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Obama Bets on 3-D Printers to Revive U.S. Manufacturing
Katherine Ling, E&E reporter
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio — Working in manufacturing can be dangerous and dull.
But you would never know that from the excited, smiling faces of children watching a laser beam slowly melt layer upon layer of plastic sand.
The 3-D printer could have been producing a cheap, specialized component for a wind turbine or electric vehicle.
But on this day, it's producing plastic flying discs based on designs from the children, ages 7 to 11, who were attending the summer camp at the National Additive Manufacturing Innovation Institute (NAMII) here in Youngstown. The "junior innovators" learn Frisbee physics, create their own 3-D designs on a computer and almost instantaneously know whether their Frisbee designs will soar or flop, because they are "manufactured" on the spot by a 3-D printer.
"I suppose it is an advanced take on folding paper airplanes," Rob Gorham, NAMII's deputy director of technology, says with a smile.
Helping children experience 3-D printing is exciting, Gorham said, and is similar to NAMII's larger mission to increase U.S. experience and knowledge in 3-D printing. The application of information technology to improve the business of making things, such as 3-D printing, is known as "advanced manufacturing," and experts say it is sparking a "third industrial revolution."
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A "junior innovator" looks into a 3D Systems Corp. SLS sPro 60 printer at the National Additive Manufacturing Innovation Institute in Youngstown, Ohio. Photos by Katherine Ling.
The White House and stakeholders are banking on success in advanced manufacturing to revive U.S. manufacturing and to forge ahead in dynamic industries like clean energy. It will also make manufacturing more environmentally sustainable, lowering energy and material consumption, they say.
NAMII's success is key to the White House's push to boost manufacturing to improve the economy and create more jobs. And so far, the pilot project for President Obama's National Network for Manufacturing Innovation (NNMI) has not disappointed its supporters, attracting 79 partners and already funding seven collaborative projects just a year into its existence.
NNMI institutes are public-private partnerships that focus on "the missing middle," the gap in development between research and commercialization to scale up new ideas, according to Michael Molnar, director of the Advanced Manufacturing National Program Office and director of the Advanced Manufacturing Office at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) of the Commerce Department.
The institutes are not meant to be research laboratories, but they "create space" to convene top talent from universities, large to small companies and government to test and gather data for promising new processes, technologies and materials to make it easier for companies to work with them, Molnar explained.
"What is critical for industry using a new material or a new technology is 'de-risking' it," he said.
NNMI was the No. 1 recommendation from a 2012 report by the nation's leading CEOs and universities, including Ford Motor Co., Dow Chemical Co., Stanford University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, gathered by Obama to identify ways to elevate American competitiveness in manufacturing.
In this year's State of the Union address, the president asked for $1 billion over 10 years for 15 NNMI institutes. Last month, Obama upped the ante in a speech on the middle class, saying that the aim should be 45 in total.
Congress has yet to fund all of NNMI, but the administration has already moved to set up the first three institutes. They have a federal funding commitment of $200 million over five years drawn from five agencies under existing budget authority, to be awarded by the end of the year, according to the White House. Federal funds would be at least matched from the private-sector consortium awarded any project.
The fact that the departments of Defense, Energy and Commerce; NASA; and the National Science Foundation have found the money to fund NNMI in this tight budget environment shows how important this initiative is across the administration, Molnar said.
Despite the White House emphasis, however, outside focus on the institutes has been minimal compared with other efforts to support manufacturing, such as the push to revamp the tax structure — which stakeholders agree has more near-term impact — or tax incentives, especially for renewable energy.
But for the alternative energy sector, creating these public-private partnerships is crucial, according to Bill Janeway, regarded as one of the founders of the modern private equity sector and a partner at private equity firm Warburg Pincus.
Overall, the digital economy has momentum and investment, Janeway said in an interview with Business Insiderlast March, but "what we are missing, what has stalled is building the groundwork, the foundations for the next new economy, that low-carbon, green-tech, alternative-energy economy that most of us know we really need in the face of climate change."
NNMI is coming at the right time, said Bill Aulet, managing director of the Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship at the MIT Sloan School of Management. The opportunities for entrepreneurship are switching from software to hardware — real products like batteries or solar panels — which he sees reflected in his own students' interests.
"There is a lot of belief that this is different," Aulet said. "The barriers of entry for getting into energy are very hard. You really need these kinds of things."
Brad Markell, executive director of the AFL-CIO's Industrial Union Council, said the NNMI initiative is helping to focus work that has been happening in the manufacturing sector for some time.
"All the things we are going to have to solve, the problems we have — more mobility for people that doesn't pollute, clean energy, biomedical advances — all that stuff is going to flow from manufacturing. I think there is a realization that countries need to capture the effects of innovation in manufacturing and have it feed back," he said.
Stopping the bleeding
A misperception of manufacturing as labor-intensive, low-paying work is part of the challenge of gathering more interest in the sector, according to NIST's Molnar.
"Manufacturing still has an image of the four D's: dim, dirty, dangerous and declining," said Molnar, who spent 30 years in manufacturing in the private sector. "It is really a high-tech, high-touch sector that is exciting, and this other image of manufacturing … is a difficult nut to crack.
"If you visit any of our plants, our floors are white. You could eat off of them if you wanted to, but you wouldn't want to because you would mess up the floors," he said.
Manufacturing still employs 12 million people in the United States — that, in turn, supports 2.5 million jobs in other sectors, and, at the upper end, each high-tech manufacturing job supports 16 others, according to a 2012 report released by the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST). Each dollar in final sales of manufactured goods supports $1.35 in output from other sectors, the report says.
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3-D printers are able to manufacture complex, movable objects in just one step, as demonstrated by simple toys displayed here at NAMII's 3-D printer workshop.
About 70 percent of corporate research and development existed in manufacturing in 2009, according to the National Science Foundation. A manufacturing "ecosystem" with significant participation from small and medium-sized enterprises is key to this innovation cycle, providing important supply chain and idea feedback loops. But that is where the United States is bleeding the most companies, according to the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF).
Companies creating high-skilled, advanced technology like lithium-ion batteries and fuel cells are manufacturing abroad in Germany, China and South Korea because they have the ecosystems of suppliers and manufacturers that are flexible enough to quickly adapt to new technology and ideas, according to ITIF, which was an early proponent of NNMI and a national advanced manufacturing strategy.
The loss of a U.S. manufacturing ecosystem is a problem that a single company or university cannot fix, according to a white paper from MIT's Production in the Innovation Economy (PIE) project released this spring. The PIE white paper is the summary of an analysis and recommendations from a cross-disciplinary group examining U.S. industry from different perspectives that MIT will publish later this month.
"The key functions are convening, coordination, risk-pooling, risk-reduction and bridging. They are public goods that the market does not generate," the white paper says. "In contrast to tax breaks, which many states hand out, new resources in these cases are embedded in institutions which do not stand or fall on the participation of any one member. Convening brings into existence new collaborations and new common resources."
'Giving innovation a push'
Enter NAMII and the future NNMI ventures aiming to solve the tragedy of the "industrial commons" — including shedding manufacturing's assembly-line image from Henry Ford's heyday.
In fact, despite being in the heart of the Rust Belt, NAMII could fit in easily in San Francisco. Almost everything at NAMII is cutting-edge, from its workspace layout with white boards and "neighborhood" desk cubicles to the dozen or so 3-D printers showcased on the main floor, all of which are on consignment from companies that refresh them as new models are released. The modern edge is offset with historical character from the original burnished wood floors and brick walls that belonged to the century-old former warehouse it is housed in.
NAMII's Gorham says the institute is essentially a startup: It is building new relationships, creating a "market" for its services, finding "big impact outcomes," attracting members that pay a range of $15,000 to $200,000 to join and untangling significant intellectual property issues.
"We are having to pave the way through the jungle and hatchet through things," Gorham said.
