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Mothers Day Botanical Print Lily of Valley choice of background antique vintage collage paper print beautiful wall FARMHOUSE DECOR MDB1394
Mothers Day Botanical Print Lily of Valley choice of background antique vintage collage paper print beautiful wall FARMHOUSE DECOR MDB1394
I bought all of this awesome paper at local Lancaster County, PA antique shops, it is such lovely paper! I WISH I had enough of this beautiful paper to create my vintage art prints, but sadly, I don't... so I made it into replica print backgrounds. I hand painted some of the original paper to give the prints more depth. All of my backgrounds are unique to my shop, well, duh.....since I created all of them!
I include a description of your piece on authentic vintage paper with each print, inside a plastic sleeve. Perfect for gift giving! It makes a lovely presentation!
Your choice of background for your print: (please check out the pictures above)
1. LIGHT JOURNAL: Reproduction 1854 Journal Page - lighter than ledger page, writing across entire page, I have hand-colored this page with watercolor and lightened it up a bit to show off your print.
2. WATERCOLOR LIGHT: Light Watercolor background, my own watercolor background turned into a background for this print
3. LEDGER: Reproduction early 1800's Ledger Page – more rustic than journal page, darker color. Isn't it lovely. I own this lovely ledger!
4. MULTI-COLLAGE ALMANAC: This is a collage background I created using antique letters, postcards, music, journals, and and 1896 farmers almanac I own, from Lancaster, PA. Lovely papers! Too lovely, had to make a collage. You'll notice this collage has the almanac table in the center.
5. MULTI-COLLAGE JOURNAL: See description above, however this background has a journal page (from 1854) as its center.
6. 1896 ALMANAC: Isn't this lovely!? This is from a beautiful old Farmer's Almanac I found from a printer in Lancaster, PA. I hand-painted the page to enhance the beauty of the page for your background print.
7. JOURNAL; This is the same journal page as "Light Journal" however it is not lightened in the center. The color is even throughout page.
8. DARK WATERCOLOR: I created this one for a customer! Thanks! It is a dark tea stained, almost leather look background page. It was watercolor painted to get this effect. It has a wonderful aged look!
9. MUSIC PAGE: This is a reproduction of a lovely sheet of music I have. Very romantic background.
10. ALMANAC BACK: This is the same Lancaster County PA almanac page used in another background, however this is the back page and I allowed it to remain somewhat dark, very aged looking! Very handsome background, unique too.
The colors may appear differently due to your computer's monitor.
SHIPPING: I only charge for your first piece! So if you buy 3 art prints, you'll only be charged for shipping one! Don't you just have to have more than one anyway?! :-)
I ship the prints in a rigid photo envelope, they are well protected.
Please contact me with any questions you may have! I will add new designs weekly.
Hope you enjoy!
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So I am sorry, but if you "change your mind" or decide the size isn't just right, I cannot refund your purchase. However, please let me know if there is anything wrong with your purchase either via ETSY conversation button or at MY email, firstname.lastname@example.com (sorry, the "at" sign doesn't seem to work in this box, but my email address has an "at" sign where that bracket is in my email address!). I will always gladly work to accommodate you.
You need any of my images on another type of paper?? Just let me know and I will gladly create it for you.
Frequently Asked Questions
Are your prints on real antique paper?
Some of my prints are on authentic antique paper, and some are on reproduction antique paper. Please read my listings. I clearly state if the print is on actual antique paper or on reproduction paper.
There are reasons I use reproduction backgrounds on some listings. You'll have a choice of sizes, I simply don't have enough of a particular type of antique paper, and I can offer reproduction prints more cost effectively than real antique paper.
Now, there are still prints on real antique paper, just read the descriptions before deciding on your print.
Why do some of your prints have a white border?
That would be for framing your print. Only my reproduction prints have the white border.
The antique paper prints (like the player piano paper, old dictionary pages, antique ledger pages) do not have the white border around the print.....because it is printed directly onto the antique paper....duh!! :-)
Can I buy your prints in various sizes?
Only the REPRODUCTION prints at this time (unless specifically stated in some of my authentic antique paper listings). Since some of my listings are reproduction backgrounds, I can offer them in many different sizes, from 5"x7" to 36"x48"! Again, if it were actual antique paper, how would I get it that big?? Really? :-)
Do you use real antique player piano paper for your prints?
Yep, for my player piano prints, it is actual antique player piano paper!!
I see an image of yours I like but I don't see a listing for the background I like?
You can order ANY of my images on ANY of my backgrounds! If you don't see the combination listed, convo me and I'll set it up for you! So you CAN order ANY image on ANY background!! Easy, right?? :-)


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Introducing Hisashi Iwakuma
By R.J. Anderson //
We've already covered the Athletics' trade of Vin Mazzaro. The preface to that deal involves the A's winning the negotiating rights to Hisashi Iwakuma. Yes, Iwakuma is from Japan, which means the level of knowledge about his pitching abilities and potential sits lower than most domestic products.
Keith Law ranked Iwakuma as the sixteenth best free agent available this offseason. Noting Iwakuma's upside as "mid- to back-of-the-rotation guy" and stating that his delivery is "more conventional" while his mindset is "pitch-to-contact." Law also offered a scouting report on Iwakuma's stuff. The basics being that Iwakuma sits in the low-90s while relying on his secondary pitches throughout at-bats.
All of that information combined with the knowledge of Iwakuma's park and division make it easy to set the baseline projections around a league average performance. Going a step further, though, how have previous Japanese starters fared in making the move?
Only 12 pitchers born in Japan have made more than 10 starts in the major leagues. Only nine have made more than 15 starts. Iwakuma will (presumably) become the tenth sometime around the All-Star Break. The nine names to concern yourself with here are Hideo Nomo, Tomo Ohka, Masato Yoshii, Kazuhisa Ishii, Daisuke Matsuzaka, Hiroki Kuroda, Hideki Irabu, Mac Suzuki, and Kenshin Kawakami. Eliminating the pitchers who came up through the minor leagues (Ohka, Suzuki) leaves us with these first full season results:
Overall impressive, although one has to keep in mind the inherent survivor bias. There are Japanese pitchers like Kei Igawa whom received a ton of cash and quickly bombed out of the rotation. There is no guarantee Iwakamu will avoid that faith in 2011 and particularly not in 2012. Kawakami had the third best debut season and Atlanta Braves removed him from their 40-man rotation over the weekend. Meanwhile the stories of Nomo, Irabu, Ishii, and Matsuzaka are common in the public consciousness.
Iwakuma looks rosterable (at least to begin the season) with an ERA projection around 4.00.
For more on Hisashi Iwakuma and mid-rotation candidates check out Bloomberg Sports' Front Office.

