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It's raining for perhaps the 900th day in a row here, so we might as we learn something while we're all stuck inside all day illegally downloading Michael Jackson songs. The Amazon Kindle—I'm sure you've heard of it. What you might not know is that it represents perhaps the last piece of tech gadgetry that I actually enjoy. Well, would enjoy—at $350, it's still a tad expensive for me. In any event, Fast Company has a fun cover story this month, written by an old professor of mine, about how Amazon is trying so, so hard to make e-books the new hot thing, just like how Apple did a few years ago with digital music downloads.
The article, Amazon Taps Its Inner Apple, may be a bit too "inside" for the person whose involvement with tech begins and ends with looking at blurry photos of the latest Android phone, or for people who wouldn't read a book if you'd promise them great riches, so let me briefly say:
• Amazon wants to be Apple circa 2003. It wants to make e-books as important to Amazon as digital music became to Apple. It wants to get to the point where it can tell famous authors, "Look, don't bother signing that old-fashioned contract with Big Publisher. Give us the book exclusively, and we'll give you far greater royalties than Big Publisher could ever hope to. And we'll make it cheaper for your fans to buy. Win-win-win."
• Apple's rumored multi-touch tablet could totally wreck Amazon's plans. Would you rather buy a Kindle, which is at best an e-book reader with a few online capabilities tacked on for good measure (reading blogs, for example), or would rather buy a full-color Apple tablet, one with a, let's say, 10-inch multi-touch screen, full compatibility with all that stuff you've bought from iTunes over the years, and gives you the "feeling" of owning an Apple product?
• The whole idea of e-books may be flawed; books will evolve. No longer is publishing a several hundred-page book about Sherman's March to the Sea (I'm reading that now, and it's tremendous) the only thing authors (and their publishers) can expect to do. There's got to be interactive features, multimedia razzmatazz, etc.
And so on. Again, it's a long read if all you're used to is 300-word blog posts or two-sentence message board threads, but it's worth the effort if you're "into" the Kindle at all.
Yup, still raining. How about Apple or Amazon invent a weather machine of some sort? That'd be handy.


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Rough GPS position Latitude. 40.1892°, Longitude. -74.9950° , Elevation. 73m
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Rough GPS position Latitude. 40.1892°, Longitude. -74.9950° , Elevation. 73m
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- Villa Joseph Marie High School (2.6km)
- Richboro Junior High School (2.6km)
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- Council Rock International School (2.8km)
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- Newtown Presbyterian Church (2.1km)
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There are probably easier ways to meet Europe's thirst for clean energy than importing it from vast solar farms in the Sahara. But it is very tempting. According to the European commission's Institute for Energy, it would require the capture of just 0.3% of the light falling on the Sahara and Middle Eastern deserts (an area around the size of Wales) to meet all of Europe's energy needs.
Several groups have come up with plans to harness the sun in Africa to make electricity, which could then be exported to Europe, or use it to turn desert into forests by using the power to desalinate sea water. And how far is this from a reality? In a recent interview, European energy commissioner Günther Oettinger said that Europe will be importing hundreds of megawatts of solar-generated electricity from north Africa within five years. The EU is committed to sourcing 20% of its energy from renewable sources by 2020.
Most advanced in the planning is the German-led Desertec Industrial Initiative, which aims to provide 15% of Europe's electricity by 2050 or earlier, via power lines stretching across the desert and the Mediterranean. Its $400bn plan is supported by some of Germany's biggest companies, including Siemens, E.On and Deutsche Bank.
And there is a precedent. Nine EU governments – including the UK – are already planning to build an advanced high-voltage, direct current network within the next decade. Europe's first electricity grid dedicated to renewable power took a step forward earlier this year when nine countries began to formalise plans to link their clean energy projects around the North Sea. These could join up the wind-lashed north coast of Scotland with Germany's vast array of solar panels and Norway's hydro-electric dams.
As well as providing more power, a transnational renewable electricity grid would help sort out the intermittencies associated with natural energy sources. With such a grid, electricity can be supplied across the continent from wherever the wind is blowing, the sun is shining or the waves are crashing.


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Sexually transmitted disease (STD) cases have reached record-high numbers in California, the Los Angeles Times reports, as the 'sharing' economy goes viral.
In 2017, the number of California residents diagnosed with gonorrhea (over 13,000 cases), chlamydia (over 75,000 cases) or syphilis (over 218,000 cases) hit a consecutive three-year record, according to the California Department of Public Health.
The 300,000+ people diagnosed last year represents a 45-percent increase in STD cases since 2013.
Those most commonly affected by chlamydia and gonorrhea are under 30 years old. As The Sacramento Bee reports, "Rates of chlamydia are highest among young women, while men account for the majority of syphilis and gonorrhea cases."
"While there are advocates and champions for cancer, nobody is out there saying, 'I have gonorrhea and these are the best ways to treat it.' There's no one out there being a champion for these conditions," said Klausner.
What you need to know about drug-resistant gonorrhea...
Officials are particularly concerned by mothers infected with syphilis, which has led to a significant increase in the number of stillborn babies. Stillbirths have quadrupled since 2013. In 2017, there were 278 stillbirths and 47 babies born with congenital syphilis in LA.
But California isn't alone; STDs have been on the rise over the past five years across the U.S. As the Times explains, "Experts blame the increases on falling condom use, fewer public health clinics and people having more sexual partners linked to dating apps."
If left untreated, these STDs can lead to a range of health issues in both adults and babies with infected mothers including infertility, ectopic or premature birth, chronic pain, blindness, hearing loss, meningitis and neurological disorders.
Rates for chlamydia, gonorrhea, and syphilis have been rising nationally for several years. More than two million new cases of all three infections were reported in the United States in 2016 — the most ever, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. CDC numbers for 2017 won't be available until later this year.


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Specific and focused aims set by the marketing department to achieve corporate objective
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Competing effectively in a market
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Often focused on in times of crisis e.g. recession
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Why does a business set objectives?
Bench marking, motivation to work harder, coordination and efficiency
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The Beautiful Resorts of the Australian Snowy Mountains
Posted on Monday, 17th of June 2013
The Beautiful Resorts of the Australian Snowy Mountains
It's nice to be able to get away from it all, and what better way to do so then to step outside the door and march towards the glorious snowy peaks of the Australian landscape. There's something enchanting about those majestic peaks of Australia, and the best way to truly appreciate just how gorgeous these sights really are is to witness them up close, but why settle for a mere glimpse when there is so much more that can be done along these most stellar of vacation spots. Set this year's vacation course to fun and get ready to experience Australia the way it was meant to be.
It should come as no surprise that there are numerous resorts that are nestled along the Australian mountains. This part of the country is uniquely captivating, and the opportunity to spend any amount of time here is one to be treasured and cherished. One of the most coveted items for any tourist visiting this region is none other than the ski resort accommodation Perisher has to offer. The resort itself is widely known as one of the most beautiful skiing destinations in all of Australia, and there is simply no excuse for missing out on the chance to spend even just a few days in this picturesque locale. The expansive ski resort stretches across four different villages, lending credibility to its claim to being the largest ski resort anywhere south of the equator. The resort provides 48 different lifts for tourists to use, ensuring that guests are not kept waiting for too long for their chance to scale the resort's impressive peaks. Once people get their hands on the ski resort accommodation Perisher has to offer, they can proceed to use any one of the many courses offered within the venue. Difficulties vary for the courses so every level of skier can feel comfortable.
