissance robots throughout the world. Although the Throwbot is relatively new to market, the response from customers has been very positive, which Carlson attributes in part to the performance of the motors. "FAULHABER MICROMO's quality motors made it easier to get more power in a smaller package," says Carlson. "They give us the performance and durability we need, and they're always willing to lend their expertise and adapt their motors to our needs."


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Most of us can relate to the feelings of frustration of setting a new years or other resolution and sticking to it for a while until something unexpected occurs. An illness; extra work; a change of plans, and we put the resolution on pause just for a bit and then never manage to get it started again until next year rolls up. I always thought that I needed more self-control, but new research is showing that I needed a different thing altogether.
Most people have heard the old saying from Laozi that "a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step." This statement is a fantastic analogy to all things that we wish to achieve in life, from doing well in school to achieving a childhood dream.
But what are the traits that you need to take that single step? Are they the same traits that are needed to complete a journey of a thousand miles? I always thought that it was the one trait that was required: self-control.
But a few months ago I watched a fantastic TED talk by Angela Duckworth on self-control and grit. I had never heard of grit as a character trait and I have been trying to find more about it since then.
Luckily many of Prof. Duckworth's articles on this subject are available from her university website, where the topics are discussed in greater detail.
So what is grit exactly and how is it different from self-control?
It seems that they share many similarities, but self-control is more short term oriented while grit is more concerned with things that take years or even decades.
Self-control is more about having a good day, taking that first step. Grit is more about achieving those lifelong dreams and finishing that thousand mile journey. More specifically self control is a determinant for everyday success while grit is a determinant for extraordinary achievement.
Self-control according to Duckworth is about how to deal with a number of competing desires or objectives: for example, I want to write this post but I am tired and need to relax by watching some Youtube videos for a while. Being able to choose the task that will give less immediate pleasure but more long term benefit is self-control.
In order to provide a good definition of grit, a new goal framework, called the hierarchical goal framework, was developed that is quite common sense. It is described as such:
We have actions that we can take that will help us to complete certain goals or objectives, and we arrange them in a hierarchy. We have a few big goals (become a world champion tennis player) and in order to achieve that there are a number of smaller goals (master the forehand, master the backhand, compete in high level tournaments) and in order to achieve each of those there are a number of smaller goals (work on wrist flexibility, work on endurance, practice daily), and so on.
That definition makes sense. I have a to-do list, and each task is broken into a number of smaller tasks.
With this new framework, grit is defined as our ability to deal with setbacks on any of these goals. If one of our big goals becomes more difficult or cannot be done, what do we do? People with grit overcome these obstacles by creating alternative and achievable goals or other means. They do not give up.
If our aim is to get fit in the gym and we get an injury, people with low grit are more likely to put the goal on hold, and likely doom it, while those with grit will find ways to exercise around the injury.
As an example for Muslims, we know that we can tell ourselves not to eat that second slice of cake (self-control), or to get up before dawn for fajr prayer.
But that is a whole different ball game to fasting all of Ramadan, especially in a delightfully hot summer as all you Northern Hemisphere peeps recently had to do! That requires more that just self-control, it requires grit!
Again with praying five times a day. To put an act like that into practice over decades requires serious grit! So in a sense many of the practices of Islam are training us to get a bit grittier!
So that's all well and good, but how do we improve our grit? How can we use this magical trait to help us achieve all our lifelong dreams? Unfortunately there don't seem to be many answers yet. Grit is a new area of research, and a consensus on the results will likely be years if not decades away.
But one thing that the authors noted is that those whose lifelong goals aligned with their passions had higher grit in accomplishing them. So it seems the trick is to choose goals that you really really really want to achieve. That desire will help you to push through those tough times.
Another thing that comes to mind to me is to not make these things optional. Just as with fasting and salat, for most of us if we didn't HAVE to do them we probably wouldn't.
But we know we HAVE to fast all day in ramadan and pray five times a day and so we do it. Even when we are tired. Even when we are unwell (to an extent). Even when we are busy.
So don't make these things an option. If you want to learn a language, spend 15 minutes a day on it, every day, rain or shine or snow or anything else. Don't let the thought of "I can't do this today" even enter in your head. If we can do that, then hopefully we can all start progressing towards our lifelong goals, and finish that thousand mile journey, God willing!
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Born on September 17, 1979, Texas native Billy Miller's first breakout role on television was the character of Richie Novak, Annie Chandler's murdering, blackmailing brother on the ABC daytime drama All My Children. Ironically, his first appearance on the show was as a bartender, an interest the actor has kept over the years.
Miller went from All My Children to the CBS soap The Young and the Restless in 2008 and is the fourth contract actor to play the charmingly sexy, but seriously flawed Billy Abbott, son of the late John Abbott and Jill Foster Abbott.
Our Prattville chatted with Miller on Monday about his onscreen characters.
Melissa Parker (Our Prattville): Hi Billy, how are you?
Billy Miller: I'm doing fine, sounds like you're a bit from the South.
Melissa Parker (Our Prattville): I'm in Alabama.
Billy Miller: Alabama … you had to beat my football team this year!
Melissa Parker (Our Prattville): We had to beat everyone this year (laughs).
Billy Miller: Yeah, yeah.
Melissa Parker (Our Prattville): So, you're from Texas … family still there?
Billy Miller: Yes, I grew up in Grand Prairie and went to UT. Parents are still there and I have two sisters, a niece, and a nephew.
Melissa Parker (Our Prattville): What made you want to become an actor?
Billy Miller: I don't know really. I went to film school first and went to acting classes while I was going through film school … and it was kind of a bet really. Some guys that I went to school with bet me that I couldn't make it in this profession, so I gave it a shot.
Melissa Parker (Our Prattville): And you proved them wrong, didn't you?
Billy Miller: At the moment, but you never know.
Melissa Parker (Our Prattville): Did you ever do any modeling?
Billy Miller: Well, I was talked into signing with a company named Wilhelmina which back in the day, I was like Willa who? And I did some stuff but not a lot.
