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Motorsports: Ghosh and Ashwin top in Coffee Day Rally
Chikmagalur - Amittrajit Ghosh (co?driver Ashwin Naik) won the Coffee Day Rally, the third round of the FMSCI?Indian National Rally Championship, but only after the original winner Karna Kadur (Somonita Ghosh) took a 40?second penalty to be placed second, here Saturday.
The unofficial results that had declared Kadur as the overall and 2000cc (Group N) class winner were subsequently altered upon audit and Ghosh emerged champion with a timing of one hour, 21 minutes, 59.5 seconds.
Kadur slipped to second spot with 1:22:08.3 while Bangalore's Vikram Devadasen (Somayya AG) finished a creditable third clocking 1:22:40.9 on a day that saw 14 retirements including Zuhin A (Musa Sherif), the only entrant in the premium Indian Rally Championship class for all?wheel drive cars following a turbo failure in his Subaru Impreza.
The Kolkata?based Ghosh, driving a Mistubishi Lancer Cedia, who started the day with a two?second advantage over Kadur in three of the six Special Stages run on Saturday, but an electrical problem on the last Stage of the day cost him time and he dropped to second place.
However, Kadur checked out of the service late after the last stage and was docked a 40?second road penalty that pushed him to second while elevating Ghosh to first spot.
While Kadur and Ghosh were involved in a tight battle, down the grid, K?1000 winner and favourite Lohitt Urs (Sujith Kumar) of Team Horizon R3A dropped out of contention with front suspension issues that cost him time in the first half of the day and though he pushed subsequently, he couldn't make up the deficit and finished fourth, a good 25.6 seconds behind Devadasen.
Meanwhile, Raghunandan B (Suraj K) took the honours in the INRC 1600cc class, finishing ahead of Byram Freddy Godrej (Prajval Pai) by over a minute while Karan AM (Shanmuga SN) topped the Junior INRC class that saw the retirement of K?1000 winner in this category Dean Mascarenhas (Shruptha Padiwal).
Through the day, cars kept dropping out like autumn leaves with Deepak Chetty (Uday Kumar) surviving a head?on crash into a tree following a puncture of the left front tyre on the apex of a right?hand corner.
A few other cars went off?road into ditches, but the crews walked out without a scratch thanks to the safety features of their vehicles.
Provisional classification:
INRC Overall / 2000cc Group N: Amittrajit Ghosh / Ashwin Naik 2 (1:21:59.5); Karna Kadur / Somonita Ghosh 1 (1hr, 22mins, 08.3secs); Vikram Devadasen / Somayya AG 3 (1:22:40.9).
INRC 1600cc: Raghunandan B / Suraj K 1 (1:27:45.5); Byram Freddy Godrej / Prajval Pai 2 (1:28:58.8); Suhem MK / Jagadevan Jeevarathinam 3 (1:29:08.8).
Junior INRC (timings to be released): Karan AM / Shanmuga SN 1; Asad Khan CA / Zayne Asrar 2; Samrat Yadav / Tushar Marwaha 3.


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Analysis Seminar
Wednesday, October 1, 2014 - 2:00pm
1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
Skiles 005
When does the spectrum of an operator determine the operator uniquely?-This question and its many versions have been studied extensively in the field of inverse spectral theory for differential operators. Several notable mathematicians have worked in this area. Among others, there are important contributions by Borg, Levinson, Hochstadt, Liebermann; and more recently by Simon, Gesztezy, del Rio and Horvath, which have further fueled these studies by relating the completeness problems of families of functions to the inverse spectral problems of the Schr ̈odinger operator. In this talk, we will discuss the role played by the Toeplitz kernel approach in answering some of these questions, as described by Makarov and Poltoratski. We will also describe some new results using this approach. This is joint work with Mishko Mitkovski.

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Jan Dusik
>900 participants
Steven Stone
Green economy in the context of sd AND powerty eradication
Urgency, time short untill Rio
Major Groups
Social equity
How are costs/benefits distributed
Ethics, rights
Draft set of principles (9)
Green economy should leed to sd
600p, GreenEconomy report
Expanding conversation
IMF, policy measures
Who looses/wins from
Capacity buildings
We need actions !
Not only high level agreements, actions
Rio first time inclusive green economy
600M jobs need to be created
Dialogue between governments
Usual reading of positions, but also openess to economic instruments, ... allowing transition to green economy
Roundtable summary available
Some countries that use to show resistance are actually far more advanced, some already have mentions within constitution
Social inclusion
Why Economy driven
Environment provides services that are hidden, and appear "free"
But markets fail
9 tiping points
How we allocate resources today, shapes the futur
Some outcomes for Rio
Nowhere questioning existing economic growth, economic Model Resource constraint world
What's in the toolbox ?
Advisory services to countries, especialy low income countries
New metrics
What is GDP+ ?
Kenya env. Ministry passed away during the summit
Stokholm(1972) to Rio(2012)
Institutional framework for sd
Rio+20 and beyond
Change to institutional governance needed, and is not progressing fast enough
Enefficient use of resources
3 pillars need to be fully integrated, balanced
Principle 10 of Rio
Transcent national interest
3 pillars interTwisted
Environmental ministers can't implement sd alone
Ron Witt
3 topics
GEO5 summary (20p)
GEO5 quiet complex
More data needed
Consomption patterns are unsustainable
5th of June launch
Unep year book 2012
2 emerging issues
Nuclear decomission: Soil degradation
Unep live prototype
State of environment live
Countries gateways
21 issues for the 21st century
Eye on earth
Major decision approved on earth environmental present situation
Jiri Jlavacek
Ministerial statements and decision adopted by council
UNEP 40th anniversary
8 decisions drafted, should be released soon
Ombudsman for futur generations
Strenthening the framework
Aarhus, principle 10 need to be pushed globally
Ombudsman complements governments short term view
work in progress
Arab spring post conflict issues
Environment as good and/or services
Essentially local issue, needs local government involvment


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The debt ceiling should stay just as it is, because it keeps America in check with how much it is spending and actually paying back. If the debt ceiling was removed it would allow careless spending to begin and eventually all other countries would own America because of the amount of debt accumulated.
No, the debt ceiling should not be removed, because it is bad budgeting. At some point, the government will not be able to repay its debts. When that happens, the country will lose credibility. A home cannot run its budget on a deficit. If the country tries to, eventually other countries will not want to lend money to the Untied States.


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Brian Aloisi wrote:5. Agreed. I'll change it. Along the same lines, I wasn't sure if the Captain, when he first scolds Claudius and Kyle for being late, if he should also say he will punish Claudius too. Regardless of if it's Kyle's fault or not, Claudius was also late. But then I thought, well, maybe Kyle is always getting in trouble, and since it's so rare with Claudius the Captain will overlook it. Does that come off as too soft or biased?
Yeah good point. It does seem kind of weird that the captain would completely overlook Claudius and not even mentioning that he is overlooking the offense. Maybe he should accept that it was Kyle's fault but still punish both of them equally. Perhaps he could also specify the punishment, such as saying that the two of them will have to mop the training hall floors that night? That might work, since it could essentially be the straw that broke the camel's back for Kyle and caused him to defect and run away.


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Annual school big matches and carnivals: Beer companies banned from sponsorships: Akila
The government has not approved the sponsorship of beer companies for annual big matches and carnivals of leading schools, Education Minister Akila Viraj Kariyawasam said.