Skiing is fun, there's no doubt about that, but some would prefer a different activity list for their trip to the snowy mountains of Australia. They are in luck because the Lake Crackenback accommodation that is offered to tourists enables people to enjoy different activities along these same mountains. If skiing is not what people are looking forward, then they can head to Lake Crackenback and enjoy a day filled with leisurely hiking and eco tours. If that pace is a little too slow, then they can also look forward to the canoeing and fishing activities that are made available by the resort. No matter the itinerary the tourists ultimately opt for, the one thing they can always expect when they visit this resort is that they will gain access to some of the more spectacular views that can be had in all of Australia. This venue provides a glimpse of the Australian landscape at its finest, and that alone should be enough to entice tourists. The Lake Crackenback accommodation being offered to people can introduce them to the wonderful experiences that can be had exclusively in this part of the country.
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Cuprinol and director Suthon Petchsuwan have released this humorous video ad recently.
The spot features a guy, who is awoken by a baby's cry early in the morning. However, it is not the real baby he has to take care of. It is his garden – forgotten and demanding attention. The creatives have pulled off a really funny story.
Rob Ward from Strategy at 18 Feet & Rising said: "Cheer it up' repositions the category from a boring, brown chore to a colourful, emotional reward that encourages the nation to bring out the best in their gardens."
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Since the days of ancient civilisation, herbs have been the crux for treating medical issues in Indian culture. Evolving since the Vedic times, the Avaram Senna Powder is found in abundance especially in Tamil Nadu villages. Experts say that this powder will surely improve your skin tone making it glow like never before. Also, if you intake it regularly by mixing it with water, it will remove body odour.
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Kannada: ಆವರಿಕೆ avarike, Telugu: తంగేడు tamgedu, Tamil: ஆவாரை Avarai
Purpose of Use :
It helps to cure sugars
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Age upto 12 - Take 1/4 Spoon Aavaram Poo Powder
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Time Of Use :
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Have Faith in God's Love for You
Do you believe that God loves you and are you experiencing His love in your life? Many Christians believe that God loves them but they fail to tap into the blessings of the love of God. Being rooted and grounded in the love of God sets you above all circumstances. This post gives you the reason to have faith in God's love for you.
So that Christ may dwell in your hearts through your faith. And may you, having been [deeply] rooted and [securely] grounded in love, be fully capable of comprehending with all the saints (God's people) the width and length and height and depth of His love [fully experiencing that amazing, endless love]; and [that you may come] to know [practically, through personal experience] the love of Christ which far surpasses [mere] knowledge [without experience], that you may be filled up [throughout your being] to all the fullness of God [so that you may have the richest experience of God's presence in your lives, completely filled and flooded with God Himself] – Ephesians 3:17-19 (AMP).
God loves you and He wants you to experience His love in your life. It makes no sense that you are a child of God and you don't know what it means to be loved by your Father. Every child expects his or her father to show his love for him or her. Are you expecting God to show His love for you or are you doubting His willingness to do so? Your expectation shall not be cut off (Proverbs 23:18). Have faith in God's love for you!
You need to go beyond knowing that God loves you to experiencing His love in your life. The Father's love for you is amazing and endless and it surpasses the knowledge you have about it, it is best experienced. O! What love God has for you.
Apostle John, the beloved of Christ (John 21:20), knew this love and truly lived in it. The books written by Apostle John reveal this amazing love of Christ more than the rest of the books of the New Testament. He wrote out of his experience of Christ's love for him (1 John 1:2). He too in return loved Jesus dearly and put his trust in Christ as a child would. Apostle John was always among the three often separated to be with Christ (Matthew 17:1-13, Matthew 26:36-38) and interestingly, Jesus committed His mother, Mary to him to take care of (John 19:25-27). His deep love for Jesus made him to desire to be close to Him at all times (John 13:23) and he ended up with deep revelations of God's love for man (e.g. 1 John 4:7-21).
Expectation on God's love for you
What are you to expect from God's love? You are to expect that
1. He will keep His word concerning you.
When you have faith in the love of God for you, you will expect Him to fulfil his word in your life. You will not doubt His willingness to do what He said He will do in your life; Christ Himself said He is willing (Matthew 8:3). God will do what He said He will do (Numbers 23:19). Whatever promises in the word of God that you believe God for will be done for you by God.
2. He will do the best for you
When you have faith in God's love for you, you will believe God for the best. You will believe that, indeed without any doubt, God's thoughts for you are not of evil but of good to give you a future and a hope (Jeremiah 29:11). Who will God give the best of all things to, if not His own children who believe Him for the best? A true father will always give the best to his children, especially to the one who believes that he loves him and will give him nothing short of his best.
3. He will give men for you
God will give men for you and exchange people for your life because He loves you (Isaiah 43:4). This is how much God is ready to show His love for you. In a situation where the enemy has targeted you for death, and somebody must die, another person will die in your place. If somebody must be removed in an organization, etc., and you are being targeted, God will cause another person to go so that you will remain.
Effects of your faith in the love of God for you
When you have faith in God's love for you, your Christian life will not be the same again
1. Your prayer life will be enhanced.
You will not go to God as a beggar in prayers, you will approach Him as His beloved child. You will pray expecting answers, not some but all, according to His perfect will for you. You will not pray with many words (Matthew 6:7), but will rise from prayers with confidence knowing that since you have tabled your issue before God that it is settled (1 John 5:14-15). In summary, you will truly pray in faith.
2. You will become bold
You will become bold in the Lord, because you will be too sure that God is with you, for if God be for you who can be against you (Romans 8:31). You will not be afraid, for the Spirit of love, power and of a sound mind dwells in you (2 Timothy 1:7).
3. You will have peace
Your faith in the love of God for you will flood peace into your soul. You will have no anxiety but peace that passes all understanding (Philippians 4:6-7). Children don't bother themselves when their father is around. They believe that their father can handle anything that comes their way.
In conclusion, if you love God and are keeping His commandments (John 14:15), then you should also have faith in God's love for you that you may experience God in His fullness in your life. You love Him because He first loved you (1 John 4:19).
What is your experience with God's love for you?
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It's good to know that God love me… God bless you for this powerful message….
Your teachings are very dangerous. I just read a portion then relaxed. This is what happens when something is highly anointed, it can't be digested once. It's really amazing, amen to that.
God bless you my sister, and I pray that you keep up with God's word until our Lord comes back again. love
Powerful message with lots of revelations
Great article! Faith is a word we so often hear everywhere. "Just have faith," "Keep the faith," "Walk in faith" – these are the common expressions about faith that people throw around all the time.


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'Arrow': Mr. Terrific Ain't Doing So Terrific in Midseason Return (VIDEO)
Oliver and company get back to work Wednesday night on Arrow after a lengthy winter hiatus and the "Is she Black Siren or Laurel Lance?" mystery around Katie Cassidy's cliffhanger appearance isn't the only problem weighing on Team Arrow.
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In this exclusive clip, which actually answers the aforementioned question, we find that Curtis (Echo Kellum) has been dealing with some major trauma and keeping a heartbreaking secret. And from the looks of his alleyway confrontation with Rene (Rick Gonzales), it sounds like he's not exactly dealing with it the best way possible...or possibly at all.
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"Those who think heights are better left to the birds might find themselves looking for an early exit in Mountain, a ravishing feat of vertiginous filmmaking set to a score of old and new classical compositions recorded by Richard Tognetti (Master and Commander) and his Australian Chamber Orchestra.
Examining our historical obsession with the titular peaks, director Jennifer Peedom's Mountain is one of the most visceral essay films ever made, with Peedom and her cinematographer Renan Ozturk hopping across continents from Tibet to Australia to Alaska, unfurling a series of glistening images that should be seen only on the biggest of big screens.
