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Re: e Learningpearlgm Oct 12, 2011 8:54 AM (in response to ablair)
If you have a media server, you can post published courses from eLearning authoring tools with SWF output and get it to play in Jive. Tools like Articulate work fine. We don't use the standard video solution from Jive so I can't speak to that.
[getting on soapbox]
But I think there is really a much larger question which begs to be answered. With the introduction of Jive, we're compelled to re-think critical business processes and consider how they might best leverage the Jive platform to further optimize these processes by weaving in the social components. In the case of learning, the question I've pondered is how should one deliver Socialized Learning to the organization? By that, I mean how does one develop a comprehensive solution which marries informal learning (i.e. something not tracked by your LMS system, including social collaboration) along with the formal learning which is still needed and trackable/reportable from your company's LMS system?
I gave a presentation earlier this year on this topic and we plan to deliver a "learning portal" in Jive in the coming months. It is intended to be our primary destination for employees to gain a holistic view of all learning opportunities which are available.
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Re: e Learningpaulmacloughlin Oct 13, 2011 11:57 AM (in response to pearlgm)
I am in the very early stages of trying to figure out how I can use Jive to enable learning process within my organization. In 2012 we will be rolling out a targeted training program for a group of employees that work in multiple locations across North America. This will be a blended program, made up of 3 residential instructor led sessions (each 1 week long), that will be complimented by virtual sessions during the intervening months. It is our intention to utilize Jive as a platform for communication, interaction, discussion, etc.amongst the instructors and participants within this program. While it will not be the only system used, it will be the central location we hope our learners will use to access information, share amongst their colleagues, and hopefully enrich the learning process.
Right now, I am trying to understand the capabilities of Jive with regards to this purpose.
Thanks for sharing the presentation. Perhaps we can continue to share our experiences as we work towards this common goal?
Re: e Learningrickpalmer Oct 14, 2011 8:30 AM (in response to pearlgm)
Paul, Gary, Blair - you're each touching on a topic that's been at the front of my radar for the last few years as Jive's education manager. I'd love to chat live with each of you on ways to leverage the social learning aspects of Jive in your orgs. Here are some thoughts that come to mind from what you've posted above:
LMS vs Social Learning: Jive intentionally moved away from a standard LMS a couple years ago for our online training courses, and instead chose to offer the same materials in private social groups embedded right in the Jive Community. The integrated social aspects provided a much more compelling and engaging experience for learners and gave them better tools for contacting instructors, getting questions answered, and even generating their own learning guides that we've turned around and integrated back into our courses.
Our developer training course was mentioned in Jane Bozarth's book "Social Media for Trainers: Techniques for Enhancing and Extending Learning" as a way to combine the structure necessary to guide people through their learning experience, while giving them the social aspects that let them interact in near-real-time with instructors and other learners (posting discussion questions, uploading documents, blogging about what they've learned, etc).
Calls to Action: An effective pattern I've observed and also recommend when talking with customers about ways to engage their site members and teach them how to use the platform, has been to prominently display links on the main home page to the community's learning resources. We've created a series of training videos and one-page quickstart guides that can be uploaded into a "Getting Started" or "Training" space on your community. Picking the top three or four of these learning resources and linking to them prominently on the homepage raises visibility to these aids.
As a community manager you can then start to link to those resources using @mentions in your What Matters: Activity stream when you find yourself answering a question for an individual site member, and that lets everyone else on the site know about the solution.
You can use announcements to let people know about upcoming webinar training sessions, and then can post the links to the recorded webinars in a document. After you post the document, mention it in a status update and share the document with attendees and ask them to comment on what they learned.
Learning experience rather than single training event: These are just a few things that come to mind and there are numerous other ways to engage people. The main philosophy imho needs to move away from the tendency to schedule "training" as something you do once and upfront, and instead transform that into an ongoing learning experience where you're engaging your site members at multiple points over time... helping them work through specific tasks they're struggling with, while also helping them see better and easier ways of doing those tasks, and working/learning together with others along the way.
Re: e Learningpaulmacloughlin Oct 18, 2011 7:36 AM (in response to rickpalmer)
It would be great to talk in about this usage for Jive with you. I will drop you a line to organize a time.
Re: e Learningjemjanik Oct 14, 2011 8:06 AM (in response to ablair)1 person found this helpful
We use Jive to support learning in a number of ways all of which have organically sprung up in the community.
1) We have groups that form based around role to share best practices, as questions, etc.
2) We have groups that form after a classroom event has ended to continue dialogue about real-world examples, ask questions to other students, share digital copies of class materials, etc.
3) We have a social learning group on languages. The main group is for learning English with projects for other languages. The group is an aggregation of learning language content, a place to advertise language events (for example scheduled chats in English), a place to practice written language skill, and it's also being used to match up language mentors.
4) Our company university is beginning to use the community to find out what people are looking for in learning, advertise their content and events, get feedback, etc.
There are more formal plans now being made around social learning too, but I don't yet know all the details... I need to ask.
Re: e Learninggialyons Oct 14, 2011 9:09 AM (in response to ablair)
Anneke, I know you posted this over a year ago, but I was wondering how T-MO sales reps get trained on new products and campaigns via Jive. Also, I'd be interested to learn if your HR or Organizational Development team does any career-related training using Jive. Should I chat with Krissy about this?
Re: e Learningablair Oct 19, 2011 2:38 PM (in response to gialyons)
Hey Gia,
Sorry for the delay... You're question is interesting because we actually have different groups of Sales reps. We have Sales & Service reps which my team delivers training on to the frontline and we also have our Sales organization which is our retail stores, dealers etc... In the Sales & Service organization we are still using an LMS but have integrated Jive into all of our training especially for devices. We do everything from drive them to documents they will need later for bookmarking to hosting Captivate files/Video files in the community.
With regard to HR, I would say Krissy could steer you in the right direction there but to my knowledge we are not currently doing career-related training using Jive.
Re: e LearningBart.Schutte Oct 20, 2011 12:34 AM (in response to ablair)
Great discussion as I am dealing with issues myself now that I have taken on responsibility for eLearning at our company. I am actually trying to decide how we should move forward from our current LMS. We're looking at OpenSource solutions like Moodle, but I know that Brice Jewell at Cerner also created a custom LMS within Jive. I'd love to learn more about that.
We are doing exactly what Alcatel=Lucent is doing in terms of using Jive to complement the classroom and elearning sessions.