He was responding to a question posed by MP Buddhika Pathirana during the oral question round in Parliament yesterday.
"We have banned obtaining such sponsorships for any tournament at schools. Measures were taken to ban the advertising intoxicants," The Education Minister said.
MP Buddhika Pathirana said toffees mixed with heroin were sold to schoolchildren.
"Tattoo machines have found their way into schools and during school carnivals beer companies set up stalls. Some past pupils' associations support this trend," MP Pathirana said.
Minister Akila Viraj said committees were appointed at school level to address the drug menace and implement a programme to minimise children getting into the habit.
"It is not that easy to deal with the situation since drugs are available outside schools. We are doing our best to control, and we initiated a programme to arrest those engaged in such activities. Those were now minimised," he said.
Kotte has unapproved high-rise buildings: Harsha
Policy Planning and Economic Development Deputy Minister Dr. Harsha de Silva said that of 39 high-rise buildings in Kotte constructed in 2015-2016, only four had been approved by the relevant institutions,
The Deputy Minister was speaking at the Committee Stage Debate of Budget 2018 in Parliament yesterday when the Finance Heads of Western Development and Megapolis Ministry were taken up for debate.
He said an audit unearthed the finding.
"We obtained 37 files of the 39 projects after going through a tough process. After evaluating them,we found that 12 were constructed without complying with the Jayewardenapura Kotte Development Plan formulated in 2008 and other building regulations but the relevant licences. Another 15 had not approved by the Central Environmental Authority, Water Supply and Drainage Board, Ceylon Electricity Board, and Civil Aviation Authority but the Kotte Municipal Council. The inquiry said the rest, six projects, would not fall into the category of condominiums," de Silva said.
He urged the Megapolis Minister to study the procedure taken to give approval for those condominiums thoroughly. He said many of them were in Kotte.
"The country's capital city does not have a proper sewerage system," he said and urged the Government to give priority for the Kotte sewerage project planned with the JAICA funds.
He urged Minister Patali Ranawaka to take actions against LG officers who had not adhered to the proper procedure in approving the condominiums.
Petitions against LG polls withdrawn: Musthapha
Local Government and Provincial Councils Minister Faiszer Musthapha told the Parliament that the individuals who filed petitions preventing the local government election from being held, agreed to withdraw their petitions.
He said he agreed to provide certain reliefs that the petitioners had pleaded in their petitions.
He was responding to a query made by Chief Opposition Whip and Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake.
The JVP leader said he was informed that the Court had refused the motion, to take the petitions against the LG elections on November 30.
He queried what measures would the Minister take to hold the election without delay.
Minister Musthapha said the petitioners agreed to withdraw the petitions after the Prime Minister's discussion with them following the Party Leader's Meeting.
He said the representatives of the Attorney General informed the Court on Thursday that the matter was settled and the petitioners were ready to withdraw the petitions.
'Previous regime created bubble development'
Megapolis and Western Development Minister Patali Champika Ranawaka said previous regime developed the country under a debt bubble. "Instead, the good governance government develop the country through direct investments of the private sector," he said.
He was speaking during the Committee Stage Debate of Budget 2018 in Parliament yesterday when the Finance Heads of Western Development and Megapolis Ministry were taken up for debate.
"During the past two years, nearly 500 projects were initiated throughout the country after conducting proper environmental and social evaluations and following proper tender procedures. In 2014, the construction field developed by 14.9 percent. "Unlike in the past, now construction is streamlined," he said.
He said the construction sector during the Mahinda-Gota-Basil era developed by a mere 7.5 percent despite the hype they created. In 2014, it was 10.6 percent and in 2015, 2.7 percent and in 2016, 14.9 percent, he said.
"During the first six months of 2017, the GDP growth was 3.9 percent, while the construction field developed by 12.8. If not for the revolution we created in the development field, the GDP could have easily dropped another digit. I do admit that there was a development in the construction field during the previous regime, but that was totally based on borrowing putting a huge debt burden on the country. Instead of the credit capital, now development has forging ahead through equity capital," Ranawaka said.
The government has initiated projects that strengthen the future generations instead of placing a heavy debt burden on them. Benefits of these projects are enjoyed by all, not just a privileged family, the minister said. He said the government has joined hands with the private sector to initiate development without putting the country into debt.
"The government is democratic. It does not rule with an iron fist. Some were sceptical that without Gota cleanliness in the Colombo city could not be maintained, but we have proved them all wrong and we have achieved the goal of bringing the garbage in Colombo to zero without putting our soldiers to clean up the roads. We achieved our target without threatening the people and sending them white vans. We achieved our goal by educating them and through proper understanding," he said.
MPs hardly use e-Chamber system: Speaker
Speaker Karu Jayasuriya yesterday brought to the notice of Parliament that parliamentarians do not use that much the Chamber Management Information System (e-Chamber) introduced in August 2016.
Speaker Jayasuriya announced that the e-Chamber staff was on standby for a week from December 4 to assist the members to make changes to their passwords.
The Speaker said the staff were also readty attend to the related needs. He said the members must use their fingerprints as the password to access it. "The MPs can provide their fingerprints to the e-chamber staff in this regard," he said.
National Policies and Economic Affairs Deputy Minister Harsha de Silva brought to the notice of the Chair that the e-Chamber system has a major flaw. He said the system was read only and therefore, ineffective. He said a read only facility has no use.
The Speaker said he would bring the matter to the notice of the e-Chamber staff.
Rs. 6000 allowance to be increased to Rs. 10,000: Teacher assistants will be promoted: Minister Akila
Education Minister Akila Viraj Kariyawasam said teacher assistants recruited in 2015 would be absorbed into the teacher cadre.
He was responding to a query posed by JVP MP Anura Kumara Dissanayake under the standing orders 12(2) in Parliament yesterday.
Dissanayake said that around 3,000 teacher assistants were recruited to underprivileged schools. He said they were paid only a Rs. 6,000 allowance per month.
The sum is insufficient to cover even their travelling expenses," the JVP MP said.
The Education Minister said the allowance would be increased to Rs. 10,000 from February 2017.
"Teachers who obtained their training certificates in 2017 were absorbed into the 3(1) teacher cadre. Accordingly, 1,013 teachers were recruited to the Sinhala medium and 24 are to be recruited to the Tamil medium this year.
We intend to recruit 589 teachers to the Sinhala medium and 1,605 to the Tamil medium in 2018.
The Sinhala medium will have 164 teachers and the Tamil medium 744 teachers in 2019," the Minister said.
Inclement weather : Parliament adjourned early
Parliament authorities shortened yesterday's session by one and half hours due to the inclement weather. Speaker Karu Jayasuriya announced to the House in the morning that the sittings would be adjourned at 5.30 pm and the House agreed.
"We will have to adjourn the sessions early today, so that the staff can get back to their homes early," the Speaker said.
Lokuge, Fonseka erupt in verbal battle
A heated exchange of words between Joint Opposition MP Gamini Lokuge and Regional Development Minister Field Marshal Sarath Fonseka ended up in unparliamentary language yesterday.
The argument erupted in Parliament as MP Lokuge insulted Fonseka on a personal note while he was speaking at the Committee Stage debate on Budget 2018 when the Finance Heads of the Regional Development Ministry were taken up.