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ESA pavilion "L'Europe de l'Espace, Space for Earth" at the 48th Paris Air Show
The 48th International Paris Air Show will take place from 15 to 21 June at Le Bourget. The ESA Pavilion "L'Europe de l'Espace, Space for Earth" will be located in its usual place between the full scale models of the Ariane 1 and Ariane 5 launchers.
This year the theme of the pavilion is "Space, a key asset for Europe to face global challenges". "This choice", explains Fernando Doblas, Head of the ESA Communication Department, "aims to highlight the multiple roles of space: space as an enabling tool for Europe to take on the challenges facing humankind; space as a sector generating new technologies and contributing to a knowledge-based society; space for European growth and employment. Space is also a font of education, innovation and inspiration. A particular accent is given to astronomy and planetary missions in order to celebrate the International Year of Astronomy that aims to stimulate worldwide interest, especially among young people".
The exhibition is a journey from the boundaries of the Universe to the core of the Earth. The visit starts with an impressive image from the Hubble Space Telescope showing new born stars. This area, entitled "Space to Discover", gives an overview of past, current and future ESA missions studying the Universe in different wavelengths, with a focus on the two cosmic explorers, Herschel and Planck, recently launched to study the origin and evolution of the Cosmos.
From the farthest stars we arrive in the Solar System. Images, videos and interactive "magic books" allow visitors to have a better understanding of Europe's contribution in the exploration of Mars, Venus, Titan, Saturn's largest moon, and comets. A special emphasis is given to BepiColombo and ExoMars, planned to be launched in 2013 and 2016. BepiColombo will explore Mercury to find out how planets close to stars form; and ExoMars will be ESA's first mission to land a rover on Mars to search for signs of present, or past, life.
Touring the pavilion, it is possible to discover the world of microgravity. Medical advances, human physiology, biology, origins of life, new materials and fluid sciences are some of the many types of experiments carried out in the unique facilities onboard the Intenrational Space Station. The exhibition includes a scale model of the final configuration of the ISS and images of the next European elements for launch: the Cupola, a new observation and control area, and Node-3, a connecting element that also houses life support equipment for the crew.
Visitors can have a close view of the ATV mock-up and learn about the Columbus laboratory. This is one of Europe's key contributions to the ISS where astronauts, including ESA Frank De Winne currently on board the Station, are carrying out experiments in weightless conditions bringing global benefits in plasma physics, bone and muscle studies. Results will also be important to prepare for human spaceflight to the Moon and beyond.
The central area of the pavilion is dedicated to the Earth. Data from Meteosat, Envisat and ERS show Europe's leading role in understanding the global environment, Earth's weather and climate change.
Space is also a vital tool to secure our environment: the EU-led initiative GMES, Global Monitoring for Environment and Security, will give Europe a better understanding of our ever-changing planet.
Visitors will learn more about ESA's Earth Explorers, a series of missions to study the atmosphere, biosphere, hydrosphere, cryosphere and the Earth's interior. GOCE was the first of this new family to be launched; the gradiometer instrument onboard is displayed together with models of SMOS and CryoSat-2, both planned for launch in 2009.
The Proba satellites are part of ESA's In-Orbit Technology Demonstration Programme. Proba-2, exhibited in the pavilion, will be launched in 2009 and will validate 17 new technology developments and carry four scientific experiments. Innovative technologies open up new possibilities for space missions and applications and maintain and expand the capabilities of the European space industry.
Walking around a spherical projection of the Earth, ESA visitors can have an overview as to how space technologies are opening up a new age in navigation with Galileo, the European satellite navigation system; and in telecommunications with Alphasat and Alphabus, the next generation of large platforms for high-power telecommunications satellites, and with Small GEO, a small geostationary satellite platform.
The visit ends with a huge panorama of the Europe's Spaceport, images of the different hardware and a model of Ariane 5, of the Russian Soyuz and the small launcher Vega with its Zefiro engine. Europe's expertise has been able to give us an independent access to space since 1979, and ESA is today developing concepts for future launchers in order to maintain its position at the forefront of space transport.
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Aybar credits Pujols with helping calm his approach
CHICAGO -- Before every game, a few minutes before it's time to get on the field and stretch, Albert Pujols gets the attention of shortstop Erick Aybar and third baseman Alberto Callaspo. At that point, they know -- it's time to grab your bats and head to the cage for early batting practice.
"When you're always hitting with a guy like that, who's hit .300 his entire career, it helps out a lot," Aybar said in Spanish. "He corrects us a lot, me and Callaspo. … He has a great mind for hitting."
Aybar felt the benefits of that a few weeks ago, when Pujols -- quick to offer his opinion if he sees something wrong with a teammate's approach -- noticed he was overanxious at the plate. He was diving at balls, torquing his body too aggressively and not letting pitches travel deep enough to slap them the other way like he normally does.
And since then, Aybar has taken off, batting .352 (31-for-88) over a 23-game stretch that has seen his batting average rise by 32 points -- from .257 to .289.
"At the start, I was swinging too crazy," Aybar said before leading off Tuesday's game at Wrigley Field. "Now I feel better because I'm more calm. I'm seeing pitches better."


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I am new here, but I thought this might be a great place to get some feedback. My 15 yo dd is in 10th grade in public school, and while she likes it because she likes being there with her friends, she has on average 5 -7 hours of homework a night. Many times more. She is taking 3 honors classes because the academic classes are too easy for her, but the honors classes are very student-centered learning, which means that they are not taught as much, the teachers serve more as a facilitator, and the student is responsible for the learning. She is always exhausted and we don't get to spend a lot of time with her. My husband and I do not see this as a good way to spend the last few years of high school. We would like to take her out of school now and not even send her back after Christmas break. She has already stated that she is opposed to this idea. She is not really open to hs'ing. I have been praying that God would change her mind. But what if she doesn't change her mind? She can be a toughie and really dig her heels in at times. We have always tried to do what seemed to suited her, but I think sometimes that it was a mistake. She is very social and very attached to her friends. She has decent friends and is not a "bad" kid. She is mouthy with us often, rude many times, and manages her time very poorly. But those are probably her biggest faults. She does not sneak out behind our backs, she doesn't smoke or drink, and her grades are good as well. Are we forcing our way on her? I don't like how much she is being drawn away from the family. She definitely prefers her friends over us, and we don't see much of her because she goes up to her room a lot. Many times she is wasting time texting I instead of studying, and we take the phone away. But it also seems like she has very little time for God. Does anyone have any experience like this that they could share? Maybe I just need some encouragement. Hubby really wants her out of PS, and truthfully I do, too. But I know she's going to be a handful at home.
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Same question ... very similiar kid!
I have a 10th grader as well who we are considering pulling out of the public school system. In fact, *secondchance* you basically described my daughter as well! Unfortunately, we have the added problem of facing a $1000 per year tuition cost to keep her in the PS we have her at currently. That's an expense that my husband feels we cannot afford. I know that he is being realistic, but I am unsure that pulling her out of the public schools is a good idea for her. I am looking at the non-traditional coursework that she was scheduled to take next year and the other school activities (i.e. band, prom, and graduation) that she will be missing and I question whether I can support the decision of homeschooling her. Especially given the fact that I will be homeschooling her Kindergarten and 1st grade sisters at the same time and I don't want a bad attitude from her tainting their perception of school and homeschooling. I'm just curious how other home school parents who went to public school as kids reconcile in their minds the loss of memories for their kids and themselves of traditional public school events and activities? And has homeschooling at the high school level helped or hurt their college bound teens?
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Expert producer Christine Vachon, UK film packager Chris Hastings of 1066 Productions and Mark Ankner of William Morris Endeavor will be the participants in this year's panel discussion at the OMDC International Financing Forum in Toronto.
Titled Packaging: Dress Your Film For Success, the panel will take place during the sixth annual IFF which is an initiative of the Ontario Media Development Corporation (OMDC) and takes place during the Toronto International Film Festival from Sept 11-12.
Screen's Mike Goodridge will moderate the discussion.
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It's just a kid crying, and there are thousands of videos like that on youtube.
But it's what the boy is crying about that has made the video such a hit, even prompting a reply from Gov. Chris Christie.
The video features 4-year-old twin brothers Jesse and Brandon Koczon talking about the governor of New Jersey and the governor of California, but Jesse is especially upset.
" 'Cause everyone tells me I'm too small to be the governor of New Jersey," says Jesse when he's asked why he's crying.
The video was posted to youtube.com on Feb. 14, but it was shot on Election Day in November 2009, said Dawn Koczon, the twins' mother.
Koczon and her husband, Jon, took the children to the polls with them, but Jesse and Brandon wanted to do more than watch, Dawn Koczon said.
"They were mad because they couldn't vote, said the Old Bridge resident. "So we explained to them why and then after, when we got in the car, Jesse was just all of a sudden crying … because he couldn't vote."
The crying, she said, went on for a while.
"We started to explain to him and then after a while he was still crying, so that's when I started videotaping because I couldn't believe how long he was hysterical about not voting," Koczon said.
The website Gawker.com posted the video, as well as Capitol Quickies, the New Jersey Press Media Statehouse Bureau blog. And it took off, with both national and local media chasing after the family.
"Shocking," said Dawn Koczon when asked what she thought of all the attention. "I really haven't processed any of it, to be honest. We did homework after school, and then it's been like the last hour I feel like I've been getting so many e-mails and texts. it's funny how all of a sudden it's got to everybody in the same day."
It's no wonder the video became a hit. Jesse and his brother, strapped in car seats during the trip, are impossibly cute, and Jesse's reaction is one of those "awwww" moments parents get from their children.
Jesse, distraught over why he can't be governor, doesn't get any happier when he's told that he can run for governor when he gets bigger, and he insists he's already qualified.
"You already have the education to be the governor?" asks his mother.
"Yes," responds Jesse.
"Would you raise property taxes?" she asks.
"Yes," replies Jesse.
His mother gasps and then adds, "but then people wouldn't be happy. You have to say, 'I'm going to lower them."'
The video ends there with Jesse giving a quizzical look.
The video was submitted to America's Funniest Videos, where it won a $10,000 prize in December 2010. It was up for a larger $100,000 prize on Feb. 13, but did not win.
"So I didn't post it until after the two shows," said Ted Koczon, the boys' uncle and godfather, who owns a Perkins restaurant in Hazlet.
Gov. Chris Christie's office first saw the video on Capitol Quickies.
"The Governor's Office has seen the video (possibly dozens of times by now) and really enjoyed it," Kevin Roberts, a spokesman for Christie, said in an e-mail.
Christie himself responded to Jesse via his Twitter feed:
"Don't worry Jesse, people gave plenty of reasons why I couldn't be Governor, though being too small wasn't one of them."
Christie doesn't need to worry about Jesse, though. His ambitions have changed, his mother said, but Bruce Springsteen and Jon Bon Jovi may want to watch their backs.
"They want to be musicians now, that's their thing," Koczon said of her now 5-and-a-half-year-old boys. "Jesse drums and Brandon does the guitar."