Melissa Parker (Our Prattville): What was your first professional acting job?
Billy Miller: I did a pokerparty.com commercial. From there I did a bunch of national commercials, guest spots here and there, then All My Children and now The Young and the Restless.
Melissa Parker (Our Prattville): Yes, on All My Children you played Richie Novak, a pretty bad fellow.
Billy Miller: Just misunderstood (laughs).
Melissa Parker (Our Prattville): Would you rather play a villain than a good guy?
Billy Miller: Oh for sure. You get to do everything you want to do as a bad guy even if you go to jail for it.
Melissa Parker (Our Prattville): When did you know you would be leaving All My Children?
Billy Miller: When they told me they were going to be killing me off and I'd be leaving the show. It was about a year and a half ago in the summertime. It was during my best friend's visit to New York City, which prompted maybe our largest drinking bender ever.
Melissa Parker (Our Prattville): So they just basically told you one day that you were terminated.
Billy Miller: Yeah, basically, I got called in for a meeting and she said she had a storyline for me … (laughs) But, it all worked out great.
Melissa Parker (Our Prattville): But, you went back to appear a couple of times as a ghost.
Billy Miller: Actually more than just a couple of times. Getting fired was the most lucrative couple of months of my life … I kind of extended the contract on a handshake and worked every day up until five days before I jumped on this job.
Melissa Parker (Our Prattville): Yes, you went straight to The Young and the Restless. Had you already auditioned for it when you knew you were leaving All My Children?
Billy Miller: I auditioned there in New York and they flew me in here to test and I had about a week to get back there and start work. On All My Children I tested in New York and had two days to move there to go to work.
Melissa Parker (Our Prattville): Since that was your first soap gig, was there anyone there at AMC who showed you the ropes?
Billy Miller: You know, everybody was a great help there just like they are here. I would say that Alexa Havins was the first to show me around and then Colin Egglesfield became a good friend of mine. Michael Knight was always great; Thorsten, Cameron … they were all really good to me.
Melissa Parker (Our Prattville): What is it like to work with David Canary?
Billy Miller: He's a great guy … great story, hell he was on Bonanza!
Melissa Parker (Our Prattville): Moving on to Billy Abbott … I'd describe him as a bad boy womanizer with a heart, how about you?
Billy Miller: I think all womanizers have hearts, big hearts … room for many many people (laughs).
Melissa Parker (Our Prattville): Do you think he'll finally find his true love one day?
Billy Miller: Well, he's working on what, number 8 right now? I guess he might eventually.
Melissa Parker (Our Prattville): Which woman would you like to see him with next?
Billy Miller: He's been paired up with pretty much everyone. I don't know … he hasn't hooked up with Phyliss yet.
Melissa Parker (Our Prattville): Some fans really liked Billy and Heather together, but that didn't seem to last.
Billy Miller: I think that's just Billy's character. Billy just likes to hang out with attractive girls … and less clothes.
Melissa Parker (Our Prattville): Do you share any similarities with your character?
Billy Miller: Are you trying to ask me if I'm a man whore?
Melissa Parker (Our Prattville): Well, not necessarily (laughs).
Billy Miller: Well, I'm not a rich kid and he is.
Melissa Parker (Our Prattville): You seem like a bit of a practical joker, though.
Billy Miller: I am a bit of a goofball, but there's not a lot of time for practical jokes. You'll have to talk to Kristoff about that – he's got a fart machine that he likes to use.
Melissa Parker (Our Prattville): Is it intimidating working with such great veteran actors as Jeanne Cooper, Eric Braeden, and Peter Bergman?
Billy Miller: Everybody has been extremely welcoming and helpful, so not at all. Actually Peter Bergman contacted me in New York as soon as I got the job and gave me some pointers from his experience of moving from NYC to down here. They've all been very supportive.
Melissa Parker (Our Prattville): Did you watch soaps at all before you joined AMC?
Billy Miller: Not really, you know, being a film school brat, I didn't really appreciate the workload but I definitely have now.
Melissa Parker (Our Prattville): Do you think that soaps will still be around in 10 years?
Billy Miller: I hope so.
Melissa Parker (Our Prattville): Would you like to get into films or be on Broadway?
Billy Miller: I'll stay away from Broadway and save everybody the headache. I do not sing unless you want everyone to leave the room.
Melissa Parker (Our Prattville): Where do you see yourself in ten years?
Billy Miller: I'll take what work that comes to me. Right now I'm working on building a bar and we'll see what happens on this run.
Melissa Parker (Our Prattville): You bartended before you became an actor?
Billy Miller: Bartended, built and ran bars … been doing that the better part of my life.
Melissa Parker (Our Prattville): And you own a company?
Billy Miller: Yes I do. We buy, build, and operate bars … and we are in the process of buying a bar as we speak in Silver Lake.
Melissa Parker (Our Prattville): You also have an interest in graphic design and media editing?
Billy Miller: Yes we do our own advertising and web work … photography got me into film school so … things you try to use to diversify you know?
Melissa Parker (Our Prattville): What kind of charities are you involved in?
Billy Miller: I support some charities that donate to Sunflower Children. They sell t-shirts and the profits go to ill children and I try to support them when I can. Hopefully this year will be a year where I can do that in a bigger way for sure.
Melissa Parker (Our Prattville): You're a bit on the shy side and don't like to talk much, do you?
Billy Miller: I'm from Texas. We don't talk much … we let our work take care of itself.
Melissa Parker (Our Prattville): Okay, what one item from each category would you bring with you if you were stranded on a desert island for the rest of your life … the first one is Music …
Billy Miller: A song on how to get home
Melissa Parker (Our Prattville): Tool …
Billy Miller: A raft
Melissa Parker (Our Prattville): Movie …
Billy Miller: Castaway
Melissa Parker (Our Prattville): Celebrity Visitor …
Billy Miller: One with a plane
Melissa Parker (Our Prattville): And the final one is bathroom amenity …
Billy Miller: A toilet
Interview by Melissa Parker
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Camping area | Local food | Quality sound system
About the Festival
Paral·lel is a new music festival which will take place on its first edition during the summer of 2016 in Guardiola de Berguedà, province of Barcelona (Spain).