The members abused at each other even using names of animals and filthy words. JVP MP Bimal Rathnayake, who was chairing the House at the time, promptly ordered to expunge the unparliamentary language used by the two members.
"What are you two doing? You are insulting Parliament and the people who elected you. Go and have your argument elsewhere," the presiding member warned.
MP Rathnayake reminded MP Lokuge repetitively to stick to the subject being discussed in the House without provoking other members to stand up and reply.
Basangoda Water Project: Previous regime disregarded engineers' estimation
The good governance government could save 18.5 percent of the estimated value of the Basangoda Water Project as the previous regime had estimated it higher than the engineers' estimation, City Planning and Water Supply Minister Rauff Hakeem said in Parliament yesterday.
He said the government had not amended the water bills for a four-year period and has no idea to increase the bills.
He was speaking during the Committee Stage Debate on the Budget Proposal for financial year 2018 under the finance heads on the ministries of Regional Development, Development Assignment, Megapolis and Western Development, and City Planning and Water Supply.
Minister Hakeem said the first phase of the Basangoda project would provide water for 300,000 people and the second for 200,000 people.
The Minister said the Welivita Water Project would commence as a public private partnership to provide water to Colombo and added that many other projects would commence as PPPs.
He said producing High Density Polyethylene (HDPE) pipesshould be competitive and the government has a policy decision to encourage local manufactures. He said local company only a local producer was no in the business and foreign investors should be brought in the field to create competition. "According to the government's policy decision, it was not done," he said..
He said water to Mannar, Pesalei and Udepuram would be provided under the ADB Dry Zone Project and added that water would be provided to Kalmunei, Samanthurei, and Pothuvil among others.
Hambantota port workers will not be deprived of jobs: Samarasinghe
Ports and Shipping Minister Mahinda Samarasinghe said the Government had not deprived the Hambantota, Magampura Port workers of their employment.
He was responding yesterday in Parliament to a question raised by MP Dinesh Gunawardena, who alleged that 470 workers of the Hambantota Port were ousted from their jobs and were kept at bay by police.
Minister Samarasinghe said the employees of the Hambantota Port were notified in writing that they could continue work at the port, and they were not deprived of their employments.
"We have, in fact, given them the opportunity to obtain compensations and continue work. We have not put them out of their jobs. What they want to do is up to them now, and they need to inform whether they are willing to continue work," he said. Labour and Trade Union Minister W.D.J. Seneviratne said a kegutunate company had recruited these workers.
"We have to work within this framework since the courts have accepted the company. The issue is in court; we cannot make a decision until court decides.
The Port Authority chairman had made a decision to prevent the workers from entering the port. This is unacceptable. I will discuss with him and resolve the issue," he said.


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Wat Umong
This map is to help you find your way to Wat Umong (double-click or right double-click the map to zoom in or out). Wat Umong is located at the foot of the hills on the west side of the city. From the moat (which surrounds the old city), follow the Suthep road for about 1.8 kilometer. At the irrigation canal turn left. After about 900 meter turn right and follow some small roads to reach the temple area. You will probably have to ask for some help because the Wat Umong is not so easy to find as it is not on a main road.
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This jungle temple at the foothills of Doi Suthep mountain is really a special place with a unique atmosphere. A visit to Wat Umong offers plenty of photo opportunities, not only of the chedi but also the area surrounding it. As it is located at the West side of the old city, a visit to Wat Umong could be combined with visits to Wat Suan Dok and/or the Chiang Mai Faculty of Arts Museum, which both are located at Suthep road.


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Just ordered a bunch of these. What a great idea!
Happy Thanksgiving, everyone.
Thursday, November 26, 2009
Plantable Holiday Cards
Just ordered a bunch of these. What a great idea!
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Difficulties in Dallas
The Dallas Observer recently ran this fascinating story about the difficulties city residents have faced in their efforts to begin a community garden.
Seems to me like there's a lot more going on here that we'll find out about later. Make sure you read the comments after the article too.
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Eating Out in Plettenberg BayThe Lemon Grass Restaurant
Where? Milkwood Manor, Salmack Road, Plettenberg Bay, Garden Route
When? Bookings recommended.
Tuesday to Sunday from 12h00 for lunch and dinner.
Overnight? Overnight at accommodation in Plettenberg Bay, in Garden Route
Situated arguably in one of the most beautiful settings in Plettenberg Bay, Lemon Grass is an idyllic waterfront venue for those seeking an exquisitely memorable experience. Designed without walls to make the most of its lagoon-front location, with waves lapping below the terrace setting and panoramic views all the way to the Tsitsikamma Mountain Range, Lemon Grass is the ultimate balmy summer evening destination, overwhelmingly popular with tourists and local diners.
With an emphasis on fresh seafood, shellfish, and game, the menu is as much of a feast as the setting. Open from 12 noon, patrons can enjoy long lunches, sundowners and dinners. The internationally influenced dishes are carefully balanced to tie in with the lagoon-front, cabana feel of the restaurant itself.
The traditional Lemon Grass fisherman chowder is a delicious starter, filled with lashings of fish, mussel, prawn and calamari. Game, such as kudu, ostrich or springbok is melt-in-your-mouth delectable and succulent. The salads are fresh and crunchy, and side orders such as the prawn spring rolls should be enjoyed with bubbly. The fish is cooked to perfection and served with al dente vegetables and potato wedges.
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The weather has changed and its cold, too cold to do many outdoor activates, sure, ice fishing is coming soon, but it may be awhile before there's enough ice to fish.
One thing you can do if you bundle up warm is to call predators. As the weather starts to change, become colder, furbearers, including coyotes and fox will have their heavy winter fur, which helps them make it through the winter.
Then there are those poor coyotes that have developed the mange a terrible infliction where they lose all or most of their fur, with the most humane thing that could happen to them would be to put out of their misery.
When it's cold like it is, all critters and waterfowl will spend time moving and hunting, looking for some high protein food source to help keep their bodies warm. This means they'll be out more as they have to eat often in order to make it through this tough time of the year.
This is why, this time of the year is "prime" time to call predators, with several of the predators you may have come to your call be coyotes, fox and bobcats.
Predator callers generally hunt with a small caliber rifle with lighter grain bullets, with 223-22-250 and 243 being three of the more popular calibers. Having s good variable scope mounted on tour rifle is also a good idea as it allows hunters to make some of the sometimes-difficult shots needed when hunting predators.
Getting permission to call predators is generally not too hard of a task as farmers and ranchers who've cattle have no love for predators. Predators are opportunists, taking advantage of anything that offering an easy meal and known to hang around calving yards.
All predator's I mentioned above have excellent eyesight, hearing and an acute sense of smell, when calling predators you'll want to glass the area you plan to call, then put together a plan, get in and set up quietly, which means using the terrain to your advantage.
Because the ground in the area is frozen or snow covered, you'll want to come in slowly, making as little noise as possible and wearing some sort of camouflage to break up your outline is a big plus. Try to keep something, a cedar tree or some other vegetation between you and the area you're calling when coming in to set up.
The most important thing, as is with all hunting is to use the wind to your advantage by calling with the wind in your face so the keen nose of the predators don't detect you.