Mountain's discursions offer moments of great beauty, whether venturing inside a Sherpa monastery or recording a mountain expanding and contracting, as though breathing, via the magic of time-lapse photography. Gliding shots of snow-capped mountains ringed by clouds and the daredevils who climb them are overlaid with excerpts from Robert Macfarlane's Mountains Of The Mind, voiced with suitable cragginess by Willem Dafoe." (Harry Windsor, The Hollywood Reporter)
"A visual and musical spectacle that showcases the majesty of nature and man's helplessness to it." (Gayle MacDonald, Globe and Mail)
"Inexpressibly beautiful, breathtaking yet terrifying images from snow-capped peaks and vertical cliff faces dominate Jennifer Peedom's latest documentary Mountain, which explores the magnetic pull exercised by these perilously dangerous summits." (Matthew Anderson, CineVue)
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Not very long after I stopped getting carded at the LCBO (later than most, I would dearly like to think) was when the ma'ams began.
It was genuinely confusing, at first. I would glance over my shoulder, half-believing the cashier or TTC fare collector or postal worker was wishing a great day to someone else — perhaps a stranger, perhaps my mother, perhaps a stately Rosedale-dwelling dowager in orthotics and pearls.
But no. These ma'ams were directed at me, most certainly. Seemingly overnight, I had transitioned from miss to ma'am. From crayons to perfume. It was the linguistic equivalent of entering my Carlsberg years.
It feels like a title I have not yet earned. To me, a ma'am is a wife, a mother, a homeowner and quite possibly menopausal. Ma'am carries the weight and wonder of rich life experience. Within it lies a certain immutable strength. Also, it's a palindrome.
It doesn't take a language expert to know that ma'am is short for "madam," from the French "madame" (thanks for everything, Duolingo!) But when did addressing women as ma'am become a thing? I asked Aaron J. Dinkin, an assistant professor of linguistics at the University of Toronto, for a bit of context:
"The earliest example of 'ma'am' the OED lists come from a 1671 play by (John) Dryden, in which a character says 'Madam me no Madam, but learn to retrench your words; and say ma'am ... as other ladies' women do,'" Dinkin writes via email. "It looks like at that time 'ma'am' was new enough that it was still considered relatively slangy and satirizable. So it probably originated and became popular in England sometime in the mid-17th century."
"Madame" is technically used to address married women in the French language, however. Does that mean that these people ma'am-ing me are assuming that I'm a married woman? Not necessarily.
The Oxford English Dictionary states that ma'am is "a term of respectful or polite address used for" any and all of the following:
1) Female royalty
2) A female officer in the police or armed forces who is senior to the speaker
3) A woman
I'm not in the police or armed forces and Prince Harry has yet to return my calls, so the first two definitions aren't a clear fit. I am, however, a woman, so these people have been well within their bounds to address me as ma'am.
When I gave the ol' Oxford English Dictionary once-over to "miss," I came across something surprising. The standard definition was there, but there was also this: "A girl or young woman, especially one regarded as silly or headstrong."
This definition imbues the word with so much more than the dewy youthful associations I have with it. It speaks to frivolity, a certain foolhardiness, even. Miss has transformed into a ridiculous young woman who snaps daily selfies, chugs pumpkin spice lattes and uses hashtags like #bored, #namaste and #bieberfever. A ma'am strikes me as a sophisticated, accomplished, opinionated, well-read woman of the world who long ago realized that flats trump high heels in every conceivable scenario (sole exceptions: presidential nomination, presidential victory speech) and that 10:30 p.m. is an optimal bedtime.
Although I'm gingerly easing into the skin of a ma'am, I suspect I won't miss miss.
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I love JRPGs (Japanese Role-Playing Games). I sunk hundreds of hours into Pokémon and Final Fantasy series as a kid, and I loved everything about the genre. I got to experience interesting new worlds filled with interesting characters. I built a party of warriors and watched as their skills in combat improved over time as they also grew as individuals outside of fighting. Deep storylines, top notch graphics and gameplay that was ever evolving. How could I not love the genre?
Sadly, as a fan of the genre I have to recognize that it hasn't exactly been firing on all cylinders as of late. While RPGs like The Witcher and Divinity have shown me that these interesting worlds still exist, it's been quite some time since a Japanese one has. I love JRPGs, but the genre as a whole has grown stagnant and in some cases games are regressing. It's time for change.
Identifying The Problem
Before the genre can change for the better, some core issues need to be identified. One of the biggest issues that plague JRPGs is that they are basically the only modern games that rely on save points anymore. That needs to go. Save points aren't included because they enhance the gameplay experience, they're only there because that's the way it has always been. That is terrible reasoning and it encapsulates the problem with so many JRPGs: they are living in the past.
Save points only prove to frustrate in 2016. In countless JRPGs I've spent hours levelling up my characters, only to die and find out that my party is back where they started. That doesn't add any extra challenge, it only adds frustration. The genre needs to embrace auto-saving like every single other game and save points need to die.
Another major issue is grinding. JRPGs love to boast how they are 50-60 hours long, but how many hours are actually meaningful? I often find myself forced to kill meaningless random enemies for hours on end in order to improve my characters just so I can continue to advance the story. That sucks. There isn't anything fun about grinding, and JRPGs need to become shorter more curated experiences. Most role playing games are already lengthy without all of this needless fluff and there's really no reason to extend it further.
Let's Get Technical
JRPGs used to be some of the most gorgeous games available. I remember marvelling at the cutscenes in Final Fantasy VIII, and being blown away by how good JRPGs looked in general. I wasn't simply playing a game, I was being transported to a marvelous world filled with magic. Nowadays, most JRPGs look like they are a generation behind graphically.
One of my complaints with the Hyperdimension Neptunia series was how the games always looked like a bad PS2 game that was up-resed. I'm seeing this become the norm within the genre instead of an aberration. Look at recent high profile JRPG releases like Star Ocean V and Nights of Azure. Both games are graphically underwhelming and are largely given a pass by the genre's fan-base. That is ridiculous and with that attitude Japanese role playing games will never improve since they don't have to.
There's also a lot of jank technically in a lot of modern RPGs. When I played Xenoblade Chronicles X last year, I constantly went from being impressed to wondering how such a gorgeous game could look so bad. I would come across textures that looked like they were made for an original PlayStation game, and for some reason my character could walk right through cars as if they didn't exist. This only serves to break the illusion, and it takes me out of the world that the developer is trying to soak me in. These hiccups (like Star Ocean's terrible camera) wouldn't be accepted anywhere else, yet once again I see fans arguing that there isn't a problem. As someone who cares, that's a bummer.
Telling Stories
The reason why I loved JRPGs was that they often told the best stories in gaming. That is rarely the case anymore, as more and more fall upon generic tropes and I often feel like I've already played the game before I finished them. Why do half of the protagonists in JRPGs suffer from amnesia? Is it that difficult to come up with a different framing device for a narrative? Why do so many role playing game characters have zero depth to them and feel like a stereotype anymore?
Modern JRPGs need to go back to telling meaningful stories again. Stories that are original. Ones where I'm on the edge of my seat needing to know what happens next. Storytelling is the heart and soul of RPGs, so I can only hope that developers will focus more on them in the future. Crazy twists aren't even needed, just logical stories that have me rooting for the good guys as they accomplish something meaningful.
Past, Present and Future
No other genre has its past celebrated over its present as much as JRPGs. Ask somebody what they think the best JRPG is and they'll often answer Chrono Trigger or Final Fantasy VI. If you're lucky, you might even hear someone mention a game from the PS2 era such as Persona 4. What won't be mentioned is a PlayStation 3 or 4 game. While the genre has flourished on handhelds in the past decade, it's fading into obscurity on consoles.