What I have not heard in this discussion are the other key features of an LMS :
- Managing enrollement (an HR person must enroll you in an elearning module)
- Tracking (who has taken the elearning, and what test scores did they get)
I'd live to find a way to do this all in Jive.
Re: e Learningbjewell Oct 21, 2011 7:55 AM (in response to Bart.Schutte)
We haven't actually created a LMS within Jive, we have a homegrown LMS and event management system that lives separately, but we have worked to integrate it with our Jive community. We still need the LMS largely for enrollment, training records, and assessment capabilities, and it is good for structuring learning plans (as opposed to just creating a list in a Jive doc of courses and work practica you have to complete for your role). All of the content could technically live in Jive though. We certainly do use Jive to supplement all training we do in the manner Jem mentioned, and we do advocate for year-round learning with our clients which includes year round formal learning and events and informal learning through participation in our Jive groups.
Re: e Learningmsanchez Mar 8, 2012 7:04 AM (in response to bjewell)
Hi Brice, and crew:
Has anyone had experienced using Jive as an LMS itself? Are there any examples out there?
For a bit of background, we are a medium sized technology company based in Atlanta. At our organization, we have Jive and use it globally. Yesterday, a colleague of mine came up with the brilliant idea that we should have our highly skilled developers create an eLearning tool for us. Fantastic idea, I immediately began running with it - reaching out to several of our developers. The general consensus: Great idea... no one has the bandwidth to do it. So! I'm turning to alternatives: Moodle, ILIAS, and Jive. My initial thoughts are to utilize Jive as our eLearning tool, but I'm struggling to visualize how to execute this idea.
Any feedback or advice is GREATLY appreciated. L&D is one of our big initiatives this year, so I'd love to be able to engage our employees and provide a popular tool to facilitate eLearning.
Thank you,
Re: e Learningpmccarthy Mar 8, 2012 7:09 AM (in response to msanchez)
Hey Mario,
We are in the process of developing and launching an LMS (for external at the moment). We opted to develop on Moodle and we're going to work in an integration with our public community later this year when we move to 5.0. I'll definitely share some of those learning experiences as we continue down the implementation path. We had the same aspirations that you shared about building it on Jive, but went with Moodle because we wanted the option to plug-n-play with LMS platforms as they evolve.
Re: e Learningrickpalmer Mar 8, 2012 7:18 AM (in response to pmccarthy)
Mario and Paul - sent you both an invitation separately. Let's chat about this in more detail
Re: e Learningmdbaker Mar 9, 2012 7:44 AM (in response to rickpalmer)
I am in much the same place as Mario, and I'd like to have a conversation with Josh Raditch and Rick Palmer regarding LMS + SOCIAL vs JIVE as a stand alone solution.
Re: e Learningbjewell Mar 9, 2012 2:56 PM (in response to msanchez)
We are still following the same use cases above. There is just too much learning management functionality we need from a LMS. We are still planning to do social integration, such as liking or commenting on courses in the course catalog and that activity flows to Jive, or pushing relevant Jive social groups to course descriptions and learning plans in the LMS (e.g. Excel for Beginners course says "Join the Excel users group to learn more").
Re: e Learningrussell.pearson Mar 15, 2012 7:51 AM (in response to bjewell)
Adding myself to this thread - certainly an area of interest and would be keen to learn in more depth about other people's experiences...
Re: e LearningBart.Schutte Mar 22, 2012 12:53 AM (in response to ablair)
We too are in the process of selecting an LMS for the group. Unless Jive has something up their sleeve, I tend to be in the same boat as Brice : I think there is too much functionality that I need from real LMS that I don't think I can just rely on Jive. Clearly, though, we want Jive to be the social part of our learning platform. For those who are using moodle, I'd be interested in a conf call or a free form disucssion here. I'm not afraid of the customization required as we have our own Indian development center. However, it needs to be somewhat close to what we need. I have not looked in detail yet, but as it is mainly for univiersities, I wonder if it is well adapted to the needs of the enterprise, which are all about delegation of responsibility, and support for specifics of all of our businesses while remaining a common platform for all. Any thoughts welcome.
Re: e LearningMatt Laurenceau Mar 22, 2012 1:16 AM (in response to Bart.Schutte)
Several Jive Customers picked CornerStone OnDemand for their LMS (http://www.cornerstoneondemand.com/), I don't know how it leverages the Jive platform, nor how successful these projects are.
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In a wide-ranging discussion with All Things Considered's Robert Siegel, Ron Paul, the Republican congressman from Texas, said of all the GOP hopefuls, he's been the steady one.
"All I know is that the message is powerful," he said in response to a question about the viability of his campaign. "The message is well-received. Our numbers are growing, and we don't go up and down like a yo-yo."
Paul has had solid showings in the first three contests of the primary season, but he's the only one of the four candidates left who can't claim a victory. He came in third in Iowa with 21 percent of the vote; second in New Hampshire with 23 percent, and came in fourth in South Carolina with 13 percent of the vote. In Florida, which votes Jan. 31, the latest CNN/Time/ORC poll has him in fourth place with 9 percent support among Republican voters. (Correction at 6 p.m. ET: We mistakenly pointed to a Gallup national poll earlier.)
Robert asked him if he could win any of the upcoming states. Paul said he had not made those calculations. Robert also pressed him on whether he would consider a third-party run. Paul, who throughout the campaign has not ruled that out, has worried Republicans because they believe a third-party run could help Democrats in the general election.
So Robert asked him if a third-party candidacy would be an honorable thing to take on.
"I think what is honorable is for me to do what I think is right," Paul said.
Robert also talked plenty of policy with Paul. Here are some of the highlights.
-- On what he thinks about Mitt Romney paying a lower interest rate on his income than many middle-class Americans, Paul said he would prefer everyone pay the same tax rate.
"I wouldn't go for equity by raising everybody's taxes to 30 percent. I'd want to lower everybody to 15 percent," he said.
So, Robert asked, a person who makes $50,000 a year would pay the same as someone who makes $5 million a year?
"I don't like the principle of a graduated income tax. It's reflective of a system which is designed to redistribute wealth," he said, adding that it is also an incentive for government corruption.
"Usually it just invites people to use that power to protect their wealth. This is certainly what's happening today in both the monetary system and the way the system is structured in Washington with the powerful special interests. They're able to use those powers to punish the people that they're supposed to protect."