Even if the predators don't spot you, they may attempt to circle around you to use the wind to their advantage. Don't panic when this happens, and if you need to change shooting positions, do it slowly when the critter is in a low spot or behind a tree.
Our best calling has been when we have two or more hunters and whenever possible facing opposite directions so we've both avenues of approach covered in case a coyote would come in behind us.
Another mistake that some callers make, including our group is to hunt with just scoped rifles, as on occasion, a coyote will pop up in front of you, too close to get a decent shot using a scope. Now when we call, one of us always brings along a shotgun loaded with heavy loads.
We use a combination of calls, relying heavily on our ICOtec electronic callers, but all hunters with us will also have mouth calls just in case we're caught by surprise.
The wounded rabbit calls, the cottontail and jackrabbit calls have been around a long time. In some areas, have been over used, making predators fooled by them once, much more cautious when coming into these calls. [Read more…]


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When faced with daily problems and struggled with the hard reality, even motivated people tend to lose their faith and lose their vision. This is the time we would be some help and encouragement from someone else.
While I was searching for the term "Reality Distortion Field", I found this amazing video that teared me in 30 seconds.
I would just quote his speech below as a spur for my journey. And I also hope friends who watched what Nick has been achieved is able to carry the spirit with them.
So what do you do when you fall down? Get back up, everybody knows to get back up, … But I tell you there are some times in the life where you fall down and feel like you don't have the strength to get back up. …, when you don't have to impress anybody and you're yourself, and fears come in. You know the fear that you have as soon as you walk into the doors of your house. Maybe it is a broken home. Maybe you have doubt in your life. Maybe you don't know for sure what's going to happen in future, and it scares you. Maybe you're worried about what people think of you, what people say about you. Just that fear that paralyzes you, and I just want to ask you today. Do you think you have hope? Because I tell you I'am down here, face down, and I have no arms and no legs. It should be impossible for me to get back up …
But it's not. You see, I will try 100 times to get up and if I fail 100 times, if I fail and I give up, do you think that I'am ever going to get up? No. But if I fail and I try again? And again and again? For as long as I try there is always that chance of me getting up. And it's not the end until you've given up. And just the fact that you're here, should persuade you that you have another chance to get back up. There is still hope.
I am not here today to tell you that I understand your pain. … But I know how it feels to have a broken heart, and I know how it feels to be alone, and I want you to know that I have found my strength with Jesus Christ, and you are going to find that strength in whatever you find it in. But I just want you to know that it's not the end. It matters how you are going finish. Are you going to finish strong? And you will find that strength to get back up. like this …
We tend to get inspired when you hear this kind of stories, and feels we can achieve anything we want. But everybody knows that is hard. We wake up earlier, make big decisions, acted more deterministically for the first few days. Then our schedule tend to fall back the way we comfortable in. And when we surrounded by negative feedback and energies, faced down the ground, it is really hard to raise your head.
Thats why I have to make this mark here as a constant reminder of hope we have as long as we keep getting up and trying hard.


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"I am ashamed I did this," she added. "I had yet to find my voice and was not who I am now and felt pressured, because 'of course you have to say yes to this Woody Allen film.' Ultimately, however, it is my choice what films I decide to do and I made the wrong choice. I made an awful mistake."
Allen has long faced controversy over allegations he sexually assaulted his adopted daughter with ex Mia Farrow, Dylan Farrow, which he has consistently denied.
In the Facebook post, the actress also accused X-Men: The Last Stand director Brett Ratner of outing her as gay when she was 18 on the set of the blockbuster, claiming he told another woman to have sex with her in order to "make her realize she's gay" during a cast meet and greet for the film in 2005.
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I will be the first to admit that as a San Diegan, I see very little weather changes. Generally speaking the weather is 70's and sunny – at least that is what people will make you believe.
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Since I am on a constant search of a sweater or jacket to keep me warm, I was eager to try the RefrigiWear Women's Fleece Jacket.
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Spring skiing all three days. Friday and Saturday were Bluebird mornings and cloudy flat afternoons. 4 inches on the mountain Friday night made for a mid 40s and sunny epic day on Saturday. Picabo's Street was the run of the day. Soft creamy and bumped up.
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For managers at Cambridge SoundWorks, it was a perplexing problem: In retail outlets across the country, men stood wide-eyed when sales reps showed off the company's hi-fi, "blow-your-hair-back� stereo speakers. So why didn't such unabashed enthusiasm for the product translate into larger — and bigger ticket — sales?
To find out, the Andover, Mass., manufacturer and retailer of stereo equipment hired research firm Design Continuum, in West Newton, Mass., to follow a dozen prospective customers over the course of two weeks. The researchers' conclusion: The high-end speaker market suffered from something referred to as "The Spouse Acceptance Factor.� While men adored the big black boxes, women hated their unsightly appearance. Concerned about the way the speakers would "look� in the living room, women would talk their husbands out of buying a cool but hideous and expensive piece of stereo equipment. Even those who had purchased the product had trouble showing it off: Men would attempt to display the loudspeakers as trophies in living room, while women would hide them behind plants, vases and chairs. "Women would come into the store, look at the speakers and say, 'that thing is ugly,'� says Ellen Di Resta, principal at Design Continuum. "The men would lose the argument and leave the store without a stereo. The solution was to give the target market what men and women both wanted: a great sound system that looks like furniture so you don't have to hide it.�
Armed with this knowledge, Cambridge SoundWorks unveiled a new line. Launched in 2001, the furniture-like Newton Series of speakers and home theater systems comes in an array of colors and finishes. The result: The Newton Series is the fastest growing and best-selling product line in the firm's 14-year history.
Design Continuum employed a technique called ethnography to solve Cambridge SoundWorks' problem. Rather than ask consumers why they didn't make a purchase, Design Continuum's research team watched customers as they made the decision to buy or not buy the product. Researchers then followed consumers into their homes to observe how they made use of their loudspeakers — and even questioned speaker owners and their significant others about how they felt about their stereo accoutrements.
Ethnographic research — an observation technique developed by anthropologists that involves the systematic study of people as they go about their daily lives — is gaining traction among businesses looking for a discernible edge in predicting consumer behavior. Today, corporations such as Eastman Kodak and Microsoft have in-house ethnographers, while advertising agencies such as The Richards Group and Arnold Worldwide use ethnographic techniques in developing brand strategies for marketers including Home Depot and Talbots.
Indeed, ethnographic research is generating the equivalent buzz in the qualitative research community that online research created on the quantitative side a few years ago. With typical projects falling in the $20,000 to $300,000 price range, ethnographic research now represents about 5 percent to 10 percent of the $1.1 billion that businesses spend on qualitative research. While that may seem like a paltry percentage, it reveals formidable growth. Just five years ago, ethnographic research registered a negligible share of the total market, says Larry Gold, editor and publisher of the Barrington, Ill.-based Inside Research, which tracks the market research industry. Over the next five years, Gold expects ethnographic study to capture 10 percent to 15 percent of total qualitative research dollars. "Ethnographic research will continue to grow until it takes its place as a standard part of the market research tool kit,� he says.
In many ways, the success of ethnography lies in its ability to allow businesses to be the proverbial "fly on the wall.� Shari Schneider, Microsoft's in-house ethnographer who studies the use of mobile computing devices, typically arrives at her subject's home when he or she first wakes up in the morning. Schneider observes as the person gets ready for work — keeping an eagle eye out for anything that relates to mobile computing devices. Occasionally she will ask a question, such as, "Why did you write that appointment down on a piece of a paper instead of in your PDA?� But for the most part, she's just observing.