First-person shooter fans won't argue that the original Half-Life is the epitome of the genre, nor do they romanticize when they couldn't look up or down in Doom. That's because the FPS has evolved. I sincerely hope that we'll get to a time when Chrono Trigger is no longer held up as the best that JRPGs have to offer, and when Persona 4 is simply just a good example in the genre instead of one of the best.
High profile releases such as Final Fantasy XV and Persona 5 will have an opportunity to give the genre a spotlight again. Hopefully they'll be able to live up to the hype and wow gamers. It'll mean nothing if they aren't followed up meaningfully, though. The genre as a whole needs to improve, so hopefully developers will spend time modernizing and making sure that modern JRPGs become must play video games again. It can be done.
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Letters To The Editor
To the Editor:
In regards to the Commentary by Arthur E. Wise and Linda DarlingHammond, "Alternative Certification Is an Oxymoron" (Commentary, Sept. 4, 1991): Any school administrater who has struggled with state licensing agencies will attest to the oxymoron inherent in the phrase "responsible teacher licensing."
My experience as an administrator of a large non-public school system gave me clear indication of extreme bias: . for public-school systems; . for state institutions of teacher preparation. Bias was demonstrated:
against non-public (sectarian) schools;
against private colleges, especially those located out of state, which prepare teachers.
Teacher accreditation/licensing is clearly another paper monster waiting to be pushed over if true educational opportunities are to be made available to all families.
Genevieve A. Schillo
Superflor, Wisc.
To the Editor:
Please spare your readers anymore retro-60's articles such as the excerpt from Jonathan Kozol featured in the photographic spread "Outside the Dream" (Commentary, July 31, 1991). The whimpering, whining rhetoric, "Don't blame me I'm just a victim" is outdated.
The facts are that Brian can choose to get out of his Kensington neighborhood in Philadelphia, Eleanor chose to have two babies by the time she was 16, Delfin chose to use heroin and te murder someone.
The election of Reagan and now Bush proves that American taxpayers are sick of their hard-earned dollars being poured into cities with few or no results. It is fiction that simply shoveling money into inner cities will provide any long-lasting results.
Judge Clarence Thomas and General Colin Powell demonstrate that it is possible to overcome undesirable environments.
When Jonathan Kozol is ready to specify which self-help programs are effective then he will have credibility.
Steven Koatz
Paoli, Pa.
To the Editor:
As a Cycle III Teacher Corps (1968-69) member, I read with great interest your July 31, 1991, article on Teach For America. ('@Yeach For America: Salvation or 'Disservice'?") I can remember my own combination of idealism and lack of preparation I brought to my first classroom in the all-black segregated schools of Greene County, Ala.
The preparation improved greatly over the years; the idealism, I trust still exists. Certainly fellow Teacher Corps members and I did not either reform our school systems then or even do the best job we could have as teachers. It was a learuing process for us and one from which hundreds of students have since benefited.
The Teacher Corps, like T.F.A, brought idealistic and academically prepared people into the classrooms. Twenty-plus years later, having supervised over 30 teachers, I know that an undergraduate teaching degree is no substitute for academic training. Too many of the elementary-education graduates have no love of learning, no excitement or curiosity about an academic discipline. Their students suffer.
Now, as a principal, I still look for a "spark" or special quality or background in a prospective teacher. In education, we can help teachers improve their skills and bring them up to date on research and practice.
We can't give them idealism and willingness to work--individuals with those self-select into [email protected] as they did the Teacher Corps a generation before.
Court Bell
San Juan Island School
Districl No. 149
Friday Harbour, Wash.
To the Editor:
In President Bush's quest to develop New American Schools, he must be careful not te throw out everything and reinvent the wheel. He should embellish and further implement what has proven effective over time, while adding ideas with creative potential.
Recently, while attending a program called "Education in Our 50 States," I began to wonder whether there were not 50 ways to help the President. After some thought, I was able to come up with the following list of 50 ideas. They are culled from 31 years of experience as an elementary teacher, principal, curriculum developer, author of a handwriting system, and parent of six children.
[email protected] 50 educational "points of light" are not ranked in order of impertance but should be viewed as one multi-directional plan for promoting reform:
1. Develop children's self worth as the key to success.
2. Ensure that school staffs actively participate each year in research studies. 3. Cut down on testing.
4. Begin teaching metrics in the ist grade.
5. Require music, art, and physical education.
6. Require abacus usage from grade 1 through grade 6.
7. Change illogical spelling patterns.
8. Work to develop a phonetic alphabet.
9. Stop comparing public schools with private and foreign schools.
10. Eliminate students' riding more than 45 minutes on a school bus.
11. Require the fullest computer education.
12. Put teeth into local discipline objectives.
13. Recognize that public schools can't "save" every child.
14. Require recycling knowledge and environmental awareness.
15. Stress sports and leisure activities that have carry-over usage after graduation.
16. Develop more "hands on" learning experiences.
17. Change grading concepts from A, B, C, D's to "is progressing" or "is not progressing."
18. Raise teachers' salaries nationwide to respectable levels, along with instituting merit pay for school personnel. 19. Restructure for year-round schools--but keeping open a fourweek summer vacation block.
20. More high-school counselors to lower elementary levels.
21. Require home economics for both boys and girls.
22. Require electricity, woodshop, and small-motor-repair classes for both girls and boys.
23. Establish a six-year highschool program. The last two years would be centered around a workstudy program for all students. 24. In high school, develop a buddy system pairing a first-year student with a senior student.
25. Develop team teaching with racially mixed teacher teams.
26. Have the high-school curriculum require four years of study in English, mathematics, science, sociology, economics, and philosophy.
27. Require a three- to four-year study of another language, kindergarten through senior high.
28. Assign minimum homework as needed.
29. Endeavor to get more books into lower economic homes.
30. Assign elementary students to teacher teams for blocks of learning over a several-year period.
31. Attempt to eliminate fear of failing through teaching the trialand-error method.
32. Master handwriting skills.
33. Move teachers up and down grade levels for one year every sixth year; lower-elementary teachers move to junior or senior high, and upper-level teachers move down to the elementary grades.
34. Have all administrators teach in a classroom for 10 percent of their time.
35. Recognize that all students are individuals who learn at different rates, times, and with different capacities.
36. Have teachers and parents set goals, working toward developing positive feelings and attitudes within children.
37. Establish a home-room "family" concept in junior and senior high schools.
38. Make sure that all school personnel and parents understand that when children are motivated and interested they will learn.
39. Involve parents more in school functioning. 40. Delegate more power to individual schools--not to their central office. 41. Mandatory recess time.
42. Establish Montessori teaching principles for kindergarten and preschool experiences.
43. Do not start formal handwriting and reading until grade 1, unless child is absolutely ready.
44. Don't compare one child to another.
45. Restructure the teaching of mathematics from its present sequential grade order to a system in which sequential blocks of material are to be mastered before moving to higher blocks.
46. Recognize that all children will learn to their fullest ability when they are ready.
47. Reduce the material in most textbooks so that it centers around concepts rather than busywork.
48. Develop a flexible curriculum to enhance a child's motivation and interest.
49. Make field trips a part of every curriculum process.
50. Put more teaching emphasis on small-group problem solving.
Donald N. Thurber
LaSalle, Mich.
Vol. 11, Issue 03, Page 1Published in Print: September 18, 1991, as Letters To The Editor
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Sado Island is located off the coast of Niigata Prefecture about 40km away. Its circumference is 280km and encircled by the Sea of Japan.
It offers diverse coastal scenes depending on places, seasons, weather and so on.
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The blue cave in Kotoura.
Shukunegi inlet covered with snow.
"波の花"、 or wave flower, bubbles created by crashing waves under stormy weather.
Beautifully arched waves in Sawata beach.
Waves pass through a tunnel under the Akagame (red turtle) rock in Suizu.