-- During Monday's debate, Newt Gingrich said he supported Paul's proposal to take the country back to the gold standard. Paul said that Gingrich was probably saying that for political expediency.
"He would have had the chance over all those years to help me out," he said. "I've gotten more help from from [Democratic Rep.] Barney Frank. He helped me get the bill passed in the House to audit the [Federal Reserve].
"Progressive Democrats are much better in helping sort out and find out what the corporations are doing and what the banks are doing than conservative Republicans."
-- Paul walked a fine line when talking about civil rights laws. Paul has courted controversy before by saying he would not have voted for the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
During the interview with Robert, he made similar arguments saying that he can't imagine anyone in today's world putting up a sign that says they wouldn't serve blacks, for example.
"I mean that is ancient history," he told Robert.
Paul made the argument that government is the problem, that government was the one that instituted slavery and instituted Jim Crow laws. But when pressed, when asked if Americans would have voluntarily integrated, he admitted, "Some of those laws were good laws. Some of that was to repeal bad laws."
For more of Robert's interview with Paul, tune into All Things Considered on your local NPR member station. We'll post the as-aired version of the interview here later today.
From NPR News, this is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED. I'm Robert Siegel.
And I'm Melissa Block. With just under a week to go to the Florida primary, Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich continue to duke it out over who will win that big and important state. An estimated 2 million voters are expected to turn out for this Republican-only contest.
SIEGEL: Texas congressman Ron Paul is polling in fourth place this week. He is not expecting a big win on Tuesday. In fact, he's not even competing there. He's back home in his home state today, and that's where I reached him earlier.
Representative Paul, welcome to the program once again.
RON PAUL: Thank you. Good to be with you.
SIEGEL: This week's release of Mitt Romney's taxes, and President Obama's advocacy of a millionaire's tax, raise questions about fairness in funding the government. The first question: Do you believe that income derived from dividends, interest or capital gains should be taxed at a lower rate than income earned from a salary or commissions?
PAUL: Well, I'd like to have everybody taxed at the same rate and, of course, my goal is to get as close to zero as possible because there was a time in our history when we didn't have income taxes. But when government takes it upon themselves to do so much, you have to have a tax code. But if you're going to be the policemen of the world and run all these wars, you have to have a tax code.
But as far as what the rate should be, I think it should be as low as possible for everybody.
SIEGEL: But since we do have a tax system, you would say do away with the preferential rate for investment income?
PAUL: No, I wouldn't do away with it. I would just realize that there are some problems with it. If you want it equitable, we should lower everybody's rate down to the investment rate...
SIEGEL: So, 15 percent or so?
PAUL: Yeah. I mean, if the investment rate, or the capital gains rate, is 15 and somebody else is paying 30, I wouldn't go for equity by raising everybody to 30. I'd want to lower everybody to 15.
SIEGEL: If - you've - you advocate auditing the Federal Reserve. If the Fed were closely audited and overseen by the Congress, why wouldn't it be reasonable for us to expect that more direct political pressure on monetary policy to always produce lower interest rates? Can you imagine the Congress that would say, why don't you raise interest rates already? Why don't you make money tougher on people?
PAUL: No. I think you're absolutely right. That's why I don't want that to happen because indirectly, that is the case. Presidents have put pressure on the Fed, and there's been statistics to show in election years, if you have a friendly Fed, they keep interest rates low. So you're right. I don't want the Congress dictating interest rates. I want the market to dictate interest rates by savings.
SIEGEL: But doesn't the proposal to audit the Fed, and to be able to get inside the workings of the Fed - doesn't that, in fact, increase congressional pressure on monetary policy?
PAUL: Oh, it can't be any worse than it is right now. But what it would put pressure on is, find out how they spend $16 trillion - which they used during the crisis - which banks got benefited, which European banks got benefited, and which ones will in the future? Why should their budget be two or three times bigger than the congressional budget, and nobody knows what they're doing?
SIEGEL: Newt Gingrich has proposed a commission to consider a return to the gold standard. Do you think he's sincere about the gold standard, or is he just trying to win over some Florida libertarians who might otherwise vote for you?
PAUL: I think the latter is the case.
SIEGEL: You think it's more of an electioneering ploy?
PAUL: Oh, yeah. I mean, he would've had the chance over all those years to help me out.
SIEGEL: Everyone else who's still in the Republican race can claim to have won a caucus or a primary - but you. What state can you point to down the road which you think is a sign of the viability of your candidacy - you can win, and should win?
PAUL: I'm not going to do that because I haven't calculated, so we have to wait and see. That Iowa vote was a straw vote, and the delegate allocation hasn't yet been done. And I've a very good chance to do quite well out there. So we've only had two, and I will be working in the caucus states. So to say that this means that I have no chance on - gathering up adequate number of delegates is sort of jumping the gun.
SIEGEL: No, but what's an adequate number of delegates?
PAUL: As many as I can get. More than 10.
SIEGEL: But if you're in it to win.
PAUL: I haven't even looked at them carefully enough. Somebody else worries about those kind of things. I just think that this thing is so up and down. Romney was up for a long time. Now, he's down. Gingrich was down at the bottom and now, he's up. How many have come and gone? One thing you can't say about my campaign - I don't come and go. All I do is add.
SIEGEL: Last subject. When you've been asked about a third-party run, you always say you don't plan, intend or want to do that. Let me put the question this way: After contesting the Republican primaries and caucuses, would it be honorable to say, I didn't win; I'm going to take my marbles, go home, and run against the Republican candidate?
PAUL: Would it be honorable to do that?
SIEGEL: Yeah.
PAUL: I think it's total neutral. I don't think it's honor one way or the other.
SIEGEL: But doesn't taking part in the Republican process imply some loyalty to the Republican Party so that your rivals whom you're debating with all this time and running against, if one of them bests you and gets a lot more delegates...
PAUL: Well, what if, what if young people now decide that the Republican Party wants sound money and no wars? Would it be honorable for them to come and join us?
SIEGEL: Well, that would be their decision. My question is about you as a candidate. Would you go with them? It sounds to me - you're not taking it off the table, is what it sounds like to me.
PAUL: Well, it's awfully premature because as you said, you're waiting to find out what state I'm going to win, and how many. So we have a few months to go before I will need to answer a question like that.
SIEGEL: Fair enough. One thing that Republican - or conservative pundits always remark on is, they say that what's different now from past cycles when you ran is that your son, Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky, his future in the Republican Party might be jeopardized if you were seen as disloyal to it. Is that a factor at all in your...