Paral·lel Festival is characterised by being located in a rural setting, in the vicinity of a Catalan farmhouse surrounded by nature. The large space offers distinct areas for performances, camping, rest, food and beverage services.
We the organisers reject the motto "the more the better", thus we believe in a limited capacity which allows us to care for the comfort of the audience and the intimate atmosphere of the festival.
Paral·lel Festival offers a musical selection which is largely based on the uniqueness and differentiation to other existing proposals. DJs of the international scene and the experimental/ambient/techno sound are intended to perform in a single stage for a whole weekend. Each performance will be closely linked to the previous and subsequent, achieving a continuum for the audience to feel and develop with their own senses.
An inspiring environment, an accurate musical selection and the comfort of our attendees are therefore the three central axes for the organisation team. We aim to offer a complete and different and fulfilling experience for music lovers based on our distinctive proposal.
Abdulla Rashim / Sweden
Submerged in both rhythm and mystery, Abdulla Rashim's shadowy aesthetic floats in balance with his uncompromising work. Wholly dedicated to his ideas and sound, Rashim's quest for renewal and the importance of his craft has reflected well both internationally and locally, where he is praised alike. A listening ear and pure emotion is what his rhythms demand and what keeps him on top of his mission.
Peter Van Hoesen / Belgium
Belgium's Peter Van Hoesen has never been that typical techno artist. Although considered as one of the genre's tastemakers he is someone who sculpts sounds for many different environments - The club, the home, the gallery or museum. He does so with a true sense of personality.
Shifted / UK
Shifted began to take form in this realm of new possibility, an anonymous figure allowing shape amidst a new-found blank slate of sound. As much as this tabula rasa was cultivating a profound dexterity within the genres of techno, inherent know-how inevitably surfaced as nature does usually so influence nurture, and Brewer's compositional command came back to positively haunt him in no time.
Cio D'Or / Germany
Her music arise from an idea, which she develops and threads through her own sounds: Emotional, extravagant, charismatic, cinematic, sometimes poetic. Her music strives towards "infinity" between origin and development. Here, timeless possibilities sounding out from the zeitgeist.
Eric Cloutier / USA
Now making music as considered and carefully crafted as his DJ sets, Eric Cloutier has long been an influential selector. Though he recently started releasing his own music, it's fair to say that Eric Cloutier has established himself as an influential underground figure purely off the back of his DJ sets.
Mohlao / Netherlands
Samuel van Dijk has been releasing electronic music under a variety of monikers namely Mohlao, VC-118A and Multicast Dynamics. His productions and live gigs present a characteristic and immersive sound for clubs and home-listening. His styles are somewhere between deep techno, otherworldly electro and abstract experimental soundscapes.
Svreca / Spain
Sveca is Spanish techno's most recent celebrated son. As a DJ, producer and label boss he constantly updates his vision for the game, and it is one where no compromises are made and the focus firmly on getting into your mind rather than your body.
Refracted / Spain
Deep rhythms and atmospheric elements have always played a major role in Refracted's music. Be it throught hypnotic grooves or mesmerising soundscapes, the journey is always assured.
Arovane / Germany
Arovane's work hearkens back to the insular melodic electro of early Autechre, combining interesting, highly syncopated machine box rhythms with warm, delicate synth textures that evoke a gauzy, somewhat nostalgic mood contrasted by the sharpness of the rhythms.
Natural/electronic.system / Italy
Natural Electronic System have always played a major role in Refracted's music. Be it throught hypnotic grooves or mesmerising soundscapes, the journey is always assured.
Cyspe / Netherlands
Cyspe paints electronic, deep atmospheres inspired by nature, cybernetics and architecture. Enveloping the listener in a fabric of sound that emerges out of spatial synthesized geometries, dense field recordings and organic resonance. Vibrations from the spaces in between.
Tozzi / Italy
The young Italian producer Luigi Tozzi was strongly influenced by the roman scene and its local artists, many of whom gave a crucial contribution to the birth and growth of the deep techno sound. Melting the tribal and hypnotic elements of techno with the atmospheric and emotional side of ambient music he is making his own path in the world of electronics.
Jamie Mc Cue/ Canada
The sounds of Jamie McCue grew out of the connection between deep ethereal music and the rain forests of Vancouver Island. A soundtrack to some of the most radiant and aural beauty in the world. Jamie is known for his ability to build long sets, allowing the music to become a journey and unfold slowly.
A.P/ Sweden
.P (Anders Peterson) is a sound designer, composer and audio postproduction engineer, who also runs a small label imprint called Ghost Sounds, and records music under a couple of aliases such as relapxych.0 and Skyscaper.
Samuel M/ Spain
Samuel M. (La Comunidäd) is 50% of No Parfum, a band that moves between the darkest ambient, experimentation and abstract techno. He has published in Ballistic Records and his latest work was a remix for the debut of the madrilenian artist Irayu, sharing an E.P with Acronym (Northern Electronics) at the label Soul Notes.
Guillam/ Spain
Influenced by ambient electronics and chromaticism, Guillam pursues depth through the exploration of sound and composition. Unfolding rhythms, soothing soundscapes and organic textures are elements present in his music and sets.
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I have an Excel spreadsheet for my small business that I use to figure employee payroll. I enter the hours worked, and Excel calculates gross wages, tax deductions, and net payroll. Every now and then the net payroll doesn't add up correctly; it will be a penny off. I know it's because of rounding, but I can't find the right combination in a formula to correct it. What formula can I use so that Excel will always round across the columns so they add correctly?
Paul Daniels
As you note, the problem involves rounding. Suppose I get $99.75 per hour and work for 7.5 hours. Excel calculates my wages as $748.125, but you can't write a check for that amount. You've probably got Excel configured to use Currency formatting, in which case that value would display as $748.13. That is the amount you'll write on my check. Now suppose my three coworkers get the same. We're each owed $748.125, and we each get 1/2 cent more. If you sum our wages within your spreadsheet, you'll get a total that's 2 cents less than the sum of the values on the checks you wrote.