A case in point is the revamped "strategic roadmap" that NAMII released last week, which includes a second set of project calls totaling $9 million and a new project call process generated from members, after complaints about the first one being too broad, Gorham said.
NAMII's first project call included examining additive manufacturing issues such as qualifying the properties of powder metal beds; developing thermal imaging to identify issues earlier in the production process; gathering data and testing for a new plastic material known as ULTEM 9085 ideal for aerospace, automotive and military applications; and improving the cost and sustainability of 3-D printing technologies.
Sustainability is an important area of research and opportunity for 3-D printing, Gorham noted. Being able to make an object in one process, instead of carving it away from blocks of metal and piecing it together, saves a significant amount of energy and resources, especially for complex objects with moving parts or made of different materials.
For the aerospace industry, where Gorham was formerly employed for many years, this ratio of materials to product is called "buy to fly," and additive manufacturing can cut this ratio from about 70-to-1 down to about 7-to-1, he said. NAMII is also looking into the reuse of new additive printing materials and lowering the energy use of 3-D printing machines, he said.
University participation in NNMI naturally builds more sustainability and environmental concerns into the conversation, according to Lisa Camp, associate dean for strategic initiatives at the School of Engineering at Case Western Reserve University. Case Western is participating in one of NAMII's first projects and is one of the institute's original members.
"When a university gets involved, you are changing the perspective of what manufacturing means" and involving students who are excited about and thinking about manufacturing, Camp said. "This is a sustainable generation. They think about things differently. That's a great power to bring to this sector."
Sustainability and environmental innovation are just one example of the new conversations among universities, large manufacturers, and small and medium-sized companies that are happening in the "Tech Belt" where NAMII is located in eastern Ohio, along with Pennsylvania and West Virginia, Camp added.
"We are spurring action that is a little bit different," she said. "Would industry have done this without NAMII? Maybe, eventually. But now that we are giving innovation a push, they are taking it up themselves sooner."
Elizabeth Wayman, a senior adviser in DOE's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, said the strength of the institutes is not only in conversations within an institute or region, but the ability for them to be "linked" and build off the work between them and across federal agencies.
For instance DOE is leading one of the three new institutes, which will focus on next-generation power electronics — mainly a technology known as "wideband gap semiconductors" that can significantly improve energy efficiency and power conversion for industrial motors, inverters, transformers and electric vehicles. Wayman says it will work closely with the second NNMI institute, led by DOD and focusing on digital manufacturing and design.
DOD is also standing up the third NNMI focused on lightweight metal, which can similarly work closely with DOE's Carbon Fiber Technology Facility at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, which is not officially part of NNMI but is a public-private partnership to lower the cost and scale up the use of carbon fiber, a composite, lightweight material that is at least as strong as steel and shows significant promise for the aerospace and automotive sectors.
"This is going to be a transformative asset for the nation," Wayman said. "It will ultimately lead to not only American leadership in the clean energy economy but for U.S. competitiveness broadly in the manufacturing sector."
Three-legged stool
The lack of certain funding from the government is giving many stakeholders pause about the long-term impact of the project, although it is still very early in the process. Another element of concern is maintaining a strong NNMI participation by small and medium-sized businesses, which need to experience benefits — whether in data or relationships — relatively quickly to justify the expense.
Gary Fedder, an adviser for NAMII and the director of the Institute for Complex Engineered Systems (ICES), the Howard M. Wilkoff professor of electrical and computer engineering, and professor of the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, said government participation has been important to developing the community of universities, community colleges and companies that NAMII has been able to create and is crucial for any future institutes.
"The government has to stick with this for a while," Fedder said. "It is like pulling out one leg in the three-legged stool. We need the government as a partner."
There is some recent momentum on that front. A bipartisan, bicameral bill was introduced just before Congress' August recess to provide $600 million to authorize NNMI. The bill is co-sponsored by Sens. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) and Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) in the Senate, S. 1468, and in the House by Reps. Tom Reed (R-N.Y.) and Joe Kennedy (D-Mass.), H. 2996. Blunt and Brown included an amendment in the Senate 2014 budget to support the institutes back in February as well.
Although tax reform is still the top issue for its members, the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) is working with these policymakers, as well as the White House, to move the NNMI bill forward, according to Brian Raymond, NAM's director of technology policy.
"It's been a great relationship on both sides of the aisle. Everyone has the growth of manufacturing in mind," Raymond said. "Frankly, it looks like it is a pretty good bill."
The issue of technology and innovation runs through all sectors, including energy, defense and health — and the manufacturers are at the forefront, Raymond said.
"This has been around for a long time, but more and more so, manufacturers are becoming the face of these issues," he added.
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The Great Recovery
The Royal Society of Arts has launched the Great Recovery programme, which aims to encourage designers to minimise waste from the products they create.
The initiative is being led by RSA design directors Sophie Thomas and Nat Hunter, and will play out through a series of workshops, as well as a £1.25 million Technology Strategy Board competition, which will fund feasibility studies into redesigning products.
Sophie Thomas says the inspiration for the Great Recovery came during a visit to a Dutch recycling plant, where she saw a recovery worker struggling to remove the compressor from the back of a fridge.
She says, 'The way we design now is much more about off-the-shelf components coming together than thinking about how products should be designed as a whole.
'Financially this can be more efficient, but in terms of material recovery it can make things much more difficult. You can end up with situations like TVs with six different screws in them, or Apple Macs being glued together.'
The aim of the Great Recovery, Thomas says, is to bring designers together with those in different parts of the product chain – marketers, chemists, recovery experts – to give everyone more of an insight into what is needed to improve efficiency.
This could be in terms of developing closed-loop systems, or improving longevity of products to reduce waste.
Thomas says, 'In the workshops we will, for example, be bringing together a designer and a chemist, and putting a kettle in front of them to see what happens.
'You don't need boiling water to make tea, so is there a way of creating a kettle that keeps the water below boiling point to reduce energy use.'
Some of the workshops – which are taking place over the next six months, will be held in landfill sites and recycling plants, to provide first-hand and visceral evidence of the consequences of waste.
Thomas says, 'This is about building new collaborations and spotting innovation gaps. We also want to set up a comprehensive circular network, so that if designers need help with a certain material or chemical, for example, they can get it.'
The Great Recovery project is also being supported by a TSB competition, which is funding up to 50 feasibility studies into the redesign of products, components and systems with the aim of 'closing the loop'.
The deadline for registrations for the first round of the competition is 5 December, for more information, visit: www.innovateuk.org. For more information on The Great Recovery visit www.greatrecovery.org.uk.
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As an employer, you will have received over the weekend, a letter from David Cameron telling you about a £2,000 National Insurance break available to businesses and charities, which came into effect on 6 April 2014.
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Imperial or "Golden" Osetra caviar is a rare variety which used to be exclusively reserved for the czars of Russia. It is produced from the most mature Ocetra Sturgeon. At that point, the eggs change to a pale golden colour and the flavour becomes smooth, creamy, and delicate. With its medium sized grains and firm texture, Imperial Caviar is the connoisseur's favourite caviar for its excellent taste and quality.
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Osetra (also Oscietra, Ossetra, or Asetra) caviar, is one of the most prized and expensive types of caviar, (eclipsed in price only by Beluga caviar). It is obtained from Ossetra sturgeon which weighs 50-400 pounds and can live up to 50 years.
Osetra caviar varies in color, from deep brown to gold. Lighter varieties are more sought after, as they have the richest flavor and come from the oldest of sturgeon. Golden Osetra is a rare form of Osetra caviar, and is golden-yellow in color with a very rich flavor.
The word Osetra is the transcription of the Russian word "осётр" ("осeтр") which translates into English as sturgeon. At one time the term "ossetra" simply referred to Russian sturgeon species harvested for this type of caviar.