PAUL: Well, I don't think that's true. I don't think they'd punish the next generation for something they think that I might've contributed to.
SIEGEL: Well, Representative Ron Paul, thank you very much for talking with us today.
PAUL: All right. Thank you. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.

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Interviewed & Featured: John Gilsenan of IWANT design
It's probably safe to say that one of the most inspirational things in a young designers life is the album artwork adorning their favorite music. So, we thought it would be fascinating to get a look behind the scenes with an interview and some perspective from John Gilsenan of IWANT design. Based in London, John designs for Buzzin' Fly Records, the electronic label of Everything But The Girl's, Ben Watt. If you're not familiar with them, you probably do know Tracy Thorn (the other half of EBTG) who was featured on Massive Attack's prolific song, Protection.
Now at the at the forefront of the British dance scene, Buzzin Fly will be releasing it's 50th single called Bright Star featuring Stimming, Ben Watt and Julia Biel. Buzzin' Fly is well know for their quality audio and their attention to packaging and developing a visual brand with award winning artwork has helped to define the label. It's no surprise then that the Bright Star single will be lovingly packaged as a double gatefold with gold foil block and a poster insert. We caught up with John recently to learn a little more about his background and the creative process of designing for a record label.
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South Korean-born, London-based illustrator Jung Eun Park goes eco-typographic. The Phase Collective is happy to share 4 of her typographic compositions, along with a few shots of the related stencil work for her "Walk in the park" project in East London's Shoreditch district.
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A former assistant branch manager has been charged with embezzling $346,000 from the Wichita bank where she worked.
The U.S. attorney's office says 43-year-old Lisa Marie Evans, of Wichita, was indicted Wednesday on one count of embezzlement by a bank employee. The indictment alleges she stole the money between 2011 and 2013 while employed at Southwest National Bank.
Court records do not list a lawyer for Evans, and the U.S. attorney's office said it did not know if she had hired one. No working phone listing for her could be found.
Evans has been summoned for a first court appearance on Nov. 25.
The charge carries maximum penalties of 30 years in prison and a $1 million fine. The government is also seeking a forfeiture judgment
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Sony Pictures Imageworks handled a majority of the 600 visual effects shots, including all the shots of Ghost Rider and the fire—the two biggest challenges for the movie, according to VFX supervisor Kevin Mack. "The skull doesn't have much expression because it's rigid," says Mack. "We considered exchanging different skulls with different expressions, but we wound up using one all the time." Instead, they manipulated the fire emanating from the character and the motorcycle to create emotional performances.
Sometimes, Ghost Rider is the actor or his stunt double with head and hand replacements. Sometimes, he's all-digital. "There are lots and lots of shots that have a fully CG rider and bike," says Mack. "But we also had some with a digital head and hands. Ghost Rider's fire was never practical."
Hot Tools
The demon's fire was always a computational fluid simulation that used the Autodesk Maya solver for the core calculation controlled by a Maya plug-in that read Side Effects Software Houdini data at the front end. The Houdini data helped the effects artists direct the simulation.
"It took a lot of finagling to get the fire to look realistic and the way we wanted it," says Mack. For example: "Ghost Rider gets knocked around and he moves fast, so we submitted simulations to a lot of situations where a real fire would go out. You'd expect that if fire is moving fast, you'd get little bits tearing off, but it was hard to get a simulator to do that. So, Patrick Witting, our fire supervisor, and [others]developed the tools we needed."
Witting started with the presets in Maya's fluid solver, supplementing those presets with several Maya plug-ins and MEL scripts. The plug-ins and scripts helped the effects artists place the fuel that drove the simulation and control its movement and shape. "The Maya fluids gave us the ability to emit fire off the surface, but it didn't give us the ability to use texture maps to control where on the surface it was," says Witting. "Even beyond that, with Maya, we didn't have the ability to place fuel out in nowhere."
Artists using Houdini painted maps to put more fuel on the sides of the skull and less over the eyes, and create fiery eyebrows and sideburns. The maps also controlled the thickness of the fuel layer and the fire. "We wanted a nice thin sheeting of fire over his face, but not so much that we couldn't see the eye sockets," says Witting. "We also wanted to see the detail of the skull, the bump maps, the lighting, and all the rest. We didn't want to obscure what was there."
Houdini's procedural side came into play here as well: 3D and 2D noise functions helped push the fire away from the skull and into interesting shapes. For example, the artists often wanted the fire to flare up and create licks of flame. "We tried to leverage from what we had for free," says Witting. "So, if a character is deforming, we had a layer [of fuel] grow out away from the surface according to the normals. We used the painted textures and noise expressions to make the pockets of fuel look interesting and organic."
Under Control
Maya's open architecture allowed access to the fluid variables used for the simulation at every point in the sim. Imageworks' Maya plug-in modified those fluid variables—the velocity, temperature, density, and fuel—based on settings in the Houdini data file.
"We'd intervene at every simulation step and emit little amounts of fuel in voxels," Witting explains. "The [Maya] plug-in would loop over all the Houdini points we gave it and figure out which voxels to emit fuel in." Then, it moved to the next frame; every frame of the Maya simulation read information from Houdini.
Thus, the plug-ins, in effect, provided fire control on a voxel-by-voxel basis. "It's pretty much the only way of interacting with [the solver] under the hood," says Witting. "And [the project] was all about control and directability. We did whatever was required, whether it was rooted in physics or not." For example, when Ghost Rider sees Roxanne (Eva Mendes), Johnny Blaze's love interest, his fire gently flickers. But when he's angry, the flames become agitated and violent.
To manage the simulation calculations, Witting set up the task using several small, separate parts. Take the Hell Cycle, for example: "The fire on the back tire might be one part," he says. "We'd have another part on the front tire. We wanted to control the amount of fire coming out from the fender, the sides of the tires, the area where the spokes would be, and the frame. They all had lots of consistent aspects, but they behaved differently."
The same was true of the fire simulations for Ghost Rider and for another fiery character, who the crew calls the "Old West Ghost Rider," and his horse. The horse's hooves and its body were separate simulations, as were the rider's hat, his skull, and his eye sockets. The practical result was that the crew could specify how many voxels they needed to simulate certain areas, and they could get approvals on the individual parts.