The solution is simple. When a value in your spreadsheet represents a real amount of money that must paid or collected in actual dollars and cents, change your formula to incorporate the rounding. For example, instead of =B2*C2, use the formula =ROUND(B2*C2,2). That will actually round the result to two decimal places. The value displayed and the value used in calculations will be the same, so you'll have no more discrepancies.


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The gang talks Nintendo Labo, NPDs, Fortnite, and oh so much more!
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The gang talks Nintendo announcements, Overwatch League, Dead Cells, CES, VR hardware updates, and of course, Red Lobster, table tennis and air fryers.
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LEXINGTON, Ky. (WKYT) - A Florida private investigator says he believes more than a dozen missing persons cases from Kentucky and surrounding states may be connected.
The faces of the young women on Bill Warner's blog are similar but behind each smile is a different family searching for answers.
"It just escalated over the last two or three years," Warner said. "It continued, the same profile, young female with long blond hair, same petite size, it just kept happening over and over and over again."
Warner says his interest began with a case in Tennessee and spread from there. Now he spotlights at least 17 women who have gone missing or were murdered, and he believes there may be a connection to Central Kentucky.
"It's kind of a center point, north, south, east, and west, you draw a big circle and Lexington is in the middle," he said.
One of the earliest cases on his web page is from Lexington. The body of 18-year-old Misty Gwinner was found on North Cleveland Road in 2005. She was last seen in Florence.
"And there was no person of interest, there was no suspect, there was nothing for these families to get some closure, it just kept happening," Warner said.
The latest face on his wall belongs to Brookelyn Farthing, who was 18 years old when she disappeared. She's been missing since June of last year from Madison County. Kentucky State Police are investigating her disappearance. They say they've investigated every scenario they can and don't believe her case is connected to any others.
Warner says he doesn't want to hinder any local investigations but believes some of the cases, including four of them from Kentucky, may be connected.
"I'm looking at 17 different girls who all look exactly alike, and every individual area, whether it's state police or local police, they all say the same thing, it's not connected to the others," he said.
"Maybe this needs national attention that all these young girls who look like they're all sisters have all just totally vanished without any kind of leads."
Warner says he hopes those leads come and that they bring answers to more than a dozen families.


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Gameday: Lakers 103, Nuggets 88
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Bynum's triple-double leads Lakers past Nuggets
By GREG BEACHAM
Posted Apr 29 2012 3:11PM
LOS ANGELES (AP) Kobe Bryant scored 31 points, Andrew Bynum posted the Lakers' first playoff triple-double in 21 years with an NBA postseason record-tying 10 blocked shots, and Los Angeles thoroughly controlled the tempo in a playoff-opening 103-88 victory over the Denver Nuggets on Sunday.
Bynum, the Lakers' All-Star center coming off his best regular season, also had 10 points and 13 rebounds while incredibly blocking 11 percent of the Nuggets' 90 shots.
While Bynum had the Lakers' first playoff triple-double since Magic Johnson in the 1991 NBA finals, fellow 7-footer Pau Gasol added 13 points, eight rebounds and eight assists for the playoff-tested Lakers, who never trailed while forcing the NBA's highest-scoring team to play Los Angeles' preferred half-court style.
Game 2 is Tuesday night.
Danilo Gallinari scored 19 points for the sixth-seeded Nuggets, but the NBA's second-youngest playoff roster struggled to run. Andre Miller had 12 points, eight rebounds and seven assists while helping out Ty Lawson, Denver's leading scorer, who managed just seven points while failing to make a shot in the first three quarters.
Bynum blocked eight shots in the first three quarters before surpassing Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's franchise-record nine blocks in the fourth. He swatted Timofey Mozgov's shot for No. 10 in the closing minutes to equal the NBA record set by Utah's Mark Eaton on April 26, 1985, and matched by Hall of Famer Hakeem Olajuwon on April 29, 1990.
Ramon Sessions had 14 points and five assists in his first career playoff game for the third-seeded Lakers. Largely thanks to Bynum's defensive dominance, Los Angeles avoided the embarrassment of last season's playoff-opening loss to New Orleans, never getting into trouble while opening the Lakers' third playoff meeting with Denver in five years.
Devin Ebanks scored all of his 12 points in the first half while starting his first career playoff game in place of suspended Metta World Peace. The Lakers didn't miss their defensive stopper while forcing most of Denver's key contributors into poor games.
Bryant scored 23 points in the second half to open the 15th playoff campaign of his 16-year career. The third-leading scorer in NBA playoff history, trailing only Michael Jordan and Abdul-Jabbar, hadn't played in a week, sitting out the Lakers' last game alongside Gasol and Bynum to keep his high-mileage legs fresh for the playoffs.
Sessions and Ebanks both made their playoff debuts, while Mike Brown coached the Lakers in their first playoff game at Staples Center, which opened in 1999, without Phil Jackson commanding their bench from his oversized chair.
The Lakers won three of four in the clubs' regular-season series largely by limiting the Nuggets' vaunted transition game and dominating inside. They limited Denver to just seven fast-break points in the first half, and the Nuggets never found their stride.
Los Angeles jumped to an early 13-point lead with three 3-pointers from Steve Blake and a big first half from Ebanks, the second-year pro who has rarely played consistent minutes in his NBA career. Denver coach George Karl acknowledged he didn't know how to pronounce Ebanks' last name before the game, but Ebanks got his attention with 5-for-6 shooting while running the break at Denver's tempo.
NOTES: Bynum also blocked seven shots on June 6, 2010, in Game 2 of the NBA finals against Boston. ... The Lakers handed out white giveaway T-shirts reading "One at a Time," but in a Staples Center tradition, most of the crowd declined to wear them. ... Fans in attendance included Megan Fox, David Beckham, Meagan Good and Brian Austin Green.