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After a week of inquiry, the administration finally found the Spa's "NO RACISTS, NO HOMOPHOBES, NO RAPISTS, NO AGEISTS…" banner in a club room and subsequently issued a work order for the banner to be put back up. The banner—which belongs to the Women of Color Alliance and Feminist Alliance—had previously been taken down from its position hanging over the Joseph Family Spa. The banner removal remains shrouded in mystery; even Colby's administration is unclear as to why the banner was initially removed.
Dean of the College Burrell-McRae '94 told The Echo that it is true that in mid-August, right after the violence that occurred in Charlottesville, several members of the administration were walking through the Spa and noticed the banner. The administration started to question the context of the banner and "began to think about how we could convey the most welcoming and accessible message about our values in relation to that particular moment," especially considering that the class of 2021 is the most diverse class that Colby has ever admitted.
Burrell recalled wondering whether the banner truly was the most effective method of reaffirming Colby's values to the greater community. She wanted to know "how do we create a strong welcome message to new students and their families that really foregrounds our commitment to equity, inclusion and social justice? In the context of Charlottesville, would the banner make some people feel anxious about coming [to Colby]? Were the families of students going to leave Colby with angst because they did not have the context for the banner?" Most importantly, Burrell wanted to start a campus conversation; "How do we create a context for people to feel like they are invited into conversations rather than closed out from those conversations?" Similarly,Associate Dean of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Betty G. Sasaki wanted to make the banner a "conversation point about how [Colby] expresses our values."
Because of their desire to start a campus-wide conversation, Burrell and Sasaki reached out to student advisors from various Pugh Center student groups to invite them to discuss how the Pugh might be "most impactful in the ways in which we convey our messages." Burrell insisted that "there was never any intention to remove the banner without student input." However, because it was still summer, Burrell did not receive replies from all the student groups involved in the discussion and therefore decided not to take any action regarding the banner.
It was not until right when orientation began that Burrell noticed that the banner was gone. Burrell inquired about the banner among the staff and faculty but explained to The Echo that "to be fully transparent, we do not know who took the banner down. We genuinely did not know. This added to the feeling of confusion and sketchiness that something has happened. At this juncture, [the administration] has to be able to say if and when we messed up. But we have no idea who took the banner down."
Even though the administration does not know who removed the banner, Burrell explained that "I feel like this issue has caused a lot of confusion. I'm really sorry for that confusion… the story has grown legs and that was never intention." In fact, Burrell is adamant that she viewed the banner as a "wonderful opportunity to engage with our students and to address what is preventing us from feeling included and valued. Somehow it got completely switched to something else."
Burrell also stated that the issue has shown her that "there is a lack of trust" between the administration and the student body." Sasaki reaffirmed that the administration is "committed to building trust, to build those lines of communication, to be transparent and accountable."
Both Burrell and Sasaki take issues regarding social justice very seriously. In fact, Burrell herself is a social justice advocate; when she was a senior at Colby, she worked with several classmates to "start the work that eventually became the Pugh Center." The Pugh Center is dear to her heart, and she recognizes that the administration needs "to work harder to have a place where people feel like they belong. Being visible, being valued, being heard, being understood—to me, these are important. For a community like ours that's small and can have a feeling of being close knit, how can we exist so that no matter where we are we're thinking about these issues. This is not meant to be easy. We're willing to own that."


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This is the most positive news to come out of British Airways for some time!
Slightly disturbingly, Future Lab reported that a "business case" had to be prepared in order to sanction an extra hour or so of bacon rolls, but luckily for us it was approved.
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Political Racism in the Age of Obama
Political Racism in the Age of Obama
THE white students at Ole Miss who greeted President Obama's decisive re-election with racial slurs and nasty disruptions on Tuesday night show that the long shadows of race still hang eerily over us. Four years ago, when Mr. Obama became our first African-American president by putting together an impressive coalition of white, black and Latino voters, it might have appeared otherwise. Some observers even insisted that we had entered a "post-racial" era.
But while that cross-racial and ethnic coalition figured significantly in Mr. Obama's re-election last week, it has frayed over time — and may in fact have been weaker than we imagined to begin with. For close to the surface lies a political racism that harks back 150 years to the time of Reconstruction, when African-Americans won citizenship rights. Black men also won the right to vote and contested for power where they had previously been enslaved.
How is this so? The "birther" challenge, which galvanized so many Republican voters, expresses a deep unease with black claims to political inclusion and leadership that can be traced as far back as the 1860s. Then, white Southerners (and a fair share of white Northerners) questioned the legitimacy of black suffrage, viciously lampooned the behavior of new black officeholders and mobilized to murder and drive off local black leaders.
Much of the paramilitary work was done by the White League, the Ku Klux Klan and other vigilantes, who destroyed interracial Reconstruction governments and helped pave the road to the ferocious repression, disenfranchisement and segregation of the Jim Crow era.
D. W. Griffith's 1915 film, "The Birth of a Nation," which played to enthusiastic audiences, including President Woodrow Wilson, gave these sensibilities wide cultural sanction, with its depiction of Reconstruction's democratic impulses as a violation of white decency and its celebration of the Klan for saving the South and reuniting the nation.


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The Duke and Duchess of Hesse and by Rhine with their eldest daughter
3 of 19 portraits of Princess Victoria Alberta Elisabeth Mathilde Marie (née Princess of Hesse), Marchioness of Milford-Haven
© National Portrait Gallery, London
The Duke and Duchess of Hesse and by Rhine with their eldest daughter
by Hills & Saunders, published by A. Marion, Son & Co
albumen carte-de-visite, 13 June 1864
3 5/8 in. x 2 1/4 in. (93 mm x 57 mm) image size
acquired, 1937
Photographs Collection
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- Princess Alice, Grand Duchess of Hesse (1843-1878), Third child of Queen Victoria; wife of Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine. Sitter associated with 112 portraits. Identify
- Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine (1837-1892), Soldier; husband of Princess Alice, Grand Duchess of Hesse. Sitter in 49 portraits. Identify
- Princess Victoria Alberta Elisabeth Mathilde Marie (née Princess of Hesse), Marchioness of Milford-Haven (1863-1950), Granddaughter of Queen Victoria; wife of Prince Louis of Battenberg, 1st Marquess. Sitter associated with 21 portraits. Identify
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- Hills & Saunders (active 1850-1900), Photographers. Artist associated with 206 portraits.
- A. Marion, Son & Co, Photographers. Artist associated with 50 portraits.
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- Place made: Unknown Place (photographers' studio)
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Current affairsFirst of the Contagious Diseases Act. These acts allowed for the arrest, medical inspection and confinement of any woman suspected of being a prostitute in the port towns. Following huge public outcry over their discrimination against women, notably led by Josephine Butler, leader of the Ladies' National Association, the acts were eventually repealed.
Octavia Hill starts work on slums, and the International Working Men's Association is founded in London.
Art and scienceThe Scottish physicist James Clerk Maxwell presents his discoveries in the field of electromagnetics to the Royal Society. His paper A Dynamical Theory of the Electromagnetic Field expresses the basic laws of electricity and magnetism in unified fashion. Maxwell's equations, as his rules came to be known, helped create modern physics, laying the foundation for future work in special relativity and quantum mechanics.
InternationalAustria and Prussia combine forces to seize Schleswig-Holstein from Denmark.
Britain cedes Corfu, acquired from France in the Second Treaty of Paris (1815) to Greece. Although Britain had vigorously suppressed an uprising in 1849 in Cephalonia aiming to restore Iolian islands, the government changed policy throughout the 1850s and 60s.
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"The best result on dark matter so far, and we have just started!" Elena Aprile, Professor at Columbia University and XENON1T spokesperson, comments on the first result from the experiment, hosted in the INFN Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Italy, the largest underground laboratory for astroparticle physics. The results from a short 30-day run presented today, May 18th, to the scientific community, make XENON1T the most sensitive direct dark matter experiment world-wide, in particular for the search of the so-called WIMP (Weakly Interacting Massive Particle), one of the most favourite dark matter candidate.