"When you're only there for a couple of hours, you tend to get the grand tour setup,� Schneider says. "The more time you spend with people, the more they get to know and just accept you.� And that's the true value of the technique, she believes. "Ethnographic research gives you a deeper picture of who your customers really are. It [helps a company] to see where people live, and how they work, and how your product works into their lives,� says Schneider.
Ethnographic research is also helpful with what's called "the fuzzy front-end,� when businesses are in the early stages of developing a product or marketing campaign — or even when they're not sure what they're trying to find out. Take, for example, the Sunbeam Corporation and its Coleman division. Four years ago, the household products giant acquired Coleman, one of the nation's oldest and most venerable names in camping and outdoor products. Sunbeam wanted to extend the Coleman brand — known for its distinctive forest green encased lanterns and its red coolers — into gas barbecue grills. But company execs couldn't decide how to design, position and launch the new line.
Even after hours of focus groups and reams of quantitative data, the outdoor cooking team felt like it had a whole lot of information but little insight, says Danene Jaffe, formerly in the outdoor cooking division, currently senior director of strategic planning at Sunbeam. "We didn't feel like we really understood what drove consumer behavior,� she says. "We weren't really sure what we were hearing.� For instance, in focus groups, "we were hearing a lot of passion about grilling, particularly among men, but [the respondents] couldn't really describe why they had that passion,� Jaffe says. The team had the sense that if it could understand that passion, it would be able to create a product and a brand strategy that would resonate all the way to the bottom line.
Jaffe and the Sunbeam execs turned to ethnography for help. Researchers hoisted video cameras onto shoulders and headed to their consumers' native habitat: the backyard. By hanging out with the guys around the grill and listening in on the gab, the team eventually gathered a key insight that other forms of research had failed to deliver: A gas grill isn't really a tool that cooks the hamburgers and the hot dogs. Rather, it's the centerpiece of warm family moments worthy of a summer highlights reel. So, rather than create and promote the new Coleman Grill in terms of BTUs, rotisserie options and cooking square inches, Sunbeam designed the grill to evoke nostalgia for the camping experience with friends and family. The company also developed a marketing strategy to reflect this understanding of grilling as "a relaxing ritual where the grilling area is the stage,� an event that takes place in a "backyard oasis.�
The result: The Coleman Grill did a scorching $50 million in sales in its first year, making the product line one of most successful launches in Sunbeam's history. The success was enough to make Jaffe a believer: "Ethnographic research has started to replace focus groups for us,� she says.
Ethnographic research can add heft to the hunch and provide the context to develop smart questions, says Karen Dougherty, account planning director at The Richards Group in Dallas, which works with clients such as Home Depot, Hyundai and Nokia. "Other forms of research work well when you have something to show consumers [i.e. a new product or a specific piece of advertising copy for a reaction]. Ethnographic research works well when it's the reverse,� she says. In these cases, the results of ethnographic exploration are used for inspiration, or to develop hypotheses that can then be used in more rigorous qualitative methods, like focus groups, or quantitative methods. (See "The Test Drive,� page S5 for an example.)
This is why some advertising agencies turn to ethnographic research at the beginning of a new advertising effort. For instance, when Boston-based agency Arnold Worldwide was developing a new campaign for Talbots Kids, the classic clothes line interpreted in children's' sizes, Kate Van Dam, associate director of brand planning, conducted an ethnographic study that included hours spent rustling around inside kids' closets. "I knew that the Talbots market was more upscale, but I didn't expect to see what I would call a complete wardrobe for their children. There were complete outfits on hangers, very well organized,� she says.
After her closet expedition and in-house interviews with moms and kids, Van Dam learned that "it was more important to Talbots' moms that their children are complimented than that they themselves are complimented,� she says — a feeling that emerged in the print ads that followed.
Van Dam also conducted ethnographic research for Marshall Field's, the clothes retailer. In this case, in addition to conducting in-home interviews, researchers also trailed women in the stores. "We asked them to shop through the store and show us some of their favorite nooks and crannies. We found that many of the women view a visit to Marshall Field's as an experience. They likened it almost to a museum. They were there to observe and take in displays visually. They reacted to mannequins almost like they were reacting to an art exhibit,� she says. Based on this information, the tag line for the campaign is: "The sheer joy of shopping.� One print ad, dubbed "Heaven,� shows a woman boarding an escalator, with a bright light shining from above.
In most forms of market research, researchers have to take consumers at their word. If they say they grind fresh beans for their coffee every morning, a box is checked off on a survey form, and follow up questions are asked in a focus group. In an ethnographic study, the researcher gets to go into the kitchen. If there's no grinder in sight, the researcher knows that she's hearing about something other than actual behavior — aspirations, perhaps.
It's not that respondents are intentionally lying, says Stephanie Husk, president and founder of Deep Blue Insight, an Atlanta-based ethnographic research firm. It's more often the case that they simply don't remember their behavior in detail. Husk's firm recently did a project for Johnson & Johnson's Acuvue contact lenses, which involved camping out in consumers' bathrooms, watching them go through their routine of poking around their eyeballs, cleaning their contact lenses and storing them.
"We learned more about how people feel about the product than we would have ever learned in a traditional setting,� Husk says. "It's not that people don't want to tell you; it's that they don't know. They don't know exactly what they do when they put that contact lens in. They don't know that they open their mouth wide and squint their eyes,� she says.
Still, for all its benefits, ethnography is far from being a magic elixir. It takes time to perform ethnographic research correctly and to build the level of intimacy that takes researchers beyond what they could learn in a focus group setting. In academic anthropology, fieldwork for an ethnographic project can last a minimum of 18 months, says Alisse Waterston, an anthropologist and president of Surveys Unlimited, a research firm in Larchmont, N.Y. Afterward, anthropologists "code� their observations, seeking patterns and developing hypotheses than can later be verified and tested, a process which can take months, if not years, to complete.
It's unrealistic to expect any company to wait that long for the results of a study — and so in a business setting, the time spent in the field observing consumers is radically compressed. For example, the average project length for Context Based Research Group, a Baltimore-based firm that conducts projects for companies including Procter & Gamble and Bristol Meyers, is 12 weeks, says Robbie Blinkoff, principal anthropologist and cofounder. Eastman Kodak, which employs in-house ethnographers, uses a two- to three-hour in-home interview as its basic framework, and adds "hang out� time with consumers outside the home as needed, says Mark Rogers, a design anthropologist at the Rochester, N.Y.-based company. For a recent project to explore new products for teenagers, Kodak conducted a dozen three-hour in-home interviews and then followed the teens around during out-of-house activities, such as a trip to the mall or a soccer game.
Still, there's no doubt that even this compressed schedule for ethnographic research is sluggish to an exec with a deadline of yesterday. "It's more time consuming, that's the bottom line,� says Van Dam, of Arnold Worldwide. She points out that with a focus group, it takes two hours to speak to eight people. With ethnographic research, it can take 24 hours of total research time to speak to the same number of people. (Eight in-home interviews, each three hours long.)