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Lakers' Pau Gasol on whether he has seen a player be more dominant defensively than Andrew Bynum was today:
Lakers' Pau Gasol on how the team limited the Nuggets scoring opportunities:
Andrew Bynum:
Lakers' Andrew Bynum on keeping the Nuggets to 88 points tonight:
Lakers' Andrew Bynum on keeping up their performance through the first round:
Lakers' Andrew Bynum on controlling the game defensively:
Kobe Bryant:
Lakers' Kobe Bryant on holding the Nuggets to 88 points
Lakers' Kobe Bryant on Andrew Bynum's performance today:
Lakers' Kobe Bryant on empowering the team:
Lakers' Kobe Bryant on whether today's win is comparable to setting a personal record:
Danilo Gallinari:
Nuggets' Danilo Gallinari on the play of the Lakers bigs:
Nuggets' Danilo Gallinari on the team's lack of rhythm:
Ty Lawson:
Nuggets' Ty Lawson on straying from the game plan:
Nuggets' Ty Lawson on getting ready for game two:
Al Harrington:
Nuggets' Al Harrington on straying from the game plan:
Nuggets' Al Harrington on the need to get out and run more:
Kenneth Faried:
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Nuggets - Lakers Preview
Instead of worrying about the Black Mamba at Saturday's practice, the Denver Nuggets couldn't stop talking about the Rattlesnake.
That's their new nickname for Arron Afflalo, coined by point guard Andre Miller for the former UCLA guard's quick-strike moves.
''I know I don't want to get bit by either one,'' Denver coach George Karl said.
Everybody got a good laugh before the Nuggets got down to business on orchestrating a major playoff upset.
The Nuggets are facing the aforementioned Mamba and his Los Angeles Lakers in the postseason for the third time in five years, starting with Game 1 at Staples Center on Sunday, so Karl already knows plenty about what doesn't work against Kobe Bryant and his 7-foot teammates.
The Nuggets see a chance to get it right this time, but only if they run the Lakers off the court. The NBA's highest-scoring team will attempt to run relentlessly, using its excellent transition offense to force its preferred tempo on an opponent missing Metta World Peace, arguably Los Angeles' best defensive player.
''When they miss shots, we've got to run out and get the game at our pace,'' said guard Ty Lawson, the Nuggets' leading scorer. ''We know they're going to try to slow it down, but we can't change our game plan. We're going to do what we do.'' The third-seeded Lakers open their quest for their 17th NBA title against another perennial playoff team with sharply contrasting personnel and style. While Los Angeles is built around Andrew Bynum and Pau Gasol on both ends of a half-court game, the Nuggets excel with speed and transition because they're the best team in the NBA at making layups, according to Lakers coach Mike Brown.
Karl has plenty of schemes to cause trouble for the Lakers, and he employed a few in the Nuggets' last visit to Staples Center two weeks ago. Denver can employ a small lineup that forces Brown to use Bynum less, but the Lakers overcame it for a six-point win over the Nuggets even while Bryant sat out to rest a bruised shin.
''I just feel like we're playing well,'' said Bryant, who has missed the playoffs just once in his 16-season Lakers career. ''We've got good size, and we're playing in a good rhythm. ... (With) their speed, their versatility, they can really go to a small lineup, and it can be pretty problematic for us.''
The Lakers are confident they're ready for their first playoff run under Brown, who replaced 11-time champion Phil Jackson. Jackson's final Lakers team lost its playoff opener last spring to New Orleans - a team with much less playoff experience and togetherness than these Nuggets - before getting swept by Dallas in the second round.
''For the guys that were here last year, it's great to get out there to redeem yourselves for what took place last year,'' Bryant said.
Bryant and Bynum are both remarkably healthy heading into the postseason, in sharp contrast to several previous Lakers playoff campaigns. Bryant sat out eight of the Lakers' final 10 games to rest from the compacted schedule, and his oft-injured knees are in good shape.
Denver had to win eight of its final 10 games to earn the sixth seed, while the Lakers clinched the Pacific Division title and the third seed earlier in the week. That allowed Brown to rest Bryant, Gasol, Bynum and injured reserve Matt Barnes in their final regular-season game, giving Los Angeles' stars a full week off before hosting the Nuggets.
While the Lakers' core has ample playoff experience, Ramon Sessions is eager to start at point guard in the first playoff game of his five-season, four-team NBA career. Sessions' speed and quickness provided a huge late-season boost to the sometimes-plodding Lakers after they traded five-time champion Derek Fisher, and they could interfere with Denver's plans.
''Everybody knows this is what they do around here,'' Sessions said. ''That's the reason they've got 16 banners hanging up. It's an honor to be with a team that's going to the playoffs and playing to win the whole thing.''
Los Angeles must play its next six games without the suspended World Peace, who can practice and travel with the Lakers. Low-scoring Devin Ebanks will start in World Peace's spot, and Barnes is ''100 percent'' certain he'll play off the bench on his still-painful sprained ankle.
Karl isn't terribly encouraged by World Peace's absence, realizing the mercurial defensive specialist isn't the Nuggets' biggest problem.
If Karl doesn't play small-ball, the Nuggets have an array of big men who can take a shot at guarding Bynum and Gasol, including newcomer JaVale McGee, Kosta Koufos, Timofey Mozgov, Al Harrington and even Chris Andersen. Karl joked the Nuggets should take a page out of the NHL playbook and send out their centers in shifts every few possessions, if only NBA substitution rules allowed it.
''They have more talent than we probably have, and I think we rely on teamwork more than they do,'' Karl said. ''I think we've been dealt some good things with Artest being out, and Barnes, I hope he's got a sore ankle.''
OPENING ROUND HISTORY (Los Angeles era only)
LAKERS IN BEST-OF-SEVEN SERIES (Includes NBA Finals series)
BEST OF SEVEN SERIES NOTES (Entering 2012 NBA Playoffs)
BRYANT 3rd ON NBA'S ALL-TIME PLAYOFF SCORING LIST
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The Fern Street Pottery Studio will be open for drop-in demonstrations during National Clay Week!