"WIMPs did not show up in this first search with XENON1T, but we also did not expect them so soon!" says Aprile, "The best news is that the experiment continues to accumulate excellent data which will allow us to test quite soon the WIMP hypothesis in a region of mass and cross-section with normal atoms as never before". "A new phase in the race to detect dark matter with ultra-low background massive detectors on Earth has just began with XENON1T. We are proud to be at the forefront of the race with this amazing detector, the first of its kind."
Dark matter is one of the basic constituents of the Universe, five times more abundant than ordinary matter. Several astronomical measurements have corroborated the existence of dark matter, leading to a world-wide effort to observe directly dark matter particle interactions with ordinary matter in extremely sensitive detectors, which would confirm its existence and shed light on its properties. However, these interactions are so feeble that they have escaped direct detection up to this point, forcing scientists to build detectors that are more and more sensitive. The XENON Collaboration, that with XENON100 led the field for years in the past, is now back on the frontline with XENON1T. The result from a first short 30-day run shows that this detector has a new record low radioactivity level, many orders of magnitude below surrounding materials on Earth. With a total mass of about 3200 kg, XENON1T is at the same time the largest detector of this type ever built. The combination of significantly increased size with much lower background implies an excellent discovery potential in the years to come.
The experiment consists of a gigantic cylindrical metal tank, filled with ultra-pure water to shield the detector at his center. The XENON1T central detector, a so-called Liquid Xenon Time Projection Chamber (LXeTPC), sits within a cryostat in the middle of the water tank, fully submersed, in order to shield it as much as possible from natural radioactivity in the cavern. Beside the experiment, there is a three-storey-tall, transparent building crowded with equipment to keep the detector running, with physicists from all over the world. The XENON Collaboration consists of 135 researchers from the US, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, Portugal, France, the Netherlands, Israel, Sweden and the United Arab Emirates.
The latest detector of the XENON family, namely XENON1T, has been in science operation at the LNGS underground laboratory since autumn 2016. The mountain above the laboratory further shields the detector, preventing it to be perturbed by cosmic rays. But shielding from the outer world is not enough since all materials on Earth contain tiny traces of natural radioactivity. Thus extreme care was taken to find, select and process the materials making up the detector to achieve the lowest possible radioactive content. Laura Baudis, professor at the University of Zürich and professor Manfred Lindner from the Max-Planck-Institute for Nuclear Physics in Heidelberg emphasize that this allowed XENON1T to achieve record "silence", which is necessary to listen with a larger detector much better for the very weak voice of dark matter.
A particle interaction in liquid xenon leads to tiny flashes of light. This is what the XENON scientists are recording and studying to infer the position and the energy of the interacting particle and whether it might be dark matter or not.
The Italian groups, from INFN Bologna, Torino and the LNGS, coordinated by Marco Selvi (INFN researcher in Bologna) and leaded by Gabriella Sartorelli, Giancarlo Trinchero, and Walter Fulgione, respectively, are part of the XENON1T project since its birth in 2009.
They are responsible of the design, building and operation of the Muon Veto system inside the water tank, crucial to reduce the external backgrounds and those induced by the residual cosmic radiation. They also planned and carried out all the infrastructures built at LNGS, and lead the Monte Carlo simulation of the detector, where the detector performances were predicted and optimized, and the estimation of the various backgrounds was computed.
They are also involved in many aspects of the analysis that led to this first XENON1T result.
Despite the shortness of the 30-day science run the sensitivity of XENON1T has already overcome that of any other experiment in the field, probing un-explored dark matter territory.
Photo by Enrico Sacchetti


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Samsung Galaxy S III is the successor of the highly popular Galaxy S II smartphone. Samsung has managed to sell more than 10 million units of this device within two months of its official launch. Samsung is the worldwide Olympic partner in the wireless communications equipment category, while Galaxy s III is the official phone of the London 2012 Summer Olympic Games.
We have a good news for the folks who were planning to buy this device in the UK. Samsung recently launched a limited edition Team GB Galaxy S III for the customers to show their support for Team GB. The limited edition Galaxy S III models feature the Team GB lion on a marble white background and the union flag on a pebble blue background. It will also come with the original cover, allowing customers to convert their phone back to its original design.
Simon Stanford, Vice President, UK & IRE Telecommunications & Networks Division said:
"As a Worldwide Olympic Partner, we at Samsung want everyone to get behind Team GB and offer them support during the Olympic Games. We are delighted to be able to offer Carphone Warehouse customers the chance to own this exclusive London 2012 Samsung Galaxy SIII handset, combining the chance to support Team GB with owning a piece of cutting-edge Samsung technology."
There are no chnages in the specs of this device. It comes with the usual 4.8 inch Super-AMOLED HD display, 1.4 GHz quad-core processor, Android 4.0.4 (Ice Cream Sandwich) OS, TouchWiz 4.0 user interface, 8 megapixel rear-facing camera, Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n, 3G Connectivity, 16 GB internal memory, DLNA, HDMI out, Bluetooth 4.0 with EDR, up to 590 hrs of stand-by time, up to 11 hrs 40 mins of talk-time and a 2100 mAh Lithium-ion battery.
The limited edition Team GB Galaxy S III will be exclusively available at Carphone Warehouse stores starting from August 1. You can get this device for free with a 2 years service agreement and a £28 per month plan from major carriers including Vodafone, Orange, O2, T-Mobile, Talk Mobile and Three.


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JC Yasushige 164
From the breed that made Kobe Beef famous, this 100% full blood Wagyu bull will add marbling and carcass quality to any other breed. Wagyu Beef has a uniquely high ratio of oleic acid, which gives the beef its incomparable flavor and health benefits.
Pedigree breakdown by strain is 47% Tajima, 28% Kedaka/Tottori, 25% Itozakura for a balance of marbling, milk, and growth. Bull had a low birth weight of 51# and he will provide exceptional calving ease for heifers. He has a strong top line with excellent depth of rib and volume. He is very docile, registered with the American Wagyu Association, and free of the known genetic disorders. Semen priced at $40/straw, F.O.B. Elgin, TX, and is CSS certified.


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Hello Everyone! Meet the Beautiful Fe! I met her in Montclair California... real close to where my Grandfather went to art school. We had such a good time opening up her eyes and creating a dramatic look for both day or night. I loved how the brown metallic shadow showed of her eyes and also brought her hair color into the look.
Here is Fe with one eye only! I love how even lining the inner rim of the eye... the eye still looks bigger!
To get this look like Fe the products used were:
Eye Base: Aquatique Nude Eye Base
Liner: Black Coffee Eye Khol Pencil, Noir Artliner
Shadows: Kitten Heel (highlight), Click (crease), Impress (lid), Guest List (liner set and brow)
Brushes: 17 (highlight and crease), 18 dual end (lid and liner)
Mascara: Hypnose Drama
Thanks so much again Fe for sharing your look with everyone on here. I hope you got lots of great beautiful compliments at church. Keep up that great smile and making others feel good!
created by DARAIS (da-ray-iss) an Artist who found a life full of passion in the Art of Beauty...Obtainable by anyone who wants to empower themselves. "My canvas speaks to me as I paint proportion and balance to an unbalanced world. Everyone is a celebrity to me, some walk on red carpets, most walk on kid stained carpets!" This is not your morning wakeup call... But your Morning MakeUp Call!
Thursday, June 23, 2011
Fe... How to do a dark sparkle brown eye shadow
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This look is so beautiful, I am definitely trying this one :) Too bad we don't have Aquatique base in Europe :(ReplyDelete
It was really a learning experience, getting a first-hand lesson from the famous Make-Up Artist Darais. It was an experience to have come to get a face to face encounter with this famous artist. He is an expert in what he does & with a very pleasing attitude.ReplyDelete
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Cycle Route EuroVelo: Iron-Curtain-Trail - part Czechia - Black Sea
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Eger, Nordwesten, CZ (434 m NHN)
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Zarewo, , BG (16 m NHN)
Der ʺEiserner Vorhangʺ-Radweg, auch unter der Bezeichnung "Grünes Band Europa"-Radweg bekannt, führt über etwa 8.500 km von der Barentsee in Norwegen durch 24 europäische Staaten bis zum Schwarzen Meer entlang der Grenzen zwischen dem ehemaligen Ostblock und den Westmächten.