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The Arab World's Literary Taboo-Breaker
The room is packed; a sell-out. A full half-hour before the reading is due to begin a large crowd has already gathered; an audience composed of both Germans and Arabs, all eagerly awaiting the appearance of the writer of "The Yacoubian Building", contemporary Arab literature's most successful novel.
Alaa al-Aswani is a celebrity and the filming of his novel, with Egyptian stars such as Adel Imam, Nour al-Sherif und Youssra, has only served to increase his fame.
Al-Aswani is the only Arabic-language author to appear at the lit.COLOGNE. As he enters the room where the reading is to take place, the applause is warm and prolonged. The tall dark-skinned man greets his public with a smile, polite, yet with a touch of reticence. But as he reads from his second novel "Chicago" and begins answering questions, he visibly warms to the situation, his reserve melting away, the confident successful novelist coming to the fore.
The "Patrick Süskind of Arabic literature"
Alaa al-Aswani is a phenomenon in modern Arabic literature, simply the most successful novelist ever. His literary success can be compared to the Patrick Süskind phenomenon in Germany, an accomplishment that has turned him into one of Egypt's most lucrative exports. His first novel "The Yacoubian Building", published in 2002, has sold more than 150,000 copies in the Arab world. Even the Egyptian Nobel laureate Nagib Mahfuz cannot match this volume of sales.
Al-Aswani's success is astonishing; especially in a region where the illiteracy rate is extremely high and there are very few readers per head of population. Writers in the Arab world in general are not high earners, works of fiction can expect print runs of one or two thousand at most, with sales spread over a number of years.
The writer who can afford to live on the proceeds of his literary endeavours is a rare beast indeed. Alaa al-Aswani is one of this select group. And yet he has preferred to remain a dentist. His studies took him to Cairo and Chicago, both of which cities have had one of his best-selling novel dedicated to them.
Panoramic visions of Cairo and Chicago
"It was clear to me from my first day on at Illinois University that one day I was going to write a novel about this unique cultural melting pot," al-Aswani tells his listeners in Cologne. By 2007 the dentist had committed his idea to paper and his second novel, "Chicago", which looks at the lives of Egyptian immigrants in the USA was published.
The real subject of the novel is Egypt rather than the United States, however. "Chicago" – like "The Yacoubian Building" – is a panoramic novel: peopled by an array of students, lecturers and their families, and American professors are the characters in this novel.
There are Egyptians who have been living in the US for years and now feel themselves to be American, while others suffer – to varying degrees – from homesickness. Most are living a conflict between their old and their new lives; all are living under the watchful eye of the Egyptian secret service.
"Chicago" went through 11 reprints within a year and has now been translated into several languages. The German translation by Hartmut Fähndrich appeared in February, published by the Lenos publishing house.
Taboo-breaker for the Arab world
What is the secret of Alaa al-Aswani's success? His work goes down very well in the Arab world because, no respecter of taboos, a writer who skilfully, subtly and humorously probes the no-go areas of Arab culture: politics, religion and sex.
His books do not shy away from detailed descriptions of both homosexual and heterosexual acts. The deplorable political and social conditions prevailing in his country – endemic corruption, social injustice, but also the discrimination against the Egyptian Christians (Copts), as well as feigned piety and Islamism are all put to the sword. Al-Aswani's special skill lies in his ability to deal with the big taboo subjects in a straightforward way and in a language that people can understand.
It's a style, of course, which leaves little room for the drawing of subtle distinctions or deep, convincing psychological analysis. An overload of cliché and melodramatic scenes is characteristic of both novels and led the Arabist Andreas Pflitsch to compare to "The Yacoubian Building" to a well-known German soap opera.
Sociology rather than literature
German press reviews were almost unanimous in their praise of Aswani's first novel, "The Yacoubian Building". Some critics were even moved to compare Aswani with the great Egyptian writer Mahfuz. The thing that was very striking about the reception given "The Yacoubian Building" in Germany was that it wasn't necessarily the novel's literary qualities that were praised, much more the way it reflected the social and political ills of the country on the Nile.
It was praised as a work that provided a key to understanding Arab-Islamic society and that gave an answer to the question of what it was that made a terrorist.
So it came as no surprise when "The Yacoubian Building" scooped the Bruno Kreisky Prize for the best political book of 2007. It was also no surprise when "Chicago" failed to be nominated for a major Arab literary prize such as the recently initiated Arab Booker Prize.
Al-Aswani's willingness to challenge taboos, his sense of humour, clarity of structure, simple language and gripping narrative technique have brought him success not only in Egypt, Lebanon and Morocco, but in France, Italy and Germany as well.
Is the al-Aswani bubble about to burst? Are we witnessing a fleeting phenomenon, a literary shooting star about to burn itself out? One thing is certain; he has already proved himself a writer with the ability to captivate and enthral a vast readership. And his talent is proving more durable than many in the Arab world were prepared to allow following the first novel. Al-Aswani is still brimming with ideas and enthusiasm. He is currently busily at work on his third novel.
Samir Grees
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Translated from the German by Ron Walker
Interview with Alaa Al-Aswani
"Egypt Is In a State of Reserve and Backwardness"
The novel "The Yacoubian Building" by Alaa al-Aswani was published five years ago by a small Egyptian publishing house. The book has since been translated into many languages and won several prizes. Mona Naggar spoke to the author
Interview with Wahid Hamed
The Egyptian Film "The Yacoubian" Breaks Every Taboo
It has been years since an Egyptian film aroused as wide-ranging public interest as "The Yacoubian Building". In this interview, screenwriter Wahid Hamed talks about the legal proceedings threatening the film, its sex scenes, and freedom of opinion in Egypt
Interview with Youssef Chahine
"Tenderness Has Dissapeared"
Youssef Chahine is the grand old man and the enfant terrible of Arabian cinema. Moritz Behrendt and Christian Meier met the 80-year-old director in Cairo, who on the occasion certified his reputation as one of the most vociferous critics of Egyptian politics


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Data Mining in Large Sets of Complex Data
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The amount and the complexity of the data gathered by current enterprises are increasing at an exponential rate. Consequently, the analysis of Big Data is nowadays a central challenge in Computer Science, especially for complex data. For example, given a satellite image database containing tens of Terabytes, how can we find regions aiming at identifying native rainforests, deforestation or reforestation? Can it be made automatically? Based on the work discussed in this book, the answers to both questions are a sound "yes", and the results can be obtained in just minutes. In fact, results that used to require days or weeks of hard work from human specialists can now be obtained in minutes with high precision. Data Mining in Large Sets of Complex Data discusses new algorithms that take steps forward from traditional data mining (especially for clustering) by considering large, complex datasets. Usually, other works focus in one aspect, either data size or complexity. This work considers both: it enables mining complex data from high impact applications, such as breast cancer diagnosis, region classification in satellite images, assistance to climate change forecast, recommendation systems for the Web and social networks; the data are large in the Terabyte-scale, not in Giga as usual; and very accurate results are found in just minutes. Thus, it provides a crucial and well timed contribution for allowing the creation of real time applications that deal with Big Data of high complexity in which mining on the fly can make an immeasurable difference, such as supporting cancer diagnosis or detecting deforestation.