In response to the time crunch, a host of ethnographic-style techniques have emerged. Heading to the mall with a video camera to interview consumers for 15 minutes? That's considered ethnographic research these days. Ask consumers to keep a product usage diary, or simply move a one-on-one interview out of a focus group facility and into the consumer's home or office — that's ethnography today. "When someone says ethnographic research, the bottom line is they mean you go out in the field,� says Barbara Perry, an anthropologist with Radar Communications, a Boulder, Colo.-based research firm. Karen Dougherty, of The Richards Group, calls this phenomenon "ethno-dunking.�
The problem with ethno-dunking is that while it can be helpful in rooting out lies, it will not serve as the "express train to insight� that ethnography promises. "Ethnographic research is substantially more than just adding some observation to an interview,� says Carol Brandon, vice president of qualitative services for Burke, Inc., in Cincinnati. Immersion in a consumer's world, taking a wide-ranging look at everything in that consumer's life and building trust lead to the fruit of ethnographic research — the rich insights. Without such immersion, many of the advantages that the technique brings over other forms of qualitative research evaporate.
"The chance to observe people and to pick up on things, especially things they might have forgotten about, that's extremely useful,� says Judy Langer, senior vice president at RoperASW, and director of the Roper/Langer qualitative research division. But, when a one-on-one or focus group style interview is simply taking place in someone's home or in some other environment, she sees little advantage over a traditional focus group. (In fact, without the group dynamic, she sees a potential disadvantage.)
"A natural environment does not make a better interview per se,� she says. Schneider, of Microsoft, agrees. "If poor ethnography is being done, it's not going to help a company succeed,� she says.
Ethnographic research is also not a one-size-fits-all tool. It can't provide businesses with a demographic profile of a typical consumer or with information that can be projected to the entire U.S. population. "If your objective is to quantify something, or if your objective is to determine something, like which product generates the most interest within a target audience, you probably don't want to do ethnographic research,� says Van Dam.
Finally, the results of ethnographic research should be taken with a grain of salt — no matter how in-depth the ethnographer gets into a respondent's life, it's still an infinitesimally small-scale study, with a goal of generating questions, not answers. There's always the chance, in other words, that the people that a company chooses to research in an ethnographic study could end up being the weirdest people in America — the Osbournes — when the target market is really more like Ozzie and Harriet.
Although all forms of qualitative research are vulnerable to this risk to some degree, well-designed focus group projects attempt to build in geographic and demographic diversity, something that's often not possible in an ethnographic study. "I'm always saying, 'remember, this is just a small sample of people,'� says Schneider. "[Ethnographic research] is the first step — no one should just stop there, no one should stop with just an initial theory,� she says.
In fact, it's best to think of ethnographic research not as a replacement for other forms of investigation but as a first step to take before launching into other qualitative or quantitative techniques. Ethnographic research may dive deep into a consumer's psyche, but smart companies will remember to come up for air eventually.
Ethnographic research certainly didn't start out as a way to help companies sell more stereo equipment. Ethnography developed at the turn of the last century as a working tool for anthropologists, says Alisse Waterston, an anthropologist and president of Surveys Unlimited, a research firm based in Larchmont, N.Y. The procedure is defined as the systematic study of people, or groups of people, as they go about their lives. Unlike other forms of academic-based research, ethnographers shatter any notion of clinical distance and dive right into the population they're studying. As "participant observers,� ethnographers can use their intimacy with the people they're studying to gain richer, deeper insights into culture and behavior — in short, into what makes their subjects tick.
Historically, anthropologists have used ethnography to gain perspective on foreign, exotic cultures. For example, Margaret Mead's seminal Coming of Age in Samoa and Ruth Benedict's The Chrysanthemum and The Sword, about Japanese culture, primarily report the results of ethnographic fieldwork.
Today, businesses are attempting to use these ethnographic
research methods to help corporate America gain perspective on a
slightly less exotic and mysterious population — regular,
everyday consumers. The process has changed in the translation from
the ivory tower to corporate America, however, primarily because
anthropologists have far less time to make their observations in
the field and analyze them when they get back to their offices.
"The number of compromises you have to make is just mind
boggling,� says Mark Rogers an ethnographer and design
anthropologist at Rochester, N.Y.-based Eastman Kodak. "It's
a strange bastardization of what you're used to in the
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Feedback Module for Opencart for Free -eCommerce Solution
Feedback or Testimonial Module is the module for Opencart by which customer can provide their feedback about the site or product or any services. I was encouraged to develop it because there is only review system for the products but not for the site and services so i made this feedback or testimonial module.Download Feedback or Testimonial Module for freeDemo of Feedback Module
- Unzip the zip file where you will find "Testimonial-OpenCart-Module-Free-master" folder.
- "Testimonial-OpenCart-Module-Free-master" folder contains "admin" and "catalog" folder
- Upload the files and folders of admin and catalog folder to your OpenCart root folder. You can use FTP or SFTP to upload these files and folder.
- After completing uploading, login to admin section, go to Extensions > Modules.
- Go to "Testimonial" and click the green install button.
- Our Testimonial module is installed. Now click blue edit button. If this is first time then you will see like the following image to install the database.
- Click the Install Database button and three tables are created in database. As following sql queries are run, for easy installation I created this way.12345678910111213141516171819202122232425262728293031323334353637CREATE TABLE `oc_testimonial` (`testimonial_id` int(11) NOT NULL,`name` varchar(64) NOT NULL,`status` tinyint(1) NOT NULL) ENGINE=MyISAM DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8;CREATE TABLE `oc_testimonial_image` (`testimonial_image_id` int(11) NOT NULL,`testimonial_id` int(11) NOT NULL,`link` varchar(255) NOT NULL,`image` varchar(255) NOT NULL,`sort_order` int(3) NOT NULL DEFAULT '0') ENGINE=MyISAM DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8;CREATE TABLE `oc_testimonial_image_description` (`testimonial_image_id` int(11) NOT NULL,`language_id` int(11) NOT NULL,`testimonial_id` int(11) NOT NULL,`title` varchar(64) NOT NULL,`message` text NOT NULL,`name` varchar(250) NOT NULL,`position` varchar(250) NOT NULL) ENGINE=MyISAM DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8;ALTER TABLE `oc_testimonial`ADD PRIMARY KEY (`testimonial_id`);ALTER TABLE `oc_testimonial_image`ADD PRIMARY KEY (`testimonial_image_id`);ALTER TABLE `oc_testimonial_image_description`ADD PRIMARY KEY (`testimonial_image_id`,`language_id`);ALTER TABLE `oc_testimonial`MODIFY `testimonial_id` int(11) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT, AUTO_INCREMENT=11;ALTER TABLE `oc_testimonial_image`MODIFY `testimonial_image_id` int(11) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT, AUTO_INCREMENT=144;
- Wait did you see Permission Denied message. Then it means you do not have permission to access this page, please refer to your system administrator. If you are administrator then Go to the System >> Users >> User Groups and edit the "Administrator" or related user group and then check checkbox "module/testimonial" and "design/testimonial" in both Access Permission and Modify Permission as in the figure. For easiness you can click "Select All" in both permission and grant all access ( Do this only for top administrator).
- Once you grant permission, you will be able install the database and install the module. Now edit the "Testimonial" module and click the "Install Database" blue button.
- Now you will see as following image where you will insert the Testimonial, click the Insert Testimonial button.
