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The principles on which Virbac bases its governance are those that provide the balance required for the Virbac group's performance and successful development.
Separation of powers and collegiality
Since 1992, there has been a clear separation between Virbac's strategic and operational management functions exercised by the executive board, and supervision of this management function devolved to the supervisory board. This structure meets the desire to establish a balance of power between the executive and supervisory functions. It involves a regular and effective dialogue between the executive board and the supervisory board, as well as mutual trust.
Collegiality is a key organizational principle in Virbac's governance. Its two governing bodies, the supervisory board and the executive board, operate on the basis that their respective members seek common positions and take collective decisions, working as real team.
Committed and experienced management
Virbac's governance is based on enhanced governing bodies, composed of members with a strong and long-term level of commitment. Their professional experience covers many of the aspects involved in the day-to-day management of a major international group. All but one of the supervisory board's members are senior executives with extensive operational management experience. Virbac's management, whether members of its supervisory board or members of its executive board, is committed to providing sustained support for the Virbac group's long-term strategy. Moreover, the involvement of supervisory board members and the non-voting advisor is not limited to their participation in formal board debates. Their involvement also includes regular informal discussions and periodic ad hoc meetings if circumstances so require.
Continual improvements to governance
Virbac follows the recommendations of the current Afep-Medef corporate governance Code. The Virbac group continues to improve its governance practices. Since 2018, the supervisory board includes an employee representative.
Habib Ramdani
Group chief financial officer
Member of the executive board since 2016
Sébastien Huron
Chairman of the executive board (since 2017)
Doctor of veterinary medicine
Member of the executive board since 2012
Christian Karst
General manager and executive vice-president Corporate Development
Doctor of veterinary medicine
Member of the executive board since 1996
The executive board is responsible for the strategic and operational management of the Virbac group. Its three members work closely together and they take collective decisions. This way of working encourages joint reflection and the search for a consensus.
The members of the executive board regularly discuss the company's long-term vision and operational requirements outside the formal meetings of the executive board. This flexible organization allows a high level of responsiveness when taking decisions.
The executive board reports on its strategic decisions and results to the supervisory board and submits all of the Virbac group's major acquisitions to the supervisory board for its formal approval.
It is supported in its work by a regular dialogue with the members of the strategic committee. In addition to the members of the executive board, the strategic committee also includes the Group's nine functional directors and five area directors.
It ensures the permanent control of the management of the executive board, and the regular review of the accounts and of all major projects and investments. The supervisory board comprises seven members including three independent members:
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of the company OJB Conseil,
independent member
Independent member
Permanent representative of
the company Cyrille Petit Conseil,
independent member
Xavier Yon
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the company Xavier Yon
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Two special committees aid the supervisory board in its tasks: the audit committee and the compensation committee. The supervisory board is assisted by a non-voting advisor, Xavier Yon.
The audit committee is responsible for:
It is comprised of Philippe Capron, chairman, Cyrille Petit and Pierre Madelpuech.
The compensation committee is responsible for:
It is comprised of Marie-Hélène Dick, chairwoman, Olivier Bohuon and Philippe Capron.
Xavier Yon, permanent representative of the company Xavier Yon Consulting Unipessoal Lda.
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Baltimore's Urbanite first hipped us to a unique set of hand-crafted crime-scene dioramas known as the Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death, which are used to teach police detectives and investigators about solving murders with forensic science. Now the mini-murder scenes are the star of filmmaker Susan Marks' forthcoming documentary Of Dolls and Murder. The project gets a hand from cult filmmaker John Waters, who is a fan of the miniatures and narrates Marks' film. Marks told Baltimore City Paper, "We never even considered anyone else." Here's a little more history on the Nutshells and the trailer for the film:
Frances Glessner Lee, a crotchety Chicago heiress and self-trained forensics expert, painstakingly crafted the Nutshells in the 1930s and '40s. A pioneer in the then-emerging field of legal medicine, Lee created the Nutshells as training tools for police detectives and other death-scene investigators, who would hone their observational skills as they attempted to determine the dolls' likely cause of death: homicide, suicide, accident, or natural causes. Lee was nothing if not thorough; she based the dioramas on crime scenes she visited or read about and sat in on autopsies to make sure she got the details right. Each death scene is a composite of real cases, often tweaked to make the cause of death more puzzling, the clues more enigmatic. "[As] teaching tools, these [are] wonderful dolls that were made so well that they're still being used" in the biannual seminars of the Harvard Associates in Police Science, Marks points out.
For Marks and her filmmaking team (co-producer/editor/composer John Kurtis Dehn and cinematographer Matt Ehling), the Nutshells are not only valuable because they're frankly creepy, but also because of what they have to offer about the pursuit of justice both in the '30s and today. Crime television juggernauts such as CSI and its spin-offs have made fiber analysis and DNA-typing part of common parlance, but the Nutshells encourage a return to investigational fundamentals: hyper-acute observation in which nothing can be taken at face value.
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10 Useful Pebble apps
Since we're talking about Pebble and Pebble apps, I thought I'd share the most useful Pebble apps I've found so far.
The Evernote mobile apps have gotten tremendously better over the last year and yet, still having to pull your phone out to check a list, phone number, or random note can be a pain. Having most the functionality of the service on your wrist, however, including the ability to check off items on a list, is fantastic and works extremely well. This is currently the top app to beat in both functionality and execution.
Smartwatch+ connects to your Pebble and allows you to access weather, GPS, Calendar, and Reminders from your iPhone. You can also set up a Camera screen, Music screen and use their built-in HTTP Request screen to connect to other web services as well.
PebbGPS gives you turn-by-turn navigation on your wrist, helpful for helping you see where your going when walking through busy city streets.
PebbleCam is a handy app for your Pebble that lets you remotely take pictures from your phone. This works pretty well and even displays a rough snapshot on the watch.
Battery Life
The Pebble doesn't have a built-in battery checker, but Battery Life is a useful watch face that lets you quickly check your battery status.
Future Weather
Handy watch face that shows current date and time and weather.
Pebble Pulse
Heart rate monitor for the Pebble, handy after a workout.
PebbleBucks talks to Starbucks.com and displays your starbucks card on your wrist when you are paying. Comes in handy for quick check out.
SmartStatus is actually a companion of the SmartWatch+ app, and lets you see your battery level on both your watch and your phone, upcoming events, and a few other snippets of information.
Misfit Shine
This was just released today, but it works well as a fitness tracker, and I've had it running all day on my wrist, where it shows my activity so far. The Shine app also lets you update your daily goals.
Pebble's biggest failing is that it can only have 8 active apps or watch faces installed to a time, so sometimes you find yourself adding them as needed, like PebbleCam, or PebbGPS.


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Speaking of low prices, the OECD has written a prescription for halting antibiotic resistance and it would cost just $2 per person per year.
For people who don't mind sharing their medical information with the government, the FDA has launched the MyStudies app, "to foster collection of real world evidence via patients' mobile devices."
In other FDA news, the agency approved a drug for beef cattle to reduce their ammonia emissions, which can negatively affect human health as well as the environment.
Some 5,000 people have holed up in a Central African Republic hospital, seeking shelter from armed attacks that have broken out in the city of Batangafo. (Reuters)
Chickenpox is sweeping a private elementary school in Asheville, North Carolina. (NBC News)
A CDC official expressed frustration over the agency's failure to figure out what's causing cases of acute flaccid myelitis to spread across the country. (STAT)
The head of a Louisiana hospital foundation has been fired amid allegations of embezzlement and forgery. (The Advocate)
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Want to make a picky eater less picky? Take the pressure off them. (The Washington Post)
Suicides among Japanese children are the highest they've been in 30 years; experts say stigma about mental health problems remains an issue. (The New York Times)
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Laughing In The Abattoir 8: Tragic
Zuzu's tenant has an interesting fashion statement in his pocket. Adam and The Landlord bicker over things like the phone, $1.50, who is sleeping in his room while he's at work? Adam learns a game that involves him saying the word "vagina" a lot. Like, really a lot. Like, super a lot. After being accosted on Memorial Day, Adam goes on a date at a museum. And continuing his string of luck, it looks like it's time for Adam to move. Again.