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Huell Howser
I had posted in November that Huell was to retire at the end of the month. And, yes, there were rumors that he was ill.
But, it is now being reported that Huell Howser has passed away.
California television personality Huell Howser has died at age 67, according to KCET.
Howser, the host of TV's "California's Gold," retired from the show at the end of November. The show was broadcast on public television stations.
Details regarding a cause of death were not immediately available.
Howser moved to Los Angeles in 1981. The Tennessee native worked at a television station in Nashville before serving in the Marine Corps.
He worked at WCBS in New York before moving to LA. "California's Gold" became the best known of Howser's magazine-style TV shows about his travels in the state, but he also hosted "Visiting with Huell Howser," "Road Trip with Huell Howser" and other programs.
May he rest in peace.
Huell will be greatly missed!


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Spike Aerospace is hoping to raise $250,000 from crowdfunding to go towards building a supersonic private jet that has no windows and can fly from London to New York in just four hours.
The futuristic Spike S-512 luxury jet is estimated to cost $60 million (£36m, €44m) and will be able to carry a maximum of 18 passengers at a time.
In place of windows, the jet will feature giant screens that stream live video taken from micro-cameras surrounding the outside of the plane to show passengers what is going on outside, or be used to project movies and other content.
The Boston-based company is ditching the traditional oval windows seen in aircrafts today as they slow the plane down by adding extra weight and weakening the body of the aircraft.
"There are several reasons for removing the windows from the cabin. It has long been known that the windows cause significant challenges in designing and constructing an aircraft fuselage. They require addition structural support, add to the parts count and add weight to the aircraft," Spike Aerospace President and CEO Vik Kachoria explains in a blog post.
"But until recently, it has not been possible to do without them."
Commercial airlines today usually fly at the speeds of .85 Mach, which is about 567 miles per hours (mph). In contrast, the Spike S-512 has been designed to fly at speeds of 1.6 – 1.8 Mach (1060-1200mph), using advanced composite materials, avionics and jet propulsion technologies.
The founders of Spike Aerospace are aerospace engineers who previously worked for aircraft manufacturers such as Boeing, Airbus, Gulfstream and Nasa. They have been designing the supersonic jet for two years and hope to launch the aircraft in December 2018.
In order to generate publicity for their project, Spike Aerospace has launched a crowd-funding campaign to raise $250,000. The money will be used to help complete the next phase of the aircraft design, which will cost a total of $800,000.
"Don't worry, we don't expect crowd-funding to provide the hundreds of millions of dollars to build this jet. We are looking to you to move it forward to the point where we can attract investors to finalise this jet," the company writes on its Indiegogo campaign page.
Nasa and Boeing are also trying to develop supersonic aircraft of their own that can reduce the noise made by jets when they break the sound barrier, but at the moment, supersonic flights are banned in the US by the Federal Aviation Administration.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has also indicated an interested in supersonic jets.
"I do think there's an interesting opportunity to create a supersonic, electric, vertical take-off and landing jet," he told an audience at the New York Times Dealbook conference in November 2013.
"It seems unlikely to come from Boeing or Airbus, given that they seem to be focused on very incremental improvements to their planes as opposed to radical improvements. So it could come from a start-up. If I were to have another company in the future, which would not be any time soon, I think that would be the thing to do."


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With memories of I-35W collapse still fresh, officials diligently fixing bridge problems
It's been five years since the Interstate 35W bridge fell in Minneapolis. The collapse killed 13 people and injured scores more, but also highlighted the deteriorating condition of the state's infrastructure.
Now, the state is halfway through a 10-year upgrade that is finally replacing some of Minnesota's most worrisome bridges. Officials at the Minnesota Department of Transportation say it is more vigilant than ever.
It was a cold day a couple of years ago when retired nurse Ginger Knaff got in her car in West St. Paul to visit her mom in a nursing home in St. Paul's Mounds Park neighborhood. She headed north on Highway 52.
"And I ended up right over the river. And everything was jammed up. And there was a semi next to me. A big semi. And we were just sitting there," Knaff said. "And I looked at my coffee cup, and it was actually sloshing back and forth. And I was sitting still. My motor was running, but that was all."
The earlier collapse of the I-35W bridge was fresh in Knaff's mind as she drove over the Lafayette bridge. For the last time.
"I don't use it any more. I just don't," she said.
Knaff isn't alone. Other drivers say they are nervous about the river crossing, and even transportation officials acknowledge the Lafayette bridge's deficiencies. Its concrete deck has deteriorated. It's held up by rusting steel. It's an outmoded design. And it had a lower safety rating than the old 35W bridge before that fell.
The Lafayette is scheduled to be torn down, but it will have to carry traffic for another year.
"In the past, actually not too long after the bridge was opened, some cracks initiated within the plate girders and had to be fixed. And they've been monitored over time. We feel the bridge is safe," said Nancy Daubenberger, bridge engineer for MnDOT, oversees the Lafayette Bridge as well as hundreds of other spans across the state.
Officials acknowledge the state's bridge problems. They're on the way to getting the worst of them fixed, and they're keeping a closer eye than ever on the rest. But the landmark bridge collapse has left a lingering fear.
The heart of the state's response to the disaster is a $2.5 billion, decade-long campaign targeted at 172 of the state's most-deficient bridges. It started in 2008. It's a one-time fix, with $1.2 billion in long-term state borrowing. But by the end of this year, almost half of the bridges on the list will have been replaced or substantially rehabilitated.
Some of the bridges in the worst condition are also the toughest to fix. Daubenberger said.
"These are our major structures and so they are river crossings of high importance, you know, higher average daily traffic. And also, they are longer-span bridges, so typically higher-cost bridges," Daubenberger said. "And so in order for the department to be able to program bridges like this, typically it needs to be spaced out over time, in order to be able to finance this."
The Lafayette and Hastings' Highway 61 bridges alone account for nearly a quarter-billion dollars, not to mention years of planning to avoid mistakes, such as a design firm's error that delayed the Interstate 494 Wakota bridge for three years.
Daubenberger also said they are working harder than ever to keep existing bridges in good shape.
"We've increased staffing for our maintenance and inspection staff to allow more work to be done in the way of bridge maintenance," Daubenberger said. "And also we've instituted performance measures that track bridge inspection timeliness and bridge maintenance accomplishments."
The people that ultimately oversee that effort — the Dayton administration and the Legislature — say the effort is going as well as it can.
"You got to remember that there's only so many companies that build bridges and repair bridges," said Republican Mike Beard, who chairs the House transportation committee. "And we're running those guys ragged. They're keeping up to the schedule just as fast as they can."
And that means the Lafayette Bridge that Ginger Knaff can't bear to cross will likely be gone by 2015. The Hastings bridge is scheduled for completion in 2014, and one of the state's worst bridges, the Cayuga freeway bridge in St. Paul, should be done by late 2015.
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FlightAware SOAP API MASTER RECORD
From their site: Using the FlightXML API, programs can query the FlightAware live flight information and historical datasets. Queries for in-flight aircraft return a set of matching aircraft based on a combination of location, flight or tail number, origin and/or destination airport, aircraft type, and/or a low-to-high range of altitude and/or ground speed, among others. For each matching aircraft, data returned includes the flight or tail number, the aircraft type, origin and destination, time the last position was received, and the longitude, latitude, groundspeed, and altitude of that position. Matching flights' flight tracks can be requested as well. For airports, FlightXML queries can return a list of scheduled flights, flights that have departed, flights that are enroute to the airport, and flights that have arrived at the airport. While supporting full Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) and Web Services Description Language (WSDL), FlightXML also supports a simplified query mechanism where the query is coded into a standard HTTP "get" request.