- You can insert multiple list of testimonial so you can show different testimonials in different layouts.
- Now start to inserting testimonials by clicking the blue button and see the image what goes where:
- After inserting these you choose that into the testimonial module. Go to Admin>> Extensions>> Modules >> Testimonial >> Edit
- Now activate Testimonial module
- Now go to Admin >> Design >> Layout, then edit the "Category" from the list. We are showing our testimonial module at category left column.
- Now view any category page and you will see like the image below:
- You are ready to go live.
- If you feel like you have to change the CSS then you can edit catalog/view/theme/default/module/testimonial.tpl. I am lazy and integrate the css in the same file.
- If you want to change animation then you can set at catalog/view/theme/default/module/testimonial.tplJavaScript1234567891011<script type="text/javascript"><!--$('#testimonial<?php echo $module; ?>').owlCarousel({items: 6,autoPlay: 5000,singleItem: true,navigation: false,pagination: false,rtl:true,transitionStyle: 'fade'});--></script>
Other than that if you need help then please comment below.
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Few names in the car business have more cachet than Lamborghini, and its entry-level Gallardo has proven to be one of the Italian automaker's best-selling models. Even though it's been around for several years, the Gallardo still commands attention thanks to its outrageous styling and throaty exhaust noise—it is, after all, a Lamborghini. But thanks to the company's Audi ownership, it also has everyday usability.
A 5.2-liter V10 powers all Gallardos, although output varies with model and drive type. The 550-horsepower rear-wheel drive LP550-2 and 560-horsepower all-wheel drive LP560-4 are similarly equipped, with standard 19-inch alloy wheels, an adaptive rear spoiler and a passive system that raises the nose of the car on low curbs or speed bumps.
Xenon headlamps, leather upholstery, a navigation system, a four-speaker audio system with iPod interface, and a dual-zone automatic climate control round out the standard features list. The LP550-2 has a standard six-speed manual transmission; its optional automated manual gearbox is standard on the LP560-4.
The LP570-4 Superleggera Edizione Tecnica is a more serious performer that benefits from extensive use of carbon fiber, a boost to 570 horsepower, carbon ceramic brakes, Alcantara upholstery and special 19-inch alloy wheels. The special edition Gallardo Bicolore is based on of the LP550-2, but comes with a special black contrasting roof, matching interior stitching and premium leather, and the six-speed manual transmission. Finally, the LP550-2 Tricolore is another special package with a stripe motif that honors the Italian flag, as well as Alcantara upholstery and special 19-inch alloy wheels.
The Gallardo, then, is a ticket into the fantasy of driving a high-performance Italian sports car with some of the real-world usability Lamborghinis traditionally lack. It may not be the most advanced supercar out there—and many of its rivals have caught up with its performance—but it has the special something that justifies a six-figure price tag.
The LP550-2 may be the entry-level Gallardo, but there's nothing entry level about the equipment or performance from the rear-wheel drive sports car. The engine is the 5.2-liter V10, this time with 550 horsepower as the name suggests. It's mated to either a standard six-speed manual in the coupe, with an optional e-gear automated manual transmission. Included as standard equipment are 19-inch alloy wheels, an adaptive rear spoiler and a passive system that raises the nose of the car on low curbs or speed bumps, xenon headlamps, leather upholstery on the seats, silver trim on the dashboard, the Multimedia Interface system with satellite navigation, a four-speaker audio system with iPod interface, and a dual-zone automatic climate control. Options include matte finish exterior paint, special 19-inch alloy wheels, a carbon ceramic brake package, different-color brake calipers, a clear engine cover, Alcantara or premium leather upholstery, carbon fiber trim or a full-leather interior.
The LP560-4 trades some of the LP550-2's sports car bite by adding the traction and security of an all-wheel drive system and 10 more horsepower. Therefore, it's going to be easier to control this car's power on a day-to-day basis, as well as unleashing it on a track when you want to. Otherwise, it's equipped identically to the LP550, with unique 19-inch wheels, a leather interior, satellite navigation, a tilt-and-telescoping steering wheel, and the standard e-gear automated manual—there's no way to get the manual on the LP560. On the options list are several trim packages for the interior, offering things such as carbon fiber or piano black interior trim. The Style Package for the exterior includes badges and a blacked-out front spoiler.
The LP570-4 Superleggara Edizione Tecnica is the most advanced, sophisticated and powerful Gallardo for sale today. Lightened, restyled and given more power, it's also the most outrageous Gallardo. Its V10 is boosted to 570 horsepower and mated to the e-gear automated manual transmission with all-wheel drive. The LP570 also gets a lighter fixed rear spoiler, stronger carbon ceramic brakes and substantial body components made from aluminum and carbon fiber. The windows are also lighter, made from composite material that's lighter than glass. The LP570 also gets unique, lighter 19-inch alloy wheels and special Alcantara interior upholstery. Options include special Edizione Tecnica paint with a two-tone stripe on the exterior, a chrome-and-carbon-fiber interior trim package, firmer sport seats and roll bar preparation. All of these modifications make the LP570-4 a fast and track-ready car that stays true to the tradition of outrageous Lamborghinis.
Comparatively good value with ease of use and great powertrains, but styling isn't as dramatic as rivals
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From the photographer, A.Fogarty Photography: As "wedding season" here in New England began to slow down I kept dreaming of a romantic styled collaboration for the off-season. I wanted to create an opportunity to step outside the box, spark creativity, and let creative juices flow. A chance to create authentic images that showcased all of the talents of the vendors involved. I dreamt of a rustic romantic bridal boudoir styled collaboration.
I envisioned pastel colors, soft tones, lots of greenery and candles to accentuate the rustic-romantic theme. The contrast of the industrial "Machine Room" at 58 Fore St. paired with the vintage furniture and eye-popping florals made for a swoon worthy back drop for our gorgeous model. This being my first styled collaboration with local vendors I knew I had my work cut out for me. But these vendors nailed my vision and added their own personality and expertise. The details of the mix-matched strung bulb lighting to the calligraphy love note and floral garter this styled session embodies all that a bridal boudoir session should: romance, class & style.
From the floral designer, Field Floral Studio: The transformation of a woman into bride is a tremendous event to celebrate and cherish. The days around a wedding can be one of the very few times in a woman's life to revel in her beauty, her body, and her attractiveness. Bridal boudoir photo shoots are an essential way to capture this fleeting and magical time. Since so much of wedding planning comes down to tedious logistics, dedicating a couple hours to relishing her body before the ceremony is a wonderful way for brides to get into a more enamored wedding-day mindset.
I chose certain flowers and shapes to enhance the overall vibe, props, and color scheme of the shoot. Knowing the space was quite raw, I wanted romantic draping foliage and flowers with lots of petals to soften the edge of the venue. Likewise, the pale pinks and grays in the palette sweetened the moodiness of the darker plum materials. The bouquet highlighted our bride-model while helping anchor her to the rougher scenes, and the floral garland brought a fluid shape to some of the harder angles. This shoot is a perfect example of how much carefully curated florals can enhance an environment.
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Their children's teen years fill parents with dread. The perceived look at adolescence includes late nights, puberty, rows, girlfriends or boyfriends and goodness knows what although the most critical changes, and possibly the biggest problems, be a consequence of the major physiological changes their offspring experience.