"Fire has to be simulated within a volume, and the bigger the volume, the more computation that is required," says Mack. "We ran separate sims for every shot and for every element—the skull, each eye, each hand, each wheel on the bike, and the bike's motor. For the rider and the bike, we might have 10 simulations. We'd re-use settings, but each shot was unique."
Rather than having Blaze be consumed by fire from the outside, Imageworks transformed Cage into Ghost Rider as if he were burning internally. "Outside on the skin, you see the flame reaching the surface and start to burn from inside," Hahn says. "We used the same CG fire for that."
The crew treated the skin as if it were dry paper rather than lurid, boiling flesh. "You see his eyes glow red, and black spots on his skin that open up like burning paper," says Mack. "Little bits of flesh blow off, sending embers in the air, and reveal the clean skull underneath."
To render the fire, the crew developed custom techniques based on the Pixar RenderMan RI point solution. "The fire was composed of many RI points," says Witting. "Steve Marshall came up with a shader based on physical fire that was implemented as a Houdini back end. So, Maya was sandwiched between two Houdini processes." The shader allowed the effects artists to heighten Ghost Rider's emotions by changing the color temperature of the fire from a melancholy blue to an angry red.
The Imageworks fire simulation team spent between six and nine months developing the tool set for the film and another nine to 12 months in shot production. (The preproduction and shot production schedules overlapped by about three months.)
Mack believes the hot, new techniques and technology the crew devised to create Ghost Rider's fire, all of which take advantage of off-the-shelf software, push the state of the art.
Barbara Robertson is an award-winning writer and a contributing editor for Computer Graphics World. She can be reached at email@example.com.


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"A desktop full of handy widgets to tell you about what's going on in the world and what's going on around your computer. This is Jackfield. Jackfield is an application for the Gnome desktop that plays host to widgets; small applications to do the things you need. It can run widgets from Apple's Dashboard, will eventually be able to run those from Yahoo's Widget Engine, Microsoft's Gadget Sidebar, and Opera Widgets, and you can write your own."


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These are some of the views and reports relevant to our readers that caught our attention this week.
International IDEA
Do Accountability Mechanisms in Safety Nets Improve Access to Social Services? The case of Brazil's Bolsa Família
"This paper was part of International IDEA's work on "Democracy and Development" in 2011. It was selected as a contribution to stimulate debate on and increase knowledge about the impact of democratic accountability on services. A summary of the papers selected and an analysis on some general trends are provided in "Democratic Accountability in Service Delivery: A Synthesis of Case Studies"
The study analyses a semi-governmental mechanism for accountability called social control councils. Through this mechanism beneficiaries are supposed to provide feedback on health and education services. However as beneficiaries have been heavily underrepresented in these councils and membership tends to be skewed towards the local government, they have not been able to function as intended." READ MORE
How the Arab World Uses Facebook and Twitter
"Social media has been often touted for the role it played in the popular uprisings that have spread across the Arab world since December 2010. Despite the buzz, you may be surprised that only 0.26% of the Egyptian population, 0.1% of the Tunisian population and 0.04% of the Syrian population are active on Twitter.
Of all the countries in North Africa and the Middle East, Twitter is most popular in Kuwait, where 8.6% of the population is active users, defined as those who tweet at least once per month. Facebook's more popular throughout the region. In its most popular country, the U.A.E., some 36.18% of the population is on Facebook." READ MORE
Foreign Policy
Introducing the FPwomerati
"When Foreign Policy published its 2012 Twitterati 100 list, we could not help but be struck by the lack of women. Of the 100 tweeters Foreign Policy said "you need to follow," nearly 90 percent are men. Given the strong presence of smart, powerful, influential women on Twitter, we found this a bit hard to take. So, beginning near midnight U.S. East Coast time on Monday, a group of women from around the world created a list of interesting and influential activists, journalists, analysts, economists, geeks and wonks. Within a few hours, we had more than 200 names and our list had begun to make the rounds on Twitter.
How is this list different than FP's original list? It includes many prominent, influential women who know and tweet about foreign policy and international affairs but were overlooked by FP. It includes women who tweet in languages other than English, or tweet multilingually, and women who work and lecture in areas rarely covered by FP -- such as international development." READ MORE
The Guardian
Google reports 'alarming' rise in censorship by governments
"There has been an alarming rise in the number of times governments attempted to censor the internet in last six months, according to a report from Google.
Since the search engine last published its bi-annual transparency report, it said it had seen a troubling increase in requests to remove political content. Many of these requests came from western democracies not typically associated with censorship." READ MORE
Poverty Matters
Do aid campaigns alienate the public and skew the development debate?
A new report on attitudes to aid throws down a challenge to policymakers and campaigners in the way they communicate with the public on international development. The report from the Overseas Development Institute (ODI) and the Institute for Public Policy Research said its findings support recent opinion polls showing a drop in support for increased aid spending in austerity Britain.
"There is a real challenge to better communicate the reality of the development process itself," said Leni Wild, research fellow at the ODI and co-author of the report. "A surprise to me was the strong message about the real appetite for hearing more about how change happens, what combination of factors go into it, whether aid works or not. There is a real opportunity for development actors to better reflect the work they do." READ MORE
Council on Foreign Relations
ICT4Gov: Improving Governance Through Technology
"A few weeks ago, I hosted a discussion at the Council on Foreign Relations with Boris Weber, a senior governance specialist with the World Bank Institute, on how technology can improve governance in developing countries. Weber is the team leader of the World Bank Institute's Information and Communication Technology for Governance project (ICT4Gov), which aims to increase civic participation and improve government service delivery through technology.
The philosophy behind ICT4Gov is that increased civic participation leads to better governance. For instance, if citizens can provide feedback to government about service delivery, and even rate the quality of specific programs, then government will have more information to prioritize service delivery and should be more accountable to citizens. Technology, especially increasingly ubiquitous cell phones, but also the Internet, makes it easier for ordinary people to engage directly with government; citizens become better advocates for getting the services that they most need, and governments can deliver those services more effectively." READ MORE
Greece Must Better Enforce Anti-Bribery Laws, OECD Says
"Greece must step up enforcement of laws that prohibit the bribing of foreign officials, the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development's Working Group on Bribery said.
In one specific case of bribery of a foreign public official, Greek authorities "failed to open a domestic investigation" for almost two years after first discovering it, the OECD group said in a report published today. The case raises "grave concerns because of apparent inaction," it said." READ MORE
Study Examines Use of Social Media to Cover the Syria Uprising
"Social media and user-generated content played an important role in coverage of the revolutions in Egypt, Tunisia and Libya; however, content from the public was supplementary to traditional newsgathering in media coverage.