I am excited to again be a part of National Clay Week! I will be opening my studio from 12-4pm on October 14, 2018 for visitors to come and watch live wheel throwing demonstrations. During the course of the open studio day, Mugs, Bowls, Wine glasses will all be demonstrated, and I am open to suggestion if you want to see other forms created on the potter's wheel. I am told time and time again that people love the Zen of watching wheel thrown pottery when I post videos. If you are in Kitsap County, or near Indianola, Washington, then come on by!
I will also be working with the Washington Clay Arts Association on Saturday, October 13 as we host a Pit Firing in Seattle. Contact WCA for more info!


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LEMUR News at a Glance* Summer Classes Start In July: Building Controllers, Microprocessors for Artists, Fiberglass, Lights & Blinkies, Pyrotronics * Looking Ahead: GamelaTron at Chelsea Art Museum & Children's Museum of Pittsburgh, 7/18, 7/20
*************************************************************************** Summer Classes Begin July 7thLEMUR Art and Technology summer classes begin July 7th. Scroll down for full descriptions. For more details and to sign up, go to http://lemurbots.org/classes.html.
Building Music & Video Controllers: Creating Sensor Instruments with MidiTron Mondays 7/7, 7/14, 7/21, 6:30-9:30 pm Microcontroller Progamming for Artists: Introduction to the Arduino System Tuesdays 7/8, 7/15, 7/22, 6:30-9:30 pm Lights & Blinkies: Working with LEDs & Electroluminescent (EL) Wire Wednesday 7/9, 6:30-9:30 pm Pyrotronics: Pyrotechnics & Control for Artists Thursdays 7/10, 7/17, 7/24 6:30-9:30 pm Fun With Fiberglass: Basic Composite Fabrication Wednesdays 7/16, 7/23, 6:30-9:30 pm *************************************************************************** GamelaTron at Chelsea Art Museum & Children's Museum of PittsburghAfter an excellent performance by Zemi17 (Taylor Kuffner) at Make Music New York this past Saturday, the GamelaTron heads to Chelsea next, then to Pittsburgh. As part of the Chelsea Art Museum's summer performing arts series, Zemi17 jams on the GamelaTron in conjunction with The Sleep of Reason. Then, we head west for a performance at Pittsburgh Kids, the site of LEMUR's current LEMURtron installation. More info in an upcoming announcement. For info on the GamelaTron, visit http://gamelatron.com.
Zemi17/GamelaTron Chelsea Art Museum, Friday, July 18th, 7pm 556 West 22nd St, NYC Tickets $15/Students+seniors $10/CAM members free http://chelseaartmuseum.org Children's Museum of Pittsburgh 10 Children's Way, Allegheny Square Pittsburgh, PA Free with museum admission http://pittsburghkids.org *************************************************************************** Class Descriptions Building Music & Video Controllers: Creating Sensor Instruments with MidiTron Mondays 7/7, 7/14, 7/21, 6:30-9:30 pm Instructor: Leif KrinkleImagine waving your hand and having an orchestra at your fingertips or tapping on a surface to explore video. This is all possible through the use of MIDI and sensor-based technology. In this class, you will design and build a controller to create your art with the easy-to-use MidiTron interface (http://miditron.com).
Emphasis will be on hands-on learning. Basic electronics and Max/MSP/Jitter (http://cycling74.com/products/maxmsp) programming will also be covered. No previous knowledge of electronics, sensors or programming is assumed. Background information will be covered and the class will be focused on building a working controller that you can take home and begin to create with. Examples of previous project ideas include a shoe that creates notes for each step and a glove that determines lighting cues in a theatrical performance.
Cost: $495 including MidiTron, sensors and lab kit Microcontroller Progamming for Artists: Introduction to the Arduino System Tuesdays 7/8, 7/15, 7/22, 6:30-9:30 pm Instructor: Roberto Osorio-GoenagaHave you ever wanted to build a robot or an interactive art installation? Have you ever wondered how LEDs, sensors and motors work? Through collaborative exercises and the development of in-class projects, you will learn how to program and prototype with an Arduino microcontroller (http://arduino.cc). This class is geared towards beginners, and no prior knowledge of electronics or programming is required.
The class will demonstrate programming and electronics basics through hands-on microcontroller projects. You will learn digital and analog input and output techniques for controlling motors and interpreting sensors as well as the programming skills necessary to use these components effectively. By the end of the class, students will have a firm understanding of how microcontrollers, sensors and actuators work and how to utilize these tools in their own creative projects.
Cost: $375 including Arduino board & lab kit Lights & Blinkies: Working with LEDs & Electroluminescent (EL) Wire Wednesday 7/9, 6:30-9:30 pm Instructor: Leif KrinkleIn this class, you will learn how to wire, power and control LEDs (light emitting diodes) and electroluminescent wire, a flexible wire that looks like neon. You will learn the correct way to wire and solder multiple LEDs, solder and chain EL wire and wire both types of lights to a simple controller to make them blink. The teacher will also demonstrate and explain more advanced lighting systems, such as sequencers, LED matrices and full-color (RGB) LEDs.
Cost: $130 including LEDs, EL and lab kit Pyrotronics: Pyrotechnics & Control for Artists Thursdays 7/10, 7/17, 7/24 6:30-9:30 pm Instructor: Eric SingerA practical guide for artists interested in working with and controlling fire, especially in sculptural contexts. It will focus on working with propane, though other fuels and materials will be discussed as well. Topics covered will include safety, fuel properties, flame port and pilot construction, electronic controls, interfaces for programming and sequencing, valves and solenoids, ignition techniques and more.
Cost: $300 Fun With Fiberglass: Basic Composite Fabrication Wednesdays 7/16, 7/23, 6:30-9:30 pm Instructor: Bob HuottLearn the skills and techniques for building custom composite objects from Kevlar, carbon fiber and fiberglass. Students will get hands-on experience in various stages of the process, including patterns and molds, lay-up and final finishing. Discussion will include ideas on how to integrate sensors, lighting or haptics into any project, and students are encouraged to bring their own project ideas.