Das Grüne Band Europa (European Green Belt) ist eine Naturschutzinitiative, bei dem der durch den Kalten Krieg entstandene, weitgehend naturnah belassene Grenzstreifen quer durch Europa erhalten werden soll.
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- at European Cyclists Federation
- at http://cyclingeurope.org
- at http://www.kerekparut.com/ Three Rivers - Hungarian part of EV13
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For the Euro Velo Route 13 "Iron Curtain Trail" currently no complete official GPS track on the internet can be found. The project Euro Velo Route 13 plans to implement the route until 2020.
This route consists of the at OpenCycleMap available sections of EV13 and the routes of national and regional cycling networks:
- Czechia and Austria:
- partly EV13 track on Openstreetmap and partly according track indication on greenways.cz
- Slovakia:
- EV13 track on Openstreetmap
- Hungria:
- EV13 track on Openstreetmap
- Slovenia:
- created according to data from travelogue
- Croatia:
- EV13 track on Openstreetmap
- Serbia:
- created according to data from travelogue
- Romania:
- EV6 track on Openstreetmap
- Bulgaria:
- EV13 track on Openstreetmap
- some gaps in the routing have been closed with self made tracks
- Macedonia:
- EV13 track on Openstreetmap
- Greece:
- EV13 track on Openstreetmap
- Turkey:
- EV13 track on Openstreetmap
- some gaps in the routing have been closed with self made tracks
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Cheb is a city in Bohemia in Western Czech Republic with a population of 33,500 and is close to the German border.
The name is pronounced "khep" (the first sound like a German or Scottish "ch" or a Spanish "j" not as in "Chicken" - locals will make fun of you if you make this mistake). The city features a very quaint and pretty town square and winding alleys. However, outside of the center, the city is characterized by grimy heavy industry.
Museums and galleries:
- ⊙ Cheb Museum. 9am-5pm, closed Sun & Mon. 20th-century paintings of Cheb. 50Kc.
- ⊙ Art centrum Galerie 4 (photography gallery), Františkánské náměstí 30/1, ☎ +420 354 422 838. Tu-Su: 10:00-18:00 (no entry after 17:00), closed on state holidays. (updated Nov 2017)
- ⊙ Cheb Castle. Mostly in ruins except for its towers. Features the biggest Romanesque chapel in Bohemia. 30Kc.
On the rock, to the north-west of the city center, lies Cheb castle, built in the 12th century, and now mostly in ruins. The main attractions are the Chapel of St Erhard and Ursula, the Black Tower and the ruins of a palace; all from around 1180. The chapel has two stories; the lower storey is in Romanesque style, while the upper storey is Gothic. An eight-cornered opening connects the two storeys. The upper-storey contains a ribbed vault supported on four polygonal columns with statues depicting sins, including a statue of a prostitute and Onan. In the banquet room of this castle, Wallenstein's officers Terzky, Kinsky, Illo and Neumann were assassinated on 25 February 1634. Wallenstein himself was murdered few hours later by Captain Devereux in the burgomaster's house at the main square. The house, a 15th-century gothic town hall (Pachelbel House), was transformed in 1872, it contains many historical relics and antiquities of the town of Cheb.
- ⊙ Namesti Krale Jiriho z Podebrad - Main Square. 16th century former Jewish merchant houses.
On the Market Place dating from the 13th century are a group of houses originating from the late-Gothic period known as Špalíček. This distinctive feature of the market place is a bizarre complex of eleven houses. The outline of the two blocks can still be seen on the oldest existing records of 1472.
The Green House on the market place belonged to the well-known Wrendl dynasty, whose family crest lies above the entrance. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe frequently spent time here.
- ⊙ New Town Hall & State Gallery of the Arts. Boroque building from the 18th century. Features Czech modern art. 80Kc.
- ⊙ St. Wencelas Church.
- ⊙ St. Nicolas Church. Baroque building from the 13th century.
The Church of St. Nicholas was established in the 13th century as a three-naved basilica, of which the western portal and the lower part of the tower remain in place. The three-part nave, presbytery and sacristy stem from the Gothic era. After the fire of 1742, the tower was rebuilt with a baroque cupola, after the design of the indigenous architect Balthasar Neumann. The top of the twin steeples were destroyed by German artillery fire during World War II and restored in summer 2008.
- ⊙ Frantiskanske Namesti. Features the St. Clare Church and the Church of the Herald of the Virgin Mary.
The Franciscan Church is located in the town center. The Church of St. Clara was built between 1708 and 1711 according to a design of Christoph Dientzenhofer.
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October 2018
Wow, it's officially fall. With fall, comes Halloween. We have some harvest-red and vampire-red colors most suitable for long, late-night adventures. Unlike blood, they won't drip, smear or transfer. Nothing spooky here.
September 2018
Summer has just ended - wow, that was quick. The end of seasons ring in new shades. Let's show our popular nudes some love again - Gabe, Kevin, Owen. To get the perfect shade of nude, you can also cocktail these colors to create a new, personalized shade.


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Zayn Malik took to The Voice stage for their finale in Los Angeles, California. The singer wore a pair of the AGOLDE Skinny Jeans in Liverpool with a quilted leather Balmain coat.
We saw Zayn's girlfriend, Gigi Hadid, wear these for her appearance on MasterChef Celebrity Showdown not too long ago. It does have me wondering if we will be seeing them both wear them at the same time? It'll be an interesting sighting to see how they both will be styling them as they both keep their looks pretty casual. Would you like to see the couple wearing matching pairs? You can click here to purchase AGOLDE from REVOLVE.


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NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- You'd never consider donating $300 of your annual income to a bank, would you? If you're withdrawing cash from an ATM twice a week that could be just what you're doing.
Cash machines are convenient, but the fees they charge cost Americans more than $4 billion a year, reports Bankrate.com. You pay an average $1.64 per transaction every time you withdraw money from an ATM owned by a bank where you don't hold an account. Tack on the average $1.25 your own bank charges for each withdrawal and you're looking at fees of roughly $300 a year.
Here are four ways to sidestep surcharges:
- Take out larger amounts of money. Avoid extra fees by withdrawing one lump sum to cover your weekly expenses. This can also help you stay on budget. Once you've made your way through the week's cash, you'll know it's time to stop spending.
- Make a point of "point-of-sale" transactions. Don't overlook the opportunity to get cash back at your local grocery store or pharmacy. It generally costs far less than visiting an "off-network" ATM.
- Avoid abusing out-of-town ATMs. Debit cards make it tempting to use ATMs when you're away from home, but this can cost you a bundle. When traveling, plan on using checks and credit cards instead.
- Consider credit unions. To stay competitive with national banks, many credit unions offer lower transaction fees. You may have a harder time getting at your cash, given the dearth of credit union ATMs, but it will save you money in the long run. To locate a credit union in your area, visit the National Credit Union Association at Cuna.org.


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Alcohol and cancer, no longer a speculation but now an undeniable reality. However, I will be honest – back when I was a big drinker, I did not want to stop drinking because I was worried about alcohol and cancer.
I quit drinking alcohol because it had turned me into a fat, lazy zombie. Booze had stolen my money, my marriage, and my energy. I wanted this poison out of my life.
Of course, I was scared of the damage I was doing to my liver but I never lost sleep about the connection between alcohol and cancer.
The Strangely Different View of Cigarettes
Cigarette packets have long since featured graphic warning labels about the risk of cancers. However, the most the drinks manufacturers have ever done is to plaster a meaningless 'Drink Responsibly' tag somewhere near the barcode.