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"Thousands of New Yorkers have already embraced the city's bike share program as a viable, environmentally friendly and cost-effective form of public transportation," Crowley said at a Jackson Heights press conference. "That is why I'm introducing legislation that further encourages participation in the program by making it more affordable for commuters."
City commuters are currently able to claim up to $130 per month for public transportation usage or parking costs as part of a commuter benefit package in New York City. The Bike to Work Act of 2014 would expand this program to all bike shares in the nation by amending the Internal Revenue Service Code to consider bike shares a method of public transportation.
State Senator Toby Ann Stavisky and Assemblyman Francisco Moya, who lauded the bill for its health benefits, joined Crowley in support.
"Biking to work is good for the environment, good for relieving chronic traffic congestion, good for public health and good for the wallets of New Yorkers," Stavisky said. "I hope that the influx of revenue will speed up access to Citi Bike in Eastern Queens, especially in extremely congested areas such as Flushing and Jackson Heights."
While Citi Bike is currently planning to expand into Astoria, Jackson Heights is not on the list of locations for docking station installations as yet.
Paul Steely White, executive director of Transportation Alternatives, said he hopes legislation such as the Bike to Work Act will help push commuter biking further into the mainstream.
"Even before the bike share's instant success, bicycling was the fastest growing form of transportation in New York City," White said. "Now, bike share is accelerating that growth even more with more than 100,000 members to date."
The city's bike share program has been plagued with issues from the start, including equipment damage suffered during Hurricane Sandy and software glitches. Detractors of the program also claim Alta Bike Share, the company that operates the Citi Bike program, hasn't done enough to improve and adapt the system to serve real-world commuters in the city.
Perhaps the biggest issue faced by Citi Bike is its lack of day-to-day use by tourists, forcing the system to rely on long-term commuter subscriptions.
All of these issues combined led to the resignation of the head of the NYC Bike Share program in April. Mayor Bill de Blasio has stated publicly that city funding is off the table, and is currently seeking a private partner to help support the program.
A representative from the Department of Transportation who attended the press conference said no new information is available regarding the search for private backing.
After taking a short cruise around Jackson Heights with White while riding a Citi Bike acquired by one of his constituents from Brooklyn, Crowley said he hopes the bike share will make it to his district in the near future.
He also said that was his central motivation behind introducing of the new bill, citing the lack of north-south public transportation options throughout Brooklyn and Queens.
"Increased connectivity is fundamental to the growth and development of our city, and it is imperative that we meet the needs of those communities that have long been underserved by transportation options," said Crowley. "To do that, we need to ensure that the city's bike share program finally makes it to Queens."


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American Water's 125th Anniversary Education Campaign Helped Raise Public Awareness of the Value of WaterMarketWatch.com
VOORHEES, N.J., Jan 26, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) — On the heels of its 125th Anniversary year, American Water is revealing the results of a year-long, nationwide campaign to educate and raise awareness about the value of water.Read more
Join SCA in Seattle on Jan 11 to Celebrate the Elwha Dam RemovalSCA
SCA alum and Elwha River dam community affairs intern Evan Escamilla will also be on hand to celebrate the dismantling of two dams blocked for nearly 100 years.
Biologist dedicates her life to raising Kemp's ridley turtles, saving a speciesCaller-Times
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SCA's Laura Herrin named to federal panel Shaping 21st Century Youth Conservation CorpsSCA
Herrin to recommend strategies for expanding national service and career opportunities for young people
Veterans get wildland fire training to help transition back to civilian lifeThe Daily Courier
By Joanna Dodder Nellans, This article originally appeared on The Daily Courier
A new program on Arizona's national forests is trying to help put a dent in the high unemployment rate for young veterans while fostering environmental conservation education.
SCA endorses Obama Nomination of Wendy Spencer to Lead CNCSSCA
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Just a few things that I have found over the last few days that may help make your products easier for people to use.
1. Change'Adafruit_i2c.py' to take a 1 or 0 for the i2c driver so that smbus is not needed in externial code:
def __init__(self, address, bus=smbus.SMBus(0), debug=False):
self.address = address
self.bus = bus
self.debug = debug
2. New:
def __init__(self, address, bus=1, debug=False): # rev 2
self.address = address
self.bus =smbus.SMBus(bus)
self.debug = debug
3. Servo demo:
a. You say in the tutorial that if you have rev 2 boards, that you must change:
self.i2c = Adafruit_I2C(address)
self.i2c = Adafruit_I2C(address, bus=smbus.SMBus(1))
In order for the tutorial to work 'import smbus' must also be added to the
Should be modified as per 1. above
b. ^C should shut down the demo, not leave it running! Haven't dug into the code yet.
4. I2c.py:
a. Adafruit_I2C.py file should be the same in:
as in:
/Adafruit-Raspberry-Pi-Python-Code/Adafruit_BMP085(and elsewhere, and it's not!)
should use the same base file.
Seriously screws up the tabs!!!!!