The class will be in two sessions to offer hands-on work and time to finish with a completed project (choice of custom laptop armor or handmade lamp). Bob will also give a brief, inside-out tour of the Bean, his own composite sensor-based musical instrument. Composites are a messy business so please dress appropriately: painting clothes or smock and long sleeved shirt.
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DTE Nagaland Polytechnic Time Table 2016 Diploma Exam Date Sheet 2016
DTE Nagaland Diploma timetable 2016: The dte Polytechnic provides the dte exam timetable in their own webpage. The students who studying in dte diploma all must have polytechnic timetable but that should be different for each and every year of students and that also differ from the every semester, students have individual exam Time table that should based on their courses of studying.
The exam time table that means the date sheet must needed to the each and every students who studying in the dte nagaland polytechnic or any other polytechnic/diploma. That really useful to the students to achieve their goal at each year like first second third fourth or final year in a university exam and get more marks than other students in an polytechnic exam.
DTE Nagaland Polytechnic Date Sheet 2016:
Before get the exam timetable 2016 the students must carefully select the appropriate exam time table because the exam date sheet is differ for each and every courses and semester and also years of the students. Who need their exam time table 2016 can get that from our official webpage indiagrade.com or from the dte Nagaland webpage.
The dte polytechnic college is located in a kohima that should in nagaland and you may get the exam time table from the dte Nagaland webpage. The Procedure that may follow is first go to the official webpage and find the link education that given by the dte polytechnic and click on it then you get the exam timetable as pdf format otherwise you can get that from our webpage as below given link.
About the DTE Polytechnic college:
Name: Directorate of Technical Education (DTE)
Location: Nagaland, kohima
Courses: EEE/Mechanical/IT/Civil/CSE/ECE
Year: 1st/ 2nd/ 3rd /4th Year
Semester: 1th/2nd /3th/4th/5th/6th/7th/8th or final sem
Content: TIME TABLE
DTE Exam time table 2016: CLICK HERE
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A group of progressive Pakistani activists has published an important piece in Bangladesh's Daily Star acknowledging and apologizing for Pakistan's 1971 atrocities against the Bangladeshi people. The piece, We Apologize, was written by the members of Action for a Progressive Pakistan.
Monthly Archives: May 2009
"We Apologize"
Filed under Bangladesh, Pakistan, South Asia
U.S. soldiers on Afghan troops
The Guardian (UK) has done a video report on how U.S. soldiers feel about the Afghan soldiers they are tasked with building into an army. The piece hints at a broader reality: it is a bit difficult to build a national military on another nation's behalf.
Interesting excerpts:
Supervising Afghan soldier to reporter (translated):
This army is really upsetting me now. In fact, you can't really call it an army at all. I'm just losing interest in it. But what can we do?
Continue reading
Filed under Afghanistan
Building (good) government
The Obama Administration has nominated a major microfinance leader to serve as U.S. Under Secretary of Global Affairs in the State Department. It's a great example of how to bring people into the U.S. foreign policy establishment who have a direct understanding of strategies for international poverty alleviation.
Read on for the full press release from Accion, the organization that is about to lose its CEO, Maria Otero…
Filed under Official America
"Pakistanis Debate Their Future On Facebook"
Sanjeev Bery, The Huffington Post, 05/18/09
As the Pakistani military rains fire down upon villagers and Taliban alike, Pakistanis and members of the diaspora are engaged in numerous online debates about the future of their country. In some cases, they are offering perspectives that the rest of us should listen to.
Filed under Media clippings, Pakistan
Sri Lanka's ethnic identities
When dealing with longstanding grievances between ethnic communities locked in war, it can be difficult to disentangle a historical understanding of issues of identity and polarization. There is always the easy temptation to create the "eternal battle" between rival identities that always fought.
I don't have the knowledge of Sri Lankan politics or history to deeply evaluate the following, but the Peace and Conflict Timeline (PACT) website offers an interesting perspective (that might be offensive to all sides). PACT is a project of The Centre for Poverty Analysis, which seeks to promote "a better understanding of poverty related issues in Sri Lanka."
Filed under South Asia, Sri Lanka
The Death of the Tamil Tigers
The Sri Lankan government's endgame shelling of areas controlled by the Tamil Tigers has reached its conclusion — a massive defeat for the secessionist movement and the death of its leader, Velupillai Prabhakaran.
The Associated Press reported the details of Prabhakaran's death:
Senior [Sri Lankan] military officials said Prabhakaran was surrounded early Monday with the last of his fighters. He and his top deputies drove in an armor-plated van accompanied by a bus filled with armed rebels toward approaching Sri Lankan forces, sparking a two-hour firefight … Troops eventually fired a rocket at the van, ending the battle, the officials said.
Filed under South Asia, Sri Lanka
"Today we are all Pashtuns"
"I learnt about a family who had to leave child with polio behind and take all the other healthier children with them. Similarly, there are people who left the elderly behind as they could not endure the travel."
The following piece landed in my inbox via the yahoo group for the Pakistani American Community of Atlanta. Reports say more than one million Pakistanis are fleeing the Pakistani military's bombardment of Taliban-controlled areas. The piece ends with a bit of a whimper, but it does a good job of turning aggregate numbers into individual realities.
Today We are All Pashtuns
Saud Anwar
As the horrific situation with the internally displaced people in Pakistan unfolds it has hard for any one with a heart to remain focused on their work.
While we continue to see the numbers of people leaving their homes rise, these are not mere numbers. These are actually people who have had to make some very difficult choices. Choices most of us cannot even dream of making.
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This was my first read from Jade Chandler and it's the second in a series. Even though I didn't read the first book in this series I don't think that it took much away from the story. I didn't feel like I was lost and not knowing what was going on.
"Release" is a nice smooth read that is so sweet. Most MC's I have read have been dark and heavy, so it was nice to be able to sit back and get into this without it being as dark as what some of them have been.
Pain is my addiction and tattoos are my art.
In the Jericho Brotherhood MC, I'm the man to get the job done. That's why they call me Rock.
From the first dance, I knew Avery Winston wasn't a fast f*ck. One taste will never be enough when it comes to her. I crave her sweet skin and sassy mouth.