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It's one of the winter delicacies in Sado.
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A national workshop on "Investigation and prosecution of terrorism cases in connection with the threat of foreign terrorist fighters" has got underway Tuesday in Algiers.
The workshop, organized by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) in partnership with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and funded by the Embassy of Japan, will focus on themes relating to international legal framework on the fight against terrorism.
It aims at developing a policy to strengthen laws on security and fight against terrorism, said the organizers.
Many Algerian experts and officials will participate in the three-day workshop along with international experts.
Since the launch in November 2013 of Japan's new foreign policy focusing on peace and stability in the Sahel regions, North Africa and the Middle East, two workshops have been held in partnership with Algeria under the aegis of UNODC.


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Meet the passionate faces behind FarmGuide
We are a bunch of creative, competent, tech-obsessed, data-struck, mutually-respectful people in pursuit of building epic products. And when we are not doing that, we are simply being awesome
We are a bunch of creative, competent, tech-obsessed, data-struck, mutually-respectful people in pursuit of building epic products. And when we are not doing that, we are simply being awesome
The workforce at FarmGuide acknowledges that contribution made by each one of them is massively affecting the agriculture sector and this reflects in the culture of the organisation.
While focusing towards taking FarmGuide to its pinnacle, the team also enables each other in maximising their productivity. The challenging opportunities that each one of us gets on a daily basis keep us going.
As much as we believe in breaking barriers and accomplishing the unthinkable, we also ensure that if we are working hard, we party harder.Be it birthday celebrations or occasional brunches, we ensure a steady detox program to stay optimistic and reduce boredom.
While 100% attendance at work is beyond the realms of possibility, we at least try to ensure that not anyone who has worked timelessely all week misses out on the quirky game sessions on Friday or crazy outings that we keep organising every now and then.
A 2014 IIT Delhi Graduate and a former Gramin Bank intern, Nikhil aspires to revolutionise the agricultural sector in India. He believes in pushing his team in pursuit of something they would never be convinced they could achieve otherwise. He is endlessly savage and admirably thoughtful at the same time, and that's precisely what has brought him to where he is today.
Another key contributor to the Backend team, Om Prakash joined the team at a pivotal point. He not only became a part of the Backend team as a developer but also contributed as an Android Developer. Known for his hardwork, OP as he is called by the team, took on challenges for the team early on in his association with FarmGuide.
One of the earliest members of the FarmGuide team, Divyanshu has been one of the key contributors in building FarmGuide from the scratch. Often referred to as the "rock" element of the office, his love for heavy metal and his unparalleled dedication towards FarmGuide is what he is reverred for by his team.
Shubham joined the Backend team in April 2017. What drew Shubham to work with us was the fact that he found the impact users of FarmGuide quite unique and requisite. The fact that the work here affects the essential agriculture stakeholders is what excited him the most. When not on his screen, this 'Robin van Persie' loves to show off his skills on the football field.
The newest addition to the backend team at FarmGuide, Nitin is quite the 'copy cat ninja' as he likes to call himself, learning something new from everyone. What sets him apart is his passion for numbers and clarity of concepts. Being a part of FarmGuide has given him the right mentorship to grow exponentially.
A BTech in Computer Science, Tarang works with unmatched passion for the products that we build at FarmGuide. Also known as the "All Rounder", Tarang's tenacity has earned him his rightful tag of the Product Manager. His growth and career graph are true testaments of how talent is nurtured at FarmGuide.
Sheer commitment and the drive to grasp the most out of everyone defines Swati. For someone joining the team quite recently, Swati has been an absolute joy with the way she has shown maturity and taken up tasks. The fact that her work is contributing to making footprints in the agriculture sector is what drives her passion.
Being given the responsibility of owning the product at such a nascent stage, Sambhav has come a long way in pushing his capabilities after joining FarmGuide.The endless opportunities and exposure with amazing leadership have helped Sambhav in honing his skills. This tea lover enjoys binge watching Friends and trying his hands at cooking every once in a while.
The creative bug of the team - one can expect craziness and imagination come alive with his work. Being the creative designer, Kartikeya makes sure that his work is a perfect amalgamation of professionalism and fun, be it a poster, animation, presentation or a website.
With a vast experience of banking and agriculture technologies, Shradha is a quick and keen learner with an eagerness to explore newer avenues. She has handled projects at FarmGuide effortlessly. Her adaptive and dedicated nature fetches her a perfect place in the team.
Having professional experience for linux server/system administration and AWS infrastructure, Gaurav justifies his mammoth experience by handling the servers with much ease and elan. In addition to handling IT infrastructure resources, he loves to write tech-blogs and keep himself updated with the latest technologies.
Sachin has been serving the FarmGuide team with his enthusiasm and assiduity since October last year. Working here as an Accounts Administrator, Sachin handles the funds, general administration and all things legal. He has proven his loyalty towards the team and manages to surprise everyone with his grit and resilience.
With a Bachelors degree in Economics from University of Delhi, Ashish has been in the field of data engineering for more than 3 years. Needless to say, he loves working with data and deriving insights. His rich experience in the field contributes to his skills of analysing the data in a seamless manner.
Nikhil Toshniwal
Deepak Sharma
Abhinav Prakash
Farhan Ahmed Khan
Om Prakash Gupta
Divyanshu Tyagi
Shubham Bansal
Nitin Kumar
Tarang Agarwal
Ankush Saini
Avdhesh Nigam
Swati Gupta
Sambhav Jain
Ankit Gupta
Satish Sharma
Rajnish Kumar
Vinay Kashyap
Kartikeya Prajapati
Hitesh Sharma
Shradha Sharma
Gaurav Singh
Jaspreet Singh
Sourabh Singhal
Gaurav Srivastava
Vipul Verma
Sachin Mishra
Sahil Goel
Ashish Kumar
Our Board of Advisors are experts in their fields and offer FarmGuide their collective knowledge and experience to help us make effective growth-oriented business decisions
Co-Founder & Partner- Global BioAg Linkages
Ex-President- -DuPont South Asia
Business Director, South Asia- DuPont
Editor in chief- Democracy News Live
Editor in chief- Wion & DNA, Zee Media
International correspondent/producer /communication strategist- Wion & DNA, Zee Media
Founder & CEO- The Beer Café
President- NRAI
Founder & CEO- BTB India
Managing Director- GolfWorx
FarmGuide's highly experienced Board of Directors, who are all industry captains, have been guiding the organisation in its quest to identify strategic opportunities and overcome business challenges.
Policy Analyst
IIT Delhi, Mathematics & Computer Science
Working at FarmGuide is more of an opportunity than a job. An opportunity to make a direct impact. Creating meaningful change in the life of farmers by addressing the existing challenges is the USP of FarmGuide.
Policy Analyst
IIT Delhi, Electrical
It was my first job experience. The work atmosphere at FarmGuide allowed unfettered access to all resources, fueling innovation. FarmGuide gave me the freedom to experiment without the fear of failure, helping me grow as an individual.
Data Scientist
IIT Delhi, Computer Science
Working at FarmGuide was very challenging and rewarding. I was given a lot of freedom in technical tasks. FarmGuide is a good place to work for smart and ambitious people
Ex Data Scientist
IIT Delhi, Computer Science
My journey at FarmGuide has been a great learning experience. I got to work on some of the most challenging problems in computer vision impacting the agricultural sector. I was tasked with the responsibility of creating machine learning models to predict factors affecting agricultural outcome.


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The Maryville Daily Times: Time to modernize the music industry into digital age
Posted on January 26, 2018
Two-party harmony, that's what we're talking about. It's fine-tuned and about time. Finally, some sweet music is coming from that recording studio famous for vocal cacophony, the U.S. Capitol (the building on the Hill, not the record label).