By contrast, in Syria, with the tight control and exclusion of foreign media, news organizations had to rely almost exclusively on user-generated content, particularly in the early months of the uprising. Much of the user-generated content used by news outlets came via Syrian activists inside Syria and in exile." READ MORE
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MIAMI--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Following the launch of its first ever unified website in the Latin America and Caribbean region earlier this year, the BURGER KING® brand continues to position itself as a leader in digital marketing in the region with the roll-out of mobile websites, local Facebook pages and an online guest relations tool. Each of the new digital marketing tools has been designed to enhance the guest experience.
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Agreed plummett, in big current and swell in light conditions, sometimes you need that static grunt.
Yep awesome idea Toby/flysurfer.
Other manufacturers take note!!
floske wrote:I had the chance to fly the Cronix 12m for a short period of time (although in the lower wind range ~4bft). While I generally liked it quite a bit, I had two things that bothered me.
1. When you turn it as fast as possible (or the kite in general flies quickly), the canopy starts to flap about and the kite loses a bit more power than comfortable.
This is why I asked about the wing tips flapping in the question and answer, wasn't referred to.
2. I come from the Speed3/4 side and noticed that when you fly in lower winds and need to wave the kite up and down, the pull generated on the up stroke is neglible compared to the downwards motion.
Yeh the higher the aspect the more you will get from the upstroke as it hunts the edge of the window more, if you come from the speed (me the edge) yes the upstroke can be nearly as powerful as the downstroke ridden properly. But this does have a C profile.
Didn't this bother you when flying/designing this kite?
Thank you for adding FDS to the bigger Speed4's!Armin Harich wrote:We test and try to improve the different safety options we developed so far. At the SPEED4 8.0 and 10.0 the FLS had a better relaunch ability than the FDS. So we was going for the more simple solution.Why don´t you have a FDS on Speed4s?
We work at to add improved FDS-Saftey to the big SPEED4. But FLS will also be possible, if less lines are preferred.
I also would be interested in this if I could get 21m Speed3 low-wind performance or better at a greatly reduced price than a 21m while only sacrificing water relaunchability. It is extremely rare for my lightwind kite to touch the water.loco4viento wrote:Hi Armin,
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A strong solar flare blasted toward the Earth on Thursday and has sent a burst of powerful radiation toward us, potentially causing disruptions in radio and navigation technology.
The flare occured about 12:50 p.m. in an area of the sun known as Active Region 1520.
Some interference with high-frequency radios and navigation systems was reported earlier this afternoon, said Joe Kunches, spokesman for the National Weather Service's Space Weather Prediction Center. And more disruptions could be on the way, with what is known as a coronal mass ejection headed toward Earth by about 1 a.m. Saturday.
Space weather forecasters have only been able to make limited observations of the event, so more details on the size and impact will become more clear later. So far, it appears that the coronal mass ejection is not particularly strong, so it is not expected to impact the power grid, GPS systems or other satellite communication, Kunches said. But it is coming directly toward Earth.
"It's not a glancing blow," Kunches said. "We expect it to be a pretty good hit from this one."
One side effect could be that the coronal mass ejection, a burst of solar wind that carry massive quantities of matter and electromagnetic radiation into space, could create some extraordinary shows of the aurora borealis, or "Northern Lights."
The Advanced Composition Explorer satellite, or ACE, will detect the solar winds as they near the planet Saturday night, giving a clearer picture of their strength only about 20-45 minutes ahead of the coronal mass ejection's arrival.
More hazards could be ahead. The region of the sun from which the flare came "appears to have retained its ability to erupt, so watch for more," the space weather center cautions.
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NEW YORK (MarketWatch) — U.S. stock futures held gains on Wednesday inspired by hopes for Chinese growth as U.S. economic data had third-quarter productivity rising 2.9% in the third quarter.
And, stock futures maintained their rise after ADP reported the addition of 118,000 private-sector jobs in November, just as estimated by economists polled by MarketWatch.
The number is down from the estimated gain from September to October, which was revised lower to 157,000.
"Taking out the influence of the hurricane, [we] saw a healthy increase of 204,000 jobs according to ADP's estimates, but the typical driver of net job gains, small and medium-sized businesses, were more reluctant than bigger ones in adding labor costs," emailed Peter Boockvar, an equity strategist at Miller Tabak, after the data was released.
"The hurricane impact will of course remain with us in reading the November data over the next month with the question for 2013 being how much activity we get back from the recovery/normality in the Northeast," he added.
Shaking off the previous day's Wall Street losses, futures for the Dow Jones Industrial Average US:DJZ2 rose 39 points, or 0.3%, to 12,972. Standard & Poor's 500 index futures SPZ2, +0.00% rose 3.2 points, or 0.2%, to 1,408.70.
Futures for the Nasdaq 100 index US:NDZ2 rose 2 points, or 0.1%, to 2,676.50.
Wrangling over the fiscal cliff pushed Wall Street stocks mildly lower on Tuesday; the Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, +1.28% extended losses into a second session with a decline of 13.82 points, or 0.1%, to 12,951.78. Read: U.S. stocks edge lower; fiscal cliff in view.
A trigger for global equity gains and firmer futures Wednesday, the Shanghai Composite Index 000001, -1.65% soared after a meeting of new leaders in China, where they reportedly gave the impression they'll stick to a supportive economic policy over coming quarters. Read: China stocks rally to lead Asia gains
"They were out last night stating that they foresee a future where they will still be doing a lot of support for the economy from the central bank and from fiscal policy," said Henrik Drusebjerg, senior strategist at Nordea Bank. "China has been driving 50% of the global growth since the financial crisis. That's important for the level of global growth."
Budget negotiations appeared stalled Tuesday after President Barack Obama rejected a House Republican plan, saying there could be no deal without higher taxes on the wealthy. Read: White House: GOP deal 'magic beans and fairy dust'
"In the beginning, it's not that big of a problem, but when it starts hurting macro numbers, markets react negatively. We fear in coming weeks that [the fiscal-cliff debate] could start hurting macro numbers and that could give us quite a lot of volatility," Drusebjerg said. The Tell: Bill Gross lays out four structural factors weighing on U.S. economy
At 10 a.m. Eastern, the Institute for Supply Management's November nonmanufacturing index is expected to show growth slowed in the U.S. service sector in November. Surveyed economists are pegging the index, which tracks the broader economy, to decline to 53% in November from 54.2% in October. Also at 10 a.m., factory orders for October are expected to show a drop of 0.1% from a 4.8% surge in September.