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We Chat With Marc Schulman, President of Eli's Cheesecake
Interviews with local chefs and restauranteurs.
Though it's now so iconic it seems as old as the city itself, Eli's Cheesecake didn't make the jump to Chicago's collective radar until about 1980, when it represented Eli's The Place for Steak in the first Taste of Chicago. Perhaps even more surprising is that the godfather of this iconic Chicago dessert, Eli Schulman, didn't even start working on the recipe for the treat that would bring him the most fame until he was in his 60's. So despair not all you budding entrepreneurs, you still have time to make your mark.
Eli actually started several different ventures in the restaurant industry decades before hitting upon the massive success of his cheesecake. From a coffee shop to a deli and finally to the steakhouse where he eventually developed the classic dense and creamy cheesecake recipe, he remained deeply rooted in the city of Chicago through each venture, a principle the company continues to make a main focus.
I was recently invited out to Eli's Cheesecake World in Chicago's Dunning neighborhood by Eli's son, Marc Schulman, who has been president of the company since 1984. After spending some time with him and executive pastry chef Laurel Boger in the factory/store, I walked away truly impressed by the company's history of innovation as well as their dedication to quality ingredients (no one is more surprised than me when I say that the feta in my Greek salad that I had at their cafe was some of the best I've ever had).
Because of the store's unique location, it's easy to overlook. But I discovered a bounty of food (not all of it cheesecake!) that is worth a special trip. Click through the slideshow for more about this time-honored Chicago company and of course, some mouth-watering pictures of cheesecake.
Eli's Cheesecake World
6701 Forest Preserve Dr, Chicago, IL 60634 (map)
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Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
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|provides data, analysis and recommendations, based on open sources, to policymakers, researchers, media and the interested public
Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) is an independent international institute in Sweden, dedicated to research into conflict, armaments, arms control and disarmament. Established on 6 May 1966, SIPRI provides data, analysis and recommendations, based on open sources, to policymakers, researchers, media and the interested public. SIPRI is based in Stockholm, and also has a presence in Beijing.[1]
In the University of Pennsylvania's 2013 Global Go To Think Tanks Report, SIPRI is ranked the fifth most influential think tank in the world, after the Brookings Institution, Chatham House, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and the Center for Strategic and International Studies.[2]
In 1964, Prime Minister of Sweden Tage Erlander put forward the idea of establishing a peace research institute to commemorate Sweden's 150 years of unbroken peace.
A Swedish Royal Commission chaired by Ambassador Alva Myrdal proposed in its 1966 report to establish an institute, later named the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, SIPRI. The Institute's research should seek to contribute to "the understanding of the preconditions for a stable peace and for peaceful solutions of international conflicts" and the Commission recommended that research be concentrated on armaments, their limitation and reduction, and arms control. The Commission also recommended that SIPRI work be of "an applied research character directed towards practical-political questions [which] should be carried on in a constant interchange with research of a more theoretical kind".
SIPRI has built its reputation and standing on competence, professional skills, and the collection of hard data and precise facts, rendering accessible impartial information on weapon developments, arms transfers and production, military expenditure, as well as on arms limitations, reductions and disarmament. The task of the Institute is to conduct "scientific research on questions of conflict and cooperation of importance for international peace and security with the aim of contributing to an understanding of the conditions for peaceful solution of international conflicts and for a stable peace".
The Swedish Riksdag decided that the Institute be established on 1 July 1966 with the legal status of an independent foundation. All SIPRI research is based exclusively on open sources.
SIPRI's organisation consists of a Governing Board, Director, Deputy Director, Research Staff Collegium and support staff. An Advisory Committee serves as a consultative body to the Institute. The Governing Board takes decisions on important matters concerning the research agenda, activities, organisation and financial administration of the Institute. Other matters are decided by the Director. The Research Staff Collegium advises the Director on research matters. The staff of about 50 persons is international. The researchers are recruited for a specific project period and represent various academic disciplines. Located in Sweden, the Institute offers a unique platform for researchers from different countries to work in close cooperation. The Institute also hosts guest researchers who work on issues related to the SIPRI research programme. Although SIPRI is not a teaching institute, it receives interns whose programmes of study can contribute to and benefit from SIPRI's research. Contacts are maintained with other research centres and individual researchers throughout the world. SIPRI cooperates closely with several intergovernmental organisations, notably the United Nations and the European Union, and regularly receives parliamentary, scientific and government delegations as well as visiting researchers. Frequent contacts are maintained with diplomatic missions in Stockholm and with Swedish research centres.
Governing Board
Current members of the Governing Board:
- Ambassador Sven-Olof Petersson (Sweden), retired Swedish diplomat and, as of 1 September 2014, Chairman of the SIPRI Governing Board[3]
- Jayantha Dhanapala (Sri Lanka), President, Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs and former Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations for Disarmament Affairs
- Dewi Fortuna Anwar (Indonesia), Director for Program and Research, The Habibie Center
- Vladimir Baranovsky (Russia), Deputy Director, IMEMO (Institute of World Economy and International Relations)
- Ambassador Lakhdar Brahimi (France), Former United Nations Special Adviser to the Secretary-General
- Dan Smith (United Kingdom), Director, SIPRI[4]
- Wolfgang Ischinger (Germany), Chairman, Munich Security Conference and Global Head of Government Relations, Allianz SE
- Mary Kaldor (United Kingdom), Co-Director, Centre for the Study of Global Governance, London School of Economics
Former Governing Board Chairpersons:
- Alva Myrdal (1966–67)
- Gunnar Myrdal (1967–73)
- Rolf Edberg (1974–78)
- Hans Blix (1978)
- Karin Söder (1978–79)
- Rolf Björnerstedt (1979–85)
- Ernst Michanek (1985–87)
- Inga Thorsson (1987–91)
- Daniel Tarschys (1992–2000)
- Rolf Ekeus (2000–2010)
- Göran Lennmarker (2010–2014)
The Director, who is appointed by the Swedish Government, has the main responsibility for SIPRI's work programme. Dr Bates Gill served as SIPRI Director from 2007–2012.[5] In September 2012, the Swedish Government appointed the German economist Tilman Brück as his successor.[6] Brück held the position of SIPRI Director from January 2013 to June 2014.[7] In June 2014 the SIPRI Governing Board appointed Dr Ian Anthony as Director for an interim period.[8] The current Director, Dan Smith, was appointed in September 2015.[4]
Former SIPRI Directors:
- Robert Neild (United Kingdom, 1967–1971)
- Frank Barnaby (United Kingdom, 1971–1981)
- Frank Blackaby (United Kingdom, 1981–1986)
- Walther Stützle (Germany, 1986–1991)
- Adam Daniel Rotfeld (Poland, 1991–2002)
- Alyson Bailes (United Kingdom, 2002–2007)
- Bates Gill (United States, 2007–2012)
- Tilman Brück (Germany, 2013–2014)
- Ian Anthony (United Kingdom, interim 2014-2015)
Deputy Director
The Deputy Director is appointed by the Governing Board from Swedish candidates. SIPRI's current Deputy Director is Jakob Hallgren.[9]
Former SIPRI Deputy Directors:
- Örjan Berner (1966–67)
- Dr Rolf Björnerstedt (1967–68)
- Jan Mårtensson (1968–69)
- Sven Hirdman (1969–72)
- Bo Heinebäck (1972–75)
- Carl-Magnus Hyltenius (1975–78)
- Arne Kjellstrand (1978–80)
- Sven-Göran Henricsson (1982–84)
- Gustaf Stjernberg (1984–87)
- Madeleine Ströje-Wilkens (1988–90)
- Ove Svensson (1992–93)
- Jan Svedman (1995–98)
- Birgitta Alani (1998–2002)
- Dr Christer Ahlström (2002–2005)
- Daniel Nord (2005–2012)
Research is conducted at SIPRI by an international staff of about 40 researchers and research assistants. The Institute's current research programme centres on the following projects:
- The SIPRI Yearbook[10]
- Euro-Atlantic Security and Arms Control
- Armed Conflict and Conflict Management
- Non-Proliferation and Export Controls
- Chemical and Biological Warfare
- Military Expenditure and Arms Production[11]
- Arms Transfers[12]
- IT Projects: "Facts on International Relations and Security Trends" and "An Internet-Based Early Warning Indicators System for Preventive Policy"
Within these fields of study, workshops, conferences, seminars and lectures are organised in order to bring together a broad spectrum of expertise and to exchange views on subjects studied at the Institute. SIPRI research projects maintain large databases on military expenditure, arms-producing industries, arms transfers, chemical and biological warfare, national and international export controls, arms control agreements, annual chronologies of major arms control events, military manoeuvres and nuclear explosions. SIPRI hosts the FIRST (Facts on International Relations and Security Trends) online database of security-relevant information at http://first.sipri.org.
The datasets provided by SIPRI, especially on military expenditure, have been criticised for containing errors.[13]
Publications and Information
SIPRI's publications and information material are distributed to a wide range of policy makers, researchers, journalists, organisations and the interested public. The results of the research are disseminated through the publication of books and reports by SIPRI and commissioned authors as well as through symposia and seminars. The Institute has forged its profile by concentrating on present-day realities, providing unbiased facts to states and individuals. SIPRI's main publication, the SIPRI Yearbook, was first published on 12 November 1969. The Yearbook serves as a single authoritative and independent source to which politicians, diplomats and journalists can turn for an account of what has happened during the past year in armaments and arms control, armed conflicts and conflict resolution, security arrangements and disarmament. It is translated into a number of other languages, notably Russian, Ukrainian, Chinese and Arabic.
SIPRI series:[14]
- SIPRI Yearbook: Armaments, Disarmament and International Security
- SIPRI Monographs
- SIPRI Research Reports
- SIPRI Chemical & Biological warfare Studies
- SIPRI Policy Papers
- SIPRI Insights on Peace and Security
- SIPRI Fact Sheets and Policy Briefs
- Multi-author volumes
- Pocket-size summaries of the Yearbook in English and a number of other languages
- SIPRI Arms Transfers Database, Iraq 1973-1990
SIPRI's financial support is primarily drawn from governments and independent philanthropic organisations around the world. SIPRI also receives annual support from the Swedish government in the form of a core grant approved by the Swedish parliament.
See also
Peace research institutes
- Peace Research Institute Frankfurt
- Bonn International Center for Conversion
- International Peace Research Institute, Oslo
- Journal of Peace Research
- Tami Steinmetz Center for Peace Research
- Geneva International Peace Research Institute
Military budgets
- List of countries by military expenditures
- Military budget of the People's Republic of China
- Military budget of the United States
Notes and references
- ↑ "About SIPRI | SIPRI". www.sipri.org. Retrieved 2016-06-12.
- ↑ University of Pennsylvania 2013 Global Go To Think Tanks Ranking Released 22 January 2014
- ↑ "SIPRI welcomes new Governing Board Chairman" (Press release). Stockholm International Peace Research Institute. 21 August 2014. Retrieved 13 February 2015.
- 1 2 "Dan Smith appointed Director of SIPRI". Mundus International. Retrieved 1 October 2015.
- ↑ "Bates Gill new SIPRI Director" (Press release). Swedish Government. 15 March 2007. Retrieved 15 March 2012.
- ↑ "SIPRI welcomes new Director" (Press release). Stockholm International Peace Research Institute. 20 September 2012. Retrieved 4 December 2012.
- ↑ "Press statement by the SIPRI Governing Board: Changes in leadership at SIPRI" (Press release). Stockholm International Peace Research Institute. 13 May 2014. Retrieved 21 July 2014.
- ↑ "SIPRI announces Director for interim period" (Press release). Stockholm International Peace Research Institute. 2 June 2014. Retrieved 21 July 2014.
- ↑ "Jakob Hallgren". Retrieved 28 August 2015.
- ↑ http://www.sipri.org/yearbook
- ↑ http://www.sipri.org/databases/milex
- ↑ "SIPRI Arms Transfers Database". Retrieved 28 August 2015.
- ↑ "Venezuela and military expenditure data". Retrieved 28 August 2015.
- ↑ "List of SIPRI Publications". SIPRI. Retrieved 2009-09-10.