On Wednesday, a bipartisan group of eight U.S. senators introduced legislation they say will be the "most significant change in music licensing laws in decades." It comes on the heels of the House version of the bill filed in December.
It's called the Music Modernization Act. The intent is to ensure songwriters get the money they deserve for the entertainment they give us. The act would set up a new simplified licensing entity — SongExchange some are calling it — to make it easier for digital music companies to obtain a license and play songs.
It would ensure songwriters are paid the royalties they are owed. The bill would also change the law to help songwriters be paid a fair market value for their songs.
Four Republicans and four Democrats stepped onto the Capitol stage to get this hit performance underway. It should come as no surprise that two of the eight are Tennessee's senators.
Maryville's own master of the eighty-eight, Lamar "Tennessee Waltz" Alexander, and Bob Corker signed on for good reason.
Music is in the blood of Tennesseans from Bristol to Beale Street with a stop at the Grand Ole Opry along the way a must hear as residents and visitors alike traverse the state from the Great Smokies to the Mighty Mississippi.
Enough of the musical trash talk. The senators put it this way: The internet has transformed the music industry, and the Music Modernization Act updates outdated music licensing laws to make it easier for songwriters to be paid when their music is played online by a digital steaming service, or purchased online.
According to Standard and Poor's, there were 86 million paying subscribers to digital streaming services, who streamed music 252 billion times in 2016. Revenues generated from online music generated half the music industry's revenues in 2016.
As digital music streaming increases, the number of individual song downloads fell 24 percent between 2015 and 2016 and compact disc sales fell below 100 million units sold — which means less royalties paid to songwriters.
That's the verse. Here's the chorus. The Music Modernization Act:• Adopts a simple licensing system for digital music services, making it easier for companies to obtain a license to play a song and reducing the likelihood of litigation.
• Ensures songwriters will be paid the fair market value for their songs by:
• Directing the Copyright Royalty Board to set compensation according to the fair market value when songs are sold, such as through music downloads, replacing the current below-market standard.
• Removing a provision of law that narrows the scope of evidence the federal rate court may examine when asked to set songwriter compensation for when their song is played, such as in a restaurant or at a concert.
For Tennesseans, the state with a capital called Music City, here's the hook.
If there's a state in the nation that has the music of America more deeply imbedded in its soil and its people than Tennessee, we don't know what it is or where it's at.
Think otherwise? Bring it on, brother, and bring your guitar.
The Nashville Cats are our backups, and our backups have backups who "play clean as country water, play wild as mountain dew, been playin' since they's babies, get work before they're 2."
If you bring your fiddle, remember, even the devil can't help you. And don't you dare name your git-box Lucille.


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Solar panels water heaters are also known as solar hot water systems. These systems are often a great way of saving money whilst generating hot water for your home. It doesn't matter where you live, what country or climate so long as there is some sunshine, then the fuel that solar panels need to make the water heater work is free.
Solar hot water heating systems are mostly made of solar thermal collectors. Solar water heating is made possible through the direct heating of liquids from the sun's rays. You also need a water storage tank with additional inlet and outlet connectors connected to it, and a fluid system to move the heat away from the thermal collectors to the tank. The tanks needed for these systems are well-insulated. Having a well insulated tank is very important.
There are a couple of integral collector-storage systems available. There is the passive system that doesn't have any circulating pumps and controls, and then there is the active solar water heating system that does have all of that, and more.
The passive system works best where temperatures don't fall below freezing. This system is also less costly than active systems. Passive systems rely on the convection currents generated as the water heats. The heated water is less dense and therefore rises, allowing cooler water to enter at the base of the thermal panels. Unfortunately, it isn't as efficient as an active system.
The active solar water heating system comes in two types; the direct circulation system which works well in climates that rarely freeze. And the indirect active circulation system which circulates a non-freeze heat-transfer fluid through each of the collectors and a heat exchanger, which then heats the water that flows into the business or home.
Another example for solar water heating for home or business use is using solar powered systems for under the floor heating. Tanks needed for these systems are well-insulated, with an additional outlet and inlet joined to and from a solar collector. Having a well insulated tank is very important in maintaining the heat of the system. In these systems, water is pumped into solar panels on the roof, where it is heated by the sun. The heated water then travels under the floor allowing the room to heat.
When choosing a solar water heating system, it is a good idea to talk through your ideas with a professional solar systems technician, who can help you work out the correct size system for your location. The technician can also advise on the the best system, and it's energy efficiency, for your home or business. They will help you to estimate and compare the initial outlay of various systems. A solar panel systems technician can help you design your perfect system; they can give you plenty of advice and will have ideas on where to go for good deals.
There are many uses for solar water heating systems, they are very versatile, an additional use is solar thermal cooling systems. A solar water heating system can form part of a cooling system. Solar thermal cooling systems help regulate the temperature in buildings during hot weather. In the winter, solar hot water systems, are able to ensure a swimming pool is usable, by heating the pools' water using solar panels positioned in the sun.


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Crowds to flock to Autumn Garden Fair at Claregalway Castle this Sunday
Claregalway Castle will host its Autumn Garden Fair this Sunday, September 11 from 11am – 6pm. This fair will feature some of Ireland's best nurseries and rare plant specialists - most of whom are members of Irish Specialist Nursery Association (ISNA).


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The Fayetteville City Council at the Feb. 4 meeting heard the first reading of a change in the city's purchasing ordinance that permits other city entities to make purchases.
The change is designed to provide a consistent set of guidelines for administering purchasing procedures. The only significant alteration to the ordinance would be changing "city council" to "governing body" to allow the Downtown Development Board and Main Street Tourism Board to fully utilize the city's purchasing manual, said Assistant Finance Director Ellen Walls.
The council is expected to make a final decision on the purchasing ordinance at the Feb. 18 meeting.


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Tech Gallery: Black Sheep one-off headed to handmade bike show
Ever try to define the term "functional masterpiece?" Let this one-off belt-drive singlespeed titanium 29er from Black Sheep do the talking (while you drool).
Read more about the Culebra below.
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Richmond, Virginia welcomes the North American Handmade Bicycle Show next weekend, but we stole a sneak peek at one of the artful bikes headed east for display. Singlespeeder Jake Kirkpatrick dropped by the Singletrack.com office to show us his new belt-driven Black Sheep 29er race bike.
Just over a week since it was freed from the welding jig, Kirkpatrick's newborn bike almost felt warm from Black Sheep owner and welder James Bleakley's torch. However we soon realized it was just our own sweaty palms and flushed faces. The bike is sweet to look at, and it's a great representative of the functional masterpieces that lucky NAHBS attendees will devour in just a week's time.
Kirkpatrick has been riding custom Black Sheep titanium bikes out of Fort Collins, Colorado for the last few years now, and they've all incorporated curvaceous tubing and unique design elements. But this latest work takes it to a new level. They named it "Culebra," which is Spanish for cobra, and it tips the scales, fully built with pedals and sealant in tires, at exactly 18 pounds.
Going Big for NAHBS
The most noticeable feature on the Culebra is its profusion of slender tubing composing the front triangle. Twin top tubes originate at the head tube and gracefully arc down the front triangle before rebounding to become the seatstays before terminating at the dropouts. Similarly, a pair of slender, parallel down tubes snake down to the bottom bracket. A single center tube bridges from the head tube to the seat tube, adding stability and contributing to the five total tubes that join the head tube to the rear of the bike.
Bleakley's Black Sheep show bikes frequently sport welded titanium one-piece bar/stem combinations, and Kirkpatrick's is no different.
"I wanted it to look like that old bullmoose style stem and bar," said Kirkpatrick.