Intro Music: "If I Only Had A Brain" from The Wizard Of Oz
Incidental Music: "A Kiss With A Fist" by Florence & The Machine
Incidental Music: "Why Didn't You Call Me?" by Macy Gray
Incidental Music: Lemurs
Incidental Music: "Move On Up" by Curtis Mayfield
Incidental Music: "Pussy Monster" by Lil Wayne
Outro Music: "Tragic Kingdom" by No Doubt
Dmitri goes dancing while Adam films an Alice In Wonderland short. Will anything happen before Dmitri has to return to Chicago? Will Adam follow him back to Chicago? Or will he go back to work and be sad about everything, including his weird friendship with Clarissa, his aversion to boysenberry syrup and Papa Roach, and his chance encounter with someone who may or may not be God.
Featuring: Dmitri, Celeste, Clarissa, Landlord, God, and others.
Intro Music: "Painting The Roses Red" from Alice In Wonderland
Incidental Music: "Wise Up (Sucker)" by Pop Will Eat Itself
Incidental Music: "Walk Away" by Kelly Clarkson
Incidental Music: "Sleep Alone" by Bat For Lashes
Incidental Music: "A Spoon Full Of After Hours" by Mary Poppins (Alyson Calagana Remix)
Outro Music: "Lose Yourself" by Eminem
Adam's throat regrets its involvement in his second ever visit from someone flying into town, exclusively to spend time with him. Listen to how they navigate Logan airport, the MBTA, an Indian restaurant, a human-sized gerbil cage that might double as a Murder House, the New England Aquarium, and a terrible cafe that Adam will get a job at several years later. Also, Dmitri points out factual inaccuracies in Adam's version of the events.
Featuring: Dmitri, Clarissa, and a bunch of fucken Rockhopper Penguins
Intro Music: "Ur So Gay" by Katy Perry
Incidental Music: Rockhopper Penguins being fed at The New England Aquarium
Incidental Music: "Let's Talk About Sex" by Salt N Pepa
Outro Music: "Big Yellow Taxi" by Joni Mitchell
More work-related hellishness! This time, there's no costumes, it's just coffee coffee coffee! We begin with the worst tasting candy I've ever put in my mouth. We follow it up with a foam party. What is a foam party, you ask? Well, I asked the same question, and this was the answer I received. Part three brings us back to the coffeehouse where some stinky hippie tries to impress his girlfriend by belittling someone in the service industry. I know it sounds awful but some people from Burlington, Vermont just don't know any better. And we close up the episode with Adam waiting for Dmitri to show up. Surely there can be some Happily Ever For The Next Day Or So, right?
Featuring Celeste, The Landlord, coffeehouse employees and customers, and a couple of Adam's unreliable friends.
Intro Music: None
Incidental Music: "Manha Manha" by The Muppets
Incidental Music: "I Want Candy" by MC Pee Pants
Incidental Music: "Slave To They Rhythm" by Grace Jones
Incidental Music: "The Star Spangled Banner" by Roseanne Barrnold
Outro Music: "My Last Nerve" by She Keeps Bees
Zuzu drags Adam into a job wherein he must dress as a young orphan and hand out flyers to the rich tourists of Boston, MA. He then goes to Cranberry Lake for the holidays only to get snowed in. When he arrives back at his new apartment he is greeted by three half-naked Chinese boys. And, yet, somehow this story manages to go very, very awry.
Featuring Zuzu, The Landlord, Chuck The Incompetent, Celeste, and some of other unfortunates.
Intro Music: "Oliver!" from Oliver!
Incidental Music: "Boy For Sale" from Oliver!
Outro Music "We Gotta Get Out Of This Place" by The Animals
Having been politely asked to leave his apartment, Adam goes and interviews at a series of apartments that use the term "gay-friendly" in the apartment description, and ends up picking a place where the landlord offers FOOD in the RENT. Surely, this won't end badly. Also, Adam crush crushes and gets a phone call from a sort-of-ex who he hopes will crush him back. Lastly, the new landlord would like his tenants to leave signs, letting him know, at any given time, where they might be. The episode ends (perhaps abruptly) with ten possible places Adam might be when he's not home.
Featuring: Wiz, D, Landlord, David, and Alex.
Intro Music: "I'm Broke" by Black JoeLewis & The Honeybears
Incidental Music: "Where Did We Go Wrong?" by Toni Braxton & Babyface
Incidental Music: "The Theme From Kawaii Crush"
Outro Music: "Rattlesnakes (Dubstep Remix)" by Vexare
Ah, the joys of waiting tables. In this series of vignettes we encounter Cheese Fry Face, some people who have a very liberal understanding of the term "worst case scenario", The Jesus Card People, Giggles The Chowderhead, and the frat boys who prompted certain lines from the poem Drunken Conversations At Hampshire College. We then drop in Chez Wiz/D for stories about breath mints, peanut butter apples, and masturbation.
Features: David, Wiz, D, the servers and customers of Kookaburra Canyon, and a very confused neighbor.
Intro Music: "Tuesday Night" by Adam Hood
Incidental Music: "Brick Dick" a mashup of Mickey Avalon & The Commodores by DJ Magnet
Outro Music: "Dancing With Myself" by Billy Idol
Laughing In The Abattoir 1: 1510
Great googledy-moogley, Adam scours Boston for black thread, and rants about people who say stupid things, only to discover that HE is a person who says stupid things. Also, the behind the scenes actually true version of the night that inspired his popular Drunken Conversations At Hampshire College poem. Plus (yes, there's more!) Adam and Jeff venture to the oddly hypnotic Popcorn Palace.
Featuring Zuzu, Jeff, Jeff's Guitarist, Screwface Mustachio, the creepy Popcorn Princess, and other people from Hampshire College that I shall not mention again.
Intro Music: "Abattoir Blues" by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
Incidental Music: "Size Matters" by Natasha Bedengfield
Incidental Music: "So What" from the musical Cabaret
Incidental Music: "Sad Songs Piano" free music from Youtube
Incidental Music: "Final Theme" from the Original Motion Soundtrack for The Abyss
Outro Music: "Popcorn Music" by Hot Butter
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The Loop 7: Emptyful
The final portion of "All My Exes Live In Sex Flicks" finds Adam taking on the role of Pumpkin Claus, in order to help out some beleaguered Christians. Then, Adam goes on a date booty call, and continues to get all meta.
Also, so as not to end on a short podcast, Adam then presents you with a Listener's Guide to "All My Exes Live In Sex Flicks" so that you can pretend there is some literary merit to this podcast.
This episode features nobody you will ever hear about again.
Intro Music: "The Great Pumpkin Waltz" by Vince Guaraldi Trio
Outro Music: "Southside" by Common (featuring Kanye West)
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- "Sharky's gang has reportedly already cracked the market, and if Bettle and Jaxa can find Doc and get the Mallixer souped up, we figure they'll be making the run as well."
- ―Cynabar's InfoNet
Jaxa was a smuggler who, along with teammate Bettle and their ship, the Mallixer, became notable in smuggling circles.
When the Galactic Empire cracked down on Ralltiir, Bettle and Jaxa became one of many groups of smugglers who attempted to run the blockade.[2] However, that venture didn't pan out, and they began marketing slugthrowers to warring species located beyond the Corporate Sector; this job was more successful, and they brought back a full cargo of canta salt and havao tabacc, though the Mallixer was damaged in the process.[3]
Eventually, however, Bettle insisted on aiding the Alliance to Restore the Republic, beginning by restarting their gunrunning venture to Ralltiir. Jaxa was quite unhappy with the risk, an unhappiness that was exacerbated by the near-capture of the Mallixer by Imperial forces[4]; this unhappiness apparently led to the two splitting up for a while, though they soon worked out their disagreements and were operating as a team again to make the "Spirva Run," smuggling items from Galladinium's Datalog to rioters in Spirva sector.[5] During their career, the pair visited at least thirty-four shadowports around the galaxy.[6]
Bettle got caught up in the Rebellion itself, working with her father Jerell in the Ralltiir resistance; it is unknown if Jaxa was talked into this as well, or if Bettle and Jaxa went their separate ways for a time. Eventually, Ralltiir fell to New Republic forces, and the team of Bettle and Jaxa returned to the smuggling profession.[7]
During the Thrawn campaign, Talon Karrde formed an organization known as the Smugglers' Alliance, and Bettle and Jaxa eventually joined it. When the New Republic declared the Moruth Doole regime of Kessel to be illegitimate, the Smugglers' Alliance was cleared to occupy the world; Bettle and Jaxa were responsible for developing preliminary distribution plans for the glitterstim market.[1]
Behind the scenes
Jaxa first appeared in the premiere of the "Galaxywide NewsNets" feature in Star Wars Adventure Journal 3, written by Paul Sudlow. Along with Bettle, Jaxa continued to be a regular fixture of Cynabar's Infonet, along with other celebrities of the smuggling world such as Platt Okeefe, Doc, Lando Calrissian, and Han Solo.