Across other markets, European stocks followed up Asia gains. Read: Europe stocks track Asia higher, Nokia rallies
Gold prices recovered somewhat from a sharp Tuesday selloff, rising $5.90 to $1,701.7 an ounce for the February contract US:GCG3 . Gold slumped $25.30, or 1.5%, to a one month low below $1,700 on Tuesday. Read: Gold futures pare losses, regaining $1,700
Also read: With this volatility, is gold still a safe haven?
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U.S.-listed shares of Nokia Corp. NOK, -0.17% rose in premarket trade after the Finnish handset maker announced it's partnering with China Mobile Ltd. 0941, -0.33% to launch a new Windows-based Lumia phone aimed at the China market. Read: Nokia launches smartphone with China Mobile
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- Sir Kingsley William Amis (1922-1995), Novelist. Sitter in 31 portraits.
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- John Deakin (1912-1972), Photographer. Artist associated with 11 portraits, Sitter in 10 portraits.
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Current affairsRobert Anthony Eden becomes prime minister. In May 1955 Winston Churchill resigned due to ill health. His successor proved to be a similarly popular leader, winning an increased majority at the general election that year. Eden's popularity was due to a combination of his long wartime service, good looks and charm.
Art and scienceMary Quant introduces the 'Chelsea Look' with her Bazaar boutique. In the 1960s Quant was a major contributor to 'swinging London' introducing some of the seminal items of 1960s fashion: the miniskirt, hot pants, paint-box make-up and plastic raincoats.
InternationalWest Germany joins NATO, prompting the East European Communist counties to respond by forming the Warsaw Pact. The signatories of the Warsaw Pact pledged to defend each other if any member was attacked. This development was a major event in the Cold War as it firmly established the East and West as opposing military powers.
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Children's day care is not that easy to find here in Saudi Arabia. Many families employ foreign domestic help as maids or nannies, and not that many women work here - so there is not the demand for day care here like there is in the states where both parents often work. There are usually child care facilities available in Western compounds where working expats live or at schools where a large percentage of employed women work.
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(Boston, Mass. – July 12, 2012) – Unhealthy air quality is predicted for Friday, July 13, in western Connecticut, southwestern through northeastern Massachusetts, southeastern New Hampshire and along the coast of Maine from Kittery through Acadia National Park. Heat-related poor air quality is expected to continue through Saturday, July 14.
"With warmer air and increased humidity over the next few days, our air models are anticipating unhealthy air quality in parts of New England," said Curt Spalding, regional administrator of EPA's New England office. "Everybody can help reduce smog-forming emissions by driving less, by using public transportation and by setting air conditioner thermostats a few degrees higher."
Ground-level ozone forms when volatile organic compounds and oxides of nitrogen (ozone precursors) interact in the presence of strong sunlight. Cars, trucks and buses give off the majority of the pollution that creates ozone. Fossil fuel burning at electric generating units, particularly on hot days, also emits ozone precursors. Gasoline stations, print shops, household products like paints and cleaners, as well as lawn and garden equipment also add significantly to the ozone problem.
Exposure to elevated ozone levels can cause breathing problems, aggravate asthma and other pre-existing lung diseases, and make people more susceptible to respiratory infection. When ozone levels are elevated, people should refrain from strenuous outdoor activity, especially sensitive populations such as children and adults with respiratory problems.
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- Avoiding the use of small gasoline powered engines, such as lawn mowers and tractors, chain saws, power washers, string trimmers and leaf blowers.
The ozone standard is 0.075 parts per million (ppm) on an 8-hour average basis. Air quality alerts are issued when ozone concentrations exceed, or are predicted to exceed, this level. So far this year, there have been 12 days in New England when ozone concentrations have exceeded the standard. (A preliminary list of this summer's unhealthy readings can be found at https://www.epa.gov/region1/airquality/o3exceed-12.html)
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This was at The Drum Shop in Copenhagen, Denmark when we were there!
NOW, for some Tennis in Clearwater, FL!
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Nice Kit. I have a TAMA Rockstar set. I would like to have an electronic kit too. They are fun to play.
Roland V-Drums!! I dig. I want one but I don't have 5K to drop on a set. Did you take this kit home?
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text: Ag Issues Around the Globe September 4, 2013 09:34 PM Tweet TAGS: Marketing, Overseas December 18, 2014 By Julie (Douglas) Deering Top Producer Managing Editor Email Here's a brief update on ag issues around the world. United States In early August, the Environmental Protection Agency lowered the amount of renewable fuel refiners are required to blend into the nation's gasoline supply this year, cutting the cellulosic component by 99.4%. The announcement reignited the debate in Washington, D.C. "This obliterates big oil's myth that the renewable fuel standard is inflexible and unworkable," says Bob Dinneen, Renewable Fuels Association president and CEO. China The People's Republic of China is in talks with Venezuela about an investment partnership; however, it's not a done deal. The country has more than 74 million acres of prime land with great potential for ag, says Venezuela's Vice President Jorge Arreaza. With 20% of the global population and only 7% of arable land, China continues to look for partnerships to ensure a viable supply of food. Brazil The U.S. lost a case at the World Trade Organization on cotton subsidies. Now, we're paying Brazil $147 million per year to keep them from seeking around $800 million in retaliation. USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack recently told Brazilians the spending reductions caused by the sequester will halve the September payment and that he has no authority to make the cotton payments after Oct. 1 due to the expiration of the one-year farm bill extension. Vilsack did not mention that he can tap the Commodity Credit Corporation Charter Act to pay the money owed. European Union Cattlemen and women producing high-quality beef without synthetic hormones will continue to have access to the EU market at zero duty, according to an announcement by U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman and Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack. The U.S. and EU plan to extend Phase 2 of the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) signed in 2009 for two years. The MOU is about the importation of beef from animals treated with certain growth-promoting hormones. New Zealand Milk safety problems shook New Zealand markets at the beginning of August. Fonterra's Global Dairy Trade Price Index declined 2.4% after Clostridium botulinum had been detected in some of its whey protein concentrate that had been shipped to China, points out Dairy Today's Jim Dickrell. China, Russia, Hong Kong and Sri Lanka banned some dairy products from New Zealand. Because dairy exports account for roughly half of the country's export earnings, the New Zealand dollar dipped slightly. Back to news


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I'm starting with my paternal grandparents (my grandparents that aren't living). Because this is pretty recent, there aren't a lot of public records concerning them, so I probably already have most of them. Mostly I think I'll need to talk to my aunts and uncles.
|My paternal grandparents' tombstone. Located at the
St. Boniface Roman Catholic Cemetery in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
What I know and what I don't know:
Louis Jacques Lavoie was born on September 16, 1916. This is from my dad's memory, so I'd love to have a birth record to confirm it. The year is confirmed by his tombstone. He was born in Quebec City. I don't have a source cited for this. It might be from his obituary. I'll have to look at the obituary again to be sure.