He said that Bleakley copied the rise and backsweep from a standard riser bar and stem to match his position preference.
Kirkpatrick works with Gates Carbon Drive Systems and uses a belt drivetrain. The drive side chainstay has a deep cutout to accommodate the wide chainring, and the chainstays use Black Sheep's extendable, telescoping design to tension the belt. There is no upper pivot, but the seatstays flex enough to allow the chainstays to pull completely apart to pass the belt into the rear triangle, and setscrew bolts hold the chainstays in the desired position. Hatch marks on the inserts help ensure even chainstay length.
As with any good NAHBS show bike, details abound. The seat tube is extended into a road-style integrated seatmast. A stubby, 2-inch seatpost caps it off. The seatstay bridge is jet-cut with the shape of a sheep. The rear Breezer-style dropouts are also cut out. Like the frame, the fork is an elegant strut of curved titanium.
But possibly the coolest detail of all are the King titanium bottle cages welded into place on the frame. Kirkpatrick said that the metalworkers at King used thicker tubing so the welding process wouldn't erode the cages.
"It's cleaner and this actually adds support to the frame," he said, pointing at the upper portion of the downtube bottle cage. The upper curve of the cage acts like a cross member welded between the two downtubes.
Kirkpatrick said that in the unlikely event that one of the bottle cages breaks, it's easy to weld a new one in place. Well, easy for Bleakley anyway.
"It doesn't take James that long," said Kirkpatrick. "It's easy for him."
Culbera Comes to Life
The concept for the bike originated with Kirkpatrick and was worked up into a viable project by Bleakley. As show time drew close, Kirkpatrick described how Bleakley called him up to ask what was new or different in ideas for mountain bike frames.
"I was like, 'I've got some ideas for you!'" said Kirkpatrick. "I was like, let's do everything with dual tubes. I just drew it up on a sheet of paper and faxed it to him."
Kirkpatrick pointed out that older Colnago road bikes once relied on twin down tubes, and certain Schwinn cruisers had twin top tubes, but he couldn't recall seeing the twin tube approach employed as extensively as he and Bleakley had done.
The two have a good collaboration when it comes to conceiving one-off mountain bikes.
"We always go back and forth," said Kirkpatrick. "I'm like, hey James, I've got this idea."
Working together, the two incorporate concepts and then Kirkpatrick ventures out on the trails to test the finished products.
The Culebra spec sheet reads like a five-star menu of tasty and lightweight parts. The bike rolls on Continental Race King 2.2 tires, which are strapped to 32-hole Stan's ZTR Crest 29er rims, laced with DT Swiss Revolution spokes on 240s hubs. Exustar E-PM28ti pedals turn the FSA K-Force Light cranks, linked to a Gates carbon belt. Magura Marta SL Magnesium brakes bite down on Scrub aluminum disc rotors. The saddle is a $320, 130-gram fi'zi:k Antares 00.
"It's sexy," said Kirkpatrick. "You can sit and look at it for a while and notice more and more things."
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The new Blender 3D software has arrived with new features and tools.
I test it and is a great job make by the Blender 3D team. The splash is great ...
About the application, the new features can be found here.
... or the features that are currently in development:
- GSOC Painting additions
- Pie Menus
- Freestyle Rendering for Cycles
- Rewritten Array Modifier
- Dragging Masks with Handles
- New Drag Handles
- Intersect Tool
- HSL Color Ramps
- Sun Beams Node
- Cycles Reflective and Refractive Caustics
- Cycles experimental GPU Kernel
- Cycles Anamorphic Bokeh.
I like also the Pie menu from user interface :
About this news, you can see some video here.
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UNDERSTANDING CLIMATE CHANGE & the role of the military
Climate change has been recognised as the greatest security challenge facing humanity. We have to transform our fossil-fuel economy into sustainable green economy as well as massively reduce our carbon emissions now. Militaries and wars are the biggest unaccounted-for contributor to the climate change. This ongoing emission is sustained by the excessive military spending around the world buying ever more expensive jets, tanks and missiles that create nothing but destruction, profits and greenhouse gases.
As the people of the world face the catastrophic consequences of climate change, why is the military exempt from being central to the debate – and strategy – on how we achieve an urgent and drastic cut in the rate of carbon emissions if we are to stop global temperatures from rising more than 2 degrees this century?
And has the time come for it to be a part of the climate/development debate?
"[W]e must recognize peace and security as a critical 'fourth dimension' of sustainable development. We must also acknowledge that durable peace and post-conflict development depend on environmental protection and good governance of natural resources."
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, the United Nations
Message on the International Day for Preventing the Exploitation
Indivisible and equally destroyed: people and environment alike
Wars and conflicts – whether conducted by nations with high tech capability or fought over prolonged periods primarily with small arms – each in their own way contribute to environmental degradation. Water sources get polluted, forests cut down, soils poisoned, and the cost to some wildlife also severe. And then there is the terrible human cost of long-term threats that remain in the wider environment – landmines or depleted uranium; agent-orange or nuclear testing. All of which in turn, only serves further impact on communities that rely on those same resources for their livelihoods and day to day existence. To draw attention to this, in 2001 the UN General Assembly declared 6 November of each year as the International Day for Preventing the Exploitation of the Environment in War and Armed Conflict.
Nevertheless, the wars continue to take its lasting toll on the environment and the population; for example,just in a three-week period of conflict alone in Iraq during 2003 it was estimated that nearly 2000 tons of depleted uranium (DU) munitions were used.
Particularly in Fallujah, radiological and toxic contamination from DU (and other toxic metals) has caused birth defects at a rate more than 14 times the rate experienced by Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
DNA mutations caused by DU can be passed from parent to child. Furthermore, the remaining traces of DU in Iraq will remain radioactive for more than 4.5 billion years.
The UN Environmental Programme has found that over the last 60 years, at least 40 per cent of all internal conflicts have been linked to the exploitation of natural resources, whether high-value resources such as timber, diamonds, gold and oil, or scarce resources such as fertile land and water. Conflicts involving natural resources have also been found to be twice as likely to relapse.
Climate change as a reason for increasing militarisation
In 2015 Nick Buxton and Ben Hayes edited 'The Secure and the Dispossessed How the military and the corporations are shaping a climate-changed world'
While the world's scientists and many of its inhabitants despair at the unfolding impacts of climate change, corporate and military leaders see nothing but challenges and opportunities.
They argue that melting ice caps mean newly accessible fossil fuels; borders to be secured from 'climate refugees'; social conflicts to be managed, and more failed states in which to intervene. With one eye on the scientific evidence and the other on their global assets and supply chains, powerful elites are giving increasing thought as to how to maintain control in a world gradually reshaped by climactic extremes.
Dystopian preparations by the state are reflected in the corporate arena. Where we see a future climate crisis, many companies see only opportunity: oil firms looking forward to melting ice caps delivering new accessible fossil fuels; security firms touting the latest technologies to secure borders from 'climate refugees'; or investment fund managers speculating on weather-related food prices – to name but a few. In 2012, Raytheon, one of the world's largest defence contractors, announced "expanded business opportunities" arising from "security concerns and their possible consequences," due to the "effects of climate change" in the form of "storms, droughts, and floods". The rest of the defence sector has been quick to follow.
Ultimately, a security-led approach to climate change and complex emergencies not only fails to address the fundamental causes of these crises – it will often exacerbate them. Worldwide the increased focus on food security is already driving increased land grabbing. The diversion of resources into military spending and strategies is preventing much needed investment in crisis-prevention and tackling the root causes of human insecurity. Given that climate change will impact disproportionately on the poorest, a militarisation of our response merely compounds a fundamental injustice – that those least responsible for climate change will be most affected.