This is meaningless because people who are addicted to alcohol can't drink responsibly, so they know it won't make the slightest impact on their profits.
The hard reality is, alcohol has been to be proven responsible for at least seven fatal types of cancer. Including cancer of the mouth and throat.
Why Don't Bottles Have Warnings Of Alcohol And Cancer?
It's a good question and Canada might be about to lead the way in this regard. Yukon is being set up as a screening area for several brand-new kinds of labels on alcohol containers.
Forget 'Drink Responsibly' these big stickers warn directly of the cancer risks linked with drinking and aim to promote better habits.
A couple of distinct labels were revealed at a major Canadian Liquor Outlet on Wednesday. These warning tags will be attached to all wine & spirit bottles and beer cans sold in the territory over the next nine months, as part of an evolving Wellness Canada research project.
A Golden Opportunity
"We have the opportunity to be a forerunner in Canada, as well as throughout the world. To illustrate the potential advantages of labeling containers," said Brendan Hanley, the territory's primary clinical officer of health.
Dr. Hanley claims Northern Canada has the tendency to have bigger rates of alcohol consumption, including by young people and teens. This is compared to the majority of Canada. Yukon also has fairly high figures of alcohol-related violence.
Half-hearted Warnings
Just like the USA and UK, half-hearted warning labels have been utilized on alcohol bottle for many years. However, these have been mainly used to caution against the risks of drinking while expecting a baby. The Northern Canada test labels are unique in pointing to tumors and carcinoma as yet another danger of an alcohol use disorder.
"Alcohol can cause cancer including breast and colon cancers," the graphic warning of one of the labels.
Another sticker focuses on healthy routines, trying to dissuade people from consuming alcohol in a greater amount than two or three standard alcoholic beverages per day. They also motivate people to "plan two or more non-drinking days every week.".
The labels are being introduced as part of a Wellness Canada research strategy. The experiment is focused on alcohol use only in Northern Canada at the moment.
Big & Bold – Alcohol And Cancer!
The warning labels are relatively bigger in dimension than anything that has gone before. This is to make them quickly recognized and easy to read. Forget black and white, they are full color with a vivid yellow background and crimson boundary. They are designed so that they attract attention, and they cannot be overlooked.
About Time!
Apparently, when liquor shore customers were surveyed the last springtime in Northern Canada, as a component of the project. People were asked if they wanted more warning labels.
Most alcoholics lie about their addiction so honesty was not totally expected in the results. However, Surprisingly they said yes. That's consistent with research across right across Canada.
Information is Power
"People want more information about alcohol, on wine bottles", said Erin Hobin, the project's lead researcher.
Researchers will attempt to evaluate whether the labels have an effect on customer perspectives and behaviors in the country. Next springtime, they'll once again survey off license users and review any new findings to collect and compare information with the previous spring season.
The analysts can also compare study and revenues details from Northern Canada with similar information from the country as a whole, where the stickers are not being implemented yet.
Affecting habits.
The analysts are not fooling themselves. They are realistic about the outcome and don't expect alcohol warning stamps to suddenly stop people from drinking alcohol altogether.
That isn't the aim! The real objective is to just affect consumers' attitudes and habits in the "wider sense," and make the cancer warning stickers a part of a larger social wellness strategy.
- Do stickers increase awareness and awareness of the health risks of drinking alcohol?
- Will warning labels enhance people's plans to perhaps re-think their drinking, or lower their alcohol intake?
- Do they make people consider the risks of alcohol and cancer?
Huge Congrats
All this remains to be seen. For the moment we say huge congratulations to Canada and hope the results of this experiment lead to big changes in attitudes around the world.
If you are ready to kick this attractively packaged poison out of your life. Click here for more information on the Stop Drinking Expert program.


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Involving local communities in development projects not only can improve their quality but also reduce abuse of funds
WASHINGTON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Citizen-led action can complement the anti-corruption work of governments and the private sector and increase chances of successful development projects that reduce poverty, experts said at the World Bank spring meetings.
Involving local communities in the design and monitoring of development projects not only can improve their quality but also reduce abuse of funds, civil society groups and policymakers said.
"Projects fail because citizens are not listened to. Citizen engagement has the potential to be the most transformational change in the way we work," said Sara Aviel, U.S. representative to the World Bank in opening a panel discussion on how to accelerate citizen's participation and responsive government.
Citizen engagement is an important theme running through sessions at the World Bank spring meetings in Washington, part of President Jim Yong Kim's push to strengthen the efforts of the development institution in its quest to end extreme poverty by 2030.
Achieving that goal will prove no easy task, Kim said in his opening press conference on Thursday.
"The vast rolls of the poorest – those earning less than $1.25 day - will have to decrease by 50 million people each year. Think about it: To reach our goal, one million people each week will have to lift themselves out of poverty—that's each week for the next 16 years," he said.
This will require drawing on expertise from a range of different sectors and tailoring solutions to each country's needs, experts said. Many innovative approaches are needed, and fostering citizen input to share ideas will be important.
Sanjay Pradhan, the vice president for change who is leading a restructuring of the World Bank's operations, sketched out a collaborative model of government, private sector and citizens working collectively to solve problems.
The bank's primary focus is on helping governments, who are its clients and its shareholders. But in recognising that citizens play a crucial role in the success of projects, the bank needs to go further in supporting governments to look for ways to incorporate citizens' voices in decision-making, Pradhan said.
New digital technologies and the Internet can play a vital role, because they allow governments to access quickly and cheaply a wide range of views, he said.
The Philippines has embraced this community-centered and technology-based approach to development, said Edwin Lacierda, cabinet secretary for President Benigno Aquino. For his government the change was easier because citizen engagement was viewed as an important tool in rebuilding trust after the corruption of the Marcos era, he said.
The Philippines has joined the Open Government Partnership, a multi-national commitment to make government information open and accessible using technology. It publishes government budgets online, and it has gone even further by launching a grassroots budget consultation process to ensure it responds to citizens' needs. The Philippines also has launched geo-tagging, which allows citizens to monitor infrastructure projects by uploading photographs to a central office that checks whether construction complies with design specifications, he said.
However Anabel Cruz, director of the Communication and Development Institute based in Uruguay which promotes civil society's role in policymaking, warned of fatigue among poor citizens over efforts to engage them in the development process, especially when results are not clear.
"We have to be alert. There is no magic bullet with technology. You can open up a web page but because you are collecting data doesn't mean anyone is doing anything about it and accountability is going on," Cruz said.
Who has access to the technology, be it the Internet or a mobile phone, will affect the quality of data collected; who has the time to spend lobbying the government in a poor community where food for survival is at a premium limits participation; and in a number of communities, the very act of reporting abuse can be dangerous, said Benedicte de la Briere, senior economist for governance at the World Bank.
"Are you going to stand up to the only teacher in your community and say, 'Stop beating my child', or 'Stop taking their lunch', or 'Stop raping my daughter'? These are powerful people in these communities," she said.
These asymmetries of power need to be addressed, said Chris Underwood, director of Making All Voices Count, which gives grants to innovative citizen projects that incorporate technology.
One way the World Bank has sought to strengthen civic participation is through the Global Partnership for Social Accountability. Set up in 2012, the World Bank has invested $20 million, which has been topped up by foundations. So far 37 countries have joined.
One is Moldova, where the civil society group Expert-Grup has designed a school monitoring project to improve the quality of education. Another is the Partnership for Transparency Fund (PTF), which is working in the Philippines to implement citizen monitoring of a government programme that makes cash payments to 300,000 pregnant women.
Vinay Bhargava, PTF's chief technical adviser, said its purpose is to see whether citizens can better address challenges the government faced in ensuring that money was delivered to the women most in need, and checking they used the healthcare and education services tied to the programme.
"I believe there are limits to what bureaucracy can do. There are certain things bureaucracy must do well, but involvement of the citizen can take it to the next level," Bhargava said.