- "Galaxywide NewsNets"—Star Wars Adventure Journal 3
- "Galaxywide NewsNets"—Star Wars Adventure Journal 5
- "Galaxywide NewsNets"—Star Wars Adventure Journal 10
- "Galaxywide NewsNets"—Star Wars Adventure Journal 14
- "Hasty Exit"—Shadows of the Empire Sourcebook (Mentioned only)
- The DarkStryder Campaign
- Heroes & Rogues
- The Jedi Academy Sourcebook
- Shadows of the Empire Sourcebook
- The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia
Notes and references
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 The Jedi Academy Sourcebook
- ↑ "Galaxywide NewsNets"—Star Wars Adventure Journal 3
- ↑ "Galaxywide NewsNets"—Star Wars Adventure Journal 5
- ↑ "Galaxywide NewsNets"—Star Wars Adventure Journal 10
- ↑ "Galaxywide NewsNets"—Star Wars Adventure Journal 14
- ↑ The DarkStryder Campaign
- ↑ Heroes & Rogues


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Paramount Developing Live-Action CG Hybrid 'Monster Trucks'
Posted on Thursday, August 1st, 2013 by Angie Han
Moviegoing audiences love their cars, whether in alien robot form or as high-speed heist tools. Paramount learned that lesson with their lucrative Transformers series, and now they're preparing to launch a whole other franchise called Monster Trucks.
Paramount Animation has tapped Blue Sky Studios' Chris Wedge (Ice Age) to direct the original live-action / CG hybrid, which has a script by Jonathan Aibel and Glenn Berger (Kung Fu Panda). Production is expected to get underway next year for a 2015 release. Hit the jump for all the details.
The new film marks the second feature from Paramount Animation, which was formed in 2011 in response to two events. The first was the massive success of Rango, which won the Best Animated Film Oscar in 2011. The second was the end of their deal with DreamWorks Animation, under which they'd released titles like Kung Fu Panda and How to Train Your Dragon.
The first Paramount Animation film, The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie 2, is scheduled to open February 15, 2015. Monster Trucks will follow a few months later, on May 29, 2015. That puts Monster Trucks in the middle of a crowded summer that also includes the releases of Avengers: Age of Ultron (May 1), Terminator 5 (June 26), and possibly Star Wars Episode VII.
Few plot details about Monster Trucks have been revealed, and since it's the rare big-budget pic these days that's not based on an existing book, toy, TV series, board game, etc., there's no source material to offer any hints. Aibel and Berger's works together include Monsters vs. Aliens, the Kung Fu Panda movies, the Alvin and the Chipmunks sequels, and episodes of King of the Hill.
Monster Trucks' budget is reportedly in the $100 million range. While the studio is only working on the one film at the moment, they're hoping it'll do well enough to kick off a franchise a la Transformers. A mid-2014 start is being eyed.
Wedge got his start in the '80s, as one of the principal animators on the 1982 Tron. In 1998, he picked up an Academy Award for his short animated film "Bunny." He's been behind a handful of major animated features in the past decade, including the first Ice Age, Robots, and Epic. He's also known by Ice Age lovers as the voice of Scrat.
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Another thread about disparity between gameplay and server calculations. A recent loss has motivated me to try and emphasize the importance of this again.
an old fairly minor example I managed to record for people who haven't seen it before (in my benefit this time): https://youtu.be/8k8B2jis_1Q?t=86 See 4 gold mechs die, and come back to life in results. different amount of spiders killed. Basically a totally different fight happened that I never saw.
What seems to happen in some duels or garrison attacks (mostly duels), is too much information is simulated on the client side, and the server does not communicate relevant information to the two participants, so they each experience totally different fights than the servers end result.
Today this resulted in showing me a brilliant victory, followed by "Victory! +1100 honor", then giving me a duel flag and showing results as a total unequivocal loss, where everything in replay happened different than I experienced.
Most of the time, this doesn't happen. And most of the time, the changes are minor. But as the game becomes more and more developed in strategy, and more hero abilities with interesting utilities are introduced, this will become more and more likely to lead to a devastating gameplay experience for one, or both players.
An example of how seriously this can effect outcome, from today:
-Fire-off after enemy cleo ult expires on rocketeers
(Server: fire-off DURING cleo ult so nothing happens)
-Reload on a safe grimms during fire-off to extend duration
(Server: grimms is dead, I do nothing)
-Use firestorm on jacques to kill enemy heroes and archers, then use spray and pray
(Server: jacques has no ammo, I do nothing instead)
-Virion is safe on the right side, not being targeted so I use resurrect right before last enemy dies
(Server: virion is in the middle, being attacked constantly and dies without casting resurrect after shield expires)
A clean victory.
(Server: utter defeat)
Lilith makes an incredible amount of money, we all know this, and to ignore the fundemental misfunction of such an important aspect of the game for big spenders will cost them a lot of money in the long run. I know there is not an easy fix for this, but I hope with enough protest they will invest in repairing this horrendous deficiency of their product.


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Dwarfcraft Devices are one of my personal favourite manufacturers around at the moment. Not only do they make some pretty great standard effects boxes, they also routinely foray into other areas of electronic goodness, throwing some oscillating madness into their pedal designs, and even putting out their own unique Eurorack modules. This approach ticks all… Continue reading Dwarfcraft Devices – ARF
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"Whenever I'm about to eat meat I always see my little dog's eyes."
Multiplatinum recording artist Adele went vegetarian in 2011. She told Radio 1: 'I'm trying to be veggie. Whenever I'm about to eat meat I always see my little dog's eyes.'
Adele Laurie Blue Adkins, MBE (born 5 May 1988) is a British singer and songwriter. She was given a recording contract by XL Recordings after a friend posted her demo on Myspace in 2006. In 2007, she received the Brit Awards "Critics' Choice" award and won the BBC Sound of 2008. Her debut album, 19, was also released in 2008 to commercial and critical success. It certified four times platinum in the UK, and double platinum in the U.S. An appearance she made on Saturday Night Live in late 2008 boosted her career in the U.S. At the 51st Annual Grammy Awards, Adele received the awards for Best New Artist and Best Female Pop Vocal Performance.


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Heather Straka's insightful explorations into perceptions of socio-political and cultural lives have created a significant body of compelling and controversial work, including her Maori Chiefs series of adjusted portraits by Victorian artists, her Asian Girl series that slyly references western perceptions of art, authenticity and authorship, her Burqa Babe series that confounds stereotypical readings of particular cultural practices. Straka demonstrates technical control of her medium and coupled with a finely modulated handling of her contentious subject matter, she deftly questions tradition, challenges the politically correct, and subverts expectations.
Studying sculpture at the University of Auckland's Elam School of Fine Arts in the early 90s, Straka honed an acute attention to detail that she later carried through to her painting practice, a shift made in France. Scarcity of sculptural materials and proximity to the great paintings of Europe informed the refocus of her practice. Straka returned to New Zealand and exhibited her first painting show in 1998, later graduating with an MFA from Canterbury School of Fine Arts in 2000.
Since the turn of the century Straka has been awarded several scholarships and residencies. In 2002 she was presented the Pierce Low Award for Excellence in Painting from the Royal Overseas League, London. Straka was awarded New Zealand's esteemed Frances Hodgkins Fellowship in 2008, and the William Hodges Fellowship in 2011. Her prolific exhibition history spans two decades and her work is held in all of New Zealand's major public collections.