Clemence Wilhelmina Marguerite Richard was born on September 19, 1915. This date is also from my dad's memory. The year is confirmed by her tombstone, and is consistent with her age in the 1916 census. I also don't have a record that has her full name. Sometimes I think my dad just added the Wilhelmina to be funny. She was born in Sainte-Anne, Manitoba. This is in her obituary, and that's also where she was living in the 1916 census.
Marguerite soon moved to St. Francois Xavier. Her obituary says that she lived there as a young child. At some point she moved to Winnipeg.
Louis fought in WWII.
At some point Louis moved to Manitoba (straight to Winnipeg?).
Louis and Marguerite married, probably in Winnipeg. I have no sources at all for this, but it seems to follow from what I do know about their lives.
Louis died on August 16, 1976, in Winnipeg. This date is from my dad's memory, so I'd like further confirmation, but the year is confirmed by his tombstone.
Marguerite died on November 5, 1999. This is in her obituary, and also I can confirm at least the approximate date from my own memory; I was in grade 6 and it was shortly before Christmas.
What I can check now:
Check with my aunts and uncles to see if any of them have any birth, marriage, or death records related to my grandparents. Also find out what they know first- and second-hand.
I'm sure I copied out (by hand; I didn't have a flash drive on me!) Louis' obituary, but now I can't seem to find it. So I need to get back to the library (with a flash drive!) and download it. That might give me a source for some things.
Since he was a Canadian who fought in WWII, the Legion Magazine would have published something about Louis' death in the Last Post. The online database currently only goes back to 1985, but I'm sure if I contacted them I could get the information.
Records I'll want in the future, when they're available:
Both of my paternal grandparents should be in the 1921 Canadian census, which will be made available in 2013.
Marguerite was born in Manitoba, so her birth record will be available in 2015. I don't know where one can look up vital records for Quebec, or when they become available; does anyone know?
So that's my plan! I definitely think that was a worthwhile exercise (though it took me forever!). Please let me know if you see anything missing!


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William David Trimble, Baron Trimble, PC (born 15 October 1944, in Belfast), is a politician from Northern Ireland. He served as Leader of the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP; 1995–2005), was the first First Minister of Northern Ireland (1998–2002), and was a Member of the British Parliament (1990–2005). He is currently a life peer for the Conservative Party. Trimble was awarded the 1998 Nobel Peace Prize, along with John Hume.
While a professor of law at Queens University, he was elected to the Northern Ireland Constitutional Convention. He served as Member of Parliament for Upper Bann from 1990 until 2005. He resigned leadership of the UUP soon afterwards. In June 2006, he became a member of the House of Lords, as The Right Honourable William David Trimble by the name, style, and title of Baron Trimble, of Lisnagarvey in the County of Antrim. In April 2007 he left the UUP to join the Conservative Party.
In June 2010, the Israeli government appointed Lord Trimble to be one of two international observers serving on an Israeli commission of inquiry looking into the events surrounding an Israeli raid on the Mavi Marmara, along with Canadian former Judge Advocate General Ken Watkin.


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Saturday night Carrie and I took the light rail into downtown Phoenix {with our friend Janae too} to see my nephew Ryne's band perform at The Hard Rock Cafe. It was a fun night and I was SO proud of him! You can see one of their videos here - Ryne is the cutie in the blue shirt, singing. It's crazy for me to watch him as I can't help but see my brother, Tim {Ryne's dad} in his expressions and talent. Love that!
My SIL {Laurie} came by on Saturday morning to return some things she'd borrowed for her daughters' baby shower. We had a fun time visiting, and I love that she brought my bird cage back with this cute little bird inside. :o)
Make no mistake; I am not great at keeping a poinsettia alive. However, this one has been in our atrium since the beginning of December {I have basically ignored it} and it's still going strong.
And lastly, yes, I made donuts {stay tuned for 52 Donuts #4 this week}.
As of today, I'm no longer required to wear the sling on my arm {my shoulder surgery was five weeks ago today!} and am continuing with physical therapy which I HATE but will do anyway because I know it's necessary. And now that I don't have to wear that sling, my job-hunting-efforts will be intensified.


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Starting CB Brandon Browner doubtful for Seahawks; DE Cliff Avril ready to go
RENTON, Wash. – Starting Seattle cornerback Brandon Browner will be listed as doubtful for the Seahawks headed into their Sunday night NFC West showdown against San Francisco.
Seattle coach Pete Carroll said Browner was not able to get as much work in as the team hoped this week as he recovered from a hamstring injury. If Browner can't go, Walter Thurmond will get his second straight start at cornerback with Byron Maxwell also getting significant time.
Defensive end Chris Clemons (knee) will be listed as questionable, but Carroll still believes he's a week or two away. Clemons went through contact drills for the first time this week.
Cliff Avril (hamstring) made it through the week healthy and is expected to start at defensive end. Defensive tackles Tony McDaniel and Brandon Mebane are also both probable.


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PALM BEACH GARDENS -- The Honda Classic course record might have been safe if Vijay Singh had not pulled out of the Honda Classic.
Singh was replaced by rookie Brian Harman, and Harman created a buzz Friday at PGA National after he started birdie-birdie-eagle on his way to a 9-under 61.
Harman was a about a millimeter short of a 60, as a birdie putt on 18 lipped out. The record round followed Harman's opening round of 3-over 73 on Thursday, a 12-stroke swing that vaulted him into contention.
"To be able to do it on such a great golf course, such a great tournament…I was pretty down about my round yesterday, so to be able to come out and get back...


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