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TORONTO, Aug 8 (Reuters) - Canada's main stock index hit its highest level in more than a year on Monday as energy stocks jumped with rising oil prices amid improved risk sentiment.
At 10:08 a.m. EDT (1408 GMT), the Toronto Stock Exchange's S&P/TSX composite index rose 76.08 points, or 0.52 percent, to 14,725.94, its strongest point since July 17 last year.
The most influential gainers included its biggest energy companies, with Suncor Energy Inc advancing 1.2 percent to C$35.45 and Canadian Natural Resources up 1.8 percent to C$41.33. The energy group climbed 1.9 percent overall.
Oil rose after a report of renewed calls by some OPEC members to restrain output, but analysts warned the bearish fundamentals that brought prices to four-month lows last week still lurked.
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U.S. crude prices were up 2.5 percent to $42.84 a barrel, while Brent added 2.2 percent to $45.22.
The value of Canadian building permits unexpectedly sank in June, hurt by a drop in construction intentions for apartment and condominium buildings in Ontario and British Columbia, data from Statistics Canada showed on Monday. (Reporting by Alastair Sharp; Editing by Bill Trott)
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Table of Contents
Since 2006, our project have seen a lot of peoples contributing and helping in getting a stable game. Here is the list of their name, and which task they made for Evol Online.
If you know somebody who is (or if you are) not on this list, and that you think that this person/you should be there, contact Reid Yaro.
Content Contributions
Game Design
KaTSuo (Gremly) (2005-2007)
- Founder of the EvoL project.
- Main Game Designer of the Beta 0.5.0, 0.5.1, 0.5.2, 0.5.3 of the old EvoL.
Reid Yaro (2010-present)
- Main Game Designer of the Pre-Alpha, Alpha, The Beta sessions and all future releases of the actual Evol Online.
Level Design
Ant0ine-ZeShadok (Antoine Ruck) (2010-2011)
- Mainly contributing on the Release2 cave design.
- Added cave maps of 002-3-x.
KaTSuo (Gremly) (2005-2007)
- Concepted the world-map of the Aurora island.
Reid Yaro (2010-present)
- Worked on the Beta sessions' level design.
- Concepted new world-maps along the one from KaTSuo.
- In-charge of the level design task since 2010.
Game Art
CheccoDess (Lisa) (2011) Digital Artist
- Did one of the background of the game.
Coolkid782 (2010-2012) Pixel Artist
- Author of the new player-set.
- Ratto, Tortugas, Little-Blub monsters sprites.
- He also contribued on the Croc and Blub monsters.
Der Loisl (2010) Pixel Artist
- Various icons.
Enchilado (W.E. Sayers) (2011-2012) Pixel Artist
- Various icons.
- Contributor of the Croc monster.
Fey (Alexandre Le Corre) (2010) Digital Artist
- Author of the Site theme.
Hal9000 (Francesco Miglietta) (2012) Digital Artist
- Book collection.
Irukard (Chris Krzysztof) (2011)
- Evol's mascott.
- Evol's logo.
IvanMorve (Martin) (2010-2012) Pixel Artist
- Artis's Village tileset.
- Arti's Village's adds tileset.
- Long grass tiles.
- Ground tile
- Pavement tiles.
- Hammock tiles.
- Village indoors tiles.
- Random fixs.
Kolokolna-Kansu (Olga Zhupina) (2009-2012) Pixel Artist - Digital Artist
- Did one of the background of the game.
- Various icons.
Len (Len Pabin) (2012) Pixel Artist
- Sand tileset.
- Animated water tileset.
- Variations and transitions tiles.
- Cliff tileset.
Lien (Felix Jely) (2010-2011) Pixel Artist
- Village indoor2 tiles.
- Village indoor tiles.
- Various monsters and items.
Mandi Paugh (2011) Pixel Artist
- Hairstyle #22.
Reid Yaro (2010-present) Pixel Artist - Digital Artist
- Contribution in almost every tilesets.
- Player's races from concept of Modanung.
- Most items from the db and privart.
- Pious monster from concept of Fother_J.
- New ManaPlus' emotes, using the wheel from Modanung.
- "A bit of every art in game".
Tayoko (2012) Pixel Artist
- Hairstyle #26.
Concept Art
Posydonia (Mélanie Dinot) (2011-2012)
Minnymart3 (2011)
- Croc monster.
Reid Yaro (2010-2012)
- 000-0, 000-1 and world-map concept art.
- Artis' monsters.
- Story.
- Aurora's islands.
Music and SFX
BartK (Bart Kelsey) CC BY SA 3.0 (2011)
p0ss CC BY SA 3.0 (2011)
Sola (Ezili) CC BY SA 3.0 (2011)
- Most monsters' SFX.
- Ezili - Ocean's sounds.
KomradeJack (Jack Menhorn) CC BY SA 3.0 (2012)
- Croconut's SFX.
[Guitarz1970 (Mike Tribulas) CC BY SA 3.0 (2012)
- Halloween theme.
Beta 1
Here's the list of the people who contributed with their scripting skills on the Beta 1 of Evol Online.
Translation Contributions
- Derpella
- Candy
Other Contributions
- Mageia's Support.
- Old site.
- Piman
- Mathematic and Game Concept.
- Sprite Animation Editor.
We want to give a special thanks to some projects, which contribued directly or indirectly in getting Evol Online what you actually see today.
- Crew of Red Corsair with mainly Nard, Taree and Derpella.
- Their support helped us to find new contributors and to keep some nice relations with The Mana World.
Some of the artworks and XML files presents on Evol Online comes from The Mana World Project, here you can found the list of developers and contributors of this project. The Mana World.


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Review: 'Phantom' at Westchester Broadway Theatre
While I knew that there were several PHANTOM films, I brought along as my guest a huge PHANTOM fan to help me appreciate the musical.Published: Tuesday, September 25, 2018 By: Nancy Sasso Janis
Westchester Broadway Theatre has opened their 207th production and it is PHANTOM, not to be confused with Andrew Lloyd Webber's madly popular PHANTOM OF THE OPERA that continues to run on Broadway and which I still have yet to see. This musical with music and lyrics by Maury Yeston (GRAND HOTEL) and a book by Arthur Kopit is based on the novel Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux. This team was the Tony Award-winning collaborators for the Broadway Musical NINE.
It was interesting that Yeston & Kopit's PHANTOM made its New York Premiere on the stage of WBT in 1992 and enjoyed a record-breaking nine-month run. The original production was directed by William Pullinsi and starred Robert Cuccioli as the Phantom and Glory Crampton as Christine Daeé. PHANTOM returned to the WBT stage in both 1996 and 2007, both directed and choreographed by Tom Polum, who had appeared in the original production. The current WBT production was directed and choreographed by Mr. Polum with music direction by Bob Bray, with musical staging by Erica Mansfield.
Yeston refers to PHANTOM as "the greatest hit never to be produced on Broadway."
While I knew that there were several PHANTOM films, I brought along as my guest a huge PHANTOM fan to help me see the differences between the two versions of the musical. While both shows are based on the same novel, the Webber extravaganza is more like an opera in that it is completely sung through. The Yeston/Kopit PHANTOM is more of a traditional Broadway musical that features dialogue and songs throughout. My expert agreed that the result is that the latter becomes a gripping story featuring richly drawn characters, a few impressive special effects, and some truly beautiful music.
For those of us that are unfamiliar with the backstory, this PHANTOM story revolves around the central character of a man named Erik, who was born and raised in the catacombs under the Paris Opera House. The "phantom" agrees to take on as a student the street singer named Christine, a young woman with a natural talent and a beautiful voice who lacks the special training to perform in an opera company. One condition of the training is that she will never see his face, which he always covers with a mask. When she eventually auditions, she is given the opportunity to play a principal part in an opera. Without realizing it, the two fall in love, but the relationship becomes obsessive and impossible, leading to a shocking conclusion. I easily followed the emotional story and the backstory explained the motivation for most of the actions of the characters.