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CLC bio announced the launch of new versions of the desktop application - CLC Genomics Workbench version 3.6 and the enterprise platform CLC Genomics Server version 1.6. This launch will provide full support for researchers preferring Digital Gene Expression analysis compared to traditional analogue Expression Array analysis.
Associate Professor, PhD, Kåre Lehmann Nielsen at Aalborg University states: "My laboratory specializes in digital gene expression analysis by tag-based profiling. Recent developments in DNA sequencing technologies have allowed us to refine this technology to a point where it is much more powerful than traditional analog expression arrays but still price competitive. However, a major obstacle for the uptake of the technology has been the lack of user friendly and computationally efficient software for data handling and analysis. We have worked with CLC bio through all the stages of the development of their new software and I am exited to say that we have now gotten the perfect software which allows us to exploit the full potential of this technology."
Sr. Marketing Manager, Computational Biology at Illumina, Inc., Jordan Stockton, PhD, continues: "CLC bio continues to provide fast and user-friendly applications that keep pace with the growing throughput of the Genome Analyzer. This new module for analyzing tag-based expression data addresses a need for intuitive user interfaces that is critical, empowering many biologists to design larger and more sophisticated experiments, thus taking greater advantage of the potential of next-generation sequencing."
This release includes a major expansion to the chromatin immunoprecipitation sequencing (ChIP-seq) analysis capabilities of CLC Genomics Workbench, as well as a range of smaller improvements.
J. Craig Venter Institute, the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, and University of Washington are already using CLC bio's enterprise platform, CLC Genomics Server, which won the Best of Show award at the Bio-IT World Conference in Boston 2009.


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Down the Rabbit Hole
"BJC and NHI will happen by hook or by crook!" shouted the Emperor as he stood majestically atop his armoured tank in the square, feathered and sequined in his tight fitting 2016 BJC costume. Triumphantly, he faced the cowering masses jammed against the barriers fiercely guarded by His Emperor-ship's soldiers dressed in their 'new brand' riot gear, gas canisters at the ready.
Raising his fists in the air for dramatic flair he continued, "I am the most high and mighty, and you WILL do as I say", as he thought smugly to himself: "What will my people do without me? I know the rule to rule – divide and conquer! Those rabble-rousers among them will soon be forgotten – we fixed them fine – the nerve of them clamouring for the use of commonsense to run my country! How delusional they are…..I am not common, I am the MOST HIGH! It is a scientific fact that in order to rise higher, you have to dig deeper! The point is: that is exactly what The Pointe is doing, and they have me, yes ME, to praise for that!"
"Making noise about one measly 12 million dollars from last year [suck teet]. There's a whole lot more where that came from, and we WILL do it again! I can pluck as many double or triple digit millions as I want, from wherever I want – it is MY empire – it all belongs to me and to me alone. I can pick from the BAMSI money tree, I can pick from BOB, or I can pick from our new flourishing gaming bushes. They are all being fertilized real, real good with the best organic BS-grade fertilizers you can find! So of course I can afford to just pitch the funds down the never ending blue hole of debt – blue holes are endless – that's what they're for!"
"Didn't they have a rip-roaring time at the 2015 BJC, gyrating up and down and getting drunk in the heat like the savages they are? It was hot out there you know – that's why I love my Emperor's new clothes. Why wear a bunch of clothes in that kind of heat, especially the women – the less the best. Ungrateful – that's what they are – no matter how much free time off you give them!"
"As for those trouble makers making noise on the outside like S and P with their threat of downgrades, well the closer they get to a D the better because that will match absolutely perfectly with the national grade level – I am so brilliant!"
……and brilliance indeed shone brightly as the Emperor stood astride his tank, glittering from every angle as the sun's rays caught the tricks sparkling and twinkling all around him, whilst the fedders swayed back and forth rhythmically in the island breeze… to be continued.
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From Douglas Wilson, Blog and Mablog "Man As Fallen" (my comments regular type): "Because all men are free agents they are free to do as they please. But because they are sinners, what they please to do is sin. They cannot please to choose contrary to their nature, because if they could, it wouldn't be their nature." If you are reading this, saying to yourself, "I don't sin, I'm a good person" or some variation thereof, you need to consider your standard. What is your standard for sin, for goodness?
"For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness: All these evil things come from within, and defile the man" (Mark 7:21–23). "As sentient creatures, men are free to do as they please. As sinners, men are not free to do right. If a man could repent his sins and believe in Christ with his old heart, then this would be proof positive that he didn't really need a new heart. He could do all that God requires of us (repent and believe) with his old heart. Apparently, on this view, what the old heart needed was just a little encouragement." Repent of what sins? Believe in Christ about what? Is Jesus Christ the "Son of God", the "second person of the Trinity", or was he a holy and gifted teacher an enlightened one, blah blah blah?
"But there is one other qualification. An unregenerate person can love the Lord, but only by radically misunderstanding and misconstruing Him." See last sentence above. "An unregenerate person can understand the Lord in His holiness, but this results in a simple recoil away from Him. The only way a sinner can understand who God is, and also love Him, is if the Spirit of God has granted him a new heart.
"The problem with all this is that it leaves us without any hope of salvation, right? No, it leaves us without hope of salvation from man. What is impossible for men is possible for God. It leaves us without any hope of salvation from within. If we are to be saved, it must be from outside. It must be from outside our hearts, outside our family, outside our tribe, outside our church, outside our world, and outside heaven and earth. We must be saved from outside. And this is what we are offered in the gospel of grace.
"No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day" (John 6:44). The drawing is from the Father. It is from outside. "And he said, Therefore said I unto you, that no man can come unto me, except it were given unto him of my Father" (John 6:65). The gift is from the Father. The gift comes from outside. If the Father does not do the drawing, if the Father does not give it, a man cannot come. Another good translation for the word for draw (elkuo) is drag or haul. "How did you come to Christ?" "Oh, I was hauled."
So does this mean that no one ever comes? No—it means that everyone who comes (and remember that the entire world will eventually come) has been hauled in by God. "All that the Father giveth me shall come to me; and him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out" (John 6:37). In other words, the Father doesn't try to haul us in, the Father hauls us in. What man cannot do with any success, God can do with no failure. And what is that? The jubilee of all the slaves. The resurrection of the dead. As the graveyard empties, Heaven fills up.


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Spencer Burton's story is that of the travelling troubadour; the roaming raconteur, passing from place to place, collecting and sharing stories with an aversion to permanence. With each stop on the journey, he leaves a piece of himself behind but acquires a […]
Spencer Burton's story is that of the travelling troubadour; the roaming raconteur, passing from place to place, collecting and sharing stories with an aversion to permanence. With each stop on the journey, he leaves a piece of himself behind but acquires a new one to carry forward.
Many of the songs and stories from Burton's latest LP, Don't Let The World See Your Love, stem from people and places he encountered on the road. "I was just disappearing on my motorcycle," he begins, "riding into the middle of nowhere by myself. Some of the album was written in St. John's, Newfoundland; some was written in Peterborough, Ontario. One song came from Dawson City in the Yukon, and I think I even wrote one in Nashville."
Co-produced by his longtime friend and collaborator Dan Romano, the songs of which he speaks are minimalistic in arrangement, keeping Burton's delicate, sometimes austere vocals ever at the forefront. They borrow from the southern sounds of folk and country of yore, like a tired old soul's night at the Opry with more contemporary melodic musings. It's a fresh take on traditional stylings that's endearing, enveloping, inviting, and tied together by an always lush, sometimes-fragile voice and the compelling stories it relays.
Burton's growth as a musician to date is a journey in itself, beginning with roots in raucous punk rock as part of Attack in Black and followed by the more sombre, country-tinged sounds of Grey Kingdom. It was as Grey Kingdom that Burton released his first two solo offerings, the more recent of which was 2012's Light, I'll Call Your Name Out "Darkness." While the album received its share of accolades, it carried a notably dark timbre and lyrical undertone that its creator never fully embraced. That informed a different thematic direction for Don't Let The World See Your Love and the abandonment of the Grey Kingdom moniker.