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"How often are affairs nonsexual? I've dated married women before. Two relationships were not sexual — not because they didn't want it but because I wasn't interested." —F.T.
Wow. I'm sure the husbands of the two women you didn't have sex with appreciate your lack of carnal interest in their wives. But you don't get any kudos, sir, for knowingly "dating" married women. The nonsexual relationship you allude to is most often referred to as an emotional affair.
In David J. Moultrup's book Husbands, Wives & Lovers: The Emotional System of the Extramarital Affair, he defines it as "a relationship between a person and someone other than [their] spouse [or lover] that has an impact on the level of intimacy, emotional distance and overall dynamic balance in the marriage." Even though there's no sex, the relationship you describe can be just as devastating to a marriage as sexual infidelity.
Unfortunately, the frequency of emotional affairs is hard to accurately quantify because few people confess, even anonymously, to an affair of any kind. Nevertheless, some reports say that emotional affairs are on the rise, thanks to the convenience of technology and the plethora of social networking sites that keep everyone so connected.
There's also the troubling issue of people who think like you do, who are having emotional affairs and rationalizing that what they are doing couldn't be so bad, since it's not as if there's sex involved. This could not be further from the truth.
Did these wives tell you things they didn't tell their husbands? If their husbands knew about you, did they downplay the relationship by saying "He's just a friend"? Did these women look forward to spending time with you more than they did their husbands? If you answered "yes" to any of the above, then you were having an emotional affair.
An emotional affair doesn't come with the pesky risks of sexually transmitted infections and pregnancy. But just like a sexual affair, it contains deception, secrecy and a breach of trust. You know those times when you wooed married women over cozy dinners or long walks by providing a listening ear and "just" allowing them to be themselves, with no judgment? In those moments, you were robbing a husband somewhere of his wife's feelings, time, interest and concern. You were a participant in stealing the soul of a marriage.
I'm guessing you probably don't care, and it's not as if you have to. As I told the woman who wrote in last week, wondering whether she should have a heart-to-heart with the woman she thought her man might be involved with, the third party — that would be you — didn't make any sort of commitment or take any vows to honor a relationship.
What I didn't say — only because the subject then didn't call for it — is that it's still all manner of grimy to get physically or emotionally involved with someone you know is in a committed relationship. It sends the message not only that you don't respect relationships but also that you don't have much respect for yourself, either.
It's quite curious to me why anyone would willingly want to play second fiddle. Women are told so many horror stories about how hard it is to find a good man, or how their worth is diminished when they don't have one around, that I can somewhat understand the rationale for being girlfriend No. 2, even if I don't condone the action.
But men are fed the idea that there's a surplus of available women. Even if having the numbers on your side still means that a good woman might be hard to find, are you telling me that the best you can do to get your physical and emotional needs met is playing No. 2 to another man? If it's a connection you seek, you would be better served by finding an unattached woman who is actually available to indulge you instead of emotional tricking with off-limits women.
I know that part of the guy theory of why married women make great jump-offs is that they don't require a lot of time because they don't have much of it. They're also easy on the pockets because the husband should take care of the wining and dining. And all they really require is good sex. But in at least two of your relationships, you're not getting that. So what are you getting out of these arrangements?
Maybe your ego gets a boost from the knowledge that you can pull another man's lady. Maybe you don't really feel that you have enough to contribute in a relationship, and you're going for women who don't or can't require much. Or maybe you don't feel that you deserve to be someone's No. 1.
Whatever your reason is for consistently dating married women, whether you have sex with them or not, you definitely need to see a therapist. The right one will help you discover the root cause of why you seek relationships in which you can be destructive and also help empower you to be a better, more self-respecting man.
Good luck!
Demetria L. Lucas is a contributing editor to The Root, a life coach and the author of A Belle in Brooklyn: The Go-to Girl for Advice on Living Your Best Single Life. She answers your dating and relationship questions on The Root each week. Feel free to ask anything at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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The Ludicrous Right Wing 'Benghazi-Gate' Fake Scandal Gets Even More Ludicrous
Yes, the right wing is still trying to turn the Benghazi attack into a cut-rate Watergate scandal, despite David Petraeus's testimony backing up everything the administration said. Jennifer Rubin, the right wing hack masquerading as a Washington Post blogger, leads the charge with yet another determinedly stupid article: BREAKING: The President Knew the Truth About Benghazi - Right Turn.
For some reason, the right wing echo chamber is obsessively fixated on whether the President "knew it was a terrorist attack," and they're going to keep hammering away at this empty nothing-burger until it's flatter than Mitt Romney's approval ratings.
Solomon cautions that there were bits of evidence pointing to a spontaneous attack but, as Eli Lake of the Daily Beast and others have reported, he writes: "Among the early evidence cited in the briefings to the president and other senior officials were intercepts showing some of the participants were known members or supporters of Ansar al-Sharia — the al-Qaida-sympathizing militia in Libya — and the AQIM, which is a direct affiliate of al-Qaida in northern Africa, the officials said."
How could the president and his senior staff then have allowed (or rather, sent) Rice to go out to tell an entirely different tale to the American people on Sept. 16 on five TV shows?
This report indicates that the president certainly knew that Benghazi wasn't a rogue movie review gone bad. He had information that plainly spelled out what was later confirmed by additional intelligence. If this information was too confidential to share with the public, at the very least the president and others should not have mislead voters.
It's absolutely bizarre that people like Rubin continue pushing this false dichotomy. In actual fact, there is no contradiction here. This was a terrorist attack that was motivated by the anti-Islam video. And we know this because the New York Times reported it from Benghazi on October 15.
To Libyans who witnessed the assault and know the attackers, there is little doubt what occurred: a well-known group of local Islamist militants struck the United States Mission without any warning or protest, and they did it in retaliation for the video. That is what the fighters said at the time, speaking emotionally of their anger at the video without mentioning Al Qaeda, Osama bin Laden or the terrorist strikes of 11 years earlier. And it is an explanation that tracks with their history as members of a local militant group determined to protect Libya from Western influence. …
To those on the ground, the circumstances of the attack are hardly a mystery. Most of the attackers made no effort to hide their faces or identities, and during the assault some acknowledged to a Libyan journalist working for The New York Times that they belonged to the group. And their attack drew a crowd, some of whom cheered them on, some of whom just gawked, and some of whom later looted the compound.
The fighters said at the time that they were moved to act because of the video, which had first gained attention across the region after a protest in Egypt that day. The assailants approvingly recalled a 2006 assault by local Islamists that had destroyed an Italian diplomatic mission in Benghazi over a perceived insult to the prophet. In June the group staged a similar attack against the Tunisian Consulate over a different film, according to the Congressional testimony of the American security chief at the time, Eric A. Nordstrom.
At a news conference the day after the ambassador and three other Americans were killed, a spokesman for Ansar al-Shariah praised the attack as the proper response to such an insult to Islam. 'We are saluting our people for this zeal in protecting their religion, to grant victory to the prophet,' the spokesman said. 'The response has to be firm.'
The right wing is trying to fool America into jumping aboard their crazy train, pushing a false line of attack that they know is false — that the anti-Islam video was not the reason for the attack, and that President Obama, for some reason (maybe he just hates America?), deliberately lied about this in order to cover for his jihadi friends.
It's yet another attempt to demonize President Obama and make him out to be a dangerous secret subversive radical, who sympathizes with people who kill American citizens.
Really! That's the conspiracy theory they're trying to push here. It's just beyond ludicrous, and it gets stupider and more deranged every single day.
Since Jennifer Rubin asked:
How could the president and his senior staff then have allowed (or rather, sent) Rice to go out to tell an entirely different tale to the American people on Sept. 16 on five TV shows?
I don't expect it to make any difference to the false narrative they're pushing, but here's the answer. It's really not that difficult to figure out — in fact, Petraeus actually told the hearing yesterday why the assessment was toned down: Petraeus Says U.S. Tried to Avoid Tipping Off Terrorists.
WASHINGTON — David H. Petraeus, the former director of the Central Intelligence Agency, told lawmakers on Friday that classified intelligence reports revealed that the deadly assault on the American diplomatic mission in Libya was a terrorist attack, but that the administration refrained from saying it suspected that the perpetrators of the attack were Al Qaeda affiliates and sympathizers to avoid tipping off the groups.
Mr. Petraeus, who resigned last week after admitting to an extramarital affair, said the names of groups suspected in the attack — including Al Qaeda's franchise in North Africa and a local Libyan group, Ansar al-Shariah — were removed from the public explanation of the attack immediately after the assault to avoiding alerting the militants that American intelligence and law enforcement agencies were tracking them, lawmakers said.