The incredibly talented cast is led by Matthew Billman (who will be joining the upcoming Jersey Tenors Midwest Tour) in the role of Erik/The Phantom in his WBT debut and Kayleen Seidl as Christine Daaé in her debut with WBT. Mr. Billman embodied the mysterious shadow that is the Phantom and made the most of his beautiful cape. Ms. Seidl, who recently appeared in the American premiere of FIDDLER ON THE ROOF in Yiddish directed by Joel Grey, possesses the spectacular soprano to pull off the role of Christine and she lit up the stage.
James Van Treuren, who appeared in all three of the previous productions of PHANTOM at WBT, played Gérard Carrière. Larry Luck was Count Philippe de Chandon, whose influence helps Christine get a minor job with the Opera. Kilty Reidy played Alaine Cholet, the new head of the Opera, in his 10th WBT production, and Stuart Marland (original cast of NEWSIES on Broadway) was Inspector Ledoux. Ryan Alexander Jacobs played Joseph Buquet and Roger Preston Smith was Jean Claude in his 11th show on this stage.
Sandy Rosenberg returned to WBT to perfectly play the big role of the diva Carlotta, the wife of Alaine Cholet, as she had done 11 years ago. I remembered the actress from her performance as Sr. Mary Lazarus in SISTER ACT on this stage, and in this role, she did not disappoint. Her demise was quite spectacularly done with impressive lighting.
The ensemble is made up of Christopher Brand, Julia Louise Hosack, Alec James, Caroline Kane, Melissa Maricich, Corey Joseph Masklee, Alison Rose Munn (ONCE National Tour,) Andrew Norlen, Jose Plaza, Don Rey, and Kelsey Self (ANNIE at WBT.) Shout out to ensemble member Monica Owen, a graduate of The Hartt School who appeared in THE COMEDY OF ERRORS at Hartford Stage. The children who alternate performances as Young Eric include L. Garber, L Kaplan and D. Spiegelman.
Mr. Bray leads seven other offstage musicians that never overpowered the voices. The associate choreographer was Erica Mansfield. Set Design by Steve Loftus was moody and very functional; I have never seen the circular platform that rises out of the floor used more effectively and yes, there is a chandelier. I wasn't really sure why there needed to be a magical mask holder that was lowered from the ceiling, but I loved the other touches of magic.
Lighting design by Andrew Gmoser was often stunning and sound design by Mark Zuckerman had only a few hiccups. The costume designed by Keith Nielsen fit the era in Paris and were lovely and flattering. Wig/hair design by Gerard Kelly only added to the visual beauty of what could easily have been envisioned as a horror movie.
I usually comment about the delicious food that I enjoyed before the performance. From the weekend matinee menu, I chose the show special fish and chips and it was very good. My guest Tricia sampled the chicken Francese, a new item on the menu, and she reported that she enjoyed it. The Phantom's Crush is the signature drink for this show.
The long run of this stunning production is Sept. 13 - Nov. 25, 2018, and then after a break for the holiday show, Dec. 27, 2018 - Jan. 27, 2019


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Free Crochet Infinity Scarf Patterns
Infinity scarves are all the rage this year. What better way to create them, but with crochet. Here you'll find all of the free crochet patterns that you could need. There are tutorials to show you how to create your own pattern. Included are scarves worked in the round and scarves that are later sewn together when finished. One is featured that is buttoned together.
An infinity scarf is a long tube that is wound around the neck to create a cowl appearance. You can easily design your own. All you need is an extra long scarf and sew the ends together or work the scarf in the round.
Many of these designs give the measurements and you can just use those and use your own pattern stitch. When finished, just double wrap the scarf around your neck. If you crochet the scarf long enough, you can even triple wrap it or just wear it as an extra long scarf.
If using a different weight than bulky yarn, it helps to use a soft yarn and a larger hook than normal. This will give the scarf a better drape. Many of the scarves here are crocheted with extra bulky yarn. Lion Brand Extra Thick and Quick seems to be the popular choice.
I've used worsted weight and that provides an extra warm scarf. With that I use a size J hook.
Free Patterns
Just click on the blue titles below to be taken to the free patterns with photos.
Chevron Lace - The pattern just goes around the neck and most infinity scarves wrap twice. This design is a great way to use up those balls of yarn that are leftovers. The designer suggest to just continue in the pattern if you would like a longer one.
A DK weight yarn was used and a size H crochet hook. If you have lots of worsted weight scraps, those should work fine too. The scarf will be just a little wider.
Favecrafts Paradores Infinity Scarf - The pattern states that it is for fashion lovers only. It looks like a nice warm scarf to me though. The scarf is designed with Caron Spa yarn and a size H hook. The pattern suggests that you can drape it around your neck like any infinity scarf or throw it across your shoulders.
Fiber Flux Pavement Infinity Scarf - This scarf is designed with Lion Brand Thick and Quick Wool Ease yarn. You'll also need a size N hook. The project can be finished super quick. You could use any other extra bulky yarn. It is created with a V-stitch which is easy to crochet.
Hookers Don't Bite Sugared Ribs Scarf - You'll need easy to find worsted weight yarn and a size J hook. The pattern does use a foundation half double crochet and a raised single crochet. She explains how to create the stitches which are easy. Also included are photos to guide you through the project.
How to Crochet a Ribbed Infinity - by Ohshalala on Youtube
Lacy Infinity Scarf - This scarf is warm and crochets up quickly with worsted weight yarn. The open shell pattern gives it a lacy look.
My Favourite Things Chunky Infinity Scarf - This scarf is crocheted with a pretty shell pattern. 8-ply yarn is used, but 2 strands of 4-ply should work. Included are videos and photos to help you through the project.
My Hobby is Crochet Infinity Scarf - She used Red Heart with Love yarn. I just purchased a skein of this yarn to try for the first time last night. I can't wait to try it.
The scarf is crocheted with a size 6.00 mm or size J hook. It shouldn't take you long to crochet the project.
On The Wings of a Dove Infinity Scarf - This scarf can be crocheted in just a little over an hour. She used Lion Brand Thick and Quick and a size N hook. It is crocheted in the round and looks like an easy pattern.
Pumpkin Infinity - Dandelion Daze offer this free pattern. The pattern uses a star stitch which she says is easy once you learn it. 2 video links are included so you can learn the stitch. 4-ply worsted weight was used and a size H hook. I'd try using Caron Simply Soft to get a better drape.
Scarfati - The photo at the right, shows two scarves together. This can be fun, since you can have one or as many as you'd like. Each takes a skein of bulky weight yarn. She used Adriafil Cortina which comes in 98 yard skeins. You'll also need a size K hook, so these should crochet up quickly.
How to Crochet an Easy Infinity Scarf - by BohemianThings on Youtube
Super Chunky Tutorial - What's for Dinner Blog offers this free pattern that is crocheted with 4 skeins of Lion Brand Wool Ease Thick and Quick. You'll need a size N hook. The pattern is another quick and easy project to complete. Photos guide you through the entire pattern.
The Stingy Stitcher Blue Infinity - Less than a skein of Caron Simply Soft yarn was used for the scarf. The scarf is crocheted with a J hook. It is another quick project.
Are Infinity Scarves Your Favorite?
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What great timing. I'm currently practicing crocheting infinity scarves. These patterns should really inspire me.
beautiful patterns. Great hub! voted up and useful
This is a nice assortment of patterns. I like the Red Heart Infinity pattern - will be trying that one. I have a drawer full of these that I have made, and wear them all the time. Nice hub! Tweeted!
I can knit, but have never crocheted. I have been thinking I ought to try it and some of these patterns look like they show you how to do certain stitches, so I shall come back to this and have a go. Thanks for all the information.
Thank you. I'm getting back to crocheting after a few years away from it. If you have any more patterns please publish.
Great Hub.
Beautiful Patterns...!!