"These are the songs I'd always wanted to write," he shares about his latest collection. "Because of that, I didn't need any mystery or ambiguity; I didn't feel like I needed to hide behind a different name anymore." It's fitting, then, that the song "Grey Kingdom" is about the way things change.
Lyrically, the other offerings cover an array of topics, from love and friendship to feelings of isolation and disorientation with no sense of home or belonging. One was even born of a used car deal gone awry, though that's not as evident in the finished product. "I found that, a lot of times, I'd start writing about one thing and ended up with a song about something else," Burton reveals. "There's still a lot about feelings and emotion, but they're set in a more universal context."
Musically, the songs themselves are equally as compelling. Lead-off track "Death of Gold" is saturated in multi-part harmonies and pairs gorgeous, glistening pedal steel with quick-picked licks. Conversely, "Diamond" offers an engaging lyrical narrative anchored by the simple sounds of calloused fingers on old guitar strings. The title track begins with a deep baritone vocal, reminiscent of Cohen or Cash, before its impactful chorus strikes a rich emotional chord. Though they're stylistically diverse, the constant throughout them all is the purity and passion of the voice they carry.
When it comes to Burton's live performances, it could simply be the singer, six strings, and a handful of songs, or a full band bringing an added element to the songs. In either case, audiences will connect instantly with his earnest but delicate delivery.
Connection and collection. Both are at the heart of Spencer Burton's artistic output – connecting with people and places, collecting their stories, and then sharing them to start the cycle all over again.
- Spencer Burton - Guitar, Vocals
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A new study by ING Direct found 12 percent of Aussies went into debt last Christmas but a change is in the air this Christmas.
Ing Direct spokesman John Arnott said real-time date from this year showed attitudes were becoming more prudent.
"When it comes to Christmas, people in the past have been pretty comfortable with getting their credit card out, really loading up the Christmas purchases on credit.
"Then January comes and the bill comes through and they do whatever they can to pay it off -- like taking money out of their savings account. It can take about three months to get back in balance.
"This year we are seeing people pull back and be a bit more prudent."
The study also compared Australia's Christmas spend to countries around the world and find that while we had the second-highest average monthly earnings, we spent the second-lowest percentage of those earnings on holiday cheer.
In supermarkets, meanwhile, the Australian Retailers Association predicted Australian consumers would spend almost $19 billion on grocery items this Christmas, up 2.5 percent on last year.
"We recommend all consumers hit the stores early next week to avoid the queues that inevitably form in stores at this time of year and ask that shoppers remain patient as retail staff manage the increased number of customers," Executive Director Russell Zimmerman said.


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The 30s crowd, not 20s, more digitally savvy about finances
The 30-something folks are also using social networking, advanced photo and film technologies, and career networking sites more often than other respondents.
With a lot of surveys showing how tech-savvy the younger generation is, it may seem surprising that it was not those from Gen Y but Gen Xers who are actually more hip to the use of online tools to manage their money.
But when you think about it, the results make a lot of sense. The way I see it, a 35-year-old probably has a lot more money to manage than a 25-year-old, so why wouldn't he or she want to use every tool in their disposal to manage it?
A 37-year-old probably has more contacts than the average 22-year-old to manage as well, so the fact that they're using social networking for career and social purposes more than their younger counterparts doesn't really surprise me either. And if you're in your 30s, you may be using photo and film technologies more often than someone in their 20s because you have kids to film -- in your 20's, these days, that's less likely.
And where, as a group, do people over age 39 place as a digital user? Having just turned 40 this year, I was curious about where I might stand on the tech-savvy ladder. So I asked a Beverly Butler, vice-president of communications for the Wells Fargo Internet Services Group, if those of us in our 40s are suddenly not as up on things as the 30-somethings?
She was diplomatic, saying that "43% of 30- to 39-year-olds use an online photo sharing tool and 45% record their own digital videos. Then it drops off, with 28% of 40- to 49-year-olds using an online photo sharing tool, and 36% recording their own digital videos."
Forty-somethings, Butler concluded, "aren't as digitally savvy or active as those 30-somethings." But she added, as if to make me feel better about my recent birthday, "Forty-somethings definitely matter."
Wells Fargo came to its conclusions by having banking customers measure their "digital age" by describing how they use digital technology. If you're a "digital novice," the survey found, then you have a general understanding of online tools but not much else. If you're a "digital adult," you're extremely advanced when it comes to technological know-how. And if you're a "digital teen," you're somewhere in between.
I was rather mortified to score a 21, which, I'm told, makes me a "digital teen." I guess if I used mobile banking a little more or did more texting, I might have had a shot at digital adulthood.
If you'd like to take the survey yourself and get a feel for your digital age, you can take the Wells Fargo quiz. It takes just a few minutes, and it's kind of interesting to get a sense of how on top of things (or not) you are in the digital world.
Geoff Williams frequently writes about banking issues for WalletPop.He is also the co-author of the new book Living Well with Bad Credit.


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...Watch Stig using the stone grader in his video with Stumpy Nubs. Stig makes it look easy, however, his stone grader technique is very polished. He presents the middle of the long side of the stone grader to the wheel. He is keeps his hands resting on the support bar and the stone grader parallel to the support bar and the edge of the grinding wheel. I suspect most of us, myself included, have not always been that careful....
Ken,I've stopped using my stone grader long ago. I've found out the stone get clogged by the steel of the blade and gets smooth after a few seconds. Spending the time to change the stone grade just to be able to take of more steel takes more time then just sharpening one or 2 passes extra.Although using the fine side could sometimes make the stone smoother then it is when not using it at all. I don't know how much tough. Never really measured.I wonder how many use the stone grader and how often?What is others experience?
Over time the fine side of my stone grader has become dished - is it still useable or should I replace it? (I'm concerned it might change the shape of the wheel, although I haven't been able to ascertain the veracity of this.)
I've found out the stone get clogged by the steel of the blade and gets smooth after a few seconds.
I believe Tormek users will be in two groups in the future. The first group will continue to use the original Tormek SG wheel. The stone grader, or at least stone grading, will continue to be important. The second group will invest in diamond stones and have little or no use for stone grading.
2. I've read two opposing views: that the stone grader should NOT be used on the Japanese stone, and that it CAN be used on the Japanese to remove the inevitable black marks/glazing. Any opinions on this would be appreciated (if no, what do people do to occasionally clean up the black marks.Cheers...John
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"Summertime, and the livin' is easy," belted out Ella Fitzgerald.
She wasn't singing about bees, but she could have been.
Summertime, and the livin' is easy
Fish are jumpin' and the cotton is high
Oh, your daddy's rich and your ma is good-lookin'
So hush little baby, Don't you cry.--George Gershwin.
Not always so easy if you're a sunflower bee (Melissodes agilis) foraging on a Mexican sunflower (Tithonia).
Here you are, nearly tangled in a thicket of yellow pollen. You're absorbed. Totally. In fact, you're absolutely oblivious to your surroundings.
Suddenly, you feel as if you're being watched. Watched. Targeted. Bombarded.
Fact is, you are.
Off in the distance, another male bee is speeding straight toward you in the proverbial beeline maneuver in a territorial war.
Pull up! Pull up! Ground proximity warning system.
Whew! That was a close one.
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A male sunflower bee, Melissodes agilis, keeps a wary eye out as she forages on a Mexican sunflower, Tithonia. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Ah, bliss. A male sunflower bee, Melissodes agilis, is head first in the pollen. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A male sunflower bee, Melissodes agilis (as identified by native pollinator specialist Robbin Thorp, emeritus professor of entomology at UC Davis, in a territorial challenge. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)


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Below is some work-in-progress on a comparative urban history piece on Kuala Lumpur and Yangon. It is the final section of a term paper that I wrote for my Southeast Asia class. I have never visited Kuala Lumpur, but found reading about it fascinating. Upon talking to my professor, though, I realize that much work remains to be done if I were to take this any further. Here's me hoping to pick this up once my academic timetable clears up a little bit towards the end of the summer! In the meanwhile, let me know what you think!