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My last post for the Day of Archaeology is a mix of writing about another Postdoc project I am hoping to work on (and the process of shaping your research career), as well as describing other typical activities that researchers get done over a day.
I spent most of today working on a Postdoc application with a deadline looming alarmingly close. I've been busy writing a Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowship application, which has to be submitted on 11th August. This is basically a European-wide competition for a two year research position, where you must move outside your normal country of residence. It's up to you to find a research team at a European lab, propose a project to them, and get the go-ahead to apply for the funding from the central European Commission for Research and Innovation, which for early career researchers is called 'Marie Curie' Actions after the renowned scientist. These brilliant fellowships are aimed at supporting young researchers by training them in new skills within different research communities, and helping Europe as a whole become a more vibrant competitive research community.
As I've discovered over the past few years, perhaps the most important thing you can do to help your research career (apart from publish, publish, publish!), is to get out and meet people. Go to conferences, talk to colleagues, attend workshops, and take the opportunity to network whenever it presents itself. All the projects I am currently involved in have happened this way, by meeting people outside of the Universities where I did my degrees.


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We've been up to a lot here at The BETH Project. Thanks in part to the support of the IDEAS Global Challenge and MIT Public Service Center, we've been busy prototyping, testing and talking to patients and prosthetists.
The BETH Project team first came together at a MIT H@cking Medicine conference in early 2012, gathering around Asa's proposal to leverage desktop 3D printing technology to respond to the need of low cost prosthesis in developing countries. Early on we identified that the challenges in providing prosthetic could not be simply solved by reducing existing device cost to increase availability. We began to investigate how the system of care was limiting affordable healthcare and mobility solutions for the global population.
A central problem to addressing the developing world was the lack of trained prosthetists, which essentially creates a bottleneck to meeting the demand for prosthetic care. Even today's most advanced sockets are made using a half-century old iterative artisanal process that can take weeks and requires expensive specialized machinery. The limited labor force in combination with the overhead costs results in care facility consolidation making it even more challenging for patient with limited mobility to access the care they need. The World Health Organization estimates there is a shortage of 40,000 prosthetists in the world today and at the current rate it will take 50 years to train another 17,000. This insight led us to design our solution from the ground up instead of trying to attach our ideas onto the existing fabrication and care paradigm.
As with many personal medical devices, understanding the challenges requires getting up close and personal with the problem. Unless you are close to a loved one who wears a prosthesis or you work in the industry, you would not be aware of the daily routines and maintenance that comes with using an artificial limb. After speaking with amputees who have worn prostheses from anywhere from a few months to sixty years, the one concern that came up over and over again was comfort. The difference between comfortable and uncomfortable is quite subtle and a common means to adjust for greater comfort is to grind the hard socket as shown in the image below.
The socket is the core component to a comfortable fitting prosthesis because forms a crucial interface between an amputee's residual limb and his or her prosthesis. Structurally sockets are unique in that they are required to carry heavy loads and function as an extension of our skeletal structure, but at the same time provide a comfortable interface where contact is made with an amputee's soft muscle and skin tissue. Our goal of providing a comfortable fit with a simple fitting process led us to explore socket material alternatives. Conventionally, this is the rigid composite receptacle that is attached to the top of lower-limb prostheses. Unlike the rest of the prosthetic limb, which is generally a standardization part, the socket must be custom fabricated for each individual then painstakingly fitted, adjusted and replaced over time. Ill-fitting sockets are common because of the natural volume changes in our bodies which leads to and uncomfortable fit and if not adjusted, sores that can lead to infections that ultimately compromise amputee health and mobility.
The BETH Project is focused on addressing these challenges with an adjustable socket design that provides the ability to accommodate natural volume changes and reduce pressure on sensitive areas to promote faster healing of sores while extending the usability of a prosthetic limb. Our chosen material provides the opportunity to tap the benefits of mass manufacturing rather than local fabrication, thus lowering costs for all care providers and creating a consistent quality standard for sockets. In places where trained personal and facilities are a premium we hope to relieve care providers from the complexities of socket fabrication, and in some cases providing the opportunity for physical therapists who have transferable skills to fit and provide rehabilitative care to amputees.


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So there is an edge-colouring of a complete graph on R (the reals), with countably many colours that as no monochromatic triangle. To find it map R to (0,1) write the numbers in binary and if 2 numbers differ 1st in the kth digit use colour k.
Now this colouring has cycles of length 4. (1/4, 3/4, 1/3, 2/3 for example). You can get rid of cycles of length 4 by considering the 1st 2 binarary digits in which 2 numbers differ (and of course seperate colours if they only differ in 1 digit). Anyway my question is can we avoid cycles completely? i.e. does there exist a colouring of the complete graph on R such that there is no monochromatic cycle.


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It has just been announced that the National Trust is acquiring Stoneywell, an Arts and Crafts house in Ulverscroft, Leicestershire.
Stoneywell was built by the architect-designer Ernest Gimson (1864-1919) for his elder brother Sidney and his wife Jeanie. Gimson consciously used local materials and tried to fit the house harmoniously into its undulating site.
Stoneywell has remained almost unaltered and still contains items of furniture created for it, such as a Sidney Barnsley dining table and a set of Ernest Gimson ladderback chairs.
The acquisition has been made possible by grants from the Monument Trust and the J Paul Getty Jnr Charitable Trust, as well as donations from local supporters and from the Gimson family.
The National Trust is still raising funds to make repairs, put visitor facilities in place and allow Stoneywell to open to the public in 2014.
Ernest Gimson's furniture can also been seen at Cheltenham Art Gallery and Museum and Rodmarton Manor. The Owlpen Manor website features a good introduction to his work.


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