Climate Change: War and Climate Conventions
However, in some cases, simply the business of having an army, contributes to climate change and worse, when taken into war, can massively contribute to climate. The largest by far is that of the US military.
During the Kyoto Accords negotiations in December 1997, the US demanded as a provision of signing that any and all of its military operations worldwide, including operations in participation with the UN and NATO, be exempted from measurement or reductions. After attaining this concession, the Bush administration then refused to sign the accords and the US Congress passed an explicit provision guaranteeing the US military exemption from any energy reduction or measurement.
This has meant, for example, that the emissions associated with the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq are unreported as they are 'incurred' outside the USA and are therefore not captured in the national greenhouse gas inventories that all industrialized nations, including the United States, report to under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.
|Sara Flounders of the International Action Center, writes:
Steve Kretzmann, director of Oil Change International, reports:
The US Air Force
|The United States Department of Defense is one of the largest single consumers of energy in the world, responsible for 93% of all US government fuel consumption in 2007. In 2006, it used almost 30,000 gigawatt hours (GWH) of electricity, at a cost of almost $2.2 billion. The DoD's electricity use would supply enough electricity to power more than 2.6 million average American homes. In electricity consumption, if it were a country, the DoD would rank 58th in the world, using slightly less than Denmark and slightly more than Syria (CIA World Factbook, 2006). The Department of Defense uses 4,600,000,000 US gallons (1.7×1010 L) of fuel annually, an average of 12,600,000 US gallons (48,000,000 L) of fuel per day. A large Army division may use about 6,000 US gallons (23,000 L) per day. According to the 2005 CIA World Factbook, if it were a country, the DoD would rank 34th in the world in average daily oil use, coming in just behind Iraq and just ahead of Sweden.The Air Force is the largest user of fuel energy in the federal government. The Air Force uses 10% of the nation's aviation fuel.
The USAF is the single largest consumer of jet fuel in the world:
- The F-4 Phantom Fighter burns more than 1,600 gallons of jet fuel per hour (just three hours of flight uses as much fuel as the average driver does in one year of driving) and peaks at 14,400 gallons per hour at supersonic speeds.
- The B-52 Stratocruiser, with eight jet engines, guzzles 500 gallons per minute; (ten minutes of flight uses as much fuel as the average driver does in one year of driving).
- In 2006 the USAF used one quarter of all jet fuel, equivalent to all that consumed by US planes did during the Second World War – an astounding 2.6 billion gallons.
PwC's annual Low Carbon Economy Index report concludes in 2012 that global carbon emissions have to be cut by a rate of over 5% per year from now to 2050 in order to limit the rise the average global temperature to be less than 2 degrees.
The global military carbon footprint
The elephant in the kitchen when it comes to Climate Change is clearly the world's military. The world spends something like 2 trillion US dollars a year on its military. At least half of that vast sum goes on military production with a massive CO2 output. The military are both a major cause of climate change and hence, of the conflicts which result from the movement of peoples as deserts spread.
Bruce Kent, President of MAW, Vice President of CND
"The environment has long been a silent casualty of war and armed conflict. From the contamination of land and the destruction of forests to the plunder of natural resources and the collapse of management systems, the environmental consequences of war are often widespread and devastating," said Ban in a statement for the UN's International Day for Preventing the Exploitation of the Environment in War and Armed Conflict on Thursday. …
The US Department of Defence is the country's largest consumer of fossil fuels. Research from 2007 showed the military used 20.9bn litres of fuel each year. This results in similar CO2 emissions to a mid-sized European country such as Denmark.
And that's before they go to war. The carbon footprint of a deployed modern army is typically enormous. One report suggested the US military, with its tanks and Bradley fighting vehicles, used 190.8m litres of oil every month during the invasion of Iraq. An estimated two thirds of this fuel is used delivering more fuel to the vehicles at the battlefront.
The U.S. military is the largest institutional consumer of oil in the world. Every year, our armed forces consume more than 100 million barrels of oil to power ships, vehicles, aircraft, and ground operations—enough for over 4 million trips around the Earth, assuming 25 mpg.
Using that much oil makes the military vulnerable to price spikes. In fact, a $10 increase in the price of a barrel of oil costs the military billions of dollars. That's money we can't use on protecting and training our troops.
Union of Concerned Scientists
No matter what we're led to believe, the world's worst polluter is not your cousin who refuses to recycle or that co-worker who drives a gas guzzler or the guy down the block who simply will not try CFL bulbs. "The U.S. Department of Defense is the largest polluter in the world, producing more hazardous waste than the five largest U.S. chemical companies combined," explains Lucinda Marshall, founder of the Feminist Peace Network. Pesticides, defoliants like Agent Orange, solvents, petroleum, lead, mercury, and depleted uranium are among the many deadly substances used by the military.
The US military is responsible for the most egregious and widespread pollution of the planet, yet this information and accompanying documentation goes almost entirely unreported. In spite of the evidence, the environmental impact of the US military goes largely unaddressed by environmental organizations and was not the focus of any discussions or proposed restrictions at the recent UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen. This impact includes uninhibited use of fossil fuels, massive creation of greenhouse gases, and extensive release of radioactive and chemical contaminants into the air, water, and soil.
"US Department of Defense is the Worst Polluter on the Planet," Project Censored
The other piece of this is that we call for cutting our bloated and dangerous military budget. And this is something that is made possible by moving to 100% clean renewable energy, where we cannot justify wars for oil, and where we cannot justify having some 700, 800 bases gathered around the world in something like 100 countries in significant measure protecting either access to fossil fuels or protecting routes of transportation.
Jill Stein Green Party USA
"Climate change is a threat multiplier because it has the potential to exacerbate many of the challenges we already confront."
Chuck Hagel, former US defence secretary
"Every time the IPCC comes around, we have a crisper more worrisome set of messages about the trends in emissions and impacts of climate change, and then you don't see much connection between that story and what governments actually do," Victor said. "Thats because it's not really a scientific problem anymore. Essentially, everything that needs to be done to move the needle is political."


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Political control of several key state legislatures could change hands on Election Day, raising the chance for one-party domination of swing states Michigan and Pennsylvania, booming Nevada and Northeast giant New York.
Democrats are cautiously optimistic that enthusiasm and turnout for Barack Obama's presidential campaign will help their candidates far down the ticket. Republicans hope to steer clear of the national mood that has turned against the GOP and focus instead on local issues.
Though state legislative races draw far less attention than contests for the White House, Congress and governor, the party that controls the legislatures has an outsized role nationally - crafting domestic policy, drawing congressional districts and laying the foundation for political stars in the future.
Obama is only four years removed from a stint in the Illinois Legislature. Democratic control there first gave him the spotlight and the chance to pass legislation that he often cites on the campaign trail.
Nationally, Democrats hold their strongest majority in more than a decade, controlling the legislatures in 23 states. Republicans dominate in 14 states. Twelve states are split, and Nebraska is nonpartisan.
In some ways, Democrats are suffering from too much of a good thing: The party's victories since 2004 eroded GOP gains from the 1990s, but made it that much harder to find opportunities for growth now.
"We're doing a little more defense than we have, and a little less offense," said Iowa Senate Majority Leader Michael Gronstal, chairman of the Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee, a national group that has raised more than $6-million to spend on legislative races in the past two years.
Republicans see cause for hope, though they make a point to avoid national issues because polls show widespread dissatisfaction with President Bush and Republicans in Congress.
"You certainly can't omit or be unaware of the national environment. But if you run your race on local issues, you can separate yourself very easily," said Carrie Cantrell of the Republican State Leadership Committee, which provides cash and other resources to help win legislative seats.
Forty-four states will hold legislative elections, with 5,824 seats - or 79 percent of all legislative seats - before the voters.