Yangon — Accountant General's Office (c) Manuel Oka
From: Negotiating the City, Building the Nation: Yangon and Kuala Lumpur
3. Points of comparison between Yangon and Kuala Lumpur
It is possible to extract several similarities and differences between Yangon's and Kuala Lumpur's historical experiences. Both cities were not centres of power before the onset of British colonial rule, although Yangon had served an important religious role thanks to the presence of the Shwedagon Pagoda. Immigration of Indians and Chinese respectively accelerated with colonial rule and created cities with a distinctly different ethnic composition vis-à-vis the future national polities they would represent upon independence. Both Yangon and Kuala Lumpur challenge the conventional vision of the "postcolonial" city as an essentially dual structure with a "European" town and a "native" settlement (A.D. King 2009: 1). Instead, the two cities were the urban manifestation par excellence of Furnivall's "plural society". The colonial administrations in both cities played their part in making these differences even more pronounced spatially. In Rangoon, they forcibly relocated Burmese from the downtown area to the northern suburbs, leaving Indian dockworkers in their crowded barracks near the riverside. The 1930 riots were therefore as much a result of these housing problems than those of the labour market (Osada 2016: 14). In Kuala Lumpur, New Villages and Reservations created fixed boundaries and contributed to an increasing ghettoization post-independence. It does not take much to suggest that this ethnic segregation contributed to a more racialized debate on nationalism in both cities and therefore both countries: In Burma, the Thakin movement of young Burmese intellectuals emerged in the early 1930s as a direct response to the riots (Zaw Soe Min 2009). In Malaysia, likewise, it were Kuala Lumpur's race riots of 1969 that led to the racial discrimination in the NEP and its five-year plans.
And yet, both cities also reveal that ethnic or racial divides were often not more than a convenient horizontal marker of distinction between what can also be identified as vertical, class-based divisions. In Rangoon, it was not the landed Indian elite that stood against the Burmese strike breakers (who chiefly comprised underemployed slum dwellers) but the lumpenproletariat of the Indian dockworkers. Not unlike elsewhere in the world, the Great Depression of 1929 exacerbated distributional conflicts between these groups, as the economic slump also hit the Burmese economy following the booming 1920s. In Kuala Lumpur, racial differences provided the pretext for ethnic Malays to protest the undelivered promise of post-independence material affluence in a capitalist society. Therefore, "hostility towards Chinese 'domination' reflects the social disruption caused by the expansion of capitalism" (Bardsley 2003). In the eyes of Wheelwright, early independence-era Malaysia had a "class structure that has crystallised along ethnic lines" (1965: 110, as quoted in Khoo Boo Teik and Vedi R. Hadiz 2010: 6). Income inequalities manifested themselves alongside ethnic lines primarily because of the structure of the economy (Ikemoto 1985: 360).
While census numbers can be misleading due to the fluid character of ethnic categories, they may at least help in understanding some of the underlying dynamics, another important comparator between the two cities. In Rangoon, the Indian influx happened extremely rapidly in the latter part of the nineteenth century. The reversal of this demographic situation occurred equally fast from the 1930s onwards. In the space of several decades, several hundred thousand Indians arrived and fled the city (and country, via Rangoon's port). Kuala Lumpur was founded as a predominantly Chinese city, and the challenge to this reality arose relatively slowly after independence. Only today does the Malay population form a majority of the urban population, driven by both more natural population growth and less Malay net migration rather than sudden shifts as with Rangoon's traumatic wartime exodus, expropriations and forced evictions. Apart from these dynamics, it also mattered greatly that the Chinese constituted not only the majority of Kuala Lumpur's population, but also of Peninsular Malaya. Only with the Malaysia Act of 1963 as well as the secession of Singapore did the Malay become the majority of their titular nation. While they constituted the majority in Rangoon and some other conurbations in Burma, in their numbers Indians never reached these proportions and remained a minority on the "national" Burmese scale. Taken together, this made the Indian population a more ephemeral feature of Rangoon. This leads one crucial difference in the urban histories of Rangoon and Kuala Lumpur. The former became increasingly ethnically homogenous, while the latter's ethnic diversity actually increased with the relative decline of the Chinese majority.
Both cities played a decisive role in nation and state building. For one, this played out via the construction of symbolic buildings in the early post-independence period and beyond. Civil war in Burma and chronically challenging economic conditions made this more difficult in Rangoon. Among the few construction projects, the Kaba Aye complex built on the occasion of the Sixth Buddhist Synod between 1954-56 stands out. Other projects of symbolic value were universities and technical schools, financed either by the US or the Soviet Union. Although Rangoon saw very little of the physical transformation other cities in the region would undergo with economic growth, the military rulers put their stamp on the city via "meritorious" construction projects of pagodas (e.g. Ne Win's Maha Wizaya Pagoda) as well as later celebrations of "Myanmar" culture and purported inter-ethnic diversity and harmony (e.g. with the National Races Village as well as the National Museum). The availability of resources and peace allowed for a more active reimagination of the Malaysian nation within the urban space of Kuala Lumpur post-independence. With a variety of important buildings, such as the parliament, a national museum and sport stadia, "a national community was (…) actively imagined" (Lai Chee Kien 2007: 11). At the same time, the importance of the National Mosque also physically expressed the claim of the ethnic Malay on the cityscape of the nation's capital.
Finally, the two projects of moving the capital share important parallels. They add a distinctly Southeast Asian variant to the the discourse on postcolonial capital relocations, perhaps best summarised by Schatz (2003). In 2005, Naypyidaw became the administrative seat for a military junta that felt increasingly threatened in the face of popular dissent in its traditional locus of power, Yangon. The move to Putrajaya, while the brainchild of Malaysia's most transformative post-independence prime minister Mahathir, took place in a context of much more public accountability. And yet, both new capital cities share an ambitious symbolism, testament to their role in late post-colonial nation building. Naypyidaw exhibits none of the (former) cosmopolitanism of Yangon while prominently featuring Buddhist architecture, most notably an almost identical copy of the Shwedagon Pagoda. Putrajaya conveys an international, yet Islamic formal language not only in the city's major mosque, but also in several of the new government buildings. Both new capitals reflect the ruling elites' growing exasperation with certain qualities of their former capitals. In Yangon's case, the protests of 1988 and the subsequent failure to reclaim the city alienated the junta. In Kuala Lumpur, ethnic Chinese continued to dominate the urban economy despite economic growth and positive discrimination favouring ethnic Malay. The limits of authority in shaping and controlling urban spaces become evident in both cities. Equally important, their urban histories and urban forms also help explain the varied outcomes of Myanmar and Malaysian nation building.
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Wow! The web would be a BORING place if we all followed your text-only design approach. I'll give you that WEFT is an option but as you mentioned, consumes too much bandwidth and is limited to MSIE - a browser people would be smart to stay away from for security reasons, but that's another thread. But to say that using an image in place of a particular font as a headline or header is a bandwidth hog is very misleading. You can make these images very tiny in filesize. Flash files can be very small also for that matter - especially if the swf file doesn't contain a gross overuse of animation. And chances are, no plug-in downloads are needed since nearly every browser from version 4.0 and up has come with the flash pugin already installed - just make sure you save your swf as an older version such as 5.0, of course unless you're designing using more advanced actionscripting (which I'd be willing to bet you're not).Originally Posted by Twey
Here's the final word...
If the average person in your target group is using 28.8kBps dial-up or the type of person that doesn't know much about computers in general, by all means keep your page free of or light on the graphics and use mostly all text. Actually, you should use as much true text on your page (as opposed to text within graphics) for the fastest load time as well as search engine optimization and indexing reasons (of course, you can always attach text to images using html alt-tags to help index important words within a graphic - these words are shown as the image loads and is replaced by the image once loaded) And as I also mentioned above and agree with Twey, you're best bet for body copy is to use a font common to all users and platforms such as Arial, Verdana, Times, etc.