The teenage years are certainly some time when our bodies grows considerably and childhood turns to adulthood. As being the body undergoes such great changes, nutrition is a bit more important than ever plus it can even be a good time to think about the utilization of nutritional nutritious supplements so that the body has the goodness it takes. All teenagers must be properly prepared for the stresses they face.
Unfortunately another side to that stage in life involves rebellion so canny parents will teach good diet regime earlier on to guarantee the health of their children. But however wise their parents are, the teenagers need to comprehend whether what they have to eat is progressing them good and what nutrition themselves need.
A material required teenagers is iron. In Great Britain studies have shown that 27% of adolescent girls and 13% of boys in the same age ranges would not have sufficient iron. Teenagers usually are, and desire for being, very active and iron is crucial to their well-being since it is essential in ensuring the blood carries oxygen towards muscles and also other important areas. The teenage mental abilities are developing and so is under great stress and iron leads to a good thinking processes. Not only this but iron contributes significantly on the health on the body's defence mechanism.
Menstruation in ladies also lessens the degree of iron which means this ought to be understood too.
Beef is a wonderful way to obtain iron then again so are bread, dried fruit, leafy green vegetables and cereals. As always, consuming iron-rich foods in your diet is best approach to be sure the amounts of this useful substance, but good quality nutritional health supplements can also be needed. Consuming the correct variety of vitamin C, either from the right foods (for example citrus fruits) or from nutritional vitamin supplements helps the absorption of iron. Interestingly however tea must be avoided, because the tannin in tea will lessen the effectiveness on the body to take iron so a juice would have been a better alternative.
The development gone through most teenagers means that calcium is also an essential nutrient at this time. Calcium is crucial to bone development and studies show the fact that bone rise in adolescence significantly affects the potency of the skeleton later in life. The research shows that a little for a 5% improvement in bone mass of these important years could possibly cause a 40% decrease in bone fractures in later life.
Your time and effort of osteoporosis, the brittle bone disease, is often greatly lessened in adult years by way of the correct nutrition in teen years. Sadly nevertheless the UK National Diet And Nutrition Survey of Young adults Aged 4-18 Years reveals that one in four adolescents have calcium levels under the accepted limit for proper health; this means a likely bone health problem later on.
The top sources of calcium are dairy food such as yoghurt, milk and cheese although again good nutritional nutritional supplements could possibly be considered.
You can find never a good option to a proper balanced diet and the significance of regular meals to teenagers cannot be overstated. Sadly needless to say the foodstuffs normally chosen by adolescents are sugar-rich and fatty food and drinks. What they already want to have for top nutrition include a lot of vegetables and fruits, starchy carbohydrates (like rice, bread and potatoes), two servings of protein (fish, meat or eggs) and milk. Important too are 6-8 glasses of fluid every single day together with all-important regular planned activity to be sure cardiovascular health, bone growth and general fitness.
Modern influences result in the teenage period even more complicated. Mass media and peer pressure results in often unreasonable expectations many young people use various methods to shed weight. Sadly governments didn't helped by emphasizing the trouble of obesity. Just like adults, the 'perfect' sized person will only be achieved with a healthy, balanced diet and moderate exercise but regrettably fad diet plans are far too common. Such unbalanced programmes can reduce the main nutrients fed on the body and may even lead to the modern curse of eating disorders.
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Faircloth for Governor hires Devine Mulvey Longabaugh
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BANGOR, Maine — Democratic Candidate for Maine Governor Sean Faircloth announced today that his campaign has hired Devine Mulvey Longabaugh onto his campaign leadership team.
Devine Mulvey Longabaugh were chief strategists and media consultants for Sen. Bernie Sanders' campaign for President in 2016. Faircloth, who previously served as Mayor of Bangor, State Senator, and House Majority Whip, is running for governor as a clean elections candidate.
"As governor I want to put more money in the pockets of average Mainers," Faircloth said. "I'm glad to have Devine Mulvey Longabaugh involved in our campaign because they are highly skilled and share our focus on results for Maine people. Their involvement demonstrates the momentum our campaign is experiencing."
"There's a new champion for working Mainers in the Governor's race and that champion is Sean Faircloth. In the Maine Legislature and as Mayor of Bangor, Sean brought new ideas and energy to the table, and he got results. He'll do the same for the state. Sean Faircloth can be the progressive leader Maine needs and we're excited to be a part of his campaign," said Tad Devine.
Devine Mulvey Longabaugh is one of the leading media consulting and political consulting strategy firms in America. They have worked on 25 winning campaigns for US Senate and Governor and have extensive experience working in Maine and all across New England. Their ad "America" for Bernie 2016 won countless awards and was rated the most effective ad by 2016 by AceMetrix and the New York Times' Upshot.


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I am looking to write an application that will play a song and then allow for the user to independently control the volume in a left and right channels. My first instinct was to use the channel groups as such:
result = channelLeftGroup->addGroup(channelGroup);
result = channelLeftGroup->overridePan(-1.0f);
result = channelRightGroup->addGroup(channelGroup);
result = channelRightGroup->overridePan(1.0f);
(Assume that I've already created the groups, and my channel is actually assigned to another group called channelGroup, as multiple sounds will be placed there).
The problem I am having is that it looks like it is only accepting the Right group or that the Right group is overriding the Left group assignment. Is this so? Is the parent/child channelGroup relationship one to many (meaning that a parent channelGroup can have multiple children channelGroups, but children channelGroups can only belong to one parent channelGroup)?
If so, do you have any suggestions?
- George
- CuriousG asked 9 years ago
Hi Pete,
Thanks for the clarification and the algorithms. It's funny actually, I had used something similar on an application I was developing with an early version of FMOD way back in 2002 or 2003. I was hoping that the addition of the channel groups capability would help me avoid having to do it again, but oh well, it actually makes the code smaller too.
Thanks again.
- George
- CuriousG answered 9 years ago
Hi George,
[quote:3iyf86w1]Is the parent/child channelGroup relationship one to many (meaning that a parent channelGroup can have multiple children channelGroups, but children channelGroups can only belong to one parent channelGroup)[/quote:3iyf86w1]
[quote:3iyf86w1]If so, do you have any suggestions?[/quote:3iyf86w1]
Yes, just set the panning and volume of 'channelgroup'. Example:
volR = 100%, volL = 100% => pan = 0.0, vol = 1.0*
volR = 100%, volL = 0% => pan = 1.0, vol = 1.0
volR = 50%, volL = 0% => pan = 1.0, vol = 0.5
volR = 50%, volL = 25% => pan ~ 0.3, vol ~ 0.5**
*If you want both to really be 100% in both channels the volume should
be 1.4 to compensate for the volume being %71 in each when pan=0. To get volumes > 1 you might need a gain filter.
**This is an estimate from the top of my head you might need to test it out to see how it sounds.
Those numbers would translate to the following formulas:
vol = max(volR, volL)
pan = (2.0 x (volR)/(volL+volR)) – 1.0
An added advantage to doing it this way is that avoids the overhead of doing extra submixing when it's not really needed.
Hope this helps,
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Chrysler has recalled certain 2006 Dodge Ram 1500 models because the front wheel bearing may have received an insufficient quantity of grease during the manufacturing process. This could result in bearing degradation, which if ignored, could result in hub assembly separation. This could lead to a loss of vehicle control. Dealers will replace the front hub and bearing units.


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