I screwed up and she sent me packing. With my second chance, I'll do anything to keep her by my side.
But that ain't easy. She doesn't trust my MC, and they are my life. And there's too much happening right now to show her what being an old lady means. Brothers fighting and escalating violence has me on the edge.
Then Avery's family situation turns crazy. When chaos breaks out from all sides, I don't know if I can protect the one I love.
This book is approximately 73,000 words


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Your email address is used to logon to CPTC computers as well as for accessing your email account. Your computer logon and email accounts are synchronized, so you use the same password for both.
There are three ways to reset your password if you can't remember it or you are locked out of your account:
1. Reset it in person at any CPTC library. A photo ID is required, and you need to know your student ID number.
2. Use the online CPTC Password Reset Form. A CPTC IT technician will assist you as soon as possible.
If your password has expired or has been reset, you will need to create a new password. The new password must have at least 8 characters and have at least three of these four requirements:


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Gene Wolfe, Orson Scott Card, and others.
Twenty five years ago some people were asked to write a brief note for readers in 2012. Behold :
But the Writers of the Future Contest has asked me to read your palm, nevertheless. Twenty-five years is not great length on the scale of the history, and thus I am conservative, limiting myself to the following five predictions—one for each finger. And indeed, they are less prediction than certainty.
• The Thumb—Power: America and the U.S.S.R. preserve an uneasy accord, each testing the other's will within well-defined limits. No major nuclear war has taken place. Soviets are more like Americans (and Americans more like Soviets) than anyone else.
• The Index Finger—Learning: Vestiges of reading, writing, and spelling remain in the curricula of the public schools. Those who can read a few hundred common words are counted literate. The schools train their students for employment—how to report to computers and follow instructions. (Called interaction.) Fifty million adult Americans are less than fluent in English.
• The Fool Finger—Entertainment: Sports and televised dramas are the only commonly available recreations. The dramas are performed by computer-generated images indistinguishable (on screen) from living people. Scenery is provided by the same method. Although science fiction and fantasy characterize the majority of these dramas, they are not so identified.
• The Ring Finger—Love: There is little sex outside marriage, which normally includes a legal contract. A single instance of infidelity is amply sufficient to terminate a marriage, with damages to the aggrieved party; this is a consequence of the two great plagues of the past 25 years. (I do not include the one we call AIDS, because it began well before this was written.) The population of the planet is below six billion. People live in space and on the moon, but their numbers are not significant.
• The Little Finger—Minority: A literate stratum supplies leadership in government and most (though not all) other fields. Its members are experimenting with sociological simulations that take into account the individual characters and preferences of most of the population. Its aim is to increase the power of the literate class and further limit literacy, without provoking war with the U.S.S.R. or alienating the rising powers—China and the Latin American block. A literate counterculture also exists.
Its products, too, are largely science fiction and fantasy; it tries to broaden the literate base, in part in order that its output can be read. It is of course to you of this counterculture that I write to say, take heart! Twenty-five years is no great length upon the long scale of history. In my time too, the age was dark. But we are summoning the sun.
~Gene Wolfe
Predictions for 2012
We must count ourselves lucky if anyone has leisure enough in 2012 to open this time capsule and care what is inside. In 2012 Americans will see the collapse of Imperial America, the Pax Americana, as having ended with our loss of national will and national selflessness in the 1970s. Worldwide economic collapse will have cost America its dominant world role; but it will not result in Russian hegemony; their economy is too dependent on the world economy to maintain an irresistible military force. A new world order will emerge from famine, disease, and social dislocation: the re-tribalization of Africa, the destruction of the illusion of Islamic unity, the struggle between aristocracy and proletariat in Latin America—without the financial support of the industrialized nations, the old order will be gone. The changes will be as great as those emerging from the fall of Rome, with new power centers emerging wherever stability and security are established. The homogeneity of Israel will probably allow it to survive; Mexico and Japan may change rulers, but they will still be strong. If America is to recover, we must stop pretending to be what we were in 1950, and reorder our values away from pursuit of privilege.
~ Orson Scott Card
It's remarkable to me how it's always the case that any consideration of so called "selflessness" in any shape or form without exception yields failure no matter what's being enteterained, and any reliance on individuality correspondingly yields success, yet everyone, including those with direct experience of this fact continue to ineptly insist.


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I am currently on a shake/smoothie kick and let me tell you, I've concocted one that can't be beat! This particular protein shake is great for a quick breakfast to fuel your morning, or awesome as a post-workout meal.
Don't let the spinach or flaxseed scare you away – this filling, nutrient-dense shake is comparable to a dessert (and no I'm not just saying that). I mean, how can you go wrong with a chocolate, peanut butter and banana combo?!
Tasty as it is healthy, this is a recipe you won't want to pass up!
Makes approximately one 16-oz serving.
– 1 frozen banana
– 1 cup almond milk (I like unsweetened vanilla) or other non-dairy milk
– 1/2 cup quick oats
– 1 scoop chocolate protein powder of choice
– 2 Tbs. chunky peanut butter OR almond butter
– 1 cup spinach
– 1 tbs. ground flaxseed or flaxseed oil (chia or hemp seed are also great options)
– handful of ice
– pinch of cinnamon
– 1 packet Starbucks VIA instant coffee (optional)
Blend all ingredients thoroughly in blender and serve immediately.


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The Darlene LaRosa Memorial Fund was created to underwrite Quilt displays at schools and other community organizations that would otherwise be unable to afford to host a Quilt displays on World AIDS Day.
Darlene was one of the founding members of Northern New Jersey Chapter of The NAMES Project. Most recently she served as the President of the Chapter until her untimely death in January of 2003.
Donations for The Darlene LaRosa Memorial Fund should be sent to:
- The NAMES Project Foundation -
- Northern New Jersey Chapter
- PO Box 85
- Paramus, NJ 07653-0085
- Attention: Darlene La Rosa Memorial Fund
Checks should be made out to The NAMES Project NNJ.


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