However, if your average user is 56k or higher, you probably want to incorporate some design aesthetics to make your page a little more attractive rather than simple text. If you know the average user you're designing for is using broadband, you probably don't really need to consider bandwidth for the average site. In this case, use of special fonts can be very important in creating the impact you're looking for. Case in point, look in the upper left of this page. You'll notice the Dynamic logo with its special fonts. It's only 2kb! - loads nearly instantly even for 28.8 users! It's all in how you create the image. Basic rule of thumb: if your image has solid colors with crisp edges separating it from the background, save your file as a .gif. If your image has gradations such as photos, has drop shadows, or other "effects" save your file as a .jpg. (yes, nitpickers, there are other file types you can save as that can be viewed within most browsers such as .png but let's keep this easy). If you're really worried that a particular image may load too slowly, try cutting/slicing the image into a few pieces and reassemble them in the html layout. 2 or 3 smaller images loading simultaneously will load faster than one large uncut image. Another tip is to use tileable images where possible such as backgrounds. There are some really great pixel pattern background sites out there, such as http://www.k10k.net/. There is no cut-and-dry method for designing your site. Just keep your target audience in mind and make something you're happy with and loads "fast enough."


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As the end of pregnancy approaches, women often worry about the position the baby is in. Most babies are cephalic, meaning they are lying with their bottom up and their head down. Some babies are breech, with their head up and either their bottom or feet as the presenting part, closest to the birth canal. While this position is common earlier in pregnancy, by 34 weeks only about 7% of babies are breech. If a baby is breech when a woman goes into labour then the labour can be more difficult and potentially dangerous for both the baby and the mother.
Many doctors and midwives encourage a caesarean delivery if a baby is breech in labour because of these increased risks. Chiropractic care can help reduce your chances of having a breech baby by delivery day, but it's important to understand how and what the limitations are.At the end of pregnancy, it's common for a woman's pelvis to be unbalanced and misaligned. Considering how pregnancy affects the body this is understandable! The extra weight being carried in her uterus exaggerates the lordosis or curve of her lower back. Hormonal changes lead to soft tissues being relaxed throughout the body, but especially in the pelvis. As a woman adjusts to this they may change their posture slightly, leading to further changes in alignment.
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This poor alignment and balance can lead to intrauterine constraint. This means that the increased tension in muscles and tendons within the spine and pelvis are restricting the size and shape of the uterus, making it more difficult for the baby to get into the optimal position for labour.In addition to general chiropractic services throughout pregnancy, there is a particular technique known to encourage breech babies to turn head down. This is called the Webster Technique. A chiropractor will use the Webster Technique to adjust the sacroiliac joint, aiming to return balance and alignment to the pelvis.
This, in turn, will reduce intrauterine constraint and allow the muscles, tendons and ligaments within the pelvis to fully relax.It's important to understand that the Webster Technique or any other treatment your chiropractor provides will not actually turn the baby. However, by treating sacral subluxations and allowing your uterine muscle to function normally, chiropractic care will remove restraints that may be stopping the baby from turning.
A 2002 study found that only 9% of babies remained breech after their mothers had the Webster Technique performed. By treating the mother the baby is able to move and turn more freely. There may be other reasons why a baby is breech such as the amount of fluid within the uterus, the mother's medical history and the baby's health. For this reason, no technique will have a perfect success rate, but the Webster Technique is an excellent place to start.
Not all women are suitable candidates for the Webster Technique, so it's important to discuss your full history with your chiropractor. It's also a good idea to seek chiropractic services early in a pregnancy so that any subluxations can be detected early before they lead to significant balance problems within the body.


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Splendido, a Tucson-based resort-style retirement community, and the Primavera Foundation, a non-profit organization in Tucson that promotes economic and social justice, have partnered with some of Southern Arizona's top chefs and restaurants for a benefit bake sale and health drive to fight homelessness and poverty in Southern Arizona.
The event happens at Splendido, 13500 N. Rancho Vistoso Blvd., on Saturday March 14from 1 to 4 p.m.
Participating chefs and restaurants include:
• Karen "Spike" Ames – Executive pastry chef of Wildflower
• Pat Connors – Owner and General Manager of Pastiche Modern Eatery and Wine Shop
• Andy Du – Executive pastry chef of Splendido
• Doug Levy – Chef-owner of Feast
• Janos Wilder – James Beard Foundation award nominee for Outstanding Chef in the United States, owner of Janos and J Bar
In addition to purchasing delicious baked goods, the public can donate health-related items that Primavera urgently needs to make a difference in the lives of thousands of Tucson's poorest community members, in exchange for one of the chef's desserts. Here's a list of greatly needed suggested items.
Splendido is also hosting the event in order to celebrate Aging Well Bakes!, its first-ever recipe contest aimed at celebrating Arizona's active, older adults and their baking talents. Adults 55 years of age and older are invited to share an original baked dessert recipe through Splendido's contest website. We know you're out there and have fond food memories with a talent that inspires others to be creative in the kitchen. If your children, grandchildren, nieces or nephews always brag about your special dessert that no one else makes like you do — that is the recipe to enter.
Submissions will be accepted until March 27, 2009.


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Fine Structure in the Circumstellar Environment of a Young, Solar-like Star: The Unique Eclipses of KH 15D
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Results of an international campaign to photometrically monitor the unique pre–main‐sequence eclipsing object KH 15D are reported. An updated ephemeris for the eclipse is derived that incorporates a slightly revised period of 48.36 days. There is some evidence that the orbital period is actually twice that value, with two eclipses occurring per cycle. The extraordinary depth (~3.5 mag) and duration (~18 days) of the eclipse indicate that it is caused by circumstellar matter, presumably the inner portion of a disk. The eclipse has continued to lengthen with time, and the central brightness reversals are not as extreme as they once were. V−R and V−I colors indicate that the system is slightly bluer near minimum light. Ingress and egress are remarkably well modeled by the passage of a knife edge across a limb‐darkened star. Possible models for the system are briefly discussed.
For more information on the published version, visit IOP Publishing's Website.
Recommended Citation
Herbst, William, Catrina M. Hamilton, Frederick J. Vrba, Mansur A. Ibrahimov, Coryn A. L. Bailer-Jones, Reinhard Mundt, Markus Lamm, Tsevi Mazeh, Zodiac T. Webster, Karl E. Haisch, Eric C. Williams, Andrew H. Rhodes, Thomas J. Balonek, Alexander Scholz, and Arno Riffeser. "Fine Structure in the Circumstellar Environment of a Young, Solar-like Star: The Unique Eclipses of KH 15D." Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific 114, no. 801 (2002): 1167-1172. http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1086/344205


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ANAHEIM � When they met in last season�s World Series, the Red Sox and Cardinals were the envy of the baseball world. It wasn�t just their success in 2013, but rather how both organizations appeared primed for a sustained run of excellence � St. Loui
ANAHEIM � When they met in last season�s World Series, the Red Sox and Cardinals were the envy of the baseball world. It wasn�t just their success in 2013, but rather how both organizations appeared primed for a sustained run of excellence � St. Louis of course already in the midst of one.
Both Boston and St. Louis had built successful cores, largely from within, and complemented them with reasonably priced free-agent additions. A pipeline of talent throughout the minors suggested that both organizations could withstand free-agent departures.
Maintaining that blueprint, though, requires that those talented minor-leaguers translate into productive major-leaguers, and that�s not always a smooth process. You know this if you�ve watched much of either team. Incorporating young talent into an otherwise veteran core expecting to win is a difficult process, forcing a front office to straddle the line between being proactive and being patient with the transition.
The Red Sox and Cardinals have lived it this season. For Boston, Xander Bogaerts and Jackie Bradley, Jr. haven�t produced up to expectations offensively. St. Louis� young pitchers have taken a collective step back, and second baseman Kolten Wong didn�t find his stroke at the plate until the second half of the season.
What has each side learned about working in young players while trying to maintain a competitive team?
�I don�t think we�ve learned everything we need to learn about it,� Red Sox general manager Ben Cherington said. �Certainly it has to start with the evaluation of how confident are we that this guy can perform at a level you�ve got to perform at to help win games. We certainly felt that way about the guys we committed to at the beginning of the season. In some cases, the performance hasn�t been there. We have to look at the evaluation aspect of it.�
�We don�t know the exact formula between the balance of veteran versus rookie,� said John Mozeliak, St. Louis� general manager. �The idea is to make sure that the pipeline is flowing, so you have the resources if you need to change directions.�
Both clubs did their best to be proactive in the offseason and acquire insurance at different positions. The Red Sox signed Grady Sizemore to compete with Bradley in center field and A.J. Pierzynski to serve as a stopgap catcher until Christian Vazquez was ready. The Cardinals inked veteran second baseman Mark Ellis to be a reliable backup to Wong.
None of those veterans have worked out. Sizemore and Pierzynski were each designated for assignment by Boston. Ellis has hit .190 for St. Louis, meaning Wong had an easy path to reclaim his job even after being sent to the minors in April.
That speaks to the difficulty of finding the proper fit in that insurance role. The kind of reliable veteran best suited for it probably doesn�t want to sign as a backup plan. (Cherington mentioned that the Red Sox tried during the winter to find an infielder who could back up Bogaerts and Will Middlebrooks; they never found the right fit.)
But making a commitment to your own youngsters requires patience in spades. Witness Wong�s recent breakout, in which he�s hit eight home runs in the last month or so, or how Joe Kelly, now with the Red Sox, gradually worked his way from the bullpen into a bigger role as a starter with the Cardinals last season.
�I would think the more patient you are, the better off you will be in the long run,� Mozeliak said. �Having said that, there are times where you may have to do something just to mix it up or change it. The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again hoping for a different outcome. There�s that fine line.�
It�s a lot easier to be patient with youth when the support group around it is performing up to its standards. That�s where, more than anything, Cherington feels the Red Sox have failed this season.
�Personally, when I look at my own part of the responsibility for what�s happened this year, I don�t think as much about the young players,� said Cherington. �I think about: Was there anything I could have done to build a team that would have supported or carried the load a little bit more for the young players? Even though their performance hasn�t been quite what we thought it would be, they have sometimes taken a disproportionate part of the burden for our season, and I don�t think that�s fair.
�I put part of that on myself. If I had been able to figure out something different around them, where we weren�t scratching for runs so much, then maybe that would have lifted the burden a little bit and helped them.�
Bradley�s struggles at the bottom of the order, then, would have been easier to swallow had the leadoff spot not been a black hole for six weeks, or had fellow outfielders Shane Victorino and Daniel Nava been the consistent performers they were throughout last season.
Further, Cherington added that the juxtaposition against 2013's ultimate success exaggerates 2014's failures.
�Change was going to be hard, maybe more so than in most years,� he said, cautioning against altering a philosophy based on an overreaction.
It�s with that in mind that Cherington � and Mozeliak, for that matter � maintain a belief in their respective organizations� long-term commitment to youth.
�The more you stay within, the better off you are,� Mozeliak said.
�Look, there�s plenty of young players playing important roles for good teams out there,� said Cherington. �We�re going to have to do that. We�re going to have to give another young player a chance at some point.
�I don�t think we can be scared off of giving young players a chance going forward.�
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S. 1920. Bankruptcy Extension and Overhaul/Vote on Final Passage of Bankruptcy Reform Legislation Which Would Limit the Availability of Chapter 7 Bankruptcy Protections to Consumers.
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Legislation designed to overhaul the nation's bankruptcy rules has been a fixture on the congressional agenda since 1997. To date, however, agreement between the House and Senate has failed to materialize in large part because the Senate version of the bankruptcy reform bill contained a controversial abortion-related provision which would have prevented anti-abortion activists from declaring bankruptcy to avoid paying fines and court judgments related to property damage or violence to abortion clinics, patients, and/or doctors who practice the medical procedure. In an effort to revive negotiations between the House and Senate on bankruptcy reform legislation, Republican leaders in the House brought a Senate-passed bankruptcy measure to the floor and substituted the text of the Senate bill with language favored by the Republican leadership. While the Senate bill was narrowly tailored to address one particular aspect of the bankruptcy code-the ability of family farmers to file for bankruptcy under Chapter 12 protections (see House Vote 8)-the House version of the legislation offered a more comprehensive reform of bankruptcy rules. Specifically, the House version of the bankruptcy bill would require debtors who are able to repay either $10,000 or 25% of their debts over five years to file for bankruptcy under Chapter 13 rather than Chapter 7. In contrast to Chapter 7 bankruptcies which discharge an individual's debts, debtors who file for a Chapter 13 bankruptcy are required to reorganize their debts under a court-approved repayment plan. Progressives voted against the bankruptcy reform bill because, in their view, the legislation would undermine the hard-fought rights of consumers to file for bankruptcy under Chapter 7. Progressives also objected to what they characterized as a lack of bankruptcy protections for active and former U.S. military personnel and their families who had suffered financial hardship as a result of their military service. Conservatives voted in support of the bankruptcy reform legislation as a way to curtail what they viewed as excessive fraud and abuse in the bankruptcy system. Increasingly, Conservatives argued, debtors where filing for bankruptcy to expunge their debts even though they had the financial means to repay those debts. On a vote of 265-99, the bankruptcy reform bill was adopted by the House and the measure was sent to the Senate for consideration.
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Mars has been populated for 20 years: the shocking revelations of hacker Gary McKinnon
Human colonies will be on the red planet for several years, and the US will also have a space warfare.
According to a Scottish programmer and hacker nicknamed "Solo," who has been involved in ten years in a legal battle with NASA after infiltrating its systems, the United States would have a full-fledged warship of warships fully operational.
Gary McKinnon, his name, firmly believes that he has come across the definitive steps that would prove that the United States would have a secret spatial space managed by the Navy with spacecraft already operating in space. During an interview on the UFO Richplanet TV channel, McKinnon revealed the truth about his discoveries, the result of a careful search lasting for months and months.
The hacker would have used a software called Landsearch that made it easy to find burning files and folders. "I looked at many documents and found an Excel file, a spreadsheet, which read: 'Non-Territorial Officers'. There were also military names and degrees. "
Gary McKinnon has been accused of having "made the greatest illegal intrusion of all time to military computers" by getting into the Air Force, NASA, US Army and Navy systems.
During his latest interview, McKinnon revealed that an internal informant, Donna Hare, would tell him that NASA was trying to hide sensitive information by retouching high-resolution satellite imagery depicting UFOs.
NASA was also clamoring for many images coming from Mars, hiding structures that closely resemble an urban complex, probably the real cities. Although there are many people convinced that this is a giant buffalo, it must be said that even some US and NASA employees have been right about McKinnon's claims.
Mars has been populated for 20 years: the shocking revelations of hacker Gary McKinnon
According to the statements of a former Marine known as Captain Kaye, in fact, not only humans have colonized Mars, but have even developed a secret space program and a true fleet that operates in space. The former Marine would have been involved in a mission to Mars for several years, where its job was to protect the five human colonies from possible incursions of indigenous Marx lives.
According to the captain, he would also be aboard a spacecraft carrier for three years and he would work for the Mars Defense Force (MDF) owned by Mars Colony Corporation (MCC), a conglomerate of finance institutions, technology companies and US government.
Kaye and her team were part of a special section of US marines with a secret mission aimed at protecting and securing the life of five new colonies on the surface of the red planet. The Earth Defense Force, another secret military branch, would have recruits coming from other countries like China and Russia.
Many parts of Captain Kaye's story collide with what Michael Relfe, another NASA mole affirms, claims to have served on Mars for 20 years.
Mars has been populated for 20 years: the shocking revelations of hacker Gary McKinnon
Laura Magdalene Eisenhower, great-grandson of former US President Dwight Eseinhower, said many efforts had been made to "recruit" a human colony to be dispatched to Mars led by researcher Hal Puthoff. According to another infiltrated and six employees, his colleagues would have been human beings in Mars for over 20 years.
Once they dumped telemetry data from Viking Lander, NASA launched a navy in the 1970s, they saw human footprints on the Martian soil surface, which is apparently impossible, as no human being has ever set foot on Mars .
Not only that: if you try to "explore" the planet with Google Maps, you can easily notice how many areas of Mars appear blurry or strangely smooth: and if Nasa wanted to keep us in the dark, showing us just what he wants? A YouTube user, David Vose, performing a "cleaning" of some of these images, removing the red and the brown hypothetically added by NASA, would notice the similar constructions of streets and homes.
What is the truth then? Mars is really populated? And why is NASA hiding everything?